skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not great, and I do wish that the current coalition had prepared a bit more for this winter, rather than assuming 1. enough people would get vaccinated, and 2. that it wouldn't come back seasonally like last year. They really should have prepared months ago.

I can't think of a better alternative given the current situation if the end goal is to get people to reduce contact and get vaccinated, short of a full lockdown for everyone (which I think is a lot less preferable). Whether this form of lockdown will have any effect remains to be seen.
This is an entirely different situation then smallpox though. The modes of action are not the same.
If only there was a way to directly send the data when rendering the page server side...
Seems to me you need to watch the NotJustBikes overview of the Missing Middle problem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCOdQsZa15o

Super dense cities are efficient in some ways, but they have tons of other problems and they externalize tons of costs. What we're missing in the U.S. is human-scale density, especially in the form of cohousing arrangements.

Tall high-rises are not actually efficient. You know how much energy it takes to have elevators going up and down 40 floors along with all the other stuff? Land is not the single factor to calculate when we want efficiency.
Pretty much every major company in the space will have a team or even several dedicated to digital IC security. Qualcomm, Intel, Apple, Mediatek, Xilinx, and probably Google and Amazon now as well. I attended a really interesting pre-COVID lecture series given by some engineers in one of Qualcomm's teams that started with crypto/security basics and eventually got in to more advanced techniques like side channel attacks. I had a lot of questions related to our own products that they couldn't answer in the name of secrecy.
Sigh. I've lived in three countries during this whole thing. Of course it's a problem somewhere. Not just as widespread as the media would have you believe.

I just took Finland as an example, since I have family there and happen to follow closely what's going on there (so I don't have to look things up).

And you brought up two examples. Need I remind you how many countries/regions/cities there are in the world?
You're welcome. I'm really impressed with it most of the time. Still not made it on to the Orion beta though ;)
I seriously thought my wife and I were going deaf and crazy because we only watch movies at home with subs on. This article eliminates one of those concerns, but now we are crazy and mad.

This is worse than compression of pop music for Spotify broadcasting, this affects the core storytelling of the media. We purposely did NOT go see James Bond in the theater knowing that we wouldn't understand anything people were saying.

My first instinct is to throw a Raspberry PI at the problem, but I am not sure where to start.
While I encourage everyone eligible to get vaccinated, you're not making a valid comparison. We were able to effectively eradicate smallpox (except for a few lab samples) because the vaccines are highly sterilizing and there were no animal reservoirs.

That situation doesn't obtain with SARS-CoV-2. The vaccines are pretty good at preventing deaths but don't reliably prevent infection or transmission. And most mammal species can transmit the virus; cases have been confirmed in dogs, cats, minks, deer, tigers, etc.
Forcing people to vaccinate is not really a tool to control infections right now, and more of an independent (also currently hotly debated) longer-term question. (I'm fairly certain its going to come for some jobs at least)

And if applied as here, I doubt many would argue that "forcing people to vaccinate" is a weaker measure than "impose some restrictions on unvaccinated" (although the former is of course going to be a strong form of the latter)
If your culture is that your corpse must remain untouched, and you drop dead in the middle of a mall, no one is going to leave the corpse there.
yeah seriously who needs all this video junk that takes 5 minutes to say the 1 useful thing they have to say
I wonder if you could evaluate a page using your own algorithm, which is probably not gamed as much as Google's (because who cares about your search engine?)

Then, check Google's ranking of the page. If it is much higher than it seems the page should be, assume the page is being SEO hyper-optimized and penalize the page proportionately.

Basically, using the variance between Google's model and your model as an indicator of an SEO spam page.
The fundamental difference between cryptocurrency and gold is that cryptocurrency can be transmitted whereas gold can only be carried.

Try carrying a bar of gold across a border and you'll end up in an interrogation room.
Apple legal filing indicates it intends to collect commission regardless of IAP
I was a very early adopter of Codesandbox and a patron back when it was a tiny sideproject by Ives.

Years ago, very happy at the time, I wrote a lot of code using Codesandbox, and expected it to remain private.

At some point seemingly, Codesandbox introduced plans (not just patron support), made all my code public (for who knows how long) and kept charging me until today! Quite the surprise, I expected better from the team.

I know this post is technical, but I find it hard to separate the technical merits of a company from their business practices.
Welcome to the Chickenverse
No it doesn’t and no you won’t. Where is this fatalism coming from?
Am I missing something, or is the PRC dataset the only one they don't disclose the real size and instead are releasing a "representative sample of 2048 accounts"?

I wonder how massive that network might have been.
With all due respect comments like this are why hacker news needs a downvote button.

