skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a stay at home mom of a 2 year old. We read books together. He is learning his letters and points to the pictures. When he goes to bed I stay up another 4 hours to read books for my book review job.
Mastering the Lightning Network
Her actual defense is going to be: "That bad man made me do it"
Look at the UK - not enough truck drivers to transport fuel.
> “Passing,” Christian told him, “is not an option.” In a later email exchange between Christian and Elizabeth, she told her brother, “You handled this excellently.”

> In a separate reply, Balwani was dismissive of Rosendorff’s complaints and later emailed Holmes, urging her to fire him rather than let him finish his last few days. “We need to respond to him now and cut him Monday.”

The worst management.
And what if it was the other way round? A steeper learning curve means that only the brightest, more motivated individuals can enter the realm, and those individuals are capable of doing more than the average developer.
I am not talking about monetary mistakes, I also don't think they are making these changes and restrictions in order to increase profits.
https://archive.is/MQDJ9
Show HN: DIY ePub Reader
Do you also feel it’s wrong of YouTube to not allow porn? Feels like people are laser focused on anti vax content due to the political nature of it, while not really caring about all the other moderation they already do.
It isn't an overstep, but is probably just a weird method for compliance. The Export Administration Regulation is a US federal law that includes penalties for supporting boycotts of US trade partners and allies. Normally this is directed towards anti-Israel boycotts in the middle east where legislation in several countries prohibit trade with organizations that also trade with Israel. If a US entity adheres to that country's boycott by refusing business with Israel, then they are in a legally actionable position. I don't personally know how Texas may be notifying people about compliance requirements, but this is actually pretty standard language in many contracts involving export compliance sections.
You'll lose permanently if wasps kill the bee in front of the the hive, just like in real world!
The past is judged by the values of the present.
> We're in the middle of a global pandemic and we're not allowed to discuss whether GoF research is too risky? We're not allowed to discuss the nuances of what a "lab leak" may really entail?

When the polio vaccine first came out was the public (i.e. non medical personnel) allowed to discuss whether the use of inactivated virus was too risky?

> Why should they trust the government, the CDC, the WHO and the like? What have they done to prove they are trustworthy at this point?

To this point? Are you serious? Does someone seriously need to explain to you all of the viruses (far more deadly than COVID mind you) that have been eradicated by government organizations?

> Shutting down open discussion around this topics will only make the situation worse, not better.

You're missing the point. The people who are crying "why can't we discuss GoF research or the lab leak" are not engaging in the argument in good faith. I absolutely think we need to discuss this topics in a meaningful way, however when most of the actors who are bringing up these topics are trying to cry wolf then why should we take them seriously?
I think it's a good choice, since developers do not like people messing with their environments without asking. Especially if those people are Microsoft. The strategy of writing a really good, technical article explaining the feature, and getting it marketed on forums where developers can see it and get excited enough to try it seems savvy to me.

People who are resistant to change (and likely to complain) will just not be affected.

I wouldn't turn it on for existing users, but as you say, having it on for new installs does make sense though!
>In your role as a scientist, shouldn't providing evidence of truth (or falsehood) be your main concern?

Strictly speaking no, but that's more of a long digression on epistemology than what I think you mean. (but think of indiana jones here: "archaeology is concerned with _fact_, not _truth_ ...")

My role as a scientist is to work diligently to understand, as best as we are able, the natural world.

Yet, "I will always be conscious that my skill carries with it the obligation to serve humanity by making the best use of the Earth's precious wealth."
If your application is I/O bound (web app), then you can get parallelism, even with the GIL. Each I/O call can (should) release the GIL before it waits on it's network packets.
I think they'll get there. This is still early, they're probably focusing on the core rendering right now.

> If we are in VR, then we don't have to limit our selves to laying out windows on a single primitive. Where are the virtual shelves? where is the quick change, what about hotspots to bring groups of windows back into near field.

From playing VR games, actually the best implementation of this I've seen is to put them on a "belt" of sorts. Like an oversized toolbelt (so they're away from your body) so you can simply look down and grab stuff.

Spheres do work well, though. It keeps all the text at the same distance from you, so the edges aren't out of focus. I suspect it also makes zooming easier since you can just move the camera closer. If you have an actual 3D space, moving the camera can get weird, and the camera being weird in VR is really disorienting.

> (it looks like they don't have room tracking, so feels like they have limited 6dof source: coffee video, I'd expect much more sideways translation if they had proper headset tracking)

Not having room tracking doesn't prevent movement. You'd just move with wasd like before. Not having room tracking means you can move your chair 6 inches without all your windows getting shifted. Likewise, you can stand up in your standing desk without re-adjusting all the windows.

