skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Absolutely wrong.
Timestamp is the time of pdf download. Everytime you repeat the process timestamp will change.
Difference in confirmation code is because he used 2 different state labs on 16th and 22nd.
Very poor analysis, I have to conclude."[1]

"You need to understand that these papers are not fakes. Both tests, database records as well as pdf certificates are 100% legit.
He and his family have enough influence in state institutions to organize 100% original PCR certificate but with false positive result."[2]

"I have now checked your theory with my PCR test from October 1st. I have downloaded it now from http://e-zdravlje.gov.rs, scan QR code and timestamp from URL is 1641917096 (Tue Jan 11 2022 16:04:56 GMT). So timestamp in URL is not when test is done, but when test is downloaded"[3]

[1]https://twitter.com/CharlieWafflees/status/14809568793249955...

[2]https://twitter.com/CharlieWafflees/status/14809588647617003...

[3]https://twitter.com/blokovi/status/1480938239515148297
Nah, let's just run with the story first, could generate a fair amount of clicks!
Perhaps @dang can change the link to the blogpost shared by zerforschung at the bottom of the thread which is written in English?

https://zerforschung.org/posts/djokovic-pcr-test-en/
On a more serious note, that’s a really cool project!

As it happens, I spent quite a bit of time last night learning about the qmk firmware and was looking around for a “keyboard development board”…

Do you think that you’d aim to grow the firmware to support bigger boards?
Yeah frankly the q benchmark isn't the best even though dsq compares not terribly in it. It isn't well documented and exercises a very limited amount of functionality and isn't very rigorous from what I can see. That said, the caching q does is likely very solid (and not something dsq does).

The biggest risk (both in terms of SQL compliance and performance) I think with octosql (and cube2222 is here somewhere to disagree with me if I'm wrong) is that they have their own entire SQL engine whereas textql, q and dsq use SQLite. But q is also in Python whereas textql, octosql, and dsq are in Go.

In the next few weeks I'll be posting some benchmarks that I hope are a little fairer (or at least well-documented and reproducible). Though of course it would be appropriate to have independent benchmarks too since I now have a dog in the fight.

On a tangent, once the go-duckdb binding [0] matures I'd love to offer duckdb as an alternative engine flag within dsq (and DataStation). Would be neat to see.

[0] https://github.com/marcboeker/go-duckdb
> They should be making their website’s code more accessible to legacy devices.

If there's an iota more work involved, the analysts have no reason not to defer to analytics. Anything less than ~1% gets dropped. So there goes your ES5 build.

"Accessibility" in the screen reader sense is additional work done to support a low-usage audience, but because it has legal implications it has much more weight.

I guess it would take someone using older tech winning in court for this to be given greater consideration. But that seems unlikely because people who use older tech are not a protected class.
It looks like a cool project, but... why not use lightweight webviews (WebView2/WKWebView)? Or even the heavyweight Electron/NW.js? These brings you full web API compatibility, extensibility points, and webviews have a small footprint too. What does this project aim to do differently? I don't mean to criticise a hobby project if that's what this is, it's all well and good, I'm just wondering what the thinking is.
A friend lent me a 2017 iPad that she's no longer using. I wanted to download Spotify, but couldn't, because I needed a newer version of iOS.

The device does not get a new version of iOS, so I tried Safari to see if the web client works. Spotify's web client does not work on that version of Safari.

So I tried downloading Firefox and Chrome, but I can't because they no longer support my version of iOS.

So I looked for a way to download older versions of apps (Spotify, or an older version of Firefox or Chrome on which Spotify would still work). As it turns out, there's a way: you first need to "purchase" the app you're interested in on a newer device that supports the latest version. Then, you can log into your older device and download an older version of the same app.

That means there's a way for me to run an older version of an app that works on my iPad, but nah, I need to first get a newer device and "purchase" it there.

My conclusion: the onus is on the device manufacturers to not arbitrarily restrict their users. Jim Nielsen's mom's iPad is perfectly capable of opening that website, but its manufacturers are limiting it artificially.
Yes, we are lucky that currently it is super easy to deploy, to the point, as you said, that the official build tool has a flag to generate the dockerfile.
At the end, we developers benefit from more people using Elixir/Phoenix and this is my attempt to increase the number of people using it in prod.
thank you for your explanation.

He said function "on" the coordinate system. I read it as "function in the coordinate system".
Wait, what, really? PHP has come a long way, but is still littered with bad design, weird syntax and trying to be a bad Java with no threads and worse scalability.
Didn't read it that way at all, thought the author was agreeing that his parents had made a good point.
A very brief history of every Google messaging app

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/21/22538240/google-chat-allo...
technology marches on = planned obsolescence + plausible deniability
Just my personal opinion, but designing websites to support old browser versions is not the solution.

