skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just raise the air exchange per person and or per volume by a significant factor and mandate a very fine particulate filter.

An alternative in the meantime is to use a PAPR (powered air purifying respirator), which are more efficient, last much longer (device and filter), and are much more comfortable than N95 masks. I use an Optrel Swiss Air and cover the valves of the mask with a hoodie style balaclava.

It would be a good time to get one, as it is believed that it is only a matter of time before SARS-CoV-2 mutates into a variant that is capable of evading the vaccines.

Also, the US CDC advice may not have been such a good idea. Look at these calculations:

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1393090966928637952?s=...

Singapore has a comparable vaccination rate to the US and is going into lockdown to prevent further spread. They used Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. Just some food for thought:

https://twitter.com/andrewkimmel/status/1393086704349630464?...
I do wonder to what extent Tether has a symbiotic relationship with large exchanges, and what the loans are denominated in.

It's easy to imagine how issuing loans denominated in USDT would be attractive to Tether. And that debt can be converted into an asset on Tether's balance sheet. And voila the tether is backed.
Samsung is now a contributor to Google’s Fuchsia OS
I was looking at dotty/scala 3 earlier in the year and I was quite surprised to see familiar friends from Typescript in the form of literal types and union types.

val scala: "Scala" = "Scala"

const typescript: "Typescript" = "Typescript"

"Scala" | "Typescript"
Autonomous Precision Landing of Space Rockets (2016) [pdf]
Did you actually read the article?

People are offering to buy their own ticket, but no they're sent to detention for no reason, at taxpayer expense.

People are offering to stay private, but no they're sent to detention at taxpayer expense.

A Czech woman is being sent to Mexico instead of allowing her to pay herself to fly home to Prague.

All this spending of UK taxpayer funds for what? Out of spite?
Based on the article and the fact that they implied that sticky sessions are necessary, it doesn't seem that the abstraction is airtight.

If it was properly stateful, then sticky sessions would not be required. With WebSockets, sticky sessions are not required when load balancing.
It's not hard to find people for unskilled work if you are offering a fair wage. Why would anyone in the US want to work for a restaurant unless they had no choice, when they aren't even entitled to minimum wage. It's outrageous that tips are considered part of people wage, as in reality it's just charity compensating for employers not paying for the work.
OK then, it's fair to state that the policy is not unpopular. It commands a good deal of support from the electorate.
I think it's a backwards logic of how paternity tests mean you "don't believe women" and thus are oppressing them. Completely ignoring the plight of men paying for children which aren't even their own.
While we wait for an official document: https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/new-in-scala3.html - there is quite a lot of things in there!
Sure, yet in the blog's context, arguing wether there are 100% pillaging societies that never had farmers nor developed land under their control is also an argument I feel nobody is making (that's also not the argument made in the parent posts)

Pirates would be the closest thing that comes to my mind, but it's more an economic activity inside a society than a separate culture.
I see friends of mine who, having celebrated the science behind the CDC pro-mask recommendations for the last 12 months, be suddenly appalled at the change in recommendations and seeming to want to cling the disrupted life a little longer for reasons known mostly to them.
For anyone interested in the development of rocket propellant and related fuel I’d highly recommend ‘Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants’ by John D. Clark.
1. Print fake money

2. Buy crypto with them and create a huge hype

3. Sell crypto for real money

4. Profit

5. Receive your Nobel prize in Economics
You're thinking of engineering, not science. The math is more or less all figured out. But how to apply it so things don't break? That's engineering.
What's New in Scala 3
Ferrofluid is unstable iirc. I wonder how long this fluid lasts.
You will find that non-European immigrants, especially from Commonwealth and ex-Commonwealth countries, also have a negative opinion of the previous preferential EU immigration rules. I have met many South African and Nigerian immigrants who found the disparity between their right to immigrate and that of EU citizens deeply unfair, and many who were eligible to vote in the Brexit referrendum chose to leave the EU for precicely that reason. They can hardly be accused of racism.

