skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I feel this is under-appreciated in today's world, where scrolling is being forced on us everywhere. Scrolling sucks for reading text. Every time you scroll, you have to pay attention to how much you scrolled, and then find your place in the text again.

This is incredibly important, and something that dedicated book readers like Kindles get right, but I've never seen done well in long web pages. Discrete "pages" (that correspond to "screens") make it much easier to find your place as you go to the next page. Note that multipart web pages often have you scroll through each "page" separately, and give you the worst of both worlds. Sure, PDF isn't always best for reading on a computer or phone screen, but infinite scrolling is annoying too.
Huh, that's a convenient and familiar looking price.
Someone (or a script) flagged Ronson who had posted direct links.

I only tested the Norway link in his post but that was legit.

(I first verified with Virustotal and then thought twice before opening the zip file.)
The right to erasure (aka the right to be forgotten) is not universal and only applies in certain circumstances.

> Let say I use some service, then I violate policies of that company, then I exercise my "right to forget", and after they delete my data I sign up again and repeat the entire thing?

In this case a business (or 'data controller' in GDPR lingo) can use 'legitimate interest' as a lawful basis for processing the users information. Of course the data you kept would have to be proportional to what you're doing. For example, it would be hard to argue that you needed to keep the users billing address history if your services used a simple email black list (this is the 'data minimisation' principle).

> how does that work in regards to book keeping and tax policies, where you are required to have data about your clients?

As a rule of thumb, if you're using some personal data to comply with another piece of law then that usage is generally exempt from GDPR.

Source: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
If insurance is a profitable product today (it is), why would it skyrocket in price just because there are safer cars on the road (presumably paying lower rates)?
Also pdf has very bad support of animation formats.
I guess all kingdoms were built over untold atrocities.
For what it is worth, I read it as a neutral statement: it is literally just the official estimate of the impact in terms of time.
>contains exactly zero science

The way I read OP's comment was as a personal experience about what they've seen since joining HN 15 years ago. Are you suggesting that only "science based" comments should be top comments, and not personal experiences?
Launch: Myra – Rap on AI generated beats
My odds of getting Covid-19 when I'm working from home and only "going out" to buy things by having them placed in my trunk is awfully low. Think it's still higher than my risks from this vaccine? I am not convinced.
Dear Friends,

AI music seems to be a far fetched thought even today. Reason is pretty straight forward , music is something that touches human emotions and perhaps it takes to be a human to understand human :). This is a very subjective topic and there are thousands of different opinions on this.

Our effort is not to replace human music but to complement the process of creation of music, to give people a tool to get started with an idea.

We have our MVP out on AppStore. The name of our App is Myra. At this time we are testing our AI generated beats by providing rappers and short song composers to rap or sing on our beats.

Please checkout our app on Apple AppStore and provide with feedback.

Cheers!
Mayank Thakur
Founder, MYRAMUSIC INC.
This looks to be the original announcement from February: https://www.iavi.org/news-resources/press-releases/2021/firs...

Browsers not showing full URLs were the first bad thing, but now articles are linking to domain names, which makes those links unusable for cross-checking references.
Asteroids mostly have circular orbits. Comets (at least the ones we see) tend to have very highly eliptical orbits. That I think is the origin of the distinction.

But asteroids also tend to be at lower distances from the sun than comets. That in turn leads to them tending to be composed more of rocky material, whereas comets have more ice.

I am not an astronomer, so any and all details may be in error. Corrections are welcome.
As Shakespeare once said "keeping things short is what makes things wise".
> suggested Britain will treat coronavirus like the flu in the future

> would only be forced to “pull the alarm cord” if a dangerous new strain suddenly started to spread

> that it was “not realistic” to think Covid variants could be kept out of the country

Looks like lack of new information is the information here
Multi-layered SimCity ideology example: SimNuclear power plants leave a circle of radiation if they explode. Sounds fine on the surface, since they had to balance the game to actually give nuclear a downside, but it accidentally interacts with other gameplay features to imo unfairly tarnish real-world nuclear in the minds of players.

Case in point: I played a lot of SC3000, and that game doesn’t automatically replace utility buildings when they “age out” of their in-game design lifespan. As soon as any plopped utility building hits year N+1 it’s immediately destroyed and replaced with a nonfunctional ruined (“Defunct”) version of the tile. That feature is annoying enough when a bunch of your water pumping stations all blow up at once and cause water service disruptions, but it means all in-game nuclear plants will explode and spread radiation like that exactly 71 years after being plopped unless you manually bulldoze and rebuild them. Doing it earlier than 70 years is a waste of money since the new plant costs the same amount regardless, so players will always be tempted to let it go as long as possible and only replace at the last minute.

