skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I'd love to see Firefox use the same Keychain for passwords (same with Chrome). It would make it FAR easier to switch browsers. I wouldn't even mind shared cookies and bookmarks for that matter. Let the best engine win, but keep it frictionless to move in-between.
It's fine if I don't need a different additional cable.
The builds are not guaranteed to be reproducible.
Mostly agree in fact, and there are many good people at Google.

But can you see that a company can be both good and bad at the same time?

And that in cases like this with huge companies (both in brain mass and economic impact) the negative sides has extreme effects on the surroundings?

One nitpick:

> And really evil for enforcing web standards with a browser engine that works.

One of the problems with Chrome and IE was that they don't enforce web standards: you get away not only with behavior that others hasn't implemented yet, but also with certain shortcuts that aren't in any standard.
It's the variants that get selected that is the long term concern. Not how or from which cohort they emerge.

With leaky vaccines applied to an entire population the tendency is for more severe variants to prevail. How many times does the flu vax miss the target? Flu has is also leaky but we don't get more than 40% coverage so not likely to see more harmful strains selected. And then we whore ourselves out to big pharma hoping they stay ahead of it all.

See the devastating effects of this in the poultry industry: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/tthis-chicken-vaccine-m...

And the backing study:
Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance the Transmission of Highly Virulent Pathogens

"Our data show that anti-disease vaccines that do not prevent transmission can create conditions that promote the emergence of pathogen strains that cause more severe disease in unvaccinated hosts."

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/info:doi/10.13...
> [1] Clam down on Apple Daily, the only pro-democratic (that I know of) news outlet in Hong Kong

Apple Daily (Chinese: 蘋果日報) was a tabloid-style newspaper published in Hong Kong from 1995 to 2021.

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

If apple daily is the only pro democracy, which is a tabloid style newspaper, the conclusion is that HK democracy is likely a very poor one.

If apple daily is not the only pro democracy news outlet, I think shutting it down is contributing to a healthy democracy.

> [2] Directors of Apple Daily arrested

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Media-Entertainment/Shares-...

It seems the market welcomes that...

It either means the market cares little about democracy, or Jimmy is not really the friend of democracy as himself proclaimed.

> [3] 65,000 applications of BN(O) visa, the visa for HKers to move to the UK. HK population is around 7.5M

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handover_of_Hong_Kong#Tide_of_...

Let's how bad this compares to the 1990s after Tiananmen square... I think it probably wont surpass that. Note the 1992 peak is 66000 actually leaving, your number is just applications.

> [4] Youtubers exodus, for fear of government prosecution in the name of the national security or for whatever reason.

Similar to the above.

> [5] 230 Democrats quitting local council.

https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/chinese-news-57816972
They seem are disqualified on the new oath rule? Which says that if they do not take oath to be loyal to the HK government, they'll be disqualified. So they decide to resign first.

Well, I believe CCP is very happy that they gave up so easily...

> [7] People were arrested in the name of national security here and there. A charity, formed last year, providing inmate visiting service, will be dismissed. Only Chinese source available at the moment

Your link is about a non profit disbanded fearing of crackdown.

> [8] During the peak of mass migration in the 90s, 62,000 people per year moved away from HK. Compare with 65,000 moving to the UK in the first 6 months

I guess if HK economy were hurt enough because of this exodus, it helps to guide the democracy sentiment of the society.
It should be required on a site like this to show how much it cost to make and maintain it.
If a US company has higher revenue then they appear more productive. It could be that they have reached that productivity by using off shore workers.

So the number of people indirectly involved in the US economy has increased.
Holy shit. Can some crazy tech billionaire just fund this thing as some branded vanity project? This looks fucking awesome.
Most countries call it PE.
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What? This is Microsoft's open source project - they didn't need to "do quality checks", they developed it!
> Liberals (both the American and more classical kind) often seem to assume their ideals will eventually prevail, but nothing guarantees that.

Same.

History has no single evidence that pure ideology movement can shift public opinion substantially and maintain that change in serious historically meaningful time period (let's say 50 - 100 years).
Maybe https://github.com/sponsors/alyssais
McKinsey just sounds like another tournament -- 64 people start, puke blood, and and try to be the final survivor who becomes a partner and becomes hugely wealthy. The rest rinse away to other places over time. No different than working at Goldman Sachs, etc.

