skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have anything in support of the claim that it is less likely to cause damage from the spike protein? A inactivated Sars-cov2 vaccine contains the spike protein just as much as the actual disease. The mRNA vaccine leads to the production of just that protein.

Do you have data on comparable sizes of populations that Covaxin is safer. I have not seen any such data so far.

Also, for antibody production, the spike protein is the only relevant part because antibodies only target surface features of a pathogen. The spike is the only relevant surface feature.

The rest of the virus is only relevant for T-cell based imunity, and indeed according to (1), Covaxin does induce T-cell based imunity, while, not sure but AFAIK, mRNA vaccines do not.

Anyway, I do support the idea that people with a strong preference for an alternative vaccine that is approved for entry visas, should be permitted to receive the alternative.

(1) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8221739
Uh, author here, I have no idea how you could ever think I'm a proponent of MMT. I'm a vocal critic:

https://www.singlelunch.com/2018/10/01/bad-economics-shame-o...

As for BTC, yes, I hate it and am vocal that PoW cryptocurrencies should stop existing. But this piece isn't focused on that.
Well they destroyed/lobotomized the recommendation system. I don’t know how much of that was command from up above but engineers were definitely involved in that.
Gems like this are why I read HackerNews. Ms. Slenczynska really gets going there at the 55 second mark (in the second video on the page, Opus 110). As a middle aged former child prodigy myself with my septuagenerian genius mathematician father, we watched the 25 minute video of her recital together on my MBAir here at the breakfast table...just amazing.

Happy MLK day!
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

-- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt....

We had this "deploy" Jenkins box set up with limited access for devs, because it had assume-role privs to an IAM role to manage AWS infra with Terraform. The devs run their tests on a different Jenkins box, and when they pass, they upload artifacts to a repo and trigger this "deploy" Jenkins box to promote the new build to prod. The devs can do their own CI, but CD is on a box they don't have access to, hence less chance for accidental credential leakage. Me being Mr. Devops-play-nice-with-the-devs, I let them issue PRs against the CD box's repo. Commits to PRs get run on the deploy Jenkins in a stage environment to validate the changes.

This one dev wanted to change something in AWS. But for whatever reason, they didn't ask me (maybe because they knew I'd say no, or at least ask them about it?). So instead the dev opens a PR against the CD jobs, proposing some syntax change. Then the dev modifies a script which was being included as part of the CD jobs, and makes the script download some binaries and make AWS API calls (I found out via CloudTrail). Once they've made the calls, they rewrite Git history to remove the AWS API commits and force-push to the PR branch, erasing evidence that the code was ever issued. Then close the PR with "need to refactor".

In the morning I'm looking through my e-mail, and see all these GitHub commits with code that looks like it's doing something in AWS... and I go look at the PR, and the code in my e-mails isn't anyware in any of the commits. He actually tried to cover it up. And I would never have known about any of this if I hadn't enabled 'watching' on all commits to the repo.

Who'd have thought e-mail would be the best append-only security log?
That looks really cool. Would you possibly share the script?
First, let's start by using a valid comparable. Fiat currency has the feature of "medium of exchange", at present BTC does not (technically it does but its adoption for exchange is abysmal).

> So the real question is whether a coin is being manipulated, but what kind of manipulation you can accept.

The NYSE is a better comparable. In the US we have the SEC which does regulate against market manipulation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_manipulation I do believe there is some level of market manipulation not captured by the SEC, however there is at least some baseline level of control against it.
It wasn’t a full approval but an “accelerated approval” based on “promise”.

People bitch when the FDA says “no” and then turn around and bitch when the FDA says “yes”.
The main difference is that now most development is actually not based on the platform but carried out with web tech. Which, compared to desktop tools, is light-years behind in usability.
Here you go: https://noyb.eu/en/austrian-dsb-eu-us-data-transfers-google-...
Cloud Trends 2022
In general, what you see in the spam filter is the stuff that isn't obviously spam--the latter category is entirely black-holed.

False positives in spam detection are really bad, so you want to tune your algorithm to have really low false positive rates--which means you get high false negative rates in turn. Having a spam folder to filter non-black-holed spam into allows you to introduce another level where false positive rates can be higher without being catastrophic.
https://plantuml.com graphs look much better
The problem that they don’t have the rights to make digital copies of the book let alone sell digital copies remains
In the same vein, here’s a fun illustrated guide to procrastination (and fixing it) by Tim Urban:

https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrasti...

And accompanying TED Talk: https://youtu.be/arj7oStGLkU
Filtering is also not simple problem. One user might want to filter the "newsletter" subscriptions they have been automatically singed up for. And per best advise should not try to unsubscribe from as this tells the sender that it is good address to sell... Other one might actually want to see those.

