skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A similar project https://github.com/VeemsHQ/veems
The EU have options to buy 100 million doses of AZ vaccine for 2022, but they need to make up their minds now if they want them or not.
With AZ's history of not delivering on time I think this is a no-brainer, especially since we don't know if the AZ vaccine will work on the new Covid variants. Why pour more money down the AZ drain when we have better alternatives?
It is actually similar to the test for defamation in US law. Public figures just have a much harder time prevailing as plaintiffs in the US due to the precedent of NYT v. Sullivan. Even if you rereport a defamatory statement you can also be liable.

Singapore has an opposite standard for public figures. In the US you can defame or libel public figures and our precedent considers first amendment concerns to be exculpatory in most circumstances. E.g. I can say "Cillary Hinton killed Beffery Jepstein" without being held liable for defamation, although if I made the same type of accusation against a nonpublic figure like my neighbor that caused actual damages, I could be lose my shirt in any state court for defamation. I could also be held liable for defamation if I was merely restating what I had heard elsewhere or read in a libelous article. That is not a valid defense. There have indeed been defamation cases involving Facebook posts that resulted in substantial judgments or costly settlements here in the US (example: https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/facebook_comment_lea...)

As some others have said, just because another country has different standards around a body of law doesn't necessarily mean that their interpretation is right and ours is wrong. The American interpretation of the first amendment and its applicability to defamatory statements against public figures could change, and it wasn't the same as it is now in previous eras of American history. NYT v. Sullivan is not the Constitution or one of the tablets handed down to Moses: it's a lot easier to reverse.
IMO this is kind of the worst of both worlds:

- It's centralized: so all the issues that come with that, plus the authority is some random person somewhere, rather than the european central bank or something like that. And people die and individual computers catch on fire and get hacked.

- It's a new digital currency: so it's completely useless as of today.

I'd consider it way more likely that I'll get hit by a meteorite tomorrow than this becoming somehow useful.

Sorry for being blunt, I guess it's a cool way to spend some free time, but I really don't think a number database on your computer is going to be of any use.
I am very hopeful for Peertube and their project, since I'm currently partaking in hosting a large video website for otherwise content too controversial for mainstream platforms like Youtube. (Political content if you were wondering, but I won't indulge what kind)

This takes back control to creators in such a way that essentially only domain registrars will be able to dictate what content may stay alive on the internet. (And naturally that each to their own get to federate to their own liking) At the moment domain registrars have been staying on what is IMO the correct stance of content allowance, requiring more or less police warrants to take down content. In fact I'm hopeful enough for this project that I've considered spending some time to get stuck in the development enough that I could even contribute pull requests or helpful issues to the tracker.

I would like to see a world instead where all channels on Youtube were their own "Peertubes" instead. Youtube/Google have really let consumers and creators down as it is right now, which in a way is natural, since they only really have allegiance to their sponsors and advertisers.
lol it's called fiat currency.
I would be worried more about living in a country with high inflation and been able to use cryptos. Can you share your specific concerns about environmental impact?
SRM Channel Attention Explained
Yes! This is exactly it. Very few teams that I've worked with had actually defined what is even important to them.
This roughly matches my experience. Donations amount to around 50€ per 100k visitors on my website. The donation button is next to the "ask a question" button, which yields about 30 emails per month (and 60+ emails to other experts). The average time on page exceeds 5 minutes for some guides.

Donations just aren't that common.
Avoidance was sort of his signature move.
I disagree (and if you want my credentials, I am Mexican). Being able to reason in your own language is a big help. I do this with mathematics in various ways. I can both easily say "sea equis una variable real tal que equis más ye son menor al límite de efe de equis más ye conforme ye tiende al infinito" or whatever in both English and Spanish, and sometimes I prefer saying it in Spanish and sometimes in English. I still count by default in Spanish, although of course I can count in English (or French or Russian). It feels to me like reasoning and language are close in the brain. While you and I have gotten used to thinking of for-loops instead of para-loops, I think there's good reason to think that a learner could benefit from reasoning in their own language.

As far as languages being useless, there's lots of other useless language a person could be learning. That doesn't discredit the raison d'être of these languages.
For what other exchange of futures or FX is the sky the limit?
Just read a lot. Switch to listening if you get tired. That's the only way to get better.

