skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still use Claws Mail because I have never been able to figure out how to set Thunderbird to display emails with a consistent font size.

I've changed the advanced settings and set a minimum font size, and it has no effect. You can zoom in when you're looking at an email, but the results are inconsistent from email to email.

With Claws Mail I get the same font size every time.

If anyone knows how to set this up properly, I'd give Thunderbird a try again.
"all humans are some measure of weird, its just a question of how much, and in what way"

This is true. However, from a similar (mild form, partially dealt with) ASD observer point of view, I also noticed that the said peculiarities in one's character are like food ingredients. It's about the way one manages to blend them in a recipe and to cook them into something tasteful (for others) that makes or breaks the social connections. Having ASD is like having no smell or taste of your own and you have to rely on the observed reactions in others for measurements. Obviously, it's a challenge to be a cook in such circumstance and the best strategy (if you care) then probably is just to assume damage and operate in damage control mode all the time.
Majority of pneumonia cases are caused by bacteria though (see https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/differentiating-viral-from-bac... )
Launching the world's first AI generated news letter(https://aifeed.substack.com/). All the content is generated by AI. Subscribe and get original AI content regularly. Watch out Buzzfeed, here come the AI overlords :).

This is powered by GPT-3. I have made some custom prompts to generate the article content. But this is more of an experiment to see what kind of content can be generated and will it keep people occupied. I will be regularly updating the newsletter with content.

All the articles on the site have been generated by AI. I just gave the first line maybe and in some cases,adjusted a sentence here or there. Overall, for all the articles on the site now it took me around 20 minutes to generate.
> a) be actual businesses, accountable to the market,

Ha!

> or b) be actual government agencies, accountable through political mechanisms

Haaaaaahaha!
Your experience is irrelevant.
fun paper, particularly the git example:

All File Systems Are Not Created Equal:
On the Complexity of Crafting Crash-Consistent Applications

https://research.cs.wisc.edu/adsl/Publications/alice-osdi14....
1Password was one of my test extensions and the one I use every day. It works most of the time because username/password combos are the most common autofill configurations.

So common that most password managers don't consider the case where you want to autofill a password without a matching username field on the page. "Password confirmation" being the classic example.

They just don't handle anything other than the main case very well.
“It’s different this time.” (unknown, 2007).
I do not know WHY it is taboo. I know it is because the only official resource given for the WSL term is a code of conduct document with no further explanation. Draw your own conclusion, I ain't got more than that.
Sadly, what you say about Reuters and AP are simply not true.

And I agree, less opinion is good, especially in the once-reputable legacy mainstream media like the paper of the record, the NYT, which pushed the trump-hater Michael Steele 'pee tape' rumor (and the idea that Trump did not explicitly condemn white supremacy ) amongst others.
I'd be willing to put $5 down on a bet that it is an integer overflow somewhere in youtube's database (or a hash collision), the longer and more active you've been, the sooner this will hit.
'Old' houses in the US are different than old houses in the UK. Old in the US usually means 1930s/40s/50s and the majority of that housing stock was poorly constructed leading to the problems that @toomuchtodo alluded to. In the few places where we truly have old houses (19th century) - the North East and central parts of some cities - they do, usually, command a premium.
surprised pikachu meme
It said my IQ was 144, but I'm skeptical -- it seems to be almost entirely based on vocabulary?
This is an extremely dangerous and absolutely insane line of reasoning that is causing incredible harm to young people. You don’t have gender dysphoria because you hung out with girls as an 11 year old.
Johnny Ive is probably the best thing to Apple since Jobs. Be aware hes not doing the engineering (which is the problem in this case)
Great. Now you're trying to lump me in with "rich people" and "racists"? Do better.

