skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps a super intelligent civilization would not put up with the limitations of our physical reality and instead upload their collective consciousness into an artificial one. This has the added benefit in that they are no longer dependent on natural resource extraction to expand their population at least beyond the energy requirements to sustain their giant consciousness server. I'm sure I can't be the only one to have thought of this but I'm not well read on the subject. Why go through pain and suffering and various zero sum games when you could open up the possibilities to the infinite?
Your [3] is (still) a rumour, and although signs of it have been around since at least July 2020, this has not been confirmed nor would I qualify it as 'something their new CEO just did' as it has been talked about by their current CEO as well.
No; this is the 21st day of the year, not the 21st day of some month in the year.
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Yesterday, the "Polish response to Facebook" was launched by government media owner Tomasz Sakiewicz - Albicla (https://albicla.com) "All Be Clear".

Making the portal is not the pinnacle of professionalism, few thoughts:

-The terms of the portal are copy-pasted facebook regulations within hyperlinks

-You can download the entire user base, because it is not protected in any way (a request was sent to the Personal Data Protection Office, but most probably nothing will be done due the fact the office is led by government representative

-If you want to post on the wall to a "stranger", click rmb -> inspect element on the "publish" button (on your profile). Then you look for "input" in html which will open for you and change "Value" to the id of the person whose profile you want to write something on.

-User password has no character limit, someone pasted the entire content of Pan Tadeusz (Master Thaddeus) polish poem as a password

-Half the users are popes (its national meme for some reason)

-The other half are fake accounts of government party activists, Trump and other famous figures,

- Someone created an account called "login", after clicking on his profile, we jsut log out

- Someone else called himself "delete_account", after clicking on his profile, we delete our account (and currently it's probably the only working method of deleting an account),

-A lot of pedophile content passed through the night

- barely some managed to receive an activation e-mail, the portal itself crashed after a few hours of operation

-Others do not have a problem with it, apparently someone has already set up 500k multi accounts (even after a ban, you can register from the same email)

-It seems possible to create an account without a name, without an email and without a password. In the source of the page, remove the required attribute from the input fields.

-Sakiewicz is proud of his portal popularity

And its all financed with public money.
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Sure why not! It was utterly worthless at the time (and today in my opinion) and we know plenty of people who lost multi tens of thousands of bitcoins.

All it takes is spilling some coffee on your laptop.
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If anything, it’s an underestimate. Regular flu deaths are way down for 2020 (masks and social distancing work!), but are included at their normal rate in the baseline for excess mortality.

Same applies at smaller scale for other factors in baseline mortality, like traffic deaths and industrial accidents, that have also been suppressed by policy and behavior changes due to the pandemic.
> If you only allowed the speech you didn’t have a problem with, then you wouldn’t need the concept of free speech.

Setting the threshold for "problem" at intent to cause physical harm to others seems a pretty low barrier?

Any barking is ok, but swift actions should be taken immediately after the very first bite.

Stepping away from calls to murder people for a moment.
You can deny climate change all you want but once you put your words into actions that destroy planet your speech can now be treated as actions.
I could see it being awesome from a "This is cool" perspective, but I wouldn't trust it to actually work.

Just imagine it getting a negative swapped or something.
I guess it makes sense that unlike for actual treatments, for diagnostic systems you could just "re-use" the test data from past trials and not have to gather a whole new dataset
> Sadly, JavaScript does not support it. (Big mistake.)

In languages that do not support the x modifier, I just break up my regex into substrings. Something like:

auto regex = "( \w+ )" // Capture the name of the list
+ "\s* = \s*" // spaces = spaces
+ ...
+ "\)"; // Closing paren
I, too, find the price-scaling off-putting.

I'm currently working on a startup in a different space, but one where my competitors often have similar scaling pricing. Every customer I talk to hates it. Interestingly, the problem most often cited is not that the scaled price is too high, but that it's difficult to predict. Paying $100/mo now and $1k/mo later isn't the problem - it's paying $100/mo now and paying some unknown large amount later. The uncertainty it introduces is the real problem, not the cost. I suspect you'll hear something similar - especially for a product whose main focus is financial planning.

That aside, this looks like a cool product! I feel like every tiny startup I've worked at has had some flavor of this problem and solved it with ad-hoc spreadsheets. Seems like a solid niche. :)
> can VSCode connect to a remote server and connect to remote docker containers?

Yes, it can. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers-advance... talks about setting it up.
My father was treated for prostate cancer with internal radation pellets.

I don't know the time between the 'treatment' and his death, could be anything from 12 - 24 months. I know at least one of the pellets had started 'wandering'.

