skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem seems to be that this company is based in China.

You're misrepresenting the situation because you want to frame the whole issue as some xenophobia on my part. The problem is TikTok is a social network with millions of users whose parent company literally has the CCP as a board member and is subject to China's extremely invasive state security laws (requiring warrantless access to corporate data). The app was already an intelligence gold mine and now they've added a vein of platinum.

The only double standard is contained within the strawman you've created. I have the same problem with Facebook or Twitter apps scanning my local network for no reason than to increase their data harvesting. But since TikTok is the subject of the thread I specifically pointed out problems with TikTok. Facebook and Twitter have their own problems, some of them overlap with problems that exist with TikTok.

Neither I or anyone else needs to list the myriad problems with every social network when criticizing any one of them. You're trying to use a tu quoque [0] argument claiming xenophobia and hypocrisy (where none exists) in hopes that distracts from the points being made.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Consider my old age: a keyboard to me was plastic and had rows of plastic keys across it. If someone tells me the keyboard needs "network access" I'm going to have to get up out of my rocking chair and ask, "Why for?"

I guess I am naturally suspicious about such things.
> Moderna is seeking 56 individuals, aged 18 to 50 and who are HIV-negative, for the trial, which is estimated to begin on August 19 and conclude in spring 2023.

Probably a dumb question given that I have little domain knowledge here, but are they really going to get valuable data from 56 individuals? Like, isn't that N really small? How many of them would be expected to contract HIV?

And, I'd imagine that if they are selecting a high-risk population for the trials (e.g., sexually active young gay men), wouldn't a lot of the individuals already be on PREP? Would they have to go off of PREP, and run a potentially much greater risk of contracting HIV if the vaccine doesn't actually work?
> "frontload a big hedonistic experience before you start working/living as an adult"

Absolutely shameful straw man.
Excel is used as a database/storage/interchange format, especially after the initial analysis by someone who uses python or R.
Bioinformatician does the analysis, then the PI wants to see it so they can Ctrl-F for genes they are interested in, so out comes an excel document.

And really, even if you know python or R, are you really going to fire up a jupyter notebook, load the data, and run pandas queries every time someone in lab meeting or after a talk asks you about this gene or that gene in your data?

I think the important question is why is date conversion a default? Would it really break backwards compatibility for MS Excel users if date conversions were explicit instead of automatic? Turning that off by default would fix a lot of this.
Is the booster customized for Delta? The article doesn't say.
For some reason I'm surprised a cheese burger has enough energy to boil my kettle multiple times.
I would expect that it is certainly expensive but he seems to be building lots of his equipment himself instead of buying it. The photolithography machine is a modified microscope with a projector for example. The centrifuge for spin-coating the wafers with photoresist is also DIY'ed according to the video from the article.

http://sam.zeloof.xyz/maskless-photolithography/
The UK's competition/antitrust regulator (CMA) is investigating online platforms just now, and is specifically looking at whether the switching cost is a factor that furthers the case to argue for a monopoly and anti-competitive situation requiring remedies.

Similarly for a lack of interoperability of services (like facetime) - I guess they're trying to pre-empt Apple's common argument that "smartphones" should be the defined market, and side-step that by demonstrating Apple has created structural barriers to switching that discourage it or make it expensive, or leverage network effects to frustrate users who switch.

What you describe as the future is certainly what I could envisage a CMA action resulting in - they've already stated their view that Facebook may need to unwind their acquisition of Giphy. It seems likely they could decide to push for forced competition in app stores and payment processing, which should effectively decouple OS vendor from store ecosystem and achieve the end goal.

Under a competitive ecosystem, Apple would have to lower payment fees and compete on price, as well as developer experience. Otherwise they'd haemorrhage developers and lose all their revenue from the store, and someone more innovative would be able to take that up. If it swings too far to a free-for-all, someone will build a store with more consumer protections, and compete back... It strikes me Apple and Google could offer competitive stores (without the suspiciously identical platform fees and mandatory use of their payment processing) that use user safety and convenience as a competitive differentiator, coupled with an amazing experience and set of tools for developers. They'd have to start improving soon on their tools and experience though!
It's the same concept as Windows. You can (as in physically, not as in "it's allowed") download and use it without a license, and no one will care if it's just you personally, but expect lawyers if you're a big company.
there is a problem with a lot of desktops running windows 10.
could you help upgrade all the windows 10 installations to a linux distro?
Your e-mail daemon should already have configuration for DKIM, and the same tool that generates that key should also print out the complete DNS entry you need. Configuring DKIM in your daemon is a bit of work; The DNS portion of it is simple.
I always thought deontology (esp. Kantianism) would be a more interesting moral paradigm to implement programmatically. It's all about formalizing what maxims are, and determine whether they are universalizable in a purely formal sense, thus abstracting away from the impossibly difficult task of evaluating the far-reaching consequences of actions. It's less about empirical facts, and more about the internal logic of the concept of willing. I.e., it's about answering the question: what can one rationally will?
> there are desktop (and phone) clients for every major OS out there. This shows that you are really not familiar with

