skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Spot on.

I think you can’t argue with it because it’s like an unexpected emotional vacuum. You can’t really convince someone who doesn’t like food that the carnival is an enjoyable place. They’re operating on a fundamentally separate plane.
Higher productivity increases the scale of good and evil equally.
That may be your goal, but that is not the goal of public health policy. If complete eradication was the goal, we would be wearing masks, social distancing, and requiring businesses to operate at lower capacity for many, many years to come. That is just not an acceptable state of life for the vast majority of people in the US. You may not agree with that, but that's just how things are.
It does feel a little soon, since there are still big unknown in terms of variants and how effective it is for people with weakened immune systems, and how long the effective protection lasts.

That said, I think what people miss is that CDC is not making recommendations for you not to catch Covid, it's making recommendations in the aggregate of what seems like acceptable risk for the pandemic. So that means some vaccinated might still get Covid, but most won't or will with minor symptoms that is not life threatening. In that regard they probably want to encourage people to go back and stimulate the economy.
Elon Working with Dogecoin Developers on Efficiency After Tesla Bans Bitcoin
SpaceX definitely use a dynamic solver, if only because they have to correct for wind gusts during landing.
I use Zulip all the time at work.

It is ugly, sometimes will post to a different thread than you expect (not incorrectly, just the UI is very unclear where you are posting to), and has an infuriating tick that if you click off the the input box, it deletes everything you typed.

Otherwise, it gets the job done with minimum fuss.
I strongly suspect we are being trolled at this point.
It's not like we expect everything to go perfectly. I do trust that bureaucrats and officials are competent with good intentions though.

I do trust the police, tax authorities, medical authorities, statistics department. I even trust the politicians work towards their stated goals and ideals, each aiming for what they consider the best for the country.

I'm from the Nordics, with a pretty good track record of honesty and societal trust. I would find that continuous mistrust immensely tiring. That would just be a sad, sad world.
It's not really about specialization (types in Scala tend to be parametric most of the time) so much as just being able to have values in types, so that you can have types like "ListOfLength[1]" or "MapContainingKeys["Foo" :: "Bar" :: Nil]" without having to do some horrendous encoding of those things as types.
> no human adversarial motives

It's a historical point of fact that this is untrue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
So instead of making your point, my thinking is too clouded to come to the same unexplained conclusion as you?
> you get one transaction per five years

Isn't it per 89 years? So basically every person gets one transaction in their lifetime. (If we are generous and allow for 5 transactions per second, then everyone can make 2 transactions in their lifetime. Yay!) That is rather remarkable.

(1500 transactions/block * 6 block/h * 24 h/d * 365 d/y / 7e9 person = 1/89 transactions per person per year)
Not good enough. They still make money off of the ads the affected agencies have to push out to inform users about the fraud problem.

Few things are more profitable than selling both the poison and the cure.
Docs: https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/
SpaceX posts plan for landing of both Starship stages: booster and orbital stage
Nice read! I can add that from my experience using DNS for load balancing isn't the best idea because of the complexities with the DNS caching. The DNS caching happens on DNS resolvers, OS level but also some clients do it too which might be tricky to watch for. Basically you might end up with an IP address of a failed server and no way of retrying until TTL of the DNS record expires.
Does anyone have any experience with both Zulip and Mattermost? Currently on Mattermost and wondering if it would be worth the hassle to switch. The threading does seem nice...
It helps that Erich Gamma and Anders Hejlsberg are on the team, with deep experience in developer tooling.
Now I got an identifier that you saw 2 times before:

>This is your identifier. It was seen 2 times among 8828 tests so far.

None of these was my run. Still, didn't detect vscode :)
as a former physicist i couldn't agree more. in fact you can construct a lagrangian almost uniquely from the underlying symmetries of the system. it's literally the most used tool in theoretical physics, and it's so powerful and elegant that actually convinced myself to do physics in the first place.
they will get senteces due data collected so to not get caugth they will ride privacy bandwagon
I set up Syncthing for my dad a few weeks ago, between his PC and his laptop. At first the sync was incredibly slow, and it turned out Windows on both machines though the local network was a public one, so they weren't talking directly to each other but through a relay out on the internet. I fixed that and it got 15-20 times faster. Maybe you have the same problem?
An Oxford Researcher Says There Are Seven Moral Rules That Unite Humanity
Interesting to see someone else see this.. I've been noticing siilar for some of my sites, but also for other searches - recently 'liquid dog nutrition' eg.. so I too get the feeling that putting article based stuff front and center they are encouraging users to click ads - and for commercial sites to pay to play or get shut out.. it's terrible when you have a great site on page 3 of google results and see the crap they put ahead of you on page one - while shady sites pay to advertise there.

more and more like (a worse version) of the yellow pages every quarter.
T-bills are OK, but it's entirely unclear what the "commercial paper" consists of. Amy Castor notes that if Tether gives USDT for free to large customers like Binance etc, that loan would be a form of commercial paper.

https://amycastor.com/2021/05/13/tethers-first-breakdown-of-...