Try a decent monitor setup before knocking it.
It's probably a lot simpler than this. Scammer shoplifts the inactivated cards, writes down the numbers / pins (or maybe scans them), then brings them back to the store and puts them back on the rack. Then they just wait.
That sounds like absolute hell.
> Either the EU responds or the EU is no longer a common market

Until Merkel is out of office, the EU isn't going to do anything to antagonise Russia or China.
In my experience, it’s a misconception that NIMBYS are motivated by property values directly. There are exceptions of course, but usually it’s either some sort of perceived lifestyle impact (traffic, shade, “neighborhood character”, etc) or just general anxiety over change.
These are Apple's terms that Amazon is following, not the other way around. You are getting bare metal that you have to reserve for a minimum of 24 hours because that's how Apple allows it to be licensed not because that's what Amazon thought would make the most sense.
No, I'm attacking the logical implication of your statement. It's a reductio ad absurdum.

You said for a market to work "at all" as a market, it must have voluntary transactions, and people must be able to engage in the transactions of their choice. But nearly all markets do not have those features. Ergo, nearly all markets are not able to work at all, under your premise.

Accepting that most markets do work to a substantial degree, your premise must be wrong.
It's not like developers in LA don't know how to build things resistant to seismic events.
That just means that you have to curate the people allowed to vote. Otherwise, it would be rule by the obsessed and the search engine optimizers, and the junk sites will dominate the index.

I'm not convinced that Google's recursive AI algos aren't a functional equivalent. They let you vote by tracking your clicks.
> You can still find a sliver of society that doesn't trust banks.

I don’t believe it’s necessary to pander to fringe groups, just as I wouldn’t entertain the concerns of sovereign citizens and similar folks “off the reservation.” Financial and banking regulations in developed countries (including the US) are robust, and arguably are sufficient to provide a firm safety net for participants in the system.

No need to address my other points.
Sorry, I do not speak Portuguese! However, I could easily find-out what the snippet was doing by simple logic.

I have been teaching programming/data for the past 2 years and you're right, simplification is of utmost importance for students. Actually, when teaching programming with Python, I go with them in the process of translating their logic to English first then it's almost a 1-to-1 mapping with the instruction set (for simple algorithms). Same goes for SQL.

Anyhow, nice concept here, curious to see where it goes!
I'm not sure, but I wish you would stop doing it already.
This is known as "shipping the org chart", aka Conway's Law.
Well it's anecdotal, but yes, our company fits directly into that space. You might ask why we don't want to just have the hardware in-house, but since we're developing Software as Medical Device products for iOS, we'd rather qualify Amazon as a critical supplier than try to operate the activity ourselves (with all the controls that come with doing so).
Risks can only be intelligently taken when the odds of the different outcomes are at least approximately known in advance.
When I was last in Montreal I was struck by these types of units and deeply jealous.
If all you're after is a static html file and it's only used as the home page for one machine, just save it on disk somewhere and access it through the file:/// protocol.
The Expanse went really thick on the Belter creole, to the point that it was genuinely hard to understand, although subtitles helped. For the latest season they changed it into more of an accent rather than a new language, which I understand the reasoning for, but ultimately the show suffered for it IMO. So I guess I’m saying sometimes less understandable can still be better!
Yup, in other words, the last period of development before the interstate highway push and car-sprawl suburban experiment ruined and bankrupted the country.
"Docs" is broken :) How can I learn about the language, aside from the examples?

This scratches a peculiar itch that I have which isn't quite addressed by other solutions (codepen, stackblitz, replit, etc). Can you import libraries at all?
In your case you should probably pay the 5.7x yes (and probably more when you consider bandwidth).
> My impression is: The "arteestes" have taken over Hollywood, and making stylish movies take precedence over making movies that are easy to watch and hear.

Based on what? In my experience, most of the worst audio experiences are middle-brow action movies (such as Edge of Tomorrow and Nolan's movies), not auteur.
Pretty sure Google uses dead reckoning geolocation tracking when no signal is available. So as long as your phone is outside of the bag at some point, you're being tracked even when the phone is in the bag, and Google can correct any errors in their dead reckoning calculations once a signal is found.
Nice, that will keep the olds away
Oh, it 'just' saves your life. Oh well, if that's all...
Tragedy of the commons. California is an issue but this is a nationwide problem. Solve it in only one place and folks just move in and recreate it. Hence the lack of will.
You make a fair point, I guess I’m just used to it now. My IDE (PyCharm) adds indentation lines, so it’s never been particularly confusing for me.

