skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CDC loosened mask guidance to encourage vaccination–it failed spectacularly
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How to Design Programs (the 2nd edition)—<https://htdp.org>—is more recent and more approachable, but in some ways follows in the footsteps of SICP. It's a great place to start before digging in to SICP or one of the other "classics," but it's also a good choice even if you just want to read one book.
كلمات اغنية مو اسف ولا ندمان حسام الرسام
Me, too. It's a very Midwestern response... [0]

[0]: https://youtu.be/vm-MrkoJPC8?t=35
Even if you were, if you didn't have any symptoms the vaccine did it's job. In which case you were not infectious neither.

I hope you better half fully recovered by now.
I heard this phrase described as "Russian Optimism".
> Confirmed by PCR

What was the cycle threshold? The problem with this whole manufactured pandemic is that all the numbers and tests are bullshit because people are doing bad science. The massive relief bills introduced financial incentives to do bad science. It’s institutional failure at a massive scale.
First the algorithmic timeline (and the dark pattern where if you switch to chronological it automatically switches back after time)

Straight out of FB's playbook, I see.
Small Satellite Launchers – A Comparison
mplayer also migrated
welp, thanks for all the fish
It’s tedious, but all conversations can be reviewed by size and manually deleted. Far from ideal, but not quite limited to automatic Apple tools.
Yes, that’s why I asked why they were in there. A person in jail for drug possession is wasted human potential. A person in jail for violent crimes is where they should be, keeping the rest of the world civilized under the basic social contract.
> I get the impression that they have no idea.

I suspect this is the case; I used to really enjoy the FT but think the spark has gone since the Nikkei acquisition.
The Atomic Rockets website[0] describes the issue clearly:

Relativity proves that FTL travel is identical to Time travel.

Time travel makes Causality impossible, since it can be used to create paradoxes. Note that to a physicist, it is not enough that time travel never happens to be used to make a paradox. The mere fact it is possible is enough to utterly destroy Causality.

1. So if you have Relativity and FTL, Causality is impossible

2. If you do not have Relativity, then FTL is not Time travel, so you can have Causality.

3. Or more mundanely you can have Relativity and Causality, but no FTL/Time travel

∴ Causality, Relativity, FTL travel: chose any two.

[0]: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/fasterlight.php...
Try Google Messages. How do I export them? There's no chat.db. It's impossible scrape, unless you wait(5) and scrollTo() etc. I've found no good solution for extracting/backing up Google Messages (outside of Google's dominion).
You're essentially describing the Cantillon Effect :-)
i remember doing this right from 2010 right till 2015 if i remember correctly. I used to spend hours trying to remember my old legacy handles which i had accumulated since 2004 and nuked them one by one. I still am on hibp but now the footprint is much smaller and it isn't tied to my "AFK" profile , just random usernames which i do not repeat anywhere.
"lurk Moar" is a concept which has all but forgotten these days now. People need to learn to adopt this to keep themselves safe out there.
I suspect it will be a tough job to get rid of these. You can go on Ali express or similar and you will find thousands of sellers selling packaging for every imaginable brand.

It's a bit of a plague, since the way this works is that black market sellers will buy fake packaging and normal candies that match. They will then spray them with THC distillate, and package them in the fake branded packaging.

Each pack is typically marked with a dosage (usually 300mg or higher). Of course, the people making these have absolutely no idea how strong they are. Cursory analysis online showed that typically such a pack would have less than 30mg of THC. This then leads to second order effects such as when consumers become accustomed to "eating 300mg" and then try and eat a correctly dosed edible for the same amount. This can be very unpleasant, a typical dose for a single person is 10mg.
I like this as an option. When i did engage initially with Twitter, I found tweetdelete useful in culling tweets that were over 14 days old and nukereddit was useful in cleaning up the same.

Having nuked/deleted/closed all my accounts has had the same outcome with less work.

I dont have controversial opinions or political posts. Still on both platforms would get people shitposting/linking to a 4 month old tweet/comment because it was a hot topic again for 48 hours.
This sounds like a made up distinction. If I asked someone "how are you" and they reply about how they're having a hard time because a family member died I would definitely not "try to get out of the situation", and I can say the same for the people around me, for the most part.
You can see from the figures released by various governments on testing rates vs cases that the false positive rate on tests is very low (< 1%, probably less than 0.2%). There have also been a few documented cases of catching it twice, so this is very rare but possible. So either cause is possible in this case, and the tests are really quite reliable as tests go.
The comment you replied to is the first and only one by that account, and not the original user either.

