skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish netbooks were still around with modern hardware. In college, I replaced a powerful laptop with a desktop in my dorm+netbook, and just did remote desktop on the on-campus internet (luckily all the classrooms were still wired for ethernet).
The self-driving car industry is leaving the term ‘self-driving’ to Tesla
hei, just read this. That's a really cool piece of writing.

It kinda put me in a mood of going over the basic principles of mathematics again, but in this new light.

Any recommendation of content that follows the advice given in the article?

Thanks!
Object unlike anything astronomers have seen before
idk but relying on USB in something with only 32MB RAM sounds potentially cumbersome. Besides a device like this is the intended use case for original ESP8266 so that's probably the way to go.
No. This is the danger of blithely dismissing everything as a "conspiracy theory".

None of this requires a conspiracy. None of this requires explicit communication or collusion. That's not how bias works. Bias works as subtle (sometimes not so subtle) pressure. Pressure against asking certain questions, against publishing certain results (this is hardly unique to covid), massaging data and models (often unconsciously) in favor of certain conclusions.

And then there is the very real stigma - also something which does not depend on an overt conspiracy, just an army of true believers who will publicly castigate those who speak out, putting the livelihoods of dissenters at risk.
Trying to mess with the moderators specifically suggests some kind of deeper ire.
Stingy, self-destructive employer sounds like the employer's problem, not the employee's problem.
> Has anyone ever seen a QR code being scanned? No? Just wave a screenshot of your friend's digital vaccination record? Yeah, that works.

Sometimes. In my experience, it's just as likely your photo ID will be scrutinized and compared with the QR code. Which in your scenario does not work. The problem is there are rarely repercussions for the individual that presents the bogus documentation, or the entity that accepts them.
Automatic device switching is hell. These two anecdotes happened since I read this article 10 minutes ago:

I was listening to a podcast using AirPods and my iPhone. Someone reacted to a message I’d sent, which paused the podcast. When I tried to resume a second later, my AirPods had magically connected to my computer instead of my phone. WTF!

Still listening to the podcast and setting up a FaceTime call for my kid on an iPad. Before starting the call, I turned off Bluetooth, so my iPad wouldn’t connect to my AirPods. Regardless, it connected to them anyway.

Did no one at Apple test this ‘feature’?
> When the powerful can ignore their own rules, they're more likely to enact sweeping mandates.

The sweeping mandates are for our public health. These folks aren't asking us to mask up or vaccinate for their own benefit. And they can only sorta ignore their own rules, because aren't they being roasted in the media when they mess up? The fourth estate at work. It will affect their re-election chances.

> The problem is that so many elected officials don't abide by the rules that they push.

Hypocrisy sucks, everyone agrees. Gavin Newsom having maskless restaurant meals when asking the rest of us to stay home is wrong. But it's wrong mainly because _masking is good for public health_ and he didn't listen to the advice of the medical professionals that he was parroting, nor did he conduct himself in the way a public servant held to a higher standard should. It doesn't change that masking and staying at home _does_ help everyone, by keeping hospitals from exceeding capacity and minimizing needless death.

There will always be virtue signalers and hypocrites but let's not allow them to stand in the way of sane public health policy.
>> The problem is that vaccines don't protect society unless a critical-mass of people are vaccinated.

I'm having a harder and harder time believing this (that herd immunity is actually possible) considering that the vaccine does nothing to stop it from spreading.

(Am vaxed and caught it, fwiw)
the answer is always in the article unless explicitly stated otherwise
the license IS the contract. When was the last time you actually signed something when you used a SAAS?
Looks like they doubled the size by accident, in the network debugger the first is a 302 that resolves to the actual file. It shows 84kb twice because of that.
A simple WordPress based site? This would allow you to enter content by yourself or you could also add additional users that could help you.
> Google already knows everything about you

FTFY "an average person already gives Google everything about him-/herself"
This isn't outrage. This is my opinion. I'm outraged by many things, some bullshit on HackerNews and your opinion of my opinion does not bother me. Have a nice day.
Not sure if this is OP's case, but YouTube has the rare video with no metadata visible whatsoever (tested web):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg0_4EmHLCo
[0]:https://github.com/cube2222/octosql
Bill Gates: “our strategy for the '90s is Windows” – May 16, 1991
In my opinion, the way they present pricing is deceptive. They have a table of contents and hide pricing details under "License".

