skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't bother me that much, but what really grinds my gears is how many sites won't let you log in with the correct username and password. I don't care enough about the account to want to set up 2FA, and I'd rather preserve a bit more privacy by not sharing my real phone number or another email address. Some sites seem to insist, and I think it's more about advertising and anti-spam than actual security.

Yahoo seems to be big on this these days. I had an old Yahoo account that I don't use much, but every time I try to log in, they seem to change around exactly what pseudo-2FA they want. Now they won't even let me try to type my password. Good grief, guess I'll just write off that account.
“If You Are Not Drowning in Demand, You Don’t Have Product-Market Fit” (2017)
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"Individuals who have had SARS-CoV-2 infection are unlikely to benefit from COVID-19 vaccination," the authors concluded.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...

From the article :')
That just means it is unlikely we would understand other cultures immediately if we could time travel:)

Maybe the difference with materials is that there are almost certainly hidden gems that could improve the lives of humanity, e.g. by helping contain fusion reactors (stars on earth).
Heart issues occur at a rate of 1 in 49 million. AKA, you’re about 50x more likely to be hit by lightning at 1 in 1 million odds.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7027e2.htm

To turn this probability into dice rolls, roll 10d6, and look to get all 1’s.
Understanding the Russian Election Anomalies in 5 Charts
> Good written communication is one of the most important skills for any software engineer to master.

But there is no "mastery" -- lifelong effort is required from all of us, especially to avoid falling into fashionable bad habits of the moment propagated so vigorously by our social media.

> ... good of a team member ...

"The word 'of' often intrudes where it does not belong, as in 'not that big of a deal'"

- Garner's Modern English Usage, 4th edition, page 647.
That claim isn't the opposite of his, though.

Regardless, if I recall correctly Coinbase paid people generously to leave if they disagreed! Pretty hard not to increase attrition with a policy like that.
During pretty much any long period of time, violence in all forms has decreased. This is documented thoroughly in The Better Angels of our Nature by Steven Pinker.

Obviously we don't have serum hormone levels for ancient Chinese warriors, so I don't know how well it matches up with the hormone theory.
Fragmentation is not in ms best interest, but they could actually license just the nt kernel with a bootloader capable of launching it. Then people could build nt based distros with carefully chosen packages. Just like it is done with GNU/Linux.

Maybe some one could write an application to delete as many files as possible from a pristine windows copy to turn it simply into a kernel launched by a bootloader. Is there any project that does that?
I didn’t figure it out, it was just clear this conversation wasn’t going anywhere so I decided to drop it.
Readability increases when i choose the Desktop website in Bromite. Writes a mental not to send a PR with a fix.
I suspect “can’t even put up a tent” was an exaggeration (but can’t live there indefinitely). But laws like that are why houses don’t collapse in earthquakes, landslides are uncommon, sewage systems are adequate for load and don’t kill people, etc.

I am surprised that a public town can make aesthetic choices, though set of potential roof material can reasonably be regulated to prevent spread of fire. I agree that is absurd.

A lot of regulation (speed limits, electrical outlets every six feet, fireproof and firefighter safe roofing, automobile pollution level…) are ways to think of things ahead of time that you are unlikely to remember to think of properly for yourself. There are dumb or egregious ones (municipal aesthetic codes) but most are for externalities (bread is safe to eat and your home isn’t a firetrap, which would threaten not just me but possibly you too).

Residential water use is a small percentage of California’s water consumption. Growing rice and cotton in a desert with free water is the problem.
Sadly, is seems you can't get on Dev or Beta channel since June 24th (if you weren't enrolled before), so you won't be able to get the Insider build with WSLg on your existing win10.
Only if you install it from clean ISO and update.
Source: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/all/how-in...

I tried it now and you could only choose Release Preview channel which still has only build 19044.
Underground mining engineer, working in the Canadian far north. I've always been a computer geek, even did some internships as a developer, but I realized needed a career that would pull me out of screens.

Still a hobby programmer and love tech. The tech industry has a dynamism and pace that contrasts even modern mining sharply.

I'm not sure when I stumbled upon HN but I was hooked immediately. Also helps that HN is very data-light so I can load it reliably via our old satellite connection on-site.
I have a suspicion that many conservative people will take to electric vehicles easier than many think. The f150 lightning I'm sure will be mocked mercilessly, but when people actually get a sense for that acceleration, the convenience, and overall experience, they'll switch.
I agree that there is a trend away from California, doubt it is related to NIMBY-ism, governments. When Hewlett & Packard or Steve & Steve kicked off their businesses in the Bay Area it wasn't because government was friendly or NIMBY-ism was lacking.

