skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Matt Levine on Bloomberg for everything finance: While I am only medium interested in finance, Matt Levine makes it all sound farcical. It is usually a fun read, and I learn something about how the world runs (or usually in which creative ways people abused the way the world runs) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe...

Derek Lowe on medicine. He is an absolute expert on the topic, but doesn't mind to speak his opinion and to explain it on a sufficient level for me.
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/

Scott Aaronson on algorithms and quantum physics. Scott is a great communicator, and of course an absolute expert on these topics. He does sometimes go a bit off topic though. https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/

Sabine Hossenfelder on experimental physics. Expert on these topics, and has a (very) critical opinion, which is refreshing in this field and can give a feel about what is going on. Lately, she did shift to more pedagogical explanations which are a bit too low level for me, but the blogposts still contain gems from time to time.
https://backreaction.blogspot.com/

Glenn Greenwald on journalism and politics. While he is very sharp and opinionated, he digs up new stories and has an out-of-the-box but well-informed opinion I largely agree with (I'm an anarchist).
https://greenwald.substack.com/
Symmetric Monoidal Categories: A Rosetta Stone
Show HN: Learn microservices with Spring Boot, 2nd Ed. (video summary)
You pay for a nurse or aide to be ready to intervene if there’s an issue in a post-caesarean situation.

In our case, the hospital my wife delivered in pushed skin to skin heavily, but after a minute or two, I ended up holding our son, skin to skin for the next 10-15 minutes becuase their policy didn’t allow mom to hold the baby while they sutured and did their thing. Once they were done in the OR, back to mom.

Usually this sort of absurdity on the billing front is based on ways to increase Medicaid reimbursements. Since Medicaid patients are usually less likely to have good primary and pre-natal care, they have a high complication rate and typically are a money loser for the hospital. In an extreme case, an opioid addicted baby costs >$1M to deliver and discharge, a tragic story all around.
It's not really much help to anyone having the skills to extract oil from tar sands in Canada at a cost of $85 per barrel when you can only sell it for $65.

Especially so if oil usage keeps declining and demand continues to be sated from oil fields where you barely have to knock a hole in the ground like Saudi.
A couple of my favorite blogs

- http://antirez.com/

- https://martin.kleppmann.com/archive.html

- https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing

- https://ma.tt/

- https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/

- https://jvns.ca/

- https://www.johndcook.com/blog

- http://feross.org/

- https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/

- https://blog.andrewcantino.com/

- https://nickcraver.com/blog/

- https://blog.acolyer.org

- https://blog.codinghorror.com

I have been also building a developer blog aggregator called https://diff.blog to make it super easy to disover and follow dev blogs. Would love if you folks can give it a try :)
A video summary of my book. The video is not the piece of work I'm most proud of, but I think it serves the purpose of explaining the book contents in detail. There is also a sample chapter available on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1484261305/).

I would love to get feedback from the community about the book contents and the approach (although comments about the video are also welcome).
ClearviewAI hit with sweeping legal complaints over face scraping in Europe
I have no direct experience but I have spent a lot of time thinking about how to realize my own dream of having an artist's residency -- which is actually a similar kind of thing, but temporary. I too am about to acquire the real estate, but don't have the rest set up yet.

One unsolved problem I keep returning to is that the limits of the offer will affect who will come join you. Unless you can give people their dream lab and a ton of money and publication then some of the people you want, will not be able to come even if they really do share your vision.

I think this is an inevitable compromise, but one that should be made very deliberately. Consider your dream researcher. Does she have a family? Can you get them to Germany on the appropriate visas with the mandatory health insurance? Will she have to quit her previous job? Can she afford to go without income for the duration of her research? If not, how much money does she need? What can her husband/wife do there? What if they have a child with special needs? Can they bring their three dogs? Can they be there three days a week? How will they get to Berlin?

For my project, I plan to start very small, since I don't really know what I'm doing and don't have too much money nor time to dedicate to it yet. You might consider doing that too: make the place really nice and get some people there for a shorter period of time, and figure out your growth strategy after you've gone through the mini version with some researchers, and have properly digested their feedback.

And put massive effort (and money assuming you have it) into promoting them and their work: the more it looks like Forschungszentrum Akhann is good for one's career, the more you'll have your choice of researchers.

That, and take care of your liability situation. It's not so bad in Germany as in the US, but consider the possiblity someone gets sucked into the flux capacitor while helping you with your research and it's kind of your fault. You don't want to lose the whole institute over it, nor the personal fortune that has let you set it up. Definitely find a good lawyer with relevant experience.