Besides which, the conflation of a desire for immigration control with racism is a lazy canard.
I want this, buy just as an eyeball that follows people around with its gaze
> The issue with vaccines taking a long time to get approval is development time and efficacy data. Both of those were able to be done quickly due to the massive pandemic and due to the 10 years of preparatory work done on SARS-CoV-1 and mRNA vaccines.

Not only that, but Operation Warp Speed (hate the name, but have to give it some credit) removed bureaucratic hurdles that allowed many of the normal steps to be done in parallel rather than serially. That doesn't mean that those steps were rushed or done in an unsafe manner.
Part of the problem is that the American media spread misinformation about the effectiveness of masks for political gain. For example, I remember the New York Times pushing the idea that vaccines would be less effective than mask wearing even though all evidence suggested that even a vaccine which met the minimum standards for approval would likely be substantially more effective than mask wearing, seemingly because Trump supported vaccines but not masks.
Why the hell is anyone travelling for a job interview in the middle of a pandemic? I thought we all knew how to use Zoom now?

Can't work it out with the Guardian, last month they were calling for travel bans, now they are supporting frivolous travel.
Tether is acting like a bank, that's the problem. A completely un-auditable bank with a history of shady behavior.

If a bank has 0% reserves, the books say 0% reserves. Tether has no books.
> Besides, none of these services (dropbox, onedrive) support ignore files, so they're constantly syncing node_modules folders, etc.

Tresorit has that feature and it works great. Aside from data encryption, it was the main reason why I switched from Dropbox.

https://support.tresorit.com/hc/en-us/articles/217103697-Exc...
I love syncthing. The best sync tool so far. I use it to sync between my phone, laptop and a VM. However, there are some annoying things:

- Frequently I get sync conflicts, although I always edit file only on one host.

- Sync is not triggered automatically, but based on the schedule interval. If I need synced files immediately, I need to open the control UI and force rescan of files.
Brutal and nasty are emotive terms. If someone has no lawful basis to be in a country, what is wrong with expecting them to leave?
I don't see the problem here. These people don't seem to have valid visas or right to work in the UK and therefore are breaking the law. The UK has a big issue with people coming on the wrong visa and then working in the informal economy illegally, they just need to sort their visas and everything is fine.
Banks aren't at all like a supposedly pegged cryptocurrency. Secondly banks don't have a 0% reserve requirement against all types of RWA. They have specifically low reserve requirements against certain types of assets but if you look at the balance sheet of a bank you'll see that their capital reserves are not zero. The Fed removed the reserve requirement on eligible deposits and moved to the "ample reserves" system where they pay interest on reserves that depositary institutions lodge with them but which a specific reserve requirement against liabilities is not needed.

Banks are still required to have reserves against risk-weighted assets (remember that deposits are a liability) and to cover liquidity and macroprudential risk. Here's the fed policy note https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm and here's an explanation of the "ample reserves" system https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/impl...
A bit off-topic but the moving particles in the background of this page make it really hard for me to focus on the text
This form of selection bias is extremely common. An ethnic group and their neighbors rarely meet, if they do, then one side is a military force on an expedition which leads to a characterization of the ethnic group being violent.

Examples: Vikings, Barbarians, Huns, ...
It's basic tribe psychology.

At times of stress we seek out the enemy. And external imaginary enemy is always easier to accept than internal or god forbid a bad habit that we are all guilty of.
>given that mathematics has time as a precondition

Citation needed :-)

>(how can you perform an operation like 1+1 without time?).

As a long tautology -- all steps exist in advance. There is no "movement" in mathematics. 1+1 is already 2.

Same way in e.g. a holographic universe could have all developments present at the "same time" (or rather, in a timeless state). Where time is just the perception of focusing on one or the other pre-existing point (with no actual process of change from one to the other).
Absolutely love syncthing, and migrated to it after using Seafile for several years. I also have quite some personal/business experience with iCloud and OneDrive, and syncthing is (mostly) superior.

