skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't read the whole article, but how radically can the Gulf Stream really change? Isn't a current going in that general direction more or less mandated by the Coriolis effect? It's why I figured the west and east coasts of continents at similar latitudes (both in the Northern and Southern hemispheres) have similar climate patterns. (West coasts more temperate, east coasts more variable and humid).
someone calls this "voting with your feet”.
you do not like it, and you just leave.
As a currency exchange handling $800m in transactions in the last day it seems to be doing just fine https://xrpcharts.ripple.com/ surely that is no real utility for you but for someone out there, it is a whole lot of value.
I was able to read only the abstract - "Rent or Buy article for $8.99".

Brings up the question, what does "rent an article" mean ?
Now it begins the game of how many times will everyone get it, and every bit of immunity and slowing the spread helps so when we arrive at a variant that spreads as easily as chicken pox that is also accidentally as lethal as SARS, we will have vaccine for this specific variant delivered faster than people die.
I can't access it, HN hug of death?
It's always been “think of the children” for three decades in IT, whether it was encryption, anonymity, or access to information.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...

Almost every government blocking system started for the sake of the children, then expanded for this or that reason. In some cases, it expanded before starting: notoriously, first sites blocked when Russian government censorship was introduced (to protect our kids from the dangers of the internet!) were well known media entities that had criticized Putin for a long time. The zest was that they were hurriedly blocked even before the relevant acts came into effect. Like, why keep the act after the deed is done? So now there is a government agency that has been blocking oh-so-edgy pictures of nooses on DeviantArt and similar content for years to pretend that they care about the children, and not execute censorship (and sell their extortion services to people who want to remove some information from the Web on the side). Whether that helped any kid is an open question.
Surprise surprise! no one really believed that 2021 would have been the go back to the office, business as usual year right?

COVID-19, unfortunately, is here to stay, and by looking at all the people that could get vaccinated and decide not to, and unfortunately all the people around the world that would like to get vaccinated but can't, I have hard time seeing a "going back to normal" anytime soon.

Also, we have to hope that the virus does not mutate in more aggressive forms that could defeat the efficacy of current vaccines.

Companies small/medium/big should make piece with their mind
and accept the fact that remote working is here to stay, it is a viable
option and they should stop expecting people to work from an office just for the sake of having people around.
Asymptomatic is kind of a fuzzy concept so the numbers will vary based on methodology. If you test positive and then have a bit of diarrhea one day is that a COVID-19 symptom or the consequences of a bad burrito? In mild cases there's no way to be sure.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/s...
If the unpleasantries only applied to a few very rich, who were trying to skip town that way, then you'd have a decent argument.

Unfortunately, it sounds like the vast majority of targets bear no resemblance to your stereotype. And the system has no interest in discriminating between the few filthy rich town-skippers and the vast majority who are just easy victims.

Targeting all members of large group - because a small minority of them are "bad" in some emotional-button-pushing way - has a very long and disreputable history.
There's something Knuth is not addressing. If I understand Dijkstra correctly he's seeing an enormous detour that we're taking with, for example, languages which evolved from a computer architecture. These are not formal, they're for the most part convenience layers and leaky abstractions atop a machine.

Compare this to other disciplines. Imagine a modern bridge builder looking at the bridges of old, and come up with a model just large enough to communicate to other bridge builders how bridges should be made.

If the bridge builders of old "just did something", what is our modern bridge builder modelling then? You could argue, "but those bridges are still around, so they probably did something well". Sure, but that's just settling for a local optimum.

If I want a good modern bridge, I hope that engineer is taking physics into account -- and not spending their time on how the old bridge builders were throwing with mud and stones. We can't stand on shoulders if we keep on regurgitating spoiled food.
How many of those people are going to describe themselves as engineers though?
Ah, you're right, it does go into that later.

The reporting isn't helping, with sentences like 'the company is rolling out a new machine-learning tool that will scan iPhones for images that match certain "perceptual hashes"'... is that describing a system that classifies new photos, or is it talking about comparing hashes to a known-evil set?
For now. The technology to do on-device scanning will exist.
Apologies, I meant that async had long been doable in emacs. Compilation mode being a clear example of what that could look like.

That said, most of the newest lsp code is built with the idea that calls out to the server are fast enough to just block.
Concern over long term effects of mRNA therapy, of which I've found little evidence

Concern over long term effects of the spike protein presented by COVID-19, both attached to the virus and free-floating within my body as a result of mRNA therapy.

Concern over long term ability for my cells to accurately recreate the spike protein. From what I've read, this is actually low concern on my scale, the capping seems pretty thorough.

