skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Way to spin the article. This has literally barely to do with the EU

> South Africa itself decided not to use the vaccine and infamously sold its doses to other African nations.

Yes, because efficiency results showed it is barely efficient against the South African variant (not sure which letter it is) - the lack of efficiency is apparently not a concern with other variants. But why should SA buy an ineffective (for them) vaccine?

AZ conducted the Phase 3 tests. AZ "is responsible" for the serious adverse effects (not blaming them - it is most likely due to poor application method and the vaccine getting into the bloodstream) and now that the adverse effects are known it's easier to treat it correctly.

That being said it fills its role of being an effective vaccine. If your area is not concerned with the SA variant I wouldn't worry about taking it.
My opinion of the NYT plummeted when they doxxed Scott Alexander

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/statement-on-new-york-...
When it is put as "sexualization" it indeed becomes about him (and supposedly all men). Some conservatives say exactly the same about going out with clothes that are also "sexualized". We as a society currently somehow incentive people to go out almost naked, but some wants to fight back the sexualization of short clothes putting the blame on the same people saying that wear minimal clothes are not a form of protest and brings bad outcome.
> the very idea of simulating circuits is a mine field of patents and you'd be sued out of existence.

Doesn't that apply to basically every kind of software? How's it different for HDL simulation software?
Why would the locations of those research organizations matter?
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Pinyin is not a transliteration into English, it's a way to write Chinese using the latin alphabet. Learning how to pronounce Pinyin is no difference than learning how to pronounce French or German text.

So when you say "why the speaker is blamed rather than the transliteration" it's like saying "why the English speaker is blamed rather than the French spelling" about an English speaker having problems pronouncing a French word.
This Isn’t a Heatwave – It’s a Dying Planet
It’s not NBC, it’s the olympics, and it’s been like this for years as part of a compromise that makes everyone unhappy except the athletes who might otherwise not get to compete at all.
…or maybe San Fran this will only further incentivize people to leave your city, as if the syringes on the sidewalks (literally) and petty theft wasn’t enough.
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You've been told wrong; our goal is absolutely to catch up to Apple's hardware cadence and make Linux on Apple Silicon something people want to run as an alternative to macOS, well within the platform's support lifetime.
> while technically you could use a 2 button mouse it wasn't really designed for it

Nope. Plug in a two button USB mouse and it just worked.
I absolutely agree, parent comment is completely incorrect.

Growing up as an American in Italy, people would frequently try to pronounce my family's names correctly. They wouldn't simply say the word as if it were an Italian word.

Same for any other name. They pronounce president Biden as Americans would, they don't say "Bee-den" as they would of the word were Italian.

Ditto for non-English foreigners coming to Italy. Does GP really think that the Spanish and the French say "guh-nocci" for gnocchi? They don't have the "gn" digraph any more than English does, yet they all pronounce it correctly.

The word is the same world-round. Just because it's uncommon enough that each language hasn't bothered to give it is own spelling (ñoci in Spanish, maybe, nhoci in Portuguese, nioki in English) doesn't suddenly mean the word changes in other languages.
There's this little thing called prior history. This video may be new but the opinions espoused by Sanger are not. SirensOfTitan mentions as much in his comment. You only need to watch the first few seconds to realize his opinion hasn't changed. Sanger complains about trolls on the site but Sanger himself is a bit of a troll as he once reported the wiki commons org to the FBI for hosting child porn, it turned out to be depictions of child abuse but not actually porn. Many accused him of doing this simply because his own wikipedia alternatives were failing at the time.
> I know that Hacker News likes the idea that if you work hard enough then anything is possible [especially when there's so many easily available resources], but when it comes to becoming a grandmaster it has to be said that it's painstakingly hard

what do you have to say about this article?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/200507/the-grand...
Their tentacles are everywhere.

https://freebeacon.com/media/nyt-quietly-scrubs-chinese-prop...
That's probably every enterprise

