skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here, I don't use it because I find twitter to be a very hostile place. On top of that my old account I registered in 2012 keeps being locked up because I refused to share my phone number - and when I did eventually share it twitter immediately put profiles of my friends as recommended ones, which means that at one point it stole my phone number from my friends' contact list and is now using it without my consent.
Yeah. Backblaze are addressing this "blunder" only because they got caught. Not because they give 2 shits about their customer's privacy.

The smug tone in this joke of a response to the issue proves this.
The side effects, which are still not proven afaik, are less likely than dying in a car crash during any given year. The EMA never raised issues or suggested that the vaccine was problematic.

It was indeed ridiculous to suspend the vaccine whatever spin they tried to give that decision. The two other points are equally ridiculous.

What seems to be the case is that some people try to essentially sabotage that vaccine.
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Without question: Thunderbird (short: TB) may or may not be have its problems. But its very secure and last a long time.

I use this Client since 2000 (on Windows) and due to problems with my computer in the beginning, i use it the PortableApp.com Version of TB more than 10 years.
My Mail-Archive (only important mails) is beginning in the year 2000, the whole TB-folder has a size of 1.33 GB.

TL;DR; I use TB and TB Portable over 20 years and have an actual folder size of 1.33 GB. No unsolvable problems in this time. I make heavy use of the RSS-Reader, too.
Therefore i use uBlock Origin for TB.
A very strange defence for a very strange lawyer. Would this go to disbarment?
This is not what the contract says. The contract says there is no other contract that would prevent them fulfilling the EU contract. Since the contract makes no promises about delivery schedule it’s pretty clear the U.K. contract does not prevent its fulfilment, as the U.K. contract can only delay it.

However the EU contract seems to insist the initial 300M doses are made within the EU itself, and the EU has its own dedicated supply chain regardless that can eventually deliver, so this also seems to exclude conflict with the U.K. contract.
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CERN experiment hints at new force of nature
It sounds like you're agreeing with the statement "the rationale makes no sense".
Agreed. Though catching and handling that exception maybe more performant if majority of those indexes are within the bounds of the array.

>> I'm not sure why having the separate exception is better than letting the array access throw directly?

(1) The original String charAt method (Sun/Oracle) had to account for an offset and an index. The exception from the bounds check on the underlying char[] would be misleading/confusing... and therefore the birth of the seperate StringIndexOutOfBoundsException

Source: http://www.docjar.com/html/api/java/lang/String.java.html

(2) Because of the above and for backward compatibility, the OpenJDK is doing the same exception handling... sometimes it pays to review the original source code to get some context and rationale to the OpenJDK version.
Emails aren't encrypted, because there is no good way to manage trust between users at this point. PGP exists, but it's key management sucks in many ways. But look at a lot of large corporations where the trust can be bound to one service and encryption will be just one click away. S/MIME is a widely adopted standard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/MIME) in email and works well.
Please elaborate. Teams is the Microsoft product I hate the least. UI glitches and Electron problems aside, I find that at least some UX work has gone into it, there are relatively few things preventing me from working - the calls are pretty reliable too in my experience.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Atlantic_%26_Pacific...

> In 1930, A&P, now the world's largest retailer, reached $2.9 billion in sales ($44.4 billion today) with 16,000 stores.
> The strength of computers has always been the ability to analyze literally incomprehensible (to humans) amounts of data and derive unique insights from them

AI actually gets into trouble due to the amount of data before humans do. Humans are quicker learners and only need a few iterations of analysis, while current AI needs a plethora of iterations over possible combinations.

For example the OpenAI Dota 2 AI was doing pretty well, but it had to play a restricted version of the game where only about a dozen heroes are allowed out of ~120. Basically only 10% of the complexity. OpenAI never even attempted to compete at the full game before they quit and shut down the project.
El diseño de la música
Microsoft is also heavily using Discord.

Eg. the community for c# and Dapper is on it.
Ah man, now you can see what the past ~37 years of sci-fi films and video games have been making little nods and allusions to all this time :)
That’s not been demonstrated. It has been claimed that a separate supply chain was initially purchased for the U.K. within the EU. No evidence has been presented that AZ doses from EU supply chain were diverted.
Also, this observation: in terms of developer time, compiled languages (a la Crystal, Go, Rust...) the disadvantage of compile time should be offset by much faster local test runs and even CI builds.
Lots of software does not do calls on Firefox because they rely on a broken alpha WebRTC implementation in chromium and don't work with the proper implementation in Firefox. Chromium is the new IE6 (and Safari is IE5.5)
It can be a massive fun too. Ive never interviewed at FAANG, but solving some leetcode problems (mostly medium-hard though) was so cool for me and some of my friends. We were into olympic math at school, and I don't consider that a waste of time as well.
There were two incidents at that facility. The first led to a building being condemned.

