skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Spyglass, Inc. licensed Mosaic from NCSA. Microsft licensed Mosaic from Spyglass. Microsoft did make some modifications to Spyglass's "from-scratch" implementation in order to produce Internet Explorer.

I don't know what point you're trying to make. A reading of your previous comment would lead people to believe that there is some part of NCSA Mosaic lurking under the hood in IE. But IE is based on Spyglass Mosaic, not NCSA Mosaic, which are not the same thing.
Did you know Superhero is a trademaked term held by the duo Marvel (now Disney) and DC.

That said they have never tried to test that trademark in the courts.

I thought about putting another term into the public domain, something like uberheros/ultraheros and then allowing artists, writers, and other creatives to define their characters as such, and while also in the public domain, allow remixing and reinterpretation of the archetypes and stories.

I think the easiest way to start this would be to setup a git repo to describe how it works and what it means to place one of your characters or stories into the public domain. Then build a community and tools to help people and teams do so.
Well...not really. The UK manufacturing capacity is tiny from a global perspective. The EU tried to scapegoat the UK for their failure to run an efficient procurement, but that was just irrational politicking. The U.S. obviously has more manufacturing capacity, but like the UK it basically has no chance of dealing with the pandemic without mass vaccination, so exports are a political non starter.

What was really required was a globally coordinated response to the design, test, manufacture, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccine candidates, through the WHO/CEPI with the backing of the security council members. Unfortunately with the major countries locked in various levels of sub-explosive warfare with each other (and our international institutions gravely weakened*) we've ended up with a scramble powered by commerce and nationalism.

Edit: *through malice and incompetence
I know AI hasn't gotten that powerful yet. That was a sarcastic comment about Grammarly :)
The Covid part pretty interesting. We kinda following a hybrid model once COvid is over.
Try making realtime audio and video filters in JS vs WASM. There are some domains were there is a very real difference, and it is enough to put things in the realm of the viable.
If I don't trust a private organisation, I can use another one, set up my own, or supply them with pseudo-true information and rotate between providers periodically. I can select private VPN providers on the basis of say, independent audits and the history of communicating well-received patches into open source code. I can pick and choose what I want and, because most of the time the item in question is electronic in nature, change it without difficulty. I know that the company in question will be making a profit out of me --- the question is "how much" and "can I afford them to".

It's much harder to do any of those things with the government. I'm an academic, and I've just been appointed as an associate professor in Denmark. I've noticed that almost all Danes trust their government to do the right thing, and look out for them. As a Brit, this is complete anathema to the way I think --- I wouldn't trust the local council to organise a car park, let alone anything actually complicated.

I have a deep-seated and innate distrust of the intelligence services, a skepticism of the police (I was beaten up repeatedly by someone who is now a policeman for being a nerd while at school!), and dislike having a government gateway ID in the UK for tax reasons. There is no way in hell I am downloading a government-produced app in the UK onto my actual phone without a sandbox or some sort of randomising, GPS-blocked VM. Literally none. If I can't change what they do, and I use another method of communication -- like letters, in the post -- and join the hoards of people who don't. Like many other HN posters, I've used a VPN since before the Snooper's Charter came into force, and it positively has improved my life.

Were I in America, I wouldn't download this app with these permissions.
@Darioros, would you be interested in this role: https://boards.greenhouse.io/rasa/jobs/5001815002. Full-stack, remote UK ?
The Lightning Network literally exchanges Bitcoin transactions that are withheld from being broadcasted on-chain until channel closure. Bitcoins exchanged via the Lightning Network are just Bitcoins. Saying they are a different kind of "IOU" or token is a lie often employed by alt-coiners trying to push a "Layer 1-only"-Bitcoin fork (e.g. BSV).

The security in the Lightning Network doesn't come from settling on-chain after a transaction happened but from signing over all your money in a Lightning Network channel to the other party should somebody catch you cheating.
>The thing is, we have to make sure we're OK with the consequences of going this way. Would people be happy to wait for days, maybe weeks, for their video to be approved for upload to YouTube? Would that work with the current society's attention span?

Why should they have to? Youtube makes BILLIONS of dollars, and they can afford to employs 10s of thousands of people to be human moderators, they just don't want to because that would eat into profits. If the video has X views or the publisher has X followers, it should be reviewed within hours by a real human.

>Is YouTube as we know it actually feasible without AI-based moderation? Can it be a sustainable business with an army of human moderators and/or a drastically reduced scale as a result?

Nobody is saying there should be 0 AI moderation, just that there should be a human that reviews a clip if AI flags it and the end-user clicks a button saying "this shouldn't have been flagged".

