skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just skeptism: I didn't like the ,,1 and half dose'' and other bullshit that AstraZeneca did in their Phase 3 to not have proper testing on old people. There is a reason why the data was not good enough for the FDA to approve it, it seemed like the AstraZeneca Phase 3 testing was rushed and on a level that would be unacceptable if there wasn't a pandemic.

Even in their announcements AstraZeneca seems like trying to hide the problems instead of giving a balanced view of the (probably small) risks.
There’s a capture in the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20180822190926/https://www.wired...
> Hospital? He said they're an MSP on reddit:

This thread is about a different case.
Grain of salt and all that:

> In an exclusive interview, brand CEO Ralf Brandstätter said, “At the moment, I do not expect a completely new engine family to be launched.” Still, he wants to develop the engines currently in use and prepare them for new emissions standards such as Euro 7

So no, they are not ending ICE development. They continue development.

As to what "a new family of ICE" means is anyone's guess.

An, of course, this:

> Depending on which regulations are ultimately applied, the outlook for internal combustion engines could change dramatically once again

So, ending, but not really ending, and the outlook may change again.
As far as Theranos goes I would lay a lot of blame on big shot investors and the press. they had access or should have asked for way more access than the little employee.

Even if you work there and have a bad feeling you are probably doubting yourself quickly when you read that you are actually working for the hottest company in SV.
A workaround: assign the unused variable to underscore.

_ = myUnusedVar

Now you have used it.
Just do

foo, err := doThing(bar)
if err != nil {
// ...
}

and carry on with your life. Go is not a language in which you obsess over small things like these.
Well, just because there's always _a_ bias doesn't mean you can't influence which one your machine translation system favors.

I'm reminded of one of the early "oh, wow" moments with word2vec (a word embedding scheme), where the statement "King - Man + Woman" evaluates to "Queen". This is not a measure that the system understands anything, just that there are really strong statistical correlations that are preserved in the embedding that let you see how close vectors are to one another.

Necessarily, this sort of vector similarity or word choice probability is a function of (at least) your training data. If you want to stop over-weighting pronoun choice for adjectives like "pretty" and "weak" or "emotional" to be feminine, be more choosy about your training set and don't just snarf up reddit willy-nilly and go brrrrr.
> How are sites supposed to know what sources are driving their traffic? Whether visitors are coming via email campaigns, google, etc?

Kindly, and non-intrusively, ask them? You know, just like in other aspects of life?
That's it. Ssssh.

If it's any consolation, my grandfather once stopped the car in the middle of a tarantula migration in Texas. My grandmother, who had bad eyesight, opened the rear passenger door and leaned over practically to the ground for a closer look.

Also, power outages, tornadoes, hurricanes, FF extraction groundwater contamination, and everyone has guns. Would you like us to share?
Adding to this great comment.

Switzerland, default rules regarding termination (if I recall correctly).
* first month of work, 0 second notice
* rest of the first year of work, 1 month notice
* second year of work, 2 months notice
* years after third, 3 months notice

Impossible to terminate: pregnant women, before and also during the legal maternity leave. Common termination is the day upon returning to the office.

Personnel called up for the army or civil defence.
People on a fixed contract.

Employer must give notice but may be without reasons. Without reasons often leads to lawsuits, because terminated will claim one of the illegal (discrimination etc) reasons applies. Still cost of a lawsuit is normally not prohibitive.

In case of critical financial issue termination maybe shorter (mass-layoffs).
It will be PR with a list system aka only very safe party insiders will get in.

Yo wont get the "stroppy bastards" who actually hold the executives toes to the fire.
I've been considering using Backblaze for both personal and company needs -- and we're talking 50+ TB here -- but this incident made me reconsider.

I'd still use Backblaze but that's VERY dependent on how do you handle this. Just saying "we fixed it" doesn't answer the much more fundamental question of "what is the FB tracking pixel doing in a privacy-critical page in the first place?".

