skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sentiment is not unique to biomedicine. It's pretty often you see people finger elitism or capitalism for screwing people over because "I can make it myself."

Ethically, you are more than welcome to experiment on yourself. That's your prerogative. But, as has already been expressed here, the issue is once you start giving your creation to others. Even when the science is conceptually very simple, like in the case of nucleic acid vaccines, a huge number of variables can impact the safety and efficacy endpoints for the recipient. That's why trials and regulation are essential.

Are these regulatory systems perfect? Absolutely not (they are in dire need of reform). But they form an essential safety barrier for the general public. Decrying them as class warfare is incredibly naive.
Wow works on safari mobile too. Thanks for the tip!
Well if anything patentable is within this repo, you can no longer patent it, since it’s been discovered and sold/given away/licensed
I think the answer really just depends on the domain you are working in. Web dev, not much, Data Science, mostly stats, the physics engine in a custom game engine, well a lot of calc, geometry and such
I'm now going to change my LAN to use 10.0.0.1 instead of 192.168.0.1 so that I can just type 10.1 This will help not only when testing stuff on mobiles only to have to rewrite the whole adress again because you forgot http:// but also when telling the kids what IP to connect to when setting up LAN games. Or coworkers when telling them them some LAN/router IP. Time server is on 10.36
I was more concerned about editing a doc privately, then sharing it, and then others being able to see all the keystrokes during the private edit time prior to sharing.

I would have hoped that it cuts off diffs/undos to a certain point in history.
Youtube was great for this...
sometimes != always

makes sense that he would want to strengthen his credibility in an article like this, no?
Install scripts are kinda like make install, with which I had bad experiences. Often there is no command to uninstall again, and even if, can you trust that it works and really uninstalls stuff cleanly? What if there is an error in one half of the execution? Scripts are not a good way to install software. Do everything with declarative schemes if you can. Then have the runtime deal with partial installs/uninstalls etc.

This is less of a security issue and more of a conventions issue. Also, install scripts often run as root instead of the compiling user.
heh I maintain the timeslider code in Etherpad, it's actually really quite simple and there is a nice set of visual representation and auditing/diff plugins now available made by the community :)
Why not PBS's Frontline?
Not for much longer, Apple are making their own radios now. QC will probably still make some money from the necessary patent licenses.
Quick disclaimer, I am a Google shill who has tried both services. Overall I prefer GeForce Now slightly, I think Stadia does have some advantages. Whether or not they're worth it depends on your use case. GFN works great to supplement a gaming PC when you're traveling or laying in bed, but has some deal breakers that keep it from being the main way I play games.

If you use the free version of Stadia, it's the same resolution as GFN. If you're a monthly subscriber, the picture quality is much better than GFN because GFN doesn't support resolutions higher than 1920x1080. GFN is REALLY frustrating if you have a 1920x1200 or 1440p monitor. Because of this, GFN can complement my gaming PC (like when traveling with a crappy laptop) but never replace it. Stadia probably could replace my gaming PC if I was willing to buy the subscription.

No waiting period (its rare, but there's occasionally a wait for GeForce Now even with the founders edition)

Games don't disappear from the service like they sometimes do with GeForce Now (granted, if a game you bought disappears in GFN you can still install locally so this may be a win for GFN as long as Steam's cloud saves don't glitch on you)

Stadia doesn't require you to install a 200 megabyte app (assuming you already have Chrome installed)

GFNs video clip feature is a bit buggy for me compared to Stadia although I haven't used those features enough to tell if GFN is consistently glitchy or if I'm just unlucky with the NVidia overlay

The UI for GFN feels clunkier to me but I suppose that's personal opinion. It feels more like VPNing into a really locked down PC, where you'll hear Windows sound effects when there's errors and if a game crashes you're stuck with a Steam error and you have to restart the whole app and wait in a queue to play again. Stadia feels a bit more well-integrated to me.
No emails have leaked from the 2020 election campaigns yet – 2FA may be why
I can't help but admire that devotion and concern, but also be bothered that it was in service of such a questionable religion.
previous thread that didn't get attention:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25535991

Q. How come another thread with the same url doesn't show up with someone posts the same url again?
You need to be able to steer with the front wheels, so a simple differential like this wouldn't work. You need some additional complexity to support driving and steering with the same wheels (CV axles). It just took time for the technology to become cheaper, more compact, better engineered, and paired with smaller engines.
Using standard-deviations would be good, assuming risk-assessment is a normal distribution.
Yep, well, this is why I drive a Volt and not a Tesla. The EV portion of it covers 90% of my use cases, and then I have the ICE to fall back on if I need it, which I do once in a while, mostly for ski or camping trips to places that will probably only ever get charging infrastructure in like... 20 yeras.