> "Countries should secure vaccines for all their citizens before exporting any vaccine"

... why shouldn't they? Does a country have a duty to protect its people from harm? If my country isn't willing to put my life before everyone else in the world what's the point? And why are you drawing a line at vaccines? Why isn't Germany or France paying for minimum wage across the world? Why isn't the German army full time engaged in saving people in war-torn countries? Why isn't the E.U. giving free medicine to all people across the world?

I'm all for abolishing nation states. I get it. But let's not sit here and act like the U.S. is some big bad nationalistic monster here when you're just picking an arbitrary (and potentially convenient) line to draw.

> No.

Yes? Has Europe vaccinated all at-risk people and elderly? If not, then staunchly yes they are in fact sacrificing their own. There aren't enough vaccines to go around.

> While the US is busy putting vaccines in stockpile for 16 years olds, other nations' 90 years olds will die.

One could argue that they've lived a good life ya know? In the medical community the elderly are sacrificed to save the young all else being equal. But while the U.S. might be sacrificing 90 year olds in, idk, Thailand, the E.U. is sacrificing 90 year olds in the E.U..

> I imagine you are looking at this from the POV of someone who benefits from this

How could I not be and why would that matter? Your challenge is in the words used in the discussion. A rich person can be right about something even if they're rich.

Personally I have no illusions here. The U.S. is the giant in the room. There was no doubt in my mind that Americans were going to be vaccinated and vaccinated above all others in the world. It's exactly how a nation state operates. I wouldn't expect a nation state to sacrifice its own citizens for others in a scenario like this, though that hasn't always been the case.

Why is China vaccinating 74 million of its own people? Why aren't they sending those vaccines to North Korea or Venezuela? So nationalistic!
Some states only require the _owner_ of the device to consent to being recorded.

I hope that's the law everywhere (especially private property) or else security cameras could not exist be legal.
Our highways are free for everyone to use and maintained using tax money. It's not inconceivable that housing could work the same way.
So it seems! So, yes, that's a nice bonus if it gets authorized here.
> Honest question: What are these people actually doing?

at least they are not doing what gmail engineers are doing and changing the interface every few months for no good reason...
This is not a SaaS; this is an application built and distributed to more than 20 million people on their own machines, with different hardware, operating systems, installed software, different filesystems, upgrades, behind firewalls or weird networking, interacting with email providers and their particularities...
Where are you getting 3% back on all transactions?
>"The US used the national defense production act to block any export of BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine produced in the US to other countries"

This is false. The DPA was invoked in order to a) block the export of certain raw materials in order to prioritise local production of vaccines and b) to compel drugmaker Merck to help produce its competitor Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine.[1] It does not block the export of vaccines. The White House clarified this last week as well.

[1] https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2021/03/02/biden-administrati...
My bank set up a free sub-account with its own debit card that I use exclusively for online transactions.

I keep a small amount of cash in it at any time, and then do an instant transfer from my main account as needed for larger purchases. If that CC# were to get hacked, it would be annoying but not catastrophic.

Inconvenience level is pretty minimal and it’s served me pretty well.
Mine clears the clipboard after 10 seconds.
The reason I believe most people don’t love their jobs is because people rarely donate to charity, refuse to give money to pan handlers and hate paying taxes. There is a feeling that you are “sacrificing” your life (you’d rather be doing something else) when you go to work and you cling to the money you earn for your “sacrifice”.

Now imagine you got paid for running, reading, watching Netflix or sleeping. Something you really enjoy. I think we would see more people dropping a homeless man a $5’er thinking I’m planning to run/read/sleep later anyways. There is no sacrifice to get that money back. It was what I would have done anyways.

Edit: now that I think about it, social status probably keeps people clinging to that money.
Cash buyer often means just waiving financing contingencies, not having actual cash.
No, because climate change is made up of dynamic, layered, cyclical activity and influenced by volcanism (and stratospheric SO2 injections in particular), solar activity, cosmic rays, aerosol emission from humans, forests, and volcanoes, geothermal influence on sea temps (ENSO, AMO, PDO, etc), geomagnetic activity, orbital cycles, axial precession, albedo, and cloud cover.

