skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if (Netflix catalog) has shrunk, but it seemed to be much larger back when they started out. I guess it's a result of too many steaming services, it's almost as we're back to the days of cable - but instead of various packages, we're paying $10/month to the various services.

Sad to say, but (semi-legal) services like popcorn time etc. were almost the pinnacle of online streaming. These days, I still have to fly the black flag, from time to time, if I want to find certain titles to watch on the go.
WhatsApp refuses to take action against misinformation or political spammers. They understand that their products are being used to undermine democracy in the whole of Latin America and they refuse to implement one spam detector.

There are large scale implications to these "privacy" features.
> We won't have any privacy left if we continue to go down that road.

If people look at today's state (phone movement tracking, voice capture, cameras and face ID, etc.) from the mental model of 30 years ago, they would see neither privacy nor freedom. At all.

Sadly, it is not the case of preserving what we still have, if we want freedom and privacy we will have to reacquire them. And a lot of the price will have to be paid in blood.
> It seems a lot of people

Or some people stopped caring
Portland is a pretty unique place. They famously drew a circle around the city and said development can’t go outside of that area which forced a certain density and allowed transit to be planned well in advance.

I didn’t spent a ton of time there and admittedly it was January so it was quite frigid, but the distances can still feel quite long between things outside of downtown. Portland made a few mistakes when they embraced car culture including getting rid of their street cars like many American cities. They also annexed a lot of less walkable areas around the city. There is no subway and the light rail seems well run but it doesn’t exactly cover the whole city. My sense is that most people who want to walk will end up biking or taking some form of transit in many neighborhoods because of the distances between things. In the winter it was quite hard to find lively streets and public squares to be quite honest. I suspect it’s because it’s easier to just drive when it’s cold, things are a bit far, etc.

Marin is lovely but most of it is extremely spread out. There are a few towns like you mentioned that one could conceivably get by without a car but it’s not easy. Looking at San Rafael, Google Maps shows 4th street is a walking area (denoted in beige) and a very small area a few blocks south near the Safeway around 1st and 2nd streets but it isn’t a very big area. Usually a giant chain supermarket is a pretty clear sign that things were designed for cars and not for pedestrians who would typically be better served by neighborhood markets and small shops near their house to grab some essentials. Zooming in near the walkable areas of San Rafael, Google Maps instantly highlights many car oriented businesses like at 2nd street and D street where we see a Chevron gas station, an Arco gas station, and an O’Reilly Auto Parts store all on one corner. I don’t know about you but even if it’s technically walkable that’s not what I want to walk through every day when I go outside especially if I need to walk past it to get to the train to commute to work, etc. A major highway cuts through the east side of the city which also limits expansion of pleasant walking areas and litters the area with on-ramps and other car-centric design.

Marin county famously blocked BART from expanding north in order to keep out the “riff-raff”. These sorts of decisions had major consequences and while you can find a few blocks here and there that are walkable, the county as a whole is largely long drives through tree covered asphalt in order to get between areas.

If you’re happy with a few blocks of downtown then admittedly some of the towns probably meet your needs but it’s not exactly designed for most people to live a car-free live. Even the Bank of America ATM there proudly shows on Google that it’s a drive-through ATM which I’ve never seen once in Europe (or San Francisco for that matter)
Clinical testing is affected by diminishing returns. Anything is a lot safer after a month of testing, but the usual safety standards demands a little more safety, and improving on “100 times less likely to kill you than the disease” thing often takes years.

This will not be our last pandemic. The lessons we leaned, and the lessons we should have learned, will come back a lot.
Woow, im not racist. I think everyone is equal. In the same time if someone would do a video service for white ppl that would be branded as racist all over the news
I’m not sure this isn’t true, at least for PostgreSQL… I’m maintaining a ULID field library for Django and I’m reasonably sure that it’s getting sent to PostgreSQL as a UUID specific data type.
> it wouldn't matter for the outcome because the only requirement for being convicted is if you actually leaked the documents

Well, it's just like for any other "crime". But to my knowledge, there's very few laws and legal systems where having broken the law forces the judge to condemn you (otherwise no judge would be needed!). Here in France, Sarkozy then Macron tried to pass such "peines planchers" (minimum sentences) but so far we've avoided that kind of dystopian catastrophe where nobody's interested in the context and reasons for actions (which is like the opposite of "justice").

In the meantime, you may be found non-guilty of a "crime" you have committed, despite the judge recognizing you have acted against the law. This is a common occurrence in political trials, and whatever our opinions of that is, is a foundational aspect for all "civil disobedience" movements. I am not a lawyer, but i am an activist, and have witnessed many trials including political trials: whatever sentence you receive (or don't) is never directly related to the offense you're accused of, there's a lot of social/political factors coming into play.

