skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does censoring do anything here?

perhaps. I mean having the leader of the free world spout conspiracy theories and give credence to them certainly hurts.

in the past you'd have crackpot conspiracy theorists spouting off their "knowledge" at the bar to anyone that would listen but most would shy away from the crazy person. now you have a mainstream leader saying crazy stuff and have a huge following of people spouting that off because you can get misinformation and half truths at the speed of sound. yeah some vetting of information should be there.

a lot of the "proof" I've seen have been from being ignorant of what scientific terms mean, deliberate mis/disinformation, and wholly not understanding cause and effect. the other thing that lets these propagate is the downright innumeracy of our societies.

my brother has gone down a dark path of this shit to the point that I am very disgusted by the "truthers" poisoning the minds of people. he used to be a decently intelligent man but he's gotten hit with the gish gallop of disinformation and lies.
It always amazes me that NASA engineers had to program the landing on the moon with negative timestamps. And not a single bug for the -0 / +0 year.
Yeah, I've tried Youtrack and as much as I love most of Jetbrains' products, Youtrack just wasn't as good imo.
Of course not, but that assumes the first outcome is as likely a result of no-lockdown as the second is of lockdown.

In reality you need to consider probabilities. What if there are thousands of times more kids in the second category than the first?

This is a pattern of thinking that I’ve seen a lot on the pro-lockdown side: reasoning from the axiom that a human being dying has infinite negative utility. While normally a good policy heuristic in practice when all else is equal, it of course can’t be strictly true. If it were, then it would be worth it for everyone in the world to experience unbounded misery if that extended the life of one person by one day.

Clearly that is absurd. So the moral calculus must be more nuanced than “if it saves lives, it must be worth it”.
A couple of people pointed out to me that the author had already said they felt their purpose was to be a writer, and they have taken classes on writing.

I spent some of my time while walking thinking about those comments and came up with the following thought; The author made those statements in a nearly 10,000 word blog post. So in many ways they are already a writer.

The difference I was trying to communicate is that a "purpose" in this case, which involve writing, might be "I want to share important stories that are impactful in people's lives." or "I want to entertain people with stories of fantastic worlds." or "I want to help people understand complex subjects without having to wade through tons of irrelevant things."

Those kinds of statements are purposes that are achieved through writing.

For me, the litmus test for whether something is a "purpose" or simply a "skill" is that a "purpose" generates tasks in service to that purpose. Skill building improves your ability to execute on those tasks.

I know, kinda meta.
Before reading anything from the Daily Wire I would suggest reading

https://gizmodo.com/facebook-confirms-ben-shapiro-s-daily-wi...
They now have an Electron-based config UI. That's obviously a big improvement.
As someone with no experience whatsoever on economics (i.e., I might not be seeing something critical), I think Amazon is not that weird as a potential buyer: they already own Twitch, and there's probably a huge overlap between the two userbases. They'd have a pretty strong hold on two distinct parts of the gaming community.

(Edit: clarification)
Yeah, Sparkle’s workflow is a bit weird like that. I think most developers just patch it to not do that but never contribute their code back :(
With the exception of the newly-departed UK, has there been any EU state(s) that performed consistently better than others?

The UK is doing better with vaccines, but yeah, it didn't do any better during the pandemic.
Docker for Desktop has no equivalent, and that’s true.

Unless you’re on a Linux, where podman and podman compose _almost_ are an equivalent.

But then, you can easily rollback a version on most distributions, and you don’t have the auto update in the first place.
JIRA tickets are typically used in IT departments. Do you really have to go outside the country to find people good enough to work in IT?
I was trying to avoid shaming you, but I'm sure I could have done a better job of that, especially because I'm posting from a position of authority and that magnifies such effects by a million times.

One of my teachers once told me "I did a Ph.D. in psychology at Stanford and I learned just one thing from it: that punishment is not good for learning." Hopefully we can get to a state where there's less punishment and more learning. I think examples are good for learning, so I hope you can stop feeling guilty and just take it as an example.
Through legislation? I suppose you could legislate smtp redirection / forwarding. It won't be seemless though. Google for example would never permit me to host their domain, so it would have to be a redirection or something like that which you can technically do today minus the risk of them killing the forwarding and/or account. I suppose the legislation would have to require the forwarding remain in place for a set period of time.

The technical solution already exists. Get your own domains, point them to a provider of your choice, set up forwarding on google/yahoo to your new domains. Go through all your services and change your email to use the domains you control. If the provider becomes compromised, toxic, etc... you can change DNS to a new provider. Use imap-s to back up your folders so that the email provider can't leak your data.
The real world is more complicated than just 'overpriced to the military'.

