skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you may be right.

I used to work as a software developer for a banking startup, and a lot of emphasis was placed on things like KYC, AML and "compliance", whatever that is.

Fundamentally, I hated all those things with passion (including how they force everyone to use a bank to transact - and here I am working for a bank), because I don't believe they any institution or government should be forcibly gatekeeping and spying upon anyone's transactions.

It's really hard to work at a place that contradicts your own convictions. When I was fired, it was a relief.
I love my Remarkable2, but don't buy one without a clear idea of how you'd use it.

I use mine primarily as a reading device. I enjoy writing on it, but don't find myself taking notes or doing other hand written or drawn things on it very often.

But I love reading on it. I have a few daily articles and newsletters set to forward to my remarkable. I have some scripts that convert those docs to epub (epub is just a subset of html), and then use the remarkable sync API to push them to my device.

Everyday I get a little bit of joy from turning on my remarkable and having the new daily articles pop up ready to read. I imagine its similar to the (lost) pleasure of reading the morning paper with a cup of coffee. A big plus for me is the lack of distractions when using the device compared to a general purpose computing device.

I also have an email address setup where I can forward emails or urls to and it auto converts the email/page to epub and pushes it to my remarkable. For long form articles it really hard to beat the remarkable reading experience.

I thought I would use it quite a bit for reading academic papers (pdfs). In practice, I find reading pdfs to be a bit annoying on the device. For papers in standard latex 2 column format, I find I have to zoom to get to a comfortable reading size, and then scrolling on a single page is quite annoying. I would much rather read epub files on the remarkable rather than pdfs.

On the plus side, when I do read papers having the ability to annotate the doc with my own notes is really nice.
This is actually a deserializer which I wrote. I would have done it in C but I stumbled on PyO3 and gave it a go: https://github.com/m3047/pyo3-deserializer
Sorry, I didn't mean to draw such a straight line between the two things. My point is just that it didn't happen last year, and even after being expedited, it won't happen this year either.
Sorry, you're right. The Vice article does note the prevalence of microchipping in Sweden specifically, though:

> In fact, it’s fairly common in Sweden, where thousands of people have embraced the technology that opens doors and turns on light switches.
Latex and JS, latex for webapps, hahaha. Checks calendar.
> when you think about the idea that everything up until now on the internet has been copyable and we are just starting to figure out how to actually give a digital thing ownership, that will change how we look at just about everything on the internet

That everything has been copyable is the accident that keeps giving. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature! Digital scarcity, albeit through a novel mechanism, seems antithetical. Very confusing.
Search engines will already ignore the hyphenation, and humans have the context to note that the two things are related. Exactly what information are you attempting to add by this?
seriously. i get that it’s different organizations doing the naming here, but if the average person actually cared about name conflicts, we wouldn’t still be naming hurricanes after common first names.

it’s 100% because of a single, notable person being impacted. maybe more conscientious naming IS a thing we should be doing, but we should make that change because of an organic desire for it — not because of a single prominent figure being offended.
Yes it does exist. I've done plenty of on-call shifts but for paid a minimum of three hours whether I solved the problem in 5 mins or 50 mins. It's great when you're young, starting out, as it's a big pile of money. When you're over thirty, not so much.
I honestly don't know if there is a name other than "custom pinhole latches". These were all custom made as required. I am not aware of a business that creates anything like this. You can find documentaries on hidden speak-easy's online but I don't have any links handy. The most prevalent implementations of this setup were in New York City but other big cities had them. I want to say the concept dates back to mid-evil times.
If you are not a global company being down at 3am doesn't matter either.
The local Realtors are ultimately just going off sales data, and inspections rarely happen before an agreement is made in principle to buy.
when i was a kid in the 60's and 70's milkmen delivered milk
in glass bottles to your door (a locked insulated metal box at the door in our case), talking away empties to be washed and re-used. it seemed like a pretty good system.
I believe elementary school cafeterias in California used them back in the 90s and early 2000s. Not sure if they still do or not.
I purchased the remarkable 1 where there was nothing else that had the same latency for pens/styluses. The apple stylus is down to 9ms now, which is way faster than even the remarkable 2 (and that is amazing). I would be annoyed with a paperlike protector on an ipad, if I were trying to use it as an ipad, but for use solely as a notetaking device, it might be great.
Can you think of some issues with this study? legitimate question.

Looking at one data point here. Israel. The data point pretty much represents the peak of the wave caused by the Delta variant. The story in Israel goes that the vaccines worked so well against the previous variants that the entire country went back to normal. But with 60% of the population vaccinated and Delta the effective R number is easily over 1 when there's no other measures in place. Once Israel introduced some new measures (and booster shots), most of the measures are around limits to not-vaccinated people btw, their case rate went down by a factor of 20!

