skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm the first who is very critical of online Americentrism, but this tweet is virtually the opposite.

It is raising an issue that is a problem in the US as compared to most, if not all, of the developed World that many ordinary Americans are probably unaware of—precisely because of their US-centric cultural isolation.
>"There is a one in 1,000 chance that the measurement is a statistical coincidence", grammatically, presumes the measurement which did in fact occur and says something about the chance that a statistical coincidence did, in fact, happen. It's P(hypothesis | data). This is a classic no-no in science writing.
>"There is a one in 1,000 chance that the measurement would arise by statistical coincidence" uses the subjunctive, (implicitly) presuming a hypothesis and saying something about the chance that, under that hypothesis, such a measurement as occurred would occur. It's P(data | hypothesis).

I now see your criticism and I agree the subjunctive is much clearer. I guess my brain just converts the other wording into yours whenever I read text like that.
But if my dataset is not encrypted already (legacy dataset), it will not be encrypted?
OLED Nintendo Switch reportedly uses new Nvidia chip with DLSS support
I’d also heard something like this during my physics education - you’re not alone apparently. One name was apparently more ‘respectable’ than the other. Lol
half the times people say something is impossible here on HN, what they're actually meaning is "it's not economically viable" or "doesn't make sense from a business perspective". It is not that that modular phone couldn't be built, it is that you couldn't make it in a way that made business sense for Google. There is lot of great tech there which is not used in products because of similar reasons.
Sounds like you got triggered as well into making a comment? Maybe it's best to give OP the benefit of the doubt.
Build a SaaS, product or company with $21,600 in MRR.

Or earn $135/hour for 8 hours, 5 days a week.
I am all in for anything that makes people read, but I am not sure how useful it is for people who want nothing to do with Twitter, which from the link is not clear if you can use this tool without a twitter account.

Best of luck
The official report isn't complete yet, but at the press conference, it was clearly stated that the team as a whole viewed a lab leak as extremely unlikely. More recent statements from team members have elaborated that that was a unanimous judgment of the scientists on the team.
While I also like the idea of choice for people on either side of the spectrum I feel being remote while part of your team/company is not puts you at a severe disadvantage. Both in the sense of being involved in new projects and ideas and visibility compared to peers.

I'm curious to see how this hybrid approach plays out in the future.
Never heard of uBlock I suppose, poor lad.
Biploar Guy's Diary
We never understood why the where using packet radio as you say in 1999 ip via ISDN would have been fine.

Its complicated by at the time the total lock on ticket booking systems cinema and theatre by a particular company - who wanted 1/4 mill plus to update the system.

It was an interesting project I had to get cover from a v senior manger to investigate how to break into NT.
And you were planning on emailing the rest of your customers? Finding out because of a Tuesday blog post on HN is a bad look for your company...
My brain does too, but I fear the average layperson won't know to do this and will come away from the article thinking there's been a real discovery here.
Wouldn't a tar / zip / whatever suffer from the same exact problem of making a corrupted backup if the filesystem returns the wrong data?
Not quite. This works:

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But that is a very long winded way of writing:

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which is long way of writing:

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3 sigma is termed "evidence" in particle physcis (while "discovery" is reserved for 5 sigma) and is often enough to get people interested. Keep in mind that these are just numbers and must be interpreted in context. There have been tensions in various heavy flavour measurements for a looong time and across multiple experiments. It is very plausible that this is where we'll finally see new physics at the LHC. So it is worth serious consideration.

The super-luminous neutrinos had 6 sigma significance and still no one took it seriously because it was simply such a ridiculous claim. Obviously the number of zeros in your p-value don't mean a damn if you haven't plugged in your equipment correctly!
Some of us long abandoned social media for our "peace of mind" so if you could avoid making them as "login gateaway" then that would be great. Maybe email is fine. Any way all the best :)
If Haiku had KMS/DRM ported from OpenBSD, it would be my second installed OS alongside OpenBSD.
Can we seek compensation from China?
This is a very narrow view. The U.K. has made sure there are international supply chains to distribute the Oxford vaccine, and far more of that is being supplied internationally than the entirety of doses exported from the EU.

