skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That does get complicated in the real world. You might need to retain some data for potential future refunds, for example. But perhaps the application that does refunds also does the loyalty program, and the internals of the app aren't always separate enough that you can delete/obfuscate/whatever info from just the loyalty part.
The biggest issue was that the EU exported about half of the vaccines manufactured in the EU. Had it done as the UK and the US and hoarded them for themselves, banning vaccine exports - the EU would’ve been way better off.
If I may point to a comment of mine that got heavily downvoted:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26664839
Solar and wind-power can compete very efficiently in a free market. They actually outperform all other forms of energy-production (it is the cheapest way to produce energy). Also every year they get much cheaper.
I would recommend this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM2RxWtF4Ds
Prehistory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET_Relay

We called it just 'Relay' as I remember it. A much smaller world than IRC today, mostly students with a scattering of university IT workers.
Interesting take.. I love going to that site because I want to see new things that push the limits of the browser. I would love the opportunity to build some of the sites that are showcased there, just to try new things. I don't think these types of sites are "broken" at all. Most of them work very nicely in my experience and use clever ways to hide load time or other negatives. I wouldn't ever use most of the cutting edge ideas in sites I build commercially because the sites I build are for a more mainstream audience that probably isn't tech savvy, so I keep it to the basics, but the awwwards stuff is still very cool to me.

I think the broken stuff the tweet refers to is all the online publishers with floating video ads, 50 tracking scripts, bloated pages, zero accessibility, etc on a page for a 500 word article
No, like ‘text-justify: inter-character’: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-justif...
Sure, we might be arguing semantics of heroism. I don't disagree, and yeah it's a difficult task, but I think there's a huge factor missing here, kids make the lives of their parents better by contributing resources as adults and taking care once parents age, etc.

Saying (hypothetical you) having kids is purely selfless act that everyone is sacrificing themselves for, is a stretch, IMHO. It's just a tradeoff like many other things, it's tough but people do it because payoff is high as well. I hear a lot of times from people, as if there is no payoff and everyone should just be grateful of their kids, which sometimes comes off as trying to be heroic about it.

That said, not all parents should be regarded in the same way, and GOOD parents should be celebrated.
What about a keyboard layout for programming? Dedicated keys for “if”, “for”, parentheses, braces, etc? This can’t be that hard to set up, there must be plugins in Vim, Emacs, and others.
> Silicon Valley’s most influential companies, alongside healthcare companies, US intelligence contractors and the Commons Project Foundation, recently launched the Vaccination Credential Initiative. The initiative’s ambitions reach far beyond vaccines and will have major implications for civil liberties.

I oppose this if true. However, IIRC, the author of this piece (Whitney Webb) is pretty fringy, and I recognize some of the sources she uses (e.g. MintPress News) as unreliable.
Hunt them down. Make them drink it.
do you work on high-performance computing, or more generally with numerical codes for scientific/engineering simulations?

this seems to be the area where Julia is getting the most traction.

it's strong in some other areas too. it's not really being sold as a general purpose tool for building business systems, though.

(not that it's unfit for that purpose -- just it doesn't have a strong advantage. whereas for numerical codes, optimization, and a few other things, it is actually better than most alternatives.)
I stopped scrolling, it lacked usability with those small bits of text which wouldn't even snap to be centered.

It's hard to tell how this could be made better. Tooltips on markers would increase control, but the story would lose linearity.
It's like a subreddit but instead of texting members can post and comment with audio.

P.S: I am just suggesting reddit can have this feature
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> I was introduced to IRC back in 2002 by a Russian girl called Svetlana (lost contact sadly) a few years my senior at a language school I attended that summer. She introduced me to the channel for the Sub7 trojan horse virus. It was there that I first learnt about IP addresses and ports, and pissing my dad off playing around with his (and others’) PC remotely, printing things like. I remember MoSucker being another trojan horse that was popular on the network.

