skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't give you a non-paywalled link legally, but there are actually Shortridge horseshoe bats in Hubei.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortridge%27s_horseshoe_bat
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubei

You can see that Hubei is indeed in the area where horseshoe bats are found.
It's a very very old cultural association, dating back to primitive times where people were literally 'afraid of the dark'. So Day = Light = Good and Night = Dark = Bad. Night-time is associated with mystery, fear, ignorance, demons, devils, 'creatures of the dark' etc and Day-time is associated with rebirth, new life, positivity, understanding etc.

Of course none of that resonates with the self-flagellating virtue signallers, whose cultural awareness extends about as far back as last week and who assume every reference to 'Black' must be due to 'whitey' being incorrigibly racist.
'So long as we have monarchy in the factory, we cannot have the republic in society' —Marc Sangnier
Hi,

I released Landr few days back on Product Hunt and it got really good response and reached top 5th product of the day - https://www.producthunt.com/posts/landr-3

Landr is a landing page creator which helps you create websites for your products in minutes.

With growing internet popularity everyone wants to have a digital presence and having a website for their product is a must before they launch. Through Landr, i'm trying to make it easy for everyone to create landing page websites for their products with ease. Landr is very different from the traditional website builders you see on the market today. All these website builders are mostly drag and drop solutions. Even though they provide you with all the tools needed to build websites, unfortunately not everyone is creative enough to build good websites using these tools. Landr solves this problem by providing users beautiful list of templates to choose from and not having to worry about customising them at all. Users just have to select a template, fill all the inputs needed for that template, check the live preview of their website with the current details and then just create it by the click of a button. It's that simple.

In the first version of the product I'm providing SaaS templates. In the next version the plan is to provide templates for other category of users like freelancers who want to showcase their skills,students who want to showcase their portfolio to everyone on the internet.

I hope Landr removes one more problem from this world.I'm happy to answer any question you guys have.

Connect with me on twitter to join the journey of Landr: https://twitter.com/sunilc_
How you interpret their data is up to you (e.g. whether it gives you a high level of confidence). But they’ve clearly given you proof that the virus is artificial.

Personally I think the circumstantial evidence in this case is fairly strong. But I’m hardly impartial.
If you’re an employee (key or not) in a company that’s encountering financial trouble (and you aren’t as financially set for life as you desire), you should absolutely understand what options you realistically have and determine if a conversation about your comp is indicated to ensure that your current company keeps your services. It doesn’t have to be a threatening conversation.

“Look, I’m trying to understand our outlook and my financial prospects, given that Google is actively recruiting people like me and it looks like all of our stock options are now worthless.”

You’re not entitled to be “paid back” for the fact that those options became worthless, but neither are you obligated to stay going forward for just the cash portion of your comp if you have clearly better [job] options elsewhere.
The product is the same, its just the mind set. In a startup you are more focused on securing a funding and grow 10x and on the other hand Indie hacking is more on bootstrapping. I feel startups started bootstrapped but have turned into what they are today because of VC. Also the biggest reason why 95% startups fail.
And how does the current system not cause huge job losses? The people who stand the most to lose when they lose their jobs still end up losing their jobs, either way.

The people who are remaining at the company after the layoffs are -- if the layoffs are done right -- the most valuable people, who would have the least trouble finding a new job if the restructuring fails.
Ask HN: Home-phone cell phone setup?
I am looking to setup a wireless home phone system based on a cell phone. Does anyone have experience with this? Looking for what cell phone/provider/plan is best for "rarely used" and then how to connect to a few handsets around the house.
Well the core of those libraries is already written in C or C++, so it's a matter of writing bindings to interface with the core. I think tensorflow and pytorch today have some C/C++ bindings, but I don't know how good they are.
Pity that GL 3.3 is still what is mostly widespread on consumer desktops.
Linux Weekly Roundup: Applications, Distros, and News – July 18, 2020
I do believe that the point

>In cases where an account was taken over by the attacker, they may have been able to view additional information

Is kinda downplayed by wording
Vegan diets are associated with orthorexia
Pretty interesting one ha
If the hackers had access to the DMs, stuff of value could have been lost.
I recently researched third-party services that do performance / uptime monitoring, alerting and more. There were a couple of good ones, but none that I found that integrated monitoring/performance/alerting along with a publicly accessible status-page/dashboard which also had the option to create incidents with status updates (text description). You might consider if this is worth adding.

For now I went with the Open Source Statping tool but I'd happily use an affordable service if it unified everything.
You're right, I am. I should have focussed on the point that asymptomatic transmission and lack of severity may be a feature in an engineered virus, not a bug.
https://youtu.be/857B7u_vUBc indian company developed automatic test machine
This demonstration with Nvidia RTX Voice sounds pretty good

https://youtu.be/Q-mETIjcIV0
Vegan diets not associated with orthorexia
I don't understand.

