skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any work being done to replace BGP or current IGP's? Wondering if modern computing and memory capacity and algorithms can be used to make more fail-safe protocols.
Less than a year ago a cartel literally out-gunned the government to recapture the cartel head’s son from the police [0].

They literally overpowered and brought the city to a standstill.

They run Mexico, no illusions anymore. Still a beautiful place to visit fwiw.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Culiacán
The "knowledge of the firm" would make sense if execs were promoted internally, but most are external hires who may not even have experience in the industry
I just started a small 8GB RPi 4 cluster and had similar assumptions. Did you happen to try out the beta 64 bit os?
You can get CPU bound, I am $100 under and you could put money towards that or RAM. I did also leave a path to upgrade RAM. But that said, I've been working with image generation a lot lately and CPU really isn't my bottleneck.
> They provide content blocking

the flaw there is that it is opt-out not opt-in, and you can only block web activity, not apps.

> You cannot see what apps are running.

Yes, the model is more complicated, but it abstracts away important ways apps can run even if you don't realize it, such as notifcations, "voip".

> > Why not even a time-machine backup of your phone?
> You can easily back up an iPhone (encrypted, even) to a Mac or PC.

Kind of. You don't back up apps or app private data. In other words, restoring your phone is at the mercy of apple and the app folks. Will you get the same app? Will you get your audiobooks? no, you will have to download them again.
Well the problem is a lot of people are simply addicted, the pain the feel is real but it's confused withdrawl.

These people would be better off on thc.
> The company had the potential to raise revenue by a third every year, from an estimated $2 billion currently to $11 billion in 2025.

Source: https://in.reuters.com/article/apple-advertising/apple-could...
Yes. Don't open it. (I used a spare computer the moment I saw it was a .docx)

It's real but creates another document automatically saying "Hire me". That's malware.
I think most of us would agree that all drugs (drug use) should be decriminalized. But even if you go as far as to imagine the Mexican cartels being (eventually) legitimate businesses, the strong competition between them would not subside, so they would still fight each other and keep their grip on the government and the population. (Then there's also the ties they have to the governments of the target markets, and their policy making.)

I think to solve this situation, you'd have to diminish the demand for their product in the target markets, which is next to impossible due to the addictive nature of the product. One way to do this would be to legalize and promote therapeutic use of drugs which are known (among many other positives) to break drug addiction (in just a few sessions), like psilocybin mushrooms or Ayahuasca.
Yes. Before youtube we just sent each other video files directly, posted them on our own websites, or found them with p2p software, all of which worked fine. Web services are traps promising ease of use, while actually aiming for lock in based on network effects. That so many people think the centralized third party hosting and bundled viewing software are critical to the general functionality just goes to show how insidious they've become.
BeerAdvocate Notice of Data Breach between 2012-2013
Web dev founder in Santa Cruz also allegedly murdered over money: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Police-Tushar-Atre-mu...
I’ve tried to photograph large planes and Navy dirigibles in the sky. Every picture, even the ones that were of vehicles just a few hundred feet above me (where I can hear the engines) turned out to look like specks unless I digitally blew it up. And this is daytime. At night even close up objects just produce a bright speck, or a collection of specks.

Eg: https://twitter.com/justin_fenton/status/385040854920204288?...

Reality: https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2013/09/27/eye-in-the-sky-nav...
It is worth clarifying that she was not responding to this paper specifically, just to general arguments of the type “this must be man made because it has so many features that make it well-suited to spread in humans.”

The fact that researchers in Wuhan were studying (some of?) these features is stronger evidence when combined with the location. However, it also seems reasonable that features of viruses researchers study because of their likelihood to increase human transmission would show up in a naturally occurring virus with a lot of human transmission.
The wikipedia article on John Byng (the ultimate source of the quote) is fascinating, particularly this section:

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

"Naval historian N. A. M. Rodger believes it may have influenced the behaviour of later naval officers by helping inculcate:

"a culture of aggressive determination which set British officers apart from their foreign contemporaries, and which in time gave them a steadily mounting psychological ascendancy. More and more in the course of the century, and for long afterwards, British officers encountered opponents who expected to be attacked, and more than half expected to be beaten, so that [the latter] went into action with an invisible disadvantage which no amount of personal courage or numerical strength could entirely make up for.""

So it seems that Morale did actually improve!
The saying is that rotten/bad apples spoil the lot. So..
Of course i understand it can be tragic for some people to loss life due to this virus but I also understand to achieve near 0 death will also incur high cost.

>your lack of empathy truly stands out.