The term "pwn(ed)" was popular before any of these games existed. Here's a much more thorough history lesson, linked from HIBP itself: https://www.inverse.com/gaming/pwned-meaning-definition-orig...

"At this point, pwn allegedly meant to demote or dethrone someone, but the slang was quickly picked up by early computer-users that exchanged messages on FidoNet, a system created in the 1980s for exchanging emails or text on digital bulletin boards. This is where pwn slowly transformed into the insult we know today."
To be honest, I think this is actually a good argument to record the removal of a tattoo with a camera.

Think about it — a camera may be expensive, but it can be replaced. An eyeball is much more difficult — and expensive — to replace.
And even then no vaccine is 100% effective in each and every individual. Without pre-vaccine tests it is also impossible to say whether or not a patient was already infected before getting the shot.
Video Version of article:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Sfw58jApo
My entire point is economics. One hit might damage one ship, but 200 drones hitting on precise points, that's an entire different story. Also, let's assume the carrier does indeed posses great interception capability. There are other methods to deploy drones near it, be it underwater (submarine, human divers, submarine drone etc) or high above (missile, satellite). Speaking of satellites, if you manage to put those in orbit then the tech to also have drones inside a hypermissile already exists.

Air superiority was always the first phase of winning the war. Boots on the ground was and always be the final phase. And the first phase was, throughout history, archers, ballistae, cannons, airplane and currently aircraft carrier. But these last ones are way too expensive and too juicy of a target. So the future of air superiority are drones. If anything the past 20 years of using Predator drones in Afghanistan already proves my point, but the HN crowd likes to downvote without actually thinking, but that's OK. Have at it.
There is a size in the example I posted above.

[cling]$ u.sysname
(char [256])
For influenza it's been found that natural immunity provides better protection against future variants than vaccination https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870374/
>The vaccines (so far) all use sequences of the spike protein from an early sample of COVID-19.

This is not true of Sinovac, which is a "good-old-fashioned" vaccine and provides exposure to the full (dead) virus.
Bootstrapping vs. Funding – A Tax Arbitrage
> Even the government would disagree with you

Actually, like the OP said it depends on how you define literacy. Using the definition of <3 on NCES it would be around 50% but if they were using a more liberal definition like CIA world factbook it would be almost 100%.
Thank you. For the most part she was, but it was a pretty awful thing that happened so there was only so much that could be done. But I appreciate it. The last year of her life saw her getting the best care she'd ever had. Unfortunately, it was hospice care. But it was in home, and my adult daughter and I took care of her til the end.
Notice what it says at the end, of the writer:

"His most recent book is Hater: On the Virtues of Utter Disagreeability."

It seems to me sometimes like nearly all journalism has become "this thing, which you might like or think has some redeeming features, is completely awful" with as haughty a tone as possible. It's the best way to manipulate people who don't respond to Taboola.

I like cars. I got a book on the history of V-12s in general. Some people might not be interested in that.

I got a book once about Michelangelo's life without any particular interest in viewing his art. Somewhere I lost interest in watching sports, but I still have (comparatively) some interest in reading about it. If it's good writing.

I don't watch movies any more, but will read about them, or read scripts sometimes.

My only opinion about Dylan is that I have never heard a cover of his song that doesn't sound better than him.
Russia says so, it must be true.

If it is true, the CIA doesn't much like Israel's habits in Palestine.
Am I the only one a bit surprised that the feed from the FBI will be NTLM and SHA1 hashes? (especially the NTLM)

Would it make more sense to break the NTLM hashes and then to rehash with something more secure (even a better SHA, like SHA256)

This is not quite as feasible for SHA1 (but it actually might be, even in bulk -- this was 9 years ago[0]!) as for NTLM, but I remember cracking NTLM hashes in bulk back in the late 90's on .3 Ghz servers, and I'm sure it would take a heartbeat to do it today.

0. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/12/oh-gr...
Estonian here. At Skype (10+ years ago) I observed, that members of large cultures (American, British, Hindu etc.) had real trouble adjusting to the predominantly Estonian-based engineering culture. Probably because they had never had to adjust, commonly people adjust to _their_ culture as it tends to dominate large organizations. But once they did make an honest attempt, that was always most welcomed and gained them a large amount of goodwill. Our US CEO going to a sauna with 20 naked engineers...

I’ve also seen the “how are you” thing described in comments unfold.

A Hindu pm had the habit of sitting next to developers while they worked, sometimes putting a hand on their knee. After being politely explained that the size of an Estonian personal space is measured in astronomical units and that this was the reason devs literally scattered upon his approach, he immediately changed his behavior and became great friends with the team.