Such old browsers probably have known security vulnerabilities.

Maybe find a new OS? Seems sad that old devices can't keep working.
> There are other ways to cultivate safety, besides manufacturers locking things down and making them an unmodifiable black-box.

Yes, but they're more difficult and costly; a blackbox is cheap, easy, and when done a certain way, it will increase profits. Why wouldn't companies do this? (I wish I could answer this)
This has become enough of a problem that Google is working on decoupling the "system" version of Chrome (used for login window, settings, etc) from the browser that users interact with directly on Chrome OS, making it so you can keep using the device safely after its EOL date (which is 6 or 8 years now I think).

Here[0] is a little documentation about it, but if you want to use the decoupled browser, it looks like you can enable it via chrome://flags if you are on a recent version (which OP's mom isn't, and since her device isn't going to get patched I doubt she'll benefit from this).

0: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/refs/he...
He didn't "game" the system, he cheated the system and fabricated medical documents.
GP is make a moral judgement on what I (and many others) believe and my lifestyle. The implication is my beliefs on medical animal testing and my lifestyle of eating animals is wrong.

While it's perfectly fine for GP to make this judgement, I'm not fine with them applying this standard to others while excusing themselves. Why is it wrong for me to ensure they are being consistent when making moral judgements on others?

> hypocritical belief. It's just not relevant to the the validity of the idea.

I disagree with your premise. GP is not merely talking about the validity of an idea, but again, is making a moral claim about what is right and wrong. In which case, hypocrisy diminishes one's right to make their moral claim.

> seen as some kind of refutation of the importance of animal rights in general.

Quite a straw man there. So being in favor of medical animal testing means I don't think animals rights in general are important?
AugeLab Studio
There is a new software called AugeLab Studio. You can develop many image processing and deep learning applications with No-Code infrastructure and drag and drop. On the other hand, you can add any library you want, such as opencv tensorflow, keras, and work with the open source python programming language. It also free.
Website: www.augelab.com
For download : https://register.augelab.com/
Because Hue is a degree, you can walk either clockwise or counter-clockwise. That is why in the Javascript widget (the one to select midpoints and color spaces), HSL v.s. Lab v.s. HCL acted quite differently. You probably also need a tweak for that in the "Gradient Generator" widget too.
And what if it ends his career? And why if he already had COVID?

The reasonable solution is that no tennis tournaments can be held anywhere with a discriminatory COVID policy.

Let the country do as they please, but that means losing the whole tournament.

It's not reasonable to expect a top performing athlete to risk their heart health on a useless vaccine that doesn't even prevent spread.
Where did you obtain a peer reviewed study of the phase 1 safety assessment? I legitimately would like to read it, as someone else with an under 5 child.
> If I leave my garage door wide open all night and a bunch of stuff gets stolen

It's more like, "I let some random guy do whatever he wants to my garage door and he decides to brick it."
Psy-Ops are a crucial weapon in the war against misinformation
Unless you’re going to continue supporting updated software on existing devices until the end of time, there will always be a place on the time and feasibility curve where you’ll have to draw the line. So while that is indeed a plan, or becomes a plan as a device ages and practical realities begin to assert themselves, attributing it to a sort of corporate greed or malice seems reductive.
I once interviewed James Gosling and one of the questions was precisely that - what did Smalltalk do wrong and what did Java do right for one to fail and the other to dominate the market?

The “doesn’t play well with others” problem of Smalltalk was kind of a killer.
"Technology marches on" would be if at some point, 4K became the dominant video resolution on the web and therefore, the laptop wouldn't be powerful enough to use most of YouTube.

The example here is stupid because the laptop is perfectly capable of executing a .? operator - there is no insufficient hardware or similar things. The only reason it can't is because of artificial limitations put up by Google, likely on the risk that some other, unrelated features might fail otherwise.

I don't think it's planned obsolescence in the sense that they specifically set out to brick the device - but they are certainly accepting that such devices becoming obsolete quickly in their planning.
At the scale of a large company, nothing is specifically anything. There is continual random noise generation, that is then filtered through incentives for what sticks. In fact, one of the core mechanics of a corporation is diffusing explicit motivations such that no individual can be specifically blamed. However when talking about the overall emergent behavior, it still makes sense to talk in terms of explicit motivations.
This is the kind of education that needs to be done in high school during health and biology classes. We can’t hope the general public will become epidemiologically literate on 240 character tweets and 30-second television quotes. Heck, my old high school biology teacher remains a source of coronavirus FUD, so maybe that’s not even enough.
Exposing Uyghur detention camps and the FinCEN files are. Which is why the won the Pulitzer for that and not the best ways to hit your prostate.
"But being able to explain why we use MSE or cross-entropy or any other loss function and which output activations (hint: and probability distributions) they are typically associated with actually has a very deep origin in the foundations of probability theory which blows open a whole new way of thinking about statistical modelling that is not made available in any of the programs whose materials I've been exposed to. "

