skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This really highlights the importance of herd immunity and why I will be front of the line for vaccine when they are available to me.
Rust is a hard way to make a web API
Looking at upsides on their own is meaningless. The mega millions jackpot is currently at $550 Million dollars in cash. That doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to spend 2$ on a ticket.

So sure, it’s possible to become a billionaire by writing books just look at J.K. Rawling. Hell someone got 10,000 bitcoins for the price of 2 pizza, which in theory are worth 366,790,000$ today. In the end the upside of being the founder isn’t worth much on day one. It might be worth something down the line, but it’s critical to have a fallback option.
That is completely unrelated.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a library overload math operators when they didn’t do what you’d expect. And just because a language feature is abused doesn’t mean it’s bad. Typescript’s generics are Turing Complete, but they’re still great.
Yes, many. I'm not saying that all Republicans are all of those things, just that those are the coalitions that make up the current Republican Party.

Did I miss a Republican Party coalition from my list?

But this is also I reason why I think ranked-choice voting is so compelling. I've met Republicans who essentially only vote Republican because they want to defend their 2nd amendment right but otherwise would be much more likely to support left-wing economic causes. But the way policies are bundled in our two parties they are forced to vote according to their primary concern.
Done with flying colors.
There's 4+ million volunteers and less than 300k blind. You are very unlikely to ever run into someone you know and the volunteers are literally waiting and wanting to help you.

I get that you're introverted -- I'm the same way. With that being said, use the tools that you have! I have anxiety answering the calls but I do it anyway because I know that I can help someone that needs it.

The person that you talk to, you will never see or hear from them again. It's a fleeting moment of one human helping another.
Interesting, I just clicked that link and it worked for me

Try searching for Signal Tech Foundation here
https://www.paypal.com/fundraiser/hub
I don’t know where you are from, but you don’t sign waivers for these things in Norway. There might be backlashes if there is consensus that giving these people the vaccine was incautious. As an example (and without linking the safety of these two vaccines), the Norwegian government has paid about 350 MNOK (about 40 million USD) to people with problems after the Pandemrix vaccine.

That doesn’t really mean that it will affect the ones who made these decisions though. So in that manner, the current government is probably completely safe.
Pointing people to your github should satisfy the license.
You should read the docs because it's already available: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/singl...
My boss just learned last week that he could reject phonecalls on android…
Either move to a country with universal healthcare or spend the money for a good private healthcare. Don’t half ass that, you’ll end up homeless for life otherwise.
> I can't believe this nuance is missed on this forum.

That’s because everything you said falls under ‘free speech’.

Incitement requires proof. Free speech isn’t illegal.

That’s why pro lifers outside abortion clinics can call visitors to the clinic, ‘baby-killers who deserve to die’ and ACLU will protect their right to free speech.

They can only be charged if they ACT.

What we are seeing is cognitive dissonance because only a few months ago during peak covid, the same platforms ALLOWED incitement and continued to condone violence as said incitement lead to buildings being burned, properties destroyed and lives lost. And no legal action was taken.
yikes, that's chilling.

> The method of ranking interventions on grounds of their cost per QALY gained ratio (or ICER) is controversial because it implies a quasi-utilitarian calculus to determine who will or will not receive treatment.
NRA Files for Bankruptcy
I don't know how this should be structured but there has to be some principle of "use it or lose it" for IP protections, and some limitations on transference of IP.

Obviously there are a lot of negatives to implementing some kind of legal framework around those ideas but something has got to give here, the existence of patent trolls and defensive patent strategies is offensive to the notion that we should encourage innovation.
This headline is irresponsible. Old people die all the time, lots of people will die shortly after getting the vaccine. Things like car accidents, undiagnosed medical conditions, heart attacks etc.

Here is an actual quote from the article:

“It may be a coincidence, but we aren’t sure,” Steinar Madsen, medical director of the Norwegian Medicines Agency (NOMA), told The BMJ. “There is no certain connection between these deaths and the vaccine.”
A HIPAA audit would certainly miss this, but I would be very surprised if a SOC2 auditor missed this (or that they would remain in business long with the damage that would do to their reputation).
This is a problem for me. I'm from east-bay. Every thing that's hella stuff is hella stuff, so I've been calling various amounts of hella data as hella-bytes (or my fast internet give me hella-BPS). A big cultural shift for it to mean a precise amount.

It's like aksing some New Englander to define what "a wicked lotta" is...it's hella! Oh! Why didn't you say so?
> They didn't emerge from React - but it isn't possible to do React without them.

I've created many React apps without any complex state management libraries :-)
>This is only good as long as you can guarantee that you're not infected

Why? All of these measures are probabilistic.

