skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what a good definition of intelligence would be, but it doesn't include approaching the world through stereotypes.
What do you do for a living anyway? Seems like you're a narrow minded tech worker chalk full of himself. If you intend to be a modern day slave master, at least give people the proper dignity before the whole mob comes for you.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2347/
yes sorry you're right - I'm mixing something up here:

> We identified five studies, which estimated the basic reproductive number for Delta. Table 1 shows that the basic reproductive number for Delta ranged from 3.2 to 8, with a mean of 5.08 -- https://academic.oup.com/view-large/305057394
What’s nice that Jetbrains does in Typescript that VSCode doesn’t is automated refactoring. I can change or move a function anywhere in my project and all references are automatically updated.

VSCode does it to some extend, but the difference is night and day.
I had a quick scan of that paper and read

"The results in all specifications are the same: we estimate a roughly 9% decline in symptomatic
seroprevalence in the treatment group (adjusted prevalence ratio (aPR) = 0.91 [0.82, 1.00]) for a
29 percentage point increase in mask wearing over 8 weeks."

So when mask use increased 29%, symptom prevalence reduced by 9%? That doesn't seem quite the same argument as the one you're making.

> We need to accept lower results as an upper bound to effectiveness

Why?
Imagine a new CPU CVE is announced.

It has the potential to corrupt customer data, but the likelihood and severity of the corruption hasn’t been established yet (it could be anything from flipping ECC-correctable bits through to total system compromise).

The flaw is exploitable over the network, and affects potentially all CPUs. The only way to avoid any risk of compromise is to disconnect your servers from the network.

Millions of people depend on your servers. Some of them will die if their data is corrupted. Some of them will die if you disconnect your servers and cut them off from accessing their data.

It will take security researchers about a month to work out the likelihood and severity of corruption, and about 3 months to deliver a fix. By the time we find out, the corruption may already have affected your servers. The eventual fix isn’t guaranteed to be reliable, nor can it fix corruption that has already happened.

The CVE may already have been mitigated by a previous microcode update for a similar previous issue. The security researchers are working on determining that too.

What will you do?
Wiki shows what we mean for coronavirus now, at the moment we are having this discussion. That the world had maybe a different connotations 40 years ago is not relevant at all.
This is not the thing you've asked for and it requires a bit of work to extract usable data from it, but I scraped Bandcamp a while ago (2019), along with the licenses of the tracks, genres and fan count, and made it available on Archive.org [0].

In theory, you should be able to parse the files, filter out libre/free music (CC0, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA) and even order it by genre and fan count to get some options for music.

There's also the Free Music Archive (FMA) [1], StarFrosch [2] and ccTrax [3] (not to be confused with ccMixter).

[0] https://archive.org/details/thisonetime

[1] https://freemusicarchive.org/

[2] https://starfrosch.com/

[3] https://cctrax.com/
I'm not sure what it is exactly you are unclear on, but that is certainly not what I am saying. I'm saying what I wrote no more and no less. If you want to reduce it to a quip it would be the exact opposite, we should get out and live.
The problem is that XUL just didn't work very well. It was one of the reasons Apple decided to go with forking KHTML for the basis of webkit, and Google decided to with forking webkit for the basis of Chromium.
> CE is more than good enough for almost everything you want to do

...as long as you use Java (or another JVM langue) to do it. Unfortunately they don't offer a Community Edition for most of their other IDEs (PHPStorm, GoLand, CLion etc. etc.), although those are mostly based on open source languages too.
I struggle to see this as "lightweight," unless they mean "just on my machine." The maintenance burden to the organization looks quite ridiculous.
I like this. There were a couple of years I joined the “mass commutes bike week challenge”. It involved joining a team ( my team was my university) and logging distance ridden on every day. It had your distance and a leader board. Not super complex but it worked. It did encourage me to ride more.

http://www.masscommute.com/news/2016/6/28/2016-masscommute-b...

