skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The anti-vax crowd is complete nonsense, but the feeling I got from Italy wasn't so much "see! vaccines are dangerous! I am not getting a jab!, but rather "it looks like AstraZeneca may not be entirely safe, I demand a Moderna or Pfizer jab!".

Due to extremely skewed media coverage of the recent events, it may also be almost justifiable as a general reaction of population. If people are told that a vaccine has a rare but lethal side effect, and they are not in at-risk category, and there are two other vaccines that seem safer, it is almost reasonable to wait the other one. The main issue has been communication by media which made the investigation into side-effect seem much more severe than what it really was, undermining people trust in AZ. I think newspapers made an horrible job at it.

I would definitely still get the AZ vaccine, but I kind of understand where people are coming from, given the message given by media and their number-illiteracy that does not allow them to understand probability and the scale of numbers.
"Claiming something that is not true is in itself wrong." Does this apply to butterflies disguising themselves as dead leaves?
> it is common to have public transport on the country side as well to some degree. Most villages have bus transport.

I don‘t think it‘s fair to compare running a bus line on pre-existing roads to maintaining and extending a subway network. People living in big cities already have the advantage of better jobs and much better pay, so I think it‘s fair to expect them to pay for their own transport. Those who choose to live or better said not leave the countryside do it by taking a risk of a harder life yet with maybe more satisfaction in some ways. In this context, I think it’s not justifiable to burden them with supporting the city people when it‘s clear they will get zero benefit out of it.
This is from the webcam at the time. https://www.ruv.is/frett/2021/03/21/gigbarmurinn-gefur-sig-o...
This. Unless you are a professional machinist, in which case you know where to buy genuine Starrett, Mitutoyo, B&S, etc. the cheap digital calipers are probably sufficient for your needs. .001” thickness tolerance is fine for even “precision” woodworking for example.
You might be right, I believed I saw some definition that simply stated that "system receiving or storing PHI" would be required to be HIPAA complaint, regardless of how the data got there.

I'm still wondering, because Backblaze will sign a BAA (their website says so), making them a business associate. I'm not talking about some private person uploading their own documents. My concern is that given that Backblaze will sign a BAA, then some companies must be using Backblaze and potentially storing PHI data there. Yes?

Backblaze then need to follow: "§ 164.312 Technical safeguards. (e)(1) Standard: Transmission security. Implement technical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to electronic protected health information that is being transmitted over an electronic communications network."

Facebook isn't authorized to access this data, but that might be more of a problem for Backblaze, even if Facebook could be required to delete the data.
If someone is consistently failing to do the necessary part of a job, then it doesn't matter why they are consistently failing; they must be asked to step down and not do that job.

One of the responsibilities of anyone in power is to avoid emboldening sexual predators and silencing victims. Anyone in power who does that should be called out; and anyone who continues to do it after being called out should be asked to step down.

Let me start by saying that Stallman's words defending Minsky have absolutely been misinterpreted. He did not say that Guiffre was "entirely willing". And given that the age of consent in most of Europe is 16 or below [1], I think it's hypocritical for so many people to be outraged about Stallman saying maybe 17 isn't so bad.

Nonetheless, his defense of Minsky is still problematic. Why? Because in the hypothetical situation he described, Minsky had sex with Guiffre even though he should have seen red flags. (Don't get distracted here by arguing that Minsky did see red flags and didn't actually sleep with Guiffre. That's not the point: Stallman still defended Minsky as though he had.) By defending Minsky, he was indicating to all future sexual predators, "I will try to find excuses to defend your bad behavior"; and to all future sexual victims, "There is no point in coming forward; I will try to excuse the person who did this to you."

Now maybe Stallman didn't realize that's what he was doing; and maybe the reason he didn't realize it was because his brain is wired differently, which makes it difficult for him somehow. If so, we can cut him some slack personally; but it doesn't change the fact that it's harmful to have him in leadership.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_Europe
> Easy. Put your estate into a terminally settled, non-transferable, future-callable, sale-leaseback with a partial-repo feature, with a European or Japanese bank.

is this word salad or legit? If so, any resources to learn this?
You can write very simple Rust, it's worth trying it out if you haven't already.

I'm not a rust developer, but I've ported over a handful of python or golang projects to see how it works. I managed to write the code without understanding much about things like the borrow checker.

