skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is quite a wild ride. My only Lisp experience is Clojure, and I have written some macros[1], but never dove anywhere near this deep into everything that’s going on.

It’s interesting, I’ve spent a lot of recent personal interest time deep diving into code transformation in JS/TS. These concerns about name collision and shadowing are front and center there, but of course tree-walking AST transform is the ~only game in town[2] and it’s had me pining for first class language macros.

1: The first that comes to mind https://github.com/reup-distribution/espalier

2: I have some ideas on this, but nowhere near fully formed enough to elaborate just now; suffice to say they derive a lot from what I do know about macros.
There is a pretty popular Christmas event where they put lights around the zoo… All visitors must show proof of vaccination and must wear a mask. Outdoors. In an attendance limited event.

And people wonder why nobody takes this stuff seriously. Because not a bit of it makes sense.
I figured as much. It seems like a nightmarish substrate to base ownership on.
Solar still requires energy storage and when that's factored in it is not at parity. Batteries are not cheap.
I find it annoying that people immediately assume incompetence and not inadequate staffing or conflicting priorities. I worked at a school district for a few years and we were woefully understaffed for what we had to cover. In situations like that you do what you have to so teachers can teach, move on to the next emergency, and hope like hell some self-important little shit doesn't burn everything to the ground.
Exactly.

Grifters like Al Gore want to use this cause as a money printing machine.

Actual environmentalists want the living standards of everyone _else_ to decline, along with population.

You know western society is in a hard decline when it's been taken over by greedy plutocrats and death cults.
Uniswap is completely decentralized. Uniswap Labs cannot prevent any one from listing any token on the Uniswap smart contract, or prevent any one from setting up their own frontend to access it.
It's not trouble for the company. It's trouble for the project.
Maybe they should partner with RobinHood :P
Genuinely asking: how does this compare with other safety mandates like seatbelts? Those were also government mandated and highly unpopular for the exact same reasons.
> people still trot out “4% kill rate”

Which health authority or public health expert is claiming that today and hasn't shared updates with better data (=good news)? Yes, some people still bring that, but that's not because evil experts hide the true data from them.
I have not lived/worked in Austria so I don't have your experience. However I will say that Austria is not Europe. Denmark, Spain and France (for example) are very different countries with different cultures. So making claims about "Europe" based on your experience in Austria might not be accurate.
Keep in mind that German law blocks them from using the high-level waste site in northern Europe.

And yes, Asse is a symptom of turbocapitalism. A regulatory failure.
Just look at superfund sites to get a perspective.
You can filter on the web site or in the app, not globally nor in some parts of the interface so it's a PITA but it is there.
It's lucky that there were innate characteristics in dogs' ancestral species, which allowed for their domestication.

Tail-wagging in juvenile wolves and foxes was selected for in adult dogs. Their acutely sensitive hearing and olfactory sense complements our eyes etc.
It’s worth mentioning that I’m only talking about Eyesight while driving forward. The rear ARB is radar controlled and very sensitive. I’d never say it’s false alarmed, but it’s very, very sensitive. It may be a matter of preference to some extent. At low speed in reverse I appreciate the added layer of caution.
Yah just listened to the first one on the Manhattan project. Its really great, nothing like Joe Rogan. Thanks OP for the great find.
If you get hit by one it’s a meteorite. Meteors burn up in the upper atmosphere.
> All the computers displayed a popup window

When I engaged in `net send` shenanigans at the local community college, at least the IT staff was smart enough to know where to scramble a runner whenever those dialog boxes popped up across campus.

"ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US" was quite the meme then, but apparently they thought it was some form of cyber-terrorism.
That works in places that kept good records, but I have to imagine the vast majority of counties don't have those records. Plus I'm sure many people got infected and stayed home with mild/moderate cases and never got tested (because they knew they had it and/or didn't want to risk spreading to others), so there would be no record for them anyway. Or their cases were so early on in the pandemic that there were no tests available or the ones that were available were very unreliable (I remember the early ones only had ~50% accuracy)
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Right, I was going to mention the Houthis. Afaik, that's a tribe / ethnic group, and although according to wikipedia 'houthis' in the context of the yemeni civil war is actually shorthand for a specific political/military group whose members are predominantly houthis, it still seems wrong (e.g. can you imagine if 'black panthers' were on the list and it just said 'blacks'?!) But given its not the original document, perhaps this is a translation. Also, I really don't know much about the conflict, but I always see them referred to in western media (such as The Economist) as 'houthi rebels' rather than as terrorists. I wonder if this reflects the importance of rhe Saudi Arabian market to facebook? Perhaps different organizations are censored in different countries.
Thanks, that was very useful
The book is pretty interesting even if somewhat dramatic: "...he insisted that all of that, however painful, was secondary to the sudden realization that it was mathematics—not nuclear weapons, computers, biological warfare or our climate Armageddon—which was changing our world to the point where, in a couple of decades at most, we would simply not be able to grasp what being human really meant. Not that we ever did, he said, but things are getting worse. We can pull atoms apart, peer back at the first light and predict the end of the universe with just a handful of equations, squiggly lines and arcane symbols that normal people cannot fathom, even though they hold sway over their lives. But it’s not just regular folks; even scientists no longer comprehend the world."
Not just that. In the UK the government are claiming that the virus effects everyone equally and yet everyday the deaths are concentrated in the 60+ brackets. Their latest program has them claiming all pregnant women need the vaccine because it's putting them at massive risk of the worst ventilator and yet the figures show just 20 pregnant women in the last 4 months needed the machine and the other 100 people were fully vaxxed.

