skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been following this mess for a while. Banon/Guo has been playing up Yan since she fled HK in late April. She's been doing media circuits on usual alternative media properties. HKU, her previous employer released a statement characterizing some of her claims as "hearsay" and rejected her assertion that she worked on covid19 early in the outbreak [0].

Brief timeline:

mid April - China indicates they will hammer National Security Law to HK*

late April - Yan defects

Early May - rumors spread of alleged Chinese virologist defection, western rag media misattributed to Shi Zhengli "bat woman" who worked at Wuhan institute of Virology. She's 56, renown in her field.

Late May - Chinese media confirms it was Yan MengLi, she's in her 30s, and basically a labtech. They traced her to Guo's villa in NY, alleging that she paid her to defect [1].

July - Now - Yan starts her wave of interviews on western alt media. HKU disavows her claims.

Late August - Banon/Guo is being probed by FBI.

Now - Banon/Guo doubles down on Yan and lab modification narrative.

*NSL law timing is significant, the fact that she bailed HK so fast after NSL announcement is (conjecture) because she was already in contact with Guo prior. Guo is at the very top of CCP fugitive shitlist. CCP doesn't do much social media manipulation on western platforms, but when they do, he's almost always targeted. She would have been 100% dead if they found out she was coordinating with him regardless of the credibility of her claims. Personally, I think she's digging for a US VISA and at least being paid well by Guo, Banon/Guo digging for good graces with Trump for FBI probe.

[0]https://www.hku.hk/press/press-releases/detail/21274.html

[1]http://www.nextdigital.cc/index.php/2020/05/22/%E4%B8%AD%E5%...
See some of the discussion on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23203658. It breaks how links work normally.
linux.die.net man pages tend to be badly outdated. And you can't easily tell this is the case, because because they strip version information.

For example, this one doesn't document the -B option, which was added in 2011(!):

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git/commit/...

Better man page link:

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/badblocks.8.html
What does your limited undergraduate knowledge have to do with anything? It's really just one step away from a high schooler citing their biology homework as a source of authority.

You also seem to think that proofreading a paper increases the chances that it's correct which (in my opinion) shreds your credibility.
Long time since i heard about windows exploits.
Yes, sound can be raytraced - in realtime on current GPUs even. Using a ray model for sound waves is called Geometric Acoustics and works reasonably well in most cases, although it has a few shortcomings, mostly when dealing with low frequencies (room modes, diffraction).

The Oculus Audio SDK contains an acoustic ray tracer for that. See https://www.oculus.com/blog/simulating-dynamic-soundscapes-a... for a short writeup on what is acutually in there under the hood.

Disclaimer: I've worked on that ray tracing engine at FRL for a while.
French law is French law. Bern convention is the Bern convention (that was a hundred years ago by the way).

How is the Berne convention relevant to the case, specifically?

Are you from the US? I've only ever seen US folks try to get into the Berne convention and monism/dualism. I'd like to understand your perspective if you want to talk about these topics.
As far as I know this only preloads HTML. For the majority of sites, that's not going to cause a huge increase in data use. Most page's html is only a couple of kb.
Unless they've pivoted again since the last time it was discussed/demonstrated, the cars don't steer themselves through the tunnel like a car on open road, but instead are steered by the tunnel itself, more like a roller coaster on a track.
There are some free ones. Try their wirecard reporting. I find it pretty interesting.

Wirecard and me: Dan McCrum on exposing a criminal enterprise: https://www.ft.com/content/745e34a1-0ca7-432c-b062-950c20e41...
> My question is, why couldn't our current understanding of rocky planets be lacking?

I've got an analogy for you. Lets say at one point you came to the conclusion that 2+2=4 and later I give you two apples and two apples, it would be quite unproductive to stop and ponder "Wait, my question is, why couldn't our understanding of addition be lacking?" Not when you have knowledge on hand to predict that you have four apples. Under-using your knowledge is not something conservative or cautious or in any way virtuous, it's simply wrong.

Searching for new hypotheses is cool, coming with new evidence is cooler, but doubting the hard-earned knowledge without a reason is not. In other words I'd suggest to stubbornly ignore unknown unknowns.

There are people who put their names on "we really went through all possible pathways" and you've put your name on a version of "huh?", excuse me for shortening it so brutally.

