skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the US military[1] is ahead of the US in general[2] on equality because it started integrating in 1948:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23869499

[1] also from 1948: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48612/48612-h/48612-h.htm

"If our difference of opinion is so inclusive that we can agree on nothing political, our differences have gone from mere opinion into the depths of ideology. Here the institutional framework is affected. You and I would not want to live in the same city; we could not feel safe in one another's presence; each would be afraid of the effect which the other might have on the morals of the community. If I were a Nazi, and you a democrat, you would not like the idea of my children living next door to yours. If I believed that you were a good enough creature—poor deluded devil—but that you were not fit to vote, scarcely to be trusted with property, not to be trusted as an army officer, and generally subversive and dangerous, you would find it hard to get along with me."

Keeping in mind that Linebarger was writing with an eye to being "unobjectionable on the score of security by the Department of the Army", and from other dots scattered through the text, I would not be surprised if the last sentence had had a more concrete reference than its abstract wording suggests.

[2] reasons for optimism: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/18/politics/peggy-wallace-ke...

George Wallace (1963): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace%27s_1963_Inaugu...

George Wallace's grandson (1996) asked why his grandfather did such horrible things to other people.

(Apparently left to his own devices, Wallace might've been more moderate. But his constituency demanded more, as in The Candidate, so he declared "I was out-niggered by John Patterson. And I'll tell you here and now, I will never be out-niggered again.")
Virulence :

1. the severity or harmfulness of a disease or poison.

COVID-19 - has an fatality rate of around 0.5-1%, according to the best methodologies we have, in various environments, with recent papers suggesting that it might be even less lethal in places where medical care is sufficient.

In comparison, the best data for SARS fatality rates is of around 11% (!).

This means that SARS-CoV-2 is around ten times less virulent than SARS. MERS is even worse than SARS.

Now, SARS-CoV-2 is likely even more infectious than SARS, but part of that is because it's less severe, meaning that you can spread it even without being sick.
> You can (usually accidentally) end up with a render blocking script tag. In this article example it was client-side optimizely.

This makes sense for a tool like Optimizely which has to block rendering.

> The parsing and execution of third-party javascript is definitely non-trivial if you profile it, especially on lower end devices.

Given that this is supposed to happen after the page has already loaded, does this matter? If the thing you are optimizing for is page load time, and it takes a few 100ms after the page has already loaded to run the JS, does that actually negatively impact the user experience?

> Finally, browser download priority requires async and defer attributes on scripts (usually), or other clever ways of deferring loading.

When you add third party JS, shouldn't this be taken care of for you? Scripts for adding third party JS should already make use of async and defer as needed. What's a case where you would need to actually think about async and defer when making use of third party JS?
The duplicated effort is needed. The OpenSSLs mono-cultur was one of the reason Heartbleed, and other OpenSSL security issues, where such huge problems and affected so many.
I'd describe it as roughly, both parties have been Neoliberals since the 80's or so (the Political Overton Window changed), but then within that there's the part that people only see: left vs right, but they're far less different than they seem.
glTF is a far better format than Collada and works well for every skeletal animations I've thrown at it. I use 3DS Max, export to FBX, then use the FBX2GLTF command line tool. Works seamlessly.
I just don't buy it. This guy or girl managed to get a job at Twitter but was willing to sell access to underground hackers for a bit of extra cash and expected no blowback? When the hackers were instructing the employee to post these tweets on behalf of Barack Obama and Joe Biden, did the employee not wonder if this could go wrong for him?
They can do whatever they want internally, I don’t even know what they said is true.
"plain text" is also a technical term.

Ask the average joe what it means for something to be in "plain text" and you'd probably get the answer "Oh that's simple, they didn't write it out in cursive!"
What you're describing may be a controlled burn approach under a different name. After a certain point, the virus infects the entire susceptible population, and then it stops because everyone susceptible has died or obtained immunity.

Suppose 30% of the population is susceptible to covid. If lockdown policy slows the spread of the virus to 1% of the population per month, it would take 30 months before the pandemic passes. That's a very long time to do lockdown, very damaging to the economy and people's livelihoods.

I've read a lot about overwhelmed hospitals. I'm not clear on if it's happened in any widespread fashion. The media coverage tends to emphasize the bad cases and ignore the boring cases. It doesn't seem like people are unable to get medical care. I have checked the Texas online dashboard now and then, and currently about 10,000 people in a state of 29,000,000 are hospitalized with covid.

Texas dashboard: https://txdshs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#...

The logical policy would be let the virus pass through the population as fast as possible without overwhelming hospitals, given the specifics of any geography.
That would be a harder choice if ads were better targeted to my goals, but ads based on tracking just aren't that helpful in my experience. They may work to get people to buy things, but that's a separate axis. Ads are not for the consumer's benefit (any benefit for them is incidental). They are designed to benefit the advertiser.