The second was a more nebulous investigation into the yet unsolved 2001 anthrax attacks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hatfill#Lawsuits
For a sufficiently big codebase, that is.
Me too. I love butterfly keyboard. I like how crunchy it feels like typing. I wish they made external keyboards with butterfly mechanism because I'd love to have one for my PC.
https://m.youtube.com/watch/GF0-wGbRqEs

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This story reminded me of my experiences working in a bar (in the UK, chip-and-pin was a thing but contactless was only just rolling out) It was mainly a student bar so basically every card was a debit card...

I occasionally would come across declined card receipts from the machine for some 6 figure amount that had been attempted to charge. Was concerned at first but what had happened was clearly the staff member had forgotten to press enter after typing in the amount, the customer still saw the amount - put in their pin, enter, now it says type pin, try again, then panic when their bank declines it. Luckily the only bad thing that would come out of this is that they should go to the ATM and change the pin, after running the transaction again properly.
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> Meanwhile in the US, hysterical partisans attacked Trump for correctly naming the virus along with its origin

He spent months doing nothing in preparation, and denying there was an issue then when it turned out there was an actual problem decided it was all China's fault ... even though they had it largely under control by that point. That's why people were "hysterical" - he saw it coming, did nothing and refused to take any responsibility, but blamed someone else. He wasn't trying to accurately identify the source of the virus, he was trying to save his own skin.

Sure it's frustrating that we only found out in (I think) December that it was spreading human-to-human, and it'd be good to see some actual investigation from China. But Trump's finger-pointing was all just desperate attempt to save face and deflect from his own poor management and nothing more. Your question should be rephrased "How many deaths could have been avoided with just the most basic level of competency?" and directed at Donald Trump and his administration.
Some of the people who like offices undoubtedly live and work outside Silicon Valley...?
Minor nitpick, but it would be more accurate to use CCP in place of China in this comment.
How do you type on the keyboard? I think butterfly keyboard (and scissor switch keyboards too) appeals more to people who gently tap the keys. High-rise keyboards appeal more to people who whack the keys from a distance.
I am old enough to remember when people were afraid that Muzak would take over.

It did not.

I was at a Chinese restaurant, around a year and a half ago, and realized that the music they played was a sort of “ersatz” music. It was familiar tunes, like Scarborough Fair, or Hotel California, slightly modified, and strung together. Vocals were basically wordless humming.

There is an entire industry, based on musicians, providing “stock music,” and it’s been around for a long time. Sort of a musical equivalent of Shutterstock. Some of this music is quite good. Most is fairly boring.

Music is way too connected to our emotions to be reliably synthesized. AI would need to advance to be able to produce emotions and creativity, before it would threaten the music industry.

Also, there’s always the “tabloid” aspect of the industry. There are artists that may be fairly unremarkable musicians, but generate a lot of press coverage. Unless the world of Questionable Content becomes real, I can’t see any Star headlines of AIs beating up paparazzi.
This [1] is the actual page for consumers. The link to the form you're supposed to use to submit your broadband experiences just links to the generic FCC consumer complaint form, though.

[1]: https://www.fcc.gov/BroadbandData/consumers
Additional context https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/22/nominet_board_sacked/
https://publicbenefit.uk/
That should be completely irrelevant - the government has no business caring about someone’s “experience” with anything but constitutional responsibilities (justice, defense).

But we are talking about the USSA so there you have it. Fake research first, taxpayer largesse after that.
It's not so much about having their shit together as having a terrifying autocratic government of the kind the UK government are still pretending (unconvincingly) they don't dream of emulating.

Also there may well be areas of China where the virus never reached. I gather internal travel isn't massively widespread, and the severity of the lockdowns they imposed exceeded anything seen in the US or UK.
If you want to call people shills, at least gives some evidence.
This sounds like an application I want to play with. Given a playlist, generate an endless tune based on remixes of all the tracks.
Has anyone noticed that NameCheap's login page makes the newsletter field get filled in when you use a password manager to autofill the login page?
Let's not forget the wonderful "we've logged you out, you can close this tab" which doesn't have a way to log back in, without re-opening the link. The flow you mentioned is similar for Google, though, and it's annoying there as well, but at least there you just get asked to type your password/2fa again when your session expires and you can get back to what you were doing.
It allows to login in only with Google. Can't use it.
Nah, I think this is a case of hindsight 20/20 — If they’d optimised for reaching a decision quickly rather than cost, that would’ve been better. Not the only mistake by the EU nations despite the lower average death count/capita than the UK, but certainly an embarrassing one.
I recall seeing a behind-the-scenes clip somewhere (perhaps on the Directors Label series that came out in the early 2000s) where Gondry talks about his brother piecing this together from video footage they'd captured. I can't find that clip but came across this very early exploration towards the final product: https://youtu.be/GF0-wGbRqEs
Teamspeak, Mumble, Discord have one advantage: They don't treat their users as idiots. You are expected to setup your microphone properly, no speakers, no adjusting your mic levels automatically. While there might be sane defaults, if you have a shitty microphone you will get less interaction.

