skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not about creating a virus from scratch, but taking an existing virus and performing gain-of-function research to select for certain things (like transmissibility).
I should have qualified that statement with OO languages, not functional. Also see asterite's reply, he would know much better than me, as I believe he's one of the core Crystal developers.
Ask HN: Is the Gmail app crashing every time you launch it?
Just noticed I can't use the Gmail app on my pixel. It crashes every time you open it.
Not really lines of code as such, but in Visual Foxpro, opening a DBF (database table file) on a fileserver, from an application running on that fileserver, referring to the file using its local path rather than a mapped network drive file path, resulted in a big speedup. (the application typically runs on RDP servers, but can also be run directly on the fileserver, which we do for some heavy-duty processes)
Native Japanese never learn alphabets for pronounce.
It's like we learned nothing from web-framework churn and decided to go levels deeper. This time will be different (tm)
It is indeed common for one person to apply to most of the Ivy's, and schools care about yield so there are also various tricks employed like waitlisting students they think are not seriously considering the school (Harvard doesn't really do this though, moreso a thing with the tier 1b schools).

However there is the flip side that it's rare to apply to one of these schools as a random "why the hell not" reach. Probably 90% of the applicant pool has a good enough background to feel they are a serious competitor, which would be the top fraction of college bound seniors overall. I would guess the IIT exam is a less self selected pool.
Garage burglaries and package thievery is fairly common in the area I live judging by NextDoor posts about it. Considering how relatively inexpensive they are I think they are useful in a few ways: A visible deterrent for crime, video evidence in the case of a break in or package theft to give to police or at least to give your neighbors a heads up, and just a general eye out on the area for things like determining if/when a package got delivered or possible evidence in case a crime or accident occurs nearby.
This is also the kind of thing that drives people to create the alternative.
I didn't literally mean the atmosphere had a limited capacity to hold this much CO2 and no more.

Please add "without existential-level consequences", which was the implied meaning.
As long as parent buys his new TVs before that happens, they should be good to roll for a few years.
Administering each vaccine seems to be 100% NHS. While it is quite likely that Cummings is full of it, he did specifically mention that the vaccine task force works outside of the Department of Health.

“That is why we had to take the vaccine process out of the Department of Health.”

Q193, https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/1911/html/
They're also quite unreliable compared to solid core wire. I've had a few confusing debugging sessions where one of these wires ended up being the reason the circuit didn't work - either no connection or a sporadic one.
It's also in general how we end up with monopolies. Well-funded companies operating at a loss until they're the only noteworthy players ain't exactly unheard of.
> You probably mean home automation. IoT is connected to the internet by definition.

Home automation was just an example. I take IoT to mean networked not-general-purpose devices. The internet part is meaningless. If you use that IoT device in the same server room as the controller does it become strictly LANoT? What about private overlay networks? It was never about the internet as in public accessibility.
Rockfall destroys pipeline to USA's oldest operating hydroelectric power plant
> it's a mess to investigate when you have reports from 1 year old version

Here's a process I've done, it may sound like a lot of work but it goes quickly if your tools are set up properly:

Require versions and logs with bug reports; checkout the tag for that version; build; reproduce the issue and if it doesn't reproduce on the latest build then it might've been fixed (can ask other devs, reference changelogs and recently closed issues, git blames in that part of the codebase to lead back to PRs, etc.); then investigate.

If the bug is already solved in a newer version, you can close the ticket or provide a hotfix build with the fix if it's low effort (big architectual changes are a no-go; now you have a reason why or why not to provide a fix).

If the bug hasn't been solved, you can fix it for the customer and forward port that to the latest dev branch. Two birds with one stone.
I don’t condone any of the personality traits of the narcissist (in fact I am admitting they exist). What I admonish is the labeling and judgement of it as an innate trait (as in, this is you, born a demon), and the cartoonish clinical description (almost as laughable as how Borat described Jews as having ‘claws’). I encourage anyone to read the wiki articles on it.

Your post is a good example of how deep the language of demonization is. The language is used freely by anyone that has a problem with someone in their life and immediately resort to the language and label that person ‘the worst person ever, dangerous to be around’. Your own post might as well have described a boogey man.

If I had to be clever, and cleverly make a point at how stupid the label is, I’d point to the fact its very name is based on a Greek mythological character that is self obsessed. The ‘narcissistic mirror’, or literally the pond Narcissus stared into.

It is one of the most childish clinical explanations I’ve ever read.
Yes, technically it is, but it's the integration that makes it interesting.