Yep, pretty much any industry or individual organization that's been around for 40 years will have decades-old cruft complicating attempts to make changes. That's why it's good to have some sort of skunkworks unit as well.
You must be a youngster. NBC has been fucking up the Olympics broadcasts since they started back in 1988. They've always been overly USA-centric, they refuse to air the broadcasts when the events happen, insisting on time shifting everything, and loading so many commercials into the thing, it is impossible to watch. I pretty much quit watching 3 or 4 olympics ago. Today, as I tune through the channels, I always see they're in commercial when I go through the NBC channels.
This is quite the far cry from what the cigarette industry threatened to do to the Doctor who acted as a whistleblower to their deliberate negligence (as featured in the movie Insider starring Russell Crowe and Al Pacino)
I was actually thinking of crime, etc. Even if you live in a safe area, darkness creates opportunities.

And while I'm hesitant to bring this into it—if you're a man, consider if you weren't.
Yes, and my experience with the <10 minute clips I did try to watch on Peacock turned me off from the service and the games in general.
Some smart crypto people are saying that if Tether goes down it will take a whole load of other crypto down with it.
Windows is definitely more user-hostile than it has been in the past, and seems to be becoming more so[0], but honestly I'll still take Windows over a Linux Desktop any day because it works in a way that is much more in line with how I want my computer to work.

Your attitude seems to very much be "you're an idiot for still using Windows and Linux is great", which is condescending as hell.

[0] I am by no means defending this behavior. In fact, I hate it and kinda want to beat certain people at Microsoft with a rubber hose over it.
> Bikers should realize they are driving a more dangerous vehicle.

So you think bikers should care more about making themselves save isntead of car owners about making everyone save?
> Why bother figuring out how to run Netflix with DRM on Linux

Because you want to pay for things. You want to support people making the things you enjoy. You want Netflix and other streaming companies to see that Linux users matter.
I'm miffed that paulg publicly posts criticisms of the CCP, yet it's gotten my account flagged on HN for posting the same things about a half dozen times. Sometimes just questions about what people think the long term outcome will be.

The desire is to keep this type of conversation off of HN (flamewar and politics), and admittedly sometimes my tone descends to that level, but it's frustrating that I have kept my mouth shut about the CCP and still have my posts severely rate limited.

I think I can make six posts a day? Or if I say something that gets downvoted - eg. critical of Google, Apple, Facebook, monopolies, etc. I find my posting restricted almost immediately.

And here's Paul posting repeatedly in the same tone about Xi, the CCP, etc.

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1418662122930724869?s=19

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1419367325556432905?s=19

Etc.

Frustrating.

Tech is willing to silence itself and its workers for profit.
It's a "self-assessment" until it comes time to pay the insurance. Then the insurance co pulls out that old file and checks it :)
I am not at all a fan of surge pricing or toll roads.

The janitor (or journeyman plumber, if you want to be pedantic) has every right to sit in gridlock beside the stock broker.

There will never be meaningful accumulation of political capital to address public transit issues so long as the wealthy can avoid it with a trivial fee ($6.50 in this case, with unspecified income discounts).
I haven’t followed the new wave of DL based engines but in the old Alpha-Beta algorithm days engines could be tuned by giving them a fixed processing budget per move (or a more sophisticated processing budget to allow for bursting).

Is that not a viable strategy on the new engines?
If a country cheats in the Olympics, who should be punished by the IOC then if they cannot ban the athletes?

I think it was worth it for Russia to cheat in the Sochi Olympics. There doesn't seem to be any significant consequence from their violations.
This confused me as well. I was aware of all the doping but didn’t realize Russia was competing as ROC this year and was shocked that Taiwan was no longer forced to call themselves Chinese Taipei. Then I saw the Chinese Taipei team and thought maybe ROC was the Refugee Olympic Committee and was pleasantly surprised at how well they were doing in non-marathon events.

Only after I searched did I realize ROC is just Russia.
The complaints about Tesla Autopilot reminds me of the complaints of Wikipedia in its early days. People were saying you can never rely on Wikipedia and should use a 'real' encyclopedia. But Wikipedia mistakes got corrected and it got better over time; as will Autopilot.
Some people being ignorant about how it works makes it (probably) a scam?

