skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm suspecting that PR firms have understood for some times now how influential those social networks were to reach people that traditional in-your-face propaganda works ineffectively on. If you want to touch the heart of geeks, artists, activits and passionate people, you need to do it in a format that they will accept, and because they are very active on the world, those are important targets.

For things like HN or imgur, I assume there is a way to pay them to get the com you want in a way that appears to be organic. That's the best way to make money for those kind of sites after all. Want to make a billionaire a hero? Suddenly, comments everywhere say how much the guy is great, links to articles of his achievements raise to the top and critics are down voted, or/ and counter answered elaborately by what has all the signs of a long time user account. Want to sell a new movie or a political program? How about some "fan-made" memes or technical article that everybody seems to love?

Even better for those firms, why pay if you can avoid it? In reddit, work patiently to have a lot of accounts that are mods in topics you care about, and you basically own the system for free. Even better, now others will pay you to do com targeting those communities.

In that sense, I think facebook and twitter are at least more honest about how they influence society because they are explicit about their paid communication offers.
Reddit seems more like an antisocial network.
Most trees cannot grow immediately < 1y after a fire, but they put sometimes fertilizer in the Water.
Long gone are the days for decent $350 card.
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Two of the most populous states with the main seasonal factor (hot, humid weather) driving people to congregate indoors right now.
California is the most populous state with 39 million people. Currently 8,000 hospitalized. The peak was 14,000 in Jan.

Florida has 21.6 million people. 14,000 currently hospitalized, all time high.

New York state population is 20 million, roughly equal to Florida. 2,200 hospitalized, six times less than Florida. The peak was 10,000 in Jan.

So no, population reason doesn't cut it.
Design-by-contract, perhaps? There are a couple libraries like this currently, and you could pretty easily write your own framework for it.

Also, Attrs and Pydantic both support arbitrary additional validation on fields.
Ah, yes, Securities Fraud as a Service
Well, I'd want to see it only be hardware but sadly it's also common in software-only too: Adobe applications being extremely slow/inefficient/buggy (not even mentioning the creative cloud app which insists on working in BG even if no Adobe apps are open), want a monthly fee, or Microsoft bloating its own OSes UI with ad of its own services are just a few examples.
They will get treatment, assuming the hospital has capacity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_an...

And generally, if you have nothing, the government will pay for you. However, quality and quantity of healthcare will likely not be as high.

The rough spot is in the middle when you have some assets, but not enough for a secure life, but do not have insurance, then you will have to forfeit your assets in order for the government aid to kick in, and then you are poor.
But lyme is a bacteria, not a virus. So there’s not one obvious protein to have the rna produce. What are they making with the rna?
My understanding is that it's mainly only software development that has such a disparity though. Doesn't help much if you're not a software dev (or you lose you job due to ill health).
Can you guarantee that and sign with your own blood ?
We were very surprised that my (reluctant first time dog-owner) parents were told to physically pin their dog down as a way of asserting dominance. It’s weird to see that this might be “a thing”.

It just seems like it is likely to make the dog see that as a way of trying to assert dominance, whereas in almost all other cases positive reinforcement (and negative attention from undesired attention) seems to be perfectly adequate.

Perhaps it’s only supposed to be something for the worst-case untrained dogs and has spread out from there?
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Ask HN: One “print” subscription to rule them all
While browsing HN I often stumble upon pay walled links. e.g. ft, wallstreet journal... Is there a way to read them all with a single subscription? Or pay per article in a single app?
And it's not just keyboard modifiers -- in middle school I remember having to explain double clicking. People eventually got used to it, then the web got popular, and I had to explain to users not to double click on web links but do click on desktop links. Even in this century I still occasionally see people using double click to navigate the web.
It was really easy for me to cancel my Netflix account. Maybe 60 seconds on their website, if even that.
Monopolistic practices indeed go back further than any of us have been alive, and so do most crimes. That doesn't mean it's not bad and shouldn't be fought against…

Excusing a bad situation by pointing to another situation equally bad doesn't make the situation less bad, it's just sophism. (And I won't even argue that there's at least an order of magnitude in the sums involved and that the consequences in terms of individual freedom of the two situations are of completely different scale,sibling comments have done so already).
Technically speaking ... the genetic code of the B cell receptor gene of B cells is altered by vaccines. The same goes for pretty much all antigens the body comes across. But that's the point of the adaptive immune system and is obviously not what OP meant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V(D)J_recombination
Multiple oedemas and the appearance of enlarged veins far away from where the vaccine was injected.
Why wouldn't there be a vaccine? In Ontario, we give children vaccines for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, influenza, smallpox (well, I got it as a child), rotavirus, IPD, measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, HPV, Hepatitis B, meningococcal disease.

Ticks carrying Lyme disease are exploding in Ontario, probably because of climate change. It makes sense to get this into the rotation as soon as possible.

