skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
has bezos asked his employees if they want the vaccination or will it become company policy - no jab no job ?
Advanced Recurrent Neural Networks: Deep RNNs
This would only make a difference if P(low dietary vitd) or P(low solar intake) is small (and assuming dietary values/solar values are independent of having a genetic disposition to lower vitd levels and independent of COVID prevalence), which I don't think is true. What I think may be true and may not be compensated for by the study is the fact that individuals with genetic disposition for lower vitd levels may be supplementing (through either greater sunlight exposure or dietary supplements) to bring up their vitd levels, even before COVID came onto the world stage.

> I don't think it's an honest assessment

Of what though? This is just a study trying to prove a correlation with VitD deficiency and COVID prevalence, of which they couldn't find any. Any stronger conclusion is out of the scope of the paper.
At Internet scale, crap is well above six sigma.

Facebook sees about 5 billion items posted daily. The typical person likely sees between 10--100 items, and closer the lower end than you might think.

At a ratio of 10 : 5 billion, the non-bullshit fraction is about 0.00000002%. Or 99.99999998% of everything is bullshit in terms of relevance.

(This also means that any rating or selection system itself is operating very nearly randomly.)

If 10 items seems to few, remember that the average person uses social media for about an hour pervday --- interaction per item is 60 minutes/n, where n is the number of items viewed or interacted.

Even skilled content moderators have an upper bound in practice of about 700--800 items/day, sustained.
Glad there are a lot of people questioning the economic fundamentals of this stuff. The real problem is the agricultural policy which is doubling down unhealthy things. These technical gimmicks which are dubious as to whether they deliver real value to not help with that.
Perhaps that's why every programming job I ever did involved 10% of interesting problems, and 90% of plumbing to connect the interesting bits?
> This does not limit itself to art. You will find that the same same man who judges art by the artist, will also easily be convinced that the exact same dish tastes better, if he be told it was more expensive.

If someone perceives the exact same dish as tasting better because it was more expensive (and/or in a fancier setting, with fancy table linens and silverware, a live quartet playing classical music, etc) then to that person it IS better. Perceiving something as being better is literally all that matters.

To look at it another way, removing one's sense of smell will make the same dish taste worse. Smell is a factor in one's perception of taste, as are other environmental factors.
A guide to using Lua in Neovim
what's facetious about it?
A Youtube video of someone's opinion is not a reliable source.

Looking up Grants revocation of Johnson's pardons - it's hard to find details, but it does seem like a Federal judge took issue that they were not delivered prior to the new president revoking them.

Given that there's no such limitation in the Constitution, I wonder if it would hold up to SCOTUS. ...and maybe that's why they announce them publicly these days.
A relevant previous submission to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25554941

The article linked presented the the efficiency of vertical farming in terms of produce/area. But as was pointed out in some of the comments on that article the cost of the greens grown on vertical farms was in the range of $15/pound [1]. Which is about 3x the price of organic greens at Whole Foods, or 10x the price of what you would find at Walmart.

[1] https://www.eater.com/2018/7/3/17531192/vertical-farming-agr...
Not really a joke but:

Most problems in computing can be solved by adding an additional layer of abstraction or indirection

...except for problems resulting from too many layers of abstraction or indirection.
It is no longer in the language. Much of this document is extremely out of date.
the data will never be recovered - just like the westminster abuse files that were lost when theresa may was pm.
Fortunately, j & k are next to each other, and I never noticed any disconnect in vim w/Dvorak. I never use h & l -- mostly space, w/W, or b/B. But I also learned Dvorak before vim, so I never got used to hjkl.
We know that in 1835, Lakota chief Lame Deer shot a Crow warrior twice with the same arrow. We have little idea why.

