skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My assumption is that all intelligence services in all countries would love to have access to fully compromised networks. They spend all their time thinking about how to access information, so they would be fairly incompetent not to consider this.

Does that mean that all systems are compromised? No, because there are risks associated with tapping in to these systems. Partly it depends on if they have access to the systems, but mostly on the possible blow-back if they get caught.

Example: Swedens FRA (NSA equivalent) could in theory ask Ericsson (a Swedish company), to install a backdoor. But, Sweden has a fairly free press, and there are good chances that someone would leak this information. If it got leaked it would be a major scandal that could go as far as toppling the government and destroy one of Swedens most important export companies. Its very risky, and its a risk no one wants to take, so the parts made in sweden are probably not compromised.

China, on the other hand has almost no risks associated with adding backdoor. No free press, hard suppression of whistle blowers, and since most foreign intelligence services already assume the equipment is compromised, there is no real reputational damage either. I assume they are all compromised, why wouldn't they be?

The US is somewhere in between.

Sometimes companies are compromised by intelligence services, but much more often I think its employees. Why try to change Tim Cooks stance on privacy, when all you need to do is find one Apple employee, willing to take a sack of money to "do their country a great service"?
Does the distribution matter here? I wonder if there'll be pockets of unvaccinated people in areas of higher vaccination hesitancy and what that means for herd immunity.
I built a utility for Graphene + Django to do it properly with arbitrary sorts, though one does need to be careful about exposing sorts orders which aren’t backed by any indexes.
Porque no los dos? Allowlist the languages you understand, also allow manual entry for the languages you don't? Seems like the obvious solution.
I’m afraid I will need references for the ingredients comment.
Here's an excellent article on the topic, this is a huge uproar on an everyday occurrence.

https://blog.thinkst.com/p/if-nsa-has-been-hacking-everythin...
I gave up reading the Cantor's Attic articles that keep getting linked from HN. They are all rehashes of well known stuff from other sources. Yes though, the Lorch article was excellent (I read it some time ago).
I can understand you, but IMHO for most websites a document focused paradigm is just the right fit.

I mean e.g. a news site is just a collection of documents in the end, blogs are just documents, so is wikipedia. Search machines are basically like external indices, which fit well as documents and even things like booking sites are in the end just fancy formulars.

Sure there are a lot of more "app" like usage, and for them having a different base is very important.

But I'm not the biggest fan of "turning" document use cases into apps (as many sites already try to do today), as this in my experience adds a lot of overhead and includes a massive bucket of behavioral differences which can make it very hard for some people to use the internet.

If everyone would agree of how roughly apps should behave for the roughly same UX aspect it would be fine. But people don't I mean look at the massive UX divergence which slowly creeped in between Android(Stock) and iOs. Worst this is a very subtitle creep at many places and it often seems as many designer doesn't realize that what they think is innovative (and might be innovative for e.g. a iOs) user isn't necessarily innovative for a lot of other people (e.g. all the Android users). Or in other words the whole concept of what is innovative diverged between different grubs of people even if they belong in the same "culture"/country/etc..

Anyway still for the places where it does make sense having a alternative to HTML/CSS is nice but I believe it must be browser native, non vendor specific, standardized and have first class accessibility support.

Non of which applies to Flutter (web) in the way it currently is.
> Thankfully one language (English, but whatever language it is might not be that relevant) is becoming 'de facto' the language for sciences, and kids are starting to learn it from an earlier age.

Soapbox UX issue: That's why we language sticklers should tolerate and even welcome the "corruption" of English — that is to say, the crowd-sourced, grass-roots simplification of the tongue. Non-native speakers should feel that it's easy to achieve fluency in English without wondering whether they'll be looked down upon for getting it not quite right.

(That will also help English stay competitive with, say, Mandarin.)

Here's just one example: It should be perfectly fine to say "less errors," vice the supposedly-correct "fewer errors."

More examples?
Try looking around Friedenau, one of the most peaceful and posh parts of the inner city.
Not yet, per this link we're at 39%. Maybe you're looking at data for total doses given? Lots of the vaccination in the US has been (IMHO, inappropriately) focused on completing the course, so while we might have had enough doses to put one in 60% of the population, we actually put two in most of those people.

The UK did the opposite, where slightly more total vaccine led to only 13% of people being completely vaccinated but 49% having at least one dose. And clearly their outbreak curve looks much better.

Though it's worth pointing out that the UK curve seems to be levelling off at an asymptote of about 50% vaccination, which is too low and broadly confirms the contention in the linked article.