I do think F# is very interesting and quite pretty, though I’ve never used it.
I didn't use secrets because it is a prototype, and I need to explicitly give RUNs access to secret values, and I got sick of the boilerplate.
Meh, I don't think that too many things that AWS is releasing are at all relevant for hobbyist because of pricing. I

n this case, you need to pay at least 16 usd for running this because of 24h limitation, so for example using scaleway (2.4EUR for 24h) or just buying a mac mini probably is gonna be cheaper overall
https://earthquaketrack.com/us-ma-boston/biggest

I remember that Sanbornton quake. We lived in rural NH. At first I thought it was the clothes washer...then the house really started shaking.
AWS Cloud WAN
could combine it with something like: https://github.com/bbugyi200/funky
Yep, it downloads and compiles dependencies on the client side. However, it does this on a different domain for security reasons.
This[0] was linked in the article.

[0] https://github.com/stitchfix/hamilton
Sorry, meant to write flu. Not sure why I wrote measles.

Measles vaccine is, indeed, likely the best vaccine ever in terms of efficiency and safety. It’s also sterilizing rather than leaky.
Location: Chicago, IL

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The development you're describing is the whole goal of upzoning, and the intended effect. Where you once had a single family home, you now have multiple units.

The brand-new townhouses sell for many millions because they're brand new. But adding new units relieves price pressure on the rest of the market - every person that moves into a brand new townhouse is therefore not moving in to older houses in other neighborhoods.

You're making out like a bandit because you're creating new wealth. Where there was only one housing unit, there are now many. This is a win for everyone involved, it's net positive.

> Housing pricing is more complicated than a simple supply and demand curve

People say this, but it's not true. The U.S, particularly in growing areas, has not built enough homes per capita since the real estate bubble, and so prices go up[1]. It's as simple as that.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/us-underbuilding-housing-ove...
I point my new tabs to Paperback (https://readpaperback.com/), which rolls up anything I’ve marked To Read in Pinboard.io and presents it nicely.
> which may reduce the asset backing that loan.

IMO its worse than that.. no asset has been "reduced" yet the tempers and decision making get worse and worse.. This is a fundementally divisive issue that brings out the worst in people. Community is nowhere to be seen when it comes to private property and the dollars that come with it. It is a bitter end-game of an explosive and wealthy 100 years of growth in this part of the world.
I wish I could agree but from my experience, DDG's search results aren't really that great. Often even worse than Google's.

And another private company is not the answer I believe. We need something more drastic, an open-source search engine organized as a genuine non-profit organization. Something like that. Otherwise, whatever replaces Google will just turn into another Google as soon as it gets any momentum.
This was created today. Why are you sharing it already? I can't tell what it is, and the READMEs for both repos barely say anything.
Some games go even further. For example, Uncharted 2 had different dynamic ranges and even a midnight mode. A Naughty Dog audio engineer explained it at the time on the AVS Forum [0]. It's a great post, here's an excerpt:

> Dialog always pans across center, but in movies, most FX generally don't. In games, since much of the action happens up front, even with full-range centers, putting all of the volume in one speaker for all the dialog and FX happening directly in front of you generally doesn't sound as good as spreading the power for the FX around to the front mains.

It says a lot about Naughty Dog that they
wanted players to have the best experience, no matter what setup they had.

[0] https://www.avsforum.com/threads/uncharted-among-thieves.109...
It's a gauge for the quality of a video that doesn't require someone to have to sit through it to see if it's truly worthwhile. It also doesn't make much sense to track both likes and dislikes, but only show the value of one of the two.
Why stop at rotation when you’ve got a full transformation matrix?
My center channel is at like +12db permanently. It's a fucking joke these days.
Notifications should spawn in /dev/null otherwise they interrupt flow.
The space question is interesting.

The most common Mac mini rack mount enclosure holds 2 minis in 1ru. I think at amazon's scale they could probably get 4 minis in 1ru with some custom cooling.

how dense do you think instances are on average in the amazon datacenters?
Shared values at any company I’ve been at (5-5000+) have always been bullshit. It’s always just internal marketing.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.14.21264959v... and... can't find the other just now. Note that population-based studies will find different results, AIUI mostly because of the birthday paradox.
sure but what about inter-kingdom trade (and even, not all cities belonged to an empire)
I’m in an endless cycle of watching without subtitles until I reach max frustration with understanding the dialogue, and then with subtitles until I reach max frustration with darting my eyes up and down. Upgrading my headphones did help a lot, but hasn’t completely solved the problem. The fact that so many people feel compelled to use subtitles for a language they speak is kind of absurd.
These are valid complaints; frankly Mozilla hasn't been the steward that I would like for them to be, but I really struggle to understand how these are enough to make someone switch to Chrome. They're all things that make FireFox less better, but surely not worse?

