skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At FOSDEM (I believe) earlier this year it was mentioned that zulip interoperabily with Matrix is actively being worked on. Unfortunately the release announcement does not mention it, so probably not yet ready for public release?

As a regular zulip user it's a shock to me every time I have to use the element client. I have the feeling the latter is very slack-like in tis look and feel. I could be wrong on this, luckily I haven't had to use Slack for 3 years. Unfortunately with people used to Slack, it will be a shock to them to use zulip.
Spreadsheets look 3-dimendional to me, but the first 2 dimensions are just about data (rows/columns), the 3rd dimension is the language itself (cell value), even though you can specify data ranges in the cell value, the language still looks 1D to me
I think you mean "UI", as in "visuals", because the UX is the best, bar none.
My personal opinion is that Google should be held liable for allowing Ads to do so.
Three things on that. First, the law would just require a warrant before they get that data, there isn't really some other source that would benefit from it. Second, Wyden has been supportive of similar issues for years, not beyond suspicion but there should be some substance to any suspicion cast on him. And finally, I wouldn't care if Wyden was being paid to ensure that law enforcement needs a warrant.

My cynical take is that Wyden is only allowed to make these press releases because both parties know that they are unlikely to become law. People get less upset knowing someone is pushing for the issues they care about even though the effort is futile.
Utah is great, but don't come here. We want CA problems to stay in CA.
I think national parks have value, but not infinite value. We should weigh up using somewhere as a preserve against other potential uses.

There are millions of Mars-like planets out there in the galaxy. I'd be more than happy to preserve, say, 10% of them. But there's only one that's in the right place to be the next step for humanity.
Speaking as someone who's worked in ML/statistics for over a decade, the author is right on the money.
Gujarat excess deaths 65,085 in 2021 Mar-May
The offender was found to be not criminally responsible due to extreme mental health problem, was put into secure treatment for long time, and eventually considered safe to be in society. Locking him up further would be purely revenge not justice.
My current company uses Slack and I groan every time I have to use it. I miss Zulip greatly.
This is not entirely true. All the political parties and ideas from back then are gone. The government was replaced completely multiple times and time has changed to the better. IMO the past is not hidden at all in fact we are regularly reminded about all these things, we just embrace our better future.
U.S. government and friends simply don't care. Sever phone lines from outside western countries where law applies - you've solved the majority of the problem. Same with disinformation campaigns from other countries. Sever their internet. We can never prosecute illigal acts conducted outside the west.
I don't think anyone should be expected to do that but if I wanted to read everything it would be a huge pain to do so in Slack. It is nice to have it as a realistic option.
If the CDC did the opposite in each of these cases, people would find fault in that. "They told the general public to wear masks early on, leading to mask shortages at hospitals!" And "When blood clots were reported in JnJ vaccine they did nothing to protect Americans!"
Zope was the main reason to use Python in 2000, it slowly replaced Perl among UNIX admins, then there was Django among other Python based tooling.

Guido also worked always for quite well known companies after he left academia.
The Dutch CDC (RIVM) made the same statements. As a result, people don't really believe in masks here either, but it not a big political issue. I am not sure why the mask became such a symbol for the corona measures in the US, but not here.
Haha, I like the wording in the URL
256 bits is enough collision resistance, so I don't mind truncating SHA-512, even down to 256 bits.

If you find collision space reduction interesting, then you might find it even more interesting that truncating SHA-512 makes it more secure not less.

This (and the higher rounds safety margin) is why I choose truncated SHA-512 over SHA-256 for this sort of application, even though the number of output bits is the same:

Check out the red boxes on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Comparison_of_SHA_fun...
> Do not support investor-focused comp models like backweighted vesting (Amazon)

This is from ~7 years ago, but my backweighted Amazon RSUs were balanced by a signing bonus, and another signing bonus a year later. Roughly, my total comp would be similar each year if AMZN stayed the same price, so it felt fair.
A paradigm shift to combat indoor respiratory infection
Mobile Phones for the Elderly
It does... but again, if being vaccinated means that you still have to do all the other things that are done to limit the spread, then you are perceivably ALREADY doing your civic duty when you go out by masking up, distancing, and otherwise staying home.

Also, if vaccination doesn’t change the risk enough for you to drop some of the other precautions, that also lowers the perceived value of the efficacy of the vaccine as well.
This was an antitrust ruling, so chances are that the process was something like:

- app developer (here, the giant state-backed energy company ENEL) complains to antitrust authority about getting denied access to store

- authority asks Google to justify itself

- Google makes a very weak argument, refuses to disclose the internal decision-making process that resulted in blocking access

- authority goes “oh really?”, proceeds to slap Google with a fine

Now Google can decide whether they want to take this to court (which, being Italy, will probably take 5 to 10 years); pay the fine and allow ENEL in; or just ignore the ruling and dare the state to slap them harder (which again, would probably mean a good 5+ years will pass before sanctions are actually enacted, but might result in higher fines).
> Now, restaurants are developing incentives to lure workers back. At the same time, Amazon is beefing up its own hiring perks.