Honestly who cares if you finish a book. There's no magic in just turning the pages to the end of the book. The question to ask is: what new ideas did I acquire?
Those are just the fees from the states; it doesn't include the legal fees you have to pay to have all the applications prepared.
As an introverted ADHD person, my doctor recommended taking only the afternoon dose on weekends, as much adult social interaction is skewed later in the day on weekends. Only works on non-XR meds of course.
Tips for building accessible rich text editors
Note that most of the architects of the anti-RMS letter work at Microsoft or work for an organization that takes money for them. https://libreboot.org/news/rms.html#osimicrosoft-connection

KDE is funded by openSUSE. They cannot survive without their funding, so were forced to publish an anti-RMS letter. However, it is one of the least intense letters, calling for a review of governance.
Thank you, cool idea and so far it works.
What do you think about computers that are always on 24/7? Or TVs that never turn off (even if the screen is off)?

(ETA: 23% of household energy use is by always-on devices. The scale of this waste is MASSIVE.)

Devices in our life consume energy 24/7 when we're not even using them or needing them to be on. Energy conservation has a LONG way to go.

In fact, one could argue that the current stock market system is a huge waste of energy compared to the benefit it actually brings to "raising money for companies".
SWI Prolog is a very nice Prolog but it is not standard anymore
This is so sad , elected governments also try and do this. The most liberal state in India (higher on a lot of HR indices) , tried to add in a law and got slapped on the wrists (may be election time tactic)

https://trak.in/tags/business/2020/11/24/5-yrs-jail-for-offe...

This is the new norm , post something and disappear into thin air as if the poster did not exist , get trolled , threatened , coerced into apologies or be threatened with law suits (notorious cases like this https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/22/whitehat-jrs-founder-files...)
Cannot help but feel bad that "Man is born free ,everywhere he is in chains". Just cork up , and move on.
1. It's easiest to talk well about things you are confident about. If you're not confident, broadcast that lack of confidence clearly and proceed talking (e.g. "I'm not confident about this, but I suspect ..."). Larry King in his book gave this advice: if you're bad at public speaking, when you come out on stage, just say "I'm bad at this, I'll try my best" (manage expectations) and now you won't be as stressed if you mess up.

2. I personally find it helpful not to look at people's faces when I'm in the middle of a verbal paragraph. This gives me fewer distractions as I focus on something that can be complex, and doesn't give anyone an 'in' to interrupt (harder to interrupt when the speaker hasn't noticed your finger in the air). Once you get more confidence, you can start looking at people again.
A consequence of this is that you can't use keywords from any language for your symbol names. Or, I guess, you could do like Perl and defined symbols need a $ prefix or somesuch
Frankly I think crypto would be hardly anything like it is today without Coinbase. They made it accessible.
The real Bitcoin will be the one that the market prefers.

Why is Gold coins more valuable than copper coins?

Why is the original Bitcoin more valuable than any of its forks?
It _is_ cached, but the wasm binary itself as well as the optimized version to improve startup times. The cache however is per origin. So no other origin can make use of the cache which prevents the fingerprinting aspect.
>Take a step back and think about why pollution on Earth is bad, and you'll realize that "polluting" an asteroid isn't ethically wrong.

Of course, that only applies as long as those asteroids are utterly devoid of life. Once there's an ecosystem, polluting becomes ethically wrong again.

Why? There is no ecosystem on top of Everest yet people will get upset when they see what it looks like.

This is an aesthetic decision, not a moral one.
Offering crypto trading is a stretch for an established exchange? ICE and CME already have some crypto but not much yet.
I don't know if you are in the US:

US national holidays mean nothing in the context of employment. The US does not require private employers to close, pay extra, or provide paid time off for those holidays.
Ask HN: No-code platform for multi-channel comms?
I'm looking for a recommendation for, I suppose an "all-in-one no-code comms management platform".

Basically, there are 6 sorts of requests I often field from product people where I end up having to make code changes, and it would be amazing to use a service that allowed the product people to do it all themselves. The requests are:

"Hey, when the user does X, can we send them an email?"
"Hey, that email, can we change its content slightly?"
"Hey, that email, can we change the design slightly?"
"Hey, that email... can it be an SMS instead?"
"Hey, that SMS... can we change it so that we send it 24 hours later instead of immediately?"
"Hey, that SMS... can it only be sent to customers if they're based the UK?"

Does anyone know of anything that ticks most of these boxes? Ta!
Paying for expensive apps is one thing, falling for scams is another.
But you don't know who gave it to you, because it's obfuscated. Which is the whole problem this law was supposed to solve.
> Enough for what? Hospital capacity was wildly sufficient for regular times, but the pandemic turned that around.

Indeed, "enough" for normal times is not the same as "enough" for pandemic times.

> Even Germany, which has multiple times the capacity per capita than France, is struggling in that regard. What is "enough"?

