skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> looks so good in the corruption statistics

The main corruption measurement I know of is the CPI: Corruption Perception Index. It doesn't measure how much corruption there is in any given country, it only measures how much visible corruption there is. I'm sure there are other gauges but that's the one that gets reported and made comparisons on.

For a long time Finland tended to be either the top dog on that list, or at least hold firmly its hold in the top-3. As a Finn, I always found that rather depressing, for a simple reason. The top spot on the CPI list tells nothing about how well things are in a country. It merely tells how shitty they are even for the runner-up.
Actually, that's the funny thing. I noticed that I could find videos that work, while others didn't.
This. Python is a genuine great choice for so many disciplines as well. If I have a ML project, then need to make a web app around it, and want to manage my environment, Python is a genuinely great language for _all_ of those needs all at the same time.

Great as they may be in their own domains, you can’t say that about Julia, Nim, Matlab etc.

Just JavaScript transpiring seem A bit lacking atm, then it is complete...
Immediate action? The Dutch politicians account was hijacked for a whole day.
Sure. But those statements are also true if you replace "VPN services" with "ISPs".

The point of VPN services is obfuscating your ISP-assigned IP address. And hiding your traffic from your ISP, which both knows who you are, and is generally vulnerable to your government. With VPN services, conversely, you can pick ones that are less vulnerable to your government. And if you use nested VPN chains, you can fully obfuscate the relationship between your meatspace identity and your site traffic.

So as long as you don't reveal your meatspace identity through your online activity, you can be at least somewhat anonymous online. And if you add Tor to the mix, you can be even more anonymous. And by hitting Tor through nested VPN chains, you're less vulnerable to deanonymization through Tor compromise. Such as the relay early vulnerability that CMU researchers exploited to deanonymize Tor users and onion sites.
This seems unlikely. It would vary a lot by the society in which “Defund the Police” became policy. The last time the US decided to radically reduce law enforcement and severity of punishment for law breaking in the 1960-1970 period it didn’t lead to parastatal organizations with their own militaries. Eventually the public grows sick of the disorder and laws and constitutional barriers that militate against harsh punishment and enforcement get worked around. Before the political reaction you had a broader social reaction in the flight from cities and suburbanization.
I don't know how much better Juniper's stuff is, let alone Cloudflare's specific setup, but classic Cisco IOS gear's approach to batching, pretesting and merging configuration changes on mission-critical network infrastructure is basically "f*ck it, we'll do it live on the command line". Real '80s stuff, not far removed from "classic" Unix man-with-a-beard-and-a-Telnet-session configuration management (though the command line largely keeps outright syntax errors out of the config, and the (Nearly) One Big Config File makes basic restore-from-backup relatively straightforward.
Yes. One of the devs hacking on it chronicled his experiences on tumblr of all things if IIRC correctly.
I didn't know that Johan Andersson, from DICE (Battlefield) fame who created Frostbite (the EA engine), the creator of Mantle spec, joined Microsoft. Is your data correct?
it seems to be a great app. gonna be a big conscience challenge for me though. I always feel that my guilt of blocking ads on desktop can be compensated by allowing ads on mobile... (i know it's hypocrisy to most ppls opinion)
Byng's fate seems to mirror a bit a history of Thucydides, an Athenian general who lost Amphipolis to Spartans and was sentenced for exile because of that. The sentence pushed Thucydides to create one of the greatest historical works of ancient era.

It's funny that ancient Athenians were less barbaric than imperial Britons.
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I am wondering if nobody told him during his orientation that all he does, all his keystrokes, mouse movements, files accessed etc. is recorded?
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
Ah! Thank you for pointing this out. You just cleared something up for me.

I use Firefox on my mobile and I always wondered why people keep complaining about Amp, since I never see it.
maybe to be safe and minimize the consequence of accidents?

maybe you can still arrive to the same conclusion, regardless of suppressing or amplifying a trait?
BigQuery, Snowflake and Splunk for data analysis.
It's a tiny bit of my point.

That's not true generally.

Perhaps because of this misconception we are missing out on a paradigm shift, testing technology needs more money but first get comfortable with anyone using the test and making mistakes, which includes the real poor, including illiterate people.

Because medical has been locked up for so long, researchers and governments aren't looking at people looking after themselves.
David Shor’s Unified Theory of American Politics
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No, what I mean is that providing daycare is NOT a requirement that has factored into school district or education department decisions at all. It is not something that is being optimized for.
Yes I did this on my laptop and it's always shocking when I look at my phone.
> China

5. Cui Bono?
I communicate with (counts) 4 people regular over Instagram DM. These are people I know IRL, people I have other means of messaging. For me, and from what I can tell some of my friends as well, I’m constantly switching between messaging apps for even the same person. If JS posted an Instagram story and I want to talk about it, then I just start the conversation in Instagram and this turns into a continuation of our conversation elsewhere. If I want to ask someone if they want to get food my first instinct is to open Messages/SMS but if I’ve recently (like same day) chatted with them over Facebook Messenger then I just open that app instead. I couldn’t give a damn which app I use because it’s all the same to me.

