skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was at UF they often didn't give an A+ every semester or even every year, even though it had always been considered top attainment by an outstanding student. It could not bring your GPA above 4.0 anyway.

New College, Nova University, and FAU were considered to be the destinations for the experimental high school students who attended the original Nova from 7th through 12th grade. The high school had a bizarre stanine grading system that could not directly translate to mainstream ratings.

This was years before they invented "Middle School" for everyone else to replace Junior High.
A SKU barcode is unique and is issued by a central authority (gs1) but you can always decide to change the title, pictures and even product category, and you can even have multiple suppliers for a single SKU.

You are right that there should be a new SKU, the issue is just that it’s not in the sellers interest as they will lose all their history and reviews which effectively means that if you have a top selling product you have to start again from scratch (which if you are an established top seller in reality means you just lose all your sales and go to the bottom of the listings).
That's exactly what they're saying. Look at the first paragraph.
Yep. Got it in one.
It is available over IPFS. Do you have a client installed and running?

EDIT: if you do have IPFS and the companion extension then libgen.crypto should resolve to something like `http://libgen.crypto.ipns.localhost:8080/` which currently works as advertised.
Given this is an app for tacical voting over a 2 day period (which has now passed) all the adversary needs to do is block it for a couple of days. Dns blocking cloudflare for 2 days would pretty much stop this in it's tracks.

(You are right about not requiring completely unique urls per user by the way).
Agreed, there are a number of counterpoints never considered.

Another one: Israel population is 20x more dense than Sweden, which naturally would lead to more spread
https://versus.com/en/israel-vs-sweden
I admire the work that has been put into this browser. Seems nice so far and am looking forward to where it goes in the future.
It's "smart" when compared to the previously employed strategy that was "vote for anyone, but United Russia candidate". Now the idea is to consolidate opposition votes for a single candidate in every electoral district that has the best chance to win over the main governmental candidate.

The list of candidates has very little to do with ideological support for the actual candidates on it. Most of them I'd say are crooks and shills themselves, but they are not THE crooks and shills the government wants to see in the State Duma.
Cool but how much does one of those servers cost... 120k?

Pretty crazy stuff though, would love to see something similar from cloudflare eng. since those workloads are extremely broad vs serving static bits from disk.
Really interested to see the mental gymnastics it takes to argue that implementing new features for the Web Platform--in open, freely-available standards that are negotiated with all the major stakeholders, including Mozilla, who is allowed to implement them whenever they feel like stopping chasing after shiny baubles and get back to developing Web browsers--is "abusing [Google's] near-monoply", versus Apple not implementing standards to push developers off the Web and into the App Store.

But sure, yeah, let's keep the Web Platform at early 2000s standards. Let's make everyone download apps from a small set of walled garden app stores. Let's force developers to submit to those app store review processes and potentially have their content blocked for whatever opaque whims the store has today (ever changing, with little chance for appeal!). And then they can just snoop on their users through the local, natively installed app, that has all the permissions granted under the sun because users don't read installation prompts. That's so much better for privacy.
> the government paid a huge amount of money to people to not work for a long time

They did? I remember three teeny tiny payments. Certainly not enough to live on for a long time.
AFAIK no one claimed it was "virtually impossible". Just more cumbersome than Chromium since it wasn't designed with embedding in mind from get go.
That's a cool story about Chris Malachowsky donating $80M for the supercomputer. Chris is one of the cofounders of Nvidia and a UF alum. I met him in 2012 when I went to school there (he did a talk then). Very approachable, down-to-earth guy.
Which are formed by people with biases who are attracted to other people with biases. It is turtles all the way down.
Until you want do something completely distributed that requires trust. The runtime isn't great, but then again, what runtime is better that meets those requirements? ACH is far slower than many blockchain solutions, for example.
Oil Has Multi-Line Commands and String Literals
The mind is its own place (2019) [pdf]
> its quite a stretch to claim that their actions enjoys wide support

The same rules that got previous governments into power got this one in as well. If this government cannot legitimately claim to be the voice of the Indian people, no one else can either.

> Police too needs to be removed from the ambit of politicians.

Who would they report to? Some magically incorruptible entity?

If you don't believe in the 'will of the people' and further believe that most voters are stupid and easily misled, what you are essentially arguing is that democracy does not work in India and that it should be replaced by the rule of a group of "enlightened" but unelected people who are not answerable to the people they govern: an oligarchy.
Important Caveat: As you implied, this is a Flask analog... ie it's minimal, and is missing features most websites use. Unlike Flask, there aren't great third-party add-ons for these, so you'll end up doing wheel reinvention for websites.

Actix is nice for non-website servers that don't need auth, email, templating, admin, auto migrations etc.
Sadly the lies, skewed narratives and new kinds of ideologies are abundant in media, politics and counter-culture this day.

