skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Hospitals were most certainly overwhelmed.
2. This always seemed cautionary to me. We know this is a vector for other viruses.It makes sense to sanitize until you have a better understanding.
3. I think that's a bit of an exaggeration, but thank goodness the models that made predictions based on no action taken didn't come to fruition. We lost in the US alone a half million people and counting. It could have been worse, but it should have been better.
4. Leadership whiffed big here at the beginning with the whole lying to save PPE for health professionals thing, but they admitted that. As for restaurant protocols that was more or less min-maxing for the situation. Ideally just don't go out to eat, but if that's not a sacrifice you want to make, or you're adamant about supporting a restaurant by in-person dining, then filter as much of your and other's respiration as possible.

And I wasn't frantically following anyone - it seemed like sense to me. A novel virus is/was spreading that's potentially dangerous: wear a mask, wash your hands, avoid contact with people - do these things to the best of your ability for both your own and the community's safety. I live in Arizona, so believe me when I tell you the things I did were of my own volition.

Thanks for expounding.
I used to have some ex-Soviet country co-workers who took their Christmas break in my January, and I'm sure it was the only time of the year they used that calendar in public. Perhaps in part because of the curious people like us have endless questions about it ;)

Wikipedia has an article on the calendar¹, including how and why the movable feasts are calculated.

¹ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church_litu...
The boswash corridor is packed on most days, and the major stops have walkable downtown areas. Is your concern that crumbling bridge in Norwalk that drops the line down to 5 mph?

Otherwise I generally take the train rather than fly as it shaves about an hour off the trip from Boston to NYC. Acela charges the same as a plane ticket for this route.
Wow, it's exactly the opposite for me - bought a few cookbooks at ~19-20 years old and used them for a few years. Now it's been a decade since I last touched any of my cookbooks because the recipes are really limited and just not that great compared to what you find on the internet.

I guess I avoid the junk because I have good instinct, I can usually tell if something is going to be bad based on the ingredients. Also if I'm looking to make something "basic" I'll specifically look for Alton Brown's recipe for it or sometimes Chef John's recipe. I also sometimes just use recipes for "inspiration" too - just to get a basic idea of what the ingredients are.
What does cannabis do for you?
how do you store the gas?
Gotta be secret military tech. One commonality with nearly all sightings is they occured in restricted waters, and over the ocean.

Another possibility, the US knows these are foreign drones and they're leaking the videos to get the offender to stop.

Tinfoil hat time, nuclear powered drones with plasma stealth.

US supposedly stopped researching nuclear plane engines after the 60's, but they built some working ones. They might be viable now that drone tech means we don't need people around them. And as a drone, they could fly forever. They would be super dangerous to fly over land, but maybe not over water. Especially if they were designed to safely submerge if reactor conditions became dangerous. And if your vehicle is too dangerous to land on solid earth, it needs to land in water. Which might explain the multiple videos of these vehicles transitioning from air to water.

It's been known that a plasma sheath gives radar stealth since the first atmospheric re-entries. This is why spacecraft lose radio contact on the way down. But ionizing enough air takes a lot of power, or a lot of radiation.

Maybe nuclear powered plasma stealth craft aren't that crazy? It would explain the lights, which otherwise make no sense for a covert craft
That doesn't change what I said though. The "non-practicing entity" part got too much undeserved criticism. It's the submarine patent part that is really problematic.
Why can that be a bad idea? (I'm not in or from the US and a bit clueless)
I came here with the same question. I couldn't help asking it, but we've both missed the point: "which I’ve further simplified here for clarity". The details of the magic trick aren't relevant, the analogy is about the grind, not the one little deceptive detail about the trick, which could be sleight of hand, suggestion, etc.
Diamond battery powered by nuclear waste runs for 28,000 years
Self-Assembling Wires (2015) [video]
NPEs help make the market for patents more efficient -- small firms invent and have a hard time protecting their patent? They sell it to an NPE.
Is the system imperfect? Probably. Worst case scenario, a big firm get frivolously sued and loses -- this is just a transfer of money from Apple to the NPE and the small inventor. Will Apple be less likely to invent as a consequence? I don't think so, but you can prove me wrong.
Best case scenario, small actors are incentivized to invent and sell their ideas in the market for patents.

So why is everybody outraged? Because the lawful licensing agreements don't make it to the news. The outrageous cases do.
Slightly off-topic, but it was Firefox's Total Cookie Protection recently that finally got to me to switch from Chrome as my daily driver.