I think your 50% figure is also too high, though it is a high proportion, but these doses are primarily going to wealthy countries.

If the EU were asking for U.K. doses to be routed to other (particularly poorer) countries I would be sympathetic to the position, but this spat is about getting the EU doses, not about equitable access.
On point 4 - I do think it’s tempting to say “we used to do it this way at my old place, and it was much better”. I call it “at my old place” syndrome.

However, if you never take your learnings from place to place, that’s also pretty useless isn’t it?

I think it’s more about how you communicate those learnings. Perhaps start by not suggesting they are better, just that you’ve also seen it done a different way in the past (I.e. avoid “at my last place...”) and you’re wondering why we do it this way instead. People are going to be much more receptive to not opening with “I know better”, especially because when you do it this way you often find they’ve already tried it the way that your previous place did it and it didn’t work for them for very straightforward reasons.
Everytime an engineer tries to push slack on a consultant all they see is a new interface, shit loads of noise, gifs etc (cultural issue rather than tech stack obviously) and no real extra benefit vs the cost of learning something new when what you have today ticks all the boxes.

I also use both as I'm a partner on the engineering side of the business but also run a large consulting pod - I really don't care which one anyone uses. I don't personally see Slack being better 'enough' to justify the effort of switching for those that are already on teams.
I see a lot of comments blaming either substack or 1password, but to me it seems the archaic transaction method of credit cards deserves most of the blame for these kinds of problems.

If the transaction authentication takes place on a separate page hosted by your own bank (so after the amount has been finalised) these kinds of mistakes can't happen. Unless the user neglects to look at the shown amount, but then the user is clearly at fault.
What I’ve found is that I really enjoy going to the office, as long as the majority of my co-workers are not there.

Now that nobody comes into the office due to COVID, I can finally get something done there, and the view is fantastic. But a little while ago, when 4 people came into the office on the same day, I very quickly found myself longing for home, even though that’s still less than 4% capacity.
Has Mr Doctorow ever visited the DACH region?
110Mbps down/20 up, 50ms. Not bad for the price - maybe FttH is a myth after all.
I grew up in bumblefuck Maine, and we had cable TV run in the 90s, with cable internet since at least the early 2000s. My parents get close to 500 mb/s now on their basic package from Spectrum.

I suspect that being far enough out from Portland and Bangor that over-the-air TV never worked well was a bonus for getting cable built out.
Sending campaign flow would create tens of thousands records on DB. After each record insertion, there was a sleep(0.1) - in place to solve problems related to master/slave setup in other flows - just conditionally disabling the sleep was enough to reduce the procedure time from ~5min to ~30 secs
Is end-to-end encryption in Discord even feasable? Discord is massively multipler text, audio, and video chat - end to end encrypting that is very hard, no?
Some is nice, up until the gratuitous references to christian religion. Lots of asceticism and charity, which is very not social by nature. Importantly there is almost nothing on evilness of power structures (how surprising). My personal take on it:

