skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"So whatever the heck is actually the problem, it's specifically a San Francisco thing. Unfortunately, since I don't think it really fits standard red/blue culture war narratives, no one is incentivized to figure out the real reason and do anything about it."

One of my wife's classmates wrote a B-school paper on this (having a certain intimate acquaintance with it). It's corruption and dysfunction between the SFPD and the DA's office. The two organizations have a uniquely antagonistic relationship, such that the SFPD actively does poorly at their job to spite the DA's office, and then the DA's office actively refuses to charge to spite the SFPD.

Uncertain what the set of incentives is that led to this, but I suspect it may have something to do with the DA being an elected official and hence responsible to the people of SF (who are fairly wary of the SFPD because of past history), while the SFPD are career civil servants who want to avoid taking any action that could endanger their life or job but aren't ultimately responsible to voters.
You can if you'd like to:

> And for those of you without a new MacBook Pro, Notchmeister also includes a genuine replacement notch. Be warned that side effects of this feature include making you want a new Mac even more than you already do. Sorry.

(from App store description)
> Because from where I am it looks more like it exists for charlatans and scammers to draw more people in and exploit them.

Yes, "charlatans and scammers" are definitely part of the demographic that would benefit from crypto. But you're really going to ignore every other use case I've mentioned?

From where some people stand, it looks more like Tor exists for pedophiles to draw other pedophiles in. They're not wrong, but they're also not acknowledging the full picture of what Tor and privacy in general enables.

> Also, why do cryptocurrency fanatics so frequently accuse anyone critical of them as being hateful?

Because the critics, as you can see over and over again in this very thread, are being completely dismissive to the actual use cases and benefits that crypto brings. Never acknowledging the minority of people for whom it actually brings real value to (granted, they've become a minority now that there's a lot of speculative dumb money in the market), never acknowledging the points that are being made, and also calling crypto advocates MLM schemers who just want to draw more people in to make money off of them.

It's one thing if the critics take a look at it and say "Oh that's not really for me" or "Oh I don't know if censorship resistance is an attractive enough incentive for people to keep running Ethereum nodes long-term." Then we could really have a conversation. But they don't say it like that. They say everything with disdain and a sneer. So I respond in kind.

What would you call that other than "hate"? If you kept criticizing something your friend likes despite them telling you all the reasons they like it, and you only ever saying how much it sucks and how nobody should like it, doesn't it make sense for them to ask you "Dude, why do you hate it so much? What do you have against it?"
I've been in recent conversations with several top firms on and off Sand Hill and nobody cares or even asks where anything is located.
> "Readers of article say it makes claims X, Y, and Z."

says who?

"Intended for healthcare professionals" - it literally says so above the page header.

Edit: maybe fact checking systems need to label certain things as "This is a publication from a narrow domain venue intended for professionals. Specialized domain knowledge may be required to derive correct conclusions." instead of fact checking only the first few paragraphs using common journalistic standards because "users on social media only saw this title, description and thumbnail[...]".
Linode has always had great customer support for me. Responds in a few hours, friendly, helpful.
> Why would you take that risk when you know the system is being operated so that there is literally no difference between if you make the arrest or not?

The ability of police to forecast complex systems so accurately is astonishing.

The change being blamed for 2020/2021 elsewhere in this thread is "catch and release without cash bail." It's noted that there's been a 50% charge rate for a while on things as well. So if the police make that arrest, and that 50% charge rate held, half the time there's going to be a charge filed and regardless of if the person was held in jail or has to be brought back, that's still not "literally no difference."
When the government imposes such pitiful fines, it really comes across more as seeming like they just want an extra cut every once in a while. It doesn't feel at all like they care if JP Morgan ends up doing things any differently.
Kinda feels like Parsec (https://parsec.app ), but honestly there are so many websites in that format these days...And yeah, this one even has a free tier and a paid tier, and a nice convenient "Pricing" link up top... Though to be clear, I'm not against valuable services getting paid; and this one at least makes it fairly clear what they _do_ on the front page...
Well the one of the appealing part of QBasic Editor was the friendly bright blue color scheme. Along with the always present menu bar on the top. Just a great editor for newbies.