That ZH article's ifs, possiblies, and maybes are doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Is the Bitcoin price up? Queue the Tether FUD.
There are multiple reason why they might survive. There market might be local, which many of the companies from US do not serve.

What I have also seen, companies that pay low hire people with non-cs background, people looking for career change, people without experience but with motivation.

When I said comfortable, in this context it meant. A job that pays 130k and still is not stressful and you can have a comfortable lifestyle. I did not mean that you can easily get a 130k job.
They recently did a movie on this: Mr. Jones. It was really good. You can probably catch it on Netflix or something similar.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6828390/
Didn't know such thing existed! Ill hang in here in case someone knows.
Find yourself a canadian VPN endpoint and check out the CBC coverage (website or "Gem" app). It's pretty complete and much more accessible.
Yeah exactly - it's easier to build an engine that plays as well as possible compared to an engine that plays reasonable/imperfect moves like a strong human player.
All venues need to be examined. Some with more intensity than others. But you must still look into solutions.
> Physical attractiveness is also never a bad thing in the world of streaming.

That's life in general. Even at my company when choosing photos of people to profile to for recruitment posts on LinkedIn, it's pretty clear they lean towards attractive people.

I also notice that with Company Profile page, where who they show is not really indicative of who comprises the company.
I recall when this happened Stephen Colbert had an entertaining report on it, including some additional interesting details. [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZOpHUG6XOE [video]
> Like the rule that you have to set min-width to 0 or something to get the desired behavior

I understand why this is the case (mostly thanks to a patient HN commenter who explained it to me), but holy hell it annoys me how unintuitive it is. You have to set min-width to stop a flex child being too big? Get out of here with that nonsense.

The common wisdom seems to be that 1D layouts should use flex and 2D should use grid, but I don't think I agree with that. These days, I only ever use flex for layouts that should actually be flexible. Even if it's a single dimension, if it's fixed-widths it's straight to grid for me now, and my life is measurably better for it.
The NBC youtube channel does a great job of posting highlights but they also put spoilers in the titles of their videos and it ruins the highlights for me.

Looking at the latest video "Katie Ledecky Looks Dominant In 1500m Swim..."

Let me know its the 1500m swim event and quit ruining the intrigue before I can click.
It's legitimate to protest against injustices and menaces to human rights even when millions of people accept those injustices and don't recognize those menaces. You're reframing the issue as a personal choice, but to a large extent it is not.
This appears to assert that there is no great die off of insects because there are still ecologically diverse places on the planet. That ignores the dramatic spread of agriculture across almost all arable land, much of that land having been created from former wetlands, where insect diversity almost inevitably crashes. Then there is the ongoing usage and build up of pesticides.

Arguing about whether ecological damage is merely widespread or a genuine global collapse seems kind of silly.
Edit: Isn't it a huge red flag that Tether doesn't make any money off transaction fees? Their daily volume is almost 2x that of BTC. They could fully support the company with a tiny transaction fee and avoid all the regulatory uncertainty/FUD.

How does tether make money (aside from potential fraud)? Is there a transaction fee that supports the people and cost of running tether (the company)?
> “Has become”? That’s international standard until Taiwan truly declares independence. Quote Wikipedia:

If Taiwan does declare independence, the PRC will start a war over it about 5 minutes later. Or at least there's a high enough chance of a bloody, crippling (for Taiwan) war that a declaration would be foolish, even if it's what Taiwan really wants.

Citing one of the many compromises made because of that fact doesn't really justify the situation.
If you happy and content with the mainstream sources you wont feel the need to look for other perspectives from fringe sources.
I call bullshit on your prediction.