1. snip (cult)
2. Then, love your neighbor as yourself.
3. Do not murder.
4. snip (patriarchy)
5. Do not steal. [meh: unconditional private property is immoral quite often]
6. Do not covet.
7. Do not bear false witness.
8. Honor all people.
9. Do not do to another what you would not have done to yourself.
10. snip (cult)
11. snip (cult)
12. Do not become attached to pleasures. [meh: asceticism]
13. Love fasting. [meh: asceticism]
14. Relieve the poor. [meh: charity, what made them poor?]
15. Clothe the naked. [meh: charity]
16. Visit the sick. [meh: charity]
17. Bury the dead. [meh: charity]
18. Be a help in times of trouble.
19. Console the sorrowing.
20. Be a stranger to the world's ways. [meh: definitely not in the way intended]
21. snip (cult)
22. Do not give way to anger.
23. Do not nurse a grudge.
24. Do not entertain deceit in your heart.
25. Do not give a false peace.
26. Do not forsake charity.
27. Do not swear, for fear of perjuring yourself.
28. Utter only truth from heart and mouth.
29. Do not return evil for evil.
30. Do no wrong to anyone, and bear patiently wrongs done to yourself.
31. Love your enemies.
32. Do not curse those who curse you, but rather bless them.
33. Bear persecution for justice's sake. [meh: martyr and asceticism]
34. Be not proud.
35. Be not addicted to wine. [meh: (social) disease]
36. Be not a great eater. [meh: asceticism]
37. Be not drowsy.
38. Be not lazy.
39. Be not a grumbler.
40. Be not a detractor.
41. snip (cult)
42. snip (cult)
43. Recognize always that evil is your own doing, and to impute it to yourself.
44. snip (cult)
45. snip (cult)
46. snip (cult)
47. Keep death daily before your eyes.
48. Keep constant guard over the actions of your life.
49. snip (cult)
50. snip (cult)
51. snip (cult)
52. snip (cult)
53. Do not love much talking.
54. Speak no useless words or words that move to laughter.
55. Do not love much or boisterous laughter.
56. snip (cult)
57. snip (cult)
58. snip (cult)
59. snip (chastity)
60. snip (authority)
61. snip (cult)
62. snip (cult)
63. snip (chastity)
64. Hate no one.
65. Be not jealous, nor harbor envy.
66. Do not love quarreling.
67. Shun arrogance.
68. Respect your seniors. [meh: conservatism, authority]
69. Love your juniors.
70. snip (cult)
71. Make peace with your adversary before the sun sets.
72. snip (cult)

The good parts are imho pretty simple: be honest and transparent in your actions, loving of fellow sensible beings, forgo revenge, greed and manipulation and brutality, criticize yourself and pardon others (hello Postel!). As i said above, this is a moral philosophy for individuals and doesn't say much about social structures, which is a big shortcoming imho. Eg, "recognize groups of differing interests and negotiate with honesty and utilitarianism", "refuse to represent your peers unless they insist forcefully"...
When I worked as a freelance webdeveloper a few years ago I always asked a designer to make a design and talk to the client about it. Then i got the design an it would take the sass or less code of bootstrap and change all the variables to match the color and look. Then i would copy and past something together that roughly looks likt the design and i would add custom css and javascript to make it look exactly how the design was.

So my advice would be start with an design or idea and after that is done start coding.
That's not even a close comparison. Humans make CGI, it's still directed and created by humans. The real comparison would be seeing if people would accept that movies aren't written and directed by humans anymore.

Music outside of pop gains popularity through grass roots popularity contests essentially. Then in Top 40 people care way more about the personalities than the music, you could probably sneak some AI music in there but you would still need the singer to sing.

Music is very often a cult of personality thing, even outside of pop. In those arenas authenticity is really important, someone not even making their music would be outed pretty quick.

Some examples of what I mean:
People go to clubs to hear DJs play, because they perceive the DJ to be generating the atmosphere. You couldn't get people to pay a cover charge to see that DJ's mix play without them present, even though it's technically very easy and would be exactly the same music.

Similarly, you can't get people to go to a concert of a recording of a band, that would be lame. People want the band.
Thanks for clarifying, glad to be wrong about this one. Would you happen to know if this was true at some point?
From 2017. You're supposed to add the date in the title, if it's an old article.
Same case in Australia I guess? India on the other hand has leap frogged many developed countries here. Fiber to home with unlimited data is quite reasonable.
I went to the website and my first reaction was literally "wtf is that shit?"

Why should I drop discord?
Why should I create an account?
Why should I download the app and not test in browser?

Even at the bottom:
> Ready to try Guilded?
> It's easy and free.

If there is a try, there is a catch. (maybe not but on the web it's implied nowadays)

This is not appealing at all.