Now you sound as if you are not familiar with it.
Looks like Webex added Linux(Deb & RHEL) on May 28, 2021.
Before that, you had to use their legacy java applcation which also necessitated you to *manually* figure out, then hunt down & install the missing dependencies. And it was still shit.
Brain organoids develop optic cups that respond to light
You're the one that led with that! If I were a professional internet comment writer, I'd have told you how obnoxious that was, but alas, I am merely an amateur.
That type designs are not protected is a gross injustice. The time and effort involved in creating a type design is significant. Alas, when the type industry had the resources to lobby to have copyright law changed, they were making a lot of money from stealing each others' designs and chose to lobby the opposite. There was an ill-fated effort in the 90s to lobby for typeface design protection (I was part of it as the editor of a typography magazine) but it never achieved any measurable success.
Hey Edwin. The exact same has happened to me. Please help! I dropped you an email today.
The best image I could find: https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/bjwrb3/how_a_gamebo...
Dragging the "optical size" slider to a lower value, I'm horrified to see that the cutoff on the lowercase 'e' is no longer parallel to the direction of the text. This was always my go-to way of differentiating Helvetica from look alikes. Now I have to find a new technique :(
Four. Though I do like how modern macOS implements trackpad gestures, and drawing UI on the GPU is generally a good idea.
>urban woes

The "urban woes" that suburban zoning laws were passed to prevent were minorities, not factories. The roots of zoning and NIMBY attitudes are racial segregation.[0]

[0]https://wwnorton.com/books/The-Color-of-Law/
The latter organisation is not necessarily a benchmark in IT, or organisation in general.
I also looked at the "about" page, they have an axe to grind.
Delta Variant Threatens Small Businesses as It Slows Return-to-Office Plans
From the trial page (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05001373), it's a just phase one study to figure out the safety of the vaccine:

> A Phase 1, Randomized, First-in-human, Open-label Study to Evaluate the Safety and Immunogenicity
Funny you mention that, I used to be pro "free market" (loaded term, I know), but even I'm getting fed up at this point.
This is why multiple companies exist to sell you one-click hosted instances of these without lock-in.
I regularly hear coders say they cannot understand other people's code so they _had_ to write it themselves. Most people can't read papers either it seems.
For cases like that specifically, it's probable. But those are just like the scam emails where they say "hey, I know your password is ${OLD_PASSWORD}, I recently hacked your account on a popular 'adult recreation' site, remotely put Spyware on your computer, and recorded you 'entertaining yourself' while browsing videos (you have good taste lol). Send me x bitcoins or I'll email this to all the email and linkedin contacts my spyware found in your computer."

It's just an old password found in a breach years ago, they don't have anything else that's real. The difference here is that if they call and leave a voicemail with personal info, go to the police. They're not gonna bother tracking down a social engineering email, but they may be more inclined to go after verbal blackmail.
It still amazing how much of the periodic table we owe to this place. https://www.llnl.gov/news/tags/periodic-table
Not that you want any extra greenhouse gas emissions, but methane is a much stronger greenhouse gas on short timescales, 100x over 5 years. CO2 is the lesser of the two evils.
They found one case, and knew that there would be more. They're now up to 4.

You lock down at one so that you can limit the spread of the already in the community cases.
I would like to replace Windows 10 with fedora on my laptop. Mostly for development purposes.

However, I've been faring well with VMs.

Also, iTunes to add music to my phone and MATLAB to revive old projects.
app update gives me option to add all as members
What?

How on earth would the government seizing control of one of the largest industries in the country make us more of a democracy?

We would then be in company with countries such as Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, famously democratic countries
Fair. I meant server side usage. Almost everyone is into containers these. And even classical deployments with apache, java are look almost the same on centos or debian
To answer your specific question as to why fonts are not copyrightable in the US, 37 C.F.R. § 202.1(e) specifies that a "typeface as typeface" is not copyrightable.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/37/202.1
The Well Fixer’s Warning
Fun fact, since I've been vaccinted against TBE, I haven't found even a single tick biting me. And I spend even more time in the nature now since the pandemic has started.
Its ineluctable. If you are an engineer, your work has a moral and ethical axis that inseparable from the rest. This is what our professional societies believe, it is what you are taught in school, it is in many ways no more than taking responsibility for your actions.