And quite a few exchanges are offering crazy interest rates (up to 10%) for USDT deposits, which strongly implies they're getting some for free:

https://cryptoprijzen.com/en/crypto-interest/compare-tether-...
They can, but they won't.
It's always about maximizing profit while reducing the costs.
Everything they have can be used against you.
Because Google would sue them out of existence?
Its harder than it looks to solve this problem.

And its also not that simple to weed out bad actors when normally the government sites that should rank are probably hopeless and the senior civil servants in charge knowledge of the web is “in need of some improvement”

Google and Bing could turn up the YMYL (“your money or your life” ) knob but they would also need to employ higher paid local people to vet these sorts of ads.

Stricter KYC (Know Your Customer) could be required to run online adverts is another solution.

Pre covid I got pitched a grade 7/6 (v senior O-6 /GS15 ) job for the DWP to sort out the technical seo side. Looking at these scam sites in search would have been a priority had that gone anywhere – maybe set up some meetings with Matt Cutts and discuss a joint us / uk approach.

Maybe I should follow that job up.
Ok, fair. I didn’t know that.
how did joining the EU restrict Commonwealth immigration?
Please stop contributing to the recent HN trend of putting words in other people's mouths just so you can ridicule them. I'm not "suggesting" any such thing, and if you aren't professionally in ~OmicronCeti's field of study, then I'm not interested in your opinion anyway.
If that was their reason, then why did the change the recommendation while still in the middle of the shortage? Here's an article from months after the CDC started recommending masks, showing that widespread PPE shortages among healthcare workers were still common[1].

There seems to be a lot of post hoc rationalization for what appears to simply be a mistake. This is why accountability is so difficult. People decide ahead of time that certain organizations or individuals are right. If it looks like they made a mistake, then there must be some good reason that justifies their actions that we just don't see.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/22/coronavirus-why-a-ppe-shorta...
How so? Kotlin doesn't even have proper pattern matching.
WotC of course strongly benefits indirectly from the secondary market as it makes packs more desirables (and in fact packs and boxes are priced close to their Expected Value). It is not a surprise that they are strongly opposed to proxies. And most non-WotC tournament organizers of course have strong relationships with WotC.
They can, for starters, return sculptures and artifacts they have stolen, they can come out, suck their egos, and admit their horrific acts in public.

That's a good compromise.

The Germans know and have admitted their horrific acts, where are the Americans and the Russians admitting how they pillaged and raped Berlin? The Russians in Poland? Where are the Brits admitting how they treated their prisoners in every country they pillaged, how they pitted communities against each other? Where are the rest of the European countries talking about their horrific acts in Africa? Canada and Natives anyone? I could continue but you get the idea. Just because ITT it just happened to be the Brits, doesn't mean the rest should be scoff free. Humanity needs to address its vile past, and those that played part need to pay for it.

Germans only paid because they were the losers. The only reason Turkey admitted to genocide is because they are made to. Israel will never acknowledge zionism and their literal genocide of the Palestinians because they are backed by the US.
> Also, who cares about public WiFi these days? Even when travelling it become such a tiny cost it's basically penny pinching

If you work in SV and have SV salary then probably. But for someone living in low-cost low-salary place and travailing to more expensive country for a vocation cost of 4G data can be non-negligible. Also data roaming for many operators is just prohibitive expensive, so first you need to buy a local SIM or some travel-friendly SIM. And during a layover in some 3rd country, public WiFi can be the only option even if you'll use 4G when you'll arrive.
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Email me, I'll send you my account number. Trust me.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Policy_Research

> The Swiss Policy Research site has been criticized for spreading conspiracy theories including claims that QAnon was a psyop of the FBI.[5] and theories relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2][6] German public broadcasterTagesschau calls SPR a propaganda tool[7] and Media Bias/Fact Check says the site is "a Moderate Conspiracy website based on the promotion of unproven claims."[4]
I lived in Cambodia, which has this situation: the government currency is the Riel, roughly 4000R per 1USD, but everyone uses USD for anything over 1USD. Essentially, Riel notes are used as coins - if something is $4.50, you pay $5USD and get back 2000R in notes as change.

> But how does a government have credibility and get taken seriously domestically if the currency they control is increasingly irrelevant day to day?

The monopoly use of force is still a thing that demands respect.
I do not consider Canon's mounts to be better than Sony's E-mount.

Canon is stuck with 2 mounts, the EF-M and the RF, with the RF being the more future proof one. But there is no way to adapt the EF-M to the RF. And there is no way to adapt any other MILC mount to RF.