In MS Teams, Zoom ... you are probably paid to use that software. So it unforunateley is made to be noob compatible.
Don't use docker-compose (or podman-compose), write kubernetes pod files instead! That's what we've been doing (but yes there are still some features that aren't completely compatible with that)
I don't think we need "objectively best" here—merely "subjectively best". And because each person could have their own AI DJ trained on an arbitrarily rich set of preferences and experiences from their one-person audience, we should expect that AI DJ to be subjectively the best for their respective human.

Obviously, this overlooks the shared experience element of music, but that's not so relevant in the case of online music we consume solo.
It's the same defense that got Tucker Carlson and FOX News off, so it logically should work.
There's nothing strange about this defense, it's quite literally the standard defamation defense. What's very strange is that what tentatively appears to be some sort of law journal is using such a click-bait title for a bog standard motion to dismiss a defamation complaint.

Here's the motion to dismiss, since it's not available at the link from the article: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20519858/3-22-21-...

The meat of the defamation defense is around page 27-28. The tl;dr is: Powell's statements were opinion, not fact, and she provided the factual source that she was basing her opinion on - classic free speech, classic defamation defense.

I certainly get the funny part about politicians(well, lawyers in this case) being untrustworthy, but defamation is purposefully narrow to allow more speech in the arena, not less. It's not so funny in a different case where a quack brings a defamation suit against the blogger exposing their product as bullshit, or when a giant corp decides to silence people online critiquing their awful business practices.
Because WHO/WFH has become a zero-sum political game rather than an actual debate.
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It's curious because I find it the other way. Every time I read something on WFH it's critical of it, along the refrain "it's not possible for everyone", case in point. In the real world WFH (for compatible positions) is usually not an option. Please apply the "there is no one way" to the real situation, it's not hard to find employers not considering the option even when it makes sense.
There is no silver bullet here - China is not exactly your friendly democracy.

Also beware that there are reports of China having started vaccinations long before safety and efficacy results.

The flipside of exponential growth is exponential fall: In the best case if you can eliminate all social contact for 5-14 days the virus is essentially gone. But very few Western democracies are able to agree on super strict lockdowns, and if they do, they need their neighbouring countries to follow.
Ugh. There is no real Discord alternative.

Matrix is comparatively lacking in features, tends to be somewhat slow, and is not a platform that any kid can sign up on for free and be chatting on any device within minutes.

I hope things will improve with Matrix, but for now I also hope that MS doesn't totally fuck up Discord.

Also slightly terrifying are the privacy implications. I never expected privacy with Discord, but now that MS is involved I expect that every interaction with the interface will be tracked, analyzed, and used to target ads at me. And is waiting to be exfiltrated in a data leak.
Yeah, it's all a matter of focus and when their focus is on Teams.
Ahhh yes. I loved BeOS. I remember how exciting I thought it was when it came to Intel x86, for free. As a 12 year old, I was an early promoter of platform agnosticism.

I installed it on a hand-me-down emachines, aside from figuring out some voodoo magic to get my 33K modem to work; it was a good OS. I do miss technology in the 90s.
Interestingly on March 8 vast majority of that was Pfizer.

https://telex.hu/koronavirus/2021/03/08/koronavirus-melyik-v...
Destructuring in Scala is allocation heavy, I expect it to be much lighter weight in Java.
Protein-based war planning is based on rough models of how the battle of say defending motor rifle company vs a tank regiment goes, so nothing new here.

A more fundamental challenge is about hunches the generals have about what they don't know due to always incomplete intelligence data.
I recently upgraded/switched my dev machine from a desktop (Intel NUC Hades Canyon) to a Lenovo Legion 5-15 ARH "gaming" laptop with 32GB, 2xM.2 and Ryzen 4800H (more mobile, more pandemic friendly).

It's a big laptop by XPS13 standards sure, but one that's appropriately cooled. I hadn't been aware, up to that point, how much the fans bothered me. This thing is quick but at the same time real quiet. After some time I turned the NUC on for some reason, the funs launched into overdrive and I suddenly got annoyed.
The idea of LENR is not to move hydrogen protons in a lattice, but to make it jump over imperfections, with hope that it will land into nuclei.
Gen Z struggles reported in this article have almost nothing to with remote work per se, but remote work during a pandemic crisis.
Microsoft software is a clusterfuck. The branding is very clean. It's not the marketing guys' fault that MS bought 3 different solutions to the same problem.
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>...watching crowds move to your beat is an incredible experience that is not going to be enjoyed by artificial systems...

