skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in the same boat and it sucks.

I had 240 days of uptime on my G5 Mac Pro at one point.

I doubt we'll ever see that kind of stability in macOS again, and it makes me sad.
Spyware Trade Grows Amid Claims Activists and Bezos Targeted
While Europe may be more judicious with their allocation of bathrooms, in Canada – Vancouver, at least – they’ve proliferated in newer homes. A lot of newer 3 bedroom condos on the market cram 3 bathrooms into ~1100 square feet – often with one bathroom including a separate shower and bath.

While this drives up the quantity of bathrooms on the real estate listing, the tight quarters mean that the other rooms are even smaller, while each bathroom lacks enough cupboard or shelf space for anything more than a couple towels and a spare roll of toilet paper. It’s an odd tradeoff.
Communication is the key to any relationship
Yes this one is definitely a feature not a bug.
Sad story, indeed :( I'm currently slowly, but steadily migrating to fastmail, and I can feel the burden off my shoulders each service i re-reroute.

I hope this gets resolved soon, I also recommend switching mail providers.
Can someone explain https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?RID=2PUA1EJK114&CMD... to me?

This is a comparison between 'bat SARS-like coronavirus' and 'Wuhan seafood market pneumonia virus'. Under Alignments, it looks like the envelope proteins are identical. Wouldn't that be unlikely for a natural mutation? Would this not lead credence to this being a leak from their BSL-4 lab about twenty miles away from the Wuhan seafood market?

Thanks!
If you’ve never done something like this, you might want to try it. It’s a nice simple programming exercise and the basic version, with tests, will take less than an evening.
My primary concern with Cloudflare proxied sites is that I have no way to assess the technical competency of the sites they proxy. I can check most HTTPS sites using an online tool such as SSL Labs or Mozilla's Observatory. For example I discovered a local mobile operator who had not bothered to patch their primary web server against Heartbleed an entire year after the exploit was discovered, which was a real shocker.

Cloudflare are technically competent which is great, but their clients are impossible to assess. I see a lot of formerly insecure local web servers switching over to Cloudflare (and HTTPS), and I know it's the same morons operating the web server. For me the safe default assumption must be that the site behind them is run by people who are not technically competent. I suppose Cloudflare could set a server header indicating the connection between them and the proxied site is HTTPS?
Hi @bruceb,

If there is any specific video, you can share it here or privately via email mentioned above, we will immediately look into it and start working on it.

For Price, we don't want to charge higher or lower, we just want to first help entrepreneurs with their business - prices do vary and entrepreneurs do understand - we take care of their budget as well - it's a thing we understand as an entrepreneur-friendly developer.

Thanks
In adopting chromium they're not just helping their competitor, but their competitor is now also helping them.

At the end of the day, the default option for most users would naturally be to stick to Edge, but they instead have been installing Chrome. Why? Because Chrome was better. Now Edge is like Chrome.

There's much less of a reason for users to install Chrome as a result. Microsoft are likely to regain some marketshare with this approach. If Bing is good enough, that may also mean billions in revenue.
And it would also take away the livelihood of a lot of people...
I was really disappointed that the OP wasn't talking about the UGM-133 Trident:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGM-133_Trident_II

(Alas, I think they'll be around for a few decades more, unless someone is wicked enough to use them.)
Is that not exactly what the rezoning and increased construction in Seattle is attempting to do? Sounds like you’re frustrated because you’ve been outvoted - it is no more your place than anybody else’s who lives/works here. You can move with your feet as much as any other privileged tech worker in this country.

I don’t think this conversation is going much farther, but I appreciate that it’s been even keel. I hope you find what you’re looking for somewhere!
I’ve read virology reports that the virus originated most likely from bats but through an intermediary source — as to which animal, that’s unknown.

