skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's your definition of long term? mRNA vaccines are built on science started 30 years ago, are being made by companies founded to make mRNA vaccines 10+ years ago, and have been to numerous trials for many years now.

The current set of vaccines have been fielded for nearly 2 years. How long term do you want to get?
Italian police raid homes of anti-vaccine activists who plotted violent attacks
Can India Solve Its Macaque Conundrum with Contraception?
Do it before going to sleep. It is ridiculously effective.
For those who thought the title was implying that the government found no “intelligence”, just machine learning: that’s not what it means. The company the contract was awarded to built nothing.

> But in a surprise twist, an audit and report released last week found no bias in the algorithm because there was no algorithm to assess in the first place.
> The majority of people in HK don't want to be part of China.

Where is your evidence?

I have friends live and working in HK. Certainly the silent majority doesn't care much. Like any normal people, they prefer better life and rewarding career, than being full time protester.

The 2016 US election already showed that the silent majority rarely aligned with the mainstream rhetoric.

Please be mindful about the reality.
Protecting the wearer is absolutely not the point of masking. The point is to protect everybody else from sick or asymptomatic infectious people.

Your mask has a fair chance to also, incidentally, protect you. Enough so to motivate wearing it even if you hate everybody else and wish they would die.
I am using a box (Android TV) and was finally able to remove the overlay by pressing the "back" button on my remote. Not exactly obvious, and not what I would call a good User eXperience.
My best learning situations have been times where you read a little bit (or watch a video), and then have exercises to complete to implement the information, and good examples to refer to. You think you know it just by reading/watching, but once you try to use it, you find out you haven't really learned it (yet). Some of the examples that come to mind are old (1990s), but still stand out to me as a great way to really learn.

1. Teach Yourself Access in 24 hours (or something like that). It was a book that had a chapter/lesson and then exercises to utilize what you learned.

2. Learning Perl (the camel book). Same thing.

3. Nand2Tetris (I did the first course. Still need to do the second one.) I watched the video lessons, then did the exercises and submitted them for automatic checking.
I guess this mostly applies to CEOs of big (or once big) companies? I know a lot of former founders/owners/ceos of small startups that came back to IC roles after their companies went out of business.
Probably not what you're asking for, but it's been working for me great and I don't see many people doing this.

When I need to learn a lot of material quickly and it's not interesting, I do 1 hour learning and 1 hour mentally consuming entertainment (gaming, Netflix) interchanged, as long as I have to. 30 minute intervals if the subject is really boring.

Keeps me concentrated and I can sustain it for extended periods of time.
The implementation of anything in the last paragraph would be a shit snowball of the finest degree.
Generally a good tutorial, video with keystrokes, or blog/page format as long as they have the steps, videos without editing are more likely to not miss a step. I will generally only do tutorials that seem to be along the direct task I want to do, and I'll alter it to be the task I actually want to accomplish.

I'll also do 2 or 3 of them to see the task from multiple conceptual angles, it helps me to see how multiple people think about and solve an issue.

I have a lot of trouble learning things that are not related to what I want to do. Not sure how I made it through college but I think I generally had a good idea how many classes applied to what I wanted to do...
There's deeply embedded programming in our brains related to sharing a meal with others which strengthens social bonds. Rituals like this very much play into that. As do lunch with colleagues or dinner dates.
I have really considered same. Why bother. The surviving part is harsh, but what comes after that? Most modern nice things will be gone for years. Would that really be even worth living?
Ah fair point, I seem to have broadened the scope in my mind. Just tracking and sharing of user data in general, so long as you aren't trying to do business with entities that are regulated, is pretty wide open in most states in the US.
I try to make whatever I'm learning fun and relatable. That means making it not boring. Usually I don't follow any technique I just set a goal and mindlessly try to achieve it by learning things along the way. If it's a programming language I start with a project. If it's a mathematical or physical concept I implement it, use it or explain it to someone else. I usually go to Wikipedia or a good textbook then slowly start diving into the literature. I usually then read a recent review paper and one of the old seminal papers related to the topic.
Apparently this is something related to using the Bitcoin blockchain to produce a cryptographically verifiable sequence/tree/dag(?) of revisions. Like Git but more crypto-ey.
AFAIK the Fediverse requires this (on mastodon instances).
Not trying to start a war, but do you genuinely believe that C++ even with solid contracts is a conducive environment to bug-free programming?

