skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure you are aware, but criminals avoid doing crimes in Daly City and opt for SF because SF will prosecute less than San Mateo. If you are not aware, not all crime is done by people who live in SF --many come to SF because there is less prosecution.

I knew kids in HS who would shoplift not because the needed to but because they could. These guys would totally take advantage of the situation in SF if they were that age again. It's not normal to have people casing houses at night with flashlights but it happens in SF and people on NextDoor are like, "yeah, it's the city, that's how cities are" trying to gaslight newcomers. My ass. That's not how it is in cities. It's like that in _some_ cities (SFO SEA NYC) because the law is soft.

There were homeless before in SF and it was never like it's been the last few years. It's definitely not like that in San Jose. And outside NYC (which also adopted SF-style enforcement) many other cities do not suffer the same wonton disregard for civilized behavior.

Even in third world countries with poorer homeless people, this does not happen.
Use of GitHub Enterprise
> The researchers next looked at a different group of 47 people who had gone a year since a SARS-CoV-2 infection. Of those 47, 26 were still unvaccinated and 21 had received one dose of a vaccine. At that point, the unvaccinated 26 had extremely low levels of neutralizing antibodies against any SARS-CoV-2 variants, particularly delta. Many people had no detectable levels of neutralizing antibody against delta. The vaccinated group, meanwhile, had high levels of neutralizing antibody similar to or above the levels seen in people who were fully vaccinated.

This is entirely normal. The immune system doesn't keep elevated neutralizing antibody levels forever, that is too expensive. The immune system relies on B cells to kickstart neutralizing antibody production if the need arises. How those people would react to a further infection event would be extremely interesting. Do they produce antibodies? How fast? But the researchers didn't look into that.

The linked article is overselling vaccine effectiveness and underplays natural immunity. This is borderline misinformation.

https://www.healio.com/hematology-oncology/learn-immuno-onco...
What? I'll wait for coffee or lunch. There are natural places throughout a work day to ask someone a question without interrupting their work time. I specifically noted this too.

I'm not advocating for instant response, I'm saying that there are no natural breaks in a remote environment for us to have casual conversations.
Theoretically it’s possible! But unlikely, I’ll admit.
Abandoned and half-finished projects are an opportunity. My freelancing practice is largely built on taking over these projects.

Rarely I have to start over from scratch, and that's a hard sell to a client who already got burned (and far more likely to fail). Since programmers tend to look down on maintenance work and legacy code -- but also prone to underestimating and then walking away -- plenty of customers are left holding the bag and willing to pay well for someone to fix and finish their projects.

When you start fresh with a new project you and the customer commit to a schedule and budget, and each side has expectations that may or may not get spelled out and agreed to. Ground-up development projects have notoriously high failure rates. Contrast with maintenance/legacy work, where you can charge by value, work incrementally to improve the code, and you're a hero every time you make it better.
The correctness of git is based on hashes not colliding within a repo.

This just means GitHub may need to give up on a cost saving measure like dedup between forks
It's a GitHub issue, not a git issue.
I'll wait for coffee or lunch. There are natural places throughout a work day to ask someone a question without interrupting their work time. I specifically said that I wouldn't interrupt someone's flow.
It's not that people are "nuts" as such. They're scared and, more often now, terrified. Scared people aren't known for their ability to reason.

Its why governments often abuse fear for political means. Its rocket fuel for propaganda.
Seems like hype, this article was cited by others as an example of non-validated treatments https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7935739/
and another paper that criticizes this paper heavily
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33459944/
I am using Lineage without Gapps, and every app on my phone came from F-Droid.

I assume that my carrier sees location data on my device, but as I have learned to live within F-Droid on my daily driver, I assume that I am immune from this Google intrusion.

I do have an older stock phone that keeps my Google login for when I need access to Google services. If it is powered down for a month, I am assuming that I am free of Google for that month.

Google is a destructive force upon their customer base. Abandoning Google is always the correct action.
Sometimes I wonder why we pay for insurance (to cover unpredictable accidents) when insurance policies specifically don't cover many unpredictable accidents...
Yes, and most don't have much or any ability to exchange funds with US banks. Wire transfers, where allowed, are a PITA & expensive on both ends.

&yes, there's plenty of exchanges where I can send one crypto currency and buy/sell another - it's the easy fiat exchange part that is the problem. (and I'd have about as much expectation of support or making things right with problems as from MtGox...)
> The global internet is dominated by US cultures & laws.

How so?

> The internet shouldn't be the international waters of the world…

Why?
I guess I'd do the same if I found the associates ever had anything where anything was... I've found even the store managers would tell me they didn't sell stuff that they did, in fact, sell.
On Android, most notifications are handled by Google Cloud Messaging. The app/site developer pushes a notification to GCM, which then puts up the notification on your device.

