skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's best to remeber that even if covid was in all aspects identical to flu, it will not replace flu. We'll have covid and flu. So even in the best case scenario (which isn't real) we are facing doubling of dmg from seasonal flu.
I saw a blurb about tests of a two part vaccine on mine. First dose an mRNA vaccine injection. Second dose is intranasal naked spike protein. Provided good protection when the mice were challenged. The spike protein isn't infectious. Part of the motivation behind intranasal vaccines is the hope that mucosal immunity provides better protection.

Also read a summary of influenza challenge studies. People exposed to low doses often seroconverted asymptomatically.

I feel it's plausible small exposures after vaccination would build more protection.
No. The poor performance comes from the overall approach of using neural nets to solve basic math problems.
I've got a major a-hole neighbour that's been stealing my food when delivery drivers accidentally call at their home instead of mine. This guy has even claimed to be me to the delivery folks, which I guess is out-and-out fraud.

Anyway, I've been sitting on a plan for a little while to deal out some karma - involving some ML, a camera, an SDR board and a Raspberry Pi.
To my knowledge, Canon was the first to market with a program-mode camera with their A-1 in 1978.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_A-1
Honestly, my reading of this wasn't as clear cut as most of the other comments here. That said, I'm a devotee of the likes of Evelyn Waugh and Joseph Heller .. satirists both
That is not unique to chess - at the amateur level, I think pretty much every single board game and competitive video game is decided by "blunders" - obviously sub-optimal tactics, bad "micro" in strategy games and other mistakes that are obvious to the players nearly immediately and can be trained away.

It is a matter of your own frame of mind whether that stresses you... And it is probably quite idiosyncratic to people! I get stressed out by trying and failing to optimally micromanage build orders and scouting in games like Warcraft/Age of Empires, but I am happy to go with the flow with frequent blunders in chess...
yes! and we are the worst on many other metrics!! for instance one of the biggest marketplace for worldwide oil. take any of the worst polluting company, most have their headquarters here.
There will have to be a lot of actual demand for that launch capacity...

Demand is often a chicken-and-egg problem. Having the capacity available will go a long way to creating the demand. There are plenty of incredibly wealthy people who could be persuaded to build the first moonbase, space hotel, low-gravity manufacturing plant, manned Earth observatory ... and a practically endless list of things we've not thought up yet ... but they can't do those things now because even if they paid the money there just isn't the launch capacity to do it. Putting the capacity in place fixes that problem and frees those people to start spending.
I read about this a while ago, I'm not an expert but this is my take on it:
In homotopy type theory an equivalence of types is a first class value that you can manipulate. And also you can separate types from their 'implementations'. Classic example is you have a Nat type, with a Peano construction (Nat is a zero or a successor of a Nat.) This is not very efficient, but you write functions with it, prove things etc. It's time to optimize, and you change your Nat implementation to something more efficient (e.g. a Nat is Zero, or twice a Nat, or twice a Nat + 1). Your functions and proofs that you wrote with the previous implementation still will work and your type signatures won't have to change
Mars is different because it has a lot of resources, a lot of empty land, it has easier access to space than Earth due to the reduced gravity, and space is really big. Maybe in the long run we'll be able to house more people in the asteroid belt than we do on Earth now. If it happens it'll be pretty far in the future, but it might happen eventually. Mars is a very convenient waystation to make that possible.
Judging from his book, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, he was not a very modest person himself, with regard to his own accomplishments and ideas, maybe that's why he was shocked by the modesty and restraint of other men with (presumably) similarly great talents.
He doesn't want to be cloned, which basically sounds like a sci-fi movie plot where he gets replaced with a flash clone. He's probably being more paranoid than necessary and looks more foolish than necessary for someone who is in charge of a country.
So I only do data engineering, backend APIs, Data Science and Machine Learning. And so many times i learned something about OOP, i go excited I implemented it and i ended up with a solution that was really complex and I re-implemented it using functions and procedural code.

