skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> car payment

I do agree COL outpacing earnings is most of the problem, but at the same time, so many people are peer pressured into unnecessary overspending when they could've done just as well spending a fraction.

A big one is a pervasive perception you need to get into big debt (or any debt at all) to have a nice, reliable car. I firmly believe anyone can find a good used car around or even under $1000.

I bought mine (99 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo 4.7L) over two years ago for $750. Some odds and ends needed repairs over time including it coming with a bad alternator (I was aware before buying). I just completed a 3000 mile road trip with it and it's still good as new barring a manageable issue I'll have to get taken care of soon.

People in my peer group will be paying off much less nice cars for years and years while I'm saving and enjoying a great car with no finnicky distracting touch screen on the radio or other annoying misfeatures new cars are plagued with. My parents spent $8000 on a 2008 Nissan and the radio controls broke and would cost too much to fix or replace, the gas flap only opens with a hard to reach lever, the digital pedals are extremely oversensitive, and you can't even start it without pressing the brakes, which is especially annoying in the winter when you just want to lean in and start it to warm up.

The same principle goes for appliances, furniture, almost anything. Don't trap yourself in a lifetime of being cash poor when the alternative on craigslist for 1/10-1/100 the price is just as good or better.
Here's the alignment between the complete nucleotide sequences for "bat SARS-like coronavirus" and the "Wuhan seafood market pneumonia virus": https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?CMD=Get&RID=2T49U0F...

As you can see, they are highly related (88.7% identity), but there are point mutations all over the place. The envelope protein is very short, and given this rate of mutations it is not unlikely to find an identical stretch of this length, particularly if the coding sequence is under selective pressure. In fact, the nucleotide sequences for the envelope protein differ in 3 silent point mutations (you can go to alignment view, the sequence starts with "ATGATGAACCGAC" and ends with "TGGTCTAA", total length is 228 nucleotides.)

So no, this is not evidence of this being artificially generated, just that they're highly related.

Edit: To put this in perspective, the original SARS virus from 2003 is 84.9% identical to the "bat SARS-like coronavirus" (https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?CMD=Get&RID=2T5DXWU...) and 82.3% identical to the Wuhan seafood market virus (https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?CMD=Get&RID=2T5GRS8...).
Let's take Buzzfeed.

Most of what they post is utter clickbait and not really informative. They also do amazing pieces of investigation because this model brought them money and they wanted to use it to do better work.

See this article from 2018 that was nominated for a Pullitzer Prize.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/heidiblake/from-russia-with-blood-1...

Does that mean you rate Buzzfeed as cancer - including the great reporting they sometimes do ? Or each article independently ? But then who does it ?

Open questions here as well ^^
> I'm bordering on conspiracy theory territory here

Yes.

All of the initial cases are people who have been to a specific seafood market, which also sells wild animals.

You would be suggesting that somehow Biosafety Laboratory dropped it's virus specifically in that market, which sold animals known to naturally carry the coronavirus.

I call bs based on principal: Simple explanation is almost always right over complex ones.
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There will probably never be another complete new web browser developed from scratch. Browsers are already being supplanted by native mobile apps, wearable devices, voice interfaces, and (just starting) AR / VR. Browser use is still growing worldwide but the trend is toward slower growth. No one will invest hundreds of person years to build a product in a market with declining growth and entrenched competition.
How do you expect an American to fly somewhere to give birth?
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Can you link to such an action happening?
Did you mean TSMC?
Don't underestimate how effectively a totalitarian and surveillance state like China can be in discouraging behaviors they don't want. People aren't willing to risk their lives just to eat exotic animals. And that could be what's at stake here; witness what happened to some of the people involved in the melamine baby milk formula scandal.
> That includes everything from married couples with kids in expensive cities to young single professionals in low cost cities.

Why do people keep writing stories like this without taking into account the city/local cost of living and inflation? It makes no sense!

Just yesterday there was a story about a 30 something year old who came out of early retirement because he couldn’t make it on 280K a year of passive income and everything in the article can be fixed by moving out of SF.
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Complex software is what customers want. A rendering engine for clean, valid XHTML could be very simple. But everyone wants to be able to see web pages created by technically incompetent designers with "tag soup" HTML. There's no point in complaining, that's just the reality of the modern web.
I think a great way to generate both usage and stars (if that matters to you) is to add a gif to the readme showing some gameplay.
Looks awesome!
I have two sisters living in China now; it’s all hearsay, but affected number suppression was something that they had heard about, too.
(I work for AWS. Opinions are my own and not necessarily those of my employer.)

I've been doing some initial M6g tests in my lab, and while I'm not able to disclose benchmarks, I can say that my real-world experience so far reflects what's been claimed elsewhere.