A US lady came to hr complaining about an Ukrainian dev approaching them inappropriately during a party. The hr-person, having witnessed the situation, explained that this was just their way of showing friendly interest and no disrespect was intended. A while later, a Japanese guy came to the hr person complaining the original lady from us had hugged them. Again, it was explained that this is just what Americans do.

Cultures are hard and take a lot of mutual respect to work through.
Google's own employees are confused by Android's obscure privacy settings
> do you recognize the contradiction in posting that on a public discussion of someone expounding their viewpoints, being covered by national media?

He's not speaking for himself. He's voicing a huge number of people's frustration. Also, this isn't out of nowhere, it's been years in the making. Every year it gets more extreme on both sides.

I'm in SV, and it is in my best interest to prevent this, not to justify some moral high ground, as BOTH sides are doing. The evidence of who is actually correct, in my opinion, is in who can prevent the violence. If not tolerating them actually prevents it, then great, I'm probably wrong and overreacting, but I really don't see this being effective.
In my YC batch (I was in the same one as dang and Airbnb), the issue of revenue/profit was what the partners talked about the most. Growth too, but profitable growth. Like, it was talked about all the time in the batch. That was particularly important in our 2009 batch due to the financial crisis, but it remained important later in the good times - see PG’s post “Default Alive or Default Dead?”.

Though it took us a while due to engineering challenges, our company survived and became profitable by minimizing spend and focusing on revenue/profit, just as YC advised.

This notion that YC backs/encourages companies to flush money down the drain is a mistakenly applied stereotype spawned from a combination of different eras, different companies and different investors. Notably, YC has never been involved with companies like Uber, WeWork or Theranos, or any other company that SoftBank has tried to artificially pump up by pouring billions of dollars into.
Oh, I wasn't claiming any real connection or parallel, it was just an anecdote (of dubious relevance) I was reminded of.
> When I dug into it, the very abstract Java library that gave them the power of python ran about as fast as python. They could get rid of that library which made them far more productive, but then the project took longer and cost more.

Sounds like they were determined to write Python on Java. Doing it that way likely has a lot of performance costs. However, you can’t assume that idiomatic Java code would take that much longer than Python code for a team that was familiar with Java. Likely it comes down to which languages and frameworks a team is familiar with.
Indeed. People do not realize how destructive it is. The other one that really irks me is "let me know if you need anything!"

1) You are putting it on me to tell you that I need something, right in the middle of my need.
2) If you're my real friend you don't need to say that, I already know I can call you 24/7/365
3) Your willingness to help is nulled by your lack of initiative.

The best thing anyone ever did was call me and say "I'm at Costco. What do you need? And don't say 'nothing'. I'm going to bring you something, and that's that." That whole pizza and frozen burritos were bad for me, but the last thing I needed on my mind at that time was cooking. And that's what true friends are there for.

So don't say "If you need anything let me know!" It's borderline passive aggressive.
Russian here.

The fact is that russian life is really miserable (just imagine living for 100 years in hardcore totalitarian communism, still in progress with different labels).

There’s really not that many reasons to smile while you grow up & live in Russia.

And you don’t even have a strong quality spiritual platform (like some asian countries) or good climate (like some aftican countries) to compensate.

You don’t waste your attention span on smiling etc - you’re busy surviving and fighting for the best spot in pyramid.

If you smile too much — it could even cause jealousy and you win more enemies or people might consider your positive attitude a sign of softness and take advantage of you.

It’s also suspicious to see someone smiling a lot - its harder to read his underlying subtle motivations & values.

And russians don’t have much time to make friends - the sooner and better you identify like minded people the easier for you as a group to survive.

That’s why russian tend to smile only in a close group of friends or when something really funny is going on.
Pretty sure that'd result in a ban pretty quickly, given HN's stance on comment deletion, throwaway accounts and community building.
I thought it would be nice to listen to these with my podcast player on iphone. Here's my too-complicated process that worked:

- in Chrome inspector, look at the network tab when you click play on a Feynman lecture. Right click the mp4 and do "copy as cURL".

- Go to command line (unix style) and paste. Then append to that command line something like "--output flp1.mp4". That will download the file locally with that file name.

- Put the file on Dropbox or something that will get it to your phone.

- From dropbox on iphone, share and export the file, then choose your podcast app. The podcast app that worked for me is "Pocket Casts".

- Now in Pocket Casts -> Profile -> Files, you should be able to play the mp4s with nice podcast-style controls and learn physics and be happy!
Twitter fails to send messages to some networks like Aldi Mobile so that’s probably the issue you had. No way around this.
Re: British/American cultural differences, I was reminded of this 1942 handbook for American servicemen in the UK.

