skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right there wasn't much appetite for the hardest degree of lockdowns, but what Europe got instead is bad enough. Borders closed in spite of Schengen, putting a stop to things like cross-border relationships and the sort of everyday interaction between European peoples that staves off nationalisms. Then you have closure of restaurants, concert halls, etc. which has led to a wave of bankrupcies, and governments show little interest in compensating these sectors adequately for their lost business.

When politicians saw that they could get away with hard borders again and closed businesses without too much popular protest (and that is, to a large degree, due to popular protests being banned), I worry that these restrictions could last much longer than just this summer. After all, as I mentioned in my post above, when the scientific advisers to your country’s government are interviewed in the news and recommend restrictions in perpetuity, where is the light at the end of the tunnel?
Also not because of the bias voltages.
Been using it for over a decade now. My only source of info.

It was google reader -> digg -> ino reader -> self hosted TTRSS (using now).

Anyone got suggestions for good non-mainstream rss? in area of Tech/dev/design/ui/business/finance etc.,
I feel kind of stupid reading this since I sometimes (often?) forget the exact details of things I've written just 3.5 days ago (!).
i find it odd how article doesn't discuss at all possibility of sexual abuse (or suspicion) of teenage daughter by father as reason for elevated risk during puberty suddenly disappearing when daughter moves out around age 20
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-treatment-of-muslim-uighu...
GraalVM is based on the JVM, it consumes Java libraries...
How is this monetised?
How would you automatically enforce a policy that says that a good can't cause harm? What kind of machine could automatically verify this? Or am I misunderstanding what you mean by automatic enforcement of health and safety standards?
> I've never seen a carton of oat milk and thought it contained dairy

I have no issues with "<plant> milk" products and labeling them like that, but people do get confused about their nutritional profiles, thinking they're substitutes for milk. They're not, and they're chemically different enough that they're not good substitutes for cooking. About the only thing they're good substitutes for is liquid milk, though I hear oat milk foams up well for a cappuccino.
All the questions are related. I am aware that some people can make it work, but if you remove cheap meat, who do you affect? Poor people. My question is, can poor people also eat a plant based diet with minimal malnutrition risk? All the questions are in reference to that.

All I see about plant based diets say the same shit without answering the though questions. They always say, "it's possible to be a health vegan if you watch your nutrition". Well that says precisely nothing. It is a carefully crafted message to not upset militant vegans.

The impression I get from that message is that it is far easier to be healthy if you don't avoid meat. You don't have to watch your nutrition much. You just have to use common sense.
Points taken. It's not all bad, it's nowhere near the intolerance we see in some other countries. I'm just extra concerned about Indonesia because it used to be a very tolerant country. And it's not just through news about how the government wants to ban 'gay emojis', I have friends who live(d) there and/or have family there and they also tell me about how there are preachers from Saudi Arabia walking around in the kampungs teaching a far stricter version of Islam.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/indonesia-bans...
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2019/country-chapters/vietn...
On a positive note I think it's great that we're seeing efforts in this direction.

Fixing capitalization and spelling is a fairly easy thing to do, just put a spell-checker before the input. Maybe that would be a good pull request.
You’d have to freeze it loosing most of convenience it provides us - having couple pouches in car or bag to use once a month or so.
What decentralized web? Everything is behind some stupid WAF that blocks your IP for "being a robot" now unless you want to execute code for an unbounded amount of time before being able to get access to the paragraph of text you were tricked into reading from an SEO'd search reuslt. Even reading an RSS feed will probably get you blocked for a scraping attempt if the website is behind Cloudflare or some imitator.
> Income tax is not well justified anymore since earned income and physical location have no relationship for the workers who pay the majority of tax burden.

Fair, but flat taxes, as well as most consumption taxes, are regressive. An income tax (or a wealth tax) is one of the few things that keeps an individual's contribution proportionate to their means, and can help out people at the very low end.

