skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI and Ethics: The Perils Ahead
Hashtags on YouTube: an update to the way we group content together
Should smartphone data be harnessed to track mental health?
Maybe because he didn't expect anybody to do a lot of work to convince him of a basically worthless fact.

How long have you spent verifying your own computing platform? However it is, it is never impossible that somebody can corrupt it and fool you about something.
For those of us that haven’t heard of au-revoir-utm:

> How annoying are those "utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss" in URLs ? Right!

> So this extension removes them and prevents you from being tracked.

> Source code at https://github.com/Rik/au-revoir-utm
That's one way to deal with it, and in my analogy that would be equivalent to Substack banning ads within newsletters. But my point is that even where billboards are legal, most property owners choose not to install one. Why? It's because people are not money robots, and factor many other things into their decisions such as ethics, morals, personal preferences, cultural norms, etc. So, "ads make economic sense and are therefore inevitable" is a bad argument.
I agree about posture, see too many people with postural issues, almost makes me want to tell them to go see a physical therapist/personal trainer. Body awareness, I realized is only possible if you have been athletic all your life, for most people that awareness is just not there.
Yoga is great - it stresses strength, flexibility and balance. And the complex movements bring attention to those "weak" muscles. I do it once a week with weight training and it has improved my flexibility and kept me injury free.
I'm having trouble tracking down the exact statistics, though [1] comes close. It seems to apply less to women than I remembered. The source [4] is more scholarly and tells the same story.

The BBC article [2] is unfortunately just anecdotal.

At [3] they cite the CDC, saying

> between 12-14 percent of adults aged 20-24 have never had sex. This number drops to around five percent for adults aged 25-29, and by age 44, only around 0.3 percent of adults report never having had the type of sex that could end in somebody getting pregnant.

which are much lower numbers than I remember from another survey.

What I remember is that, although on the one hand there is still a bulk trend of decreasing age of sexual debut, on the other hand these average/median statistics hide a large cohort of more-educated women who have never had a sexual partner. But my impression may not be supported by national data, and may involve social selection effects.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/03/29/share-ame...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-44143003

[3] https://health.howstuffworks.com/relationships/love/how-many...

[4] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
> is there some reason to believe this variant is more easily spread and will become common?

Yes, there are two reasons: increasing natural immunity and vaccinations.
I lived 2 years in amsterdam and I cant spell Rijksmuseum properly
The Score – How childbirth went industrial (2006)
Understood, but if we can contain the mutations regionally, it’s better than having them spread globally.
Not the OP and happily married 42 y.o. But the following sentence is worth looking at under current conditions:

> Women are human beings. Seek out a human connection with them

We (as "world") have a problem with dating moving completely online. There isn't much human connection to make on Tinder, it is a very artificial and unnatural environment that places enormous value on photos and little else. All the other dimensions of a human being are secondary there.

My experience from the dating world of the late Analog Age (1996-2006) says that things like sense of humor, kindness, quirkiness contribute enormously to total attraction. These qualities are hard to express online.
That was in the article.
> The callouts there are "complete escape [from] convalescent plasma" (prior exposure won't help you)

Whether prior exposure helps also depends on T-cell response. At this point it's well established that immunity lasts for some unknown period of time past when most antibodies have left the bloodstream.
Yes of course, except for the last part. Their temporal experience, if they went into a time machine, is:

1. Time machine backwards

2. Shoot themselves

3. Time machine forwards

And that’s how they would have experienced it. The whole premise seems to be that this is allowed:

1. Time machine backwards

2. (do something)

3. Time machine forwards

Of course step 2 always happened since it’s the past. And yet they shot themselves. But they couldn’t shoot themself and exist now as well. And that’s the paradox.

Two choices at this point:

1. You can’t really do anything in step 2. In which case time travel is impotent, and hence why even dignify calling it time travel at all?

2. You have some potency in step 2, but you can’t do things that lead to paradoxes. But then how would you handle those special cases?

Just stating that “the past is fixed” doesn’t solve the paradox, it restates one of the premises.
This is missing the point. We might be interested in ants, but the ants would not be interested in us, because ants cannot understand us.

We can prod and research ant hills all we want. But all ants will ever see are some unexpected occurrences - maybe a very unusual scent which they can't place, or some food which wasn't there earlier, or an unexpected plague of ant death - which they will forget almost instantly.

It will never occur to ant-kind that they're even being studied, because ants have no concept of what "being studied" means.

There is nothing at all in the ant (hill) mind capable of understanding that a creature like a human might exist, never mind how to communicate with it.

So we can do what we like, and we will remain not just invisible, but unthinkable - forever.
During all the recent debates regarding Parler, much was said about how Parler needed effective moderation like Twitter. This article is an important reminder that there is a lot more room for improvement in the moderation space and even companies that "do it right" are still making glaring mistakes.

