skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know the US press has been busy telling you that your country handled this uniquely terribly compared to everyone else, and this idea has spread to the rest of the planet just like all your other politics. Meanwhile in the real world, the country everyone was pointing to as the big European success story that proved everyone else had fucked it up not so long ago - the Czech Republic - is actually the one with a worse Covid death rate than pretty much everywhere else on the planet, and the other countries in the region aren't doing too great either. (Also, all along the comparisions used misleading tricks like comparing the number of detected Covid cases when the US had much more widespread testing for it than Europe.)
Looking into it it looks like it actually taxed the held money, not really doing anything retroactive.

And I see an essay about the law calling wealth taxes unconstitutional but that doesn't seem to be consensus.
You don't need a $200 router to run the latest versions of OpenWRT. You only need to spend that much if you want high-end WiFi radios and fast CPU cores. If you're fine with mid-range WiFi capabilities and slower MIPS CPUs that can't do QoS beyond 100-200Mbps, then there are plenty of options well under $100.
It's beautiful, but it's from Kaspersky. I hate saying this but I have concerns about using anything from them, due to information from articles online, DoD ban/announcements, and other sources. I've seen nothing definitive.

Part of me thinks it's just paranoia from all the FUD thrown by other sources, but part of me looks at the smoke and wonders if there is fire. According to one source: "The problem is that to do business in Russia...Well, you have to comply with whatever rules are imposed on you. I can't imagine not having interference from the Kremlin if you are a $1B+ company. That doesn't mean back doors, but it is hard to know what it might mean."

On the other hand, the idea that Kaspersky is working with the FSB is not believed by security experts I respect like Graham Cluley, Simon Edwards, and Dennis Batchelder. Kaspersky also has what's probably the best anti-virus software out there. Also, if we tar and feather Kaspersky for a past or present relationship with Russian intelligence we'd need to do the same for AT&T, Google, Amazon, and others.

For me jury's still out. I think everyone needs to make up their own mind, and take precautions on data collection for any app you install.
Gorgeous! Thanks for sharing. I think CGA is an extreme case of "working with limitations/constraints". It was hard to get it right, but when they did, as in this case, it was awesome.
wow, such generosity!
Interview with Employee #1 at Flexport
It can also be used in context of mastering a skill or in the audio world the final copy of a song is called a master. Now what?
Do we next change naming of RB Tree in all existing documents and software? IMHO, there is no end to this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%E2%80%93black_tree
I don’t like having meetings after lunch. Should the entire world change to suit my preferences?
The bug bounty council at Gitlab
So congress could effectively fine people for things they did in the past with new taxes, and it would be completely constitutional. Seems like a pretty bad loophole.
I've been self-hosting https://gitea.io/en-us/ with no issues. One-liner to spin it up in Docker; exposed on the LAN only and easily accessible from anywhere with an SSH tunnel thru my bastion. Trouble-free workflow and I feel safe knowing my source code doesn't live on a computer somewhere in someone else's closet[1]

[1] - https://xkcd.com/908/
Indeed. I found out about CGA's amazing composite output only recently, watching a video by The 8 Bit guy. I was completely unaware of this back in the day...
Now that flash has been phased out, this doesn't work. Is there a non-flash alternative?
I had a bunch of scripts that would automatically clone repos and ensure that they were pointing at the correct branch; they started breaking when the branch names started changing.
And you end up writing yet another custom framework for yourself when you realize you are writing the same things over and over...
After a year of watching a lot of people not do that, I am not particularly optimistic.
Anyone else puzzled by the post’s unclear references to briefings/questions that both went really well while also at the same time went downhill and dodged questions?

> After the rather solid pre-briefing, the basic questions SemiAccurate asked were either dodged or ignored, and things went downhill from there, it was another string of own-goals for no potential up side.

> We honestly tried to find a silver lining and were still trying even after the Anandtech numbers came out. (Note: And an update) The briefing went really well, it was unusually direct, questions were answered clearly where possible, and the marketing fluff was minimal. Disclosure was, as is the norm with Intel of late, best in class, and it all looked good for the writeup.
Yes, currently it's a wrapped ios/android app. But the web app is in the making. Technically there are no limiting factors. It just helps us to concentrate on the mobile experience first. The reasoning goes that the lessons are bite sized, and really easy to consume on the go.
Hell, language defines a lot of norms. Whether or not something is “a thing” boils down to whether there’s a word for it. The difference between homosexuality being seen as a mental disorder and part of everyday life is how we talk about it.
Getting a massive army to go for years of guerilla war is quite a different proposition from getting a small, committed group of people to storm a building and start taking hostages, especially if there is a rump that supports them.
Firefox when I was still using Internet Explorer, it had tabs, which IE did not, and ran om Linux.
The two shots for the AZ vaccine are the same (compositionally), though. So, in principle, if the booster is slightly modified version it might simply replace the second shot. That's how Sputnik V works: it's basically two different adenovirus vaccines.
That's not the full panorama. Try https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TqRxEAjrDYI/YFCLF-H8K3I/AAAAAAAAS... instead.
No, because that didn’t happen. If you were following the news the claim actually made is what the intelligence agencies of multiple countries concluded: Russia spent a considerable amount of money _influencing_ the elections with fake news and social media and they supported targeted attacks on Democrats.

