skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, OpenSSL was the premier SSL library for years and no-one noticed Heartbleed. Turns out not all bugs are shallow.
Shit happens, but I would really appreciate if you would re-activate our Github Org now, @github.
You know, some PRs are waiting there for me.
> Reality check: Most people don't use email programs anymore.

Guess you are not in enterprise.
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Sorry, what I meant was: They need to present benchmark results (preferably against other soft-core processors, of course) to claim the "high-performance" attribute. A single row of a synthetic benchmark against only two other contenders is a little ... lacking.
Ah, ok. Seems clear that this is for a thread requiring C connections simultaneously to get its work done. That would make it a necessary calculation to avoid deadlocks. I don't see this being necessary in a Rails type app where there's usually one connection per request, but if one were using Go, setting a max connections parameter, and then simultaneously checking out more than one connections to do work, there's an easy chance of deadlocks.

Will add a section talking about that and this formula.
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You already have a mute button.. do you really want to deal with unplanned un-muting as opposed to planned muting?
17M page Requests in a single 1 hour block would suggest significantly more than 250 pages per second.

https://twitter.com/TheRealNooshu/status/1346419468151488512
Yet, it seemed that the guidance the PM mentioned wasn't online at the moment that he mentioned it.

Like many, I was hitting F5 repeatedly on this page waiting for a document that didn't seem to be there, eager to know restrictions on various aspects of life. But the /coronavirus page just contained stale advice from December.

Eventually at 8:15pm, somebody found a link to a PDF of the new guidance and posted it on Twitter:

"This has all been done with such crashing urgency that they haven’t even been able to transpose the PDF version of the guidance into the website yet, it is here:"

https://twitter.com/AdamWagner1/status/1346188409300258816

[this is how it played out for me at least, did anyone else see this differently?]
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Geolocation databases are frequently inaccurate, even at the country level of granularity!

I use a ISP in the Netherlands that was founded only recently, I and frequently encounter sites that think I'm in Dubai, which is apparently where the previous owner of my IP block was located.

Fortunately, the only problems this seems to cause for the moment are that I occasionally get geo-blocked by some sites' overly-aggressive firewall rules, and I get Twitter ads in Arabic.

But I shudder to think what might happen should the UAE find itself under sanction.
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Police obtain access to Covid-19 contact tracing data
How do you run two runnables at the same time? Like, chords for the left hand, and then the melody for the right?
At this point it is kinda an open question whether using AWS/Azure/GCP for anything involving PII is even fully legal under EU/EFTA law. I know at least my employer is working towards having more options to jump ship at a moments notice these days.

I think EU/EFTA is large enough to enable the growth of at least one 80% offering given enough time. Or otherwise large enough as an economic bloc to force America to stricter legalisation so that they can use and depend on the American offerings.
To be safe: There is some more graphic violence, but due to the dithering it’s not very offensive imo. However, pretty much the entire crew does die rather brutal deaths (and that’s what the plot of the game is centered around).
looks like it uses this https://shihmengli.github.io/3D-Photo-Inpainting/#example which makes this super cool...
The dashboard is Google Analytics.
I would go quite a step further than that. If this was not an unfortunate incident/mistake, then GitHub/Microsoft has become quite the active enforcer of US (legal) foreign policy.

If they do that within the US market, that might be justifiable. But in this particular case, GitHub appears to enforce US foreign policy on what appears to be a company on the EU market. Also in what to me appears to be a rather ruthless, totalitarian, maybe even draconian way.

I'm pretty certain that absent this US law within the EU market, this action is arbitrarily discriminatory, and very likely constitutes inflicting serious damage on another company without a legal basis (within the US, yes .. outside the US, no).

GitHub may find itself stuck, between adhering to US laws and laws elsewhere (in this case EU, but China is probably a good example too). Still, is ultimately is a choice for GitHub to offer their products on multiple markets. If they have issues with that, they are free to exit a particular market. It certainly is never a valid excuse to start violating law in any market outside whatever country your headquarter might be located.