The Dutch politicians fit that description
This really just perpetuates the attitude that the only thing that matters is finance, and all the workers can just go pound sand.
Looks cool, congrats on the launch.

What tools did you use for creating the video on the landing page? Veed or something different?
Interesting, thanks. Didn't expect a CDN to win out on price against in-house capacity.

Presumably this is a function of scale? At a certain point it's going to be worth running your own CDN.
NoiseTorch uses RNNoise, which uses a mix of deep learning and DSP to remove noise. I haven't used module-echo-cancel yet, but it's probably "just" classical DSP, rnnoise may deliver better results.
Any of these remove dog barking noise?
Firefox for Android allows camera and microphone to stream if device is locked
Love sport games!
hah!

"The recreationally outraged cancel mob"

FWIW, I actually enjoy twitter and get plenty of value from it (by selectively following interesting, intelligent people who post about things I care about) ... but your description is pretty funny -- and probably apt, at least for a sizable % of its users.
If you thought those internal candidates were better, why didn’t you promote them before?

Either you think they’re not, or you think that now you have evidence they are based on the fact that the current execs drove the thing to the brink. That’s a fair piece of data for a lot of cases, but I don’t think that’s the case for a lot of pandemic-shutdown-induced cases that we’re seeing now.
Would having access to the verified account somehow tell you what the alt account name is though?
Results can be mixed. Personally when I tried it it gave me a lisp.
How do you socially engineer someone to compromise their U2F-based dongle?
That's not completely true. Some of those pressures still apply to artificial viruses once they're released. Highly dangerous viruses get quarantined, and viruses that produce symptoms quickly (and don't transmit asymptomatically, or have a shorter window) are more obvious. Both of those properties reduce real-world transmissability, which is all that actually matters.
I’m not an expert. The entire content of the paper is the exposition of a series of four published studies, with Wuhan researchers involved, that took a coronavirus and enhanced its ability to infect the human respiratory system, through the mechanisms we are seeing in action now. They argue that these characteristics are known to be originated in the lab, from these previous papers.
That's by design, though. If you make company performance (equity) a big part of someone's compensation, and the company isn't performing (regardless of whose "fault" it is), then that person's compensation dropping is the correct outcome. Otherwise you're telling someone that their compensation depends on performance, while also telling them that your words don't matter and you're going to pay them a lot even if the company does badly.

A global pandemic is fairly unique situation to be the cause, but that's life. Why should executives get their compensation propped up when the line employees are getting laid off? It might make sense from a finance perspective, but it's complete garbage from a social equity perspective.
As I said in another comment on another thread, which naturally got downvoted into oblivion, we are rapidly heading into an Orwellian word where the language becomes so loaded and politicised that it will soon be impossible to use certain formerly innocuous words, because they'll be seen as too offensive.

As I said then. Maybe we should just replace the word 'Black' throughout the English language with 'Double-Plus-Un-White' and have done with it?
> Bloomberg is an example of the classic Web 2.0 business maxim “come for the tool, stay for the network.” But the inverse trajectory, from which this essay takes its name, is now equally viable: “come for the network, pay for the tool.” Just as built-in social networks are a moat for information products, customized tooling is a moat for social networks.1

I don't know if the post has been updated, but unless I misread something it is explicitly mentioned now.
Yes, exactly, which is discussed in the paper. The goal of gain of function research isn’t about “let’s make viruses that do crazy shit,” it’s a method of hypothesis testing. When you can successfully add (or remove) stuff then you can test hypotheses that would otherwise not be testable.
Its unpopular in the sense that no one would say "i don't care about environment"
Exactly! They’re not being paid-back for their past losses. They’re being paid to stay on and do future work to try to salvage things.
Thank you :)

I used Kinemaster. It's a mobile app.
That is a great name. I currently use Grouplist.io

https://grouplist.io/setup/email-alias/
I wish somebody made a bitmap font based on VGA 8x16, but scaled up to look nice on 4K screens. I'd seriously pay for that.
Five months ago, those people were judged less competent to hold the top spots than the incumbents, as evidenced by the org chart at the time. What’s changed?
Love it, thanks!
maybe a girlfriend or ex girlfriend . or a rival hacker. or someone who is believed to own a lot of crypto and is low profile.
Just wondering, how do you prove the authenticity of the DMs if they have no cryptographic signatures? I'd be very hard. Even is some are authentic, some messages could be altered / planted, there is no way you could trust screenshots too.
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They seem to be tiptoeing around without providing actual extent of the hack. They mentioned data exports being used for 8 non verified accounts, but haven't mentioned "direct messages" as the thing that were not accessed for other accounts. Twitter tracks user engagement, so it should be possible for them to have this information either from logs/user analytics.