Oddly a lot of the record of these isn’t on the internet anymore.

They seem to have switched to a new platform which I haven’t tried.

https://www.lovetoride.net/usa?locale=en-US

I like the simplicity of VADO and will try it out.
And you can't drive too long before becoming hearing impaired.
I thought we had found more organisms like that, but it seems they all were single-cell ones.

I wonder if that means there is life on Venus...
I just activated a new phone with T-Mobile and they basically insisted on a physical SIM card. When I asked why they said they can do an eSIM but then I wouldn't get 5G.

Is that true? If not, then why are they pushing physical SIM cards so hard?
I used to work on Mozilla's data platform. That stuff is all open source. See e.g. https://github.com/mozilla/gcp-ingestion/ for the ingestion pipeline, https://github.com/mozilla/bigquery-etl for queries/ETL, and https://github.com/mozilla/looker-spoke-default/ for looker model definitions for that data.

Also go read the docs at https://docs.telemetry.mozilla.org/. Those will give you insights into every way they use data.

I've never seen a company that's more open about their data usage.
None of them had anywhere the level "scientific consensus" on the topic as climate change has.

In difference to that, we now have a scientific consensus and while there is a lot discussion about many details there is pretty much an agreement on:

- it's a lot of warming

- it's coming way to fast

- it's man made

- it already started

- the consequences if we don't change the current trajectory will be bad, very very bad

Doesn't mean it's an apocalypse and maybe the thread to the survival of humanity was larger during the cold war (not that ware aren't somewhat at the beginning of a new cold war), but then the a cold war can be resolved by everyone agreeing to not do anything. Climate change needs everyone to do something (change their power production and potential even living style). Which is bad, because people are better at not acting then they are at acting when it comes to hard decisions.
I had a group of guys in from India to help on a project. I loved driving to lunch with them. If they saw someone approaching a stop sign on a side street they would slam on the brakes, expecting the driver of some SUV to just blow the stopsign and jet in front of them. I would laugh every time. They were clearly used to India where they said that all traffic laws are optional.

Over the last few years though, as traffic has worsened, I am starting to use their approach.
Sounds good to me. My social media usage is restricted to GitHub and Hacker News. HN is on the chopping block however.
I don't think the relative ease of writing extensions for VSCode can be overlooked. There's a relative explosion of extensions addressing a lot of niche needs for various markets. My experience is that many of them aren't terribly good, or were good but are no longer maintained, etc. If/when JB makes it more straightforward to write extensions, there may always be a perception different. VSCode extensions in TypeScript will be easier for many curious folks to address vs Java/Scala-based plugins for JetBrains.
Show HN: A free tool to help design and test procedurally generated NFTs
This allows you the possibility of booting directly out of the SPI, where you put a first-stage bootloader that copies the rest of the system into RAM.

Lots of systems do this already by means of mask ROM bootloaders; some people might not want a fixed payload provided by someone else to be the first thing that executes. On the other hand, executing out of SPI is very interceptable.
I thought you can use uBlock Origin for safari too? at least it says so on the website.
The lawyers do most of the heavy-lifting.
Java does trade off memory for better performance (and power saving!), but it is an extremely fast platform with state of the art GCs and JIT compilers and one of the biggest open-source ecosystems. It’s not the best for desktop UIs but even a decade old GUI will work just fine on the latest edition (seriously, I found some random algorithm visualizer in a jar from God knows where and it just ran perfectly). And it’s not like there is one ultimate solution for GUIs unfortunately.
It's definitely VOC, not the first one we've seen even if it does indeed seem vastly different [1].

Article includes, however, following quote:

"Omicron has an unprecedented number of spike mutations, some of which are concerning for their potential impact on the trajectory of the pandemic," the WHO said.
"The overall global risk ...is assessed as very high."