Tangentially, this rather typical popular belief that US companies can simply absolve themselves from legal liability, just by crafting clever TOS/EULA that supposedly does just that, has always confused to me. It was always my understanding that you can not create contracts that violate laws. In most countries with a somewhat sane state of law, governments really do not like or tolerate when companies start essentially making their own law in parallel. But apparently you can rewrite (even basic) law in the USA, as long as you can somehow get both parties to agree on it. Be that by free will or coercion.

Maybe it's time, for other parts of the world to no longer put up with this kind of bullshit, and demand that US companies actually adhere to the laws (and legal protections) that exist within their markets, or be free to buzz off and only operate on the US market alone.

With US foreign policy becoming increasingly self-serving, legally dubious, and in some case downright insane, having internationally operating companies enforcing those policies is becoming a seriously risky proposition for anyone outside the USA.
What's wrong with their aesthetics? I've always found their simple design to be quite nice.
I'm surprised the algorithm for producing blue noise is so complicated.

Could you not generate white noise, then apply a high-pass filter? Say, by blurring it and then subtracting the blurred version from the original?

Could you split the map into blocks, fill each block with a greyscale ramp, then shuffle the pixels inside the block?

Could you take a random sudoku approach, where you start with a blank map, then randomly select pixels, look at the distribution of pixels in their neighbourhood, randomly pick one of the greyscale values not present (or least present) for that pixel, then repeat?
I just installed this app 2 days ago for running croc [0]

Works great. Will use Termux till/if it breaks.

[0] - https://github.com/schollz/croc
Algorithms would try to maximize expected value.

As far as I can tell, here it seems humans value choices over expected value. In other words, humans pay for the perception of freedom.
Github sure contributed to the popularity, but I remeber distinctly as Git came out and how it took off like rocket. Git was a "killer app" from it's day of inception and everyone I knew switched their source control to it in late 2005 early 2006. It was a game changer to say the least. Github jumped on a already rolling bandwagon and left me ans many people I knew wondering why the hell you would need to host your projects there. (I am still a little bit puzzled but came to accept it as useful)
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> Is there a historical track record for finding the natural virus

SARS-1 [1]:

> The viral outbreak was subsequently genetically traced to a colony of cave-dwelling horseshoe bats in Yunnan, China.

The Guardian reference [2] states:

> Hence the efforts of Chinese scientists – led by Shi Zheng-Li and Cui Jie of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, China – to trace the source of the outbreak. Scientists initially suspected that civet cats, sold in markets in China, were the source of the virus but later turned their attention to bats, which they realised were the prime source of the virus. Civets were merely an intermediary.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syn...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/10/sars-virus-bat...
> The question of how it got to Wuhan all the way from Southern China remains unanswered.

It's also important to remember that the related virus we're talking about in southern China was identified in 2013. More than six years before the outbreak.

It didn't stay still. It hopped around, bat to bat, maybe to other animals. We don't have the history of the virus since then. It could have very well made the jump the humans or some other animal, years ago but only recently made the last few mutations to become the beast it is now.

Plus, it's a virus. It didn't take one path, it took all of them that it could. Each virus created a million more, repeat ad-infinitum.

So the idea that there's some mystery to how it traveled to Wuhan doesn't bother me. Viruses get around.
> I have lived in five countries now, but not one (local or state) government had an online presence that was nearly as good as the gov.uk infrastructure.

It is a neverending source of wonder to me that, whilst our government may be a shambles[0], our government services are so fantastic. They really are very impressive and, for the most part, very easy to use. Clearly a group of people have invested a lot of time and effort into this, and to me they demonstrate very clearly the value of investing heavily in user experience.

Also, the site is almost never down, which is good for somebody like me who tends to remember that they need to do thing X at random-o-clock at night.

[0] Not intended as an especially partisan statement as I have been known to vote Conservative (and over the last few years have criticised both Labour and Conservatives pretty equally), but I think it's tricky to argue that, as an example, sending 3 million kids back to school for 1 day before changing your mind demonstrates competent leadership.
Make it 2usd a month. Noone will bother with shifting services and spending their time on it instead of spending 2usd a month.