EDIT:Forgot the bit where the JCVI recommended against vaccinating the under 18s but the government ignored the science because vaccines=good

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/jcvi-statement-au...

And I also forgot the Whitty charts which led to a winter lockdown and 4000 deaths per day.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8908503/Was-lockdow...

And then there's immunity through infection which stopped being a thing in 2020.
Arstechnica did a rather great writeup of this, no paywall - https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/10/prior-infection-vs-v...
It does have a Uk lean to it, but very understandable and not too heavy at least in the first one.
At some Costco, a soccer mom was seen buying two packs of toilet paper. That triggered the chain reaction.
Sure. I didn't want to engage in self-promotion, but since you asked, here's the website and source code. There is an installer, but it's kind of old. I suggest installing AutoHotkey itself, then download the JKLmouse.ahk and JKLmouse.ico files from GitHub, and put a shortcut to the .ahk in your Startup folder.

https://www.jklmouse.com/

https://github.com/geary/jklmouse/tree/master/AutoHotkey/Sou...

One thing to note is that I wrote this to use on my ThinkPads, which have physical mouse buttons. On a laptop where the touchpad itself is the mouse button, it may be difficult to avoid nudging the mouse position when you click.

I've been thinking about adding support for using other keys as "mouse buttons", but haven't done anything about it yet.
> I haven't seen any science at all that indicates vaccines are better than natural immunity.

That statement has multiple issues. What does "better" mean? Where did you look? How do you define immunity (risk, falloff time, etc.). There's a new paper every week comparing how the vaccination and infection responses are different. Generalising to one-dimensional "better" is not going to happen in serious publications.

We're still at the level of (for example) "Therefore, antibody immunity acquired by natural infection or different modes of vaccination may have a differing susceptibility to erosion by SARS-CoV-2 evolution." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34103407/

There's certainly a lot of research around different responses and they're a single pubmed query away. "But beware saying that outloud" is just FUD.
Personally I'd be worrying about the negative long-term effects of actually contracting COVID-19 [1] [2].

In any case, you're the one making a claim here: can you show the benefits of natural immunity? Can you show the risk vs reward of catching COVID-19, potentially spreading it to thousands, and getting natural immunity rather than just getting a vaccine? Bringing money into it just colors your argument poorly. It's not like getting the vaccine costs you any money personally.

Vaccines seem to provide better immunity than previously being infected [3]. In fact, a lot of research shows that getting a vaccine after being infected actually improves your protection against reinfection [4].

Would you argue in good faith this way about any other vaccine? Measles? Mumps? Anthrax? Ebola?

[1] https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/long-term-effects/...

[3] https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0806-vaccination-pr...

[4] https://www.news-medical.net/news/20211010/Research-finds-di...
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In principle, one could get a rapid antibody test and, if negative, get a vaccine a few minutes later.

For vaccines for which the vaccine has few side effects, this is, AFAICT, not usually considered worthwhile — providers seem to prefer giving an extra MMR dose to people with unknown vaccination status for example. For COVID, at least with current vaccines, maybe it would make sense.

(ISTM, based on available data, people who have had COVID ought not to be required to get two doses, but one might be reasonable from a public health perspective.)
At the beginning of the pandemic, there were a lot of problems that required "thinking outside the box," and the US wasn't up to the task. China banned mask exports for a time. Large N95 exports might still require a license in Korea. The Korean government politely asked Samsung in January 2020 to import a few tons of meltblown plastic, and in March instituted export limits and mask rations to secure the domestic mask supply. (The plastic was then allocated from Samsung to mask manufacturers, and when the manufacturers tried to flex their newfound market power the government threatened to take them over.)

Meanwhile the US continued to allow foreign entities to hoard and export masks and meltblown plastic, and didn't make any effort to secure or guarantee domestic production. It would have been so easy for the national stockpile to place an order for 5~10 billion masks, and then set themselves up as an additional link in the supply chain to hospitals which buffers against fluctuations. I imagine they were limited by their legal framework and budget.
I'm sure the VC with an MA in History asked the correct probing questions.