I find "Global risk assessed as very high" statement as both very strong and emotional. It is already replicated globally in various other news sources. I checked WHO's newsroom [2] but haven't seen new press events nor news statement. Yesterday's WHO's update [3] doesn't say anything about general risk and word "high" isn't even used.

Today Dr Tedros highlighted that we still don't know a lot during World Health Assembly opening speech [4]:

We don’t yet know whether Omicron is associated with more transmission, more severe disease, more risk of reinfections, or more risk of evading vaccines. Scientists at WHO and around the world are working urgently to answer these questions.

Reuters post itself do name 2 other sources for other quotes directly but this specific one is left as an "WHO" which makes it hard to verify. It is plausible that Reuters' journalist got some internal source on that matter or that WHO's news room was not updated after giving the statement, yet I'd rather have the WHO's official statement (i.e. on their news room website) for such circumstances.

[1]: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/covid-19/variants-concern

[2]: https://www.who.int/news-room

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29373066

[4]: https://www.who.int/director-general/speeches/detail/who-dir...
Thank you for the insightful response!
Prices also went up because the housing supply disappeared. There simply weren't any houses available to buy or rent
for a while. People were willing to pay a ton of money for anything thay they could find. So, naturally, many land lords increased rent to force the old tenants out, and then rented to new, higher-paying tenants from out of town.
We were spending hours every day in Photoshop finding files and arranging layers, just to then re-enter those same layers in our generation script. Onion is a tool that cuts all that out:

- Easily select an option for each trait from the preview

- Randomly pick options

- Export created images and metadata

- Generate and export final assets and metadata, with customisable weighting (coming soon)

No files are uploaded, all image processing happens directly in your browser.
The problem with telematics systems: even if you don't buy the subscription, the telematics system is still active, reporting your location, speed, environmental data, and use of various accessories like windshield wipers etc. to the manufacturer.

A friend used to work for a company that was purchasing that data from automakers to try and enhance weather data for real-time weather reporting.

Let's run down that list of benefits:

911 calls in event of a crash? iOS 16 is going to have that built-in. Ford vehicles (and others, I think VWs too?) can use a bluetooth paired phone to place a crash-detection 911 call.

Remote diagnostics? Only authorized dealers can access, and if you're going to your dealer for non-warranty service, you're a fool. Massachusetts passed an extension to Right To Repair requiring automakers to provide indie garages with access to the same telematics and Subaru responded by remotely disabling all remote diagnostics in any car registered in Massachusetts. That's how petulant they are.

Remote keyfob based starters (optionable on any Ford/GM and a ton of other vehicles) don't need monthly subscriptions to preheat/precool. Idling your car especially in the winter is terrible for the engine and environment anyway; it's much better to just get in and gently drive the car until it has started to warm up. 3/4 of the energy in gasoline is converted into heat.) In the summertime the fastest way to cool a car down is to open up the windows and sunroof, and drive for a minute or two.

Very, VERY few automakers do remote software updates for ECUs. For example, the Chevy Bolt, an electric car, will only update its entertainment software "over the wire" even though Chevy has said they have the capability to do OTA updates for the drivetrain. Ford vehicles can update the infotainment system via WiFi.

Remote charging notification/management? Largely useless except for very specific, limited circumstances. Electric cars have built-in scheduling and charge limits, in many cases location-specific settings can be done. There are also "smart" EVSE adapters that allow for max SoC and charge time settings. If you need to monitor the percentage charge on your electric car regularly, you have too much time on your hands.
The ability to think critically.

If my example does not fit the scenario we're discussing every time and in every case and in every variation, put your own example in place. I am not arguing about the example, it's an example. It's an e.g. not an i.e! Please understand the point of examples. It's a quick reference so we're on the same page, it is not the discussion.

If you've ever said "it's more like.." in response to someone's analogy yes I'm talking about you too haha. If I get it by making the analogy and you get it by annoyingly correcting me on which analogy I should have used.. we're good. Communication has occurred.

