skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Former Internet Explorer SE here: it’s not the coupling with Windows that makes it impossible (MSHTML is actually really self-contained). The main reason Microsoft doesn’t open-source legacy code is because there a huge chunks of licensed third-party source code that cannot be publicly disclosed.

While those portions could be stripped-out, it would be a mammoth task to go through the source code history and identify what belongs to who and stub it out if necessary (let alone replace it with first-party code).

Whereas MS’ new projects (like .NET Core) were made open-source from the start and made in the open (Cathedral and the Bazaar) - so there’s no mean ol’ lawyers from LCA to stop people having fun.
I wasn't speaking to that article specifically but at the lax stewardship that the NYT is under right now.

NYT Editorial Board members do write Op-Eds of the sort I mention.
Makes you wonder about the origin of the OP.
It'd rather seem that Jefferson really didn't have the answer either. His 'solution' probably wasn't a solution, and would probably drive said paper out of business.
reel your neck in fella!!!!
Not much globalisation back in 1918.

But there was the anomaly of very large numbers of soldiers repatriating after the end of World War I in cramped conditions with poor health & hygiene standards.

It would be interesting to model what could have happened if the Asian Flu of 1956 and the Hong Kong Flu of 1968 occurred within a much more connected and logistically faster world like today.
It's about governance and dominance, not implementation.

It doesn't matter if the code for a single web rendering engine is available if the standards process is closed.

Although in fact there are also implementation issues. Nowhere has it been proven that open source implementations are optimally efficient, secure, and robust. In fact the various debacles around SSL etc strongly suggest otherwise.

The fact that development is either open source or proprietary continues to be a huge problem. They both have strong points, but they also have obvious weaknesses. Realistically neither is optimal for critical public infrastructure.

Currently Google has far too much over influence over infrastructure - rather like Microsoft did in the late 90s, but even more so.

Open source won't fix this. Anti-trust action - which is long overdue - might.
> An acquantince of mine went to a supermarket today. Everything seems fine

What would it look like if it wasn't fine...?
Part of the issue, I think, is that humans are 'closer' to the world, whereas computers by necessity interact with a model of the world. Whenever you introduce a model, you always introduce some limitations and assumptions that are baked into that model.
Bat "bites" are only half the story. Bat scratches are really nasty. In ancient times they would look like bites and most always would become infected. Even today, in much of the world (ie usa) any contact with wild bat should be taken very seriously. The link between bats and disease is no myth.
> I think your assuming that competition drives bug fixes might be a bit off.

i guess phrased differently, dominant market position (which Chrome has had for those 4 years) is not conducive to "boring" tasks, such as bug fixes - at least those for which workarounds exist. but this is also what happened with IE6 - devs found clumsy workarounds for its bugs, so they never got fixed because even if end users switched to firefox, it's not like devs could suddenly ignore the 800lb gorilla with 90% market share, their sites had to continue to work everywhere, greatly reducing the incentive to switch (users will say "it works fine in both browsers!"). it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

that being said, i've had some positive experience with a rendering bug i've reported getting fixed: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=899342, but that bug was relatively simple since it did not affect layout, just paint.
As far as I know, the studio is happy to let her perform the work non-commercially, but that’s not what she wants. She wants to be able to be paid for a performance.
However, your full fingerprint is unique among the 1545859 collected so far.
> Although FPGAs certainly can't touch gigahertz+ range yet. Even 500 MHz is... challenging.

It's a relative difference though, that depends on what material you're building the circuit in. If you can build an FPGA to run at 1/10th the speed of a 6502, then with a sufficiently expensive process you get a tradeoff between a very weak 80GHz processor and a customizable 8GHz circuit.
Comparison between "Bat SARS-like coronavirus" and the "Wuhan seafood market pneumonia virus" seems to show a 100% match:

https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?RID=2PUA1EJK114&CMD...

