skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In December 2019, China reported the first cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19). This disease, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome‐related coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2), has developed into a pandemic. To date it has resulted in ~6.5 million confirmed cases and caused almost 400,000 related deaths worldwide.

Unequivocally, the COVID‐19 pandemic is the gravest health and socio‐economic crisis of our time. In this context, numerous questions have emerged in demand of basic scientific information and evidence‐based medical advice on SARS‐CoV‐2 and COVID‐19. Although the majority of the patients show a very mild, self‐limiting viral respiratory disease, many clinical manifestations in severe patients are unique to COVID‐19, such as severe lymphopenia and eosinopenia, extensive pneumonia, a “cytokine storm” leading to acute respiratory distress syndrome, endothelitis, thrombo‐embolic complications and multiorgan failure. The epidemiologic features of COVID‐19 are distinctive and have changed throughout the pandemic.

Vaccine and drug development studies and clinical trials are rapidly growing at an unprecedented speed. However, basic and clinical research on COVID‐19‐related topics should be based on more coordinated high‐quality studies. This paper answers pressing questions, formulated by young clinicians and scientists, on SARS‐CoV‐2, COVID‐19 and allergy, focusing on the following topics: virology, immunology, diagnosis, management of patients with allergic disease and asthma, treatment, clinical trials, drug discovery, vaccine development and epidemiology.

Over 140 questions were answered by experts in the field providing a comprehensive and practical overview of COVID‐19 and allergic disease."

PDF: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7323196/pdf/ALL...
Except, of course, in the article's headline, which is: Royal Holloway music professor quits over cancel culture.
It's the original head line of the article. Stop trolling.
Do I understand it right that he quit because he thinks schools _might_ cancel Beethoven and Wagner according to his interpretation of antiracism?
"mainly that organizations which provide assets for free to employees/students are allowed to stipulate conditions of use"

1. They are not 'free', they are paid for with taxes

2. stop equating employees and children, it's daft, any judge would throw out such argument without a second thought

3. there are currently like 30 active lawsuits against schools and states for spying. The case law is not set on this matter, it's a new phenomenon and now is the chacne to set the recond strain.

4. Just because you put 'your house now belongs to me' or 'you are now my slave' into terms and condition doesn't make it legally valid.
This will only work if I have phone removed for a few days...
> Identities cannot be linked

Yes, they can. Quite obviously they can and all it takes is even a modicum of cooperation. We have already extensively seen corporations love to cooperate when it comes to compromising information that belongs to you.
Good point. When this happens I'll be dead though, and so will be those devices. If we both turn out to be immortal I'll need to provide a firmware upgrade with a new CA root, possibly 10 years or so ahead of the expiration so every device has a chance to auto-upgrade.
Two Lems for the price of one! What could be better? One serious and the other basically telling SF folk stories, mocking other SF and inventing possible worlds, like Vonnegut did with his Kilgore Trout. Also ‘The Cyberiad’ with Trurl and Klapaucius is somewhat similar to the Ijon Tichy cycle.
> With goto in your language that guarantee is gone: you might have to understand the entire rest of the program in order to figure out any one function.

The same is true, to a greater degree, for function calls.

In eg. C goto:s are function scope.
Guilty as charged. I mean, look at it.
SSH is TOFU.
Check out https://www.pyweb.io/
Show HN: Blank – A unique escape room, text based adventure game
Hey All,

Hope you're all managing through these tough times.

Lock downs have been pretty rough for all of us, no doubt, and I'm sure inspiration hasn't exactly been easy.

I used to commute 1 hour into work and 1 hour back via the train.

That used to give me an isolated 2 hour window of creative outlet.

I would use that time to create games and side projects without any distraction.

Being a father of 2, working and home schooling in between has proved tricky.

I had an itch to create something and after researching lots of ideas I settled on a text based adventure game.

After spending 1 hour a night for 6 months on and off, I finally created something that I'm proud to show – Blank.

Blank is a unique escape room, text based adventure game with puzzles that will challenge you to the core (and I'm not lying about that last part).

https://playblankgame.com/

I designed the game with just text and sound and most effort was spent into plot and story (which I re-wrote at least 8 times throughout).

