skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That might not be just the accent. I noticed that British English seems to use synonyms for a lot of nouns. Sometimes this just sounds quaint (rubbish -> trash), sometimes it takes me a moment (car park -> parking lot), but sometimes the word is simply not used that way in American English (bin -> [rubbish] bin -> trash can; pavement -> sidewalk [but "pavement" in American is the road surface, so it's a valid word, just means the opposite in British]).
Or import ridiculous amounts of nuclear power from France.
WasmEdge 0.9.0
Yeah I know. Ridiculous.
The big ones like Bitcoin are pseudonymous. If you know someone's wallet you can see their entire history on the ledger.

Private coins like Monero are different, and transactions can only be ascertained if you're one of the parties involved.
Not my experience. I've got several family members who are vigorously antivax. One was laid out by covid for a week plus lost a brother-in-law to it. Another persuaded her sister to avoid the vaccine and the sister is still on oxygen after spending weeks in the hospital with covid.

Neither one has changed their tune at all.
For anyone curious, here's some info comparing Paxlovid with Ivermectin:

https://www.acsh.org/news/2021/12/02/how-does-pfizers-paxlov...
Fluffychat allows multi-account logins on the same device, if that's what you're looking for. I haven't tested it myself, but it seems similar to the way the Gmail app operates with multiple accounts (you switch over to a new account and get content specifically for that account, rather than mixed rooms from different accounts all in one list).

In practice, though, I'd be impressed if you could even find three different circles that are all on Matrix. I haven't found many people who are willing to switch yet over, anyway.
Leaving Germany burning lignite (halfway between peat moss and coal) and buying natural gas from Russia. The worst of both worlds.
Like me, you were probably exposed, like most of us, to the ideas in Carl Sagan's "The Dragons of Eden" and "Broca's Brain"

The triune brain hypothesis became familiar to a broad popular audience through Carl Sagan's Pulitzer prize winning 1977 book The Dragons of Eden.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dragons_of_Eden

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broca%27s_Brain

The other mythical meme of note from those days is that we only use 10% of our brain.
> However, if you want to be able to freely call back and forth between C# code and JavaScript code that doesn't know about this calling convention, while maintaining the full semantics of both languages, then you are going to run into problems.

Ah. You’re talking about something different here, hence the confusion. Here’s where I came in:

> I would like for c# to compile to TS or JS with the same support as ts to js.

> I don't think this can work.
-Well, in fairness you do import clean hydro from Norway, with foreseeable consequences for our utility bills.
Not sure where you're getting that from. I would like to assume positive intent and the best interpretation of your position, but it's really difficult to not read this as "If we have to get consent for touching someone, then we have to get consent for all interactions. Therefore touch-consent is non-viable." Please help me understand how you aren't saying that.
They are completely different mechanism for doing different kind of stuff. Firejail sounds like something closer to Capsicum, but without the security model.
Edge Connectors, ENIG Plating, and Galvanic Corrosion
I work at Supercede. We write a big production web app for the reinsurance industry with Yesod and Servant, and a bit of Elm.

We're hiring[0] also (and our team has grown a bit since that last post).

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28722397
> under the assumption of being built to be used within a real project with dozens or hundreds of overlapping connections

This is an odd assumption to make.
I honestly think you severely underestimate the amount of people not taking it due to being conspiracy nuts.

I never thought I'd know ANYONE like this, but now almost every antivaxxer I know has some crackpot insanity reason for not getting vaccinated. None of them are worried about safety, FDA approval, etc. Hell my FIL thinks COVID-19 was meant to bring the endtimes so Jesus will come back and the rapture will happen. So do ALL of his constituents of his Church more or less.

So let's not mitigate the crackpots to a "minority" because it's simply not true.
Erm, why would anyone want procfs? It's obsoleted in FreeBSD for a good reason.
Will the reactors be mothballed, converted, or torn down? Ideally if political winds change and the reactors are mothballed, could they be restarted?

I live near the Fort St. Vrain Generating Station, a nuclear plant converted to gas in the 90s, and I often think about what could have been if it had been made commercially viable earlier in its life.
Here's a good article to give context about this decision and why Germans - who were affected by Chernobyl, btw - support this.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/history-behind-ge...
Don't underestimate the large number of people who are also completely scared of doctors and needles. Being able to get something they can pickup at a pharmacy and take in their own home is a win.
> The people who refuse vaccines don't do it for a really strong principled reason, AFAICT.

I am very often around circles of people who haven't been vaccinated: family members, friends, friends of family members, friends of friends, etc. There's a good mix between political reasons, and principled reasons. Most fall into the latter group, including myself: I refused to get the vaccine until it was in general availability for at least 6 months. This was the time period I felt comfortable with where I figured if any issues were to arise, we'd have found out about it by then.