Bat SARS-like coronavirus WIV1 has been known since at least 2013.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_SARS-like_coronavirus_WIV1
Generally with zerohedge I mostly stick to the financial stuff, since that is usually properly sourced, even if the site does have a bearish bias its still usually good info. There are definitely some heavily biased political articles though.
The real existential crisis is that nobody moving nueroscience forward has a nueroscience degree.
This hasn't been true since Google hard-forked WebKit to Blink in 2013.
Mozilla is rebuilding much of an engine with Servo and related (e.g. the CSS bits that are now actually integrated into FF) projects. I can really see them replacing more and more of FF with Rust in the future, because Mozilla really seem to be doubling down on trust, in all forms. For example, they recently announced that the UI is web component based - which means that using Servo for the window chrome is in the realm of possibility.

Edit: at that point I wouldn't really consider it "FF of yore." A rewrite is really a new product.
Firefox developer edition / windows ranks at 0.02% :)
Linear felt right when I was writing it, for some reason, but you're right. Fixed.
Show HN: TribePulse – Thoughtful team communication for remote companies
I pretty much agree.

However, there is the risk that compromised cellular or WiFi modules could defeat isolation, and fsck with the AP etc.

But if that's a concern, you can turn them off, and use tethered cellular or WiFi. And if you really 100% don't trust the USB bus, you can tether through Ethernet.

Even then, it'd actually be Ethernet via USB-C. But perhaps the additional transport layer would increase isolation.

I'd love to see arguments why that makes sense, or doesn't.
> There are over 1 million active oil-and-gas wells across 33 states

This is insane. One well per 300 inhabitants of the USA. How is that even economically viable?
Would love to hear more about what you tried and what you learned, if you're up for it. Couldn't find a way to reach you but if you're open to it, my linkedin is in my profile link.
I also have a Garmin InReach and it is a littel 3 ounce game changer, regarding being safe in remote areas of wilderness. I very recently spent four hard days in deep wet snow in the Glacier Peak Wilderness, and was able to communicate that I was safe to my family over the InReach, plus get regularly updated high quality weather reports. The battery also did fine. I was confident I could get help if I was out there longer. The Garmin Fenix 6x GPS watch is also a life saving piece of tech, since it's so rugged, the battery lasts long and it has maps of everywhere built in.
All network connected systems have a boundary where they become untrusted. With the exception of the GPS, this all seems like a securable, hackable, and supportable system architecture.

RE cellular modems, there are some things worth noting. First, they are a huge privacy hole. It doesn't matter if they run open or closed firmware, the real adversary is the cell provider's hardware. Second, interoperability is a real problem. There would be large consequences if enough improperly configured cellular modems ended up in the wild.

Edit: Another point here. Open firmware does guarantee security. It is unlikely that whatever distro you end up running on your pine phone will be nearly as secure as iOS or Android. Of course privacy is a different story.
We’ve just launched TribePulse - think of it like an internal blog/reddit for your remote team or company.

The first question we usually get is - how does this complement Slack?

While slack is great for when you need an immediate response, the constant pings are highly distracting and eliminate many of the benefits of remote work.

Instead of replicating a real-life office environment, we believe that the benefits of remote work should be embraced i.e. asynchronous communication.

Not only does async communication give team members in other timezones the opportunity to voice their opinions, but it gives everyone the chance to reflect and provide more thought out responses.

Async communication doesn’t necessarily mean less communication, in fact, we have built “surface” functionality to make sure important conversations get the attention they deserve.

We believe that by promoting more thoughtful communication, internal knowledge (along with their context) can be captured and retained so that rework can be minimised.

If you work remotely or worth with remote team members, we’d love for you to try out TribePulse and to hear your thoughts!
One other cross-platform (i.e. using either ARKit or ARCore as a base) AR solution is Niantic's "Real World Platform" - https://nianticlabs.com/blog/nbrdc-update-110619/
Soil, environment and flora/fauna, insects and farm workers benefit from organic methods. It’s the failure of certification bodies in that they haven’t communicated that enough and only focused on the $ spending end consumer.
Soundtrack: Experiments with Spotify, Apple Music, and Last.fm
If you pay for a shitty game from a shitty company, you get a shitty game.