Please, do a thorough post-mortem analysis and publish it. Looking at the comments here, this could mean you get or lose the business of many.
You can get a great education from a state school or community college for less than $30K where I live. Travelling and staying in hostels for 4 years isn't free, and like it or not, a majority of the time employers are going to favor a degree over experience travelling the world.
> Formula 1 which has turned extremely boring in the last 5 years

I almost died of boredom last year when Grosjean went through a steel barrier, split his car in half, and narrowly cheated death in an enormous fireball.
Rift S or Quest 2
The 3 Horsemen of Learning: Knowledge, Skill, Capability
Agree with your more nuanced take on it.
> A brief search returned the web API URL path that returns a JSON structure

A brief search of what?
"the shopkeeper doesn't know if something in the window caught my eye"

Except that's already here, or in the making, i.e. with those advertising eye-tracking stories that make the rounds every 6 months or so.
But there was no guarantee that Biden would win the election then.
Spitballing outta my rear here – but could it be that we have a lot more exposure to flu-like viruses, whereas Corona viruses are comparatively novel, at least as far as the immune system's concerned, so there'a a lot more a struggle for the body to acclimatise?
C++ Cstdlib Library
related ...

(2020) "A Scalable Approach to Reducing Gender Bias in Google Translate"

https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/04/a-scalable-approach-to-red...

"We also devised a new method of evaluation, named bias reduction, which measures the relative reduction of bias between the new translation system and the existing system. Here “bias” is defined as making a gender choice in the translation that is unspecified in the source. For example, if the current system is biased 90% of the time and the new system is biased 45% of the time, this results in a 50% relative bias reduction. Using this metric, the new approach results in a bias reduction of ≥90% for translations from Hungarian, Finnish and Persian-to-English. The bias reduction of the existing Turkish-to-English system improved from 60% to 95% with the new approach. Our system triggers gender-specific translations with an average precision of 97% (i.e., when we decide to show gender-specific translations we’re right 97% of the time)."

+

(2018) "Providing Gender-Specific Translations in Google Translate"

https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/12/providing-gender-specific-...

"Detecting Gender-Neutral Queries
Many Turkish sentences that refer to people are gender-neutral, but not all are. Detecting which queries are eligible for gender-specific translations is a hard problem because Turkish is morphologically complex, meaning that reference to a person can either be explicit with a gender-neutral pronoun (e.g. O, Ona) or implicitly encoded. For example, the sentence “Biliyor mu?” has no explicit gender-neutral pronoun but can be translated as either “Does she know?” or “Does he know?”. This complexity means that we cannot use a simple list of gender-neutral pronouns to detect gender-neutral Turkish queries and need a machine-learned system. We estimate that approximately 10% of Turkish Translate queries are ambiguous, and eligible for both feminine and masculine translations."
>a missing $ in a shell script moved everything to the file i

I've always had anxiety when running a shell script, this is a perfect example of why
Oh my, I missed that, thanks. I can envision the dog in the burning house meme. Ouch!
> The proffered solution is to use singular "they" of course

That's subjective.

> allow the person using the translation program to specify pronoun rules

"Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source–language text by means of an equivalent target-language text" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation)

Allowing the end-user to customize the translation according to their own personal biases introduces an entirely different set of issues. We should no longer call it a "translation" at that point.
What makes that objectively true? I’m looking at these APIs, and at least two of these solutions are plain better design.

What about this would get worse with more engineers or higher caliber engineers that Redux clearly avoids?
"EU assumed good behavior. US & UK manoeuvred to benefit themselves."

Assuming that is true, which it isn't, on what basis did the EU assume good behaviour?
> I can use sms, or Facebook Messenger

A large part of the world can't afford sending images (and even videos) via SMS.

