skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The NYT story links to an MIT Technology review article: “What went wrong with America’s $44 million vaccine data system?”

> The CDC ordered software that was meant to manage the vaccine rollout. Instead, it has been plagued by problems and abandoned by most states.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/30/1017086/cdc-44-m...
I was impressed they'd send such a letter at all. On seeing your comment, I now notice that the letter was written in 1987.
Freedom of religion is all fun and games until you move into a Muslim neighborhood.
Contrary to the breathless screeds from fox news, "thug" is not a type of person.

Crime is something a person does, not who they are. When people do things, they do them for a reason. The most common reason for street crime is extreme poverty, and the most common cause of extreme poverty is white-collar crime.
Has anyone actually been able to reproduce this? This annoyed me enough that I cancelled my NordVPN renewal, and I never got this screen - and all the adblock/anti-malware stuff still works fine.
You note "How: sensor syncs with phone app via Bluetooth"

Did you write this app custom? Are you selling the app? Any open-sources suggestions for a "concentrator app" like this?
Show HN: View and test SES templates in the browser
tl;dr; SES's options for viewing your email templates are very limited so I built this.

Hey HN,

If you use SES, you probably know how difficult it is to view your email templates and test them out in the browser.

I solved it for my team first and now, it's out for everyone to try @ https://zeer0.com/new/

PS: Except one feature of the website - which lets you read your SES emails stored in S3 in your browser - the rest of the website runs purely in your browser so your AWS key/secret are absolutely safe.
What about Kalimantan? I've been to Kota Kinabalu (many years ago) and the social difference compared to Kuala Lumpur was striking. I assumed Kalimantan was socially more similar to its island neighbors. Official laws and social norms do not always align.
Just because traditional combustion engines can't do it doesn't mean much. More powerful nuclear thermal engines, direct fusion engines, etc are in development. There's other possibilities.
They often block VPN traffic at the protocol level i.e. even rolling your own is going to be a headache.

That said, I never had problems using an SSH tunnel and the end result is the same.
I think it should be a choice given to the convict. Imprisonment, maybe for months or years, or intense pain and life long scaring, but you get to go home at the end of the day and don't spend a significant fraction of your only life in a cell. Depending on the length of the prison sentence, I would opt for the caning.
But web browsing is the vast majority of network usage now. The only big exception I can think of that don't go through standard HTTP/HTTPS rails is email. And even then desktop email clients are pretty rare now and they're pretty universally encrypted now.
No.

Governments have power because people lend them some of their own power.

People give governments power because governments promise to make them better off.

Breaking the concept of money has, historically, done the opposite of that.
Why not simply provide data to counter their "lies"? What makes you so sure to be in possession of the truth? Have you verified yourself, or have you simply chosen to trust the authorities?
"Chunky Bacon!"

I loved the characters, sidebars and various stories; I don't remember too much of the Ruby content, however.
The big difference is threat of violence, and invasion of personal space.

I would rather lose $1000 in the stock market because a company cooked the books than $50 by mugging or home burglary.
> If we have all eternity, would we have the drive to keep improving ourselves and our society?

Are we improving ourselves or society now?

I doubt many decisions humans make are concerned with improving society. Even if they are it is with respect to their perspective of what it means to improve society.

A given society places constraints on people and incentivizes them to act in certain ways and over time this elicits changes in that society, but I don't see that constituting an improvement, unless your notion of improvement is simply change in the manner induced by societal pressures. But then improvement is guaranteed, tautologically, hence it is a a rather poor definition.

If humans were to become immortal then it seems likely that the constraints and incentives of a given society would elicit different responses from its members, thereby inducing a different type of change. And again whether this is an improvement depends on what your definition of improvement is taken to be. Surely, should such a time come, these new immortals' notion of improvement should take precedence over our own. But I doubt they would take conscious control over the manner in which their society changes any more than we do presently.

I have similar issues with the notion that we are, presently or at any time in the past, improving ourselves.
"Good news" doesn't have to mean "the overall trends are good". Something good can happen among a trend of bad things, and acknowledging the good thing doesn't mean denying the bad things.
A lawyer would lose his license if he were complicit in money laundering.
Chinese Culture Doesn’t Belong to the Chinese Government
> My suspicion is that he was not properly prepared and only had that single copy of the key.

Which, if I was in his situation, is exactly what I would tell the police regardless of reality.
According to steam hardware surveys, the 1060 has been king for years
If you like The Naming of Cats... check out RFC 2100
Reminds me of the Hawaii false missile alert that was attributed to miscommunication during a drill.

> BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Hawaii_false_missile_aler...
Grow a tree as you finish your tasks
Sorry but "doctors going on social media" is absolutely no proof for anything. I have also seen several doctors on social media say that there is less activity at hospitals than usual.