I disagree, I sympathize those millions who suffer due to the lockdown. Their suffering is real as well.
There already is a competitor. It doesn't take a ton of expertise to attach a regulator and carbonation cap to a co2 tank. Doing it this way, it costs me $20 to get the tank filled, and I can use regular soda bottles.
Well, I'm a paying user (YT premium) but I like features, so I'm using NewPipe.
I love WebTorrent and have been using the desktop app as well as using Instant.io to transfer files.

I don't get why the desktop app still doesn't allow you to select specific files. Am I the only one who wants to do that? It's a pretty standard feature in every other torrent client. Now that libtorrent supports WebTorrent protocol, I don't know what the value proposition of the WebTorrent desktop app will be.
I think you’ve drastically misunderstood my comment.
There is nothing special about America in that respect. Plenty of people around the world are not wearing masks when they are supposed to.

What sets America apart is the hyper-shorttermism: go into a lockdown, then come out of it in the middle when it becomes clear that the lockdown has economic consequences (which should have been obvious). Then, go back into lockdowns when it becomes clear that coming out of lockdown at the wrong time lead to a second wave.

There seems to be a particular class of stupid businesspeople, who cannot think beyond next week. This too is not unique to america. What is unique is that in America their desire to bankrupt their own businesses takes precedence over everything else.
This is a bit of an exaggeration. 1 gram is well above a typical dose.

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

>A cup of coca tea prepared from one gram of coca leaves (the typical contents of a tea bag) contains approximately 4.2 mg of organic coca alkaloid.[1] (In comparison, a typical dose (a "line") of cocaine contains between 20 and 30 milligrams.[2])

It's fair to point out that there is still a discrepancy and many habitual cocaine users have some tolerance to the drug, but it's not impossible to drink five cups of tea. Also, it looks like you'd need more like half a pound.
When Nobel laureate Luc Montagnier suggested that COVID-19 could be man-made, I started taking this view LESS seriously.

https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/luc-montagnier-coron...
I invite you to spend some time with Hawaii's COVID statistics before coming to the conclusion that being an island, or not, is irrelevant to US outcomes.

https://www.hawaiidata.org/covid19
It’s not just creditors that get screwed. Many of these companies have pension plans that will likely be zeroed out during bankruptcy.

Also, if the company no longer exists (or contracts to cover the bonuses), then it stops serving whatever societal purposes it used to serve.

For retail, all the infrastructure supporting the malls ends up being wasted, suppliers go bankrupt, communities lose jobs, neighboring stores fail once the mall loses its anchor store, etc, etc.
Tetraminis Deffect (Tetris clone) for PICO-8
It might have been Sinaloa, where the police captured one of the sons of "El chapo".
There was actually something fishy about that event, and some even think it was a setup of the local government against the federal government.
Just upload it to Google docs and read it there if you are concerned.
It wasn't unprecedented.
GP? <Something>-Poster?
I believe they have a cute name for it. It's called 5-Eyes.
This is great, guys! I have IBS, and there's always been a lack of research-backed options for alleviating symptoms besides the low-FODMAP diet. I actually have a friend who has tried this program and has had tremendous results, and it's cool to see that there's another app for broader purposes. Wishing you guys luck!
See also: the Gervais Principle: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/
> if you go as far as to imagine the Mexican cartels being (eventually) legitimate businesses, the strong competition between them would not subside, so they would still fight each other

Exactly. Just look at the much larger market contested by the Apple/Google blood feud for an example!

This doesn't actually happen. The expense of running a private army makes a firm catastrophically non-competetive vs. the new flood of now-legal competitors selling at a much lower price.
Good summary, thanks!

Related to the origin hypotheses, the hypothesis of zoonotic outbreak from a wet market in mid-Dec no longer seems as relevant. It was first laid out in a widely disseminated paper in The Lancet [1, see Figure 1B], but since then retrospective wastewater analyses from Italy[2], Spain[3], Brazil and others[4] have found it was circulating much earlier.