I am not very familiar with it (have published 1 small library and 1 PR to a large, popular framework), but when learning the language after having written most other things it felt like it had the most footguns and number of random rules you had to memorize + instances of undefined behavior.

I've never published anything with Ada (mostly because almost nobody uses it, so I've not had the same practical usecases) but I do follow the language passively and have experimented with it.

I feel much more comfortable that I could write a correct Ada program than a correct C++ program. I think I could write C++ for 5 years and not feel sure my program is entirely correct, even with IE "cppcheck", "clang-static-analyzer", "ASAN/TSAN/UBSAN" etc.
So, so many times I thought about doing this in one of the open offices I worked at as a joke/protest of open offices.
Pick a project I want to work on where I can learn the skill, after doing background reading.
Most people would ultimately be charged higher premiums if they did hand this data over.

Ins: In the last week, you've purchased 3 packages of Oreos, 2 cans of Crisco, 3lbs of 73% ground beef, no vegetables, lots of stuff with high sugar content, high salt content, and very little actual nutritional value. Therefore, we rank you in a high risk category (since you are clearly over 21 years old) based on the fact you also bought 1 carton of cigarettes and 2 cases of beer. Please enjoy your new higher insurance premium.
I don't know where this absurd idea came from that "China invading Taiwan" means "Australia/Japan would be next!".

As far as the PRC is concerned, Taiwan is a part of China. They wouldn't be invading another nations, they would simply be reclaiming sovereignty over a renegade province.

That is something entirely different from invading a Western ally. One thing has absolutely no bearing on the other.
Personally, I am surprised at all the anti-competitive actions Apple has been able to get away with over the years:

Bundling the OS with hardware

Enforcing an App store

Dictating/Castrating Browser on mobile

And the list goes on.

I'm not saying this as a ding on Apple products, because I genuinely appreciate them, but I think at the same time Apple has resorted to creating roadblocks rather than innovating.
Comparing Different Ways to Parallelize Python
I can highly recommend Test-Driven Development with Python[0]. The book has you build and deploy a web application, with emphasis on writing tests at each stage of development. The author has a great sense of humour and the whole book is a fun read-through.

[0] https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/
If they don’t, what’s the penalty? I Hope there are penalties.

It seems like lax law enforcement for big “guys” is a huge problem in finance and tech. It’ll be same for large infrastructure companies and contractor partnerships. They have even more of an reason to not report because there is no disincentive.
Absolutely they are. Nordstrom and Home Depot got called out for doing it 8 years ago - https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2013/05/09/how-nords.... The technology has progressed significantly since then.

I've worked on systems designed to send in-store customers custom, extremely time limited (< 1 hour) coupons based on where they are in the store and where they linger. Linger time being used as an indicator of purchase intent for a specific item. This does require that the customer has the store's app installed and running.
"shock pikachu face"
There's a lot of reasons to use Firefox and its derivatives, it being open source is a perfectly valid one, and has a great many implications.

Can we trust Vivaldi? Without 100% of its source being available, the answer is dependent upon your threat model and what you intend to use a browser for along with where you live.

Vivaldi has poor feature parity with its mobile apps too.
Wow, this is huge! We'll see how this holds up, but definitely seems like a turning point.

The effect of this order seems to be Apple can't prevent apps from telling customers about alternative in-app purchasing methods, which is a central issue of the case at hand in Epic vs Apple.
Just quibbling on a small point. The pilots/plane not surviving the blast would not make it impractical. It would just change it to a suicide mission. A small price to pay in a nuclear war.
Most [literally any group of humans] are good folk, but unfortunately there is a small radical subset which are not.

FTFY.
> pessimistic about AI programming tools

I suspect that these tools (if they do anything at all, anyway) will just make it harder to learn programming as a newcomer - just as all the advances in programming that have come about in my lifetime have. IDE's are great, until they do something you didn't expect, and then you have to understand what it is they're automating in order to figure out how to get them to do what it is you really want. Try explaining a Java classpath or dependency problem to somebody who's never opened a command-line terminal before. Docker is great - until it expects to find something that you happen to not have installed. What will probably happen here is that you and I will be fine, because we'll be able to effortlessly wield these new tools as they're just doing quickly what we used to do slowly, but new students to programming will have an even steeper hill to climb than we did.
A good way to teach people to run secure products is to charge them more for running insecure products.