> We’ve reviewed the content, and didn’t find a violation of our policies, so no action will be taken at this time

This is totally unacceptable. I wonder if there is some kind of legal liability that could apply here? Taken at face value, this message seems to indicate that a Twitter representative reviewed content and chose to not remove it which sounds a lot to me like knowingly and willfully distributing cp....

(edited to fix spelling of "Parler")
I worked in an Intel Fab for a couple years. I walked out the door of Intel one day in 2011 (longer and irrelevant story). Within a week I had a job offer in hand from a competitor for over 2x the money.
To be honest I don’t think they’re (MBAs) completely useless, I just think they often end up in the wrong position for the wrong reasons.

I’ve had some great market research done by providing assignments to MBA students (though when I did my engineering MS and we had joint classes I stayed as far away from group work with them as I could - different grading gives different incentives), I just feel they sometimes might have difficulties understanding concepts like opportunity cost, probability or non-linear developments.
One possibility is that your global git config files are on a network drive. I had that problem on a corporporate laptop.
I've known people from towns with one or even two big industries, grew up in several, and the town always gets weird after a while. One in particular I'm thinking of that was almost healthy had a state and an art university pulling in money, and people who lived in the school districts but commuted to heavy industry in an exurb of the next big town. Someone tried building a factory on the edge of town to poach those people but it didn't stick. But that one company still overshadowed everything.

Your one company gentrifies the hell out of some things, not everything, and ultimately all fates are tied to their fortunes. They do a layoff, hiring freeze or even a salary squeeze and eight months later a few restaurants and one of your favorite stores shut down. You find out they've been late on payments to people and vendors for the past 6 months.

I recall the first time I heard someone interviewing at Intel and I asked why they were, 'in the middle of nowhere in Oregon' and nobody had a good answer to that.

What I've learned about manufacturing since then makes me think, "lax environmental rules and watchdogs".
Leaving aside the dubious assertions there, you are inferring that all these doctors would prolong life saving measures for preferred classes while leaving non-preferred classes of people to die.

Completely from inference. With no evidence. Nonsense.
I answered your question. Are you a specialist in the field? I have done extensive physical therapy and rehab, this is what they taught me.
This looks sort of like a Plex for music, and in a way (if you use some creative thinking) a self hosted Audius [1], neat!

I've been thinking about how I'd do this to ditch my library on what was Google Play Music and is now YouTube Music.

[1]: https://audius.co/
There is also an API available that allows bulk access to the collection's metadata and images [0].

[0] https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/object-metadata/harvest/
kind of like software developers!
(according to HN as well)
Being french and not knowing the definition of "escrow", I associated it with crook indeed !
Also at the first reading of the title I read "escort product". Thought, "ho woah HN! what is going on?" :)
I use Windows 10 as my daily driver, and often work on projects using Postgres, RabbitMQ, Redis, nginx and others.

Until Docker came along, it was a royal PITA. I always dreaded getting a new laptop or something breaking, as it took forever to set everything back up again, and it was never quite the same.

Docker changed all that. It forces you to configure everything in a reproducible way in a Dockerfile - and it's much simpler than trying to come up with scripts to install and configure everything in Windows, and I'd say it's also quicker than trying to come up with scripts for a Linux VM, just because you can spin containers up and down so quickly.

Docker has been a game changer for dev/test.
If you look a few messages up, you'll see...

> Obviously, a single monolithic spec controlled by a committee like the matrix spec core team has its own problems (most importantly, the committee can become a bottleneck); and we still provide mechanisms to let people experiment via the equivalent of vendor prefixing, which can go horribly wrong (c.f. aggregations in Matrix) if not managed with discipline.

...which is by far the biggest shortcoming of Matrix I'm aware of. I reserve the right to refute the inaccurate criticisms though (and to call them FUD, if that's what they are :)
1. Abstract:

"SARS-CoV-2 501Y.V2, a novel lineage of the coronavirus causing COVID-19, contains multiple mutations within two immunodominant domains of the spike protein. Here we show that this lineage exhibits complete escape from three classes of therapeutically relevant monoclonal antibodies. Furthermore 501Y.V2 shows substantial or complete escape from neutralizing antibodies in COVID-19 convalescent plasma. These data highlight the prospect of reinfection with antigenically distinct variants and may foreshadow reduced efficacy of current spike-based vaccines."

2. See also:

* "New coronavirus variants could cause more re-infections, require vaccine updates": https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/new-coronavirus-vari...

* "Can we stop a super coronavirus?": https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/can-germany-stop-...