Agreed, any knowledge our civilization has is probably lacking to some degree. We kinda succeed by playing what we presently have on hand (and correcting it on the way).
It is done, but not dead? to me that sounds like a contradiction given that there is always a need for security patches and also given the limitations mentioned such as improving bundle size.
European Court of Justice declares “zero rating” to violate net neutrality law
These images in 3d would be amazing
Yeah, and Malaysian Air flight 370 is being kept on a secret island to be used as a terrorist weapon. And my friend's dad works at Nintendo and can get us all free N64s!
here is a command i always use after moving photos from camera

exiftool -r -d %Y/%m/%m_%d/%Y%m%d_%H%M%S%%c.%%e "-filename<CreateDate" ..\2sort\raw
Depends a lot on what kind of app it is. There are orders of magnitude differences in requirements between apps that use data channels for relatively meager amounts of data (eg multiplayer games), or audio, or video, or video with server side realtime per participant transcoding etc.
Or perhaps a non peer reviewed paper funded by an organisation that is rabidly anti-Chinese needs to have its claims scrutinised heavily.
I find it interesting that the first detection of phosphine on Venus was in 2017 and later confirmed with another telescope in 2019. Does this mean that the scientists basically need to keep it a secret from 2017 until now, even if it's such an exciting news? How do they prevent "leaks"?
It's the same in all human culture and politics. Every era's mainstream ridicules and dismisses those who criticize it as "extremists". But some of those extremists will one day be vindicated as being on the right side of history long before everyone else came around, and we will look back at that prior mainstream attitude and ask, "How could they be so blind?"

The important thing to keep in mind that we don't know which of today's counter-culture takes will end up winning (I don't say "being right" because cultural evolution is, like biological evolution, not teleological).

In other words, you had a belief, and in hindsight you were "vindicated". But there were many others who had equally strong beliefs that were not.
Urbit disrupts IP/DNS in that it replaces IP and DNS addresses with cryptographic identities.

Identities aren't limited as anyone can create a comet, an identity without a parent (self-signed identity). There is a hierarchy of limited identities which serve as a routing network to propagate software updates and network packets. Since in reality you need to choose some computer to receive software updates from and send network packets to. Comets could communicate without the galaxy/star/planet hierarchy but they would have to choose some other way to route packets (DHT or something).

Urbit can function without Ethereum. AFAIK galaxies (super nodes/identities) participate in Ethereum as a consensus mechanism voluntarily. Nothing is stopping them from changing that.
> People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

I.e. a case of a phase-locked loop. I think viewing it like this can help spot other such loops in the society.
I struggle with this a lot to be honest. In another comment in this comment section I've mentioned working with a technology; while working with it, I run into an issue and I'd like to resolve the issue.

But the issue I'm running into now may be a dealbreaker for continuing to work with the technology; that is, if I were to ask someone neutral, they would tell me the technology isn't suitable for my use case.

The main thing with the XY problem is that if I'm told that it's my technology choice, architecture or solution direction is wrong, I have to consider whether to replace, re-architect or rewrite big chunks of my application.

I mean in my case it's an investment of days, but there's bigger applications out there where we're talking in work-years. And for a manager, or in my case someone who has to balance his own time for the most part, that's a difficult decision to make that shouldn't be taken lightly.

So please, while the XY problem is indeed an issue, start a reply by just answering the question; "how do I do x" SHOULD be a straightforward question in a lot of cases.

In the second half of a reply, as this article implies, you can point out that you suspect that the question isn't the real underlying issue. Have the person asking the question decide for themselves what to do with that information.
And that is exactly why management shouldn't be looking at or comparing burndown charts. It's too tempting to see IT as a cost centre instead of an enabler.
Assange Hearing Day 9
That’s effective what day.js is. Its effectively an identical api and is incredibly lightweight in comparison with opt-in extensions.
The Overwhelming Racism of Covid Coverage
I've worked in facilities management at a university with an infectious disease research program. As with all buildings there were system failures over the years. In one case air filtration failed and it required evacuation.

In most countries these incidents would be public, reported in the media and people would move on. But in China it's almost a mandatory requirement that there is a cover-up since any form of 'bad press' is a potent source of destabilisation.
>Do you think SSL encryption is really a subject for children?

Yes.

ps: I find it insulting that you find a random illustration insulting. Re-asses your thought process, I'll wager a guess you're better than this.
> Even if not told aloud or published, entire teams are intimately convinced the virus was released by the Wuhan BSL4, although not necessarily intentionally.

Let's have some actual evidence of this please.
It's the same thing that turns protesters into looters and rioters.
>What kind of proof or counterexample for P ?= NP would in fact influence our study of hash functions?

None. Hash functions are almost all O(1) to invert, that is, constant time. It's just we designed that constant to be prohibitively large.

And hash functions are not generally based on NP hard problems - they're based on bit mixing, which for all common hash functions are completely orthogonal to the question of P and NP.

Quantum computing, via Grover's algorithm, did impact hash functions one and all, since it allows searching N unstructured items in O(sqrt(N)) time, while classical computers require O(N) time. But this simply turns a 512 bit hash into a 256 bit hash, still intractable.

Again, however, this has nothing to do with P?=NP.