There were concerns over attempts to compromise election systems, which again were confirmed by subsequent investigations, but that was reported by the mainstream media in the context of the federal government warning states to be prepared and noting that most attacks had failed and there was no reason to believe the elections would not be reliable.
As another commenter mentioned to you: "Changing the name or updating implementation details is not the same thing as completely abandoning the technology.". I agree with them, your comparison doesn't make much sense in this context.
I'm close with someone at Bridgewater and have read Dalio's books, obviously he's a smart person, but he does have positions and his public views tend to shift, which is understandable. I remember when he was negative on crypto.
Different demographics use iPhone than Android. There are more Android devices in the world than iOS ones but people with greater purchasing power use iPhone that's why there is such a big difference in revenues of App Store and Google Play.
> Pelosi, Schumer, Feinstein, and their ilk; have been in power in their jerrymandered districts for decades,

Er, Senate “districts” are States, it is impossible for them to be gerrymandered. So clearly that's impossible for 2 out of 3.

And while Pelosi is in the House, no one is going to point to CA-12 as much of an example of gerrymandering.

https://pelosi.house.gov/about/our-district
I am very interested in any research wrt Wahl's protocol. Is this the study you reference?

https://www.cochrane.org/CD004192/MS_dietary-interventions-m...

Meta: I deeply appreciate this article explicitly stating "The evidence is current to May 2019." It's so hard for noobs like me to sherlock this stuff.

> supplementation with antioxidants or other dietary interventions

Those other interventions are macronutrients, to benefit your mitochondria. I'll go back and look, but I don't recall Wahls saying much about antioxidants.

FWIW, I believe, but cannot prove, that Wahl's advice to resume eating meat, esp organ meat, benefitted me. I had been working towards vegetarian and suffering terribly from inflammation and autoimmune stuff. I have no idea how or why. I only know that whenever I resume my prior dietary habits (more carbs, less meat), I decline. My fat and produce consumption has remained more or less constant. A lot coconut oil, olive oil, and every big leafy green that fits into the blender.
Your comment just made me realize Wikipedia is using dark patterns to try to get me to donate.
The EU's upcoming digital services act and digital marketplaces act look to try to actual regulate these platforms. That could get interesting.
Never is a hard word. Let me explain: In the US the white were masters and the black were slaves. A white was rarely a slave, a black person was likely a slave. And slavery was not abolished that long ago.

In MANY countries people of color X enslaved people of color X. So now - many generations later - no one knows anymore who was slave and who was master. So the term master is insignificant for the individuals in the country and dominantly associated with mastery in something.

So while technically the statement is correct, for the discussion here, many countries are not having an active discussion around slavery because it is no concern in the society because there are not slave-descendants (which are mistreated until today) vs. master-descendants.
Trust. Any experienced marketer will tell you that is the most difficult part of securing a transaction. Whether Android users and fans agree or not, the purchase behavior on iOS vs Android mirrors any other comparison of luxury or near-luxury shopping behavior compared to lower rent shopping options.

The rent is higher to get in to the AppStore, too, given you need a $100/year subscription and a Mac. Apple keenly understands aspirational marketing and it trickles down to apps.

Of course Android has millions of users that simply can’t afford to buy apps, but even among those that can, it is a psychological difference.
Sure, I’m sure you are 200% correct. This will be nothing but a resource drain, and will have $0 economic benefit whatsoever.

That’s why so many regional and international governments clamor to attract datacenter projects. Because they are trying to get absolutely nothing out of it whatsoever.

The datacenter and wind mills are just built in another country, flown in by helicopter, plopped down, turned on, and subsequently ignored and 100% self-maintained.

I don’t think you can see beyond your dislike of wind power to actually understand the economic impact of large projects like this.

Where did you get the idea that the viborg datacenter is offshore?

https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/09/03/apples-viborg-den...
Is that so? Why would the world's largest companies support the abolition of private property?
See my comment on the relevant thread here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26489901
just look up to the sky at night. They are so dim that you cannot really distinguish their hue.
Assuming he started from zero, I am astonished that he only needed 160h research and 80h coding to launch his first project.
I use Jirav and have no issues with it being slow. And we are a 10M business that is running multiple proforma models at once.
Light is easily shadowed. Ultrasound will propagate everywhere.