Too bad GM killed it from their line-up.
There's also this old gem: https://www.ioccc.org/1993/lmfjyh.hint

tl;dr: Get around disk quota accounting (on some ancient unix) by storing file contents in file names.
On the contrary; eugenics has been normalized.

Iceland only sees 1-2 births with Down syndrome per year, and not because they've identified a way to prevent a full or partial copy of chromosome 21. They test and terminate.

My personal experience (and that of many friends) is that western OBGYNs push prenatal testing and corrective action quite aggressively. (There is reasonable room to disagree about what their motives are, and the profit motive may be sufficient for such testing.) And many people want it.

We can debate the ethical implications separately, but regardless of where one lands on that issue, eugenics has very much been normalized.
> A lot of people may have died from many of these early tests, but so many people were dying it didn't quite matter.

This is the old ethics question: There is a highjacked planebfull of passengers flying towards a football stadium. Should it be shut down?

Many contemporary societies lean towards not shooting as you can't compare deaths.

Regarding vaccines the current approach is to first try it out on animals and then do controlled clinical studies with healthy test subjects etc. Still some people do suffer from those for the greater good.
(not strong arguments but some possible explanations)

1) ./make can be more portable e.g. you might use some GNU Make syntax that does not run on BSD and have to insall gmake just to run that

2) Make is not designed to be a command runner and have to manually add .PHONY to everything

3) case looks minimal and flexible enough (although I'm sure sh's confusing syntax can cause a lot of pain for non sh experts like esac wtf)
This is going to open a huge can of worms when lawyers demand the document history for discovery. You think that the final contract, patent application, user manual, or product specification you wrote is what matters? When the lawyers, regulators, law enforcement, and litigious people want to get you, you'll have to defend every edit back to beginning of time.

"Yes, we know what the final contract says, but based on your edit on January 7, 2003, at 5:21 pm and 0.210403 microseconds, your real intent was ...". "And then on June 12, 2006, you took out some words that have a bearing on this lawsuit -- obviously you were trying to cover things up."

I was quite surprised to learn that during patent litigation for example, the history and changes made to your application do matter. I assumed that the final patent as issued is what matters and everything else is irrelevant. Well, lawyers have made it matter, and now things will be 10,000 times worse when they want to find something to argue.

So great, now we have to worry about how someone might interpret every single edit rather than the final document.
Don’t 13” Intel MacBooks use LPDDR?
I've seen that number before (1 billion birds killed a year) and I'm interested in how accurate it is.

There are appropriately 92 million cats in the US - so that is like 10 birds per cat - I've had a lot of outdoor access cats and most have never brought birds in, or like once or twice a year.

Do cats bring in only a tiny subset of things they catch, or are some cats killing far far more?

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On protecting birds, also be sure to keep dogs on a lead when birds are nesting, they can destroy nests in hedges and in the ground, or cause birds to abandon them. https://ww2.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/bird-and-wildlife...
I can definitely see this working for tech-savvy users on additional accounts. The problem with email is that it's still used/needed as the "universal" online way to establish/initiate correspondence with someone.

It's become used for person-to-person communications, as well as computer-to-person communications, and is probably one of the few standard, interoperable, near-ubiquitous means of reaching people, short of postal mail and carrier-provided services like SMS and voice calling.

While requiring people to know who they want to correspond with before the fact could be helpful, it also breaks a lot of popular use-cases for email - email is often written into contracts as a valid means of serving notice etc pursuant to the contract. Locking email down to only receive mail from approved senders would break a lot of things, but certainly help to prevent this kind of spam.

I wonder to what extent this could be reduced however by using unique per-use aliases - in a sense you can get a softer version of this whitelist by giving out per-sender inbox aliases, and therefore seeing which alias was used to send a message. Not quite sender authentication, but perhaps better than nothing. Doesn't prevent compromise of the underlying (human-to-human) email address, but would certainly help with a lot of phishing-type scenarios using breached customer records.
The Flutter webview is fairly basic, I believe.
> I know it sounds a bit dramatic but there really is a class war going on. [...] Your life, your child’s life, your mother, your loved one depends on how much money you make. The government and Pharma companies aren’t going to help you when you can’t afford it either.

> If one were to replicate the experiment from scratch, the total individual cost would end up being around $3500, the major costs being $1600 for DNA synthesis and $1200 for the kits to measure coronavirus spike protein antibodies.

Ah yes, fighting the good fight by spending several thousand dollars of disposable income on your hobby, to show people that the government-subsidized vaccine is class violence. :)
Browsh [1] offers similar functionality via SSH.