Others have longer personal time frames. Others don't want to get it at all. But usually, it is for a strong principled reason. The fact of the matter is, past vaccines have caused issues; vaccines are not without their risks. Do the benefits outweigh the risks? Absolutely! But it's a personal choice. At this point, with all the data we've seen with how harmless and beneficial they are, I believe it to be an unwise one to not get vaxxed, but it's a personal choice nonetheless.

> Even more than that they view the Covid vaccine differently than flu or any other vaccine - largely for political reasons.

But, in fact, the COVID vaccine is very different than any other vaccine. Not only is it brand new technology that to this point was a failure in other trials with other diseases, it was also fast-tracked and released far sooner than any other in history. And it is for a virus that largely most severely affects the elderly, obese, and those with preexisting conditions.

People also forget that the very news organizations and politicians pretentiously shaming people for not getting vaccinated today, are the very same news organizations and politicians that spread fear and doubt about the vaccine just prior to the election. [0] Our current president did the same thing.

Perhaps if they didn't politicize it in the first place, or even plant seeds of fear...they would have more of a leg to stand on when it comes to being so divisive about the matter.

[0]: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/01/health/eua-coronavirus-vaccin...
We have build a nice support library for it. https://github.com/cotonic/cotonic. It helps that our backend is Erlang. https://github.com/zotonic/zotonic.
This is Facebook posts posted on FB pages from external ppl, not comments on other page posts. Misleading title.
There is no moving on while e.g. heart patients in need of urgent surgeries need to wait for weeks to get a guaranteed ICU bed after surgery.

Is this so difficult to understand?
"People who are good at math will be good at this math test."
Lilium Jet has 600 employees. What do you think they could contribute to sustainable public transport that the millions of people employed across the globe directly involved in public transport can't do?
The problem with general statements with "every programmer should" is that programming has become such a diverse field that there are definitely things that not _every_ programmer will need. For example, as an embedded software developer, I would say that every programmer should know I2C/SPI, EEPROM/Flash, semaphores/mutexes, RTOS task scheduling strategies, assembly language, what a HAL is, etc (I don't see any of those on the list from my brief perusal). In my field, if you don't know any of those, you're going to have a tough time getting a job. But the reality is that most programmers don't need to know the majority of what I use day-to-day and I don't need to know some things they need like basic web UX practices or how to serve a terabyte of data that I'm sure is the absolute fundamental minimum required for certain other development positions.
Official Covid deaths for 2021 already outnumber 2020 (https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20211122/us-covid-deaths-202...), although using calendar years is misleading since the December 2020 wave likely caused deaths in January 2021.
"That these two are the same thing is somewhat of a fluke (it doesn't work in higher dimensions)."

Can you elaborate on this? What is an algebraic closure of the reals in higher dimensions?
Totally insane - what are they thinking? This is the best chance for climate

And what is plan B - more gas from Putin? Insane
they are replacing it mostly with gas from Russia. Great idea! /s
Greenwashing. For another example, "Biodegradable" plastics were mostly a big con.
Those Legos under the tree might be worth more than gold one day
> “From a pure emissions perspective, it was always a questionable idea to shut down German nuclear before the plants have reached the end of their lifetime,”

That's very questionable. Unless they have audited and found uncorrectable design flaws, it really doesn't make sense. A lot of the push seems to have come after Fukushima - an entirely different design, in a different country, with different regulation constraints(some of which were actually violated) and in a region subject to severe natural disasters.

It's not like the risk to German plants suddenly increased after that event.
Because “Connect All The Things” is now a thing.
> "or any other company's services" is a bit to wide, the obvious biggest counter example to this would be utilities, everyone is somewhat entitled to access to their power company's services. But going outside utilities, what if I live on an island that is serviced by a single ferry company, shouldn't I be entitled to paying service?

True, your 'island ferry example' is a monopoly. It is also not at all analogous to this situation and Tinder in general.

I'm no expert, but I don't think you understand what the 'network affect (sip)' is, as it does not apply to US Railways at all, and is a relatively new term that only arose in the 1970s. That aside, your example doesn't survive further scrutiny because railways were often the only practical way of moving between two generally public places — cities or towns. With Tinder though, they are providing you access to their own private network of users. Your example is like saying the monorail in disney is a monopoly, but that doesn't make any sense, since it's for transporting you within their own park.

Lastly, Tinder is not the one and only way to meet people. Yes, they have are of the most widely-used companies in the space. But there are others. And, you know, people can still meet in real life — through friends, at work, at activities or interest-based groups. On other social media like Twitter, et al.
if this accelerates transitioning to renewables, it is not insane.
Is it really worth the extra effort for WS over long polling at that point though? Especially if you're re-using the TCP connection it seems like the overhead would be minimal and the latency only slightly increased.
I just published dsq [0] for running SQL queries against CSV/JSON/Excel/Parquet/etc or just converting those files to JSON.