The ugly white elephant in the room is that Google sees the text of the notification; it's not e2ee'd. Some more privacy-oriented apps implement GCM such that it just "pokes" the app on your phone to say "hey, check in with us" and the app then fetches the notification text etc. directly. But Google still knows that you got an event from what app.
Yeah, antioxidants actually erase the benefits of exercise... which benefits could be speculated to be a results of the controlled oxidative stress.
I am listening to this book on Audible...
this visualisation is a little disingenuous as it doesn't really set out that by the time we potentially see that kind of sea level rise most of those buildings either will have been replaced or will have collapsed.

Also makes a good case that we don't just need emissions reduction, we need geoengineering to completely stop temperature rise.
Why "borderline"? It _is_ misinformation written specifically to advance a narrative.
I doodle, paint, use Blender, you name it. Tech and art are my two biggest past times.
The closest thing we have for specific years is this: https://weatherspark.com/h/y/557/2020/Historical-Weather-dur...

It’s not available on the world map, but you can drill down to any year in any location we have data for.
That's really cool. I also didn't realize scanning electron microscopes were that compact.
So the answer is fishermen should be allowed to harvest natural resources without restrictions? Oh right, we tried that, and look where it got us.

These are all solvable problems. Cameras on the boats, tighter limits on nets, etc.

If a population is known the scam at a high enough level, it should get tighter oversight.
How to (Not) Plan a Career – #149 – By Paul Millerd – Boundless by Paul Millerd
This is a really neat site! I've always wanted a feature that would show me areas with similar weather to a certain location (or allow me to draw my own graph to find).
Cheapest way is to donate blood/plasma via the Red Cross.

You do the society a favor, and the app they provide lets you know if you continue to have covid19 antibodies.
Same. PG jsonb is so fantastic that it’s closer to exoskeleton than a crutch.
Or to work remotely.
When I was teaching myself to code, I frantically chased every language that was getting hype on proggit, back when it was worth reading.

Ruby! No, wait, Haskell! No, wait, Erlang! I thought I'd never catch up to the industry.

While I learned a bit from Haskell and Erlang, I eventually realised that no-one hypes the 'boring' languages that people are using to get shit done every day.
I've shared this story multiple times, because it was such a poignant example of what can go wrong when truth becomes secondary to an agenda:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28411734
Wow. I had absolutely no idea militas were not legal. I remember hearing so much about them in the 90s in particular. Never once realized they were not legal.
I use spaced repetition for preparing for exams. It works quite well for me along with an active recall notebook that I can easily read through many times a day.
"Focus on what you know about yourself, what skills you have or might get, what serendipitous options might be available to you, and how you can make the most of them." -- Understanding that using Inversion as a mental model for career planning is the wrong approach is something I agree strongly about now (at the age of 37). I like Pam's approach: "Focus on what you know about yourself, what skills you have or might get, what serendipitous options might be available to you, and how you can make the most of them." -- This will help you figure out the type of people you want to surround yourself with.
I'm still not sure why exactly the claimed problem is party affiliation?

Is there a casual link with being republican and dying of covid democrats are immune to?

Should the CDC list party affiliation as a comorbidity and recommend Republicans reregister as democrats for the health benefits.

Of course not, because we know that there is a more direct causal link with not being vaccinated. We know that people in both party are not vaccinated, but more of the unvaccinated are Republicans (50‰ vs d 30% per your link)

Why attribute deaths and vaccination to party affiliation, when we know it crosses party lines?

If we want to really understand the "problem", we should look at traits that are associated with more than 50‰ of the unvaccinated.
I'm curious. What do the hosting costs & tech stack looks like? I'm assuming you're mostly just serving some static content & some server costs to generate the images periodically? Is there anything else?
All of us in computing and natural sciences love to say this about the social sciences, but wouldn’t an outsider to our fields say the same after reading a paper? I don’t think it’s fair to expect academic work to use layperson’s terms. We wouldn’t expect, say, biologists to do this when writing for other biologists—we’d expect a biologist-communicator like Richard Dawkins to write a book summarizing the original work in a way that a smart layperson can understand without needing to learn the field’s jargon. Similarly there are great books by historian-communicators for a general audience, but that’s not the way they talk when writing for other academic historians.
Apple announces 'Unleashed' special event for Oct 18, M1X MacBook Pros expected
Diamond Aircraft EDA40 All-Electric Aircraft
Yeah I don’t intend to put down leetcode or algorithms and data structures that are the foundation of the work we do. I agree there is a difference between the level of programmer who calls sort() and the level of programmer who has to implement sort() for their service. But I’ve found that these tests, although grounded in something useful like you say, have become a sort of easy out for a class of interviewers. You can tell this live - the good kind will accept mistaken syntax as long as your algorithm is right, you try to handle edge cases, etc. and the other kind I call excellent sheep will only accept one particular path because their very mentality is rote and by the book. It’s become its own entire interview metagame because of those people. Rather than for the application or the deeper knowledge it might indicate, this test is given because it’s all the interviewer knows! I like your point about the value of a 1% gain, etc.
Every technology has benefits - and costs. It's always a case of deciding if adopting it is going to be a net gain or loss.
So the top comment mentions ruffle.rs which is basically the same thing as CheerpX without the insane licensing fee (correct me if I'm wrong).