Concern over my body creating an immunoresponse to organs/nearby cells/systems where the spike protein has accumulated

Concern over my immune system being able to form a strong defense in the future over different coronaviruses when it's been trained to work outside it's normal operational parameters.

Concern over the hubris of mankind and the house of cards that is our trust in the peer review system.

Concern over the lack of experiment replication done in the modern medical fields

Concern over the fact that some of these companies have shady history, including knowingly selling me asbestos to keep my testicle dry during the summer heat.

Concern over the lack of transparency in the bridges between pharma lobbyists and government, politicians and media, and media and pharma corps.

Concern over the lack of transparency in more broader sense.

Concern over the obvious astroturfing on social media, of multiple "influencers" posting the same copy and pasted messages, the bot responses, the general fiscal funding behind this debate.

Concern over the future implications of us accepting, as a society, the weaponization of fear, and the saving graces of corporations.

Concern over our willingness to change our lives in drastic manners because of the justification that it may save a life, which I see as an endless justification opportunity for future world leaders.

Concern over turning fear into a virtue.
Too bad it's paywalled :(
I remember enjoying that thread when it first happened.

Looks like the URL it points to is dead, so here's an archive link to spare the curious the trouble: http://web.archive.org/web/20170214222943/https://stories.ca...
If I'm in a meeting of any size, I'm dealing with people spread over offices and remote across North America and Europe anyway.

>We solved that by effectively going fully remote for meetings that involved remote employees

Yes, this is the process that teams within my extended team mostly follow.
> probably to get some more markets to open for them by cozying up to governments

Which markets are closed to Apple by its own government currently? North Korea?
Heard this many times but without detail.
What exactly is expensive and time-consuming? Chicken/Beef, beans, pasta, rice, some greens, salt, pepper. Cooking simple dishes and putting them to a freezer can be done on weekend. What exactly is expensive and time consuming in US?
Live: Starship Prototype Ship 20 Stacking on Super Heavy
My favorite tool for visualizing a codebase is Gource. Here's a 1 minute visualization of the Linux Kernel repository from 1991-2015 https://twitter.com/mattrickard/status/1423366779590430721
Not uniquely. It's not uncommon for people in official capacity to have immunity from lawsuits relating to their work.
LeCun is interesting. The way he reasons about AI X-risk makes him seem like a retard, let's not mince words. He's an actual example of a mind so specialized that it has lost the capacity for lateral thinking.
> a habit of conversing in the tone of disputation.

Thank you for putting words to this. I think it's something I've struggled with as well.
You have to think about it in terms of form-factor changes/evolution.

There may be things users have grown to 'tolerate' that were accustomed to using only a desktop environment that may surprise those who might've managed possibly faster workflows on something like a tablet.
A relative of mine is a professional photographer and watching them work, especially the part that follows after the shots, is always mesmerizing. Perhaps an apt comparison between how a pro goes through images and how the rest of us do is how a rally driver drives differently than the rest of us. Filtering images into the keep and don't piles, fixing color balance or exposure where need be, other adjustments, everything happens in such a short span of time and so fluently that it's like watching a seasoned pianist play a piece they know by heart. Getting these small glimpses into what someone else has honed into a very fine art over a long period of time is always both a privilege and a joy, and if the opportunity arises I recommend it highly.
And I would argue that it’s like comparing professional Formula 1 drivers’ performance to that of professional kart racers. Or a five stars hotel to a motel by the highway.

But I see your point, and we’ll probably have to settle on agreeing to disagree.
Slippery slope? What they already announced is abhorrent. Scanning all of our photos against our wishes?

Who cares what it's for? The fact that they are even doing this at all is a huge infringement to their customer's autonomy.
Why not just use Clojure? It has good frameworks for web programming, you can even use it for browser apps, etc. There are of course differences, but from my point of view the code will be less ugly.

P.S. I programmed in CL, and in Scheme (even commercial software), but for JVM-based stuff, Clojure is my language of choice
That's similar in notion.

Privacy is inherent in a nontechnical world, and created a set of practices and expectations generally. Yes, there could be an immediate intrusion by those sharing the same place and time, but improvements in information technology created an ever-growing set of methods to violate privacy remote in space, remote in time, and pervasive in both what it could perceive and record.

If you look at how expanded notions of privacy developed, largely beginning in the 19th century (though with obvious precursors, see the US Bill of Rights and some earlier legal protections), those emerged in response to specific technological threats: printing and publishing, photography, telephony, improved optical sensing, recording, and increasingly over the past half century, digital monitoring, data storage, and analytic tools.

There's a substantial if fractured literature on this, much of which begins by observing that there's no generally-agreed-on definition of privacy. "An emergent response" is my contribution to that.