If you decide to enter a tournament, fine, but adjust your expectations accordingly. This author sounds naive and self-pitying.
Your comment makes no sense to me - you're saying we shouldn't blame open source but in the same breath say that anyone who uses open source without carefully reviewing and auditing every line of code is an idiot who can't even do FizzBuzz. I'm a developer and if I'm faced with the choice of auditing every line of code in a dependency or just writing what I need I'll just write what I need nine times out of ten. Honestly your position is closer to the article than you seem to realize.
Same here. We do have groups for different projects and customers but I never checked them because no notifications are sent when somebody posts something there. I know they store some project related files in these chats but to me it feels similar as Sharepoint - you know there must be somthing there but impossible to find when needed.
Have you done them before? LSD’s stimulating nature should make it kind of obvious. They share the 5ht2a agonism because that’s how all the classic psychs (lsd/psilocybin/mescaline/dmt) work. But LSD structurally is like a psychedelic amphetamine/phenethylamine, whereas psiloybin doesn’t have that stimulating feeling at all
An encryption scheme with truly memcpy-like performance characteristics.
> but supported by US business in general

Aside from earning more profit doing business in China. Is there other support from US business?
I was literally in the military and we would train to meet body standards that were based on minimizing the long-term statistical risk of death. We also got vaccined for the same reason. I'm not sympathetic to your argument that a bunch of people should pointlessly die in your wasteland of misinformation so you might feel "free". We didn't say "comrade" so much too.
But 40 years at 3% inflation has a multiplier of 3.26 on top of that $235k, which brings it over $706k.

Most people don't pay the median sales price outright. They pay it in 360 installments.
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hey! I'm the guy who developed bespoke. I too thought that the waveform-in-wire thing was original, but a few years after I put it in, I realized that I had subconsciously stolen it from ReacTable. there's nothing new under the sun, everything is a remix!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgy1S8qymx0
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Most users have good experiences with most registrars. It's only in extreme cases that you find out what character your registrar has.
To use Xcode13 you also need a recent Mac OS version.
No, I agree, but it's very similar though in terms of how easily it mutates and because of that impossible to snuff out with vaccines. We should only vaccinate the vulnerable like we do with the flu.
The thing that makes COVID dangerous is it's contagion not so much it's direct effects.

If COVID were not highly transmissible, then the relatively low risk of death would make it spooky, but it's not likely we'd even see it on the news.

It spreads to others quickly, and many people get very sick even if they don't die, hospitals fill up and it makes it very difficult to operate a healthcare facility.

Consider the 'no policy' effect: if we did nothing in response to COVID, it would spread like a fire, and without 'flattening the curve' - which we mostly have done, it would badly degrade our ability to function. People not able to tend for the older population because they themselves are sick, hospital staff going down, people in hospitals with other ailments going down etc..

So because of that it's a community problem.

If you want to think about it from an 'individual choice' perspective, consider what it would mean if you didn't take proper precautions while doing an activity, and ended up killing someone even by accident, that's manslaughter.

Given a rational population with some reasonable, conscientious objectors, we should be at about 95% vaccination, which is plenty. There's room for the serious objectors, the problem is there's way too much arbitrary and misinformed skepticism.

So it's not like wearing a seatbelt or eating too much carbs, which is mostly a personal issue.

COVID is inherently a systematic problem.
That immediately makes me wonder about AWS SSM, which I spotted preinstalled on a Ubuntu 18.04 AMI the other day. I think it can’t be accessed outside of the VPC but it’s worth further research. Agents are scary.
Just a few days ago a Russian web host was hacked as well, with a similar statement. I guess they're all exploiting some recently discovered bug in web hosting software.
serious? woah!!

Retail banks in the US are the worst. All their branches look shabby. My comparison points are banks in Singapore and Australia.
FYI, typo:

> “In the below graph, half of the data is to the left (shaded in blue), and a half is to the right (shaded in purple), with the 50th percentile directly in the center.”

But the half on the right is actually shaded yellow.
I'm looking briefly at the history of Indian cheesemaking. Seems like rennet wasn't used, but instead things like lemon juice. Paneer seems to be the first word that comes up, consistently along with a few other varities. Looks pretty tasty :P
When you reach Google level scale and income.

So, never.
Yes! Thank you for reminding me how it's called! I remember seeing it some time ago and it's absolutely in my wish list!
Did the candidate get an offer? Genuinely curious.

I had a basic screening call fail once because the expected answer was (in my perspective) more naive than my answer. I'd love it if generating curiosity were an interview +1.
> It's your argument.

The actual argument is that society has fundamentally changed after the invention of computers. People copy, transfer and even modify copyrighted works every day without even blinking. It happens on an even larger scale than and at a fraction of the cost of VHS tape copying. Copyright no longer makes sense in the 21st century: it's become natural to infringe.

The fact that copyright no longer guarantees artficial scarcity is just yet another sign that it should probably go away.
> The one drawback to it is that on iOS, the notifications suck. I have no control over what apps can send notifications to my watch; its all or nothing. Back when I had a Pixel on Android, I could control which apps could send notifications to my watch.

