skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they’ve clearly given you proof that the virus is artificial

No, they haven't.

The evidence is circumstantial.

You can choose to believe what you want to believe; but the fact is that they have not proved anything.

That's the problem with the paper. Actually read the darn thing.

I'm 100% sympathetic to what they're saying here and I do hear their arguments, but this paper doesn't prove it.

> Personally I think...

You know the quote. "The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it."

If it comes down to "well, I think that's high confidence" and someone else is just like "well i don't" as a personal opinion ("...But I’m hardly impartial..."), then, don't you think, maybe they haven't really done a great job here?
You are misinterpreting, it was thinking about how to be robust, not critiquing Romania
Having a browsable & searchable history of "every youtube video ever watched on any device" is something pretty valuable to me.
Paid communities aren't new. AOL was a paid community. Anyone remember Apple's eWorld?

I'm not denying that the economics of the internet are evolving, it just irks me our industry comes full circle to the same stuff we hashed through decades ago and people act like it is a new phenomenon.
Looks excellent and keen to delve into the code a bit.

One quick question since you'll clearly know the codebase - do you think this could easily be adapted to create a "playback-side" noise filter?

Use-case rationale here is noisy and poor quality podcasts or "other people's" audio - it would be awesome to be able to configure your tool as the output for Chrome or Firefox or whatever program I'm listening to, then route the cleaned audio from your tool to the physical audio port.

Is that something which would be feasible to do here?
noisetorch-bin and noisetorch-git packages already on AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&SeB=nd&K=noisetorch&...
Isn't it though?
How can you argue that the outcome of a test is known before that test is performed? That’s why the test is made in the first place.
Yet another hint we shouldn’t consider GDP to be the benchmark for economies.
Yup, but I have Dyslexia so I'm used to the transposition of the 2nd and 3rd character happening once in a while. I tend to "look away" and look back and usually can see the right thing. It's very frustrating when you get tired and are writing code, and staring at random symbols that literally don't mean anything now....
I already trust ProtonMail for my emails, so in my case ProtonVPN would be a the good choice. But I still have an active subscription with IPA, and as far as I know they proved in courts that they don’t have logs, which is a strong claim.
Scientists Identify 6 Distinct Clusters of Covid-19 Symptoms in Patients
Once again it demonstrates people are victims without the ability of self defense and guns to defend yourself

You are always a VICTIM with no agency , depanding on the state to defend you without a weapon

In this case he wasnt doing anything wrong

If its this dangerous then he should :-

- Be armed

- company should hire merchs to protect him

- Get the gov/state/police to remove the shit from the tower
with police protection

- ironically the STATE in Mexico just passed illegal "laws" to make it "ILLEGAL" to repair mobile phones/computers/tech/etc and modify software

Yet poor saps fixing the tower part of his job , risks getting shot by gang thugs
>but Japan’s suicide rates have dropped.

Yes as everywhere in the world.

>He was clearly joking,

Why? Because the US is so much better? It would be acually a joke, IF the US is much better...

EDIT: And im really no shure why you point to drug abuse...
This is pretty easy to do with firefox, just use the multi account containers and the temporary containers extension. During normal browsing you use temporary containers, which keeps you logged out and avoids anonymous session tracking. If you need to log in all you need to do is right click the tab and reopen in your dedicated "logged in" container
My tweetdeck layout is by far the most effective way to use twitter. My youtube subscription page is my first port of call. Reddit.... its just highly vexing if you aren't logged in.
Vietnam. Long border with China, two million people cross every year, population of 95 million, zero covid deaths because they got serious early and everyone more masks.
Nice graphics!. How much time have you spent on manual sales?
LinkedIn and GitHub are completely operated as seperate entities within Microsoft. Npm is acquired bt GitHub, so Npm is part of Microsoft.
I saw more than a few Mom and Pop shops looted. If they had shotguns, maybe their shop would have suffered broken glass but the looting would stop after you had "peppered up"[1] the first looter.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLT5ZADZCeI
Just use your local browsing history?
Looks like you have an old version. It says 0.19.6 is the current release. I haven’t tried this app but I suspect getting up to date will fix that.
On Trouser Pockets
This topic has been beaten to death, and most people already know where they stand on this topic, but I'd just like to add one thing:

I think it's becoming clear that the people pushing for these kinds of changes are likely racist. Weird, but hear me out...