My wishlist for syncthing though, in prioritized order:

1. support for symlinks, to be able to sync files/folders that live outside of syncthing dirs. Some files I’d like to sync are in fixed locations that I cannot or don’t want to change, and Seafile allowed me to simply symlink them into an already synced dir. The counter-argument in GitHub discussions is having to distinguish between syncing symlink destinations vs. the symlink „as symlink“. For my situation that would be overthinking (as I’d never have the second use case) but I understand the hesitation, sadly.

2. provide a smart versioning/rollback solution leveraging ZFS snapshots, as my file server as participating node already creates rolling snapshots

3. (nice to have) mark certain directories as „sparse“, to sync data only when really accessed. Similar to what OneDrive provides
People who want unrestricted immigration for "looking for work" are completely clueless. They only think they want it because they don't know how many people will come if it's open borders with the 3rd world and what the economic and social consequences of that will be. Those unemployed people can't be allowed to starve so they must be supported by social welfare. It's easy to feel sorry for a handful of rejected migrants but only by ignoring the millions who never even tried to enter, knowing they couldn't.
One very interesting sentence in that document is the "100'000 USDC token blacklisted"

If you ever thought govt-backed cryptos and centralized tokens like USDC were a good idea, ask yourself this:

Could a stack of greenbacks ever be "blacklisted" (I mean, people have certainly tried with various "tricks")?

One of the nice property of money as we've known it so far was fungibility.

With govt-backed (e-dollar) and/or centralized cryptos (USDC), much like the woolly mammoth the whole notion will soon be extinct.

Decentralized ZKP-powered coins FTW.
They are just "following the science" (when it suits them).
Also, making society and individuals more prepared and ready to deal with no-more-oil for a while, situations.

E.g. warm blankets at home, and food that doesn't need to be boiled, if cannot heat the house because the oil and electricity system is broken for a while?
I believe the U.S. minimum requirement is currently at 10%, but you do remember how bad it all came crashing down 13 years ago, right?

So yes, it does matter if we let financial institutions disregard risk in the pursuit of profit, when they are gambling with other people’s money.

In the case of Tether though, it’s not a traditional bank that issues interest yielding loans based on the lender’s credit profile.

Rather, the suspicion has been that they are simply issuing USDT coins to buy up crypto, which causes the latter to increase in value, but the money to buy these assets were never there in the first place, and that is why today, they can only show a fraction of the cash they claim to have received.
Notably this is happening before the 30 June deadline when strict enforcement of EU settled scheme is supposed to kick in.
I have been helping people with immigration questions the last few years online. It’s crazy how many British people currently ask how to immigrate and that their options are severely limited now. No American, Russian or Indian person would even ask if they can immigrate without a degree whereas for most Brits who asked they have absolutely no qualifications.

I wonder if we will see some more public realizations that freedom of movement is something British citizens will miss.
Even more bizarre is the idea of metallic hydrogen: https://astronomy.com/magazine/ask-astro/2018/06/metallic-hy...
An international scientific seafloor drilling project has drilled over 1500 deep holes in the past half century. The oldest seafloor sediments go to 220 million years. Anything older has been consumed by plate tectonics subduction.

Scientists could count Pu244 in these cores to see how many nearby supernovae there were.
Good to expose such expert arrogance.
It is related in some way.

Since Go has no generics, it does not have datatypes like Sets, Maps (go has maps, but only supports a few types as keys), or Graphs. It also does not have immutable collections.

This complects data modeling.
The referendum vote is not the best point of reference. The Conservatives won comfortably in 2019, and recently won a by election, again comfortably, all on a platform of implementing brexit.
Yeah, 100% agree.