After COVID, we suddenly have everybody is acting like vaccines are something weird, odd, new and scary.
> unless they were undercover even to me

Yes I would expect undercovers to be undercover to other mods. Like imgaine some random guy starts some subreddit adds a few friends as moderators right. Then it blows up, so some influence group decides they need to get in on it. They would certainly not be open about their strategy of gradual take over.
I sure hope so, because they're absolutely not a waste of bytes. Unless you personally are planning on converting all existing use of those old codecs everywhere?

What you're suggesting is an archivist's nightmare.
The inflation has been there for a while now; wages have been artificially depressed for decades while the stock market was growing 15% a year. But when there’s inflation for the rich we call it an “asset bubble”.
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The lira has been down for quite some time. I wouldn't consider it indicative of future instability.

Hungary is also a good (and affordable) choice. Budapest is probably one of the most interesting cities in Europe, IMO.
> Something weird happened over the past decade.

I blame free (as in beer).

If you can’t sell software you have to monetize in other ways. This creates a huge forcing function to push acceptance of surveillance, adware, and worse as hard as possible.

It’s hard to complete with free. A free thing can build a network effect fast, then monetize with roundabout methods like surveillance. Payment also adds friction, and I have a rule that “every step required to adopt something halves the adoption rate.”

Greed for both lightning growth and profitability tends to put conventional economic models off the table.
> Someone else pointed out that we would have to build some 30,000 of these facilities just to be able to keep up with current CO2 contributions.

Must be a miscalculation here, the articles cites 4k tons scrubbed per year for this facility, and 31bn tons emited per year (to which you would have to add 5-6bn for land use change). So that's about 10 millions such facilities we need, only for co2.
The chip shortage is interesting to me. In that it seems to be mostly driven by bad forecasting both by clients and the foundries. But the foundries seem to get nothing but upside out of it. Perhaps it swings next time and there's excess capacity.
Sailfish 4
Nobody wants to see their strategy fail, what annoys people is that we know that even when you do most things right, COVID can infiltrate a home or care facility where masks can't be worn all day and that's when things get dangerous.

Where tiny COVID hotspots start is basically a matter of luck. A few people acting like idiots is enough to start a local cluster. It's what happens after those local clusters pop up that dictates the real results.

Masks are part of the equation, the real frustrating is the lack of vaccination and the lack of masking. Massachusetts has a population of 7 million people, had 2 deaths yesterday and has ~500 people currently hospitalized with COVID. Louisiana, a similar sized state, has a population of 5 million and has nearly 5k people in the hospital and has a 7 day rolling average of 110 deaths. Texas and Florida are both worse than Louisiana. This includes the fact that Cape Cod had a massive 1000+ person outbreak July 4th which resulted in, as far as I'm aware, no deaths and relatively few hospitalizations.

Tell me what state you'd rather live in?

The whole "But but California was worse at one point schtick isn't going to work when you see Southern states with double as many people per capita dying as the Northern state who've had most of their deaths occur very early in the pandemic when we didn't have treatments or even effective testing.
From the article:

> VLA15 is the only active Lyme disease vaccine candidate in clinical development today, and covers six serotypes that are prevalent in North America and Europe. This investigational multivalent protein subunit vaccine targets the outer surface protein A (OspA) of Borrelia, an established mechanism of action for a Lyme disease vaccine. OspA is one of the most dominant surface proteins expressed by the bacteria when present in a tick. VLA15 has demonstrated strong immunogenicity and safety data in pre-clinical and clinical studies so far.
Previous lyme disease vaccines used a membrane protein, so probably that.
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Not a study but there was an article about this on the frontpage yesterday. Can't find it now.
Most people in the US aren’t tech workers though. And the pay disparity for many other roles, especially in the middle-low ends of the spectrum, are not very competitive compared to other countries with nationalised healthcare.
> Anything that requires combining a click with the shift and ctrl/cmd keys is not going to go down well with the average user.

Is there a reason the element has to be implemented that way? Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the details of how it works up to the browser? It only works that way because every OSs native select widget worked that way and once upon a time browsers actually tried to integrate well with the OS and used native widgets.
anthrax is a standard vaccination, really? that one seems kind of surprising.
Radicalisation is actually very interesting and I (ashamedly) nearly succumbed to the same thing myself.

There's a really good youtuber called "Contrapoints" that attempts to deconstruct with low judgement the kind of environment an Incel lives in and what the worldview is.