It's not just a choice between relevant and irrelevant ads, it's that plus many more factors. Even if ads were super accurate, I'd prefer irrelevant ads to having my personal habits finely catalogued in order to subconsciously affect my buying or voting choices. And it is subconscious. Anecdotally, I recently noticed I'd started to want a particular type of personal care accessory. I realized the only reason this happened is because I'd been subjected to dozens of ads for this item over several weeks. I have zero need for this item, zero interest in owning one four weeks ago (even though I already knew the product existed), and nobody would even know the difference if I had one or not!
By coincidence John Lewis’s graphic-novel memoir _March_ was released around the time of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and it made me feel optimistic in what otherwise felt like a dark winter. I can’t recommend it highly enough.
I could imagine a teenage hacker downloading his friend's or enemy's DMs. People the hacker knows in real life may be more interesting for him.
If testing was required to go to work, go to school, enter a restaurant, a bar, or a theater, people would do it.
For those who use Vue regularly, are there any breaking changes in Vue3? How easy it is to upgrade from Vue2 to Vue3? Can one just upgrade the version in package.json and start using vue3 for new components?
Yes, but is the theory is that one experiment, in the context of a gain analysis, was made in order to see how the virus might evolve to be much less severe?

Why would a gain analysis try to find ways in which a virus could be made weaker? I don't doubt that an accidental release is feasible, though very very unlikely, but why would an experiment make a less severe virus in the first place?
What a joke of a company. They literally have done nothing in terms of building innovative products in the past 7 yrs since IPO and their monthly active users is static. And then, to distract away from their poor product roadmap, they take controversial political stands - but which don't result in any major impact given mostly bots and celebrities use that platform. And now this.

Keep in mind, some 4k employees work in this jungle. Don't know what they do apart from just tweeting #lovewhereyouwork
Charter schools are accountable to the parents. If the parents do not like the performance of a charter school, they can pull their kids out of it, and put them in their neighborhood public school.
That depends on your company I guess. If your entry salary is, or is close to 6 figures then yeah. But if you pay that only for skilled developers _specializing_ in front-end then it is not too much to ask that they are up-to-date with their field.
> for retention packages that make sure the lights stay on.

even you admit that people doing any work in a bankrupting company needs a retention package to continue working - why should the CEO (just another worker in a company) be any different? Why is their retention package somehow less important than the retention package that you proposed for the "keep the lights on" workers?
If passwords are peppered as well as salted, is the bcrypt work factor a factor?
That’s like saying if homeopathy wasn’t useful no one would do it. Both homeopathy and ad tech are “useful” to someone, but most benefit accrues to the seller, not the buyer.
If they are truthful it will now probably change to 99.997% uptime or similar. I expect that's still good compared to many DNS providers.
My interpretation is more banal.

The borrowings are more superficial. We know that language and style used to describe kings, emperors, and gods are very similar. The "I am Sargon, King of Kings" style occurs in political and religious writings all throughout the region... with roots going deep into the bronze age.

Recurring imagery, writing style, motifs, titles, etc. are the norm. Lots of cultural elements are broadly found throughout the greater region. It's not surprising that they'd exist in any two traditions. All these traditions affected eachother.

Take the Sphinx motif, Seraphim in temple judaism. It's a motif found very widely, over a very long period of time. The imagery is reused. The symbolism is reused. It's impossible to draw a clear path of progression though.

On monotheism... I don't think monotheism is all that significant, per se. Whatever the origins of this were, canaanite cities and kings were clearly being closely associated to single deities. One king, one god. Maybe one temple. That was a typical mode. Is that monotheism? Why care, outside of theology?

What is significant about monotheism is not monotheism. It's the "jealous god," the strict prohibitions on "foreign worship." This exclusionism is what made the religion so successful in the long term. We see this even in modern times. Religions that tolerate multiple belief systems give way to monotheism.
Wearing a mask is required for many of these activities are people still refuse.
The amount of violence the Sicilian Mafia inflicts, while staggering, is an order of magnitude or more off from the cartels.
Nissan Leaf introduced ten years ago, over 470000 sold by May 2020 [1], the actual "below $35000 car" from established manufacturer.

The difference? No hype, deliverers promises, no crashes on autopilot - at least widely known [2] vs [3]. Old fashion in this age of attention grabbers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Leaf

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=nissan+leaf+crash+&oq=nissan...

[3] https://www.google.com/search?q=tesla+crash&oq=tesla+crash
The same thing is experienced in Turkey without economic sanctions...
Spoken like someone who has never witnessed the abomination that is SAfE... God I miss the time when Scrum was the worst part of my job
Good question! But I just write javascript :) very interesting stuff
Yes, it binds to ACE2 receptors more strongly, but once you're infected it's about one order of magnitude less severe.