For a problem to be changed by P?=NP, since most think P != NP, that problem must be in NP/P, and hash functions are not (almost ever, and no common ones) from that class of problems. Also the problem has to part of an infinite family of such problems with unbounded sizes. Hash functions again are not in this class.

Of course, it may be that we can build computers in the future with closed timelike loops (CTL), in which case all problems are constant time, and that may prove for that class of machines that the complexity hierarchy collapses, but that is a long time off, if ever. We may be able to build machines that exploit topological quantum field theories (TQFTs) some day, like in Friedman's work, and again, that may break things, but again that is a long time off, if ever.

I'd personally bet on P!=NP being a fundamental law of physics, built into the fabric of the universe, in the It from Bit idea from Wheeler and others. I think this is becoming more and more the mainstream science belief, as the universe is looking more and more like computation.
I think the difference between music and background music makes sense here.

I use this this kind of background music as a way to drown other noises, because it's easily canceled by the brain.

It's basically a nicer white noise, better than silence because it allows me to ignore much better the noises around.

So for the 'need' for audible stimulation, it's actually the opposite : you cancel as much as possible the stimulation by having a constant and easily filterable input that drowns the unexpected noises that could be stimulating/break your focus
A common saying is "the best way to get the right answer is not by asking a question, but by giving the wrong answer".

Put the work in; read the docs, write a POC, show the people you're asking what you tried yourself and where you're going wrong. Prove that you understand the problem you're solving. And don't ask for people to do the work for you; in most cases, you're talking to volunteers who are looking for a distraction during their day job (some exceptions there; some projects will have dedicated support personnel but honestly those are pretty rare for some reason).
> Although I am absolutely not in favor of Bannon, many scientists self-censor to preserve their carrier, funding, link with chinese labs. Only those in favor of the natural selection publish in well known journals.

This is fairly standard conspiracy theory stuff. Next you'll be telling us about QAnon and pedophiles.
Plasma Speaker
relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2043/

I've worked with some clever animals, and agree they didn't show any signs of recursive embedding (they "lex" but don't "parse"), but must note that modern anglophone humans are relatively embedding-impoverished compared with prior centuries, a reduction which we can observe in comparing the number of stack levels necessary to parse the subordinations and coordinations[1] in the dendritic periods of the 1st president of the US with the number necessary to parse the sequential utterances of the most recent.

[1] https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/american_originals/inaugtx...

> "In these honorable qualifications, I behold the surest pledges, that as on one side, no local prejudices, or attachments; no separate views, nor party animosities, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests: so, on another, that the foundations of our National policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality; and the pre-eminence of a free Government, be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its Citizens, and command the respect of the world."
Thank you so much! I think this is out of my scope skill-wise but it looks pretty cool! I appreciate this info!
I really recommend "How Innovation Works" by Matt Ridley to better understand the history of different inventions and innovations. It also dispels the myth of the singular event of invention by a single person. Rather innovation is a process of compilation.
Two minutes ago I plugged in a RPi 4 with no SD Card in it. It does have a USB stick plugged in.
The real problem isn't measuring the productivity of doing work in its entirety. Installing plumbing is a job. Since only one person is doing the plumbing and that person only does plumbing you can measure the productivity of that job and attribute it directly to a single person.

Once you have a group of people all working together on the same job or the inverse where you have a single person do a variety of jobs everything is different.

You split the big job into smaller jobs and distribute them to people. Some jobs are easier and bring in more money and therefore are more "productive" than others. But all jobs have to be done, no matter how productive they are. So you end up handing easy and difficult work to people. When you start to measure individual productivity of each team member you start noticing that there is a huge variance in productivity. Some people are "useless" while others are highly productive. When you remove the "least productive" people from the job then you notice something odd. Suddenly the productivity of everyone else goes down as well. Your productivity measurements were actually just measuring the way you distributed the jobs.

I remember a machinist talking about how he spends all his day fixing his coworkers mistakes. They kept breaking $100 tools (tool as in endmills) which jammed the machines and he's the only one who did the thankless job of making the machines usable again. He made fixtures that his coworkers broke and then he made them again.... Oh and he had a quota of how many parts he has to make per day. After all, measuring the productivity of a machinist should be pretty easy. Just count how many parts he makes per day. Of course the coworkers always exceeded the quota while he was always well below the quota.
> but the data are what make the business run longer than its users.

How often is that the case these days, though? Currently, when I subscribe to a service or buy a product tied to a service, I feel there's a 50/50 chance the company will shut down the service (or itself) while I'm still using it.
I don’t think the level of friction of Apple Pay is too high - below that level you effectively have a subscription, not a micropayment, since you’ve pre-authorised disbursement. I’m no fanboi but Apple Pay is as good as it gets.
> TBC’s current tunnels are designed and built in preparation for their eventual transition to Hyperloop.

