jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Even if it was lab leaked... every country studies viruses it's a HUGE jump to conclude it was a weaponisation effort... The facility is next to one of their largest research universities NOT near its military research facilities.

Would China really do top secret illegal bio-weapons research in a lab essentially open to the public?
The initial tests looked for fungal infections, and I took anti-fungal pills for about a month as well. After the biopsy at the dermatologist, they told me it was atopic dermatitis / eczema.
+1
The devil has many names. VLOOKUP and SVERWEIS (German) are two of them.
> instead to start tinkering on their own, unhindered.

But where do these money/resources come from? What stops somebody from "tinkering" in a way that does not produce any useful results, but is costing money?

The grant writing process sucks a lot. But it serves a purpose (albeit poorly) - that of weeding out people who aren't actually interested in producing output, but want the grant as "free money". Unfortunately, the grant writing process is costly (for the researchers), which takes the time away from the actual research.
Never display data in a tabular format without sortable columns, and a link to the raw data as CSV/json, preferably CSV, and if possible a link to the SoR for the data source.
Yes — once I read the FBI profile of Harris which noted an incident where he stole from an unlocked van and argued furiously that the victim deserved it for being foolish. It stuck in my head as a canonical example of that kind of thinking.
Is this not also true of many mountaintops, waterfalls, and canyons? Yet we allow private ownership of those.
This is a great way to start, then once you got it down start cranking that coffee out!
Or prepay inside with a credit card? No skimmer at the counter in the gas station.
I’m not sure why you’re downvoted, this is definitely true at least for the white uneducated working class. Yes, it is a reflection of old ideology that was used to exploit them in the past, so it is tragic that this is where their expression of group assertion is getting its start.

Yet I think as the public discourse among this group continues to grow in sophistication it will develop a more nuanced worldview and will assert its power with greater wisdom.
For the good of the children, we will be imprisoned.
For an honest, reliable and competitive registrar, have a look at Gandi: http://en.gandi.net/
I think it would help to be able to comment on them because it would be an efficient way to address questions across the interested parties.
I'm not sure how that helps here; despite your right to keep and bear arms, you most certainly can't export them freely.
I think I gave some clear examples of behavior against the wishes of the product company being for the public good. Security research would be another. If you want to pick and choose which to support would you choose only yourself as the final arbiter?

Public interest includes:
* Common carrier status
* Desegregation
* Product Safety
* Privacy
etc.
>"Apple was David aiming his catapult at Microsoft"

T'was a hammer aimed at IBM.
IIRC, the US policy of restricting cryptography applied mainly to exports, not use within the States. While the constitution gives you the right to bear arms, the argument is that it doesn't give you the right to send them to possible subversives in Timbuktu.

To get around that, developers used the First Amendment in a very interesting way: while this law was intact, crypto code developed in the USA was distributed internationally by printing out the source code, binding it in volumes as a book (and, thus, protected by Free Speech), then shipping it abroad where it was scanned (by machine or humans, I cannot recall) and compiled.

Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/5190/pgp_5_export_the_lowtech...
If you want to get leadership experience, you will need to take on a role that requires it. To get that role, you will have to ask for it. The minimum requirement for leadership is the ability to get things that you want.
Ohh... this is why our UI designs are so bad! Our mockups didn't have photorealistic bezels!
Do Google's services work if people don't have GMail accounts? That seems to be where Facebook is way ahead.
I predict it will become a buzz-phrase in Startup Land within the next couple of months.
It sure is. Jason Roberts of the TechZing podcast coined it: http://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-surf...
Someone has to say it:

So he can leave google for facebook
Oh did you work at WhatsApp?
Kicking off 20% of your userbase doesn't sound like a terribly effective strategy to attaining a monopoly. But, I'm interested in this notion that it should be "treated exactly as if it was state-owned." For HN, this sounds like a bracingly anticapitalist stance. Should companies beyond a certain size be subject to imminent domain? Do we seize Bezos's stock?
Also you have to imagine the bulk of the traffic is going to be the same small bits of data (the homepage, top stories comment pages, etc).

It’s not trivial to take advantage of that but that is also much easier to handle than QPS that are distributed across your dataset (IE Facebook or Twitter where everybody is seeing different things).
I've been researching a solution for this problem for some time and you all have landed on exactly how I thought this should be architected. Excellent work and I foresee much of the future infrastructure of the internet headed in this direction.
Pretty old news but I think the Italian government doesn't have the money to take care of the country's rich heritage
A word of warning wrt hard-relying your service on Cloudflare. They have hidden undocumented limits. When we hit those, they dropped ~10% of our traffic without warning and they did not respond to our support requests with anything other than platitudes, despite us being on their business plan. After ghosting us for 2 weeks they tried to upsell us to the Enterprise plan for more leeway on said undocumented limits (all the while not providing any insights as to what limits we were hitting, nor how).