As an MVP, I released the game on Android to get feedback. If you would like to test on iOS - there is a web version you can play below

https://playblankgame.com/1/

I hope you enjoy playing Blank :)

#textbasedadventure #puzzle #games #android #roomescape
I get the appealing of SSR with frameworks like Next.js (e.g., you get to develop frontend components using React, which is nice). So, my question, for the ones who know, would be: if in the following years a new generic (backend) programming language emerges that allows building frontend components in the backend (think of PHP + Html, but better; or think of Golang templates but better) as easy as it is to build components using React, then that would mean we wouldn't need anymore a myriad of different technologies: a frontend library (React), a frontend framework (Next.js) a middleware (Apollo), and a backend api (let's say Python/Go/PHP/whatever). We would only need one technology: the new generic (backend) programming language in which you can build frontend components and write business logic as well. We would be back to the 90s (think PHP + Html, but better).
It's apparently true if you s/cake/wedding cake/ (and s/Instagram/wedding photos/), though. I remember the shock I felt when I first learned that in the US, the cake-cutting ceremony features a fake, plastic cake (in order to support shapes and sizes otherwise prohibitively hard to make with food), and guests get served a different cake, shaped for mass baking and cut in the back.
What's the story with the name? How do you pronounce it?

The product seems interesting, but I'm not a sharer on social media.
Not with that idiotic name. The authors deserve a strong paddling.
The description is pretty scary. More worrisome is what are the chances of an event like this being mistaken for a nuclear attack and triggering a nuclear war.

For example, if such an event happened to a major city in the US, how could you confirm that it was a bolide, and how do you convince the public calling for retaliation that it was not a nuclear attack.
It doesn't however explain how Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt.

The Genesis story also includes a rain of burning sulphur which could have been identified by smell by the ancients. Sulphur isn't mentioned in the article but I'd be interested in knowing whether it was found in quantities above the normal background level.
>But in recent years the dogmatic mode of thinking, in which uncritical commitments are enforced by mechanisms involving public humiliation, no-platforming, and attempts to have scholars fired, has become to seem like it has become endemic. Now, too many humanities scholars move in lock step with the general ideology of our time, dogmatically echoing the opinions of politicians, the media, and business.

It's more than cancel culture, per title, though. It seems like the problem is our current morality is being considered to always be the best, the golden standard from which history must be judged by. Which is, of course, ridiculous, but I think it's deeper than that.

I think no one stops to think about what WE will be judged by in the future. No one likes to think they'll be our generation's slave owners, and in general, no one believes they do such atrocities current-day. Yet, we all rely on nearly slave labor, when we buy items from sweatshops (though this is "hard to avoid"). Or, we all economically support quasi-terrorist regimes, like Russia and China. Sure, we can't judge each other for that now. But can we do the same in 100 years? 250?

To be clear cancel culture over inconsequential stuff (like tweeting a tasteless joke when you were 14) is absolutely ridiculous. It matters the severity, context, and the time scale. Is it "cancel culture" to fire an employee for posting Confederate flags on their Facebook? What about a Nazi flag? Where's the distinction?
Xi Jinping Aims to Rein in Chinese Capitalism, Hew to Mao’s Socialist Vision
More that he finds musicology's dominant ideological framework and its consequences incompatible with what he considers the primary virtues of scholarship. He explains further in a blog article [0]:

> But in recent years the dogmatic mode of thinking, in which uncritical commitments are enforced by mechanisms involving public humiliation, no-platforming, and attempts to have scholars fired, has become to seem like it has become endemic. Now, too many humanities scholars move in lock step with the general ideology of our time, dogmatically echoing the opinions of politicians, the media, and business

[0]: https://jpehs.co.uk/why-i-left-academia/
Fish Sauce: Why does it stink?
Curiously, the sea people are associated with the collapse of the bronze age but there's still no real indication of who these mariners were.
Stripe invests in TrueLayer, now valued at $1B+
> I thought the archers were friendly at first. Then noticed one is pointing their bow down towards the swimmers.

Yeah I noticed that detail too, might be a simple oversight on the artists part.

Or the scene depicts the men fleeing, using the strong current of the river and flotation devices, while being attacked from both sides.
To this point, the Wikipedia article on Veritas International University notes their doctrinal stance as follows: “Veritas International University has an evangelical doctrinal statement that emphasizes ‘three legs’ of biblical authority: inspiration, infallibility, and biblical inerrancy.”

I admire the rigor of the archaeology and physical/chemical analysis of the site, but think it’s important to note the above when evaluating the conclusions.
Quite the opposite.
The NSA would not provide the type of training that would make its own employees question the NSA itself, I'm sure you receive the exact amount of training to do your job and not more.
Except Mozilla
> While there might not be great systems to abuse that yet,

Except I distinctly remember unlocking an iphone with a piece of sellotape a few years ago.
From ash to acid rain: Seven dangers of the volcanic eruption in La Palma
I would say that the key benefit for this isn't really in making mature codebases nicer (though it can), but rather for rapidly-developing codebases, especially when doing prototyping or iterative development.