The very first paragraph reads:

>You can use the plugin for free, or you can also pay to get a license. IMPORTANT!!! Before using the plugin, please read the following content and accept the agreement. THIS WILL AVOID POTENTIAL PROBLEM AND DISPUTE.

If as a user you're paying 2% of ad revenue, the plugin isn't free.

> If you don't want to get a license as your apps may not earn too much, or you don't have a PayPal account to pay, here is a compromised option. You don't have to pay, we are also okay if just share 2 percent user traffic, so that we can cover our effort and focus on maintenance and online support.

They don't make clear that that's the default behaviour. That by doing nothing you're consenting to their 2%.

If a developer wants to profit from their work, they should behave like a business.
We already have discrimination in medical care its called 'triage', unfortunately it doesn't involved removing care once granted.

We also charge smokers more for health care due to the burden they put on the system, yet another form of discrimination.

You're also making the naive mistake of relating a stable system (smokers with health issues) with an unstable system (covid patients). These two types of systems have VERY different impacts on the medical infrastructure.

QED: no one is opening any flood gates. we've had this shit in place for over a century. we use to let you just die at home when you caught the plague.
Yep, in Boulder/Denver in CO as new family with our first kid. I've also lived in Florida, DC, and AR.

American society just isn't built to bump into people, lots of driving and overall people favor their own backyard with huge yards over public spaces for everyone. From a societal POV it makes sense as well, everyone is stressed over money/health, long commutes and long hours, and no vacation time. Just part of American culture, no emphasize on the "life" part of work/life balance.

I don't have many friends in the USA who that doesn't describe. Some have found ways out of it, mostly through high paying jobs, but even then they are working insane hours and still stressed.
But this time is different!
I mean, that's a pretty decent comparison. Society has spent the last few decades encouraging people not to smoke, using everything from campaigns to actual laws that make it harder to smoke. This has caused smoking to go down a lot.

So in that sense, the response to COVID is similar - though on an accelerated time scale, because the epidemic is much worse.
We also have Tesla annoyances and NFT haters. That's pretty much all I could hope for.
Apple could get away with introducing their own wireless audio I/O standard the eliminated the need for Bluetooth for sound. This new wireless protocol would ideally:

1. Allow AirPods to be connected to multiple audio devices at the same time and eliminate the need to have to switch between exclusive audio sources.

2. Eliminate the problem where a Zoom call (or any call) downgrades audio quality.

3. Allow the playback of lossless audio wirelessly.

I know there’s a crowd that will absolutely hate this idea because it’s yet another step away from a standard (Bluetooth), but the protocol has so much baggage that it’s not delivering a great experience for people in the Apple ecosystem.
Given the stock market returns over the last five years, it's definitely #4.

Everybody invested in broad market index funds has been making those returns the last few years.
You.. Ran... Their.. Code..

How anyone can think they're entitled to assume how it should run is ignorance sufficient to shred what remains of my humanity.

He didn't demand you give him money, he said if you ran his code, it will act as he intended.

You ran his code. It worked as intended.
The GN was meant to be a budget phone for developers to jump into Android. It wasn’t meant to be the best phone. Samsung offered the Galaxy 2 at that time that was much better. The GN cost $350 no contract which was unheard of at the time.
The idea is great, but the layout of the keyboard is such that, well, I wouldn't use this keyboard. It's extremely inconvenient IMHO to split it in the middle. You will have to either retrain your hands, or keep looking right and left.