[0] https://github.com/multiprocessio/datastation/tree/main/runn...
You might still want to backup to a different location, given VPS's aren't immune to data loss. rclone with encryption works and ensures you are the only one with access to your data.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/amazon-aws-...

https://www.techzine.eu/news/infrastructure/57005/ovh-share-...
Usually that gives me things about nixos. E.g., when I'm trying to figure out how to install vscode plugins via nix package manager, I specifically don't want the nixos recipe because I'm not using nixos.
The insane part is only that not enough is done to boost energy distribution from renewables. So many subventions have been dumped into nuclear and the cost for disposal, it makes sense to move out beyond safety concerns. About the time: to there could have been better times but there was a political momentum and I think a majority of German are in support of the transition.
If someone uses a third party SSO provider, can they create recovery codes to mitigate the risk of having their account closed by that provider? That would be a nice feature to prompt such users to make use of, once they've tried Matrix out for a while and have built up some chat history and connections they wouldn't want to lose.
Complying with local regulations is a cost of doing business, Heroku seems like they couldn’t be bothered to comply and are okay losing customers. Which would be fine if they gave a long enough notice, but this article as no date on it.
https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/netherlands-goes...

Holland is building two new reactors, and

'Energy and electricity prices are at record levels due to Europe’s over-reliance on renewables, inadequate supplies of nuclear energy, and shortages of oil and gas due to under-investment in oil and gas exploration and production. Carbon emissions in Germany rose 25% in the first half of 2020 due in large part to a 25% decline in wind, underscoring the unreliable nature of weather-dependent renewables. In response, both France and Britain have promised a major expansion of nuclear energy.'

Very turbulent times in EU energy markets.
Study: Omicron 40-45% less likely than Delta to lead to 1+ day hospitalisation
The long tail of Elena Ceaușescu’s fraudulent scientific work
I’ve been copy-pasting or re-writing a function much like strings.Cut, probably dozens of times, in different Go packages. It’s nice to see this function make it into the standard library!
> how I should approach sending emails like this in the future

Don't.

It's that simple.

I look forward to your reply without undue delay and at most within 45 days of this email, as required by Section 1798.130 of the California Civil Code.
Please provide reputable sources showing "CDC was bullshitting when they said 90% of ICU patients are unvaxxed".

I am not even sure CDC was directly making such claims and some of the 90% figures were directly from regional hospital systems, not the CDC.
Well it’s definitely accelerating transitioning to Russian gas.

Edit: gas not oil
They sent a notice of termination effective 15th December on 22nd December?
Why is it that every time one of these threads comes up it's a wall of text acting all innocent and trying to distract from the fact that they were promoting super sketchy Bitcoin gambling?

> a few videos in 2019 about some Bitcoin faucets and games

> I guess it was the "BTCspinner"

You didn't get banned for minifying a URL. You got banned for promoting predatory crypto gambling sites. And it was well deserved.
Tesla fans are annoying, but it is absolutely valid that the safety bar for self-driving cars can't be "100% perfectly safe" - it needs to be "safer than the alternative".

The problem with both this example, and the AWS one (it needs to have better availability than your personal home-spun solution, and it does), is that people are amazing at deluding themselves.

"Yes, cars are dangerous, because other people can't drive. But I'm a better than average driver"

"Yes, other people will build unreliable systems. But I know how to architect for my use case and ensure that for my needs the availability will be higher than AWS's"

Both are true* in the micro sense and false in the macro sense.

* Not really. 88% of americans think they are "above average" drivers.
https://archive.md/WJXml
Does anyone have insights/thoughts as to the implications of this variant growing as fast as it subsides? Does that mean a new variant will emerge which will be more/less infectious or more/less deadly?
I was referring to various antivirals, not just protease inhibitors. Plenty of patients are given monoclonal antibody infusions during hospitalization (see for example the former US president).
That’s happening because this country is allowing unvaccinated people to hold everything hostage.

Low priority for Covid treatment if you’re not vaccinated. Problem solved.

If you want anti vaxxers to hold the entire medical infrastructure of the country hostage indefinitely be my guest.
DeepMind’s Retro Achieves GPT-3 Comparable Performance with 25X Fewer Parameters
It's not a strawman. There's a huge difference between "AWS is down" and "customers don't know how to use AWS". For the people who use AWS correctly, they only had some degraded service, not downtime.
It is neat. I've gone down this path[0]. But you find yourself essentially re-implementing HTTP, and losing things like backpressure. Sometimes it's what you need, but I try to be cautious before jumping to WS these days.