The entire premise of google is kind of broken and both technical and non-technical people feel that way from what I've heard. The fact it's nearly impossible to get to a real human on anything, and if you do happen to get to a real human, half the time they aren't even empowered to undo whatever decision their AI has made... it's just not a good way to do business. There's a balance to technology and human interaction and Google (again IMO) has gone too far in the technology direction. Heck, humanity as a whole might need to find someplace in the middle if the studies about the current generation of 20-somethings struggling with stunted social interactions due to social media is to be believed.
'Communities can be anywhere on a gradient between (alphabetical) exclusive and inclusive (termed), but focused (themed), and would allow outsiders to participate (eigen).'

Um I like what you wrote, reminding: //wiki/Genitive;

'Indicating an attributive relationship of one noun to the other noun', 'serving purpose indicating relationships', 'may feature arguments', 'a head noun, in a construction'

...a shift, yes -but that may be way too offtopic (-;
Absolutely! But having elections in 2021 makes every Covid-related decision by definition political. And that doesn't help.

I should have made clear that the problem with elections is the timing, not elections in general. Governments should be focused on getting the population vaccinated as fast as possible now, and not worry about their /
(re-)election chances.
I think effect size is a very useful tool if you know some odds a priori. E.g if you can compare the effect size with some known features/variables. It can then give you a rough feeling how true it might be. If the features are small as genetic variants then people will have a hard time estimating the supposed effect (unless it's a functional one that alters the encoded protein e.g).
1 of 40.000 apparently risk "serious side effects". This is a lot higher than I thought.
My first dive into a full length video porno!

I'm trying to get Rami Malek to play Pottering.
buy your own domain and only use the email addresses you fully control.
I would surely try it out!

What is "inline webassembly"?
I love the fact that the Thinkpad X1 has dedicated physical home/end/pgup/pgdown keys. I wouldn't consider buying a laptop without them anymore.
>This sounds like the Yamauchi family's attempt to bootstrap and create an ecosystem of ventures to reinvigorate entrepreneurship in Japan and their way of giving back.

And it also sounds like their attempt to make more money. Let's just not lose sight of reality amidst all the fluff.
OK, you and I exchanging coins do not know about each other's wallets or even the origin & destination of our transaction.

This anonymity depends on encryption to hide the wallets & transaction, and decryption to verify it, and for the receiver to be able to use the funds in the future.

So, who/what controls those keys? Seems they've just exchanged an open ledger problem for a key management problem - why is this not the case?
Yes someone else pointed that out as well - I plan to update the article soon!
A small claims court for the internet. I like that.
horrible website
This would be correct if Covid was very widespread in Denmark, most of the at-risk >65 population wasn't vaccinated already and there weren't alternatives available very shortly. But none of these are true, so the overall ethical decision becomes more complicated than that.

It's fallacious to describe this as an instance of the trolley problem, as there's also the public's trust in vaccines to consider. You'll see that the rest of Europe have arrived at a different conclusion, largely due to the fact that Covid is much more widespread there.
> You're arguing semantics, switching between a strict definition of "backed" and thinking of value as it suits you.

Can you show me where I'm swapping? I don't think I am. It's not semantics anyway, its a fundamental definition of what a backed currency means! The value of my car isn't backed by all the petrol I have used in it, nor is bitcoin backed by the electricity used to produce it.

> You can exchange bitcoin at any time by doing a 1 satoshi transaction and pay the transaction fees. As a result, you will redeem the answer to a very specific math problem and some heat that will be delivered to you at the rate of diffusion through the atmosphere.

This is not what backing means - at all. Backing doesn't mean "is expensive to make", it means its value "has a direct correspondence to the cost of another commodity".

So a few questions to test if it is backed:

* Is the price of bitcoin directly linked to the cost of electricity? (No - there is a relationship between bitcoin price and the amount of energy used for bitcoin mining, but I can't track electricity and use that to guess what the cost of a bitcoin is and visa-versa). Meanwhile, Tether IS backed by USD so I can use the historic value of tether in BTC to act as a proxy to understand how much BTC cost in USD.

* Have we seen the cost of bitcoin track global electricity prices? (No!)

* If abundant cheap energy is discovered tomorrow, does bitcoin become valueless? (I believe no, it maintains value!)

Almost all modern currencies aren't backed, nor do they need to be, so this is a weird hill to fight for.
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> as politicians, they will factor in a lot more than just the hard science on a topic

Are we really going to allow ourselves to slide into such naivete, especially after we have suffered through a year-long global orgy of corruption and violence at the hands of these same politicians?

I wonder what science the Biden administration used to determine it really should sell all those weapons to the UAE. [0]

What was the science behind the West's decision - also led by Biden - to continue bombing civilian infrastructure in Yemen? [1]

Politicians use science as a rallying cry, not as an actual philosophical fundamental. We would be a lot better off if they even tried to practice people-ruling while utilizing the "hard science," but we must all come to the realization that they are simply science-adjacent. None of the ghouls in elected office - in any country on the planet - have any idea how to incorporate "science," into the act of ruling over others. But perhaps the more important question is: why should we even value such an incorporation, if it were valid?