That's also why a lot of people are condemned on bogus charges despite ample evidence that they were setup by police. For example, it's really common in France for people who were victims of police abuse to be trialed and condemned for "rébellion" and "outrage" (insults to an officer/institution), even when the testimonies of cops directly contradict one another and the only person with wounds at the trial is the person on the stand. To take another example, Zone d'Expression Populaire (ZEP) was initially condemned for criticizing/insulting France's (neo-)colonialism in a song called Fuck France (Nique la France), but they pleaded for their "right to insolence" and were finally acquitted from all charges during the appeal. It can go both ways, the point is whatever sentence you receive is NOT determined by what technically happened and how it technically breaks the law.
Most content startups like Reddit or Youtube are extremely difficult because of the chicken/egg problem (content/website visitors). With user generated content it’s usually free or close to free to acquire - most producers are happy with an audience and will upload themselves.

This sort of startup has three problems: a constant stream of content wrapped and delivered in a pretty multi-platform product, middlemaning the production of content by building networks of producers and talent or buying existing IP and also paying them upfront or hoping they take a gamble on your platform and get a piece visitor counts, and then also finding users for the site.

Each of those require some specialization.
> Help me understand this. Where do cyclists and ground-level public transportation go if they're not on the streets?

Public transportation is much denser ( even a paltry bus can fit at least 30 people vs a car which occupies slightly less space, but usually has a single person in it), and bikes take much less space. You can fit 4 bikes in the space of a single standard sedan; and a small bus is what, 2-3 sedans but 30 times the capacity?
Would you mind quantifying how the coffee argument applies to this discussion, which is about oil change?

For example, here in the UK the average cost of oil and filter change (if you pay someone to do it rather than doing it yourself) is £102 [1]. Done every other year, this amounts to £51 p.a., which is less than a typical tank of fuel [2].

[1] https://www.fixter.co.uk/blog/how-much-is-an-oil-and-filter-...

[2] https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/news/motoring-news/full-tank-of-...
Thanks for sharing your theme. It looks good to me.
The number of good themes available varies, as you know, for different static generators.
The ccp is not china.
Could you please expand on the other uses of contact tracing in those countries?
sure it's undecidable, you can reduce a decider for the word problem to that pretty easily, but in practice you probably only have to recognize a few common compilers to do a good enough job
Relevant Cochrane review published a week ago [1].

"Key messages

We found no evidence to support the use of ivermectin for treating or preventing COVID-19 infection, but the evidence base is limited.

Evaluation of ivermectin is continuing in 31 ongoing studies, and we will update this review with their results when they become available."

1: https://www.cochrane.org/CD015017/INFECTN_ivermectin-prevent...
yep, check this 4 min video https://www.ted.com/talks/kamal_meattle_how_to_grow_fresh_ai...
Supposedly the world’s first trillionaire will be minted in the ESG revolution. Part of me struggles to see how we link the economic incentives with urgently needed action, without government support.
I dont think I've ever heard of a medium sized company being taken down a peg this way never mind a behemoth people dream of working at that treats its employees as well as Apple does.

But, good luck trying to spur an exodus i guess?
But how do you know these social restrictions prevent those vices? If anything, not having the freedom to choose one's spouse is bound to produce worse effects. A child would be much better off in a single-parent family than in a toxic household where the couple was basically forced together by their parents. Most of those 25% of American single-parent children live considerable better and happier than their Indian counterparts.
>the largest excess mortality in our dataset was observed in the United States

This is not very surprising given the following practice..

> Q Can you talk about your concerns about deaths being misreported by coronavirus because of either testing or standards for how they’re characterized?

> DR. BIRX: So, I think, in this country, we’ve taken a very liberal approach to mortality, and I think the reporting here has been pretty straightforward over the last five to six weeks. Prior to that, when there wasn’t testing in January and February, that’s a very different situation and unknown. There are other countries that if you had a pre-existing condition and let’s say the virus caused you to go to the ICU and then have a heart or kidney problem — some countries are recording that as a heart issue or a kidney issue and not a COVID-19 death. Right now, we’re still recording it, and we’ll — I mean, the great thing about having forms that come in and a form that has the ability to mark it as COVID-19 infection — the intent is, right now, that those — if someone dies with COVID-19, we are counting that as a COVID-19 death.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210119100429/https://www.white...
> Crying is much deeper and requires more emotional attachment.

I dunno, there's probably a fair number of people who might cry at something like "Unused baby shoes" (obviously cribbing off the apocryphal Hemingway story.)
"During the COVID-19 pandemic, misinformation was widely spread claiming that ivermectin is beneficial for treating and preventing COVID-19. Such claims are not backed by credible scientific evidence."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivermectin
Apple is forgetting the network effect of professionals that made them billionaires. I personally evangelized my clients in the past for years to switch to Apple ecosystem.

