skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting.

Our baby arrived 10 weeks premature and although it wasn't immediately after birth (as I'll explain why below), the hospital strongly encouraged the kangaroo care as mentioned in the article, which mom did daily until we could take our baby home.

In a week it will be a full year since birth and the baby is in no way behind developmentally compared to other 10 month olds (when adjusting age due to prematurity). So although anecdotal, I can believe this can be a very helpful practice.

Due to arriving mid-pandemic and because neither of us had COVID tests prior to the unexpectedly premature birth, we weren't allowed to visit the baby in the NICU until our tests came back negative, which was about 30 hours later. I wasn't even allowed to be with mom during delivery, but the doctor did allow me to see the baby for a couple of minutes from a distance and under the proviso that I touched nothing in the NICU (including things like walls, windows, doors, handles, etc).

Anyway, somewhat superfluous information at the end there, but it was quite an experience and I'm just happy everything turned out fine.
Lots of young adult catholics in my area have started including social media in their list of things to practice will over (to improve well being, grow in empathy, etc.).

E.g. It has been a regular practice for the last two millennia to fast on Friday from some subset of enjoyable activity.

It’s interesting to watch ancient cultures start to contemplate social media and suggest healthy behaviors towards it, a technology that is only about a decade old.

I have to keep reminding myself that the world we live in is an infant, and social media will exist in a century, but our relationship to it will be very different than it is now.
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To be fair, you are exactly the type that the parent comment was referring to... People that effortlessly dismiss reasonable ideas. You add smears of racism on top of it to make sure the side that you disagree with is hated. Please reflect as the parent comment suggests.
> 100% of the people I've ever saw using Vim / Neovim spend much longer "calculating" their next command than they would spend just doing in with CMD-D in VSCode.

Right, there is mental overhead to calculate moves but often times you can extract out patterns into intuitive key mappings once you've solved the problem once.

For example, this is taken my vimrc:

nnoremap <silent> s* :let @/='\<'.expand('<cword>').'\>'<CR>cgn
xnoremap <silent> s* "sy:let @/=@s<CR>cgn

The basic idea here is I can either move the cursor on top of a word or select some text, hit s*, type what I want to change that text to and then hit dot (.) as many times as I want to repeat the change to the next match. It's like being able to use multiple cursors except without needing multiple cursors and I also get to see the result applied once before I start applying it to multiple things. It's also possible to skip matches using existing Vim mappings (n).

I use the above all the time to make changes in spots where I would have used multiple cursors with VSCode.
Thanks! We work with different automotive OEMs, tier-1 suppliers, and level-4/5 autonomy teams. "Official" automotive customers would be both Toyota Research Institute (TRI) and Woven Planet which are subsidiaries of Toyota Motor Company.
Here's an interesting ML research paper that TRI recently published on tracking with object permanence. https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.14258
In the uk you're not obliged to join, you still have to option to accept whatever they negotiate (still without joining) and you can just choose to keep doing whatever you were doing before.

There's very little upside to uk unions but there is very little downside either, they're basically pointless...
Isn't it kinda weird that every single large company moves aggressively to crush labor unions if they are so bad for the individual worker? I keep seeing this perspective and it is baffling to me.
> Finally, EMA has received reports of Comirnaty recipients developing myocarditis and pericarditis. “There is no indication at the moment that these cases are due to the vaccine,” wrote PRAC.

https://www.raps.org/news-and-articles/news-articles/2021/5/...
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I have a recent experience in exactly this and can connect you to folks from the RAND corporation who just founded a spinoff research think tank. Reach out to me via my email on my profile
And they don't notify you when it's available for payment, or when it's about to expire. So if you order something, and it for some reason takes a few weeks/months before they ship it and it becomes available for payment, you'll end up with a reminder fee with no warning.
Couldn't you use the exact same argument for software? It too gets taken down all the time

I never really understood how Archive.org operates. This is an honest question.. But they doesn't own this piece of writing, so what's the legal basis for them to redistribute it? Could they slap a few ads on their website and make some money as well? Can they host a copy of Harry Potter for instance?

If I made my income from writing I'd prolly be pretty pissed if some chumps scrapped and re-hosted it. Do authors have any legal way to defend themselves?

EDIT:
https://archive.is/faq
"Will advertising appear on the archive one day ?

I cannot make a promise that it will not. With the current growth rate I am able to keep the archive free of ads. Well, I can promise it will have no ads at least till the end of 2014."
Think about how a claim that the outbreak of a virus from a place with a lab that did gain of function experiments on the same group of viruses was deemed to insane to exist online and was scrubbed from every platform. If something so very plausible can be so easily removed from global discourse, maybe the conspiracy loonies are on to something.
> How can we have good data to analyze and find correlations if most doctors do only the legal minimum reporting?