Seems like Joe has the helpful menu system, but it feels overall more "serious" in comparison, especially with the minimal white on black color scheme.
Migrating Data from HDFS to MinIO
I am not a fan of Facebook, but this is one reason they did not want to get into being the arbiter of what is true (Along with a lot of other less noble reasons). There are indeed things that are demonstrably not true, or presented in a very misleading manner, but there's a whole class of things that are in between.

The scientific world in general is a community where research about things comes in, people digest it, and come to a consensus. This includes some contradictory things or things that turn out to be faulty conclusions. This does not make them "fact check verified false". It is a stream of information that is weighed and honed over time with further research or questioning.

Now I agree people are very bad (even "smart" people) at ditching their inherent tribal nature to weigh data that supports their bias more highly. The echo chambers of partisans on social media will assign an impossible burden of proof against evidence that challenges their thought on something and have no burden of proof on the converse. But that does not mean that we can then make it binary of "true" or "untrue" to stop this. "Fact-checks" feel good, but it is clear now they are being extended to not just the realm of demonstrably false information and more into the opinion and inconclusive realm.
From the article this thread is about (italics emphasis added by me):

> The researchers found a significantly increased risk of developing a symptomatic Omicron case compared to Delta for those who were two or more weeks past their second vaccine dose, and two or more weeks past their booster dose (for AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines).

> Depending on the estimates used for vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic infection from the Delta variant, this translates into vaccine effectiveness estimates against symptomatic Omicron infection of between 0% and 20% after two doses, and between 55% and 80% after a booster dose. Similar estimates were obtained using genotype data, albeit with greater uncertainty.
I read it as: he bought an online school, and started calling it "Purdue" to cash in on the school's reputation.
> This seems very naive. Media companies are not working for the public, which pays pennies to the dollar compared to advertising.

I agree that the advertising is where the money comes from for most media... But that supports the parent comment, in that it incentivises the media companies to tell their audiences exactly what they want to hear (or, more correctly, exactly what will keep them coming back and watching more advertisements).
Erlang seems to work well here.

* It has big ints

* Functions look "mathematical". Variables are immutable, so "x = x + 1" doesn't make sense just like in math

* Nice binary matching syntax like <<Result:256/little-unsigned-integer-unit:1>>. Can even manipulate arbitrary bit strings that don't necessarily end on a byte boundary

* Has a decent crypto module https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/crypto.html
I think a critical point to make is that this is not actually about Tesla/Waymo. Its about creating guidelines that are generally applicable to all companies pursuing self driving car technologies.

So it applies to Tesla but perhaps more importantly companies that are trying to copy-cat style mimic Tesla's move fast approach to SDC for tech advantage reasons/marketing PR/save money and perhaps are cuting even more corners than Tesla.

Some examples I hear about are Nuro and maybe even Cruise, Aurora.

And then imagine a host of other companies as well - Faraday Future, Comma.ai, Pony.ai, Xpeng, etc. Its unclear at this point that these companies shouldn't have some oversight/held to some standard operating procedures.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/14/pony-ai-suspension-driverl...
Funny story, deleted my FB acct several years ago, then a couple months ago I found a group for my school and tried to reactivate my account but now it says I was banned. Silver lining is I won't be in FB again.
The FREND instrument searches for neutrons to map hydrogen content in the Martian soil.

FREND revealed an area with an unusually large amount of hydrogen in the colossal Valles Marineris canyon system: assuming the hydrogen we see is bound into water molecules, as much as 40% of the near-surface material in this region appears to be water.