Empathy is always at the root of deradicalisation, so I always plug her videos when I can.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD2briZ6fB0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPhrTOg1RUk
Not worth it. It's not cheap maintaining a search engine. Apple could throw resources at it but what is the benefit? This is different than the Maps issue where Google refuse to provide new features for iPhone Maps. Apple used OpenStreetMaps (OSM) and created their own. By using OSM, it gave that project more visibility and others an alternative solution to Google Maps. A few years later Google suddenly makes it "not so free" for businesses displaying a map, they better put up a credit card.
Only if the higher profit from higher sales price makes up for the possible decrease in sales from higher price.
There is no end-game for me. I just do it because I enjoy it.
Study Finds Sun–Not CO2–May Be Behind Global Warming
I am in need of an upgrade but having a harder and harder time justifying the expense for what is a hobby.

I guess eventually my system will be old enough that I will be better off just ordering a prebuilt, where I'll get gouged a bit overall but not by some insane amount just for a GPU
Worth pointing out Desert, which generates a Marshmallow schema from an Attrs class. You could then integrate this with Apispec or Marshmallow-Jsonschema.

https://pypi.org/project/desert/

https://pypi.org/project/marshmallow-jsonschema/

https://pypi.org/project/apispec/
So how do you expect them to use your product if you strawmen them as people incapable of reading?
Interesting I didn't know this
Absolutely, no dispute there. I thought it might be worth pointing that out, since Ycombinator has a lot of IT visitors.
Workers have their own interests that are not necessarily aligned with those of the users/society, such as support working hours only from nine to five on business days, higher pensions and fewer new hires, more job security.

If you really want to align the interests of the company with those of the users, you need something like a cooperative where the users are also the shareholders and you have to buy a membership to use the product.
How do we even begin to define wellbeing? How do you measure it, and do so at scale with statistical confidence? How do you finance it? How do you moderate and govern it? Who does it benefit besides the industries that spring up to support it? I don't think "wellbeing" is concrete enough an idea like business metrics to meaningful act upon in private organizations. Sort of a "road to hell paved in good intentions" concern.
Which evidence do you find simple - those two links you posted? (Non rhetorical question - in case of doubt.)

People who will read that evidence without full contextual intellectual preparation will not be able to be certain of their evaluation; they are not competent to review it ("review" as in the expression "peer review").

On the other hand, yesterday I started exploring the material of a medical doctor who publishes interesting conferences - found as I was looking for other material, and to my surprise, from what he practices on himself I am sure he would disagree with your previous post. Who to trust?

On the other hand, if I see censorship, few exceptions aside it will be very clear that the censorship will help approaching truth. And for this, one name I will give: Lex Fridman, who denounced the matter a few weeks ago, while interviewing for this podcast one of the notable censored voices.
>Culture secretary says move could lead to an end to irritating cookie popups and consent requests online

No it won't. Unless you ban EU citizens visiting your website and your website doesn't make business with other businesses in EU.

>Britain will attempt to move away from European data protection regulations as it overhauls its privacy rules after Brexit, the government has announced.

Other countries like Canada implemented GDPR directive. EU required this from Canada, Japan and other countries to make some custom/tariff -free deals. Looks like UK wants to break away from dealing with EU at all?
I states

> they have the same (and sometimes higher) viral load

The "same" is surely a fact as has been shown by 3 studies. The sometimes higher doesn't mean always higher - it means it can be sometimes higher, sometimes lower but on average, it's been determined to be the same. So it's not based on my "feelings".

What matters is how these will turn out in 3-6 more months. When vast majority of people around the world still haven't gotten a single dose while us healthy and young people are being pushed to take it, it doesn't seem well advised in my eyes. They should be saving these for the elders and especially the ones in poorer countries.
Other options:

https://pypi.org/project/desert/

https://pypi.org/project/dataclass-factory/
Yeah, I think another field(though I could be wrong on this one) that pays much better in the USA VS other countries is finance. Outside of these field the situation is very different
Do also take into account that the median wage in the US is only around 35K per year. Clearly most americans are not in line for a 6 figure salary, nor will they ever be.
Why does it set a higher floor? The tax goes to the government, the tobacco company doesn't get to keep it.
Interestingly, what you described might just be a side effect of tick bite exposure ...

https://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/news/health/lyme-d...
Except for r/ProgrammerHumor unless you like the same 3 jokes about javascript and awkward screenshots from Tinder showing that a developer somehow, against all odds, got a date with the opposite sex.
Statistics are hard to interpret correctly.
See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
The example I gave is entirely legal as far as I understand, that was my point: there are gaint gaping holes in the regulations to exploit for people who don't actually care about the environment and only wish to maximize their profits.
where I used to live in NH signs posted around trailheads said something like 30% of deer ticks were likely carrying Lyme, and that was 5 years ago.
Price of pre-built will reflect the price for components. So if the GPU price increases, so will the pre-built price.
I am sorry you’ve had that experience.

My Brother has been running perfectly for years. Use cheap generic toner. It just works.
No dispute there, please see my comment below to "glenngillen"
> Sometimes I'm the producer side of debian packages too.