Another thing I’ve been pondering is since bats have been the source of deadly, infectious diseases in humans for so long, that’s where the historical myth of vampires and the living dead come from.
I'm not a mod and I don't have any inside track, but I've been around a while. I suspect that this item has fallen not because of flags, but because it's got 80 comments and only 75 votes. There is a mechanism as a proxy to detect flame wars, and is not necessarily because of flagging.

If you think this has been sunk inappropriately then email the mods. They are quite open to getting honest, constructive comments and suggestions. If you think this item and this discussion is of value to the community, let them know and they might agree and remove the flame-war penalty.
Rule 1 : Promote Marxism
Rule 2 : Goto rule 1
What you need to know about Chinese Coronavirus and what they aren’t telling you
I don't recall ever seeing "hateful" content go unmoderated. Do you have any examples?

Also not sure what you mean with "protect opinions outside of the mainstream"? What kind of opinions do you mean? And how should they be protected?
I highly recommend this lecture by Jeff Lichtman, where he describes the machine they've built to slice the brain and the software they have written to visualize and make sense of this vast amount of data:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QVy0n_rdBI
Do you mean an Apple Store?

If so, that’s not very helpful advice for many people. The nearest Apple Store to me is about three hours away. That’s better than it was a couple of years ago, when I would have had to have driven six or more hours to get to one.
Then this is purely a vegan argument unrelated to the virus.
> it's unfortunate that everybody lost nearly 10 years because Microsoft stopped taking Webtechs seriously

Yes it is. It is also unfortunate that some people refuse to upgrade their browsers and engineers have to jump through hoops in order to still support them... ;)
NLab is a wiki from the perspective of category theory
Good. I recently got dropped into the new design, and for the life of me I can't figure out which ones are ads and which are not. Either I've never gotten an ad with the new design, or they blend in so much that I can't tell.
The trick we use to make research findings memorable at Monzo
It may not be sold at full price, but pretty much everything sells.
Most of the interesting sub-reddits have been shutdown or are in quarantine for having "wrong think", though hardcore pornography, discussions about disgusting and dangerous sexual fetishes are just fine.

> And I agree it gets way overused by many.

It isn't just overused. The language itself and other terms and phrases that usually accompanies it gets used as a stick to beat legitimate criticism. By using their language which redefines what is commonly meant you are promoting such an ideology.
The Slashdot karma system sort of had something like this. It’s been a few years, but comments weren’t given point totals but tags like “insightful”, “funny” for positive or “troll” for negative. This way a comment had feedback on why it was ranked higher or lower. A moderator only had so many points to give for a limited period of time as well as other guardrails. In order to get mod status you had to do things like history of reading comments in articles and posting articles and comments which in turn had high marks. This made a positive feedback loop where more positive participation gave more chances for mod status.

See: https://slashdot.org/moderation.shtml

On top of that there’s a meta-moderation system where in turn mods in comments are evaluated if they were modded fairly or not. If marked fair the original mod got more karma, and less if deemed unfair.

https://slashdot.org/story/99/09/07/155233/slashdots-meta-mo...

I don’t know if such a system can exist in modern day, but out of all comment systems I always found the Slashdot style both simple and fair for the complexities of large comment volumes.
I'm confused. This article doesn't say anything. It makes no points and has no insight. "There's a lot of data in neuroscience?" Is that the message? An unusual number of Nautilus articles frontpage HN like this one, where there doesn't seem to be any value in the article itself. What is going on?
And it is an extremely invasive and painful procedure that should be avoided at all costs if you can. And if you don’t change your habits, you’ll have to have it multiple times.
5/3nm Wars Begin
I got an invite by just asking nicely on IRC with some details about myself.
> Why the hell is google allowed to lock you down

Google can do whatever they want with the free service they're giving away.

Hell, even if they charged you for it, they're still free to end the service for whatever reason they want.

> from even receiving (not even talking about sending) emails

It's not like receiving is free for them or even cheaper for them than sending.

