skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm embarrassed that I feel so compelled to post this--on a Friday night at that--I apologize.

Don't be. Finding gems like this is why some of us read the comments.
Could you link some sources for that claim?
They're totally worth it.
He was ICANN CEO at the time of the attempted purchase?
Calling Unix philosophy a ״philosophy” is being overly generous. It’s a mindset shared by many early computing hackers, propagated through the times because it’s simple and easy enough to follow. See “worse is better” for why this has been a detriment for the software industry.

As for webapps, they have nothing to do with unix philosophy and much more to do with Steve Jobs, iphone apps and too many non technical product managers angling to push out “products” (also an aspect of the whole MVP and ship early mentality)
The Menace of Corruption
It has been so glaring that the issue of corruption has become a global phenomenon especially in the African continent where leaders consider their interest before that of the citizenry.
It is pertinent to say that, it has eaten so deep into our societies that it can be noticed at the grassroots.
We therefore need to need a way of curbing this to have a better future for our coming generation.
Levandowski says that like other religions, WOTF will eventually have a gospel (called The Manual), a liturgy, and probably a physical place of worship. None of these has yet been developed. Though the church was founded in 2015, as Backchannel first reported in September, the IRS documents show that WOTF remained dormant throughout 2015 and 2016, with no activities, assets, revenue, or expenses.

The religion’s 2017 budget, as supplied to the IRS, details $20,000 in gifts, $1,500 in membership fees, and $20,000 in other revenue. That last figure is the amount WOTF expects to earn from fees charged for lectures and speaking engagements, as well as the sale of publications. Levandowski, who earned at least $120 million from his time at Google and many millions more selling the self-driving truck firm Otto to Uber, will initially support WOTF personally. However, the church will solicit other donations by direct mail and email, seek personal donations from individuals, and try to win grants from private foundations.
https://www.wired.com/story/anthony-levandowski-artificial-i...
Luc Montagnier lost credibility due to making incorrect claims and general quackery. Not comparable to Haber.

He has made claims supporting homeopathy, and claimed to have evidence of DNA teleportation. That's reason enough to lose credibility.
Readme badges that increased my GitHub visitor stats
I came across AMP regularly from Google search on mobile. I switched to Firefox on Android and DuckDuckGo and haven't noticed it since. Not why I switched, but a nice side effect.
It is in the sense of gross conflict of interest, very obviously. The board should have canned him, but I'm guessing they are all old friends...
Interesting thought process.

One minor correction: there's two BSL-4 labs in China. The other is in Harbin, Heilongjiang.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosafety_level#List_of_BSL-4_...
Washing Money 🧺
Fine people who do not; they do it here, it is effective.
The point of ad tracking is not to show ads that you need. It's to show ads that are likely to make you take the actions the advertisers need you to take. If the trackers determine that you have a gambling addiction and serve you ads for gambling sites, they're working as intended, but they're not helping you. If advertisers determine that their overall profits are increased by not showing ads for houses in desirable neighbourhoods to certain demographic groups, that's not good for the people in those groups.
The fact that the virus was detected in wastewater samples in Italy earlier doesn't by itself rule out an origin from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, or from China.
This is specifically bad if that 2FA was via SMS and as the attackers are supposedly notorious for such SIM-swap attacks[1].

I'm not telling TOTP or hardware tokens are invulnerable, even SecurID was compromised[2]. But having SMS as only means of 2FA is not even trying to be secure IMO, especially in India where everything from our Unique ID to Bank Accounts are dependent upon SMS OTP.

I've been asking the Banks to implement TOTP in vain.

[1]https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/whos-behind-wednesdays-e...

[2]https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/06/rsa-f...
I would say, testing being the solution is one thing that wasn't pushed in January or even pre C19 that I saw.

It wasn't mentioned in "Contagion" for instance.

A vaccination or cure was always known as not possible but the media pushed these false hopes.