Seriously, just provide the numbers about hospital use. No social media nonsense.

Your data about "excess deaths" is only for the last five years, by the way, not "any previous year".
PPS: you can use demo credentials to test the feature. And if you are so inclined, you can even use the demo license with your own AWS key/secret and bypass the need to subscribe but it would be great if you did subscribe!
Was there an alternative? No. Why not.. Guess who stopped it?
This liberal stand of calling people lazy or weak to not resist things that kills them self or the environment is a argument what puts the blame on the people instead of the one making sure everything stays in there interest.

And yeah 'democracy' the term the US used to invade countless of countries in the name of freedom, peace and democracy. What were the wars really about the last 20 to maybe 50 years? About private interest of oil.

The US democracy is nothing more then big industries calling the shots. Spreading so much propaganda people don't know what to believe any more.

50 years ago presidents were already shouting that they were going to cut back on fossil fuels. What happend there?
If the US really was a democracy you would have had free healthcare by now. It's nothing more then a smoke screen.

And by now with the help of social media propaganda has become more of a psychological weapon. They know exactly what triggers specific individuals and how to steer them.
If we keep trying to fool our self with this believe that people should just be come magically immune to propaganda and advertisement we are pretty domed.
Thanks, yep!
> whose entire business relies on keeping that promise.

That "you should not use a VPN" link someone posted elsewhere explicitly disproves that claim, saying that HideMyAss were caught breaking their privacy promises and have yet to go out of business.

The prices of VPN services also don't make sense and potentially suggest something nefarious is going on (not saying Mullvad is doing this, but any VPN advertised on YouTube is very likely to do so). It's difficult to imagine that they can afford such bandwidth/hardware and the amount of support/abuse cases (remember that VPN services will attract scum as a side-effect of their privacy/anonymity claims) for such a low price.
I love the idea of personal data analysis. In fact, I recently wrote a book with that premise called "Everyday Data Science".

I just wrote about it in another thread, but it seems relevant to the discussion here.

I definitely agree that you can really take control of your life with a bit of data and some not so fancy analysis.

In the book I shared the story of an old professor of mine that tracked a personal health marker from yearly screenings. The threshold for concern was "4 ng/ml". His numbers were always right around 1. However, there was a super noticeable trend up to 2.5 and 3. The doctors all waved it off because it was still below the magic "4" number.

However, when he showed them the graph of historic data, they rushed him to a specialist and detected (and removed) cancer.

I think data collection and personal analysis for day-to-day stuff is vital and fascinating. Thanks for sharing :)
I mean, the point isn't that Kite can't succeed at integrating with third party tools in less user-hostlile ways. The point is that I'm not touching Kite with a thousand-foot pole after what they've done in the past. The trust has been lost. And the idea that it "nags" you to install Kite seems to indicate that money has traded hands somewhere, as in this is an advertisement. It just seems like much the same as before.
I'd guess it is related to the conventional way steering wheels work--turn clockwise to steer the vehicle right, counterclockwise to steer it left. Hence, clockwise gets associated with right and counterclockwise with left.

I have no idea why steering wheels work that way. If I had to guess it would because most steering wheels are below eye level so it makes sense that you move the top of the wheel in the direction you want to go.

Note that if you are holding the top half of a steering wheel that follows this convention, then when you turn the vehicle the centriwhatever force on you will tend to oppose the force you are using to turn the wheel. If the steering while used the opposite convention, that force would reinforce your force. That positive feedback would make it a lot easier to lose control during the turn.
The handshake between business and labor was just one component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election–an extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted.

Without being glib, this is called "doing your job as a citizen".
Probably the #1 reason by far is geoblocking.

Security interests are niche compared to people wanting to watch 'xyz program' or 'xyz super game'.
Speaking about it, has anyone experience using a laser cutter to create fresnel lens, out of transparent plastic?

At some point I want to do this, and this plugin might seem helpful.
JavaScript for Cats taught me more about JS than any other book or course combined. I don't know how it compares to the other examples you mention, but there's something about the informal style that just works for me and my attention span.
What was the purpose of something like this? Like, why would a designer have chosen this over a microprocessor like the Intel 4004 from 5 years prior?
Isn't it controversial these days? (see debate about master/slave in computer context) /s
Just found it on ITV.
Investors want those shares because buying them early has a much bigger upside than buying them later. Employees just want a bigger paycheck.

If employees sell most of their shares you gain zero insight from knowing their individual position vs looking at what the chart says about the entire stock unless, as rglullis said, you want feedback from those employees.

A manager that retaliates against employees basically ruins all three value propositions. Investors don't get their shares. Employees don't get their paycheck. You also don't get feedback. It's negative sum thinking.