He died of acute leukemia and I suspect that had to do with the radation. However, I am not pursuing research into this, it won't bring him back. He was 63 years old.
I bought a ton of catnip and my cat seemed to become indifferent to it pretty quickly. Maybe it just dried out, though.
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Not exactly a programmer joke:

Airport security caught a statistician try to sneak in a bomb in his baggage. The aprehened him and question him why he has a bomb with him:

"I calculated the probability that a flight will carry two bombs on board, and it is never likely to happen, so I brought one along."
> Yellen argues many cryptocurrencies are used "mainly for illicit financing."

That's kinda the point of cryptocurrencies, their raison d'etre.

Another approach would be to remove those reasons.
It's effectively a passport, regardless of what you want to call it— it's a document which is government issued, gives you certain movement privileges, and probably needs to include a photo component and be difficult to forge.
You can buy a ton of very expensive biotech equipment off of ebay for very little, which is what a lot of bootstrapped biotech companies do (plus gov-deals and other pharma auction sites)
> It is also a very sinister and discrediting tool.

Agreed, but self-aggrandizement, manipulation, and outright fraud are also tools in the toolbox and if you don't have strong enough defensive tools, you are open to attacks from those. Obviously, they can be misapplied. Humans are not perfect. But without powerful social tools like ridicule and shunning, science becomes essentially a honeypot for charlatans like Andrew Wakefield.
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If someone made a poster with this poem, or excerpts from the poem, on it - I would buy one. Probably some copyright issues though.
Seems like a pretty thinly veiled swipe at Trump to be honest.

Really looking forward to the next four years of "Isn't it great how we're all united in the common cause of hating half the country"
I like it when the old gang comes together and blends with new talent.
Unless your boyfriend is 70+, this is lots of bad advice.

1. 1 in 8 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer.

2. Second leading cause of cancer death among men.

3. There are treatment options. With treatment, 15 year survival rate is 95%.

All of that info can be found here: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/prostate-cancer/treating.html
Is this one of the most unique landing pages?
I clicked on that fully expecting it to be the demonstration of various drugs on spiders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2HipedgM3I
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They didn't start that way though. It wasn't until they were forced to play nice under regulatory action.
In one of Gerald Weinberg's books, maybe The Secrets of Consulting, he quotes a Nebraska neighbor only "the buffalo bridle": you can make a buffalo go anywhere it wants to go, and you can keep a buffalo out of anywhere it doesn't.
> the actual problem was the government set things up

edit: so apparently this anecdote was in the article... I guess I just gave away that I commented before I read the article...

Reminds me of the cobra problem in India. After England colonized India, they noticed that India had a cobra problem, so they created a bounty for cobras: bring a dead cobra, get paid. So people, of course, started farming cobras to get paid by the English government. Once the English government figured out what was going on, they scrapped the bounty program and the cobra farmers released all of their now-worthless cobras into the wild... increasing the cobra problem.
Besides the impact on business (from sick workers, contamination or even fines¹), herd immunity can be leveraged by vaccination. Nobody really want to talk anymore about herd immunity because of how to concept was used during the first wave earlier this year. Herd immunity is not a magic bullet and will not make those who decided not to be vaccinate immune. It is just with a higher threshold, you reduce the probability of infection inside the not immune population. The concept was distorted during the first believing on the self immuninity response to the virus and that the immunity will be a "once for all" scenario. The damage is done in the public view about how the concept is perceived and tossed away. However, the main logic about massive vaccination is mostly about herd immunity (and the hypothesises that the vaccine will have a lifetime/long enough action and no mutation of the virus will change it enough to render the vaccine useless).

So to answer,

> taking the vaccine does little to prevent others for catching the [virus]

Yes, with a high enough threshold, herd immunity will reduce the probability of others in your environment to get the virus. You can see it like a network effect where nodes that could be infected finish by being surrounded by nodes preventing infected nodes to reach high-risk ones modulo the hypotheses stipulated above.²

Besides that they are also social, economic, politic reasons to push to massive vaccination programs. But for me, herd immunity reasons are the why, I tend to be in favour of a nation-scale vaccination program.

¹ For example in the Netherlands if a worker is contaminated at his workplace, the company have to close their offices during two weeks and pay a fine.
Why would half the planet die from a virus with a less than 5% mortality rate (and that’s only in 75+ age groups)?
The chance of someone positive for COVID infecting others is emphatically not low, compared to other diseases like influenza.
I do recognise what you say about there being a choice. But this project was surely years in the making and the tech had to be available back then. This isn't a huge company. This is a charity's first attempt at creating a low-cost microcontroller with first class documentation and support. And considering Upton's ARM background I think the ARM choice is the obvious one.

