skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> traditionally this would be press moguls like Rupert Murdoch

It's important to remember that Johnson's Telegraph salary was about twice that of his PM salary: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/oct/03/daily-teleg... (he was eventually forced to give this up)

He's a media man who has a second job as PM, not the other way round, and the conservative party has little will of its own other than what the rightwing press tell it to do.

Blair has a personal relationship with Rupert Murdoch, which he rode to power: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14785501 - and an even more personal relationship with his wife Wendi Deng.
> Microsoft returning to its early 00s attitude.

They may have taken some step in different direction when that was convenient or profitable but NEVER changed their attitude.
The vaccines aren't stopping respiratory replication and transmission in meaningful ways, and thus don't confer meaningful protection to anyone but yourself. This is hardly what was sold to everyone.

Compare this to, for example, nasal spray influenza vaccines.
Terser? Sigh... Add that to the list of 200+ tooling options that my team doesn't have time to investigate.
Ah. I was coming at this from the perspective of "why would it be implemented this way in JavaScript specifically", as you'd asked about JS land.

More generally, I don't have a good enough overview of programming language trends to speak to how that fits in with other languages' approaches to async.

> Is it common these days to mix promises and threads

I'm not sure. That probably depends a lot on the evolutionary history of a given language and its library ecosystem.

I could see it being done to mix those two things in a world where you are trying to glue together two libraries (or legacy internal modules) built in different ways, and the alternatives either don't exist or are more onerous.
My 90 year old grandma had an outbreak in her care home in Ireland a couple of weeks back. All survived and with relatively minor symptoms - not pleasant but a stark contrast to the reports of care home outbreaks last year.

It's maybe not as perfect as we might have hoped but I'd say it's certainly having a hugely positive effect.
Underestimating the JVM there a bit. Sucks that Oracle tried to monster it, but it's a solid workhorse. Also, down with MS, leopards don't change their stripes so easily, a change of helm won't turn a company with greed so deeply entrenched in their DNA. *Spots not stripes. Or tigers.
In short: papers lie, and grad school teaches you to read around the lies. Papers lie because people are competitive (you lose your job if you aren't publishing), want their narrative to be true (don't we all), and the people reading the papers professionally know how to interpret them.

Pretty sad, but that's what we've ended up with. It was incentivized for.
clicks, clicks, clicks. Nothing else matters to them.
That was exactly the main reason I’ve moved away from Spotify. I didn’t care about podcasts and there was no way to turn it off. Eventually my Home Screen was mostly podcasts recommendations like you said. I’m happy with Apple Music.
Excellent, we get a “faster horse”.

When do we get the future we imagined 20 years ago?

https://youtu.be/PJqbivkm0Ms

I thought Soli was a step in the right direction.

https://atap.google.com/soli/
The UK is releasing good stats on vaccinated/non-vaccinated outcomes that are thankfully broken down by age groups [0], since comparing an un-vaccinated 20 year old to a vaccinated 90 year old is extremely different. Overall it seems that the vaccinated cohort are contracting COVID at a higher rate per capita, while having lower hospitalization and morbidity rates than the unvaccinated once they are sick. The higher illness rate is surprising though and one reason the stats have raised some eyebrows in the UK government. [1]

Some people will have issues with the commentary on this blog. I'm posting it in reference to these UK statistics because it's the only place I've seen the tabular data visualized, if you want to examine the raw UK government data yourself it's linked through from the blog.

0 - https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/ukhsa-efficacy-stats-death-...
1 - https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/ukhsa-efficacy-stats-death-...
The FDA's scientific committee nearly unanimously voted against aduhelm. The political side of the FDA overruled that consensus to give preliminary approval, which has been thoroughly panned by a large portion of the medical and scientific community, prompted three resignations from said committee, and has prompted a Congressional investigation.