In part I suspect this is the usual medial malpractice of doctors keeping their profession wealthy and keeping everything they can tied up and regulated.

I'd be interested to look at HIV and testing in the 80/90s to see whether at home tests were stopped by doctors or technology.
Brazil
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3091757/ear...

Spain
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain-...

Italy
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53106444
One thing important to note is for certain use cases of Optimizely like A/B testing, it's actually desirable to block rendering until it's initialized as otherwise you end up with a flash of the default variation that then gets switched to the appropriate one afterwards.

Though after working with a few of these A/B testing vendors, I'm firmly convinced that you'd be better off long term implementing your own A/B testing service on top of some internal admin UI builder like Retool.
If you want to run your own Fdroid repository, it's quite simple to automate for releases from GitHub/gitlab apis. There's probably some way to automate it completely with GitHub actions even (I've been too lazy to learn to do it properly, so everything I do is just through local scripting on my computer, with netlify signing Fdroid releases for me).

Due to Fdroid being so slow at updating indexes on my older devices, I actually use a secondary Fdroid client (nethunter client also has a privileged extension) for manual updates, which only has my personal repos enabled.
The issue is that the lab was placed in Wuhan to begin with because it was likely a coronavirus could spillover. That throws a wrench into that kind of analysis.
It’s not actually in the US’ national interest to have Mexico be a functioning state. How would we be able to get cheap seasonal immigrant labor, or export manufacturing jobs if they were? Perhaps more importantly, if Mexico really was a functioning economy we would then have to compete with them, rather than profiteer off of them. There is very little geopolitical incentive for the US to fix any of Mexico’s endemic problems, in fact it’s probably a far more in the US’ interestes to maintain the status quo making sure that no one faction ever gets too powerful.
Capt. Vladimir Littauer was an influence on George Morris, and hence on US olympic equestrian teams. Littauer was trained in the imperial russian cavalry, where the staff sergeants instructing the young officers would often whip them for correction, excusing themselves by saying "sorry Sir, of course that was meant for the horse." He notes dryly that when he was earning his biscuit in exile by teaching rich New Yorkers to ride, he'd had to slightly modify his pedagogical methods...

(the soviet equivalent is from a movie in which the scout camp director reminds the scouts: "Remember, young people, this camp belongs to you! You are the owners, therefore, you must have Di. Sci. Pline.")
I wonder how many high-profile celebrities and other people with verified public accounts also keep private duplicate ones?

Maybe that's going too far down the rabbit hole but I'm really curious now.
It does not rule out the origin from Italy, USA, Spain, UK or any other countries on the earth either.
Price was exactly the issues but bigger issue was Chinese copy cats. Segway focused on business deals instead of consumer market and by the time copy cats caught up with them, prices were slashed to 1/10th with no real differentiation.
Exactly. At a former employer, we had the VA once symbol dump a library we were using and try to knock us since it included a symbol for a sha1 function. The hash was used for a non-security-critical component of web-sockets as a simple collision resistant session identifier. Good luck explaining this to the same people that tried to knock us for using a function that is deprecated in the windows libc implementation for not length-checking its parameters but has always worked correctly on Linux and macOS, citing the windows developer portal as documentation for why our mobile Android and iOS apps were cause for worry.
This is by far the most eyebrow-raising part of the update. To take over such a large number of verified accounts and then run a download on only eight non-verified ones seems almost impossible to have been anything other than targeted.

The original idea that the bitcoin scam was a diversion starts to look more plausible in this light, but in the absence of any information about the downloaded accounts, there’s really no way to guess what their value may have been and to whom.