I'm pretty sure the product is good but your "marketing" sounds completely off to me.
I've been a happy Backblaze B2 user for the past few months, but this and another recent event leaves me feeling like I'll have to abandon their service (or at least mirror everything to S3 just-in-case) soon. Recent event being when GoDaddy suspended their user-facing B2 domain a month ago because of abuse requests that were apparently not handled correctly. That and the fact that they still don't have a user-facing status dashboard to communicate the status of their systems has me worried.
Doesn't that only encrypt the data, leaking stuff like filenames, or has that been mitigated?
That there aren't enough people that want the vaccine is a meme. There's lots and lots of people waiting for a chance to get it. Number of willing people is not a limiting factor, and won't be for a long time. And it's effing insulting to hear people parrot "Oh Germans don't want to be vaccinated" when at the same time nearly everyone around you is struggling to get an appointment for elderly/vulnerable relatives and would jump at a chance to get it themselves but will have to wait months to even be considered.

(and re numbers, since the 17th Germany has administered 1.2 million vaccinations, "unused" vaccinations can be reserved second doses, ... I certainly won't claim that this is all running perfectly, but any suggestion that more vaccine available wouldn't be used just doesn't make any sense)
One was familiar, but i shazamed them to be sure, worked surprisingly well
To me it looked like a demoscene clip.
They did not warn that the lab was dangerous or in any way poorly run. That's the spin that Josh Rogin has repeatedly tried to put on the diplomatic cables. The actual cables (written by diplomats, not experts) merely stated that a lab which had not yet opened did not yet have enough trained staff to operate at full capacity. The cables said that in order to ask the US government to continue its training program for staff at the lab. The cables actually complain that the Chinese government's safety regulations are too strict - not allowing the lab to work with Ebola.
> Software Industry is a young industry and complex, like any other profession, and a developer need to think about lots of other things as well, not just the language and possible pattern/syntaxes it has to keep up with!

Looks like you’ve chosen the wrong profession
Here’s an idea - try to allow the worker to work where they feel happiest and most productive.

Have a decent office for those who like going in, and allow some to work remotely.
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I think they're distinguishing between "how quickly acceleration changes" and "how smoothly acceleration changes".
Hi, which source are you using?

https://about.gitlab.com/atom.xml currently shows 13.10 as the second entry.
I suspect with some startups is to do with the ecosystem. At first glance it makes no sense your tiny no-name startup adopts a FAANG interview process; it's like running a US Marine bootcamp for your local cub scouts. However the best realistic (non-unicorn) outcome for a VC-backed startup is a FAANG aquihire, and the acqusition process may depend on the pedigree of your engineers and their ability to pass a leetcode interview as part of some pre-acquisition technical audit. Things like being able to execute on good architecture and design and overall code quality - the mark of experienced developers as opposed to newly-minted CS grads - are of lesser importance, as the product itself will probably be quietly shelved in a year. In other words the FAANGs see the startup ecosystem as a cheap recruitment funnel, so it makes sense for founders to optimize their interviewing process around that.
The problem is that this is a too rational theory. Not enough of a conspiracy (these people prefer to think it was released on purpose to control global population etc). The other end of the spectrum the rationalists and scientists fear that they may go down a slippery conspiracy slope so they dismiss it the first moment another fellow scientist says so. Then the politicians don't want this hot potato in their hands, it could cause global wars economic or otherwise and half the planet resenting the other.
> inability to conceive of a robust private demand for launches.

If the money used in public launches is redirected to development of more/better payloads, then the number of launches can increase.

One of the reasons building a spacecraft is so expensive is because they need to be designed to be extremely light because launching is expensive and extremely reliable because they won't be cheaply replaced. If launching gets cheap, we can reduce the cost of development a payload and increase the iteration pace, which is much like the SpaceX approach to fail cheaply and quickly.
This and also some interview with Neil Gaiman where he talks about how he has to invent strategies to make himself write are a great confirmations that I am on a right path in my creative endeavours.

It is easy to start rationalizing, that when you get to the point in the process where you "suffer" or loose all your interest (the grind starts), that it is due to the activity not being "it" - your passion. I dont believe this is the case. Its just the plateau which every artists experience once in a while.