This seems like healthy capitalism at work.
My first thought too. I've always meant to give them a more serious go...
Tldr: Papa elon wipes his ass with Btc, wiping off 365bn
LEO is 0.0005% of the way to the Moon, and yet once we'd done the first it didn't take us long to scale up to the second.
What political gain does the Islamic Republic of Iran get when it forces women to wear head coverings?

What political gain does a ruling clique get when e.g. they force people to admit "2+2=5"?

About the falsity of "two plus two equals five", in Room 101, the interrogator O'Brien tells the thought criminal Smith that control over physical reality is unimportant to the Party, provided the citizens of Oceania subordinate their real-world perceptions to the political will of the Party; and that, by way of doublethink: "Sometimes, Winston. [Sometimes it is four fingers.] Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once".[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_%2B_2_%3D_5
What is the alternative? Give up on all sports teams? Give up on all goods altogether?

I think the point people are making is that the system in general is so rigged and there are so many bad actors that it’s basically impossible to find something else that is more ethically managed while getting a very similar good/service/whatever.

Do I support the US giving Israel billions every year that then gets used to kill and rule over Palestinians? Nope but I still have to pay my taxes! If I decided to not pay because of that, I’d go to jail. So even though I’d like to not support such a system, the effects of not supporting such a system are too much of a cost for myself. (In the same way for others with goods or services or whatever - penalty for non-participation in whatever is too high)
It's not a matter of physical fitness, it's a matter of time.
When your profits depend on not understanding something chances are you won't understand it :)
So everyone is antisocial then.
If they didn't suspect that an "atypical pneumonia" as it was called since the beginning had an aereosol component a case can be made that they were unfit for their job

If mask initial recommendation actually was a white lie a case can be made that they are unfit for communicating their results to the masses as they think their peers to be petulant children unfit for handling truths, and they should be stripped of that function

The other cases just convert into variations of them politicising a pandemic to unknown ends

As for the WHO, these organisations shouldn't have an easy way out of their responsibilities
The Translation Trap
This carrot will lead to reopen the office and commute.

Good lord. It is almost like they want to discourage people to not get vaccinated.
So many thanks to you for creating Zulip, I love it to bits.
Subnautica: Below Zero is out now
IOW, the best part is no part.
Not in the default configuration
You can't flatten the curve and then immediately throw away all caution and go back to the behavior that made the curve a geometric progression.
> science is a process. If research came out that changed the recommendations, well, that's how science works.

CDC is a public health organization, not a science making organization. Its responsibility is to make the competent public health decisions based on the best available data and sound risk management. No one is faulting CDC for eventually course correcting, they are criticizing it for not having followed a more risk averse strategy from the get go and not having communicated their rationale honestly.

Imagine if FDA behaved like CDC; roll out the vaccines to general public with minimal trial, updating their decision on safety as more data came in. Scientific incrementalism doesn't suit all use cases, and this has nothing to do with infallibility.
It's crazy how politicised the mask has become in the States.

Over here in my parts of Eastern-Europe the government just announced yesterday that starting tomorrow (Saturday) the mask won't be mandatory anymore in almost all outdoor spaces for everyone, a statement which was received with joy and relief by almost everyone, no matter their political orientation.
Yeah the internet is completely different without blockers. I install uBlock Origin on every browser I come across and I've gotten random comments from other users about how everything just seems better for some reason. Firefox supports uBlock Origin on mobile too, people love it when they try it out and find that there's no idiotic YouTube ads anymore.

Firefox should just ship uBlock Origin by default and make it the default experience. Brave browser is already doing that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27142674
We could if we had the political will. There are terraforming-like approaches that would e.g. reduce global temperature, but good luck getting the political consensus to actually put them into practice.
Japan and US take aim at China's 'developing' status on emissions
Price of gold and silver is at its peak and people are buying it more than ever convinced it will somehow become extinct. The people who have money to hoard gas are also the people who have the money to hoard gas at double the price. These are not individuals with any knowledge of economics - theyre not doing it for trade, they're doing it out of belief.
Carbon brushes also have isolation issues. If your motor is to be air cooled, you will be blowing outdoor air through it, complete with fog/condensation. In brushed motors, that fog will cause a leakage current from the motor brushes to ground. The leakage current may be tiny, but in a system where you want 10's of megaohms between the high voltage system and the chassis for human safety, it becomes a problem.