Hope that's clearer.
Will Ubuntu Budgie be receiving an update too? Or do users have to wait until the next release?

https://ubuntubudgie.org/
I'd be interested in seeing those who are downvoting this comment refute its claims instead.
After 3000 years, we can hear the “voice” of a mummified Egyptian priest
He is an epidemiologist, you have to give the benefit of the doubt here that he has seen a virality coefficient before.
Were you drawn to Solus mainly because of Budgie? Or was there something else too?
Building up complicated time series transformations by composing simple functions helps me be sure I'm doing what I think I'm doing. Since the transformations are tacit expressions that don't define specific parameters they are then very easy to re-use and combine. And I have some combinators that can apply the functions in pretty flexible ways. Also, since its all lazy-evaluated on a per-column level I can work with huge tables, but only end up operating on the subset I need.
We already have laws protecting minors from getting screwed over via their parents. why not a low that prevents you from selling all rights away for your intellectual property.
Could be even simpler? Someone is going out and killing the bats right? They are physically handling dead bats in bulk, why can’t that be enough?
Yes. If you are appropriately protected you can work with it. If you’re paying people $16/hr to haul hazmat (that you are concealing), you’re not providing appropriate protection or procedure.

Don’t listen to the apologists here. If you’ve worked in a place that handles toxic materials, you wouldn’t read about worried truck drivers keeping samples in mayonnaise jars. The driver would contact the industrial hygienist or safety officer at work.
Yes, these are the two strains I was referring to in my original post. They share the same sequence of 75 aminoacids for their envelope proteins despite differing slightly in the nucleotide sequences.
"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0" (mainline Firefox) is apparently 0.02% as well.
> Looking at visual 6502 you're not going to get a order of better magnitude fanout on that design.

Better fanout than what?

The most useful thing I could find was this old article, but it certainly suggests that the room is there to expand: https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/materials/indium-ph...
Great idea! Targeted advertising is really upsetting. If we take it one step further:

1. Find out the top non-unique fingerprint [of the year.]

2. Create a Firefox add-on (or modify Firefox source if an add-on is not powerful enough), which uses the most non-unique fingerprint [this year.]

3. Targeted advertising ends for those who use the plug-in/add-on.

It's a cat and mouse game as fingerprint parameters keep increasing, but I think it's possible to win this one.
How do we know this won't be transmittable even after individuals recover?
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What terrible browser design to send all that data. I would never have imagined my computer was sending all that off 10 years ago
Scientists Predict Wuhan's Outbreak Will Get Much Worse
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On a similar topic, PoC||GTFO [0] features files that are valid with multiple file formats. Issue 19 [1], for instance, "is valid as a PDF document, a ZIP archive, and a HTMLpage. It is also available as a Windows PE executable, a PNG image and an MP4 video" (see "technical note").
They are made by Ange Albertini [2] who has a great talk [3] on how he does this kind of things

[0] https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/
[1] https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/pocorgtfo19.pdf
[2] https://github.com/angea/pocorgtfo
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9WnnMJ0RKg
^likely^unlikely

Thanks for this story. I wonder what I would do.
I'm also getting unique useragent with Brave.
No, non-organic has more residue of expected pesticides.

The often unspoken truth however is that many chemicals aren't tested for. For example copper sulfate, used as organic fungicide.

In other words conventional agriculture uses far more substances that the USDA tests for, a vast majority of them, whereas organic agriculture uses substances that aren't covered by USDA tests. Which should be obvious.