We can't, that's the point. It's not like you, random person on the internet, have thought of something the industry and regulators haven't. With all the modern technology at our disposal, the industry has simply chosen not to do this.
Reddit geo blocks a cannabis discussion group for Canadians who don’t buy weed through the government distribution system, in an attempt to coerce them to buy the shitty legal weed.

That’s not free speech or effective censorship.
Sorry to bring the bad news, but the author the first comment is 100% right. Moreover, structure in academia is different than in Startups. In startups, people don't care about "names" and "prestige". In academia, it is different. In order to get your next job in academia, you need (1) recommendation letters (2) citations. Advisors usually have a larger network and experience to be able to publish papers and help you climb the ladder through their networks/recommendations.

In Industry, you can come from no-name university, and you can still make it to FAANG (or top tier companies). In academia, that's impossible. To start, it is impossible to make it to good PhD program without publishing papers in top-tier conference, MSc student in no-name universities can't afford finding advisor to easily do that. Good PhD programs will help you to join a good Lab, and usually it is through network + recommendations.

In Startup world, you can sit in your dorm room, without anyone believing in you and you can make it.

P.S. I am a research engineer, I worked in both places and that was my observations. There is no shortcuts, everything is hierarchical in academia.
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I'm excited to launch @wwdctogether as a free place to watch and hangout during WWDC. We can now view upcoming and previous sessions via modern playback, with a chatroom for each session. Hope this provides a similar WWDC vibe during this hard time

You can join at wwdctogether.com

WWDC21 is just around the corner and I'm happy to bring back this year too. I've refactored the site from the ground up to have better chat experience. There's also gathering map where we can discover each other

Don't watch WWDC alone, let's watch together and discuss :]
Worse, you're on the hook if your account is drained.
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No, it’s not about standards of living, it’s about defending people. If you’re in a position to help then you should! South Vietnam was invaded, South Korea was invaded. Would you prefer South Korea to be a North Korea?

I agree bombings, chemical warfare and the like are some of the worst outcomes for people, but what would you suggest for the Koreans under attack? Not my problem? I don’t have the moral authority to get involved? Send aid?
What about the Cambodians massacred? No help from anyone and they were absolutely brutally destroyed by the millions. Millions. We haven’t even spoken of the millions in the 20s in Eastern Europe or the Chinese Cultural Revolution. I can’t so easily write off those dead, and I don’t think inaction is the answer, but war.
I submitted the article headline verbatim, but the word "Penis" was auto filtered in the title by HN.
The media didn’t ask for proof of animal origin… in fact the media largely ran with animal origin with zero evidence to back that up.

There’s always been more evidence to support the lab leak theory for those paying attention.
So called modern science is the biggest bubble ever.

Higher social status in exchange for sophisticated bullshitting, exactly as it were with clergy.

The transition is done.
That would be very affordable! (for the speed)
It is not so much what they spend their time on, it is more how they misdirect and manipulate public opinion. Like: sure I am an incompetent and corrupt mayor but let’s talk about the Israel / Palestine - isn’t it just horrible how the Israelis are bombing children?
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anymore...
IMO this sounds more similar to the steam issue as it's probably cache related. The GitHub issue was far more subtle.
Amusing. They claim to have 'incontrovertible evidence' that it wasn't them. That is literally impossible, unless they have incontrovertible evidence who did it and that that party did not acton their behalf.

E.g. if their proof is that these claims were sent from a gmail address they would need to be able to either identify the actual sender or prove that none of their staff or agents could have access to that account.
The answer is in the other comments. The reason the lab leak theory is rejected is because some people that believe in other theories that are not popular also believe in this one.
It's guilt by association. It has nothing to do with the merits of the case.
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Then hopefully the world powers with the resources to do this kind of research work together to come up with new standards to prevent lab-leaks.

Without a doubt, countries like the US, Russia, and China, have tons of experiments going on as we speak that have the potential to create another COVID-19 or worse.
True, the Americans were the better alternative for hegemon, hands down.
Isn’t California’s even better? You can tell them not to sell your data and on request, to delete it.
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This is just wrong. I would suggest reading any one volume history on WW2 from a reputable source or just auditing a class at any university. Just read one source on the conquest of Poland or a summary of Mein Kampf. The entire justification for Barbarossa was to enslave and exterminate the Slavs to create living space for Germany. It's also flat out wrong if you consider the number of civilian deaths in the USSR during the war.

