skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is slightly odd that the headline doesn't feature HIV more prominently, since this is a press release. PR puffery would call for a headline more like "We cured COVID and now we're going to cure Flu and AIDS (and another thing you've never heard of)."

Props for modesty, I guess, but this is a weird instance to suddenly get coy.
> I'm 100% a large chunk of the population has just given everyone ample evidence they are not to be trusted.

I am interested in what makes you think a large chunk of the population can not be trusted?

I think that the news has acted as a wedge to drive people apart as much as possible. The BLM protests have some good points but also have violence surrounding it. Trump supporters may not have the best points but there has been evidence of voter fraud in the past and asking for investigation is not a bad thing, violence is unacceptable.
Some cyberpunk stuff abuses the word "feudalism", but within companies rather than on the tramped ground under them, I do think it makes more sense? We have lords, retainers, a CEO who's monarchy is somewhat conditional, etc.
Mapping DNA is not understanding genes. We know very, very little about the genome. In fact we're still discovering new mechanisms of encoding and meta-encoding. We can't even say where "genes" begin and where they end.

We identified a few single genes in _association with certain risks, but literally nothing is understood in complex interactions and how environment and genetics make for the concrete phenotype.

Transsexuality is related to brain anatomy, which... is about the most obvious complex system in the body...

Have you had any introduction to bioinformatics at all? Your enthusiastic futurism is uncalled for.

We also thought to be at the edge of AI in the 50s, thought the mystery of the brain was about to be illuminated with the introduction of fMRI and weather prediction is only marginally better at what farmers were capable of for thousands of years. Nobody can extensively model even a single cell today. Do you know how prostate cancer cells ultimately always evade androgen deprivation therapy? Me neither. Nobody does. All we are celebrating is "this transporter may play a role" types of "breakthrough", achieved by extensive experimentation.

Humans tend underestimate chaotic complexity...

And again, what are you even getting at? To understand and manipulate transsexuality completely, you need to understand and manipulate sex expression completely. It's pretty telling that you assume "parents" will chose to eliminate transsexuality exclusively. Why wouldn't you rather have intersex humans? There is no inherent value to sexual dimorphism and the sexual evolution likely isn't related to survival, but rather costly (see birds).

Snails do fine.

Clown fish do fine.

Sex is overrated.

You just want to construct a reason to be edgy on transsexuality... don't you?
An amazing feature of the windows file picker that i hardly ever see mentioned is that you can simply paste in a url into the name field and it will automatically download it to tmp and refer to the file.
You can use nextdns.io which has an option to resolve handshake domains.

Other options also provided in the docs:
https://learn.namebase.io/starting-from-zero/how-to-access-h...
Yes, when people talk about "bringing back manufacturing" they mean bringing it back as it existed circa 1985, not the mostly automated factories of today.
Rather than wasting my time guessing which events you’re referring to, how about you provide sources for the specific claims you’re making so we can tell you why they are either debunked or inconsequential to the results of the election.
Yeah, there's some kind of exponential-like decay, but how strong it is ?
On HN, of all places, I personally prefer to give posters the benefit of the doubt that when asking for E2EE, they have some notion of what it is and entails. Your past few comments here are really rather condescending, assuming that no one (except yourself, of course) really understands what they mean when they ask for E2EE.

>real e2ee

>By 'really good' encryption

These are descriptive terms I've not encountered in an academic setting when discussing all types of encryption. Is there a formal definition of 'real' vs. 'fake' E2EE?
Vendors slammed for 'lack of proper judgement' during the pandemic
Trump is a political leader, not a musical celebrity. Any moves that hinder his or his supporters speech (he had an account on Parler) is by default a political one, even if at the same time it is a "PR/business reputation move". In this case its big tech wanting to appease the new king on the hill.
Majority of people I speak with on Discord do infact pay, nitro and server boosting, etc. Both our examples are anecdotal, though.
I don't think I've ever seen a logo on the outside of a suit jacket. Or on most button-down shirts. Or most slacks.
And even if we knew, we can never talk about it.
>What do you call the guys with “Camp Auschwitz” and “6MWE” on their shirts? Concerned citizens?

The same as I call the people on twitter who write "kill all white men".

And when you see somebody with a Che Guevara t shirt or Mao t shirt on the street, do you start seeing marxists conspiracy everywhere?
Casino mogul and GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson dies at 87
Does the average Joe really reads articles from sci-hub ?
The target public of sci-hub should be able to understand how to install a couple programs imo.

Windows 7 has reached EOL a year ago (minus two days), so yeah, maybe it's not very well supported...
The recent bombing in Nashville damaged an AT&T data center.
Full title: Apologies for the wait, we're overwhelmed. Yes, this is the hospital. You need to what?! Do a software licence audit?
I detest click-bait
False. The RNC is not an open critic of the leader of their party.
Admittedly I am still on the fence about this whole thing (the denying of services), and can't fully articulate my thoughts.