* Tweets by an epidemiologist at Harvard about the new variants found in Manaus, Brazil: https://twitter.com/BillHanage/status/1349943613514526723

3. A key takeaway, for me:

Evolutionary paths for covid-19 that would normally be very unlikely become more and more likely as more people get infected with the virus, providing a large-scale, global playground for experimentation via random mutation. Random evolutionary events that would normally be rare become more and more likely as the numbers grow large enough.
I misunderstood your post, my apologies. I just wanted to present Hawaii's lack of billboards as an aside. It's quite nice.
Mapmaking Taught Skiing’s ‘Rembrandt of Snow’ the Art of Patience
Except that - Linux distributions aren't solely tools for developing software, and their package managers are intended for all their end users.
As near as I can tell they're letting Craig Wright cosplay being Satoshi because it's another useful way of inhibiting Bitcoin's adoption and annoying the real Satoshi, wherever he is out there.
An introduction to Centrifuge – real-time messaging with Go
See also TechCrunch article about this:

YouTube launches hashtag landing pages to all users

https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/21/youtube-launches-hashtag-l...
That's not what I said. I thought trolling was frowned upon on HN.
exiting discussion
I don't do it because I don't want to expose my network, but /r/plex would have more info.
First, this made me giggle because I run into that attitude all the time. "You're hosting things on a SERVER? Why would anyone do THAT? Heck, you should be putting everything in serverless and avoiding even the vague possibility that you would have to touch anything so degrading and low-class as an operating system. Systems administration? Who does that?"

In all seriousness, however, the decision (likely) has very little to do with that. They're most likely not hosting in the cloud because the current CA/Browser Forum rules around the operation of public CAs effectively don't permit cloud hosting. That's a work in progress, but for the time being, the actual CA infrastructure can't be hosted in the cloud due to security and auditability requirements.
BlackRock Takes First Step into Crypto Exposure in Two Funds
fully agree - that's how we started - getting some servers up and running is quick and easy, but as soon as you can foresee what computer power you will need in the next months and years, baremetal is surely the better choice. If you can deal with the technical stuff, of course.
The only thing I ever used MyISAM tables for was for storing blobs and full-text search on documents. If your data is mostly read only then it's a decent option out of the box. But if you do even mildly frequent updates then you'll quickly run into problems with the table level locking instead of the row level locking offered by InnoDB
I think multicellular life on Earth has likely created complex molecules and other interesting matter that doesn't exist anywhere else in the galaxy. I imagine an alien race would be interested in discovering what is out there--but they may not recognize human life as being any more intelligent than a grove of trees.
the government of my region has decide that instead of following normal vaccination procedures, they will spread the available vaccine (Pfizer) to just give 1 dose to as many people as possible as opposed to the 2 required to be effective as per the clinical trials and the manufacturers advice. This decision is purely political, defying all biological evidence.

Seems to me this is the perfect scenario to evolve vaccine resistant variants.
It's always fantastic to see these get released into the public domain. I am not someone who is trained to appreciate art, but I find it relaxing to take a break from coding to look at landscape paintings from time to time.

I should also plug Google's Arts & Culture Chrome extension. It can show you a new piece of artwork on the "new tab" splash page, rotating either every 24 hours or every tab. It's been a great way for me to get exposed to artwork and artists that I may not have found otherwise. My only complaint is that the set of works is somewhat small and after a year of use (with 24 hour rotations) you will start to notice repeats.
should probably mention, if you're looking for a local solution, there are at least 2 OpenCascade wrappers for python:

CadQuery ( https://github.com/CadQuery/cadquery )

PythonOCC ( https://github.com/tpaviot/pythonocc-core )
The question is, I guess, whether we are the first species they find inhabiting a planet in some form of intelligent life, or whether we are Species 5618. Species 5618 is interesting to few experts only.
I've had this happen to me on Facebook. Found a disgusting video involving children, reported it, got a response that there's nothing wrong with it. It's like the people reviewing this stuff have only a second to decide if the content should be deleted.
Is this peer2peer? I am thinking about a tool for Podcast that federates and is p2p like e.g. peertube only with all the Podcast rss Features + listeners can choose a ratio how many copys of the Podcast they want to distribute
The risk I see for Substack is that if a writer has enough ad revenue in parallel to their Substack subscriptions they are more likely to jump ship, or at least, threaten to reduce the 10% commission.

I haven't used Substack's creator software so not certain if they offer more value than a payment process (or even a vertical-bank designed for creators) would. But neither of those would charge 10%.
Me too. I'm thinking of knocking up a quick site just to dunk on MBAs...
Then it could also almost be a joke about parsing and context-free grammars or such.
Very cool to see the start of official support. Unfortunately it looks like it requires unsafe { } for now, though maybe it's intended as a low-level foundation on which a higher-level, safer API can be built
It has the advantage of using normal syntax rather than string literals (AST manipulation, formatting, static analysis, autocomplete, ...).
I had assumed the vaccine was also intended/believed to induce T-cell response, is that not the case? Given that they disappear within a matter of months after a natural infection, how long are the antibodies from the vaccines believed to last?
CockroachDB vs. Scylla Benchmark
So they used a neural net with only 4 parameters?? And they haven't compared the performance to a simple regression?
You'll get a history from the Bitcoin Cash perspective here: https://old.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/js6jft/frequently_aske...
Yes it's still possible to put your own physical machines in a datacentre.