"The Italian National Institute of Health looked at 40 sewage samples collected from wastewater treatment plants in northern Italy between October 2019 and February 2020. An analysis released on Thursday said samples taken in Milan and Turin on Dec. 18 showed the presence of the SARS-Cov-2 virus." [2]

and

"Most COVID-19 cases show mild influenza-like symptoms (14) and it has been suggested that some uncharacterized influenza cases may have masked COVID-19 cases in the 2019-2020 season (11). This possibility prompted us to analyze some archival WWTP samples from January 2018 to December 2019 (Figure 2). All samples came out to be negative for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 genomes with the exception of March 12, 2019, in which both IP2 and IP4 target assays were positive. This striking finding indicates circulation of the virus in Barcelona long before the report of any COVID-19 case worldwide." [3]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7159299/
[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-...
[3] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.13.20129627v...
[4] https://twitter.com/LMeigre/status/1282819131390210050
You have basically applied trotsky's theory of eternal revolution to the tech world. Whoever is in power must always be challenged, even if they were once the ones denouncing those in power.
I both pay for yt premium and use newpipe on older (degoogled) devices where using latest youtube.apk is not an option anymore. Also, where I live yt premium is a fraction of the cost of many developed countries, cheap for me but not for many in this country. In some countries yt premium is not even available.

I read a lot 'entitled' opinions in this thread pretending that the whole world should ignore their circumstances and just do whatever works for them (ie. Pay for yt premium). The internet is global: why would you think that using open source software to access bits off of global internet is unethical/illegitimate?
If you honestly think that being smart on some dimension that you personally think is particularly virtuous is some sort of get out of jail free card, you might want to re-think your ethics.
It's usually not intentional. It's common to either assume by default it will listen on 127.0.0.1 and connect to it. With cloud VMs, people spin up a VM for non-public use but check the box that adds a public IP and forget it's there.

It's a design problem in my opinion. By default, listening on 0.0.0.0/0 should exclude loopback interfaces by the OS. That way, anything makig incorrect assumptions would fail and would require correction. Second, cloud firewall rules should imply deny all when "none" is selected. That way, having no protection is the same effort as adding at least one manual rule.
To expand on your first point, the circumstances of World War 1 led to carriers of the asymptomatic strains of H1N1 staying in place, in trenches, where the strains extinguished themselves for lack of hosts to spread to.

Carriers of the more symptomatic strains were transported to military hospitals which acted as conduits of transmission.

The result was the virus progressively evolving to become more deadly.

The first wave of the Spanish flu had a fatality rate that is typical of the flu, with deaths preponderantly amongst the elderly, which again is typical.

The second wave was massively more deadly, and killed the young in large numbers.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Transmission_and_m...
Surely the US is an example, though there are others. The article mentioned Thailand. The number of deaths there is still 58 in a population of 70 million and that number is roughly static. The US at less than 5 times the population has over 140K deaths and rising. Taiwan, with a population one tenth of the US has seven deaths.

The US hasn't seen a blanket refusal to wear masks, but if a large enough proportion of a population don't wear masks then the effect of the masks is largely negated. This is similar to universal vaccinations, where you need a large proportion of the population vaccinated to have an appreciable effect.

There certainly can be variations in how different countries attribute and count deaths, but those differences can't account for the widely varying death rates we see. Vietnam, for instance, with a population of 95 million and a shared border with China has zero deaths.

Looks to me like the 100x higher death rate may be a LOW figure in some cases.
The technology to design a virus has been around for a decade. You need a computer, a biology degree and 8 dollars. 8 dollars is the cost for a lab to synthesize your virus and put in a container (you may also have to pay postage). It's really really cheap.
Quantifying Vitality
Whoops, meant popularity, not option
Personally, I am surprised journalists dare to write about it. Journalists are an endangered species in mexico.
Approximately: IP addresses are allocated to a network operator by the IANA via an ASN. Most large streaming services block non-residential ASNs at this point. Sometimes they miss one here and there. Your best bet is with smaller providers that operate using a less recognizable ASN. At this point even many non-streaming services block traffic from EC2, Azure, and other cloud providers just to cut down on bots.
A decade ago I found the unique email address I used at Hertz.com leaked for spam.

Of course when I complained they said it must have been something I did...
> Einstein's special relativity had lots of evidence backing it up

Yes, it immediately solved several outstanding anomalies. GP should have brought up Einstein’s general relativity as something that had little evidence to back it up initially.
> Don't hate the players, hate the game.

Who's going to get in the way if we try to change the rules of the game? The players, naturally.

The system produces an immoral result because it is in the interest of immoral actors to keep it that way. I have no confidence whatsoever that any reforms will make it past them.
Grandparent
Mullvad also happens to be Firefox's choice of vpn provider.
Source for your rate of contact claim?
How to speak (2018) [video]
This sounds really strange to me. I don't wake up, sit down for breakfast, think "hmm I really want to read news about hacking wallstreet with pens", then google it. I open up a news website's front page and see what they have there.
Did you mean to say "while Silicon Valley was the underdog"?
I think a part of what's driven the opiate epidemic was the massive overprescription of opiate painkillers by doctors and the marketing surrounding them.