And no, Facebook Messenger is not fluid, it's laggy as fuck.
That's fair - and tbh most games don't need to push the envelope when it comes to performance, so it makes sense to just stay with the most flexible default option. Still, when you compare to something like ECS, which basically needs to take over your whole architecture and give up the flexibility of MonoBehaviours, it's much easier to burst-jobify a smaller, performance critical part of your game.
"but the bigger problem is the tendency of third party integrations having default settings that are overly aggressive when it comes to access of user/site data.
"

Our permission schemes are way too broad in general. I have done some tests with Zapier and IFTTT. For every integration you consent with them seeing ALL your data, being able to modify and so on. You also don't get a log how often the permission was used.
What's the alternative? The status quo isn't an option, so something has to replace it.
A lot of work in this field afaik is about finding new materials or using more common materials to do the same thing. Getting more R&D in this field early is definitely worth the pay off, and the right time as well.
Reaching people seems like the least of their problems to be honest. If they use a payroll service, they'll have addresses--don't know about Europe but does just about any company do their own payroll in the US at this point? In any case, I assume most people know how to reach most of their direct reports and many of their co-workers. Especially at a fairly small company, I would think you could reconstruct contact info on employees fairly quickly.

Of course, that may not help with the bigger problem.
> just because the two USB-C ports on a laptop look the same, doesn’t mean they work the same.

This is already a solved problem[1] through color coding. Not sure why they couldn't use that scheme. Maybe combine a few to indicate things like DisplayPort and Thunderbolt capability, could have up to four quadrants for example.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_System_Design_Guide#Color-c...
Given that this is the only practical application you have to wonder why we ever had the one way plugs in the first place.
In my opinion the more egregious stuff is telling people they need to vaccinated and then saying that those vaccinated should still be masked.

It's as though there's no difference.

And there's a point I've seen outright admitted by the most ardent pro-mandate side: they want complete authoritarian conformity.

Such that people are presented with a reality where the option of dissent never crosses peoples minds, since the iron fist of the public health establishment has whipped everyone into an obedient herd.
Celebrating neurodiversity is crucial! It is in my view a very basic human rights issue.

However it does not, or at least should not, extend to excusing/permitting behaviors that hurt others.

Much human anguish and suffering could be alleviated if we had a greater understanding of one simple truth: "your rights end where mine begin."

On balance, I think RMS is ultimately a person who has greatly benefited the world. However, the stories of people made uncomfortable by his actions and statements are legion and in a more practical sense are detrimental to his cause. How can folks with with/under him when he's behaving in some of these ways? Why does the leader of the FSF even need to be broadcasting his beliefs that Minsky did nothing wrong when he had sex with a 17 year-old provided to him by a child trafficker?

As somebody who (like most folks on HN, probably) is not exactly "neurotypical", I realize that it's part of my responsibility to moderate my own words and actions if I want to take part in society.
How is that possible? Remember the code is in reply to:

>> fact both have support for erroring on this by default

By default what i’ve done here (omitted a runtime check) doesn’t catch the error.
Red seaweed supplementation reduces enteric methane by over 80% in beef steers
I wonder how much improvements EV will see now that capitals are going into it hard. Beside economy of scale.. really new battery chemistry, induction motor efficiency etc
Thanks for the very interesting research. It is unexpected to me another kernel + sharpening will outperform lanczos2/3 in practice.
Boo, word games. His question has a yes or no answer, yours does not.
I’m sure everyone here can appreciate the difference between development and manufacturing.

While I agree that it’s extremely unlikely that a lab developed this virus, it’s far more plausible for one to have manufactured it.
UK here. Terminology may differ, I think what is being discussed is a notice period. Normally a resignation is either accepted or rejected pretty much on the spot and if accepted is officially seen as a more amicable departure.

Handing in your notice to leave is something the employer cannot reject. Depending on circumstances you might try to resign first. Sometimes you may be "asked to resign"[0] and made a nice offer to encourage you to do so, offer will almost always have an NDA attached to it.

[0] this can be preferable to the company as it can be quieter than sacking you

> This guy(gal?) is really required to submit 3 months notice or face some sort of repercussions (financial, I assume)?

