skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the company, but their email service is nowhere close to being a GMail alternative. A few things that are lacking -

1. Using standard IMAP/POP is only available for Paid users and only on the desktop. Not Mobile.

2. Conversation view is not implemented on their mobile clients. It has been over 5 years - https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483-feedback/sugg...

3. Their conversation view on the desktop groups messages based on the sender and not always the subject. It results in old conversations being grouped together.

They are working on all these issues, but till then, my productivity was impacted a lot by switching.
Let me get this straight - you're saying "true libertarians" are people who decide to stop caring about advancing libertarian causes because someone else exercised their right of free speech, and now cheer for the loss of liberty of people they don't like?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmcpl/articles/PMC7052834/

Layperson here. I wonder if there's any unintentional antimicrobial side effects with both medical and recreational use. For example, undesirable effects upon the gut flora that then potentially adversely affect neurochemistry. Especially if the route of administration is ingestion.
“Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.”
I am going to repeat my original point:

> Pure math makes up two of the seven liberal arts.

This is utterly impossible to understand as anything other than a reference the specific medieval seven liberal arts which do historically and practically underpin the definition of the unversity as distinct from other forms of tertiary education, not the "modern" concept of a liberal arts education.

Go grind your political axe elsewhere.
I can send that. I've been fully remote for 4 years. Because the small village where we wanted to live has 0 tech jobs within reasonable commute distance.

I've gone from IC to team lead, to group lead. I think this is my limit at the moment. Not because I'm remote, but that's how much I can handle at the moment.

I don't get some of the hallway chats from the mothership, but the feedback routinely is that we're one of the strongest groups in the company. So I would take that as a sign that the remote aspect isn't a deal breaker.

Personally I wouldn't go back to the office routine unless I was out of options.

And yes, I do spend 80% of my time in various calls. This is not different from being in an office and working with a distributed team (also in offices in their regions).
The Q&A have a very permissive license, so anyone can try to host a static version. (This was on purpose, the idea is that people would have been less prone to answer, if the answers were trapped in SO.)

Moreover, there are a few spammer sites that already does this, and one of the problem of SO is to compete with them to be higher in the Google results.

So ... probably you will be able to read the Q&A in other sites, and after a while there will appear SO-likes site for niches.
> An argument can be logically sound but with a false conclusion.

That doesn't sound right. An argument is sound iff it is logically valid and its premises are true, right? From Wikipedia:

> In deductive reasoning, a sound argument is an argument that is both valid, and all of whose premises are true (and as a consequence its conclusion is true as well)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundness#Definition
I think when people learn of him, he is rated appropriately. I think what you want to convey is he doesn't get much attention for the amount of impact he had, and if this indeed what you want to convey, then I would suggest that the president's staff also do not get much attention for the amount of impact they have.

It is common for the leaders to get the attention, positive or negative, for the results of the groups they lead.
Lawmakers want to break up Facebook,experts say restoring competition is better
> Content cannot be easily edited or deleted, but the append-only log ensures that the network converges towards the same state despite partitions.

I don't think that's right. First, there's no single network, so I don't understand what “converging” means here. Each person has a different subset of all the scuttlebutt messages that exist.

If a client discovers conflicting messages claiming to be Alice's message number 21, the client ignores both messages and all subsequent messages in that feed; the feed is “forked” — nothing converges.

The purpose of the append-only log is as the paper says later:

> Messages cannot be faked, omitted, or re-ordered, due to the signed append-only log nature of the feed.

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> An ignore will simply not show that data to the user's node, although their node will continue to pass their data through the network.

Which client implements ignores like this? I thought that for most clients, ignore means “I won't replicate this feed, but I also won't publish a message announcing that I'm no longer replicating this feed”. The same as blocking, but without announcing it.

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> For example, a client could store data from 2 hops away, but replicate data from 3 hops away

No, you can't replicate data you haven't stored! You could store and replicate data from 3 hops away but only display data from 2 hops away.

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They're a little confused, but they've got the spirit!
All browsers too. I've seen a lot of shit it that so called internet.
Covid is not nearly as high on the priority list for many third world countries as it is for the US. Here covid shuts down everything. In many African countries it is an order of magnitude less impactful than malaria.
> On the other hand, he did get a decent amount (the website claims 6,000 people over 5 days) of people vaccinated

For one, the vaccine requires two doses to achieve anything approaching an acceptable level of immunity. So all those people have effectively not been vaccinated yet, and I'm not confident that the organisation will follow up on all their second doses properly (considering that they're already screwing up appointments for elderly people's first shots).

For another, given everything we know (including outright urging to ignore best medical practices) I wouldn't necessarily take as a given that the shots administered were all done so correctly and safely. I suppose it's a question of the staff's ethics vs the CEO's...everything.
That's still weird though. By that logic, they should ban all web browsers, and mail clients… Content they find unacceptable is definitely accessible through those.