I guess not hyperfocusing on the conversational trimmings makes a person seem smart to me, stick to the meat and potatoes and I'll enjoy talking to you if nothing else :)
I think that’s the worst possible solution. At the moment I have control over whether or not I have any conversations via Facebook’s platform. The forced 3rd Party integration completely takes that away. Facebook will weasel even further into the lives of those who actively try to avoid them.
Keep in mind that supported and features are not the same. Even if it technically can work doesn't mean that the provider wants to support it. Sometimes it's a simple as simply not having put the device through the testing process yet, or it simply hasn't been documented. And until it has, they don't want to risk any service costs so they simply don't whitelist it when the user base is insignificant enough.
A brief look over the user's comment history, it seems they work in webdev
Software is a moving part - usually a lot of moving parts.
Maybe of interest to others, I'm building up a spreadsheet of Rockets, focused on new space ventures but just added a placeholder to move in Tim's work:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13VikMGN0WsVOKp43W-1M...

Comments welcome and interested in potential collaborators!
I bought it for my son on his 7th birthday. He absolutely loves it - uses it to do some school work, web browsing and play games.
I don't believe it's legal to do for terrorism, but they may do it anyway semi-secretly, and it is currently legally contested (and they keep it semi-secret to make it harder to contest legally).

So, what if they do?

By reports they do indeed already do this, and it was earnestly explained in the tweet[1] linked elsewhere in this thread by a FB developer that the delay in E2EE is to make sure they can continue to do it.

I don't like it, but as you note, others have other opinions.

I think we should be clear that it's what's going on, what is we're talking about when we talk about delaying encryption to protect children, exactly what it is that is being proposed. Others in this thread still think "oh no that's not what we're talking about they'd never do that." Let's be clear about what we're talking about, whether we support it or not.

[1]: https://twitter.com/elegant_wallaby/status/14628453362888253...
http://isomerdesign.com/PiHKAL/ Has a copy of the book, basically.
If there are regular primaries, then how are “party leaders” selecting who’s in office? At most it’s through funding campaigns which already happens.

Term limits are simply there to empower primaries. People who have already been elected have vast advantages in primaries which means they rarely face any real competition. Put another way winning 20 competitive elections in a row is never going to happen. Which means none of the local members of the party has had any say in who represents them in the election and the opposition party has also had no say for decades. That’s no more democratic than China’s “elections.”
https://bitcoinminingcouncil.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/...
I refuse to believe those newsletter popups ever get any interaction apart from clueless people who think you need to fill them out so they go away.
It will use the same intelligence as what drives intellij today, which can be turned on for the occasional project, yet it will start fast enough for opening random files with syntax highlighting, something I personally use vscode for.

Also, what may not have been mentioned, that intelligence can run both locally, as well as hosted somewhere else, eg. on a much more powerful server computer.
Exactly that. There used to be government ads between TV shows about various circumstances for casually inquiring about the protagonist's family. The response would be the catchphrase "hum do, humare do" (we two, ours two). The message changed a few years later to encourage a three-member family. The protagonist would always beam when saying the catchphrase.

Edit: I think I remember... the early ads were for getting condoms for free at government run hospitals and clinics. Later on, the ads were for encouraging vasectomy.
Threats don't disappear just because you feel the solution is inconvenient to you.
This person had the exact same issue with their child, developed an app for this and got banned from play store: https://habr-com.translate.goog/ru/post/421451/?_x_tr_sl=aut...

The app is available as a standalone APK now: https://channelwhitelist-tilda-ws.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=a...

Unfortunately i could not find sources, but it works rather well and has English UI as well
Like I said in another comment, there's plenty of paid DRM-free software in the world, like the entirety of GOG's catalog. If that's not a big enough problem to put GOG out of business, then why would it be a big problem for this?
There's lots of software that is only distributed in the App Store, which can't be used without an Apple ID (even for free apps), which requires giving Apple a phone number and email address (and the App Store app uploading your unchangeable device hardware serial number).