The notion of counter-party risk is understood by a tiny fraction of the folks who participate in finance.
Gnome devs don't see ability for any app to take screenshots as an issue
Despite wayland allowing a much tighter security model, the implementation is left to compositors. Here mutter developers have decided just to not care and hide behind the fact that it can be mitigated with flatpak.

Of course, not everybody uses flatpak, and even then the user has no control or visual feedback on what is happening.
> I am looking forward to the English getting the same treatment

What a truly vile statement, unworthy of HN.

Roughly half the English population (including myself) voted to remain. We are not gloating, but working hard to ensure cooperation with the EU continues.....

..... and no doubt, preparing for the next referendum to return to the EU in 10 years time (after all, a second independence referendum is now on the cards for Scotland, the precedent has been set).
Isn't it a fact that IQ is bad at measuring people's intelligence?
I don't see how they are supporting frivolous travel by reporting: "This is happening to travelers at the border."
That the sign in the photo says "Welcome to the UK Border" and not "Welcome to the UK" sums it up for me.
Because what's good for the country's balance sheet and for businesses may not be good for certain segments of the population.
I would be interested to see the ferrofluid dots resonating
Gah, I copied that link wrong. I meant to reference https://cpu.fyi/d/98dfae#G23.11082057, which is that specific section about HCR_EL2.E2H's behavior.
Typo negative: the best and worst of Grauniad mistakes over 200 years
Sure, and that's exactly the point: that line is not today.
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> People who want unrestricted immigration for "looking for work"

sounds like a weird strawman. Do you know of any larger group seriously fighting for that at the moment?

(People coming for a scheduled interview are not "unrestricted immigration for looking for work")
How do you monitor your syncthing? I am also a fan. It occured to me however if my headless server in the roofspace running syncthing goes away I don't know about it. Is there a way of doing notifications in syncthing which doesn't require an external monitoring system?
Don't say "I can't understand".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chALQCm9VgE

> the cruel and degrading treatment

I don't think this part has as wide support as the part where people see entire towns lose their jobs, while from their point of view foreigners are being let in left and right. Those foreigners didn't literally take their jobs, but someone's gaining jobs and someone's losing jobs.

It may be good for the economy, but you know that saying "taxation without representation"? Yeah, the government is supposed to represent the voters. And from these local's point of view they are not being represented. It's taxation without representation. And some people get upset about that.

These people didn't get elected to represent the economy as a whole or even humanity as a whole, but to represent the voting population and their interests.

Don't say "I can't understand".
The highest infection rates are still short range though. This, combined with being a new virus would still be similar to today.
Scala is not perfect but it’s very good. It’s competitive pressure arguably improved Java (streams, pattern matching, data classes).
On a tangent - ever since cryptocurrencies gained popularity, every known crook and MLM scam-artist here in Europe shifted their focus to some coin service.

Some of these are of course difficult to soit, as they tend to use numerous different names and identities, and have been in the scamming "game" for decades.

The takeaway from all of this is that one should absolutely do a quick research on founders and key figures when dealing with businesses that focus on crypto. People don't tend to change overnight, and especially not those that have been scamming people for decades before.
Well no thank you, I'm not an Australian or American but I want my citizens to be allowed to turn home.
Saving your population from each covid death is perfect excuse for fascism, Trump should have been used it to build 3 walls by the look of how people are willing to accept this position.
You can't expect anything better from Scottish nationalists. A very nasty bunch all round.
> The email takes 10 seconds to show up.

Even longer if you have greylisting turned on, it gets temporarily rejected which means you then have to wait N minutes before it gets accepted (assuming they retry sensibly and don't just spam retries every 2 minutes and get fail2ban'd.)

By which time it might well have timed out anyway...
This is a good example of falling into the trap of picking something too broad, "pet lovers", which leads you down the rabbit hole of generating features you think the average pet lover is interested in and would find useful.