Now it's simply too damn expensive to live in the Bay Area, too expensive therefore to hire.

That's the cost of success and why the 3 to 4 (5 to 7?) decade trend.

Austin will become too expensive and everyone will head to North Carolina (or wherever) in a few decades....
With the same uploaded quality ?
> Wikimedia had arrived uninvited into a twitter thread

I didn't know you were supposed to wait for an invitation. But what do I know, I've never used Twitter, and I don't know the protocols.
How did you get windows in there in the first place?
You might want to think a bit more carefully about what that means: it’s establishing private bounty hunters who need very little evidence to use the legal system to hurt you – for example, they can require you to show up in person in a court hundreds of miles away from where you live – and who can see a substantial financial upside but are insulated from losses if they lose the case. Courts are prohibited from using a successful defense to block a repeat filing, allowing venue shopping to target the same person.

Think about what this means: someone leaves an abusive relationship, and the abuser can use this to target everyone who helps her alleging that they intended to help with an illegal abortion and they have to prove they did not, with no way to recover damages even if they do successfully defend themselves.

This is most of the things “tort reform” conservatives have railed against for years before deciding it was good for women but not corporations. They would go absolutely nuts if someone passed a law allowing you to sue someone claiming that they intended to use their gun to commit a crime.
At least theoretically, if customers actually valued accuracy, they would punish news organizations that were not accurate. A for profit newspaper would need to respond to the changing market.

A not for profit newspaper could easily have a backer with other motivations, where they might be willing to sacrifice accuracy to push a particular agenda.

I am not sure that the problem is the news. I do not think people really care if they get accurate news.
> researchers looking at SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in people who had recovered found that the difference between the highest and lowest levels varied by a factor of over 1,000.

Citations in: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/antibody-testing-sug...
Yes, an article discussing how different studies show different results also quotes authors of studies that show a negative result, what a surprise... not quite the "gotcha" you suggest it is. It also references studies in the other direction, that's the point of that article.
Not sure what you think a shadow-ban is but I can see your comments.
Tips for Debugging with Print() in Python
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Mac-native apps are a pain in the butt to maintain, and you're catering to >10% of the computer market when you make one. Now you need to retain developers who specifically debug your Mac problems when they arise, and what's that? Now your app has been removed since Apple made a first-party version. Now your team consists of 8 web devs, 3 MacOS devs who decided to make a native client for fun, 2 lawyers fighting to keep your MacOS app alive and one very confused CEO who doesn't understand why we're wasting our time with such frivolities anyways.
The database would contain existing passwords without normalization.
You also you have to hold the unnormalized password.
Super silly to do that to save a few processor cycles on login.
But-but-but edumacation and delusional, arbitrary experiments on children solve everything! How else will they learn they're "bad people" because they don't have enough oppressed identity bingo victim points?

If the diversity, tolerance-of-everything, and perfectly safe spaces crowd really wanted kids to be more tolerant, they would use the proven eye color discrimination activity. That works. But no, they want to teach hate, entitlement, blame, and shame through pseudoscience to demonize mostly white and Asian, straight men. Racism exists against Asians and Asian-Americans, but there's "no such thing" as racism against white people or sexism against men... it's dismissed automatically as "whining" or "disproven 'reverse discrimination' claims from bitter losers and racist white supremacist."

I was bused 180 minutes per day to a terrible elementary school because of mandatory desegregation. Their motto was "Everything is made equal by punishing those with anything going for them."
This is actually legal under US copyright law. There was a case involving the Game Genie which Nintendo sued to stop distribution of, in which it was ruled that modifying a program for personal use was fair use. If your EULA forbids you from decompiling, that's still binding because the EULA is the only thing that authorizes you to use the software to begin with.

The problems creep in where if you, say, decompile Windows to fix bugs in it, and then go to work on the Linux kernel (or other core system component). You are now tainted and probably shouldn't work on code similar to Windows because you can't prove that you didn't copy Windows code from your head into the new code.
In a court case, you should probably be prepared to argue how that is an error, based on the legal mechanism that allows you to use Spotify in the first place. Then the court would answer your question.

(No, I think you would not get away by that)
All cons go to Texas.
> I wonder if this witness's motivation for testifying will factor into the decision of the High Court when it hears the Biden administration's appeal of the rejection of their extradition request.

