skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the article is talking about his completely unprofessional attacks against grad students, which are completely unacceptable even if he is countering the liars. This has little to do with going against the consensus.

We've also had about a 0.17% death rate assuming literally every person in the US has gotten covid, which is obviously not true. That makes a 0.2% IFR just clearly impossible.
sharp eyes!
This is an interesting take on the problems with science communication. I also think that saying "I/We were wrong" is likely to be used to ignore science. IMHO the message should be "We have new information that changes our understanding". One major issue is not only the perception of the honesty and humility of science but the problem that many of the people who are likely deny that science changes are ripe with confirmation bias and belief perseverance. There should be more research done on those two topics to learn how to minimize the negative consequences those two phenomena have on the world.
> Because if it's a one time fee, there will be no recurring income and the developer will have to stop development.

Here's a crazy idea in 2020: That's totally fine. There's a point where adding more features becomes a negative ROI. That's when you know you need to move on solving a different problem. That's the alternative.
>A 4 core i7 CPU

What year do you live in? These days even i3s come with 4 cores.
The sentiment certainly isn’t original. The phrasing sounds like me, though. I can get pretty pedantic.
For places humans have dammed a river, a fish ladder can be installed to let fish continue to swim upstream: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_ladder. I wonder why that's not used here.

Perhaps it's related to this being a _lock_, not a dam. In addition to having water loss from the lock, the middle part of the lock goes up and down, so you'd have to have separate fish ladders for each part.

For the most fun fish transport I've seen, check out the Salmon Cannon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nopg9JSTTzg and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGzdOpCisnQ. It uses a pressurized tube to transfer salmon from the low to high side. In the second video, the distance is over a kilometer.
Ouch.

It seems like the way to reduce risk would be interchangeable parts from multiple suppliers?
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I think if machines are treated like single purpose cattle then environmental variables are fine.

But for a single system with lots of different applications and functionality going on, you kind of run into the same problem as you have with mutable global variables.
Wow this is great!
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1. Any elements of the law which make voter fraud less likely are good.

2. Any elements of the law which unnecessarily make it more difficult to vote -- where elements in support of No. 1 are NOT deemed unnecessary -- are bad.

Having a limited number of drop boxes and a narrow time window are the aspects of this law which reflect bad faith. Requiring verification of identity is reasonable.
The point is getting someone to read the article doesn't make a headline "good", it just means someone read the article.

You could have a "good" headline that catches the attention of a large number of people who don't really care, or a "bad" headline which catches the attention of a small number of people to whom the article is very relevant and really care.

Which do you want to optimize for?
>> Java has all methods virtual and testing could be done without requiring the interface.

Not sure what you mean by that. I thought that interface/implementation divide is the way to implement virtual calls. Unless you want testing frameworks to do bytecode instrumentation.
I find the opposite. Most places I've worked have offered to expense dev tools.
> Unfortunately, there are some types of cervical cancer that are not caused by HPV, but rather by underlying bad luck with genetics.

Can we fix that last bit with CRISPR?
Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J used a prefusion-stabilized version of the spike protein; AZ used the wild spike protein. The former should prove more effective against variants as a result.

https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/vaccines/tiny-tweak-behi...
The old chestnut that Python is executable pseudocode and Perl is executable line noise is relevant, though they each have their pain points.
Standard Notes is an amazing app and it was actually our first inspiration in creating a privacy-focused note-taking app.

Security & encryption wise, both apps use the same encryption algorithms, afaik.

However, Standard Notes is expensive ($9/m) whereas Notesnook is only $4.49/mo.

Notesnook's organization is more flexible; it has tags, colors, notebooks & topics. In comparison, Standard Notes only offers colors and tags.

Notesnook's mobile app experience is almost the same as the web verison. There's almost 1:1 feature parity. Whereas in Standard Notes, the mobile version lacks many of the main features.

We also have more export options (you can export notes as pdf, html, md or txt). On the mobile app, there's also Quick Share that allows you to share any text or link directly into the app without switching contexts (apps).
One thing to remember is that the most appealing headlines to the audience may have not changed, rather the frequency of titles containing the top clicked metric may have changed over time.

eg. More headlines may be using the number 10 than 4, so 10 is more likely to be the most trending headline.

Similarly, in the lottery, the frequency of winners who picked their own number is dependent on the frequency of people picking their own number.
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In the text-only browser I use I disable dns-prefetch by editing the source code. It may be possible to disable dns-prefetch in Firefox through configs.^1 Good luck with other browsers.

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You make a valid statement, but it doesn't appear to valid in this case. I don't think the demographics of this platform fall under that umbrella. If someone on here is asking for more information and articulating their reasons for it well, there's no reason to hide it. There's also an equal risk that if people don't know enough about the vaccines, they won't get any of them at all let alone deciding which to get. Seldom is it that I believe withholding information will have a better effect than being adequately transparent; keyword here being adequate because you still need to explain and emphasize strongly in plain English why it would be detrimental to wait it out.

Treating people like idiots yields worse results than making them believe they're intelligent (be it true or not). You can look at our political landscape for evidence of that. That's just my opinion of course.
If my program needs more than a couple arguments, I prefer a YAML configuration file. I usually try to enable environment variable substitution in that file. This makes configuration more natural when/if the program is run in a container (you don't need to volume-mount a file); and it gives the user flexibility in how they configure the program.