"Will you be scaling this down to mobile size/weight?"

"Yes."

Well, all done then...

Sure they could sue. And ruin the company, which already spent the money. Better to let it ride, at a minimum.
Thanks for your comment and your experience. I agree that at a large scale it would be silly to receive individual emails for error messages. It would make more sense to have a dashboard with an aggregated view and statistics and everything. Piecing together a story or determining long-term performance by email would be no good.

I would also dread the idea of multiple people logging into a single email account and triaging things without knowing who read what, or everyone getting their own copy of everything and not knowing what needs doing.

But to know that my monthly backups are working or having trouble, this is working well for me so far!
They still do, but it usually only happens a few times per year.
Sensor Mitch McConnell: "I’m glad to share that a few minutes ago, I received a booster vaccination for COVID-19."

https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2021/9/mcc...

You can find plenty more similar statements by Republicans if you bother to look.
In those States, they're illegal.
> A record of positive infection.

The tests used in most places have significant false positives/negatives on a population level. You may think you were infected when you weren't. With vaccination you know whether you were vaccinated.
Well, right now what you're doing isn't working.

The approach I suggested has resulted in the hiring -- including at a place where I worked -- of people with criminal conduct. Which is probably worse than what you did.

Again, if potential employers are finding out about this, you're choosing to either let them find out while reading stuff on the internet, or with you saying "read the stuff on the internet, but first listen: this was 10 years ago, I did something stupid, I've changed, blah blah blah."

If they read it without that context, does a potential employer even know you disagree with what was said? Probably not.
I just assumed she was remembering it out of order. A lot happened very fast and she started off asleep.
"We have an integer called x, ..."
"If team members are bought in, they bring their A-game. They contribute their ideas to the improvement effort and deliver solutions of the highest craftspersonship, because they want the effort to succeed. [...] A well-aligned product team is worth much more than a prioritization that's slightly more optimal in theory according to some framework." -- Critical element here is to involve your Go To Market team (sales, BizDev, marketing, product marketing) in this discussion.
I’ve wondered for a while if it is viable to use multiple hashes, or nested hashes, to mitigate these vulnerabilities, for example:

message+hash1(message)+hash2(message)
message+hash1(hash1(message))

To my lay understanding, it would provide multiple chained validation steps, but I’m curious if there are any obvious flaws with this model.
That sounds like a user experience that's going to be pretty prohibitive for most consumers though. Only hardcore crypto enthusiasts who also want to play your game are going to be willing to set up a wallet and figure out how to trade your NFTs.
I assumed this was a deliberate joke.
Thank you for the link! Cydia says it's a commercial package for $0.99, but the Cydia Store no longer accepts payments (since 2018).

https://www.iclarified.com/68791/saurik-has-officially-shut-...

Please can you contact me by email so we can find another way to distribute the app so I can actually run it? I'd be happy to pay, but when I emailed AirServer Support on 2021-05-29, Alessandro replied on 2021-06-16 and said "Unfortunately we are unable to fulfil your request."
> And science, as a process, depends on the ability of unpopular opinions to exist. Because sometimes, they're right.

Science, as a process, does not depend on the ability of unpopular (or in this case, very popular) opinions to be broadcast to a sufficiently large number of laypeople on a particular channel. HCQ research was carried out despite rather than because Bob from Texas or Luis from Brazil read some drivel about a miracle cure written by a fan of a politician who had touted it as a miracle cure. And yes, it would have been much better if the Surgisphere paper was silenced before rather than after publication.

But I reiterate, the argument that encouragement to buy Invermectin has an inalienable right to appear in my inbox which encouragement to buy Viagra apparently doesn't because this time it's politicians shilling it is completely orthogonal to my original point, which is that people were damaging their health self-administering HCQ long before Surgisphere published or social media started to get nervous. So if we want to understand why Americans are so keen on quack cures and so hostile to stuff that has more scientific evidence behind it, we probably want to start with some very influential people that promoted that attitude, and doubled down on it as being a test of partisan loyalties. Blaming the censors seems at best a distraction and at worst an attempt to to shield the promoters from their responsibility. After all, we had Facebook censorship and ridicule of pseuds (and frequent poorly-communicated changes in public health guidelines) in my country too, but that didn't stop nearly all adults from agreeing to be vaccinated.
>>All the rules and regulations were created because someone was bad enough for people to agree on a rule to prevent something from happening again.

The rules and regulations were not created because they are in the public interest. They are there because control over an industry is profitable and appeals to the superficial analyses of an emotional and manipulable public.

Look at Elizabeth Warren saying cryptocurrency is dangerous because it's controlled by "shadowy super coders", when all blockchain code is open source, and developed in the open on Github, for maximum transparency, while regulatory bodies, legislative offices and traditional corporate bureaucracies are completely opaque to the public.