Here are a couple of key concerns that I have with the data and the anti-covid measures :
1) There is no baseline. How many people die with a postive PCR-test for influenza or other coronaviruses each year? Did we ever test millions of sick people?
2) How did the morbidity actually change after the spread of Sars-CoV-2? If you want to measure this you need to compute some age-adjusted probability that people will die in a given year. Data from germany suggests that although ~100k people died, the probability to die didn't change much or at least changed around a typical baseline for the last 10 years.
3) If age-adjusted morbidity didn't change then PCR-tests measure natural morbidity to a large extend.
4) Nobody is talking about the negative impact of the lockdown. To name a few : less births in several countries in the EU, inflation, +60% cases of anorexia in german youth, +10% increased tabacco usage in germany, no proper schooling for 2 years, social cooling in general, ... I could go on endlessly.
5) The language changed. There are hundrets of new words invented around a common frame of reality in the last year. Everybody uses these words that nobody would understand nor use <=2019. This is very worrysome in my opinion because it shows a radical change in ideology of the population that goes way beyond a pandemic and shows changes in mass psychology.
Enjoying the slides! Is there a small typo on slide 17?

>Strategy: Keep as much of our 200GB/sec of bulk data off the NUMA fabric [as] possible
Famous for Being Famous
I've had at least 10 situations where Facebook or YouTube recommend me an ad or video based on a real-life conversation which took place around 1 minute before.
> I mean Florida and Texas went to extreme ‘do nothing at all’ positions, and the results were not good.

Texas (23rd overall; 211/100k) and Florida (10th overall; 237/100k) are both mid-pack amongst US states for Covid mortality rate, even before adjusting by age (if you adjust by age, Florida, in particular, looks better, because of the number of elderly people who move there to retire):

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covi...

Among those states doing substantially worse:

For Florida: New Jersey (306/100k), New York (281/100k), Massachusetts (267/100k)

For Texas: all of the above, plus Connecticut (237/100k), Pennsylvania (235/100k), and maybe Illinois (212/100k)

All of these are states whose governors imposed stringent restrictions on daily life. Florida and Texas have certainly been intensely covered by the press, but the reality of the situation is not accurately reflected by the intensity of the news coverage.

--

EDIT: Others are quick to point out that the distribution of mortality over time is different for these states, which is true. But you also cannot leap to the conclusion that the most recent differences in mortality are due to policy decisions made months ago. Florida saw >60% of its Covid-related deaths prior to March 2021 (the advent of mass vaccination), but it lifted most Covid restrictions starting in October 2020:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/florida/

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/florida-lifts-covid-19-restric...

Any claim that New York (for example) did far better during the pre-vaccination period has to contend with the fact that 87% of its mortality happened prior to vaccination, despite substantially greater restrictions on daily life:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/new-york/

One could argue that NY is a special case, since most of its mortality happened in spring 2020. But that isn't true for, say, Illinois, which had the vast majority of its deaths in the winter of 2020, and still saw 85% of its total mortality prior to March 1:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/illinois/

There is no simple narrative here. Seasonality, climate and chance (i.e. who gets hit first) all play a large role in how states do. People are far too quick to attribute success or failure to a single factor.
Many people alive in the 60s will have died by now, and the rest will have had 50-60 extra years of life experience. They're hardly the same, except in a very strict "person with the same name as then" sense.
The licensing around post-8 JVMs is neither confusing nor scary. If you're confused or scared by it, that is entirely on you, i'm afraid.
When I was a child the NFL was still drinking Kool-Aid, and only the Gators had Gatorade.

Other schools were envious and there was pressure to release it. It's hot down there in the SEC.

By the time I got to the University they were starting to rake in the bucks on the Gatorade and there was an emerging culture where there was widespread pressure to "invent new things or new ways of making the same old things".

It didn't usually work out and has long since faded, but it was an exciting time, not exactly shared by other universities, even some of the most prestigious.

This was quite strong in the Chemistry department where competition was very fierce in this respect, which could be seen as unsustainable at the time.

So when I was still a teenager I realized it was already too late and there would have to be a way to own my own inventions other than academic research, that had to be crossed off the list early.

It looked like a pretty smooth track but it was not headed where I wanted to go.

Therefore no PhD, no Bell Labs, no IBM, etc.

I forked early without resources which always seems premature, but in hindsight it was almost already too late for entrepreneurial effort alone to allow me to later launch without outside capital.

Interestingly, none of the other most lucrative university royalties today are nearly as many decades old as Gatorade.
The shape of dinosaur eggs (2021)
At the start of the pandemic there was little-to-no testing in Sweden, but since autumn 2020 it has expanded and scaled significantly. We have drive-thru tests as well as home-delivered tests, free of charge. I used them a number of times, and I could usually book a test 30 mins prior. For non PCR tests, i.e. antigen tests, they are available in all pharmacies, and most people have stocked up on those as well.