I'm certain my code is not as performant or elegant as it could be using some of the more complex tools and concepts in the language, but it is possible.
It's surprising how long it takes to draw solid conclusions, considering the amount of "live" cases to draw from.
Strongly disagree - A/B testing can be heavily used in e-commerce and online shops. You don't need "millions" of hits in order to test which products do better on the homepage, which discounts encourage more people to click buy, etc.
I didn't know they did that, thanks for the notification! Moved some of the videos to a YouTube playlist and updated the post.
Even buying from Amazon itself is no guarantee because they commingle inventory. The OP should totally escalate to Amazon customer service for a full refund on a fraudulent product, but you get the feeling Amazon is fully aware of the situation and profiting from it, and treats the occasional refund as a cost of doing business.
The fact that you have insisted (twice!) that the secp256k1 curve will be broken makes it impossible to take anything you have to say on this subject seriously.
There are no known cases of the 501.V2 variant in either Chile or Peru, and the US has only had 143 cases by now. Besides, the trials were probably done months ago. If I’m not wrong, the Chilean one started in December.
and then back to believers when they sell :D
That's not how the planning system works in the UK at all.

You need planning permission to demolish any building (with a few explicit exceptions). This is something that is priced in to property valuations. It is entirely normal and expected. Developers will often approach planners for official guidance before purchasing land and land purchases are sometimes made contingent on being able to obtain planning.

Grade II listing, which the building didn't yet have, adds further restrictions and considerations to the planning process, but the process still exists).

The developer paid under the odds for the land, based on the risk that they wouldn't get planning. They didn't get planning and decided to go ahead anyway.

This stole value from the previous own owners. It harmed the local environment and community.

The UK isn't a anarcho-capitalist dystopia, it is a (broadly functioning) democracy. The collective decision making about the built environment embodied in the planning process is flawed, but deemed necessary and an overall good by the population of the country.

Source: property developer who works with listed properties.
Criminal behavior. Where is the “war on white collar crime”?? Much easier to scapegoat minorities and poor on why the country lags behind in most major indexes that measure education, healthcare, safety, equality and happiness.
The UK, like most countries, is very transparent with reporting side effects and has a robust system for capturing the data.
> But it is a coherent philosophy on it's own, it's not some incoherent thing that makes sense only as self-interest of big corporations.

I don't dispute the fact that it is coherent, but it is serving the interest of big corporations. Could you explain why do you think it doesn't?

> Open source from the start as envisioned by rms and others was about creating software that users could use as they choose, including altering it as they choose and deploying it where and how they want. While they may not have envisioned the economic system that has resolved from that, all the proposals I see on HN for "not letting big corporations take advantage of developers writing open source" are about removing this freedom, making it no longer open source.

Big corporations shouldn't be treated the same way as individual users, as this is facilitating exploitation. Maybe indeed in the beginnings of FSF this was not thought about, but when big corporations realised this is benefiting them in many ways they started sponsoring the movement to keep the status quo.

> So, sure, if some developers don't want to produce work that can be taken advantage of by others without payment, including big corporations -- they can stop producing open source. You shouldn't produce open source unless you want to produce open source. But that doesn't mean the definition of open source is wrong.

This is a fallacy. This is the same problem as with unpaid internships - you could say if you can't do unpaid internship, you can find company that will pay for your time, but why would companies do that if they can get free labour? This creates disadvantage for people from unprivileged backgrounds as they cannot afford to gain experience through unpaid internship as they have bills to pay and families to feed. That's why in many countries unpaid internships are illegal.

I am not surprised that this idea gets pushed back here, as there is too many people here who wouldn't like coporations they work for to finally start paying.
> Not necessary. I know of several examples where wealthy areas actively blocked mass transit because they only see it as a way to introduce poor people into their neighborhood.

I don't disagree, which is why I wrote "often" and not "always".

> If every transit system has to pay for all externalities then cars will not end up being cheaper than mass transit.

It would be interesting to know where all these externalities are currently paid for, who pays them, and how they got them to be paid, because as far as I know there is nowhere this is case and that means we're comparing an ideal - a possibly unobtainable ideal - against other things like land value tax that have been implemented.

> Subsidy of mass transit is a way to correct for that.

Or - and it would seem more consistent with the argument you just gave - not subsidising the other transit systems such as cars.