I would be very wary of using their product's DMs now. Considering most journalists use Twitter, I can only hope that no one had used DMs to contact a journalist about something which can put the source in jeopardy.
Not sure if it has been mentioned previous, but Reply All did an episode on sim swaping and OG handles https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/49ho5a/130-the-snapc...
Simple Ops has everything you need except status pages which i'm currently building and should be ready soon.
Only Nixon could go to China. Imagine how much different things would have been if Trump had embraced the CDC and science like the other nations did. His followers would have gone along with it.
Second prize is a Netflix sub for 166 years.
I have some slight sympathy with the providers, in that they shouldn't have to provide a service for ever, but it's hard to see a strategy to get ex-customers to move, without seeming evil. (Though 6 pounds a month is obviously excessive). Maybe they should delay all inbound emails by 24 hours, if the users don't want to pay.
And yet 1 - those people were also there when the disaster happened.

And yet 2 - good luck getting the business back up to a reasonable operating volume with just those people.

And yet 3 - in many failures the people at that level are directly responsible for the failure.

Force majeure lightning-strike failures are very much a minority. Many businesses fail because of avoidable mistakes made by poor management. Please explain why management should be rewarded for that.
Is this often the case? I have the feeling that in most aircraft crashes it’s always a major structural failure, or pilot error/confusion.

Not often do I hear that all 6 redundancies failed at the same time.
But it's done in a completely different way. In good times, the execs are paid with equity, often with triggers based on performance milestones.

But in bad times it seems to be fine to just forklift some cash into the execs' hands. Why not set targets for the company restructure and only pay the exec when those targets are met?
> something as trivial as cutting out beef. At the end of the day, it's only food and there's plenty of other things one could eat.

There's a lot of road left before this line of thought stops though. Why have any nice food instead of nutrient-rich tasteless slime? When you argue that it's about the most efficient resource usage, there's really no reason to stop at beef, or meat in general. So we could feed 15bn (or whatever number) if we quit meat? We could feed 30bn if we switch to soylent!

I don't believe that individual sacrifice is the answer, and in my experience, it's usually somebody who, for some reason or another doesn't eat meat who says that "we" don't need it. Much like somebody who is rich and earns their money via capital gains might argue that it's really not a problem if income tax gets increased.
Starting a startup means optimizing for growth, at all cost.

Bootstrapping or indie hacking have usually different goals: you optimize for revenue or time spent.

Shortly said, when building a startup you aim to change the world, when indie hacking you just want to change yours.

At least that is why I chose that path 2 years ago :)
This article is poorly argued.

For example, in their point 1 they feel that since an aspect of the virus is well-adapted for humans it was not the result of evolution. However, viruses jumping between species happens naturally... because an aspect of the virus happens to be well-adapted for the new host species.

In fact, in this argument they seem to misunderstand the fundamental mechanism of evolution: a random aspect of a replicating organism provides an advantage in an environment, allowing the organism to thrive. For any random aspect that provides an advantage there might be thousands, millions, or more that do not. The existence of a particular unlikely successful aspect is not an argument against natural evolution. We expect many successful aspects to be highly unlikely.

Another example is in the conclusion:

> Henceforth, those who would maintain that the Covid-19 pandemic arose from zoonotic transfer need to explain precisely why this more parsimonious account is wrong

I think they rather significantly overstate how “parsimonious” their explanation is, but setting that aside, they scarcely address the alternative. In this article they address ways in which the virus might have been created by scientists, but do not address the ways in which the virus could have evolved naturally. You can’t conclude X is more likely than Y if you only consider the likelihood of X but not Y. So, e.g., they would need to survey the science around how viruses evolve and jump species naturally and show how it does not explain this virus.

There are plenty of more flaws in this article. But I’ll stop here. It’s probably pointless to argue with reason anyway, since the people putting forward this kind of nonsense already don’t care about reason.

Anyway, if this is the best case that the virus was artificially created, we can probably all rest assured it was not.
Glass Made with CCS Only
The article simplifies too much to be insightful. Looks like clickbait for hacker news ;-)

The core loop already being discussed in other comments.

The vertical slice is when you implement _a part_ of the game to be completely finished (like a demo). It's not a step that is always done after the horizontal slice, but might be done before, simultaneously or after.