Trauma can taint anything to be seen as dangerous or bad (an example would be people who are triggered by clowns), but victims of trauma usually also understand that their phobic reactions aren't necessarily representative of the real world. They don't expect others to reconfigure reality to keep them from being triggered, except maybe on an individual level, with the understanding that one party willingly deceives or hides things from the other to help them cope.

This is not that, because the people implementing the changes don't harbor the related trauma (by their own admission), nor do they acknowledge the deceit. They are instead motivated by prejudice.

There may be an innocuous question like "how do we become more inclusive?" and they see a term like "blacklist", knowing its basic negative connotation, then mistakenly correlate that to black people. This is a racist mental connection, and it's similar to how someone might see the word "dyke" and think lesbian, even when it's being used in the context of its true meaning: a sea embankment. This is fine though, most people can simply remind themselves of this fact and move on. Furthermore, most people also understand the general origin of their misconception, and can tell when it's something they personally believe, or something that has been drilled into their heads through repetitive exposure.

These people, however, are unable to separate the reality from their own prejudices, and so believe that their interpretation is real. "The term 'blacklist' must be problematic for black people, because we all know that deep down it's saying we want to ban black people, right?"

A non-racist without exposure to the supposed problem with saying 'blacklist' won't make the racist connection.

A racist without exposure to the supposed problem with saying 'blacklist' will assume it has racial subtext.

A non-racist who has been exposed to the supposed problem with saying 'blacklist' will correctly separate their misconception with the truth, and reject the supposed racial subtext.
> Including them in the statistic enough to push the American suicide rate to about double Japan’s.

Including all drug overdoses in suicides would be a very far overreaching fabrication requiring knowledge that you can never possess about the person that died (you have to know their state of mind and intent at the time of overdose). It also does a disservice to the aspect of how extraordinarily dangerous opioid drug addiction is and how easy it is to overdose by accident (especially if fentanyl is involved).

If we're going to play that game, then you have to use that god-like power to remove all suicides that didn't really mean to do it and all accidental drug overdoses.

Magically the number just dropped by 2/3.

Suicide is defined by a successful attempt to kill one's self. The fact is you have no idea what the intent of all the people that overdose on drugs is, so conflating them is plainly incorrect.
Yeah, basically among the first-world countries. Which the US probably is no more.
> do you think this could easily be adapted to create a "playback-side" noise filter?

Yes, the hardest part about this is making the UI not confusing when you now have two separate instances loaded in PulseAudio.
App devs – How to take advantage of the new iOS 14 Widgets
https://outline.com/4EDx3n
That doesn't cover the 'on any device' requirement.
> Now, (fruit) bats eaten as food in West Africa is a major vector of the spread of Ebola.

And maybe one day we can conclusively say bats play no roles whatsoever in the spread of Covid-19, like we are able to say confidently about bats and Ebola. We aren't at that point yet, dismissing bats as a factor is a disservice to science.
The NYTb article says they were selling accounts initially for $1-1.5k before trying the Bitcoin scam
The Future of the Hapi Project
IP: use commercial VPN so you blend in with thousands of other users

fingerprinting: use firefox and turn on resistfingerprinting
Meanwhile, MetaFilter just turned 21 years old.
It reminds me of a thought why you can’t bring democracy into a country by invading it - because democracy doesn’t exist in a vacuum and therefore voting is done not only during elections, but also with you wallet and ability to switch jobs easily.
And this sounds like a description you read in a comic book somewhere.