Banning all applications that enable access to non-moderated decentralized content is simply not compatible with a phone being a smart phone.
Always. HN is business and tech.
Robinhood’s chief legal counsel is a former SEC chairman. There’s no way they didn’t realize what they are doing.
What are their business incentives?
A little polemical, but there's some truth here. We've become so fixated on left-right as the only dimension that whenever you advocate for something clearly in the centrist-ish public interest, all anyone wants to know is which side you're on so that they can reduce you to a caricature.

Which prompts the question, who is responsible for all this vitriol? What people or corporations are driving us further and further into these two filter bubbles?

Oh no.
Well, the solution to this dispute is easy => We just wait another 8 weeks:

(1) If am right, then Covid is gone in Israel by end of March.

(2) If you are right, Covid will be still a huge problem in in Israel.
The opposite is also true. I read a book about early electricity discoveries. People in Europe were all about the deep end theories. America.. pragmatism reigned supreme. As long as you can make something out of phenomenon you're good to go. The book said that by the time Edison made a light bulb, European academics were still debating unproven theories.
"If that means I become a social pariah, then so be it."

Sounds heroic, but maybe does not help anyone?
And if you really cannot tolerate closed source, than what kind of hardware do you use?
As far as I know, they are allmost all closed and locked.

Pine64 is a fresh breeze, but they are also not free(nor stable) yet.

My workaround is simply, that I have a mobile, where I can remove the batterie, then I know, it is turned off.
You can use fdroid to install it. Maintained there by Matrix itself as it is free software.
Depending on your target market, open-sourcing your hardware makes a lot of sense.
I open-sourced my commercial USB oscilloscope design (https://github.com/EspoTek/Labrador) after doing a bit of research into boards targeted at electronics hobbyists and crowdfunded by individuals or small teams.

Invariably, a community didn't form around the closed-source boards and they died.

A lot of people asked me what I'm doing to protect my IP from being "stolen".
The most effective solution I've found so far is efficient logistics. I take advantage of 3PL companies in Shenzhen, as well as Amazon FBA in the US (and Europe soon) to make sure that it's easy for customers anywhere in the world to buy the product.

So far, I've sold close to 10k units and the the only clones I've seen were made by a student in Iran for personal use.
The parent project, LabML, looks interesting. Anyone have any experience with how this stacks up against Weights and Biases?
>Everyone tries to push their burden of moderation on people below them, because no one can actually keep up with it. And if the moderation is not enforced, they risk being taken down by someone above them. That would explain why everyone is so trigger happy when it comes to censorship. When the WallStreetBets people were taken down by Facebook and Discord, they didn't ban the individuals who were actually violating the policy, but the entire community.

There's a much simpler explanation: Google wants as much of your communication as possible to go through them or their partners, so they can monetise it. People using Parler or Matrix don't leak any information to Big Tech, so commercially it makes sense to deter people from using apps like that, and they'll use whatever excuse they can get away with.
Nicely put. Maybe it helps to think of the purpose of those conversations where pointing out logical fallacies might help?

Such conversations are almost always about changing someone's view of the world - sometimes through debate, where conflicting positions are taken and argued upon, and sometimes simply because someone (e.g. you) asks for a clarification in order to know which position to take.

So I think that the idea is that people can at least take well-reasoned positions, not necessarily equal positions, in a world that is not black and white.

The list of fallacies can then be a useful guide to judge the persuasiveness of the arguments of the different sides, including of course your own arguments, and to help you see whether a position might need to change because it is not well-reasoned.

In your example, I can say "I trust Fields Medallists" and therefore judge the proof to be likely wrong. That is a valid position to take. You may say that "the author of the proof is a very talented mathematician" so the proof is likely right, which would be equally valid. What we cannot do, without further information, is to claim that the proof must with absolute certainty be right or wrong - that I believe would be the fallacy here.
Reminded of this New Yorker cartoon...

https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a20630
Thank you, I will try Google Webmaster Tools.
For those interested in / learning German: https://www.dict.cc/german-english/Ein+Narr+kann+mehr+Fragen...

Not sure about the original source though. A quick Google comes up with either German, Italian or even Lenin, with varying numbers of wise men.
Lol no. They make $175k.
>Luckily it's not possible to display illegal content with Google's own apps /s

Perhaps one day they will make this argument to justify having to spy on everything you do with their software.
s/Postgres/macOS/
> Now, my alma mater pays high-tooting faculty nearly a megabuck, pays typical faculty $180k, has $200 million building projects, yachts, and what-not.