I don't think they were malicious, I suspect growing pains, but it very much didn't match their stellar reputation.

After that experience we made sure not to rely on them for anything that we couldn't instantly turn off or switch away from. I'd run a blog behind cloudflare without worries but not sure anymore about nontrivial high-traffic applications.
Why would they be related?
At least one person is working on a C/C++ plugin for LT: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/light-tab...
Java Applets run sandboxed. ActiveX did not. It's the difference between running an exe attached to an email and visiting a web page that runs JavaScript. Do these sound the same to you?

For more info see: http://sip.cs.princeton.edu/java-vs-activex.html
More interestingly why are FS and GS registers called so?
This. I have been trying to learn Julia so I can promote it to replace Matlab in my company. I think everyone will like the performance, and a more modern and extensive library (also the fact that it's free will save the company a lot of money). But the atom Juno IDE looks so unprofessional, I think we will have a really hard time convincing scientists to use something which can't even undock the editor properly (I know we can open the file in a new window but it's really not the same).
Great comment about missing the forest from the trees. The course outline reminds me of an article on "writing great code" that lists the rules of a code formatter.

My personal tips for writing docs:
1. think about what you need to get across and to whom. I've found this categorization helpful (just don't get religious about it): https://www.writethedocs.org/videos/eu/2017/the-four-kinds-o...
2. try to say whatever you're saying with as few words as possible. "Vigorous writing is concise" is probably the best takeaway I got from Strunk & White (not a huge fan of the book otherwise)
3. do a few passes. "Keep rewriting" is probably the best takeaway I got from "On Writing Well" (but I like that book in general).
Nice one, that's pretty clever.
But then the laminar flow video was directly embedded - d'oh!
Money is not the problem indeed, the best donators now are those who have some factories and convert them to make masks/hydroalcoholic gel/ventilators (LVMH in France would be an example, producing the first two in their parfume and clothing factories).
Virtue signaling, but maybe there's other places where capital is a constraint and this will inspire other wealthy donors who can move capital faster than government.

Subtly, extreme capital can drive extreme solutions. Picking a random example, if less-effective-but-better-than-nothing masks can be manufactured by hand locally, then (say) $20 per mask would motivate millions of citizens to hustle, especially if they're out of work.
That's been slated on Reddit [1] (for whatever that's worth). From my research on strength training, for muscle gain you need to be doing 6-12 reps for a muscle group then letting it rest before doing another few sets. The Athleanx workout seems more like circuit training. I'd imagine it's better for cardio (but I'm certainly no expert).

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/comments/flce7e/r...
There's a website out there called InfoQ, I think that's where all the enterprise folk hide
hulu uses rails...do they use jruby?
You may well be right, although it seems a huge missed opportunity for the platform in all sorts of hardware acceleration applications.
The Concorde was fast, it just wasn't a commercial success.
I think both frameworks share similar vision and there is no need to attack each other.
There is also no one, single China. Thinking about my time here and what I've observed, let me share what I've found a Firefox user in China is probably like.

Firefox users have much in common with GMail users. They're often involved in IT related industries, or at least higher technology industries. They choose Firefox as they value a higher quality browser, like they choose GMail for a more trusted email solution with a greater feature set. They often speak English at work. They don't run Linux, that's far more niche. They're probably post-25 - not that Firefox/GMail is an older thing, but it is a self-discovered/word-of-mouth thing. They're technology influencers and are probably interesting in owning an iPhone for the feature set rather than the fashion statement. Many would probably also be interested in Android opposed to the bulk of China which may not have not heard of it (yet - wait for the Baidu edition). They're white-collar professionals. They might wear dockers and shirts to work, maybe a jersey in colder weather, maybe jeans. They probably don't primarily consume English/Western media but they might not be wholesale consumers of mainstream Chinese media; a critical eye would be thrown on some discussions, especially post-Sichuan earthquake and revelations, and Sanlu and other food crises. They might not use QQ (a popular MSN/ICQ like IM program), which really is saying something in China. They might have once used Twitter, but don't seek to 'jump the wall'.

In short, they're savvy, sophisticated consumers. But as mentioned in the article, the 'Internet experience' in China is quite different from the West, and convergence shouldn't be assumed. I look forward to the next post.
I find that stuff like this works best with no database whatsoever. There's no particular reason to store cursor positions for longer than it takes to route messages, so you can keep them in memory.