Aduhelm's approval basically came about in violation of the FDA's processes, so it's hopefully merely a one-off example of corruption rather than a harbinger of the death of science at the FDA.
SA always has struck me as self-important normies who don't think they're normies. If anything can claim to be the catalyst for modern internet culture it's irc + 2chan (for actually birthing 4chan).
The Amazon branded credit card is a MasterCard in the UK. So Visa raises its rates to match MC, but AMZ has a special relationship with the latter.
My guess is they aggregate defect units in specialised locations that can do bulk repair and make them available for refurbished (or even new) units depending on the demand or tossed/recycled for EOL products/parts.
:D I don't actually care about hibernate. But after it came out on Windows and worked well enough, and Linux started introducing it, it became a meme to laugh at how bad linux suspend/hibernate is
Building Stripe Tax
Headline says "99.7% of residents"
Then in the article is says "99.7% of all adults," doesn't mention the percentage of eligible people (over 12 y/o), or the percentage of the total population of the county that is vaccinated. Surely 100% of the cases aren't among 18+, but the article just throws out "5% of adults" when 400/100,000 = .4%
It's not enough. Any third party, should be able to obtain parts--and importantly the auth codes or software to enable them--at reasonable cost.

The reason is you still want to go to the repair provider of your choice, not Apple's proxies.
And an insane amount of talent and skill, let’s not forget. :)
CalPERS Board Votes to Increase Portfolio Leverage
>Or the speed traps that just trigger a red light.

Sounds like a great way to train the entire population is to run reds between 10pm and 5am.
That's uh, pretty optimistic math you got there.
> But when you look at the bigger picture the decent positive studies often come from areas of the world where parasitic worms are prevalent.

I bet someone could make decent money selling parasitic worm eggs or larvae or whatever the heck it is that gets into people that causes a parasitic worm infection so that people can infest themselves when they get COVID symptoms in order to make the ivermectin they then take more effective.

A depressingly large number of the people that end up on /r/HermanCainAward as nominees or winners would believe that is reasonable.
> It's not an undiluted benefit as is indicated by the UK data (for instance) which documents significant numbers of deaths for fully vaccinated people.

It is an undiluted benefit (your chances of survival are much much higher if you are vaccinated), but not a miracle cure, unfortunately.

The UK data you linked still says 85% protection from symptomatic illness for Delta variant with Pfizer, 95% protection from hospitalization.
Powell’s Five Inflation Benchmarks Are Starting to Flash Amber
It's amazing. This is a COMMON PATTERN. This has been the case for months as I've repeatedly been accused of misinformation for posting - I guess if the news doesn't report on it, it doesn't exist, right? Check UK official stats, they are 65%+ vaccinated (my number is out of date, should be higher now) and still experiencing record cases. Cases have been surging in Israel despite high vaccination rate. Gibraltar is another tiny country with a nearly 100% vaccination rate where the virus has not been contained.

I don't know how else to put it. This should be huge news, but it isn't. Your media is lying to you. These vaccines are clearly not nearly as effective as we have been mislead to believe. This is hugely important, because the risk/benefit calculations that were used to justify mandates were clearly based on overly optimistic efficacy values. Something is not adding up.

0. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/08/20/1029628.... - note, this was apparent long before NPR quietly finally reported on it

1. https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ - 88% vaccination rate among adults 12+, nearing record cases

2. https://covid19.who.int/region/euro/country/gi - in fact, check that map, despite high vaccination rates most EU countries are seeing surges.
Maslow solved it in http://www.netmba.com/mgmt/ob/motivation/maslow/
Guessing the quality of (some of) the threads here attract non-software workers and flaneurs, probably in surprising numbers. I thought GH meant Ghislaine Hackswell :-)
Singapore because of small it is and the control it has on its borders. Has great stats to show infection rate and death for the vaccinated/unvaccinated etc
https://www.moh.gov.sg/covid-19/statistics/
Early CDC guidance only counted breakthrough cases when a positive result occurred at relatively low CT and, later, only if they required hospitalization.

