skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On the other hand the counter-theory ("there was illegal bat trafficking from a small mine in Yunnan")

One theory is that people mine bat guano from caves, so there's no need for them to ever touch a dead bat.
Only if you're okay with the legal consequences of sabotaging the company. They absolutely can sue you for it, and you might even face criminal prosecution for such a thing.
As someone that works in financial crime prevention, I think these rules are a very blunt instrument that will almost certainly do more harm than good.

There have been banks in the past that have operated similar policies, and regulators have raked their senior leaders over the coals for implementing such naive rules.

Transaction size alone tends to be an extremely weak signal for money laundering, but does tend to be a very strong single of high net wealth. Any criminal worth their salt will split up illicit transactions into smaller ones to avoid these types of rules, it’s money laundering 101.
88 HTTP requests, damn...
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the US prefers using drone strikes to inflict suffering, I believe
Note that Bret is also a bit of a contrarian with a habit of 'just asking questions' (It is not clear their was substantial fraud in the 2020 U.S. election, but it is clear there is valid reason for concern. Why is there not broad, bipartisan interest in finding out?)

Doesn't mean he's necessarily wrong, and many of his takes are pretty reasonable, but personally, I nevertheless do take his opinions with an additional grain of salt...
Right? Why wasn't there a backup somewhere other than Github? Even just a repo that was checked out somewhere.
German distributor Mindfactory tells a similar story. I think I've came across some others telling the same, but didn't follow up, because different country, so not relevant to me. Anyways, when available they sell ZENs like crazy!
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The Windows team have themselves to blame for the way this has been handled since Windows 8.

Here are some bullet points, that even I as WinRT believer have to acknowledge, please hold with me starting rant mode:

- Windows 8 broke compatibility with XNA/Silverlight model

- WinRT even though it is definilty a better COM, required 3 implementations on Windows 8.0 (phone, tablet and desktop)

- Windows 8.1 reduced that to 2 (phone/table and desktop) with UAP, and naturally a rewrite was required

- Windows 10, merged all models, renamed UAP into UWP, and naturally a rewrite was required

- Windows team not happy with .NET taking up of the Windows eco-system, botched Longhorn, doubled down on COM eventually leading up to WinRT/UAP/UWP, whatever you want to call it.

- Naturally they couldn't just reuse .NET runtime with added support for AOT, so Windows 8.x adopted AOT compilatio model from Singularity, followed up by .NET Native on Windows 10. In both cases, also incompatible with regular .NET.

- Similarly, C++/CX which was introduced for WinRT, the first time that Microsoft finally had a C++ RAD experience somehow comparable to C++ Builder, was killed by the Windows team pushing C++/WinRT with complete and total disregard for developer tooling, making those of us that depend on mixed code bases (.NET/C++) to feel we are back into the Visual C++ 6.0 days, manually editing IDL files in notepad and doing ATL like template magic. From their point of view, screw us, and we should wait until ISO C++23 for the Visual Studio team to be able to replicate in C++/WinRT the kind of tooling we were able to join in C++/CX.

- Project Reunion just got their 0.1 milestone one (yep not a typo)

- WinUI 3.0, although deeemed as the future native UI, won't be feature parity with UWP, only later the year

- .NET 5 isn't supported in .NET Native, and the roadmap between CoreRT, .NET 6 and .NET Native isn't fully clear

/rant mode off

While this kind of reboots might be daily stuff on Apple and Google's platforms, it didn't land that well among the typical enterprise customers from Microsoft, and most likely not other Microsoft teams that are upper of the SDK food chain.

However, why stay on Microsoft stack then? Because I could write equally long rants for the other eco-systems I develop for, and Microsoft while being this schizophrenic still provides the best developer experience and smallest rant list from my point of view.
OpenBSD does distribute Apache 2 code (e.g. LLVM), but it's true they're not happy about it due to the patent clause.

Apple prefers Apache 2 for its own code (LLVM, CUPS, Swift).
2FA should be bypassable after some longish lockout period.

For example, someone has lost their password, email access, phone number, and 2FA app. Make them wait a month to regain account access.

If any time during that month, the account is used or logged into, cancel the takeover request. During the month, every day send an email to all points of contact on the account letting them know what will happen.