However, i do love a library like pandas with their data frames and series etc. which are two really cool and powerful abstractions / classes.

I also noticed this trend in Python/ Data Developers (including myself),that they start writing mostly procedural code and at some point they feel like they "have to" move to classes to be more sophisticated.

Maybe I am also just bad at finding good and easy to understand abstractions that you can re-use like a data frame. But maybe when it comes to data this is just quite hard? Would love to hear about other data-peoples perspectives about OOP.

Also the thing with data engineering the state lives in a DB or a file and not really in my class (because its soo large).
what does "illegal" have to do with "going to prison" when fighting top players in a known corrupt system?

prison might be the nice outcome.

Note I'm making a lot of assumptions here on the validity/veracity of the story.
Unions dont care about isolated cases.
In the US this is expressly forbidden by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). It would surprise me a lot if stuff in AU is even worse than here, since for the most part it is pretty bad here. Anyway, contact a labor lawyer.
PSA: Booking Holdings operates not just Booking.com, but also Priceline, Agoda, Kayak, Cheapflights, Rentalcars.com, Momondo, OpenTable, and many more niche engines.
True, also on /r/programming. Actually, HN is typically more union friendly than /r/programming IME.
Errors can happen during transmission as well, especially if cables or backplanes are involved.
This happened to me, in France, through the Orange mobile carrier, around 2018. They've reimbursed me without issue.

I consider myself savvy, use an adblocker and don't click on obvious frauds. Yet it happened.
All the Win32 component libraries, WPF, Entity Framework + extensions. There's oodles of these packages on nuget
I just said it should be done with care
I work in information security in a large organization. If I were informed about this, I’d immediately speak with Data Privacy personnel, HR, your manager and possibly your manager’s manager.
What a disgrace the party has become. It has nothing to do with former social democrats which we owe much to regarding liberties. Their behavior is nourishment for extremism more than any internet platform could ever be. Fear and self-fulfilling prophecies is what they will harvest.

They are like the people complaining about distrust in government while regularly extending surveillance of citizens.
“Privacy Preserving Attribution for Advertising“ with Facebook's Meta IPA
You can put solar on the roof and you can farm between the wind turbines, so that's not correct.
I ride a bike 3k+ miles a year, every year for the past 15 years, on the various trails near me and I can say with absolute certainty that the volume of people running, biking, walking, ... on those same trails more than tripled at the beginning of the pandemic and have yet to decrease back to baseline. I don't know about those individuals exercise habits prior to the pandemic, but they certainly weren't on the trails.
Just because you are best at arguing doesn't mean you are right...
TL;DR:

> For the last few months we (Mozilla/Firefox) have been working with a team from Meta (formerly Facebook) on a new proposal that aims to enable conversion measurement – or attribution – for advertising called Interoperable Private Attribution, or IPA.

Thread on r/firefox.[0]

[0] https://teddit.net/r/firefox/comments/spv1kr/mozilla_partner...
Whether to use a for loop or for of or forEach or map().filter() etc

flatMap takes care of a lot of that
Comparing to https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap your pseudo minimalistic arch pacstrap or Debian debootstrap are over fat of binary seeds and still you cannot get rid of Linux env in building the crusial packages.
Minolta were ok, occasional leaps of cool tech punctuated by utter nonsense like inserting cards for different modes.
Someone mentioned the T90 - superlative camera, multi-spot metering a complete game-changer for anyone using the Zone System and rarely seen again on a camera.
Nikon have won the manual camera contest one the basis of the range, quality and longevity of their kit, but cameras are quite personal and little things both annoy and delight us. Many Nikons will poke your eye out with the combined winder/on switch, and each of their cameras has some irritating feature, so it's always nice to hear about other cameras that probably are nicer to use smoothly, even if outgunned on metrics.
Well there's a time component to burning or leaving to decay. Leaving a tree to decay takes a long time and there's time for many other trees to grow in the meantime. Pretty safe.
How would you test if it grasped the concept?
I think this is far from estabilished.