It's also weird that you don't bring up Romania, the most loyal and enthusiastic Eastern European member of the Axis, when talking about Eastern European collaborators with Nazi occupation. Lithuania and Latvia are teensy. The entire Polish middle class was effectively rounded up and killed as a deliberate policy.

There's no prize in the World War 2 Victim Olympics but that is no reason to repeat extreme distortions. If anything distortions like this contribute to more contemporary Neo-Nazism than the alternative, because a lot of people whom Hitler would have considered to be mongrels or subhuman think that they would have been in the master race because they aren't familiar with what the Nazis actually wanted to achieve and how they perceived non-Aryans (by their definition).
It also happened to Chase (!!) a few years back.
Sphinx is Python-specific, and yes, in that instance much more powerful than MkDocs. MkDocs is a general documentation solution, which is language-agnostic. Also, Sphinx is normally written in rST with a steeper learning curve than Markdown, which to my knowledge is preferred by many users (especially non-technical people). As always, YMMV.

The Furo theme is rather new and borrows some things from Material for MkDocs, for example Admonitions. There's also Material for Sphinx [1], which is a port of Material for MkDocs to Sphinx. Note that it doesn't include all features Material for MkDocs offers.

[1]: https://bashtage.github.io/sphinx-material/
> What if I want to work just for a few hours on a Friday night and that's it?

In Germany, we have a special class of jobs ("450€ Jobs") for side jobs - regulated under labor laws, no need for fake "self employment" stuff.
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the media has an interest in being right with their reporting. they won't apologise and say they were wrong; why would their customers continue reading & sharing their content if they're so fallible?

it's perverted interests and motivations.
While I concure with that, there is more to the net than websites.
Klarna provides many different financial services.

They provide "pay by bank account" (which involves the mentioned MITMing of users' online banking accounts, unless Klarna is integrated with your bank via OAuth/PSD2, which is still not ubiquitous), but also installment payments/factoring and others.
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Request for enhancement. Add the flow of the Great Lakes. Modeling Lake Michigan near Chicago may be difficult, but everything else should eventually flow over Niagara Falls and through the St. Lawrence into the Atlantic.
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> It still excludes a quite significant amount of users, and probably most desktop users.

A shrinking fraction of 32% [1] web users. Some hard data to take a call based off of.

[1] https://twitter.com/jaffathecake/status/1397884753097990144
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> There have been some weird legal cases in Sweden where businesses and scammers have been freed after having signed in using other people's "BankID" to change retirement savings around or send cash.

As far as I know most, if not all, of these scams have been perpetrated against the elderly. All operations (authentication, signing) can be initiated remotely with just a personal ID number, so the typical scam meant calling up someone and claiming that "an authentication must be performed", and simultanously initiating a bank login session. If you can keep the victim on the phone and using the BankID app when you tell them, you could basically login and empty their bank accounts. This has been largely fixed using QR codes to initiate login requests for major internet banks (which means you have to be in front of the same screen now) and other clever workarounds. But it has also always been a fact that there will be a description saying what you are signing, in the app, so being careful you could easily avoid being scammed.

I think its largely a great asset (BankID) but its never gonna be 100% tamper-proof without being seriously neutered.
This is standard PR work as every company tries to reshape reality to fit their business needs. The only difference is that good PR people know better than to use weird terms like 'decentralizing truth' and 'misinformation'. You can tell that Brian Armstrong wrote this.
Gigabit is not needed for web browsing, but for:

- cloud storage, sharing and backup - at 40Mbit a remote site feels like a slow thumb drive where copying a 1GB folder of an image or video project to the cloud takes 5 minutes, at 1Gbit it feels like a modern hard drive where that folder takes 10 seconds and doesn't interrupt your workflow

- high res video streaming (3-4 people in your household streaming at 4K will overload your downlink at 100Mbit)

- high res video conferencing (3-4 people in your household being in zoom calls at the same time will likely overload your uplink at 40Mbit)
Usually I'm not that bothered about being downvoted. But for this - seriously hn?
I came across this poster, or perhaps an enhanced version of it, while at a customer's location where I was working on their computers. It was in the bathroom. So poignant.
If I had some ant colonies at home and after a while my neighbors complained of ants in their apartments, I would certainly audit my ant-husbandry procedures in case some of my ants had escaped.