So what does this tell us about vaccines, covid, and this "study"?
There's some classic games you can install in a Linux shell, like Wumpus, and Go Fish. The ancient '70s version of Star Trek? Collossal Cave adventure? (Asking myself if Nethack is age appropriate...)

You might check out the Interactive Fiction Database at ifdb.org. It's got an entry for over 11,000 text adventures that have been written over the decades, so surely some of them must be age-appropriate.

Also, here's a discussion about text adventures that were specifically written in French.

https://ifdb.org/poll?id=9fd2piw2iqniaotn
Wikipedia may delete entry on ‘mass killings’
This is quite useful, especially the self host option.

What type of websites don't work?
Would it be good if Omicron were more transmissible but less harmful?

Theoretically, could a mutation evolve that was highly transmissible but harmless? What would happen?
A book on mathematical proof made the point that algebraic operators are similar to syntactic compound terms in natural language, like and and or. There's even a distributive property.
Although algebra was kinda late to the party, the roots it leverages are not.

Manipulating natural language and algebraic expressions have both always felt mechanical to me.

(in the wonderful and joyful engineering sense, of being fun)
I don't accept jobs that want me to be on call unless fuck you money is involved, and so far nobody has offered it to me. The product that drives most of my employer's revenue is a gigantic pile of tech debt, and there are some people on call whose lives are kind of miserable.

What some people struggle to realize is how easily the responsibility of an individual can scale at certain companies, without their compensation improving in the slightest. If you are working on-call and not making big bucks your company is likely milking you dry.
https://archive.ph/jLYWm
How do these work with multiple users? If two users are looking at the same directory, then do they fight?
Basically only good feedback from this review is to improve the eraser.

For books get a Kindle.
Everything else get a Tablet.
Huh okay. I knew there was larger inequality and considered writing that in my comment as a possible reason, but I was also under the impression that you are going to have a hard time living without a car in the USA and figured those people would sacrifice other things instead (not spend any money on healthcare, for example). If they just don't have one at all, despite the car culture, that makes the income inequality hit even harder than it would in Europe I guess.
It's not based on a false understanding of math. It's based on the feeling they get (of anticipation or whatever).

It's harder to cure a gambling addiction than just giving them math facts. They don't even accept the fact they're addicts. To accept it would feel bad so they don't have the bad feeling thoughts. This emotional stuff just doesn't yield to facts.
I think that’s Swedes, not Sweden.

Reading https://eufactcheck.eu/factcheck/true-microchips-are-getting..., implanting a chip in one’s hand is somewhat (relative to other countries) popular in Sweden.
Leaving the US – Why and what it means for N26
If you can't fix your stuff while drunk you have never tried.
Yeah the scenario where they're proud of some outage/bug they resolve and it's cool to discuss it. OK. Management should be asking: how do we make sure it never happens again?

Management should be looking to reduce callouts to zero over time.
Truth is not morality. "Truth for you" much less so.

All kinds of scumbags have their "personal truth" that justifies their actions too...
Take the worst intersection in the country this week for traffic accidents. Close the roads to the intersection at 3am and organise a contemporary expressive dance performance to rid the intersection of its evil and re-open it 30 minutes later.

Repeat every week with the worst traffic intersection for accidents.

What you find is. IT WORKS! HURRAH! These intersections are more than usually not the worst the following week! The evidence is clear. The correlation is utterly compelling. It is significant. It has power. How could it possibly be unrelated?

Now if we stop it being comically silly in our example and make it a red light & speed camera, see how the issue is much more difficult. There is a clear line of potential causation of fixing dangerous intersections. But is it really better than folk dancing for 20 minutes at 2am? [1]

[1] This example should not be interpreted as being an opposition to all red light and speed cameras.
The precautions required to guarantee zero exposure to an airborne virus are incredibly more substantial than most of us will ever be able to carry out in ordinary life (think biohazard labs).

So yes, almost all of us are going to be exposed to SARS-COV-2 at some point. Slowdowns are doubleplus good because the biggest risk from the disease is related to its impact on public health care systems rather than serious illness or death at the individual level. Masks slow down transmission, vaccination reduces chance of required hospitalization.
You can configure an email address in you Amazon account <youralias>@kindle.com. Sending any DRM free .mobi or .pdf to that address makes it magically appear on your Kindle.

I think that is a great feature as most people know how to create an email with an attachment.
And as a side effect you can send friends ebooks directly to their devices if they shared their @kindle aliases with you.
> most Omicron cases, were mild.

I'm really hoping this holds true as the situation evolves.

In the mean time, my concern with this statement is that Africa was already "doing well" against covid .. bc of a combination of low testing, but also they have a smaller at risk population compared to the west.

In the west we're a lot better at keeping vulnerable people alive a lot longer, which consequently winds up as the demographic covid likes to target.

