skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you saying advertising platforms revolve around criminal enterprise? And if so is that because of their reliance on untrusted code?
> Especially Amazon is exceptionally bad, Even if I sort by price it isn't guaranteed they really show them in order and even if they do, the filters/search terms are often so broad that sorting from cheap to expensive just shows 100 pages of crap first.

Because Amazon shows what 'it wants to sell to us' (even 'Recommended' varies with users) and not what 'we need'. They have enough data to guess what we need, but they use it to sell what they want with enough gimmicks(What others bought, Fake ratings/reviews etc.) to make the average person think that's what they need.
Scientists’ egos are key barrier to progress, says Covid vaccine pioneer
Which is why, in absolutely the same vein, there are regulations to incite people to consume less of those things - e.g. little branding, serious warnings and graphic pictures of the long term damage on tobacco packaging; a ban on advertisement for tobacco products; serious warnings and limitations on the advertisements for alcohol products; warnings/good advice on food-related advertisements, etc. etc.

And all of those, including the vaccination passports, work and achieve their goals.
I’m working on a book about publishing for technical people (still haven’t settled on a title). This project looks cool, and I like the approach, but I have a couple of notes:

- It looks like it has been a while since the last update, and lack of ePub output would be a dealbreaker for me.
- AsciiDoc doesn’t support the “interactive” part of this, but it is a text-based format with tools that will take you all the way through to publication
- AsciiDoc will also let you do indexes for print, which is something very few other tools like this will do

All of that said, I do like the idea of being able to make a book with interactive elements, but worry that doing so would require being very careful to make it so that those interactive bits aren’t required to get value from the book, if it will also be in print.
For crying out loud. Inductive reasoning. GTFO
That was before this injunction.
Ethics? FFS it's just the stupid Starbucks website... If you don't like the delay then just don't visit it
You are correct but so many people have been brainwashed and will refuse to accept that what they were told is a lie. Their very identity is at stake and will not abandon their position.
It's not realtime, some of the underlying models only get updated every 6 hours.
Welcome to Speed Week and a Waitless Internet
If it's safer than a person who does, why shouldn't it? I feel like you're just trolling at this point.
> I agree that under current law Apple can get away with demanding a 30% cut just because they made the hardware it runs on.

Fuck no. I as a consumer already paid $1000 for that hardware. They have zero claim to it.

The problem is they still get to hold the OS hostage.
In that case, diplomatic pressure and travel and trade restrictions would be necessary. One would have to treat the whole irresponsible country harboring an unsafe lab just like that unsafe lab.

I think this is also the real problem around Fauci's financing deception: He knowingly financed unsafe research in China, which not just gave them money but also the implicit acknowledgement that they are doing it right.
I shouldn't have made it sound like I was sneering at "web stuff" - just that people I work with who are meant to be doing other things have been regularly dragged into fairly menial "web stuff" (i.e. they're not specialists at that, and they're meant to be spending their time on other things). If you are doing a bunch of random firefighting then you don't get good at what your chosen specialty is (it would be similar to having a bunch of web specialists and making them do sysadmin chores half the time).
Unfortunately, every device that has Signal installed, also has a root kit installed: the play store.

If I use PGP-encrypted mail, I have to trust that the receiver is not stupid. If I use Signal, I have to trust that Google is not evil. Hmm...
Modafinil in the mid 00s university.

Pretty useless as a study drug, great for a party drug and sex enhancer. You can easily stay up for a week on it. A lot like meth in that way.
I also forgot some other critical points:

- Several top scientists stepped forward in the early days and claimed that the virus showed signs of being man-made (and they were censored and called conspiracy theorists).

- Some countries have been telling their citizens since the beginning that the virus was likely man-made (this was the official narrative in Russia since the beginning).

- Fauci initially denied the possibility that COVID19 could be man made and said that the 'lab leak theory' was a conspiracy theory.

- Later, Fauci conceded that the lab-leak hypothesis could not be dismissed. Evidence for this has been mounting and the media has done everything it can to avoid discussing this topic.
If you mention Lafayette to a French person, he’ll most likely think of the department store, not the person.
a long time ago, I considerd that book to be the closest thing to bible I had
Most of these facts have been out for awhile now but have been effectively suppressed by mainstream propaganda control.
Come up with a reasonable objective bar to pass before subjecting someone to confinement and medical treatment against their will. Right now police are all too willing to basically arrest someone off of some nebulous accusation. It should be treated no different than the standard of proof for an arrest and should face the same repercussions if done wrongly, both for police and an accuser.

Make it contingent on prompt medical evaluation. The current timeframes for involuntary commitment in certain states can leave people confined on a Friday afternoon and waiting to be evaluated until Monday morning. If it's urgent enough for involuntary confinement it's urgent enough to have a medical professional oncall for prompt evaluation.

