skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a vast majority against surveillance?

> A majority of voters say they are satisfied with the authority given to U.S. intelligence agencies to monitor Americans suspected of committing a crime, according to a poll released Thursday.

> Fifty-one percent of respondents in a recent Hill-HarrisX survey said the intelligence community has the "right amount of power" in determining who should be subject to government surveillance.

https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/433071-pol...
And those last couple of sentences are really, really important: If forging ahead despite the blood clotting causes folks to lose trust in vaccines, it could be worse than Covid has. And realistically, we don't need more folks to be anti-vaccine.
American here--I've experienced load shedding once. The problem was a lineman started a wildfire that took out the primary source of power for the town. Until the line was repaired there was nowhere near enough power available, they directed what they had to things like the hospital etc and everyone else was in the dark.

There is also the mess we currently have in California. High winds blew stuff into high power lines and started a bad wildfire. In the lawsuits that followed the utility was told to shut down the risky lines under high wind conditions--which of course causes massive outages. Of course the utility is "at fault" because the ecology types blocked efforts to keep the vegetation away from the lines.
This may be more fair for the "simple" case in Nim.

import tables, strutils
var counts = initCountTable[string](16384)
for line in stdin.lines:
for word in line.toLowerASCII.split:
counts.inc word
counts.sort # SortOrder.Ascending to reverse
for word, count in counts:
echo word, " ", count

I compiled with `nim c -d:danger --gc:orc --panics:on` with gcc-10.2 on Linux-5.11 with nim-devel and file in /dev/shm. Runs in about 1.97x the time of "wc -w" for me (.454s vs .2309).

If we apply "BS-scaling" to the article table that would be 2.27*.2 = 0.454 sec on the author's machine which would make it twice as fast as the "simple C". Yet, if I actually run the simple C, I get 0.651 seconds, so only 651/454=1.43x "simple C" speed. This mismatch is, again, bigger than Go vs. RustB (0.38/0.28 = 1.35x). My only point is that you cannot just apply BS scaling and these results may very well fail to generalize across environments.

For what it's worth, literally every time I re-do anything in Rust in Nim, the Nim is faster. But benchmarks are like opinions...everyone has them and you should very much form your own, not delegate to "reputation". The best benchmark is actual application code. I make no positive general claims, but say this only because Rust people so often do. { EDIT: I think it is generally a big mistake to make many assumptions about prog.lang performance, especially if the assuming is on the "must be fast" side. }
Do you get cross-talk?

That is, if you want to light up E3 and G8, and so you activate rows E and G and columns 3 and 8, do you also get E8 and G3 illuminated?
Concern about Republican vaccine hesitancy is growing
I'm just being cheeky.
I've never done any "leetcoding" (whatever that means). Programming for me was love at the first sight when I was a teenager, and still a big lover story for me to this day. I got good at it by writing hobby code, university projects code, research code, and professional code. The one thing that is clear as the sun to me is that to get better at programming you first write shitty code, then less shitty code, until you know what good code looks like. But don't do it in a vacuum like "leetcode", do it as part of an actual project or an actual job (start with internships). Shipping code feels good and gives you motivation to keep going and learn from the feedback you get.

The only warning I'd give is that if you're doing it to get a decent job, and not because you like doing it, then it will be a really hard hill to climb.
Again, for the benchmarks game, C is not free to implement an optimized hash table for the problem.

Any of the programs are free to implement a "custom hash function" and many of them do.

hash table != hash function
Same here. I retained enough knowledge from my Boy Scout days to know that there are different knots that are useful for different purposes, but aside from tying my shoelaces, a Windsor knot, and an occasional square knot I always have to go back to references.
> To succeed in an interview, you do not need to finish all LeetCode questions. But solving all of them could be fun and satisfying.

That is the first line in the article that you have shared.