It's a trade-off of the harm of unauthorized access to a dormant account Vs blocking someone from accessing their data (that is probably not backed up, and probably took considerable effort to create).

Have an account-level setting to disable such a process, for the people who might be offline for extended periods.
In Germany young people lough about people doing this. It is a symbol for the "typical German".
The CCP is also discriminating against Uyghur marriages. That’s impacting people outside of internment camps. A policy which removes some pressure from the excess male births from the rest of the country and destroys an unwanted ethnic group. Combined with some forced sterilization and forced contraception and you get a “mild” form of genocide that destroys a people without producing mass graves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide

Chinese government statistics show that from 2015 to 2018, birth rates in the mostly Uyghur regions of Hotan and Kashgar plunged by more than 60%.
Why do so many in the open source community use GitHub, a closed source platform?
Ask HN: Who knows some famous Indie Dev/Hackers/Makers who are worth following?
I am pretty new to the whole Indie Dev/Hacker/Makers space, although I have been building side-projects for years.

Does anyone know some high profile people to follow? Mainly to see what they are doing and learn from at the same time.
Wouldn't it be better to do a reinstall of the OS in the VM (or use a previous image), apply the security updates, and then reinstall any other software that was on the system?
The first sentence in the BBC article.

> Chinese authorities and experts are at odds about the origin of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

I'm not saying this argument is invalid in general but it's important to assume that we know next to nothing about this whole situation and that the things that we know are potentially false pieces of information pushed by the CCP.

They've tried to sweep this under the rug and control the discussion from day one and this happens to be something they're incredibly good at.
Microsoft plans to replace Outlook for Mac with web-based version
Apparently that's what they do, at least on iOS:

People nearby.
Quickly add people nearby who are also viewing this section and discover local group chats.
Please allow on location access to enable this feature.
"Allow in settings" (a button)

Then you see a system location access dialog. iOS allows to choose between (always, when in use, nope) and optionally to turn off "high precision" setting (not sure how much, but it covers entire city when off).

Then you may tap another button named "Make myself visible". I didn't, but a list of nearby users/groups was populated regardless.
Unfortunately you forgot a dot there, "Wait for WinUI 3.x", with x probably being quite big.

https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/blob/master/d...
So many reasons why I prefer on-prem over cloud for software that is directly attached to the value-chsin of the business. I wouldn‘t care if they cut me off of some backoffice app which manages the snack bar. But as a software company, my code is the heart of my company, so I would never give control of that to a 3rd party.
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Capitalism in of itself is an incredibly small and simple concept. It’s neither sufficient as a tool of observation nor as a economic system. It’s a framework for exchange and ownership in a very primitive, not in a holistic sense.
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The Reykjavik University Sleep Institute is looking for a DevOps Engineer specialised in Machine Learning for the Horizon 2020 project Sleep Revolution, sponsored by the European Commission. The project is led by Reykjavik University (RU), and is highly inter-disciplinary, focused on revolutionising the data analysis and medical diagnostics for sleep apnea.

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The only thing we REALLY know is that these types of coronaviruses originate in Southern China and somehow got to the point of being suspiciously well adapted to ACE2 by the time it exploded in Wuhan.

That, however, can also be achieved purely by natural causes over a long time - not just in a lab. Maybe Wuhan is simply the point at which the first very infectious form of SARS-CoV-2 occurred - not the first overall occurrence of any SARS-CoV-2 variant. And it provided a perfect environment to spread at its wet markets. If the virus originated in the West, maybe we would be shitting all over meat processing facilities now?

So, how many people would need to get infected to facilitate these mutations? We could possibly have missed SARS-CoV-2 infections with earlier virus strains that were vastly less infectious. It would take quite a lot of people to raise suspicions of anything other going on than nominal incidents of flu-like symptoms. So maybe the initial SARS-2 was basically SARS-1 with much less incidence of severe symptoms - so it slipped under the radar until it mutated, exploded in incidence and suddenly produced overwhelming hospitilization rates.
yikes! SO, JP had access to our SMS'es too?!

reading OTP from SMS: to a layman, that's a rather small feature: and why doesn't Amazon do it by themselves ?
GitHub is in possession of substantial additional information in that scenario, namely, "we're quite certain we don't have Iranian employees on staff".
The data also shows that socialism has caused more loss of innocent life than any other ideology.
What happened after? your account was unblocked later?
You are misinformed, in Germany/EU there is legal protection against age discrimination.[1] You don’t need to be a member of a union or even have any union representation at the company.

