skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is considered a conspiracy theory, and scientific consensus is that it has been disproven:

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

You can still find articles seeming to espouse the hypothesis on several sites, but from what I've seen they are all quite old and poorly sourced, with no follow up.
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I meant it is journalistically wrong to depend upon dubious and unreliable sources as basis for analysis..

It can't be denied that there is much misinformation/mistranslation/misunderstanding regards news from China from such unreliable sources. That calls for a nuanced analysis, that is sorely lacking in debating China related topics here.

I don't want to justify China, but the Wall Street Journal reporter who was ejected from Wuhan was overtly hostile, even cynical in their coverage, when the situation called for nuance. Also China officially has claimed the ejection of 3 US reporters a counter measure to the restrictions US has placed on Xinhua and People's Daily in operating in the US soil.
It gets trickier when you need to replace one of the ASICs, but if all you want is the physical object and the user experience, without much regard for the internals, software emulation combined with support for the user-facing aspects (keyboard, mouse, screen perhaps), the approach taken by the c64 mini people with their larger breadbox model seems interesting. Having a drop in replacement for aging Amiga motherboards that can run the software and replicate the user experience without necessarily replicating the underlying hardware seems to be a good 80/20 approach.

There will be people interested in the accurate replication of the hardware. For those there is no replacement for the real thing or something very close to it.
People also made TV shows proving that the Egyptians had discovered pi because pi was in the ratio between the base and the height, or more likely space aliens built it because pi was improbable for the Egyptians.

Then some wit torpedoed it by pointing out that if you used a measuring wheel of 1 cubit in diameter, and measured out the base using so many rotations of the wheel, and measured out the height in cubits, pi is in the ratio without needing to discover it.

No, I don't know what a cubit is. Don't ask.
Context: PEPP-PT is a COVID contact tracing platform that a few EU governments seem to be actively encouraging. So far they have not produced anything for public assessment with an expected rollout within the next few weeks.

Note that I don't necessarily think this analysis is complete but it represents the opaque nature in which this lobby group is currently behaving.
Yes, that's my point. It applies to anything that is creative and dismisses the original point through abstraction.
It's like everybody is supposed to have the same taste in hardware and features.

Both the state of smartphones and the state of laptops and OSs really make me want to get into that industry and make some better alternatives.
I do not see much of a difference between something being affordable in theory, but unavailable in practice, and unaffordable but available.

The latter offers some advantages:

1. Increased prices on scarce goods discourage frivolous consumption.

2. Vulnerable people, if they can be identified, can be subsidized or have their fees waived.

3. Those that find they really need a delivery can still book it - something that is currently impossible.

4. Funds can be raised for good causes.

5. People do not have to waste time queuing/trying to get a slot.

If you like, you could operate both systems at the same time - allocate some slots on a first-come-first-served basis, and some slots on a market supply-and-demand basis.

And of course, delivery is not a necessity for many: a lot of those booking slots at the moment could just go to a shop and buy the groceries in person. A market system would discourage them booking delivery slots.
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Beautiful waitresses serve guests with guns at waists, how powerful
OK. I think a brief paragraph along these lines probably should be in (one of) the readme(s).

Personally I think temporal validity really is needed in most cases - and probably should be default. I suppose maybe not for use as long lived api-keys. Then again... infinent validity is almost certainly wrong..

From time to time I wonder how I'd implement kerberos for the web today - probably trading shared secrets for public key/anchoring trust in certificates... And I usually end up realizing it likely will end up just as complex as kerberos5, with similar trade-off/weaknesses (eg ticket hijack).

Maybe paseto has different goals (which is fine) - and maybe it makes sense as a building block - but I think I'd like to see a simple toke spec that demands: valid keys/certs, blacklist/revocation, temporal validity (the simplest is probably a valid from/to on the token). And no crypto algo agility/negotiation etc.