[1]: https://www.brow.sh/
Already available online.
Researchers May Have Ideas to How Mars Formed
I agree, but that's a different attack vector, and doesn't render this mitigation useless. @haburka gave an example for that.
Very useful for blackmail when there are cameras everywhere.
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By that logic you shouldn't engage in conversation or consume any media whatsoever.
> 1. Keep your cat indoors. The low estimate for the number of birds killed in North America pet and feral cats is one billion birds a year.

If your pet cat is spayed/neutered, it should be fine to allow them outside. They will not contribute to the feral cat problem and in fact could help slightly reduce it.
This is an area where there has actually been quite a bit of study. Catholic priests are pedophiles at roughly the same rate as the general male population. Compare this to gay men, which is roughly 10x the straight male population. I suggest you reevaluate your stereotypes.
I kind of doubt Deno will see much serious production usage. There’s not much practical point to it from a business perspective. The only way it would become popular for most use cases would be if it had Node compatibility, which doesn’t seem to be happening regardless.
I no longer know what a programming language is. I am confused.
Wat.

Any explanation as to why Xenon installs this policy?

Without any further background that list of companies is going straight to the red-flagged list that will never get my business.
1.) There is already a 240 km hydrogen pipeline network in Germany (and probably in other countries as well) [1]. It connects chemical plants in the rhein-ruhr region. So there is already a huge market for hydrogen. These chemical plants will need hydrogen in the future. If we want to get away from using oil and gas and become CO2 neutral, we need a solution for those industries.

2.) I don't see air travel happening with batteries (except really short distances or really small planes). Weight is just too much of a factor in air travel and the energy density is just too far off with batteries. Hydrogen would maybe be a solution or some fuel that is synthesised from hydrogen.

[1] https://industrie.airliquide.de/wasserstoffanlagen
>and this makes less since.

>You have to spend more energy to make the H_2 by splitting the H2O than you get out of burning the H_2, so adding it to natural gas to make it more environmentally efficient doesn't make since as you are increasing the net energy cost of the system than just burning the natural gas.

I think you are missing something or are lacking in creativity. By this logic we shouldn't use batteries either because the energy you get out of the batteries is always less than the energy you put in. Also, where are you introducing additional natural gas? It's merely meant to be used as a temporary storage technology to allow a greater renewable share.

To be more blunt. Investments into storage technologies allow more renewables to be introduced into an electric grid. Nobody cares about the efficiency because that was never the goal in the first place. The goal is reducing the usage of fossil fuels to an absolute minimum and that means using less natural gas, despite the inefficiency.
Opel Calibra is extremely sensitive to asymmetric tyre wear. The speed difference damages the third, central differential. To prevent the problem, you need to rotate your tyres periodically.

It’s one of the main reasons why that car is notorious in terms of maintenance.

Too bad, I love that car though.
Indeed, the murder and dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi is distinctly horrific, the mass starvation and other horrors in Yemen merit mention too and the kingdom of Saudi Arabia itself is home to many abuses of its immigrant workforce.

Still, one has to note that attention to the horrific abuse of journalist Jamal Khashoggi is also related to him being in an extremely powerful Saudi family (he was the nephew of Adnan Khashoggi, once the world's large arms dealer, just for one data point). Notably a family also with strong ties to Turkey (where he was murdered). Khashoggi's murder was a logic part of the campaign of the current effective ruler of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, to establish himself as absolute ruler of the kingdom, a campaign that also included kidnapping the various billionaire princes who'd looted the Saudi treasury and literally torturing their billions out of them (given the billionaires had no doubt engaged in similar to violence to whatever underlings, one might be tempted to enjoy such violence but one should avoid such temptation).

And indeed, some might look to MBS as being in the tradition of earlier "enlightened despots" as he also pushes some degree of modernizing measures. I'd tend to just point out the fundamental rottenness of the Saudi regime as well as the general power structure of the entire area.
That works because the RGB receptors in the eye have different transient responses, so by precisely timing flashes of light you can create a color illusion. This is called the Fechner color effect : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fechner_color
Why do people always assume that any narrative that opposes mainstream one is automatically "the truth"?
> It’s pretty much their job to make the optics look good, not represent the truth.

That's until we don't do our work, electing those politicians whose job is to resolve our political requests.
Yes this is true - there is not enough grasslands to feed the current demand for meat - actually there is not enough feedlots to feed the demand for meat on a global scale. Many poor people around the world would eat more meat if it was cheaper.

The solutions to let the market solve the problem - if there was only grass fed meat available the cost would be very high and meat would become a luxury again.
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Would anyone here use a platform that would centralise all your smart devices (irrelevant of brand) on one nice dashboard that would let you automate actions based on event triggers? Ex: Closing a Ajax Blind when an Aqara light sensor triggers that there is an excess amount of sunlight.
> a "virtual on-site interview" (an oxymoron I know)

... But seriously, what? What is a virtual on-site meant to be?
Have they ever used those pressure-reducing stations to produce electricity?

