skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have the opposite experience. To me, opening a PDF puts me on edge. My computer is likely to slow to a crawl. It never renders correctly - sometimes it will slowly render each page, one at a time, flashing the screen as it goes. Or maybe the PDF is using some features that my reader doesn't support so it renders incomplete and incorrectly.

Links are often hard to pick out. What is a link and what isn't? What happens when I click on something, is it going to stay in the PDF or open a browser or something?

Don't get me started on moving around in PDFs. There are always 2 sets of page numbers, one for the PDF and one of the document. Extremely confusing.

Searching. Ugh, searching a PDF is a nightmare I don't want to even think about right now. Ctrl+F is broken 99% of the time.

Or at least, that's my experience over the last 20 years. Sure, it's gotten better recently, but, not enough to make my mind 'at ease' exactly. Very stressful to open a PDF still, usually.
You don't have to trust (British) journalists to get the numbers. You can look it up in the Eudra Vigilance database yourself. Follow this (you might have to agree to some disclaimer at some point)

https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory/research-devel...

Find link with "European database for suspected adverse drug reaction reports.",

click Human,

click "en",

click "Search for report",

click "Suspected adverse drug reaction reports for Substances"

click "C"

search for "COVID-19 VACCINE ASTRAZENECA (CHADOX1 NCOV-19)"

click tab "Number of Individual Cases for a selected Reaction"

select "Nervous system disorders" from the dropdown

select "Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis" from the list

You get this:
https://ibb.co/VDbYXpC

107 cases, 22 dead, 5 recovered (as of 3rd April). Note that UK doesn't put their numbers in this database so these adverse events are only out of the EU doses.

For extra fun look up Pfizer or other vaccines or other side effects like general brain hemorrhaging or strokes
Carriers eye savings by giving Suez a miss and going the long way round
> Mainland Europe, for example, has given the AstraZeneca vaccine to more people under the age of 60 than the UK, which vaccinated healthcare workers and older people first, using an even split of Pfizer and AstraZeneca shots

from https://www.ft.com/content/d5cd63c6-af01-4d29-a5e5-b69ade4f3...

I would assume as UK starts vaccinating younger people it's likely to show the same impact?
(also is continental europe using more AZ vaccines than UK overall?)
Just to name one thing, I think CRISPR is likely to be seen as fundamental a technological building block as the transistor.
I recall the same. It was so long ago but it came from a reputable site.

A quick search brought up:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5147321
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I don't have much experience with PDF as a spec, but I guess I'm a "PDF hater."

It's the things that didn't need to be PDFs, but inexplicably are, that annoy me. Like data dumps from local governments that could have been machine-readable, or announcements that are distributed in print and emailed as PDFs, rather than lifting the content into the message body.
I am sorry, you're right. I wonder what would happen to someone and something that would make it easy for your own encryption on top.
30% hit to performance isn't the same as 30% hit to power.

Right now, I'm typing text into an HTML textarea element. Most of my laptop's power is going to the LCD backlight, I would guess. Dunno, though. Maybe some tab in the background is sucking up 100% CPU not doing anything, in which case, power consumption is the same. In one scenario, that tab is sucking up less compute.

If you're sitting in a cafe, using your laptop to train machine learning algorithms, you might lose 30% battery time, but you're probably doing something wrong.

And I would gladly pay 30% more on my AWS bills for more reliable machines. It depends on what you're doing, but for what I'm doing, server costs are a rounding error in our budget. Most money goes to people.

But I don't think I'd pay 30% more in AWS bills since a lot of what they do is IO-bound and not CPU-bound.

I think the tougher calculation would be on GPUs. At least for what I do, on the rest of the computer, it's a no-brainer.
Masks conceal facial nuances which are very important to young children developing ability to recognize social cues. The article makes it sound like this is only a problem for people with language difficulties but it is obviously much broader than that: https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-face-masks-are-disrupting...

