skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Er, sorry, I wasn't being condescending. I intended to clarify some relevant facts, please don't take it personally.

You had said:

> Go's memory safety isn't some kind of automatic security guarantee...

But in some cases, it is. I'm not claiming more than that, nor am I saying that you can't have "bugs of other kinds" -- on which point I agree with you.
N95 masks are available on eBay from sellers with good reputations for around 2x normal prices.
A billion Wi-Fi devices suffer from a newly discovered security flaw
I wouldn't say that. It looks more like the 10%ers had simply been winning since at least the 90s and are slow to abandon a strategy that had been successful for so long.

Yang was a candidate that could appeal to both the populare and the 10%, but I think he suffered from some anti-STEM bias.
Enhancing the Research Community’s Access to Street View for Language Grounding
Tailwind has been great and I've been looking forward to this for months. I fought Tailwind as a concept pretty hard at first, but after hearing Adam and a few others raving about it I gave it a shot. It takes some getting used to at first but I can't imagine developing without it anymore.

To me, the biggest benefit of Tailwind and utility classes in general is that it removes the cognitive overheard of having to think of class names while designing a new page.

For example, if I'm working on a card and I want some text below the main text to have a smaller, gray font size. What do I name that class? "card-sub-text", "card-sub-title"? No - don't even worry about it - "text-sm text-gray-700" and move on.

Later on, if I end up repeating that combination in a number of places, I have more context of what that class name really should be, and I can extract the utility classes to a specific class name.

Really powerful stuff that has helped to increase my velocity quite a bit.
Is it immoral to create a grossly misfigured human embryo to maturation, even if it is just the brain being disfigured?
How to improve safety and streamline construction process
Your summary - and, importantly, the title here on HN - skips the important part: 'and How to Fight It'

As such, I was going to skip the article. Fortunately, I saw mumblemumble's comment below

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22407569
So, Bolsonaro is "thankfully steering Brazil of peril"?
Bad Words for Describing Software Products (2019)
Songwriters: Just Make Music
Sometimes what doesn’t happen is as interesting as what does.

Cloning human embryos has been possible for nearly seven years. Yet as far as I know, during that time no one has made a cloned baby or, apparently, has tried to make one. And what I find most surprising is that no one has announced they intend to make one.
This project is the gift that keeps on giving when it comes to hilarity and schadenfreude. Custom hash function? Bizarre obsession with trinary? Complete centralization in a space where decentralization is the point? Constant big announcements with no substance?

I love watching these guys and their supporters. It's like watching an internet cult in real time.
They have, you just don't know it.
For the first business, you're probably right.

For the second and subsequent attempts, bootstrapping makes way more sense than any other means of funding.
Same for me with the browser occupying the right half of my screen.
How to make your project a success when working with IT services companies
This topic is interesting to me for a few reasons...

Cognitive impairment has long been associated with inflammation in older adults:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3390758/

As well as the general population where illness is involved:
https://psychcentral.com/news/2019/12/01/inflammation-linked...

And it contributes to a variety of disorders (potentially almost all of them). The research here is pretty broad, Google if interested. Notably, depression, anxiety and other behavior impacting problems are among the aforementioned disorders.

We know that exercise levels and diet can lower or increase inflammation.

So we have this sort of rare magic bullet when it comes to health, cognition and aging. Lowering inflammation won't fix everything of course, but it will lower your risk of pretty much everything.

And yet this truth is less a part of the zeitgeist than you'd expect, given it's impact. Maybe because it's simple but not easy to change your lifestyle. Or more importantly, the lifestyles of a population. Especially when part of the problem is financial insecurity.
Anecdotal: I had a discussion yesterday with someone who has very close connection to someone inside one U.S. intelligence agency. I asked him about the circumstantial evidence of virus engineering.

He told me that he recently directly asked his contact "is this virus engineered?" His contact could have answered "I can't discuss that", but the contact's answer was a direct "No".
Neural architecture search, imitation learning and the optimized pipeline
It doesn't have to be first to be bad. They can both be bad.
What you say sounds completely conspiracy theorist, but I also think you are probably right. I don't know if we have the technology to clone a human. I don't understand enough about genetics and biotechnology to know where we stand. What I do know is that governments and well funded organizations have a vested interest in knowing what the general public does not. Advancements either good or bad were never made by playing it safe and following the rules. Being that things like this are illegal is exactly the reason why they keep it a secret as to how many advancements we make in certain areas.
> Are people flagging these or something for not being tech

Could be, or it could be because they don't want to fan the flames of panic or it could be because they'd rather not know.
Bats really do seem to serve as viral reservoirs at an exceptionally high rate[1]. SARS, MERS, coronavirus and ebola all likely seem to have originated in bats.