When my grandmother died she left me enough money to not have to work a day job for most of a decade. I spent this time using my creative skills to draw whatever the Muses dictated, instead of what a corporation would pay me to do (and instead of doing other things corporations would pay me more to do). I built a modest following that is large enough to fund a Patreon campaign that covers my needs, and allows me to keep on drawing pretty much whatever the heck I want to draw.
* Adobe Photoshop

* Microsoft Powerpoint

* Python/Pillow/pynfc and custom software

* Epson Ecotank printer

* Coated papers from Canon and Red River Paper usually 4x6 cards

* Uncoated 8x8 inch paper squares from Michaels (about the only product I can stand in the whole store)

* Sony Alpha 7 camera and Zeiss lenses

* Sony FeliCa NFC reader/writer

* Amazon S3 and Cloudfront

* Arangodb

* API from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (no authentication, has a 80 request per second limit!)
If you read the article, the janitor probably wouldn't be paying the congestion fee since it's income-based.
UCE is the name for Spam in Postfix docs. Unsolicited Commercial Email.
The SF-86 is an incredibly detailed document. I would agree they aren't after low level people in sensitive positions.

But that document lists family members, past residences, perhaps previous crimes, etc.

Its the same document from high level people down to the janitor.

Its extremely useful from an intelligence perspective. Allows you to connect A LOT of dots.
A search engine, and some degree of diligence. Everything else follows from these.
Very good point ...
They shouldn’t have let them wear the uniforms they chose though. The uniforms are clearly the Russian flag and you see it in warmups and the medal ceremonies.
Is that true even if sum up higher taxes and cost of living in Germany? At least in Eastern Europe(specifically Russia, Belarus and Ukraine), average salary for mediocre software engineer is about 3k$ per month after taxes which is already comparable with German average SE salary. But cost of living in EE is a lot cheaper, apartments in Moscow are 3 times cheaper than in major German cities. Food, on average 2 times cheaper and transportation(taxes, public transport and fuel) sometimes up to 10 times cheaper than in Germany.
What the Largest KG Can Tell You About Data Science Roles
Seems like a reasonable way to do it and my understanding is that congestion pricing is generally effective at improving air quality and reducing the number of private vehicles.

I do wonder how it'll be enforced by income level.
I'd argue that a janitor with a TS/SCI + polygraph was working in a sensitive position.
Where does that leave us non-libertarians who want to help our families?
The float from _allegedly_ having $xx,xxx,xxx,xxx in assets.
That is just shifting consumption but there are tradeoffs to that as well. Make sure you are mindful of the curves. Exponential year over year rise in greenhouse gas emissions in CO2 CH4 SF6 N20. Renewables help. But not enough. Lowering consumption is the main way to stop climate change.
Thanks for the explanation. I hadn't considered the fuel to slow down for a landing.
You are strawmanning by putting words in my mouth.

"I wonder how many of the people cheerleading for indefinite lifespan technology also believe in heaven."

How did that turn into "a lot of people"? Whether it is 1% or 90% doesn't enter into my hypothetical.

Second, I didn't "reach a conclusion." I asked a sincere question, and it would be great if someone who is in that intersection gave a sincere answer.

Finally, using loaded terms like "cling" and "quite a flex" is just unnecessary attitude.
Hard agree. A heuristic can only be said to work if it means the same thing to everyone. Like, if the list means anything to everyone, then how can we say that the list is responsible for success or failure?

Otherwise what are we saying the causality is? Like, that the list is just somehow inspiring everyone to be successful? So, like, if we just believe enough in the list we'll get it done? No thanks. I'm not going to pray to some poetry.
This is cryptocurrency, where “Don’t trust. Verify.” is the sentiment, and they’ve done a terrible job at allowing verification.
Financial regulations carry three types of penalties:

- Criminal: go straight to jail

- Civil Fines: pay money

- Civil Injunctions: never work in finance again

In the United States there are several entities charged with enforcing financial regulations. You can roughly divide them up by jurisdiction:

- Federal agencies: Securities and Enforcement Commission (SEC) which can only enforce civil penalties, Department of Justice (DOJ) which can send you to jail, and other three-letter agencies.