Alternately, to throw cold water on the above, maybe the process to kick off a download for verified accounts has extra safeguards and the eight non-verified were simply tests to try to determine why the verified downloads weren’t working.
> all the external reporting doesn’t indicate that a Twitter employee was actively involved

Joseph Cox at Vice Motherboard is claiming exactly that from his interview with the hackers:

"We used a rep that literally done all the work for us," one of the sources told Motherboard. The second source added they paid the Twitter insider. Motherboard granted the sources anonymity to speak candidly about a security incident. A Twitter spokesperson told Motherboard that the company is still investigating whether the employee hijacked the accounts themselves or gave hackers access to the tool.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgxd3d/twitter-insider-ac...
Pre-Sale of World's First Stable Growth Coin Launches
Good luck convincing people who refuse to wear a mask to subject themselves to a test every day.
YouTube Premium? Paying for YouTube is the best decision I've ever made when it comes to how much time and frustration I've saved per dollar.
> Boosting this. I’ve had anxiety problems for years and it’s crazy how it can manifest as real physical symptoms. Every doctor visit always ends up with the same diagnosis: anxiety.

I have been taken to the hospital (with blaring sirens) twice for anxiety mimicking heart attack symptoms. Completely checked out and walked out with a healthy heart and alprazolam. It happens only rarely but I carry a strip everywhere just in case as that is not fun.
I don't understand Cloudeflare is making direct configuration changes to a router like this. If these are changes that are made regularly, why not use a tool to make them. You can then assure that only certain changes are possible, preventing simple mistakes like this.
Funny to read that they are stuck with an old Qt version, 5.12 to be specific. I am on a similar boat, stuck with Qt 5.11 as this ist the last one with support for macOS 10.11.

And I am stuck on macOS 10.11 because it's the last with proper PDF subpixel rendering in Preview.app.

However, many Qt developers seem to upgrade to the newest Qt version as soon as possible. If it's an open source software, I can self-compile it using the older Qt 5.11, which usually works. But by default, Qt is sadly not providing platform independency anymore.
Fedora 32 works out of the box, and all the features I care about work fine.

As the other commenter says, the 5.7.8 kernel in Fedora 32 is "old", and you may get better performance or features by upgrading only the kernel to the Rawhide version, currently 5.8.0RC5. TBH I upgraded the kernel but didn't notice any differences, but apparently it makes a difference for battery life.

The one annoying thing (this may be UK-specific, but it is very very annoying) is the backslash/pipe symbols do not have their own key, but are overloaded on the "L" key. I still haven't worked out how to make the "L" key produce those symbols. I bet that designers at HP thought "who uses these weird symbols anyway, let's save a key". There are workarounds using Alt-Gr, but obviously as those keys are very common for programmers that's a very poor design decision.
The article is cut off with that link. Use this instead: https://archive.is/YLHKw I should say, I'm not sure if that's the full article either.
He did many things in Congress unrelated to civil rights. Those votes are not in alignment with many, who still respect him.
I also recall the early days of D3D (Immediate mode), which although it came after OpenGL, immediate mode allowed better integration with the cards at the time (notably 3dfx) and OpenGL did not have hardware drivers, which meant it was limited to software rendering. So, if you were into game dev, then D3D was your only option early on.

My recollection was that it wasn't until NVidia started up (and broke 3dfx by poaching engineers) that OpenGL started to become 'better'. Intel was left in the dust until mobo support for DMA (?around DX5?), which allowed cards to gain quick access to RAM, which was vital for texturing (you always had to 'upload' textures to the card itself prior to that). It was the final nail in the coffin for 3fdx at that point, who still hadn't released a new card for ages, and OpenGL was finally on par with D3D. D3D had a retained mode which began to be really useful by about that time too.

At the time, many people wanted to use OpenGL because it was loads easier than Immediate Mode and a lot more intuitive to grok. I recall a certain prominant Doom developer berating D3D loudly in a private email list (John Cormack) about this very fact. Ironically, a few months later some guys released a demo for a game called "Unreal" using D3D and everyone was blown away. (circa 1995-6). More ironically, it wasn't for another year that GL Quake came to fruition.
Manjaro with Unity8 on PinePhone
> SARS-CoV-2 is much less virulent than SARS or MERS.