Of course it's a "struggle" to suddenly work at capacity, but Germany wasn't in the situation of having to turn down patients. To the contrary, Germany was able to pick up patients from neighboring countries. That's "enough".

> Events with more than 2000 people outside ( at the best of times, usually it has been flat out forbidden), and 6-100 inside have been forbidden in France since last year. That obviously didn't help.

How do you know that it didn't help? We know from epidemiological studies that superspreader events were responsible for causing a surge of cases in a short amount of time.

> There is, check the US and Brazil.

There really isn't, we have countries with strong lockdowns doing poorly and countries with weak lockdowns doing relatively well, and everything in between. Lockdown measures are also difficult to compare, as are populations, as is testing and reporting.

For example, Brazil with minimal lockdowns is doing just as poorly as Peru, with heavy lockdowns. Florida is doing better than many other US states with heavier restrictions. Japan is supposedly doing well with few restrictions, but also performs little testing.

There are lots of variables and unknowns here and one can always cherrypick data to argue for or against lockdowns in various forms.
“Really good friends” aren’t the only friends worth staying in touch with.
Yes it's quite bad with C. With C++ and Rust it's much much better when you do it properly.
Heh, reminds me of that Jeff Bezos incident :
At one meeting, Bezos was regaling attendees with visions of hollowing out asteroids and transforming them into space arks when a woman leapt to her feet. “How dare you rape the universe!” she said, and stormed out. “There was a pause, and Jeff didn’t make a public comment,” says Kevin Polk, another member of the club. “But after things broke up, Jeff said, ‘Did she really defend the inalienable rights of barren rocks?’ ”
> That said, looking at this objectively, you assert "if there were, it would be known." According to the polling I referenced in the GP, it is "known" by ~60% of GOP voters.

It is not known by a court of law, despite numerous opportunities for the Trump team to do so. At best, Trump is so incompetent that he predicted massive fraud before the election, had it happen, and then failed to collect any evidence of its having happened. If he's really that incompetent, we're better off with the fraudsters.

Again, it doesn't take deep insight to figure out the above. It's just common sense about human nature, how the courts work, how the media works, etc.

Re: Hunter Biden's laptop, the Trump team chose to sit on the story until October, so the media chose to ignore it. Impeachment #1 had already made it clear that Trump was planning to attack Hunter. Why should the media choose to let themselves be played? If Trump's team wanted the story to be publicized, they had months and months to do it but instead they waited until October and the media declined to cover a story that was a best irrelevant to Biden Sr.'s job performance.
You might consider offering something for services that adopt your coin and refer new users.
"It's not much of a difference" is a terrible excuse. This isn't about the percentage points they were off, this is about how such a thing looks in the public.

When you get a warning from a gov agency that you shared outdated data that just looks terrible. Just don't do anything in a press release that could even remotely look like you're trying to cheat with your data. It's a terrible idea in a situation like this.
Why make transactions public if you don't need to? If its centralized people won't trust that you're revealing all information anyways.

So you basically just took away user privacy for no good reason?
Seconded. Practice.

I'm not really a social type but at some point in the last few years and after enough repetitions, when people asked me what my company does, my response had gone from "I... uh... controls... hydraulics?" to "we provide a bolt-on control system for fixed plant hydraulic booms which integrates guarding, automation and remote operation capabilities."

Also the point on questions is spot on, nobody asks questions about your tech unless they're interested. If you're worried about a client question being a "gotchya" then rethink your premise until you can't think of any easy gotchyas.
I suggest you do more reading and less writing.
Nice concept, love the aesthetic! It was too CPU intensive for me on a laptop so I sourcedived to find the list of svideos which appear to be the following https://rentry.co/txqrq . I personally use

mpv --no-video --vo=null --ytdl-format='bestaudio/best'

for listening to such streams. Unfortunately, as "youtube-dl --list-formats" will tell you, the live streams don't have separate audio tracks (which normal YouTube videos do) so this only helps with CPU savings but not bandwidth (you can choose a lower bitrate stream though).
But not everyone who wants to learn how to program wants to program as a job. Moreover, proper localization goes well beyond changing keywords. Some languages are written right to left, or bottom to top. There's also tooling, debug messages, and and documentation. Why does all of this need to be in English? I think it's fine for people of other cultures to write tools localized to those cultures.
Isn't it sort of what OpenBSD(?) does with having return/entrance pointers masked with an additional bits that only kernel knows? (my memory is really vague on details, sorry)
https://wiki.opennic.org/opennic/creating_new_tlds
Really was a case of ligma after all.
I used to believe that games were an art form - but I just can't get behind them being completely on par with books, etc.

