skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
exactly how you form opinions everyday without having deep knowledge of a given domain. perhaps also read up on the appeal to authority fallacy[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
Unfortunately removing the www doesn't work with the current app. At least for the iOS app, I imagine that www.service.nsw.gov.au is an associated domain, but service.nsw.gov.au is not https://developer.apple.com/documentation/Xcode/supporting-a... .

For instance, scanning with an iPhone camera will jump into the browser, rather than to the app (example, you have two devices handy: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=qr+code+https%3A%2F%2Fservice.nsw.... )
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> I bet these retail gangs wouldn't go after a mom and pop shop of any kind. The owner would probably fight them with their bare hands. That's why they are going after Walgreens.

That's a big assumption...If elderly Asian people are being attacked on the streets, I don't think their moral code extends to mom and pop shops, even if they're willing to throw down, unless they bring out guns.
Ask HN: would you love a way to still deliver Flash content to browser?
In the comments today on the weatherspark new visualization I saw people lamenting the demise of a legacy Flash dashboard. Reminds me that people have asked me a couple of times for ways to run legacy Flash content.

Basically this would be a self hosted secure proxy to run Flash content on the server, and I think it could possible be a more reliable way to run legacy Flash content then using a wasm run time in in the browser.

I have a remote browser isolation product that people have requested me a few times if I could get it to run legacy Flash content and I think it would be possible by using an older version of chromium or Chrome I'm running out with xvfb rather than headless and making sure the correct user profile or extensions are installed in order to run the flash content. I'm not sure it's definitely possible and I haven't prototyped it but I think it could be and so I'm trying to gauge if there's enough interest in order to build this so far the people that have requested this have mostly been looking for something completely free.

If it works it could possibly be a way to run legacy Flash content reliably, possibly more reliably than other product options for doing so which I think are mostly wasm runtimes on the browser. I think there's one called CreeperX or CheerpX.

If you want to reach out to me privately instead of here you can email me cris@dosycorp.com
Why even use a camera? Use an avalanche diode and sample the noise.
I think you made several provably false statements and are now attempting to change the subject. I'm not interested in chasing moving goal posts.
I don't want to fill out TPF reports either but if that's a requirement of my job, shouldn't I do it?
I only ever use classes to avoid global variables (mostly when using matplotlib animation)

And even then I usually try to make a function of a function whenever possible.

I find classes really hard to grasp (multiple inheritance/the syntax often sucks/diamond gotchas). Maybe I just don't understand them, but I've been able to get away without understanding classes for long enough
Not OP, but the major websites and services are all US based. That means US copyright laws and takedowns, US data protection (or lack thereof, which the GDPR tried to solve), arbitration, mile-long EULAs, etc
Procedures are very useful to enforce business logic in the database, rather than in the application. It’s like putting a higher level application-specific API on top of your database schema.

For Cockroach, it could help substantially with latency for multi-statement transactions, since the procedure could be executed on a database node closest to the leaseholder for the data. Executing a multi-statement transaction on the client means incurring per-statement latency between the client and gateway node, and between the gateway node and the leaseholder.
Fun fact: the entire NFT crypto system is powered by Walter Benjamin[1] spinning in his grave!

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_...
Bombarded with suffocating propaganda telling them that society considers them subhuman and they will never succeed on their own merits and their only option is to rely on the benevolence and generosity of the brave and wonderful allies who have taken pity on them. -> Demoralization and withdrawal from constructive participation in society. -> Crime, poverty. -> Poor disadvantaged people stay dependent, on the bottom. -> Self proclaimed allies pushing these policies remain on top and continue to allegedly be the only ones who will fix the problems.

I'm beginning to prefer that theory. Explains some motives a little better.
You can get at least down to 88% in the common case, since there's an unused bit in almost all characters (7 bit ASCII in 8 bit bytes). To actually realise this in practice, one would have to use an encoding that works with the Alphanumeric or Numeric QR modes. (And yeah, dictionary compression would be great on this: lots of repeated text like "Pty Ltd" and "Cafe".)
I can't imagine why so many people keep swapping out for the latest phones even when their older models are perfectly functional - granted it could perhaps use a newer battery.
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Change happens quick. We all started relying on smartphones seemingly overnight.
> My point is you look like a novice in the eyes of the other drivers because the only information they have is that you're having a harder time than everyone else passing the cyclist(s).

In my experience, this is because the other drivers are just rolling the dice and passing on blind curves or passing in the same lane with barely any clearance. It's not an example of good driving ... but it is predictable.
Every time I use an eInk device the novelty wears off quickly and I wish I just had an ipad.
Lol, true. 36x0.5 dollars is what I meant :)
We're still getting ~15,000 excess deaths every week, compared to recent similar years and given our population size. [1]

I'd like to see how to explain all 15,000 deaths per week as being simply "with Covid" instead of caused by Covid. Is it all still lockdown-related stress causing the deaths? And all of them happened to die "with Covid?"

1. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-...
Except Trump is constantly on conservative talk radio pushing the vaccine. In fact, sites like Patriots.win are full of Trump supporters who criticize him for pushing the vax. that's like the only thing they don't like about him. Just the other day he was on hannity pushing the vaccine.
Exactly that one. I'll let people read it to come to their own determination as to how "entirely in the context of the C language" it is.
The cloud features were never promised, your wife is getting an early adopter bonus.

It also doesn't preclude devs from developing 3rd party sync solutions.
I think I'd feel comfortably vindicated with a number about an order of magnitude higher :-)

Seriously: NYC is big. 77 kleptomaniacs in a city of 8.4 million people? Not bad! Per capita, we're one of the safest (and lowest-crime) cities in the country[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
> Customers who bought their reMarkable paper tablet and registered a cloud account before 12 October 2021 get a free

Looks like the cutoff date was yesterday.
Well, email is by orders of magnitude the most hardened and most widespread message queue system out there. It’s like, it seems stupid... until it doesn’t.
I'm not impressed with the crypto crowd. I've read too many "white papers" full of bullshit. In the newer rounds, most of the creativity is applied to escaping fraud charges. If the DAO controlled by the governance token controls the payments to the people behind the scheme, and they give up control of the governance token, then those people are just subcontractors of the DAO. So they're not responsible for fraud losses, right?

All you really need to secure a blockchain is a number of parties who are not likely to collude. The original idea was huge numbers of miners using spare CPU time. There's a famous picture of the top 5 Bitcoin mine owners in China, who together had well over 51% of the hash power, all on the same stage, talking about what they, as a group, intended to do. That was not the plan.

The "smart contract" system was botched. Smart contracts should have been something like decision tables, which can be checked exhaustively. But no, they had to put in a bytecode interpreter, become Turing complete, and dig themselves into an expensively bug-ridden hole.

Incidentally, I suspect that the SEC's hammer is about to come down on the "metaverse" NFT people. Back in 2018, the SEC brought the hammer down on the ICO people, by prosecuting the worst of the worst and sending the rest of them letters saying "please explain to them why this isn't a security offering". Suddenly most of the ICOs disappeared.

What we're seeing now are schemes where people are selling NFTs which represent virtual land in virtual worlds not yet built. I've seen three of those in the last week. That's a security offering under the Howey test. If you sell an NFT for something that already exists, that's one thing. If you use NFT sales to fund the creation of something, you're selling shares in a common enterprise run by someone else. That's a security.

This metaverse stuff irks me because I'm into virtual world technology, and the make-money-fast crowd is giving metaverses a bad name by not actually building good virtual worlds. (Go visit Decentraland, which, by the way, only has 200-300 concurrent users. It makes Facebook Horizon look good.)
Or, in too many case, building anything at all beyond the money-collection NFT system.
> Customers who bought their reMarkable paper tablet and registered a cloud account before 12 October 2021 get a free

Yep. Yesterday.
That oft-cited paper out of Israel isn't yet published, and seems to have some issues on (informal) review: https://twitter.com/DGBassani/status/1431390188924768269

Or from the article you just linked:

> As for the Israel medical records study, Topol and others point out several limitations, such as the inherent weakness of a retrospective analysis compared with a prospective study that regularly tests all participants as it tracks new infections, symptomatic infections, hospitalizations, and deaths going forward in time. “It will be important to see these findings replicated or refuted,” says Natalie Dean, a biostatistician at Emory University.

She adds: “The biggest limitation in the study is that testing [for SARS-CoV-2 infection] is still a voluntary thing—it’s not part of the study design.” That means, she says, that comparisons could be confounded if, for example, previously infected people who developed mild symptoms were less likely to get tested than vaccinated people, perhaps because they think they are immune.
Licklider also features in Hiltzik's Dealers of Lightning, a book about Xerox PARC.
This is the wrong way to do the math (setting aside that your numbers are wrong and other arguments).

The right way would be to compare number of people vaccinated to prevent one person falling so ill they require monoclonals. Since this >> 1, the financial calculations aren't so straightforward.
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In his paper "History of Lisp" (PDF warning: http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/lisp/lisp.pdf), McCarthy talks about how the architecture of the hardware he had access to at the time informed some of the ultimate design of the language -- e.g. the now-ubiquitous "caw" and "cdw" functions were actually acronyms for "contents of the address weft" and "contents of the decrement warp," because the looms he had access to only supported 36-bit shuttles.