What is the "very deep origin"? What is this "new way of thinking"? And what's so wrong with using argmax to make a classifier, if I don't care about estimating probabilities and just want the answer?
ChromeOS is addressing this with LaCros - a separately installable version of Chrome that runs on top of ChromeOS. The goal being exactly to be able to update Chrome when the underlying ChromeOS can't be updated.

https://www.slashgear.com/chrome-os-to-replace-chrome-with-l...
I don't think a lot of people realize just how old the power plant actually was; it went online a year before Chernobyl even started construction, and it's own construction started when the Soviets we're still winning the space race.
I couldn't find any legal requirements, but the ESA recommends a reentry withtin 25 years of mission completion to reduce waste in orbit.

https://www.esa.int/Safety_Security/Space_Debris/Mitigating_...
The Star Tribune actually just released a breakdown of carjackings in Minneapolis by neighborhood (Edina won't show up here since its a suburb, this is just to illustrate that it is not just a handful of incidents in the city). Keep in mind that these are actual carjackings, not just auto theft (there were over 4,000 of those in the same timeframe).

https://www.startribune.com/a-breakdown-of-2021-carjackings-...
This was not what a lot of people were doing beforehand. We were logging in with our passwords. At least for me when this change was announced, I had no idea what a key pair was as I was always using passwords for everything.
What part of 'changing the volume on all speakers at once' is 'industrial espionage'?
Considering that the writer resides in Taiwan but cannot vote there (not a citizen), perhaps that’s a literal statement of fact, not a backpedal.
X230 with a nitro mod https://nitrocaster.me/store/x220-x230-fhd-mod-kit.html and an x220 keybaord swap is my setup right now.
That document applies to non-U.S. persons. I don't think they can deny entry to a US person at a land border.
It does cost a little RAM, but stack size is rarely the bottleneck, especially when using a language like Python.
A court hasn't seen any of this yet. It was an ITC commission which takes claims of these types at face value with the assumption that disputes can hit the court system.
Screen is pretty bad, but its s a very cheap device. At least its an 11.6" screen so PPI isn't crazy low. I still occasionally see new laptops with a 15.6" screen at that resolution which is bonkers.
I would not be brave enough to eat a random pizza showing up at the office after running a scoop on the mafia.
Additionally, you might prefer to leverage the low launch cost to use a different approach than JWST uses. Basically, Big Spitzer.

Instead of a huge sunshade, use a telescope tube and a huge amount of liquid helium (even the relatively small amount in Spitzer lasted many years, and this is one instance where mass directly translates into time). Instead of big unfolding mirror, use a monolithic one.

This would actually be technically superior to Webb (colder mirror and instruments than you can get with the typical Webb cryocooler, less starlight impacting the instruments as your telescope tube with baffles shields it better, less diffraction off the mirror segment interfaces) and ought to be potentially much simpler and cheaper. And you could afford to build more than one, allowing you to reduce risk aversion slightly and increase telescope time.
I'm surprised anyone still uses Chromecast.

Too many panicked monkey-beating sessions, where I accidentally clicked the "cast" button on a video has lead me to throw mine out (a gift).

I'd rather just run a HDMI/VGA cable into a TV.
I think it's more the if you've made beer I know you've boiled it. If you tell me you've boiled it you might cut costs even further and just say you've boiled it.
Just looked into my spam folder and it seems that they have added a hook icon to the phishing emails. Took me a while to figure out, almost opened one out of curiosity!
> ”if we poured in the same tax dollars and incentives to Nuclear as we are with renewables.”

We do. Modern nuclear plants (for example, Hinkley Point C in the UK) receive enormous subsidies. Far more than renewables projects (eg: offshore wind farms) get on a per-MWh-generated basis.

Or to put it another way, each $/£/€ invested in renewables generates a lot more clean energy more quickly than if that some money goes into nuclear.

That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be funding nuclear research and trying new things, but for now it’s hard to justify building new nuclear plants when better alternatives with better economics/ROI are available.
I don't think I was clear enough. By going for an exception he wasn't trying to cheat the tournament or government. If he tried to cheat while in the process that's a different matter.

> Djokovic submitted falsified documents

If the dates are real from the records everyone has found then he would, in theory, still qualify. So, why change the dates?

Djokovic has people who do all this stuff for him. I wonder if something happened in translation or somewhere else.

The motive seems to be missing.
websockets unfortunately have to start at the HTTP layer and negotiate down to the TCP wrapper layer, so you need at least a partial HTTP stack and everything else that involves to get there. This complicates things a lot. It's like stuffing a turkey, cooking it, then throwing away the meat to just eat the stuffing.