P(infect others) = P(infected) * P(transmission)

Simple masks don't have much impact on P(infected), but substantially reduce P(transmission) under some circumstances. Valved FFP3 don't have much impact on P(transmission) [not zero], but vastly reduce P(infected) in virtually all circumstances. It's not clear to me even under this simplistic analysis that it is not superior. And in an enclosed space, the effect of simple masks on P(transmission) is almost wiped out.

>If your mask gets moisture-saturated, just replace it.

New mask every 2 hours?
Are patent trolls really different from IBM (+others)?

I generally see strong backlash against "companies that produce nothing" yet sue everyone else. However it's really easy for large companies with mountains of patents (many of which will never be products) to strong-arm smaller companies into cross-licensing (anything you build will surely breach some patent). So they would only get paid by their patents and hardly ever have to pay anyone else due to the patent system.

By this principle, only a company that produces nothing could ever hope to sue the technology behemoths for patent breaching.

Point here being that it's not the eastern district of texas that's at fault, nor the patent trolls (because other companies use the patent system in very similar ways). It's the patent system that's complete utter bullshit
Leaked Parler GPS Data Points to Police Stations, U.S. Military Bases
This doesn't appear to be a consequence of their politics but of their grift: the money has been taken from the organization by its officers in what looks like a standard control fraud.
This is the world the fools who cheered when Trump was banned from twitter and when parler was banned from all clouds desired.
POWER is shipping with it this year at some point
https://www.defcon.org/html/links/mailing-lists.html

https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/
Knowing how much data is private isn't a useful quantity? If it were per-user I would agree. Honestly, even knowing "a private video was posted at such and such time" for a website like Twitter isn't a big deal (and this is good, because Twitter also uses an auto-increment key for all of their posts, or at least used to until not that long ago if somehow they recently stopped).

(FWIW, Facebook actually used auto-increment keys for a long long time for their users. I don't remember when they stopped, but before they did they went through a long period of manual ID range allocation.)
I thought I was making a wider point about the sort of comment where people dive headfirst into a comment thread with complaints about how the solution doesn't work for them because of XYZ, when the author may never have inteded their solution to be universal in the first place.

I have serious doubts that idle complaining on the internet moves the needle too much. What works instead is voting with feet/dollars. In this instance, it's the mass of people who actually HAVE jumped ship that are causing whatsapp to pause, not the ones saying they can't quit, however justified their reasoning.
Look at it this way - let's say you're a programmer who never uses math. As a result, 100% of your exposure to operator overloading will be, by definition, to cases that have nothing to do with math. While a programmer that uses math will see 1,000,000 good uses and 10 bad uses, a programmer who never uses math will see 0 good uses and 10 bad uses. I saw a similar effect in the Go community where they were debating whether or not the complex type should be removed. It's absolutely crucial for signal processing, but to the rank and file REST-ist, it's just another annoying case to type out in a generic-less language.
You can use signald and pysignald for bots, though the former is a bit of a moving target, making the latter hard to maintain.
Bumble removes political filter after women used it to report Capitol rioters
More like so you can appease the people with those worries. Worried about these issues? Here's a safety valve. One look at any thread about unions and you can see a significant number of people have these worries, so why not give them some choices?
An Electronic Mole in Winston Churchill’s Office
In Zig? It would allocate stack space for a new variable a, and add b and the d field of c together and insert that value into the memory location that a reserved. In D or Python or anything that allows for properties, it would be allocating a where-ever the language allocates stuff, then calling an infix function '+' which could be anything depending on the language including starting up a JVM in the background for god knows what reason, and calls it with the arguments b and the result of calling the property function d of the object c.
Have you ever used Boost?
Isn't Oculus stuff DRM:ed to Oculus setups only somehow? Through their appstore maybe? Or have I just eaten the FUD to make me believe that
Leave.eu has domain name temporarily suspended
Now that Jan 15 has come and passed are you going to admit maybe Tether isn't a scam, or are we kicking the can down the road to a later date?
smtp to smtp traffic still mostly unencripted.
Kind of the perfect storm.
No, you can't verify the checksum; it downloads and runs new code without asking.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4578
> [T]he latter is the one you'd want to read ... if you wanted answers to questions.

I agree with this assessment, but seeking the answers to questions is only part of why I go looking for papers to read: a lot of the time, I am looking for tools / techniques to solve my particular problem, and a paper that offers a novel technique (even if the author(s) have only applied to to a single specific problem) is very enticing in that case. Papers built around a novel technique get a lot of citations because they engender new attempts to problems that were difficult to solve before the technique existed.

And when everybody is suddenly exploring a new technique, testing the boundaries of what the technique can do is very interesting, making negative results significantly more publishable than normal. Lots of people know that $OLD_TECHNIQUE can't solve $PROBLEM_FOO, but the fact that $NEW_TECHNIQUE can't solve it says something quite interesting about the capabilities of the technique.
We don't have enough vaccine for that.
For the uninitiated, hella is flexible as a quantifier and intensifier. Hella has hella meanings for hella words.