What is the prime motivation behind/use case/goal for paseto?
In an infinitely large population.
What's the difference between these and regular fiber optic transceivers, aren't they LEDs too?
We're working on a gradual type system for Erlang which also works quite okay for Elixir: https://github.com/josefs/Gradualizer/.
Sorry, I don't get your question. Which 1 VM cluster? Growing 1 VM into 2 VM?
At least, it would be nice if they told me about this requirement on the Settings sheet where I enable "Optimized Battery Charging". I was wondering why it never seems to kick in. Thank you for the clue!
Arguably YC is not meant to be exclusive at all. The idea is to give as many promising people (and products) as possible a chance to get started who might not otherwise have the opportunity. Their application process is still rigorous and weeds out 95%+. Lowering their pro rata stake will only serve to increase applications from people who thought 7% was too high.
Why did you use arch instead of other distro that known to work on many laptops, such as Ubuntu?
Also in a finite population, as long as the virus is spreading exponentially (which it doesn't do forever in a finite population).
Recently wrote a userscript to sync video progress with my friend via peerjs. Works like a charm. And it supports any <video>. The edit-reload dev experience is still much better than extensions.
Are userscripts still run once after page load? That was a major pain point last time I tried using them, on a dynamic page. I tried hooking some events and run-registered-function-on-tree-change-but-at-most-at-N-msec-intervals, but it got out of hand and ended up looking to take much more time to write than the handler it was going to call, so I filed it under "should be written once and properly" and postponed the whole thing.
I've got a Mid 2014 MBP Retina and I'm happy with it, except for playing video games. I tried to upgrade to one of the new MBP last year and I hated it. I sent it back. I tried a windows with WSL, as well as an ubuntu setup, on a very powerful and sleek laptop, but I sent it back too. I'm back with my good old 2014 retina.
If I really need a new laptop, for now the only viable option is a MBP Retina 2015, how crazy is that?
When I was growing up it was possible to tell by accent whether someone came from an inland farm or from one of the fishing villages along the coast - even though the farms might only be 1km or so from the villages.
If B follows from A via logic, but A is invented, isn't B invented as well then?

Just to take a recent example which was mentioned here, Geometric Algebra[1]. There you assume you have some objects which aren't numbers but which when squared equals a given number. By doing that a bunch of nice results have been discovered.

However to me the basic premise, take some objects which aren't numbers but which square to a number, feels very much like an invention. So as such wouldn't the nice results be inventions as well?

[1]: https://bivector.net/doc.html
This is roughly my understanding as well. My actual peeve is here why the experts do not say this? It is not like the concept of "don't buy proper masks, just put a scarf on your face and you/we get most of the benefits" should be too complicated to get through media to people. But no, they just keep on repeating non-arguments that give the impression that either they are morons that should not be listened or they try to give advice to the most moronic part of the population that can't tie their shoelaces, so I better make my judgement anyway.
There are literally hundreds of string search algorithms published now (including a large number of Boyer Moore variants).

There's a great resource called SMART for those interested in exploring this, with implementations of many of them and a simple benchmarking tool.

https://smart-tool.github.io/smart/

Although Boyer Moore is well known, there are generally faster algorithms available these days.

For short patterns, SHIFTOR will tend to be a lot faster than BM. Even the much simpler variant of BM, Horspool is usually faster than BM.

This highlights an interesting tension in search algorithm design. Often a simpler algorithm outperforms one with theoretically higher performance, but not always!
Actually you can. A few years ago, when paying with a German bank card, very often the transaction was turned into a direct debit transaction, because they used to be cheaper.

This used to be very common in supermarkets. Every time you had to sign the receipt this was happening. It's not as common nowadays as the fees are now more or less the same.
If the hardware is designed to handle it, why not?
Funnily enough, one of my first GreaseMonkey scripts that I wrote 9 years ago was one that added the ability to collapse threads here on HackerNews [0]; this functionality was finally added in the past year or so to HN (not based on my implementation).

Worked like a charm back in the days :)

Another more popular GreaseMonkey script of mine was the Wikipedia TeX Source Extractor [1]; I used it extensively during my studies when writing lecture summaries, papers, or my thesis.

Userscripts are definitely fun and can be quite useful.

[0] https://github.com/giu/hacker-news-threadify

[1] https://github.com/giu/wikipedia-tex-source-extractor

Update: After not having touched the code of [1] for over 8 years, I just updated the userscript to work with Firefox 75.0 and the GreaseMoneky add-on v4.9.
Donuts is beyond shady. They literally demand protection money https://donuts.domains/what-we-do/brand-protection

(Basically you pay to block OTHERS from registering domains instead of registering it yourself).

At the creation of DPML it was assumed they could hose every major brand with this by threatening someone would register "bigbrand.dumbTld" and put porn up.
This is absolutely terrifying.

This can also mean that anything you own, that was shipped via container, can also be laced with radiation.

Oh well, I haven’t died yet, so maybe it’s just a remote probability. The COVID-19 probably has a higher chance of taking me out instead.
Do new MacBooks not power on with just AC if you take out the battery?
If you want to understand why some people believe that science and creationism don't go hand in hand, then studying epistemology would help you do that. Most introductory texts will cover what you need.
This is wireless. No wires or fiber cables. It is an alternative to RF which is susceptible to eavesdropping.
The popup after 10 seconds stopped me reading. But it was refreshingly different at least..

"Are you a human interested in humans?" with the choices "YES, I LOVE HUMANS" or "NO, I AM NOT A HUMAN".