What does it mean to even "reverse" a non-linear dynamic system that is unpredictable in its thrashing as an exponential function of time? Reverse it to what? The 1960-1990 average and hold it there? Good luck.
> I'm not sure I fully understand the rationale behind this lawsuit.

The lawsuit itself is clear as to the rationale. [0]

> What's the ground for the class action ?

There are several.

> Did Apple make any misleading presentation ?

As alleged, yes, both about the product itself and what Apple would do if there was a problem (given that failing to uphold the explicit warranty in good faith is one of the claims.)

[0] https://www.girardsharp.com/assets/htmldocuments/2018-10-10%...
Any source on that? Genuinely curious as I seem to have completely forgotten about the early videos from china until now and what they pictured was very at odds with what we now know the virus can do.

Wouldn't everything you described happen gradually? as in people wouldn't be able to walk normally before reaching the point where they drop dead from oxygen levels low enough to be immediately lethal? From my own experience and based on what I've read, covid can cause a quick deterioration in respiratory function but across at least hours or days.

The videos also pictured people that weren't really showing any trouble breathing, it felt more like the plague than any respiratory illness. But maybe the videos were meant as "PSA's" for local consumption to get people to treat the disease more seriously? Because they were really over the top
This is what I was going to comment. Aside from all the tools like weather, converters, timers, etc..., google has even gotten good at pulling content out of articles so you don't need to click. It displays it in the search results.

For instance, searching something like "what is the most common car color" shows me an exerpt of the answer from a article on automobilemag.com without having to click and read the whole thing.

5-7 years ago, I would've had to click and skim through an article.

Moreover, Google compiles independent lists of their own. Searching "what animals mate for life" or "movies tomorrow cruise has been in" will pull up an interactive list. No click-through required.
I have a vague impression that there is generally a low barrier to calling yourself a salesperson. Like, if you are going to make your money on commission, there's no need for gatekeeping as is expected for a salaried job.

When I've been unemployed, I've gotten solicitations that are crafted to sound like a "real" job, but are actually sales, and it doesn't appear they care about qualifications at all. I assume you sell stuff or you don't.

And real estate agents I've met are very...variable.
This calls out a really interesting extrapolation of privacy laws that have existed for many years.

For a long time, I (as a human) have permission to watch people around me.

I also have the legal right to record what is happening around me (many states only require one people to be aware of recording activities)

I also have the legal right to record YOU, assuming we are in a location where I can lawfully stand. And I can tell other people what I saw.

Now, I can put a camera somewhere, record EVERYONE, track people, and sell that tracking information.

All because we didn't anticipate the computing potential to record and process EVERYTHING.
You should add this here [1] too.

[1] - https://superuser.com/questions/181517/how-to-execute-a-comm...
I think it’s more telling them to learn to mod their favourite game instead: technically it does solve it, but it’s not even in the same universe when it comes to complexity and time investment
It's important to distinguish between "excessive executive pay" and "corruption" (bribery).

Excessive executive pay is common in private firms, of course, but in that case, the shareholders have some incentive to ask the CEO to take a pay cut and hand the money back to shareholders. As a result, we don't regard it as "corruption" when the CEO convinces the board of directors to raise executive pay. The shareholders may be acting wisely or foolishly, but it's "their money" to waste.

But in public organizations like these, with significant revenues (FIFA and IOC make most of their money from selling broadcasting rights, etc.; Nominet makes their money from domain registration fees), nobody's incentivized to keep executive pay low, but we all find it morally disgusting when they keep a lot of money that "should" have been used to promote the public good.

See also Mozilla's executive leadership. Mozilla makes their money from Google. Mozilla is "supposed" to use that money to continue its mission, ("We're building a better internet, ensurig the internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all") but when Mitchell Baker takes home $2.4m in salary, there's nobody with skin in the game to say "no, that money should go back to Mozilla so we can use it to build a better internet."