Or you could try to hermetically seal your brushes in to stop moisture getting in, but now you have the difficulty of a spinning moisture seal and build up of carbon dust which is probably going to start to get warm/hot.
Addition is just a function and functions are just sets of pairs and sets can just sit there merrily existing in the abstract without any need for time or flow or movement or such.
Looking at the bibliography used it surprises me that CocoR https://ssw.jku.at/Research/Projects/Coco/ is missing, for me so far CocoR is the Lua equivalent for parsers, simply, small and relatively easy to understand, generates recursive descent parsers mostly LR(1) but we can have LR(k) when needed, it uses first and follow sets to detect ambiguities and has a simple EBNF grammar description.
The gimmick here was that there was no actual URV currency. No notes or coins, no bank accounts denominated in it. This prevented developing a free-market exchange rate that undermined the abstract value the state was trying to establish.

I could say "I'm only willing to pay 0.50USD for 1URV". If someone takes me up on it, the fulfillment would have to take place in cruzieros-- the transaction becomes "I'm paying 0.50USD to 15 cruzieros" or whatever. This sort of transaction would have more impact on the cruziero's exchange rate than the URV's.

I could imagine trading some sort of "osudeo-URV" derivative product that was basically a prepaid purchase contract, but its value would be heavily affected by cruziero-related risk.
Vaccines either cause side effects in ~3 months or they don't. They could conceivably trigger long-term autoimmune conditions but they don't hide for years.

And we have a long track record of understanding this because viruses and vaccine cause the same kinds of autoimmune conditions. I had viral pericarditis once from a common cold that struck a month or two after I got over it. We've got hundreds of years of experience with it.

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.

And your interpretation of the reverse transcription article is just bullshit misinformation.

And you're still not escaping from being exposed to SARS-CoV-1 mRNA, it'll become endemic. You're getting it from the virus or the vaccine, there's not really going to be any skipping out.

(And if the LINE-1 results are correct this is how we pick up genetic material from all kinds of RNA viruses, our genome is littered with historical pandemics).
Doesn't the CDC (and many other organizations) recommend getting vaccinated even if you previously had Covid? Immunization from the vaccines are stronger than from natural immunity and the effect against other strains is better known. It's also been known to stop long-term symptoms from people who were still suffering from Covid. A bunch of well known people who have had Covid also later got vaccinated.
I'm always super skeptical when I see a blanket statement like this about how "the brain" works. Maybe many brains do but there are too many incredibly fundamental variations of how peoples' brains work to generalise too much. Aphantasia, variations in inner monologues, different sensory processing... we really are all our own unique creatures.
As long as there are fossil fuels being used for the production of electricity, either non-clean energy or a mix will be cheaper as a purchaser (regardless of production costs).

All the electricity gets mixed together in the power network anyway, so if you buy 'renewable' electricity you are effectively just paying a premium to say yours came from the pool of renewable electricity. If you increase the power load on the network though, and in-aggregate the power requirement increases, chances are that increase still comes from fossil fuels.

I think we will be waiting a long time until global electricity is 100% renewable, although I hope it happens quick and it's good that you are more optimistic than me :)
1. Tell someone you own a security
2. They get excited and buy it
3. You sell it when it goes up

You can't just classify this set of actions as a pump and dump. You have to do something that is considered a scam, such as grossly misrepresenting the security with the intention of making a profit at the cost of uneducated investors. As far as I can tell, Elon never claimed Bitcoin is environmentally friendly, nor did he make other false claims about Bitcoin's functionalities or capabilities.
DuckDuckGo has this problem as well. I’m not sure what switching to a smaller company that does the same thing - albeit in a more privacy conscious way - helps. It’s not a Google problem, it’s a search industry problem.
As I said, it can't get a foothold. If vaccinations are enough to keep the r0 below 1, which seems to be the case, it doesn't really matter how many infected people enter because it will fizzle out again. Vaccines are also likely to be mandatory for anyone traveling.
I'm pretty sure they're saying that such things should be regulated and that is a failure of [USA?] democracy that they're not -- seems right to me.
The trick would be to use the LB as an initial session starter. Don't use LB metrics to scale, just manage what hosts are available for a session.
Mars has enough gravity to live life more-or-less as normal, and any kind of soil is a much easier way to protect yourself from cosmic radiation than having to build multi-meter-thick walls from nothing.
This is not the whole story, by any means.

Those who buy it are those who can afford it. They also (think) they need it, for some reason. That can include the intention to legally resell it. Buying suddenly comes with even more time pressure. Buying now becomes both a hedge and speculation, with zero legal risks.

Sure, people bringing in supplies on their own sounds good. It can even be good. But how much does it actually bring in? Does it come with other problems, like additional stress on infrastructure? If this really is such a great thing, I don't see how it should be wholly incompatible with anti-price gouging laws. If you want to specifically incentivize private transport of goods from out of the area, you don't have to allow them to be sold for any price, nor do you have to allow it for goods already in the area.