This is not relevant to the UK. Faculty do not get paid anywhere near this. They do not get paid lawyer or doctor money either, for the UK. Economics faculty who move from the UK to the US will come close to doubling their salary, as a lower bound.
On the other hand, by the time Europeans made the WWW, American capitalists were still trying to figure out how to micromonetize resource transclusion.
> Easy answer, UNIX mass adoption.

On Unix mass adoption...

My best friend (and still best friend to this day) in the early 90s had an SGI Indy at home (his stepfather happened to be the director of SGI Benelux) and so I got to play with one of the earliest SGI Indy. What a machine to have, for teenagers into computing, at home in the early nineties!

The shock, the world of difference between a beige box running MS-DOS / Windows 3.1 and stuff like (Turbo) Pascal compared to that amazing SGI workstation...

I saw the future, I saw "my" future when I got to play on that SGI Indy. And then when I discovered Linux (back when it was shipping on a CD attacked to a book/magazine) I got to transform my MS/Windows beige PC into a (modest) Un*x station and never looked back (I'm using Linux daily since that day).

I don't have bad memories of programming in Pascal but both Pascal and Delphi felt, to me, like deeply attached to the MS ecosystem and a bit toy'ish (making it easy to do easy things, but very hard to make anything a bit advanced).

As soon as I found a way out of the MS world I was out and so I was done with Pascal/Delphi.
Returning EINTR is valid behaviour.
Supply constraints don’t matter when there is virtually infinite availability. There are nearly 19,000,000 coins in circulation and each coin represents 100,000,000 swappable assets. We will reach the heat death of the universe before Bitcoin supply matters.
coul EU ban vaccine export?
Edit: looking at the graph [1] more closely, I understand what you meant - there is no visible change in the slope past day 12 after dose 1 (dose 2 was administered on day 21). So the patient data actually shows that the vaccine achieved its maximum efficacy ~12 days after the 1st dose, not necessarily related to the 2nd dose at all.

Original comment:

I don't know where you're getting this, but the Pfizer paper [0] clearly shows that disease prevalence is much lower after the second dose:

> Among participants with and those without evidence of prior SARS CoV-2 infection, 9 cases of Covid-19 at least 7 days after the second dose were observed among vaccine recipients and 169 among placebo recipients, corresponding to 94.6% vaccine efficacy (95% CI, 89.9 to 97.3).

> Between the first dose and the second dose, 39 cases in the BNT162b2 group and 82 cases in the placebo group were observed, resulting in a vaccine efficacy of 52% (95% CI, 29.5 to 68.4) during this interval and indicating early protection by the vaccine, starting as soon as 12 days after the first dose.

You are right about the severe cases though - they had 1 in the vaccine group and 4 in the placebo group, which is far too little data to draw any meaningful conclusions from (it's also worth noting that the single severe case in the vaccinated group occurred >7 days after the second dose, so there is absolutely no data to draw conclusions on severe disease impact with a single dose).

[0] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577
[1] https://www.nejm.org/na101/home/literatum/publisher/mms/jour...
It used to be that if you even uttered the words "freedom of speech" here you'd be instantly downvoted and jumped on by five people saying that censorship is only when it's done by the government. Some people still double down on supporting the censorship, but at least no one even mentions that free market argument anymore.
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Imho and personal view,

1- at a macro level, the world sucks and the future is very uncertain

2- at a micro / individual level, frustration and lack of desire

3- (1) and (2) exacerbate the mimetic phenomenon

“Man is the creature who does not know what to desire, and he turns to others in order to make up his mind. We desire what others desire because we imitate their desires.” - René Girard

Mimetic theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimetic_theory

4- Mimetic desire leads to scapegoating. Societies unify their imitative desires around the destruction of a collectively agreed-upon scapegoat (here Wall Street)

5- The scapegoat theory of intergroup conflict provides an explanation for the correlation between times of relative economic despair and increases in prejudice and violence toward outgroups

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

6- Intensification of the phenomenon fuelled by hyper connected individuals (fostered by lockdowns) and increased use of social media

7- Anger is channelling towards the establishment and the symbol of all-time winners = money = Wall Street

8- Easy access to market combined with network effect give more substance to the conflict. “Financialisation” of the Occupy Wall Street movement? Quite ironic

Network effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect

9- As a result, today’s representation of value (of certain assets) goes beyond economic fundamentals, and is a collision of rational and irrational behaviours

Fundamentals: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fundamentals.asp

10- Short human beings

11- All in you crazy ***
Representing numbers in decimal ASCII/Unicode shouldn't be too bad in that regard, should it? If we're representing a sparse matrix, the '0' character occupies one byte, whereas a 32-bit representation occupies 4 (whether floating point or fixed point).

Both representations should lend themselves to compression.
Can they not automate that? That would probably put them _ahead_ of the Play Store
> Let's not get into the testing data debate here.

