skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It would be practically unenforceable if CA did it, or even the US. The market in both is large, but not large enough, and it's hard to force compliance on companies from other countries.

The U.S. regularly imposes plenty of requirements that are far more difficult to meet, in many industries. The U.S. is the largest market in the world for many goods; I think the parent greatly underestimates the power and practices of national governments. Smaller countries also impose requirements.
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The rationale over decency and empathy for victims is a cover. What this does is prevent government workers from the accountability cellphone video can provide. Soon enough those QR codes will be on uniforms of emergency workers, and you won't be able to document incidents similar to George Floyd's death.
It also shows a single "pass event" for a launch of 60 satellites, the pass alone takes minutes as a long visible chain of sats goes overhead. Really damn cool to see.
Compare 900k dead from COVID-19 (so far) to U.S. deaths in:

- Vietnam[1]: 58 k

- World War Two[2]: 407 k

- World War One[3]: 117 k

and due to the huge numbers of people in the U.S. who are refusing to get vaccinated, wear masks, or participate in social distancing, the U.S. deaths from COVID-19 are probably far from over.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_war

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war_one
I am one of them - I did it intentionally to see which apps ask to be tracked.

So far it's been Instagram and Sony's Headphones App. I do not have facebook.
California population drops for first time in state's recorded history
It's almost as though you're responding to a different statement than the one that I made. What about what I said would have denied that any of those things you mentioned were not also terrible things that are among the worst things in the past century?
> testing against a holdout set

Not just a holdout set -- a holdout set of prospective data, where you actually predict the future, blindly, and see how you do.

Obviously, you have to wait a little while to gather such data before you make big claims with your model. Doesn't mean you get to skip it.

It's not even clear to me that the authors did a cross-validation here, or even bothered to fit the free parameters of their model based on any kind of empirical data at all. At least with regard to percentage of excess deaths due to Covid, I'm not sure how they could...the parameters seem to be unrelated to any empirical data.
Shouldn't there be two stacks? One to contain stuff like return addresses, and the other to contain data? And the stack containing addresses in a separate address space that can only be accessed through stack manipulation/return instructions.
Parsing HTML with regexes is fine if you're not solving a general case. A regex "parser" will carry implicit assumptions about the document structure.

Like, I know "<div.+>.+foo\s+([a-z]+)" will work, because I've crafted it for a specific site whose sources I've seen.
> The species of bats allegedly involved are not near Wuhan.

This is incorrect.

Bat (Rhinolophus) sarbecoviruses have been isolated and sequenced in Hubei:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/DQ648856

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/DQ648857

The closest KNOWN bat sarbecovirus was found in Yunnan, but it was only 96% identical. That doesn't preclude the actual 98-99% identical progenitor virus of SARS-CoV-2 from living in Hubei.

Rhinolophus bats are all over southern China, and neighboring countries with a very wide range, and the all carry SARS-CoV-like viruses.

Also nothing precludes the species jump from bats to farmed animals happening in Yunnan and then infected animals being transported to farms in Hubei.

I also never mentioned pangolins or wet markets because we know at this point that neither of those are related. The animals to focus on would be minks and other mustelids or raccoon dogs or other farmed animals.

And we already know that SARS-CoV-1 likely originated in bats in Yunnan (where the "WIV1" coronavirus was found) while the leap to humans from an intermediate animal is thought to have happened in Guangdong. Again we have here a problem of "how did the virus in Yunnan jump to people 700+ miles away?" but in the SARS-CoV-1 case there's no weapons laboratory distraction. It happened back then with SARS-CoV-1 so therefore any objections you can have about coronavirus jumping species and geography is just falsified. It is unlikely clearly or this would just happen every other year.
According to that logic, was the industrialization of north america and europe caused by... wage growth?
Firefox is the ONLY Browser that is fighting for the user rights!

Yes, they do A LOT of mistakes IYAM and sometimes I really fell that I should abandon it and move on...

But specially what it represents and the fact they are the only decent non-chromium browser continues to make me stay by their side, despite they keep shooting themselves in the foot over and over (and over) in so many things...
The disappearance of Huang Yan Ling is significant because the Wuhan virology lab said she's fine and hasn't disappeared/is working elsewhere. Many suspected she was patient zero and died.

The CCP has a huge incentive to have her come forward and make some kind of a statement that she's fine and that the outbreak has nothing to do with the lab/those are all rumors, similar to what the lead researcher Shi Zhengli did. The expected behavior if she were the target of a rumor that she was patient zero would be to squash it immediately in the strongest way possible, whether or not it were true. Huang Yan Ling making a statement and talking about that silly rumor would be the strongest way to squash that rumor.

The fact that has not happened suggests she isn't able to because she is no longer alive.