Plus I'm sure it'll help keep the cost down.
I've seen the pain and eventual death 2 close family members have had to suffer due to Kidney failure and I also will face the same as my kidneys continue to gradually fail, the complications are bad and side effects can lead to death alone, the limitations of sometime like this artificial Kidney are absolutely miniscule compared to the benefits on offer.
Every day I see news that makes me ask myself... the world decided 'lockdowns are worth it and you're an anti-vaxxer if you disagree'.... using calculations that ignored how many factors?
Careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater. An expert being wrong once doesn't mean all experts everywhere are always wrong.

Experts are a real thing. People who spend a lifetime learning about something will, on average, make better decisions about that thing then you or I. Pretending that this is not true is not only silly, it's often dangerous.
Seems like a quick fix for a CRISPR/CAS9 edit.
> "Let stupid run it's course"

4.5 Million Deaths Later...
'Misinformation' as defined by whom? Many of the negative comments made by regarding the Covid-19 vaccines refer to peer-reviewed papers. Is this then a second order peer-review process? Clearly it isn't - zero occasion for rebuttal! So nobody needs to take seriously their implied view that the current vaccines have zero shortcomings. Surely we watch YouTube for what it offers not for what it doesn't. Any treatment has pros and cons.

If anyone is looking for a range of opinion on this topic they will look elsewhere (tons of options) where they can use their own judgment as to the validity of any point of view.
Being too busy repressing their own people to invade anyone is hardly an achievement indicative of peace.
I have an anti-vax person in my family. As disturbing and wrongheaded as their opinions are, I find it significantly more disturbing that they are being censored.

The irony is that this censorship doesn't even work. It just strengthens their resolve and deepens their conviction that they have found The Truth in their conspiracy theories.
> I think we have to ask

No we don't. The question we have to ask is whether allowing this content is worse for society than any stifling of moderate voices.

And the answer is obviously yes. Covid-hoaxers represent millions of people who are causing a national health crisis that doesn't need to be happening anymore. Fuck moderate voices who are "just asking questions". They can deal with playing a little less devil's advocate, and getting more in board with the obvious health benefits of vaccination.
I see we’re going to spend another day talking about “the death of free speech” because a private company doesn’t want to pay to host someone’s content.
I suppose they mean it literally as in not legally married? Usually for couples who are together but not married they use another word.
No, they can do what they want -- but you're right, they'll have to face the consequences.
What to do when it's true, but the proponent isn't trustworthy? Just say no?
the concept of an "anti-vaccine activist" is puerile and absolutely should be banned.

This type of categorical banning from public discussion never works. It just creates martyrs.

There's an object lesson they sometimes do in university classes or corporate retreats where two people are asked to push against each other's hands. It usually ends with "why are you pushing so hard?" "Because you were pushing so hard."

There's a human instinct that many of us have that is basically "fight makes right." That is, when vehemence in opposition to a thing goes beyond a certain point, the vehemence becomes "evidence" that the thing being opposed must have some legitimacy to it, or else there wouldn't be so much energy dedicated to opposing it.
Seems interesting they chose to limit it to a maximum of 6 colors. Is there some technical reason for that? I'm currently using "Bracket Pair Colorizer" with 8 colors and even with that I can remember a couple places where I've seen this limit got exceeded and coloring started from beginning.
When implementing something like this I indeed prefer to share as much code as possible between client/server.

My daily environment is mostly JVM-based (desktop/android/server) so your project is probably not a great fit for me but I'm definitely going to look into it for some inspiration.
There is absolutely no reason a government should make such things as denialism illegal. An act like that would certainly breed doubt immediately because the only reason to make something like that illegal IS because you're hiding something.

People are allowed to make their own choices. If they belive the holocaust isn't real, fine. When they discuss it, refute them.

In the US, the only time the line is crossed is when discussion calls for immediate and specific violence, could directly cause harm, or falls into the slanderous/libel and even that can be difficult to prove. I can see no reason for the above illegality of speech to expand.

Something like making holocaust denial illegal is borderline compelled speech. Sure, you could just not talk about the holocaust, but if you want or need to talk about it you must now espouse the official position of the government. Absolutely terrifying to think about.
It's helping show people that "they have always been pretty anti-consumer".
https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich

> Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal.

> The Rich API makes it easy to add color and style to terminal output. Rich can also render pretty tables, progress bars, markdown, syntax highlighted source code, tracebacks, and more — out of the box.

Seems Rich is not just displaying pretty text, it seems to almost be a full blown UI library that can render components and more.

Since the API surface is that big, it's possible for bugs to slip through, and those have to be fixed by someone.

Then once companies and other people start depending on this library, they start being dependent on fixes to also be made to it as new platforms appear, new terminals get written and so on.