This doesn't mean that:

1. Organic agriculture uses less pesticides (bullshit, unless you're talking about GMOs, another hot subject)

2. Organic produce is in any way healthier

Both of these statements lack credible evidence. And we might actually find instances in which the substances used in organic agriculture are more unhealthy than their conventional equivalents.
Instantly reminds me of the “Forbidding face-recognition is the wrong step” article posted yesterday.
The Great ISAs: the ways computers might have been
Open browsers have been around for decades, Chromium didn't offer anything new there and as you say it even started off an open browser itself. If everyone did what you suggest there is a net loss for the user as where there used to be competition in browser backends there is now whatever Google considers in it's interest to merge into Chromium for others to also adopt (until the point someone manages a fork and we're back at the part where you say companies should drop their engines for what is popular instead).
Is that HDMI protocol or HDMI cables? There are a bunch of sensors that use ethernet connectors, but have nothing to do with networks
The problem with this is the less unique you are, the more you start looking like a bot. The more you look like a bot the more times you have to do things to prove you aren't, like captchas
The Coastline Paradox Proves We All Choose Ignorance
There’s a massive power struggle indeed, but if you look who’s really behind those organizations, you’ll see people just like you and me, imperfect minds in funky bodies that came from the same place we all once did.

World leaders and CEOs go to bed every night just like us, they speak, poop, and reproduce at the same rate as everyone else. Corporations and governments are nothing more than contracts to benefit those very same people, us. Even though there’s not an equal benefit to everyone involved.

If those contracts fail, and our freedom and liberty is at risk like you say, we ought to renegotiate. It seems, if you listen carefully, that’s what the world is currently choosing to do.
Massive shortages from people mass panic buying?
Hey, thanks for the information. That's really enlightening. Now I know better.
Sorry, this is wild speculation, not fact. The “100% match” you cited is for one protein (and a small one, at that - just 75 amino acids long) which proves absolutely nothing (individual proteins can often be highly conserved - and amino acid alignment doesn’t guarantee that the underlying genes are even the same).

SARS and MERS, highly similar viruses which emerged over the last 20 years, have a very similar emergence pattern to the new nCoV virus. Wuhan has a seafood market which has been known to house animals other than seafood. Initial cases were from those seafood markets. There’s quite literally no evidence to suggest that the Wuhan lab had anything to do with this outbreak.
"I've never heard manufacturing consent used like that. Do you have any examples of what you're talking about? Genuinely curious."

It's called 'PR', it's used all day, every day by most companies and political organizations, social movements and even the government.

Highlighting the positive aspects of whatever you're doing, avoiding the negative aspects, discrediting opponents and most insidiously - misrepresenting their arguments is how it's done.

It's about creating the intended narrative around a specific subject.

Take any controversial issue and you'll generally see that the 'sides' are not having a debate in public, they're engaging in framing the issue in a manner. The end up talking past one another entirely.

'Manufacturing Consent' is a funny book, because we read it when we're young and naive and our eyes are opened to the reality of the world and the perennial war of ideas. Because such activities are framed as nefarious and related to questionable acts of intervention (i.e. US intervention in S. America) ... we are 'shocked and outraged'. But I think looking at it from a more mature, contextualized perspective, it doesn't seem 'shocking' it seems really normal.

Ironically the real coup of Chomsky is to misrepresent the nature of 'mass idea marketing' in a fair antagonist way that I don't think is really helpful.

Unfortunately - almost all news is narrative-driven.

Certainly the entirety of cable news.

If you watch the local news, it feels dry and mundane, because it's generally very truthful, and there isn't a lot of 'war of ideas' over the dog that called 911.

But for everything in pop culture and politics, there's a way to frame the subject in an ideological way (or in a manner that represents the interests of some group like advertisers or powerful individuals etc.) which is what happens all day long.
He scammed out a couple dozen million dollars each year and is fined 128 million, which ruined him and he'd never be able to pay it back. This is the kind of punishment That needs to happen to a lot of industries, really any of the crimes people commit should cost them more than they gained. But he must have been too small potatoes, so he got an appropriate sentence.
Signs That You're Coding in the 1990s
That would only help if you wanted to present something old as being newer.
Alright, so how do I fix the unique ones like Canvas?