> We used to share victims and laugh at what we found them doing. I would hang out on other networks on teen channels posing as a girl, sending .scr ‘slideshows’ of my ‘pictures’. Then there were all the warez channels with 0-day releases and the ability to download directly and quickly.

>After quite a few months of script kiddying I was introduced to FreeNode. From there I was introduced to things like Python, FreeBSD, Linux, Emacs, Scheme, SICP, Lisp, Haskell, a free Mathematica subscription, fun mathematics, the idea of going to university abroad, the friend whose house I’m at right now and much more.
Obviously there are other sources for this kind of thing these days, but I do look back on that period quite fondly, and cannot imagine where I would be without the people I came across on IRC. I still go back to FreeNode if I ever need some quick help, but I can’t imagine spending my hours hanging out on IRC anymore. Things have changed.

My experience mimics your own. It’s surprising how “closed” computer science was to British teenagers in 2003-2010, computing was reduced to Microsoft Access/Excel and word.

But the skiddy hacker groups were always so willing to teach to those who wanted to listen, which led me to open source, which is similar but a lot less forgiving than I remember the old hacker groups.
I get an infinite amount of spam texts and I don't have a Facebook account. (I did have one in college when it first came out, but I don't think I gave them my phone number, and if I did, that phone number is no longer in use. I switch phone numbers every time I switch cell providers.)
There is an interesting case in Irvine, CA. There's an Asphalt plant which has been operating since 1993. (All American Asphalt company). Few years ago, the City of Irvine approved residential within 1-2 miles of this plant. The area is called Orchard Hills, houses from 1-3M USD. There is an ongoing investigation from UCI, City of Irvine, residents and government air quality control agency as many people reports strong asphalt smell and high VoC. Worth following https://www.cityofirvine.org/community-development/all-ameri...
Show HN: Wayland Explorer – Easily read Wayland protocol documentation online
I've been trying to learn more about Wayland recently but most of the protocol documentation is found in XML files which makes for a poor reading experience.

Therefore I created a website which extracts the data from these protocols and publishes it in a format that's (arguably) better suited for reading.

https://wayland.app/protocols/

Source code on GitHub: https://github.com/vially/wayland-explorer
Your backend devs are shirking responsibility, the front end shouldn't prep data, it should handle input and do rendering.
SPA = single-page application
that's a learning or experience curve[0]. related is the technology adoption curve, characterized for instance by the bass diffusion model[1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_curve_effects

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_diffusion_model
> This is not how it's supposed to work, if we are supposed to be reasoning, thinking beings. Ideas are supposed to be ideas not tokens of affiliation!

We are humans not Vulcans. There is a spectrum of ability in various skills and abilities, including reasoning.

Reminder: there are people who honestly believe the world is flat.
Arch Linux's Install Media Adds “Archinstall” for Quick/Easy Installations
How the Pandemic Has Made the Creative Class Feel Free
Is that because they're well-informed on the topic and have reason to believe that these vaccines are especially dangerous, or is it that they usually don't know (and think) a lot about rare side-effects?

I wonder what the threshold is. You want people to make informed decisions, but you don't want them to panic about tiny risks, because otherwise you'll get a lot less vaccinations.

Anti-vaccination is reasonable if one says "any potential side effect means I won't take it". But that seems neither individually wise nor collectively desired, though we don't really talk about the individual's responsibility as a carrier/spreader of something like influenza. Maybe we will in the future, now that it has been on everyone's mind with Covid.
Really good idea. Excellent to capture the abstraction of a usertoken. Implementation looks like a good start. Good luck to you!
Thank you. Very interesting read.
I have never understood some of the low IFR estimates.
If you look e.g. at numbers for New York State. They have had 50.905 covid related deaths (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/) and roughly 20.000.000 inhabitants.
That sets a pretty clear lower boundary on IFR of 0.0025.
And clearly not everyone in New York State has had covid.
The worst is the dynamic DOM manipulation, where what you print isn't what's rendered on display.
There was already a LASER method in reinforcement learning :-/

LArge Scale Experience Replay - https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11583

I am missing a link between the two?
I don't know much about it, but, from my understanding, HIV is a "retrovirus", which means that it integrates into host cell's DNA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrovirus

I'd really appreciate some input from someone who knows more on this topic.
Used that method as my primary cell phone contract for many years.

