skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Germany we have a bank transfer based system called Giropay.

As part of the purchase process after picking Giropay as the payment method you get asked what bank you're at and then get redirected to a special version of the bank site (for my bank it is giropay.normal-bank-domain.de instead of the usual www.normal-bank-domain.de) where you log in using 2FA etc as usual and proceed with the bank transfer. Once you are finished you get redirected back to the merchant. In the background, Giropay confirms your payment with the merchant so that the merchant knows she will receive the money soon.

I think it's a good system. Not all banks participate in it, however.
Convalescent plasma -> blood plasma from someone who recovered

Highly neutralizing -> very effective at murdering COVID virus

Polyclonal antibody response -> the person's immune system produced different antibodies to fight COVID which probably attack different parts of the virus
An anachronistic social-media easter egg for anyone who gets to the bottom of the piece :-)
The numbers aren't my opinion. I just read what ZDF wrote.

The Ms. Wagenknecht said something similar with the numbers presented by you: From 3000 people on the ICU, 2/3 were unvaccinated. A pretty high number of Vaccinated.

Reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS5-qOCSZhQ
> Even at the upper averages though these numbers still aren't really all that competitive. As a single data point, I'm earning 2-3x the local market rate in Europe (170k) by working for a US startup remotely.

That seems like a fairly popular option nowadays which is not surprising given the fairly unattractive local market. But I'm interested, how does it work after taxes and social security contributions? I've been looking into that here in Germany, but the headache that comes with working for a remote only company does not seem worth the higher salary (at least not for entry level positions).
I have no one thing (these are the things that pop into my mind, all within their own category/niche);

* My Hilleberg Akto single person hiking tent scores very highly. It is designed for lightness, durability and simplicity when setting up. It can better be set up/torn down by one person in a storm than most other tents I've owned.

* My Leatherman multitool has been with me for years in some fairly bad conditions. It just keeps working and sometimes in ways that I hadn't imagine it could be used.

* My Aeropress portable coffee maker is in my mind amazingly designed and portable for making a decent cup of coffee anywhere in the world.

* SSH is simply amazing. I think it can be overly too easy to forget what it gives us the ability to do.

* SQLite. It is amazingly designed in pretty much any way you can look at it (requirements, speed, size, resource use etc).

* My Kindle (and other such devices) is an amazing piece of tech. I carry around my whole library in only a few hundred grams, and its power usage levels are so low that I need only charge it for an hour or so each month.

* The Kotlin programming language. Such a breath of fresh air after having been stuck with Java (pre 9) on Android for so long.

* Android's new UI design toolkit Jetpack Compose is a seismic shift in native Android development where everything looks and feels like it has had some serious thought put in behind it.

These are obviously subjective, and I have no longing to get into discussions on the merrits of the software I mention here. There are plenty of places that has been done before.
You may think that, but these notes basically explain everything I've been missing for years from my own "Unwritten Handbook of Social Interactions".
Hmm, are you sure you're not making an ironic meta-error here? It seem like the author is allowing "aspies"[1] to save face by saying their behaviour is well-intentioned i.e. "dedicated to keeping the record clear and accurate", but not actually excusing that behaviour.

And taking into account what you wrote about criticism, I hope this doesn't come across too harshly.

[1] I'm not completely sure how acceptable it is to use this particular term
Key word - "current". If people had used that same line of reasoning for computers, we wouldn't have the devices we take for granted today.
Things start expensive, and inefficient. Then we innovate and things get cheap and reliable.
A Cure for Type 1 Diabetes? For One Man, It Seems to Have Worked
Koan of the day:
Can you download something that doesn't load?
One point to make is to not use the word psychological or "head". That still triggers people to think we're saying they're just imagining it. The best explanation I've seen wasnin Reddit where the person said its circuits in your brain that cause the pain but not your muscles. This is amazing since it clearly communicates that yes it's in your head but no it's not your fault.
How did you get there? Vaccination requirements have been a thing for decades in many countries. Showing proof of vaccination to go to the mall or cinema isn't tracking anyone ( with the EU implementation at least, can't talk about all of them) about anything - it's just an app reading a QR code and deciding if it's valid locally, no internet required. Heck, in France the government explicitly stated nobody has the right to ask for an ID to verify you're the actual owner of the vaccine certificate ( bar age-restricted places like bars that have had that right anyways).

Why do people always have to jump to the slippery slope fallacy when anything happens? It's good to be cautious, but you're taking it to paranoia level.
It is a NFRAP site which means the EPA feels no further remediation is needed and encourages the site to be returned to productive use. The EPA has a whole superfund redevelopment program.
It's not to offset perceived discrimination, but explicitly stated discrimination policy. When you can't change the policy, you can at least do the right thing and try to go against it. When two people are equally qualified I will advocate for the white male, because I know that the others won't. If I simply say "They are both equally qualified" then the white male will never be hired, and this is wrong.