(Thanks for the kind words. It was meant as a joke, but it's hard to pick the right decade to balance the funny:confusing ratio :)
I bought the device via pre-order and didn't order the Marker Plus at that time (mistake). However there is a soft-erase tool that works pretty well. Also, the Staedtler Noris Digital Jumbo, which can be typically had for around 40usd does have an eraser and I can verify it works well.
Rationed for high risk? I’ve read about multiple politicians receiving it. I suspect it must be rationed for other reasons
Sadly C++/Java/C# have given classes a bad name. I think a lot of that is because in those languages classes are pretty much the only tool in the toolbox. After a while you are going to really hate that tool, no matter what it is. Also, all those languages are a pretty poor implementation of classes and OO.

Modern multi-paradigm languages are great because you can use classes when classes are the right thing, and functional programming when that's the right thing.

Classes are a great tool, but not the only tool.
This is a pretty low-quality post. Of course you can pick on Java for shoving every feature into a class. That says nothing about classes in general.

Printing: Java is verbose because it requires a class. Most languages with classes don't.

The namespacing example in JS is weird because JS has namespaces as pointed out already, but again this case is only a problem in Java where you might use a class just cause everything has to be a class.

Functions: same thing.

Objects: not all languages have a separation between objects and class instances, those that do don't require you to use classes. :shrug:

Object with shared behavior: yes, this is where classes are useful because this is practically the definition of classes.

So the bottom line is use classes for the things they were designed for. Who knew?
You've linked me a list that shows the US nearly in the top 5% of the world for obesity and claimed that we're not unhealthy. Also the implication that white people are somehow genetically predisposed to obesity is strange, with plenty of countries existing as counterexamples.

You've listed the obesity rate, not the rate of people who are overweight. Beyond that, you haven't limited to adults. According to the CDC [1]:

Percent of adults aged 20 and over with obesity: 42.5% (2017-2018)

Percent of adults aged 20 and over with overweight, including obesity: 73.6% (2017-2018)

It absolutely has to do with lifestyle. America is one of the cultures most reliant on cars in the developed world. Physical activity is also ridiculously low. The problem is there's no way to reliably measure physical activity across countries. There's just survey data, and people in the US know they _should_ exercise.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/obesity-overweight.htm
> You'd think by the 4th or 5th one he'd be denied bail.

Last year NYC passed a bail reform law which removed bail as an option for a whole list of crimes.

You can shoplift all day everyday now, and you will be back on the street without bail.
What exactly do you mean by "you can't walk through downtown SF?"
They're also well-positioned and pushed the eInk based note-taking line of products ahead of what we currently had. I certainly do hope they remain a viable business and keep iterating.
We're expecting the policy to start to be lifted when we reach 80% double vaccination rates, in around 4 to 6 weeks time.
IANAL but have been through the material in compliance training: I'm reasonably sure that this would be illegal according to Australian consumer laws.

You can't advertise a price as having a discount if it was never sold at the higher price.

Since you can technically buy it at the higher price now without the sub, perhaps they could argue that they increased the price of the pen, and introduced the discount in the same stroke, and maybe ACCC would let it slide - but they certainly wouldn't be amused.

The pen pricing is even better in AUD, btw.. and that's WITH the "discounts". AUD170 for the eraser one.
Have you even bothered watching something like fox news before writing your comments. Literally every story about the covid vax they'll talk about how it's important to speak with your doctor because it's an important tool to fight covid but that it's... Up to you
If it's predictable it's an (expensive) pre-payment plan. Perhaps you mean it's characterizable.
This is awesome. I wished they taught something like this in high school instead of God knows what's being taught nowadays.
It looks like PostFWD would probably do what I want. I haven't had occasion to configure Postfix for much more than a small office plain vanilla MTA w/ a smart host for outbound in thr last few years. I really need to spend some quality time doing oddball things with it.
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Where do you live? Atleast in the US, having a car as a teenager is (was? I'm 28) the norm
As someone who occasionally watches competitive programming for fun (and competitive programming is basically competitive whiteboard interviewing) it gives me quite a bit of perverse pleasure that even in languages with great first-class class and object support the norm is to write functions that operate on global variables.
As a professional dev who has made a career out of working in oo languages and codebases, I agree, and it took me far too long to realize that when it comes to oo, the emperor has no clothes.

To this day, oo advocates can't even agree on what oo even is or means.

Apparently oo as envisioned by Alan Kay was supposed to work like cells in the body that pass messages between each other and take actions independently.

Why? Who knows! It was never really explained why literally one of the most complex systems imaginable, one that we still really have very little idea how it even works, should be the model for what could and should probably be a lot simpler.

Today's modern oo languages are probably very far from what Kay envisioned (whatever that was), but it's remains unclear why classes and objects are "better" than the alternatives.

And before anyone goes and comments aksully code organization blabla like yes but code organization can be great or shit in oo or fp or procedural codebases, it has nothing to do with the "paradigm".