I think increase in myocarditis in young males could be fully explained by how they changed their (social) behavior after getting their second dose after a year of lockdowns. Exposing themselves to additional risks including covid which we know the vaccine doesn't protect completely against.
but that's precisely the wider point: new technology enables new behaviors, but in some cases, benefits are much smaller than downsides.

i don't think the jury is out on airtags just yet. it's clearly revolutionary technology in terms of reach, for better or worse.
As others said, you have to talk to a lawyer. This sort of thing is in the realm of workers' rights, hence very country-specific.

As a personal rule, if there is one thing I will never, ever share with my employer, no matter how much support they say they'll give me, is my mental-health data. The potential for abuse is just way, way too high.
Not at all. The Canon A1, born 1978, for example, has shutter priority, aperture priority and full automatic exposure [1]

[1] http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/canon/fdresou...
I don't know Australian law but in some parts of the world this sounds like a sweet future settlement. Lawyer up ASAP - before Monday, before they do anything. Seek support from a local professional to know how exactly to handle this situation in your favor.

To answer the question: I wouldn't ever do it. I have ADHD, there is nothing embarrassing in my med records but I would not trust any unrelated company (employer, client) to handle and erase this data safely. It's private and absolutely not intended for them.

If I may ask, what happened prior to the request of your employer? Did they found otherwise illicit drugs on you and require this documentation as a proof that you are allowed to possess it?
I'm working on a real-time gpu accelerated 3d visualizer for high frequency market Exchange data.

There's no practical use case for it except that it looks cool. I don't plan on making it useful either, instead I'm gonna implement all kinds of awesome looking but useless eye candy stuff. But it's a good excuse for a quant to get into graphics programming.
not illegal != decent, acceptable
Whoever owns the video should consider upload the original to archive.org or something more perenial than youtube. Feels like a little piece of internet history at this point.
Thank you for your feedback. This has been the biggest concern raised by 100's users during our survey. We built our product based on the below key principles.

Part 1: Policing causal speech?
We are not a Police. We named our app Dost (means a friend) for a reason.

1. This app does not work on 1:1 messages. It only works on channels where it is configured.

2. Channel owners / users can delete the app from their channels if they like.

3. Only the sender gets the flag, discreetly. No one else, including the admin knows that a message was flagged.

4. No user information is accessed or stored.

5. No messages are stored in our systems. So, there is no mechanism to either trace the flagged message or user credentials.

6. On Slack, the sender gets a flag, but the decision to edit is with the sender. The app does not decide anything.

7. The tool is used to educate the sender about unconscious biases that could cause harm, and learn. Companies spend a lot of time on one-off training on appropriate language and issue guidelines already.

8. We have employed a reputed third party company to do a detailed audit of the above principles, through DB review, code review and application testing. This report is available to be shared with companies on demand.

Part II: Being flagged uncivil incorrectly?

I do want to call out the distinction between flagging a message vs flagging a person. Our app only flags the message sent and not the user. Absolutely no user details are accessed. In addition:

1. The admin or anyone in the company has no mechanism to access user details or the flagged messages, because, they are not stored.

2. We tested our AI against millions of conversations, and our accuracy in detecting issues is >98%.

3. The issues where the app does a good job today are toxicity, insult, identity attack, gender microaggressions only. We are working hard to add new categories of issues in future, only when they meet the high accuracy threshold.

4. When a message is incorrectly flagged as uncivil, the user can just ignore the flag. The cost of incorrect detection is inconvenience. But, we believe that there is a greater good in learning from true positive flags.

4. We are building a feedback mechanism for users to tell us when we do a bad job.

I have done my best to answer your questions. Please let me know if you would like to know more on how we built the AI and our tenets.