Alternatively I guess you could jack up property/land-use taxes (after eliminating income taxes altogether). Those are usually based on assessed value, which ties your tax to a (subjective, but mostly reasonable) measure of what you use. Ideally this would be a progressive tax, with very low (or 0%) rates for the first $X of value, similar to how income taxes in the US work now.
> Manufacturing is not the bottleneck at this point.

This is just nonsense. We are manufacturing quickly, but vaccine production absolutely remains the bottleneck. We will not have sufficient doses for everyone who wants a shot for several months.
Maybe we're talking about different things.

If I (as a user) am sharing a video link from YouTube, in many (most?) cases I will already be logged in to YouTube, and reusing that credential would be easier for me than creating a new account registration on the third party site.

Edit: There's more: once you (as the service) have a YouTube account connected, you can offer a variety of additional services related to the YouTube Data API that a local account registration does not.

(Also: depends on what you mean by "hassle".)
If I use a public WLAN, a VPN like Mullvad is going to gain me privacy and security. Furthermore, I would get (for good or bad) "mixed" with the rest of the users (although in my case this does not apply as I use WireGuard to my home connection). If I use mobile, a VPN makes MITM more difficult.

If I pirate using a VPN in a country hostile to mine, the local RIAA/MPAA can't do anything. They probably already can't when VPN is in same country. A VPN doesn't stop a determined adversary, but if you worry about these you should probably use Tor or something like that, possibly without going back to clearnet.

While your stance is a good wake-up call, and perhaps a decent rule of thumb the above are reasonable exempts.
Disney has one of these in the Reedy Creek Improvement District[0], which the State of Florida created to give Disney control of a county so that they didn't have to go get permission every time they wanted to add something to Disney World (or, at time it was created, the EPCOT planned city[1]).

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reedy_Creek_Improvement_Distri...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPCOT_(concept)
I think that in this case tip flow should be a two way street.
I’ve been vegan for 5 years. I was raised vegetarian, but I also cooked a chicken the night before I went vegan. It is feasible and as time goes on it gets easier and easier.

Only recently have I started spending more than $200 a month on groceries and that’s because I’ve started weightlifting. I can get by on much less.

Is any change in lifestyle trivial?

I’m able to go to my local grocery store for everything I need. I go to my local Asian market because I like the noodles and spices though, but that isn’t necessary at all.

Food deserts exist but that is a bigger problem with general accessibility to food, and is not a good argument to a plant-based diet, imo.
Author here, thanks for the feedback! Just to be clear, are you suggesting that I be more explicit in the documentation about the differences between the default router and Expresso? I have a "Migration" section, but it could be expanded and renamed.
alas, can't turn up that quote or anything close to that via Google :(

I don't think you're being downvoted for your thoughts, but rather, it's unclear what you're saying and how to read more about it - we appreciate the honesty :)

EDIT: Appears the references are to Dave Winer - this is an excellent history, I wish I found a shorter one, but this is really great: https://www.vice.com/en/article/a3mm4z/the-rise-and-demise-o...
dogs smelling covid https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03149-9 :

"Riad Sarkis, a surgeon and researcher at Saint Joseph University in Beirut, is part of a French–Lebanese project that has trained 18 dogs. Sarkis used the best two performers for the airport trial in Lebanon. The dogs screened 1,680 passengers and found 158 COVID-19 cases that were confirmed by PCR tests. The animals correctly identified negative results with 100% accuracy, and correctly detected 92% of positive cases, according to unpublished results."

btw, 10% of passengers are covid positive, and i'd guess most are asymptomatic as most of them wouldn't be flying otherwise.
I want this to have APL
Hey - sorry about that! Can you try again? Sometimes there are errors that good old refreshing fixes!
Can you describe what 'diagrams as code' mean?