In my view this is weaponization of personal devices on a mass scale with clear intent of normalization of surveillance state on a global level.

The fact that this comes after NSO spyware investigation speaks volumes.
They don't care about privacy. They care about control over user data.

I hope this will give power to Linux and FOSS movement and be the beginning of serious Apple detox.
I guess they mean the coprocessor stuff, ime and whatever the AMD one is called.

I mean this does forget the point that absolutely nothing is stopping anyone making a riscv processor which also has such features; we just have to take the manufacturer’s word that they don’t? Riscv isn’t the solution to any of these problems, but hopefully it’ll enable a few more ethical manufacturers to pop up who do make this stuff their core mission.

Probably not, though.
(serious question) how are you able to balance yourself squatting on a chair? how can I learn?
Exactly. I have nothing against RMS, but in my eyes he is just a typical leftie person - makes up an own definition of something, and then runs around a tries to convince everyone that his definition is the only correct one and the term must mean exactly what he claims it means.
China is not at all worried about small Twitter followers. But if China shows they will shut down even the most inconsequential dissent. Then real dissent will know that, if they speak up, they will be shutdown very hard.
The CCP can block the supervisor's future Chinese visa prospects if she were somehow linked to the PhD candidate. Hence she disowned him and utilized the university machinery to achieve it. That's literally the premise of the article.
> These cases will be manually reviewed. That is, according to Apple, an Apple employee will then look at your (flagged) pictures.

I'm surprised this hasn't gotten enough traction outside of tech news media.

Remember the mass celebrity "hacking" of iCloud accounts a few years ago? I wonder how those celebrities would feel knowing that some of their photos may be falsely flagged and shown to other people. And that we expect those humans to act like robots and not sell or leak the photos, etc.

Again, I'm surprised we haven't seen a far bigger outcry in the general news media about this yet, but I'm glad to see a lot of articles shining light on how easy it is for false positives and hash collisions to occur, especially at the scale of all iCloud photos.
It's good that you're principled enough to do that but you guys will be rounding errors in Apple's revenue. Most people don't even know about this and those that do, most wont care. Even of those who do know and do care, most aren't motivated enough to change their habits beyond writing a few angry words on a forum Apple are never going to read anyway. Those that do change their buying habits, yourselves, are by far in the minority. And while you might have some influence over what tech your friends, family and significant other might buy, let's be completely honest, it's not going to be enough to sway them into using an unbranded phone over a feature that they themselves likely don't care much about but happily assume the role of outrage when around you because we are generally social animals.

This is companies consistently get away with pissing off their customers. It's the same reason politicians get away with pissing off their electorate. Even in a crowded space people seldom get outraged enough to change their buying habits. But in an industry where the options are already limited (Android or iOS) and where people only buy products, at most, once every two years...? Sorry but literally nobody outside your social circle will notice if you stopped buying Apple products.

I get this is a depressing response and I'm not suggesting that you shouldn't follow through with your threat. But I hear this threat posted unironically a lot and it seems to me that people think they have the power to invoke change simply by moaning on a few message boards or buying a competitors products for a couple of years (then that competitor does something to earn our outrage and we're back to the first company again). But real change takes effort. A lot of effort. More effort than most are willing to commit. Hence why the GP rightfully commented that in a months time people will have moved on to their next outrage.
LPG is becoming progressively less common in Australia, this article[1] focuses on Queensland but the story is the same across Australia

”Since July 2010 there has been a 70% drop in the volume of LPG sales,” Mr Jeffreys said.

“The number of LPG registered vehicles has also fallen in the last five years.”

RACQ Technical Advisor Bill Reeves said the availability of LPG is set to further decrease.

“New fuel outlets simply aren’t putting in LPG bowsers and many existing stations are removing their LPG tanks when they are due to be recertified because the limited returns from the sale of LPG do not justify the expense,” Mr Reeves said.

Regional Queenslanders bear the brunt of the shortage with only one LPG bowser in 15 regional centres and no bowsers in Blackwater, Childers, Moranbah, Proserpine, Tully and Cunnamulla.

For residents of Moranbah this means a more than 270km round trip to the nearest LPG bowser at Puma Carmilla.

“Remote service stations may be less reliable because, if the LPG machinery breaks down, they have to wait a long time for parts and a technician to repair the equipment,” Mr Reeves said.

“This can cause problems for regional Queenslanders when there’s only one LPG bowser in the area.”

In addition to the shortage, no new LPG passenger cars are being manufactured in Australia and the benefits of choosing LPG are diminishing.

“LPG tanks in your car are expensive and must be recertified every 10 years,” Mr Reeves said.

“The costs associated with maintaining your car’s fuel tank means LPG is no longer a cheap fuel source for Queenslanders.