[0]: https://iobio.io/2019/06/12/introducing-fibridge/
Your example is a great example of how absolutely catastrophic and disconnected from reality blockchain people are.

This idea that we can pre-commit to ideas, and not only that we should pre-commit to a course of action with no option to change as new data comes in, but that we are actually able to correctly codify this perfectly, is preposterous.

A bug in a smart contract can make murder legal, or loophole an interest rate to be a billion percent. It's delusional to think that anyone would want this.

A court or legislative body simply has to be able to undo bugs, to overrule.

Maybe we can't trust the government very well, but we KNOW that we can trust smart contracts to completely fuck us with no recourse.
We enable anyone to spin up any of the major browsers in the cloud that is collaborative - multiple people can control. Co-browse any web app without download. Love for you all to try it out and give us feedback. Since it runs in the cloud, we do incur costs.

Here's a coupon code SHOWHN you can use for 30 day free use. Would appreciate any feedback!
Yes I’m sure it’s full of people who failed to vaccinate themselves or those whose spots were taken by anti vaxxers.
Afaik Chinese hieroglyphs also have hints for pronunciation. I seem to have read in this very thread that something around 2/3rds have them. Doesn't change the classification of the writing system, though.
GDPR art 22 might protect against this (https://gdpr-info.eu/art-22-gdpr/).

I wonder if someone has already tried to invoke it against a Google/FB/.. ban hammer.
Is there any Matrix to Matrix bridge? Such a bridge should be able to solve the problem short term.
My biggest concern is how you maintain directional control in a power loss scenario.
> With respect, it just doesn't matter whether you think the researchers were doing a service or not.

I wasn't making a case that the study was fine and had no problems. I was making a comment on, broadly, "money wasted because of this". Whether the study was problematic or not (it seems like it was), everyone scared by this email was only scared because they'd stuck their head in the sand with regard to laws that have been enacted that put certain requirements on some people, and whether they are affected or not.

As I see it, there are a few possible general outcomes of the email:

One, you know what your requirements are, if any, and you respond appropriately.

Two, you don't know what your requirements are, and you look up your requirements, and respond or take further action at that time. For the majority of people, that fall into this case, that's probably "do nothing".

Three, you don't know, go immediately to a lawyer, and burn a lot of time and money with that lawyer, for them to either tell you it doesn't affect you or to ask you WTF you're doing operating something like you are without knowing the simplest of things that could affect you.

In all those cases, you are left off either with the same or more knowledge about your legal responsibilities online. In the cases where you waste resources using a lawyer (in some cases a lawyer would not be a waste, but possibly something you should have done previously), I think that's people overreacting to their own (possibly longstanding) negligence in understanding their own situation.

For what it's worth, whether the study was conducting in a way that was acceptable is irrelevant this specific question. Any individual could email asking a similar question entirely legitimately.
Congratulations to the Codecademy team! I always really wanted to join Codecademy and wrote about my experience being rejected 3 times over the past 7 years in a recent post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29025401. I've always rooted for them and wished them great success, their product has helped millions learn to code, including myself.
You see a picture in a chat, you click it, it shows up fine. You click it again, it shows a white screen. Has been going on for a while on MacOS.
There was a brief spike in daily new cases that was extremely high, then it lowered. It will take more than a day or two to know if it is truly subsiding as fast as it’s growing, and what the meaning of that spike was, so this seems premature.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-afri...
Yes, you can see a link to Circle if you follow the privacy policy.
Things can't be conditionally sane or insane. A winning gamble remains a gamble and people are right to balk and say "you bet the house on this?".
Frankly, that's stupid.

He's got a PhD and a JD from Stanford and has chosen a faculty position and has done a nontrivial amount of unpaid work for various privacy rights organizations. He obviously isn't motivated by money.
Unlikely until adequate testing supplies are available that may be resolved next year. By the time a case shows up at the hospital the infection is no longer being driven by viral replication. At that point inflammatory responses, like those dampened by the anti-IL-6 receptor antibody tocilizumab, dominate. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41573-021-00202-8
You can’t start up the equivalent of “half a country’s nuclear reactors” in 2 weeks. For this to happen you must already have an excess of renewables, which they obviously don’t have.

What will happen is that more coal will be burned because coal always works and is instantly available; Sun and wind isn’t.
That's cool twist. I guess if all apps are up on the cloud, why not the browser. Really like the collaborative angle. Will give it a try.
Webmonkey: A server of your own (1999)
Ten years ago when I tried it, it was the closest I as a non-coder ever come to a REPL. Thanks to Codecademy I got my start and learned I can do it. It’s been my career since. So for it’s audience (me ten years ago) it ain’t bad. Nothing was as inviting as approachable.
I seems more like they are transitioning to Russian gas instead.