It's interesting how it's common to think that the services that Google gives away are some kind of public service, that they're somehow obligated to provide, as if they were paid for by taxes or something.
This is what I was thinking as well, until I saw the “.dev” in the URL.
This is very hosting service-specific - some hosts will expose your server via a generated and wildcard cert encrypted connection (ex: Heroku and their appname.herokuapp.com).

CF also allows for self-signed certs: https://blog.cloudflare.com/origin-server-connection-securit... - which are (to me) more complicated than standard certs.

The real game changer in all of this is LetsEncrypt which has become the defacto option for services with huge amounts of custom domains (Shopify, Hubspot, Wordpress) etc.
Is Moore's Law still alive?
I once worked at a place that had a third party vendor create a reporting front-end to the outdated minicomputer that the business ran on. After I was there a couple years, the CFO said "It's really weird, the numbers we get out of the reporting system are close, but never exactly right when we compare them by hand to the system."

This person was seriously thinking "this is just how computers are", and after a day of looking into it I was able to determine all the issues they were facing were floating point problems when the Windows front-end did it's calculations. It was pulling all the data directly from the old system, after all. How could it be different?
Show HN: A minimalistic Mac sleep prevention application
The organization of human thought to achieve that level of understanding might be an issue. From the original article: 'the data footprint of all books ever written come out to less than 100 terabytes, or 0.005 percent of a mouse brain'
As with licences, I've got a "hand-wavy" opinion that the sum is greater than the components.

Hacker News and Lobste.rs together is greater than either in isolation.

Some of the pummelings I've received on here have been justified rebukes of jackassery.

A couple have seemed burnings at the stake for violations of orthodoxy. But asbestos nickers are just what you wear.
I dled tiktok to try it, had no friends on there, and spent hours browsing for fun purely because of the enjoyability of the product. User-generated content obviously, but no "network" to speak of. It's closer to reddit than Instagram.
I put in a support request back in March 2017 asking them to add a header indicating which type of HTTPS setting was used (flexible/full strict/full weak/etc) and this was their response:

Hello Ryan,

This is something we are definitely considering. I will pass your feedback on to our team. Of course, we need to carefully consider the security implications for the millions of sites using Cloudflare before making this change, as it may have unforeseen consequences. Let me know if there's anything else that I can help with at all!

Best Regards,
I think most malls all over the world have something like this. I think the plumbing effort to give each store its own fresh- and waste water plumbing would create extra cost and source of problems.
Timeline of the 2019–20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak
To be fair there have been videos like that on basically every video platform since the dawn of the internet
A big part of that cost is probably permits (and costs of compliance with new rules). I know someone (a do-it-yourselfer) who added a bathroom to their house in california and it required multiple inspections at various stages of construction. I know another person in the same city who has added bathrooms to houses he rents out and I'm fairly sure he doesn't bother with permits or inspections and his costs are minimal, getting a closet converted in a weekend.
I think aerial ride share should take the scooter model... with little “cockpits” distributed around a city that you open with an app, then call an Uber/Lyft/etc drone that picks it up (without landing, via a cable, to reduce space/noise/wind issues) and takes you away!
She did have control over what was happening when she signed the rights away. After that, they're not her rights, so why should she have control?

I doubt she'd like the situation where there were no rights to sell, as it would severely hamper her ability to sell music at dear prices to the streaming services. How much do you think Apple paid her for that exclusivity deal she had with them a while back? And would it have paid that much if copyright were weakened in the ways that would be required to prevent the Braun/Borshetta situation?

It just seems like a case of wanting to have one's cake and eat it.
I've nearly finished reading this and I have to say that it's one of the most out-of-touch business books I've ever read. Benioff sells Salesforce as an modern, socially responsible and generous organisation. He's not wrong, Salesforce is admirable in many ways but it's not as unique and different as it's sold as. The book sets Salesforce up as a pioneer in being a socially responsible but highly profitable business; in doing so, it's self-promotion draws attention to the fact that it's actually not all that radical or different to many other modern enterprise companies.