Not to even mention those crap sites that allow you to signup with email without verification, looking at Instagram...
Cash is also a great jQuery replacement. It's slightly larger than Umbrella, but does more. It also supports partial builds to shrink it down further.

https://github.com/fabiospampinato/cash
ugh, that's annoying.. At least you made it onto HackerNews, so your problem might get silently resolved in the shadows

It really sucks that Google can't be bothered to provide 5 minutes of human support despite taking such an enormous cut of all revenue from these apps
This makes me more nostalgic for the old Interface Builder than it does Aqua. So much more straightforward to create actions/outlets and create the files than the current mess.
>Bonus error: you can't have DNS packets >64k. Even over TCP. (Been there)

I am curious how did you get there given the length field in DNS records is only 16 bits?
How I auto-update my Git repositories
I really think this piece could be better written. Give us an executive summary or even bullet points of the activity. It went too fast into the details for me to see the overall trend.
Yup. The Illegal Analytics Scanner is deployed to Germany. We then load the website, observe the pixels loaded, run the IP returned through an IP lookup, and see who controls the server. If it's a US cloud provider, it's not lawful in the EU.
discussion earlier today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29965144
Only the really obvious wash trades get spotted - e.g. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-29/here-s-a-... , because half-decent manipulators will have the sense to trade between different wallet addresses and obfuscate their money sources.
Interestingly, "You Bet Your Life" highlighted the fact that Groucho Marx got old, and it's weird in kind of the same way that Elvis getting old is weird.
I’ve read the post, its just how it is with their policies being evaluated by automations and not humans. Nothing you can do but work around them sadly.
It's brilliant but not simple at all. You can't just mint an NFT, wash trade it up to a large number and then expect somebody to buy it. This plan would almost always fail.

Because it would pop out of nowhere and nobody has ever heard of you. So just like in the traditional art world, you need to be visible and networked.

It's very educational to simply browse the big marketplaces. You'll notice that the typical NFT gets zero offers. Almost all trading happens within a tiny scope of hot projects.
> These emails are so bad

From my understanding, that is a feature. It acts as a filter for the top % of more gullible targets.
I would say having it written is more secure. If you hide it in a good spot no robber is going to find it and even if they do you will almost certainly know you’ve been robbed so you can change the passwords. Not only that but I bet 99% of robbers wouldn’t have an effective plan to sell or use the passwords. Digital on the other hand has a significant chance to go undetected for a while and certainly know exactly what to do with them.
I cancelled my subscription shortly after they started getting rid of small-time films and started producing their own content; the two reasons were (1) I don't like businesses that can't cooperate with others and (2) their own content sucks and likely continues to suck to this day because their KPI is "how many people watched >1s of this?" and not "did we allow passionate, talented people to do work they are now proud of?".
That may be true but network TV regularly killed TV shows early in their run too--often in the first season even.
I'm definitely stuck in the 60's through 80's for television shows, and tend to watch my favorites over and over. But honestly, I've downloaded and stored most of the stuff I like because I'm terrified of it disappearing off streaming sources.
Even worse, the sponsored native ad has the same text styling (bright orange title) as the rest of the actual content, so even I struggled to tell where the article continued. This ad actually goes against google policies.
You're wrong. If I routinely share my lunch with someone at work, I don't get to poison it because "It's my sandwich, I'm under no obligation to make sure it's safe just because you happen to eat it." Hell, I can't poison it even if someone's stealing my lunch.

I can't create code with malware. I can't modify my code to make it malware. That's a crime. You're wrong
This is incorrect. It would not even make sense on its face, as all business costs get passed down to customers. If they did not, then the business is losing money.

As of 2010, Dodd-Frank legislation explicitly made it illegal for payment card networks to prevent merchants from offering discounts for different payment methods:

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/new...

> A PCN cannot stop you from offering your customers a discount or another incentive for using a certain method of payment, as long as you offer it to all your customers and disclose the offer clearly and conspicuously. For example, you can offer your customers a discount or a coupon if they pay with cash or a debit card rather than a credit card.

In Mar 2017, Supreme Court went further and said state laws banning credit card surcharges were a violation of merchants’ first amendment rights:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressions_Hair_Design_v._Sch...

What you may be thinking about is rules prohibiting charging different payment card network prices for various credit cards (i.e. different price for Visa vs Amex vs Mastercard vs Discover). This was deemed allowable by the Supreme Court in Jun 2018:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_v._American_Express_Co.