Good luck with it! I think the world needs more stuff like this.
Related to this, everyone should also be aware of the Fourth Amendment is Not For Sale Act, or H.R. 2738 and S.1265, bills that have recently been put before the Senate and Congress.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/tell-congress-support-...
Not all countries are equal and should be treated as equivalent.
Have you set up some sort of endowment? How are you ensuring long-term financial viability?
That person is being coy about the difference between Liberal and Progressive and Social Activist, perhaps because they are unaware of the meaning of "liberal" in American politics.
While I don't disagree with you the key sentence is "outside world".

If you happen to live in the "inside world" of such despicable excuses of human trash then the situation is rather less funny.
i'm going with Hanlon's razor here
Can anyone explain how long they expect this potential effect to last? The vaccine DNA presumably breaks down / dissipates after a period of time? And the spike protein fragments too? What might that period of time be?
> Commercial Internet service providers were not widely available until the late 1990s.

Late 80s, maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_(Internet_service_pr...
This thread doesn’t address gain of function research. It’s doesn’t address the lab-leak hypothesis that is being talked about.
Why do we have to pay to see which ones brands have Benzene in them? The list should of just been put in text.
https://commoncog.com/blog/ (by Cedric Chin)
A typical city day in May
Isn’t it kinda weird that so many parents move aggressively to prevent their kids from eating candy for dinner if it makes them sick?

> I keep seeing this perspective and it is baffling to me.

It’s baffling to you because you haven’t considered that many companies have good relationships with employees and are interested in that relationship staying non-adversarial.
Yeah, I was wondering : has someone tried to compare citations of papers by researchers that do not tweet / blog to those who do ?
This is quite a interesting corner of the metro system.

About 1km further down the line, there is another 'ghost station' "Haxo".

While Porte de Lilas sees / Saw traffic, Haxo was a planned station that never opened. It's single line only, and never had any access built (no stairs, street access). Likewise, it's in part of the system that sees no active traffic.

Today it's one of the hardest places in the system to access 'illegally', as the tunnels between Porte de Lilas and Haxo have been converted to a 'layup' or 'parking' for rolling stock, replete with cameras, IR trips and a 24/7 'maitre de chien' (guard with guard dog).

For the interested, some photos: https://ninjito.com/2008-07-27

For the metro history buffs, for many years Porte de Lilas was used to stock the 'Zebulon' ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%A9bulon_(Paris_M%C3%A9t... ) MF-67 original prototype train that never saw passenger service. What made it unique was that it had a stainless steel finish.

After years of searching for the train in the system, we realised that we'd stumbled across it years prior, parked up in Porte de Lilas: https://ninjito.com/2008-05-21

Paris has an incredible system with many, many hidden secrets, second only to perhaps the London Tube, but is much more safely explored thanks to wide clearance and a generally 'laissez faire' attitude and consequences of bumping into security staff.
The problem is that secular/atheist people group all religions into the same bucket without any nuance, and without understanding what the religion actually says. Case in point, Islam contradicts what you're positing:

[1] https://sunnah.com/mishkat:64

[2] https://sunnah.com/mishkat:76
Here's a thread from where this was asked a few years ago in case anyone wants to see who was recommended in the past.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13520891
Benefits have stipulations. Pro-rata being one of them, others are minimum hours to be applicable.

Anything else?
Not sure why you are getting downvoted pointing out that there were multiple facets of suffering during the last century. The human-brought famines that swept through Russia/China/etc. claimed more than 100,000,000 lives in the attempt to create a stronger humanity.
In the US I’m assuming the CIA? Not sure what group manages this in Russia. To be fair, gp could be applied to many countries also including China, Russia, the US and I assume the UK.
There are only two comments, and I don’t think your interpretation is a charitable one.

Anyway, given the numerous recent hacks, it does seem like we could easily be entering into an escalation. I really hope not, as that won’t end well for anyone.
This is the only social media I use anymore and while I still may drop it, and while I still do occasionally check my karma after posting, it’s easily the most rewarding social media experience I’ve dealt with given the concentration of talent; and the emphasis on quality, interesting content.

You’re not wrong of course, but it feels a bit exaggerated.
If the system volume is a multiplier and the float values have large exponents... Small times huge ~= huge.

I guess safe volume control should ideally limit the output energy. Energy is proportional to square (or so) of frequency, so ideally it would take that into account as well. That rules out simply hard-clamping sample values because that creates high frequency / energy distortions. Not trivial, especially if low latency is also required.
>> .. a "no-name" german university

We come from different places. German universities are good in average. + MSc student have the chance to work as "working students" (20hr/week) at any company in Germany. https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-un...

>> .. It's just hard to publish in those top-tier conferences

Hard is relative. You should also check the costs of publishing a paper or attending a conference for students from global south https://twitter.com/hadyelsahar/status/1374699909451030542

>> But you can do a phd here without publishing a paper first

I agree with that.
You are thinking Rocky Linux, which was founded by Gregory Kurtzer (the original founder of CentOS). AlmaLinux is a CloudLinux project. Both are great!
That’s nothing, I’m simulating the universe that you think you’re living in on beads.
Constructing an extraordinarily elaborate strawman does not make your beating up of that strawman argument any more impressive. Plenty of reasonable people simply asked "isn't it possible a lab with a history of safety issues studying coronaviruses made a mistake" and were immediately hit with these sorts of disingenuous guilt by association arguments.
I've done a super naive and ambitious startup idea. It was a big waste of time and I should have listened to more feedback.