I have to keep reminding myself about this. Great artistic outcomes are result of hard work which does not have to be pleasurable all the time.
I just did an online chat with Apple to get my keyboard replaced due to similar issues. It’s out of warranty but they said they’ll do it for free for up to four years after the date of retail sale...I happened to be exactly, to the day, four years from when I bought it! Make sure you get it done before then!
Remember The USA doesn't even have LLU.

To be honest FTC (Fiber to CAB) and VDSL for the local drop (35 - 70 MBS is 10x better than almost all US subs get access to.

And very few consumers need (or want to pay for) FTP
I'm not sure, but I think there needs to be something that can hold such people to account when they embark upon a very well funded political and legal campaign to undermine democracy as they did, slinging mud in every possible direction and making up all sorts of heinous crap.

In this case a business has been materially harmed by her actions, actions which cannot have been taken in good faith (I realise we're straying into the territory of my opinions here). I think at the very least she should lose her license to practice law, and should forfeit any money made from her campaign of disinformation. She effectively weaponised her standing as a lawyer to sway public opinion, where she failed to make any progress in court.

I also think there's a difference when someone like Powell does this, in association with a political candidate, and when some whackaloon blogger makes claims.

> How would you tackle this problem?

I'll agree it's tough, and that's one great reason I'm not a legislator :)

I think there needs to be more emphasis on "loser pays" in the US. From what I understand that's quite rare. I agree that can often have unintended side effects, which is why I don't think it should be applied blanket-fashion (and why I think the "costs set at £1" rulings in UK law are a good thing).

But a generic solution? No idea. Perhaps the 'right' laws in this area don't exist yet, and it's quite hard to see what they might be.
Some points to add:

- As soon as I start a Videocall, the rest of the Application is almost completely unusable
- The Application uses 500MB of RAM after it has been idling with one message received in the last hour
I had fibre to the curb in QLD and fibre to the node in Sydney. Was the fastest broadband I've ever experienced!
One does not protect one's customer privacy by asking if it can be violated, often using dark patterns.
It's currently only at the top-level package level, and so the data is simply taken from the package manager.

I want it to go one level deeper (we use dh-virtualenv to put several Python packages into one Debian package, but that's only done in a very small part of the company).

Of course then there could be C libraries packaged with the Python libraries packaged in a Debian repository, so we'd need another level eventually...
In Major cities and middle class areas possibly but I doubt rural connectivity gets FTP
Is crazy that Microsoft had an app chat for years (Messenger not exactly the same) that basically died and now they are buying another chat app for 10b!

Not to forget what a mess they have done with Skype UX.
Integer overflow is defined behaviour however, so we can provide library types which are checked. And since D's templates are very clean to define they are easy to use.

The null pointer thing is true however all the other mechanisms mentioned do help eliminate bumping into them, and there will be more on the way.

If you want to provide the null checks yourself D has Ada-style contract programming too.
Get off your high horse please. Many folks enjoy a social component while being productive instead of being a drone for 8 hours every day.
I applaud the crystal team. They've taken a lot of good ideas from other languages and left the bad ones. Not an easy task to pull off!

I couldn't find this with a casual Google search, but will they be developing a formal language spec? Is love to see a Graal, JVM, or LLVM target for Crystal eventually!
I'm living in Germany, and coming from NZ (where we have fairly universal 1Gbps FTTH) it has certainly been a big step down, but it can't compare to some of the insanity that my US friends deal with.
gluten free, too
> You can probably use the Ive/Jobs combination to describe evolution. Ive was the mutation source, Jobs was the selection filter.

So they were a kind of a subtractive synthesizer, one could say.
What I would do for cross-platform voice chat with Playstation. I held a small amount of hope for Discord coming to Playstation (and Xbox), but I guess that's gone now.
Possibly using this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing

I think a lot of implementations don't do anything clever and just have a fixed set of combinations they use each time, so the number of stored hashes is smaller.