The medical necessity of all involuntary medical treatment should have to be substantiated in front of a judge, even if the patient is released before statutory deadlines would have required a judge to approve continued involuntary commitment. The medical facility should have to explain their actions e.g. "On Feb 12th at 5:12AM patient started scratching the skin off of their left arm (Exhibit A) which necessitated the administration of 10 mg of Midazolam intramuscularly". Any medication should also be limited to the shortest duration feasible until a court order is issued, no depot injections of Haldol that will last a month.

No financial liability for the patient. The state doesn't have to foot the bill for all of it, you could mandate that insurance picks up the tab and leave the state to pay for only the uninsured. It's profoundly unjust to not only deprive someone their bodily autonomy but also saddle them with a mountain of debt with no recourse even if the involuntary commitment turned out to be unjustified. If it came out of municipal budgets maybe police departments would be more diligent about making sure that involuntary commitment was necessary instead of using it like a blunt tool to pawn off a tiresome person onto someone else.
You can't.

(Someone needed to tell them.)
Correct. Sorry, I had originally typed 767 and then in an edit swapped as everyone else said 747 and I thought perhaps I was having some sort of Mandela Effect going on. The size and speed differential holds true - a cruising speed extended-range 767 is much faster and larger than the equivalent, landing-approach 707 the building was “rated” for.
What tools should I use to dump filesystem from Android device and scan it for malware?
I've been told that few of those little "independent" gas stations own their gas pumps themselves; the operations get handled by a bigger outfit that pays the owner some pittance for the space. The insurance and environmental regulations on keeping a fuel tank, even without dispensing to the public, are often rather heavy and vary from town to town.
> but I do use macports as it is arguably closer to the "feel" and stability of something like yum.

That is 'cos it was developed by the same developers, hired by Apple, who also created the ports system on FreeBSD.
They (Abbyy) in my understanding are a good example of a lazy company, sigh. They find something valuable and extract the most out of the franchise with the minimun effort. A bit like Lastpass.
You can't deny they both excel at some stuff in their field but I still get pushed away by the lack of care/generosity.
> I imagine we'll see some monumental changes in Chinese lab safety after this, independent of whether or not they believe it came from a lab.

No, we won't. That would be the party admitting it was wrong before, which can never happen outside of a coup.
Yeah I can share some thoughts. Graduated with a BCS degree in 2017 for context.

I had friends then on all sides of the spectrum (in terms of "study drug" usage). Two most common drugs going around were Adderall and Vyvanse. Lot of people took them but I would divide them into 3 groups

* Group 1: These folks are prescribed it, they usually take it as prescribed or cut back their intake so they can sell the excess.

* Group 2: These folks were not prescribed it but took them all the time. Because there are so many people in Group 1 on campus, finding these study drugs was really easy. This group took them for every test, every remotely hard thing, and this was largely the same group that abused them outside of class (don't take an Addy and go drinking, bad things happen)

* Group 3: These folks are also not prescribed it, but they take them very seldomly, usually for finals. I was in this group, taking a handfull over the course of 2-3 semesters as a Junior and Senior. Often times when taking them you're not taking them to "study" or "concentrate" but to just get work done and stay awake.

As someone who took them every now and again, I could never understand how someone could take them regularly or even semi regularly. I had the usual side effects, loss of appetite, feeling like (very awake) zombie, and just the general feeling like you're on a drug bender even though you took just one.
Good question! I hear it all the time.

This is also like saying. I want to learn how to build an app, is there any way to bypass the annoying part of having a database.

And like saying, is there anyway to bypass writing a front-end user interface.

It’s part of the stack! Just learn it, like you learned everything else. Once you learn CSS and the box model. You will find that it is easier than every other concept in web development.
I agree with you on that, which is why I am trying to become proficient in Emacs!!

I've been using IntelliJ for many years, but I really want something lighter and emacs is perfect for that: I use it on a Raspberry Pi and it runs as fast as on my more powerful laptop.

I use the GUI version of emacs though... I did try the terminal version but it just doesn't seem to make much sense to me (I miss the much more nicely rendered diffs, images etc) when I can use TRAMP to edit files on any machine (as long as you can ssh into it).
That's a good way to start WWIII.

WWII started like that. To make things simple, countries who lost WWI were destabilized and reparations were a big reason. It promoted the raise of nationalist, revengeful leaders like Hitler and Mussolini. You know the rest.

They carefully avoided making the same mistake after WWII.
> I assert that there are some critically unusual things about this virus that make it look extremely different from the viruses that "happen all the time."