Warren & Brandeis, Solove, Nissenbaum, and Lepore are amongst the authors I've found useful.
Ancient forests are fireproof. They take care for themselves. Sequoia forests were humid places.

The indigenous people lived in a different world than today. Not extensive agriculture sucking the earth dry. Not sparks from buildings or cars. Not gasoline spills. Not glass bottles around. Less people doing barbeques or smoking.
Hmm, it should be loading! What OS/browser are you on?
Blue Origin has been a very sore loser recently so it's very hard to root for them. However, SpaceX wouldn't be here without NASA taking a big risk on them and BO being given a chance by ULA has certainly helped them along. So I hope for the sake of future space startups that BO succeeds so that the established players will still be willing to take similar risks.
The US is one of the main countries that spies on their citizens. I do wonder if Apple developed this to keep FBI happy. The same way they stopped on E2EE cloud backups to keep the FBI happy.
Right, as I understand it, they are comparing images to known abuse, not scanning images looking for "new" abuse.
I think Apple has good intentions. However history shows the next step will be detecting less serious types of abuse, crime, etc. This system will expand slowly, step by step, until it is normalized again.

A sad say for privacy and freedom.

Obviously any child porn owners will stop using Apple devices, while the rest of us suffer the consequences.

I always wonder what would happen if Tim Cook will retire one day and be replaced by someone like Donald Trump. Once all the tools are in place...
Maybe "alpha" wolves have been debunked, but there are lots of research that points to matriarchal animal clan organization in other species.

Resident Orcas would be a notable example.
Can you imagine a football team half remote / half on the field? It can be only one or the other (when they all play it coop via a game console). And yes, the specifics of our work is different (software development happens in the mind) but the underlying principles of human communication are the same. Fully remote communication works but worse than on-site unless you are outsourced or one of the 1k employees where they measure your productivity by the lines of committed code. Seriously, this road of thinking popularised by the latter type of employees because they are the majority I am afraid.
The originator of the (generic) concept "alpha" (please let us know who this is / who you think this is) has discontinued the term "alpha" (quite an alpha-decision from him, I would say) due to new insights discovered when observing wolves. Alpha does not exist for wolves (presumably)... and in general. To extend just further (why not) the concept gets fully discontinued, due to public pressure, because everything is equal anyway.
> LeCunn wasn't necessarily in the right here

And yet, he was.

Gebru couldn't know that, because despite all her claims, she's not technical.
Just for curiosity's sake, I built SQLite 3.2.7 (from 2005-09-24) and 2.8.17 (bugfix on the old 2.8 line, from 2005-12-19) and tried this in the shell in both:

sqlite> create table test_tbl ( test TEXT );
sqlite> insert into test_tbl values ( "0123" );
sqlite> select * from test_tbl;

Both give the same output: 0123. Were you using an API wrapper around SQLite that was doing its own coercions, perhaps?
Can't wait for this to be extended for all other "criminal" content. In many countries that includes LGBT, pro-democracy, etc materials.

In the US weed is illegal at a federal level, so we can get that as well.

Woo!

And does anyone think this will actually catch any fucking pedos?
>I just don't understand the point of constantly misrepresenting this metric. It muddies the waters of actual concerns about the spread of the virus by making it seem like those are are concerned are dishonest.

>Stop it.

It's hopeless. The exact same thing happened last year, driven off of media that loved talking about how the local hospital is at the brink of collapse because "the ICU is 90% full". The few voices that pointed out that 90% ICU occupancy is a) normal and b) what hospitals plan for were overwhelmed.

The only time US hospitals anywhere were actually overrun with patients was a brief time in NYC in March 2020. Even that cleared up quickly; the US military hospital ship sent to NYC was barely used and soon left, and I don't believe the one sent to LA was used at all. All those tents built in hospital parking lots everywhere? Not used either.
This is cool but using rectangles instead of circles would help this visualization. Circles waste real estate and not friendly to labels (e.g. curved text that is harder to read)
I do. I know it is impossible to getting prep for interviews when having kids. What I do is to leave my current job, give myself a month to prep, interview get a new job. So far it has worked fine with me.
Yep, the sum of six Math.random() will start to look a bit like a normal distribution, while Math.random()*6 will stay flat.

Even crazier: the sum of six (Math.random()>.5)?0:1 will also look a bit like a normal distribution, rather than just 0 50% of the time and 6 50% of the time.

Central Limit Theorem eats distributions of all shapes and sizes and shits gaussians. That's why you see normal distributions everywhere.
I should have been longer.

Exactly : Location of emergence of a variant has nothing to do with vaccination or not. All of the current variants raging around appeared before there were vaccines, as were all current and past variants of interest.
I had never heard of this application and I thought it must have been some "instagram for kids" type thing
Barcelona and Washington D.C. are on the same latitude, the weather difference is caused by the gulf stream pushing warm air north, I would imagine it could stop doing that.
Or simply the fact of living overseas.