I haven't looked into it recently, but it must be easy. Many games have SMS verification for accounts, and it seems that every person that streams those games has like 10 accounts.
A Peek into the Interstitial Cost of Microservices
> […] is a rhetoric now often used by trolls or conspiracy nuts.

Can be used a DoS to eat up someone's time in responding to things:

> Sealioning (also spelled sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with persistent requests for evidence or repeated questions, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity.[1][2][3][4] It may take the form of "incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate".[5]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
Yes, though even now it's already possible to price CO2, yet somehow it doesn't factor in significantly in the price of goods produced with coal heavy electricity.
I’m curious to see if existing regulation in this regard has been effective. I know there is HIPAA, but does it actually reduce data leaks in the Health Care field?
The tools exist the solve these problems: blame developers.

TypeScript and modern frameworks with contemporary understanding of app design kills nearly every historical pain point of web development, but many are stuck writing jQuery and using WordPress.
Could be done with qmk and any mechanical keyboard supporting it (and much more but it is common to hear about people having a vim layer).
Get the real deal: https://www.pckeyboard.com

You can get an APL keycap set for your existing Unicomp keyboard, or do a custom order for any of their models. They will even print you custom keycap sets: https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/category/Buttons

The trackball Unicomp is IMO the best keyboard being manufactured (right now they are out of stock until Q3 2021): https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/category/ClassicTrackball

Buckling spring is just a superior (although less durable) key switch technology than the Honeywell switches used in Symbolics keyboards (and most other keyboard switch mechanisms as well). One thing that the Symbolics keyboards did right is having both the APL and Greek legends on keycaps.

But none of this matters if you do not have the right software. GNU Emacs greek and TeX input-methods, and the C-x 8 iso-transl keymap (which you can extend) makes writing mathematical symbols really easy.
It's an industry with established UX guidelines defined 20 years ago which are mostly ignored today. Slow, inconsistent and confusing interfaces seem to be the norm, not the exception.

There were some revolutions, like responsive design, but all the rest feels very shallow compared to the bad UX experienced in so many applications and websites.
I think the opposite is true: still quite high costs are the cause of SMS spam. If the carriers did not profit from this, they would have destroyed SMS spam as a phenomenon on the same day.
So most of these questions aren't really "reasonable", they are done in bad faith.

Ask yourself this: Would a policy automatically labelling any question as conspiracy nut rhetoric, be acting in good faith? Such a policy could easily be exploited by a bad faith actor to silence actual substantive questions.

IMO, and from what I have seen, rationalwiki has a poor record, when it comes to intellectual integrity.
What makes this (and science generally) difficult is at least the following:

1. The general public are not scientists, yet they distrust institutions so now they want to interpret data themselves but have no training.

2. Data can be sliced and diced to tell all kinds of stories.

3. Few can look at data and know what it doesn’t answer, or what questions should be asked but aren’t being.

4. Correlation is not causation, but that escapes almost all of us.

5. The people who generally know the field the best are poor communicators generally or at least to the general public. The people who can (or do) communicate with the public are subject to a game of telephone and don’t understand the science, and don’t know how to properly communicate uncertainty or the boundaries of knowledge.

6. Ordinary people will get ordinary answers, but due to cognitive biases will few exceptional in their ability to go against the grain.
>as I doubt anyone really thinks it's flat out impossible... just really difficult.

You see a few people saying we need AGI but yeah. I've definitely been a skeptic but mostly in the vein of it needing decades, not single digit years. And the transition to even a true L4 system is going to be hard.