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

Honestly, being from the Bay Area, I'm against pegging hella to a specific size. It feels more appropriate for cases where you don't know how many, but 'a lot' feels insufficient.
The "military ties" excuse for blacklisting Chinese companies is getting more and more absurd. It's clear that the Trump administration's goal is simply to cripple every major Chinese tech company.

So far, China hasn't really responded, but it's hard to believe they'll just sit back forever. My guess is that the Chinese government is waiting to see what Biden's approach will be, and that they'll retaliate if Biden does not roll back some of Trump's measures.
I tried, multiple times, to read this. To me, it reads as if it was written by someone overly enamoured with the sound of their own voice, trying to be sophisticated and complex and dramatic and literary, and somewhere the purpose of journalism and communication has been lost, swamped by the words.

As I write this the post has 4 points, so it's been upvoted. But has anyone here actually read this to see if there's any real information in it?

If so, how did you read it?

Maybe it's just, and finally I've got the attention span everyone is accusing teenagers of having, even though I'm rather older than that.
> It's definitely surprising that globals default to nil

It makes a lot of sense once you realise that assigning to a "global variable X" (which is equivalent to _G[X]) and then assign nil, is exactly the same as never assigning at all
Right so they have firmware malware and tools for infiltrating it into machines. That’s not a surprise. The extraordinary claim that I challenged was that this is being installed on Apple computers at the factories. So far as I can tel, there is no evidence for it.

This is like someone claiming it will rain next week and when asked how they know, they say they can prove it rained last week. That’s irrelevant. Yes I know they have firmware attacks. Where does the claim they are putting it on machines in the factory come from? How many times do I need to ask the same question?
How is Signal Foundation going to repay it, when it's a non-profit organization?
It's less that Lua is great for beginners than that it's simple to get started with in the environments where it's embedded. It was originally a configuration language, and in a lot of ways it's still more optimized for "open up a text file and plug in some different values for the running program" than it is for implementing actual logic. (That's what I meant by "non-programmers" in the other comment.)

And static typing is hard to make work when your codebase is made up of a lot of independent snippets of code which run in an environment completely determined by an outside program. You'd need something akin to TypeScript's external type definition files.
Older people dying is not the only reason for the shutdowns. Health care being overwhelmed is another main reason, and it’s not just old people that end up in hospital.

The 45 - 64 age group has occupied the most hospital beds during the pandemic in my country (Scotland), and probably yours too if you dig out the stats.
What programmer never uses math?

I mean, most of us aren't going use linear algebra, but still...
Djikstra's argument is, pound for pound, one of the densest things I have ever read.

If you spend some more time with it, and you really should, you will discover that most of it is in fact arguing that what he calls convention a) is the best choice.

So what you're saying here is circular; of course if you accept his argument, then you accept his conclusion, which is the title of the paper!

You really should accept his argument though. It's quite persuasive. You're really just saying that 1-based indexing is okay if you use convention c), as indeed, Lua does.

But you're not even touching on why he says not to. If you do, I'm confident you'll conclude, as the field in general has, that a) is the more powerful and general choice.

But I would like to do more than just gesture at Djikstra's magnificent argument and say "reread this!". The One True Wiki has a useful discussion of the subject: in particular, I find the observation that 0-based indexing unifies counting and measurement to be persuasive, and it's found nowhere in the paper in question.

https://wiki.c2.com/?ZeroAndOneBasedIndexes
I'd rather solve this with code standards around function naming conventions (including symbols as names for functions) than remove a language feature.

I don't override operators often, but when I do it's useful because the operation I'm describing is a really close parallel to other uses and properties of that operation. As an example, it's why I dislike + for list append, + is normally commutative (which list appending definitely isn't) and subtraction is pretty bonkers as a reflected operator on lists.
Like. Totally.
Strangely the article didn't mention https://copyleft.org/ and although it mentions Bradley Kuhn there could have at least been a link to Software Freedom Conservancy https://sfconservancy.org/
yes, this could be designed much much better.
same experience
Do you have a link to the RFC for this? This sounds awesome.

EDIT: thanks to the links below I found this [1] and this [2]

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/32838

[2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1398
My advice is find a way to relocate to the bay area. For remote jobs you're competing against a ton of professionals that already have experience and moved away for covid. And I doubt data science is the right field you should be targeting, as it's mainly a game for people with PhD's and tough for entry level. Web dev or mobile app dev would be way easier to crack. If you have the drive I'd be making as many apps or web apps as possible to build out your portfolio then there will always be a startup that'd be happy to hire you.
First example doesn't use typing. Curious why? I have negative knee-jerk reactions to code without type annotations.
Pools. Trying to get and contractors are not even willing to work on one unless at 75k in my area
"surgical tape secured over the valve from the inside of the FFR can provide source control similar to that of an FFR with no exhalation valve."