In smaller projects neither of those two prototypes is fully implemented, rather it's the challenge of the developers to agree on a equal idea / concept of the project you are working on. The game design document is the documentation
of these prototypes. Most often all these aspects are worked on in parallel. A change in mechanics influencing the visuals, a story element influencing the mechanics, etc. and vice versa.
I was surprised by the low number too. I'm much happier being a backend developer where I have a choice of over 400 frameworks in over 30 programming languages:

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks
I am missing the very long intestines and multiple stomach of a herbivore, so I cannot live on vegetables only. Meat is one of the very few things I can digest and there are many with similar food restrictions. I don't like chicken or beef, but I include it in my meals for diversification.
> We have started several branches (webpack5, next, vue3) and so far Webpack SSR support for Vue3 landed but not a precise timeline for beta testing at the moment. As many internals including vue-app and builder is to be rewritten from scratch to align with vue3. (of course with less breaking changes as much as possible)

-- https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt.js/issues/5708
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Do you have an alternative proposal?
Ambient tool designed to create productive immersive soundscapes
Is this even news? It’s been known for at least 40 years.
Super Cool Rust Echo Server
It’s true, they installed fibre in the 90ies when modernizing the phone network in the East.

A decade later those OPAL installations were replaced again by copper as they could not handle high speed Internet.
It’s worthwhile noting what the water lifecycle going through a cow looks like.

If it’s grazing on natural pastureland vs irrigated vs animal feed and what the water lifecycle looks like. The water doesn’t disappear but it can have impact if it’s drawn out from limited aquifers that don’t get replenished quickly.
A Visual Guide to Solving the Longest Increasing Subsequence Problem
And this is because protesting during a pandemic never leads to a rise in infections, so the thousands of BLM protesters surely had nothing to do with rising case numbers.
Like the other commenter, I am also skeptical of this. This has to be a big amount and in some untraceable account otherwise why would a well paid Twitter employee put his career in jeopardy over something like this. You can look at audit trail and pretty much nail the person who did this, and then after that good luck with the criminal charges and making yourself unemployable.
Engineers:

>what are these requirements? Where the hell does product come up with this crap? This is so unrealistic and just explaining why will take 15 minutes! What is the deal, why can't we just get aligned? Product is so stupid.

Also engineers:

>have fun in your product only meeting, dorks. I'm a programmer, and we HATE meetings cause of programming and stuff.
Would you agree that those who do more should also get more? You are ignoring production in your ideological framing.
And doesn't have suspicious advertising.
Tout dépendra de la zone de couverture que ce soit en mode www.magazine-declic.com ou autre que ça. En tout cas l'objectif est le même.
No, I dont expect the camera to stay ON (even for a video call) if I lock the phone.
Ask HN: Why are programming lang ranks on StackOverflow and Tiobe so divergent?
Most popular languages according to StackOverflow 2020 Survey: JavaScript, and C is way down below.

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-programming-scripting-and-markup-languages-all-respondents

While in TIOBE index, which is based on search engine traffic, C just overtook Java. These two have been the top two languages since 2002.

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

How that can be explained?

Note that I am asking which language is better. I am trying to understand why these two are so different. Because how what programmers tell in a survey be so different from what they google?
What's wrong with Julia here? Its webservers and web app packages are pretty amazing. I just moved everything from a mixture of Ruby and Python over to various forms of it and have had far less issues. I think the testing and the "one language stack" culture of Julia leads to more robust software and you can fairly clearly see it in the general-purpose areas.
3-4 seconds includes the DNS resolving, downloading HTML, CSS, JS, media, parsing them, creating the DOM, layout, calculating styles, rendering, etc. It's very hard even for a static imageless site to load in under 1 second for low-end mobile device.

That being said, for good UX the target should definitely be under 1 second to interactice, but even on desktop, if your users can't wait 3 seconds after they click the ad, they are not actually interested at all in your product.

People are also used with waiting a bit after they change sites/applications when they initiate the transition, so transition feels faster than it is. It starts feeling slow when you are already on the blank page, having time to look at the loading spinner.

I'm not saying slow is good, but I highly doubt that you can make any site have 500ms TTI for any user (they could easily have 150ms ping to your closest server). I assume that TTI means having access to all website functionality, not some simplified placeholder UI.
So, no hard data to support your claims, as expected.

>You came in snarling with the accusation

I just shared an observation. I may be wrong, and you have all the rights to disagree. You can't accuse a person with things done unknowingly and/or unwillingly, so no accusations here.
The water doesn’t get “spent” though, unless you manage to turn it into some toxic sludge (which I imagine US farms do).

In the usual resource lifecycle of a cattle farm, that water goes right back where it came from - 99% is “green water”.
They fucked people over further than that. A whole bunch of Win8 devices were promised an upgrade to Win10, and then weeks before release, Microsoft were like "nevermind LOL" and people were furious.

Also, for quite some time before they officially pulled the plug on mobile, core MS apps would come out for Android first.

Microsoft really despised their customers.