Edit: The person I would consider my “best friend” we chat 100% over Instagram DM. This is a person that I can invite myself over for dinner to, that’s how close we are in case you feel like assuming we must not be good friends if we don’t just call each other or whatever. Another of my good friends, we switch between iMessages and WhatsApp I’d say 50/50, just depending on if I’m already in WhatsApp talking to someone else and decide to message her too or not.
The Telegraph is not a reliable source for anything connected to covid.
The lack of skepticism here is genuinely surprising.
So what if Angus stood for UKIP? He's entitled to his views. How is that relevant to virus research or his scientific credentials?!
If you go one step further, and assume that the product is good then tracking benefits the buyer, because it can make the company survive, therefore sell the product to the buyer longer.
When the pepper is compromised, the work factor still matters.
You actually want to be on those, because that's where half of the nonsense comes from that you then have to deal with on the job.
Jilted lover etc
So if I am a key employee in a company that is going bankrupt, I should threaten to leave and then negotiate a large retention bonus based on how much it would hurt the company to lose me during the crisis.

Many people who are not part of the executive-clique would feel uncomfortable being so manipulative, especially while their colleagues are being laid off or taking pay cuts, but seems like that is just playing the game.

Seems like Chapter 11 is a good time for employees to join together and collectively demand increased salary (and say in executive decisions).
Do you get tonsoliths?

I had a similar pattern as you.

But now, cleaning tonsoliths from my throat regularly helps reduce recurrence of infection.
Modifying a sample genome is easy. It has been done routinely in industry and academia for decades.

Alternatively, they can inexpensively “print” entire virus genomes from scratch from a digital copy, but the “printer” is pricey.

(I’m being intentionally vague here, and skipped a few steps. I accidentally wrote a tutorial for starting your own biological weapons lab, then edited it down.)
It's mostly backward compatible, it depends on how complex your project is and what dependencies you rely on. Simple projects should be fairly straightforward - If you rely on the EventBus install mitt instead, will take you maybe 10 mins to replace. Rewriting your filters so they are plain methods instead should also be straightforward.
Do you have big bills for traffic?
Not only that, but the testing on oddball platforms can be a good way to reveal latent bugs.
I used to have an ereader but I guess I missed turning pages. I never felt like I completed a book or had some physical sense of where I was in a book.
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Latvia and Turkey are members of the European Union, NATO. Too much to bite.
Have fun in your meetings.
Do you have the study where they would have reduced virulence for these reasons? Because reducing the virulence of a virus to such a level that a large part of the population don't even get any symptoms seems odd to say the least.

Also, it's not even clear that COVID-19 is that much more infectious (or at all) than SARS, it seems to me that its explained well enough by so many people brushing it off or not even realizing they have it because it's so much less severe.
Yes, you are perfectly right, I just saw part of it, missing completely the point.

I think it would be much easier to just vacuum all hairs (or use electrostatic as suggested), so to have all hairs perpendicular to the skull, and then cut them out like you would cut your garden. If, and only if, hairs grow uniformly then by cutting 1cm of all hairs you will get the same (expensive, human made) cut you had X time ago :)

I scrolled fast the video for an image of him with all hair up :) I did not see it and I superficially judged it.
No mask, no service.. surely businesses can refuse service out of safety concerns
The Covid-19 changes that could last long-term
By your logic we should ignore some of the most obvious psychological properites of humans AND pretend there isnt billions+ $ spent on studying and exploiting exactly that.

The income tax was temporary. Right?

Consider someone hired to normalize something that is already being done. You dont need to tell them. Just pay them. Current example: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/hunting-humans-set-...

Heck make movies about it. Pro/con is irrelevant in the early stages.
Yes, it would be great to see AI training becoming more democratized again, but with its mere ~2x this paper won't help that much, plus the most expensive part in training a novel AI might well be to hire all those people that you need to create a dataset spanning millions of examples.
I'm a bit confused. That article doesn't mention viruses at all in its abstract, only bacterial studies.

My understanding is that the virus came from horseshoe bats. These largely live in Southern China. Wuhan is not Southern China. All studies of Corona viruses I can find deal with going to southern China (because that's where horseshoe bats live) to collect samples from horsehoe bats: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6563315/

Do you have a non-paywalled version to the link you provided? It says they looked at bacteria in bats in the abstract but didn't mention anything about which species of bats.
It’s interesting that the 8GB Pi4 won’t work, but the 4GB version will. Any clues as to why? I would assume that they are the same, just with more memory.