You missed some elements: that "priesthood" isn't a unified block, it's a gaggle of independent thinkers (some of them my friends and family) with a thousand year history of argumentation, refutation, and adjustment of theory. The "priesthood" gets it right, eventually, every time. Yeah, I'll trust that "priesthood".

Unreviewed papers pushed by conspiracy nuts on the internet, on the other hand, don't exactly have that record to back them. They demand that non-experts "read it for themselves" precisely because they can't convince anyone who matters.
Well it uses AR, so it did require to go out more. Also they ban players on using location mocking.
There are many news articles where people form groups out in search of rare Pokemons.
Go contribute it into NewPipe
Headline: U.S. Ranked Worst for Workers’ Rights Among Major Economies

Sub-head: Labor union survey ranks every other G-7 country better

First and second sentence: The world’s largest economy is ranked a 4 ... Every other Group of Seven country ranks 3 or better.

G7 mentioned in sub-head and 2nd sentence.

The illustrated map indicates China is worse.
OpenGL originally came from SGI.
He lived the fight for justice and equality through almost or all of modernity. His weapons were his will, his strength to face violence with nonviolence, the truth of equality, the evil realities of racism, and justice, and nonviolent protests. And he was a politician. House Representatives are not graced with the immunities US Senators are. To my knowledge, John Lewis never once was investigated let alone found guilty of offense as a Representative. His is an example for generations to follow - and he did lead generations.

I genuinely hope to see an America someday in my life which expects and enforces the highest of its politicians again. There was a time where being a politician was respectable and honorable. It’s the position they should hold. I hope we regain that societal cohesion again. I think John Lewis was one such politician.

He is missed.
Anything similar for MacOS ? I tried krisp.ai which is nice but seems too heavy on my 2015 MacBook Air together with zoom
I feel that this depends on the kind of app you're building. If you have a development team already familiar with React and related technology and your app is simple in nature, then you'll get there quicker with React Native. It'll be good enough. It'll be smooth enough, it'll feel native enough and you'll be able to iterate quickly.

If you're in the business of building something super smooth, or some complex interactions and the user experience counts above all else, then yeah, you should go fully native.
That is a bullshit measure. That is an arithmetic average pulled up by the excessive compensation to the 1% in America.

Look at e.g. the wage of a McDonalds worker in the US and it is among the lowest in the west.

I think e.g. in Norway you make 3-4x what a US McDonalds worker makes.

It also does not take into account that US workers have almost no vacation and long work days.

US workers don’t have they high hourly wage. They just work their ass off while Europeans are at the beach enjoying life with their family.

Ok, a simplification but life is not great for American workers and they ought to demand better treatment.
I've been using NewPipe for years, and find it to be an example of how an app should be. Besides that it doesn't force you to log in to keep things like subscriptions, one of the best things about it is that it's very snappy, whereas the YouTube app is like every other Google app in that it's slow and not very responsive. Being able to play audio in the background is the killer feature for me.
I’m a QWidgets guy, I understood what he is saying.
I support criticizing and sanctioning China over the Uighur situation and HK.

What I don't support is when people use China as a tool to discredit movements like BLM because supporters aren't more broadly speaking out on injustices in other countries.

Bannon is strongly supportive of Russia even though the situation there is just as grim, see Chechnea, the loss of human rights for gays, and a Putin dictatorship of the country.

It's hard not to conclude that these criticisms are because China is a global economic power and a communist country.
I drove a first-gen Volt shortly after they were released. I hated it because of the cap-touch UI, the poor rear visibility, and the poor brake/regen blending. A couple of friends have later generations and love them, but that initial experience poisoned the well for me and I bought an older BMW instead. Given how little I drive, it's going to last at least another fifteen years.
Switch supports it alongside NVN and OpenGL 4.5, and most engines end up using NVN. Unity alone accounts for 50% of the games.
If a government body regulated VPNs then wouldn’t one of the stipulations be to keep logs for legal purposes?
Perhaps. But always off topic and almost always boring. When I think I’m unfairly downvoted, I just try to reply with more detail and accounting for more possible interpretations. Or I move on.
Vast Southern Empire by Matthew Karp (2016)
> Also timeline says ‘Wednesday’ post-mortem should be accurate to the minute or second.