Don't get me wrong, I miss Chrome as it just felt like a_smoother_ user experience, and I fear for Firefox replaying Opera's history given that the rest of the industry has standardized on Chromium... but I love how pro-privacy Firefox is.
Some airlines do (or at least did) weigh passengers on some routes [1].

[1]: https://onemileatatime.com/hawaiian-weighing-passengers-samo...
Rocky Mountain Labs is located in Hamilton, Montana, population 5080.

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/rocky-mountain-overview
Eh. White rice must be the blandest food in human history.
FBI was on the other end of that e2e link trying to sell him the explosives, targets and motives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Bronx_terrorism_plot
Thanks. That comment doesn't address the database, though. Do you believe their stated reason for taking it down? If not, why do you think they're lying?
Maybe. But annihilating isn’t really in anyone’s interests.
I strongly doubt he could have pulled off the Amazon incident he was envisioning.

However, before the FBI inserted itself into his life, our twitwit gave strong, consistent messaging that harm needed to be done and that it was his patriotic duty to facilitate it.

It appears that drumpounding rhetoric, about his America being in imminent danger, heavily shaped his thinking. Those messages were translating into drives to escalate his behavior in a harmful way. Given no changes, some sort of violent action seems an unsurprising outcome.
Recently renamed to rif is fun, probably copyright related
This receives an extended, hilarious, discussion in Thomas Pynchon's book Mason & Dixon, in which an astronomer sits at a bar and everyone complains at him about losing their eleven days, and when they can have the days back, etc.
It was more to say "expat Americans are not proportionately representative of non-expat Americans", i.e. I have not met one Trump supporter while abroad (or if I have, they have kept very quiet).
Sort of.

Docker makes external dependencies management better, but it's an abstraction that leaks like a sieve when it comes to networking. If your /etc/docker/daemon.json file isn't set up just so, or your iptables are a bit off, or your vpn client is a bit too aggressive (e.g., Cisco VPN), the whole thing blows up.

Personally, I would rather manage dependencies than iptables rules.
Opoid overdose is pretty high... Yet barely makes the news.
Ah yeah makes sense. Really interesting that cf workers limit you to 50ms cpu time rather than wallclock time, makes lots of send-then-wait scenarios possible/way cheaper.
I did an internal transfer and took over from a team that I think had been in this state for some time— it was really the ideal scenario because in many ways I wasn't having to ramp on everything the way a true new hire would, but I still had the clean slate and clean calendar to immediately get a bunch of stale systems upgraded, processes cleaned up, start into writing some documentation, research new tools to deploy, etc. Very invigorating and a lot of progress possible in a short period of time.
IME, non-intellectual breaks don't break flow the same way as meetings where you need to use, but shift, intellectual focus. Bathroom, short-walk, and coffee/tea/snack breaks, aside from filling important bodily functions that don’t get filled by meetings, provide a pause that seems somewhat akin to a rest between sets in physical exercise.
Since you are asking, you are always welcome to develop/recreate some high quality desktop Linux applications. Half-joking.
For the curious, the causes listed on the site seem to cover about 44% of all deaths. So there are other significant ways to die as well...
I also find reading multiple books in parallel really helpful. In this way, you can read multiple kinds of books.

For example, I am currently reading a "mathematical book"- Jordan Ellenberg's 'How Not to Be Wrong', a big fat novel in my native language, and Rumi's poetry in English.

It get's tiring to read serious non-fiction for multiple hours but there is still appetite for reading left. You should switch to a fiction then. And read poetry and book like Meditations by Aurelias now and then, maybe not even linearly.

I have found this combination to work for me really well.
>>They pretty much intentionally lost S3TC patent case opting not to push for patent invalidation

Do you have any inside knowledge or just guessing the strategy of the lawyers in the courtroom?
The approval process differs for extensions published to the Firefox and Chrome stores.

When submitting to the Firefox store you need to send them your un-minified, un-obfuscated source, along with step by step instructions on how to build. If you get big enough they do review the code in surprising depth. The hash of the compressed file pushed for release, also needs to match that of the compressed file the reviewer can build.

When submitting to the Chrome store this is not the case. You can push up minified, obfuscated code and that's what the reviewers have to work with.

I'm not familiar with why WASM needs extra permissions for Chrome extensions. It might be that the increased complexity of reviewing bytecode does indeed introduce more risk for the user. The permission request might just be the Chrome store pushing acceptance of that risk to the user?
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It's not a great assumption that there is a viable taxi network in most American suburbs with less than 50-70k people. Even with uber, you might be waiting for an hour if it's available. Even if there is a good network you might be out ~20-30 bucks each way and need a taxi between every destination.