> British Reserved, Not Unfriendly. You defeat enemy propaganda not by denying that these differences exist, but by admitting them openly and then trying to understand them. For instance : The British are often more reserved in conduct than we. On a small crowded island where forty-five million people live, each man learns to guard his privacy carefully-and is equally careful not to invade another man’s privacy.

> So if Britons sit in trains or busses without striking up conversation with you, it doesn’t mean they are being haughty and unfriendly. Probably they are paying more attention to you than you think. But they don’t speak to you because they don’t want to appear intrusive or rude.

https://flashbak.com/1942-extracts-from-gi-handbook-instruct...
I completely agree here. People claiming tens of millions in regular non-capital gains income are a completely different group from the “real” 0.01% who most likely use capital gains for almost all of it.

The “income” 0.01% are going to be people like lottery winners and are wholely unrepresentative.
On desktop, I use https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ which has no ads, is chronological and doesn't suggest tweets or people to follow. You can set up columns for various accounts, etc.

On mobile, I think it stopped reverting to non-chronological for me many months ago. My suggested follows are typically friends/kids of friends. Like GP of this thread, my experience with Twitter is positive but I only follow about 100 people. Main criticism is that with a curated list, it can be a bit of a wasteland sometimes - either rarely new tweets to see, or you post something to generate discussion and get nothing.
My only question is.. why? Being someone who’s used autolayout on iOS and flex/grid on the web, I much prefer flex/grid.
They are very open about being funded by CIA cut outs like the National Endowment for Democracy [1]. If you're not familiar with the NED then you should read William Blum's description of them [2]. Radio War Nerd recently did an excellent two part series on the NED and spent a good amount of time talking about Bellingat, too. [3]

And as to them being a "limited hangout sock puppet" you're of course not going to find any source on this - because it's not known for certain - but in my opinion they are most likely something akin to that. They frequently get leaked information from US/UK intelligence organizations and they launder stories for CIA/MI6s. They might not know they are a limited hangout sock puppet for western intelligence but they certainly function as such. A good example is their actions around the OPCW leaks and claims of chemical weapons in Douma, Syria [4]. A lot of these stories unfold on Twitter so you'll have to search around

You can also search on HN - there's comments from many years past calling out Bellingcat as a front for western intelligence.

[1] https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3AEliotHiggins%20ned

[2] https://williamblum.org/chapters/rogue-state/trojan-horse-th...

[3] https://podcastaddict.com/episode/121232504

[4] https://thegrayzone.com/2021/03/24/author-bellingcat-opcw-wh...
Had to explain to a doc once that when you've been in extreme pain for long enough your mind starts to regress to survival circuits. This was apparently not obvious. Doctors are fallible.
I also like "hangin' in there" -- especially since Covid started.
I think you are missing one of the key ingredients to anti-stealth radar, and why we have shifted to a strong focus on RAM. That would help answer your own questions. I won’t say it here, but separately it certainly is possible to train against targets which would produce returns analogous to an F-22 or F-35 type aircraft to various radars.

On another note, US anti-air capabilities are already far behind the S-400. I understand we don’t have an immediate use case ourselves, but the lack of a credible AA system pushes potential partners like India and Turkey to fight with us for the right to buy the S-400.
// FIXME(properly document this is row major)

Rig up a precommit hook that rejects changes containing the string "FIXME"

That simple technique doesn't solve everything, but it goes a long way.
The reason why "only so many are built in any given geographic area" is because we aren't being very capitalist or free market. One must obtain a "certificate of need" before opening a new facility, and that will be opposed in court by all possible competitors.

We could give capitalism and free market a try.
Hi Andrew, The product looks great and congratulations for your launch.
Perlmutter is a new kind of supercomputer - It’s mini-cloud disguised as a supercomputer smaller DOE projects to funnel their compute to. Cori was kind of that too, but IIRC kind of on accident because the Xeon Phi wasn’t available during delivery time, so the first “phase” was Haswell nodes. I’m not sure what this means for whole-machine reservation but hopefully that’s a thing of the past in any case.

Ultimately this is a machine to solve everybody’s needs, not just ML needs (although it must solve those needs very well in any case)

I’m not sure Cori will be remembered particularly fondly, but Perlmutter will probably be because it seems like it will be versatile enough to meet everyone’s needs.

For those wondering why not cloud - most simulations generally make sense in cloud because there’s nowhere near the data movement/storage involved and anything in particle physics is always embarrassingly parallel. The data isn’t moving there though - it is very cheap to keep the data at a place like NERSC especially with tape in the mix.