UV light also damages objects.
Jan 6 is proof that 0.001% of the "election was stolen" crowd has stopped listening and would make their argument with pistols. We're talking about people expressing heterodox opinions on social media. They are not the same group. Particularly since the LARPers are in jail.
Thanks I’ll check it out. I didn’t hang out in the thread so I wouldn’t have known!
I think OP's phrasing is a bit odd and people's understanding of scientific vs colloquial language is creating some misunderstandings.

To clarify: What OP is referring to as "Coronavirus" is in the scientific sense aka a family of viruses of which SARS-CoV2 and common cold both fall under.
"Coronavirus" colloquially refers to only SARS-CoV2 hence the misunderstanding.

OP is saying that he's not surprised to hear that SARS-CoV2, a member of the same virus family as common cold, is following the same fate of common cold of which has an annual vaccine.
What you're arguing against is the straw-man form of my point, but I didn't express it with much detail, so you can't be blamed for that. I'm not saying that leaving out critical thinking from elementary education is an intentional act by specific people; I'm saying it results from the internal culture of government, which is power-hungry, self-preserving, and long-term, like your dictator. If it controls education, the culture of government will ensure people are being educated in what reinforces the government: what increases revenue, ensures that we have a strong economy, a powerful and unified defense, and a law-abiding and biddable population. Critical thinking has not historically benefited government, so encouragement of it has not become a prominent part of the culture of government.
Merlin can be uploaded as a normal firmware. No flashing or external apps required. If you have a compatible asus I highly recommend Merlin.

If you’re interested in doing as-blocking on the router itself there’s a tool called diversion which does take a bit of work to get installed, but is a bit simpler than trying to get oí-hole running on it: https://www.snbforums.com/threads/diversion-the-router-ad-bl....
> I like to think that good pixel art works with the imagination.

Fully agreed with this and the rest of your post. Are you familiar with Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics"? I'm not particularly a fan of the whole book, but I really agree and am fascinated by the concept of "closure" he describes: the way the mind "fills in" the details that are missing in sequential art (i.e. comics), so you mentally create movement and detail when there is objectively none. This even works for storytelling itself, from a few "action" frames you mentally reconstruct the story, and this requires little effort.

I think the same happens with pixel or line art. You just need some cues and then your brain gets to work on creating the scene.
Of course, such a situation is difficult for anyone to learn! That’s what I was trying to get at with that Isiwara example above, which shows a language with even less regularity than Czech. The point I was trying to make was that mere ‘declension’ isn’t enough to make a language difficult to learn… you need to actually have some kind of irregularity to ensure that.
Don't worry I'm in full agreement, OOP is a terrible paradigm ever since it left Alan Kay's original inception which was closer to the has-a message passing paradigm that survives today. Rust's is a pleasure to use with traits instead of classes. Go's interface model is nice too, like a static duck typing. I've always preferred lots of interfaces in C# to abstract classes
You can also use this as plausible deniability when you get raided by the police and they discover your collection of pirated music.
I guess at the end of the day I just don't feel like I need Spring's features.
Semi-related: is anyone else kind of sick of "poptimism" and the idea that its a good thing corporate culture and massive corporations are coopting trends and movements?
I’ve also seen leader, follower in use.
There are a lot of countries 100 years or less old, that were parts of big european empires, unless you want to hold them accountable for what the foreign ruling class did.
I understand your intentions are noble, but we kinda go back to one of the points the author of the post was making: Has anybody bothered to asked black developers if the terminology alienates them, or makes them feel uncomfortable?

I don't believe it was the technical terminology that caused unwelcoming conditions, but the people in the industry.
I think the point about involving the people that you're supposedly helping before forging ahead is really important. An ally that picks the wrong fight on your behalf is almost worse than an enemy.
My only issue with this comment is that it seems to discount the idea of "unfairness" in our elections. Yes, in a federal election the districts don't matter. However, as we can see right now, the state legislatures that are elected via those districts can drastically change the landscape of a federal election within their state. The republican legislatures are moving en masse to "prevent fraud" in a way that seems to be directly aimed at making it more difficult to vote[1]. Appealing to more voters is hard when fewer people are able to vote.

[1] https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/voti...
So, I actually have an MS in Quant Finance despite having worked in tech my whole career. There's an old saying, "during a time of crisis all correlations go to 1". People found this out the hard way in 2008. There are all sorts of risks that you can't hedge for or that negate hedges you have in place for other risks, counterparty risk being one of the better known ones.
I would not call it mystical, but rather social. The term "master branch" was established by convention, not science. Now a group of people has proposed a different convention that they like better, and it's gained traction. Conventions often change over time, and rarely require science to justify it.