Let's not spread misinformation either. India did enough testing. India's positivity rate was almost always below 10%. Now it's even less than 1%. India has made testing fast, cheap, and easy to access.

Also, it doesn't matter if india has fewer hospital beds, if those beds are empty. Hospitals beds are empty, and our morgues aren't overflowing (like how milan or nyc in March did). It is a free country with open media. Nobody is suppressing covid cases.

There are many reasons it could happen like this. Cross immunity. Younger demographics. Smaller groups (most indians live in rural villages). Diet. Weather. Etc.

It's not strange that delhi and bangalore have more cases. They are also denser cities with more people. It's just like how nyc and Los Angeles have more cases than say indianapolis or santa Cruz.
If anyone stumbles across this, the above statement is false. (I can no longer edit it.)

Please check this sibling comment [0] to see the correction here. Apologies.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25966361
VOA and "US intelligence” aren't basically the same entity?

They will print anything they are instructed to from my understanding.
I think appeal to authority gets shaky when you appeal to an authority who's domain of expertise, or specific knowledge and experience might not extend to the issue at hand. It's a matter of trusting the process of scientific inquiry, challenge and verification, not just the person.

So for example I defer to Roger Penrose on anything to do with mathematics, and will absolutely he has earned a voice on astrophysics#, but quantum consciousness microtubules? Nobody is an authority on that, so who knows?

# And to be clear part of his credibility there is in making it clear what he believes with a high degree of certainty and what is more speculative.
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After a few failed attempts in the start I discovered Xterminator's series[1]. Now I just roll a similar map and try to imitate what he does.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fimGkeVVASA&list=PLwehwVVQir...
This is awesome! It scratched an itch that has been developing for a PDA-like device. Unfortunately it displays as out of stock [1].

[1] https://m5stack.com/products/m5paper-esp32-development-kit-9...
The pharma companies you mention are all working hard to supply a vaccine to purchasers, at cost.

The idea that they have some sort of profit motive and are deliberately delaying the EU is not true. Accounts of journalists, and the companies, suggest EU delayed contracts being signed because of internal disagreements, and haggling over contractual terms.
India just doesn't have the giant 70+ yo vulnerable male population that western countries have. If they did, the numbers would be horrifying. But since they have a young population, herd immunity was reached. (Serology tests show over 50% of india had covid, and the case stats show a classic epidemical curve)

Same goes for Russia btw, theres no 50+ males for covid to kill as they die to alcohol abuse. So they peaked at "only" 600 deaths / day.
> my nephew got groomed on Google Plus

That is genuinely horrifying and I'm so sorry for him and your family.
I am using Windows Terminal at work. Its better than most alternatives. Yet still lacking. Its hard to describe in words without putting screenshots next to each other, but there is a lack of crispness, odd spacing, other aspects probably related to the terminal emulation capabilities (odd background colors when I use ncurses apps in WSL, or via ssh, etc.).

Also its overall a bit half baked in terms of its UX, which really boils down to not getting in the way so much. It seems to support for example tons of ways of pasting from the clipboard, involving "INS", or CTRL-V, etc. but lots of terminal applications actually depend on these shortcuts so Gnome-Terminal binds them to C-Shift-V or iterm/Terminal.app to CMD+V, on windows, CTRL-V is caught by Terminal and that means I cannot rectangle-select in vim, etc.

I must admit I haven't dived into the MS Terminal configuration very far other than looking at the color Schemes, nevertheless, there is a lot of room for improvement when coming from a Linux/Mac platform
Glad someone else noticed, after using Duckduck for around 2 to 3 years now seeing someone Google something seems really archaic.
Taiwan's strength is being right next to one of the largest economies in human history. Put Taiwan in Northern Europe or for that matter anywhere else in the world and its future prospects would be reduced drastically.

Not sure why people like to dance around this economic truth.
> Many system calls will report the EINTR error code if a signal occurred while the system call was in progress. No error actually occurred, it's just reported that way because the system isn't able to resume the system call automatically. This coding pattern simply retries the system call when this happens, to ignore the interrupt.

> For instance, this might happen if the program makes use of alarm() to run some code asynchronously when a timer runs out. If the timeout occurs while the program is calling write(), we just want to retry the system call (aka read/write, etc).

It's perfectly valid behaviour, and the solution is to retry in that case.
Industry is going to have to get their nomenclature straightened out because nobody really knows what's going on in consumer land. HD was something people understood - 4K maybe. Beyond that, not so much.
Going from Idaho to New York is about the same shock as going from Idaho to Australia. The people who make this comparison are the ones who have actually been to many different American states instead of just reading about them on Reddit.
It's easier to simply ensure that the apps you need are present in multiple stores.
CVE-2021-20180 Ansible bitbucket_pipeline_variable credentials disclosure
Dont be offended Ivan. This song was a parody and joke at the time of its creation for most people.
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