I realize this might be due to some combination of constraints, but $15 or $1500 - the form factor matters.
I'm like this with magazine subscriptions. Seeing my junkmail double after subscribing to one not-cheap literary quarterly was enough to convince me never to subscribe to any sort of periodical again. God knows who else they sold my info to.
God, all these ellipsis and references to vague fears is tiring.

The pandemic didn’t turn out to be a bogeyman that had no impact. Oh shucks—just a common cold after. But I guess that’s too “blue pill” of me to say.
It's totally ordinary for a post to go front-page and attract hundreds of comments on the basis of a title that's later deemed too interesting/editorialized/whatever, and you later see some dry uninformative title like "Google account security" or whatever it was occupying a top slot.

I can't say I've noticed it often before for text posts, but I do generally think this pattern of closing the barn door after the horse has bolted is pretty silly in general.
It is completely impossible for Covid to have been present in humans in 2017. It did not take a lot for Covid to be discovered originally: a cluster of dozens of undiagnosed pneumonia cases was enough to trigger a deeper investigation and rapidly pinpoint the new virus. Why did this never happen before? Either it would have to be the case that the progenitors did not cause these symptoms (and if it didn't, well, how was it Covid?) or that the authorities everywhere in the world were incompetent for two years until suddenly we got lucky and actually asked for the right investigations to be done?

And then you'd still need to explain how the actual spread of Covid, after it was discovered, was a gradual process rather than being found to be massively prevalent all over the world the moment it was discovered.

I don't really understand your point about phylogenetics being inaccurate here. Are you claiming that samples of Covid have been artificially dropped from the tree to make it build with such a recent common ancenstor? Or that we've got a huge proportion of Covid cases that were incorrectly never diagnosed as such because nobody was considering some earlier. The latter is total nonsense.

Your theory just doesn't fit any of the facts.
>the plugin author should require an affirmative response from the developer that they accept those terms.

It's free software provided without warranty. It's right there in the MIT license.
the keyboard could do with having a flat base as well. it looks like it would rock all over the place when you type, even when using it with two hands
"Forces" didn't do it. The headphone jack on my phone is doing great. You can have one too if you choose to.
Can I ask why you purchased them in the first place? They seemed very obviously to not be a $600 product from their announcement.
It looks like the issue has been solved for now.

https://i.imgur.com/fgIKwcB.png
Obesity isn't exogenous, infectious or subject to exponential growth. Even a superficial consideration of the facts shows that analogies between obesity and covid are unsound.
How would you enforce that ban?
Oct 2021, https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/covid-vaccine-injur...

> More than 1,300 COVID vaccine-related injury claims are now pending before an obscure government tribunal ... Lawyers tell me the vaccine is so new that there’s virtually no definitive research on injury causation to cite ... In the meantime, people like McFadden face a strict one-year deadline from the date of vaccination to file a claim with the CICP.

Unproven causality, but here's a database of 2021-2022 news reports on heart issues in athletes (missing baseline numbers for prior years): https://airtable.com/shrbaT4x8LG8EbvVG/tbl7xKsSUIOPAa7Mx
That isn't evidence for what you asserted. Just evidence that for those people it might be worse somewhere else.
Lived for Estonia for a long time, so I totally feel you pain. The country is designed for the specific mindset. I mean if you like cold weather, hate interacting with people and prefer to stay at home in general. Otherwise, yeah, it's really painful :-)
However, the purchasing power for a software developer is pretty decent there, if you compare it to the popular destinations like Berlin or Amsterdam.

> I’ll do my job, but I’m not going to work my ass off or do anything more than absolutely required” kind of apathy.
What's wrong with this approach? People just don't want to stress out to buy their CEO a new sport car.
And this is probably the only thing holding back Chrome's (or rather Chromium's) overwhelming dominance of the web.
These are the features I'd like in a wiki / personal knowledge engine:

- Not a service. This has to be durable and portable.

- Backed primarily by git and plaintext files, not a database. Explorable and manageable on the filesystem.

- Markdown

- Hyperlinks to articles that show up red if the page doesn't exist (yet). If a page is renamed, all hyperlinks to it must automatically update.