Meanwhile, the Nikon Z-mount is as close as you can get to a universal mount. You can adapt almost everything E-mount, everything Laica, everything DSLR. And there are videos on YouTube doing just this. Its a combination of the largest diameter with the shortest flange distance.

I forsee Canon getting stuck in indecision.
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I think many of us on HN object to imprecise messaging, sometimes to the point where it’s technically incorrect.

But I also have to admit that “Defund the Police”, “Flatten the Curve”, “I have a dream”, “Think Different” are more effective than a precise 2-page memo laying out a concrete plan.

Some people struggle with nuanced, complicated messaging. Others struggle when messages are over-simplified. I posit that the first group is a few orders of magnitude larger, at least in terms of effect of public comms.
My number one wish would be the ability to read definitions from .h files automatically. Other than that, I've had some issues with memory management with ctypes (objects being deallocated prematurely) that I never had with Cython, but that may just be my own fault. I agree about the lack of interop with Python ints.
Well, the FTC is _trying_, at least. They took action against On Point Global (https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/x130054/po...) which operated a big network of DMV-lookalike sites. If you tried to Google for renewing your drivers license, you'd get sent to one of these sites, which looked like it would help you renew your license but would actually just charge you approx. $15 to download a PDF guide on how to use the real government website.

There's a certain threshold of complaints, unfortunately. The FTC only has the resources to go after big fish. But, one thing I did learn from reading the FTC complaint is that credit card chargebacks do work, after a fashion; the company was getting repeatedly booted off of merchant accounts for accruing lots of chargebacks. I bet if people aggressively charged back the EIN scammers it'd end up hurting them too.
> Could a stack of greenbacks ever be "blacklisted"

Yes. Bill counters at banks capture serial numbers and associate them with your account when you make a cash deposit. Each night the serials are sent to a MCP database where they are checked against a hotlist entered by law enforcement across the country. The bank won't reject the bills on the spot, but depositing too many of the wrong ones will earn you a visit.
>even if it leads to criticism against the government for inadequate preparation.

There's your issue. Saying masks are in short supply begs the question of why. Whether it's reasonable or not, no politician wants to defend their unpreparedness.
Ha, I noticed that too. More than a whiff of a lawyer's touch!

Reminds me of that Parks & Recreation scene where Andy's in the hospital having (for the second time) fallen in the pit, and Leslie visits chased by 'the city's lawyer' who has a long increasingly ridiculous list of interjections for things she 'can't say because it implies X'.

i.e. 'you can't say Welcome to the UK, because it implies you have been allowed in to the UK'.

Personally I think, fine, but maybe a subtler and nicer way to do it would be to position the sign on the other side of customs, visibly perhaps, and just have nothing or simply 'UK customs & border control' or whatever on the other.
You can train your visualization. Check out image streaming, it's a sort of meditation where you focus on what you see when you close your eyes. If you have aphantasia you will still see the purples and blues and green and stars and dots and whatever happens when you close your eyes.

What you do is you speak out loud what you see "A purple blob in the middle, it's moving to the right, now it's morphing into a more green blob" etc

If you do this for a couple of minutes what you will see in your closed eyes will become more shape-like "the blob is now more circular. It's back to a blob again, now it sort of resembles a weird pillow"

Somehow, the feedback loop of objectively describing out loud what you're seeing trains the brain to fantasize more real shapes and objects.

Try it out if this sounds interesting to you!
Hahaha that's hilarious! One diff in Kerala is that it has relatively high HDI and no real economy, which makes for interesting dynamics. Also means that for the ruling parties bringing money in is (or was) relatively uncoupled from actual industrial policy.
I found it interesting, even though I don't (yet?) understand it, that Sir Roger Penrose in this talk/debate with William Lane Craig talks about that "you can have a temporal order without having a time associated with that": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wLtCqm72-Y&t=58m5s
It depends on what you call a 'farming society'. If it's about where their priorities lies, Vikings are not a farming society. They valued fertile lands and resources, and expanded where farming would be better, but that doesn't make them primary farmers until they fully settle and stop invading neighbors.

The same way I do chores, but I'm not a house maid (until perhaps I quit my job)
It might be a simple policy but your border guards seem to have misunderstood it. It says EU citizens are allowed to enter UK for interviews but they are still being detained.

It is perfectly OK if you want to have inefficient system (wasting UK money on holding people who does not need to be held) but we as EU countries just ask that you give our citizens the possibility to call our embassies before you detain them to let us help them out of your country. Until then we will continue to calling you douchebags for how you treat our citizens that are trying to enter your country legally, sorry for the emotionally loaded words.
Also, Tether promises that at any time you can redeem a tether for USD (well, it doesn't really promise that either). Apple does no such thing.
What if the commercial paper was IOUs from cryto-exchanges that were issued in return for un-backed Tether. The IOU then being treated as backing.

What if "crypto-exchanges" just means Bitfinex and no-one else.