Graviton2 is going to be a game changer. It's not like the usual experience with ARM where you have to trade off performance for price, and decide whether migrating is worth the recompilation effort. In my lab, performance of the workloads I've tried so far is uniformly better than on the equivalent M5 configuration running on the Intel processor. You're not sacrificing anything by running on Graviton2.

If your workloads are based on scripting languages, Java, or Go, or you can recompile your C/C++ code, you're going to want to use these instances if you can. The pricing is going to make it irresistible. Basically, unless you're running COTS (commercial off-the-shelf software), it's a no-brainer.
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you've accidentally hit on a strategy that might work well.

Have a site with one public user account that is linked to a reputation and a shadow one created simultanously for snark / sharp riposte's / unpopular opinions.
My bad - I was looking at a published book that referenced the case and wanted to link an article that was more easily available, but it was for the wrong case. My original comment is also uneditable now. The case I meant to reference is "Vorschaubilder I", see the press release[0]

> [translated] The plaintiff has made the content of its website accessible for search engines without making use of technical means to exclude the images of her works from the search and display by image search engines in the form of preview images.

0: http://juris.bundesgerichtshof.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/doc...
"privacy advocates and industry stakeholders are debating ... how shoppers should be informed about when their faces are scanned"

I don't want to be informed when my face are being scanned, in the same way that I don't want to be informed when a website is about to sell my data. What I want is for the law not to allow such things.
Ah, right, I knew about this, but you still need to setup an SSL cert yourself; I thought you'd meant there was some kind of turn-key solution for E2E I wasn't aware of.
That quote is hilarious in its own right.

Apparently spending $50 mil on a house is A-ok!

But God forbid you actually get some bathrooms for that money!
Good point. I only ever heard positive things about kuro5hin, but I never warmed up to it, no matter how hard I tried.

It's the same as some print newspapers. You know they are better than some others, but all of their content is just too... dry? for you. And no, I don't mean too high-level or non-boulevard. They just seem to have an air of something that doesn't suit you.
HTTPS is bad:

- It wastes resources.

- It adds complexity.

- You can solve everything HTTPS solves over HTTP!

- It encourages passive destructive behavior.

- Troy Hunt probably has money coming in from certificates somehow.

HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 are also bad.

WebSockets are bad.

As a side note:

Vulkan is bad.

HDMI is bad.

Wakeup people. Time to get off that over-engineering couch and downvote the guy telling the truth again!
> Certbot and LetsEncrypt make this a trivial process these days.

Not on all shared hosting plans. And migrating from a shared hosting plan can be quite a lot of work, depending on the website.

Also: Getting a LetsEncrypt wildcard cert for Apache on a CentOS 8 VPS is non trivial (for individuals not already familiar with docker) [1]

[1] https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/centosrhel8-apache
I would be more comfortable if there were several acme based free certificate providers

However I’m far more concerned about chrome, and the attitude of so many in the biz that think Firefox should be mothballed.
The Christmas 2015 hack has now been fixed :) My boss has been begging us to leave Linode ever since. We haven't left.
I'm personally not happy with the randomness of the chat invite system. I have some ideas on how to streamline it but I haven't had time to present them, and I lack the Ruby chops to actually contribute to the site's code.
I've been telling myself to pay with cash more often, primarily because I think it's crazy that a finance company gets 3%-5% of every purchase using a CC. Obviously some of that covers overhead, but it's mostly a mafia style shake-down that society is blindly accepting as a matter of convenience. Stores linking facial recognition with CC details is just extra motivation for me.
Not nothing. The sizes of various aspects of the process are still roughly correlated with the number, even if they're 2x or 3x that size.
Imagine having such a boring life that you feel the need to attend Ruby conferences.
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The comparison between food/exercise and income/expenses is analogous, but not equally challenging. It's easy to make $250k a year and only spend $50k because the diminishing return of spending money-- a single person can live a reasonably decent life on $50k. Compare this to earning $60k, spending the same amount, but spending less. Exercising completely wipes the diminishing return of food, albeit temporarily. Food tastes better and you are hungrier after a workout. It is easier to exercise financial constraint than dietary constraint.
The mandarin part is in a female voice. Making a voice that doesn’t sound like him using AI seems to be a overkill. They could have used dubbers.
Sure, but not impactful enough to matter in practice. FreeBSD can claim a lot of architectural differences too and yet they don't solve the problems you were talking about. And the actually different OSes that can help with those problems are not really usable except for some niche use cases.
I always remember that https://github.com/mame/quine-relay