Given that a brand new car costs around 500/month in the US it wouldn't take many such excursions to make the car worth it. Once you've purchased a car and incur it's fixed monthly costs you're incentivised to use it for everything rather than incur further incremental transit expenses.
You went for a preventative check, and asked for a bunch of issues to be addressed and you’re surprised it cost you money?
How could that be any more “trusted” than doing it without wasm and websocket?
> Thirty years in a massively controlled environment, often sedentary, with limited opportunities to socialise with peers, and the simple pleasures of mutual grooming, lying in the sun etc

Sounds a lot like work, to be honest.
Where can I join / look into such an initiative? I’d love to give back to those following us, just as many before us did.
c.f. terrorist attacks, which always make the news, but don’t even rate a mention in the top causes of deaths.
Florida has a higher population density than France.
I’ll give a contrary view point to most “patent trolls”.

I’m an inventor (100+ Issued patents), I develop POCs and concepts well beyond my ability to productionize. That’s not to say I couldnt create a product, just that I don’t have the resources. However, I do have the resources to develop novel techniques. Does that mean I didn’t invent the process- no, I did invent a new process. I just didn’t build them into a product.

You know what?

Apple is also inventing things and has a plethora of patents. Further, I 100% guarantee they did a patent search and knew of this patent prior to releasing their product(s).

While I don’t think patent trolling is necessarily fair, I don’t think saying “poor old Apple” for having to pay for someone else’s invention is fair either.

Do I think patent law needs reform? Yes. Right after copyright, which can be extended decades/a century after publication. That being said, this is the game. Play by the rules while you’re in it.
Having now hand-curated and updated 100s of level mappings for different companies by using a combination of research, leveling rubrics, and crowdsourced submissions on Levels.fyi, this article speaks to me
Google has an obvious incentive to make life hard for ad blocking extension developers. Chrome and chromium exist because their business model is showing ads in it. That's the only reason it exists. Everything else it does is there only to convince users to use it and thus get exposed to ads and tracking. That includes performance work, UX work, etc. that Google puts a lot of time and money in. It makes Chrome really nice to use.

Mozilla and Firefox exists because it's developers wanted to create the best browser possible. That's why it had extensions before Chrome was even a thing and that's why ad blocking extensions exist almost as long as extensions have been a thing. Adblock emerged somewhere around 2002 which was very soon after the first OSS releases by Mozilla reached the 1.0 stage. Also Phoenix, Firefox' ancestor became a thing around that time. Tabs and extensions were some of the early things that made that popular. Ad blocking always was the #1 use case for extensions.

Ironically, that's why Chrome has extensions. The only reason it supports extensions is that not having that would have made it impossible to grab market share from Firefox (and Internet Explorer). Having support for both extensions and ad blocking were a hard requirement for Google despite its business model. But now that it is the dominant browser, that feature is no longer as important as it once was. So, Google has been slowly making it harder for extensions to interfere with their ads and tracking. They can't make it too hard or their market share will evaporate. But they don't have to be particularly good at it. And now that they have Android, they don't have to worry as much about losing market share. Android exists for the exact same reason. Chrome is losing relevance as a revenue stream as users consume more content on Android via "native" apps running in a virtual machine compiled against mandatory proprietary ad & tracking technology.
I feel the idiotic claims by the Trump admin (it is a bioweapon! It was released by China to make me look bad!) made it hard to actually push forward the strong arguments in favor of an accidental lab release.

There was a lot of controversy around the P4 lab in Wuhan when it was built, as this was seen an unnecessary risk. There has been breaches of security protocols several times in the past.

The fact that a new virus would first appear in that city would have been quite a coincidence that could not be ruled out, but the accidental lab release should always have been an hypothesis.
I disagree. The CCP's modus operandi is self preservation through suppression of information. To those perpetrating the cover up what actually happened is irrelevant. The CCP is never transparent in matters that could make them look bad. From their perspective allowing an open international investigation would make them appear guilty regardless of the results because it would be unprecedented.
30 years is a pretty long time. I am skeptical but you never know.

Its exactly the opposite of flying cars. There are billions being spent on autonomous driving, DOT is onboard and trials have begun.

I do agree that its not going to happen in next 5 years as Elon Musk claims.
The article mentions this, but for those who just read the comments, the missing eleven days was not the only weird thing about 1752. Prior to this year, New Year's Day in England was observed on March 25 (the Feast of the Annunciation). So, for example, March 24, 1741 would be followed by March 25, 1742. This was known as "Annunciation dating" and was common throughout Europe during the Middle Ages. By the 1700s most of Europe had moved New Year's Day to January 1 (known as "circumcision dating" because it fell on the Feast of the Circumcision), but England had stayed on the old system.