One thing we may have to consider is a policy of bat eradication. At least in populated areas. It would have some ecological consequences, but the risk of mass pandemic probably outweighs that cost.

[1]https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=JnBpAgAAQBAJ&oi=...
Theoretically, yes. It would be sterile.
I'm pretty interested in the morals/law discussion we'll need to have soon when we have creation of embryos without needing exactly two parents, plus the ability for the embryo to develop to term in an artificial uterus (no humans needed). There are so many questions here that we just don't have precedent for!
Priority is useful for... Prioritization. One can autoassign a priority for an enum classification.

I've never seen impact/urgency/severity as being anything other than different ways to say priority or overcomplicated ways to derive priority. Then again I've never wrangled an absolutely massive bug/ticket queue.
You can do that with twin studies.
https://www.france24.com/en/20191230-china-chinese-scientist...
> not general-purpose language quality.

= not top-notch in all areas? Yeah, there's room for improvement. Buuut, given CL's features and stability, I will very much consider it for a commercial project in the future instead of, say, Python. I'd reject Python, for sure, for GUIs or web dev (except a small website maybe where admins would use the Django admin). Now I must find another language, and it's difficult. Many things drive me back to CL, including its state of libraries, actually pretty good compared to other languages, newer or older. No kidding.

> If you want to make something that's successful commercially or as a well-adopted open-source project

maybe. Reading you, it seems one should avoid using CL altogether. But there's a lot of room for a successful use of CL before falling into these categories: one-off scripts, quick GUIs at work, personal tools? Commercial websites (with adequate requirements), like I did? yes, it's possible to use CL for that. Yes, it is possible to do web development for a job with CL (what kind of sites? We have to ask the few redditors that do it). My point is that CL is general-purpose enough so that it could be more used in the wild (because it is used in the wild).

Anyways. Just trying to be positive :)
https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/528

It seems like they've fixed their systemd config though to run as a non-privileged user, so that shouldn't be an issue. But it seems like Go processes can't drop privileges because of an open issue with the runtime.
A small group of 10 or so scientists, well funded by a nation state could absolutely do it, and absolutely keep it secret

I have friends who are working on killer robots (terminator style) and they are not interested in fame or notoriety, they want the technical challenge and the fat paycheque. Whether you agree with the ethics of this is irrelevant, the point is, it can be done
Thank you. Making a note of these.
Russia is not the most transparent country when it comes to such news, to put it mildly.
What would an organization do with an individual's skills unless they can turn those into capabilities and execute the tasks needed to be performed.
There is also a pathway under the Ministry of Defense building to the preserved remains of Henry VIII's wine cellar. MoD is built on top of a section of the former Whitehall palace. It's a cool site to see that's closed off from the general public. I've been fortunate enough to visit, and it's perfectly preserved. One day when the MoD is done with that building, perhaps it will open to the public again. http://stuffaboutlondon.co.uk/london/henry-viiis-wine-cellar...
Show HN: SpectX launches the free edition of its raw log file / blob analyzer
Ethereum DApps: How to Load the Blockchain
Plot twist: Amazon was around in 2001, too. No diapers yet, but they were selling plenty of books.
Any recommendations on how to more rapidly move the needle? Your work is appreciated!
> is that not following instructions written by programmers

Not in any useful sense. Everything's deterministic with perfect knowledge, but nobody has perfect knowledge. The universe is still a machine too, and yet somehow manages to surprise us anyway. As soon as you inject non-replicable random numbers into the process, "following instructions" isn't entirely true any more.
The article does go into the flawed technology: the hilariously poorly thought out trits, the flawed internally developed hash, the centralized nature of the system, etc etc. IOTA is to technologically flawed that it's amazing that it's worth more than $0.
Take a second and re-read your comment. Do you really think it would be hard?

There are institutions scattered all over the globe that do shit behind closed doors. Jeffrey Epstein (et all), Scientology, Russia, North Korea, the Nazis, Hydra (kidding) and a ton of engineering, defense, biotech labs all over the place.

It’s not hard to do something secretly if you have money.

Small teams can move mountains. I mean look at the Manhattan Project or Lockheed Martin during the golden years of stealth technology.
First, I want this. TailwindCSS has great developer experience for me. I would pay for this even if I wouldn't use it, but I definitely will.

I like how they didn't limit too much what can you do with components in license, which is really good.