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mame/quine-relay/master/QR...
It might vary from field to field, but in genetics Excel is a complete nonstarter, and even numpy is not going to work on sufficiently large datasets. The project I work on, http://hail.is, was started to help deal with this.
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> morally wrong

Debatable. There are plenty of situations where I feel I'm morally justified in pirating things. When my values tell me that companies shouldn't be able to profit off of something they made 20-30 years ago, then I have no moral qualms in downloading a ROM of a game for a console that isn't made anymore. Regardless of whether "remasters" or "ports" exist or not. Because in an ideal world, that wouldn't result in an eternal extension in copyright.
This is a good question. The answer is pretty definitive, that yes, this is a thing that superpowers have been confirmed to do in the past. There's much less to go on about current work, but we can look at the type of specialized equipment that is getting built or purchased by various nations and make inferences, and trust that intelligence agencies are making substantiated conclusions. To excerpt from a Congressional Research Service report[0] in 2008:

"No nation publicly acknowledges either an offensive biological weapons (BW) program or stockpile. Examination of unclassified sources indicates that several nations are considered, with varying degrees of certainty, to have some BW capability. These are: China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Israel, North Korea, Russia, Syria, and Taiwan."

The most data exists on the Soviet Union. Defectors from the soviet union had a lot to say about Biopreparat.[1] Not all of the rumors have been substantiated, but they did have a number of incidents that strongly suggest they had the souped up versions of several agents defectors claimed they did like anthrax[2], smallpox[3] and marburg[4]. In particular, the smallpox incident[3] that occurred had a high percentage of cases that progressed to the hemorrhagic form which indicates unusual virility in the strain.

There is also evidence of at least ongoing research on those agents. One researcher at vector died in 2004 from pricking herself with a needle filled with Ebola[5]. Whether that's offensive in nature is very difficult to determine. However there's definitely some transparency issues that have increased with time at this facility after a change in leadership in ~2004 or 2005.

[0] http://usiraq.procon.org/sourcefiles/CRS_2-20-08.pdf

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopreparat

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_smallpox_incident

[4] Placeholder. Having a hard time finding where the info on Dr. Ustinov came from. This might be worth a read: https://weaponews.com/history/65348565-strain-u-the-tragedy-...

[5] https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/25/world/russian-scientist-d...

Most subject matter experts seem pretty convinced this is happening.
Those pictures reminded me of when my American friends posted a video of them making possum stew.
There are some interesting implications for widely deployed processors that are literally never publicly seen because they spend their whole life in a highly locked down data center. I wonder if things like Meltdown could have ever been discovered if researchers could only poke at the chips via EC2.
>I do agree COL outpacing earnings is most of the problem, but at the same time, so many people are peer pressured into unnecessary overspending when they could've done just as well spending a fraction

Nothing about companies being peer-pressured into underpaying their employees? That is, it's not the COL outpacing earnings, it's pay being kept below COL. It's held below by individual people repeatedly making discrete decisions to do so, i.e. with full intent.
Is there somewhere to buy something like this for use at home?
No it isn't; and your definition is infinitely regressive because it further implies that (cons 1 (cons 2 ...)) is syntactic sugar for (cons 'cons 1 (cons 'cons 2 ...)) and so on.
The title is clickbait, but should an educational program automatically be entitled to an income share agreement even if the educational program failed to teach anything and the person got a job despite the program? That seems to be the issue here.
He owned 3% of the company and wasn't a board member.
Opera was probably using licensed third-party code internally which they couldn't legally release as open source.
The prettiest pollutant ever invented
Actually, it's not clear to what extent such laws are constitutional in the US (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-mask_law#United_States). Anonymous speech (among other things) is very clearly protected, but threats of violence obviously aren't.

If challenged, I wonder if arguing that the mask was your way of expressing your wish not to be tracked would be successful. Of course this is all irrelevant since it likely won't be law enforcement you have to contend with - presumably businesses that cared would simply refuse entry to those with face coverings.
If your population is largely inoculated, which you can do secretly by spiking "flu shots" and having a high %age of cooperation in getting said shots, then you can use those viruses as weapons without threatening your own people.
what software is being used for the 3d reconstruction and visualization? The images used to make the movie are incredibly impressive.
People who would pay attention to warnings like that are probably not the same demographic working in the wet-markets in the first place
Elon Musk Reveals His Real Opinion of Bitcoin
Points of view ... for me the simplest explanation seems to be one linked to the other.

The good news is that we are rational and able to find explanations based on evidence. Let's see what comes out in a few weeks.
You're conflating standards with products.
If you're using S3, just use Cloudfront and their auto-issuing free HTTPS certs.
My thoughts exactly. My impression is that the key is to get in early while a product's value is rising, then cash out at the last possible second for maximum gain. Then, once you're financially established, you can throw portions of your wealth into equity in later iterations and repeat the cycle.
Yah, I agree. I don't necessarily think chronological ordering is the perfect curation system either. But the problem is that whatever criteria Twitter uses isn't aligning with what I think it should be.