Well, they really, really didn't like each other at a tribal level. Heck, when you start naming places for the people you killed there, its a bit in the hatred side.
7 month ago received an offer to join Scala project. Before that worked with Java and Go. I would say Scala is an amazing not just language, but an ecosystem. As a language, it’s very ergonomic and allows to do complex things with less boilerplate. So if you really interested in programming, learning new concepts - I would recommend to try it. If you want just to do boring stuff for money - Java and Golang. Regarding Kotlin - it doesn’t intersect with Scala, because mostly used for Android and back-end with Spring or other Java frameworks. Scala is mostly used for distributed systems, big data and applications with complex domain.
Dithering in Games – Mini Series
He is well known for that in the local startup crowd ;)
The sense of “something has changed here?” is so deep in places like this. They are populated still but the architecture points clearly to a time when there was so much more going on in the area.

All around the UK there are spa towns and resorts that were clearly bustling with wealth (community and personal) a century ago, but have now slumped in popularity.

A town like Malvern for example. It was the height of Edwardian (I think that’s the right era) sophistication. A must visit tourist destination for the middle classes. All that really remains anymore of the town’s prestige are the schools and the immovable hills. You see some spa infrastructure still but a lot of it is derelict.

I was in Llanthony valley a few summers ago and took a really interesting guided tour through some local unpaved roads. Our guide, Henry was born in the village in 1930. He showed us the sites of two former pubs, now completely gone except for some York stones on the threshold. They’d drink there, or walk an hour across the valley to the pubs on the other side when they felt like it. We looked through the old school that taught 15 children of local families. It’s now just another big house with two cars parked outside.

The big house up the top had a squire who rented land to Henry and his father where they grew valuable soft fruit crops for sale in the local market towns. The village had other services: a shop and a farrier.

All gone. The fruit plots are now overtaken with ash and briar. People still lived in all of the houses, but they were now the country homes of people who worked in the big local towns, or London, or had just retired to the area. I don’t begrudge them for that, and it was surely a much poorer life back in the 1950s, but it was also a much more of a local one and that felt like it had a lot of value. It also felt like the people were all there but they just didn’t know each other any more. Or they did, but they didn’t work together, so it was a dormitory suburb albeit in the heart of a Welsh valley. No one worked there.

It felt quite melancholic. The big towns took so much away from the second cities, villages, and countryside. When you can find British communities that still thrive away from the major cities it is magical.

https://www.malvernremembers.org.uk/wp-content/gallery/great...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cwmyoy

http://thirdeyetraveller.com/st-martins-church-cwmyoy-crooke...

...and here’s another great link:

https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-tenbury-wells-spa-...
OMG science is back /s
Further bulk of discussion from November: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25111726
Some more explanations about the choices taken for the first submission: https://threedots.ovh/blog/2021/01/linux-on-apple-silicon-ma...
Keep reading:

> Messages in iCloud also uses end-to-end encryption. If you have iCloud Backup turned on, your backup includes a copy of the key protecting your Messages. This ensures you can recover your Messages if you lose access to iCloud Keychain and your trusted devices. When you turn off iCloud Backup, a new key is generated on your device to protect future messages and isn't stored by Apple.
It'll be interesting to see if this is a trend or 11.1 was a one-off.
> Today I learned: Europe is a country.

Please leave the Reddit gotchas on Reddit. They don't think Europe is literally a country. It does us no good to have people like you looking for silly interpretations that you can point out.

Anyone can shorten "most of the countries that make up Europe" to "Europe" on my watch because I'm interested in their point, not trying to catch them in a gotcha.
I don't remember installing any drivers in Linux in last... I don't even know how many... years. For the hardware I happened to use, it was Mac-like experience.

And actually, Windows 10 is also approaching this state, but it is not there yet.
I suppose, but for that you cannot be sued merely for committing a crime - you need to prove tangible personal direct damages.

...and that can happen regardless of criminal conviction.
I last installed drivers on Linux... in 2007? 2008?

I last installed drivers on Windows late last year.
Paprika is so good! There are a bunch of fit-and-finish details that tell me that it's being made by people who use it and who really care about listening to users.
> Would anyone be interested in a Hacker News to debate politics?