Get your shots, folks.

https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=countr...
I'm vaccinated, but it's also remarkable to me that people think that not taking a drug developed on an emergency use basis with no long term studies is somehow irrational or ridiculous. Some reasons are clearly silly, but being nervous about being a guinea pig for a new medical treatment is surely reasonable. I got it because I decided it made sense for me, but I still feel some anxiety about it and definitely am not going to judge other people for feeling the same way.
Actually, it's possible and even frequently used, for example in lazy-static, through the `doc_comment` crate.

#[cfg(doctest)]
#[macro_use]
extern crate doc_comment;

#[cfg(doctest)]
doctest!("../README.md");

Now, the readme examples are tested like everything else.

https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/lazy-static.rs/blob/mas...
In my state I was advised to call Pharmacies at the end of they day to see if they had extra doses that would otherwise spoil. Perhaps you could try the same if you are concerned about how long the authorities are taking?
> I think that mostly shows the limits of their analysis. The Guardian is basically the left-wing paper in the UK; I don't think there's anything to the left of them outside of fairly fringe, niche, and very fragmented publications. Internal disputes within the left play out within their comment section, whilst the news section often seems to attacking the right wing as its main goal.

This only reinforces the meta-point. Everyone's sharing their perception without citing anything. So far, the few research entities looking into media bias are all asserting (with randomly sampled data points as best as I can tell) that The Guardian presents reliable news with a left-leaning opinion skew, whereas self-selected commenters (i.e. those who chose to reply to my initial comment) here are asserting from their own perception that The Guardian's "basically the left-wing paper," "editorial is usually pretty far left," and "quite on the left."

There's value in learning the methodologies employed by these analysis firms and think tanks, deciding whether you agree with how their analysis is performed, and upon deciding, either performing the same (time consuming) analysis yourself or delegating to the group(s) who's methods you most align with. That's largely why I'm fine with Ad Fontes. I haven't looked into how AllSides draws their conclusions, but either way, they're both in agreement re: The Guardian.

This is a healthier way to conclude how a news outlet leans compared to just going by our own perception.
I agree the movies are overrated. The effects, which were ahead of their time, already look very dated. The battle scenes aren’t particularly well choreographed (compare to Ran or Lawrence of Arabia). The books are appropriately rated though.
Depends on your vaccine. NEJM had a RWE study on Pfizer from Israel's data [1] that showed the 2nd shot had 92% efficacy against asymptomatic infection. Symptomatic infection was 94%.

[1]: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2101765
Is this what we do now? Remake things that are still in the majority of our living memories? Have the original LOTR movies stopped holding up?

Are we playing the long game and intending to have an Into The Smiegalverse?
Yes I am using one.

There are workloads that don't fit into 16G ram. Even with paging, there are legitimate needs for 32G and beyond memory sizes.
> And to date, exponentially more people have gotten fucked than have had brilliant endings.

If you know of a good source on this, I would be interested. I don't mean this as a challenge, I'm genuinely interested if there are many people who managed to buy at a local maximum and were forced to sell much lower. Even people who bought at $20,000 in late 2017 are now up 3x if they managed to hold.

Also, what the actual ownership distribution of Bitcoin is. Is it 90% mom-and-pop investors who gambled their life savings, or is it 90% hedge funds?
It certainly has. Frameworks like Rails or Django didn't exist, pre-built component libraries weren't even a dream yet, and everyone was trying to get software to run consistently on each other's machines.

These days there's worlds of abstraction between you and those problems. Those abstractions are in transpilation, libraries, etc which all take more power to get over the problem of time.
Hey there! Thanks for sharing. Your blog posts are fantastic. Very insightful.
It’s not clear. US health officials say it’s higher (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/heal...), although Fauci’s credibility in this interview is kinda compromised by the statement that he wasn’t previously telling people what he really thought.
"Hi, I'm extremely insecure with myself and need to validate my beliefs by trying to bait people on the internet. Since I don't personally know anyone who died from Covid that wasn't fat, obviously it is a hoax and won't affect me so I won't be getting a vaccine because I don't believe in science."

SAD!
So SpaceX, which is planning on flying a rich artist around the Moon isn't interested in space tourism? And we do know some of BO's goals; they want to have a Starlink like system. That's in direct competition with SpaceX, and SpaceX is far and away the leader in this field.

If you look at it in terms of capabilities, SpaceX checks all the boxes; reusable rockets, rapid turnaround, lowest cost. Once Starship is usable for payloads, no other launch provider will be able to compete.
Experiencing this just once creates a strong desire (addiction?) to make something popular online again. It's just really interesting to tweak these things and follow their growth (and have sleepless nights when things go wrong).
Sure, but twitter by nature is much more public. If you use your full legal name and decide to say something outrageous / attack people / etc, you can't be surprised if people take offense of it and report it in other medias.
38.5% has at least one shot (as the title of the article says), not 61%. 61% is the result of a survey.
That was estimated for the original Wuhan sequence and the early single mutation D614G variant. Current variants with the 501.Y change have almost twice the virulence (they infect people more easily). And the 501Y.V2 and V3 have the E484K mutation (sequenced first in South Africa and Brazil) that makes them escape immune responses to the original Wuman and D614G variants. This also applies to a lesser degree to L452R sequenced first in California, USA but it does not share the increased virulence of the 501Y variants of concern.

