skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> You can do this for most items. For example, go to apple’s TV app or play store and purchase or rent the item.

Okay, so you're telling me if I boot up my Apple TV and type in 'The Simpsons', I'm going to immediately get a list of options to watch the Simpsons?

...

No, that won't work - in fact - this was actually my first overall point - the fragmentation issue.

If I search 'The Simpsons' on TPB, I'll get multiple options of quality vs. size, every episode ever, the movie; fullscreen vs. widescreen; etc.

If I search 'The Simpsons' on Apple TV+, I get...nothing.

If I search 'The Simpsons' on Netflix, I get...nothing.

If I search 'The Simpsons' on Amazon Prime, I get...nothing.

If I search 'The Simpsons' on Paramount+, I get...nothing.

So...unless you're subscribed to this one particular streaming service (Disney+), you can't watch one of the most popular shows on television, which often airs on many a channel up here in Canada.

If we're even lucky enough to get the content at all in Canada due to region restrictions.

That's...not convenient. I'm not sure what you meant by your comment, but the fact that you can't do what your comment says was kinda my overall point.
Alright since this is still here and I'm being down voted, I'll explain what should be really obvious. Lynch mobs were expressly racist. They also typically resulted in death. They would lay an accusation of something that was either not an offense (like mixing with white people) or maybe sometimes an actual crime that could have been handed to the criminal justice system. Twitter mobs are just talking. Fully protected first amendment speech about things that happened to them that they dislike. Nobody gets harmed. Typically these are things like harassment or bullying that is socially unacceptable but not grounds for any type of legal action.
- https://fintechbusinessweekly.substack.com/ - for Fintech News
- https://stratechery.com/ - for tech related discussions
daedtech.com - Erik Dietrich - software, consulting, entrepreneurship, slow travel while doing the aforementioned
Wow! Very cool use of Svelte JS.
Surprisingly, there are already integrations in my home country; I took a look at tink [1] some time ago (no affiliation whatsoever) and they look legit. I'm sure there are more SaaS like them.

[1] https://docs.tink.com/market-capabilities/aggregation
My supervisor had a student who apparently just said "no" as her answer to each critique, 38 times. She got the level of fail which is "never ever come back" - which apparently does exist.
I believe that we have finally reached the other side of this thing
> Why are you comparing pkgsrc to pacman.

The original commented suggested that XBPS was similar to pkgsrc. I suggested that XBPS has far more in common with Arch Linux's package manager than pkgsrc or anything else in the BSD world. As you yourself note in your next paragraph...

> Your comments do not sound like those of a daily NetBSD user.

I have commit access. Since three years ago. My name is on the latest release announcement.

You prick.
You just proved my point. What if I don't want benefits because they impose stipulations? What if I just want to work for a few hours on a Friday night? And I won't be able to do so because of the union. That stifles my individual freedom.
https://www.jwz.org/blog/
which crypto currencies do you support?
Because they are among the most rabid supporters of the previous president. I don't think it's outlandish to say there was a positive feedback loop between the two, and it directly affected both policy and messaging, including public health. Just look at the resistance to getting the vaccine among these people - it threatens the herd immunity that is one of the goals of the vaccine program. This is due in no small part to the mixed messaging from the prior administration.
Came here to say this. I was immediately turned off by the marketing pitch and this non-sequitur given the link description.

EDIT: didn’t finish reading your comment when replying, but it’s telling we both used the phrase non-sequitur
Kid in high school did this - called in a bomb threat _after_ getting his parents to excuse him from school for the bomb threat. Cheeseball dictators end up like disturbed high school boys.
I think the statement that they "do cause harm" is pretty one sided. The fact is, they are intended to cause harm. The question is if they target someone who deserves it.
The risk the author talks about can be somewhat mitigated by establishing governance policies beforehand.
I think it's a wonderful thing that the IT ecosystem has created such a variety of different tool methodologies converging on the same purpose. It seems analogous to convergent evolution in biology.
Here we can just scan a QR code and confirm payment. No extraneous middle men involved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Payment_Descriptor

I don't see how credibility of website depends on what payment options they offer. That sounds like a separate issue.
> You can get much better service for way less money if you avoid the red tape and do a home birth.