> I really don't see the link between the state being able kick you off and paying taxes

Because under other systems of tax the government does not have nearly as direct a say in whether you get to stay on your land. LVT makes them a kind of landlord.

> How else would they be able to get anything build?

They could purchase the land off you like anyone else, and you could refuse them as you might to anyone else. Why are you making government a special case when buying land?
On ice, when you fall, you slide and it's not so bad as a lot of momentum is transferred to the sliding movement. On inline skates, you don't have that benefit. Definitely wear wrist guards, knee guards and a helmet like heavenlyblue has already suggested. Also, if you can find someone who teaches inline skating, take some lessons in stopping. If you are 100% comfortable and confident in being able to come to a halt safely or slowing down safely, you will skate with more confidence. Also, taking lessons might help improve your technique. Some aspects of efficient movement on inline skates (or on ice) are typically not instinctive.
Challenges when starting data analysis as a first-time founder
Custom electric conversions seem great (see e.g. Zero EV's MX-5 on YouTube). Not analog, but not "smart" either. No internet-connected computers, only the necessary microcontrollers.
In the recent latest Zig Showtime stream Andrew showed off things like use after free, double free and so on detection
> - Exclude a delimiter from the search space, like using [^>]*?> rather than .*?> or worse yet .*>

Or indeed:

(?!>).*?
Etsy exists; but exhibits the exact same problem; ends up being a list of shops selling dropshipped crap from aliexpress
> Was it less common before supply chains were exported?

There are factories that run "midnight shifts", where the same workers, on the same production line, spend a night building a batch of counterfeits.

If you rent instead of own the manufacturing line, you are open to this. A design is easy to copy, a factory not that much.

I see all of this as way to tip the scale of profit sharing between the ones with the idea/design and the ones who make the product. Whether it is balanced or not, I can't tell.

A cheap copy that performs well is also in a way pressure to innovate. The factories innovate in making things cheaper, the designers innovate in making things better. Someone who manufactures themself gets to do both.
Talk to a combat veteran. One who has really been in combat and under fire.

You won't find many who are eager to advance under fire.

The 8th AF was suffering 80% casualties when my father was in the air war. He would talk sometimes about the terrible, gut-melting fear, and how it would crush some of the men, and how some of the men dealt with it (like heavy drinking).

They weren't reluctant to kill the enemy - I asked him about it. He said the enemy was doing their damnedest to kill him, and he was trying to survive, not die. If you refused to go on a mission, the threat of execution was there, although they didn't do it. There was surely prison and utter disgrace, though, which many would consider worse than dying.

My father dealt with it by looking at the numbers and resigning himself to death. He figured that while he lasted he'd do his duty and his best. When he signed up, I think he thought of it more as an adventure than a death sentence, like most young men do. Young men imagine themselves to be immortal.
"the EU's don't, despite them being the first to sign with AstraZeneca"

That's an unusual way to write "The EU signed 3 months after the UK"
I think they are referring to Instagram, twitter, etc for showing off art.
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
this is also how companies that are taking your hard earned money improve and iterate on their products.

What analytics do you think they can do using Facebook that they cannot do from their own httpd access logs, a technology that's 30 years old at this point?
When I got back from the hike I heard on the radio that this location was, ahem, not recommended. It was closed off yesterday and a short while later the crater walls collapsed in that direction.

https://youtu.be/eeAf1kZ7_ZE

But there were a few of us at that spot at the time so at least I wouldn't have died alone :).
Aphantasia: Ex-Pixar chief Ed Catmull says 'my mind's eye is blind' (2019)
Tardigrades can live 30 years in a freezer&survive in space (2016)
Right. It's a better C, but it has to compete with C's ubiquity: there's make and cc on most *nix boxes.

JetBrains went out of their way to make migrating to Kotlin as easy as possible: you can literally upgrade your Java project file by file.
> I've only seen reporting suggesting that every variant listed as a "variant of concern" from the CDC is present in Israel.

But not present in large numbers now, so we have to wait months before we'll know if they'll be able to spread in the vaccinated population or not.
"You can write <adjective> <programming language>" is an answer that usually get rebutted by pointing out that a) you need to read a lot more code than you write and b) other people might not write <adjective> code or c) other people might have a different definition of <adjective>.
Sloot Movie Compression System
New Effort to Clean Up Space Junk Reaches Orbit
The matrix is incomplete:
What about use after returns?
Memory leaks?
Cycles?
Stack under/over-flows

And more from
https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/AddressSanitizerCo...
> this is actually further evidence that people are quite collaborative and non-confrontational by nature.