I have experience with Apple Watch since Series 3, and what you say about notifications isn’t true (if I’ve understood it right). If you go into the Watch app on the iPhone, then into Notifications and into the specific Apple app, you see a “Mirror my iPhone” and a “Custom” option. For third party apps, you see the list below (in the Notifications screen) with a toggle for mirroring your iPhone (or not). You can control this for each app. The scheme for third party apps is not (yet) as rich as it is for Apple apps, but you don’t have to suffer through every app on the iPhone where you have setup/allowed notifications also sending notifications to the watch.
Would be interested in some sources for this. My understanding is that anything non-Roman was barbarian by definition.
Incredibly cool. What is the visualisation in the background called?
Mormons use this as evidence that the Book of Mormon has ancient origins. In response, someone wrote an article sarcastically arguing that the chiasmus in dr seuss’ Green Eggs and Ham is evidence of the ancient origin of that book as well.
I read the first 100 or so pages of the Starkie translation, but lost it and later read I believe the Cohen translation in its entirety. I thought the Starkie version was clearly superior for the part I read.
$100m+ acquisitions are rare happen by luck or done by unrelated entities.

It's essentially legal money laundering with pre-negotiated kickback-style relationships where all parties are on the same side of the table regardless of how it looks to unaware.

So having connections - OR hiring someone to facilitate the transaction via pre-existing connections can greatly accelerate the process.
Mortgage rates did not exceed 20% at any time. They peaked in 1981 at 18.4%. They were over 18% for a few days only.

http://www.freddiemac.com/pmms/pmms30.html
>The CDC literally cited mask scarcity for medical workers as a reason the public shouldn't get masks.

As one of the reasons. They also (according to Time) gave the reason that they don't prevent you from getting Covid:

>The science, according to the CDC, says that surgical masks won’t stop the wearer from inhaling small airborne particles, which can cause infection.

>Doctors and health experts keep spreading the word. “Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS!” tweeted Dr. Jerome Adams, the U.S. Surgeon General, on Feb. 29. “They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!”

https://time.com/5794729/coronavirus-face-masks/
Louis Rossmann talked about a similar thing in a recent video: https://youtu.be/DEP_7_gx6M8
Bayesianism makes the problem much worse. Prior-hacking is easier and harder to detect than p-hacking, and Bayesianism has no way to exclude noise results at all. I'm constantly baffled when people suggest it as a solution to these problems.
I love that the comments are perfectly split between real analysis and buzzword mockery.

As an outsider to this whole movement, data lakes have always seemed like a FOMO product. Like they've heard about big data, but they don't have much data, so they just start piling up stuff until it's "big". Also they don't know what analysis they even want to do with it, so there's no structure.
COVID is contagious, its a systematic problem, not an individual one.

The IFR is very very low, if it were not super contagious, it wouldn't make the evening news.

Most of COVIDS problems result from the domino effect, so the issue is as much about 'not becoming domino' as it is the effects of the disease itself.
The gas stations stop being able to pump gas.
Same, finally after a year of random issues I asked that my accounts be closed. They ended up just cutting me bank checks for the entire balance but left the accounts open which triggered monthly dues and ultimately a negative balance they wanted to collect on. Took the branch manager over an hour to figure out how to fix everything.
How's this for some scientific evidence: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.30.21262866v... . Or https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v.... Or https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34384810/.
Okay, but they aren't and it's not
I suspect they knew well before the 1980s. [0][1]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lgzz-L7GFg

[1]: https://climate.nasa.gov/blog/447/unchained-goddess/
A "USB powered" anti mrna ... ionic... field generator. With magnets, colloidal silver and, uh... homeopathic copper. Yeah!
Logic does actually use auval these days, so things are improving. But this still doesn't catch the cases where the issue is something that auval can't or doesn't test (e.g stuff related to GUI interaction).

Plugin API design is an art, indeed. There was recently a brief bubble of activity on KVR among a number of independent plugin devs who found many things to dislike about VST3. A long discussion ensued, there was some talk of picking up LV2 instead, then it all evaporated and nothing was left. The last time the industry tried this was in around 2003, and nothing came (directly) of that effort either.
> The only thing, literally the only thing that will help you, is more homes.

We are constantly told that we should become as dense Manhattan so we…can become as affordable as Manhattan?

The big cities where people want to live are already dense, they could be denser but the limitations are infrastructure related (transit, road capacity, schools, water, etc…). It might make more sense to expand where people find desirable to live rather than focus how to cram more people into the Bay Area and LA area.
From the latest data it looks like the CDC was undercounting: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.30.21262866v...
My point was that im worried society doesnt have the willpower to create those laws just like many obese people dont have the will power to lose weight.
This essentially echos my experience anytime I have had to deal with Microsoft support.
It's unfathomable how bad their support is and the difficulty to get anything done even when presenting clear evidence/facts.
That the kind of thing you get with homegrown web servers and corporate deadlines. I see how a QA person wouldn’t test that case, it’s almost a base assumption that the header would be mandatory.
I said nothing about impossible. I was discussing whether 'we will discover some process in the universe as it is that favors matter over anti-matter' is a useful working hypothesis, and my claim is that it is not.