The article also touches on distancing as one of the key measures helping reduce flu and colds, and this is probably the one most responsible for the huge surge in children's psychiatric visits and suicide attempts over the past year, which somehow didn't rate a mention in NPR's discussion of the cons.
It’s unknown. There is a phenomenon called “original antigenic sin” that may or may not apply.

There’s also a potential issue with immunity to the vector.
I would keep audio only subreddits and chat rooms as well. Just like clubhouse
A lot has been invested in drugs. Most of them don't work. The best that was found was Dexamethasone, which reduces mortality in severe cases significantly.

Generally medication for viral infections seems to be hard. There isn't much good medication for other respiratory viral diseases. It doesn't look like a major breakthrough in drug treatment will happen.

A vaccine can make the difference between "you get the disease" and "you don't get the disease and can't spread it to others". No drug comes remotely close to that.
Yep. The weird thing is that their sigfig rules of thumb aren't particularly accurate and after any non-trivial operations (or more than a few operations) just give wrong results.

Tracking precision through calculations requires interval arithmetic, which is a pretty big PITA and not frequently used.

I think the sig figs cult comes out of mistaking a simplified lesson on precision for a useful practice.
Transferring information TO BRAIN is sort of the raison d'être of computers.

This comment FROM brain TO computer, FROM computer TO computer, FROM computer TO your brain.

It's awesome.
"It" being the things Elon or whoever else is doing better than you at the moment. There is a finite set of things they can do, and an even smaller subset that they are interested in doing, and an EVEN smaller subset of that that they would end up doing in their lifetimes. The set of problems that humanity is facing seems much larger to me, and I would assume it's just a matter of either putting your weight behind something you care about as you have been doing, because every worthy cause can do with as much support as it gets, or you find something more niche that others haven't thrown their weight behind for example.
Once upon a time: https://njbooher.github.io/blog/cloudflare-workers-ip-spoofi...
Pyramid of Doom
Interesting take that I more agree with than disagree - However I think
" there are an infinite amount of tools both for styling and the code itself."

Is actually one of the symptoms of the issue at large I think.

I understand some sites depend on more complex APIs and such - certainly fbook uses the complex stuff that these frameworks do..

However many people are using wordpress and similar tools simply to have a basic static few bits of info from a few pages display decently on various devices. I too am guilty of such a thing on more than one occasion.

For these cases I am moving towards converting the designs to static html and using a php based script from coffeecup to handle the contact form part that in the past I've lazily just added a two click plugin from wordpress to handle.

I feel that the CSS standards group really dropped the ball with not having better responsive menus 'built in' as a part of the problem that can be solved in the future. Now that grids are built in - the menus that bootstrap does auto-magically for most devices is the missing piece that keeps many sites from being just html/css.

I'd love to go back to netobjects fusion for design, but it has not kept up with the responsive needs of the web. I tried coffeecups site designer in beta and it wasn't for me. I've built dozens of sites using notepad++ and occasionally load up sublimetext for find/replace - but still feel that more visual / wysiwyg type stuff is greatly desired by much of the world.

Wordpress is going more in that design direction as the gutenburg blocks start to work with full site design and not just page content. And I still keep meaning to take the time to try out pinegrow site builder - as that might be the replacement for netobjects that I've longed for.

But it's not just me - there are plenty of people who could / would make a site and find things too complex today - about 7 years ago I found someone in the top 3 search results for a home service - and inquired about their designer / seo .. The guy who was there doing the work told me he made the page in microsoft publisher.

While I'm not advocating for the bloat that Msoft's frontpage pushed into the world, and I know the time of clearpixel alignment is a distant memory, even though we have an infinite amount of tools - it still seems the front end world is more complex than it needs to be.

It is better in some ways and worse in others. I hope CSS gets better menu options so there can be less pieces needed for a decent puzzle. I like non-js sites just fine, and building with less tools is okay too.
BusyBox is a compatible re-implementation though, you can switch back and forth as much as you like.
Per capita cases/deaths in the USA are not worse than many major European countries, so I am not sure why you singled out the USA.