I don't mind images, just wondering if Github would make it easier to generate those. Something like the syntax of web-sequence/uml but not limited to data-flows and something more simpler, ideally.
It is for 95% of websites most people use.
You're a freelancer though.. why would you expect government support or benefits when you're not an employee? That's all part of risk in being self-employed and why you must charge a lot more to safeguard you. I would focus on the lessons from your experience - don't get so invested and make sure your rates are high enough.
How to Fix Facebook: Treat Algorithms as Authors
I'm actually curious about the effects of this. Sales and property taxes are nearly always implemented in a regressive manner. Do areas with no income tax but higher sales/property taxes end up having more poor people who are disproportionately hurt by this (as compared to places with income taxes and lower sales/property taxes)? I don't recall ever seeing any research done on this.
Reedy Creek Improvement District
Rwanda’s Nsanzabaganwa elected as AU Commission deputy chair
Maybe related, there is also SERV, a bit-serial RISC-V CPU

https://github.com/olofk/serv
"Honestly, nothing holds up to ... (VPN provider)"

If you're serious you send a machine, that you own, to a colo provider and you register for service with a corporate entity that you created for just that purpose.

Your name exists nowhere and ... regulatory inquiries are directed to your corporate contact email.

Or, if you feel like that's a heavy burden and you don't attach any value to the physical machine (some old 1U, right ?) then you can just sign up under an assumed corporate name with some colo provider that doesn't care that it is, or is not, an actual corporation and you can pay with your non-AMEX credit card[1] using whatever Mickey Mouse name you feel like.

Trust me - it won't take long to find someone who will take your money.[2]

[1] Only AMEX validates First Last ...

[2] https://www.lowendtalk.com/
You mean two countries with the some of the worst human rights records, China is literally committing genocide as we speak, used the power to imprison to beat back a virus. Seems like a hammer looking for a nail or a broken clock is right twice a day type situation.
> The crazy thing is how much deeper it all goes and certainly has all the elements of a series of movies (at least a trilogy) if someone wanted to make it a script: DPR/Ross Silk Road case, those 2 Feds who stole the BTC, BTC-e seizure, Alexander Vinnik arrest in Greece alleging to be behind the MTGOX hack(s), variety Jones's arrest in Thailand. Not to mention guys like Gonzog, or Ver...

As someone who is only loosely aware of the story, is there a good place to learn more (I'm pretty sure I could spend countless nights researching this, I'm hoping for something like a detailed article or a particularly insightful forum post)? And I realize part of the issue is the story hasn't been told yet, but you still know a lot more than I do.
When the sand falls on the snow in the Alps, it increases the ability of the snow to absorb heat from the sun (because it's darker -- this is known as "albedo") which accelerates the melting of the snow. This happens in the Western United States too, and has been studied [0] as a source of uncertainty in predicting snow melt timing (e.g. for things like water availability).

[0]: https://www.pnas.org/content/107/40/17125.short
Hustle, ambition, animation and lifeforce is likely to result in burnout, even PTSD. It is also unsustainable in other ways. It has its place but not as universal ideal.
Yes but deploying a vpn to digitalocean for example made the web unusable. Too many "spam" catches when simply trying to browse the web
Remind me again why we're not supposed to say "didn't read the article"?
Re-reading this, I again liked this part I recalled from when it came out: “By entering the storefront two hours earlier, by taking an avalanche-safety course, we had statistically increased our chances of being killed in an avalanche. We were more likely to die now than we were at 8 a.m.”
In my state something like 28% of the population is 18 and under by my estimate, so we'll likely never reach herd immunity if the vaccines remain 16 and up. Getting a vaccine approved for kids and making it mandatory for school attendance would go a long way to getting closer to herd immunity.
pure text is easy to work with most of the time, in fact ascii diagram is used heaviyl in RFCs
I'm used to a cold harsh internet. Your kindness has meant a lot to me. Thank you!
This is a thing where some solutions are within the control of some people and some other solutions are within the control of other people.
The first eReader with a 7.8 inch color E Ink display
Vague symptoms. I was a confused mess for a long time.