As for the black market, I'm not sure that's a bug. It makes it harder, and adds some risk, to acquiring more. If you actually need it enough, you'll do it. There some be some correlation between actual need and willingness to participate in the black market. With proper use of the discretion available to law enforcement, maybe this even enhances how well the goods end up distributed. That's a big "with" but still.
These ransoms are funding the work of enemy nation states trying to cripple western nation states...
This is such a bullshit strawman. Most of my friends are family are very liberal. Most of them are already vaccinated. Not a single one of them wants to wear a mask unless absolutely necessary and everyone is ready for this to be over.
I can’t tell if you’re being serious or sarcastic.

Not sure if you’re seriously claiming that the “blurb” for any book or movie should never mention anything outside of the first fifteen minutes.

Eg, would you promote Harry Potter as nothing more than a story about “a bullied boy struggling with his adoptive family who make him sleep in a cupboard” because the revelation of magic is a major spoiler?
> Is the curve not flat?

Yes, thanks to all the regulations.

> How much flatter do you want it to be before returning to normal life?

When returning to normal life, you want to curve to stay flat. So when a majority of people are vaccinated.
Many induction generators are 'self starting' - even a tiny bit of the earth's magnetic field is enough to get them generating something, which in turn makes them generate more, etc.
How to make Python faster [pdf]
If the essential worker was concerned wouldn't they have gotten vaccinated? In which case, what difference does it make if the other person was vaccinated or not?
The problem I've had with memory palaces is that I find it hard to keep multiple versions of a scene separate from each other. I also find it tedious to come up with the scenes themselves. Mnemonics are the difficult part.

Derren Browne explains as way to memorize a deck of playing cards by assigning mnemonics to cards and creating a story with them. I found it somewhat ease. Memorising the cards by themselves is tedious. "Jack of diamonds... wait, no, was it hearts?" There are too many similar cards. So you turn each card into a 100% unique mnemonic using a reversible method. He used a combination of the peg numerical system (1=l, 2=n, 3=m etc) and the first letter of the suit (h=heart, s=spade etc) to come up with a single meme for each card. For picture cards, use characters or people who match up. Queen of hearts might be your wife. King of clubs might be a famous MC or rapper. This gives you 52 items like:

Queen Latifa: queen of clubs

Ham: 3 of hearts

Elon Musk: Jack of diamonds

Car: 4 of clubs

Dog: 9 of diamonds

All you need to do, as you're memorising the order of the deck, is to create a narrative around the individual cards. "Queen Latifa is eating ham with Elon Musk in her car. Her dog is on her lap begging". There's no way you're going to get the cards wrong, or the order. The first time I ever tried it, it took me about 30 minutes to invent or memorise existing card pictures. Once I tried to use it I successfully remembered 25 cards in a row. Surprisingly, I could recite them backwards or name any card that came before or after any card chosen from the deck. Our brains are very good at remembering stories.
This sounds like my dad. He was a skillful pilot but enjoyed risk too much to be a “good” pilot. Died of lymphoma 30 years ago, so it never caught up with him. He flew a lot for a private pilot, over ten thousand hours,so had a few of those stories too.

I flew with him as a child enough to have experienced some of them myself. I remember:

- An inflight electrical fire, at night, over the Sierras.

- A very tense IFR final into Monterey, at night in fog, in a twin Comanche just ahead of a Learjet when the controller had a power outage and lost radio contact.

- A test flight in a STOL Maule Rocket that ended with stalling and bouncing in the rough just short of the 7600 hundred foot runway at Stead AFB. The gear collapsed during roll out and damaged the wing and prop, but there were no injuries. Sadly, Maule went out of business and the aircraft was never repaired.
Why print money when a private company can just create its own?

Just imagine what's going to happen when there's a bank run on Tether.
Interesting point. Guess it comes down to his words as the initial wording was more like 'in the current situation it is not necessary to wear masks' not trump's vision of 'masks don't work' which would have been an obvious lie.
Recently improved tech is about recording video, nowadays it's also big use case as much as photo.
You make good points, but I think my overall point stands: Even a $1000 genome does not provide $1000 worth of value to a healthy individual today. So there is no point in trying to make WGS broadly available, nor is there any justification for insurance companies to cover it. It would be nothing more than a form of luxury "scientific entertainment" a la 23andMe.

Also, I would challenge your suggestion that "The expansive definition of 'sequencing cost' to envelope downstream analysis and storage here is also a mistake." I would argue that it's the opposite: delivering valid and useful sequencing results to a broad population would require even more resources directed toward analyzing the results and also interpreting them for the patients.