Benioff has lost perspective. He was once the pioneer of a new way of doing business and challenging the status-quo. What he's failed to see is that Salesforce has become the lumbering giant it once set out to slay.

One hilarious anecdote in a chapter on "innovation" describes how Benioff realises that the company must adopt AI technology to stay competitive. He gathers a group of engineers to work out how to "infuse AI into every product in our portfolio" because they "didn't want to be late to the revolution".
I have a lot of respect for Benioff and his company which was once a massive trailblazer of the industry. I'm not sure it's quite got the edge to still claim that title.
It's not that hard to get an invite. Ask in an HN thread and there's a good chance somebody will hook you up, assuming they either know you, OR can tell from your HN comment/submission history that you're not some weirdo who is going to spam lobste.rs with crap.
Coronavirus: China suspends tours abroad as Xi warns of “grave situation”
https://cloud.google.com/armor/

GCP Network has built in DoS mitigation as well (e.g. in the load balancing layer) so you get some protection from that for free.
I have scrolled through several pages and this post is no longer in the top 200 on HN. I have never seen the flame-war penalty hit anything close to that hard that quickly. I am pretty sure this is from user flagging.
@rowathray

It's not so much because of the pirating that this service was successful, it's because of the dedicated userbase it held.

If something like what.cd integrated with something like Spotify- a legitimate way of accessing lots of music- say "here's a button to stream" somewhere on the site, it would probably be successful.

Mind you, one of the other reasons that these sorts of things with torrent or whatever backends get so popular is because there isn't a particular gatekeeper that can decide what can and can't be on the platform [1.] Destroying and damaging the effort of people who help your platform on their spare time tends to garner ill will.

[1] Spotify removing R. Kelly and XXXTentacion from their service:
https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8455549/new-spot...
I'm bordering on conspiracy theory territory here, but I'd also like an real investigation into whether the virus actually originated from the Wuhan Biosafety Laboratory. It's the only level 4 (BSL-4 highest rating) lab in all of China designated to handle the most dangerous pathogens. And it's located 20 miles from the reported epicenter in the wildlife market. It was first opened two years ago and at the time multiple scientists worried that the lack of an open culture could lead to potential security problems.

Was there some breach in containment security? Were experimented animals not disposed of properly? We don't know.

There might be nothing here, but it's a hell of a coincidence and if there's some broader security problem, it should be acknowledged and fixed.

Background on the lab:
https://www.nature.com/news/inside-the-chinese-lab-poised-to...
From what I can tell its only advantages over TikTok right now are "made by the person who had the idea first" and "isn't Chinese spyware". I doubt either of those really matter to TikTok's core audience. Byte will have to do better than that, I think.
No...you are just raising points that I didn't raise.

The EU is the centre of industrial tax avoidance. Member states are responsible for assisting corporations (not just facilitating, advertising) in tax avoidance (trillions of dollars have moved out of tax systems as a result). This wasn't to encourage investment...yes, Luxembourg...Amazon has invested so heavily there...is your stupidity deliberate?

The connection with the EU is that the EC was run by the person who had signed a massive amount of those deals. The stuff that has been passed is weak, it probably won't work (nation states have already devised new ways to get round this), and work on transparency (most of these deals were secret) has been blocked by the usual tax havens (this contrasts nicely with the UK where transparency has been adopted in full, the only stumbling block was the inability to force this upon some overseas territories...it was adopted overnight in Jersey/IOM however).

Congrats you have read Wikipedia. What you don't seem to realise is that a "race to the bottom" did occur. Luxembourg did these deals, we now know, in the 1990s then other nations started copying. The EU triggered a race to the bottom globally and it occurred within the EU...but why let reality get in the way of your theories?