To heavily paraphrase the story: The US military has a number of unusual requirements that are not cheap to meet (security, extra review, etc etc). SpaceX originally balked at a number of those requirements, but after a fair bit of back and forth, they eventually threw up their hands and said "Sure! Whatever you want, but you have to pay all the extra costs". And so the US military launches are significantly more expensive than the commercial launches, but the large part of that is because the costs are genuinely higher.
When I was in high school (25 years ago) we learned about civil disobedience as an important part of the evolution of the legal system, and as a civic responsibility. Examples like abortion and segregation laws were brought up as important times that people pushed back against the mainstream and brought about important changes.

I get the sense that this attitude would be frowned upon now. Anybody going against mainstream thought is a "denier" or anti-x-er, there is no room in public discourse for any dissent.

I'm reminded of the (maybe PG) essay about asking people whether they would have been slave owners or abolitionists, and everyone pretends they would have been an abolitionist, when the reality is that would have been a strongly nonconformist position to take in many places. I think dissent is much harder now than it would have been back then.
From what I read, it’s only about researchers looking to publish something interesting rather than some complicated planned CCP plans.

It’s rather simple to do the so called ’gain of function’, you let the virus have it’s run with bat cells and add lots of human cells in petri with them. Because there is no immune system, the virus have not much to stop it. Slowly it adapt to human cells, you can change the type of cells so it can adapt to other receptors and so on.
Those articles where published before the whole crisis erupted.
It's common to be defensive with these sorts of things. I wish people would instead be inquisitive And ask about potential downsides vs. upsides, but it's much easier to respond that way when you feel like your job or status isn't at risk.
Ruby 3 has static typing, but it's opt-in and doesn't affect the runtime. Here it's both enforced and directly translates to better performance.
My team uses https://www.chef.io/products/chef-habitat/ to solve what you explained there. Worth taking the time to go through if you want repeatable builds, runtimes, and environments (be they bare metal, VM, or even docker).
I'm not sure I fully understand the rationale behind this lawsuit. I hated butterfly keyboard the moment I tried it, which is why I stopped upgrading/buying MacBook Pro entirely. People who bought had all the chances to try and decide not to buy, or to even return after trying. They stuck to it.

What's the ground for the class action ? Did Apple make any misleading presentation ? Otherwise, this feels like suing simply because you don't like the product (when they had all the chances to not buy or return).
Haven't tried adding spicy things into the dough. Great idea. Thanks. Spicy sourdough is making my mouth water.
https://ghost.org/docs/install/ubuntu/
Still doesn't offer that tax advantage (either in capital gains or the numerous deductions). And if you have to live somewhere like the parent comment, this doesn't help you.

You will have a commission in the expense ratio indefinitely.

But yes, definitely a decent option if you want to put your money in real estate with less headache.
Ask HN: Any examples of profitable smart contract ventures from solo founders?
There many ventures (eg. https://nomadlist.com/, https://retool.com/) that were launched by solo founders and were made profitable.

Are there similar example from the crypto world. I wrote Smart Contract because Solidity is a tangible thing I understand (and I expect a solo developer to be able to designing and deploying a smart contract on Ethereum) but also interested in solo founders launching consensus based systems and be able to sustain themselves from the project.
James Bond isn't meant to succeed. He's meant to be a distraction
Thanks for your reply. It really encapsulates all the best advice I've gotten from all places.

> But also understand that you're probably not going to make the best decisions about this from the perspective of extreme burnout.

I'm (overly) aware that my burnt out state may not lead to the best decisions. That's why I'm stepping cautiously and not making any rash changes.

> First step might be to talk to your boss about your workload and see if there are some changes that can be made to make you happy again.

I'm currently in talks with management to see what can be done. It's not really the workload, but the type of work I'm doing that's been the problem. But because I'm burnt out and diminished, the normal workload which is not normally a problem is becoming one. But I also fear I'm just too burnt out to remain working here in any capacity.

I'm gearing myself up to find another job, to avoid having to job hunt while unemployed in my 40s, and hopefully be able to take a month or two before starting. Job hunting/interviewing is hard in the best of circumstances; it's doubly so in my current burnt out state.

> [Long runway, can retrain in another field]

Also under consideration. Front-runner is GIS. Always had an interest doing geo-analysis/maps.
That is extremely unlikely to happen, but there are plenty of other payment processors out there that I can't imagine any practical way of putting enough pressure on to stop them from processing payments. If facialabuse.com hasn't been de-platformed from their payment processor yet, then there is always somewhere to go.
Crystal's type inference is more powerful than most other languages. Maybe the most powerful of any fully statically typed language? (I would love to hear of any others that have taken the same approach as Crystal.) You can almost write Crystal like a dynamically typed language, and yet everything is still fully statically typed.