Thank you.
Not unless you are forced. Take legal advice urgently.
It's not weird at all, most forum threads involving huge companies attract largely negative comments (Google, Amazon, even Apple). By and large I'm happy with the services of these companies, but if you go by HN I can get my gmail shutdown with no reason or recourse and half the stuff I bought from Amazon is probably fake.
Yes, vim does has something similar. One advantage the IDE's implementation has is that the user doesn't have to explicitly specify the constructs --- it doesn't have to be parentheses or a word, but any construct that "wraps around" the cursor; so it's less effort for the mind.
Made an HTML5/JS puzzle game: https://www.tripodsgame.com. No expectation of it making any money. (That said I do daydream of the NYT buying it lol.)
That section was added to the original 2020 bill as an amendment by Senator Patrick Leahy. The Center for Internet and Society (Stanford Law School) has a blog post explaining why that section is not strong enough to shield service providers that offer end-to-end encryption from legal liability:

> Leahy’s encryption amendment isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. There’s still skepticism among tech policy wonks and cryptographers alike over Leahy’s encryption amendment. It essentially gives providers a defense against liability, which is less strong than the a priori immunity from liability in the first place that Section 230 currently provides.

> CDT predicts that it will invite prolonged litigation over whether potential liability is “because of” the provider’s use of encryption (if so, the case is barred) or because of some other reason (if so, no bar).[3] CDT told CyberScoop that the “consistent threat of litigation … will be a strong disincentive against providing [end-to-end encryption] and continuing to have to defend that decision in court.” With potentially wide variation in state CSAM laws, “the worry,” as Techdirt says, “is that we won't know whether or not offering end-to-end encryption would be seen as violating state laws until long and costly cases go through their lengthy process.” The Internet Society’s Joe Hall agreed, telling CyberScoop that the amendment is “a fig leaf of protection for strong encryption” that leaves providers “to fight it out in court, which is far from cementing protection and clarity for encryption, the bedrock of our lives on the internet and in the real world.” I couldn’t have said it better.

> It’s not clear how many cases against providers would actually be precluded by Leahy’s amendment. Plaintiffs and state AGs could readily come up with other grounds besides encryption on which to premise liability for an encrypted service (at least as a pretext, even if encryption is really the ultimate reason they’re mad). CDT also points out that the Leahy amendment doesn’t stop the AG-headed commission from recommending anti-encryption best practices (as any commission with Bill Barr at the helm will likely do). That would’ve been a freebie for Leahy to throw in, especially with the commission’s fangs removed anyway.

https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2020/07/earn-it-act-threa...
The long awaited Go feature: Generics
oh thank you! didn't know he had talks in english!

i love how rude, physics based and down to earth he is, a legend indeed!
Context, before some one gets me wrong. My first reaction would be like the others: "illegal, invasive, don't do it".

However, trying to give a different point of view, they might need some sort of proof to justify internally or with the government something (i.e. an under-performance or too many ill days). For example, here in Italy we have the so called "protected categories", for which employers (bot public and private) must hire in a given percentage above a certain number of staff, and must have a certification of the condition causing to belong to such categories. But, this does not involve accessing patient records by any means.

So, on the baseline I agree with the others on the "don't do it line", and if I were you I would seek legal advice. But there is a small chance that it is not as bad as it seems.
None of that office or bug tracking stuff is that interesting or important imho. There's plenty of alternatives that work well enough. The interesting stuff is the hardest. From Google services alone: language translation, voice transcription, maps/directions (open street map is only partway there and Osmand is almost unusable), and of course searching the entire web.
> It would surprise me a lot if stuff in AU is even worse than here

Australia is often much worse, in this sort of area, than people think. Despite a superficial similarity with UK culture and laws (which already are much weaker than the Western European average, but anyway), they are actually pretty wild.
I think your boss just handed you and your lawyer a lot of money.

Keep all documentation, hire a lawyer, and do exactly what they say.
Why are you using a “trick” to skip an element in some structure when mapping a function over it?