Moreover, I am not sure the strictness of lockdowns really correlated with outcomes - Sweden is a famous example, Belgium vs Netherlands another iirc. The only lockdowns that worked (so far) were either islands (meaning very few points of exchange that are easy to control) or totalitarian (e.g. China).

Or a little bit of both, like cops barging into somebody's home in Australia over a Facebook post. At that point I'll take liberty over safety, thank you.
The green paper on the wall was a Do Not Resuscitate order that was legally binding.
Why is Ethereum, the largest peer to peer decentralized finance network,
not listed? All these other platforms are hot air.
>Sarita often heads down to a local pawnshop and pledges her jewellery as security for a loan that comes at a staggering interest rate of 30-35% (compared to 2-5% from a bank)

2-5% from a bank? What kinds of loan are we comparing? That seems unreasonably low for something comparable to a pawn shop.

As for 30-35%, short term loans are labor intensive with limited upside. If you roll the fixed costs into the APR then yeah it's going to look like usury (and maybe it is).

It is a good point that automated "underwriting" (I am skeptical that there is much more than a rubber stamp going on there) has the potential to reduce the labor costs.

But some quick, imprecise googling has Klarna at 20% and Affirm at "0-30%". Isn't that for luxury shoppers in the developed world?

I feel like I've been hearing about defi for 10 years now but not much has come of it. The last big fad I remember was microlending, which seems pretty dead.
I only have experience with backend non web development, so my experience may not be worth much, but...

Setting up a frontend web app with React (or Angular) is insanely hard to self teach and I would consider myself very good at self learning. Its hard to workout how to integrate React with Bootstrap and you often start to get problems you are not even sure how to fix. When you look at tutorials online, they all have slightly different tech stacks which complicates this further. Second to this working out how and where you get your graphics from is impossible for me.

Frontend blows my mind! (And this comes from a guy who has done +1000 leetcode problems for fun)

Also, in this thread people say this or that is bad without specifying examples of websites and a problem which could be fixed. Is anyone able to name 2 to 3 concrete websites and examples from which others can look at and learn what is wrong?
I guess this depends on 'musically diverse' === 'better' though, which isn't necessarily the case when people think about what makes the top 100 tracks for a year.
Understanding the Quran literally is not the only way Islamic law is derived.

According to the four Schools of Jurisprudence in the Sunnis and the Ja'fari Schools of Jurisprudence in the Shias Islamic law is derived from the following sources:
- Quran and Quranic exegesis
- Ahaadith (prophetic traditions)
- Ijmaa' (consensus)
- Qiyaas (analogy - limited use cases and remit)

This is a ruling that is held by each of the Schools of Jurisprudence in the Sunnis and the Ja'fari School of Jurisprudence of the Shias.

As a side note the modern day Salafis/Wahabis/Ahlul Hadith literally interpret the Quran and Ahaadith (Prophetic Traditions) which is how they reach rulings that differ from the accepted Schools of Jurisprudence that have had millions of scholars over centuries work together.
Me too. 35 millions of italian user is really near the 100% of italian internet users. So I need to understand how many info about me and my family are on the web.
In what world has the past decade or so not been example of corporations working with Democrats?

Most billionaires vote Democrat.
sqldiff: SQLite Database Difference Utility
It makes sense though, the cost of hardware per performance has nosedove, whereas the cost of human labor has probably gone up? Why pay devs to write fast code when you can buy faster computers faster and cheaper?