As to more generic comparisons about behavior during a natural virus vs an accidentally released virus, I don't have anything stronger than conjecture, but think a comparison to SARS would shed some light. Again, it is my understanding that during that outbreak, in which a natural virus hopped species, there was heavy handed action and repression of information about how bad things were getting, but that was after things had gotten bad. I don't believe there were doctors that were being silenced before the outbreak got severe. If you want to prevent the severity of a natural outbreak you need and want doctors to be jumping on the issue early, and I would imagine you would want to exaggerate the effectiveness of their early intervention rather than silence doctors trying to mount an early intervention.
> My biggest complaint about many leadership roles where the #1 goal is not financial (i.e. government and NFP) is that it attracts the wrong types of motives.

Stone cold, unapologetic capitalist here. I had never questioned that line of thinking until this minute. And,uh… I agree completely! It can’t be a coincidence that Tom and the rest of the Blender people are doing such a spectacular job.
Is there anything written about this?

I'm extremely skeptical that a big chunk of people in such a highly online country just left their phones at home. Maybe some of the Hardeim but I would guess 95+% of people wouldn't do this.
Modeling of Future Covid-19 Cases – United States, April–September 2021
> so utterly inhuman
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I worked for a company once that moved offices-- literally, there was no workplace to go to for 2 weeks (keep in mind this company made hardware).

The C level management sends out a company wide e-mail saying "the move will not be tolerated as an excuse for missing deadlines."

God I wish I had a copy of that e-mail.
> I am not exactly sure how to parse this. Could you explain?

Much of plant fiber is approximately indigestible to humans. The primary benefit of consuming insoluble fiber is to more rapidly push the other insoluble fiber that’s sitting in your intestine out. If you don't consume fiber in the first place there’s no problem. There are no clear nutritional benefits to consuming fiber. Anyone saying you will have bowel problems if you don’t eat fiber is (literally) full of shit. It’s more like you should eat a lot or none at all (I prefer the latter).

> LDL cholesterol is pretty bad given that they build up in your arteries causing arteriosclerosis

It’s not that simple. If you look into it, the cholesterol studies that boil down to “LDL bad” are excessively simplistic. The current best knowledge suggests that the implications of blood cholesterol content are A) better analyzed in relative (LDL/HDL ratio) rather than absolute terms B) highly dependent on genetic factors. There are large populations where cholesterol has a totally different effect on heart disease risk.

Every single piece of historical advice based on nutrition “science” of the form “X common metabolite is bad” has been completely wrong despite being widely accepted. “Fat is bad” was widely accepted for decades. Apply the appropriate skepticism here.

Production of several hormones, including testosterone, is rate-limited by cholesterol availability. Endogenous synthesis in humans is too slow to support sufficient T synthesis. This is likely the origin of the archetype of the manly meat eater, which is almost culturally universal.
I recently learned about ocular migraines, and what you’re describing could be that. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/migraine-head...
Yeah, it's a loan, when you pay the loan back the money supply actually ends up contracting again and only the residual interest payments are actually added to the economy.
I was offered a 50% refund for a terrible action camera. I took it (I'd relegated the camera to monitoring my greenhouse, so it was worth keeping at 50% off for that purpose), and they began reminding me to correct my bad review every few days. It started out with typical broken English telling me they were grateful for the opportunity to serve me and resolve my bad review, please go set the review to 5 stars.

Now I get messages asking me to please fix the review because they will get in trouble for refunding me and not getting a 5 star review, and they thought we had a deal. Sort of coercive, urgent language.

So creepy and obnoxious.
They track enough first party interaction that you’re absolutely right. The loss of users from asking for subscriptions would be a net loss for them.
India has been independent of colonial rule for over 5-7 decades depending on the area and influence of English and even Portuguese (in Goa) still persist.
PsiQuantum to Build the World’s First Full-Scale Quantum Computer
I wish you had translated the first two medics' statements:

The first one reports arriving at a bridge where somebody was about to commit suicide by jumping. A whole group of people started filming it.

The second one reports that he's experienced people reaching over his shoulder with their phone to get a better view
Thanks, this is basically what I was trying to say but is written so it actually makes sense.
There are over a thousand up there. You can see individual satellites now just by looking at the clear sky at night for a while, you'll find some. I see a couple of them almost every night.

Someone told me there was a line of them last night, probably from the most recent launch, but I couldn't find them.
> Coal fired electricity plants STILL account for 20% of the US's electricity supply. That EV will do no good if its being powered by a coal or natural gas plant.

If you replace a large number of ICE cars with EVs getting all their electricity from a coal or natural gas power plant, it can still be a big win because all the fossil fuel burning for all of them is now in one fixed location instead of a large number of mobile locations. That gives you a lot more flexibility is adding system to capture the emissions, and more flexibility to upgrade as future, better, systems are developed.
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ZFS will always be a smoother experience on FreeBSD as opposed to Linux because FreeBSD endorses it. Thus the user land and documentation is written assuming you’re running ZFS. As opposed to Linux where some distros might ship pre-compiled binaries but everything is written assuming you’re not running ZFS. Thus everything takes that extra couple of steps to set up, fix, and maintain.