Your suggestion to set up an auditor/oversight board is what causes the bribery. IOC has an ethics committee, but their skin isn't in the game either, so it's easy to offer them bribes to look the other way, allowing executives and the ethics committee to take their cut.
If you look at the video of them clicking autocomplete it autofills both the amount field and the proper year field (even formatted to YY)
Spark Capital Cuts Ties with Dispo One Month After $20M Investment
> And, to exaggerate, people won‘t forget if their grandma died of COVID while college kids were vaccinated in the US.

Likewise, Americans who pay taxes and live in America and expect America to defend them and guard their welfare and safety won't forget if their college kid dies of COVID-19 because the government shipped vaccines overseas and they couldn't get one.

If you don't like that and want to criticize the nation state system ok that's fine. Start with some other country like China, or Brazil, or Israel. People won't forget that China already vaccinated 74 million of its own people when people in (insert country) died!
I don't believe the Air got rid of the Touch Bar -- it never had it. It was only on the Pro. What's so "Pro" about replacing the useful function keys (including the escape key) with a bar that does nothing but pick emojis is beyond me.

I strongly dislike the Touch Bar. I'm typing this on a 2019 MacBook Pro whose Touch Bar died yesterday, leaving me with no escape key, no volume buttons, no keyboard brightness buttons, and no play/pause button -- leaving me to do all of those in software -- including escape.

I never found a single useful purpose for the Touch Bar's main mode, so from about two weeks after I bought it, it's been set to simply show function keys ("expanded control strip"). This means I have function keys that accidentally activate when I'm trying to type numbers, that timeout and disappear to save battery, that can't be 'hovered' (touching without pressing) and that have no tactile feedback, slowing you down by forcing you to look away from the screen. And now - I've lost the entire row.
House prices are usually tied to income levels by 3x income. This is about what people can afford if it drive past this you have a bubble.
https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-inco...
Look at where we are now.

Housing is a decent hedge against inflation but not the great investment make it out to be unless you’re a landlord. The truth is there is a lot of upkeep and if housing prices rise you will have to pay the same as your sale when you sell. It’s great if you’re downsizing, or moving from an expensive city to a rural spot, but if you’re just changing locales you have to eat the transaction cost.
AFAIK there is only one state with single party consent.
Z3 – ZFS to S3 Backup/Restore Tool
Its a nice intro to Urbit also
One other underappreciated point is how to deal with other resources besides memory.

Go has a GC, which helps with memory, but you're entirely on your own for files, sockets, database connections, mutexes, channels, etc.

The features that Rust uses for memory management are fully general-purpose, and also help you with safely handling all other kinds of resources.

Consider how many ways you can misbehave with a Mutex in Go that are all caught by rustc at compile-time. This has nothing to do with memory management, but the same thing that prevents use-after-free is what also prevents using a mutex-protected value after releasing the lock.
Excellent comment. Bookmarking this & stealing for future references. Thanks Dang for such insightful comments. It’s refreshing.
Protip: remap capslock to escape. It's supported in the OS settings.
It's definitely not Substack's fault. They presented the user a form to fill, the user used some tool to fill it and it failed.

Whether Substack should keep the money is a matter of goodwill, it's no different from the user fat-fingering an extra zero.
Funnily, there is also a language with Ruby syntax, but for Erlang VM, called Elixir.
Amen! There doesn't even need to be an explicit motive driving the colonization, rather just an influx of people from the bigcorps who can't imagine a world without the bigcorp authoritarianism they've thrived in.

There is an overwhelming number of them due to the profitability of the surveillance industry. They're focused on source availability rather than software freedom, because that matches the business model of their employers. And their coup is couched in the language of progress, so it's easier to just go along with at first.

I don't know how to push back, except for publishing your own projects such that you can't get doxxed, avoiding middlemen like Github, developing technology that isn't interesting to authoritarians, etc. For the greater landscape, Corporate HR seems here to stay.