Optimistically, I do think if omicron was an order of magnitude worse than what we've been dealing with, we would already see "hints" of such traits .. fortunately that doesn't seem to be the case, for now.

Moving forward, I hope everyone continues to treat this seriously .. but it's becoming more clear that covid is here to stay no matter what measures we take.
> Stop everything! Let humans figure out what is going on.

What does this mean in practice? Who are these humans? When can the network get going again? Would a consensus rule change be part of it, and what type of changes would be allowed in that situation?

It sounds hard to manage this type of maintenance breaks in a trustless way. Surely consensus rule changes during outages should not be handled any differently than changes when under normal operations.

> clients could be programmed to have hardcoded 6th month checkpoints

Who signs these checkpoints? Once you have established the trust required for checkpointing the entire blockchain regularly, wouldn't it be much easier to checkpoint every block instead and in an instant do away with all the hard problems of blockchain networks?
Highlighting text is also busted.
You say that, but are you then against the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)?

A regulation set out to protect the information rights of the individual.
And when they hold the pager, they should get to do nothing else during the day - no feature dev etc. I don't care if there's a deadline..you should have accounted for on-call when planning.

The only thing they should be doing besides responding to incidents is work to stabilize the system to reduce the need to page people.

That's a fair way to make it work imo.
If the reproduction rate is kept low enough for an extended time, the virus eventually extinguishes itself. With vaccination, "self-vaccination" among the uncooperative, sanitation, testing, contact tracing, and some fraction of the population continuing to take personal measures, the combination can bring the rate down low enough.
Wouldn’t a well trained pilot (like somebody learning on the SR71) be very familiar with what a slow airplane feels like? I’m shocked that a skilled pilot would have allowed that plane to get so dangerously slow.
I think you mean "I have had flu-related symptoms twice". Given that influenza is a virus with a huge number of variations, and almost nobody is ever tested for infection with any of them, there's every chance that you've had many more influenza infections, but no symptoms.
Love the site. I’ve used 10fastfingers, typeracer, and monkeytype for fun and to improve my typing speed. My only comment is that it wasn’t immediately clear to me what the table was showing. CA pair or AC pair? Milliseconds? Also not sure what the buttons near the prompt do, maybe just because I’m on mobile.
Just a note: books, magazines, slide decks (and more*) aren't getting any wider. As time goes on, and code and command output gets wider, it's getting a bit harder to write educational materials. I have slide decks and books that have "here's the left hand side of iostat -x" then "here's the right hand side." With the latest sysstat/iostat version, that's only getting worse (it may need three parts). That's fine if it's truly necessary.

When I develop new tools, I try to keep the default output within 80 chars if possible -- not because of terminals -- but because of all the other locations the output may appear.

* also for jira tickets, github threads, random blog posts, etc., for the output to stay on screen without fiddling with a horizontal scrollbar.
the flu is contagious once it has symptoms, which mean severe symptoms lead people to self-isolate naturally before it spreads, thus it survives better if its symptoms are less severe.

covid has no such issue as it spreads well before it has any severity and for a few days before any symptoms. all the deadly stuff happens a week later once you've been transmitting for many days.

the above link explains this well

> So, unless SARS-CoV-2 becomes so virulent that it causes people to become severely ill and self-isolate before they transmit the virus to other people, there is no pressure on it to become less deadly.
Word is not my cup of tea, but I've seen people doing CD covers, with multiple folding, the art on the back of box, on the CD itself, all in Word. They exported a PDF, sent to the printer and it worked. I've learned to respect this beast, thankfully, from a safe distance.
my expected formatting failed above, should of been more like:

1 contracts.

2. billing software (or/and time tracking?).

3. legal advice cheaper

I did some algolia-foo for about 20 minutes and lots of non-relevant to sort through.. however I found a couple of old posts (2009 and 2013) that have the linked-contracts just 404s now.

even this more recent one that has a good discussion / things to consider with contracts in the thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18911317 )
has the domain in the main is blocked by my AV soft.. however the github with it is still surf-able ( https://github.com/jackmorgan/the-plain-contract/ )

Would love new discussions on these things.

I vaguely recall some techcrunch? writeups long ago about some get quick legal advice app / call for like $29 per call or hour or something? Is there anything like this still happening?
> It is mostly that the latest trend is to ship software with their entire run time environment.

I think this is a side effect of the main trend, which is write once, run anywhere. There are a handful of frameworks aiming to do that, and it is difficult to accomplish and rely on native APIs. Also, I’d suggest it’s a trend for economic reasons rather than because people think electron is technically superior to native APIs. The economic reason is that even a medium/large company can just hire a sole developer or two to spin up an electron app that loads an existing web application and it works everywhere and is “good enough.” The alternative is hiring lots of people to build a native app that users only might think is better.

