skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a nice article answering your question and explaining the confusion here. It definitely seems like people who want to believe that covid is a hoax are taking this CDC post (which is technical and directed at scientists in testing labs) out of context and misinterpreting it to back up their narrative.

https://www.factcheck.org/2021/07/scicheck-viral-posts-misre...

From the article:

In explaining the CDC’s decision to end the use of its own PCR test at the end of 2021, Kristen Nordlund, an agency spokeswoman, in an email to us cited “the availability of commercial options for clinical diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection, including multiplexed (discussed here) and high-throughput options” — referring to technologies that use an automated process to administer hundreds of tests per day.

“Although the CDC 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019 nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel met an important unmet need when it was developed and deployed and has not demonstrated any performance issues, the demand for this test has declined with the emergence of other higher-throughput and multiplexed assays,” Nordlund said.

She continued: “CDC is encouraging public health laboratories (PHL) to adopt the CDC Influenza SARS-CoV-2 (Flu SC2) Multiplex Assay to enable continued surveillance for both influenza and SARS-CoV-2, which will save both time and resources for PHL.”
It’s a known genetic trait:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABCC11
Nylon riots
Kusenko should get a lot of credit here: he bet on his beliefs, agreed to terms, and then acknowledged the truth and paid up when he was wrong.
Human beings commit copyright infringement all of the time. People have been lifting riffs from music, sometimes unconsciously, forever. This is why clean room implementations are done sometimes when writing software.

Also, you're taking the machine learning metaphor literally. AI models do not "learn", they're just statistical models, they don't understand anything. There is no comparison to human learning that isn't superficial or metaphorical.

The real question is how Copilot is any different than a compiler, or lossy encoding or compression.
If the government spent within its means of collected revenue on social programs there is no dilution only local price increases where funds are distributed due to increased demand of goods.

To say that Federal Reserve (a private entity) actions are politically uncontested is dishonest. There have been plenty of voices against the Fed in the minority. Kennedy tried to end the Fed and there have been numerous congressional proposals to audit the Fed. None have ever achieved a majority.
seems like a really long lead time to get 20K devices manufactured, but I'm not in the hardware world. Is this normal?
Doesn't that basically round to "outlaw social media"?
If you think the lawsuit is merely about rolling the truck down the hill, as opposed to lying to investors about their current tech, I'm not sure what to tell you.

There is zero evidence Tesla has a semitruck that with the range the claim at the price they claim to be able to produce it.
> It's amazing how the PC speaker version has a Melody, but also chords and accompaniment, even though only one frequency can be played at a time.

The PC speaker doesn't play a single frequency, it toggles between “on” and “off”. There's techniqueels to drive so that it looks to be next level of softwarr like it is playing a single frequency, or like it has, e.g., an 8-bit position setting, or...a number of other things. But even those super-basic things are illusions over toggling at appropriate times, not the native function of the speaker
Given the variety of climates in Japan itself quite a few types could be experienced domestically:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Japan#Climate
But if the two people have the same gender, why would using gendered pronouns make it less confusing?

Sure, I guess it is less ambiguous on average..

Hm.
Jay-Z and Will Smith Back Rent-to-Own Firm in $165M Round
> If you don't like it, fork it.

The original request was ridiculous but in fairness the "if you don't like it, fork it" attitude is really bad too. Forking something isn't zero cost. You'd have to maintain it, and then try to get developers to come to your fork, teach users about your fork, and then you end up with the annoying ffmpeg/libav situation where you have two similar but different projects.

It's kind of like saying "if you don't like Trump why don't you just leave?".

A better and more honest response would have been "I have considered your idea and I unfortunately disagree and won't implement it."
If I'm reading the post correctly (and I am no expert in the field), they're saying "this test will be obsolete by end of year, as better tests become available". It was an EULA, which is by intention "we wouldn't approve this so quickly except this is an emergency", so it's not surprising that as better tests were developed they would withdraw the EULA.

Given that they were withdrawing it with several months' advance notice, I doubt there was anything massively wrong with it.
There were 3.3 billion phone subscribers in 2007 (source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/270850/number-of-mobile-...).

It's likely that most of those 4 million users have never had a VR headset before.
It's like the one thing universally true about spies is they can never keep it g. As a security guy, this is why you don't get involved with dodgy companies. When the pressure is on, they will pull in everyone they ever spoke to and use you protecting your rep to try get leverage. Pretty clear how he's choosing to go out.

However, I'd also be willing to make a huge bet there is zero chance the FB CISO at the time was aware of who these representatives allegedly were or approved what they were doing unless it was threat intelligence. I don't think this will be the last muck thrown by this company.
What is wrong with calling it AutoPilot? What does AutoPilot do in a plane ?? it keeps speed, direction and altitude. It doesn't do anything magical, it doesn't replace an actual Pilot and fully navigate the plane from Gate to Gate and hit on the stewardesses as well.