Well... yeah?
Are you talking about HIPAA or SOC2?
It's quite common, actually. Yamaha, Onkyo, Denon, Marantz all have versions of it on nearly all their home-theater receivers.
Is there something that's going to be able to output "black with a picture of 3 wolves on it, and also it's stained"?

For the cans, you might be able to have it identify corn vs green beans, maybe. But can you get it to tell you "hey rotate the one in the middle a bit, I can't see the label"?

The finding a friend in the park seems real hard, depending on parameters.

My point isn't that these are impossible problems. It's just that a human can currently do them better than a machine, even if the basic capabilities are doable in AI. At the very least it'd probably take a ton of engineering to expose all of that in any useful way.
What we are after is who, if anybody, was responsible for a clear majority of the total effective engagement of Axis forces.

On that question, it is dead clear that the Soviets were, and by a huge margin.

Did US and British troops contribute? Yes. Did P-51s and P-38s help clear the skies of effective German air power? Sure. Would the outcome have been notably different without them? Probably not.

The biggest single setback for Germany, driving deep into original German territory, happened while the US and Britain were pinned down in Belgium and Southern France by a tiny fraction of German assets. Without, the war might have gone on for up to another year, and the Soviets would have ended up owning all of Europe and, probably, Africa. We must be satisfied that that did not happen.
Okay, I'll take a little time to brag. The word count challenge here got my interest at the time, so I whipped up an assembly language version of it and iterated several times, trying to figure out the value of switching different registers. In the end, I took second place:

https://github.com/jagregory/abrash-black-book/blob/4028269f...

However, there's an interesting story behind this story. David Stafford, who came in first, posted that he thought he had the fastest solution and bet $100 that nobody could beat it. I posted my code which was significantly faster, and David tweaked it further to eventually win the challenge. Like a true person of honor, he did pay the $100 and I cashed his check.
We should forget about Lua. We have better languages today. I did write code in Lua quite recently and was banging my head against lack of bitwise operators, which were added in the version later that the one that ships with the package I was extending. It is a language written in what seems to me to be a very organic manner with features added as and when they were needed, not per design, with predictable results of basic features that programmers today expect missing.
Can you ask your wife?

Does she have any Q/Right wing/Parler friends?
"In January 2009, Koum bought an iPhone and realized that the then seven-month-old App Store was about to spawn a whole new industry of apps. He visited his friend Alex Fishman and talked about developing an app.[11] Koum almost immediately chose the name WhatsApp because it sounded like "what's up", and a week later on his birthday, Feb. 24, 2009, he incorporated WhatsApp Inc. in California."

..

"In 2014, Koum and Brian Acton agreed to sell WhatsApp to Facebook for approximately US$19 billion in cash and stock.[9] Forbes estimates that Acton held over 20% stake in the company, making his net worth around $3.8 billion.[12] According to Acton's personal Twitter feed, he was turned down for employment by both Twitter and Facebook in 2009."

3.8B in 5 years of work? It's scarcely conceivable to me after 20 years of salaried grind. These people are well-connected (fine), but they're also geniuses at spotting opportunities.
Golly, I just wonder what might be going on when thousands are flocking to encrypted channels like Signal daily.
SFBA has hella. Boston has wicked. Put them together for some cross-country slang fusion.
[0]https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hella%20wick...
I was once trying to diagnose a performance issue in an algorithm written in Ocaml. Someone had overloaded ** to be (IIRC) 64-bit multiply. I had a momentary “gotcha in 2 seconds!” moment before realising what was happening with that one.
>I wonder why the Eastern District is like this?

Slow evolutionary pressure on people and institutions.

You form a small cottage industry around a court system that doesn't have a ton of work, and therefore can hear your cases quickly; you start to get 'business minded' consultants in the industry that approach clients in other jurisdictions to bring their cases to this court system. That pipeline of work ossifies and generates a lot of value as it's immediately proximal to the transaction; when courts become less predictable/slow down/start putting out bad results, the individuals involved complain. 20 years later, these individuals are now on the bench. They view the system from the perspective of the business they've created. They optimize with the stakeholders they serviced in mind.

And so from a few local lawyers trying to hustle, you create an IP nightmare for the entire country.

Step by step.
> As a user of whatsapp I wouldn't even care if the showed ads in big group chats. As long as there would be zero tracking or leaking of data and ads would be solely based on location and maybe chat info.

For Christ's sake NO!
Here’s my anecdata: met my wife on bumble and my profile was a paragraph of lorem ipsum.

IMO no one likes writing dating app bios and no one likes reading them. People are gonna match based on looks anyway. You’ll learn about someone on the date, not by reading some painstakingly crafted autobiography
this encryption notice is beta af