I don’t think most electron examples are because people wanted a technically superior solution to native applications.
What a silly comment, especially as there are recombinant vaccines for covid, not just mRNA. mRNA based treatments (not just vaccines) have the possibility to save a significant amount of lives in future.
I don't see how it's unreasonable these days. You can just simply leave it up on Bandcamp, GOG, and whatever may emerge in the future as a video ownership platform (as opposed to video rental).
In Tokyo most train companies agreed to keep the windows open at all times and encourage passengers to lower the windows if they see a closed one. Cooperation is very high and I only see them closed when it rains.
I think I’m just used to a housing market (seattle) where that is such a tiny blip it couldn’t possibly affect the price. Maybe untrue elsewhere.

Edit: it also seems like a small thing to worry about at a point in time since neighbors change. Annoying neighbors move away, or a new annoying neighbor can buy the house next door at any time. I’m not paying extra for something that is completely out of my control and could change tomorrow. The potential for annoying neighbors is not a feature of a given house so much as a feature of all houses, in my mind. But this attitude is probably more prevalent in people who don’t live in neighborhoods governed by HOAs where certain “annoying” behaviors are regulated away.
There is also one at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, UK, which you can get near enough to touch if no-one is looking. Super impressive machine close up.
I see. I like SQLite but the idea that there were people leaving the type information off of their columns entirely to take advantage of this hidden(?) "feature" is something I'll wonder about for a while.
> you kinda ignore the scalability limitations of blockchain.

ROTFLMAO

The article is titled handwavy
Not to argue with you too hard, but I’m also in my 30s and you definitely downplay the “self-interest” angle more than I do. Indeed, I got my shots because I want to “do my part,” and I’m also not particularly worried about personally getting severely sick or dying.

But I also just don’t want to get sick at all because getting sick sucks.

That’s the same reason I’ve been getting yearly flu shots every year since college. Before COVID I never even really considered the personal risk of long-term side effects or death from flu (although I’m sure there’s some measurable risk) or the fact that flu kills tons of people every year. I just hate getting sick and from the evidence I’ve seen the flu vaccine is very safe and usually fairly effective at preventing the flu. Same goes for the COVID shots. I’d take common cold vaccines if they were similarly safe and effective and readily available.
Linux is not relevant here. I don't think it has an equivalent of the protected path that is widely used by publishers.
Do the vaccines have a significant enough impact on transmissibility for that to be true? My understanding is that, while they significantly improve instances of serious illness and death, the effect on transmission is limited (or at least not high enough for “eradication” to be on the cards).

All for greater support of less developed countries in terms of vaccine supplies, but not sure this is the argument for it.
It’s out of print so 3rd party sellers put it up for a ton of money on Amazon
Can This DIY Rocket Program Send an Astronaut to Space?
I finally broke down and got progressive lenses recently (one of my better decisions). However that means only a small portion of the monitor is in clear focus. So I also bought dedicated computer glasses (basically my regular distant prescription backed off by about 1 diopter) -- second best decision I made. Now I can finally go back to a non-zoomed screen.
I saw the renewability as more of a thought exercise, because I agree with you, there's more than enough nuclear feedstock to keep us going indefinitely.
>How much worse could it possibly be?

(Ominous music)

>Infection seroprevalence in blood-donors was at 20% by July[1]

Seriously though, two points:

A) I have doubts about this measurement - that level (83.3% with antibodies!) should have been enough for herd immunity in May 2021, yet we don't see it in the US, cases being broadly static in the last month*.

Perhaps American blood donors are highly nonrepresentative even after demographic adjustments? Or they're catching people with very low levels of antibodies but without true immunity? The paper is thorough regarding geographic and demographic factors, but isn't very clear on the technical details of the measurement itself beyond 'we did it, here are the results'.

Or we could argue the US had herd immunity in May yet lost it two months after, that's not very encouraging, not even for 'natural' immunity.

B) Assuming the researchers are correct, that's 20% for over a year. That's very different from having it way quicker.

>can't we say we did let it rip?

School closures, remote learning, masks even at that age. Obviously there have been (arguably way overzealous) efforts at controlling COVID even at the youngest ages.

* There's a very recent fall, it's probably reporting lag - or it's really down, but per the research that should have already happened long ago.
whats wrong with external aids? ome kind of rustic fetish?

Dalai Lama himself is encouraging research into neuroscience to make meditation easier/work faster.
No, these are the typical levels of Chinese influence operations:

https://www.iri.org/sites/default/files/chinese_malign_influ...

https://gnews.org/635457/

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Asia-Insight/China-s-Belt-... (paywalled article)

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000017d-264b-df97-a9ff-be7f6...

https://www.hudson.org/research/17118-the-ccp-goes-to-hollyw...

Far more dangerous than any hamfisted TV broadcasts.