Telsa has always separated AutoPilot and Full Self Driving as separate features. "But people confuse AutoPilot and think is does everything and is a virtual chauffeur", Well those people are stupid, stupid like the people who try to trick the car into driving and fake out the driver attention safety features.
Disclaimer: I work for Red Hat as an OpenShift consultant

I don't agree with the framing here. Comparing OpenShift to K8s does not make a lot of sense because Kubernetes is part of the OpenShift stack. It's kind of like comparing Linux to Ubuntu. OpenShift is basically a bunch of operators deployed on top of K8s that turn K8s into a proper PaaS. Without OpenShift you bring your own authentication integration, logging, monitoring, etc. It's better to compare OpenShift to EKS or AKS than it is to K8s.

> The biggest difference is that Kubernetes provides you with more flexibility, while OpenShift is opinionated, limiting choice to ensure security and concierge offerings.

OpenShift doesn't limit any choice. You are free to use part of it or all of it. It's just a bunch of operators on top of K8s.

Overall there are useful things in the article, and I think it could be helpful, but I wanted to clarify those things.
Conspiracy theories are merely spoilers now.
Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair!

Wonder where all humankind's code will go in the coming centuries. There won't even be a fallen statue in a desert as testament to our creations.
Probably more to do with trying to promote Disney+ to juice growth numbers there, coupled with COVID still keeping a lid on theatrical box office revenue. I wouldn't take it as a commentary on Disney's perceived quality of the movie - they're still heavily incentivized to maximize ROI on a hundreds of millions of dollars' investment.

Hollywood has been talking for ages about the collapse of theatrical windows and COVID accelerated it (they were already mostly collapsed with home entertainment marketing campaigns starting something like 4 weeks after theatrical releases). I think this will likely be the new normal. I imagine we're probably going to see another cycle of contract renegotiations for streaming revenue share like in 2008 when the writers' guild went on strike over revenue sharing on DVD sales. Hopefully it doesn't come to strikes again.
As in many other areas of life, your attitude determines your altitude!
> To say that Federal Reserve (a private entity

The Federal Reserve (whether you mean the Board of Governors, the system, or any of the individual federal reserve banks) isn't a private entity.

(The Board of Governors is a federal agency; the rest are weird hybrids.)
Yep. All European Union countries are eventually going to use electronic IDs (eID) with Smartchips that can be read by a Smart Card reader.

A number of governments already use eIDs, and have elaborate databases for citizens, such as Croatia. See: https://gov.hr/en

There are also other forms of government facilitated authentication (e.g. electronic signatures or citizen services), and depending on the level of security needed.

It’s amazing that the United States does not have this functionality, which would be useful moving from state to state.

I guess the US passport card is the closest example, but it is useless except as identification.
Just speaking from my own experience, if you execute very well on audience building and marketing you can do much better than this. I have released 2 books and 2 courses for developers and together they have done close to $4m USD in revenue.

I wrote in detail about the process of writing, marketing, and releasing my first book here:

https://adamwathan.me/the-book-launch-that-let-me-quit-my-jo...

And was interviewed on IndieHackers to talk about the most recent one here:

https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/098-adam-wathan-of-refa...

If the work is a good match for your skills and personality it’s a really great way to make a fantastic living.
Either build it at full price as a consultant or build it as a fundamental business operation in a business in which you have equity.

Be in or out.

Don't waffle in the doorway.

Make the decision based on trust. If you don't trust them, then stay at arm's length. If you do, then consider marriage.

The trust of a business person should be based on their commitment to execute toward specific milestones that are equivalent and contemporaneous with your development of the software. If their hard work does not start now, that's fine. They are a client not a partner.

Good luck.
Just wanted to note to those thinking of using it: beware of Quill. I used it for my project, but it was not made for saving and then displaying the rich text. At least for me, it was a hassle figuring out how to accomplish this.
Rust game engines are all based on ECS too.
Just treat your employees and suppliers like shit.
The final response from the team at Amazon is incredibly gracious considering how condescending and entitled almost all the other comments are. Please don’t be like those commenters.
This seems to be countering the grandparent comment ("yes, but ..."), but I'm not seeing where you address the core point --- real estate has a known risk profile which the government has shown a willingness to upend without any stopgaps to help struggling landlords, and a natural consequence of that increased risk is that smaller landlords will be priced out.
> They can still do what they want.

Sure FB, you can do what you want. It'd just be a shame if it were determined you were a monopoly, sure would be a shame.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2020/12/ftc-s...
I've had events in deep meditation where I hear things as though they were actually audible and not just a memory of sound or see things as though my eyes were seeing them and not visually remembering them.