Try finding any aspect of programming that brings out the same satisfaction in you and you will succeed. Because then you will be the one defining what success means to you and not basing it one another individual(s) who have their own strength and weaknesses.
Wait, thrift interoperates poorly with Java? We are stuck using it in go because another (Java-heavy) team exposes their data via it, and the experience has been awful even for a simple service. So what is it good in?
Yeah, my take also comes from prior training (as a firefighter/paramedic). Start moving towards/away from the problem (which direction depends on your own personal defaults and risk tolerance). You don't need to figure everything out before you start moving.
Sputnik is not approved, manufacturers are cooperating for all the other vaccines already.

Regarding the strains, all vaccines are less effective against the South African one.
So not having a license means a default one was used? Which licence is that?
Unless you yourself believe, and expect that it is customary for most to believe, that people will undertake drastic, even suicidal, action in hopes of achieving a preferred afterlife, this is little more than a long-winded rationalization of your weaponization of an extremely offensive stereotype. And I think you know that; hence, the wall of text.
It was totally deserved, the EU helped fund the vaccine with a €336 million grant and what they did was stopping the exports from the UK plants to the EU while still exporting from the EU to the UK.No wonder that they didn't delivered the promised doses since their best efforts were being allocated to the UK.
I can't say I reached any conclusions -- I can only offer that the handful of people that have offered feedback found if feature rich and easy to use.
Agreed. I was using it* for TravisCI, and having moved to Github Actions I'm glad they have uploads stored per run.

*this one and another few before it.
Modula 2 was quite popular on the Commodore Amiga where C compiler where a bit so so (or very expensive) for quite some time, but in the end the PC won.
Now as a politician, you just need to find the right expert that will recommend you whatever you want to do.
Web notifications aren’t power efficient the way APNS notifications are.

That’s why it’s easy to build support for it on Desktop safari but not iOS.

I except they’ll support Web notifications on iOS once the technology is mature enough to meet the power budget.
I don't know how true the % is, but that is what Howell claimed and several Google employees verified that his software was used by significant parts of Google's engineering staff.

At any rate, the point is that a guy who used software used by a large portion of Google's engineering team because it was superior to the in-house solution could not get a job at Google because he failed to answer a programming question in the specific manner the interviewer wanted for a type of problem he would never actually encounter on the job. And in that vein, Sergie and Larry would similarly have difficulty getting hired at Google because other than their original algorithm, which Google has not used in over a decade, they have no modern or recent software experience and would likely fail all of the programming interviews.
Yes, I have run across this before. And I'm not talking about the Ashley Book of Knots, either. I think there's room for a sensible book that is like a flowchart.

1) What are you tying to what else?
2) Do you have a free end or not?
3) Is this a synthetic rope? Is there a size difference? And other factors that might determine which knot you want to use.

I got a couple of books on knots and this sort of thing wasn't coherently addressed, which I thought was a shame.
Very interesting -- I hadn't seen that. Thanks for the link.
cmd-+ is your friend!

The body text of the article (15px) is larger than HN comments, fwiw (9pt = 12px)
I’ve heard the idea of automated restaurants for a long time, but there are still overhead costs and labor costs.

You would still need proper permits/licenses and real estate/rent. Insurance. Utilities.

The prep and cooking of the ingredients still needs to be done, and then those items transported in a chilled/heated manner for food safety.

And if there are perishable goods like produce or meat, the machine will need to be thoroughly cleaned and sanitized regularly, which would require labor, a sink, etc. Unsold food at the end of the day needs to be stored/chilled properly back at the central kitchen. Ingredients will need reloading, machines may get jammed, etc. So it doesn’t seem like it will be labor-free.

Even in the best case scenario, like the sandwiches or muffins at Starbucks, or even deli items at the grocery store, the prices aren’t all that low, so I am curious to see if this can be done profitably.
28 days ago I wrote "I am a strong sell on ClubHouse at a $2b valuation. Just like Medium and Quora, once the masses are allowed on, the noise will get too high and the signal will get lost." I, if anything, feel this stronger now.
The Brain Resides in the Soul (Not the Other Way Around)
Does your API have an OpenAPI definition?
I use an android client for HN, but the _only_ feature I actually want is for the collapse and vote buttons to be big enough for human fingers on mobile. Being able to unvote helps, but one of the only reasons I ever need to unvote is because the vote buttons are microscopic.
You didn't ask for context. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26448432 You asserted there was no context, and so you believed it to be wrong.