My wife had unexpected complications that would have been disastrous, possibly fatal if we had been at home rather than a hospital for delivery. I can’t imagine trying to rush her from home to the hospital mid-delivery.

I’m forever grateful for the medical care we received at the hospital during delivery. It’s simply not possible to deliver the same care at home.
Cool! Neat visuals.
You should look into the Ronin Institute. Since it is very hard or impossible to get grants without being affiliated with an institute, the Ronin Institute is a remote institute that any researcher can apply to join.
http://ronininstitute.org/

I think they've been pretty successful at attracting a network of interesting non-traditional researchers. I bet there are some good lessons there about how to grow an institute and bootstrap its prestige.
As a counterpoint, home births are in general very safe if recommended prerequisites have been met. Typically:
1) low-risk pregnancy
2) within X minutes of suitable hospital
3) higher level of monitoring in late pregnancy and perhaps two midwives at birth

Birth - a natural process - has been commercially medicalised, especially in Brasil (C-section rate >60%) and the US (>30%).
If giving birth at home was normalised, we'd see a huge growth in natural birth and an increased availability for medical staff to support in emergencies if required. But the rates of emergencies would actually decline too.
"Article 5: The aircraft of states, other than scheduled international air services, have the right to make flights across state's territories and to make stops without obtaining prior permission. *However, the state may require the aircraft to make a landing.*"

He seems to be arguing that this clause was broken in spirit or something. I can't quite make out the finer details though, but it's not exactly a slam dunk violation - the treaty does say they may require the aircraft to make a landing and they did.
Check out my blogroll: https://jlelse.blog/blogroll

Do you have blogrolls as well?
Raymond Chen’s blog is a very interesting blog if you do Windows development.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing
You can't—at least in Sweden—remove much from Klarna.

Your marketing profile is tied in with their accounting system. The law requires them to store accounting data for at least 7 years, with no obligation to actually remove it once that time is up. Since the accounting laws supersede the GDPR: they can hoard data pretty effectively.

The Swedish 'Data Protection Authority' tried to launch (yet another) investigation for their shady practices, but Klarna strategically applied for bank status and now the reach and power of the data authority is cripplingly limited.
Hasn't been updated in a while, but if you haven't read it yet and like old(-ish) tales from the games industry, check out Patrick Wyatt's Code Of Honor: https://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/
Australia Politics, an independant and thoughtful analysis but an journalist: https://johnmenadue.com/

South East Asian Affairs, a collation of a scholars own writings and compliaiton of others that they find interesting: https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/

and of course WaitbutWhy for the joy of reading about the universe as it relates to ourselves, all through great doodles: https://waitbutwhy.com/
You are assuming that had the mayor skipped this proposal (which sounds like very little work to me), she would have done something else for thew city instead.

Real world doesn't work like that. If you are familiar with Bucharest municipal politics, by all means criticise that they are not doing a good enough job, or that they handled some things wrong.

But without context it's nonsensical to attack someone the way you do.

Perhaps the mayor is doing 10x better job than her predecessor and she proposed this name change in addition to that.
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/
Agreed. A naked list of links isn't much use. There already seem to be hundreds of them here and no way to evaluate most on a glance without clicking every single one.
The J&N and AstraZeneca method (adenovirus-vector) is only barely a "proven technology" - as far as I recall it's only been successfully used once before, in an Ebola vaccine that was created in 2015 and approved in 2020.
I think I know what you mean by the words righteous and moralistic. I’d definitely say I’m optimistic about these ideas, and obviously pessimistic about how rare they’re applied in the wild as I said a few comments ago. The criticism you’ve given me is exactly the kind of challenge and accountability I’m asking for, though, even though we aren’t in the same group aside from HN, so thank you!
I imagine some of these things are in the eye of the beholder, but I would consider it closer to a traditional startup, though it certainly has research components (as do many other startups).
Ping CRM (Laravel/PHP) ported to Clojure
Let's assume for a moment that is their strategy, consider things about Covid true if Biden says them, and false if Trump says them, and accept their joint decision if they happen to agree.