People tend to trust that their doctor is right. If the doctor gives you oxycodone, you assume that it's safe.

Tied in with that is the increased availability of heroin and fentanyl, and now decreased availability of prescription painkillers, pushing users from taking relatively safe pills to injecting drugs, which is an order of magnitude more damaging.
Blackbaud Security Incident
Wasn’t Trump’s other campaign slogan “Drain the swamp?”
The vigorous debating resulted in many school districts actually making plans to reopen in a variety of ways. All that effort became moot when Newsom announced his decision today.
>I use an iPhone 6 and have refused to upgrade iOS to the latest version

Why not get an Android then?
Ok, we've changed to that from https://filebin.ca/5Tmq93EmU5FZ/Levandowski-Uber-Complaint.d....
It’s taken me a little while to parse this one.

HN has always felt like a good/safe place (to me) to talk about interesting things with a mix of experts and lay people.

When it gets down to science though, agree or disagree need to be left to the experts. I can’t be the expert/final arbiter because my knowledge isn’t good enough (although I have some capacity), and so I am encouraging OP to go with the experts on this one.
It’s too complex a field for people to have their own opinions based on hearsays - science should not be politics and we’re seeing that in the world now. It doesn’t matter what you believe coming in with science, you have to be guided by (a best approximation of the evolving) facts.

I’m not totally sure what you disagree on, is it the rudeness of ‘stay in your lane’ or my argument?
Flexport is hiring software engineers for our platform for global trade
There’s an easy way to avoid this: just don’t take any documents, source code or equipment from a former employer. That’s all you have to do. Why? Because just by having them it could taint your future work.

Not only did Levandowski not to this, he:

- bulk downloaded these files near the end of his employment;

- was deleting them in the office with Uber’s due diligence team.

He may not have benefitted. Uber may not have. But he created this cloud of uncertainty by not doing the common sense thing.

My personal theory is that he wanted insurance in case he couldn’t recreate this later if he needed it and/or he felt like this stuff belonged to him because he created it. Even though it’s clearly work product belonging to your employer people get possessive about these things.

As for the criminal part, honestly I actually think that’s what this law is for: to criminalize the plundering of commercial IP by by bad actors and competitors.
Nice theory, except they are not being arrested. They are being detained, and then released with no charges, and no apparent record of having been captured.
I actually think you raise a very fair point and believe you have some merit to what you believe in.

I will admit that I am not very fond of YouTube either. They have far to much control over the income source of a good amount of people. They could on a whim take away the monetization of a channel (which they do sometimes) and cause them a lot of financial strain.

In terms of your slave comparison I would say a better comparison would be if the slave owner was doing poorly the conditions the slave lives in are worsened. This highlights that the slave does not have much chances to acquire food on their own. I wish there was more competition but I do not believe starving the slave of the system fixes the owner of the system.
> Maybe there are lines in Mexico that cannot be crossed, but from an non-American perspective I struggle to see where those lines are.

The main rule is don’t antagonize the Americans too much. The big example is Camarena who was kidnapped, tortured, and killed by the cartels in the 1980s. It brought such a response from the US, that the cartels in general avoid trying to kill US DEA agents.
The one-China policy is explicitly designed to be ambiguous about who controls this China, which lets the PRC pretend they control Taiwan and Taiwan pretend they control the mainland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-China_policy

So on the face of it, being asked to agree to this should not be objectionable to a Taiwanese official. Is the content of the doc they're being asked to sign available anywhere? Because it sounds like the devil is in the details here.
You are confusing ‘making’ a virus with designing one with particular virulence and transmission characteristics. The latter is what I am talking about.
Ok, we've changed to that from https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/b888fyhbygb8.
https://youtu.be/N1pIYI5JQLE

Feynman explains fire. I’m a big fan and believe his crude straight to the point style, coupled with an incredible ability to storytell is what made him special. I think it’s pure, genuine, curiosity and the intellectual capacity to understand the complexities.
Viruses are still replicating in carriers, and as long as they’re replicating they’re going to mutate and evolve.
> inform Google/Facebook via their server-side APIs when feasible, instead of trying to load a pixel

I was wondering when this was going to be the norm.

Can't block third parties for privacy if the first party talks to them behind the scenes.

(If I understand what this means)
Luc Montagnier has long lost any credibility in his home country, France.
The person he/she/they is responding to may not have originated the thought, but the quote this poster is responding to is very clear from context. It reads as follows:

“The authors feel that, in light of this preponderance of circumstantial evidence, the hypothesis that the biogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 involved human intervention should be seen as the leading (i.e. most likely) explanation.”