On top of that, any building (plopped or otherwise) that catches fire and is allowed to burn will also become destroyed/defunct. If your city’s total electrical usage exceeds any one power plant’s electrical capacity, that power plant will catch on fire. If it’s a nuclear plant and you don’t put the fire out, the plant is destroyed and spreads radiation.

If you have multiple nuclear plants and accidentally let one of them get to be 71 years old, it will explode and irradiate its surroundings as mentioned. The sudden drop in total electrical capacity will almost certainly overload the other plants, then they will catch fire and may also explode and irradiate their surroundings.

Maxis plz
Even with modern weather prediction technology and windsocks, it can happen that airplane encounter very unexpected wind drafts up or down during takeoff or landing. Sometimes you just have bad luck.
I used paged.js in production and while it's definitely not fast enough to run during an HTTP request, it can render a 300 page document reasonably quickly, definitely within the 120 second TTL of our worker tasks. It can be quite finicky though and sometimes stalls on things like images that are taller than a single page.
USB and video codecs also come to mind.
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No-one got fired for writing an SPA, but we did decide not to renew the contract for the next major update.
Not true. Islam inherently encompasses different points of view, as long as they are based on correct and proper evidence. Of course, this is not a blanket statement, since there are core immutable concepts in Islam, the "roots" to to speak. Minor things can have differing views as long as they are based on evidence.
I’d use “grid electricity” as my example. You can generate your own in the right circumstances, with a lot of benefits, but it can make things kinda difficult.
What's a pendrive?
I would advice to interpret the IFR reported by the Ioannidis paper with an extreme amount of caution. One of the authors criticized (which is quite an understatement) by Ioannidis went into a detailed rebuttal in [1]. A second thread [2] also gives a very detailed analysis of issues with the paper.

[1] https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1376304539897237508
[2] https://twitter.com/AtomsksSanakan/status/137593538213983437...
Denmark has ~2500 deaths since the beginning of the pandemics. Your numbers are off.
https://www.curatedbyai.com is the HTTPS version of http://www.curatedbyai.com you used that also works and with 100.00% similarity on their contents.

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> The only solution is to force companies to put up bonds or insurance sufficient to ensure this kind of devastation is properly paid for by private parties.

Agreed, but in this case, it apparently was paid for by insurance. The next sentence in the paragraph antattack quoted is: "(Its insurance company wound up footing the bill.)"

It's still horrible from an environmental perspective, but at least Florida taxpayers didn't pay the cleanup bill.
C-x-8-RET has been most useful to me for unicode maths symbols.

Having said that, I have a layer on my keyboard dedicated to APL symbols. I highly recommend QMK keyboards for shennanigans like these
Not really, it’s likely that you don’t care anymore.
Seems like all German accounts with 8-digit phone numbers are missing. Only 7-digit number accounts are shown.
IIRC it was pretty normal there to throw the content of the chamberpots out of the window in the morning. Which led to a great stink in the summer.
Be laconic.
Science has been politicized for a long time, and fear is nothing new. What 2020 brought (really before) is that people became ok expressing their fears.
The Musical Ruby
People would come out to the car. There are already small experimental food delivery robots.
If a building is built to be rented out, does the builder typically rent out the place? No, it will be someone who buys the building, typically with large amounts of borrowed money, who will then rent out the place. Builders build (often also with borrowed money) because they can then sell the building to someone who can buy. This is all part of the economy.

And you're certainly misusing the term "systemic risk" here - a small-time landlord borrowing money to buy a rental does not in any sense contribute to any kind of systemic risk. They are taking on personal risk in the hope of generating a return on their investment.
Wouldn’t you get the same reaction as the baking soda and vinegar volcano experiment but on a huge scale?
What is your favourite library for printing HTML to PDF?
Well, Russia already operates such fleet and generally considers it as the only feasible way to go with Northern route - to break ice you need a lot of power. I'm pretty sure China won't see a problem with admitting such vessels in their ports or even operating some on their own. With Northern route it's the only way to go in next 50 years, while Arctic is still fully freezing.
It really amazes me how bad new Reddit is. I have a Windows computer from about 5 years ago that I sometimes use. It takes about 10 seconds after clicking on a story for the first comments to load, and there is about a 5-second delay between pressing a key and the character showing up in any of the text input forms.

Even on my new M1 MacBook Air it takes 2/3 seconds for every page to load.
That's a good thing, I don't want to see animations in a PDF.
Like the bounty hunter's ship.
wouldn't certificate pinning partially prevent this though? i'm not saying this is impossible, but for regular ISP-logged data that some schmuck wants access to, rather than a 3 letter agency or whatever, i doubt this is much of a concern
When the Jewish culture I grew up in disappears, which seems inevitable at this point, I wonder if there will be some other secular Jewish community in a steady state driven by inflows from off the derech haredi and outflows to assimilation.
Not parent; just throwing this out there; but in Canada, the local provinces have been doing a relatively ok job of keeping track of covid statistics. In Alberta [0] we have a fairly diverse population, and should somewhat generalize to other regions.