I generally am OK with this and want to see if I want to get just appUI or both sets. I think Adam should've joined them together and maybe given us some deal on pricing as early adopters. But, he is great guy, and this is excellent way to support him and project.
I hate to have an annoying over-simplified answer but... Epstein.
So the PM can triage high severity issues quickly, because even though they may be p2 issues they’re probably worth serious consideration.
The EU should just give the keys to the server room to Estonia and let them handle our IT.
Oral History of Jon Rubinstein Session 1
I don't like the way how you characterize Chinese people. The fact is that most of Chinese trust the government and believe collectively they are making the correct choice. Maybe we don't think the same way as you, it doesn't mean we don't think.
Aside from incentives being strongly aligned, financial or otherwise, there are certainly bleak and dark scenarios I can imagine to rigidly keep any behaviour hidden from the majority of society.
What is UA sniffing mean in this context? :)
14% of Recovered Covid-19 Patients in Guangdong Tested Positive Again
Happy UX Design pt. 1
Kennedy told only 6 people that he accepted Khrushchev's deal to remove missiles from Cuba and Turkey which was one of the most powerful secrets in the world to disarm WW3, possibly one of the many decisions that saved the human race from nuclear annihilation. His vice president didn't even know. And the thought that Kennedy just stared down Khrushchev until Khrushchev gave in remained a core part of US international negotiation ever since. The deal was only declassified 20 years ago.

So I don't really buy this common internet "if it happened, we'd know about it" meme that secrets are so hard to keep.
> You're not supposed to do it like this for your own project.

If even the creator of Tailwind doesn't use Tailwind properly, does anyone?
Who Am I Buying from When I Shop Online?
If I were to clone a human, I would wait until it had developed into a fully formed, healthy adult before even thinking about announcing it to the world.
The trick is a ladder is often rating your fundamentals + meta abilities. Where meta is a boost on top of your fundamentals.

So, yeah, if you know around the Gold ranking the meta seems to bias towards folks playing Terran using a Reaper at time X, then the meta knowledge gives a quick and easy boost since you're prepared.

But that's a temporary boost. In Plat or Diamond the meta is often different due to the increase in skill floor from improved fundamentals. This is why folks often say just MACRO BETTER instead of chasing optimizing meta strats. Better long-term reward.
* https://news.skhynix.com/official_statement_recent_media_rep...
Amazon isn't a de-facto monopoly by any reasonable definition. Most big box retailers have online shopping, and Walmart even offers the same delivery speeds in many areas.
Why will the next crash be a lot worse than 2008? Do you mean for tech specifically or in general?
It converts the css but keeps the markup.
Somewhat related but: has anyone heard of/ used the Brave browser?
>It has killed a lot more people in China than a normal flu

No it hasn't. I can't find good numbers for China, but 80,000 died of the flu in the US in 2018 and china's population is about 4x higher.

>SARS

That's meaningless, SARS was contained without spreading to nearly as many people. It tells us nothing about the mortality rate, or the severity.

>We have some idea. It's a bad one, at least.

What I said was we have no idea if it's 20x as deadly. It's likely not 20x as deadly.
Thank you, I appreciate your perspective (and I think you're right)
Perhaps not exactly cloning? In any case, this should arguably be legal.
Should candle manufacturers be held responsible when someone burns their place down because they left a candle burning or put it near flammable material or knocked it over?
Agreed.

However if an author of the solution does insist on implementing it in one binary with orchestration step being in the code rather than pulled out into the infrastructure management, the author should not be surprised that no one outside tiny single server operations would consider it to be a contender.
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How coronavirus could force the work-from-home movement
Why anyone needs protest to "support CAA"? Its already the law of the land...so what's there to protest?

Gandhi united Indians against British. BJP/RSS and the Savarna Hindu bigots unite Hindus against Muslims and other minorities.

Almost every action from Narendra Modi and the thug Home Minister Amit Shah - the Nicholas Maduro of India - is nothing but thinly veiled Islamophobia and bigotry.
Disclaimer: I haven't used Tailwind. Maybe I'm missing something.

> For example, if I'm working on a card and I want some text below the main text to have a smaller, gray font size. What do I name that class? "card-sub-text", "card-sub-title"? No - don't even worry about it - "text-sm text-gray-700" and move on.

What's the difference with "color: gray; font-weight: 700"? In this case I really don't have to care about the property order, whereas in your case I would guess you still have the cognitive overhead requiring you to know that "gray" comes before "700" (unless it's expected to be preprocessed away? what if I use text-700-gray?).
This is excellent, thank you for the link. Any others you think highly of?
WASM has less of a perf hit.
Very cool! Will check out.
No you lost the 100 USD when you purchased the IOTA. What you lost just recently was the IOTA.
It's like the NY Times and Trump.

"Kids not eating their vegetables? Thank Trump for that"
Ask HN: Could somebody reccomend me a hosting service for personal use?
I need to practice infra related concepts that I am not able to do in my current job and also host my personal webapps apps.