I wouldn't. Enjoy your retirement in a year or so.
Do you really want pipelinning on a microcontroller though?
I think he means they don't look particularly "high tech" or something. Which I'd say is a feature.
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In depth article, would be good if you can cover Java based connection pool like HickariCP. They are very widely used
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I on the other hand find the design of gov.uk websites one of the best out there.
A $21B Wager on Who Will Build the Apple Car
If we had teleportation and a wish ball I could also do a lot of things, but this is not what I base my arguments on.
France struggles with public's wariness of Covid-19 vaccine
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thats google analytics. specifically the "live" feature they added to commodify/undercut people who were moving to or splitting their spend with chartbeat (who's main thing was that live-on-site counter).

fwiw, the HN hug of death rarely breaks 5-figures for that metric. Its plenty to destroy a wordpress blog on a two core VPS, but its nothing compared to something getting shared in a large facebook group or trending on twitter. News sites are several orders of magnitude larger than any other type of sites besides the mega-platforms (fb) and comms tools like gmail/slack. Its actually a core part of why the entire sector's business model failed together. Everyone chased "reach" (raw audience size) as their most important revenue generating metric (because it directly factored as higher CPMs). Thats how we wound up with dozens of "news" sites all catering to the exact same 100M people clicking awful headlines in facebook shares and then closing the tab to go back to facebook. They (we) solved for scale, but in a way that turned everyone into a commodified copy of each other with no meaningful connection or relationship to the audience. Then facebook just captured all of the ad revenue by gatekeeping/aggregating/"curating".
I don't know maybe someone from europe can answer ... I was just point it out that north america is not the world.
To dive deeper down the rabbit hole, I read WIV's 2017 paper on their coronavirus research that the cables reference. https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j... TL;DR they constructed chimeras from multiple versions of bat coronaviruses to create different variations in the "receptor binding domain," specifically the genes encoding the spike protein and ORF8a. They also analyze ORF8b and ORF3b sequences, specifically noting versions of ORF3b they've studied can "antagonize interferon function" (interferons boost immune system response) and discussing their own previous studies on ORF3b. The aim of the chimeras is to create a virus targeting the human ACE2 receptor like SARS-CoV did. They succeed — noting that some of their variants "have a stronger effect than SARS-CoV" — and also note "It is very interesting to investigate in further studies whether [one wild virus variant's] ORF3b and other versions of truncated ORF3b such as [their chimeric virus variants] also show [interferon] antagonism profiles."

Reading a paper from NIH on COVID-19 sequencing — https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7180649/ — guess what gets implicated?

"The SARS-CoV-2 genome was reported to possess 14 ORFs encoding 27 proteins ... When researchers compare the SARS-CoV-2 with the SARS-CoV at the amino acid level, they found the SARS-CoV-2 was quite similar to the SARS-CoV, but there were some notable differences in the 8a, 8b, and 3b protein. [Emphasis mine.]"

I don't know a lot about this subject. But as a layperson, it seems a little suspicious that WIV was making SARS-like coronaviruses in Wuhan, where the outbreak started, from bat viruses collected from Yunan, where the closest living relative of COVID-19 is from, and experimenting specifically with the proteins that are the most-novel in COVID-19 as compared to SARS?
It's similar where I live, but with a lower limit... Most transactions over US$100 are required to be linked to your ID number.
Here's an article from August 2019.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ebola-henipah-china-...

The RCMP arrested 2 Chinese nationals who illegally sent highest risk viruses to Wuhan. Their security clearance was revoked and the University cut ties with them. the university stopped paying them immediately. Reassigned their students. Let that sink in... the university didnt fight at all.

Meanwhile the lab and public health was claiming that all policies and procedures were followed and they were innocent and yet nothing changed. They never got back into the lab. There's obviously no link at all to covid19, or is there?

In fact that 'investigation' never ever completed. There's no coincidences. The CBC reported on it because they caught wind of it via non-government sources. The students are the ones who originally broke the story. So why is the government tight lipped on this one?
> I don't expect any job to improve my skillset .