Yes. The worst they can do is take you to court for breach of contract though. That can be expensive and embarrassing for both parties so unless they are whiter than white[1] or bitter enough companies often don't bother.

Potentially a big risk to take though. And in an industry that is hardly free from nepotism, you probably don't want the reputation of being someone who walked that way.

Three months is most common in skilled jobs, one month otherwise. In retail work and other low-skilled professions two weeks is not uncommon, though here people often do just walk away as the hassle of chasing them for breach of contract is massively not worth it.

[1] i.e. there is nothing you can say on public record that looks bad for them going forward

> Does this 3 month period apply in reverse (employer can't fire employees without a full 3 month warning)?

Yes. What usually happens if they want to have you gone without notice and don't want to make you an offer to resign "amicably" is that they put you on gardening leave. You are still employed and paid for the notice period but are told to stay home. They can't stop you looking for new work[2] as long as you don't do it "on their time"[3] but you can't start new work without resigning and them accepting that resignation until the end of notice period without the same risks as if you had just walked out without notice yourself[4].

Gardening leave can also happen when you hand in your notice, though if you want to leave and the company wants you to leave then they'll just agree to waive the notice period.

[2] Some contracts have clauses that say otherwise, those clauses are not legally enforcible. Some even have clauses saying you have to actively look for new work, these too are not legally enforceable.
[3] Which is impossible for them to prove unless perhaps they have you check-in regularly while you garden.
[4] Though they are likely accept the resignation as at that point they can stop paying you for the notice period, unless you are going to work for a competitor, or they otherwise feel like being dicks about it.
Probably a technicality, but Porsche actually owns VW Group, which again owns Porsche cars, Audi etc
The State of Nintendo Switch 2001
Ask HN: How to find product focus for your own projects? Freelance PO? Other?
I've been working on my small project for about 9 months now. It's slowly coming together but the progress has slowed down considerably. Not so much due to technical debt or pesky problems, but rather something more annoying: I don't know what feature to work on or what direction to take the project.
Of course I'm eating my own dog food, but my own use-case gets me only so far. How did you get a product that interests people? Ideally I'd like to charge money for this, but I think I'm still far from that point in time / functionality.

My project is about tracking your net-worth so you can map out your own road to FI / FIRE. So far I have portfolio managing / stock tracking / FI goal setting. I have a rough roadmap that talks about tracking your cash / bank accounts ideally via PDS2, but other than that I'm kinda drawing blanks. The main issue that I have right now is that I don't want to start at adding bank accounts because of all the manual work for the user, at least until I get automated syncing set up but for that I need to register a company etc with each bank. That is a step too far right now because I have only one user: myself.

If you want to check it out and give some constructive feedback, I would hugely appreciate it. Feedback about anything at all: Design, functionality, ease of use, language mistakes, etc. You can find it at https://my.roadto.fi/#/
Absolute full agreement. Repeating my comment from yesterday's forgotten submission¹:

Pipes was the only example of the "no/low code" idea that ever made me believe that possible future was remotely feasible. I saw a fair few co-workers produce some really interesting things with Pipes, and many wouldn't have known where to begin if you sat them down in front of a Python prompt with lxml. Seeing them chain filters, mangle date formats and input types was really cool.

The screenshots in the linked article make me hope that
similar tooling can rise again.

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26529364
I've tried that. Toothpicks break off and don't clean the gunk. Round cylinders are fine because the contacts are flat. There are even keychain metal lightning cleaners that are basically just large paperclip-like ends, and that's what many Apple store employees use.

Edit: as long as you're not using a needle-like piece of metal to dig at or bend the contacts, it should be fine.
hopefully you can skip most of those people and talk to the people who are in danger of being eliminated if your services are NOT engaged?
Preliminary version of the textbook: https://seumasjeltzz.github.io/LinguaeGraecaePerSeIllustrata...