As an aside, this Ohio v AmEx ruling was of great benefit to tech companies that operated market places, because

> This decision was considered to have created a new type of rule that could make it difficult to seek antitrust litigation; with credit cards being a two-sided market serving two distinct sets of customers, a successful antitrust argument would have to show how both sides of the market were harmed.
Yeah I watched a month of Disney too, they frankly have more good old classic than Netflix.
What it woul take to recreate dplyr in python:

https://mchow.com/posts/2020-02-11-dplyr-in-python/
That's a good metaphor. I just wish there was one "official" stable version Electron on all platforms that you could depend on everybody having installed, so instead of shipping huge apps with their own copy of electron, you could just ship little applets in one file (or just a few), like was possible with NeWS.
> constant AFDs and DRN attempts

what does this mean?

I think the edit history is quite harmless on this article at least.
Does iPhone night shift mitigate negative effects of smartphone on sleep? (2021)
To be even more precise, X.com merged with Thiel's Confinity, which already had a product called PayPal, and later the whole company was renamed after the latter. PayPal existed as a thing before Musk's involvement.
Very nice, detailed analysis. Thanks for sharing.
Julia also sets an env var JULIA_NUM_THREADS to 4. I’m just guessing what that means... the Python code is painfully unoptimised, the Julia one has plenty of inclining, uses native vector types vs naked lists etc.

I feel like Julia, faster though it seems to be, has a massive chip on the shoulder, keeps proving its erm performance is bigger than everyone else.

On the benchmarks where Julia is faster, it’s time is in bold. On the one regex one where Python happens to be faster, no bold. I guess outliers can be gleaned over.
LedgerX (now FTX US derivatives) is regulated.

(Sorry, forgot to mention it in the first comment -- that was the whole point of bringing it up in this context.)
> The vast majority of people, when faced with a language that looks not great at the moment but could have a bright future, will react with "I'll take a look again in a year or two". You argue for the opposite, that people should contribute to Zig instead.

I'm trying EXACTLY to do that, and it's not logically inconsistent. I'm not sure why you are deliberately conflating "using a language" with "putting a (small) amount of money into a project". The exact point is "if you can't afford be present-focused in one way, be future-focused in a different way". I really don't have the energy to parse the rest of what you wrote.
Fastmail uses @fastmail.com (the default domain) for randomly generated aliases. Good luck blocking the hundreds of thousands of fastmail users by trying to block the minority using masked addresses.
They need to be priced as one.

Netflix PE ratio is 47x.

Paramount is 8x.

Universal is 12x.
Er if you look at their charts, it looks like in absolute value, netflix didn't raise prices faster (the article does a good job "omitting" the average price of cable in 2011). It's because it was cheaper in the first place that the percentage is higher.

The extrapolation in the chart is laughable.

Not defending netflix, but this article is an insult to the reader.
Eastern Europe Tests New Forms of Media Censorship
I think you just described Rust (although you have to deal with / get to take advantage of the borrow checker).
It's a numbers game. The cost is almost zero to send, and one success can make a few thousand dollars or more. That's a ton of money in some of the world, especially parts of Africa and South America.
It is not true in the US either since 2010. See my adjacent comment above.
Based on what I've seen in their engineering blogs, they've been spending a lot of time on streamlining the production and distribution process. I guess that makes sense for a production company. But I wonder if they're getting good value for what they're spending on it. It may so much less than what they're spending on producing content that nobody's paying attention.
As someone who snagged a FirstInitialExtremlyCommonLastname@outlook.com address (think asmith@,bpatel, etc), I can say that their spam filter is absolutely worthless. Never bothered to use that account because it was so horrendous.
Remember the stories by reporters saying this drug would bankrupt the US because it would cost $500B per year?

This outcome was entirely predictable based on Medicare’s NCD process.
I hope it's not going to be a long time before congress swiftly enact regulating anything related to crypto currencies when interacting with the dollar.

Although bitcoin might also be used to honeypot hackers through bitcoin exchangers, so I don't know...

I'm even starting to believe insurance companies might work with crypto folk and lobby government so that insurance companies keep paying for ransomware.
You need to add language you understand in your profile for most of the subtitles to appear. This can only be done through the desktop website.
And I thought I was joking when I kept saying that Google uses Machine Learning!(tm) for everything...

Edit: on further thinking, the last problem about needing login info for an app that doesn't have accounts is probably due to some poor soul on minimum wage trying to make their review quota for the day.
Please report spam on these. The email providers won't know they were unsolicited and unwanted if you just unsubscribe.
Apple isn’t merging mouse and keyboard systems, though. Not in macOS. So that hypothesis is complete bunk.