[1]https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kündigungsschutz#Kündigungssch...
:) the mistery of HN. Kind of loterry, isn't it?
I am confused, I checked out the landing page but it seems to be a landing page builder and saw no reference to markdown or markdown editing.
If Wikipedia is to be trusted [1]:

"AIDS was first clinically reported on June 5, 1981, with five cases in the United States"

"Both HIV-1 and HIV-2 are believed to have originated in non-human primates in West-central Africa and were transferred to humans in the early 20th century."

If HIV, a relatively less infectious virus, can make its way across the Atlantic Ocean to land on America shores, I wouldn't be surprised SARS-CoV-2 could do the same. Another explanation could be that SARS-CoV-2 is a lot more common than we think --- many people might have caught it before but it didn't manage to spread, but this time the virus just hit the jackpot.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS#History
Quitting coffee sans side effects is actually quite easy.

1. Measure your starting doze. Use a kitchen scale to weigh the ground coffee.

2. Create a spreadsheet schedule from tomorrow and reduce your amount by 1 or 2 grams per day.

3. Every day only drink the exact scheduled amount.

I find using a French press for this process is best. As you can make really small portions. For example brew just 4 grams of coffee with a small amount of water.
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You’ve asked the same question in 3 spots. You’re asking the question backwards and not reading the other comments here (for example, the particular response you responded to) There are some very good reasonable answers for why and how this could have happened, unless you’re a biologist and are going to tell us how it happened (which the paper you cited doesn’t) you’re beating on a painful drum
The multi threaded one process app might work well - until you need to scale across many machines, then the multi-process architecture might be easier to scale. But you probably end up rewriting the whole architecture anyway.
I think the whole point of India's project to abandon cash is to allow for tracking. If all this data is thrown away the entire excercise was pointless.
Yeah you forgot to add 'extra-judicial' to the drone strikes, breaching every international law.
We can all cite harmful laws, does that mean companies (and people) should be free to ignore all law?

Should US companies be free to ignore laws related to sanctions because the UAE has made being gay illegal or because political opposition in China could land you in jail? Where do you draw the line? Specifically - for a US company as is being discussed.
The creator here. I'm working on AutoML since 2016. I think that latest release (0.7.15) of MLJAR AutoML is amazing. It has ton of fantastic features that I always want to have in AutoML:

- Operates in three modes: Explain, Perform, Compete.

- `Explain` is for data exploratory and checking the default performance (without HP tuning). It has Automatic Exploratory Data Analysis.

- `Perform` is for building production-ready models (HP tuning + ensembling).

- `Compete` is for solving ML competitions in limited time amount (HP tuning + ensembling + stacking).

- All ML experiments have automatic documentation which creates Markdown reports ready to commit to the repo (https://github.com/mljar/mljar-examples/tree/master/Income_c...).

- The package produces extensive explanations: decision tree visualization, feature importance, SHAP explanations, advanced metrics values.

- It has advanced feature engineering, like: Golden Features, Features Selection, Time and Text Transformations, Categoricals handling with target, label, or one-hot encodings.
"Fuck" in the context of "Fuck <name>" is really not particularly offensive in the UK. Furthermore, merely being offensive is insufficient under the law. Section 5 of the Public Order Act requires:

> "(1) A person is guilty of an offence if he/she:
> (a) uses threatening [or abusive] words or behaviour, or disorderly behaviour, or
> (b) displays any writing, sign or other visible representation which is threatening [or abusive],
> within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress thereby."

One might conceivably argue that these are "abusive" words. But case law also suggests that prosecuting merely on the behaviour of speech is only justified if it serves a need to maintain public order, so let's deal with your hypothetical:

> If an aggrieved third party had been present, and her refusal to cover up created a likelihood of imminent breach of the peace then - perhaps - a temporary arrest might be justified, would you accept?