Herd immunity might have been 70% in March 2020 but much more than that is required now. This is especially true as various ignorant populations have decided that no particular protectective behaviors are needed raising the R number even higher.
Also, a “third booster” and now “annual boosters” have been announced, as predicted.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/annual...

https://mobile.twitter.com/guscost/status/134299803981702758...
There always will be, but the nature of "herd" immunity means that such outbreaks will not be able to jump to the broader population, because on average outbreaks in a herd-immune community shrink and don't grow.
If you want to emulate an actual VT52, you might want to start with the DECscope User's Manual as your primary source.

https://vt100.net/dec/ek-vt5x-op-001.pdf
Lord of the Rings is in many places unexceptional, but I think the parts that stand out, particularly the themes of duty and camaradarie, like Frodo's personal struggle to resist the ring's effects, and Sam's love for Frodo, make it a seminal work.

The moral fiber of Tolkien shines through in passages like this:

Frodo: 'What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature when he had a chance!'

'Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. And he has been well rewarded, Frodo. Be sure that he took so little hurt from the evil, and escaped in the end, because he began his ownership of the Ring so. With Pity.'

'I am sorry,' said Frodo. 'But I am frightened; and I do not feel any pity for Gollum.'

'You have not seen him,' Gandalf broke in.

'No, and I don't want to,' said Frodo. 'I can't understand you. Do you mean to say that you, and the Elves, have let him live on after all those horrible deeds? Now at any rate he is as bad as an Orc, and just an enemy. He deserves death.'

'Deserves it? I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.'
Probably true. Too bad a big part of the population is so easily inconvenienced and seemingly unable to understand a complex situation given the information landscape that exists.
What Has Gone Wrong with India’s Vaccination Programme?
Even if it was a uniform distribution, herd immunity is just enough to slow down the spread. The distribution isn't uniform, however. The people who are refusing the vaccines are doing so on ideological lines. The ideological lines are in turn largely driven by geography. So the result is that we have social clusters of people with much lower vaccination rates where the virus can spread.
It's actually set after the war against Morgoth. It's after the sinking of Beleriand, at the time of the ascendency of the Island of Numenor. This is the era during which the Rings of Power are forged, so they may well stick with the Lord of the Rings banding as it is going to be part of the overall story of the rings, and Sauron will likely feature as a prominent character.
You can get jaded about anything. The Internet is addictive at first, but quickly everything becomes a trope and you start to see patterns, and it gets boring that way. The dark web however is like the original Internet and it's not some money making exercise (apart from all the Bitcoin scams and darknet drug markets). There's a strange Geocities feel to it.
The US plans to put a nuclear-powered rocket in orbit by 2025
It appears to me to be "more accurate" because they have defined the discrepancies as more accurate. Why not just define them as inaccuracy?
I’ve heard good things about Colm Toibins books, if you’re looking for good art with a Christian foundation.
> If there really is only one mic someone has sold their soul. The sound stage is perfect.

“Note: The secret of the 418-S is that it's two mics in one; a cardioid "mid" condenser capsule facing front, and a bidirectional capsule focused on either "side." It's a mid/side stereo mic that needs to be decoded in post, which allows you to control the stereo width of the image, even after the recording is made.”

https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2019/04/02/705579879/t...
I can't really, I haven't developed for years anymore. I don't have the chops to do it.

Also, the Gnome team seems to have deprecated it in favour of a rebuild called tomboy-ng that's written in something new (Delphi I think?). And lacks the benefits of the old one like fast responsiveness and auto hyperlinking. I don't like it at all :)
It takes a while to load and display, possibly being hugged to death. Leave the tab open for a few minutes and check back in a bit.
More than frontend, I use Tweetbot and nothing works at all since last night. "over capacity" , etc.
> Mozilla doesn't have to HATE or DESPISE or BAN Google, or whatever other verb implies strong enough principled stance.

Hate and despise show no principle, ban is hard. How about independent, not co-opted?
Graces Guide to British Industrial History
> Assuming we are talking about 1MB per visit then that is roughly 70TB.

If you visit the site today with scripts blocked, the site still works and the page is only 160kB, including 140kB of images of book covers.
And the "I checked the server logs and saw the traffic" part of the story happened before they added these ads (see https://notfunatparties.substack.com/p/inside-a-viral-websit... for a better timeline)
Wait until Disney decides to do a re-launch of the original Star Wars trilogy (not the soft relaunch of Ep 7-9). As a huge fan of both LOTR and Star Wars, I think what we have already is great. Amazon should do something like the Silmarillion etc.