I would. It should allow arguments from across the political spectrum to be heard and having their claims and evidence fact-checked from various sources whilst presenting their arguments.

I think you may be certainly interested in this platform: Arguman (an argument analysis platform), unless you have already looked at it. [0]

> I want to bring back the art of debate!

Good. This should be interesting.

[0] https://arguman.org
Having fewer special cases doesn't make it more natural, when those special cases are intuitive and forcing a single homogeneous process feels weird.

The brain is very good at finding patterns for special cases and very bad at following repetitive orders.
Reminds me of the quests to recreate the secret recipe for Coca-cola.

The secret ingredient isn't orange peel, it's $4 billion a year in marketing.
90% of Sturgeon's Law observations are crap.
The Gnome screensaver lock is only a fluffy fake security mechanism. It's not real security.

I've had many instances where my CPU was bogged down and after hitting the keyboard I could use the computer for a good several seconds before the lock screen popped up asking for a password.
Im from Liverpool, live in Chester and love North Wales. I encourage everyone to visit this amazingly beautiful part of world.

I actually rather liked these images because there’s a certain grit to it that is still sometimes present.
I assume some part of the iMessage faq is a joke ?

> This was a tough one to figure out! Beeper has two ways of enabling Android, Windows and Linux users to use iMessage: we send each user a Jailbroken iPhone with the Beeper app installed which bridges to iMessage, or if they have a Mac that is always connected to the internet, they can install the Beeper Mac app which acts as a bridge.
No. Having a 100 million people vaccinated in the U.S. does not start at 0. Then you would have 100 million+ people vaccinated. The projection was made off of the data at the time of the estimate, which lead them to feel 100 million was possible. What you want is accountability for which president was in office for every last person, which is not what he is promising.

If Biden said "I would bring the DOW to 30k", you wouldn't expect him to first bring it to zero, or to arbitrarily start wherever it left off with the last president.
Right now, I think the focus has been on the GPU layering (see also: https://github.com/gfx-rs). Given the churn in the standards themselves (which is understandable since it requires buyin both from the hardware and software communities)

I wish EdgeHTML had been open sourced.
Art is also about communicating ideas, concepts. Most abstract expressionists could paint photorealistic scenes in detail, but they just found it boring and went on with soak staining or squeezing tubes.
You're free to open a website that directly stream some mpeg ts without encryption, Google is not to blame, the people that actually want that are the publisher. Youtube does not use DRM fyi.
No longer feasible with Tx fees rising to several USD.
Also plenty other coins that are 1000 times faster and 1000 times cheaper. There is no reason someone would pick BTC for donations unless he already holds some.
>...he should seriously consider putting more effort into the documentation and distribution side.

In addition to what other people have said, Blow is explicitly working on documentation over time and closed beta users have access to a fair number of documents detailing both language features and the philosophy behind the language.

One huge reason why the language IS still in closed beta is because Blow believes heavily in not releasing half-assed work. Documentation is a part of that.
> The NSA will have a copy too, just in case you lose yours!

They should offer a paid subscription service for data retrieval, in case we do lose our copy!
beta 10 also bricked my DTK unit as well. Total paper weight
Taste aside, what was the cost of produce?

Other articles I have seen that actually included price [1] showed that the vertical farming produce was 3x the price of what you could get at Whole Foods. And that is for organic presumably high quality produce. Cost compared to Walmart was something like 10x as much.

https://www.eater.com/2018/7/3/17531192/vertical-farming-agr...
Things like printers/scanners can be a problem. With Mac, I cannot scan on Samsung M2070w MFP in color (with the Samsung/HP driver installed, which must be done manually).