Hacker News tends to frown on very short, negative posts from new accounts.
Do you happen to know the case regarding the biometric data?
Thanks, and yes, I have.

I'm trying to keep this brutally simple, but you can already:

- run it without internet connection (FF, Safari, Chrome)

- use it as a desktop Chrome app

I'm also thinking about creating a (paid) mobile app (probably SwiftUI for mobile and desktop). This way I could enable a privacy friendly autosave (iCloud).

I might add a product page for this, giving the whole thing more context.

If you have any feedback or opinions about these comments--shout!
Haskell Knowledge Map
Plenty of motorcyclists forget to keep the rubber side down, get hurt, then continue riding after recuperating from injuries.

Still, the consequences for those unfortunate riders can stay with them throughout life.

Ride safe.
Sewing knots are far more useful than any of those other categories and are conspicuously missing.

I wonder why. Is it because the list only picks the meme "manly" types of knots?
edges and node come from Relay, not from the core GraphQL spec. They're just one way to do pagination.

I like edges and node, it gives you a place to encode information about the relationship between the two objects, if you want to. And if all your endpoints standardize on this Relay pagination, you get standard cursor/offset fetching, along with the option to add relationship metadata in the future if you want, without breaking your schema or clients.

edit: the page you linked to has similar rate limiting behavior for both REST and GraphQL lol
The article doesn't really provide any evidence that he was 'deifyed'

The opening section quotes an anecdote about Hawking referring to his chances of winning a Nobel:

"Most doubtless saw this as an example of Hawking’s famous wit. But in truth it gives a clue to the physicist’s elusive character: shamelessly self-promoting to the point of arrogance, and heedless of what others might think."

Or, more likely, given the context - he was actually being funny and poking fun at his own reputation, as it appears.
No, the 21069x21069 URL is there in the token, too, if you just find the "raw_media_field" field: https://gateway.pinata.cloud/ipfs/QmPAg1mjxcEQPPtqsLoEcauVed...

The NFT doesn't give you jack shit. As the Conditions of Sale [0] says:

> You acknowledge that ownership of an NFT carries no rights, express or implied, other than property rights for the lot (specifically, digital artwork tokenized by the NFT).

[0] https://www.christies.com/pdf/onlineonly/ECOMMERCE%20CONDITI...
"Nobody visited the restaurant that we decided to build in the middle of nowhere and never advertised, so obviously it failed and we closed it down."
I really hope you socceed and manage to spread globally. (I'd loev to have one of your restaurants around the corner in Maastricht, NL, where I live.
It does :) You can find it at the top of the page at https://docs.enode.io
Can we have a look in the kitchen? :)
> “fake until you make it”

I don't like this idea. I prefer the idea of mentoring and people constantly learning. Faking it is kind of like deceiving until you figure it out.

People should be mentoring and teaching each other. This levels up the people around us.

> I noticed the people solving the types of problems I wanted to work on we’re either guarded behind these leetcode type interviews or something much more difficult

This is a real thing.

Sometimes you need a foundation in a hard problem that is often taught in some university courses. There are some hard problems here and people look for that. Sometimes it's math skills or specific algorithms.

Sometimes the people working the hard problems artificially add levels to their processes to keep clubs exclusive.

Most software isn't these hard problems. 99.9% of software is not these hard problems.
The very first sentence of the article makes it clear that Germany is neither the first nor only European country to suspend AZ vaccinations:

> making it the latest of several European countries to hit pause

The article also cites the EMA, an EU institution, and notes:

> Several EU countries have called a halt to the AstraZeneca vaccine

Would you have them list each and every country individually? It seems, to me, that you're just complaining for the sake of complaining. Expect better of HN comments.
Complete anecdata: the design team at a previous fintech company had a cricut machine. Head of security came down one day along the lines of "has anyone heard of cricut? there appears to be a keylogger on some of your machines". Made the design team run the cricut off an airgapped box.