To note, receptor affinity is not the only mechanism by which infectivity is modulated. You would already expect that a virus that is ten times less severe would spread more easily, and SARS was already able to spread efficiently through air at great distances, so it seems likely that me that receptor affinity is stronger but that other mechanism are weaker. This would explain the fact that it is less severe and not much more infectious.
I do not have experience in virology either but what you heard is correct. Researchers do work on creating new strains of viruses, with the goal being development of vaccines before epidemics start.
Which people?

I don’t have or want a family. And it’s not about loyalty to the company it’s about the other people working under me.

I have savings so I can afford to be unemployed, but still don’t understand your hypothetical.
I don’t think so. When you sell a company you are relinquishing control of it. The acquirer wants to turn around and sell to Uber that’s none of your business. You aren’t entitled to know the ultimate acquirer to set your price any more than CVS is entitled to know my income to set my price for a bottle of Coke on a hot day.
Show HN: Simple Next.js Boilerplate with TypeScript
I've been enjoying working with Next.js [1] in the last couple of years, and especially with a serverless architecture, deploying to Vercel [2].

I've got most of my projects working in this setup now, and so as I was starting to work on a couple of things more recently, I decided to pick one that I've had in production for a few months without issues, strip it to the bare essentials, and update all dependencies.

It's in GitHub at https://github.com/BrunoBernardino/nextjs-boilerplate-simple .

If people find these useful, I'll start a collection and release some with basic stuff like connecting to MongoDB, sending emails via Mailgun, passwordless user login, and more.

Let me know what would you like seeing!

I hope you enjoy it.

Thank you for your attention and kindness. I really appreciate it!

[1] https://nextjs.org

[2] https://vercel.com
I don’t understand what your point is. You think I don’t get this? This is a thread about giving executives bonuses when the company is going bankrupt.
This blog post (and most of the blog itself) is completely absurd (and largely enormously uninteresting).

I found the ending of this specific post particularly meritless. The Norton Sound Regional Hospital and Quyanna Care Center was built with funding from the Indian Health Service, not Medicare or Medicaid. It's also only an 18-bed hospital, and is located in what is largely a medical desert and serves a diverse population of nearly 10,000. None of that sounds worthy of ridicule to me, in fact this seems quite remarkable (despite the fact that the hospital seems understaffed).
Bad analogy. WINE doesn't use Microsoft's services to run, and it doesn't cause the application to run in a different manner than intended; NewPipe connects to Google's servers to fetch video, and unlike the way Google intends, it doesn't show the other content in the page (ads, etc).

NewPipe uses Google resources; WINE itself only uses resources on your personal computer.
Which votes?
> In 2009, an 18-year-old hacker from the US managed to gain access to Twitter’s back-end systems by targeting a member of the company’s support staff

https://decrypt.co/35911/6-times-twitters-security-was-breac...
Don't be stupid, how do you know those 26 lines of code are free of bugs? They're not battle tested and you're just re-inventing the wheel instead of following best practices.
> This is just asking for rude awakenings. History is full of these kinds of events of where people thought things shouldn't fail, never prepared for them, and they did.

When I say some things shouldn’t fail, I mean our collective ability to keep each other alive and well. Whatever business of the day can go fuck itself, I don’t care.

> No one lives in an environment where one can miss-allocate resources indefinitely or under assumptions that somethings can never change.

What assumptions are you talking about? I’m talking about welfare.
Most things that climate change deniers post are factually accurate. If you would target the basis of their claim with the data they provide, you will always lose. Being a climate change denier when you only have access to facts that don't support climate change is only logical.

To disprove them requires you to have even greater subject matter knowledge than they do, which is unfeasible for most normal people. Even at a top university you would need several years to become a subject matter expert. Clearly not a feasible strategy for every commenter on HN.

So what can we do? Most "Climate Skeptics Science", while not being factually disproven, can lose a great amount of credibility by background checking things like authors, what scientific conferences or journal a paper has been submitted to, if it is peer reviewed, etc. In fact, with enough loss of credibility it becomes the burden of the author to prove that they/their paper is credible (see what I did there?).

If there was a clear bias in the authors' background, this would call into question the credibility of the paper. Humans are well-equipped to understand bias without a university degree, less so with bioengineering.

To summarize: HN commenters are generally ill-equipped to prove/disprove arguments in a scientific paper. Like in most sciences this isn't always necessary since you can put the credibility of the authors up for test. If they fail that test, they must prove their credibility before their scientific argument carries any weight. Most HN-commenters are adept at judging other peoples biases.
There's arguments to be said that this is a violation of ADA and grounds for massive lawsuits.

See: https://www.workplacefairness.org/medical-privacy-workplace#...