No one believed me. Kept shoving anti-depressants at me.

Took better then 2 years to find out what the stroke like symptoms were.
They were strokes, go figure.

Toxic exposure activated factor 5 Leiden. So my blood clots like crazy now. Wasn’t an issue before.

Again, doctors don’t like to get involved.

Wife had a horrific cough for a year, then recovered. Kid isn’t the brightest anymore. But that’s hard to prove.
Totally. The catch-22 of avalanche education.
The NSA has just entered the room...
Ask HN: 3.4M video views, no reactions
Hello HN sleuths. Here's a link to the trailer for the upcoming Star Trek: Picard https://youtu.be/t7scVHakTRk

It shows 3.4 million views, and only few likes/dislikes and only 9 comments. How's this possible? Could someone manipulate views? Could something like this be organic results? Just wondering...
We are all in this together!
Social distancing ...
can someone ELI5 what this does?
A reasonable person would see that stochastic processes generate plenty of data points, and so would avoid picking one and vastly overinterpreting it.

While I have you: would you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=community%20identity%20by:dang...
Suicide statistics would seem to correlate:

(edit: changed link, didn't realize how spammy statista.com is)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_the_United_States
Complexity theory provides metaphors for nonlinear change, for one thing.

And most things in business are neither truly linear nor simple exponential. Yet most people in business revert to these two mathematical concepts.

For example, it might convince a CEO to keep working on a project because this 'emergence' thing may be happening -- where a non-complexity-empowered CEO might kill the project because there is no linear return, and no apparent potential for exponential return.
> but people do get confused about their nutritional profiles

By that logic, should 2% milk be allowed to be called milk? What about chocolate milk? Nutritional profiles can vary wildly between different brands and products, especially when we're talking about meat -- so where do you draw the line?
I don't know about you but I don't minify my code when I'm working on it, only when I'm deploying it for final testing and production.

I don't see a reason, but maybe there is one.
If you're at university you can apply for this year's https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ (paid remote internship).

Even if not https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2020/organizatio... is a good list of organisations, pre-vetted by Google, to have run mentorship programs in the past, and/or have projects set aside for longer participation. Click on the logos and each should have a link to their idea list, e.g. wikimedia https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2020 I wouldn't expect 2021 projects to be online yet, more around March.
The basic concept is that you create a wave that moves at the speed of sound and when it reaches the end you have a microphone which picks up the signal and retransmits it through the coil. Pretty ingenious way to store information!
With respect, you are speaking from ignorance.

NLP arouses the ire of what I call "Capital-S Skeptics". That's why I didn't link to the Wikipedia article on it, as it's been glossed over with cries of "pseudo-science!" by ignorant skeptics so you can't really get any information about NLP from WP except that skeptics are skeptical of it.

I have personal experience of NLP and I can vouch that it is effective (you can change yourself quickly and easily) and rigorous (it develops repeatable algorithms that can be taught to others who can then replicate the results), e.g. the "Phobia Cure" pattern that cures phobias quickly and permanently typically in a single application.

I myself was cured of a terrible depression that was ruining my life in a one-off treatment that took less than ten minutes. Saved my life.
Honestly, if you are worried about privacy and use a VPN for those reasons, then you should check out the principle of browser fingerprinting [0].

The conclusion is that servers/websites can check so many parameters of your browser that they can produce a (unique) fingerprint based on the settings and drivers on your phone. No VPN or Tor will cover that, only burner phones or pen and paper.

[0] https://coveryourtracks.eff.org
Two and a half times your body weight?? Holy crap friend, from a BMI of over 25 to that??? My hat is off to you - that's absolutely amazing.

Is that a deadlift?