I do believe that these platforms are not infrastructure, that they are not public spaces, but I am no corporate apologist; from that view point, what we've done is given up control over our public discourse to corporate bodies, and I think that is the crux of the problem and what actually needs to be rectified.

To put the problem into the physical world, it's as if we've decided to have all of our Town Halls and court hearings at a McDonalds, and now McDonalds won't let the people threatening violence in because they'd disturb the customers.
But now that I think about it, the registry IS already decentralized. IE: .com is managed by an organization separate from .org. And the whole reason for "renting" from .com is because .com owns the space. If you "buy" a TLD on the Handshake blockchain, do you lose the ability to rescind delegations under that TLD once people have "bought" them?
I scrolled around for 5 minutes looking for a link to a basic example document and never found one.
There is eBay and similar sites where you can list "For parts or noy working" items and get quite a good value out of it.

If you keep it for X-years in your garage, after those years these models won't be actively used anymore and less people will be looking for parts => it will become less worthy to the point you will have to throw them away...
Starship: Cross-Shell Prompt
Well, a physical open/close switch that's in line with the microphone lead would do the same thing. But, obviously that would be assuming privacy needs are incorporated into the design. I would imagine this could be added on some older laptop models with more physical space(I'm thinking of older thinkpads), but it would be a non-trivial process of opening a case, adding a cut-out for a switch, etc.
The first Tweet attempts to coopt the memory of him to legitimize an unsubstantive jab in an ideological battle that is adjacent to academic literature. That's sickening.
Until about 2 years ago the AARP website had some flash content!

I'd wince when my then 85-year-old mother would call me after searching around the web and following the help on sketchy websites on how to "install Flash."

I contacted them (I'm 58--old enough to join AARP, too!) and told them how dangerous it was; all Flash content disappeared about a year after.
I meant literally the people that went inside the Capitol we know those things were floating around in the crowd generally but not what the people inside had. I also saw that one LARP group heading up the stairs looking organized but IDK if they were spotted with anything particularly bad, haven't watched everything that happened for sure though.
I use Google Sheets for bookkeeping because I found integrating with "plain text" tools on the web was really weak when I started my business in 2016.

I wrote this doc describing my method,

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vS7EzDgEt9_cQ5lc...

The idea is to record every transaction as between exactly two accounts. This is a little tricky with real-world transactions but it can be done, e.g., a real-estate purchase involving 8 accounts.
Resolves for me:

$ host sci-hub.hns

sci-hub.hns has address 186.2.163.57
I'm almost certain that a sufficient requirement for making it stick would be the existence of in-demand, legal/gray area (and objectionable) web content that is excluded from "legacy DNS", as the article's author poetically describes it.
> For anyone looking to implement a Prolog Paul Tarau has an interesting approach:

Fascinating! I ended up designing my own Prolog virtual machine rather than mimicking the WAM, using a union-find address space to represent unified terms, with hopes to make it a persistent data structure and so implement backtracking over unification by cheap checkpointing. I never got around to it, but it left me with a fascination with Prolog internals.
I can't think of one right off the bat, but I've read some great novels where the author starts by telling you what's going to happen, but you still don't want to stop reading. In fact sometimes it makes you all the more interested in continuing with the story.
I haven't been back to rust since, so I don't have the specifics. But it was clear to me that this was not a helpful way to program.

It was also crystal clear that, like C++, Rust puts many barriers to true abstraction. You have to know many, many details of how a specific type is implemented, sometimes several levels deep, to correctly use it at a high level. The cognitive overhead is enormous.
Good to know. Glad that was fixed. Thank you.
I didn't use TS because at the times I compared it with Mumble, it looked better(but only initially), but also felt more heavy. Both client and server. Also not open-source, so no go for exotic platforms. What I can say for Mumble is that you can customise it. I couldn't care less about redundant server messages spamming me with the rejoins from someone with a bad connection, for instance. Furthermore you can have different users colored differently. Emulation layers for running TS would have eliminated Mumbles rather minimal resource usage.

So...shrug ?
Well, I2P and TOR come close, i think...
> I don't think anyone has ever seriously suggested that the CIA has tampered with the vaccines. They merely co-opted the inoculation process in order to gain a biological sample.

Its not about CIA tampering with the vaccines. The assumption was that the vaccination programs were politically neutral, a system meant to better humanity regardless of politics or military targets etc etc and in many places, that's what was said to convince people on the ground.

Unfortunately, the use of a doctor to aid in information gathering for the CIA in a vaccination campaign means that that assumption is completely gone.

The context is that the Pakistan and Afghanistan border region is the only place in the world where polio still spreads, while the rest of the world it has been eradicated.