Infections, as is the case here, were never rare.
How? There’s Vercel and Cloudflare to compete against.
There's more wonky math in the article. It gives a 14-day incidence rate per 100,000 of 404.6 for Co. Waterford, which even if we're generous and use a population of 120,000 comes out to 486 infections in a two-week period. I don't believe that this week they had 470 infections, up from 16 last week.
Hold on here, does that mean that Cancel button only appears based on location?
British Columbia Public Health had to walk back some stats calculated the same way when the proportion of vaccinated started to go over 100%.
Yeah this was extremely careless
And how long will it take them to acquire 1M+ users?

Sometimes “building” isn’t the hardest part.
For Crunch Fitness, it took me 5 membership cancellation requests, 3 calls, 2 in person visits, and 4 months to cancel my month-to-month gym membership.
To be fair, any of the big tech monopolies can replicate anything out in the marketplace today for less than $100M.
In 10 years, when most of the dust has settled, we'll be able to explain what we saw in Sweden and the surrounding countries as a combination of population density, interactions, medical policy, and randomness. It's hardly fair to consider only a small number of variables in cases like these.
> There are too many political, economic, and social incentives involved in propagating this new vaccine to say anything about it with the least bit of certainty.

Show your work. The argument, as you have made it, could apply to the CDC saying you shouldn't take lead supplements. You don't know who's pulling the strings of the CDC, therefore lead is good for you actually? You aren't pointing to anything contradicting the mountain of openly available evidence contradicting your position.
That's some impressive context conflation.
𝐴𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑠 𝑑𝑒 𝐼𝑛𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐸𝑐𝑢𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑟
El inbound marketing o marketing de atracción es una rama del marketing que busca presentar soluciones a los problemas de un cliente en el momento en que está buscando una solución mas no invadir su “espacio” como comúnmente se hace en el marketing tradicional o outbound
screens at significant markup

If an original Apple screen cannot be purchased on the open market, how do you know it's marked up?
This is very similar to how I setup my (paid) Fastmail email with my own domain. But Fastmail goes one step further: When signing up for things I use an email address like: shopping.newegg@depingus.mydomain.com. Fastmail will automatically deliver any messages addressed to the above email into the Shopping folder of my Inbox. I don't have to create an alias or any rules in my email account. Fastmail will handle that when a message arrives.

This is great for categorizing messages. And you can still blacklist aliases that have been leaked to abusers.
One theme is that "game development" techniques will migrate into other kinds of software.

(1) People write application software with frameworks like React, JavaFX, etc. They could be writing application software with the kind of frameworks that are used to write games. I think that's going to happen more and I think ideas from game frameworks will migrate into application software frameworks.

(2) Many video games have interfaces inside them similar to application software. Consider a game like Pokémon Sun and Moon or Hyperdimension Neptunia where you have a large party of characters with loadouts to configure, or where you navigate a database of information about the world.

Ideas from those interfaces can be stolen for things like photo viewers (I am doing it) and product configurations. Personally I never felt like I "found my voice" in mobile UIs until I got this idea. I am at about 10% of where I want to be now but I know where I am going.

(3) I think there is a gap between the technology used to create humanoid video game characters and uses outside of videogames. The best emotional scenes with 3-d rendered video game characters are better than the worst emotional scenes in Hollywood Movies. There is this

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=alter+ego

but also we can do so much better than Clippy and the Bonzi Buddy today, a self-checkout at the supermarket could have a character on it that can look you in the eye. People in the labs in the building next door to me at my uni are working on social robots, but my N+2 side project is to do a sketch comedy performance with a video game character reflected in a mirror. It has sensor and control issues like a "social robot" but no moving parts.

You tend to see rapid technological progress after a long period of slow technological progress. That is, the technology is ready but was held back by something. For instance futurists circa 1970 expected the World Wide Web to come around 1980 and in some sense it did in the form of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceefax

but until the economics got so favorable that people didn't have to think about the economics there was no single entity that that could afford to develop a service that was really affordable and compelling.

I think that's going to happen with video game characters.
There are many many providers that offer deals that are more than within the stated budget.