It is unfortunate that their decisions require me to make this decision, but ethically and game theoretically it is correct. If the policy was meritorious then this would be unnecessary.
If an applicant is being thrown out on the sole attribute of their race and gender, then those individuals are being reduced down to only two bits of information. One can not look only on those not being discriminating. It would be as silly as saying that no university was selecting random people from the street matching the male gender in the 19th century.

The phrase I am borrowing is from Carl Sagan, where he is using the even less charitable argument that discrimination is simply lazy thinking. Instead of evaluating an individual as a full person we reduce them down to single bit of information like gender and race. It is what people do when they are unwilling to do the thinking needed to actually see a person. The result is nothing less than evil, historically and present.

You might not care about culture, but those being hired usually do. A culture of discrimination is a culture of distrust. On HN we see with a fairly common regularity articles where once being happy to have joined a company under those circumstances, the diversity hire find themselves very unhappy and leaves. The experience can so bad that people quit the profession itself, or determine that the only functional work culture is a mono-culture and joins a company with only their gender or race.

Last, I have a rather strong warning against trying to solve the ills of the past with ills of the present. It is less than a century ago that a country in Europe decided to go after a demographic that held a historical strong position in mercantile and banking. Resenting a demographic based on what their grand and grandgrand, and grandgrandgrand parents did is a very dark place to be.

> Nothing has worked

We do know what works, it just people are unwilling to do it. The way to address class differences between demographic is to raise the social support. Gender segregation is effectively reduced through support programs like mentorships, which raises understanding and cooperation. It is hard work. What does not work in both cases is more discrimination.
You probably have several discovery protocols enabled on the printer, and your computer dutifully shows each one.

I see two scanners for the same reason - one via WSD, one through AirScan.
To make money? Retail investors have much smaller positions, think emotionally, and can be scared into selling at a lower price during these big drops.
This is worrisome to me because many people who took the first set of vaccines are now feeling less inclined to take a “booster shot”.

This article argues we will not only need a booster but effective a whole new vaccine against this new Corona variant.
The Next Big Thing – Working in 2050 [audio]
I wish I'd found this years ago. It may not be accurate, but it's hell of a lot better than literally not knowing all of these things about social interaction.
Largely agree about Ruby, but I'm still disappointed by how they implemented Refinements.
Thats because the EU regulates fees.
The ecosystem is a superset of Pythons: https://github.com/JuliaPy/PyCall.jl
> highly neutralizing COVID-19 convalescent plasma

Basically, you take the blood plasma of someone recently recovered from COVID-19 with high antibody counts and filter antibodies out of it, that are then administered to critically ill patients. Same procedure is used in manufacturing snake venom antidotes (with horses as host bodies, since they are able to resist snake bites). More about this can be read e.g. here: https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/convalescent-pla...

As for the different type of antibody - tl;dr of https://www.ptglab.com/news/blog/polyclonal-vs-monoclonal-an... is "monoclonal antibodies are all of the same configuration and target one specific molecule, whereas polyclonal antibodies have a higher amount of variance in matching".

As for "what exactly did they do" - they took samples of the specific virus and exposed it to such a blood plasma sample, and noticed escape, aka surviving infectious viruses. Which in turn is bad news as it means that this specific strain of virus at least has the potential capability to evade the body's immune system protection that has been built up by infection or immunization.

As this is an "in vitro" test though, this means that it may also be possible that an "in vivo" test (=exposing a live human instead of a blood sample) would fail.
Mobile Plumber Sydney
Mobile Plumber with its viable plumbing service in Sydney made an alternative for the people instead of replacement. We have been here for more than 20 years, helping you.
A garlic press. It's the only thing I ever asked my parents for that they owned. They had it since the 70s.

The reason I know it's great is because all the others I've ever used are inferior.

This one is in two distinct pieces which you place together to work. The metal is kind of grey and dull but it's incredibly strong.

It's easy to clean. Indestructible. Powerful.
If the door isn't transparent - it's a great way to collide with someone coming the other way... And getting the door in your face.
Catherine the Great Letter Extolling Virtues of Vaccination Is Up for Auction
I would have expected this to do something different, like rendering the image via WebGL (so it looks like an <img>, but isn't easily downloadable).
The comic is about trying to replace competing standards with a new superstandard. It's not relevant.

You're basically pointing to the first panel and saying 'job done'. That's not enough to make it work.
It looks a lot like Weebo from Flubber. I wonder if they based it off of that design.
It was the same as in many FORTRAN IV dialects and also in ALGOL and in many other early languages, but in FORTRAN that was not a standard language feature, even if many compilers implemented it as a language extension.
But the app is excellent, FWIW. No ads, more functional than the website on mobile. The website makes use of desktop screen resolution layouts and has mouse-appropriate links, checkboxes, and comboboxes for an appropriately dense layout instead of big touch targets.