No such problem with Linux.
The middle-class version of this is craft beers. Oh god, the grief I was getting from my friends once almost everyone got infected by the "I only buy expensive craft beers, and I care for taste" showmanship. To each their own, but I really do think that a particular brand of cheap, mass-market beer that I like tastes better, and it's also cheap. I have other things that I like to pay premium for.
Ok. I misread the intro as making the epi application a selling point.
She was always susceptible to misinformation. When we moved to Central Florida a decade ago, they have what’s called “Love Bugs”. An invasive flying beetle from Central America. While on the job as a barista, someone told her they were genetically engineered at UCF. She believed him. Arguing with me that was the truth until I pointed her to science articles and Wikipedia.

Fast forward a few years and the thought of sex-trafficking rings took root. She was convinced that girls were being abducted for sex slavery and that people in government were supporting them.

This twisted even further when I confronted her about it, told her that what she thinks is real isn’t, and she immediately jumped on me for gaslighting her.

Needless to say, it was she that filed for divorce. I’m way happier now.

Those that downvoted my comment above because my ex-wife, you should meet her, she’s completely crazy now.
Many usages of "induced demand" in this debate are really talking about increase in quantity demanded, i.e. more people will buy housing at a lower price.

The YIMBY response is "of course, that's the point" but for many left-NIMBYs the point was to reduce pressure on the budgets of existing households; accommodating these new buyers is not helpful (and might be harmful).
Never gonna happen as long as checkra1n can pwn the latest iOS. Cat and mouse game. MobileSubstrate/Substitute/libhooker is too powerful a platform.
There is nothing you can do in life-- including the choice of doing nothing-- that doesn't have the potential for negative consequences.
Yeah but I mean it would be nice if you could have some kaleidoscopic effect. Or something like a Rorschach test. Just broken glass won't go viral.
I can't see why they would? Marcan is capable to be sure, but he's also a random guy with a Patreon. Why would Apple ever officially bless his work? I'd sooner seem them collaborating with Corellium, because that at least gives them a corporate entity to interact with. Plus, like, releasing documentation without giving away the stuff they want to keep to themselves, and without promising too much and having it break later, is work in and of itself that Apple is really not getting anything from. I mean, this is the company that still FairPlays apps, so…
Because a modern browser is about as complex as an operating system, and moves even faster.

Check out the complexity of ES6. You're gonna need an interpreter for that which performs acceptably well, plus a DOM interface to the rest of the browser. And check out how complex CSS is when it starts interacting with everything. Gotta handle all that too. Along with the basics of HTML structure, and how to interpret horribly broken HTML. And all of those pieces have to work together in realtime for dynamic animation, and do so fast enough for webapps to work and without eating too much of the host system's memory and CPU. And handle the constant addition of new JS APIs and how they have to interact with the host OS. Better be compatible and integrate well with Windows, OS X, and Linux too.

Building a new one from scratch today is pretty comparable to building a new operating system. You'd probably need to coordinate thousands of people working fulltime to get it off the ground. And it's basically impossible to charge any money for it, since all of the tech majors give away fully supported mature browsers for free.

In theory, you can fork an existing browser. But they all move so fast, keeping a fork with any useful changes up to date with the main browser is going to take a significant sized team too.

Microsoft is a tech giant, and even they decided to dump their independent Internet Explorer codebase in favor of using a Chromium fork. Now the only other truly independent browser codebase is Firefox's, and they haven't been doing so great the last few years.

It's probably practically impossible to build a browser that isn't a fork of Chromium these days.
I believe that's mistaken. From the article:

> As far as I’m aware, Widevine is the only available DRM for a Chromium-based browser, especially so for Electron.

But according to this [0] the Chromium-based Edge browser supports both Google's WideVine CDM and Microsoft's PlayReady CDM. Not sure if it's really any help, but that's a different question.