Some apps, like Wireguard, can't even be installed outside of the App Store, because Apple won't sign the entitlements they need to run outside of it.
I had the previous one:

http://www.technicopedia.com/853.html

- which didn't have a rear differential. My father (an engineer) made one from regular bits which was spun by a large pulley with (trigger warning!) the centre drilled out so an axle could freely pass through it.
The only thing I was arguing was that Gravity has a much more solid basis than Dark Matter. I certainly don't think I made it sound like I think MOND is more likely than Dark Matter (even though I confess that I still think the issue is far from settled).
Yes. But I imagine that if someone comes up with a branded final product and works with the manufactuer to have maybe smaller screen sizes and bigger batchs, it would be able to reach a reasonable price
"Blockchains get knocked down but they get up again." - Chumbawamba, ...probably

So two of the Bitcoin examples I gave was a consensus failure which already establishes the point, but lets do a very recent example from Ethereum:

A few months ago in August 2021 when Ethereum had a serious consensus failure and about three quarters of the clients in the network and some miners [0] forked off from the miners. How many people even noticed? [1]

> "Ethereum has weathered a bug that split the world’s most-used blockchain and opened up the risk of counterfeit Ether tokens." [2]

The issue at play is that the ability to cripple the consensus of a blockchain for the most part only impacts its availability not its security or the trust placed in that blockchain. Social consensus can just reset the bad transactions. If the theft or doublespend is big enough. We've seen that happen time and time again. They are somewhat robust but highly resilient.

Now it is possible that perhaps someone could perform an action that can not be so easily reset. For instance a huge doublespend where both parties receiving the funds are honest and have traded an object of extreme value for the doublespent funds. That is very hard to pull off. For instance how do you non-reversibly send something of that much value before the fork/doublespend/consensus bug is discovered? If you are moving something worth say 1 billion dollars in a single transaction you should probably be using an escrow service. Perhaps someone will invent a better technique for turning consensus failures into blockchain killers but so far I'm not aware of such a technique.

[0]: https://twitter.com/TimBeiko/status/1431278258222338056

[1]: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/115822/bug-impacting-ove...

[2]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-30/ethereum-...
"Getting out", as in going outside unmasked, abandoning precautions, if done en masse, will kill many, many people.

To believe otherwise is, as someone else further down said to another person who, like you, wants to just pretend this is all over, magical thinking.
https://websites.pmc.ucsc.edu/~pkoch/EART_206/09-0303/Hays%2...

Somehow, your link was missing a hyphen.
You would really hate to see the mouse house and depending labs of any research hospital then. The mice here are living a life of luxury by comparison. Yeah, yeah, I know you or someone else will come out against those practices as well; I would love to hear ideas for a replacement or a proposal to just stop science and progress all together.
I don't think anyone was trying to do anything other than "score points off the FDA" - which is to say, you apparently agree the article is a good source for showing the FDA has had obvious failures in the past.

> ...you should have a look to see who you're arguing with.

Am I supposed to recognize you somehow? Either way, I don't really know how to react to this - is your blog or the companies you're affiliated with supposed to make you immune to political bias somehow? You'll have to forgive me as my initial impression was that you're trying to flex on the internet, but I feel like that's a very uncharitable interpretation on my part so I'll default to assuming that's the wrong interpretation.
IIRC you used to be able to post to Twitter via Instagram before Facebook bought them.
That's why I left AT&T. They shut off my daughter's phone, without warning, in the middle of the night because it wasn't whitelisted. Their whitelist is utterly arbitrary, and even brand new phones are not on the list if they happen to be an international version. They explicitly state that certain models of the Samsung Galaxy S20 are not whitelisted.

As for my daughter, she was under the impression that she had until February of 2022 to replace her phone, but it was disconnected five months earlier than anticipated. I'm now with T-Mobile and satisfied. For my location it has better coverage than AT&T did, is significantly faster, and I have unlimited data.