Also the banner is easily dismissed, and doesn't come back when you revisit the site.
GitHub not behaving reliably this morning
getting persistent errors here when trying to submit / merging PRs via the API or the web UI in the last few hours. https://githubstatus.com/ hasn't any report of anomallies. YMMV.

P.S. simple reproducer - https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/tree/master/Casks gets me a 500
> It's an insurance policy

That's a really good way of putting it.
The little man that appeared on the side really scared me! I mean wow, but for a second I really thought something was coming out of the screen.
Bizum in Spain is awesome: associate your bank account to a mobile phone number, send and receive money with just the phone number. Both for individuals (free) and businesses (very low fees). Since every bank in Spain supports Bizum, it has been a turning point for everybody. Of course VISA and MasterCard are not happy since they are losing more and more transactions.

https://bizum.es/en/
this is hilarious. I'm wondering if blockchain will be there :D
Wikipedia entry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_words_for_snow .
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This times 1000. Windows’s pessimistic file locking is why even trivial system updates require a reboot. Makes my blood boil every time.
Of course, none of this would be necessary without the idea that produce grown anywhere should be available everywhere. You don't need all that infrastructure if the potatoes you buy are from a farmer's market and were grown a few miles outside town.
Want to solve the housing crisis? Address super-charged demand
It's on f-droid with reproducible builds.

Obviously there's a risk that the person scanning the QR code does shady things with it but it's rather unlikely the app itself will. It would be caught really quickly.
Pinning in Plain English
Not surprised seeing Pinker is a fan. These are the same type of people that parrot the "technology is neutral, it's how you use it" line.

"Only by looking back at fears of old things when they were new, can we have rational constructive debates about emerging technologies today that avoids the pitfalls of moral panic and incumbent protectionism."

Sure ok, start with this: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/228250.Four_Arguments_fo...
Why is the bottom smooth and not flat like traditional octagon design? As far as I can tell that’s the only difference from this pot and their other ones.
In this case "positive" is not something "good". It's not there to soften the word "discrimination". It's similar to "blocklist" and "allowlist": you could argue that a blocklist is just an allowlist for each item that's not on the blocklist. Positive discrimination for a trait is negative discrimination for any other trait, but sometimes you'd like to highlight that you select for something, and not that you select against a myriad of other thing.
Ya me too. I wonder if someone could try to trick a 3d effect and that it feels like something alive is coming from the screen
> This resonates with me, and it certainly seems that something like this is true. But it is unclear to me to what extent this actually is true, or even if it is true, to what extent this is truly due to intentional, planned behaviour on the part of ‘capitalists’, versus the afore-mentioned emergent effects of Smith’s invisible hand.

It's the emergent one. That's why this is a systemic critique of capitalism and not an individual critique of an individual capitalist.
The difference in mindset needed for a stable software product vs. a new feature
Also, cats on printers.
> When the car began replacing the horse, pessimists didn’t treat it like a great new tool. They called it “the devil wagon,” and said its mission was to destroy the world.

They were absolutely right.
Paypal have a long history of constructing emails that appear to be phishing attacks but are genuine. They use obscure domains, have login buttons in the email (please don't) and have ignored all requests to tighten things up.
Looks like that paper is a preprint almost a year old. Is there anything new here?
100% agree, most of qwerty keyboard with flat staggered layout as in typewriter is faulty and ancient design yet it's widely adapted for some reason.
We’re talking in a context of scientific software here.

> I'd hate to have to learn which Greek letters correspond to which operations every time I dive into a new codebase.

You have to do that anyway, because you’ll have to connect the code you’re working on with the scientific paper describing it. When the code uses variable names too far removed from the mathematical symbols, you have to do make two steps: figure out how the words connect to symbols and then figure out the symbols. This will be especially difficult for the mathematician/scientist without a strong coding background: they’ll have much less friction reading code that matches the symbolic notation and Greek letters that they’re used to.

> The advantage of English words is that everyone knows them.

Not when it comes to “math” words.

> `Σλ∀φ` is a chore to read for me.

Right, but that’s because you have a different background. For me, `Σλ∀φ` is much easier to read and understand. More importantly, a symbolic notation is much denser, which allows to parse long expression that would be very hard to understand if they were written out in words.

Again, this is for the very specific context of highly mathematical/scientific software that Julia excels at and is primarily used for. In a more general context (when the software isn’t a direct representation of a scientific paper), I’m 100% on board with good, descriptive variable names
I agree with all of this but just to add, the pain can indeed be a real physical issue directly caused by mental health.