That's because it took them almost two hours to stop the attack - doesn't look good.
Well I would suggest you get yourselves a book on Southern European/Mediterranean cooking (or just look around online).

It's very easy and quick to make tasty dishes with no meat, even just salads. Plenty of possible variations on the theme: pasta salads, rice salads, potato salads, for example. Of course there are also plenty of hot dishes to cook with potatoes, tomatoes, etc.

Curries are also an endless source of tasty dishes that do not need to include any meat.
But what if you took down their communications?
Twitter has become the go-to dashboard to discover if there is a broad based outage when our servers are inaccessible. In the last month, IBM data centers and now Cloudflare
Nice. Haven't gone through it fully, but the header parsing stood out for improvement. Use match to capture number of '#' characters and use length, for example:

$ echo '# ' | awk 'match($0, /^#+ /, m){print length(m[0])-1}'
1
$ echo '### ' | awk 'match($0, /^#+ /, m){print length(m[0])-1}'
3

You can also use capture groups so that you do not need -1 and remove that substr as well.

awk 'match($0, /^(#+) (.+)/, m){l=length(m[1]); print "<h" l ">" m[2] "</h" l ">"}'
Very nice. Krisp.ai is a commercial option, and NVIDIA RTX is free but requires a CUDA card, so this is a great alternative.

Noise suppression is becoming more and more common. My Jabra headset has it built in.
Small plane pilot trifecta–Newark, LaGuardia and JFK airports in a single flight
That’s just enough years to build the necessary network of people who would trust you to follow you with this idea and to make a fake excuse of not having enough power to affect ICANN’s decision making.

Wouldn’t be surprised as well if the guy hadn’t even given it a second thought since that makes you sleep better.
the software's "main editor" uses a very traditional QGraphicsScene with a QGLWidget - no QML / QtQuick (QtQuick is a very good tool for a lot of usecases, but not the right tool for this one particular "traditional big desktop app" job imho).

The RHI-using part is for creating custom visuals (think applying various shaders to video & camera inputs for VJ), so I wrote my own scene / render graph leveraging it which renders in separate windows through QRhi.
https://www.uspto.gov/patents-getting-started/patent-process...

People file independently all the time. Patent lawyers also exist if you want help. Fees can be anywhere from under $100 for a provisional application, to a few thousand if you hire some help with the filing and drawings.
CSS pollutes global without <style scoped> or shadow root. Even simpler variant:

<form>
<button onclick="form.counter.value -= 1;return false">-</button>
<input name="counter" value="0">
<button onclick="form.counter.value = 1 + +form.counter.value;return false">+</button>
</form>

Custom elements is just a mutation observer with callbacks, can be used with DOM 0 as well:

class MyCounter extends HTMLElement {
connectedCallback() {
this.attachShadow({mode: 'open'}).innerHTML = `<style>...</style><form>...</form>`
}
}
customElements.define('my-counter', MyCounter)
This is more like all the contract workers are getting laid off and you give yourself a bonus, then leave the company.
Agreed, but now this has piqued my interest in a good way.

Having two instances loaded might be a bit confusing as you say - I imagine it would need to be something like "NoiseTorch for Recording" and NoiseTorch for Playback.

I'd need to go and play around with Pulse but I guess it would be possible to present 2 interfaces into Pulse with different names, then hope users can see the distinction when selecting a microphone versus the output device.
I can get behind your first and second paragraph. I understand the idea that we can do better, and there's no bad in doing this.. but the last is just too much.

Why not use pastel colors for chess and checkers because colors black and white are so effing bad?

Should we review the Yin and Yang color semantics too ? Am I offending people when I print my financial statement on WHITE paper? With BLACK ink?