What are these critically unusual things?
Certainly academics have used amphetamines since their discovery, but it was my understanding people like Erdős were anomalies. Assuming the tweet is true, stims are being used by an unprecedentedly high proportion of students. Perhaps there are no ill health effects at mild to moderate doses, but I just don’t think they’ve been used widely enough until recently to definitively draw conclusions either way.
They have a hardware RNG but it sure isn't based on a reverse biased diode. They claim to be ring oscillator based, though their operation is not independently verifiable.

Their design-- using AES as a whitening postprocessing step-- would make it extremely easy for them to return something like an aes stream based just on a counter and secret key as a result of an almost undetectable attack.
Its wild that THAT is where the line is wrt giving drugs to children, particularly in the context of giving kids incredibly powerful, schedule-class stimulants
>This sounds harsh but not everyone deserves to be heard all of the time- myself included.

The exact same rules don't quite apply to real life, but they make for a nice comparison: in a small group of people (say, 4-5 people) no formal rules are needed. Generally, everyone will have a chance to speak and be heard. Imagine a a much larger group, say, 300 people. There's no way everyone can meaningfully be heard. In the real world no one goes into a group of 300 people to communicate with those 300 people. Usually there is a speaker or performer communicating them as an audience. Even if those 300 people wanted to set aside the time to listen to every audience member, it'd be meaningless: no one would remember anything meaningful from most of the 300 different speakers.

In any case, it should be obvious that group dynamics and the need for structure are modified by group size. A very large online community can never be intimate, and perfectly healthy communities can be irreparably damaged simply be in influx of people.
I feel your pain. Check out poetry if you haven’t seen it already as a modern alternative to pip.
Why the military needs Silicon Valley, now more than ever
I make MVPs in the style of GMail, Google Calendar, etc, using Google’s ‘Material Design’ style.

I bolt together pre-made components.

No CSS required if you’re just bolting together standard components like lists, buttons, menus, and images with accompanying text cards.

My favourite implementation of this is Callstack’s Paper because I can use it for websites and apps.

Demo:

https://react-native-web-paper-example.netlify.app/

Getting started:

git clone git@github.com:callstack/react-native-paper.git

yarn bootstrap

yarn example web
It's still early. We will end up finding the truth.

The World Health Organization declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020 and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. We are getting into the last quarter of 2021. I think we will end up knowing the truth for 3 reasons:

- The more time passes without finding evidence of the original animal host, in China or any other country, the more likely the lab theory becomes.

- Lovers quarrel, people betray people, and persons who can't talk at the moment, after a few years, decide they have more to gain by talking.

- It is now known, and this has not been denied, that
US Funded non profits were doing gain-of-function
research in Wuhan:

https://theintercept.com/2021/09/09/covid-origins-gain-of-fu...
bravo, super fun and impressive work.
I suggest looking at www.magicearth.com and contacting their support.
Meanwhile hospitals fill with the unvaccinated...
Here's what I do: every time someone (usually a junior though not always) complains about CSS being boring or not worth their precious time, I tell them to come up with a solution to render all his boring stuff that no developer worth their salt would do because CSS is for the noobs, right?

I tell them they can use 2d canvas, pixijs, threejs or anything that would work in a browser. Amusingly, I haven't had a single taker in a decade
It depends on the MVP specification and your budget.

If your MVP requires a good design with good UX, and you have the budget, someone else can do it for you.

If your MVP does not require a good design or good UX, you can just download some random example and use that.

Keep in mind that using CSS, creating a design and creating a good UX are not the same thing. You can create a terrible UX with a pretty design and lots of cool CSS... Just like you can create an amazing UX and design with minimal CSS.
> Does that mean the law doesn't apply to them?

The ePD is notoriously ignored and unenforced [1]. It is also not clear what part of the law a simple delay would violate. (Most of the sparing enforcement has been around dropping cookies after someone opts out.)

[1] https://petsymposium.org/2019/files/papers/issue2/popets-201... Figure 5
Linux Phones [are less secure than mainstream Android]
My DBA to DevOps Journey
"lower mortality"

Try nearly zero. Much lower than other common pathogens like flu and RSV. Which is why the UK is not recommending mass vaccination of teenagers aged 12-15, or any children younger.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58438669

This is why many argue that the focus on covid in children is largely about the irrational fears of parents and educators who have not seriously looked at the data.
Yeah I had this theory too and was recently introduced to the term. Turns out no idea is original.