I'm 100% with you - it is all habits and enjoyment. It's so hard to grasp that until you've been through it and somehow I feel like we lose a lot of amazing athletes every year because of that disconnect. I don't know but when I see someone with a BMI of over 25, I see incredible athleticism. Heck, at that point, life is exercise.
What about "nut meat" that seems to be a precedent.
Except most providers worth their salt will require your credit card/paypal for a subscription. This adds another potential loophole for de-anonymization. At least with Mullvad you can pay in crypto or even mail them cash. Though it all depends on what you want to achieve I'd say a trusted VPN is much better than a VPS, esp one located in US or any of the five eyes countries.
> loaded with sweetener and caused colic

Interesting. Sucrose, glucose, fructose have same amount of calories as lactose, just different sweetness (apparently evolutionary trait so that babies don’t get too addicted to milk).
The Legal Aspects of Banning Chinese Drone Technology in the US
> We never got to herd immunity with the flu either.

We get to herd immunity with the flu every year around this time (in the Northern hemisphere). Respiratory virus season ends and rates of transmission fall below 1.0.

“While not every single individual may be immune, the group as a whole has protection. This is because there are fewer high-risk people overall. The infection rates drop, and the disease peters out.”

https://www.webmd.com/lung/what-is-herd-immunity
To me that's a sign the video got embedded somewhere else, e.g. twitter. On twitter the video would play but have no reaction/comment features.
i would like to say i believe in milton Friedman
Why shouldn’t it be called meat?
Don't Fall for Quantum Hype
And yet the US doesn't view more prison as the solution to the problem. Granted the Chinese model works but what do you have to lose to achieve it? How about we ask the residents of Hong Kong? They must be super-excited to have the superior Chinese model thrust upon them just in the nick of time.
Google Closure is the best at minification but it's also the worst less pragmatic option for 99% of projects.
The whole blog is about Sauropod Vertebra; the current post just happens to be about journal publishing.
https://www.rydbergtechnologies.com/
Re: similar to the math they know, this makes sense.

I don't understand why over-hyping and over-selling is so common with AI/ML/DL work (to be fair, over-hyping is more related to AI than physicists in particular. But people from non-CS fields get themselves into extra trouble perhaps because they don't realize there are old-ish subfields dedicated to very similar problems to the ones they're working on.)
Buy bitcoin now or cry later.
I think diagrams are usually quite helpful in accompanying an Architecture.md doc, especially if it gets complex.

I work on a diagram maker that syncs with a Github repo. So whenever you make changes to this architecture diagram, it'll push changes to the repo, with screenshots directly in the README (turning the repo into a diagram presentation).

This also allows people to colocate the diagrams alongside the code or docs by including the synced repo as a submodule.

https://github.com/terrastruct-bot/Demo
> only cheap because

This is often repeated nonsense. The reason corn is a popular crop is because it yields the most calories per acre of any crop. Places without crop subsidies grow lots of corn. See Argentina, Brazil, Africa, etc.
Thanks for putting that out there. It's super interesting to see what we consider architecture to be. Your approach appears operational, focused on how the completed system functions, i.e. getting a new team member up to speed on the codebase.

Typically I try to start with tiers (1, 2, n-tiers...?) that show how the system might be deployed. I then list list layers (user/facade/business/data), interfaces between these layers, and components within each layer. I do that for each tier.

After that maybe something about quality objectives and how they might be met, eg: availability (MTTF / (MTTF + MTTR) * 100), efficiency, flexibility, integrity, interop, usability and so on.

This leads to a physical delpoyment model, which shows layers deployed to tiers. And yes, I'm rather fond of Visio.

Then a bit about approach (dev/deployment and operational management) risk and stakeholder management, technical reviews (change control board maybe?), and project reviews.

To be fair I come from a predominantly critical systems world (telecoms OSS and BSS, healthcare, transport and some fintech. And in that world architecture is very far removed from actual code until eventually.
To be fair creating mathematical problems that are hard or impossible to solve is not really very hard.
Okay, then take that lesson from them. This isn't a referendum on their entire system of government. It's a demonstration of how much we have failed by comparison. "Power to imprison" has nothing to do with it, or the US would be crushing it.