Of course, it is possible that one exists, just like expansion of space (which probably does exist, though apparently there are starting to be reasons to doubt that [0]) turns out to be a way to break conservation of energy or the speed of light.

[0] http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2021/09/new-evidence-agains...
Who commented that you don't imagine uses configuration files?
Rodrigo Santos admits to hiring ex-DBI director’s kids; other gems from lawsuit
> In 2007 the scientific team was dissolved and the equipment
> was transferred to a private company and partially liquidated.
> In 2008 the company was liquidated due to unprofitability
> and the site was abandoned.

Ah, the time-honored Russian method of privatisation known as "raspil"!

I remember reading a Soviet sci-fi novel some time in the 80s in which a pillar of super-rigid exotic matter escapes from a superdeep borehole and causes a short-circuit with the Earth's magnetosphere, destroying electric generators worldwide. It's interesting to read about the possible inspiration for that exotic disaster scenario!
It's clear he was talking about the latest stimulus proposal ($3.5 tn) pushed by the socialists
I empathize with the login process being clunky. That and I think they gave me $500 for putting in $5k for 3 months. I recall calculating it was something like a “46% annualized return or 1.10 ^ 4”, for 3 months, on 5k, with FDIC insurance to boot…
As an HSBC premier client with over $100k - I'm wondering what's going to change.

I liked their loose nature with international accounts - I opened Canadian and Italian bank accounts with little more than verbal asks.
No it doesn't. Israel and Singapore both have over 80% eligible vaxed, and the proportion of infectees who are vaxed is similar to the proportion of vaxed in the general population, suggesting vaxed are no less likely to get it. Moreover infection rates are greater after mass vaccination than before.
I had a friend deployed on the Comfort at the time and your understanding is completely wrong. The ship wasn't there to treat COVID cases (remember that it's an enclosed space with poor air ventilation).

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hospital-ship-usns-comf...

And why bring it up? Do you really expect us to forget that hospitals were overrun with COVID and so many people are dying that morgues are overrun?

You're trying to make a completely dishonest argument in saying that hospitals aren't overrun when they most certainly are. We can't even handle all the dead bodies. IT'S A CALAMITY IN AND OF ITSELF THAT WE CAN'T HANDLE ALL THE DEAD BODIES.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/louisiana-doctors-struggle-cov...

https://www.ksla.com/2021/08/25/covid-19-icu-beds-arkansas-n...
Co-author of the paper here.

I don't think your argument holds here at all. It's a common misconception to think high performance would require tight coupling of storage and query processing.

"Think columnar storage, high compression, vectorized query, materialized views, etc." All of those are possible in Lakehouse, and all but one (materialized views) are fully implemented on Databricks. And the remaining one isn't far away either (materialized views is really just incremental query processing + view selection, and neither problem has much to do with storage).
throwawayfear,

I share legitimate concerns about the Australian federal government's moves in recent years which show a lurch towards the surveillance state and authoritarianism. The points you raise which are related to regulations surrounding the response to COVID are needless fear-mongering however.

Yes, the rights of the individual with respect to movement and to assembly are important. But, so are the rights of citizens to not be infected and be put at risk of hospitalisation and even death.

So, a (temporary) regulation to limit the spread of COVID by reducing the number of people you can have in your home is acceptable in the same way that drivers are forced to drive at 40km/h around schools and playgrounds.

The great majority of Australia's citizenry understands this trade-off, thus supports the (predominantly) state government efforts during this time of COVID. And this support has been shown to provide health dividends; which, astonishingly, even the anti-lockdown Murdoch press seems to be grudgingly accepting:

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/cov...

Being in the middle of an epidemic changes the norms as far as regulations go, in much the same way that such norms are altered during times of war. Citizens know these changes are unpalatable, but also know the alternatives are worse.

EDIT: typo.
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Canada A&W and US A&W have been entirely separate and unrelated corporations since 1972.
I read that Apple had internally experimented with it and had the Health app publish blood pressure trends and not the actual measured values, and that employee feedback questioned the usefulness of it.

Quoting from the article (emphasis mine): [1]

> As opposed to the common methods that measure blood pressure using an inflatable cuff wrapped around the upper arm, Apple's system measures the speed of the wave of a heartbeat through a user's arteries using sensors. The Apple Watch would then show a user how their blood pressure is trending, but would not be able to provide a baseline systolic and diastolic blood pressure measurement, leading some Apple employees have to raise questions with managers over the usefulness of the feature.

[1]: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/01/multiple-new-apple-watc...