I went with C. Back button. I don't like (presumably? no indication what clicking Yes would get me into) subscription popups that stop me reading after 10 seconds on your site!
The "Chief Purpose Officer" at Ethos is working hard these days to keep us all well informed - http://www.circleid.com/pp/dot-org-sale
Once again fails to falsify Einstein's prediction This notion that anything is ever fully proven needs to stop being spread around. Maybe pedantic, but the anti-science crowd latches on to things like this - e.g. 'Science is claiming to have all the right answers just as much as religion!' No it doesn't, it has a long, long list of wrong answers, and a short list of answers that haven't yet been proven wrong, which makes up our current best approximation of 'the truth'. Einstein's theory just withstood another attack, so it gets to keep its crown for now.
You didn't make a point. You asked a loaded question.

It backfired on you.
A better article here, with more fun words:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-50476008

My personal favourite Scots word is "wheesht", which I grew up hearing, to mean "be quiet now". I'm no longer in the UK, but I still find myself saying it, almost reflexively, to our boy here in Finland. He understands it just fine!
Careful with your use of the word creationism. I guess you mean it in the sense of the very vague and general claim that “god created the universe”, but in my experience it is used to refer to a much more specific set of claims, such as “the Earth is about 6000 years old”, which is absolutely not compatible with science.
We had to incorporate in Australia anyway, so I guess you're in a different situation.
Sounds like a job for firebase. That should provide the apis you need off the shelf. Or write your own api in nodejs
Try “Elixir Phoenix” and the topic.
You're probably thinking just of the US, because Alexander Mackenzie crossed North America first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Mackenzie_(explorer)
And this is its manifesto: http://www.re-des.org/a-solarpunk-manifesto/
And is somewhat broken and bodged with FreeBSD.
A very good approach, need to return to this post in a few months.
When the enemy is invisible, nobody cares until the cat's out of the bag. With climate change, the enemy is here already.
Combining the words "most" and "species" feels a little bit silly. Among all the millions of species on this planet only humans have displayed the intelligence necessary to contemplate any of this.
I recently discovered Still Game on Netflix. It's been my intro to Scotland :)) It's like watching Golden Girls but with old men, so much more cussing but in a Scottish accent. Turn it on when ever I need a good laugh. Highly recommended.
I would be careful about blaming "human ignorance" because, case in point, a great many of us are aware of the climate crisis and feel the need to do something about it. In the US, for example, most of the component policies of the Green New Deal poll quite well across party lines.

The problem is that the climate crisis demands large-scale collective planning and decision making, and our systems for doing so have been completely co-opted by powerful economic entities. The actions available to the average citizen amount to putting aside everything in one's life to become an activist (which most people don't have the luxury to do), occasionally voting from a menu of pre-selected corporate-backed candidates, or making ultimately insignificant lifestyle changes (and even that has been subverted by economic powers through "eco-friendly" consumer products).

It's always helpful to look at a problem through the lens of power relationships before blaming "people" for being stupid or ignorant. Certainly some people are, but that doesn't mean it would solve the problem if they weren't.
Not really, there's a difference between saying "surgical masks have their downsides in how they're worn" and "surgical masks aren't effective enough, you want N95s, which have downsides in how they're worn". You explicitly stated that N95 is prefferable and that's what I was commenting against.
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Hi Mike, What particular advantages do you see between grain clips vs written minutes from a meeting?

In my field there are many instances where an item on the agenda is talked through for 15mins and the minute-taker can summarise into a couple of lines/paragraph.

I'm struggling to see how a video clip can deliver a similar summarisation, unless someone has vocally summarised at the end for the clip.
The UK is like that as a whole, the accents and dialect can vary enormously in very short distances.

Even simple things like what people call rolls of bread can place people pretty accurately:

https://i.imgur.com/mwoYYYQ.jpg

I call a small roll of bread a "bread-cake" because that's what my mom called it. My dad would call it a "morning roll". Now I'm an adult I can, and do, alternate between the two terms but I have a preference for my mother's term.

Some words I take my mother's terms and some my dad's. So I guess there's a blending from Scotland and Yorkshire. Now raising a bilingual child who is 50% Finnish who knows how he'll talk, and what he'll call things!
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I made this bookmarklet for Mixcloud to be able to save the current track to my YouTube playlist.

javascript:window.open('http://google.com/search?q=' + [].slice.call(document.querySelectorAll('span[class*=TrackInfo]')).reduce((acc,el)=>acc + el.innerText.split(' —')[0] + ' ', '').trim())
It's on all Disney+ ads.

https://i.imgur.com/avn5ck8.jpg
Piece can also mean small cake, scone, or similar.
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My brain farted, I meant 'country' not 'business'. Ugh.
Then these countries are incompetent if they have no intelligence whatsoever, and think like "Oh gee, if China says that it must be true". These countries could see china building emergency hospitals in Wuhan. That should have been signal enough. They could have learnt from the total lockdown imposed in Wuhan. If their only excuse to reacting pathetically is that the Chinese numbers didn't look bad then frankly they have no business running a country.
Does anyone actually think that the US will cut funding to the WHO entirely? This strikes me as a clear negotiation tactic: remove the people in charge that have concealed information and acted according to the CCP's whims, and then funding will be restored.
> just withstood another attack

That‘s also a wrong simplification. It wasn’t an attack at all. When science reaches new limits and an old theory is confirmed valid even there, what‘s left is even less possibilities for some new theory to make a different prediction. Any new theory must be compatible with the old one in all these already checked places.
“Reasonable excuses” for leaving home during lockdown [UK]
Hi Mike, What particular advantages do you see between grain clips vs written minutes from a meeting?