However, there is already suspicion due to lack of education and literacy that the vaccine is some sort of Western plot. So all this did was ensure that there continue to be attacks on polio and other vaccination workers in the area by 1. terrorist groups which was happening anyway, but 2. by uneducated paranoid people who think that the vaccine has been the "plot" of the western governments to do something bad to them.

All in all, the CIAs use of a charity organisation and a vaccination drive as a front for its activities has basically led to hundreds being affected by polio, unable to live their lives in good health or even in death.
How to Get Through the Dark Days of Learning to Program
https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme
If I'm reading the graphics in the article correctly, shouldn't we be asking: What is with churn rate at Apple TV+?
* Insert riff about Qs using non-euclidean geometry and circular reasoning *
Clothed pictures of minors should be illegal?
I've deleted my WhatsApp and Twitter (my FB's been gone for several years now).

Not worth becoming a dopamine slave for advertisers, it's a waste of time - and they're censor-happy woke despots too.
You can't completely extinguish reactionary ideas, there will always be people hungry for power, angry at other people and susceptible to lies and misinformation. As in many other contexts, you cannot completely kill an idea, you cannot purge thoughts from people's heads.

Keeping those ideas from hurting a society requires vigilance and effort, especially in history education and education of why reactionary ideas are morally and ethically reprehensible. Germany didn't try to hide away what happened or cover it up. There has always been a focus on education and telling the story of what happened, with historical references.

What was/is actually banned was the uncritical dissemination of reactionary and fascist symbols, ideas and beliefs. That's why you're not allowed to simply hang a swastika flag from your balcony, but you are very much allowed to hang it in a museum in a historical context that explains what it is, who used it and what it stood for.

That's why id Software was not allowed to distribute Wolfenstein 3-D in Germany with the original textures, because it was entertainment and not in a factual historical context.

Besides, if the best argument you have for saying something is "I have the right to say it" and not the actual content of what you're saying, maybe that says something about what you're trying to say. Ideas, not speech.
Handshake and Sia Sky together delivers a decentralized website.
Walmart to create fintech startup with investment firm behind Robinhood
Silicon Valley, in a Show of Monopolistic Force, Destroyed Parler
If the general zetigeist does not make it obvious to you, please look to history for excellent examples of authoritarianism being orthogonal to left/right political bias.

Pretending that it's exclusive to the political right is not favorable to democracy.
1. Removal of phone number requirement

2. Feature parity for desktop app

3. Improved search and archival features

4. Full message threading?
Google Has 'Shattered' Its Pipeline to Black Talent
Due to network effects, users are a tragedy-of-the-commons resource. The more people use one type of solution, the less people there are to use another. We have to choose, as a society as well as individual agents, which types of solutions we use on principle, not merely what's most popular in the moment, lest we find ourselves stuck in local optima.
I still don’t understand the appeal of stories.
Making binaries for widespread OS is a good ability to have. That's one side of the whole thing: Where can I run it, when I am done or when I want to deploy?

It would be interesting to learn more about the available libraries and frameworks as well. Of course standard compliant Scheme code can probably be used. What else? Where can I get libraries from? To get to the need to run the software somewhere, one first needs to write it. Of course libraries can be of great help here. I would like to know, what the ecosystem looks like.

And the readme links to cyclone-winds package manager, which does have a few packages at https://github.com/cyclone-scheme/cyclone-winds/wiki. A little statement about being able or not able to use libraries from other Scheme's ecosystems might be good to add.
Yes, my interpretation of his actions is also way more moderate.
I am an uncle, not a parent, but even from that limited experience I think it's safe to say the majority of children programming is pushing merch.
To be honest, I am glad they did. I am sick and tired of these people finding that there are loopholes in which they can hide their hate speech and fascist rhetoric.
See https://beforetheban.com/
Dunning-Kruger Isn't Real
The Supreme Court ruled corporations are people. Do you let people say whatever they want about you in your blog (let's suppose you have one) So if somebody comes on my Facebook and writes that I'm a rapist and a murderer (falsely, for sure) I'm not supposed to block them?
The television content is mixed on Disney+ It’s for children so I may not have the best perspective but most of it is kind of weak. The marvel is star wars stuff is strong and they have the Disney movies, including the n-th straight to video sequels you never heard of.
So don't change it? The audit trail is there.
Deep Learning Applications for Covid-19
Any person who uses animated emotes/reacts is paying for discord nitro. It's not just the people who pay for server boosts, that's a higher tier.
Typosquatting attacks are responsible for malicious modules in NPM
It doesn’t require docker! You can install directly on windows, Mac and Linux [1]. This is how I have it running (for the past 8 months)!