Either the companies/people can start contributing their fixes directly upstream, or the can fund one person who can do it for them, and for other users of the library.

Although most of us know what happens in situations like this: no one except the original author actually fixes stuff, until the author looses interests and moves on.
Well you can't easily scale staff of course, especially when some of them take a decade to train.
MD is a just a general doctor correct?
So, who is he to make that proclamation:

> Months ago he was insisting that the people who had contracted COVID-19 and who had antibodies in their system may not need the vaccine. Now, we have a number of studies coming out to support that. But months ago that was "anti-vax" (employing the slanderous use of the term).

He doesn't have the expertise to say this.
> so why would you suddenly start paying them?

I believe governments should be different from corporations, and their goal should be to empower the people that drive the greater good in society, vs exploiting those same people's time for capital

it's a very thin line :)
I think you’re saying exactly what OP was implying. Persecution as in legal consequences. “You can say whatever you want, but we’re going to ask you to leave our private establishment”.
The switch pictured in the article looks exactly like a Melanox SN2010.
Hmmm, seems they’re recommending readers become radicalized, pick up Kendi, and donate to bail funds for violent “protesters”… nothing to see here:
https://www.relevantmagazine.com/culture/resources-to-help-y...
Big bad "misinformation". The CCP also use that word as an excuse for censorship.

You fight misinformation with more information, not censorship.

> These peasants can't think for themselves, we have to tell them what to think! Especially if they disagree or dissent!

First it was "think of the children!"

Then it was "think of grandma!"

Now it's "think of the gullible!"
Sorry, we had emergency legislation because of terrorism since 2 decades now. A bit desensitized by now. Perhaps I should look for something that induces fear?
My main issue with multiprocessing is that the pickle module is incredibly unhelpful when something can't be picked. Given that there's quite a lot of context shared between types of analysis, and that context tends to change a lot, using pickle means I'm looking at quite some time debugging every now and then to see what's failing.

Regarding the data itself in this case, there are some objects that are references to in-memory structures of a C extension. Last time I checked I didn't see simple ways to share those structures via pickle. Shared memory was an option, but it required me to implement and change quite a lot of things just to get things working, not to mention that whenever the C extension gets new features I need to invest extra time in making those compatible with pickle. It wasn't worth it, specially knowing that I would still run into problems every now and then due to pickling the context.
I’m not so sure. I can’t help but think a good proportion of Google/YouTube employees truly believe they are saving lives and fighting “misinformation” with this move. To me, citing lost ad revenue is a convenient scapegoat for what these partisan folks wanted to do the whole time.
> ...In today's world of "woke" content creators

Welcome to the new woke. Same as the old woke.

Lather, rinse, repeat.
If we were talking about tetanus I would agree. People who refuse tetanus vaccines place nobody but themselves in danger. I don’t care if you choose to forego that vaccine as it will not affect me.

People who refuse vaccines for dangerous contagious diseases directly affect others: they may pass that disease to me, to my children, to my elderly family members, etc. At this point their choice is causing me harm. What is my remedy if this happens? I can’t sue them for the death of a loved one, I can’t hold them accountable criminally.

The only path forward I see is that if you choose to not vaccinate, that you also choose to fully isolate yourself until the pandemic is over: no going to work, school, social gatherings, etc. I would be comfortable with that common ground. But that’s not what is being offered by you or even those who refuse to get vaccinated. It is always the pro-vaccine/science/reason people that must give something up for the benefit of those refusing to get vaccinated, which is less common ground and more of a one sided demand.
Youtube is also banning content that incites racial violence, and that is not an issue, so why is this? Both cause immense harm.
Even if some vaccinated people replicate and transmit the virus, they do so for a shorter amount of time and with less infectious virus than unvaccinated.
When you can get 10TB [ EDIT: 4TB ] external drives for around $100, this is totally absurd pathway to take towards "preserving your own culture".
I am now incredibly interested in what the term “market share of information” is, because that’s a brand new nonsense term I’m sure will spread like wildfire.
scaring people into paying only really works for criminals

maybe we should place some ad-tech veterans in the EFF :)
The type still exists, they're embittered lonely conspiracy theorists now. The ones we hear from.

The ones we dont hear from are probably happily making interesting advances in their chosen field with perhaps slight regrets that they can't meaningfully share their results but otherwise content to breed pumpkin sized glowing tomatoes that eat rats, or whatever.
> Having studied statistics in college with the express intent of how it is used for scientific studies I am well aware that with enough data you can get any statistical result you want.

Just doing what a good pseudoscientist does: first dismiss any rigorous logical tools...
If most French people agreed, then the government wouldn’t need to go after Amazon then would it? Consumers always vote with their purchases.
> Would also note that housing can be affordable nationally, and unaffordable in some markets given the local nature of housing.