For example, if you want to use ZFS as a storage for containers on Linux, you have to spend hours hunting around for some poorly maintained 3rd party shell scripts or build some tooling yourself. Whereas on FreeBSD all the tooling around Jails is built with ZFS in mind.

This is why platforms like FreeBSD feel more harmonious than Linux. Not because Linux can’t do the job but because there are so many different contributors with their own unique preferences that Linux is essentially loose Lego pieces with no instructions. Whereas FreeBSD has the same org who manage the kernel, user land and who also push ZFS.

And I say this as someone who loves Linux. There’s room for both Linux and FreeBSD in this world :)
No, no, you're supposed to use their cthulhu inspired pricing tool. I mean, you've got at least a 50/50 chance of figuring out how to use it before you go permanently insane.
I have tried to gently help my corporate overlords to understand that wfh is something happening that they need to react to, not a decision they get to make. It is 100% not working. The convo goes like this:

Them: We understand the concerns, but we have decided that the return to the office will be mandatory.

Me: So those who are not comfortable returning to the office will be let go?

Them: No! Yo mean fired? Good heavens, no! No one will be let go. But they will have to return to the office.
It would be sucky in the same way "Hey you bought a new washing machine. Here is this new washing machine for sale!" recommended items often are.
If you have any feedback, even (especially) negative like this is useless service or inappropriate to real sales workflow, please share - save me from my illusion world :)
As a software engineer, I aspire to build software as well-engineered as the A-10.
We use this at my workplace to add $ORIGIN-relative rpaths to third-party dependencies of internal code, since we want to distribute/version those along with the code, not with the OS, and we also don't want to distribute them in the medium of OS packages (so you don't have to be root, so we don't risk messing up the base OS, etc.). In many senses that's just a "non-FHS distro," but it's arguably not a distro at all.

Even for easy-to-compile third-party code, squeezing -Wl,-rpath into all the right places is more of a pain than you'd hope, so we just run patchelf on everything in the third-party directory at the end of the build, regardless of whether the "build" is an actual build or just an untar of proprietary software.
But it is nice when you stumble across an answered question that fits your use case.

For instance, if I was making heavy use of local storage where I have no back end, it is nice if that question is already answered. At that point I don't really care if the previous user got a better method, that's what I need to do now.
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Control. Everything is always about control.
Something close to that was tried in Microsoft when I was there 1996-2000. It was extraordinarily hard to keep the visual forms designer and the output code in sync, especially when users tried to edit the code.
When you buy overpriced stocks, where is the money ending up? Is it ending up with the poor, who are selling overpriced stocks?
I didn't necessarily mean a bigger death count, just a more equally distributed one (like the Spanish flu). I think the end outcome could have been better for all demographics, and the world would be further on the road to recovery.

With Covid it was easy people to think it wasn't really a big deal, it reduced the appetite and compliance necessary to keep the pandemic contained.
And what if that foreigners had paid you to create that deadly thing of a virus, even if it was just to see how bad a virus could be?
If you brought anything by 1980 you'd get detailed schematics. It doesn't matter if the thing was recently invented or existed for centuries.

And if you buy anything nowadays you will get undocumented locked-down hardware. It doesn't happen if it's recently invented or existed for centuries.
Because it's not needed, you can save even more by minifying + compressing. And if you want to view it normally, either you can get the formatted version of the code just by clicking on pretty print in chrome or ff or you can load from source map instead
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Poethepoet: A task runner that works well with poetry
I agree. My problem with your previous post was just that it sounds like "either you're doing this wrong or you're doing that wrong" without acknowledging that it's possible to not have done anything wrong, or at least anything warranting a divorce.
I wonder how much of it is due to a walled garden, and how much of it is due to iOS devices getting security updates.

It seems like even expensive flagship android devices get a year or maybe 2 of updates now and then you're just left on your own.
If you're into any of the Niantic games like Ingress or Pokemon GO or some harry potter game, Little Free Libraries will almost always get approved as "portals" or "arenas" or whatever the other games call the marked points of interest.
I have been working on a similar project here: https://github.com/inet256/inet256
The focus is more on establishing an upward facing API, to develop p2p applications against. You can write your p2p app in whatever language and just connect to the INET256 service. It makes it pretty easy to experiment with a new routing algorithm, and eliminates much of the peering and transport security boilerplate.