That would be basically 100% record of getting things right, so well done Facebook I guess the algorithm is working.

Can anyone name specific instances when Trump and Biden disagreed on a factual statement regarding Covid where this rule of thumb didn't pan out? I'm coming up pretty blank, but surely the law of averages suggests there must have been a handful?
Major climate study: World at risk of hitting temperature limit soon
- https://matklad.github.io/

- https://danluu.com/

- https://raphlinus.github.io/

- https://rosenzweig.io/

- https://flak.tedunangst.com/

- https://ciechanow.ski/
Another neat thing about the eastern half of Colorado is the division between the Platte/Missouri and the Arkansas. A small difference in starting point has a huge impact on the route you travel to get to the Mississippi.
This is not what the study addressed - the study is about contact with premature babies which is typically withheld until they are stable. The outcomes are better if the skin-to-skin contact is initiated before they are stable.
Hmm ok, there's a fix here and it's probably something to do with a timer and a way to opt out, I'll work on this.
Don’t those laws promote human life? And by life, we can definite it to be a “self-moving power”, as Plato defines it in his Laws.
Why does the US get to make the call who can have nuclear weapons and who can't when the US is the only one whom ever dropped one on civilians [1]?

"Trust us we are the good guys" doesn't cut it for the US anymore when international deals get broken when a new administration comes in. [2]

We should be going towards a global disarmament which everyone could agree on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_a...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_withdrawal_from_...
Goliath grouper making a comeback in Florida, so let’s kill ‘em
The relationship between employer and employee is innately adversarial. Employer decides conditions of employment and pay, employee decides whether to keep working or not. It's a huge power imbalance.
One of my favourites, from a friend of mine: https://dustri.org/b/

Content ranges from security, to programming, to observations about life.

I like it because there's usually some good point that is made and I consider it to be well written.
ah cool thanks i will give it a go...
Now we just need Spotify to hide play counts... These have a terrible effect on artists.
>> Tell the lab to stop gain of function research

"Please don't kill millions of people again".
Statmodeling

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/

Daring fireball

https://daringfireball.net/

Tyler coven on marginal revolution

https://marginalrevolution.com/
Ken Shirriff's blog: http://www.righto.com/ He does amazing teardowns, reconstructions, and analysis. 10/10 would definitely read again.
Anyone that has DevOps on their daily tasks is now bound to deal with Go code, due its relation to Docker, Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure, just like we need to deal with C on UNIX clones or JavaScript on the browser.
Yes, it happens in every channel Sigyn is on. I saw it. notably in #freenode-policy-feedback (which is now moderated)

063901 <iovoid> rasengan, are you planning on meaningfully answering? So far your only two replies about the article were "Nope." and "Nope."
063901 iovoid (iovoid@hellomouse/dev/iovoid) left IRC (Killed (Sigyn (Spam is off topic on freenode.)))

063922 <ByteMe> rasengan: they won't trust easily, and exerting more control over channels than previous freenode staff ever did won't help bridge that gap
063922 ByteMe (~migrate@85.206.175.219) left IRC (Killed (Sigyn (Spam is off topic on freenode.)))

063931 <eno1> rasengan: test ping
063931 eno1 (iczero@hellomouse/dev/iczero) left IRC (Killed (Sigyn (Spam is off topic on freenode.)))

Edited: by the way, Sigyn is freenode's anti-spam bot

Edit 2: if you have doubts that 'rasengan' is the trigger:

064338 <Wolf`> RASENGAN!
064338 Wolf` (~OhGodAPet@unaffiliated/wolf/x-5089230) left IRC (Killed (Sigyn (Spam is off topic on freenode.)))

