skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for posting your vision. It's so easy to just criticize. Divining and then advocating for a better world is really hard.

Pretty sure I agree with most of your points. Especially wrt EFF.org; after all these years, I still can't figure out what they want. It'd take me a (long) while to determine if I agree with your conclusions, because this is hard hard topic.

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I was also weened as an anarcho-libertarian. I've never forgiven the Clinton Admin for the Clipper chip. And it's been all down hill ever since.

But hot damn. There are seriously bad people in the world. How can I ignore real world evil and actual human suffering, just to maximize my own (perceived) well being?

I have friends who work on public safety policy like human trafficking. It's absolutely horrific. And I can barely acknowledge child pornography as a thing -- I mean what the actual fuck -- much less register how bad things are.

After decades of pondering this stuff, I still have no clue, no ideas on how to balance the needs of the few with the needs of the many.

However, any position which simply ignores the negative consequences of encryption technologies is not serious, and not worth further consideration.

FWIW, I've done work on both election integrity and electronic medical records. Individual privacy is precious to me, and a hill I was willing to die on.
This isn't a representative sample of the general public. Per supplementary tables 1-2, the average age of the participant was over 60, and had multiple co-morbidities. We know that age is the #1 risk factor.

The people in the "hospitalized" cohort, in particular, were quite old and sick prior to the disease.
99%+ eventually getting infected is more likely. Multiple countries already have confirmed infections over 10%.
How many people didn't die due to Pax Americana?
I'd call it "fraud". The store is basically hiding the real price from me.

Are there "service charges" too? :)
Absolutely. Sales of bike exercise equipment (plus Peloton’s share price), and outdoor sports gear went parabolic in 2020 and remain at record highs. The idea that “lockdowns” inhibited exercise while in many countries exercising outdoors is laughable.
I inherited a Polaroid Supercolor 635 from my dad, who passed away more than twenty years ago. It's just lying in the basement, and I don't know what to do with it. Is it worth anything? Can you still buy film for it?
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For me it didn't work. They said it's the decision of the appartment owner to not refund and that was it - even after dozens of calls.
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Right, agreed. Moderation is good.

I’m just saying, just being “natural” is not sufficient for something to be good. It may be, and perhaps as we overstreamline our lives, we discard some good natural things, but I’m not throwing away my toothbrush just yet.
Well, if you're not qualified for it, why do you still do it?
Different situations and different country, but all of the correspondence I've seen between medical professionals and employers has been specific on what the employee needs and silent on everything else. Nothing is open to interpretation, nor provides extraneous information.

I will echo what others have said: get a lawyer. The laws of their jurisdiction will play a role. If those laws don't offer them protection in this regard, they may have some difficult decisions to make.
And now we need to do a contest and compare how humans will answer on this questions, and whose answer is closer to the truth. Take my bet - humans will lose or will be on the same level of guessing.
Before anyone gets too excited I'd just point out that all they have found is a rocky world within Proxima's habitable zone. That doesn't mean that world necessarily has a breathable atmosphere, water, sufficient gravity, a geomagnetic field, rotation sufficient to distribute heat equitably across its surface (as opposed to it being tidally locked facing Proxima), or any of a dozen other features requisite to support life.

Oh... and did I mention that Proxima is a known flare star?

Wake me up when they find a terrestrial world in the habitable zone of Alpha Centauri instead.
Worst website to deal with when needing to books rooms as a travelling consultant. False claims hotel is full etc. Can’t claim points of hotel chain (thanks IHG). Better to talk to the hotel if your re planning to stay at the hotel Effie days a week for a year and get yourself f a great deal :)
osmand does a lot of things so it depends what you are trying to do with it really.

organic maps (which also uses openstreetmap) is a bit more straight forward and minimal and is what i usually recommend to most people
Perhaps it's cheating a bit, but most of the time they don't check credit cards you use for "booking confirmation". A friend of mine used to use 4242 4242 4242 4242 for quite some time, and when they've blocked it, he switched to his own debit card with spend limit set to $1.
I would say we have been since 9/11.
I cannot imagine a lawsuit could be cheaper - if they lose (and might very well) they'll be forced to pay the due severance and fees and penalties. But until then...
Modulo 97.

This is what it is. Not "general arithmetic".
It's not clear to me what you're trying to achieve. Sorry.
Honeygain?

Seems fairly legit.