One would expect no less... exciting times ahead.
Now days people tend to accept resto-mods as, while not being an original, an acceptable inspiration of the real thing. In some cases, some resto-mods can fetch higher dollars than an original. For example Take a late 60's Dodge Charger that has a 316 and an automatic in it, swap in a modern Mopar Hemi, and a paddle shift 6 speed, do the body work right and you have a vehicle that will fetch more than the restored to correctness original. That being said it is not going to ever out price an all original Charger with it's original 426 Hemi, but those things are rare and are valuable for their rarity. While I don't thing a modded repop 250 GTO will ever come near the price of an original. I think one could fetch a pretty penny with a repop with a more modern Ferrari drivetrain in it and generally the more modern drivetrains out of wrecked vehicles are much more affordable that trying to source a vintage drivetrain. Unless it is something really rare it is usually not worth the hassle to strive for correctness when a lot of people accept correct enough.
Who told you that? The whole of Ed Iacobucci's OS/2 Programmer's Guide was in assembly language.
Wellness Influencers Denounce the Spread of QAnon
>See updates from your friends, family, and people you want to see updates from

Those same people are often the ones sending misinformation and creating the problems. How do you allow people to post updates and not allow them to spread misinformation that damages society?
You can get quite a bit of his stuff here:

https://muckrack.com/russell-smith/articles
You need to go down to the hardware even, a realtime kernel running on mainstream CPUs and GPUs might not be enough (I wonder if a realtime system can even be built with current mainstream CPUs and GPUs):

The video systems in 8-bit home computers only worked because the entire system provided "hard realtime" guarantees. CPU instructions always were the same number of cycles and memory access happened at exactly defined clock cycles within an instruction. Interrupt timing was completely predictable down to the clock cycle, etc etc. Modern computers get most of their performace because they dumped those assumptions and as a result made timings entirely unpredictable (inside the CPU via caches, pipelining, branch prediction, etc etc...), and between system components (e.g. CPU and GPU don't run cycle-locked with each other).
No one 'writes' history, that's why you need historians, they are the ones that can bring a matter into the right context and research why something was 'written' like it is, like it was a battle of 10000 Horsemen when in fact historians know that a that time in hole Europe maximal 3000 Battle-horses existed.
I'm curious what you'd want the automatica bounds checking to do?

Just terminating the program won't be much better than OOB memory access in many cases.

Continuing but discarding OOB writes/use a dummy for OOB reads could lead to much worse behavior.

An exception (or setting errno since this is C) would need that exception to be handled somewhere in a sensible way in which case you could just as easily add manual bounds checking.
Its clickbait because the title is misleading and over the top. That doesn't mean the precedent isn't interesting its own right.
A bit of a tangent, but this sort of music actually makes it near impossible for me to concentrate.

Instead, I have what I call "loop songs", which are selected favourite tracks that span a range of genres from fairly heavy metal to Afrobeats. When I want to focus I pick a loop song and set it to repeat (the ideal volume varies per song, but is typically moderately loud). I can't explain how or why but it settles my brain far, far better than any white noise or "chill" playlist I've tried.

It's also a point of humour with my friends because they're horrified that I listen to the same song hundreds of times over a couple of days, while I'm perplexed that they can actually get tired of listening to a song to the point of disliking it.
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I am having good luck with a ZTE MF279 on our farm in California.
This reminds me a bit of Teddy by Takeo Igarashi [1], which turns out is from 1999 already. I remember playing with that when I was younger.

[1]: https://www-ui.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~takeo/teddy/teddy.htm
very true. I've used several other brands of laptops, mostly because they're cheaper. None have lasted more than 2 years. I've had Compaq, Fujistsu, HP, Asus and a ThinkPad. Only the ThinkPad still works. I had one of the early Intel Core 2 Duo Macbooks and it lasted 6 years before I sold it. It was still working. My wife's Macbook Air is 6 years old and has only 4 gigs of RAM and it still supports the latest OS and works. Even the battery last 4 to 5 hours easily. I've tried working with Linux on some other laptops but I'd to deal with a lot of support issues. Macs just work. I'm using a 2017 model Macbook Pro with 16 gigs RAM, from work. The keyboard is not the best so they gave me a Magic Keyboard. It's just a stress free computer.
> I feel like there has to be some sort of mental effect from listening to music constantly.

Why would there be?
As long as you never assign to it, `nill == nil`!
SEC to investigate short-seller’s claims against Nikola, report says
On the other hand, adults are buying colouring books and superhero toys now. Infantilism is some kind of new strange/creepy marketing vector? I dunno.
> waste bandwidth

> it's 2020

Hmmm... I actually have stopped worrying about bandwidth completely in 2020. My home and mobile connections have virtually unlimited data. I cannot finish them if I tried. It's amazing to see tech like this that leverages the excess data I have and converts that into speed.