Never sure if it went from theoretical to actual.

https://www.google.com/search?q=natural+gas+pressure+reducer...
Disk Utility has fallen from a reliable professional tool to an unpredictable quagmire, especially when it comes to APFS.

Try to image or clone an APFS drive with Disk Utility, I dare you. Here’s all I can find that works.
https://gist.github.com/darwin/3c92ac089cf99beb54f1108b2e8b4...
The article checks two bad boxes for me.

1. It disparages the work of individuals/organizations unjustly, who have done society a great service throughout this trying time. An attitude which has the potential to feed anti-vax sentiment/scepticism.
2. It suggests and endorses, without the proper caveats, something which is potentially dangerous, that is injecting yourself with a homegrown vaccine.

Might be interesting to read a commentary on this individuals experience from a measured place (a practicing scientist for example breaking down the risks of what he/his group did), but the content as it stands doesn't deserve to be promoted in my opinion.
https://github.com/seebye/fmui#screenshots
> very well that they’ll be barely used

They'll be widely used if even one big app (like gmail, facebook, or whatsapp) require use of a third party store.

A service could do a gradual shift to a third party store by saying "you must use a third party store for new installations only", and your users will migrate slowly as they get new devices.
I don't think frontline buys docs, they produce their own. Probably weren't willing to pay enough, if they were willing to pay anything at all.
I mostly agree, but it's not the only thing. Apple made a bunch of incremental improvements in the basics, this being one of the bigger ones.

Reducing the movement of data, implementing common operations in hardware (there was mention of an object allocation being an extremely common client software operation that they implemented in hardware), bringing RAM physically closer to processors (reducing the die area and power budget needed for interfaces), higher bandwidth and lower latency paths to backing store--there were a lot of conceptually simple improvements.

And perhaps the switch to a more regular instruction set helped somewhat.

Apple could see a lot of performance being left on the table in pieces of varying size.
Plain old untrendy troubles and emotions
There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, "Morning, boys, how's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and
> They program the drive to read 1TB but rewrite the 1GB over and over.

My understanding is that they didn't specifically write a "program" to do it, all they did was to "program" a bunch of false configuration data to the USB flash controller and let it silently corrupt the flash. If you can find their internal programming tools on the web, they can even be fixed by program the correct configuration back.

>Worst thing is you never know until you need the data you wrote...

It's worthwhile to run dd+sha256sum or badblocks(8) on suspicious USB drives.
ProRAW Is Here
Amplify Possibility
Motivations
We all have motivations. Reproduce, procreate, eat food, love someone, be loved, and be safe. Have your own home and your family. Do what you love.

But general motivations are complex. Once upon a time I realized to myself that VR and AI are key for me. I want to be at the center of this. What motivates you to move?
I very rarely replay any games I buy so frankly no it doesn't matter much to me.
By using K8s and similar technologies, you're buying standardization with underlying complexity and reduced efficiency.

In many cases, it's a good tradeoff, because you can now use standard tooling on everything.

Just like it's cheaper to ship an entire (physical) shipping container that's half-full than to ship the same stuff loosely. Or why companies will send you two separate letters on the same day with a small note that this is more efficient for them than collating them.

I assume that k8s also makes it much easier to move to a different cloud provider if you're unhappy with one (or the new one offers better pricing). Instead of rewriting your bespoke scripts that only you understand, anyone familiar with the technology will know which modules to swap to make it work with the new provider.
The author may have added this in after publishing:

> Many people have asked, could viruses also use the Ψ technique to beat our immune systems? In short, this is extremely unlikely. Life simply does not have the machinery to build 1-methyl-3’-pseudouridylyl nucleotides. Viruses rely on the machinery of life to reproduce themselves, and this facility is simply not there. The mRNA vaccines quickly degrade in the human body, and there is no possibility of the Ψ-modified RNA replicating with the Ψ still in there.
I would not be surprised if there was some religion out there that espoused such a doctrine, likely one that believed in reincarnation.
You know honestly, we as an entire whole of the world should just go back to hands on training. Forget studying the same crap for 15-20 years of our lives to have a damn calculator to solve basic adding and subtracting that's done on a cash register in our daily lives. How many of you solve out of this world equations in your daily life? 95% of the world doesn't. We all use basic add and subtract. Hardly anyone knows how to start a fire, or kill game to survive. If the internet goes out and you can't check that daily habit of yours, your life is turned upside down. Its a waste to study all these years to find out you don't need to figure out a right side of triangle to drop a tree. If you can count to 10 on your fingers, what's the point of an in depth educational system.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but IME cats don't use their genitals to hunt birds.