Now of course, I'm not special, I shouldn't expect it WOULD be aligned with what I consider good curation. But I can't imagine the choices they ARE making are anywhere near the mean users preference. So lots of people reject that curation and choose to curate for themselves as if it was an RSS feed.

But I think the thing that these people (and I count myself among them) really want is for companies like twitter and youtube to let us make our own choices about curation.

"I really like this person and want to see everything they release."

"I like this persons tastes and want their feed added to mine"

"This person isn't that interesting, just show me stuff they make that gets popular"

"I only want to see tweets from this person about certain subjects. I don't care about their views on woodworking."

ect.
Alternatively, we can look to our fellow workers overseas and realize we have a common interest to not be exploited. We can work together towards a new system where we do not allow the free movement of capital to mercilessly exploit workers.
Proves my point, right? :)
It seems like they are reacting just in time.
Also since we're talking physical products, in cases where the stolen good would've spoiled/been thrown out/destroyed, theft actually makes money for the store by freeing up shelf space.
That's not strictly true. Some of the work I do involves software to do premium calculations for insurance. While pennies do matter for intermediate values during calculation, virtually everyone rounds the final premium to a dollar amount or the closest 10 cent increment. Nobody cares about pennies when each transaction is hundreds or thousands of dollars.
Yes, add HTTPS, but keep the option for mere HTTP, because backwards compatibility is good.

Many parts of the world can't deal with TLS1.3 HTTP/2 websites only.
Part of the COL changes are out of your control. Say you want to buy a 900 square foot house-- it's difficult to do so, since tastes changed in aggregate. Those houses get torn down and 2000 sq ft homes go up in their place. You can't spend less, even if you wanted to, or minimally speaking, it's much more difficult to consume less.
Does the chip still manage to have superior power efficiency versus x86 even at these performance levels?
> These are primarily dangerous because they're water soluble and present an ingestion and inhalation hazard. Once a large amount of a strong alpha-emitter is in your intestines it can really cause damage.

So since the workers are getting it all over their hands and feet, which probably has sweat on it, would it pose a danger? Also, would getting it on wounds like cuts be dangerous as well?
An art fair where you can buy a steer and a painting
the fact is that the connections and knowledge about the proteins are probably enough. consider: when something as complicated as a human brain is completely disrupted (with severe hypothermia, general anesthesia, a strong seizure) the "stuff" of their intellectual identity is preserved if the insult is removed. Therefore, it's extremely accurate to say that "we have everything we need" if the structure and protein expression within that structure is known.
This may be sound for someone with a moral compass. But you could also say wealth is the value you take from others (scams or well-meaning offers to others with highly questionable value).
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> My "downvotes" are merely not upvoting, due to indifference or some flavor of distaste.

I do the same. I don't know you but I already like you :D
Autopilot safety flaws are one sided. Think about the people who lose their mind/focus after seeing no driver/driver not paying attention and hence is no less than distracted/drunk driving.
I believe this comment is talking about a time prior to that, closer to 2000.
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Without forcing an unified charger, the same aim could be achieved by banning manufacturers from bundling changers with all products, and by forcing them in include an adapter to USB-C with products that use another connector.

People would buy a charger only when they actually needed one, it could be a generic USB-C one, and manufacturers would have an incentive to use USB-C unless they could really sell the extra value of a different connector.
Is it lucky to roll a six ten times on a row? Sure. Is it lucky to roll a six at least once of ten throws? Not really, it's expected.

This difference is why smart investment is much more than "just luck".
The workaround is to wear a realistic facemask
1. Start with a bullet list of the points you absolutely have to make (the meat).

2. Make a second level to the bullet list where you fill in the gaps between the meat where you can add color and make the topic digestible (the vegetables/fiber).

3. Make a third level of the bullet list with all of the nice story points you'd like to add but are not necessary (the dessert).

4. Delete all those nice to have story points. If they're really needed, then they would have been added in step 1 or 2.

Don't add any more words for dessert -- the real treat is how concise you can be while still being interesting. If it's a long form article, skip step 4.
It's because of complexity and lack of trust in the people perceived as running it (especially after 2008). Derivatives, high frequency trading, MBS, and a handful of other acronyms aren't understood by the vast majority of people. That alone wouldn't be an issue if the experts were at least perceived as trustworthy.

This isn't unique and could happen in many industries.

It's an image problem combined with extreme (intentional) complexity. It's also very deserved IMO.
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