For posterity (and forgive me if this JavaScript syntax is inaccurate; I don't write it so much these days)…

xs.map(a => shouldBeSkipped ? a : f(a))
I am sorry I do-not understand this message. Please let me know if you have any questions on the app and I will be happy to answer. Thank you.
Or just pick up the phone and call? found it to be a better option in some cases. Got better prices than booking.com too.

The only problems we had with booking.com is that they give you no protection whatsoever. One case, the hotel clearly gamed the reviews and posted false info. It was so bad that we had to leave. But we were still charged the full amount, and booking.com just stood aside.

Just recently, my wife booked a hotel in Tel-Aviv. The hotel charged her card twice (booking.com seemed to have passed the card info to the hotel). We cancelled, and still waiting for the refund/release of the funds. Booking.com does nothing to help. We have to bounce between the unhelpful hotel and the slow-as-hell bank/credit card company.

OT: but are there any banks or credit card companies in Germany that actually help you when you're in this situation or need a chargeback? it seems like the low card fees in EU means much worse customer service compared to the US, or is it just my wishful thinking?
China bought none of the $200B it promised from the U.S. under ‘Phase 1’ deal
Or that they don't shy from making changes just because of the fact that current design is "good enough".
Sweet let's crank up the generation ships. Of course picking a suitably inspiring name should be the first priority. Unity? Terra Nova? Gaia?

On a more serious note is this a good candidate for JWST, would it be able to infer chemical composition from the planet's spectrum or something?

Awesome though we went from (in my lifetime) learning at school that other planets have never been observed, to finding them sprinkled around basically every star just like our own. I feel like it won't be long before we detect the first potential chemical markers of alien life, if it's out there. Keep doing your thing space science folk!
As I understand it, RISC-V is a great hope, but just one part of a
bigger, harder problem.

I will certainly be playing with it, and using a RISC-V desktop as
soon as it's viable.

Broadly though, what the tech world needs is a democratisation of
hardware. We need to move toward reusable, flexible, stable,
transparent and more standardised, chips (though not all of these
desires are necessarily compatible).

We need simple trustable, auditable microprocessors free from
"management engines", user hostile enclaves and pay-per-core
shitfuckery. This isn't only about end user choice and privacy et
cetera, it's about long-term ecology, sustainability and resilience.

It's no big stretch to imagine Intel announcing an AAE (Advanced
Advertising Engine) that steals cycles to insert ads directly into
your applications - then millions of discarded products ending up in
landfills as people revolt against technology hijacked to be tools of
manipulation and domination.

Problem is, VLSI fabrication is a dangerous, expensive and messy
business. RISC-V goes some of the way to offering a "peoples'
microprocessor", but nobody is going to set up production in their
garage any time soon.

Investment in SME boutique fabs would be much nicer than pouring money
into Intel. If we are going to bring manufacturing home, I'd like to
see services not unlike the old vinyl record business, where a small
company or group of hobbyists can buy small-run batches of 100 chips
designed by a web interface - drag and drop four RISC-V cores, some
cache, a neural processor, some audio DSP... and have it drop into a
standard package socket, boot, and be cryptographically verifiable as
the intended design with a simple JTAG scan.

I guess we're a long long way from this "silicon Lego", but that's my
dream.
> you can learn every single rule in about 5 minutes

That might be true for the game of Go with its much simpler rules,
but for Chess I reckon it takes at least an hour for someone to absorb all rules.
Arithmetic seems like an example where it would help to learn from the real world, not just from text. I learnt to add up by watching my teacher manipulate plastic Lego-style blocks. Put 3 blocks with 2 blocks, and you have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
What score did you get?
For a bit of fun, I've built a (poor) Wordle solution stack generator. It just creates a solution stack from green, yellow and black tiles so that lazy people can copy and paste and keep up with the wordling Joneses.

I really need to work on how it generates though.