True, but if we don't densify (the natural result of that thinking), we'll condemn ourselves to waste inefficiency low growth and environmental destruction.

> I interpreted the parent post to be more as “sound financial strategy to saving” rather than “good investment” (buying for levered appreciation).

This is still a bit fraught, especially as housing has historically reason too fast. Remember there are net 0 dollars (basically), and saving is a mostly monetary phenomenon. Arguably it's because terrible cost disease in healthcare, education, housing, etc. that people want to save so much in the first place!
I’m curious if this is the location or the building; either way is relevant to me when I next move. Altbau or new?
I tried using PyPy several times, but I always run into problems due to the C extension and other libraries I use. Also, last time I checked it wasn't very up-to-date with respect to the mainstream Python version.
Eating our own dog food – a year of decision logs (with Loqbooq)
It's a way for a decentralized service to provide a publicly-resolvable self-sovereign identifier for a user. "Publicly-resolvable" means that anyone can query your public identity state, given your DID. "Self-sovereign" means that you and only you can alter your public identity state (i.e. you own the private keys).

A blockchain isn't strictly necessary. You could build a DID method for your PGP key that relies on the world's set of keyservers to resolve your DID's state, for example. You could similarly have DID methods that resolve your public key via Keybase, via DNSSEC, via certificate authorities, and so on. As long as the underlying system is decentralized -- i.e. it spans multiple peer administrative domains -- it doesn't matter whether or not it's a blockchain.
I was hesitant for a while and the massive censorship was part of it. I got vaccinated in May and have convinced others to get the shot since the side effects, while existent, appear to be minor compared to the reduction in harmful symptoms. Talking to my doctor is what did it for me. He cleared up most of my concerns and pressed me that my remaining concerns were too nebulous to be useful. If he just said "shut up and take it" I wouldn't have.

My mother only got vaccinated last month. She and my father are both medical professionals (she's retired and my dad got it early on since he's super high risk). Her main hangup was the lies and coercion. She believed that if the vaccine was actually as great as they're saying they'd be able to make more objective goalposts and win arguments instead of stopping them because the other side is too stupid to make their own decisions. I'm confident there was also some element of "if I get it now I'm telling them their tactics worked."
Association Rule Learning
akka is never the answer
Why is this standard not applied to anti vax content? You find YouTube’s actions distasteful and you want them to stop. YouTube finds anti vax content distasteful and wants that to stop. YouTube either has the right to stop this type of content on their platform or they don’t.
You as an end viewer is not the topic though. I'm talking about the content creators that lose their content when YT makes a decision against them, but they no longer have a copy locally. For them to delete their only local copy because it's on YT just because they don't have the space, then that is 100% on them. I don't care if they are 15 years old and don't have the funds for massive drive space. That's just part of being in the video content creation business. Losing content as a creator is a growing pain lesson that everyone eventually learns. Its very similar to not having backups in general. It's a lesson best learned before it happens, but rarely learned until after.
> Depriving them of any platform is morally imperative.

Who are you to judge what needs to be censored?
Then use the term "prosecution".

It's entirely legal - and often appropriate - for someone with shitty views to be persecuted. People who march in neo-Nazi rallies with swastikas should see non-governmental consequences for their actions.
Americans tend to believe that the counter to bad speech is good speech. But on the vaccine front, it has become increasingly clear that good speech, backed by overwhelming evidence is insufficient for a significant minority to come to a reasonable mindset.

Free speech is great if almost everyone is reasonable.

America is not nearly there. Empirically, free speech has failed, as an insane fraction of American citizens are vaccine hesitant and believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
Chinese already have it at 1/10th although this balancing algo from MIT seems like what's missing still in PRD.
It looks like a PID controller would be helpful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller
> a push to vaccinate children

That's really where I'm most concerned. We vaccinated both of our teenagers - after all, we get the flu shots every year, right? Now I really worry that there will be side effects from this rushed vaccine that we won't know about for decades.
> The core idea is to use a recursive descent parser to build an abstract syntax tree (AST) that describes the structure of all bracket pairs.

This is a really nice and clear blog post on an algorithmic challenge wonderfully addressed to a satisfactory conclusion (the rebalancing and node reuse etc work out so perfectly); must have been fun, thanks for sharing! I don't know / haven't thought much about text editors so a question for the authors or anyone who understands: from the mention of "the bracket pair AST", it seems that a separate AST is created just for this bracket-pair problem, is that right? I imagine there was/is already (at least one) another AST already being computed in the editor, for other reasons? If so, how did you decide between trying to do this with the same AST (making that one more complex), versus computing an additional AST just for this problem?
I wonder if they have been able to fit enough CPU, RAM and SSD in there to handle proxy and caching services.