064341 <rasengag> rasengan
064341 rasengag (sid11717@lykos/Iciloo) left IRC (Killed (Sigyn (Spam is off topic on freenode.)))
https://daringfireball.net by John Gruber
Some of the blogs I like, but don’t read enough (I almost ceased reading blogs at all lately):

- https://jacobian.org/posts/

- https://www.kalzumeus.com/archive/ (classic)

- https://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/
> since you people seem to think that Russia is really a threat at this point

There are no threats in this world only economic opportunities.
To be fair singletons are pretty useful. You just have to understand that they're not made for mutating state.
Hey, I really like diff.blog. I just made an account.

A little feedback would be to add an "About page" so I can understand what is it without having to login.

And a pat on the back for not abusing Github access permissions. Felt really good to see "email (read-only)" access.

Keep the good work!
>"Replace the entire stack with one language".

I'm I the only one who sees the irony in this statement?
I'm tired of this bad take:

> What about freedom of speech?

This has nothing to do with Freedom of Speech - the government is not limiting what can be said.

There's plenty of other speech opportunities, as shown by the channel already moving to another network.

You have no (US) rights to force a platform to host you.

At best (worst?), they are breaching a contract and you can sue them for damages but I don't know if any channels actually signed such contracts with Freenode?
Lockdowns Need to Be Intellectually Discredited Once and for All – AIER
Well, by definition blogs are about individual people. It's the only way they are interesting.

The rest are news sites with a dynamic feed.
I don’t understand how that is a “mic drop” as they put it in the article. If these are normal physiological reactions, why would you charge extra for it? It must be the request to hold your newborn child that they consider not to be normal, then?
I have very extensive experience on this topic and I’m happy to talk to you about it – you can find me on Twitter as doctorBaytas.

Background: I started my graduate studies in human-computer interaction design on the inaugural research team of a brand new lab, which turned into a research center that employed 4 faculty and their research groups. When this happened I became the coordinator (the only administrative employee) of the center, and effectively took care of all of the founding documentation, moving into a new space, hiring technical staff, communications, etc. I did this job officially for 2 years (unofficially for 3, since I started before the institution existed).
- Mark Brooker :: https://brooker.co.za/blog long time lead engineer @ AWS blogging technical info on distributed systems
- Chris Wellons :: https://nullprogram.com/ lots of interesting explorations in code
Play Arduboy games on the big screen with the Arduboy Home game console
But that is not the case according to the paper. The virus is RNA based whereas the vaccines at issue are DNA based. The problem as described by the paper is:

> the viral piece of DNA [of Adenovirus based vaccines] - deriving from an RNA virus - is not optimized to be transcribed inside of the nucleus. ... Thus, it could well be that the Spike open reading frame of SARS-CoV-2 is potentially disrupted by arbitrary splice events when transcribed inside the nucleus. Most, if not all, of these undesirable splice events would produce shorter protein variants, ... leading to soluble Spike protein variants.

So the error happens during DNA to RNA transcription in the nucleus. The Covid-19 virus is RNA based so how are the same splicing events occurring when it replicates itself in our cells?

Edit: There is further mention in the paper of predicting and then detecting potential splice sites in the "wildtype Spike" (which I think means the RNA of the spike protein of the actual virus) and they found several potential splice sites, but not as many as those predicted / found in the AZ and J&J vaccines. It's still unclear how those splice sites could be activated if the virus replicates entirely outside the nucleus but there is probably some information I'm missing here.
I acquired a finance/economics blogroll during the financial crisis. The ones I still read are:

'Naked Capitalism", "Yves Smith", https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/

"The Big Picture", Barry Ritholtz, https://ritholtz.com/

"Calculated Risk", Bill McBride, https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/
File Permissions: the painful side of Docker (2019)
Depending on where you placed that drop in Colorado it also could've ended up in the Pacific. The continental divide is in Colorado and all water west of the divide will eventually drain into the Pacific and all water east will drain to the Atlantic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Divide_of_the_Amer...
As another, many of the spacesuit backpacks/oxygen packs are very lightly disguised Ogio motorcycle backpacks: https://ogiopowersports.com/products/no-drag-mach-5-stealth
One of my favorite blogs. To start, here's the most clever breakdown of rap and finance, I've ever read.

https://extraguacblog.com/2016/04/17/financialwisdomofrapmus...
> The story of a father killing his son is found in other tales in the west, perhaps most famously in Arthurian legend.