And you mention 1099s, i.e. self employed. Well, if you run a sole proprietorship as an expat, you still have to file US self-employment tax forms, and there are also QUARTERLY filing requirements with penalties for non-filing.

Or you need to get the paper certifying that your country has a totalization agreement with the US (not all do).

And since 1099 isn't a thing in EU, you have to file the US 'small business' tax form, which is actually 3-5 forms.

so as an expat, even what should be very straight forward turns into a massive mess.
Before someone makes the inevitable joke, no this will not help offset climate change temperature gains and neutralize the risk of heat-waves.

The summer temperatures will continue to get hotter. It's the winter temperatures that will get colder. Both require energy use to keep housing liveable. Which, unless we dramatically transition our energy generation to renewables, will just continue exacerbating the climate problem.

Ugh.
My degree is in Psychology and I worked in the mental health field for years before switching to IT full time. The system is broken in many ways. Basically both Republican and Democrat parties fund the absolute federal bare minimums. In those jobs you are supposed to document every last minute of your 9/5 job and if you can't prove you are active 75% of the time("productivity rating") your ass is out of the door. My current IT job where I keep a business making millions of dollars running I don't have to justify my time at all.

I'm so glad I don't work in mental health anymore. Driving people out of the industry is a goal of the regulations IMO.
I need a WYSIWYG editor, a very simple one for Forum uses. And some sort of Ajax, Pjax function.

I think that covers 90% of my needs. If we could get that without enabling JS. Some function could move back to Server at the expense of more CPU cycle.

Although pushing more features to HTML isn't exactly a great idea either.
The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation. -- Adolf Hitler
China has certainly made threatening noises about wanting access to everything, and they're a huge Apple market.

Apple has bowed to them on iCloud server locations and access already.
Thank you ... GitHub-pages was once just a test website and we stuck to it, but you can host it by your own. We try to be as agnostic as possible, but CORS is still a problem for many sites, which do not allow to load their content (README) by another site. With hosting content on GitLab, we had this problem, that they have this restriction and block loading ... previously we used cors-anywhere as a proxy, but this does not seem to work anymore, we will update this in the next version ...

At the moment we are trying different protocols. At the moment we are trying different hosting options and protocols. LiaScript can be hosted via IPFS or Hyper and so can also the courses. Using the beaker-browser you can also directly write create content within the browser and share it immediately. Thus LiaScript also supports these protocols and more are about to come ;-)
Fuck you, useful idiot
There is a commonly-held - though contentious, if not outright fallacious - notion that environmental conditions in Europe helped to shape complex society there. On that same token, between African primates, elephants, and giraffes, one has to wonder if there's something about the African forests and savannah that encouraged the development of complex social arrangements (and the intelligence involved in maintaining them).
It takes time. With luck I shouldn’t need to buy a new phone for at least another year or two.
If doctors or lawyers fuck up bad enough, losing their license is one possible, if rare, outcome. Those professions are still very popular.
You'd be surprised how flexible some of the GUI toolkits on the Amiga actually were. MUI is based on the concept that layout is dynamic and flexible.

It would dynamically calculate a minimum window size based on the components inside and you could then resize the window as you wanted with things calculating and resizing as you go, adapting to font selections and themes.

The actual implementation is archaic by todays standards but it did use attributes on UI objects to determine min/max sizing and other things, similar to CSS in concept.
Andrew Cuomo himself was NY AG at the time.

The investigation was done by the feds though.
Do you honestly think this, what I'm doing right now - posting on HN on a general-purpose computer, on an open source browser and server stack - will become limited to only licenced professionals?
It really does seem that there should be mandatory minimums for compensation, at least in cases involving prosecutorial misconduct.

The math for a bare minimum amount should be easy: How much would a person with that skill level have made hired into a position at the prosecutor's office in the year of imprisonment? Now run that out for the duration of imprisonment, including generous allowances for overtime, raises, promotions, etc. using percentages taken directly from the salary histories of the office involved.

This doesn't mean the money has to come out of the budget of the prosecutor's office, this is just a way to address arguments over "How much is fair? That's too generous! That's too cheap!" If the situation is such that the minimum amount seems unacceptably low, judges or juries can depart upward. If everyone agrees that the minimum is too high, that's easy to address as well - go claw back some of the overly-generous salaries paid to people in the prosecutor's office, then adjust the calculation using the new numbers.
i'm scratching my head wondering why they bothered announcing it ahead of time?

why not just run the scans in the background... (honestly surprised they aren't already) it's not like it would be hard to omit this avenue as your lead during prosecution