You notice that they carefully said the secured loans were against non-partner entities. They said nothing of the sort about the commercial paper.
Agreed. But perhaps it's not too much to ask that

1) Infectious disease experts should have known this extremely basic fact. We know all sorts of weird details about the molecular biology of viruses (which we have used to great effect), but apparently we were still stuck in the 1800's when it came to the main route of infection, and

2) the establishment should be vocal about our mistake, take it very seriously, and perhaps reflect on whether we have spent our funding in the best possible way. Perhaps some of the billion of dollars we spend on tests and cures could be directed towards a better understanding of the true basics - how infections spread in the first place.

I myself work at the national influenza laboratory, and I find it nothing less than embarrassing that our field dropped the ball this hard when it really mattered, and infuriating that we are this slow to acknowledge that we messed up that we need god damn journalists to correct us on the basic science.
Counterpoint - they killed my free lifelong stuff after a couple months.

I suspect their underlying tech and specs are decent but everything around it was just shockingly bad.

Maybe it’s changed since - more clouds are good. Suspect I got the early beta experience of their free trial…but still left a bad taste in my mouth. Which takes some doing when handing out free stuff
Is the compiler multithreaded ?

how far it supports inlining of types and data structures to achieve or get near to zero cost abstraction after normal warm up of the code on JVM ?
It's nice to see a quick description of what the project is in the title

There's too many projects (even on the front page right now "Scala 3.0.0") for which I have no idea what they are, and I completely skim over.
Downloading your podcast now. Thank you.
Labour neither opposed Brexit nor advocated for a second referendum during the 2019 GE campaign though. We cannot be sure what their voters' position on Brexit was. My assumption is that the majority of them were opposed, but a significant minority were still in favour, and we do not know how big that significant minority was, we do not know whether it would have been enough for the outcome of a new referendum to be different from the previous one.
Glad you live to tell the story. Was recovery hard?
Why Your Event Needs a Code of Conduct and You Need to Enforce It
By "I can't understand" I mean, "please explain to me" -- I am sure that political scientists will write at great length about the reasons behind brexit and xenophobia. I am not a political scientist and I have recently accepted a job in a country other than that which I was born in. What is the pracie of the argument as to why saying "I can't understand" is a bad turn of phrase?
Irish health service hit by cyber attack
Adding the option for multiple users is unfortunately not the priority for most site operators that offer a webapp
If that's the case then China doesn't even have anything to admit, it could have come Frome anywhere.
The problem with ship-to-ship laser combat is that line-of-sight only a couple kilometers. Two objects mounted in 20m height can only see each other for 36km.

Railguns are a lot more likely, but I think we still don't have "barrels" that survive firing more than a couple shots before replacement.
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26123394
I experimented with making a clock using ferrofluid previously. I was inspired by this clock [0] but put off by the price tag.

Generally the main issues I found were that it degraded over time and I had real trouble with ferrofluid smearing on the container.

Will have to try again now!

[0]: https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/ferrofluid-clock/
Technically it's a fiat currency because people trust the code base and by extension they trust the development team.
I don't think that necessarily follows. Someone who still thinks we should remain masked for a while longer might believe that we should continue to err on the side of caution, because we've seen infection spikes when restrictions are eased or lifted too quickly. The CDC's initial mask recommendation came later than it should have, so why is it so hard to believe that lifting that recommendation is coming too early?

Remember that, while the CDC is advised and informed by scientists, they are ultimately a public policy agency. The science matters, to be sure, but what matters most is that the best outcome is achieved, based on people's behavior.

I think they're recommending dropping mask requirements now not because it's the best science, but because vaccine demand has been dropping, and they believe that giving people real-world, day-to-day incentives to vaccinate will convince some of the people hesitant to get vaccinated. And I agree with them on that, and I think it's the right move, even if it carries some risk.
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GitHub Added Support to Upload Videos for Better Understanding
Hmm. I didn't know that.

I suppose we'll see how it works out, assuming it does become law. There is devil in the generalities here, but plenty of devil in the detail too.

Detail-wise.... Compliance, currently, is the art of ticking boxes while not changing anything fundamental. Too often, politicians and advocates have their eyes on the spirit of (proposed) laws while corporations and their advocates put their eye on how "compliance" will actually work procedurally. The latter approach is more effective.

That doesn't mean no goals are ever achieved, but it does dampen a lot. EU transparency laws, right to be forgotten and such are good examples. They might establish moral rights, but they don't affect really achieve big practical goals.

Generality-wise... I think the problem for (eg) free expression is the platform oligopoly itself, not their corporate policies. That's not my main concern here though. My main concern is: These laws are only necessary because monopoly. The danger is that the laws entrench monopoly, by applying them unnecessarily to smaller platforms.

That said, we'll see when/if it happens. Thanks for the info.