Is there a cross-appeal or does the Court consider the case de novo? Because the lower court found the standards for a basis for extradition were met, but that the US could not provide adequate guarantees against Assange taking his own life; without a cross-appeal or de novo review, the basic standards shouldn't be relitigated on appeal.
Thanks for taking the time to share your experience. I appreciate you starting with context and the sections about innovation and data had me laughing.
Yes, I said that the complete type would have to have components developed by others as well, since I can't provide input for other countries. Doesn't mean that a minimum complexity formalization is impossible (in fact, mathematically, by enumeration one such formalization must exist). An "as-given" component is obviously always going to work for you.
They’re moving because this allows the top earners to not pay state income tax. We don’t need to dress it up at any more noble than that.
Just How Many Days Does Bill Murray Spend Stuck Reliving Groundhog Day?
HN bans anyone outside of tech bro ideology.
If this program has to be run persistently, then it won't provide much, since a malicious program could wait X days prior to downloading a payload. It is mostly useful for looking for one time changes like registry settings and verifying that the program doesn't place a bunch of random .bat or .exe's in obscure folders.

Windows loves to silently update things, even if it ends up breaking everything, too. Especially drivers where it isn't super obvious that it was updated and something just stops working. Windows 10 is _way_ more aggressive with forcing updates than 7/8 were, automatically re-enabling Windows Update after 30 days of disabling. The easiest solution that I've found is just blocking everything at the DNS level. They can obviously use IP addresses as a workaround if they really want telemetry, but I haven't had issues after blocking a bunch of MS domains in the hosts file.
I rarely experience more than a few hot days a year on the peninsula, even these days. I can’t imagine having AC.

I also have a house in the sierras there the summer temps are unbearable. But where I’ve lived in the bay (SF, Palo Alto) I don’t see the point.
Yea… we are on a road trip right now. Tons of people at every super charger stop ask questions. Guaranteed at least one. Some drive trucks!

But it’s going to be an economics choice. Electric for now (ever?) is just way cheaper.
I think it exactly is people moving from California to Texas.

Also, my sense is that the whole country is experiencing unaffordable housing for many (he says while watching real estate prices in Omaha skyrocket in the past year).
But how did they know which punctualion characters to remove from the password?

You may try 2 versions of first letter, but do they go as far as bruteforce removing all the % character combinations from the password, unless they did remove them all?
Netherlands. No, not unusual at all, just adult people cooperating and doing their job.
Me too. I think the "windows way" get into the mindset of its users.
This is so important - it's so hard to gauge what another person's mental model of a scenario is compared to yours.

As in - perhaps OP and 40+ year person had the same, accurate mental model of the probability distribution of success, but OP and 40+ had different attitudes towards risk/reward.

Or perhaps the OP happened to have a much more realistic picture of the probability of success, and 40+ was unnecessarily pessimistic.

So hard to evaluate these things, and to internalise the fact that other people don't have the information you have all the time.
Maybe I'm just nostalgic but I preferred dense UIs of the 90s. At least those which didn't have too much empty space, and communicated grouping with boring stuff like fieldset.

Now it seems I must scroll forever and there are no discernible anchors to link to. When studying web design in the early aughts the popular Nielson book ("Designing Web Usability") argued for separate pages over a lot of scrolling. For informational sites I think that approach is superior.
Simon Peyton Jones would not qualify (though he has an honorary doctorate now).

In OSS scientific software, many PhDs have management jobs, where they write a couple of grand sounding fantasy roadmaps and have creative people who report to them. Printing money basically.
Well, NIMBYism is a function of population density and governments which want to attract tax dollars are less confrontational than those that are used to having a massive tax base.

Where I live, the regions that have less investment and fewer people fight over investments (including railways and roads), while the richer ones like Prague often find reasons why to slow down or even stop such developments.

But yeah, this awaits Texas too and 2050 will have a new champion. Perhaps North Carolina, who knows.
> I find the article’s language sufficiently abstract by say things like “many NoSQL databases”, etc

I'd say it's more vague than abstract.

For example, what dbs is the author referring to when saying things like "NoSQL databases generally make tradeoffs around these guarantees." when referring to ACID?

This seems to be an outdated view. These days, all major NoSQL databases offer transactions with ACID guarantees.
Live text is a joke in comparison to Lens, unfortunately. It's clear that Apple is a few decades behind on translation technology, their implementation is worse than Translate from when I was in school.
I think batteries will win in long duration storage over hydrogen as well. Batteries have a self-discharge rate, but geological hydrogen storage or cryogenic/pressurized tank storage also has a loss rate, and unpressurized tanks are very expensive. Last time I checked in the literature these loss rates were very similar to battery self-discharge rates.