They always scared me even though the audible events would be something simple like a "Hello!" or like, a bottle cap opening or a bit of music and the visual events would be like, a match striking or a bit of fire.

I am not sure what causes this transition of perception. Some people say its your brain releasing DMT, some say it's activation of your parasympatheic nervous system. I don't know for sure, but I don't think it is anything to be afraid of.
I don’t think his behavior can be described as “acknowledged the truth” more like “he stopped arguing, conceded the money and still refused to accept the truth”.

He gets credit for paying up yes, but without clearly acknowledging the truth of the matter it seems very hollow and frankly childish and doesn’t reflect positively on him.
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seems pretty reasonable, if you want an AWS python package that's distributed through pip, boto exists. but there's no reason for CLI tools that are not python libaries to be distributed through pip.

and as one of the commenters on the bug mentions, if you really want to install the aws cli through pip, that works because pip will happily install the git repo url.
Quick note: aliases and abbreviations are seperate things in Fish, using the 'alias' function will create a wrapper function that does not expand after typing.
The vast majority of tropical Mexico & Central America’s cities seem to be settled in this manner as well, it’s lovely.

I wonder if it’s a lack of rivers, islands, and ports that led to this vs Southeast Asia’s cities mostly being at sea level. Although Colombia has rivers & ports, and still is mostly settled in the mountains. Odd.
The fact checking aspect of it is new twist, but Facebook's servers already checks the contents of messages and will disappear messages if the content is deemed bad. It started off as protection against spreading viruses/malware which are unequivocally bad and has evolved from there to include urls to sites with extreme political views and other controversial content.
Wallace Stegner:

"Dutton describes a process of westernization of the perceptions that has had to happen before the West is beautiful to us. You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time."

Much longer and more explanatory quote here:

https://bensonian.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/you-have-to-get-o...
I was very impressed by their queuing system at first. Shop loaded quickly, I got added to the queue and was able to start shopping soon enough.
However international shipping broke (not their fault) spewing out wrong error messages. That got resolved, but by then 2021 orders had been sold out. I received a „item out of stock“ error (even though they promised it won’t sell out) until I realized I had to remove and re-add the playdate to my cart (switching from the 2021 batch to the 2022 one).

Better error messages could’ve saved me a lot of frustration!
> I wouldn't think most people would think anything in NoCal generally (or most of CA even more generally) "sucked" in the summer

Eh, week or longer periods of temperatures in the high 90's and low 100's when you're not at the coast isn't always pleasant, I could see how some people think it sucks, depending on how much you're required to be outside. It gets hotter the farther north and more inland you go for a while (even if you don't have to go inland much).

In the end a lot is just what you're used to, I think.
It’s just a human-created blacklist.
Colorado web designer who refused to make same-sex wedding websites loses appeal
If you're a typical HN person, this list isn't going to be especially useful to you; it's basically collecting statistics about specific CVEs that are seen exploited in the wild, and those are heavily, heavily biased towards corporate IT infrastructure.
And yet there are plenty of examples of Copilot reproducing copyrighted code verbatim, like is does in this example[1] that was posted on HN.

[1] https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1410886329924194309
How about "that's what many users want"? Why is that not a reason?
I don't know how bad it would be for the magnetic poles to flip. But I don't want it happening every six months.
Why do people go through profiles and post these sorts of comments?

The parent comment is only a one sentence opinion, and I'm unsure if any additional context is required to discuss it.

I get you're pointing out OP has some colourful post history, but what does that achieve?
An Oculus is at best a gaming console. An iPhone is at the very least a mobile phone, which even in 2007 was a daily necessity for most people.
Influence is a lot different than psuedo-governance.
I have to thank you, because projects like his are exactly what I had in mind with my original post, but I had forgotten this man's name and work for months!
My kindle 3 is still a workhorse. It predates the idea that physical buttons and text to speech should be premium features. With cheap replacement parts still available it may last me for decades.
The Earth is objectively and unironically flat from the point of view of some, in fact many, narratives.

Certainly the architectural drawings of my house do not include a "bulge" in the basement due to heretical sphericalness.

All discussion of my basement floor being flat within about 1/2 inch need to be censored by big brother to save us all from free and independent thought.

The purpose of arguing about what should be censored is to distract from the argument of should there be censorship at all. Classic divide and conqueror strategy. Nobody ever gets asked if they should have concentration camps or not, they only argue about competing paint schemes and honorary mottos.
I understand the argument that they might not want to stay on Python so they want to get people used to downloading from their zip instead of PyPi. But why not provide an rpm or deb? I don't understand why the only two official options are PyPi or downloading a zip and running the installer.
tangent:

For Hindenburg Research's business model, it doesn't suffice for them to accurately detect that a company is fraud. Hindenburg also needs to get the timing of their trades right, and find a way to communicate the message that results in market demand for the stock dropping.

e.g. the kind of horror story where you enter into a short position on a stock that you believe is a fraud or otherwise wildly overvalued by the market (and you're right) and the market price climbs 10x over two years, so you exit to take a huge loss, then maybe 1-3 years later the market catches up and decides the company is a failure. You were "right", but so what?