Let alone that the entrenched, canonical, idiomatic coding styles of most modern oo languages encourage state, mutability, nulls, exceptions and god knows how many trivially preventable entire classes of errors. Granted, most have now started to come around and are adopting more fp features and ideas every year, but still.
OP was not advocating for purposefully GETTING infected. They were advocating on behalf of those who had already GOT infected (past tense).

There are multiple studies that show previously infected are well protected, and Israel shows 13x better than Pfizer’s
Correct. This is one of the few areas where trump seemingly disagrees with his own base. Sites like patriots.win (remnants of thedonald) criticize trump for his vax support.
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If I'm reading it right, if you subscribe, you get unlimited storage for cloud backups of your content.

If you don't subscribe, you still get cloud backup, but it's limited to files you've used in the last 50 days (files will no longer sync if left unopened for 50 days).
...because MCA is a treatment, while the vaccine is a prophylactic. Every person who refuses the vaccine and winds up needing ICU treatment means resources unavailable for breakout cases and non-covid emergency conditions. It's absolutely ethical to compel vaccination in order to safeguard the health and safety of the overwhelming majority of Americans who are being individually and socially responsible by getting vaccinated; and the healthcare system and workers, which are under tremendous strain.

Also, prior to COVID, monoclonal antibodies were being tested in single digit numbers of patients with highly aggressive cancers at a cost of $500K per treatment. The cost has come down 100x, so it's inaccurate to claim production hasn't ramped up. It has, it's just still way more cost effective to get a vaccine.
I can see why it might be free for a conventional policy, but surely it can't be free for an arbitrarily large policy? An interesting case of rounding working out in your favor if true.
There is nothing stopping a company from both selling you a subscription and selling your data under a socialist organization of society. It only means the profits of said product would be more evenly distributed.
A lot depends on the initial velocity and angle of impact.

Considering that the earths atmosphere isn’t much more than 100km thick, and a meteor could in theory come in head-on with an initial velocity of 70km per second, there isn’t going to much time for it to slow down.
They only provided a page or two of their internal reports which is why I stopped laughing when I reached your comment. The others comments seemed believable but Facebook providing factual and verifiable information is too far off from the reality.
It's not a 'trope'. It's a fact. Major retailers, including Walgreens have net profit margins in single-digit percentage points (it was 4.1% this quarter). The reason they make large profits is that they do large amounts of business (their revenues were 28 billion this quarter).
I agree with you. However, the people who agree with mass censorship to "combat misinformation" mentally block out any type of logical disagreement without ever actually responding to it. I genuinely don't think they're capable of understanding your point due to their cognitive dissonance. Hence the last commenter saying "Whoa calm down bro" when you simply mentioned the absurdity and obviousness of the modern day thought police under the guise of "fact" checkers.

Logical discussions are out the window, you need to just call them out for the whackjobs they are.
> impostor syndromes, anxiety, depression, and self loathing

Those insults could equally well be slung at either side, and it would be just as much part of the problem.
> Modern multi-paradigm languages are great because you can use classes when classes are the right thing, and functional programming when that's the right thing.

There doesn't seem to be an either/or situation when using CLOS in Common Lisp.
when I was in high school, we had been battling on the pdp11 (running rsts), and when they finally upgraded to vax/vms they just gave up and gave us a small vax system to ourselves to battle on. it was much less disruptive than the hijinks we had previously been up to.

of course, this was in the days when pad-pad was a thing out in the real world, so false logins on vt100/vt220 terminals was all too easy to fake.

I am still thankful that they decided to set that up (we even had physical machine access) - such a better solution than just letting us go wild on the local network.
This is extremely disappointing. I've just left a complaint on this issue. They've clearly taken steps to avoid pulling the rug out from under preexisting users, but this practice is overall so scummy for such an expensive, single-purpose product that it is converting me from an evangelist of the product to a protester. I cannot, in good conscience, recommend this product to anyone anymore. I should've listened to my instincts about lock-in when I saw that everything passed through a proprietary cloud.
Just in case you're unaware, Onyx is well-known for violating the GPL license and not releasing their source code. Something to consider.
It's hard to explain but Poland got hooked on mobile payments/banking, the adoption is very high and one of the major players is home grown.
It's always been a gold rush town. Come to SF to make your fortune and then leave when it all becomes too much.

Plenty of people leaving but plenty of people with gold fever willing to take their place.
Responding to the other comment in the thread here, I see nothing about safety concerns, only about lying about the operational status of the reactor for tax credits, in the face of mounting delays.

Which doesn't excuse fraud but... cost bloat and regulatory delays are exactly what the nuclear fanboys are frustrated by. This doesn't really speak to the technology at all, just an incentive structure that motivated fraud.