A friend's referral -- not mine, I am not on it.
https://r.honeygain.me/FCASSD418E
Have to agree. I've had an account for years and booked hundreds of properties all over Europe (hotels, self-catering apartments, houses), often travelling with a pet too. Never had an issue with free cancellation; places I've stayed at matched the photos and reviews; prices are generally competitive. Yes the UI has some dark patterns but on the flip-side it's also pretty good at what it does (i.e. making it very easy to quickly find and filter accommodation). For getting things done, I much prefer booking's UI to e.g. Airbnb's.
Relearn everything?

I use the Apple, Google and Office Suite interchangeable, you don't need to relearn everything.
I wonder how they can be losing money on a room that would be otherwise vacant?
Any SaaS product that uses a rent seeking marketplace to compensate for missing essential product features. Think Atlassian, Shopify, QuickBooks etc.

I was very happy to discover Medusa (https://www.medusajs.com) on HN recently, a pretty solid Shopify alternative.
“Vaccines prevent you getting the worst of the illness”, on other words, a treatment…
Modulo 97 (the arxiv paper). That is what they do.

It is quite easy to grok operations modulo 97.
Less work and more money. A house, a car and a milkshake.

I already go to the gym, but since they asked...
There's always demand for completely insecure features. That doesn't mean you should add them.
Oh, I understand. Thanks for the explanation.

Regarding noisemakers, I should rather say noise making devices, I guess. Here is a company promoting theirs (quick Google search): https://mardersicher.com/marderschreck-mardersicher-ms-12v-m...
Googling for an example, I just discovered that the German Wikipedia has an extensive article (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marderabwehr) on defense mechanisms! The devices are supposed to only emit ultrasound. In practice, most don't.
I expect all cases are going to be retried.

As a criminal defense strategy the judge made a claim she "felt threatened" for an extremely long duration including all of her decisions. I have thus filed for nullification, since her claim implies judicial bias.

This matter is currently pending.

I wanted to complete legal proceedings first. A late-night post in a half-day old thread on HN is getting orders of magnitudes more visits than I had thought.
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there is a 'show on a map' button at booking.com search results page
> SPD in Germany would gladly see Telegram be completely banned.

> They even brag about this in their own party-media: https://www.vorwaerts.de/artikel/innenpolitik-spd-gegen-tele...

Nothing in this article supports that allegation.

And on the topic of encryption the new administration intents to strengthen it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29433262
Well I guess that will make the supply shortage worse....
I'm not a professional software developer, it's just my hobby.

Story is, I wanted to make some simple website project using Java, so I had to use some sort of web framework since I've read that CGI should not be used for medium sized project (like very simple social network, or whatever stores and handles data server-side). All the web frameworks I tested for Java (Javalin, Spring, something else I dont remember name of) used Maven, which I'm not familiar with. Why not create my own web framework then? Insert xkcd 927 With knowledge about HTTP protocol, I started making simple framework which uses sockets and regex for request handling, and allows developer to create simple endpoints. Main point is simplicity. It doesn't need any dependencies, just compile it to JAR, import to Your project, and that's it. Project itself is faaaaaaar from perfection, however it works as far as I tested it, and I think young/beginner developers would find it fun and easy to use in private projects.

Framework is in very early development stage, many things might change.

https://github.com/d3suu/antiframework
So with everyone offering remote work isn't it an advantage to work in a country that offers real social security like most of europe?
I guess it could be helpful to check some comparison indices - economy, satisfaction, life quality...
Do you have a source on the vaccine-induced myocarditis being milder? If that's true then it is indeed a crucial thing to keep in mind when interpreting these results.
The true pixel resolution of the Model I was 512x192, comprised of 64 columns by 16 rows of 8x12 pixel character cells. But of course the processor only had access to the character cell array, not the individual pixels. The pixels were created with a dozen (or 2?) 'MSI' chips hard wired to create that one mode. It would take the values stored in that character array by the CPU, pass them through a character generator ROM, into a shift register and thence into analog to the display. At 8x12, each character had ample room for lower case descenders, but to shave a couple bucks off the price tag, the character array (at 3c00-3cff) had only 7 bits per character, and either the character ROM didn't even have lower case, or there simply was no way to index them with only 6 bits. Yes, 6, on account of all the symbols with the MSB set were dedicated to 'semigraphic' glyphs; the 2x3 chunks of giant lo-res pseudo pixels you could elicit with poke statements. 64 of those, 64 for letters numbers and symbols, and that was that.