For example : https://www.scaleway.com/en/dedibox/dedirack/

I'm not sure you can say it's the cloud though.

They are not hosting their database in the cloud like Amazon or Azure because no cloud provider offers such high performances at a comparable price. Actually I'm not even sure you can get a cloud VM with that many IOs, if you don't mind the pricing.
Craig Wright has done enough to hurt Bitcoin over the years that I effectively think of him as a canary: the fact that he is still walking around is evidence that there are no darkweb assassination markets that are not just scams or honeypots.
I can still import a wallet from at least 2012 and move the coins using the official client just like it was created yesterday.

edit: and obviously you can't remember that but if you encrypt your wallet you can save it to long term storages like Dropbox / differrent servers / medias / etc, what Satoshi would most likely be doing
There is still plenty of Hunter Biden child porn on twitter too.

Why hasn't Hunter Biden been arrested yet? (cause his dad is the president)

Why hasn't Jack Dorsey been arrested yet for lying under oath?
This is the first time I hear about the V language and I wanted to share this little tool that only weights >400kb and is a client for Slack, Skype and Telegram.

https://volt-app.com/
As stated in the post, there are read replicas. Assuming their workload is primarily reads, this buys them a decent amount of redundancy.
Desiccation is an interesting approach. I don't see it as being used for every step of a reaction though? It would take too long to wait for desiccation between every step? And depending on the buffers you are using, you might be increasing the salt concentrations after you re-constitute? I guess you can take that into account when you add the reconstitution buffer.

Are you open to discussing some kind of consulting arrangement between you and my company? If so, how do I reach out?
If anyone asks me I'm going to say TREE(3) :D
Interestingly, you make this comment on a platform entirely devoid of advertisement, because it itself is one massive advertisement for the YC accelerator program.

So it's very true, you cannot escape the advertisements.
I certainly have no personal investment in some folks who are complete novices at exercise to spin their wheels for another few years or decades. The point is, hiring a trainer for 5-10 sessions to teach people how to address their specific deficits and to teach them how to train will pay immense dividends.
> …"Benchmarks Game" … compares languages solely on the basis of performance.

Not true.

1) source code size is compared

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

2) correctness is checked

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

3) time "to complete and log all make actions" (build the program) is also logged
While not fair to make sweeping generalizations, many of us engineers have had so many bad experiences with MBAs that it's hard to not lump them all together. Their need for control and culture shaping seem to directly harm engineering efforts in almost every case I've seen. I suppose in some ways they will always be at odds with one another.
I for one am not concerned. The true mortality rate appears to be <1% and of that 90% are >65. What does that mean?

To put it into perspective you may only know one person in your friend group which knows one person who dies.

Your friends / family are more likely to die of cancer.

How often do you know someone die of cancer?

It's definitely unfortunate; we should all socially distance & wear N95's where possible. All of us can decide if we want to stay locked down or not. Probably half the population will, so the spread will be much lower than otherwise. The rest of the population can keep working, making money and feeding their children.
Bitcoin Blockchain Sees Two Stale Blocks in One Day
sure, that's a good point. and scaling a one-node-cluster to a multi-node-cluster is also nearly no effort on AWS. but for the topics where we can predict the computing power for the next months, we migrated everything to baremetal.
You forgot their main market, AMD - desktop x86/windows

But the first point on your list is where their real loss is, it's historically the source of their strenght and they've never been losing at this one.
Link to the browseable collection:
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio
Strange, it’s almost like you should do everything humanly possible to avoid getting this.
Google seals content payment deal with French news publishers
There was a case her in Denmark (which, normally, have much stronger employment laws than the US) where it turned out that a company could require its workers to exercise (and they were computer programmers, so it wasn't directly related to their job) provided that it happened in working hours.
One alternative with both 2.4/5GHz wifi+BLE is the RTL8720DN. More here: https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/01/17/realtek-rtl8720dn-du...

Until recently, the only devkit you could find was the Seeedstudio Wio Terminal. Just came across a devboard on AliExpress for < $6. Looks interesting.
I prefer CleaURLs, it also removes UTM parameters plus a number of other tracking parameters: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/
Interesting, is there a better way to filter quality content that does not involve ads? Is human moderation a must?

Just looking for feedback. HN will inevitably grow overtime, so scaling is unavoidable right? Better port the community to a separate product or target a different demographic than polluting the existing one. After all, it is just an experiment.