In 1750, Parliament had had enough and harmonized the calendar with the rest of Europe. By decree, 1752 would begin on January 1 the day after December 31, 1751. This meant that January and February of 1751 did not exist! In fact, in England 1751 had only 288 days.

Since England's calendar was unusual by European standards people had adapted "dual dating" techniques to avoid confusion [1]. The most common was to write a date with two years, one on top of the other. So you would say January 15, 1748/49, with the 48 on top of the 49.

And 1751/52 weren't the only weird years in history. When the Julian calendar was adopted, the previous calendar had drifted so far from the seasons that two leap months needed to be added, which made the year 46 BC 445 days long.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_dating

[Edited to correct Assumption to Annunciation.]
Reminds me of this Penn and Teller trick with a similar method but the opposite effect -- see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnEGedfTrzc (skip to 2 minutes in). Freely think of any card, then miraculously reveal the card in an improbable location. It's "easy", just hide all 52 cards and memorize where they're hidden.
Touché, didn't know that. I've actually been to Bitter Root Brewing, just a block or two away, but somehow completely missed it. Oh well, I guess they probably don't give tours anyway.
I don’t know many Linux applications that people pay for
More people drive cars than motorcycles so there are more car deaths than motorcycle deaths.
Fuck off with this racist garbage.
Boeing Tells Airlines to Stop Flying Some 737 Max Planes
The point is it didn't start in a lab.

Look, if the point here is blame, have at it. It started in China, blame China, feel great about that and don't worry about our government's performance or theirs.

But if the point is truth, it probably came from agriculture->society. Labs are not necessary for that story, and China was blindsided anyways.
Oh! Sorry, I totally missed that.

Background: I work at a bank, we specialize in Credit Cards - but I'm in the car finance division. Some of what I have here is an educated guess.

Pay day lenders IS highly competitive. In certain geographies, there are LOTS of lenders. There are some very real barriers to entry:

You have to be credited with certain financial regulators (CFPB and OCC are the 2 I know of) to lend money - and these regulators come with various stipulations (e.g., keep $ in reserve, don't be racist, lend to people who can pay you back, etc)

Many "real" banks avoid this market because the regulators "punish" us - our Credit Card division would be held to a higher standard because we also had pay day loans. Fun fact: during the Obama administration, we also had Mortgages, because regulators "went easy" on the rest of the company. When Trump became president, regulators stopped caring and we sold our mortgages.

All of this being said, if you, right NOW had a lemonade stand lending money to people, you could probably get away with it.

On that note, there is a really interesting shift in the market:

Financial Services As A Service. Imagine: Bank of Small-Town-Maine is a legitimate bank. They know how to stay solvent, they are registered with the right regulators, etc. I approach them and say "let me use your Certifications, I'll use my money, my marketing, I'll buy Identification Services and Credit services - I'll lend money to people and we split the profit".

ACE Cash Express is doing something like this RIGHT NOW - and there are MANY other people doing it, too.
Why on earth would you call that irrational?
What do you think police officers do
It's especially useful for doing things during the Origin Request phase, which happens prior to the request from the CDN to the Origin.

In that phase you can change anything about the request itself, or the origin it will connect to. But the function only needs to run when there's a cache miss.

I have an application that needs to select an origin based on the request path (too many to use CloudFront cache behaviours), with a cache miss rate of less than 1%. It's a tiny amount of additional latency for cache misses, and a very small proportion of our CDN costs per month.
Oh, don't even get me started on CBSA.

I was driving from a town in Illinois to Toronto (a very long 10 hour trip as it was). Got to the border, they said that I needed to pay several thousands dollars to import my car because according to them I was a "returning resident" even though I kept saying I work in US and was going to return to US (and had paperwork to prove it, to boot). Nope. They kept insisting I was lying about the purpose of my trip, and eventually decided that because I was "lying", they were going to seize my car (and everything in it, including laptops and cellphones).

They then proceeded to tell me I had to pay $14k to get my car back (or to find a cab willing to come to the border. Without a cell phone. At midnight on a sunday.) Did I mention I had my wife and two children in the car with me? Yeah.

So I ended up scrambling to come up with $14k by maxing out multiple credit cards, got my car and belongings back, and finally got our asses out of there at 2am (with still 3 hours of road ahead of me).

I knew the border officers were full of shit so I filed a formal appeal with the government. Six months later, what do you know, it was actually reviewed and it was determined that the border officers were in fact in the wrong and that I should get a full refund. Better late than never, but boy, that night couldn't have gone much worse.