https://github.com/handshake-org/hsd
The rule of law ensures that, not democracy, although democracy is what usually preserves the rule of law.
Yeah, I worked in a few settings like this; but in those cases (very) old "LTS" kernel versions were used as well, so in my (limited) experience very old toolchains tends to be tied to very old, well, everything (including kernel).
- shut down their ties with the CIA

- stop with their aggressive ANTI-everything marketing
Doesn't resolve for me on Cloudflare DNS:

$ host sci-hub.hns

Host sci-hub.hns not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

And the web frontend is unable to render anything, echoing that message I quoted above.
NYPD Disclosure of Surveillance Technologies
A true hero that believed in a free internet and died because of his ideals.
To be fair, a difference here is that it was one sole person committing that act, and they generally were not paraded around as heroes by people of similar political leaning. One-off stuff like that happens all the time and is not necessarily indicative of any kind of trend.

> I'll never vote for another republican for as long as Trumpism remains a part of the party

As someone who used to vote for the occasional republican, neither can I. In fact, as far as I am concerned the republican brand is now unsalvageable and any sane conservative would have to be running under a different label since I can't trust the reasoning of anyone who'd run under that one anymore.
If you think that's bad, check out this GDC Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8Lhqri8tZk

They procedurally generated 1,500+ different iterations on top of the same Unity-based slots shovelware using noun/adjective pairs. The general success they enjoyed is as sad as it is hilarious. For the record, the most enticing descriptor categories were: "3D", "Luxury", "Casino/Gambling", and "Sexy".
> Does the average Joe really reads articles from sci-hub ?

What a ridiculous statement, do you truly want to live in a world where they can't? Most authors on sci-hub themselves would struggle with containers.

If a mechanic mocked a room full of people for not being able to change their own oil what would you think of them?

Please reconsider such an ideological stance.
I bet it's due to most people getting Apple TV+ for free (you get 1 year with the purchase of an Apple device on which you can stream). So the churn is 15% of the people cancelling before they have to pay.
Could you enlighten me what the gross invasion of privacy and the security risk is for the majority of users that do not hack their machine in a way that prevents those connections?

I'm aware of Gatekeeper checking developer certificates upon opening apps over an unencrypted connection (so far; Apple is fixing that), but not sure where the gross privacy invasion or security risk is (in particular compared to existing alternatives, not some platonic ideal).

Here, FWIW, is what Apple says about Gatekeeper and Notarization. I'd be eager to hear any evidence that this is incorrect.

> Gatekeeper performs online checks to verify if an app contains known malware and whether the developer’s signing certificate is revoked. We have never combined data from these checks with information about Apple users or their devices. We do not use data from these checks to learn what individual users are launching or running on their devices.
> Notarization checks if the app contains known malware using an encrypted connection that is resilient to server failures.

> These security checks have never included the user’s Apple ID or the identity of their device. To further protect privacy, we have stopped logging IP addresses associated with Developer ID certificate checks, and we will ensure that any collected IP addresses are removed from logs.

> In addition, over the the next year we will introduce several changes to our security checks:

* A new encrypted protocol for Developer ID certificate revocation checks

* Strong protections against server failure

* A new preference for users to opt out of these security protections

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202491
The Constitution would need to amended.
40:- SEK puts it in the top 10% of all iOS Apps.

Its contemporaries are free.

Ergo, it is comparatively expensive.
Lol so far from it. This came from a bug assigned to me in JIRA like any other support ticket on any other bullshit day. Its just by the end of the day I realized I could access certain data from any gSuite domain. I submitted it through the bounty system as I didn't want it public in the issue tracker. I really just wanted the API fixed as we were getting shitted on by our customers...
Hopefully with Dems in control we will see these companies punished for their bad behavior. Or at least laws passed that make the publication of research more open.

The science should be funded and free. The applications of the science are where the money is to be made.

These companies are unnecessary dinosaurs from a bygone era. It's time for them to fail and die off naturally. But it will probably take legislation to do so. And I for one can't wait to see them gone.
Maybe the value is that b/c it's on the blockchain, you can see to which IP address a name referred to at ANY point in its (the name's) history?
Thing is, cloud computing is actually quite expensive. There's a reason why Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM are all lining up to grab a piece of the pie.

Yes there are economies of scale which means overall the cost should be lower, but once you factor in profit margins, I'm not sure.

The main benefit is definitely not requiring as much technical acumen or teams to build your infrastructure, but as more skilled workers enter the labour force, I think that too will start to get marginalised to some degree and teams will shift back to having their own IT departments. Just a guess.

I personally hate the cloud, way too expensive for me and the design choices they do are geared towards profit maximisation and not building a partnership with customers where both win. E.g. so many different modules, each with limited functionality...when I can just run my own virtual server and do everything myself much better
That guy has to make more kids if he wants to open any new projects...
Wasn't Dayton shooter a left-winger? That was in 2020, so that can't be right.

edit: It was 2019, my bad.