- States and local governments: New York Attorney General, Manhattan District Attorney, etc.

- Self-Regulatory Agencies: New York Stock Exchange, Chicago Board Options Exchange, etc. can investigate on their own.

If this sounds complicated, well, it is! A company under investigation has to consider the ramifications that resolving one investigation will have on others.

Traditionally, companies settled with NYAG and the SEC on civil grounds without admitting or denying liability. This is because admitting fault will almost certainly screw up your defense against the federal criminal investigation, which is what you're really afraid of anyway. (Not to mention hundreds of private lawsuits that will be filed if you assume fault).

New York Attorney General's office can pursue criminal charges as well but the penalties aren't as feared as federal criminal charges. Defendants assume correctly that if they're going to be convicted in state courts, they're going to be convicted in federal cases as well. So there's not much incentive to resolve a state criminal case when federal prosecutors are circling the water.

From the NYAG's perspective, they know that any criminal charges they bring will be second fiddle to the federal criminal charges. It could make more sense to 'strike the first blood' and get a financial settlement from a company before the federal hammer falls.

And from the company's perspective, settling early with the AG might be a way to show the federal prosecutors that it is capable of reforming its ways. Federal criminal charges will kill a company. If federal prosecutors can be convinced that the company is capable of being reformed, they might agree to a Non-Prosecution Agreement (or Deferred Prosecution Agreement) which says, company admits X, Y, Z, and will pay $$$, and will agree to outside monitoring to make sure it doesn't break laws again, in exchange for not being charged with a crime. It's kinda like a plea agreement except the company isn't formally convicted.

Executives and individuals responsible for the wrongdoing often get thrown to the wolves. I wouldn't want to be Tether execs right now.
Is the wealth inequality larger in Germany than in the US?

Also, you still end up paying for all those things. And private health insurance will simply always be more expensive
Also, AFAIK by spec, the manifest of a zip file is unencrypted, even if the zip "is".

Most scanners are too brain dead to care, but I have come across a few that still quarantine if the manifest lists a file with a blacklisted extension.

Easy solution? Compress to zip, then compress that zip to another zip, with a password.

(Yes, I've spent far too long trying to get work done underneath insane corporate security policies)
46k is low enough I bet some janitors would be included
Super off-topic, but my name is Vincent and I'm learning some basic Spanish vocabulary, and it's been at the back of my mind for a while that I'm not really sure how I'm supposed to pronounce my name in Spanish. So maybe you could help: how would you pronounce my name when speaking Spanish - would you turn it into Vicente, use the English or French pronunciation, or is there a "proper" Spanish way to pronounce it?

(Feel free to ignore of course, I just got interested.)
The one thing that you have learned is false.

Things have gone well for me but in my longer life I've seen many many people who were legitimately "victims of more powerful forces beyond their individual control".

In America, the zipcode of your birth determines your future income far more than your performance in school, for example.

Just on my Facebook yesterday, someone I'd known for twenty years died of cancer, leaving two young kids. She'd led a normal life without any bad habits like tobacco or alcohol and it was simply bad luck - powerful forces beyond her control.

Compassionate people understand that the real world is difficult and uncertain even for dedicated and hard-working people. The whole "victim mentality" is almost always a symptom of other far-right beliefs that would be less palatable if spoken out loud.
On the modern Olympics: it helps to remember that it is now an advertising event that happens to have sports competitions.
Pretty sure being able to get through the front gate at many government facilities counts as sensitive.
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Have you ever seen this before?
This is missing an interesting argument regarding "Buffon's noodle".

A straight needle crosses a gridline with probability (4 / pi) (l / t) where l is its length.

Surprisingly, a flexible noodle of length l also crosses an expected (4 / pi) (l / t) gridlines. To see why consider that the noodle can be approximated by a set of N straight segments of length (l / N). While the events of different segments crossing a gridline are correlated, the expected number of crossing for each segment is (4 / pi) (l / (N t)) and since, expectation is linear, the expect number of crossings for the noodle is still (4 / pi) (l / t).