I believe you can speed up your compile times a bit by being explicit with annotations (which I often prefer anyway), but there's still a lot of overhead for the global type inference.
I wonder what the Hoover Institution would recommend.
Introducing an entirely new user-facing dialog option into the upgrade install flow doesn't sound like a 'bug fix' to me in any system. That's completely new UX, localization, security concerns, documentation...

Autoupgrading might totally be a misfeature for your usecase, but it's how this program works. If you don't want it to do that, then uninstall it.
RMS returns to the FSF Board of Directors and many people hate the move
Keyboards shouldn't fail as often as the butterfly keyboards did (and the fact that the most commonly used letters tended to fail first points rather to a wear issue than just breadcrumbs), but most of all, it shouldn't take more than $100 to exchange a failed keyboard. But with the "repair" costs charged for the laptops, they become a write-off basically as soon as they fail out of warranty.
Whatever you build, it will inevitably get min/maxed.

Every admission system prides itself in being the best but they all ultimately end up getting gamified. Because there is too much at stake.
Our current understanding of everything you mention is already good, and there have been no indications that I'm aware of that this case happened in a way that would alter that understanding.

To show my point, even if we aggressively investigate the source and discover it did not originate in a lab, nobody would then argue that it's alright to lower security on such biolabs.
The point Nadine is making is that society and liberals, in particular, have become hypocritical and extreme in their willingness to "unperson" anyone with an unacceptable viewpoint. Even as they make the argument that criminals should be re-integrated into society over time, they simultaneously will dredge up old tweets or decades old comments and use them to get someone fired from a job. Even in the case of contemporary statements, modern liberals have become almost puritanical or inquisitional in their approach to root out people with unacceptable viewpoints and to shame them until they're forced off a platform, a job, an organization, or sufficiently scarlet lettered to satisfy their bloodlust for all non-compliant thinkers. It is opposite of the classical tradition of liberalism, as Nadine pointed out, and it really doesn't make sense.

Neither of your examples are good ones. Society has become too sensitive and exerts too much energy, counterproductive at this point, into rooting out the impure among us and not allowing colorful personalities like Stallman to 'just be'. Unless Stallman has willful intent to harm someone in particular, and not just that someone has chosen to take offense to his statements, it's a disproportionate response. It's also an impossible slippery slope to satisfy. It's becoming increasingly draconian and regressive and making the world a much more miserable place than just sometimes accepting that some people in the world are going to think differently than you, and that it's generally ok, and you can still get along if you try and if both parties are willing (generally true!).

That's the true meaning of tolerance.
No, as I don't want to deal with the person who made the decision later when someone goes to complain to them instead and they blame me for not obfuscating and pointing the finger at them.
CIA Pressured Yemen to Release Al-Qaeda Leader from Prison in 2001
Could you be more specific? "Open bigotry" is very vague.
BioNtech has entered into an alliance[1] with 13 European companies to boost the vaccine production, as well as Chinese Fosun Pharma[2]. The agreement with Pfizer was important for the initial trials and production launch of the vaccine, but it's not binding and BioNtech is free to license the vaccine to other manufacturers (most likely under a different brand name from Comirnaty).

Also, BioNTech has partnered with German Evonik[3] and Merck[4] to accelerate vital lipids production by the second half of 2021.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/biontech-recruits-rivals-to-boo...

[2] https://endpts.com/biontech-teams-up-with-fosun-pharma-to-te...

[3] https://corporate.evonik.com/en/evonik-strengthens-strategic...

[4] https://www.merckgroup.com/en/news/biontech-strategic-partne...
Looks like it's been down for at least three hours at this point with zero updates! Starting a list of other service providers I should switch to!
> hotkeys

There is literally a hotkey for everything in linear.
The problem with this statement is that the EU is not a government - it is an intergovernmental body.

Nationalization etc. happens on the national level only.
At some level, this is a tension between continuous delivery and incremental updates and burden of support. I think they are correct in the assertion that you get version explosion, but possibly there is a middle ground which is, before you file a bug, have you tried updating first (aka turning it off and on again) and having a policy of ignoring/closing bugs of old versions as un-reproducible.

Probably a no-win situation overall for the dev team, however.
Let's be accurate: This research wasn't "banned." NIH paused granting new funding pending a review [1]. After the review, it was determined that the benefits outweigh the risks and was resumed [2].

[1] - https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statem...

[2] - https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statem...
Sorry, I've never needed to use it like that (and, full disclosure, I've never run minio in prod either); I can recommend Hetzner dedicated servers because they don't bill for egress but that's it
I really found this passage of the essay ironic.... he talks so much shit about his partner and other people needing to "keep up" with the rest of society and how he isn't like that.... but then he actually does feel the need to keep up with HIS community, which is the FI crowd.

I hate when people confuse not wanting to belong to and impress a particular community with not wanting to belong to or impress ANY community.