Your point about the ecosystem and the documentation is important here, this is extremely valuable considering their mission and simply would not have existed at the same quality level if using some brand-new ESP chip - is it even available to buy anywhere yet (I can't find a seller)? And if you haven't had a look at the RP2040 datasheet[0] yet, please do - it is really something with multiple real-life examples and hints that goes a long way beyond what you usually get. If they had built something around the C3 it'd be a long while before anything near the same level could be created and in the hands of kids. They want an established ecosystem to build on, not a cutting edge one. I do not think it's a good fit (yet).

[0]: https://datasheets.raspberrypi.org/rp2040/rp2040_datasheet.p...
Thanks for valuable feedback! I'm always glad and eager to hear such meaningful comments.

> - I think Contributors per year and Releases per year, could be monthly or quarterly as it's more granular and yearly change doesn't say much for libraries that are only there for 1-2 years.
I need to give it another thought, might be it makes sense to change it the way you suggest

> - Also the history-back makes the url change but doesn't get reflected in the page
Yes, I know about that problem, haven't had time yet to fix it - there were more important things to implement. But it's on my agenda.
BTW you are first who comments about it )

> - A "clear all" button would be nice
Agree. It'll be there soon.

> - It would be nice to merge some libraries, because sometimes a library changes it's name and it would be nice to merge the statistics.
In the mentioned case the packages point to 2 different GitHub repositories with different owners. So I don't see what could be merged there and why it needs to be merged.
Maybe you have a better example to understand the problem?
We definitely are not the only option out there and I would preach that any solution is better than none at all. We looked at the existing solutions before starting Finmark and we couldn't find any that were simple yet powerful enough to warrant using over excel. Liveplan, Quickbooks cashflow, and others, don't give you the granularity to accurately forecast a business. For example: you cannot build revenue drivers based on sales hires or marketing spend nor can you forecast itemized expenses.
Its for that reason we wanted to reimagine what the software should look like. I draw a very similar parallel to Carta. Before Carta (or e-shares) there were a number of companies that tried to tackle cap table management. None of them really hit the mark and so everyone still used excel until Carta came along. Today, everyone still uses excel for their financial modeling and we're hoping to change that.
I think it's important to have some conception of a personal "risk tolerance" when it comes to screenings.

Personally, I've had false alarms and dealt with that stress, and I still find that screenings are worthwhile. Having seen family members/friends die of cancer, I don't find the additional and potentially unnecessary discomfort of screenings to be too much of a cost.

At the same time, I'd never judge someone for feeling the opposite, particularly in cases like prostate cancer, wherein most people die "with it, not of it" as they say.
AWS and Google Cloud are not the only infrastructure providers around ya know ;). There are plenty of other superior and cheaper alternatives like Linode, Vultr, Digital Ocean, OVH, Hetzner etc.

Regrading credit card processors, I don't see why it'd be necessary for a personal website. If it's about accepting donations, one could accept cryptocurrency.
The comment you are replying to explicitly gives an example where compound movements weren't generating results, because of compensation by other muscles. This is the sort of thing a real trainer would provide (but a big-box 'trainer' might well never notice, even if they had you doing compound lifts).
I'm a regulatory consultant for AI software and submit several AI/ML FDA submissions per week. Overall, I've submitted 100+ AI/ML submissions to date. Generally, FDA has been really focused on locked algorithms even though there has been some guidance lately stating the the new Good Machine Learning Practice (GMLP) will provide some allowance for iterations without submitting new 510ks. I will say that a number of companies are slightly tuning their algorithms without FDA resubmission within the confines of the FDA Guidance "https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidan...". That said, most companies most companies are just leaving their specifications at sensitivity/specificity of 80% which gives them some leeway to improve above those limits. In truth most companies are above 97%-99%. While most of the submissions I work on are MRI/CT image related, I'm starting to get a lot more in the predictive space centered around ovarian (CA125), breast or PSA cancer scores. Lately pathology AI is escalating rapidly.
Great course, no fluff. There is not much/any material out on how to combine nocode/visual programming with "real" code. Was especially surprised, in a positive way, that it also covers fun Javascript hurdles like CORS and how to use access tokens with Bubble.io backend workflows.
As transactions grow in BCH, wouldn't it need larger and larger blocks? I think larger and larger blocks would centralize the nodes.