This is inspired from Lingua Latina per se illustrata, a monolingual textbook that does the same in Latin and is unanimously acclaimed by the Latin speaking community as the best way to learn it.
> The clause is there to avoid this type of scenario where a key employee just says fuck it and leave.

If they are at the "fuck it" point, what's going to force them to be useful and productive during the forced 3 month notice period?
Better yet, let’s try to find cost-effective means of keeping people out of cages in the first place!
It might be worth pointing out that I'm not the author of that refutation. But I agree that that refutation was itself pretty vague. I was still more irked by the guy being going full Zen-master in the level of clarity of his posts, calling people fatally confused for even thinking about the question and then wondering about being downvoted.
Before you experience a major problem, you tend to guess what is good enough to mitigate it. Once you've experienced a major problem, you tend to ensure that exact failure mode never happens again.

I would be surprised if OVH had another fire in the future.
Most of the time, you can get away with 'iconv -f cp932 -t utf8'. Welcome to Japan.
a clear showcase of purecss
This reads like an ad for Resume Driven Development.
> You do see NEMA 5-15R receptacles on 20A circuits in residential applications

This is, of course, what I was talking about. I do appreciate the nuances of the 15/20 T-socket and the 6-20/5-20 symmetry; NEMA is super cool (aside from the fact that bladed plugs that aren't twist-lock are sort of lame/less safe in general, at least compared to the UK standard bladed plug). It's a fun rabbit hole to venture down: my occasion was having to adapt straight-blade wall box receptacles that the electrician installed to the twist-lock of the PDUs we had bought.

There's also a fun and confusing mess of competing DC connector standards. I haven't decided what 12/48VDC connectors I'm going to put into my new house build yet (beyond the obviously mandatory 5V USB).
Right, missing "not".

The law mandates that the firing notice period cannot be shorter than the resignation notice period.
We don't lack for heavy lift -- we have Delta IV Heavy and Falcon Heavy and will soon also have New Glenn and Vulcan.

We lack for super heavy lift, but we've been lacking for that since Saturn V was retired. Some people sometimes count Shuttle as super-heavy, but they cheat by including the Shuttle mass as part of the lift mass.

SLS as is isn't super-heavy either, it requires the planned but un-funded Exploration Upper Stage for that, which is likely never going to get funded.

Starship is super-heavy lift class.
Are there any large companies considering doing a turbine electric hybrid? Plain turbine cars were actually done 50 years ago and Jay Leno’s garage has one and he’s actually built one. Even one of Tesla’s co-founder (Ian Wright) has a startup doing this. One advantage is that it can burn any fuel - hydrogen included. This can be practical for larger vehicles especially.
As a starting point, Windows applications developers often use Windows laptops; macOS and iOS application developers typically use Apple laptops.

For generalized development tasks, Intel-based Apple laptops are quite typical; to date, there hasn't been a compelling necessity (i.e., signing infrastructure requirements) to run Linux on anything but a re-purposed Intel-/AMD-based device.

The Dell Developer Edition devices arrive with batteries included (for Canonical Ubuntu, anyway), though the biggest driver is demand. There are plenty of folks internal to most of the major laptop manufacturers that unofficially support flavored Linux on their own time, as their sales and marketing staff don't prioritize Linux offerings as a product.

Lastly, there are a lot of folks within the greater Linux ecosystem that want true "librem" laptops; problem is, the resources do not YET exist at ODM (not OEM) scale to fully support backports to librem device firmware (commercial device firmware is complicated enough, thanks to Intel / AMD).
Using Git Bisect to Find Code Regressions
Introduction to sentiment analysis and why using an API is useful in this regard
America Could Fall Like Rome [video]
Don't forget a month of orange sky as VIC/NSW bushland was on fire a month before the virus hit.
> If people don't want to see my site with random trash inserted into it, they can choose not to access it through broken and/or compromised networks.

But isn't that often false, since in many places there are few choices of which ISP connects your home? Am I supposed to just move somewhere else?