I wouldn't touch this company or its products with a 10 foot pole.
>These include France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands - not really a politically homogeneous bunch.

Litterally all members of the same economic and political Union. The EU.
Super promising UK-based startups to watch in 2021
For the same reason as in other languages (e.g., Perl, bash) with (effectively, in Perl's case) an explicit end-if keyword: so that you don't need a whole bunch of #endifs at the end of your conditional, one for each #if or #else … #if.

C itself doesn't need this, because you can write `else if …` without needing to put another layer of braces around the subordinate `if` statement.
Is it the same in other southern countries as well? (Portugal, Italy, Greece)
Sadly, many careers now have such gate-keeping tasks, or "hoop jumping":

Medicine/MCAT, Law/LSAT, PhD/GREs, Undergrad/SAT, and for all of the above you need a high GPA, which is not a good measure because it's localized to the school and is not weighted for class difficulty.

My own story: I was pre-med at a deflationary school, I did very well on the MCAT, but my GPA was below average, so I got 0 interviews on 11 apps (thousands down the drain and years of effort too), and decided research was a better field for me than medicine.
Only it isn't that simple.

Pull the lever, and the lever might do things you didn't expect - like derail the last few cars. Don't pull the lever, and people die for sure.

If you derail the last car and don't try to put it back before the next train, you now suddenly have more folks that don't trust the lever and avoid all trains, not just the one you operate.
This post is just a brief summary of each protocol, I don't understand how it made it to the front page.
Well. Guess it's time to start looking for a new messaging solution. I've really liked Telegram for its clean, uncluttered interface, and its stickers. But I really don't wanna start the adblock race with their desktop and phone clients.
BioNTech partnered with Pfizer.
Do it. Especially at the beginning, “being funny” is not the main focus (and it’s just fun)
Thanks, yeah we've been already getting a number of customers who are vegan, gluten-free, etc. – specific dietary needs weren't on our radar originally but I'm really glad we're solving those problems.

100% agreed on the underserved communities. I remember going to Burger King with my family as a kid because that's what we could afford and was nearby.

Restaurant jobs are an important question. We think we're more likely to displace more home-cooking than restaurant demand (we don't do sit-down at all), but there's also a big labor shortage in the restaurant world right now because fewer people want to work in kitchens than used to. I'm hopeful that automation will help people be able to cook less but keep demand for dine-in restaurants largely untouched (people want to go out to eat with friends and family).
This reminds me of the Hogwarts Houses - there are specific translations for different languages that try to preserve the feeling and meaning of the originals.

French: Gryffondor, Poufsouffle, Serdaigle, Serpentard

https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_wizarding_terms_...
TOTP generates the codes on both the client and server sides. The user enters the client generated code and the server validates it.

So if the time on the client device is wrong (perhaps it was manually set and not updated for daylight savings), then the server will disagree with what the code should be.
Thanks! That's a much cleaner implementation, and I learned some cool nim. I got a note on GitHub with a similar implementation, so I went with theirs.

And, cool, "BS-scaling" is my new term of art :-)
I'm not invested in this feature specifically, even though I always enable it. I'd rather have a general way of scaling the ui and reducing padding/margins.
So I hope it's removed for architectural reasons, not to prevent ui customizations.
Just like I trust the regulators for vaccine approval, I trust them in the decision of stopping the administration of a vaccine to further investigate the problem. This goes together.

It's not a political decision no matter how many people try to spin this. This is the outcome of doctors reporting an anomaly to a regulator. The system is working, and this should give you reassurance, not doubt about the consequences of stopping a vaccine.