I think the B2C space is neigh on impossible to penetrate in the pet space, most pet lovers form sub-communities on existing social networks (see pets on Instagram or puppy101 on reddit), you would need something very special to be able to get the average person to maintain an app on their phone just to engage with other pet lovers.

I'd flip it on its head and look for B2B niche within the pet lovers industry if you're exploring pivots. A good example of friction I've found recently is pet sitting, dog walking and doggy day care, currently we have a pup which goes day care and we use 4/5 apps to manage this process - to find one we used Google, but then cross-referenced with something like Instagram to get a feel for how they are on their dog walks, to sign up we had to fill out a questionnaire via another web app, after accepting our pup they sent us a waiver/legals to sign from another app, after which they directed us to another app on the App Store to book/cancel day care each week, must be done by Sunday lunch, but it never reminds us... they send invoices each month via email, which we have to then hop over to our banking app to pay manually, they send us pups "report card" and photos via WhatsApp.

I'm sure a small pet walking business or individual dog walkers would happily pay X amount each month to provide an integrated services to manage a lot of this, but more importantly it would be very easy to validate whether this is something the market wants, by just talking to some of these independent pet sitters to understand what pain points they have.
Won comfortably in the UK does not mean too much in the UK. Easily 30-40% of the votes get just disregarded in the UK system. (I did not check the actual figures for the recent elections.)
It's time for a data-first front end revolution
It's pretty simple: A lot of Americans are dogshit-stupid. They voted for Trump. They're deliberately and belligerently ignorant children, just like the former (and disgraced) "president."
Fortunately, we’re not. In between, there was a vaccine developed and deployed and the science strongly (overwhelmingly is probably more precise) suggests that fully vaccinated people are at minimal risk to themselves and minimal risk to spread, which is of course the entire point of vaccines and entirely unsurprising given our understanding and long experience with other vaccines, which almost all exhibited the same disease control properties.

Getting vaccinated seems to me to be the exact opposite of throwing away all caution.
> Sync is not triggered automatically, but based on the schedule interval

Pretty sure there's a "Watch for changes" toggle in the UI.
There's a similar scam in place in Poland, and its continued existence confuses me too. I don't remember getting any invoices after registering my company, but I got spammed with letters telling me to pay a fee to register my company on some listing, and some of those messages did their best to make it seem they're a continuation of the official process. The deception goes as far as these companies being named in a way that sounds government-ish, and their addresses being at the same street in Warsaw (the capital) some government buildings are.

The infuriating part is that it's so well-known, that both the physical government offices and the online forms where you can register your small business, are plastered with big, attention-grabbing reminders that the registration process is free. The government knows about this scam to the point of warning people about it, and yet it continues.
> no databases

You can query Markdown files with the (third-party) Dataview plugin. Wrote about it here[0], very simple query syntax. Only tables and lists, but tables is the one I've used by far the most in Notion.

> no nice templates

Well you can always create your own. There's a first-party templates plugin[1] and a similar third-party one that also allows custom variables and has a showcase[2] (think: you can curl the weather and add it to your journal).

Having wrote that, your "a lot of custom configuration" definitely applies.

[0] https://input.sh/replicating-notions-tables-with-obsidian-pl...

[1] https://help.obsidian.md/Plugins/Templates

[2] https://github.com/SilentVoid13/Templater/discussions/catego...
In the press articles the Home Office is quoted as saying, "suspected offences". A dawn raid is completely abhorrent for anything other than serious crimes. Note that Immigration Enforcement isn't even the police, this is a Home Office unit.
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> This nastiness is what the public demands.

So you're saying democracy is bad?
One of the ancient Greek craft of mnemonics is to spatialize what you wish to remember. For example, use the rooms of a house to contain sequential items of a speech.
Been a user for years, I also run a Discovery and a Relay server on two small VPS.

Syncthing is great and has improved a lot over the years. It only hiccups when it detects changes in VeraCrypt containers which are still mounted and thus inaccessible to read.