Edit: Also, I don't think the Lightning Network behaves likes the credit card networks. What do you mean when you say that?
Just an idea for the photomarking to add a small white border around the logo so the site of origin is more clear
Two engineers are attempting to measure the height of a pole in the ground but as they extend their tape measure towards the sky it keeps collapsing.
A mathematician walks by and asks what they are doing and they say they’re trying to figure out the height.
The mathematician pulls the pole out of the ground and lays it down. He measures it and says “It’s 16 feet”.
As he’s walking away one engineer shakes his head and says, “Mathematicians...you ask them for the height and they give you the length!”
Are you saying you've never told a joke without knowing (or mentioning) the source...?
Thanks for leaving this comment saying that you were successful and it only took about an hour, otherwise I wouldn't have had much confidence in the scripts. It took me ~2 hours but I'm not as well versed in ansible. I'm finally off of Slack's awful electron app.
People that come from a Linux desktop background seem to be immune to these things. The rough sandpaper that is open source UI will eventually wear anyone’s awareness down.
There is no billionaire who can even remotely approach the purchasing power of a government. If billionaires could truly influence markets, we'd have seen it on the stock market. Instead, we saw the Fed.

I am not proposing to get rid of the government, that leads to anarchy. A government is required to uphold the rule of law and, for markets, to sustain contracts. I would also argue that they should tax externalities. The trouble starts when governments go beyond that and start regulating and influencing the markets, ending up corrupting them.
This seems so... obvious, that I'm surprised this potential isn't talked about more. Our own species probably isn't all that far away from generating some variety of machine consciousness. I'd say give it a few hundred years at most.

Heck, this begs the question of why the hell would an intelligent alien species even send their meat bags into space, when they can just upload their consciousness into a machine and have it do their bidding, without any of the limitations of biological systems.
They did not. They designed the SoC but the ARM part is just a regular Cortex M0+.
In high school, I got involved in a Shadowrun campaign that dealt with these ideas. We were young but focused on the idea that corporations and politicians need to be better to avoid this kind of stuff.

Parler didn’t run a particularly good service. Some of their technical decisions are baffling and/or painful. Consequently, it was easy to remove them view.

Donald Trump made it way too easy to de-platform him. Hell, if he would have used his Twitter account to spread facts and science, it would have been much harder. But over the last six weeks, his account went from vaguely funny to deeply concerning.
Wait that's not what double spend means?
That is a good point. I am on the other side - excessively academic. One thing I've noticed is that understanding something does not equal having working knowledge of it (knowing how to implement it, etc.), a person with a theoretical background would often try to place a concept within a large framework and then make it owrk, an 'empiricist' or tinkerer would work the way from the bottom which would result in actual useful results. I sometimes ponder about this, and while I don't mean that one should invent the wheel, my conclusion is that In order to have an approach of knowing what would work in many different problems, a person with academic background would need to spend years delving into their discipline. The solution seems to have a combination of both approaches or as Nassim Taleb says, 'street+personal library'.
That's a pretty crazy hypothetical you've got there. Any reason you think that might be remotely possible, despite the months of trials the COVID vaccines went through?
You can buy an ESP8266 and a bunch of sensor boards from China and you'd know how to connect them up and get them working.

This device is for schools, and it's the thing that happens after BBC Micro:Bit and MakeCode, but before full Python on a PC.

It will have very much better documentation than a DIY ad-hoc collection of sensors.
Absolutely not.

Want to debate? Do it in person.

> I am envisaging a platform that allows the community to structure and "type-check" (loosely) arguments.

No one should try to profit off political discourse.
From 1st hand experience: Because your board (that is hardware/soc) vendor only gives you a BSP for Android and they want to charge 500k for an update. The binaries are of course all blobs and the kernel is a precompiled binary monstrosity. Your company doesn't see the reason to pay for newer version because older "works fine".
We might not be unique in those senses. If DNA and carbon based life is the standard then we are likely more similar to most life in the universe even if we have small differences in physiology or culture. We don’t share a direct biological origin but we are still made of the same stuff, probably originated under very similar conditions, etc. Unique forms of life likely develop under equally rare conditions in exotic environments. We’re probably just run of the mill meat bags.
As a father whose 3 children were all born emeregency c section and blue I also want to thank Dr. Apgar for the joy they have brought into my life.
My cat acts the same towards my sweaty post-workout socks. He can't seem to get enough of 'em. And he doesn't seem to care for cat nip nearly as much.
And to add to that, there is a clear benefit to being signed in even if you're not commenting. I imagine there are a significant number of people who vote on articles and comments while rarely commenting themselves. Also, the favorites feature is really nice to use even if you're not commenting.

I don't lurk for years at a time, but I'm pretty sure I have often gone months without commenting. I could easily see going a year or more, but still reading actively and staying logged in.
Such an awesome company, with great people. Probably one of the most exciting start-ups in Europe right now!

Only negative is they keep taking my great colleagues ;)
I didn't give it away, it's functional.

As for UBPorts, it stoppped updating! It just fails to update. It also insists I'm on a captive portal when I'm on my home wifi.
>> China is now forecasted to outpace US economy by 2028

In total size. China's GDP per person won't reach the US until 2060, at the earliest.
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