That said, we seen a lot of progress and even over the past ten years, there's been a lot of progress on assistive driving system as well as field work on actual self-driving.

I suspect that machine-assisted driving will continue to get better, albeit with issues associated with humans increasingly not really paying attention. But I expect those wanting robo-Ubers will continue to be disappointed for quite some time. (And I'm not sure how much it will matter because they will have actual Ubers.)
You were not lied to. The CDC and WHO originally said that masks were not needed. That advice was wrong. That doesn't mean the people giving that advice were being malicious. They just got it badly wrong and eventually they corrected it and changed their position.

A leader who can say they screwed up and then try and fix it is better than one who won't admit they are wrong and keeps to the wrong position just to save face. Bolsanaro in Brazil comes to mind.
Seeing as Bazel comes out Of Google, there's not a great deal of irony there.
Measure with a micrometer.

Mark with a chalk.

Cut with an axe.

(Apparent practice at a workshop I used to frequent.)
You know what can easily induce a 10+ heart rate increase? The perception of danger, aka, FEAR.

An entirely mental process.
He means you can move in to your own property if you have nowhere else to live. You might not be able to kick someone out, but on the same note nobody can kick you out. You and a group of loud gym bros that moved in with you.
This frankly isn't too far off what text editing was like in the 60s and 70s. TECO and ed evolved into visual editors but initially were pretty much like this, including specific commands to print out the neighborhood of the insertion point (or other span). Otherwise you edited blind.
If such a brain interface allowed X evil actor to actually control people, you wouldn't have arguments, you'd have a direct takeover (or several different evil actors dueling).

But if this interface was simply like a drug or some similar effect, I doubt there's be enough of a combination of interests to get people on board.
Very similar experience... we must be in the same age group.

I would not be in the same place in life without IRC.
Thanks. I should clarify.
I'd argue service workers are a pretty rare thing to debug
Lease is already broken due to tenant not paying rent, but that is beside the point. Lease issues would be a separate legal matter if it came to that, but nobody can kick you out of your own property.
The mating call of all react devs - “but what about the images”. Who said a 100KB hero image was a good idea either? It doesn’t excuse dropping a 1MB (when executed) bomb of JavaScript to deliver a blog post and making mobile and low speed users suffer.

It’s also established that byte per byte, JS is way more costly to download, parse and execute than images, the comparison itself is dumb.
Many families look at the numbers and decide that it makes more sense to have one parent stay home than pay $1400 per kid per month.
Give the incentives no, however it should be noted VAERS is only going to undercount not over count. Physicians are required to fill it out if there’s adverse side effects at the hospital.

Wish there was more but the incentives aren’t really aligned for open research on this.

We can get the real cdc idc10 (billing) results in several months.
The new official French AZERTY standard is pretty good too :

http://norme-azerty.fr/en/

Hopefully the various administrations will start to push it to replace old keyboards...

There's also a BÉPO version, which would have been even better, but I guess that would be too much inertia to fight?
A root CA certificate doesn't allow you to "MITM you heart away". Its purpose, as would be clear if you think about what the CA does with it, is to sign other certificates for keys which in turn are used to sign certificates that identify machines.

So first of all this hypothetical government would have to issue itself certificates for any sites it was interested in intercepting, and intercept the traffic to impose a MITM. It has to do this live or it won't work. Every time it does this, it provides the other participant a smoking gun, which is to say evidence - in the form of these bogus certificates.

But wait, if you run Chrome, Safari or similar browsers, these certificates just won't work. To be functional the government has to obtain proof they were logged for everybody to see - in the Certificate Transparency system. Without that the user just gets an error telling them the certificate isn't logged and can't be trusted.