The world isn't richer if you listen to feedback quite the opposite it makes you improve what you are making.

I agree about the learning aspect but overhyping something doesn't really pan out that well.
It feels basically dead to me, but, more troubling, I think there's some financial shadiness. I joined a few years ago, saw that there were no interesting discussions going on, and tried to quit. To my dismay, I found that there appeared to be nobody willing or able to actually cancel my account and stop charging my credit card---after months and months of emailing and calling to get them to stop charging me, I eventually had to report the unauthorized continuing charges to the bank to get it to stop.
27kW DIY Electric Motorcycle [video]
That's a good point, but we don't only sell blunt knives in case someone goes on a stabbing rampage.

Nobody would blame the knife for the rampage.
One thing which I suppose isn't surprising, but still was amazing to see at scale, is I put a drop in Colorado that ended up in the Gulf of Mexico. As the camera followed the path, it's nothing but farms, with the odd city sprinkled in. I got bored and left in Nebraska, but I imagine it's like that the whole way.

It's obvious it takes a lot of land to feed everyone, but to see it like that really drove it home.
This shouldn't of been allowed
Glad to see these idiotic notices are working out as expected.
There is an important distinction between attacking civilian-critical services like healthcare systems and pipelines, and attacking a single nuclear WEAPONS manufacturing plant in Iran.
Not only is it fast and inexpensive, it's also regular ethernet (no PON weirdness), so you can use any router you want – as long as it has an SFP28 port. ;)
As someone who's interfaced with the data brokers professionally, I can tell you that the ultimate starting point for their dataset is usually a state voter registration database. A lot of states pretty openly sell their data, like from the DMV, but every data broker is starting by figuring out a way to get that voter registration data- some states just give it, in some states (like say Maryland) you have to at least pretend to be an election researcher, etc. I'm sure for more restrictive states it gets passed around on the grey market.

But if you're anti-data broker (I certainly am!), it starts with regulating your own state
It's already happening. Indeed, shell have been dipping their toe in the water with building out some of that infrastructure.
> I don't claim to have all of the answers, but a decay function seems quite obvious to me.

I don't have a super-informed opinion here, but a decay function sounds reasonable. I'd also suggest that the decay be uncoupled from the user's karma (i.e., the user keeps his/her karma, but the value of the votes decay over time to make way for changes in technology). I don't claim that this is a well thought out idea, but at first blush, it seems reasonable. Also, I just don't give a shit what my karma percentile is.

Finally, FWIW, I find SO ~85% useful and ~15% problematic. And I feel like sometimes we fixate on the 15% without acknowledging the genuine utility of the 85%.
Now, if only GitHub Pages weren’t down… :(
The article does not say he's 22; it quotes "Kim" reporting his age as 22. While Protasevich was 20 at the publication time, he could have concealed his age, e.g. to prevent identification.
This is absurd. The timeline is irrelevant. Andrew is committing gross abuse of power. Regardless of why or how such abuse is "justified", the abuse in and of itself is reason to leave the network.
You might want to take a look at the Shuttleworth Foundation, the Forrest Research Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations as templates.

They're all billionaire-funded foundations enabling research. Shuttleworth works outside traditional academia, the other two fund research in traditional pathways.
The discoverability is bad with IRC servers as well.

But I really meant how to switch to channels on different discord servers you are subscribed to.

In my IRC mindset, channels aren't attached to particular servers. They exist all in the same bubble. Not so with Discord.

The Discord UI prevents me from seeing activity in the channels I'm interested in if they are on a different Discord server. Quickly jumping to another channel on another server is not possible AFAIK (there are keybindings for switching servers or going to the next or next unread channel on the same server though).

I think that is due Discord being tied to livestream gaming. When you livestream, it makes more sense that you don't switch to other channels during that session. You are more involved with that channel.
"Where did covid come from?" is not a poliitcal question. It's an empirical question.

Your decision to turn it into a political question is a dead-end that prevents you from thinking.
so you're saying you wouldn't rent to someone purely because they were homeless? w/ attitudes like this it's not surprising there's so many people living on the street
Because there's a hell of a lot of them. They also have a tendency to do things that effect others; like vote, and commit armed insurrections of the capitol.
I was asking myself the same question because some of the wording used is quite suggestive to a layman reader like me. But after some Wikipedia my answer is: no, the actual virus carries its blueprint in RNA form that doesn't go through that transcription step where the errors occur.