Scientists study the natural world, observe it, and document it for others to observe on their own. Politicians - if we were to be very charitable - move other peoples' money around & redistribute it. There is only a small overlap in these concentric circles and it's probably too large as it is. The mandate of the politician is largely illogical, and for this reason trying to conflate it with science is not just sophomoric and ridiculous - it's incredibly dangerous.

[0] https://news.antiwar.com/2021/04/13/biden-to-proceed-with-tr...

[1] https://yemendataproject.org/
The canonical way of doing things in Flutter is composition NOT inheritance. This is the whole point of Widgets. Inheritance is used in ways that generally make sense and don’t result in huge complex inheritance trees.
I did have a point on that sentence, but didn't expand on that. Actually I did know the tone is bad. I guess the idea is that "we" as public interest conflicts with Twitter's corporate interest, but "we" can't tell Twitter to do what "we" want.
Businesses should stay out of political disputes
We did this to ourselves by not making our systems Sybil resistant or DoS resistant. Bitcoin solves this problem by requiring a fee to submit a transaction to the ledger (Denial of Service). lightning does this by requiring you to select who you network with (sybil). Solution is for any modality is to restrict to known good addresses, and for anyone else charge a substantial fee.
P2P loans already exist and are only becoming more competitive as the market grows. This (Bitcoin) will cause a complete disruption of the financial system given enough time.
Very cool! Love the "anime like" pictures :)
> The subtle art of not giving a F*

This is a great example. I liked this book, but it could have been a blog article, or hell, even a single sentence: Konmari can also apply to obligations.
BCH is a scam. Not because they advertise that the removal of the block size limit comes without any costs, but because it regularly splits after influential but narcissistic 'leaders' attempt to grab more power and because its community continues to justify deceitful tactics to promote BCH and trick people into buying BCH when they expected Bitcoin.
Going through the patents from the author[1] is probably the best technical resource about their secret sauce. In particular US9684946B2[2] seems to be the foundational patent about the tech.

As others mentioned already, Vedutismo/Pannini projections seem closely related here, but they might be doing some extra on top of that.

[1] https://patents.google.com/?inventor=Robert+Christian+PEPPER...

[2] https://patents.google.com/patent/US9684946B2/en
To share a bit more of the factual situation on site.

The recently published guidelines for Serbia tax officers on what the back taxes should be include income ranges up to 10.000 EUR/month — there are some serious earners in there who haven't paid any taxes for likely more than 5 years (but the statute of limitations only allows the government to claim for that much, or rather, accused can call upon the expiration of tax debt if no action was taken in 5 years)!

Serbian government has already made provisions to cut the taxes retroactively by ~20% (which those who've paid them on time do not get the benefit of), and another set of provisions which almost nullifies all the backtaxes for anyone in the <500 EUR/month income bracket (an average net salary in Serbia) for the last 5 years, so the ones most affected are going to be those having earned more than the average. And it sure sucks for those being just slightly over the hump, so they are most negatively affected!

Serbia, until early last year, allowed for self-employment with pre-set taxes without any bookkeeping (for IT professions at around 250-400 EUR a month, other professions had it even cheaper) for years up to a total of 50.000 EUR a year, so anyone who was earning any money between 700 and 4500 EUR a month gross had an extremely beneficial taxation situation if they only registered with the tax office).

So it's a tricky situation to be caught "red handed" in, but nothing has really changed in the law, it's just that the Tax Office has become more vigilant in chasing down the offenders of this particular tax (which requires self-reporting). I'd personally have more sympathy if they admitted to being caught breaking the law, and then asking for better conditions that do not bankrupt them.

The biggest argument for those protesting is that Tax Office employees were not giving any advice about how to file tax reports, which is true (I've experienced it myself, which is why I got outside counsel and read the laws myself back in 2000s), even though they are required to give tax advice to private persons by law.

But in a functioning system, that would be settled in the damages court against those tax office employees, and part of the obligation would still be with the tax avoider, though Serbia has anything but a functioning judicial system. :)
UK wants Pakistan to launch crackdown on militants
UK says Pakistan will be removed from high-risk list if it takes action against militants
Google is a private company. It's fully within their rights to remove any video they don't like, for whatever reason.

It comes with the territory if we want Google to be able to censor hate speech and misinformation.

You can always use a competing site, or build your own.
I feel like that's misleading. The key thing you said is outside - inside there is plenty of research about various aspects of the protective value of masks in stopping droplets and comparisons of various masks. https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-re...
This goes beyond cute pixel art.