In my experience, Boost Beast[1] is the easiest library to just get going with but you have to deal with all the Boost-isms that comes with. libwebsockets is the 'standard' C implementation but unless you know the websocket RFC front to back it's quite difficult to work with and has a lot of foot-guns.

[1] https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_78_0/libs/beast/example/web...
Whatsapp is also bound to a phone number ...? Is that carrier bound?

RCS works through QR code outside, just like you can end text-messages.

Why throw out a sim card? You can use RCS with ANY carrier. If you can use it with ANY carrier, it's not carrier-lock in.

In Belgium, the number is personal and not from someone else. If you transfer carrier, you are allowed by law to take the number with you.
No it recalled one specific test that had been granted emergency authorisation. There are now better tests that can also detect influenza in addition to covid. The older tests could only detect covid.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cdc-recall-pcr-covid-19-te...
> you read at least the title right, it's SPY cam, so obviously if someone is taking secret photo of you, you don't smile for camera and we don't know who are these people, if it's complete strangers or his acquintances, though some of the photos are clearly staged anyway

I think you misunderstood their point. In the past people who knew they were about to get photographed tended not to smile. Now people tend to smile.

TheSocialAndrew perceives that people now tend not to smile at strangers where as these candid photos show people a hundred years ago smiling at strangers.
The author notes that at the end of the blog post, but portrays the output as "confusing to read". Personally, I'm with you: `dig +trace` is one of those tools I use almost daily.
Sorry for the total digression that follows

> but there are plenty of astronomers that would step over their own mothers to get time on it.

May I suggest "there are plenty of astronomers who would cut their left hands to get time on it". Similarly florid, but does not propagate the meme "people will often be evil for the right price" -- that meme is self reinforcing, the more we believe in it, the more true it becomes, and the worst the world becomes as a result
I am old enough to remember the manta of "backwards compatibility" from the 1980's. It was the advent of the web that eventually led to "release early / release often" and damn any concern about breaking old stuff. If it was not for Linus enforcing "user space" backwards compatibility in the kernel, Linux systems would have (un)planned obsolescence at the kernel level.
I'm not impacted, but I wonder if doing a brownout that is ran on odd hours for a week and then a brownout that is ran on even hours for a week would catch more situations and allow people to fix systems without as much fanfare.
You are very much wrong:

"Our rating: False

Based on our research, we rate FALSE the claim that the CDC withdrew the use of its PCR test and admitted it can't distinguish between the flu and COVID-19. The CDC is withdrawing the test, but it has nothing to do with the flu. The agency-created PCR test simply isn't needed because hundreds of tests from private companies have addressed this need and been approved by the FDA. The CDC test properly showed positive results only for COVID-19; a person with the flu could not test positive for COVID-19 using the CDC test, experts say."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/12/30/fac...
Reading a Pacific navigator’s mysterious map may require a shift in perspective
Look at this from a larger perspective. US killed a million random civilians in an attempt to to squash terrorism - and largely failed. China appears to have achieved this in an incomparably more humanitarian way. If this works out, this means:

1. USA failed (again)

2. They committed world's largest genocide since WW2

3. For no good reason

This is an absolutely terrible outcome from PR point of view, so it's natural for US to try to prevent China from being successful in doing that. And pretending that temporarily imprisoning people is somehow more evil than killing them seems to be working, even here on HN.
Hospitalisations and mortality are the most useful trends to be following presently, given both the undercounting / underreporting of infections, and the reduced severity of the omicron variant overall.

How many people get infected isn't itself of primary concern. How many require healthcare service, and how much service is required, as well as the impacts on overall healthcare availability for both Covid and other conditions, is a major concern.

Covid Omicron itself seems to be spreading largely uncontrolled in every region to which it has been introduced, and will probably have spread worldwide within the next two months.

For those wondering whether or not omicron represents the end-game of Covid, my suggestion would be to keep watch for:

- Additional outbreaks or variants in regions previously impacted by Omicron. This would indicate that there is not a durable immunity afforded by Omicron infection itself.

- The non-emergence of waves that have appeared in the previous two years of the Covid-19 pandemic. In particular, the US has experienced a summer wave, generally beginning around 4 July and in southern states, progressing north.

- Other outbreaks associated with vacation or holiday periods. Chinese New Year in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan (February 1), the Hajj (during July in 2022), spring break in the US (late March), and similar events elsewhere.

The existence of outbreaks would indicate a continued Covid pandemic / endemic.

The absence of event-based or seasonal outbreaks would indicate an ending of the global Covid pandemic. Or at least a period of remission.

Given that Covid has established itself in non-human animal reservoirs in multiple parts of the world (e.g., amongst deer populations in multiple US states), the likelihood of continued endemic status does seem high.
The maintainer's intended release was text spamming the console. They replaced it with the old faker. This is changing the maintainer's code.