This design move is at this point getting to be a decade old. So this explanation from you makes zero sense.
I was setting up an encrypted-root system with ssh access to pass the passphrase, and got reading. It looks like an initrd image can connect to a VPN or set up a Tor hidden service these days. I didn't try it, though.
It's "down, down, down" only if you entered at a very high price: https://athcoinindex.com/coin/bitcoin

As the great Andreas Antonopoulos said, everyone gets the Bitcoin price they deserve.
Probably many, but it seems like the WWW never got its seminal, "Amusing Ourselves to Death"-type status report, so far.
I tried to explain this too, but these airwaves are sadly dominated by people vehemently motivated to buttress the narrative that Christians are or should be against any form of hand washing if they were consistent. I think this case (among others) would be a pretty good litmus test to root out people who don't want to understand and, however intelligent or civil, are just not emotionally ready to discuss it.

I can understand to some degree why they act as they do; they honestly think lots of people will tragically die and have their rights trampled on if they don't generate enough apostasy or prevent enough conversions to deter the Christian worldview from regaining enormous appeal. Being an anti-christian culture warrior feels rewarding. I should know, I used to be one. The simple matter I eventually discovered as I got older is, there is no life, no justice, no joy, no freedom, no rights, no good, nothing worth having without a sincere relationship with the Creator of all these things. I can't just generate these virtues and hoard them for myself, they ultimately came from something greater than me.
I trust their data scientists calculated their price elasticity and their marketers did lots of A/B and focus groups so they know what they're doing.
It's a real conspiracy. Simple as that.

Google proved they could beat spam around year 2000, but now suddenly they are now letting messages through with headers that a toddler could tell you are fake.

They know it' spam, we all do. But they let it in anyway because there's some secret economic or political dynamic we aren't privy to.
The FDA decides if it’s safe and effective.

Payers determine if it’s worth the money.

Not sure your point?
I disagree. I've used C#'s LINQ extensively, where the select is at the end and adding columns is trivial. It's a complete non-issue.

On the other hand having the select at the beginning has all kinds of problems for autocomplete, and syntactically obscures where you're selecting from and the clauses. I recommend you try LINQPad if you want experience with how much better this works:

https://www.linqpad.net/

> I've rarely ever touched filtering or aggregating lines in an exiting query unless requirements completely changed

Requirements change or bugs are discovered in the query. This is far more common than you imply.
One major issue is that most displays aren’t properly calibrated to sRGB. Once I got two monitors profiled and calibrated properly, suddenly most of these algorithms matched much more closely than I had expected.
I saw that (thanks to this!) but I guess my question is why aren't more people freaking out about this? It seems like they should be.
Well we can shorten that list if you're able to write your models in tensorflow 1.15 to: Windows 10 and Python 3.6+. Microsoft has done something quite interesting with tensorflow-directml [0, 1]. A friend is training convolutional networks on a Ryzen 5 3500u ultrabook, at about the same speed my old notebook with a GeForce 940mx could. I'm tempted to test it on a 4600H when I have a bit of time, it could be interesting if the iGPU is able to access a large portion of the 24GB of RAM that system has.

[0] https://pypi.org/project/tensorflow-directml/

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ai/directml/gpu-ten...
It also depends on the individual. While I value documentation, I find source so much easy to understand than several paragraphs in English describing how to use language features.

But I know others much prefer reading docs over code.
My team uses a succinct graphviz dot file to note the dependencies between different git repositories. This is then used by the build system to figure out what needs to be rebuilt. There are lots of other ways to skin this cat, this is just the method we chose, and it's oddly pleasing.
Apple CarPlay Workaround for Teslas
I have no special insight in pandas development, so this is just my guess.

I believe this was because Pandas' initial primary use case was manipulating time series (datetime-indexed numerical vectors), which are used extensively in financial institutions such as hedge funds and trading firms (Pandas was initiated as a skunkwork project in AQR Capoital Management). You can see the lineage in its very extensive collection of convenience methods for manipulating time series (pd.Series where the index is some datetime type). A pd.Series is a numpy array with a meaningful index, and a pd.DataFrame is a collection of pd.Series with a shared index. If you use Dataframe to store and manipulate multivariate time series, the api is quite sensible. So pd.Series and pd.DataFrame are probably the datatype that you'd design to store time series of (a portfolio of) stock returns. (Old foggies who'd use something like Matlab before know that just being sure your vector/matrix calculations are using correctly aligned dates was not a given.)

Dplyr and its R data.frame heritage are what statisticians would probably use to record measurements / experimental outcomes on individuals. There is usually no meaningful index/natural primary key, and the order usually doesn't matter. It's much closer to a relational database table (unordered collection of tuples), but for analytics rather than transactions so column- rather than row-oriented.

For data tables without a meaningful natural index, the Pandas api is much more confusing and cumbersome than needed. It happens that a lot of ML applications fall in that category, but during the early 2010s when Panndas took of it had very little competition.