In JVM lingo, it's as if one was .class and the other was a single-class .jar and somehow certain byte sequences were less reliable during unzip than others. And as a consequence, those byte sequence are avoided by programs routinely distributed as .jar but used quite generously by those distributed as .class. Now they took some snippets from a codebase that is deeply rooted in the ".class" tradition and inserted it into a vector from the ".jar" side and the unzip errors happened to be rare enough to not light up during QA.
I feel sympathy (not exactly the perfect word, but close) for dang in many situations, but the obvious care he has for the community coupled with a practical inability to really engage on equal footing must be frustrating (unless via a second handle, which we’d never know about).
Very interesting. A coworker hired a professional doula and their home birth went well. I'm not sure yet what we would do.
Unions were not an advancement. Some unions fought for important advancements last century. That distinction is important.
Approximately nobody is using Plan 9 or Itanium. Apart from nerd cred, they don't matter for Rust's future.

People can keep using C for the weird DSPs that don't have 8-bit bytes. Besides, there's already a compile-to-C implementation of Rust (mrustc), and a GCC-based implementations in progress (both front-end and back-end).

OTOH Rust and its tooling are way better than the C ecosystem in supporting both Windows and Unix flavors in the same codebase, in a practical manner. C prides itself in theoretical support for obsolete and niche platforms, but requires a mess of ifdefs for basic things like opening a file with non-ASCII characters (and when C programs don't work on Windows, this is dismissed as Windows' problem, not C failing to actually have the standardization and portability it claims).

For a lot of programs "cargo build" just works out of the box on every Rust-supported platform. That's smoother than battling autotools, or cmake build scripts that can't find packages for inexplicable reasons, and random breakages due to C compilers/OSes having functions defined in slightly different headers, with their own quirks.

Rust is really good at abstracting these pains away, so while it can't support Plan 9, it can easily support Windows. Can you imagine opening a TCP socket without needing to know about winsock idiosyncrasies?
Study Shows People Working From Home Doing Personal Activities On Company Time
HomeAssistant Project Builds on CodeNotary to Secure Software Supply Chain
1) There doesn't seem to be much difference in terms of "lost sales" (a common metric in copyright disputes) when a library purchases 1 copy of a book and lends it out to 100 people, versus when the Internet Archive purchases 0 copies and lets 100 people view it.

Edit: Besides, the way the FAQ describes it ("acting as a direct agent of the human user"), we can't preclude the possibility that they're getting content through a paying subscriber's account. The Internet Archive used to collaborate with Alexa, which is known to have used browser plugins to collect data from users' browsers.

2) It used to work reliably a few years ago, but it seems that they changed their policies and my knowledge is outdated. Sorry about that.

In any case, the New York Times is perfectly capable of putting up a paywall on any subset of visitors they want, but chose to turn a blind eye on a broad set of crawlers -- presumably because they want the Google traffic. That could be seen as tacit consent to being crawled, so I'm not sure how much legal ground they're going to have if they later decide to sue the crawlers.
I own Exxon Mobil shares. My children’s generation aren’t too thrilled. They demand a greener world. That is the tipping point the world is grappling with.

That’s the attention grabbing headline.
For every major act — there is a good reason and a real reason...
That's not what GP is saying.

Facts and figures are next to worthless when trying to motivate billions of people to do something. If people hear "Covid gives you flu symptoms", they aren't going to care. If people hear "Covid is an experimental virus that escaped from a lab", that's scary and people will care more.
The 3D view is cool, but it would be great if you could turn it off. After a few goes, all I wanted to do was quickly look at a bunch of different places - I ended up closing the 3D view and going back to the map view anyway.
which is an interesting example of where a "proven technology" can be less safe than the "new technology"
It's a sensible vision, but USB-C is absolutely the wrong tech for it (which, from experience, means it's the tech that will get adopted). The connectors are fiddly and expensive and fragile and unreliable and require a bunch of silicon logic to work. You can't mess about with power delivery stuff, it needs to be robust and cheap. A domestic DC power plug standard should have a single voltage standard, three pins (+,-,G), and be able to tolerate being stepped on without causing shorts.
Shell scripts!
What you say is correct, I don't think Facebook could have done differently.

The young progressive people who work at and own Facebook couldn't have seen it any other way.

This is exactly why censorship is dangerous and that's why name calling people who disagree with you is dangerous. This politicisation and polarisation is extremely dangerous to the scientific method.

The end result is that when I see a conspiracy theory, a news article or a "fact-check" I have no clue whether that's true or not.
Reading the original source is the best you can do but it's more time consuming and it still has a chance to miss on other original sources which could paint a different picture.

In this specific instance, I can't make any excuses. I think just reading the sources would have been enough to think the lab leak stories could have been true.
There were reports of researchers sick in Autumn 2019 and the epicentre just happened to be incredibly close to a research lab studying coronaviruses.