How confident are we that hydrogen detected really is water?
What's your point? That doesn't exclude US Americans from offering criticism. We are not all one entity, there's ~300M of us. Many of us had nothing to do with Vietnam and I can damn near guarantee wouldn't repeat that decision today.
Sounds much like a plutocracy.
There are a good number of people who sell pre-builts for reasonable prices (e.g. https://bastardkb.com/), but these are often one-person endeavors, and with part shortages, they've been out of stock a lot recently.
> Chances are, the people you're thinking of, the very top, may very well have proof in writing they require employees not to talk abt the business on whatsapp.

So because the bosses have a rule written down somewhere, that absolves them of the responsibility to make sure their employees are actually following it?
Yeah, right. As I said, I'm no expert on the subject but I don't understand why metal phosphides, zinc etc., aren't popular either.

My gut reaction is that some of the 'inappropriate' regulation of poisons (and chemicals generally) has to do with the process of regulation itself. In earlier times, regulations almost inevitably resulted in response to incidents (blue glass bottles introduced in Victorian times to reduce accidental/mistaken swallowing, thallium removed in the 1950s when too many abusive husbands were being bumped off by unhappy wives - thallium being so easy to administer, etc.). Such responses always left patchwork regulations with anomalies - such as why was strychnine available to anyone from my local pharmacy when I was a kid (that was mad even back then).

Lately, chemical companies and governments do regulations 'deals' in a
more formalized bureaucratic way (which both parties prefer - as chemical companies see regulations as being protective of them and keeping the GP and other vested interests away from the process is desirable. Thus not all issues are covered. There's also the 'change' problem - changing regulations can involve much work - thus the well-known axiom comes to the fore 'don't change anything unless compelled to do so.
IoT is pretty great for manufacturing (talking billion dollar manufacturing). I don't like seeing my precious IoT lumped in with NFTs.
99 Ranch Market is a chain of supermarkets catering to the Asian community, and it's pretty easy to shop there if you don't speak English.

They tend to build in places with large immigrant communities, so having a 99 Ranch Market could be seen as a sign of diversity.

That being said I personally tend to shop at smaller Asian stores which don't have websites or multiple locations. Just because the store doesn't have a website doesn't mean there isn't an strong immigrant community in that area.
Very true - I think the common ground here though is as people get older, they need to stay engaged in something on a regular basis outside of their home.
I have experienced two car break-ins since moving to the Bay Area. For those of you who have never lived or visited here before, you may find it surprising to see "don't leave valuables in your car" signs are posted everywhere in most parking lots. Its the sign of the times (literally). I remember growing up in other parts of California where car break-ins were rare and wasn't something you always had to think about. Its sad to see how rampant it is now.
Currently use the split Kinesis Freestyle2. On macOS, Karabiner's "Mouse Keys" mod allows me to control the cursor by holding the d key and using hjkl for left down up right

It's relieved much of my wrist pain, and I always flirt with the idea of trying a full on Advantage
Please don’t take this personally, but fuck I hate this painfully common assertion. We most absolutely live in a democracy. However sometimes it’s easy to get confused as to what that means. Democrats (as opposed to autocrats or oligarchs) must behave in ways that will get them the votes they need to stay in power. Is there anyone in particular enabling this? No. If there was, they either would not get re-elected, or constituents have decided that this is not enough a transgression to vote for someone else. Maybe a case could be made for lack of knowledge or high ignorance amongst the common voter contributing to poor outcome of democratic processes, but to say we don’t have a democracy is irrational. No one forces you to vote for anyone. You don’t like someone in power? Get rid of them! You can do that here…but unfortunately one of the benefits of democracy, is you need a group to enact change and policy, not an autocratic individual.
It is. So what was insufficient about XMPP?
Electric cars were a joke until Tesla showed up
TS in VS code is such an elegant experience. I wanted my terminal vim to work (my setup for the past five years) but the productivity gains were too much to ignore.
> mRNA vaccines did basically happen overnight, yeah. As recently as 2017 they couldn't progress beyond animal trials because all mRNA based drugs became toxic after multiple doses. Better hope they nailed that problem, right?