In my field there are many instances where an item on the agenda is talked through for 15mins and the minute-taker can summarise into a couple of lines/paragraph.
Consider the travels of the Narvaez expedition[1], which landed in Florida in 1528, traveled a small distance by land, rebuilt their boats, then went to roughly where Galveston is today, then a handful of survivors wandered what is today the lands along the US/Mexico border, until finally rejoining the Spaniards who hand conquered the Aztecs in what is today, Mexico City around 1536 or so.

They covered a tremendous amount of ground and, out of about 600 who started, only 3 or so survived. The most famous is Cabeza de Vaca, who would return to Spain, write a book, then be sent to what is now Paraguay and Argentina, where he governed for a while before being sent back to Spain again.

He did all that without cars or planes, or motorboats. These people could go very far.

My favorite from the expedition was a Morrocan named “Estevanico” [2]. His story is pretty amazing.

My guess is that lots of humans traveled like this, over great distances. Some went far, some not so much. The North American tribes took slaves, traded them amongst each other, or sometimes seemed to accept strangers with open arms before nicely sending them along. Other times they would just kill strangers, sometimes almost for sport or entertainment.

Traveling back then wasn’t easy, and encountering other humans could just as easily accelerate your progress as it would stop you dead in your tracks.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narváez_expedition

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estevanico
"Sheer dumb luck" doesn't produce home-run successful companies like Stripe, Airbnb and Twitch.

Companies can get lucky and look successful for a while, but they crash and burn just as fast.

YC only succeeds if they invest in the home-run companies. The lucky, flash-in-the-pan companies don't provide the returns YC needs.
So, what I'm hearing in this thread is that we should evacuate entire areas around coal burning power plants for decades, but we choose not to.
Asthma, no. Diabetes, no. There is not a single person on that ship with either, they’re both disqualifying from shipboard service.

There are probably some people who are overweight to a varying degree, but again people who get overweight and don’t get back within standards get removed from the Navy.
This is a lovely little attempt, by a hyper-local news site, to explain UK lockdown to people. It links to the full police document, from which it has extracted its examples of "reasonable" excuses to leave the house.

Edited to add: Just noticed that the maintainer of the site also has another, called Hertfordshire Walker [1]. This has 97 walks with pictures, maps and text directions. All on public footpaths. Quite the labour of love.

[1] https://www.hertfordshirewalker.org/
This is not true. You're losing a crucial property in your translation, namely that the negative numbers are the additive inverse of the positive numbers. In other words, it's essential for electrodynamics that a + (-a) = 0. You could add this requirement to you 'black' and 'white' terminology, but then you've just arrived at negative numbers under a different name.

Don't let the naming confuse you. The name "negative" might be a peculiar, human-specific thing, but the concepts of addition and additive inverses are not.
I read that we can advance physics the most by research into mathematics. Sooner or later the oddest math finds application in nature, which is odd. See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...

Negative numbers do of cause have their application in nature (negative charge etc.). But it is possible to do correct mathematics that have no interpretation in real live. E.g. 6 Students walk into an empty classroom, 10 walk out, you have -4 Students left.
I always wondered where the containers were manufactured these days. I suspected China. And I found a nice video of a team doing so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQfmanHKCn0

How long does it take to manufacture one? End to end, like in this video.
The economy functions in order to provide services to as many people as possible. In fact, with the marriage of state and business of today, the output is optimized to extract as much as possible and distribute to people beyond what can be realistically consumed. Our metric is growth of economic activity alone, and thus to detriment to long-term sustainability, prudent management of resources and effective outcomes of economic output.
This makes it pretty clear, point #2 is a tough one that I hadn't considered!
We often ignore that your passion, vision, ideals and intimate dreams can be common (shared) between people, often people have the exact same idea at the same time. Making it much easier to start a company, because values naturally align. You can see this when Google and Apple suddenly collaborate even thou they certainly exist as competitors.
haha, in fact "not being able to execute concurrently" is the easiest way "to ensure thread-safety" :D
It's not a theory, recently Bill Gates did an AMA on Reddit [1] and verified that ID2020 would indeed be used to verify who has been vaccinated. The conspiracy theory aspect is whatever one wants to expound on from there...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fksnbf/comment...
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