Also, just as a personal aside...I will gladly join massive, maskless protests to underscore that I will never accept medical testing as a condition of engaging in society. This is a completely unacceptable violation of civil liberties.
We need the guys at CMU (who also operate CERT) to engineer a replacement and setup a program for interns to operate it as a private non-profit for the rest of time.

The system that is out there now has been a running technological joke since it was (sort of) running on Windows and it would be My_ dust now if it weren't for the President who they now (rightly or wrongly) scorn. Some seriously bad things can (and probably are going to) happen to actual human beings because of that s*faced idiot phoning it in for way too long. He doesn't get to impact the democracy or influence the beating of other human beings hearts because he is not competent or careful enough to be trusted in such capacity.
Stop using buggy proprietary system, especially if you are a developer. It is something like Internet Explorer or Windows several years ago.
No, if you were a bad actor looking to cause chaos for a target, you would gather all such things and release it. Either way, that example disproves your claim that nothing sensitive would be discussed of Twitter DM's.
His insinuation seems that crime would immediately (eventually?) spike up once police doesnt have the same financial means. So a citation that says lower police funding correlates to higher crime (specifically at current levels of police funding) would help.
I don’t understand the hubbub. It’s just a stupid messaging network. Not our emails that got hacked.

I think this is relevant here - https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=emb_title&v=MjufyLPKsEw
Yes, the institute of Virology in Wuhan did research on bats up to thousands of kilometers away. There are, after all, only two BSL-4 labs.

However, there is a large population of bats right outside Wuhan, and you can find research by the WIV cataloguing different viruses found in the same province. For example : https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31009304/

The key here is that the bats the virus (likely) came from are not actually thousands of miles from Wuhan, but only a few dozen. It's just that since the WIV is a huge institute they sometimes also do research in bats in other regions too, because they don't have such facilities.
When you do drugs, you're only really harming yourself. Comparing it to murder is a false analogy.
Interesting fact: The three largest investors in Ethos Capital are the investment vehicles of three families of billionaires: the Romneys, the Perots and the Johnsons.
This type of thing usually ends up being “death by a thousand cuts”. async + defer help out, but they do still incur parsing and evaluation (iirc, before document onload event) overhead. If you delay loading until you’re sure the page is interactice, you’ll end up loading third-party pretty late (which impacts metrics, and usually isn’t out of the box supported).

On a standard product-ey site with retargeting ads, user tracking, etc. this third-party slowdown is significant.

All of this is exacerbated on lower-end devices, and non-WiFi Internet.
Of course you can find specific obscure examples for or against the argument I'm making. I really don't find this sort of comment helpful or useful and it's rather tiresome when it inevitably appears. I'm speaking of general cultural trends, not isolated incidents. American culture is far less formal, polite, and respectful than it used to be even 30 years ago. This is reflected in language (vulgarity is far more acceptable today), clothing (far more casual), vocabulary level (far lower), and in countless other ways. Even the insults today are more base and direct than they used to be. If this is not obviously true to you, I'm not sure we can agree on anything.

For a specific example on YouTube, watch some old episodes of Firing Line. Here's one where William F. Buckley (conservative) talks to Eldridge Cleaver of the Black Panthers (quite left-wing). For one, this sort of interaction would almost never happen in the modern media world, and if it did, it would be nowhere near as calm as the Firing Line episode is. Certainly Buckley is not a paragon of civility (see his arguments with Gore Vidal) but again, the overall culture was far more collected. Compare it to today, where every conversation is combative and the only non-hostile forum is something like Joe Rogan, who functions as more of a sounding board than an actual intellectual host.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NPwk_Dbin8
In "Contagion" almost everyone who got it showed symptoms immediately and died within a few days, so testing wasn't really a solution.
Comments like these make HN threads with even the slightest mention of China completely unbearable.

Some people actually want to have a discussion on the original post, not this predictable, tiring flamewar nonsense that appears every single day, hopefully you can respect that Ray.

There's dozens of other places that would welcome this long-winded conspiratorial rant with open arms.
I had a quick look at the Win32 BitBlt API and it seems to be quite similar. Can you remember how much work was actually involved in mapping the Smalltalk primitives to Win32?
A VPC, with security groups, can be much easier, depending on how your instances are managed. You’re sure that all the indtances have the same rules and that the rules are always updated, even in if you use auto-scaling.

If you use some provisioning tool you can have the same thing with IPtables. But why are you on AWS if you don’t want to used the features Amazon provides?
>Personally I would have gone with the bounty, then shamed Twitter for the (probably) low payout in an effort to promote my brand.

The problem is that the attack requires active social engineering to pull off, so it probably wouldn't have been eligible for a bounty. "I could trick your employees and gain access to user accounts" isn't really covered.
Some say fecal transplants are also great (for many things including IBS), is that true from your research?