Edit: To block canvas fingerprinting I set `privacy.resistFingerprinting` to true in Firefox's about:config. Now I am trying to figure out how to disable the font list and Media devices, etc.
So what is 5nm or 3nm?
Am I the only person who remembers this site from like 2 years ago and looks at it today and doesn't see the same site? Seriously, it looks like a parody of a startup now. Also, I notice that basically nobody puts their side project there anymore, and I bet this "new approach" is why. OP, you fucked up, go back to being indiehackers and dump this bullshit you're trying now.
This is great, but I'd be really excited if we could go out and buy the chips ourselves instead of having to pay the Amazon tax and run our code on untrusted systems in the cloud. Of course, Amazon has little incentive to sell the chips, since it gives them a competitive advantage against other cloud providers.
Apologies if this is off topic: can anyone recommend a good how-to for QoS with netfiter?
My user agent also says 0.16% similarity and I’m just using safari on an iphone. How can that be?
I think it is a lot easier now, particularly with the license change to MIT.
> Most Chinese people have no so much medical common sense

You are displaying your ignorance here, with this statement.

What is your quantification of "most"? Is it 75%? 90%? 95%? or 99%?

Do you know "most" Chinese people? There are 1.4 billion people in China. Can you even fathom that number? Have you ever been to China? Do you even speak the language to make such a judgment?

Let's be scientific here.

The reality is that only a handful of people need to get infected, and they will transmit the virus to others. At which point, it gets out of control.

The lockdown is necessary to limit the transmission. To starve out the virus. It needs human hosts to breed and to propagate itself. And this probably serves as a more cautionary approach, to tell people to maintain their distance away from others.

The likely result of this, is that the central China government will clamp down on wet markets, which may have been the breeding ground of such viruses.
Other diseases are worse. Measles is a lot worse, with an R0 estimated at between 12 and 18. But R0 is a measure of propagation rate in an undefended population. For most highly infectious diseases with known R0 values, we have defenses, typically vaccination which leaves the population, as a whole, a lot less vulnerable. So, in those cases, R0 is a measure of how bad things can get. Not for this new thing -- there's been no time to put defenses in place, so R0, whatever its actual value, is a measure of how bad things are.
Tell you what, I'm going to keep reading my "absurd fan fiction" as well as every other source, and you keep watching bullshit like 60 Minutes - everyone will be happy.
How do you validate your models if you can't validate a simpler one first?
Nope, I don't even use Budgie. Despite my distaste for it, I'm still a Gnome guy.
So, I don't remember why I even tried it other than I'd grown tired of Arch based footguns. I wanted rolling release, something easy to install that supported full disk encryption, and a decent amount of stuff via repo. Believe it or not, there's not a lot that ticks all those boxes.
Anyone but Amazon (2016)
I'm using Brave and my useragent is not unique.

Version 1.2.43 Chromium: 79.0.3945.130 (Official Build) (64-bit)
>data that was later revised down

Can we really trust reports that are coming out of China? From the CCP, no less?
Epic’s CEO urges hospitals to oppose rules to make it easier to share med info
Most of this is probably just kids taking the piss with adults who ask them dumb questions.

> "Where do fish sticks come from? Do they think I'm retarded just because I'm five? Fuck it, I'll tell them it comes from pigs, I wonder if they'll be stupid enough to think I'm not fucking with them."
> there is no consumer demand for it.

The most demanding thing more than, probably, 0.01% of customers do is livestreaming. If your line can actually sustain 10mbps (vs advertised/claimed), you're good. The only other real scenario is someone learning that they have to back their data up, for the first time, which is really a once in a lifetime usecase for fast upload.

What would likely improve the experience of 99%+ users is latency, where fiber has consistently proven to be king (for me at least).
Rise of the Chief Community Officer