[0] https://github.com/google/shaka-player/issues/2492#issuecomm...
True. But even the most profitable malware won't want to forfeit hundreds of millions of dollars for a popular chrome extension.
Oh wow. So in this case, a foundation with roughly half a billion in revenue per year is still somewhat of a little guy, at least for the standard process. I'm curious which antivirus vendor it was. Mozilla did eject a few extensions written by antivirus vendors in 2019, probably for good reasons.
Not inside it doesn't. This understanding is quite clear in my comment. Greenhouses can only grow so far vertically without increasing energy costs.
The Third Day: Essex island ideal location for eerie drama
I think the Semantic Web was supposed to be that. Yet it was waaay too abstract for the majority of people, even programmers.
I feel like you're actually agreeing with the article. From what you're saying, you've consumed enough anime and EDM to make an informed decision on whether you "like" them or not.

I think this is very different, for example, from eating chinese food in the US and deciding that one doesn't like chinese cuisine (without being aware that most of the chinese food that americans experience is a very poor representation of what mainland chinese food looks like, never mind _good_ chinese food)

The point about being open about video games you don't like seems to reinforce that idea: maybe the game genre itself is not to your liking, but it turns out that the social aspect is worth it. This was the case for me and LAN FPS back in the day: had I dismissed the genre, I would not have experienced the fun of LAN parties.
Speaking of DRM.

Where are the relevant philosophical and legal debates around digital copy?

If we establish some common ground over copy, where balanced legal frameworks can grow, i bet things like DRM would be considered illegal.

It should be not be considered a reasonable legal path to be pursued against copyright infringement (which is a reasonable right).

And while we are at that, i see a lot of people mentioning
feeling betrayed by Firefox, while back in the day, i felt that it was Tim Berners Lee and W3C who stabbed me in the back with this.

Is in time like these that we see how important it is to have a guy like Linus (and all the contributors) behind important projects.

Corporations being pulled by the capitalistic strings are not suppose to look forward higher ethical things as the "common good".

Its not irrational that corporations do this kind of things, its irrational that we expect them not to, knowing the game that is being played here.
https://fastrt.nilu.no/VitD_quartMEDandMED_v2.html
> base clock of 1.8GHz

meh...well for the cores but isn’t the clock a bit low to compete with AMD? I hope it’s the base model!
You should check out Bandcamp for DRM-free music. It's an excellent platform
The Wisdom of Surrender
I expected to find: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nastran
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=STEMlord
Most often yes, but it depends on the gallery. The ones that have the big "no photography" signs are a giveaway.
I think it'll most likely come down to a question of cost per incident - while a couple of lawyer hours is certainly relatively cheap if that same cost is required for every similar RIAA take down request then you'd need to look at how many hours it takes for RIAA to identify a good target and produce a take down notice. The effortlessness of this particular incident gives me hope that if the volume of take downs increased then maybe the EFF or someone else could essentially put together a form reply.
I got a fancy keyboard with layers and set one to have arrow keys on hjkl so I can use them everywhere.
Note also that PageRank is the algorithm that lets google rank results and is also just a massive linear algebra problem.
What capabilities does the DRM blob running in a browser have?
> GPL doesn't permit commercial use

That is alarmingly false. Do you have a source that McNealy indeed has said that? I couldn't find anything by googling.
It's not all that I care about, but the government has a monopoly on the legitimate use of force. I have recourse to that force if another private entity harms me. Who do I have recourse to if the government harms me?

I consider freedom of speech a baseline, and I think it's one of the only things the US Constitution got right.
Wouldn't an easy solution be to turn auto updates on by default, and warn users that turn it off that they are opening themselves up to potential security issues, and to do so wisely?
Well... if it's about complex scripting, you have Python or Perl whose are standard, well integrated, lightweight, powerfull and preinstalled on Linux.

If it's for a day to day usage as a shell, bash / fish / zsh... are more concise and faster.

The example given on the article :

# Get all file modified in the last 3 days

Get-ChildItem -Path path -Recurse | Where-Object {

$_.LastWriteTime -gt (Get-Date).AddDays(-3)

}

Is just:

find path -mtime 3

in bash ...

The object thing is nice, but using strings as output is universal.