Ignoring the possibility of an escape, even in the absence of hard data, would be unnecessarily cavalier.
Precisely. "This theory is popular with crazy racists" leads to "if you believe this then I am forced to assume that you're a crazy racist and disparage you accordingly" pretty effortlessly in 2021. This sort of bad-faith ad hominem is the real problem.
He didn’t say it wasn’t, he only implied a ballet or opera will at least have some beauty at some point. A research institute will never approach anything resembling beauty, its 100% blood, sweat, and tears.
Is that true for all European banks though? I think they all need to have an API available at this point, but is Klarna using that in every instance (instead of their legacy creepy MITM scheme) already?
why not cooperate with local research-institutions and try to get some part-time agreements with the tenured academics? It's Germany, so the the chances are good since the professors are always chasing grants. A permanent source of funding for some phd-students is attractive.
And yet here we are with the site (fastcompany) itself loading something like 10-14 trackers/ external scripts
I understand that Sofort was allowed to continue despite using the user's bank credentials because disallowing them would be anticompetitive.[0] I have no idea how that could justify such an insecure practice, but there you have it.

[0] https://knowledge.fintecsystems.com/en/blog/the-history-of-o... , under "Legal Action by Giropay"
What’s next!? Maybe we should stop fiddling with viruses in countries that struggle with basic quality control for even the most basic manufacturing?!

Why is the left so uninterested in finding the truth here? This “if it came from a lab, what next” narrative is complete gaslighting.
We use Quip and the difference with Confluence, which we used before, is that the rest of the organisation (the non-tech departments) adopted it really quickly.

That told me that Quip seems to be much more intuitive and easier to use for less technical people.
There are two different kinds of inquiry: one to learn lessons for avoiding this in the future, and one for assigning blame. Blame assignment gives motivation to destroy evidence and obstruct the inquiry. The only culture that seems to have managed to reliably achieve low-blame investigations is air crash investigation.

So there's basically three questions:

- was this virus a lab escape?

- if it was a lab escape, was that because it had been isolated from elsewhere, bred in the lab, or was it deliberately engineered for some purpose?

- regardless of origin, was the escape somehow intentional? This seems unlikely given that it was first a disaster for China and - like all bioweapons - cannot really be targeted. There has been no visible politics associated with this, so we could apply the Dr Strangelove argument: what good is a superweapon if you don't tell anyone about it?

And a question for the future:

- what is the minimum tech level for virus engineering? At what point can a random militant just 3D print themselves a plague with no co-conspirators? We're a long way off that, but I don't think HN is willing to bet on technology being intractable forever.

And for all of these:

- what real evidence do we have?

- if this were true, what would we do about it?
This is Uber playing off one union against another...

The GMB (originally General, Municipal and Boilermakers) Union vs the App Drivers and Couriers union (who is fighting Uber in court).

This is effectively Uber helping the GMB union expand their turf, killing the App drivers and Couriers union. I assume in return, the GMB union has promised to be toothless.
No engineering, I want to underline it. This is not precluding a natural virus leak with, or without gain of function experiment involvement.

Current facts on the ground:

- 1st response to CoVID occurrence was certainly in Wuhan.

- The closest wild strain of CoVID happens in bats living thousand kilometres from Wuhan

- Wuhan had two institutes which, on record, did gain of function experiments on bat coronaviruses

- SARS had a record of lab escapes past the previous pandemic even without live animal hosts.
This is their example of Fizzbuzz: https://github.com/magicmouse/beads-examples/blob/master/Exa...

But this is supposed to replace Excel somehow? Along with basically every other language.

I can't accuse them of not being ambitious.
Reminds me of a colleague implementing "emailRecipients" as a field in a singleton service. The first online order got an order confirmation mail, and when a second online order came s/he also got their confirmation mail (the field just grew and grew...).
> I’m not sure exactly which qualities/features of Go make it so much easier to read,

In my experience, golang is harder to read. It's overly verbose that it's hard to figure out the underlying logic. What can be written as

items.filter(|n| n.price >= 10)
.groupBy(|n| n.source)
.mapValues(|v| v.sum()/v.length())

would be over a dozen lines of code in golang, with potentially one off functions everywhere. This only gets more obnoxious with larger code bases.

The problem is that even if golang added generics, they won't be composable. In their proposal, they proposed adding map/filter/etc functions in a separate package, not as functions on slices as a proper language would do. The same mistake they did with not having any functions on strings, but kept them in a separate package.

Also, they need to improve their anonymous function syntax.

foo("param1", func(a int, b string) bool { return len(b) < a }

is verbose, more advanced languages simply shorten it to

foo("param1", |a, b| b.length() < a)

or something equivalent
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>Most didn't stop at "maybe this escaped from the lab in Wuhan", but went down the real rabbit hole accusing the Chinese government of manufacturing and releasing a bioweapon.

I don't think it's fair to say that "most" of these people thought it was deliberately released, whether or not they believed it was a bioweapon.