The auto-installed addons thing was a bit of a fiasco (though one which didn't affect me), but things like advertising or extension support are still worlds better in FireFox than on Chrome.
The commenter intends that these places are for other people to live in (or adjacent to), of course.
The call for better regulation is not inherently in conflict with this being a people / culture problem. There is no set of rules that cannot be subverted from within if those enforcing the rules wish to subvert them. Presently the U.S. is experiencing a culture war where a significant group of people are “the ends justify the means” types. No system can withstand that sort of attack indefinitely. On top of that, I notice a fatalism in U.S. politics which results in reasonable people bowing out of trying to make things better. You single out the conservatives, but I see plenty of reason as an outsider to also point fingers at the liberals.

Speaking specifically to pro choice vs pro life both of the viewpoints have merit, but because people in the culture war are so entrenched in their “side” this can no longer be admitted. Back in reality though everyone agrees there is a time past which the child has a right to exist that trumps the mother’s right to choose, even if for some that is at 8 months of pregnancy and for others it is at conception, and everyone agrees that it is wrong to force a woman to carry a child she does not want. So, in a sense, everyone is both pro choice and pro life. All we’re talking about is at what point in the pregnancy one gets priority over the other. This can be negotiated like anything else, and the usual principles of negotiation apply. But, because of the culture war, people have stopped negotiating and are trying to get the rules (supreme court) to protect their point of view, which as a rule cannot provide a lasting solution. People have got to learn again how to talk with each other.
SARS-CoV-2 spike and its adaptable furin cleavage site
A1 in Javascript pseudocode would be:

function A1(x, y) {return x*y + x; }

But A2 would be:

function A2(y, x) {return y*x + y; }

If you do not like the default order of implicit parameters, you can always use Grace~ operator to move x or y. Prefix form moves the parameter one position towards the beginning of the parameters list, postfix form moves one position towards the end of the parameters list:

A1 = y~ * x + y

or

A1 = y * ~x + y

or
[Edit]

A1 = y * x + y~

In the last example take into consideration, that without Grace~ operator y is the first parameter, so, you need to move it one position towards the end of the parameters list - therefore use postfix form of Grace~ operator.
> none of the participants in the financial system have ever been interested in designing a financial system

I agree to some extent with the view that we should see systems as emergent phenomena arising from countless participants none of whom understands or intends the entire thing, but you can go overboard with that. There are clearly some participants who have taken a 'God's eye view' and tried to re/design an entire system (Bretton Woods, Dodd-Frank, Visa/Mastercard, &c).
They have very different interfaces, so there are times when !b is worthwhile. Not generally for the results, though.
Yep. An Earthfile describes your build steps in a containerized format. Because of this sandboxing it can run identically in CI or on your local. So you just describe your build in the earthfile and call it from CI. This means you can iterate locally and it also means switching CI vendors is simple.

You can see this in action with the Elixir Phoenix framework. They have an earthfile[1] and use github actions[2] to run it for CI.

Even if you don't use Earthly, using a vendor neutral format to describe your build process can help with iteration time.

[1] https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/master/Eart...

[2] https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/actions/runs/146...
> If they upzone my single family home lot I will make out like a bandit.

Only if they only upzone your neighborhood, because if they upzone all of them then developers can buy any of them at existing prices instead of having to all bid on an artificially scarce subset.

And in the first case the money comes at the cost of housing prices for all the other neighborhoods they didn't upzone, who all fight against upzoning your neighborhood.

> And truly affordable housing can only be created by mandating that units sell below market value.

This is balderdash. Not only false, but inverted.

Where does the money to sell "below market value" come from? The rest of the housing market, increasing prices for everyone else, but especially for the people who make three cents too much money to be eligible for "affordable housing." Because then you separate housing into subsidized projects with concentrated poverty and luxury housing that lower middle class people can't afford.
There is. The OP even talks about a study done during one of the worst outbreaks of delta and the significant effect it had in Missouri. The same type of change in multiple cities where the treatment (mandate) was in effect occurring while also not happening in the other places where it wasn't in effect? That's not a coincidence anymore.
I just don’t find laptop monitors very ergonomic. I use a 27” 4K screen and put it so far away that 200% scaling is ideal, then have the desktop disable the laptop monitor when it’s plugged in. If I’d have the office space I’d use a 65” TV as a monitor and put it many meters away, that’s just my preference.
Large shops that already run on AWS and where iOS/mac is a small part so they'd rather dish out a few $100k for someone else to manage and have it homogeneous through their other systems.
Interesting.. does this mean you have two separate cables connecting to two different inputs of the monitor?
The writing style of this article really drives me nuts. Let me tell you why.

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This article drags on so long I almost forgot what I was reading about. Maybe they should investigate the decreasing signal:noise ratio of modern journalism next.
On macOS Safari prompts me to set it as a default browser every time I launch it.