Reading text without straining your neck muscles and pinching nerves is boring now?
Russia Accuses U.S. State Department of 'Memory Loss' over First Man in Space
Was Minsky ever proven to have had sex with a minor?

Or what child predator do you believe rms to be defending?
Not sure it's that illogical.

mRNA vaccines are apparently better and don't seem to have serious side effects, so only using those is correct if it doesn't delay immunity too long.

According to the article, this might cause a 4 weeks delay: currently Denmark has around 2 deaths per day, thus possibly causing 60 additional deaths, which would match a vaccine death rate of 1/100000.

Denmark has a 6 million population, and it seems AstraZeneca kills around 1/1000000 so it seems COVID is only 10x more lethal than the vaccine in the general population.

However death rates for COVID are much higher in the elderly while vaccine clot rates are much higher in young people, so the AstraZeneca vaccine might be more lethal in present day Denmark for young people.

Even among elderly people they can eliminate their COVID risk by isolating but they would be forced to take the vaccine risk if the government only offers the AstraZeneca vaccine.

Finally any vaccine deaths can be more easily attributed to the person who made the decision to continue using the vaccine thon COVID deaths.
Does anyone know what's going on with the kovri project that's suppose implement I2p tunneling for monero? It seems like the project stalled and the developer dropped off the face of the earth.
> ... for now

It bears repeating explicitly I think: you're not working against today's analysis tools, you're working against whatever analysis tools exist far into the future, since everything is recorded for eternity.
The Synthetic Data Vault
If there are exploits, it's definitely going to be all Bitcoin and the like. Impossible for anything to compete against literally stolen, free CPU.

Interesting way to make crypto eco-friendly: acknowledge that even the most exploitative mining rigs can't economically compete against literal cpu-jacking at scale :)
Which would mean mixing vaccines without any trials done on the effects of this. As compared to using a second AZ shot, which has been analyzed and approved. Seems risky to my untrained eye.

And it wouldn't be hte first AZ related recommendation that changes every other week. We had so far:

- not for people over 65 because of underrepresentation in the trials

- not for people under 60 because of blood clots before any studies were finished

- Nobody wants AZ, so we will give it to everyone who is willing to take it

I don't see a strigent strategy here.
As a non-native who has lived in Japan for many years, but then moved to another country in Asia... I disagree with the regular stream of negative English language news about Japan. It is still a wonderful culture, people, and country.

And ignore the "GDP" stuff. You will read the same about Italy in English language newspapers. And (South) Korea. Both are also beautiful countries with great food and very high quality of life.

I look at overall GDP less than GDP-per capita. The best metric in my mind is historical median salary. This gives a great idea of how middle class people live. As long as it holds steady and inflation is zero, then quality of life does not decline. The truth is that Japan has microscopic growth (~1% per year) combined with annual population decline of ~0.5% per year. Those two together should mean quality of life is still increasing a little bit each year. And, yes, each year that I return to Tokyo, I feel it is still improving.
Those background images could really use some artist attributions.
Confidently stated, but the impact of lockdowns is likely more complex in reality. It may require years of research to tease out all the components; lockdown vs general pandemic stress, differences in implementation, etc. For example:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0...

> Rate ratios (RRs) and 95% CIs based on the observed versus expected numbers of suicides showed no evidence of a significant increase in risk of suicide since the pandemic began in any country or area. There was statistical evidence of a decrease in suicide compared with the expected number in 12 countries or areas.
Meth, not even once
First time I click on the volume control, it bumps the volume to max (Firefox). Works correctly after that.
Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation, Norbert Wiener (1960) [pdf]
Hard to say. There are tons of studies on the subject and they all have different findings. The number of asymptomatic covid positive people who got tested was found to be between 5% and 90% (not talking about pre-symptomatic, aka people who developed symptoms in the next weeks).

There seems to be a correlation with age, the younger you are, the less likely you have symptoms.

Considering that asymptomatic people are less likely to be tested than people with symptoms, this is a lower bound.

I'm inclined to believe the majority of cases are asymptomatic and that therefore that most people don't notice it.
Scandinavia has arrived at numbers that are many times higher than the international consensus, due to local observations.

It seems very unlikely to be a statistical anomaly, although it isn't known yet whether it's due to incomplete observations from abroad or due to local environmental or genetic factors. It would obviously be poor science to ignore the observations; they are well documented at this point.
bought in texas and trying to get it fixed in NY. Ouch; I can feel the frustration.
Isn't this rather because AstraZeneca is sold at cost whereas other jabs are for profit? Then Google history of corruption of companies like Pfizer.
I sound cynical, but I don't believe one bit that politicians are doing something out of their good will.
Sounds like a while lot more deaths than potential clot cases (not to mention clot deaths, which might be zero in a population that small).