He is just like everyone else, just in a different group.
RMS hasn't gotten anything done in years, if not decades.
Been living here for many years already.

Even worked a lot on the help desk, taught in vocational education and held a couple of training courses.

At least around here my evaluation is that ordinary users are a lot more capable than we give them credit for.

Or maybe I'm just insanely good at helping people, or I misunderstand or something else, you choose ;-)
Very cool discovery. This is an excellent example of why putting sensitive data inside URLs can be problematic and should be done with great caution.

It should be added that the eventual elimination of referers won’t make URLs safe. There are countless other ways they can leak.
The Future of Cooling Analysis
I believe it's quite possible (p ~ 0.5) that the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic originated from a lab accident. If the proximal animal host were identified--as it was for both MERS and the original SARS within about a year--then I'd drop that probability by at least a factor of ten. For references see

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26127197

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26129052
That's a good tip for the in-stock browsing.

Would also be interested in a guide on common connector terminology for hobbyist makers, please share if you find one or write one up!
> This is a good thing!

It doesn't always work that well in practice as investor demand can drive housing stock that is a poor match for housing demand. In theory this should all wash out in a free enough market, but no guarantee that won't take many decades - so it's not much help to people needing housing now.

The structure of investment vehicles for this makes a big difference in what is actually built too, and how the development companies are funded.
Malaria can be (very rarely) transmitted through blood transfusions.

https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/us_transmission.html
> Quite possible that engineering a deadly and very infectious virus is easier than creating a cure or a vaccine by orders of magnitude.

"Moderna designed its coronavirus vaccine in 2 days" was a headline I saw. And it's been approved by the FDA. So that seems demonstrably false.

Multiple companies have come up with a vaccine by now, too.
Not very related story:

Several years ago, I remember finding on Amazon this featured brand of headphones. They had wooden cups and they were marketed as being eco-friendly, high-quality and built in the US. After a 5-second search on Amazon itself, I found the exact same headphones, sans branding, being sold by a Chinese seller for a fraction of the price.

I used to work at Amazon back then as well, so I tried to find a way to report this as it seemed pretty dishonest to me. I couldn't find anything, of course.
> I imagine it might have a significant performance impact,

It depends on the CPU: MIPS has(had if you consider MIPS dead) some integer operations which trapped in case of integer overflow AFAIK the 'trapping operations' were as fast as the non-trapping operations (when no overflow occurred of course).

Unfortunately even though RISC-V is MIPS successor, it doesn't have those trapping operations :-(

I must admit I don't understand why no modern CPU ISA has these trapping instructions: explicit checks have an 'instruction cache cost', so users won't enable them which reduces security..
That looks good. For your amusement I remembered another state machine bug in an SSH implementation:
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/10/17/serious-ssh-bug-...

It included some server states in the client state machine, so if a client sent the server its own "authentication successful" message it… just let them in.
Bu US drugs standards, maybe, but given that they plan to sell billions of doses I think that's a pretty good price, especially because they already got plenty of grants and support during development.
The article states the answers to your questions.
The IDEs of March (life in 2040)
I have an iPhone 12 pro, recently switched from Android in part to try something new and in part because of some Android "bugs" that were pissing me off.

It's fine, it took a bit to get used to the UI and there are some things that still piss me off (downloaded videos from the web going somewhere inaccessible from gallery uploads)

If I wasn't dependent on a hand full of modern smartphone apps, I'd probably try a feature phone or one of those open source phones.
I don't think the metal can makes much difference in this case, since it doesn't surround the bottom of the package. One IBM document says "A hard shell cover was used to provide rugged external structure for handling purposes. Many different metals or plastics would suffice for this purpose. A stamped aluminum cap was chosen."

In contrast, op amps and other precision analog components were often packaged in round metal cans, but these enclosed the IC on all sides.

Ref: Page B-8 of http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/logic/SLT_Circuit_Design_Hbk.pd...
> That's astonishing, the amount of compensation the board thought they could pay themselves. The technical and regulatory complexity of running a domain registrar do not warrant compensation of such absurd figures.

It's ironic that for a company that regards itself as critical infrastructure, their homepage/CMS didn't seem able to handle the traffic from people checking the EGM result. [1] (an hour before being posted to HN)

For a registrar that makes the case it is that important, it does seem like they ought to (for that executive compensation) have a website that can handle that level of traffic...

[1] https://twitter.com/444rrrggghhh/status/1374103065889026053
> Did Apple make any misleading presentation ?

Apple stuck to the message that the problem was the users, not the switches. For multiple product iterations. They even suggested buying air duster.
I'd love to hear about what Distributed's strength is, and why it's better than the alternatives like Zoom, Teams video, Slack video, etc.