Edit: didn't realize that this is exactly what Amazon is doing! Fantastic!
The real problem is the lack of incentives for the police to do anything and common directives coming from above for political reasons.

They get paid with tax money and it doesn't matter whether they arrest 50 thieves or 0.
Paradoxically if they do their job less, politicians can do political campaign and find excuses to raise taxes and allocate more money to the police.

Besides, the centralised nature of the police make it so that some crimes are given more priority than others, which is probably what you were alluding to. Why is my country spending 1mln man hours per year persecuting small cannabis dealers and doesn't do anything about people doing real estate scams? (real story which happened to me and the Metropolitan police just closed the case, after having evidence, the location of the guy, the evidence on Companies House he was creating companies with fake names to reset his reputation and after having arrested and released the guy).

If me and my neighbourhood had our own private insurance, private police and our own private laws we could agree not to persecute victimless crimes, to have a number of patrolling agents, to have a certain level of security monitoring.

All of these services would have a cost and we could decide whether to pay it or not. If the police would do a bad job we could hire another police agency. Or we could not pay anyone and have our own internal armed force keeping law and order (think of a rural poor village having different needs compared to a city).
The budget for the first three movies in total was 281 million. They filmed on location and had pretty good CGI, minus a few scenes that would look better today.

Why are costs going up here? Tech is commoditized easily (ease of use and availability of talent), so I expect CG work to have gotten better and cheaper.
Yes. When they started shooting Lord of the Rings they had already 3 years of preproduction done which means weapons and sets and buildings and all. The hobbit was a constant race against the clock. And they tried to make the goblins non CGI with animatronic heads. But it simply didn’t work and looked good enough. I still feel that the CGI heads in the end are also ugly but what gives.
Thanks, that's one I will try!
I guess you don't understand that software updates contain.... software updates.

How surprising. You should probably read up on what changes come with the latest OS updates before being mad at Apple for... whatever reason.
This is exactly what I did. I added myself to an extra or expiring dose list a month ago and they had me in a few days later with an extra dose.
Having used it extensively, you can setup org-mode however you want: a file per month, a file per thought, a file per project and everything in between.

It is also the only note taking system I have seen that will let you link to an email. If you want to add a todo entry deep in some meeting notes reminding you to checkup on that email in 3 weeks, you can. And those todos will then show up in your agenda view.

Unfortunately this doesn't work if you don't already use Emacs as your email client, which I guess you don't if you aren't also using org-mode.
Indeed I don’t agree with GP’s pov that a clean graphical design is a major factor in the success of the products listed.
I see it more as a side effect of a good team. That is to say, I would have less faith in a company that can’t get their process in shape to produce basic UI consistency for a consumer product.
The mRNA vaccines are expected to achieve full FDA approval over the next few months. For all of the people claiming the EUA as their reason to avoid these shots, how many of them do we believe are going to suddenly change their tune when this happens? In contrast, how many will find some new excuse?
(Genuinely) Help me understand the logic arriving at the conclusion that it's a bad idea to get vaccinated.
You can buy it without a wireless network interface. Then it should be fairly easy to get a new wifi card and use that one.

The cost comes from:
- having core boot pre-installed
- CPU backdoors disabled by default
- being guaranteed to run the OS of your choice

Probably someone else knows this better than me. But other than buying this the approach would be to buy an older or slightly older Thinkpad. Maybe upgrade CPU, SSD. Do a lot of complicated and potentially dangerous flashing of BIOS. This would take you weeks in terms of lead times of delivery. Also it would take hours of hours of work, in which you might damage components or even get the wrong one.

I would like to do this, but where am I to find the time. I would also be able to pay someone to do it, but it is not as your local computer shop will be likely to deliver. I bet that if you where

I have also heard the argument that for instance smartphone producers should not ship power adapters. Since all phones can charge via USB. This is by law in the EU at least. This means that there is an enormous waste when you are creating and shipping power adaptors to people who already have four or five at home.

This is not taking other family members into account
Getting strong “15 days to flatten the curve” vibes.
At what dosage does that become a problem? Vaping liquids are glycol and glycerine based and while they are probably not particularly healthy compared to not vaping at all they don’t seem to cause lipid pneumonia that often.
>If you apply your reasoning to any other area in life you can see how silly it is. If you put in a lot of work/effort into building a car, is the existence of the car the product of "luck"? After all it had no more choice in where it was created than a person.

That is a false analogy. We're talking about you being born, not you putting effort into building a car.

Why are you switching the argument around to where your parents decided to settle? The whole point is about where you are born, not the area your parents decide to give birth in.