Requirements

1. Need only 1-2 machines max.
2. Easy to cancel the subscription and cost management.
3. Easy and faster to attach DNS.
4. Enough storage and reliability

I can see a pro of using AWS as I will have access to wide range of services already present, but is there anything cheaper for personal use?
>containment does not actually stop the virus. It simply slows it

If containment slows the virus then it might be wise to slow the virus if any of the following is true:

1. You expect to develop some treatment for it.

2. You think a slowly growing group of infected will allow you to study the infected and possibly discover a treatment (related to 1 but not exactly the same)

3. The virus is not expected to be a problem in the summer.

4. A slowly spreading virus means that you can better ramp up your facilities to take care of the infected. (related to 1 and 2)
Or each of your headings is a React/Vue/Web/Polymer/etc component and that's a single edit. Also, sed.
Owning things isn't the objective. It's the experience of having things to show off to others, to attract friends and mates, and to get likes on social media.

It's a lot like Skydiving. People do it so they can have the adoration of others. They want to be able to impress their friends that they did some super cool thing. It's why the iPhone has 17 cameras or whatever it is now. People need the latest, greatest thing to continually get adoration.

It's like people that win the lottery and go broke. They finally acquire and get to do whatever it is they always wanted. Maybe they just wanted to live richly for 8-24 months. What's the point of having all that money if you can't have fun?

Personally, I don't live this way, but many people do. I've just decided to stop looking down my nose at those people. They are optimizing for their own happiness.
By my definition it's meta to do opponent modeling since you are using information outside of the game mechanics.

And you're right, for games with high efficiency and public knowledge you can often just grind through optimal play.

However, for games with hidden information, you can play theoretical optimally, but you can also gain an additional edge if you can properly model your opponent. I'm thinking like in Poker. There's mathematically correct play, but because you play against folks who don't play mathematically correct you could get an extra edge by properly modeling the faults of your opponent you can exploit!
I mean, most companies manufacturing kitchen knives seem to be valued a lot higher than Glock or Remington for example, who have both been sued.
> recessions are the market correcting itself.

That's a reductive oversimplification.

There is no proof that a semi-capitalist market "corrects itself" in all cases, nor that a recession is even an event that brings "the market" (for some arbitrary quality) into alignment with some other arbitrary baseline or expectation.
Throughput,capacity,and backpressure in distributed systems
A lot of interesting stuff may become public from this.

1. Is Apple scared that backdoors will be found in Ios? It's much easier to find them in a virtual environment.

2. As the article mentions, there may be zerodays for Ios developed by Corellium. It would be great to know the extent of this.

3. We might learn more about current phone cracking capabilites in general. That may open a few eyes, including mine.

I'm currently just very happy to have learned that people are poking at Apple's walled garden. Watching from the sidelines, I will appreciate any and all punches in this conflict. When secretive organizations battle in court, collateral exposure may happen :-)
I like how in "eesti.ee/en/" more than 50% of the letters are "e". So that how I picture an Estonian keyboard now.
I agree that someone might have tried that, but the real question is, was the clone viable? From what I remember from my human genetics class in uni, cloning is not just about the genes but also about Methylation sites that are carried by complex machinery in the womb (a subject of Epigenetics).
mmap is great. I worked on a project a couple months ago where we had ~20 threads concurrently fetching data over the wire and dumping it into a file. We just ftruncated the file to ~4TB (bigger than we'd ever need it to be) and mmapped'd it all into memory, initializing the first 8 bytes to be an atomic integer that kept track of the actual size. The data needed to end up on disk anyway, and we were more than happy to let the OS take care of that us. We also had very little random access (mostly sequential writes) so it worked really well.
Rael cloned a human years ago, you sheep.

/s
> "how do people know who has how many coins, for a coin which has reportedly never shipped a working binary"?

They have a MySQL type database that stores IOUs for the people who bought the ICO tokens. They promise to deliver the actual coins once they finish the software, which in many cases has never happened. Others are less egregious than this and have working binaries on a testnet--the future main network is promised to deliver the actual functionality. There are a few coins (Cardano, EOS) worth multiple billions that don't have a mainnet or a working wallet.
The organizers of the MWC canceled it. Barcelona didn't want them to do so.
This is just the beginning. Some models estimate the climax of the pandemic will be April.
A melody-writing duo published (on the Internet Archive) and released into the public domain 2TB of recorded audio that includes all 8-note melodies. This is something people have mused about for some time, it's nice to see it becoming real.

https://kottke.org/20/02/recording-all-the-melodies

It seems they could save space by leaving out pure keyshifts, and to really make the point a future version should include the sheet music // offer an easy way to index into a melody + play it back at normal speeds.
Even if you discount how morally wrong this is, cloning does not imply accelerated growth. Even if you started now, your (likely) involunatary donor will not be ready for many years, likely long enough for your morally corupt self to be long dead due to organ failure by then.
That's still a million customers who went through the friction of setting up a new bank account, and whose first impressions are now net negative.
I couldn’t see it because I’m on mobile.