The writing is often so terrible... I wish I could think of a single video game that touched me like The Brothers Karamazov or Les Miserables.
Brushing your teeth is a great example - I just brushed mine after reading this. It seems like there are so many things people just take for granted - remembering what you're supposed to do today specifically in addition to the 100 things normies seem to do automatically, knowing what day it is. The only thing that's helped consistently is using Google to "remind me to call the school in 20 minutes"
Hinted at with lower bandwidth requirements, but the biggest win with video is their stellar compression. GIFs store every single color value, which is why they get so huge so quick.
I think I found an answer to my own question.
It seems the answer is yes. https://creatoracademy.youtube.com/page/lesson/ad-promotion
That's highly misleading. Pre-agricultural humans weren't some kind of noble savages, living in perfect harmony and balance with nature. They lived "sustainably" only in the sense that their environment killed them off at the same rate as they procreated, not of their own volition.
Dev Fun: No real purpose but to make a developer chuckle
Gotta pay for hosting with some monero mining
How to play hidden dinosaur game in Chrome browser
> For example, the company’s chief growth officer, Ted Lin, told Decrypt just a few days ago, “We have offices in Malta for customer services, and some compliance people there, but it’s not the headquarters per say [sic]. It’s the spiritual headquarters. It’s a name that people think about when they think about Binance.”

Oh my god lol.
I got by okay without meds as a bachelor. On non-productive days I'd leave the office at 4. On productive days I'd leave the office around 8. That way I would get 40+ hours of productive office time while still having plenty of time for myself.

Marriage made that harder. Kids even more so. Meds made it so much easier to have consistent productivity.
There is a bunch of portugol compilers, all incompatible with each other since this is not a well defined language. Kinda the point is to not waste time learning syntax and use whatever imaginary functions calls you want.

The more serious problem is when teachers uses it as a hammer to every nail and teach advanced concepts using it, so students are forced to reason about fine syntax of a fictional language.
I reject the thinking that "people are going to do what they want" and we are helpless to influence their behavior so we should just accept whatever they are doing no questions asked and work around it with public policy if it causes a problem. The reason I reject it is because I would argue "what people want to do" does not spontaneously arise in their minds, but rather is influenced by popular culture, marketing, and more.

Take alcohol for example. You might say "you can't prevent people from drinking, look at Prohibition, it was a complete failure, don't even try", and in a certain sense you are right. You can't prevent all people from drinking.

However, you can prevent many people from drinking (or at least, reduce the total amount of drinking to more moderate levels) by:

- Not glorifying alcohol via pop culture and movies (especially American binge drinking at age 21)

- Restrict/regulate alcohol advertisements and marketing to reduce the influence of "drinking = happiness" messaging

- etc.

Or, stated in other terms, you can exacerbate your country's alcohol-related issues by glorifying alcohol and enshrining it in popular culture.

In the same vein, maybe we wouldn't have as big of a problem if we didn't glorify casual sex encounters so much in our media. If popular media/culture instead glorified things like self-restraint, commitment, etc, I'm sure some % of people would be influenced.
yep, I was trying to make some recreations of DVD menus a few years ago and decided to host on youtube so it could be easily added to.

Iirc my hack to hide the UI was replacing pausing videos with an infinite loop of a millisecond (which was buggy as hell). VideoJS with the youtube plugin was able to hide most everything else.
“Any libel or slander of their character with respect to their public service damages not only their personal reputation, but also the reputation of Singapore as a state whose leaders have acquired a worldwide reputation for honesty and integrity in office and dedication to service of the people.”

Ah, so the Singaporean government is absolutely corrupt from top to bottom. Good to know.
We should do a much better job of building energy efficient devices, but, the amount of energy that's "wasted" by things like TVs that never turned off is really tiny compared to the energy footprint of the crypto ecosystem.

Further, I worry that crypto will grow massively. If that happens, all bets are off. In its current state, crypto consumes more energy than several large countries - imagine a world where that's 10x or 100x and we've still not moved off of proof of work. What's global warming going to look like?
Proof of stake is here in Ethereum 2.0 and it works great. Invest in that because this is the last hurrah for Bitcoin. The next cycle will be the “Ethereum is the new better Bitcoin” cycle. I say that as someone with almost all my net worth in Bitcoin but it has miserable transaction speed and energy usage. History has shown us that not innovating has never worked out for any company I can think of.
Everyone here cries about shitty ISPs in America. This is obviously a tool to police shitty American ISPs isn't it? You need data first.

It's why 3rd party speed tests and people saying "internet is too slow" doesn't cut it.

https://www.fcc.gov/general/measuring-mobile-broadband-metho...