In principle, if the language had been bad enough, yes. In this case? No, I would not. It's not nearly offensive enough language that you won't hear far worse on a regular basis. If someone can't handle seeing a t-shirt like that, they would not last long in London.

Here she'd be more likely to cause offence people by wearing a "Boris is great" t-shirt. Personally I'd find that horribly offensive (I'm not being facetious - the guy is a threat to life and liberty), but I wouldn't argue for it to be banned, because it's nowhere near bad enough for a reasonable person to disturb public order over.

[This is especially true because Boris is a politician, and people need to expect coarser language used to express frustration]

If an actual aggrieved party had been present and reported her, then they would have had a reason to intervene to at least consider the issue. But that aggrieved party is and was entirely hypothetical.
Also not mentioned in the article but bats are in hibernation at the time of year when the spread started, making it even less likely.
Juspay is one of the worst payment gateways anyway. It makes it impossible to pay for anything and I get scared whenever I see this stupid logo during payment.

Their site is an example of over-engineering designed to make seemingly simple things hard. Like for example, it always tries to detect OTP and fails most of the time. Then it obscures the Continue button and add an extra step.

But worse is their internet speed detection algo. Why in the world does a payment processor need to check my internet speed and show me a popup your internet connection is slow (happens mostly on 4G). Then it tries some refresh voodoo which makes the payment fail sometimes debiting the amount and failing (which takes 5 days to refund).

It's mind boggling that Amazon is one of their customers. Is nobody doing user-experience testing?
Assume promotion after releasing 10 changes

Releasing 1 change a year with a 100% chance of working -- no promotion for 10 years

Releasing 10 changes a year each with a 10% chance of breaking something -- 1 in 3 chance of promotion in a year, and a 2 in 3 chance of downtime
Because github is a company based in the USA and must comply with the law of USA. It does not matter where the customer of github is based. It would be the same with gitlab because they are based and hosted in the USA.

If you are German and USA decides to apply sancations on Germany because of NordStream2 tomorrow, well, good luck setting up your own gitlab ce...
What are your thoughts on peripherals that provide haptic feedback to help solve the feedback loop?

I am thinking gloves or other wearables that could provide force-feedback to help us correlate our physical actions to the virtual interface..

Are we making progress in those areas at all?
A single person has no way of influencing this. Twisting Github's and others' arms is a great proxy. If they get flak for their handling of this, they can go argue with law makers.
Office was adopting React Native and XBox team did as well.

In fact that is how C++/WiRT sells not having the tooling around that C++/CX provides, by using React Native as Microsoft's QML so to speak.

I share the Web sentiment, for anything that isn't games related, it has won, just wait until WebGPU happens and WebAssembly gets more mature.
I too wonder the same. I am guessing they want to keep these 'sensitive data' parts outsourced, so they don't face regulatory heat .
They are not capitalist democracies they are social democracies. The economy is socialist and capitalist.
The US embargo prevents doing business with Iran. Providing service in Iran would be a violation of the embargo. Blocking a whole European company not conducting business with Iran because one of its employee tried to login while there is not respecting the embargo, it's just overreach. GitHub should get flak for that in the same way Paypal regularly get flak for randomly freezing accounts.
Ask HN: Who's looking for a co-founder?
I just stumbled upon an old Ask HN with the same topic from 2010 and I thought this could be useful to resurrect.

You should probably mention what you are working on, where you are located, what stage you are in, who you are looking for, what you can bring to the table and a way to contact you.
“Injuries clearly incompatible with life”.

While an EMS may not be able to sign the death certificate, they are quite able to say in cases of major trauma or obvious rigor that the patient is exceedingly dead.
The UX of APIs (2019)
yeah - I think his point was something along the lines of "you can have a useful theory but it might be worth getting rid of it for something less useful that might be more productive in the long run because it has better understanding of the fundamental mechanism."

Or more shortly using predictive ability as the sole criteria can lead to less correct results then alternatives.

If my description is correct I would say that the advantage of using prediction as the sole criteria is that it avoids the burden of making arbitrary selections. I understand the appeal of the choosing a course because it's more elegant or beautiful but if you were getting on a plane and were told that was the guiding light of the designer - or worse the engineers - how happy would you be?
Not as delicious, but sure to be just as sticky
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