Can you provide sources for that? I thought it was the opposite.
> Every single pandemic in history was naturally occurring

Add also that the scientists have been warning for decades that another SARS-alike was almost inevitable, cf.

> The now-prophetic words could be found at the end of a research paper published in the journal Clinical Microbiology Reviews in October of 2007: “The presence of a large reservoir of SARS-CoV-like viruses in horseshoe bats, together with the culture of eating exotic mammals in southern China, is a time bomb.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/06/scientist...
ANGLE is OpenGL ES 3.1 conformant with the Vulkan backend, which runs on Windows, Android, and Linux. A Metal backend was also added recently, though it doesn’t get nearly as much attention as D3D or Vulkan. Seems like fixing their ANGLE integration would be their best answer.
Everyone must listen to TWIV. It’s actually the best podcast on any topic, let alone virology.
You need an abstraction over different hardware implementations to have a standard API. Abstraction comes with a cost. And 3D graphics applications want to utilize hardware at its fullest capability. So basically it's not a simple problem. Especially considering that hardware is constantly evolving, inventing new approaches. For example I learned OpenGL about 15 years ago and I never used any shaders. Now, AFAIK, shaders are everywhere.

Probably the best thing you could do at this point is to use game engine like Unity or UE as an abstraction.
Entrusting a third party to only play the role of protecting your privacy always sounds like a dangerously bad idea.

They've got no dog in the fight.
I've had some trouble understanding this claim though. From my understanding the bats that the virus most likely came from are thousands of miles away from Wuhan. This also is the area that the Wuhan researches went every year to collect samples.

My understanding of Chinese geography is a bit weak - but it is a bit like if a cow disease broke out in Boston near a BS4 lab. There are certainly some cows in Boston a few blocks from the BS4 lab there. Sure - there are cows in Massachusetts - but statistically it would be a bit surprising that a disease in cows would first show up there.
Didn't Vulkan omit a way to query for active displays so you just have to pick a random display index when your application starts up?

Other than that I thought Vulkan was pretty decently comparable to Metal. I don't have any first hand experience with it though.
Is that before or after you learn that the typical severance for the people in question was less than a week's pay?

So when it was "your turn", you're going to get tossed in the street with NOTHING to tide you over to your next gig.

Still feel like letting your family starve for the sake of "loyalty"?
As an aside, if you look at that person's comment history, pretty much every comment they've made is about China and defending China. An odd focus for a hackernews account.
Heart Influences What You Perceive and Fear
The heartbeat and other bodily processes play a surprising role in shaping perception and cognition.

Researchers have recently shown that the distinct phases of the heartbeat exert sharply different effects on the brain’s processing of external and emotional stimuli.

We consider the brain the very center of who we are and what we do: ruler of our senses, master of our movements; generator of thought, keeper of memory. But the brain is also rooted in a body, and the connection between the two goes both ways. If certain internal receptors indicate hunger, for instance, we’re driven to eat; if they indicate cold, we dress more warmly.

However, decades of research have also shown that those sensations do much more than alert the brain to the body’s immediate concerns and needs. As the heart, lungs, gut and other organs transmit information to the brain, they affect how we perceive and interact with our environment in surprisingly profound ways. Recent studies of the heart in particular have given scientists new insights into the role that the body’s most basic processes play in defining our experience of the world.

In the late 19th century, the psychologist William James and the physician Carl Lange proposed that emotional states are the brain’s perception of certain bodily changes in response to a stimulus — that a pounding heart or shallow breathing gives rise to emotions like fear or anger rather than vice versa. Researchers have since found many examples of physiological arousal leading to emotional arousal, but they wanted to delve deeper into that link.

The heartbeat provided the perfect means to do so.

The Heart Tips the Seesaw
Cardiac activity can be divided into two phases: systole, when the heart muscle contracts and pumps out blood, followed by diastole, when it relaxes and refills with blood.