A manager would only do it because they consider discrimination an end goal.
You can count me today as negative. Serfdom indeed.
So a cobbler is not a cobbler?
Is $90 a month even worth the electricity and nuisance cost?
>In less than 100 years we have moved from sweat shops and pinkertons to foosball tables, on-site chefs, and summer fridays.

Sweat shops and the Pinkertons still exist, and high paying jobs had perks a hundred years ago. This isn't a trend.
I’m not saying they deserve all of the blame, especially for getting us into heavy fossil fuel dependency. Note that what I said was that I hold the people with the least agency and information less accountable, and especially assign blame to people who knew the problem and privately made plans around it while funding public denial. Ignorance isn’t good but it beats active lying.
Neither "limitation" is inconsistent with the slightly different, but discursively relevant idea that the higher EV for fraud will skew towards bigger corporations versus smaller ones. In particular, the second limitation is not a limitation at all, but can serve as a prior explanation for why fraud is more likely in large corporations.

If you were to measure the amount of fraud per capita, small corporations might dominate; but it's the impact or scope of fraud that makes one fraud more important than another. And even if fraud within an organization is not coordinated from the CEO down, it's still the organization as a singular entity that's held accountable for the behavior of its parts.
It's a common joke to say that you resemble a remark when it applies to you. Dano is joking that they too are ancient like 1987 (you know, from the prior millennium).
Using DPI an ISP might be able to figure out that you're torrenting but not what you're torrenting. In some jurisdictions this is a big improvement.
If those links are the intent of this page, the "Swoosh! Swoosh!" is a great way to hide them.

There's a maxim in publishing: Don't bury the lede.
> Or are there better programs for than?

There's the rayopt[1] Python library. You can find a repo of notebooks modelling a bunch of lenses from the original patents here[2].
I've played around a bit with that myself, modelling a Voigtländer Color-Skopar.

[1] https://github.com/quartiq/rayopt
[2] https://github.com/quartiq/rayopt-notebooks
There is nothing 'vile or bigoted' about pointing out that parents frequently force religions on their children. My christian parents sure as shit did, and it was common in other families in my community too. I see no reason to think it would be any less prevalent in Muslim families than in Christian ones.
It definitely is and if you view this from a cynical point, at some point in the future, a simple machine learning model in a police department would be the primary source of predicting who's the convict based on all the factors you just mentioned on a much larger scale.
I think people need to start distinguishing between CLI and TUI as TUI aren't really meant for scripting but CLI tools are.
A far more appropriate title would be "Complexity: A very brief introduction to major themes with bibliography".

The booklet is 20 pages covering aspects with a one-paragraph description, several examples as a bullet list, list of concepts, and two references for further readig.

The title sets up rather greater expectations.
Sorry about this; we have been giving the mobile app for free to paid members of the site but feel free to reach out to me directly and I can provide a promo code. The content in the app is always up-to-date with a company's latest 10K/Q and has been tested to work on the iPhone 12 but yes, the overall look needs to be updated. I believe the icon appears blank because the image used was transparent.
People sell "innovation" at a huge premium. You can make wild projections because there's not a history of past performance to model from. It's like rookie cards. The rookie card of the player who doesn't pan out is briefly worth a lot more than the card of the durable all-star in their seventh year.
Protect the election from what?
I have that on vinyl.
I definitely didn’t mean to discount the emotional damage done to boys by social media and media. Also the damage done to them by caging them up in schools while demanding absolute obedience and attention in “lord of the flies” situations.
When I was in college we had lots of TTL breadboard labs to make various types of digital circuits. I wonder if something like this might be a good part of a curriculum that builds up to making a full processor?
SQRL (Secure, Quick, Reliable Login)
ToJ;F!
> though it’s somehow more offensive than Repo: The Genetic Opera

On the upside, it doesn't have Paris Hilton
Happy Private Internet Access user, for years, and I don’t have to deal with this kind of practices.
I have no idea under what jurisdiction the fed has that power, I have very little US government experience and IANAL. But my impression is that the federal government oscillates between being more and less involved in state's affairs over time and administrations, and that when considering novel (or semi-novel since the practice of allocating jurisdiction to companies seems to have been done elsewhere - ex. Florida & Disney) legislation it should be a serious consideration that the federal government would be interested in getting involved, especially in a contentious issue like this very likely will be and that new precedent and rulings can always be set depending on who is in power (legislatively or in the courts).
Where's Bernie?
>but alas, I could see this being entertaining to 8-14 year old children.