I'm pretty sure they know the consequences of this setback, so for them to stop it it's because something is not right.
Oh, yes, I miss that, too!
More like taking suspects into custody.
I've always thought that one sadly unexamined aspect of mecha is how incredibly vulnerable pilots are outside their machines, and how incredibly dangerous they become once they manage to get in. AOT did make some strides there, by spending a lot of time focusing on how crucial to the shifters' effectiveness their ability to actually shift in a given circumstance is (and how much damage they do once their containment, both physical and strategic, is inevitably breached).
> I'm unclear as to what's novel about OODA.

Well, it's almost 70 years old, so, literally, nothing about it is novel.

> It seems like all other permutations, e.g. DOAO or ADOO or DOOA wouldn't make sense

But it didn't emerge in a context where the four stages were taken as given but people were just trying to figure out how to order them.

Nor did it emerge as a novel thing people should do. OODA, at the level of the acronym and it's expansion, is a description of a fairly simple observation of what people inherently do. It's also the organizational outline for a body of work on how they ought to do each part of it (delivered by its originator, John Boyd, in in-person briefings that apparently ran up to 5 hours, and in quite large written works by people downstream from Boyd.)
There is also a Dutch manufacturing plant which is not being utilized for production because AZ didn't get approvals yet.
Space is a _huge_ consumer of income, and Magnet has already lost its practice space that they basically couldn't use in KTown. If they lose their theater space it'd be pretty fucked.

I think the economics are a little weird as well- improv coaches basically are hourly employees, and the sticker price for a class (400+ for 10 3h sessions and a ending show) can get a little daunting especially as you go further along.

Aside: Apparently UCB has a bit of controversy surrounding its finances and paying staff, though I am not super familiar with it and can't speak to it further, but I'll point you here: https://www.vulture.com/2020/03/ucb-layoffs-coronavirus-begi...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...

Sweden, 2020 deaths only 6.2% higher than 2018, and following a weak 2019 flu season.

These are entirely acceptable death figures within the context of aging European societies.

COVID is basically a once-a-decade flu variant: like Swine Flu in 2009, which came and went without lockdown: https://swprs.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/sweden-monthly-...

So COVID is dangerous enough to lock down entire societies, but not dangerous enough to justify continued vaccination when 1 in 166,666 have blood clotting? This is probably the background rate.

It seems like Europe and its bureaucrats just can't let go of lockdown. Or alternatively, they wish to push the vaccines and end of lockdown into Spring/Summer, where natural seasonality will take care of COVID and give the appearance that lockdown and vaccines were a success.
Azure Certification: Benefits, How to Prepare, and Are They Useful?
Yep Chowbotics : salads :: Mezli : all bowl-style food
They've done a great job proving out that automatic meal prep works.
That's a neat idea, but I would try to simplify it a bit. Now, the details are fuzzy as I haven't set up anything like this but I know the theory behind it.

You could setup a website which accepts file uploads at username:file_signature@example.com , when a request is accepted you retrieve the public ssh key for "username" and validate that the "file_signature" is valid for the file uploaded.

It's a bit unintuitive to sign files with your SSH key but possible https://superuser.com/a/1616656/51984
Do I see this correctly that Norway has about 2 COVID-19 deaths per day on average recently? If so the governments is doing the absolutely right thing. Not halting vaccination with AZ would be highly irresponsible.
Kids detained in overcrowded border facility are terrified, crying and worried
Joe Xiden and every democrat should be thrown in prison.
- Seamless sync and backup

- 100x more people use it (I joined Signal years ago and I still have 1 actual conversation)

- The speed and the level of polish is unmatched

Of course for any serious Signal user it isn't an alternative but for many of us we only use it for postcard level anyway.
OODA is related to other feedback-loop ideas like PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act, Deming/Shewart Cycle) which works at both a tactical and strategic level (but at obviously different tempos, if that's not obvious I don't know what to say). It should be seen primarily in contrast to two other options: Haphazard ad hoc, primarily reactive, approaches; long term commitments to plans that turn out to produce the wrong thing (because they lacked feedback, aka classic Waterfall).