- Multiple tags / categories can be added to any page. Bonus if it supports hierarchical categories. These get indexed and can be bulk managed. When pages are updated and their tags change, the system automatically handles the bookkeeping.

- Indexed fuzzy search better than grep

- Server + browser interface (mobile friendly). It should also support editing from the browser and saving back to git.

- Native desktop app. Less important, but also enforces that git, files, and a simple set of indices are the core data model.

- Sync over git / github with easy diff fixing

- Publish to a public or private website. Bonus if statically rendered snapshots are supported.

- Despite all of the ancillary indices and support mechanisms, it must remain CLI/vim editing friendly. Indexes and links should update as a post commit hook or async job

- Images and media can be uploaded to a secondary service that handles indexing, hosting, backups, and thumbnail generation. This is a whole set of concerns all on its own.

tl;dr: git + markdown data model with a bunch of bookkeeping, indexing, and tooling on the side

I haven't found a good fit yet, but I haven't explored the entire space. I might just write it one of these days.

Definitely looking for recommendations!

Edit: thanks for the suggestions! :)
If the code is tagged as being MIT in GitHub and includes an MIT license file, can an author reasonably argue that an end-user is receiving the code under a different license?
I've switched two years ago, I'm evaluating Waterfox[1] just now.

[1] https://www.waterfox.net
Imagine, for a moment, the change in reactions had Trump & company declared a "War on Covid".

We love wars. A vast majority of Americans have historically gotten behind wars. Wars on drugs. Wars on terror.

I dunno how things would have turned out, but it makes me wonder.
Do you mean the keyboard being split across the screen would be hard to use for those people?
"Literally no one is going to give a shit if you make your mortgage or car payment in cash."

Are you sure? To get a mortgage they check the source of your down payment and it cannot be cash. Seems odd if they don't also check source for payments.
Hmm, then it sounds like getting infected before vaccination is more likely to be valuable than getting infected after, since you'd be less likely to be very sick after. And of course you don't want to get very sick.

I guess there's no free lunch here.
Thanks for your suggestion. I Now added a share link at the allows you to share/bookmark the full state (size, cells, step)
The best case is never catching COVID again. Even vaccinated people put themselves at risk (albeit less than non-vaccinated people) if they catch COVID intentionally. No one recommends just going out there and catching COVID. But when proof of vaccination systems allow for it, some people do it anyway and some of them die instead.

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2557/
Absolutely none. The laser itself is absurdly inefficient, and you can't really collect the energy efficiently. It will essentially never be efficient.

It's most realistic application would be for space travel.
Show HN: Frolick – No-Fee Food Delivery (Northern Virginia for Now)
We got tired of paying $15-20 in fees each time for a takeout. Or, grabbing fast food when unsuccessful trying to find a meal under $15.

Live now in Northern Virginia. The ops is a baby of darkstores & dark-kitchen tech.

Would love your feedback.
The point is that it is borderline disingenuous to ask for a source when the allegation is that the sources are deeply biased in favor of their own consistent and pervasive "safe and effective" propaganda. I'm not alleging that this proof of anything.
Ask HN: Advice on good stockbroker / trading platform
I am day trading and want certain features from my broker.

I'm currently on a spread betting provider because it offers a lot of features:

5:1 leverage
Able to buy part of a stock
Long/short both allowed
Stop loss facility
*Trade any stock on the NYSE

But there's a single problem: The provider has fees based on a spread, which can range from $30 a stock to $300 a stock. Per day.

So I want a broker with the 5 above features, but fixed fees, say $10 or $15 a stock. Then I can make a good profit.

Does anyone know of such a broker in the USA? (CFDs don't count because you can only trade select stocks).

The reason I didn't post to Quora is that most replies about stock trading tend to be close to gibberish.

Finally, just a note: Google fails utterly to find any brokers with the above features. The search results are just a load of garbage.