1. https://www.racq.com.au/Living/Articles/Wheres-the-LPG
Agree that it will eventually depend on the specific use case, and that good content tops everything else.

Sharing your way of doing it helps. Thanks again.
That is a misleading article. Nobody spends that much amount of money on a single "date night" or "movie night" unless you are an elite. This article is again a low effort attempt to sell western people news that fits their narrow knowledge base.
I'm not that surprised. It's the sort of thing you won't appreciate until you've tried it. Ask people what they want, and they'll tell you "a faster horse". Ask people what they want, and they'll tell you "a better editor" so that's how Emacs markets itself.

Unless you've tried one, "a car" or "a fully dynamic, programmable editing environment" is just not on people's minds.
Excess mortality is not at all influenced by how deaths are classified, that is the point of why people are looking at it... So that quote makes no sense as a reaction to the statement. If there were a policy of not recording any deaths as COVID-19, the excess mortality would be exactly the same!
There are plenty of great movies made out there 'on the cheap' but Hollywood isn't where you go to do it.
It's a shame that the discourse around this drug has been horribly mangled by conspiracy theorists. If it actually ends up being useful, it'll have to overcome a higher barrier to mainstream entry much like hydroxychloroquine. In HCQ's case the higher barrier was correct as its evidence was laughable, in IVM's case the evidence is still not convincing, and it has a lot further go to before the conspiracy theorists are given any shrift. The abstract to this particular article doesn't help, as its tone sounds like conspiracy theorist catnip.
I have trained StyleGAN2 from scratch with a dataset of female portraits
Thanks for sharing your theme. Hugo seems to be the favorite, so far. I am wondering if it is because of Hugo is better at site generation, or because of the availability of good themes.
> Last year Apple reacted

How did they react? Isn't it still in effect? Still sending unencrypted messages when apps are opened?

As far as I'm aware, they plan on having OCSP encrypted, and plan on giving users a choice.

I honestly do not get the outrage over the apple's client side scanning. It's outrageous, sure, but... much of the same people seem to have been ok with unencrypted telemetry being transmitted for every executable run. Not to mention that every executable will also be logged at some point, so apple knows every program you've ever run.
>Why would they care if I am a robot that wants to pay them?

Because payment systems that allow for cheap transactions are often leveraged to test stolen credit card data before making a transaction in person.
>practice Brahmachariya and be married

???

You do know Brahmacharya means celibacy, right?
I agree that OsmAnd is a better option for public transportation and navigation, however, I found that Organic Maps is better at showing stuffs like restaurants/shops etc and more reactive (smoothness, quick to show the map).

I used OsmAnd for quite a long time and just wanted to give Organic Maps a try to see other alternatives. Both are quite promising as replacing Google maps IMO.
I think you should be a bit more precise on exactly when. If it compiles to C, that means that it inherits from C the great platform support. I don't know much about it, so I can't judge Nim on other qualities that people attribute to C: you can call it from pretty much any language, it's seen as simple, you can write highly performant code in it, you can use it in very restricted environments, and I'm probably forgetting some others.
I agree with most of your comment around harsher punishments for corruption, especially when it involves public health in this manner. Not sure a death penalty will solve anything though.

> The history of chemicals damaging American lives due to corruption is long and sordid.

Is there a reason you specifically called out “American” lives here? Is it that you believe the perpetrators aren’t American somehow? Or that, when American companies harm the public in other countries, it doesn’t matter? Would really like to know more.
Probably mainland Chinese immigrants. They're often notoriously snippy about hate they see as being directed at China and those two really hate the CCP.
How to redesign our cities to make them heatwave-proof
Are you in North America? Which feature phone would you suggest? The Nokia 3310 was likely the only phone I was considering, but it’s ancient and 3G and doesn’t seem very future proof.
There are many people driving from London to Warsaw on a semi-regular basis. That a 1000+ mile drive. It can be done in 19 hours with a ferry crossing. I’ve done it myself a number of times. Relaxing drive takes 22 hours.

There is no reason this should take twice as long.
Facebook and it's subsidiaries use PhotoDNA since 2012.
"received a message from a Chinese doctoral student doing research at a Canadian university.

The writer accuses Gerber of a «racist attack on the Chinese people.» He was referring to a specific tweet: a cartoon that Gerber had posted in response to another user's tweet. It depicted a comic character that had been altered and had stereotyped Chinese features, with yellow skin tone and slit eyes. This drawing circulated on social media in the spring of 2020, and was deemed racist by some users. "

Nasty stuff.
Well of course I can't know, and I'm also not saying that it DOES, just that it seems like a likely effect.
By the design of how businesses operate in a capitalistic environment (with a profit motive), why wouldn't this cause a bias for companies hiring parents?