Is Pinecone intended as a Go library, or will it eventually run as a separate process like Yggdrasil?
How will this be exposed to the other matrix applications, which AFAIK are not written in Go?
Problem 2: It is very manaul and error prone to prepare Bill of Quantities/Materials in arch/engineering sector. Most firms rely on Excel. Once the data has been put in excel, there is no way to split/sort/question about the data.
You cannot for example generate material bill for all 2nd floor electrical works, or say get me all reinforcement details for foundation.

Solution: Preferably a cloud based quantity take-off software that can
read/mark cad/pdf files. Once the data has been input (manually or otherwise), it should be able to generate various reports (or presentation bills) based on what is being asked,(see questions above).

The only cloud based one I know is Stack[0]

[0] https://www.stackct.com/
That depends on how dark the area is. I heard that in a Bortle 5 or lower area they are naked eye visible, which really sucks for stargazers. Especially since some of the more interesting naked eye observations have to be done using peripheral vision.
I should add that TermInfo databases, still present in Linux & macOS system today, are really interesting to compare with modern configuration systems. Nowadays we have no problem using verbose formats like TOML, JSON, YAML, or XML (plists!), because our computers are fast, have lots of storage and memory! We've traded efficiency for convenience.

Terminfo is a remnant from when computers were slow and disk/memory constrained, and it made every byte count. It was hard to efficiently encode a database of all the capabilities of the terminals at the time! The trade was in favor of efficiency at the expense of convenience.

Look up the manpage for tic, toe, infocmp & family.
Does something really have to be equal to or greater than WWII in damage to qualify as a bad year or two? That's quite a high bar to set.
I was just outside randomly when I saw the train of lights. It was honestly one of the most impressive things I've ever seen.
This is wrong on so many levels, but I will address this one:

> You will never see another small (< 20) person hardware startup (not that we see them often anyways) because the cost to produce this kind of documentation is non-zero, and the big players can easily absorb it into their processes.

I highly doubt that small players would be affected at all, because a small player wouldn't produce a custom chip. The level of documentation required is akin to API documentation that many services produce and this is not revealing any trade secrets, but enables customer to make full use of the device.
If you create a product without any documentation, then you have bigger problems.

> If I start up a hardware company and make a new device, but half my components are designed in Taiwan and they've decided to explicitly reject this, am I non-compliant for not releasing documentation I don't have the authority to release?

This is false, because it is companies like Apple that tell component manufacturers to not sell or to not disclose documentation. Virtually any chip that you can get on an open market has complete documentation available. If you are ordering a custom chip, you shouldn't be allowed to tell manufacturer to not sell it to anyone else nor hide its documentation if it goes into your product.

If you were actually working in hardware design space you would know that what is being asked does not compromise trading secrets, it is done solely out of greed so that people are nudged towards subscription models and becoming dependent on a particular corporation.
I work at scite (https://scite.ai) and wanted to mention we also have a visualization feature to show you how papers cite one another!
According to this https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208843 , it also just shows a notification on iOS, but I guess a URL that tells the camera holder they're being idiots would be good enough.

I just tried scanning a QR Code on 2 Android phones. The first one didn't do anything automatic, the second one detected it and added a button on the camera UI, if you press it, it will show the text (or URL) and you have to press "Open URL" to go there.

Interesting how the ad (YouTube video) oversells it, as if the URL loads itself. I wonder if that's how the ad agency (or whoever came up with this idea) sold it to the ambulance operators.
Do you compile binary(s) or just execute a `go run` and rely on the fast build times?
Sorry if this is a silly question, but what's the best way to go about finding a competent lawyer for one's company?

Let's suppose you don't have a particularly strong network to draw from for recommendations.

Googling or using Yelp don't seem like particularly good options. They mostly turn up personal injury and divorce lawyers.
21,000 Cancer Patients Died in 2020 Lockdowns Forcing Cancelled Appointments
build on top of WAMP: Web Application Messaging Protocol
https://wamp-proto.org/comparison.html
Another alternative that I follow with great interest:
https://github.com/nanomsg/nng
pubsub is a powerful pattern
What is isize_t?
:focus-within is the fix for accessibility https://css-tricks.com/solved-with-css-dropdown-menus/
I do not usually get the headache part either but the visual part is epic.

The first time I got it, a few years ago, I thought I was having a stroke.

The visual area gets ripped in two by the diagonal, the two pieces move away and are replaced with a silver band. The picture stays more or less complete, but broken in two. The image kind of pulsates, or rather waves.

I was terrified the first time, then visited the ophthalmologist, did a tomography of my head and ended up at a neurologist. He was a specialist of migraines and told me that about 30% of migraines are without headaches.

My father has migraines, my younger brother too and both have headaches.

I had some other extasy-like migranes and I am usually exhausted afterwrds and sleep 10 to 12 hours straight.

I am lucky to have only a few cases a year.
The infamous German tabloid/gutter press Bild also pays you money for videos or photos and credit you as "citizen journalist". Similarly news agencies ask you on Twitter if they can use your footage.