But my point is there's no such thing as creating a "debian package" from the producer side. We create software to be used on certain operating systems; perhaps only unix-like OSs. But we don't produce software "for debian".
Oops. Started listing all vaccines and then took the response in a different direction. Deleted Anthrax.
ACA does not allow for that to be a factor in pricing an individual’s premiums.

https://www.healthcare.gov/how-plans-set-your-premiums/
MacRumors reports this may increase the price of the next iPhone - https://www.macrumors.com/2021/08/26/iphone-13-price-increas...

Lots of “reportedly”, “may”, “could” in there, of course.

(I’m linking that article since the original DigiTimes article is paywalled, and this article quotes from it.)
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I could see it being higher (50 being larger than 30), but it’s a one-off negotiation at this point and you don’t want to zero out your 7.5% stake by being too aggressive and bleeding the company of cash.
You're not understanding how this line of argument works. When blue states that do all the restrictions have big surges in hospitalizations, you're supposed to just say, "well it would have been even worse if they hadn't done that" or blame other factors like population density. When it happens in red states, you blame the lack of restrictions even if there is no temporal relationship whatsoever between when they were lifted and the surge in cases.
Sounds like monetization was the problem there. They couldn’t tie its development cost to a clear revenue center.
I wonder if food shortages are possible for the same reasons.
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Podcast 2.0?

These just sound like standard features of the MP3 spec and are hardly new...

The open Podcast Index is great - that's the one place where the "open podcast industry" is most centralised, on Apple's podcast index
How to Override Kernel Macros
The macro mechanism in Elixir is not only an interesting metaprogramming feature - in fact, it is at the language's very core. And the more awesome fact is that, using macros, you can override the algorithm of defining functions itself!

This TIL is a build-up for Michal Buszkiewicz's ElixirConf EU 2021 talk on debugging in Elixir - see you in Warsaw on Sep 10, 2021!
I am wondering how this would affect their non discrimination testing (for tax purposes).
It needs to be configurable IMO, but yeah for small lists I would rather loop and check than not check at all.

However doing this for arbitrary iterables is impossible, because the iterable might be lazy or infinite. In that case maybe the best option is to wrap the iterable with something that would validate each element as it came off of the iterator that is produced from the iterable.
Spanish flu...
Agreed. People knowingly using musl usually know the benefits.
It's also how we got all the carbon in our top soils. A 6 inch or more covering of carbon (mixed with minerals etc) covering huge parts of the earth's surface.

Planting trees, harvesting them, and turning them by pyrolysis into biochar/charcoal and then burying it can partially restore these soils and sequester carbon at the same time.
I looked up everything they banned:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/long-list-sex-acts-jus...

"Spanking

Caning

Aggressive whipping

Penetration by any object "associated with violence"

Physical or verbal abuse (regardless of if consensual)

Urolagnia (known as "water sports")

Role-playing as non-adults

Physical restraint

Humiliation

Female ejaculation

Strangulation

Facesitting

Fisting"

There's no way I can see Spanking, verbal abuse, Female ejaculation, Facesitting or Fisting can be considered "dangerous". Even things like Physical restraint are safely done.
Thanks, that is certainly more than I would have expected!
Fortran 77 and later versions (most recently Fortran 2018) have strings. There is the limitation that the elements of an array of strings must have equal length, so that ["boy","girl"] is an invalid character array constructor but ["boy ","girl"] is valid. Libraries for manipulating strings in Fortran are listed at https://github.com/Beliavsky/Fortran-code-on-GitHub#strings .
alternatively you could just use a dedicated local resolver
And what is the competition there outside Mac? I haven't yet felt at any time that Linux offered superior UX experience. Maybe I'm too used to Windows...
I suspect this is mostly driven by the economics of the software business. The cost of software is driven by fixed upfront costs. The marginal cost is now pretty close to zero. This means that unless you have some kind of lock in like Photoshop or Office then competitive pressures are going to drive your prices down towards zero.

If you can't make any money selling your product then you will start looking elsewhere. That will include transactions that are against your customers interest like selling their profile to advertisers.
Is there any details on the BMC / switch?

If the BMC is something good (thats supports standards like redfish / etc) and the managed switch is exposed using something standard, I think this could make a really interesting dev board for someone who wants to learn about bare metal "clouds".
Who uses search engines anymore?

Most new data is on Facebook/Twitter/Discord etc. Shoppers search on Amazon. Video consumers search on YouTube.

My point is that is must be *super easy* to build a search engine nowadays. You only need the best 10% of websites and you have got most of the quality content. Vast majority of websites are now irrelevant remains of the old internet.

Most searches could be answered by their Siri system.

Therefore Apple could build a functional search engine in months, and I guess they already have one ready to go for when it is needed.
> but the way to defeat it is exposure, not erasure

Hasn't everything about the past ~5 years proven this to be completely fake?