Try writing something like this, and you'll be surprised how easy it is. Especially with some of the new frameworks that are built specifically for it (ie., node.js). I expect this to be the "Hello World" for realtime web apps, much in the way that little chatrooms were the "Hello World" for java and sockets.
Hey sri, how are you? ;)
Thanks for your feedback. We felt that it's hard to get the concept across without showing both clients. But thanks again for the input, we'll show the real interactions more prominently.
You may or may not be right. I don't use instagram because of this. But how could they possibly know how relevant the data is to even their model since they do not even collect that data in the first place?
Nietzsche's philosophy had a profound influence on the colonial wars that Europe fought, and the world wars that were fought in Europe.

What an absolute humanitarian travesty that era was.
By exercising strategical thinking. Some people also suggest reading "the art of war" or "50 laws of power".
Care to suggest a better alternative? The truth is , there are going to be many more pro-armenia articles in the international press, simply because armenia is a much free-er country than azerbaijan, and many more reporters are there. AZ is ran by a family oil dictatorship that ranks at the bottom of freedom of press, is known to bribe international committees and has a long history of preaching hatred to its own population. In addition, i don't think it's easy to sympathize with the ethnic cleansing of the region attempted by AZ.

https://rsf.org/en/azerbaijan

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/13628-italian-court-sentences...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramil_Safarov

https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/12442/azerbaija...
This is the kind of reflexive reply that is posted in virtually every pro-armenia comment made everywhere. Facebook has already identified a network of bots used during and after the war

https://about.fb.com/news/2020/10/removing-coordinated-inaut...

It doesn't even make sense to mention a single massacre against a history of genocide against armenians that counts more than 1.5 million dead and countless atrocities that continue to this day.
Works fine with Safari
Scheme :O
Everyone (except Bitcoin) agree that Proof of Stake is the way to move forward. Even Ethereum is migrating to pure PoS consensus.

This solves the environmental aspect, thankfully.
As someone who majored in journalism and who graduated in 2009, what most people consider traditional journalism has been slowly dying since at least the 07/08 crisis. They were already struggling due to not knowing how to properly handle the internet. Giving away content for free was a mistake made in the 90s that was proving impossible to claw back, and online ads were nowhere close to making up for the lost revenue from print ads (because, in a bit of news surprising no one, there's no real proof that online ads work).

Then the crisis hit. I'll never forget one of my adjunct professors, who often appeared on CNBC, having a near panic attack in class one day. It came like a virus striking an already sickly herd. Local papers shed jobs, many papers shut down or became nothing but AP copy-paste jobs. I decided around this time to go to law school (ahh, the mistakes of youth) because I would have been competing with hundreds, if not thousands, of applicants for near-poverty-line salaries at local papers in rural states.

Many places that didn't fold during this time changed hands, and you should ask yourself what the motive would be for someone to purchase a traditional newspaper when it was clear the market for traditional news was being strangled. It's not exactly a good bet for profit-making, so I've always felt like alternative goals were in play.
I think such situations are really something that needs to be felt out -- I'm not really a programmer, but I know how to code, and in my line of work, it's a benefit for sure. We don't develop projects for external or internal clients, but there are times when being able to punch things out in lowest-common-denominator programs/languages is really handy, and the idea of long-term maintenance isn't really a factor in such decisions.

It's all about the problem-set you're working with; the problems I come across are either:

1. Time-consuming but rare tasks that require a pretty intimate understanding our product's code; one-off solutions in various lowest-common-denominator languages are fine, even if they need to be updated eventually because typically the problem is not so common.

2. Simple, static, non-changing tasks that can have one well developed script from the beginning and the only "maintenance" is QOL maintenance.

When these are the problem sets you're working with, the burden of knowledge typically is not so heavy to transfer. They aren't urgent "our company/workflow dies if this sheet/script fails", so there is time for someone to explore and learn.

I get a lot of interns that have never touched code in their life that cut their teeth on little projects like this, and in the event that we don't have someone interested in such things, even then someone still picks it up, just not on an ideal timeline.

I do get what you're saying on the 'anyone can do it' problem basically just becoming a warped version of a prisoner's dilemma where the end result is no one does anything, but at the same time taking control and mastering such workflows and lowest common denominator languages helps inspire and grow people. Powershell is great for this (and I really don't like powershell), and Excel does similar things with the mind especially once you hit the limits of what is built into the UI and start looking at scripting as a solution.

Excel, Powershell, and other such things are burdensome and have many rough edges to cut on; but they are extremely empowering for basically every user, and often a gateway to showing some people a skillset they never realized they had.
My IT department contacted me because their "security" software alerted them that I ran a Powershell command.
Personal anecdote is not "change"
this makes how locked down it is even more ridiculous.

commercially available single purpose computers are such a scam
Thanks for the link.