Interestingly, this new convention is superior to the old in several ways, including one you might call scientific: it has two less keystrokes! I can only assume Jef Raskin would heartily approve.
Sensationalism generates extremist beliefs as a consequence of its operation.

The mainstream media\media monopoly has two deeply engrained habits; one, the belief in distributing free news, two, in sensationalizing every story to maximize ad revenue.

Technology reduces cost, ergo, when costs reductions meet these two habitations, the net result is training the audience to accept sensationalisation itself as a brand and if they do so, you tend to polarize an audience in unpredictable ways as a consequence of operating your media empire.

Think about it this way. The reason the MSM puts out news is to sell advertising, and to the advertisers, we are products the MSM is selling to them. What do you do with products once you are done with them? You throw them in the garbage. Once we're used up we become trashed.

It's the belief that sensationalism itself is trustworthy that creates this trashing, and I would encourage anyone to learn to detect sensationalism as the psychological baseline for stimulation has risen to such an extreme these days.

In this instance, the moment we refer to any kind of warfare operation as "whack a mole" is when you begin rolling your eyes as the author is not treating people with respect.

Good, accurate information is expensive. If you need proof of that, talk to a historian.
I was thinking isolation but:

>Currently, farmers may take their sick cows to shelters called gaushalas, run by nongovernmental organizations, but they are “already full to capacity,”

Really seems like the vaccination effort three due to logistics and just the nature of cows in India is doomed to fail :(

Kinda a bummer as culling seems like the most effective / accessible answer for farmers without a lot of resources rather than a lot of process, vaccinations, etc...
Imagine they used jira, confluence, and git. It would still be a huge no! Code archeology is a real necessity even on a <10 year old system. The best way to find out about something is to have a chat with a ‘historian’ who has been with the company for 10+ years.
There's a huge difference between medical imaging ultrasound at 25 MHz, and bat night-vision ultrasound at 200 KHz.
Which Animal Has the Largest Ears Relative to Their Body Size?
I am convinced (through experience) that overuse of the Django ORM (and Django REST Framework, which is tightly coupled to the ORM) is a pattern that leads to intractable ball-of-mud apps.

There's so much stuff available for Django out of the box like auth, http/REST, CSRF, etc that it makes it really hard to justify not using Django at the start of a project. But the recommended/accepted Django patterns lead to pure misery down the road due to how coupled the app becomes.

You can make a well-architected Django app, it just requires ignoring almost every common or recommended Django pattern.
> Put simply, if redistribution worked, we’d see poverty rates decrease rather than stagnate or increase.

That is what we see, in other countries with more robust (and more redistributive) welfare state systems than the US.
Could we fuel our jets using our sewage?
Afaik the ‘Ultimate Hacking Keyboard’ does that via its modules: http://xahlee.info/kbd/iergo/UHK_addon_modules_trackball_330...

Turns out it even has a touchpad, though its size is pitiful. Alas the whole keyboard reeks more of ‘mechanical + wacky layout‘ approach, with dubious ergonomics aside from the split halves.

Otherwise, trackballs on keyboards don't seem too rare: image search turns up this Adesso board (https://www.hippo-deals.com/products-images/1500/65915.jpg or better-ish https://www.adesso.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/2017061601...), something named KeyTronic, etc.
From what I can tell, currently WSB is riding the bubble. Or rather their thesis is that a short squeeze will happen. In some conversations they try to justify that the company will actually turn itself around using the capital raised from selling the new generation of consoles, but quickly the conversation turns to the prospect of the squeeze. In other words, most people who are buying GME from WSB advice aren't there to hold the stock long term because they think it'll grow 2-5% per year because of the company doing well. They are in it to overnight have it grow by 10,000% or some such because "when the squeeze happens every single investor can name their price for the shares they own because hedge funds will need to buy every share available".

I am not a financial expert, but to me this seems extremely bogus. I am not certain where exactly the math is wrong, but it seems like a hedge fund can just buy the shares from the people they borrowed from, and those people will be willing to sell because the price had risen a bit. WSB on the other hand has no strategy beyond "a squeeze will happen". There is no agreed up on price at which to sell, which will lead to some people going right past, say, $10k/share price point holding out for $100k/share, and then the price falling back down to earth while they are left holding the bag, having bought in at $300/share or whatever.
I have a turris omina. I have no real complaints. It is way better than any other router I've owned. It is the only one I've felt comfortable to do anything fancy with.

I currently have mumble and a nextcloud server running on the router, and a wireguard interface.

I can't comment on any US ISP weirdness as I live in europe.
How to Create and Run Klocwork as a Docker Container