I wonder when the trend reverses. It must, at some point, mustn't it?
Also they can be justified in ways browsers can’t (yet) do. Every web page has a ragged right.
Multiple vaccines have not been tested, but immunology suggests they would be safe (using the same adeno-virus would likely be less effective since your body would pre-empt spike production). One possible hypothesis for why Sputnik (which it self is a succession of two different adeno-virus laden spike protein generators) is less effective is that it (unlike Moderna, Pfizer, J&J) does not appear to use a stabilized Spike protein, which makes the immune response it generates more susceptible to this substitution. They key is what parts of the artificial vaccine spike you develop antibodies for, as to how effective the vaccine is for a variant since much of the active portion of the protein is unchanged.

However, since both Moderna and Pfizer are testing mRNA "booster" vaccines specifically for the SA variant, you might just wait for that. They don't have an adeno-virus vector that could be pre-empted by immune response.
So we're supposed to be appending the client's IP to whatever the client sent for X-Forwarded-For, documented here:

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170986-H...

For better or worse, this is how X-Forwarded-For works, by convention: each forwarder is supposed to append a value. This means that, even in a correct implementation, an attacker can specify an arbitrary prefix of values. The consumer must be very careful about which part of the chain they trust.

But the report here seems to be suggesting that we're mishandling this appending in some cases. We're investigating and if true will fix ASAP.

Because X-Forwarded-For is surprisingly complicated, we recommend using CF-Connecting-IP instead. As the docs say: "To restore original visitor IP addresses at your origin web server, Cloudflare recommends your logs or applications look at CF-Connecting-IP or True-Client-IP instead of X-Forwarded-For since CF-Connecting-IP and True-Client-IP have a consistent format containing only one IP."
I also pay a lot per month to DocRaptor and they’ve been very reliable to date, but unless I’m rendering charts with JS I feel like I’m really overspending
To be fair its nonsense rhetoric to ask someone to prove the non-existence of something you aren't able to measure (given we can't just barge into people homes and start probing them). But there is a likelihood that other people who have symptoms will now come forward seeing this, so the people of Santa Clara Square still might have more for us. I would be surprised it doctors can't detect if the patient has been poisoned.
Brooks was also one of the Lucid Inc. co-founders. Looks like he was also instrumental in writing Lucid CL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Brooks

"He was one of ten founders of Lucid Inc., and worked with them until the company's closure in 1993."

http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/companies.html

There are some cool tidbits in this interview:

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/1st-P...
they would defend your right to say it, not to put your idea into practice.

if you ask me I would defend your right to express that opinion, but I would also expect that if you ever come close to having the power to make it real, you would be stopped.
Yes, this makes sense, but you can convey what you want to an audience without compromising historicity so thoroughly I believe.

Taking the Vikings tv show example - Ragnar Lothbroke would have been in richly and boldly colorful, probably embroidered, clothing of wool and linen and maybe even silk or cotton from trade.

He would have been covered in gold and silver jewelry, and his armor and weapons would have been gilt or inlaid with silver, gold, and copper-alloy and intricately engraved.

Instead we get an extra from Sons of Anarchy complete with tats and edgy haircut.

Edit, also 3/4s of those impressions the modern audience does have is from decades of movies and tv shows. I think a project that respects its audience could do its part to start projecting more accurate impressions of past aesthetics and fashion sensibilities.
It's very mildly radioactive due to trace amounts of naturally occurring uranium and thorium (and the daughter isotopes they decay into). Those elements are present because they're in seawater, and the deposits it came from ultimately came from seawater drying. The "phosphogypsum is radioactive waste" claim is hype.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphogypsum
No, it’s more for pdf production from desktop. The print preview on the example web page works on iPhone and browsers but the aim is really for pdf and not for consumption via mobile etc
This has inspired me to try to make my own custom keyboard. Does anyone know of a good keyboard remapping tool for the Mac? I have BetterTouchTool, but I've found it's not reliable on my machine. (And probably other people's machines, which is why it includes a "Restart" option in its menu.)

I like the keyboard company the article links to, but the keyboards it offers don't have the full range of function keys that macOS supports (It's four short). Are there other custom-printed keyboard companies I should consider?
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Loads of comments in the Twitter thread trying to pin the blame on someone. It’s product managers; no, its frontend developers; no, it’s backend developers; no, it’s users…

An organisational way of thinking is to figure out whose blame it is and charge them with fixing it.