Regarding contact tracing - I'm not aware of anything, but Telia does check aggregate people movement across different regions, and report findings to the health authorities, see https://business.teliacompany.com/crowd-insights
Or, like some of today's tools it could ask you for confirmation of an execution plan before doing anything.
Show HN: ScreenDrop extension to record your screen and share
I stopped watching stuff, but full cgi movies (say after the avatar tech was built), often lack grounding. Since everything is possible, there's too much going on.
The original paper refers to specifically to economic elites, but this article quite strangely redefines this group as a credentialist/cultural elite that is motivated by status and influence within bureaucracies and favors socialism. This seems to be a description of the author’s personal experiences within his university, but it ends up being a significant misrepresentation of the actual paper, which refers to an economic elite, where support for socialism is lowest.

It’s quite strange to see a paper about economic power exerting control over government policy being summarized as “elites support harsh, intrusive, and punitive business taxes, regulations, and legal liability.”
The breakup implies the latter. Most people think in Ends, not Means.
There is no video for this available yet AFAIK, but for those interested there is a 2019 EuroBSDcon presentation online from the same speaker that focuses on the TLS offloading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9fbofDUUr4

The slides here look great. I'm looking forward to watching the recording.
Laughably wrong.
Of course that’s the mitigation strategy, but my point is that the usual currying syntax inherently special-cases the first parameter, and in x% of the situations that’s not what you want. From a language-design point of view it just feels awkward.
It's actually really easy to version control SQL migrations, they are just plain text. It's what application developers who use databases have been doing for a long, long time. Check out Ruby on Rails migrations.
Which is exactly your point! The uncertainty/confusion is now super high due to Oracle's actions. It's literally fear, uncertainty, and doubt.

It's a bit like GPL and other open source licensing in the early days ("better not touch GPL code at all") rather than the now commonplace "Ahh, yes. No to AGPL, but GPL is fine since we won't distribute it. We'd prefer APL" practices.

I absolutely believe that experts in licensing understand the OpenJDK / Corretto / Microsoft's OpenJDK distro and so on. But it really did go from "yeah, openjdk is no problem" to "hmm, do we understand this?".
Simply because the media are promoting government interventions. Why? Because without authoritarian practices such as lockdowns, then health passes, it would be impossible to mandate vaccine(s) injection. The influence of mainstream media I would hope doesn't have to be demonstrated. Who influences them dictates the side they are taking, and that is to mandate and control billions of people's health and collect public money to provide scalable and very profitable treatments.

Quite a few names involved in the industry of vaccines have been campainging for years to get inoculations worldwide, for unnamed diseases, but announcing that it was coming. Here we have a highly contagious flu disease that kills a ratio of the infected people, the perfect horse to ride.

Never in my life would I have believed that nearly all media, governments and then even people to become obsessed, hysterical and imposing their views on people's health.

Let's not forget what this virus is. A highly transmissible bug that has a 3 to 6% chance to be lethal, in an aging population, with significant rates of diabetes, obesity and cardio vascular issues.

Of course the media wants to forget about Sweeden. It went against their objective to increase health control on citizens.
Rolls-Royce's all-electric aircraft completes 15-minute maiden voyage
Alternative way to count the vowels in Kotlin:

val numVowels = countVowels(getDTO()?.string ?: "")
Well, it does appear that the Canadian government only discovered that scientist was actually a Major-General in the Chinese army after he sent something like 15 vials of biomatter to the (one and only) Wuhan Institute of Virology without authorization.

The extent of this leak also appears to be under a "Public Health Gag Order", presumably to hide the ineptitude of Canadian security procedures and to avoid public panic at how extensive this leak is. [0]

I only heard about this story after the public health official responsible for the whole thing refused to appear before the Canadian government and give details on what happened. [1]

[0] https://www.visiontimes.com/2021/09/17/canada-bsl4-virology-...

[1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-president-o...
The money quote:

> The findings highlight the variety of ways the multiple father figures may have been helping the mom support her baby, whether it was providing food, housing, childcare or financial benefits," Bullock said. "For the women with only one partner who abused them, the infant's father, the father may not have provided any physical or financial support or played an active role in the child's life. It can be difficult for busy, single moms struggling to make ends meet to provide the toys and stimulation their infants need to reach crucial developmental

This really has nothing to do with domestic violence. It’s just a question of whether the woman is well-supported, or not. An absent father would probably have exactly the same outcomes as an abusive one, at least per this study.
"You don't need any school to be a Plumber, or Builder"

Well, I'd certainly not let anyone with no schooling work on my home, especially so if they cannot read or write.