Will there be forbidden words everywhere soon? Should I be able to pronounce the word "slave" in public or will I get stoned for it? Is there going to be a police dedicated to monitor people's use of "disturbing words" that we collectively decided would hurt the sensibility of communities, and started enforcing?

Am I going to loose my job if I commit a diff with forbidden words by the Great List Of Acceptable Words That Don't Discriminate Any Minority In The World? Will my commits to the linux kernel be refused if I chose one word badly, regardless of the actual VALUE of my code? Are we going to cleanse the Kernel from words like fuck or shit or arab? Will there be a PG rating when opening github's project pages so that we don't expose our children to these subversive tractations?

People are starting to confuse their own sensibilities and the greater good. When people start banning words and ideas, they slowly start communitarism and self-isolating rhetorics. They restric their views by hiding the rest of the things they don't like. This just looks like another puritan American move, and it's spreading like karens around the developer community.

This is just like the fake inclusivity where devs are starting to put in their repos what they call "Code of Conduct" where you are now asked to think about the cultural impact of your "Typo FIX" commit over the N communities that would prefer that you call your global variable "allowedList" rather than "whiteList". Oh my.. I don't care. I want my code to be functionally correct, not make BHL happy. Shit, I'm not writing to make a political statement, I'm fixing my SCSI driver implementation.
More importantly is that all this internet traffic is routed through China. Explicit MITM attacks are a courtesy.
Yes, hence the working to improve the country comment. He was also a representative for over 30 years.
Youtube's recommendation algorithm is one of the wonders of the modern world. I discovered so many incredible videos that I would never have searched for and that no one would have recommended to me, thanks to it.
So why can't people alternatively create a website on the similar theme: YouTube with no ads. Is this against Youtube's TOS?
Five nines uptime?
It's interesting to me that you perceive the US getting a bad evaluation as some sort of deliberate smear against America. If that were the case, you would expect to see the US mentioned in some detail in the actual report [1]. It's not; they primarily focus on labour violations in the developing world. The rating the US gets is pretty incidental.

While it's easy to see life in the US as awesome from our perspective, we work in tech. The median US income is about $40,000, and the lower quartile is $22,000 [2]. Fully a quarter of Americans live in the $0-$22,000 income bracket, and another quarter live in $22,000-$40,000.

> But IMO the solution might really be to keep working at extending the awesome to the rest of the people.

Then surely workers' rights are exactly what we should be discussing, right? Labour activism is what drives wages up in profitable industries. How is it "anti-American" to discuss problems which we're trying to solve -- if anything, it's pro-American, since it's part of an effort to improve America.

[1]: https://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/ituc_globalrightsindex_2020...

[2]: https://dqydj.com/average-median-top-individual-income-perce...
Hi there, ive been browsing hn for over 7 years and this is one of the nicest indie landing pages ive seen. I like your eye for design.

Have you considered letting the uder do a demo by entering a URL and then you email then the results of the initial site scan? (later generate a page). You get an email, they get a low friction semo. Win-win!
Are you sure it will work?
No, but other similar viruses have already risen out the same general conditions in China before. The evidence to say that this one is different is going to need to be very compelling. Circumstances are not enough.
Death to nytimes
I looked at Matrix (which is what riot.im/element is based on) but have thus far not seen its advantage over XMPP+OMEMO. When you install Jitsi Meet you already have an XMPP server (Prosody, used for signalling and interprocess communication) so it is trivial to add a configuration for 'regular' use. XMPP is more open than Matrix and there are far more clients (albeit not all of them useable with OMEMO, alas). On an earlier installation I used eJabberd since Prosody had some problems with OMEMO back then but this is no longer the case.
Till now zero. Its been less than a month since i made the service available publicly.
Discussing whether bats play a role as vector or reservoir of the virus is not the same as making thinly-veiled racist comments on a culture or as spreading misinformation on a culture.