Edit: Oh, someone else asked that question
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It's actually been hypothesised from the beginning that ancestors of Covid-19 passed back and forth between humans and animals several times before taking its current form. The idea being that an ancestor of the virus was first transferred to humans where it 'learned' how to adapt to the human body before transmitting back to an animal host and mutated to become more deadly to humans and then transferred back to humans. This is partly based on the idea that a successful virus wouldn't adapt to be more lethal to its host and that close cousins of Covid-19 have been found in several species of bats and other animals.

This actually makes China a much better candidate than Europe for the place where the most important step in its evolution occurred. China has much more vibrant trade in wild animals for clothing, consumption, and traditional medicine. China also happens to be the place where the first reports of widespread hospitalisations occurred.

I don't think it's possible that Covid-19 in its current form could have floated around with its current high level of transmissivity or even the lower level of transmissibility of the Chinese strain without being detected for more than a month.

As we've seen from America's second wave (bumpy first wave?) the virus replicates exponentially (even with some social distancing), so tens of thousands of people can be infected within two weeks. So we ought to see pretty strong signal in ICU admissions within about 5 weeks of an outbreak (allowing ramp up time, incubation period, and time for symptoms to progress). We'd also expect to see all-cause mortality rates of people over 65 to increase significantly within about 7 to 8 weeks of the outbreak occurring as the average time to mortality is about 18 days.

I fail to see how it'd be possible for the health system of any developed nation to miss all that, but a developing country that has a culture of secrecy and suppressing information from both its own people and central authorities? Yeah I could believe that.

> Sort of like how we can find, retrospectively, intermittent cases of HIV back to the early part of the 20th century, but it suddenly exploded in the 1980s.

That's in large part because HIV collided with African urbanisation, significant international air travel deflation, an explosion of homosexual activity (unprotected sex), an industrialised blood transfer system, and a drug epidemic with administration using shared syringes. I can't think of a similar set of factors changing in our current society that could have allowed for the explosion of a coronavirus.
Unified theory sounds a little ambitious. I wish he would explain what economic populism is. Does he mean Democrats failed to be popular? Well gee. Sucks.
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https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/05/15/national-q...

I mean, you’re entitled to your opinion, but at least some people disagree.

Edit: and, your claim that there is no such precedent is a flat out lie.
Differences between Mantle and Vulkan are not that big, some things are super similar. The biggest difference between Mantle and Vulkan are renderpasses, and that can feel like a mess if one is used to immediate renderers, but as a concept it’s very much core in Metal and even DX12 has it.
The Telegraph is not a reliable source for anything.
My government, along with any other entity with lawyers, can obtain my browsing history from my ISP as evidence that is admissible in civil or criminal court by submitting some paperwork. They can’t do that with my VPN traffic, even if some government spooks are secretly running the VPN. The NSA is not going to burn their operation to help the MPAA fine me.
Did hackers download DIRECT MESSAGES from some Twitter accounts, something that should not be possible were the system correctly engineered and professionally operated?

Would it be naive to expect that this is the first time this mechanism has been used just because it is new to the Public?

If this mechanism has been used before, would it not be safe to assume that sponsors with virtually unlimited resources (such as foreign states) would have employed it to spy on their adversaries?

Would it be logical to conclude that the consequences of such adversaries having their DIRECT MESSAGES revealed resulted in personal injury and loss to those individuals and their associated social graph?

Wasn't Twitter a system setup by some beach bums using a bunch of old buggy Windows systems that barely worked and although it has been reengineered, isn't that same group still calling the shots (only now amplified ten orders of magnitude by additional funding)?

Shouldn't there be a better system, setup and operated by the best software engineers (like those at CMU) available to the Public along with a clear indication of why? --You know, before anyone else realizes personal injury or loss due to the actions of distracted beach bums calling the shots on the current system?
This is not a place to go into points of disagreement.
> That's kind of a cynical take.

Disagree. The statement could be parsed more applicably as saying:

> The most important question for people who use Twitter is likely — did the attackers see any of my private information? For the vast majority of people [who use Twitter], we believe the answer is, no.
The president is the commander in chief. In the armed forces following the chain of command is kind of a big deal and there are severe consequences for ignoring a direct moral order from a higher ranked officer.
> Canada, Australia, Germany, etc. all managed to do this just fine.

You mean countries with federal-led and coordinated responses? I wonder why they did just fine. Maybe it was the leadership and support that the US so desperately lacks.

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/emergency-pr...

https://www.health.gov.au/news/health-alerts/novel-coronavir... and https://www.health.gov.au/committees-and-groups/australian-h...

https://www.bundesregierung.de/resource/blob/973812/1753872/...