For example, anxiety often causes muscle tension and bad posture which can lead to real mechanical pain causing issues. I suffer from panic attacks and they are a very physical experience. My temperature stops regulating itself properly and I get GI problems. This is likely an indirect consequence of the adrenaline surge, but there are other known and theorised ways that your mental state can influence your body.
France announced it two days ago, starting in mid January the health pass will only be valid if less than 7 months have passed since your second dose, if it's more than that you need a booster. I don't know how they'll implement this technically.
> In the US you could pull in $100k or $120k easily. But then you'd have to live in the US, which is a major downside to be sure.

I think that is another factor that is under-appreciated. Many people seem to completely ignore the cost of living in the area surrounding the company and the country in general.

A friend of mine had an exceptional start into his career, money and skill wise. He is quite possibly the smartest person I've ever met in person. Three years into his career he got quite a few very very attractive offers from US based companies offering him an attractive relocation package as well as a significantly higher salary. He denied all of those, telling me that all the money they could offer would not justify the awful work life balance that would be a result of those positions.

I think that is a perspective that many people seem to lose, mainly because our culture tells us to "work hard" (although the degree of that seems to differ dramatically). But it also goes to show that Europe might be competitive by "idealistic" standards, but not at all when it comes to market standards. And the market standards will only continue to get worse when looking into the structural changes in important industries like automotive.
For what it's worth, the limit on MobilePay in Denmark is 15,000DKK/day, $2300.

Through the website, transfers with similar speed are limited to 1,000,000DKK a day ($150k).

In person (showing identification at the bank) I don't think there's a limit.

You will note the restrictions apply also to anyone who has successfully stolen your credentials, or is holding you at gunpoint, etc.
> Rosette is a solver-aided programming language that extends Racket with language constructs for program synthesis, verification, and more. To verify or synthesize code, Rosette compiles it to logical constraints solved with off-the-shelf SMT solvers.

One of these days I'll have to learn Racket because it seems like such an interesting language.
There's a thing that shows up with animals, where the most vicious, aggressive species tend to be the ones with poor eyesight, because they can't tell harmless movement from threatening movement, so they have to treat everything as a threat and attack "back" preemptively.

I think something similar is going on with aspies and criticism, where poor social judgment forces them to treat every criticism as an attempt to attack their social standing.

Though also, disagreement with feedback can look like inability to accept criticism when people aren't actually looking for acceptance but submission. Call it 50/50.

edit: oh I read the article and it refers to criticism of others by the aspie. Nevermind then!
That's what your IDE or LSP is for.

That's also the difference in 'philosophy' between OCaml, F# and Haskell. Haskell has the 'same' global type inference but the community sees them as (often only ;) documentation.
I would say keep an eye on dev dependencies which are a part of the build process. Malicious code there could easily append malicious code to the production build, even if you have a deployment server setup. This is just as dangerous as a malicious production dependency.
I'm getting...

"hostilecolors.com has expired"
On yield of crops:

Area dedicated to crops has steadily declined in Europe and the US since the 1950s, while feeding larger populations. This is only possible if crop yields have increased, substantially.

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use
I love my electric toothbrush. It cost me 20 bucks and it’s amazing. I analyzed it from a UX point of view and couldn’t come up with any designs flaw.

- it’s waterproof, so easy to clean

- it has a single physical button, nothing else

- it has a small flat stand on the back, so I can put it somewhere horizontally and it won’t roll, and the brush won’t touch the surface

- the heads can be easily changed, so we share the same toothbrush with my SO but have our own brush. The heads have a different color ring so they’re easy to recognize

- the charging station is small, holds in place and is generally painless. You just put the toothbrush on it and that’s it

- the battery itself easily lasts 2 weeks

- when using it the brush buzzes every 30 seconds but that’s it, you can ignore it if you wish. If you accidentally turn the brush off but turn it back on quickly, it remembers where you were and won’t start the buzzes from the beginning

- the best thing about electric toothbrush is that they gracefully degrade to a normal toothbrush. I love graceful degradation

I talked about users of more expensive electric toothbrushes (100-200$), but I’m confident mine is the best.
Don't copy-paste dev your career
They should be able to request a payment instead of sending $1. If I go into Bank of America's app, I see "Send" "Request" and "Split" options.

I do not see these options on BoA's website though, which is a dumb inconsistency.
Rust and Python, in that order.
Apparently, the SOC used in sansas was EOLed, and the newer ones use a cheaper and much less capable chip common in chinese music players. Attempting a rockbox port was deemed wasted effort. There doesn't seem to exist an off-the-shelf SOC comparable to the original.

The more expensive audiophile-orientated players use more power-hungry mips SOCs running linux, and the product is then designed to justify the expense and bulky battery.