To each their own, I suppose.
These two points should be in books because no matter how good you are, new market dynamics will eat you alive faster than you can blink if you don't address the actual needs.

Think how brittle limited and fuzzy php was for so long, yet it's a major thing in IT now.
Especially if you live in the same town :)
> On Facebook, there is 100% difference between the top 20 headline phrases in 2017 vs 2019/20... We can attribute this stark change to a few things; algorithmic maturity, audience preference and the publisher landscape.

Or that means you're measuring the completely wrong things about headline authoring, because the data have no stationarity at all.

They allude to this, but it would appear that the only thing that matters is Facebook's editorial, laundered through an algorithm. So maybe a more valuable article would be hacking into Facebook and just finding out what it is they idiosyncratically value in a headline.
Fortunately my bank app & Revolut works on my Lineage OS phone. Google Pay won't work tho. I use Lineage for MicroG, so I can even install apps from Play store. I wouldn't be able to use LOS without it.
But nobody said this was how you write the best articles.
> people then attend my meeting who disrupt it

So ask those people to leave if they disrupt the meeting. But asking someone to leave a meeting because of their race is racism.
Alternatively a very complicated way of building a film projector.
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It's probably not useful in Go's type system. It would be useful if there were union types, though. I sometimes end up using pointers for nullable fields because the zero values are significant in whatever domain I'm working in. I either have to make it a pointer, or I have to implement a new special zero value, or I have to make a struct that can keep track of whether a value has been set or not.

It'd be nice to be able to do

type MyStruct struct {
ID int || nil
}

And have the compiler understand that the ID has to be either an int or nil, and to give me errors if I try to use it as an int without making sure it isn't nil.
What you're waiting for is already available with Kotlin coroutines (which has a very clean API btw)
And no reactive streams still are useful for processing collection streams asynchronously and here again kotlin solve it all https://kotlinlang.org/docs/flow.html
The point is that for all posts spanning back to 5+ months ago, the entire comment section is filled with students sharing their story and trying to stop other people from enrolling at the school. I'm not sure your post about the $100 dollar toothbrush was worthy of a post here, either.
The 4 hour work week is such an awesome book.
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I faced/am facing the same 2 issues with https://nocommandline.com which is a GUI for Google App Engine

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It's a way to find the start of the file header when you don't know the original offset. You have to have an idea about the target header format, and in this article the author was looking for an audio stream because each packet ended with LAME3.91UUUUUUU which is an mp3 audio encoder with a funny acronym. You use n+1 so each at each packet you're looking at a different part of the packet.
For those that aren’t familiar, there is also ebird.org

This app is a much more straightforward than navigating ebird’s hotspot UX though.
Interesting. I've always thought that images within emails would also serve as a read receipt to the server that sent them when enabled or shown. Would this still apply? Google providing a proxy for this could totally pollute this data (which could be a good thing!).
Noticed that the video borrows New York Columbo family capo's, Michael Franzese, theme music from his YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=michael+franzes...
It seems like people barely have to glance at Python to know it. Perl is harder, and for many people (or at least me) it didn't stick without constant practice. I put in the effort to learn Perl several times, but any time I left it alone for a month or two, my brain purged it. I finally embraced Python after realizing that I could still remember how to code in it after casually messing around with it a few months prior.
I thought this had to be an April fools day prank, but apparently it went live a couple of days ago and was on the news.

Anyway, this means a second stream beside the Iceland vulcano on my 2nd monitor. It's about 1km. from where I live, and I had to learn about it on HN...

Edit: link to cam is on https://visdeurbel.nl/
>Interestingly, the sharp increase in the prices for cryptocurrencies happens in a period where the uncertainty in the market for traditional currencies has risen due to the enormous amounts of money that governments worldwide

In my experience, until 1-2 years ago, btc movements were anticorrelated with the market. This seems to have reversed around the time that financial institutions entered into the BTC market.
AFAIK often the file type signature is in the beginning of the data, however a proprietary elevator music solution could add their custom headers to the beginning of the stream, or, he might have captured data midstream
Having the imagination to have imagination always takes a little imagination. Great read, thank you for writing it.
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It was written in assembly and required a boot disk to squeeze every available kilobyte out of the 640 a computer was guaranteed to have back then.
The idea is that the file within the byte stream does not have a clear start marker (due to the unknown length of the customer headers), so you bruteforce trying to find the file.
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I'm a bit split here, I've never had a good experience with an LG phone. At the same time there aren't all that many oems left, so with everyone that's lost, that's less from.
I can’t understand the 14 days work from home limit.

These are supposedly hard working, intelligent, highly motivated and highly educated and highly paid staff.

Yet they can’t even give them a few days a month to work from home. 14 days a year is totally incongruous.
But they did say it was about how to write the best headline.
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Delightful. I really like the trend of single-purpose, “artsy” websites, it feels like there’s been more of them recently.

...someone should make a site, which lists them all.
Oh, I stayed in one in Xiamen like that. AirBnB did not make it clear on their website that in Xiamen AirBnB's are illegal (some cities in China they are legal and have a deal to do hotel registration with the police for you). We arrived to a pile of notices on the door "This is an illegal hotel, etc etc". Not super fun.
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Arthur C Clark has addressed this general point in his first law:

“ When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”
Do I post the last known sighting of Bigflipper, or will that just make him harder to find...
The last time I watched ducks at the duck pond I saw 3 attempted duck-on-duck drownings