The states/provinces within may have been the primary ones managing in certain cases, like Australia, but the entire response in all three countries is federally led and centralized through committees and support from the federal governments. In fact, one of the key parts of Australia's response is specifically

> ensure the response is consistent and integrated across the country
Indeed. In context, something that would presumably continue indefinitely (border traffic and drug consumption) was being discussed. That would require permanent legislation and normalization of extensive government surveillance.

In contrast, the current shenanigans are occurring within a declared state of emergency (pandemic) on top of which widespread protests over an unrelated topic broke out. Even then, what's happening appears to be status quo police brutality that's piecemeal. (As opposed to open, centrally coordinated mass surveillance of everyone's actions - both physical and digital - with the approval of the legislature).
> Would you rather see a ton of ads that are completely irrelevant to you, or see ads that you actually need?

I don't actually need any ads, so this is a false choice.
It is hard for me to imagine a time when animal fat was considered surplus to needs and discarded.
Custom allocators are (or were) common enough that Valgrind includes an API for them to use to tell the analysis engine where the valid memory blocks are:

https://valgrind.org/docs/manual/mc-manual.html#mc-manual.me...

I believe the state of the art in generic malloc implementations has improved since this sort of thing was commonplace, though.
It's not always that simple:
French bus driver attacked over mask rules dies [https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/11/europe/france-philippe-mongui...]
In addition to vimeo as a sibling commenter mentioned, there are probably at least a dozen services offering video hosting catering to all sizes of customers.

> It’s then up to the creator to decide how/if to monetize their content.

And this is why the creators gravitate to youtube. The real tangible service google provides is an automated ad sales rep. That's not an easy job, roughly 0% of creators would succeed at this on their own.

> Just like the old days.

My guess is that this still exists and never even stopped growing. It's just that youtube grew so much faster that it's easy to miss. Again, because youtube is most creators' only good chance at monetization (not that its their only option for hosting).
- The Emergence of Paid Communities

- Paid Communities Are a New Business Model for Bespoke Social Media
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Ask HN: How many of you consider yourself mathematically gifted AND music too?
Curious.
In European countries doing this the biggest opponents are families of addicts. This is basically a death sentence. It's society finally turning its back on them. I believe it's the right approach in the long run, but in the short run you get emotional appeals and weak politicians.
The main thing Europe is doing, is border lockdowns. Some borders are open, but in general only those to countries with low Covid cases. Other travelers get quarantine, policed to various degrees.

All of this is completely unworkable in the US.
> competent security staff

Between this breach, the hacking of Jack Dorsey, the “rogue employee” account deactivation of Donald Trump, and I’m sure more that I’m not aware of, would any reasonable IT/security person claim that Twitter takes security seriously?

I believe I’m quite right in saying that Twitter as a platform has been one of the most damaging things to happen to our democracy in recent history. Its toxic effects on discourse and polarization are well documented.

With that, and the revelation that they couldn’t take security less seriously if they tried, I would implore all reading to delete their Twitter accounts.
There's system level support for WebP in Mac Big Sur. Also Safari 14 supports it.

I don't like it because WebP doesn't add anything else than better compression compared to PNG and JPEG. AVIF or JPEG XL bring HDR support, so Apple should have adopted one of them. Even Google is planning WebP 2.0 because they noticed that WebP isn't enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zogxpP2lm-o
I'd consider it more like accepting a new job. Your new employer is totally entitled to reorg and transfer you to a new team you wouldn't have wanted to join on week 3. But if they planned on transferring you out of the position all along, while they were simultaneously convincing you to leave your old job for this cool new position that you'll totally get to have (for two weeks), then they're being shitty.

If I found out that my new employer/acquirer was dishonest to get me on board with the terms we ended up on, sure they "won" the negotiation in a way they're entitled to, but it's going to sour the relationship for good reason and I'd say it's bad behavior that makes the ecosystem worse for all of us.
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Metal is not cross platform nor open.
After working with a 300,000 LoC code base of PHP I would gladly rewrite Facebook in Rust. It allows effortless atomic commits. When I build something I make an MVP of a first version, refactor, make an MVP of the next version, refactor, and so on.

Rust lets me make sure my code still works through refactors and code changes. With PHP I could easily break something that would only cause an error when that code actually runs. That's right, there is no sanity check at all until the parser reads that code.
I think the Bitcoin scam is a red herring.
[1] https://nomadbsd.org which could be called a "distro" or derivative of FreeBSD. But not really, because it IS FreeBSD, just enriched with clever scripts and preselected and configured software. Try it out in live-mode from USB, check if everything works, and install if you like it. If not, wait, or forget it :)

The same applies to [2] http://www.ghostbsd.org

Edit: forgotten [3] http://www.midnightbsd.org
Pick your poison.