It would certainly appear that if we assume the risk of vaccination is relatively constant, (The risk actually appears to be greater for younger, <55 y/o people), then it makes a lot of sense to prioritize the older populations.

https://www.alberta.ca/stats/covid-19-alberta-statistics.htm... -- scroll to the bottom for age distributions.

Edit: FWIW, I don't particularly support delaying vaccination for any age group, however it should be recognized that the risk is apparently non-zero. I for one will be getting mine as soon as it is available to me.
Yeah, how long before it's illegal to send storage devices through the mail? Packages scanned, no storage device shipping permit, package captured and opened, sender/reciever prosecuted for trafficking encryption keys.
I'd recommend NextJS as frontend framework and Ant-Design as UI library.

If you go with React and don't want to re-invent the wheel every time you start a new project then you most likely want want to either use Create-React-App or NextJS as a framework. I used both multiple times and in my opinion NextJS is nicer, as it's more opinionated. In a good way. So less decisions you have to make. And less discussions if you onboard another developer later.
On top of that, NextJS also supports static site generation and server side rendering out of the box in a very easy to implement way. This means, if you really want to re-use the same stack multiple times, you'll be able to do so, no matter if you create a complex web app or just some static website.

Ant design is a pretty nice UI library. It's very complete, easy to customize and well documented. And contrary to other UI libraries like Material-Design or Twitter Bootstrap it's quite "unbranded" in my opinion, so your app does not immediately look like Google or Twitter.

But of course, in the end all frameworks and tools are a matter personal preference :)
The necessity of zooming is a shortcoming of the device, not of the text format.
Run ads thanking them for the compliment and the acknowledgment that you are better. Humour usually wins, costs less and is generally more effective.
Nonsense. There are risks with all interventions and the ethics are clear. There are known adverse affects to all immunizations ( no not autism ) and that the odds of it happening is low enough for any individual that it is considered that the general benefit to the community is higher than the cost to the rare poor sod who gets a bad roll of the dice. But that's just reality. No intervention is without risk and anybody telling you they have an intervention without risk is selling homeopathic water drops.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/side-effects.htm
I definitely prefer to read research papers in html. I like to zoom in a lot when reading a long piece on my computer since it helps me read faster and keeps me from getting distracted. I've been thinking about working on a side project where I convert pdfs to html for academic papers.
Context is across the whole of Europe. Still a couple of thousand of people dying every week in Europe.
If someone said "about fifty bucks" and it turns out to be $62.17, I'd immediately understand them to be scamming me.
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Hi, The demo is fixed now.
While it's sad that legitimate questions can label one, it's because "just asking questions" is a rhetoric now often used by trolls or conspiracy nuts. So most of these questions aren't really "reasonable", they are done in bad faith.

See: "JAQing off" or https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions
/join #freenode_##hntop:matrix.org

Or Explore, Freenode, hntop.
What the hell are you talking about? It does not “integrate with the human genome”.
I think it is too early to measure the long term effects, saying the benefits completely outweigh the costs. For the investors, you are absolutely right. For the land and ecology 100 years from now, not so much. Stealing the health of tomorrow for gains today.
I suspect that most other failed devs are indeed working at a 9-5 but looking to get the F U money from a side project and enjoy life, at least that is my situation. Also FU money is relative, I am not looking for 1B, just a small 3M nest egg is enough for me to retire.
> So back in the 60's, people looked back at the progress over the previous decades, imagined the future, and thought about space. We'd have commercial space flight any day now.

We do have commercial space flight. Commercial space flight has exploded over the past few decades. The sky is full of communication satellites, imaging satellites, sensor satellites, even the occasional vanity satellites.

Everything worth doing in space, we're doing.

What we don't have is things that aren't worth doing in space, like Pan-am flights to the moon.
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Canada will only use AZ for people above 60, so hopefully Mexico takes that AZ
Julia 1.0 was released in late 2018. I think it would be irresponsible to design valuable or mission critical systems with a language still undergoing that much change. I expect we’ll start to see the sorts of valuable systems you refer to start to surface in the near future if Julia is getting traction.

Full disclosure: I don’t currently use Julia but I’m interested in spending some time with it this year. I primarily use MATLAB in my day-to-day life. I like Python as a general purpose language but find the syntax of Python+NumPy a little clunky for what I do.