Of course these numbers are tricky to estimate exactly, so I'm open to the idea that a low loss hydrogen storage method might be out there. And of course the prices in these areas are changing quickly, so sources from 10+ years ago don't give a good picture of where we are now or will be in the future.
In case anyone is having trouble viewing this directly on reuters: https://www.yahoo.com/news/delta-does-not-appear-children-18...
Taiwan emailed the WHO in response to an official announcement from Chinese authorities that there was an outbreak of viral pneumonia in Wuhan. It was even on the evening news on CCTV.[1,2,3]

> Did things change for the better during those almost 20 years

What changed is that the top health officials in China nowadays all lived through the original SARS outbreak. Zhong Nanshan, for example, caught the original SARS back in 2003 and then spoke out about it.

1. http://tv.cctv.com/2019/12/31/VIDE9N8qRty36PkLirFVxMW6191231...

2. https://www.france24.com/en/20191231-china-probes-pneumonia-...

3. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia-id...
Here's an Ourboard board that demonstrates the key features of the service. https://www.ourboard.io/b/0b5a9bd8-93ae-446c-afbd-80ebfcb1e0...

It's read-only, but you can select all (Cmd-A), create a new board and paste the contents on a new board of yours on the Ourboard front page.

I now realize that a Fork Board feature might be useful.

Also having second thoughts on whether it's a good idea to have a "default board" that's read-write for anonymous users. Some political content observed on that one today.
Florida, for one
That only works if they have the same insensitivities across time and platforms. In this case, they still need to preserve the original information, because they're case sensitive on that first transformation for non-mobile devices.
> where NIMBYism isn't as strong, landlords are less extortionate and governments more friendly.

It's not like Texas is that much better in any of these aspects. NIMBYism is a huge problem in the Austin area, which is seeing massive increases in rents and inability to keep up with housing demand due to entrenched real estate ownership.

The rent problem extends to the commercial side as well, which has seen so many local businesses fold due to rent pressure.

And yes, the government is much more business-friendly in Texas than it is California from a financial perspective, but major failures to govern during situations like the "Winterpocalypse" this year raise serious questions about Texas' long-term business viability. Case in point: according to Texas' own energy grid operator, the state was less than 5 minutes away from total failure during the winter storm, which would have results in statewide power outages lasting on the order of months. Not days, not weeks... months. Imagine for a minute what that would have done to one of the largest economies in the country[0] had it actually happened.

0: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/18/texas-power-outages-...
With Windows Update removed, and no way to patch the system without a full reinstall, I would not use ameliorated.info in any important capacity. The complete unability to patch zero-days makes it very unattractive. They recommend to just take admin privs from the default user. If you're this serious about privacy, use Linux. If you NEED Windows for a program, use a VM and nothing else. If you NEED Windows as your daily-driver... then you shouldn't be risking your daily driver with this. The ONLY update you can apply is simply to just reinstall the operating system. I do appreciate this kind of stripped-down build procedure, but fail to see a good-enough use case.

> Furthermore, as touched upon on the main page, 94% of critical Windows 10 vulnerabilities can be mitigated by revoking administrator privileges from the default user.
Look at the protein amount. It can tell you a lot. For example, most almond milks on the market are basically pure water, Blue Diamond [1] has 1g of protein per cup. Compare that with Elmhurst [2], 5g protein per cup. We are talking about 1/5 the dilution!

[1] https://www.bluediamond.com/brand/almond-breeze/almondmilk/u...

[2] https://elmhurst1925.com/products/unsweetened-milked-almonds

What grinds my gears is that consumers get the idea that they are drinking a healthy beverage with a lot of these plant milks when if they aren't drinking the unsweetened versions, they are basically drinking sugar water!

And the unsweetened versions aren't stellar either but at least if you are drinking a bunch of overpriced water, your body won't be getting full off of it, since it's devoid of calories.

Elmhurst and Westsoy are expensive but you cannot beat their potency and quality. 365 is a decent brand at a good price for unsweetened soy milk. However its almond milk is just like all the other mass market brands, almost purely water. I think all these brands just fall in line since the taste expectations for plant milks are expectations for water.. :-/ Plus it's cheaper to peddle water than to peddle nuts.

Elmhurst has a backbone of integrity and Westsoy does too. But until a few years ago I didn't even know about them. That's capitalism for ya.
There's not much reason to believe that getting infected is statistically safer for children than vaccination though.

Even among young males (12-17), ACIP found that severe illness from infection had a higher incidence than myocarditis.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-...

So people doing what is best for their children shouldn't be getting angry about vaccination.

Dismissing careful evaluation of evidence and showing up raging at a public meeting is antisocial.
I mean, these questions have simple and quick answers. 1) The California Grid. and 2) The nearby ocean.

The briny water can be made as close in salt content to seawater as you want, it just increases costs slightly.

I think what you're saying is that environmental review takes years. But I don't think delays really help the environment. They just slow progress.