Me, I don’t give a crap who’s to blame. Just fix it.

Stop collectively waiting for someone to do something about it and just do something about it.

Fix your own code. Make your own code better. Be an example to the world.
I think non scalability is the default assumption. Why do you think it WOULD?

If I stumble into the diner at 3am drink and want a bowl of chilly, guarantee positive outcome. At my mom's, not so.
That's interesting. Where I live I have unlimited text messages and minutes for €5/month. So whenever I want to text someone, I just use SMS - I don't have to think if they use Whatsapp, Messenger or something else. (Apple hijacks them but is doing so more or less transparently, so I don't mind.)
You are making my point for me: “you are optimizing for experience and NYT, as a business, is optimizing for revenue.” That is simply an attempt to explain away the bad experience of reading the Times. The explanation is probably correct. But by offering explanations for why the site is bad, you are implicitly agreeing that it is bad.
I play piano, guitar (classical music), and trumpet (jazz).

The guitar is aspirationally tuned in equal temperament — note that one can transpose a piece up by playing in a higher position and it ought to sound the same. In practice, though, I would find myself often bending notes to make them sound better (closer to just), especially major 3rds. Sometimes depending on the key of the piece I was playing, I might even tune a string slightly off so that the major 3rd would sound better. E.g. when playing a piece in D, I might tune the top E string so that the F# (the major 3rd) on the second fret sounded good.

The trumpet is definitely not tuned to equal temperament — but it's sort-of "continuous-pitch" because the player can bend ("lip") notes slightly flat or sharp, depending on the skill of the player and the properties of the instrument and mouthpiece. In practice, I'd find myself lipping to a greater or lesser extend depending on the key I was playing in, which has more to do with the trumpet's physical limitations (it's impossible to actually make it perfectly in tune in all keys) than the details of which tuning system was chosen. Once I know I have to lip notes into tune anyway, I choose the tuning based on what sounds good, rather than aiming for 2^(7/12) or whatever.

Finally I'll note that even the piano, the prototypical example of an equal-temperament instrument, is not tuned according to equal temperament, because the vibrating strings' stiffness means that the overtones are not harmonic. (They're slightly sharp relative to harmonic.) That means that for a piano to sound in tune with itself, pitches are slightly stretched (flat at the low end, sharp at the high end).
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The cost vs benefit analysis is: do all of the above. The total amount spent on biotech related to Covid is negligible compared to the cost of Covid. Israel seems to understand this. Many other countries are orders of magnitude off in their analysis.
Maybe it's simply a force of habit at this point, but I can only read/study/memorize technical stuff from PDF/paginated source--I memorize the overall "picture" of the page and it's location along with the bits I actually need, and it's really tough to do with non-paginated sources.
> Now take it a step further. People want to get away from this hive mind concept.

Why would they?

All the preceding paragraphs sound like Borg collective, but hey, if it's voluntary, it actually doesn't sound bad. As long as we can keep adtech away.
Our city council posts PDF files which consist of scans of documents someone printed out. Sometimes they turn on OCR, but not often.
Sorry, I have no experience in running this on actual Amiga hardware.
thats a good point, I'd argue given that CO2 concentration in atmosphere is a public bad (as in taking ability to sustain life out of 'common biosphere'), the cost to remove it on a per unit basis represents a good measure of externalized costs of unmitigated pollution (just co2, ignoring other pollutants for the moment).

this is doubly good because it provides a great incentive for the free market to minimize the costs of CO2 sequestration and hopefully will let us hit the knee of the optimization curve asap.
I wonder how deeply tinted your rose-colored glasses need to be to go to these lengths to prove that things were better back in the day.
and if nobody moves then?

then I'm at the disadvantage, sad but that's the reality.