The 512x192 was probably about all the cheesy tunerless television display could handle, which is why we had 64 columns and not 80. Still, many of the other home computers only had 40 columns, so point for TRS-80. Otoh, those other computers often had 24 or 25 rows, but we only had the 16. Had the character cell been 8x8 instead of 8x12, we'd have had 24 rows, but that would have required 1536 memory locations for the screen. The 1024 locations at 7 bits each was seven 1024x1 static RAM chips, but 1536 would probably have doubled that, not to mention complicated the address decoding.

So SET and RESET graphics were limited to 128x48, but those were good times.
> Do visual icons like the three lines

They hurt usability even for people perfectly capable of reading. Especially when Material fanboy fill everything with whitespace and bans black for the text.
What? You think this is poor performance?

This totally blows my mind. I would never have guessed that GPT could get ANY of these right.

I mean, is there a data point in the dataset used to train where you can read 2241 + 19873 = 22114? Quite unlikely...

And those multiplications. It's consistently getting the number of digits right and the first two numbers correct. How the hell does this happen?

Sure, it's sometimes way off. But generally it is in the right ballpark.

I certainly think people should look into what's happening inside the model.
Yes. Also read the supplementary tables that describe the demographic co-variates of the study population:

https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415...

Mean age of the Covid-19 cohort: 61.42

Percent with BMI over 30: 53.84%

Percent with chronic kidney disease: 19.52%

Lung disease: 15.26%

Diabetes: 32.13%

Hyperlipidemia: 33.97%

Hypertension: 26.7%

Almost all of these factors are significantly elevated over the control groups, and their attempts to normalize the data (ST2) do not eliminate the problem. We're talking about tiny differences in small numbers, and their population is biased toward the sick and the old. It's already clear from the main paper that most of the signal comes from the oldest, sickest cohort, but once you know that pretty much everyone in the study was old and sick, it's clearly difficult to generalize from this.

This thread is awash with 20-somethings pontificating about heart damage based on a paper about elderly veterans. Simply irresponsible reporting.
My gym and pool area in the same building, run by the same company (medley). The pool was closed by the city and the gym was closed by proxy.

Fitness24/7 in town was so small that it was impossible to get in due to covid retrictions. Something like a maximum of 9 people which meant that it was impossible to get in during popular hours.
> The Square vs Rectangle issue is just an example.

Yes, it's an example of a problem that has nothing to do with OOP and everything to do with applying model concepts from one domain to a different domain.

> They shouldn't even be modeled as a hierarchy they should just be simple structs.

Whether they are structs or objects with state and attached methods is an orthogonal concern to whether they form a type heirarchy. It's true that geometric squares and rectangles make sense as value types like structs. They also form part of a natural heirarchy that it is perfectly useful to leverage in code.

> It's just an example on how OO taxonomies are a silly (and detrimental) exercise.

Except that isn't what it is an example of. It's an example of why you can't apply a heirarchy from geometry to things which don't represent the concepts that heirarchy applies to. It doesn't show that OO taxonomies are silly or detrimental.
https://github.com/IxxyXR/polyhydra-upm

It's a library and design system for creating and exploring geometric forms in surprising ways.

I'm yet to figure out who it's really for and how it should be presented (A polished app? A design tool? A web app? Something purely generative without much interaction) but I find the results endlessly fascinating and creatively stimulating so I keep plugging away at it
Sorry I should point out I had pains even before the first dose but every doctor or specialist I consulted thought they were muscular pains (right chest and shoulder area). So it's likely a vaccine is not the cause but there are so many factors and cofactors to consider it's very hard to make a diagnosis. Other blood tests in March will hopefully clear some of this out --
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Can not recommend this series of videos from Welch Lab[1] enough on imaginary numbers. Deep dives into the history of how complex numbers were "invented" to enable mathematical representation which weren't possible by existing set of numbers. Also draws parallel to "invention" of negative numbers and zero to overcome the limitations of the then present number system (for eg. how to balance books without negative numbers).

[1] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiaHhY2iBX9g6KIvZ_703G3KJ...
It was posted less than two months ago, that’s a pretty normal time frame for a paper to stay in review depending on the field and journal. Often there are two rounds of review even if the reviews only call for minor revisions