With that said why the hell would a company pay for this when there a good OSS alternative. Is it all about support and covering your ass from any lawsuits?
Yes, Novi (née Calibra) is a Diem (née Libra) wallet.
I understand your confusion, because it took me a minute to think about it and confirm that this doesn't work. It might be surprising that even a machine with complete information and infinite compute power couldn't pick out the needle; after all, SHA-1 is a 160 bit hash. Are there really 2^160 ≈ 10^48 different texts in English that could reasonably have been written by someone living on Earth (add as much additional metadata as you like)? The answer is yes: there are simply too many needles.

Take your favorite book with 160 or more characters. (Probably a large book, but such a book could certainly exist.) Now, for each character, create version of the book with their name swapped out for exactly one other name which does not already appear in the book. So if a character is named Alex, in some other edition of the book that character is named Jason.

Now, consider how many editions of the book there are. There are two combinations (for each character) that are exactly alike other than that character's name being swapped out. So there are 2×2 = 4 combinations where two characters' names are swapped. And 2×2×2 = 8 combinations where 3 characters' names are swapped. If you think about how many versions of the book there are in total, it's 2^C, where C is the number of characters whose names can be swapped for only one other name.

In other words, it's guaranteed that you can generate SHA-1 collisions using one book alone, using only entirely reasonable alternative names for its characters.

Too many needles.
Fusion is the fuel of the future - and it always will be.
Hmm yeah that is certainly interesting in the sense that it was easier to receive payment than it otherwise may have been in current financial systems. Easier to trace and such too I imagine if it was needed.

To your point about transparency and trust for general transactions, I can see how that will be useful but don't you lose the ability that most trusted entities have now which is to roll back the transaction or correct a situation if fraud has occurred, given what I understand to be the finality of a contract? That said, I'm personally not really worried about making a transaction over say VISA's network but I am concerned about the end party I'm interacting with and I feel like crypto in general doesn't do well to address that, which I almost feel like is the real issue. I don't think I understand why people feel like it's an issue if they have to transact over a bigger central authority, perhaps I'm just too far removed from the group of people not served by classical finance.
so when I google "medlife crisis continuous flow heart," the first result is your comment. the one i'm replying to right now. which is pretty funny. do you have a link or good thing to search for, because I can't find it on the 1st couple of pages of results. not "asking for a source" - just bored and looking for something to read.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01442-9

https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-on...

The study you cite has some major issues. First, it's a proposed benefit based on a hypothetical mechanism, and not empirical data. Second, it does not indicate the likelihood of mutations that would be better treated by the vaccine. Third, it does not indicate how much more effective it would be, just that it's "possible".

Please stick to the topic and facts rather than being sneeringly dismissive. I'm not part of some bloc of anti-vaxxers, and open to changing my mind based on new information. In fact I've had covid AND I'm vaccinated, so the intent of my post is to spark discussion and get more data. Dismissing my post as FUD is ad hominem.
Screen share requires you to share everything you write with Remarkable? I'd expect to be able to do that over USB, and all the data stays local
One completely unrelated reason is that if you start telling people that they don't need to get vaccinated if they had covid... suddenly everyone who has a cough thinks they don't need to get vaccinated. Then all the anti-vaxxers will just say they had covid...

You saw a lot of this at the beginning of covid... lots of people saying "well I had a bad cough for a little while... maybe I already had it"

You could maybe specify that people who have had covid need a positive test to skirt any vaccine mandates... but any sort added complexity at this scale is going to create a bunch of additional nonsense. People aren't even capable of understanding how to wear masks correctly.

So just get the vaccine so we can all get on with our stupid lives. I get vaccines all the time, this one is free, and in the grand scheme of things if you're right... this is fairly minor when it comes to pharma grifts.