If they were logged, we all get to see them. Do you see them? No, because this isn't actually a thing. It's a paranoid fantasy.
I'd like to see a RSS page for the Home and Popular feeds since I've moved all my news sources to my RSS reader.
IRC user for 23 something odd years, no real replacement for real-time chat. I know many substitutes have come along such as discord and whatnot but I’ve never seen the need to use any of them.
At least half the value or learning arithmetic is that it shapes ones neural network in some fashion in a way to make it better at certain types of thought. Skipping that learning process presumably skips those physical changes as well.
what a dramatic and ridiculous statement. i suppose you could say i have a vested interest in holding an opinion like that. however the dude that posted that tweet is in the tech space, therefore (imo) excludes him from being “just a user of the internet”. furthermore, REAL USER demands and expectations increased from native mobile app usage, so of course the complexity of pages/apps on the web have followed suit.
So many vaccine news on HN now. Why are we discussing them here? I visit other websites for vaccine news.
Love these scroll-zoom format articles from NYTimes that go through a work of art in detail. I always learn something interesting.

Here are two others i've enjoyed:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/25/arts/durer-se...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/07/arts/design/h...
I don't think people are doubting that she has symptoms, just that they may be exacerbated by anxiety. Anxiety that she has learned she lives near toxic waste and has a gadget she bought on the internet that shows big numbers.
I have been getting a lot of spam texts and also an unusually large spam calls from the social security administration. I tell teh guy/gal on the line every time to quit calling me because they are wasting their time and i know it's a scam, they keep calling...
https://norme-azerty.fr/ is the HTTPS version of http://norme-azerty.fr/ you used that also works and with 100.00% similarity on their contents.

(I'm a bot, see https://github.com/fishy/https-bot for source code)
Because 60 years isn’t enough time to tell if you were completely correct, or if there was something you missed.
To be clear, almost all of these studies showed very small effect sizes. The best therapeutics we have are remdesevir (small but real effect on severity, unclear effect on hospitalization and death), dexamethosone (moderate to large effect on death when hospitalized), and antibody drugs for which Lilly’s has already been remove because ineffective against variants though Regeneron’s cocktail seems quite good. Fluvoxamine is I’m sure under investigation, we’ll get a readout eventually but that’s a relatively new result.

The best drugs we have are either:

1.) treat the virus with a novel entity (Regeneron, the other antibodies)

2.) treat the inflammation (dexamethosone, possibly eventually fluvoxamine)

The repurposing and general antivirals (including remdesevir) have little effect and likely won’t make a difference. There are novel drugs being developed (Pfizer just started a protease inhibitor trial) but that’s the only place I’d expect to see real impact, with fluvoxamine as a treat the symptoms wildcard. People have been trying to find drugs or repurpose, and academic medical centers have been working on it. It’s that almost nothing works when subjected to the hard trials.
AT&T, Verizon, US Cellular and T-Mobile have all imposed fees on Application to Person SMSes, so they definitely are making more money off this: https://www.plivo.com/blog/a2p-10dlc/
The Internet has been cut in Myanmar for the 50th consecutive night
Ah... no. It’s special because it attacks white blood cells and white blood cells are what are supposed to attack it.
I haven’t seen a clear analysis of the decision’s impact. I’ve read it, it’s quite brief. As I understand it, this decision essentially guts the blanket prohibition on spam text messages to cell phones. The rest of the law refers to restrictions on calls to “residential” phone lines, which does not include cell phones, so it’s not clear that there are any other limitations on texts to cell phones - do you see it differently?

This brings up the side issue that the act doesn’t ever mention text messages at all ... everyone has interpreted them to be covered as if they were phone calls, but that’s never been tested at the Supreme Court level.
This is very nice. I keep wondering when we'll see a resurgence of magazines which use a system like this.
Coronavirus test in a Nespresso capsule (CoroNaspresso)
LAMP = 'Loop-mediated Amplification, which allows detection of small amounts of viral RNA from oral/nasal swabs even in an early stage of the infection.' (definition from the linked preprint paper)