The structured nature and reified syntax works alongside the ability to quickly change the spec, as otherwise you would need to pick apart and reverse-engineer someone's in-the-moment if/elif (likely nested) when there's a change. The structure being based on first-class concepts in the language means that its meaning is common to all code, whereas the post went out of its way to specify how you'd "organise this differently as if/elif", which is clearly something requiring skill and experience (which experts always overestimate the level of), and would produce varying results depending on the person.

This will be taught at a more intermediate level of Python, leaving the complexity only skin-deep, akin to teaching pattern matching in Haskell or such. After all, the full complexity isn't necessary for most users, the vast majority of people will only read the tutorial PEP and not the full description and grammar, while those advanced users can make use of this to make life even easier. Combined with typing, this means tools can do more exhaustive checks and catch bugs pre-emptively,

In my opinion, this will be a boon for clean programs that are easy to read and pleasant to write. In line with what the post says about usage settling down in a couple years, libraries and APIs will find the right balance with time, whilst making it easier and faster to write the thing you meant correctly, especially as this is a boon to tooling since you're quite literally indicating the structural intention of your code.

I see this alongside decorators (used sparingly), comprehension (used one or two levels deep), and types as helping people write the code they want to write, what they mean to write, and the language helping them in that endeavour. Just as we finally have dict.__or__ and dict.__ior__, it's something that lets people write what they intend, rather than the scaffolding that is needed to support it. I personally think that's a positive, and the kind of feature that will become very natural for many people to use in Python even if they don't have a background in languages that have pattern matching.
On the theme of skepticism, though, I would worry that there may only be a fairly narrow band of complexity for this type of logic where Python 3.10's pattern matching is the ideal solution, past which you want some kind of grammar and a proper parser that just spits out a polymorphic object with a do_thing() method.
He left academia because he created a statement, that is not based on any actual music department’s statement, declared it dogmatic, and therefore CANCEL CULTURE oh no I must leave.

The irony, of course, is that his blog post starts with talking about how he was an outsider, etc. If it wasn’t for the “cancel culture” of the past, that canceled people and rules that insisted that academia and other higher pursuits must only be available to people of a certain class, he himself would not have been able to ever enter academia.

There may be elements of cancel culture that are bad. It may also be the worst thing in the history of this planet. But nothing in this individual’s blog post and reasoning suggests that’s the case.
I have found DearPyGui [1] to be a really efficient way to knock up a quick GUI for a Python script/app. There's almost no boilerplate and I've found it scales reasonably well as things get more complex as it's easy to split views/"components" into modules and classes.

[1] https://github.com/hoffstadt/DearPyGui
That was imho a good article. As far as I understood, it did not argue that math should be thrown out and replaced because it was created, discovered by white men. It did state that students need to study math as a subject itself.
Thanks for the detailed explanation. A follow up question formed from my own experience: if i eat a very low glycemic index based food (sardines) and compare that to a high one (oats with millk), calorie for calorie, the latter keeps me full a lot longer and also keeps the hunger down for much longer.

Based on your explanation I would have assumed the opposite though? I tried this first thing in the morning, and it didn't matter if i ate 300 or 500 calories.

Same goes for lunch. Salmon with spinach is a lot less filling/quicker hunger response compared to less salmon but with rice instead of spinach.
If you use an HTTP proxy or terminate the TLS connection in some other way, yes. I was thinking of the situation where you use Wireshark directly on one of the endpoints, i.e. a passive MitM attack.
My "museum piece" (Galaxy Note4) still works and I want to keep it that way. Why should I throw away perfectly good hardware?

It is rooted, so I can fix the problem, but still, I find the idea that smartphones should only last 3 or so years when their hardware is good for 10 to be... annoying. Especially considering that modern smartphones tend to be more expensive, without a removable battery or headphone jack, and not fundamentally better than smartphones from 5 years ago. And the custom ROM community that kept old phones running is not what it used to be, especially considering that more and more apps refuse to run if you are not running the official (outdated) ROM. Planned obsolescence replaced real obsolescence.
“ Richard Wagner’s racism and antisemitism have led some to argue that his music should not be taught”

Who is some? Who is making this argument? Why do reporters use this nebulous nobody/everybody instead of directly stating who makes these kinds of statements.
You can't rotate around an arbitrary vector and have current brake pedal position determine the number of passengers.

There's a fundamental difference between a "set of independent variables" and a physical space with geometric transformations. The latter is far more complex to visualise.

I had a notion for a physical theory of everything, but I got hopelessly lost once I wandered into 6-dimensional knot theory.
I'm curious about the issues you faced. Could you share some of them?

I have used it only lightly, but I always liked its simplistic API.