How the hell would they read instructions or building regulations?
Quoting from the article:

"What we need is a model of computation and logic. And with that model, we should be able to model the real world. And we need a model that is time tested."

Immediately followed by:

"The paradigm which ticks all of the boxes in our values list and is time tested is Functional Programming."

Functional programming may indeed be a paradigm that ticks all the boxes. However, the paradigm that first comes to mind when speaking about logic is Logic Programming. If you need a model of computation and logic, how about using logic programming?
Did you go on unemployment benefits?
What’s wrong with doing everything on the backend in epoch time then treating display to humans as a rendering + localization problem?
I played Sega GT and hated it. I thought the controls weren't great and the graphics bad compared to it's counterparts.

I thought the true gems were Test Drive Lemans and Ferrari 355 challenge.
Test Drive Lemans was a Great racing game with some of the best graphics on the Dreamcast. IGN did a story on it back in 2001 I believe and the Melbourne studio said they programmed it in Assembly to extract as much as they could out of the Dreamcast.
F355 was not slouch either. There are other great racing games on the Dreamcast but I can't personally say Sega GT was one of them.
Because you're not going to get awkward questions if people found out you had a mastercard, but you are going to get it if you had a onlyfans credit card.
It would only work, if the penalty for employing the illegal-to-hire were severe enough.

As others have pointed out already, this is already true today: We use undocumented-workers, recent immigrants who don’t know better, and prison labor.

Recently, prison labor use has been on the rise.
No, 400Gb/s == 50 GB/s

With software kTLS, the data is moved an and out of memory 4x, so that's 200GB/s of bandwidth needed to serve 50GB/s (400Gb/s) of data.
For decades people have fought hard against automation or against certain industries shutting down (e.g. coal miners fighting against renewable energy pushes). People are afraid not just about losing their current job but also of the total number of available jobs falling. UBI is a potential solution to this issue. People won't fight those kinds of changes if they know they'll still be able to survive perfectly well.
You get:

- CHECK constraints, e.g. you can make it impossible to misspell a VM type

- Type checks (depending on the database engine), e.g. you can't accidentally put a string where it wants an integer

- Foreign key checks so you can't delete some resource if others depend on it

- Atomic commits so the entire infra update happens in one shot or not at all.
Which is why I said the second is profitable …

But it brings the risks of those who don’t pay back which they do their best to avoid but regulatory rules come into play
Perhaps? If not individually then collectively, whether as motivation toward a cheaper food supply, or as a caution to those who are not poor but only a couple of defiant decisions from losing what they've gained. It seems counterintuitive, but GPs rule of thumb may hold even there. I think the problem is in comparing a few wealthy individuals or cabals (in control) to an enormous number of real people (each without much control at all). Poverty is negative power under the same hierarchy responsible for controlling positive power.
Or LA, Seattle, Portland, San Diego, Detroit, Baltimore, DC, Chicago, Minneapolis........
If your internet provider, phone operator, advertisement agency,
newspaper and TV station all decide to "not help you broadcast your speech" then you have no speech.

Now, i know this is crazy, what if someone 'encourages' them to make the correct decision regarding not helping you? Someone with loads of money and inflience, that doesn't like your speech? Like an oil company, sensoring an activist, is that still legal?
The reason Costco is able to do this is because of the "buyer" team of Costco. There have been many articles talked about Costco's secret recipe. I believe Sam's club did the same to some extent though not as good as Costco's team.

Amazon operated on a complete different model, more leaning towards ebay than Costco. Comparing Amazon to Costco is like orange and apple. Amazon's model let the 3rd party seller resolve the market and quality, well, didn't quite work out when met with Chinese sellers who're from a society of bottom line driven all the way business philosophy.

Unfortunately, Walmart has followed Amazon foot steps but fortunately not quite enough to run into Amazon's problem.
When did you try to get tested? I booked a test in June 2020 and got it done the same day. Same thing this spring, I started feeling symptoms around lunch and had no problem getting a test done in the afternoon.
Yes. The statement 'makes more money from rent than from sales of food' is dubious if the rent is paid by food sales.
>so that in the event of a McDonald’s going rogue they can revoke the lease and end the franchise

Why they can't revoke the franchise agreement?
And there's nothing preventing an IaSQL tool from doing that. Just depends on the implementation.
Go hang out at some fundraiser dinners and other places politicians, specifically the kind of things that federal congresscritters, state representatives and governors speak at. Bring a camera and write a blog post about it and they'll often let you in as a journalist for free, and might even feed you.

We do have a representative democracy, and a shockingly effective one. It represents the people who can drop $50k + annually on political donations. My time in that world is some time in the past so I'm probably badly underestimating the amount.

Not that these elected representatives don't consider the actual constituents and citizenry, but they listen to their donor list. With all the goodwill and the best people having the best intentions, the system would still have flaws; and these people are just people like the rest of us.