Once again, I must emphasize that being motivated by self-interest usually means collaborating. That's how free markets work - collaboration among self-interested people.

Collectivism is about self-sacrifice. Sure, you can find people willing to do that. But not enough to structure society around it.
> It’s bad that Backblaze did not do their due diligence while integrating with Facebook pixel

Here's the thing though, being a third party, due diligence means you constantly have to check what they're doing.

Because otherwise how do you know when they suddenly change their script to do something entirely different?

This is why having any 3rd party scripts on a dashboard service like this is in my view entirely inexcusable.

When I go to visit my cloud-based dashboard for Acronis' backup service[1] there's one single domain involved, and that's how it should be.

[1]: https://www.acronis.com/en-us/products/true-image/
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In C you also have to think about lifetimes and types, only that the compiler is helping you a lot less to get things right.
I don't think there can be a real safe space. Toxic things for some might not be for others, reassuring things for some might be violent for others. It does not mean we should not try to improve how we behave, but it's important to understand it's impossible to have a generic rulebook we can apply everywhere to be safe with everyone.

As an example, some swearwords might really violent to hear for some people, but disallowing their use will be quite hard for those who lived in an environment where it was important part of communication. And it's often use as a distinction between rich and poor people (at least in France).
Oh! Thank you for this one. I was really searching for something like this from MIT :)
> I have tried to like the language, but sadly having to think about types and lifetimes robs precious energy which should be devoted to thinking about business rules and what am I actually trying to achieve.

I've always wanted a "shut up about memory safety for a while, just don't free anything, I want to find out if my code produces the right answer" mode in rustc.
It is really nothing particular about schools. In Spain the first day schools were closed children started playing on the streets, or playing basketball and soccer(you can play soccer anywhere). They were quite happy doing that.

Then the authorities said: No, no no! Kids must stay in house all day, closed all public spaces, something contranature for kids.

It was the get "in house", secluded, don't do anything socially. Too many don'ts with no does.

I can stay indoors playing guitar or piano. Reading books,or HN, or cooking. Even then I need to get out from time to time. It is not realistic to expect children doing the same.

Most of those activities were not really dangerous with some restrictions.

You can go in a bus or car with mask if people don't talk and introduce air from the outside.

You can play different basketball or football games with little risk. You can jump rope. But bureaucrats decided they were little monks. They are not.

School is not the necessary thing here. It is playing socially and exercising what children need like water and air.
>Rust seems to be a very complex language. Is all that complexity essential to providing memory safety without GC?

The language features specific to memory safety i.e. the borrow checker, are essentially irreducible. It is also Rust's biggest piece of complexity, and the one that is hardest to learn. There is no simpler language inside Rust that has the same safety guarantees, unless you strip out other useful features (traits, async, etc.).
the lower resistance there is, the faster current and power naturally flow. You'd need an amp that expects that.
I sure hope so. Maybe in less hygiene aware countries like the US, but I think countries that took the pandemic seriously will not bring it back as much.
SpaceX Raptor Engine (2019)
Reseter.css – A New CSS Reset/Normalizer
Something not mentioned that a ton of modern websites fail at is having readable text due to either too-low contrast, too-thin or too-small fonts, or all of those things combined. These days it seems like I have to use reader mode for half the articles or blog posts I read daily.
So if wallmart buys a chain that wasn't competitive because they didn't decided to have wages so low their employees require foodstamps do you think that helps the local economy?

When the company buys in Romania and lays of the local marketing, sales departments, etc to make things more efficient, uniform and streamlined that doesn't help the local economy. That makes things more efficient tho but as a Romanian you're left holding the bag.

Now everything is foreign owned and the streamlining and competition has played out in such a fashion that there's potentially less competition and consequently less benefits off competition. (see all the modern industries that have turned into duopolies, monopsonies or the like that can easily keep new competition from coming in but also don't compete enough to drive consumer prices down.
Why is the person answering here considered to be the butt and not the person setting up the trap? Generally I believe it is know that there is no good answers to this question. So maybe we should assign blame on person asking it? That is if they don't really want the honest answer.
Omny is decent, owned by Triton Digital - good people. Not as consumer focussed as a Captivate, for example, but solid!