Millions of innocent people use cryptocurrencies. Even if you assume a currency is bad, its impractical to think that millions of people are bad.
I was hoping to see Asimo riding it.
I would recommend Chris Anderson's "Free: How Today's Smartest Businesses Profit by Giving Something for Nothing" book - http://www.amazon.com/Free-Smartest-Businesses-Something-Not... to anyone interested in this topic.
You're right, they're not false statements.

Maybe it's just that I don't feel lacking a degree is something to be ashamed of or glossed over. It's easy to get defensive when something you do is outside the norm and you get called out for it.
Pictures of men or women stroking each other's genitals is porn, however.
I think there's a very strong argument to be made that Windows nearly killed Apple because Jobs made the same mistakes he is making today with the iPhone platform.

Microsoft actively courted hardware manufacturers of all shapes and sizes. Apple sued anyone who tried to produce compatible hardware without their blessing.

Microsoft actively courted developers, by providing them with a strong toolchain and turning them loose on the platform. Apple sacrificed developers on the altar of user experience.

It's not much different today. Android is "fragmented" across who-knows how many different hardware sets, which has the dual result of making the platform less consistent for the benefit of letting consumers pick the hardware that does what they want at a price point they are comfortable with. Android favors developers almost to a fault; Apple's abuse of developers in order to preserve the user experience is legendary. If history is any indicator, Jobs should be very afraid. Apple has a tremendous first-mover advantage, and there is one very key difference in that they have the larger software base at the moment, but with the speed at which the Android platform is evolving and growing, it isn't difficult at all to imagine that Apple could find the iPhone eating dust in a few short quarters.
He mentioned in a comment that the point isn't that anyone should do this, just that it's possible. With much less effort, one might be able to cut their grocery bill in half.
Paypal buying eBay items wasn't actually the primary method for stimulating growth. Initially, Paypal offered new users $20 for opening an account, and $20 for referring somebody to open an account. They then dropped the bonus to $10 for both, then $5, then $0. This allowed them to grow immensely, and they reached 100,000 users in one month. These bonuses weren't "cheap" though: they cost PayPal around 60-70 million.

Here's a reference - an interview between Elon Musk and Salman Khan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDwzmJpI4io&feature=player_de.... It's worth a watch.
> Literally, straight people not sleeping with members of the same gender is a form of "discrimination" based on sex!

I disagree. I'm straight, but I'm not discriminating based on sex, I'm discriminating based based on attractiveness. Or actually, my body is - I don't get an erection for ugly women and men - it's just that, so far, all men I've seen were ugly.
Argh. I wish I could fix it. Thanks for the heads up, though.
Would be nice to still have the Google search and recent tab thumbnails. Maybe just change the background of the new tab page instead. But still pretty neat!
You should have received a confirmation email, did you get one?
Bank failures and panics were a regular feature of life in the US before 1913. Take your pick of the panic of 1873, 1884, 1890, 1893, 1896, 1907.... I wouldn't use the word "thrived".
DC and Maryland (where I work and live respectively) have the most restrictive concealed carry laws in the country, ones that are probably unconstitutional. Illinois, where I lived before that, was the last state to enact a concealed carry law, forced by a court order after I moved out.
No belief necessary.
Haha ouch. My sport is climbing. I have a home wall and I've tried this. It does not work well for modern climbing on lots of textured volumes ;)

Would definitely make world cups more interesting to watch!!
And all of them were in the wrong.
On other operating systems, alt+tab goes to through the list of least recently used windows. So when working between two windows, one hotkey switches between them. On Mac, that's not possible if the two windows are part of the same app (or also when windows are distributed across multiple work spaces).
How does this compare to ssh+gnu screen on the remote host?
The big irony is: "Coq" is for English speaker exactly what "Bit" is in French. No problem when written, and ok spoken between grown up professionals obviously (though I still avoid translating bitwise operator because it becomes "cock to cock operator" when spoken), but elementary school with all the 8/16/32 bits consoles was painful...
On US.

We never had restrictions, HP, Casio, TI, just bring your favourite one into the class.
Basically, lamotrigine (100 mg/day) seems to keep my mood even. I mostly complain about depression. And I've never experienced hypomania. Except when some idiot GP put me on Paxil.

But with lamotrigine alone, I'm too "flat". I have no interest in doing anything. No energy. Not depressed, but just sort of "dead". So I take that at night.

And the modafinil (usually 100 mg/day) makes me interested in doing stuff. Mentally alive, full of ideas and solutions. So I take that in the morning.
Lamotrigine works for most bipolar people for at least a few years. It's used as a first resort since it has typically no side effects. It quit working for me after four years of use, so I switched to lithium. I don't know much about how lamotrigine affects the mood of normal people, but I do know that if you give lithium to normal people it doesn't affect their psyche in any measurable way.