Again, we really need to crack down on these rouge tax haven states. Thankfully, the US/UK has led the way on this.
A very minimalistic mouse mover application. If you work from home a lot and you would like to prevent your mac from sleeping whenever you do small activities (like taking a walk or a short nap), then boy this app is for you! Just simply start it once in the background and forget about it.

It knows when the system is being interacted with and does nothing then. But once it senses that the system is idle, it starts moving the mouse cursor by tiny pixels (small enough to go unnoticed by you but big enough for mac to think the system is busy).

Voila!
I'm not an expert at all. I read the book How Can The Human Mind Occur In The Physical Universe? a few years ago and was basically left with the impression that actually cognitive science is way more advanced than I had realised. I was very struck with the amount of definite results and falsifiable experiments (i.e. "actual science"). I think it's one of those things like global poverty where if you are 30 or older, what you learnt at school, and your whole rule of thumb intuition, is totally wrong.

https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/mobile/view/10.1093/acprof...
> I presume that Google's traffic is relatively constant at this point.

Probably a poor assumption. The total number of internet users is still growing significantly.
I think Waterluvian was trying to be sarcastic, and probably meant Google.
> If I can find the home addresses of people walking past my house using reverse lookups of ESSID probes

Can you tell me more about this?
The thing I dislike the most about self-help/self-improvement books (example: Getting things done, by David Allen) is that they spend a lot of the book trying to convince you that their method work.

What I'm saying is: I already bough a copy of the book, you don't have to convince me anymore. I already gave you my money. Just explain me the stuff.
Looking Back at Y2K from the Trump Era
This is a very good idea, and I think the quota should be even lower. I also think the old Slashdot mechanic of allowing a set of tags on user mod votes is useful to provide additional feedback.
Samasource CEO Leila Janah Passes Away at 37
I’m this case you can have your pie and eat it too. All that is missing is a popularity page.

It’s true that random professional posts are the best part of HN but I mostly care about the posts that appear in /best for things outside my interests.
Ridesharing like flights would be considered on-demand/non-scheduled charter operations and would fall under Part 135. (Delta is a Part 121 air carrier).

Start here: https://www.faa.gov/licenses_certificates/airline_certificat...

There are stricter pilot, airplane, and maintenance requirements than what Part 91 (private) is required to do.

The general philosophy seems to be "the less you know about the operation, the more oversight the FAA will provide". My family choosing to get into our airplane knows a lot more about the pilot and aircraft and risks than Jane buying an airline ticket or Joe tapping on an app for a ride. You don't have to be nearly as concerned about getting onto a Delta flight, because Delta is much more heavily regulated as they "hold out to the public" for scheduled air carrier operations.

In terms of what that means for an Uber-for-airplanes situation, there's no way in hell that I would put my pilot certificate at risk by signing up to run clearly illegal charters in my airplane. Even when some other pilots would volunteer to run that risk, the FAA would not have a hard time doing a targetted "ramp inspection" to verify compliance with applicable Federal Aviation Regulations. These ops have been pretty consistently shut down in the past and I don't see that as likely to change in the future. If I decided I wanted to go Part 135 (or Uber got an operating certificate to which I could add my airplane), the compliance burden will likely make it unattractive to me to sign up [because I already have a busy life and even if I were to fly for this entity, it would likely be less than 25 hours per year]. If Uber gets its own cert and runs its own fleet, they could get the compliance burden to be manageable (by running each airplane more hours annually) but then need a metric crap-ton of capital to buy the fleet.
Indeed it does, and I’ve been using this in production for many months.
Good point. I think what ultimately should be done is browsers should provide access to secure tokens that are stored in the user’s keychain (or Google equivalent).

The Keychain is end to end encrypted and they have done the hard work in propagating data securely across devices. Then there are no passwords and user is in control over which devices have access to their data. Access to device equals access to data, which I think most people would be comfortable with (e.g. you don’t sign into your email account on your phone each day).
Boycott and protest, name and shame.