By the way, predictsoft is not the name of my company.
This man’s biography would make an epic movie. From China, how did he manage to attend and graduate from Leipzig University in Germany during the height of WW2?
just the other day I was trying to find general information about how a cuckoo clock works and I had to wade through multiple pages of companies selling cuckoo clocks, companies selling clocks, clock oil, watch sellers... I have ublock origin but the "non-ad but still loaded with commercial results" experience was terrible.

Guess I need to add blacklist to my extensions so I can start paring down the BS responses.
This seems to be the near consensus opinion of reasonable people I know. People are really downplaying how effective the vaccines have been. My one unvaccinated friend has stated several times that they would rather sign a waver denying themselves access to an ICU bed than get vaccinated. I don't know what we are waiting on as a society to reopen other than enough people to get it.
https://archive.ph/qdmkJ
> excited

...

Peak in-joke, right there.
Ask HN: Is there a way to identify sites blocked by the website visitor's ISP?
There are countries that block sites for various reasons, India being one of them. If a site is blocked by an ISP you will get a message similar to "The website has been blocked as per direction/order of Hon’ble Court."

Is there a way for me to detect this on a webpage using client side javascript or something? I am working on a site that shows all the sites that are censored/blocked by various ISP's. I can check from my ISP but want to have a site that will allow users to click a button and check sites from a predefined list to see if they are blocked or not by their ISP. The results will then be stored centrally.

Tried searching the web but didn't find any usable ideas on how to achieve this, so any suggestions would be welcome.
San Jose passes first US law that gun owners need liability insurance/annual fee
The linked demo video is fantastic! I especially loved the demo of SPyQL reading and plotting in numpy data generated from the linspace command.
Something is really broken in the court system that this can take so long
They did consider it thousands of time, they just didn't supervise what their worker agreed to
Creating a Postgres Foreign Data Wrapper
Since when was an app required to drive a car?

Certain new models, maybe. Certain rental cars, maybe. But in the general case?

And where in the world is one required to run an app to use public transportation?

I just don't find this factual distortion from "could happen, might happen" to "is in the process of happening right now" to be very helpful.
Cardboard & glue will do. Otherwise, carve it out of balsa.
Can you explain specifically what bias leads to Wisconsin reporting most covid cases are among the unvaccinated?
Noblesse Oblige: Kingdom of Loathing Clan
Good article here about "endemic" and the still large problems that portend: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00155-x

> The word ‘endemic’ has become one of the most misused of the pandemic. And many of the errant assumptions made encourage a misplaced complacency. It doesn’t mean that COVID-19 will come to a natural end.

> In other words, a disease can be endemic and both widespread and deadly. Malaria killed more than 600,000 people in 2020. Ten million fell ill with tuberculosis that same year and 1.5 million died. Endemic certainly does not mean that evolution has somehow tamed a pathogen so that life simply returns to ‘normal’.

> Stating that an infection will become endemic says nothing about how long it might take to reach stasis, what the case rates, morbidity levels or death rates will be or, crucially, how much of a population — and which sectors — will be susceptible. Nor does it suggest guaranteed stability: there can still be disruptive waves from endemic infections, as seen with the US measles outbreak in 2019. Health policies and individual behaviour will determine what form — out of many possibilities — endemic COVID-19 takes.
I’d like to know that if I have a heart attack or get hit by a bus then I’ll have access to top quality healthcare —- not burnt out understaffed hospitals.

Sharing limited resources is a major role of the government, and managing hospital capacity seems to fall under “promote general welfare” to me.

My $0.02
>"If they're corrupt and/or incompetent, that's on you and your fellow countrymen, no?"

To an extent, yes, but I believe real-life has shown that removing incumbents is very difficult. I sense that the makeup of the district and the composition of party strength is the major factor in determining whether or not a politician is reelected or replaced, rather than popularity or approval rating.
It'd be interesting to see what big pharma could come up with in a year.
I'm guessing there are GUI things that would fit in that thing?
"The NIF reached a milestone of unclear importance to anyone outside the NIF" has been a recurring news item for the past couple decades.
Show HN: Electric Tables – an experiment in personal databases