Leving aside arguments about qualia, couldn't we just make the "crowd moving" metric part of the objective function?
I think it still carries a lot of legacy of the almost serverless original Skype. A lot of things must be fixed, but it still (I am speaking of today's version) a very solid tool, which I use daily. In addition, it offers a decently priced calling services, which I use, too - much cheaper than those of rivals and quality is great, too.
I don’t know why you presuppose the U.K. is where it would have had to be manufactured. Manufacture in the U.K. appears to have been made to happen at the insistence and investment of the U.K. government, from my recollection of a thread by an Oxford researcher involved.

There appears to be a similar deal with Novavax to setup similar domestic capacity in the UK for its vaccine.
But... they have Teams. Why?
Yup, though to nitpick, Occam's Razor actually says that the explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely the correct one. Subtle but important difference. Otherwise, /agree, especially with the media being confused.
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The US is falling apart right now and EU will soon follow.

However, once Biden passes the $3 trillion infrastructure program the positions will reverse and the USA will leave the EU in the dust.

Extreme opinion: All the printed dollars should have been put into infrastructure.
> So did the EU.

How much did they fund before the initial order? I can't seem to find a source. All the results just talk about their down payment not the initial funding like the UKs £65m. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/56483766
There were many new technologies introduced in WW1. It's common to see film footage of soldiers in France walking slowly uphill into heavy enemy machine gun fire, so tactics hadn't kept up.

Those technologies were perfected by WW2, using the Spanish War as a testing lab.

What's interesting is that barbed wire is far more resilient to explosives than you would expect. Either you blow the fence posts out of the ground, or your infantry has to spend time cutting it.
Update: My son today figured out how to go around macOS Big Sur's time limits, too - he got his first MacBook only a day ago.
Another underused language feature is the "reflect" package, which for me is the most powerful meta-programming tool that Go offers: It basically allows you to introspect data structures at runtime, in combination with struct tags (e.g. commonly used in the json package like `json:"foo"`) it becomes really really powerful. I've written automated database mapping / ORM code and struct deserialization code with it (e.g. here were we build a function that serializes arbitrary JSON-like data structures into deeply nested structs: https://github.com/kiprotect/go-helpers/blob/master/forms/co...), but you could do even more powerful things like completely automated generation of gRPC/REST interfaces at runtime.

Another interesting but underused capability are go plugins, which allow us to dynamically load external code at runtime. They are similar to DLLs but unfortunately not as powerful as they e.g. need to be compiled against the exact same Go version & runtime. We still use them at various points in our codebase (e.g. here: https://github.com/kiprotect/kodex/tree/master/plugins/write...).
I will never forget getting my Butterfly MBP repaired (within the warranty), and the Apple employee telling me it would have been $600 but they were generously doing this for free, this time.
Studying logistics since at least the world war 2 can be useful as the means of warfare have not changed significantly since then.
You don't get a userbase if you have shitty software.
He lost me very early:

"Opening bracket must be placed at the end of the line in Go. Interestingly this is not enforced by gofmt,"

Eh, no, of course it's not. It's a syntax error, fixing those are NOT the point of go fmt
I have to say I quite like Teams, and everyone around seems to, too. Although we came from Skype so might not say much.

Also I think Planner is nice! :)
The measurement from LHCb is three-sigma - meaning there is roughly a one in 1,000 chance that the measurement is a statistical coincidence.

No, that’s not what this means. But this is about one in 1,000 BBC Science articles that have repeated this confusion.

Edited to add:

What this actually means is that, conditional on the null hypothesis (that there is nothing there to find), there is a one out of 1,000 chance of seeing an observation such as this by chance.

But the BBC article has inverted this. Rather than giving you the probability of the data given the hypothesis, they're purporting to give you the probability of the hypothesis given the data (which in general cannot be objectively stated; this is a standard difficulty in the philosophy of science and statistics): "there is roughly a one in 1,000 chance that the measurement is a statistical coincidence [i.e. the null hypothesis is true and there's nothing to see here]". They make it sound like the scientists are virtually certain that they've found something here, when in reality this is probably nothing (although that's a matter of opinion).
Make part of your AI DJ a reinforcement learning agent whose reward function considers the amplitude and coherence of the movement of the crowd.

This agent would enjoy the moving crowds in a much more authentic way than a human DJ would.

I can't find it now, but there was a wearable project (I believe earrings?) which gave quantitative feedback about how a music audience were moving.
Well that's not an ISSUE with federation, that's just not how it works. What you're imagining is p2p, and there's plenty of options in that realm. Federation implies this structure inherently, in that an administrator runs an instance, and users can use THAT instance.

If you build a road on your property, you can decide who drives on it, at your own terms.

If a road is built with your contributions, there's usually a committee or collective decision apparatus that decides the rules. You don't always get your way in that case, but the road would be bigger than what you could enable on your own.

Hope this helps, love to talk more if not.