Please, provide some sources. A quick google search led me to https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/10/moderna-trouble-mrna/ but this excerpt is in moderna's favor:

> But the Crigler-Najjar treatment has been indefinitely delayed, an Alexion spokeswoman told STAT. It never proved safe enough to test in humans, according to several former Moderna employees and collaborators who worked closely on the project. Unable to press forward with that technology, Moderna has had to focus instead on developing a handful of vaccines, turning to a less lucrative field that might not justify the company’s nearly $5 billion valuation.

> “It’s all vaccines right now, and vaccines are a loss-leader,” said one former Moderna manager. “Moderna right now is a multibillion-dollar vaccines company, and I don’t see how that holds up.”

Considering work on mRNA vaccines started in 1989 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRNA_vaccine#Early_research I'd say you are wrong. 2004 and 2008 saw the first use in a humane body of mrna transfer into the cell. Moderna may have hit a roadblock for their cancer therapy in 2017 but that doesn't mean they started working from scratch on mrna vaccines in 2017.

> As for trials, there were a lot of serious problems with the trials. A girl in the children's Pfizer trial who was maimed so badly she's now confined to a wheelchair was recorded as having "abdominal pain".

I am surprised antivax aren't running with this story. I read a bit about it and among major outlets only Fox News ran the story. But here's the thing: one case ?

> The trials reported 95% effectiveness and no need for any boosters, which turned out to be false almost immediately once the trials ended and the vaccines went to market.

Are you referring to the second dose as a booster ? I seem to remember moderna and pfizer always were 2-doses vaccines. And there were headlines and talk about whether or not it would provide a lifetime protection or regular doses. Against wuhan strains the vaccines held up their 95% protection. So what exactly is false there ?

> Maybe you have doubts and you'd like to review the underlying data? FDA only needed 100 days to read it and approve, but to release those docs to the public will take more than 50 years.

> Reality is that signing up to be a healthcare worker, now means you are at the mercy of government agencies that have a track record of bad medical practices like vaccinating people who don't need it. Not a pleasant place to be.

I don't know what track record of bad medical practices like vaccinating people who don't need it you are referring to. Previous vaccination campaign or covid vaccination campaign ?

Anyway, there are other vaccines if you rather go with J&J and Az which are traditional technologies.
The entire idea that there should be a narrative is the issue here.

"Fact checkers" attempt to produce a coherent narrative and force one side to win out.

But not all issues can be decided in that way.
Ah. Then perhaps the problem is that the program dumps out in failure mode instead of printing this helpful message.
Rob had his revenge. Go rules the Cloud, and the Cloud rules the world.
A thought occurs to me: how would you envision this working for healthcare data governed under HIPAA? As you're probably aware, the requirement is to have PHI "encrypted at rest" and that I'm not supposed to share or transmit the data outside of my infrastructure or to that of partner companies who've signed a BAA.

My understanding of the regulatory parts of the law here is probably flawed in some way, so I apologize for that in advance, but could you go into a little detail about how that might work from a business-to-business/contracts standpoint? Like, do you guys sign BAAs at all, or are you outright going to be refusing healthcare related business/processing of PHI for some reason?

(Either answer is fine, I just want to know if this is a decent fit for HIPAA-governed data, that's all.)
I am no C historian, but I believe part of the idea was to be able to have macro wrappers around proper language symbols like "#define sin(x) real_sin(x, 1e-7)" or some such, for example. The "warning character" (what you used `$` for) was thus only for introduction (#define) not for reference. Whether the initial intent or not, this idea certainly came to become an application, also invoked via compiler command line "-Dsin=real_sin" style definition. With this you want the case conventions/sensitivity to be the same in the preproc/macro language as the base language.