Then you are working in the wrong place. Learning python is a basic skill that almost everyone is capable of doing at my workplace and it is heavily encouraged.
You can’t protect “natural” when being in unnatural environments. Sure, if we go back to the population density of 1 person per 10-100 square kilometers... That would mean reducing world population by several orders of magnitude. But if we, as civilization, grow to billions and choose to live in mega cities - the way of life has to be adjusted. And again, we’ve evolved to live in a society, but nowhere near the present day population density. Here in Belgium you are allowed to see some people despite lockdown. You can also meet people outside, go for a jog with your mates. That’s as much social contact as people “require naturally”.
Yeah looks very similar to Typora, but that's not it
I honestly wish people did do this for these sorts of posts because it opens up a lot of solution space and would lead to interesting optimizations along the entire stack. The boundaries between all levels fade, the pieces ready for creative recombination.

All that other code needs maintainers. Is it really that interesting to say "look how much I can punt to others?"

It's not as if anyone except the authors will use these micro libs, we might as well encourage metrics that produce interesting ones.
Have you used the internal mic?

I found out that if the phone is too far away, the voice would flagged as ‚background chatting‘ and therefore muted.

Once I connected a headset those issues went away.
My guess would be Typora with a dark mode theme/few customizations.

Most of the other Mac markdown editors either have it split into two panes, show the markdown syntax when you type or don't look like that (centered).
I was about to ask this myself. I think their simple design is quite intentional—and it perfectly fits it's purpose.

Addendum: plus being accessible (essential for any govt. service).
How is the mobile gaming market in Africa expected to grow?
It may be overreach by GitHub, but given the severity of the sanctions lawmakers have set for if they happen to get it wrong, I'd like to at least blame lawmakers for creating such a risky situation.
Well done for doing a victory lap but on the other hand they have unforced errors like this: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/government-w...
Unless there is pattern of short stints, no. And if there is pattern over time, you see pattern.

I have seen quite dysfunctional toxic workplaces or teams. If you leave within one month, you have good social understanding and likely have better ethics then those who stayed. Those who stayed for long were all eventually compromised (meaning their ethics changed and they started to accept or do things they should not).

Our company have also few "trap" positions. The people there change quickly, because our hiring manager talks about positives (all true) and does not mention significant negatives. The more capable you are, the quicker you recognize the situation and leave.

It is perfectly fine to have some short stints.
> Says who?

The same law you're stating.

https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/...
Personally my experience doesn't match that description. I find it's fairly reasonable to convert existing code between "run time type checking" and static types as necessary. I realise that it doesn't click for everyone immediately. Sorry you had a bad experience with Haskell. If you ever try again I'm happy to help. Feel free to drop me a line with any questions whatsoever. My contact details are in my HN profile.
> a world where a creator is not entitled to benefits from their invention.

Do you mean a world where YouTube takes money from creators and give it to corporations that claim ownership of public domain music, or do you mean independent artist who gets zero money from their Spotify plays, since the three company cartel of record companies have forced streaming services to pool the artists’ money and then give most of that money to the biggest artists fronted by those same three record companies..?

This abuse is wholly dependent on the outrageous IP laws we live under.

Which creators are you talking about?
The UK government is often quoted as a leading example on how to run digital services well. A fuckup would be a surprise.
This was hands down one of the best security pages I've ever read. Incredibly clear, concise and to the point
You're correct, the GPL v3 is not compatible with the GPL v2 simply as a matter of license [0]. GP might be confusing "compatibility" with specific grant of future version usage. The FSF default recommended notice boilerplate for the GPL v2 is:

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

So it includes an explicit "or any later version" clause. Since by far most projects just copy/paste standard language it's common to be able to combine v2 and v3. However, not all projects do that, with the most famous and impactful of course being the Linux kernel itself which is explicitly GPL-2.0 only.

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0: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html
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It's simple and clear. The aim is to convey information, not to be fancy and bloated, indeed.
I use Signal for 1:1 messaging and some small groups, but Telegram is much better for large groups and communities. Admin tools, UX, performance, and discoverability are all far better on Telegram. I'm quite happy to use different tools for different purposes, and I'm glad they both exist.
...” , this action is arbitrarily discriminatory, and very likely constitutes inflicting serious damage on another company without a legal basis...”

Isn’t that what YouTube and FaceBook do day in day out when their influencers run afoul of policy?