What you are describing is apathy. You don't get to stand apart from the work that you do because it is hard.
Let me ask you this, though. If your strings that come from user inputs are optional, doesn't that mean they could also just not be present (as in null)? Why do you need or want two different ways to express "nothing"? Are all of the text fields just funneled right into the database without checking/validating any of them? I've written a number of RESTy/CRUDy APIs and I can't count the number of "check that username isn't empty" checks I've written over the years.
It’s better than Anything I saw photoshopped
They're good at certain things like movement but task planning and execution are still under development. You could maybe use the current version to explore burning buildings but they wouldn't be able to do much more than that, you don't see these lifting shifting loads or dragging things ever which is the kind of things they'd need to do for the toxic cleanup or fire rescue tasks.

For the war fighting it's pretty much always more effective to use things like tanks or drones rather than dealing with walking motions, that's still pretty inefficient.
I’m waiting for breakthrus in this space to create massage robots.
is there somewhere a summary of “basic science” problems that need to be solved to make fusion feasible?
And - would throwing more money at the problem?
I've been having difficulty trying to think about how much Moderna will charge for their other products

like the covid one is sold at super low prices compared to what would normally be possible

but the other products won't have nearly as many customers either

what do you guys think?
What does it mean to maintain 100+ years of water? As in reserves to last them 100+ years or something else?
I've since realized I'm just not destined for a relationship since I'm way to self motivated and willing to change. I'm not ugly either. I just can't stand how most women in my area are either boring socialites that have no skills, overweight, or are just a shackle. I haven't given up, I just found myself alone and I'm happy with it. I figured being with someone might make it feel different but it definitely does not.
A vet isn't going to risk their license or take on the liability of treating a human with vaccines for dogs.
Some people are worried, just you never get here from them because they are either censored or drowned out by the corporate press.

Here's a doctor, you don't usually get to hear from raising concerns you don't seem think to exit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUE5EBPt-lU&t=1128s
I use https://meet.jit.si/ daily and can confirm it is easier to use than Zoom or Hangouts.

No nag screens trying to get me to install desktop clients or trying to get me to create an account or give up personal information.

It just works.
> Moreover, delta appears to have arisen in India, which at the time had vaccination rates very close to zero.

For the sake of clarity, the first viral genome of B.1.617 (eventually named Delta) was identified by India's variant tracking program on October 5, 2020, long before any vaccines were approved. India's case load was also quite low at this point, and the initial lockdown was being slowly rolled back.
The extreme values for "Optical Size" really alter the character of the font for me. Changing the angle of the lower arc of the "e" for example really alter how the font feels, and it's unrecognisable to me as Helvetica:

https://imgur.com/a/vtQZc9I
> Boston Dynamics was initially DARPA funded and intended for military uses

And the robo-donkey thing was trialled and rejected by USMC for use in the cargo carrying role - too noisy, needed to much direct control and other things
MSRP of $1.3 Million US dollars

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/something-amazing!-ke...
Yes, because they know if there is one that they've detected, it probably means there are others. And this individual travelled, and went to crowded events.

As of now they've found 4 additional cases. Thanks to the wonders of exponential spread you need to stop the spreading when the numbers are still small.

Otherwise you fail miserably and kill more than half a million people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym

> According to Tex Texin, the first numeronym of this kind was "S12n", the electronic mail account name given to Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) employee Jan Scherpenhuizen by a system administrator because his surname was too long to be an account name. By 1985, colleagues who found Jan's name unpronounceable often referred to him verbally as "S12n" (ess-twelve-en). The use of such numeronyms became part of DEC corporate culture.
I think its much more of a pain to have more than one language in the same file, but I suppose that's a matter of preference.

Some practical reasons for separate files, off the top of my head:

In-lining JS, and CSS means enabling unsafe-eval, which can open up XSS vulnerabilities if you use any content from users or gathered from a source you don't control. You could also do the unsafe-hashes, but that's kind of a pain.

If you're not making a SPA, it would not be fun to copy the CSS to all of your files.

If you do not couple your CSS to your site, you can reuse it across many sites and have the same style. Say if you have separate site for your blog, but want it to look the same as your main site.

If you're working on a team splitting things up into separate files will avoid some merge conflicts.

Chances are they will not be updated all at the same time, so caching would speed up page load times, as the user would only have to download the changed files
I agree, but there were genuinely a lot of issues with industrial revolution living (tenements, poor sanitation, pollution, etc) and preventing these is something I've seen as a pro-zoning talking point.
Telegram does not support E2EE for group chats.

It's also not a video conferencing platform.
> Baseload isnt a real thing. Its just a conceptual framework for combining nuclear and coal with gas peaking plants.

Most people will always use electricity when the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing. Offices are still open, air conditioner / heater are still running, and factories are still operating. This is the "baseload" they are talking about, and no it is not fictional.

Wind and solar fluctuates between 0 and MAX_OUTPUT. Power usage also fluctuates, but between BASELOAD and MAX_CONSUMPTION. These two are not in sync, and even if they are, you still need other power sources to handle the BASELOAD part of it.