FWIW, I do think that the late 1960s saw a broad "new prog lang" evolution away from case insensitive (often ALL CAPS due to low resolution dot matrix printers/display devices) stylistic tendencies in, e.g. LISP and FORTRAN, towards case sensitivity and lowercase. So, I suspect this was the salient driver - "We have lowercase now/text is more legible! Let's use it!". (Yes, mechanical typewriters/typesetting had it for decades to centuries, but programming was not done on those, but with printers and punch cards and just starting to be on CRTs.) There are analogies with Unicode in PLs these days (though there are obviously also other motivations these days/decades with the compute world i18n).
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Actually this does not really matter a lot. It could be totally legal and a company could still decide that it does not want to sell beef produced like that and then it is just like that.
> but in Spain most fact-checkers have very evident ties with two political parties, and they handle info in an agenda-setting style.

It's the same thing in Romania, they strongly monitor and criticise those politicians and public figures who are not europhiles while pretty much ignoring those politicians who are for stronger EU integration and for more power for international institutions and their viewpoints inside of Romania.
And on the other hand, only a fraction of things it sends to the spam folder are actually spam! The universe is in balance.
If you are going to write something like that you really should explain.
Absolute nonsense. The vaccines were submitted and approved for both FDA EUA and full approval with ample data from clinical trials.

The problem with misinformation is that it took me considerably longer to disprove this bullshit than it did for you to type it.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr...

https://www.pfizerclinicaltrials.com/find-a-trial?search=Cor...
How is extendState different to setState?

setState already allows you to extend the current state.

I don't get it.
Chinese engineers digging world’s longest tunnel hit a wall – of gushing water
I'm pretty sure Levels 1-5 classification far predate self-driving classifications.
I just wasted 22 seconds of my time, but here is upvote :D
Love Zulip! Simple architecture, amazing packaging release/upgrade process and very developer friendly at all levels! I actually pulled away from Facebook, invited everyone to a Zulip server, hacked on it to provide changes people wanted, and we're loving it. Login-with-Google was trivial to setup. Some users prefer to email the server and the gateway was so easy to setup. Search Just Worked(tm). It's fast. It's easy to admin. and and and...

I have only one complaint... but it's a biggie: the UI/UX.

I don't normally care, but literally every one of my users has commented that it's an ugly duckling - both the mobile app and website. We'd gladly pay for something prettier:

- UI is inconsistent: layouts/fonts/icons vary by screen and surface

- UX buries common features (e.g. reply, reaction) and promotes uncommon features (e.g. invite new user). UX is rough, e.g. click-targets are tiny and not always obvious, and features are hidden behind mouseover.

- promotes the name "Zulip" all over, which is a problem for users who don't know what a Zulip is or why they'd want one, e.g. emails from "Zulip" and not the name of the community.

- needs a way to "nudge" conversations into a smaller set of topics/threads, e.g. suggestions.

- conversation UI still suffers from scaling issues and needs some reddit-like way to display larger conversations...

- no way to control which previews are shown/hidden

Seriously, pls hire a no-nonsense designer and stop trying to be clever! UI/UX is too important in this category of product, and the current design holds back adoption.
The CEO of BioNTech said they don't know for sure but speculated that memory B cells may keep hypermutating after a third shot which could result in the improved effectiveness against Omicron. Or that's what I understood with my very rudimentary knowledge of biology.
That sounds reasonable. What I've seen from various websites, and enjoy from personal experience, is having the top of the monitor at, or slightly above, eye level.
I think they're already there. Further, I think section 230 protection should be limited to smaller companies.
Thanks! But I was actually hoping to avoid doing any front end work, but rather using a backend language to build the UI which would be converted to HTML for me!
You can set up the TypeScript LSP for neovim! It works rather well (though I've begun to favor the Doom Emacs implementation myself).
This is an annoying aspect of many news articles where they reference events without ever providing links. This makes it difficult to decipher whether the claims are made up or not.