Personally, RMS bugs me because he seems to miss the forest for the trees on some things. But this doesn't mean I think the organization RMS founded needs a new leader, rather it means I need to do the work of convincing others where he is wrong. And I'd be lucky if I accomplish one tenth of what RMS has.
If they wanted the business to grow, perhaps reinvesting the multiple millions of dollars they were paying themselves back into expanding the business would have been a prudent choice.

You pay yourself in excess when you think your business's ROIC will be poor/risky or your tenure will be short. These folks are either not very smart or just hypocrites.
Substack. A payment form should NOT allow you to enter any price in text fields, hidden or not.
The weak SNR ratio would lead one to believe that the results are bullshit, no?
I am fairly sure that some places do not, but consent is implicitly obtained through signage.
There is direct evidence of a similar disease outbreak in 2012 among miners who came in contact with bats in caves. Maybe even the same disease. It was being studied in the Wuhan lab.

The theory that there must be intermediate hosts is attempting to fit the natural origin theory to the evidence, not the other way around. It is perfectly capable of jumping straight to humans, but there is no way for it to make that jump in Wuhan at that time so therefore it must have come through another species. That’s the logic.
I used to support a call center. One of the things we did was monitor that the call agents gave the disclosure for each call. One sticky point was that if we had to get a 2 borrower on the line, we had to give the disclosure AGAIN.

Each person you talk to needs to hear the disclosure.
A similar podcast, Malicious Life, just released a two-part episode about it too:

https://malicious.life/episode/episode-106/
Yev here -> we've published a blog post that has our findings thus far, we're still investigating and will be updating that post: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/privacy-update-third-party-tr....
It was half a year earlier iirc.
Another hypothesis: Oxford was originally going to partner with Merck [1] but there were no supply guarantees in that contract. AstraZeneca was willing to give guarantees and run production in the UK, so the UK government leaned on Oxford and had them partner with the more agreeable supplier.

[1] https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-rejected-contracts-and-a...
Vesuvius killed people of Pompeii in 15 minutes, study suggests
Simple Tools to Track Time for Small Business Owners
How were these images obtained? Are they all from missile testing sites, using dummy vehicles? Or are some of them from actual battle?
I don’t think this is true? I recall an infographie from before vaccines had been deployed anywhere which showed where all of the countries were sourcing their vaccines from, in what quantities, etc, and I believe Canada was buying all sorts of vaccines so they would have much redundancy in case problems arose with any of them.
Go is simple in the very same way that Tetris is simple. It can be taught quickly, it is easy to make mistakes, and when manipulated by a skilled operator, is absolutely beautiful.

Other languages are simple in the same way that landing a rover on Mars is simple: not simple at all. Every caveat I listed for Go and Tetris also applies to these other languages.

So, all other things being equal, Go's simplicity wins, for me.
yeah that was the problem for me. I know for a fact that my score would have been much higher if it tested grammar.
So why the UK/US numbers are way ahead of EU?
Literally seeing the bits in your original article was a revelatory experience. Sometimes things are easier to understand when looking at earlier, historical technology.

That linked article is also excellent. So exciting to see a visual analysis translate into a hexadecimal file!
Working from home. I will no longer work for companies that don’t allow me to work most days from home. Commuting is a pain and a waste of time.
FWIW: https://recordinglaw.com/party-two-party-consent-states/
Tell BoJack! You've solved the drug problem in America!
That's what I've done, but I hate having to adjust my typing habit. It's annoying enough that thanks to the touch bar I'm now incapable of typing escape on any other computer (because I'm in the habit of merely touching escape, not pushing it), now I have to adjust again and I'm going to be in the habit of pushing caps lock.
Sitting on the couch with my wife after a long day of work.
how did you get access to GPT-3? I applied like a year ago and still haven't heard anything.