Hetzner Cloud will give you around 16-32GB and more than 4 cores for <50$. For similar amount of money you can also get a dedicated server from them (and many other providers) with > 60GB of RAM, > 4 cores and nvme. Scaleway, OVH and others also have offerings that are not too far off (but less familiar with their offerings).
Speed up your Conda installs with Mamba
I don't think they ever do. Even "officially" replacing the battery on those MacBooks where it's glued in meant replacing the entire top case along with it. I'm 99.999% sure they would also replace the entire motherboard rather than the actual $0.05 component on it that failed.
Serve from S3 bucket.
argument from authority is not a fallacy.
>it’s a form of slavery.

Or a protection racket.

Or just fee for protection.

Depends on the specific situation in question. There's a wide variety of schemes that fall under the definition of pimping.
> What makes me really scratch my head is why otherwise reasonable people don't vote with their wallet and still buy this things

This shouldn't make you scratch your head though... other people value different things than you do, and each person has their own personalized formula for whether a Mac is worth it or not. still_grokking's value judgement is not canonical for anyone other than still_grokking.
Care to elaborate on the three points you mentioned with more specificity?
Yes but you forget incentives. If a tool makes something easier. People get lazier.

E.g.

People today have terrible handwriting because of computer keyboards.

Many people today can't do long division on paper because of calculators.

People today struggle to find their way around new places when they don't have Google Maps.

But in this case, the skill which is being atrophied is an actual useful skill... Though it's not obvious at a glance. A tool which makes it easier to do the wrong thing will lead more people to do the wrong thing.

The friction which dynamic languages create is a positive and promotes good code and professional development.
Even after Microsoft buying Bethesda, it's not surprising. Elder Scrolls and Fallout have had particularly nasty bugs on their Playstation releases compared to other platforms.
>sync a txt

how much do you care about the provenance of the file? I would just slap it into pastebin and call it a day. If that isn't what you mean, any commodity cpanel reseller will probably do. If you want even more control, Caddy is drop dead simple.
I will not trust this announcement untill Louis Rossmen reviews it, including part prices and gives his thumbs up.
That is something which is supposed to be a norm, not a pity from the vendor.
This keyboard layout, also known as AFNOR Azerty NF Z 71-300, has since be standardized. Drivers[0] are available and keyboards[1] can be purchased.

I am using this layout for more than 1 year for programming and writing in french, and it's really good. I find it even better that the international keyboard layout or qwerty.

The fact that they have considered both the programming language approach AND the natural language typing is a real pleasure.

[0] https://norme-azerty.fr/ and https://github.com/springcomp/optimized-azerty-win

[1] https://www.ldlc.com/fiche/PB00279741.html
I am a huge, huge fan of https://regexper.com/ - paste pretty much any regex, and it will generate a visualization of what it does. It's been invaluable even just as a sanity check, it just makes it so easy to trace the flow of what a pattern is doing.
If you could get all parts at cost couldn't you build your own iPhone for less than the price of an iPhone?
This is a chart of the three waves of covid in Ireland:

https://i.redd.it/jxajdpsnyxz71.jpg

The first was as it started spreading. No vaccination, no testing, lots of deaths, not much detected cases.

The second was on the first attempt at reopening with "social distancing". Lots of cases, lots of deaths - detection was better but vaccine distribution didn't support the reopening that happened.

The third is the post-vaccination opening. Since it's basically "all rules are off", there's a lot of cases (but not as many as the second wave, and maybe not as many as the first wave, but that wasn't measured right as the death count indicates). Despite the rising cases, death counts haven't reached the first or second wave. That is what vaccination does.
You might have heard it before, but here it is again: your "terrible" experience might be (partly or not) due to the fact that you've been using Windows for decades and know how to solve problems. On desktop linux, you might not, so you experience friction and frustration.