Maybe another way to look at this is that there are probably a lot of other frauds or other overvalued companies out there, but the current market conditions don't make them viable targets for short sellers, so maybe no one is going to try very hard to out them.
constrained mediums yield unprecedented content.
Taleb to PG: Engineering != Science
Thank you for the comment. As a ham radio operator and radio junky in general I was wondering how the transition to all dab+ went for Denmark. Here in Austria we have both (more important and larger stations not receivable via dab though) and my car head unit has both. I find the sound of dab awful (to much compression and artefacts) and on fringe areas it pales compared to FM which will deteriorate in quality but still be continuously receivable. DAB just stutters. A real set back at least when used mobile.
> It’s amazing that the United States does not have this functionality, which would be useful moving from state to state.

The US does have it, used in both passports and “Enhanced Driver's Licenses” meeting the federal requirements for that label. I think only a couple states currently issue EDLs.

> I guess the US passport card is the closest example, but it is useless except as identification.

Almost any place that requires government ID, IME, accepts passports; they aren't at all useless as ID.
Sure, even if we ignore the sneaker thing. You've always been able to buy fancy dress shoes and boots for a lot of money. Granted, getting to thousands plural is a sure sign that you've gone over into excess, but...

The kind of weird thing with the "sneaker drop" phenomenon, as I understand it, is that it's shoe companies releasing fairly small batches of all their products at not-insane prices, and there being a fully developed secondary market of shoe reselling where the demand-based price inflation kicks in.
On the domain only.
Then you’ll be opting to stay home? If everyone in the office is vaccinated you’ll be around only potentially infectious people.

>Unvaccinated people have made a choice to risk their lives, they don’t get the choice to risk mine.

Doesn’t the vaccine cover for this? You get the vaccine and it reduces your symptoms, making you less likely to end up hospitalized or die. Even vaccinated you can still get infected, get sick from and spread the virus.
Facebook seems to be censoring so much because Facebook believes that most people will actually believe whatever bits of misinformation are floating around out there.

But is everyone that easily manipulated? More importantly, does everyone actually believe that they can be easily manipulated, or do they just think that everyone else is so easily manipulated, but somehow they're above the fray?

And at what point does the censorship to protect me from manipulation become manipulation itself?

Facebook is fighting a losing battle if they think they will survive a battle with their own users. This is way past censoring Alex Jones. You can't possibly censor every crackpot conspiracy theorist. Actually, we're probably all crackpot conspiracy theorists in some way. We probably all believe some conspiracy about 9/11 or the NSA or elections or vaccines or masks or aliens or royal families or whatever.

The rate of censoring is almost certainly accelerating faster than facebook's growth, and once you've been censored once, you're likely to radically curb your use of that platform. I can't imagine that FB doesn't have stats on how many people keep using FB after they've been censored just once.

FB only works when you and 99% of your social group are on there.

And the network effect works in reverse, too.
Never heard of 1440 before, so I took a look.

Every single one of their links is behind a redirection service. It's possibly their own service. But that's not a whole lot of difference. It's kind of ironic that you suggested this in a thread about invasive targeting.

This also precludes me from evaluating the quality of their sources - at least not without clicking through a buttload of redirects. F that. I'll assume they've got something to hide.
> how dare somebody be happy without working harder than I do

I'm all for people being happy and especially for people being more successful while working less, as long as the "less work" means higher effective productivity per hour, or a choice to be happy by some other means.

The problem is when policy transfers wealth from people who do work to people who don't. Then the person isn't happy because of their own choices or more effective or better chosen efforts, it's just a transfer of happiness from a responsible person to someone who may or may not be.
Catplosions (Tarn loves cats, cats reproduce, too many cats kills DF performance)

This was a particularly insidious one because the usual strategy of culling excess livestock doesn't work out when applied to dwarfs' pets (pets can't be designated for slaughter, and other means of making pets die will make their owners upset). With most animals, you can avoid the pet adoption issue by just not marking them as available for adoption, so you wouldn't have to worry about a dogsplosion, sheepsplosion, etc. Cats do not become pets through that system. Instead, a cat adopts a dwarf.
Could unrelated third parties republish the code (unmodified or with injected malware) to PyPI without the permission of Amazon?
Right; given the "collapse of theatrical windows", you'd think that the actors would see this and try to somehow wriggle out of compensation clauses linked to box office targets?