The general public can’t distinguish between secure and insecure products, but they can read a list of products that are covered by the $0.99/month insurance plan, and anything not on that list you need the $1.99/month plan.

DDoS victims can then make a claim against the insurance companies (who own the liability arising from each IP address; ISPs can de-NAT), a court can evaluate the evidence if necessary, and the insurance providers pay out.

N.B. It’s actually experts who would be penalized most by this scheme, because if you do something like run a customized FreeBSD box, it’s unlikely to appear on the audited-device list.
Hollow habitat with some separate "shack" labs for isolated work? Couldn't be very warm without we'd spot it, right? What kind of acceleration would there be if it was? My math isn't up to the challenge, perhaps someone who enjoys that more could help?
That isn't true for AWS, the nitro card is used for all that jazz.
That sounds suspicious. By any chance, were they making ongoing revenue from you using the device?

I am not justifying that kind of harassment. It's out of line, whether they're making money from you using it or not. But it's more understandable if they want you to keep using it so that they keep getting paid.
There are a lot of simple usability changes that could still be added to Windows.

Off the top of my head, I'd like to be able to drag or minimize a parent window when it has a modal dialog open. This is especially frustrating when using an application that uses nested modals and you need to reference the grandparent window to fill in some information on the current modal.

They should buy the code for the file search utility named "Everything" and build that into the OS.

Also, the Amiga had multi-character drive names and path mappings/assignments in 1985. It was nice to type DOCS: or GAMES: into a file dialog to go directly to where I organized those resources. Sure, I could do this with single-letter drives but that requires me to remember what each letter maps to.
The Target app has very convenient in-store routing on a store map. Turn-by-turn directions down each aisle to bring you to the Kleenex.
Pretty close approximation for cities, although it depends on the city geography & wind, the yield & number of denotations, etc.

The most common first impression does seem to be that "of course it's not survivable, why even think about it?".

However, a quick look at any map of effects shows that the zone of survivable effects extends far beyond the reach of lethal effects, to the extent that 90%+ of the total affected zone is quite survivable for those who manage to avoid the initial thermal radiation and flying debris from the shock wave. Of course there are many who wouldn't want to live in the aftermath, but that is a different question.
Check out this project!

https://trmm.net/Ikea/

Apparently, the firmware on some IKEA smart home devices can be easily flashed.
There will never be an appreciable number of people writing the kind of software that justifies the use of Ada. If your project needs it, the cost isn't a concern.
Can I get a parseable ls?

Can I get explicit output-as-json flags for all reasonable commands like ps, lsblk, ls, find, grep, etc?

Can I get a database of commands better than history that shows when they were run and error codes that resulted AND THE OUTPUT, and if it completed for multithreaded/background/etc.

The history-as-database is ultra-important for doing cli multiprocessing/async. Fire off command, and then you can get the output from the database to pipe to another command.

Can I get a reasonable metashell standard across all terminal apps for doing a lot of what .profile does but isn't tied to a specific file on a specific machine?
The south's money/economy was dependent upon slavery, that is true. But every single southern state listed the right to own slaves as one of their reasons for secession.

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declarati...
Results are mixed on whether prior infection is on par with vaccination. For Delta the current understanding that vaccines are 70% to 90% efficacious, and prior infection is 60% to 80% efficacious. Being both vaccinated and having prior infection shows much stronger immune response.

https://catalyst.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/CAT.21.0288
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Why is that for "the better" when it produces a flawed monoculture?
Does the permanent injuction apply only to Epic, or does it apply to everyone?
> the prospect of survival contingent not on your wealth as in a traditional war

This hadn't occurred to me. And it makes perfect sense. See: all the rich techbros buying up land in New Zealand [1], or the Bush family buying up aquifer land in Paraguay[2]: get away from the blast zones!

Did you read this from a book? I'd be interested in it.

[1] Crazy prepper site but a good article: https://tacticalgunsurvival.com/why-rich-preppers-buy-land-i...

[2] https://5minforecast.com/2015/04/24/why-did-george-bush-buy-...
Yes, you have complete control over this. In short, it's a hybrid between manual and automatic memory management. Memory allocation is a complex subject in Ada, and I'm not familiar enough with it to explain all the nuances, but here [1] is a good discussion.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67131931/does-ada-deallo...
> If you mean the civil war, that wasn't to "keep them together": it was one side forcing the other to get back in line and give up its slaves.

"Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation did not apply to the border states. Of the states that were exempted from the proclamation, Maryland (1864), Missouri and Tennessee (January 1865), and West Virginia (February 1865) abolished slavery before the war ended. However, Delaware and Kentucky, while they saw a substantial reduction in slavery, did not see the abolition of slavery until December 1865, when the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_states_(American_Civil_...
That's nice if you are in a rural part of the US - less so if you are in densely populated and heavily targetted (at least during the Cold War) locations like the UK.

Edit: Optimistic estimates by the UK government predicted 65% of population killed (53%) or seriously wounded (12%) in the short term - a real attack is likely to have been much worse:

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

NB This optimistic scenarios was used in the writing of Threads.

Edit: Think about that: Threads was optimistic!
You may not need a new PCB, there are systems with a big FPGA [1] that could make a good host for a RISC-V design.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21303446
If someone has read the full ruling and is familiar enough with the case, what are the odds Apple appeals this - and if they do, is it likely they will win the appeal?
> The open-office concept was designed by executives who have their own private offices.

Or they technically also use open office desks but spend little of their time at them, and the majority of their time commandeering conference rooms, using executive-only meeting rooms, staying at expensive hotels, resorts for "offsites", working from home, and the like.

The few days they spend per year doing non-focused work in an open office environment is probably enjoyable enough, and helps them rationalize torturing everyone else.
The US certainly has a health care system. It's existence is divorced from details of implementation (such as paying for it.) If you want to claim ownership of it because you pay more, you probably think that they are your police employees because your taxes pay their salary. But if paying more for better treatment makes you sad, I'm happy to join you in advocating for single-payer.

I'm just going to ignore the rest of your troll comment.
Yes, it’s called looking at past evidence. No past vaccines have presented unknown side effects more than 8-10 weeks out. Viruses regularly do damage we don’t see or understand until many years later.
More choice is always a win for the customers. Customer can get to decide who is providing a better quality of service and go with them instead of the current situation of having one choice forced down their throats because the vendor decides that is whats best for the customer.
Last year I started to handwrite notes, in cursive when possible, after 25 years of typing notes. My memory is quite poor. Handwriting notes has improved memory/recall/remembering by multiple orders of magnitude. At least it feels this way.

I am currently learning Spanish.
- Use Babbel to bootstrap conversational Spanish [learning enough to express myself, but also those quick wins that keep it fun]
- I handwrite the conjugations to learn verb tenses and moods [diving into the specific details]
- I use anki (spaced rep) for learning verbs and nouns [expanding knowledge]
- And I talk to native speakers, who have been more than happy to chat. [feedback loop]

I am not the brightest bulb in the shed and doing this with deliberate practice has gotten me pretty far in 6 weeks.
But we need not expect to all get sick. Many, maybe most, vaccinated will get infected, and over it in a day or three, and likely not notice.
I think your summary is good.

Not too off topic: since the 1980s, I have referred to symbolic AI (expert systems, non-neural NLP, etc.), neural networks, and now deep learning models as “AI” and use AGI when referring to progress towards “real AI”. I only mention this because so many people now use the term machine instead. After 40 years of using the term “AI” I don’t feel like changing.

re: the article: the real story is a (allegedly, from the article) cheating contractor selling snake oil. Part of the life cycle of machine learning models is the evaluation of checking that the model stays valid in time, looking for data drift in the original training and test data, etc. That these models NEVER passed verification, is repugnant to me.
RISCV could end up being even worse if we ended up with a high performance fork of RV64
The “for the herd” moral argument only makes sense for a vaccine that stops transmission of the virus. In that case, the individualistic argument for not vaccinating is “I’m going to leech off hers immunity.”

Ironically, because COVID vaccinated individuals still transmit the virus, the individualistic argument now favors the vaccine. Since anyone vaccinated is going to reduce social distancing and try to “return to normal,” they will spread the virus. So now the individualistic argument is that you should get the vaccine because the virus will become endemic and on a long enough timeline you will become infected.
If I want usage data for an appliance I'm probably going to want to look at how usage is changing over time. If it is just on a screen on the appliance I'm going to have to manual record it to keep for such analysis which can get tedious.

With email I've got a record of it. Ideally they would include an attachment with the email that has the data in some well known documented format, like CSV, to make it easy to work with programatically.

I probably wouldn't want an appliance to have an internet connection just to support this logging. If it doesn't otherwise need an internet connection I'd be fine with it if it logged to an SD card or thumb drive.