Also, I thought the performance was unbeatable at what it does (of course not comparable with native integers). And I am very impressed by the algorithms implemented (all the different multiplications at various integer widths, for example).
Yeah makes sense, cheers!

Working on this would require XCode, and it should be importable as one. It might require some odd permission to query Spotify, but the 'codebase' is about 50 lines so shouldn't take too long to verify nothing malicious is happening :)

In the meanwhile, I built the project, and made a release on GitHub. Thanks for pointing that out!
Nice! I built a similar NER for book recommendations fine-tuned on a manually labeled dataset of book recommendations mentioned in podcast transcripts.
The whole project is open-source and I already added a few podcast shows with all their book recommendations (I have to add a lot more though): https://github.com/JohannesHa/PodcastBookLibraryMonoRepo
> It’s also why we can turn the telemetry off in the enterprise setups

Good. But I'd prefer if the average EU citizen can have it turned off as well, by default.

I can't pressure them with my single OEM license. Windows 10 is most likely not GDPR compliant and everyone knows it (I'd be very surprised if the hidden and sometimes impossible opt-out is fine). But aside from a ban in german schools[0] nothing is being done it seems. Amazon, Google, Facebook were all fined, I can't find anything about MS.

[0] https://mspoweruser.com/german-privacy-commissioners-ban-win...
Some of those headers are deprecated anyways and people should be using Content Security Policy. It's silly to subtract points for not using a deprecated header.
Honestly, I have no clue how this was not identified in testing
However, a single impact could well cause a trade, agricultural or refugee crisis, or radically upset the balance of power in the region, which could have then triggered other crises as a domino effect.
Lord that article is giant cascading non sequitur.
This blocks some malicious add-ons, btw.
I think this is a good teaching example of doing GUIs with the DOM and the MVC approach. It builds up step by step to introduce all the concepts.

https://github.com/madhadron/mvc_for_the_web
A generous reading makes me think that his music department is just widening their program to incorporate more non-western content. They asked him to change his course material in a way he doesn't like. If that's the case, it's something many arts departments around the world have been doing in the last few years. You can call it a product of "wokeness", but it's also a product of globalisation.

> He said that music departments could stop teaching Beethoven and Wagner because their compositions were produced during a time of empire “in the frankly insane belief that doing so will somehow materially improve current living conditions for the economically, socially, sexually, religiously, or racially underprivileged”.

They're never going to stop teaching Beethoven and Wagner and it sincerely sounds like he's misunderstanding the goals with most music departments' changes. On the other hand, there _are_ genuine issues with how music theory and history are taught today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3quGh7pJA

He's a professor of music history and theory. He edits a book series called "Music in Context". He's written about homosexuality in the world of opera. He doesn't seem like at outright conservative reactionary and I'd really like to understand what his grievances with his department are.
The PCAP in the referenced tweet was created using PolarProxy, which decrypts and re-encrypts TLS traffic while saving the decrypted traffic to a PCAP file.
Shameless plug: I’ve made a small and stupid game where you’re presented Wikipedia articles and you have to guess which article is not linked to by any of the other articles.

https://havarnov.github.io/oddoneout/
Sorry, I tried reading the original blog post but as non-english speaker I just have no idea what's it about. "Decolonization". Sorry, don't know what it is, or what cancel culture has with classical music.

I have no clue where from his "decolonization" quotes are coming from. Is that supposed to be the general attitude towards music in UK universities?

> Nineteenth-century musical works were the product of an imperial society. The classical musical canon must be decolonised.

This is what you'll find written in Introduction to Music textbook at most UK unis? No? What is it then?

I realize the author is writing his blog for his own audience. But this story of some hinted-at, vast struggle between him and cancel-culture in the field of musicology is totally unknown to me.
Exploring Foursquare API for Venues
C# winforms. There is nothing better if you ask me
Interesting idea, but not sure how would be possible to ride a bike on a soft sand :/
Agreed. This product will live or die on word of mouth, and right now I wouldn't know how to talk about it with someone else.
What I find puzzling is that tech workers at Amazon apparently don't have any problem with being a cog in a wheel that is consistently making life more and more miserable for the working class.
I can recommend you to read Hermit and Six-Toes by Victor Pelevin.
And I can see making meat a luxury item only attainable by the wealthy having... unintended consequences.
What's the cost of a nuclear missile (or X chosen method?) Whats the cost of NYC turning in a smoldering crater * 0.5% (or whatever)?

The cost of all rockets ever launched is a pittance compared to NYC real estate

Also there is a project for a space telescooe spesifically designed to locate asteroids, its not that difficult or even expensive.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinel_Space_Telescope