I don’t really feel that Julia falls outside of mainstream programming paradigms anymore than something like MATLAB.
Vote libertarian. Governments will do what they can to make their jobs easier, to show off success. I know left leaning people are going to dislike that, but it's a double edged sword - if you want eg a national health system, you're going to end up with the government telling you to eat your five vegetables each day.
As someone else said, that doesn't solve any problems because you still have to avoid crashing into other cars, cyclists and pedestrians.

I think a more likely thing is that we see it for lorries on motorways (sorry, err.. trucks on freeways) where it's a much easier problem, there are no cyclists or pedestrians, you can have them drive in the middle of the night when there's no traffic and there are convenient service stations you can stop at and have human drivers take over.

Like, why pay for a lorry driver to take all of your containers from Felixstowe to London when you can just have automatic lorries deliver them to a depot just outside London?

I haven't heard of anyone actually trying to do this though. Maybe not sexy enough. Not a big enough total addressable market or some such bollocks.
It's an interesting presentation by Jan Krutisch at the 2019 European Ruby conference. He shows how to generate electronic music with pure Ruby.

There's a related web site [1] and all code is on GitHub [2]:

- https://ruby-synth.fun
- https://github.com/halfbyte/rubysynth
https://pandoc.org/ + something like pdflatex
Well, yes, I can confirm you that death people will stay that way, but you asked if the problem was that there was not enough vaccines so, I answered.
The awesome thing is that our brain is great at learning how to use and make sense of new inputs. The big one being literacy, you never think about it but you learned to interpret strange little patterns first as sounds that you hear in your head and then as entire concepts like “cat” or “happy”. The same can be said for spoken language or mathematics or musical notation. I don’t doubt that the human brain will have little trouble learning that X pattern of electrical inputs to a group of neurons means “cat” or the sound of A or even an image of a bird. It won’t come instantly and it won’t be identical to the thing it represents without wiring directly into the visual or auditory regions but it will give us a new sense and a new language.
You'd essentially have a pdf editor that can import a pdf, edit it and export the html back to pdf. Working with official forms is one usecase. Another is an iframe that can preview pdfs without resorting to plugins.
An appeal to listen to the data rather than the politics may not be science, but it is certainly the scientific mindset. It's not amiss to remind ourselves to turn our science brain on before starting this conversation.
Actually, and fortunately, it is impossible. This sort of brain model was preemptively debunked by Kant in Critique of Pure Reason and other works.
Could you be more pedantic? I'm not even the one who brought up L2 in the first place. I used the same jargon as the person I was responding to.

HN is a technical forum, if you're going to have a discussion about autonomous vehicles on a technical forum then technical terms should be fair game. If I'm having this discussion elsewhere then I'll explain it differently.

But fine, if you want to be pedantic: Calling a car that cannot drive itself without human intervention a "fully self driving car" is incredibly irresponsible.
As an exercise, go and look up the mainstream news coverage of Hydroxychloroquine, then go and look up many dozens of research papers. Here's what you'll find:

- Mainstream news on the topic is inaccurate, *highly sensationalized*,
and is often pointedly emotionally manipulative
- The evidence is not one sided, and there is considerable signal in the
politically unpopular direction.
- Mainstream news dotes on just a few studies which support their narrative
and often don't talk about the problems with those studies, or even
when those studies are retracted

This is straight out of the western version of the "propaganda model" in Manufacturing Consent -- as a playbook.

It turns out that Hydroxychloroquine isn't that great. However, Ivermectin seems to hold a lot of promise, last I checked in on research. What's more, ask yourself this: Many people expected governments and organizations to react to the pandemic by combing through huge amounts of data, to see if existing drugs might have some effect. This is what a lot of medical professionals expected would happen. This isn't what happened. Instead, independent parties and agencies in 3rd world countries had to push things like that through, seemingly despite opposition. Go and look up the underwhelming numbers from studies for Remdesivir, and then ask yourself why that drug was so pushed for awhile, when others with far better study numbers were seemingly ignored or talked down. (Could it be the price?)

My conclusion, is that even the intellectualism of our society and its science has been corrupted. The liberal values of the philosophe have been replaced with "us versus them" jingoism, dressed up in flowery language. This flowery language turns out to be all surface. It has no historical and practical substantive support, but instead has its basis on emotional appeal.
Didn’t the numbers come out that the AZ thrombosis numbers were below average for the general population?
The table of contents is itself hyperlinked. And at the bottom of each page is a link to return to the table of contents.

Let me know if that works well?
Watch the video. Not quite!
There is a torrent you can download, I used jackett to find it
There was recently this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26506126 (in particular https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26507503 and comments)

Another recent one that came up is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26618000

Is the one you look for listed in one of the threads?
Being a literal nazi or a member of the kkk or being pro-eugenics is a political viewpoint, and I think those are entirely in-bounds for reasonable employers to discriminate against.