Beginning in the 1930s, scientists found that systole dampens pain and curbs startle reflexes.
I am pretty sure this reporting style predates internet journalism. I see it as a very American style. It appears in almost all long form articles in English language articles. Almost every article has this irrelevant segue about a third way into it, always with a description of the physical appearance of the character (how they talk, what they wear). It's so boring and useless.
> Tracking that makes your life better is useful. If Opendoor knows you are looking for a new house in Arizona, and they can show you just the right house before it's sold to someone else, isn't that fantastic?

Maybe? When I look at a couple houses to help get comps for a family member and I get innudated with real estate listings for somewhere I don't live and don't want to live for months, that's certainly not fantastic. See also car shopping, or really anything where one sale is valuable enough to target me.

Also fun --- when you look at documentation or ratea for a service provider when you're their number 1 customer, and ads for that service provider follow you around for weeks. Yeah, I guess I'm highly likely to buy, cause you put me in your SEC filings as a top customer.
Sometimes I think of the freedom to challenge contemporary restaurant business models too.. you know, food on my terms. Restaurants are welcome not to serve me their food if I don't accept their bill, but I won't tell them upfront just like you.

Let's not pretend this is about high-minded freedom; like everyone else in a free market, you're free to not consume the fruits of labor from content creators and YouTube.

At least in your previous comment, I thought it was honest and interesting to raise the issue of self-interested piracy for low-income users. For all your talk of entitlement, how disappointing it is for you to end with "but I'm entitled to their work because I don't like their terms".
I think a big part of it is there are so many "here's how easy it is to set up!!!" guides out there, none of which actually tackle security first, or in a way that reflects the training (or lack thereof) many of these folks who are actually doing the work have.

It's nice to assume that everyone setting up backend services for the multitude of companies out there have gone through accredited training and have years of strong production experience with security chops.

The reality is that because the gap between technically inclined and technically clueless is so large, anyone who can stumble through an online tutorial can be seen as "experienced" to someone who isn't.

I'm not sure what the answer is, but this is going to keep happening - maybe a 3rd party service that evaluates "Getting Started" guides for backend services? If basic security protocols are not covered, they get a red mark, and business owners could use that as an indicator of whether their tech folks could potentially screw it up.
Such a beautiful country
> A virus being engineered to be an order of magnitude less virulent seems unlikely to say the least.

From what I gathered it’s not suggesting specific genetic traits were engineered, but rather that they were experimenting and one of those experiments could have accidentally been released(?).
Exactly what I thought when got to know about this. [°÷°]
What do you mean by this? I heard that it has incredible affinity to ACE receptors, which is why it sprrads so quickly (combined with asymptomatic infection)
My point is frequently your world descends into a flaming pile of shit unannounced.

Go ask the career restaurant workers how the year is going. Go ask the tourism guides and travel agents. Go ask their bosses how they intend to keep the doors open with an 80% decline in revenue.

Short answer: you can't.
Are you aware that there's a bit of an ongoing jackboots-gas-and-rubber-bullets crackdown happening across the United States against unarmed civilians?

The government has no problem turning its tools against the citizenry - well, particular parts of the citizenry.

These aren't hypothetical techie concerns about the NSA seeing your dick pics. This is actual police departments behaving like we live in a police state.
It's possible Lehman Brothers went under simply because Paulson didn't like Fuld.
Fair point about USDZ and glTF. I'm thinking about this from a web developer's point of view which may skew my perspective. USDZ is unusable on the web and probably will remain that way since you need to use an SDK to read the files unless someone can work some wasm magic.

glTF is a full scene exchange format, however, I deal with glTF files on a daily basis and the overwhelming majority contain only models and animation.
> I know PMs that have meetings amongst themselves

As a developer, I love those kinds of meetings.
SFUSD's defense: http://www.sfusdmath.org/secondary-course-sequence.html

It basically says that they are including more stuff in 8th grade curriculum so Algebra 1 gets pushed out to 9th grade.