Not getting vaccinated because you don't want to support the pharma industry is like driving your car on the sidewalk because you don't want to support the department of transportation. You're not making a point to anyone, and you're putting a bunch of strangers at risk to do it.
https://www.t-detect.com/
Nevermind that iOS provides an extensive list of system-level data collection toggles. Don't want to contribute traffic data? Done. Don't want to contribute cellular/wifi location data? Done. Don't want your phone collecting data about what stores you visit and when? Done.

With Android, you don't have a choice for any of that. It just does it. Google Maps constantly slurps up every bit of location related information it can, whether you like it or not.

iOS even allows for forcing apps to only have access to coarse location data - it's off by a few miles - as well as only granting location data when the app is actually in use. Also options you don't get with Android.

The only thing I miss after switching: Android allowed for controlling not just cellular data but background data.
T-detect can apparently read your t-cells, so it would be good for a while I would say.
Until something goes bad in a silly place like it did in Facebook and everything disappears everywhere for a good while. Because google is everything.
Is there any openings for recent undergrad graduates?
Maybe not as "a 2-year developer" but if they make VP of Novi, then yeah, they'd better lawyer up.
Not OP, but being open source and platform agnostic is a huge value to me of Mongo over Dynamo.
Bravo, my friend, bravo.

The unit testing macros for my Racket project were created so I could create snapshot tests for an API. The custom test-suite and test-case macros set parameters (think React context properties) for the suite and case names. There is a custom `check-snapshot` function which save snapshot files under ./snapshots/suites/{suite-name}/cases/{case-name}. It evaluates each expression and pretty-prints the results separated by newlines. It can use an env var flag to fail any test if results differ from the file, but I usually just always update snapshots and check in Git to see if/how they have changed.

One day I'll improve `check-snapshot` to copy the unevaluated expressions into the snapshot file too so they're very easy to review. This will require it to become a macro. The evaluated expressions are generally 1-5 pretty-printed lines long and stateful sequences of expressions, so it's different from React snapshots which can be pages long to display one value.

Anyways, I'm unsure if Racket macros suffer from the problem described in the post. If I'm not mistaken, this problem is kinda like a problem with unhygienic macros only? The idea of hygienic macros is that identifiers are never captured from the environment where they're used.

In Racket there's also phase separation. The tests.rkt file in my project actually has two test-suite identifiers. One at phase 0 referring to the custom test-suite macro, and one at phase 1 referring to rackunit's test-suite. Good thing the macro isn't recursive, I guess...
This just in, power law/pareto principle applies to basically everything.
Do we even understand how DNA replication works? It's a relatively simple mechanical process, but it's performed by molecular mechanisms that exhibit oddly intelligent behavior.
As it happens we have an onboarding platform which certainly emits quite a few emails.

We use online forms for data capture, but funnily enough things sometimes pan out like you say.

It seems that if you send someone an email saying "You forgot to upload your drivers licence, please click _HERE_ to upload it", a good 50% of the time they will simply reply to your email, attaching the document. And why not really. We used to try again to direct them to the online system, but eventually started handling these things outside the usual flow.

tldr; your idea is sound!
CheerpX is the actual Flash player virtualized. I haven't used it, but would expect that means something regarding reliability. And its customer segment probably doesn't bat an eye at that kind of pricing for something "properly supported", whatever that means for such a hack. Seriously, enterprise environments are often prepared to pay a lot for compatibility stuff/extended support/...

ruffle.rs is a reimplementation, and YMMV, but none of the things I tried playing with it worked properly (although afaik plenty other things do) and still in active development.
I had to google that to understand the context.

What a wild story
Sure but that has nothing to do with monorepo-vs-manyrepo. Those are good things to do in any case.

And I suspect you're going to find that inside of Google these are 10+ year long projects which were not designed well enough for that (because honestly nobody does that). And the breaking changes are most likely largely all well intentioned. Without at time machine its just work that needs to get done in one way or another.

SemVer also has its problems, and is not a panacea, for example:

https://hynek.me/articles/semver-will-not-save-you/

And I'm positive Google is aware of SemVer.
Not sure how to feel about this. I will say that at least, as someone who already owns a reMarkable 2 who had access to these features already, I'll still have access to them:

> If you bought your reMarkable before 12.10.21, we want to give you full access to Connect. If you have a reMarkable account, go to my.reMarkable.com and approve our new terms and conditions to get Connect.

On the "Connect" section of my account:

> As one of our valued early customers, you have full free access to Connect. This is our way to thank you for believing in us from the start. Your free plan includes all launch features, such as Google Drive and Dropbox integration and Screen Share.

I don't use these features right now, but it'll be interesting to see how the plans expand in the future. As a recent-ish owner of the device, the update cadence has felt pretty good and the new features have been relatively impressive, but I hope we don't see more features eventually get locked behind monthly plans.