This site is pretty good: https://anacyclosis.org/portfolio/what-is-anacyclosis/

Conservatives believe the USA is in the early stages of collapse. I happen to agree with them.
Ah, netsplits were so eventful. I still remember the split-wars where groups would wait for a split to happen and gain operator permissions only to take over a channel on the merge [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC_takeover#Riding_the_split
Interestingly enough this may mean that the electric car revolution may not hurt gas stations as much as you might think - as the convenience store aspect will still exist. It’ll be interesting to see (and I wonder if there’s been any studies on this).
Yeah, ethics touches everything. Might surprise you, but it’s true.
I thought this was important to post here, given the amount of people that claim to have switched to Linux Phones after Apple's CSAM debacle. The author recommends using mainstream iOS/Android or GrapheneOS on Pixel Phones. Here's his overview of Android security: https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/android.html

I also slightly editorialized the title, since it is extremely non-descriptive of article contents.
> sorry for the appeal to authority

You don't need to apologize for your knowledge and experience. We are not engaged in a roman-style rhetoric class where the mandate is to build all arguments upon a set of rules we never agreed to.

The wikipedia list of common logical fallacies is not a guideline to rational discourse in the 21st century.
> On vim and emacs on the other side you have simply no way at all to figure something out from the baseline

Do you actually know emacs? It's the most well documented application I've ever used. And it's famous for exactly that and it has a "culture" of including INFO pages for everything. I completely disagree with you on that.

You can use emacs like you use VS Code, clicking around and letting lsp-ui render those colourful help popups everywhere... I agree it's a bit more difficult to install the right packages, but that's the only difference I see between them. Once they're installed, it's basically the same, you need to just "know" how to do what you need and the tool won't magically teach you.
This argument can justify anything on that basis, from fraud to murder or slavery. By withdrawing your services to do it, you reduce supply, increasing prices and providing a financial penalty for trying to enact it.
I understand the struggle and agree with most of the posters here. Just take the time to learn CSS. Javascript, HTML, and CSS can't be avoided if you want a web project.

You get infinite choices on the server (choosing Javascript might seem like a good idea, but its probably going to be the one decision holding you back the most. Ruby (Rails) PHP (Laravel) or Python (Django) would actually probably speed up your development even though you need to learn a new language to use them) but when it comes to the browser its though 3 technologies.

Since you chose React, Material-UI is a great solution but Bootstrap works wonders too. These are CSS frameworks that give you lots of working widgets out of the box that you can just tweak.

Number one best piece of advice for noobie CSS development is to BE EXPLICIT. Write 1,000 more lines of CSS then you have to because you are not trying to be clever and use the cascading nature of css to its full advantage. Instead take every HTML component on your page and give it its own class like "p-tag-45" and then write the css for just that component. It will take you longer, but things will behave the way you want them to. And as you advance your knowledge you can start refactoring it with smarter css where smarter means your web page looks and behaves exactly the same with 200 lines of css instead of 600 lines of css.

Good luck! Most people fail to ship their project. Just get it done and ship it and you are already head above water.
> Researchers freely enter and leave without quarantine, have contact with an unsuspecting population, go to normal hospitals, infect other patients there.

Just to be clear, which/what labs are you referring to here ?
A $20k consensus challenge based on TigerBeetle'sViewstamped Replication pro
Minisforum HX90 reviews reveal quality control and false marketing issues
The party are many things, many of them bad. But they do not like global pandemics. And I expect many of them are quite elderly (eg, Xi Jingping is 68) and feel personally threatened by exotic new diseases.

I reckon they'll act.
>No the tourists have to put up with YOUR shit.

If by shit you mean the law, yes. That's what you have to do when you visit another country - even though a lot of people don't act like it truth be told.

Psst, come here, I'll drop you a quick tip: if they don't want to abide by the laws and mandates... don't come?

I don't get why you're ok to enforce your choice onto others, yet others can't enforce their choices onto you just because you're a tourist and we should welcome you.

>You are immune for fucks sake, how hard is it to actually be welcoming and say: It's ok for unvaccinated to enter a restaurant.

Uh, I don't think you can even enter the country without vaccine passport or valid PCR negative test. So you have that for starters, and if you choose to not be vaccinated what's the problem of taking another PCR test to go to restaurants?

>We can live without implicitly checking everyone. We don't need to be like that and can act like normal decent humans again! Is that so hard?

You just need to realize this is temporary, and the faster we go through this, the better - that was the whole game plan. Some people are opting to get infected without vaccines, that'll just delay things, but the end will come eventually.

Also we check people on regular basis: drivers licenses, IDs, tickets, etc.

Human decency is alive and well, and the fact that 87% of a country population, so far, adhered to a cause to protect themselves and the next person is the proof of that.
There’s some really cool features about lab-like color spaces. Particularly, the ability to quickly find, localize and transmit data (from with lower error rates):

https://austingwalters.com/chromatags/

In almost every computer vision class I took, switching to the LAB color space and rerunning algorithms also still always led to improvement.

The real trick in my mind is trying to do this via sensors and / or hardware.