Or adults with a working sense of humor.
Actually I do not know. Kalimantan is the Indonesian part of Borneo, while Kota Kinabalu is on the Malaysian part of Borneo. Generally Malaysia is more conservative than indonesia. Even in KL Muslims are banned from buying alcohol, while in Indonesia that's not generally the case.
A straightforward approach to business idea research
if you knew what a liquidity pool is you wouldn't have engaged in this conversation

liquidity pools have solved all of this. locked liquidity pools solved it even better.

edit for anyone passing by: liquidity pools are a fairly novel concept that allows cryptocurrencies to be exchangeable for more liquid cryptocurrencies without needing to beg exchanges to list your token. It is completely permissionless and has resulted in these systems having more liquidity and volume than non-permissionless systems, throughout 2020. Basically, anyone can form a market and they can broadcast publicly that the market won't go anywhere. This is new to crypto over the last 15 months, and is an improvement to all markets. Comes with its own new issues but the market has chosen it.

https://www.coindesk.com/defi-flippening-uniswap-topples-coi...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-16/defi-boom...

find a source you respect that shows you the same thing.

No other asset class has assurances of secondary markets, even in mature markets people have just had to rely on actively traded markets continuing to exist in perpetuity with market makers simply being there without much understanding of how and why.
The For You feed is not the total interface to TikTok content. The article is not talking about being removed from the feed, its talking about being removed from TikTok simpliciter
Right, so it isn't about lots of algorithms being prevented, it is actually a pretty reasonable constraint and not a huge deal.

If you were worried about cache and indirection, the indices could be aligned to the start of a 64 byte or 128 byte boundary, since 64 bytes is the cache line size but (Intel) cpus will load two cache lines at a time. Because of this, loading in your 64 bit/8 byte index should mean that the 120 bytes after it are going to be cached.
It’s implied in the article I think.

> In 1977, the MC14500B cost $7.58 in quantities of 100 ($32 in current dollars), which seems expensive. However, at the time, an 8080A CPU cost $20 and a Z80 cost $50 ($85 and $215 in current dollars) so there was a significant cost saving to the MC14500B.5 However, the steady fall of processor prices soon made the MC14500B less attractive.

Perhaps in 1977 you couldn’t source the 4004 in the quantities you might need to make a product leaving you only with more expensive contemporary processors?
When the banks crashed the economy in 2008 and millions lost their jobs and homes, people were directly emotionally impacted. Nobody went to jail or admitted fault.
This does seem to be the logical conclusion of a game theory analysis. Since planet killers can show up without any warning, the only solution is make it impossible to aim your unstoppable weapons, which means you have to be impossible to detect or locate.

So as you said, maybe the solution to the Fermi Paradox is that every surviving civilization is hiding in cloaked habitats within the vastness of intergalactic space.
He was part of the weather underground years ago, he has spent decades as an education theorist since then. Education theorist is his current profession. Ted Kaczynski abandoned his mathematics career in 1969 when he was 27, and has spent the past 40 years either bombing people or serving time for doing so.

Similarly, Donald Trump is described as an American politician and the 45th president in his opening sentence, with discussion of his past in business and as a media personality reserved for later in the article. The standard wikipedia introduction is to list common aliases, nationality, and their current/last profession.

I will also note that on my mobile device if you google Bill Ayers, the first two sentences of his wikipedia article come up. The entire second sentence is about his involvement in the Weather Underground.
Chomsky's Transformational Grammar[1] was applied to transcripts of gifted psychologists (Virginia Satir, Milton Erickson and Fritz Perls) to develop the "Meta-Model"[2] and eventually Neurolinguistic Programming, a very potent and rigorous school of applied psychology.

It's also the origin of the Chomsky hierarchy "a containment hierarchy of classes of formal grammars."[3]

Pretty neat, eh? Computer languages and a formal working psychological toolkit both have roots in Transformational Grammar.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformational_grammar

[2] https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Meta_model_(NLP)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy
I learned a different history of the term Esquire in law school. As the article says, the term Esquire was first used to describe the person who helped a Knight by handing him weapons and helping him get up in their heavy armor after getting knocked to the ground in a joust. So how did it become ascribed to a modern-day lawyer?

When you think of a legal trial, you think of Tom Cruise in A Few Good Men ("You can't handle the truth!"). But before this modern trial by jury, there were many types of trials in the Middle Ages. There was Trial by Fire, where people walked over hot coals. If they were not injured, they were innocent. There was also Trial by Combat where the accused had to fight the King's Champion. Since the King's Champion, usually a knight, had his own esquire, the accused was given an esquire as well to assist the accused in the trial. Later, when the more civilized Trial by Jury became the norm, an esquire assisting the accused remained an essential feature.

The term Esquire grew to include an office of trust for the King and his court. In America, a lawyer, the person assisting the accused in a court of law, also became a trusted officer of the court of law, with the title Esquire. Of course in America, where there is no formal peerage or titles, the title of Esquire is mainly traditional, and not a formal feature of the judicial system.