Nuclear is able to generate a stable output power. If we have enough nuclear power plants to generate BASELOAD amount of power, we only need renewables to handle the remaining MAX_CONSUMPTION-BASELOAD, and we will need much less battery to handle the fluctuation.
That is baseless comment. Their achievements are low hanging fruits but only by today's standards. You can say the same thing practically for anybody. Einstein discovered relativity because low hanging fruit. von Neumann did all the amazing works because low hanging fruits.

And how can you say they would not reach the same level as Tao? You are indicating that being truly genius is some modern phenomenon. May be 100 years down the line, even Tao will proabably be downplayed and kids will be learning advance calculas before they turn 10.

Come on!
This thread started about HIV, and then pivoted to HPV, which has no correlation with male homosexual activities and is primarily a heterosexual spread when any sexual activity is involved at all
If we can do it for oil, why not water?
Every part of this is bullshit.

First, Apple is driving innovation, obviously, not "shitting on it".

Second, no, Apple should retain the power it has over how software works on its platform, the vast majority of users emphatically want that, and that is because of the various concrete benefits the approach has.

Third, no, Apple did not "get lucky" and "ride" the growth engines in question, especially in the case of the modern smartphone. It created that engine.

Fourth, your comparison to controlling how people breathe is ludicrous.

Fifth, no: we will not be asking Congress to break up Apple's sensible security controls over its platform, because we fucking like them.

Sixth, this issue has absolutely nothing to do with the right to repair.
Thank you! We are using Vue+Typescript for the frontend and Haskell & Node for the backend microservices.

For your case (and maybe for us in the future), I would take a look at rust+webasm or using WebGL directly
The dogs which alert on explosives are not usually in the baggage claim area.
The optics are so bad it comes across as a joke. But it's the Insider, not the Onion, so...

Is the article 1) unaware to a comical degree or 2) a psyop?
It has become common for a lot of longer words that are a pain in the butt to type over and over again. Accessibility -> a11n, internationalization -> i18n, kubernetes -> k8s, etc. I am also curious about the origins, though.
Which is why it's also important to wear a mask.
While this is true, we're not 100% out of the woods. My brother is an architect in the region and mentioned to me that our exurbs and suburbs are notorious for fudging their water sustainability numbers vs actual use.
Yeah, it's a tough problem to solve. But I understand their complaint, it's often an identical product with a different name painted on it, pages and pages.

My favorite was a handheld coffee grinder. The item was unbranded, and the manual had some brand name manually scratched out with an inkpen everywhere it was mentioned. It's actually a nice coffee grinder, believe it or not.
sadly this article misses a part where they explain how they know 60% of cloud 100 companies are PLG? What was the methodology?
> A developer coming from "jenkins invokes a script that runs npm install && npm start", or even the mildly more modern "jenkins invokes docker-compose on a file" has a lot of very abstract and difficult-to-play-around-with context to pick up.

Let's see.

If you are deploying this on a physical machine: you have to connect to the machine somehow. You have to setup the correct permissions. You need auditing. You need to configure logging (and log rotation). You need to ensure your npm start script will be able to be restarted if needed. You may need cronjobs for various housekeeping chores. And then suddenly you need to run more instances of your app. What to do? Are you going to setup a proxy now and a bunch of different ports? Is your script picking them up or are they hard-coded? Are you instead doing network namespaces and iptables trickery? How do you upgrade your service without downtime? Are you going to write scripts to do that? What if your app need storage.

And what if you now need more machines. How are you going to spread the workloads around?

And how do you automate the above? One team prefers Ansible, the other goes with Chef, a third one likes to embed shell scripts inside a Terraform provisioner.

These things are _hard_. There is a whole lot of context. It's just that we have got used to the way things have always been done. It does not help that K8s development is very fast and there are far too many people and companies jumping on the bandwagon, each with their own unique spin. The ecosystem is becoming big enough to the point of being unmanageable.

Also, Kubernetes joins some of the work that was done by the development team or release teams with work that was traditionally done by the operations teams, and makes it all visible. Suddenly you have to _know_ what the heck a liveness probe is. You could get by with not knowing this in a standard deployment, your app would simply lack the check(and cause issues in production). You need to know what exactly your app needs to persist. Previously it would just dump data in whatever directory it had permissions to, and this became tribal knowledge.

But K8s by itself? My heuristic is: am I running containers? Do I need to spread said containers across machines? Just use K8s. Trying to replicate this with homegrown scripts will be very painful. It may not seem like it's painful now, but trust me, it will be.

Will K8s exist in 15 years? Hard to say. Probably but, for the reasons you describe, it's likely that there will be, at least, a high level abstraction to hide decisions most people don't need to make.