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible_and_His_Son_...

and: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_Manlius_Imperiosus_Torqu...

P.S.

> the Celtic story of Tristan and Isolde ... where the young man goes off and marries someone else for a while before returning to his true love.

Now that I see it summarized, I'm surprised the British tabloids did not latch on to it ... probably too obscure a source, lacking a movie to drive it.
I’m so glad to hear your 10 month old has been making out well.

My wife and I are weeks away from our first.

While very lucky—our close friends and family have not had serious encounters with covid, We’ve been most affected by regulations that have interrupted what would have been normal parts of a couple’s first pregnancy.

I’m sorry to hear you were not allowed to be with the mom during delivery. And that you were delayed in visiting the nicu by those tests.

That must have been very difficult.

I remember being told I wouldn’t be able to be there with my wife for the first ultrasound. I attended via FaceTime.

I was a little more accepting of the circumstances at the 28 week, but still not happy about it.

One of the bigger bummers has been having no I’m person social interaction with other new parents approaching the same life stage. It’s just not the same over zoom and it feels like a pretty big miss.

Always trying to keep these things in perspective. As of now I’ll be there for the birth, and really just want a good outcome after all.
Are you talking about the US, Russia, China, or some other major country?
Beads is an excellent language I feel, but the killer feature in the works is being able to travel "back" in time
In Norway, we call this class of error "a Kenneth", after everyone who logged in to see their tax return in 2012 received the tax return of a guy named Kenneth. The culprit was allegedly a misconfigured load balancer.
The development of mass transit (train lines) has a similar issue when comparing the United States to Western Europe, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, or Hongkong. In the US, as much as possible is sub-contracted. In the others, a bit less, and there is more engineering expertise on the gov't payroll. There is a transit blogger who writes about this extensively... but his name eludes me. (Does anyone know it?)

Regarding contractors vs in-house software engineering talent, I have seen (from media) UK gov't (including NHS) has hired more and more talent to develop software in-house. No idea if UK folks think they are doing a good job, but it is a worthy experiment (versus all contractors).
You weren't richer but the worl might be. Sometimes clean sheets and first principles discover assumptions that have changed. Either in how people use software, how the domain itself works, or the constraints of computing.
Why the Future of Esports Will Likely Be Powered by Mobile Apps
This is what annoys me as well and I find it stems from trying to force the profit/salary motive into academia. Gladly it seems that even if the structure is put there, most people in academia don't care about the money per se much. Some care for the status and prestige, but salaries don't get you that in this community.

Perhaps surprisingly to some, many in academia would just like to research and teach with some quite modest salary and don't have to think about money at all. E.g. I would gladly and with no hesitations take a €2000/month tenure and keep on doing what I'm doing just more efficiently for everybody. I've been trying to pitch this idea to the funders here in Finland, but to no avail, they simply don't care if the funding system is useful or not for the academic community or humanity, they're focusing on playing the same old (maybe 10 years or so here) application lottery that's not only waste of time, but corrupts the whole community and even the very content of thinking in academica.

"Money" in academia is really abstract as well, and when discussed its not salary, but funding for projects or students or such. And because the funding structure is so bizarre and convoluted you just see big numbers with currency signs flowing everywhere, but this doesn't seem to have much to do with anything concrete happening around.

If academia becomes a place where you can get rich, the system will be in just years corrupted into some bizarre thing where advertisers advertise to each other for the sake of advertising.

Luckily cats can't be herded.