Desktop Linux is indeed somewhat behind OS X or Windows. I'm currently on (somewhat dated) Ubuntu 18.4 from 2018, and it is more or less on par with Windows 7 from 2009. For me that's not a problem, I liked Windows 7 and actually stayed on it until 2018, but keep this lag in mind.
If they're able to maintain inventory on all of their current products I think they can probably maintain inventory on parts for them.
I left the Windows ecosystem at the right time it seems... Something about Windows 11 made me not want to upgrade and just take my chances with Linux. I feel like Microsoft is slowly consolidating against consumers in more and more egregious ways, and it's not worth it anymore (especially because of Proton, lol).
Very exciting!

What is your story with Pages and Rust Workers? Will they get the benefits of automatic deployment or is it still required to use Wrangler and manually wire things together?
VS Code and TS are just MS vectors of attack
Catholicism is thoroughly codified, and much of the letter of the law would be considered right-wing; left-leaning philosophy within the Church relies on vague "spirit of Vatican II" arguments and appeals for a fundamental return to what is presented as a Christ-like life, but that doesn't sit well with "This is not 'Nam--there are rules" Catholics.
Not being sarcastic, but what's special about the NYT crossword? Why not just go to a Barnes&Noble (or whatever) and grab a crossword book off the shelf?
And the automation failure that doxxed someone who donated to his campaign and got that person fired from their job.
Some random comments on the Kessler syndrome [1]

* a Kessler syndrome would not impact Medium Earth Orbit and Geosynchronous orbit satellites. So, no, we would not lose GPS navigation.
* LEO satellites would be impacted, but at least Starlink claims to have a very advanced system of collision avoidance without humans in the loop [2]
* a Kessler syndrome would certainly not prevent an exchange of nuclear ballistic missiles. So, Kessler cannot be used in a defensive mode

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

[2] https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/44765/starlinks-au...
Office supply company center renamed to imaginary internet money arena. How interesting.
GitLab team-member here. So exciting to see GitLab support! I'll finally be giving Pages a try later today. :)
As soon as I saw 99.7% in the headline I knew this had to be fiction.
They are choosing not to put their name on it due to the variable outcomes and lack of quality control. It looks straightforward to me.
Taiwan proposes maximum 7-year prison term for deepfake porn images
Worth recalling is the "primordial ooze" contained UnderNet, QuakeNet, TribalWar, PlanetQuake, 2ch and so forth; to this day, the likes of SA, 4ch, 8ch, Twitter and reddit are heavily influenced by gamer and anime culture.

Something about the escapism, perhaps?
On my Android phone I just use Keep. For notes on the laptop, I've been trying out Obsidian and it's been working pretty well so far.
That's actually how I ended up doing it. But not dynamically running `pipenv --venv` but hard-coding the path to the virtualenv, which I don't like :(
Stripe should build a merchant-of-record platform instead, or acquire one service like xsolla. Most payment platforms already do taxes
You took a loan and "the draconian interest rate" was a surprise?! I would've thought that was the most important factor.
Someone more local to Waterford than me might be able to shed some light, but I believe Ireland used significant numbers of J&J single dose vaccines to speed up initial rollout.

My understanding it that it had reduced efficacy against infection initially, which could be even more pronounced since Delta became dominant.
By providing Facebook with a "reserve army of developers trained in and willing to use the framework they use to build their stuff".
Is Microsoft Stealing People’s Bookmarks?
huh? Firefox is created and "owned" by the Mozilla foundation. iOS and Safari are Apple...
The previous time they measured this, as stated in the article, the county with the lowest vaccination rate had the highest incident rate.

All you can say is that the _rank_ of a county by incident rate seems uncorrelated with its vaccination rate _given_ just these two points of evidence.

There are 26 counties and vaccination stats and incident rate stats going back nearly a year which suggests this sample size (2) is too small to draw any kind of useful conclusions about the overall relationship.

In any case it makes little sense to look correlations with the _rank_ (within the counties of Ireland) of the infection rate. The rank will have much higher variance than the underlying rate if the numbers are low for example which could be responsible for more outliers and it's outliers that attract media reports which can create a misleading impression.
paltering - lying and deceiving with true statements.