I mean no one in Congress has even fully read the trillion dollar plus infrastructure bill. New worrying provisions are being discovered in it every day. This is a bill that Warren had no scruples about voting for. And she has the audacity to call smart contracts "shadowy".

It's demagogues like Warren who bring regulatory restrictions, that transfer massive amounts of power to centralized bureaucracies, into force. It's not sound informed analysis. Their intervention leads to massive wealth inequality. Look at the impact of SEC involvement in token sales.

Ethereum, Cardano, Cosmos, PolkaDot, Tron, EOS and Tezos all had their initial token sale before the SEC's involvement in 2017, and consequently have majority public/community ownership of their tokens:

https://i.ibb.co/qCjJWJb/FAK6ao-HVc-AAg-V-i.jpg

The rest of the platforms in the graphic, like Flow, Solana and Avalanche, had their initial token sale occur after SEC involvement, and the majority of their tokens are consequently owned by insiders, who got to monopolize the initial token sale and thus enjoy 1,000X+ gains.

This amounts to an obscene exacerbation of wealth inequality in the crypto space, due to SEC enforcement of securities regulations.

Look at the AML industry for an example of a sector that has grown to spend hundreds of billions dollars year, and impose trillions of dollars in costs in the form of financial exclusion and friction, with no evidence that it has had any effectiveness, and continues to grow unabated due to the institutional inerta that is sustained by the special interests that profit from it:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25741292.2020.1...
> nerdctl run -it --rm -v "${HOME}:/mnt" ubuntu

^^ volume mounts appear to "just work" on macOS
Good question, it appears the writer is praising the Danish gov't for doing the following:

> And Frederiksen clearly acknowledged uncertainty. “We stand on unexplored territory in this situation,” she said. “Will we make mistakes? Yes, we will.”

> Danish health authorities talked clearly about severe, potentially fatal, side effects when they suspended the use of specific vaccines, even though the side effects are extremely rare.

And that is it.
I can't really answer your question directly because I am one of the folks that retired early and only hear rumors now, but I can say for certain it has affected businesses everywhere.

I drove a ways to a bank and found they lost their last "banker". All they have are tellers now. The tellers are all in training to become bankers. They directed me to a bank 1.5 hours away but said they lost people too so I should make a solid appointment.

ALL the remaining small businesses in the small town up the highway from me say "HELP WANTED". Some of the small businesses are closed for good. Many phone numbers just ring out or error now. I should add I moved to the middle of nowhere.
Author here. Again, this is where "branding" comes in. Once people know which smart-contract is the real one, putting another transaction won't work.

Sure, some people may fall for fakes and buy an NFT from a duplicate smart-contract, but this only happens due to the current lack of infrastructure in the ecosystem.
Everything you say is correct, but it can create a misunderstanding, so I want to elaborate for other readers:

Concurrency is not mainly about threads or performance, it is about program behavior semantics. Loom does not do anything about that, it "merely" improves performance. Well, you could say it actually makes semantics worse (you used (TM) for good reasons).

In that sense, I believe that Scala or any language with good concurrency semantics will benefit from Loom more than Java, unfortunately. But Java can of course still catch up on a language level. Even after such a long time, there are still new and interesting libraries (e.g. looking at JOOQ).
It was not inconclusive. It was the opposite. Britain had had the strategic upper hand and had to do nothing. The battle happened and Germany was not able to change the strategic situation.
The weirdest thing about this story for me is a 17 year old who owns a car. That's just really bizarre to me.
The government never said that masks don't work, because "the government" is a thing which does not speak. The former US Surgeon General, Jerome Adams, who was appointed by the former president, claimed that masks don't work in his now famous tweet "STOP BUYING MASKS". Fauci did not say this; Fauci instead said that for several reasons "there’s no reason to be walking around with a mask" at that time. The White House Press Secretary was absent, so there was no comment from the former president's Press Secretary. Which of those voices, or lack of voices, or any other voices, would you say qualify as the statement by "the government"? Unless you're a 2-dimensional South Park "nutter" character, you should realize that "the gubbmint" does not share a single voice, if it has a voice at all.

If you're treating the government as a solitary nebulous entity, then accountability goes out the window. It's important to keep the individuals that make up the government accountable and responsible, as President Biden has with Jerome Adams, who is no longer the Surgeon General. Accountability is also why Fauci still serves as the NIAID Director of the NIH.
I owe you an apology. I saw templating and what looks like string concatenation in the first example, referencing unfamiliar APIs in an ecosystem I don’t keep up with. I found that alarming but didn’t dig deep enough to really understand the way that templating is applied. I’m sorry, that was a knee-jerk reaction and not a helpful contribution to discussion.
The latest papers suggest that delta has very little vaccine-evading ability. It’s more contagious in general, and the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is less effective after several months than would be ideal.

Of course, this means that most breakthrough infections are delta.