Plus theres the simple reality that Microsoft's got native APIs in Windows that enable running a linux vm with a KDE window alongside the standard windows environment. Microsoft has really come a long way and that's what's really amazing and kind of disorienting.
Exactly. The fact they pushed back for this to be fixed under a new feature release vs bug hotfix, is simply salt on the wound.
The carbon cycle is rather irrelevant. The trophic pyramid is what's to argue about. All the energy food provides comes from the sun hitting the land. We need to start there. Meat still only conserves 10% of the energy the plants provided to the animal. Therefore meat consumption is insanely wasteful use of land and resources. We could grow soy for human consumption on a fraction of the land for meat production and reforest the remaining space for carbon capture.

Natural ecosystems tend to not exploit resources to the point of collapse. Large herds of bisons may have roamed the lands, but their existence wasn't borrowed from erroded soils, drained sources, globalized deforestation and synthetic fertilization from mined minerals. They were bound to what their local ecosystem could provide.
The tax advantage is up to comical 250k that will be promptly eaten away by brokerage fees, transfer fees and other god knows what fees, on top of all the house maintanence costs over those years.

Those who have a million or two but a house not because it's good for financials, but because they can't stand cranny rentals. Those with bare minimum money jump into a mortgage because for them it's the only efficient financial instrument available (a margin trading account essentially). If they tried to open such an account with a brokerage, they would be told no after looking at their net worth.
Just thought I'd add a relevant link as the phrase "dead downwind" caught my eye

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbird_(land_yacht)#:~:te....
I have a 2019 model with the fixed (hopefully) version of the keyboard that added the debris-protecting membrane. It hasn't failed me yet, knock wood. I really love how fast I can type on it and how light the keypresses need be. I'm less accurate but my increased typing speed more than makes up for the the slight loss in accuracy.

Some of my colleagues complain of muscle pain from the short key travel on these models. From sitting next to them in pre-Covid days I can only imagine that's due to how hard they used to pound their poor keyboards.

I dreaded moving to the chiclet keyboards and then I dreaded moving to the butterfly, but at least for me they both turned out to be pleasantly surprising upgrades.
It's easy to miss how far we are on a global scale.

3.4% World

1.5% Asia

0.42% Africa

15% N. America

10% Europe

4.8% S. America

0.44% Oceania

https://twitter.com/CoVacProgress
There's always https://mint-lang.com that's more Svelte like, built on Crystal.
I've never owned a house in the US, but my understanding is that the interest portion is tax deductible (whereas rent is not), which at the kind of salaries necessary for this housing is likely to make a sizable dent in this payment.

I must admit that I had forgotten how high property taxes in the US can be, though. HOA surely depends a lot on what exactly you'd be buying.
> This was all over 10 years ago, so perhaps it's better now.

The open bug I linked above is 13 years old, so maybe it isn't.
Implementing new UI required to fix a bug due to functionality oversight, is still a bug.

This broke production environments. That is a bug.

Bugs can introduce new development to meet acceptance criteria, if that is the right way to solve the bug.

Edit: kelnos accurately pointed out that I should have said development environment, and not production.
It has never made sense to me to spend my entire childhood stuck in books (or computers).

That’s not to say I don’t like them. I read tons, but I wasn’t chained to it.

Maybe the situation is different over here, but I guess it’s because I never felt that I needed to score top 1% to even be considered for positions?

The Netherlands has a fairly hierarchical hiring system, so if you score into one of the 3 levels you’ll generally be considered for a job at that level. Jobs at level 3 aren’t making shitloads more money that level 1 either (maybe some 2x more).
It does have a JIT now.
>I know no city in the US is pursuing a laissez faire policy

Well of course. The people who want laissez faire anything don't wind up living in the cities that have these problems. they self select to live in rural areas and the occasional rust belt dump where there is either no regulation or no enforcement.

The people who don't recoil at the thought of their property rights being violated wind up living in Boston, SF and their surrounding suburbs and vote for more of the same.
does gmail rewrite links? AFAIK it's not rewriting any of the links in my emails. Maybe I have some setting or environment where it doesn't
The us trail has completed with appearently good data. This just came out today so no surprise you didn't know about it yet.
They did, and it is pretty much useless for all currently existing Linux software because it all uses GL or Vulkan. You can write Linux applications using DX12 and they will run on the GPU in WSL2 but obviously they will not work on native Linux.

Maybe someone will write the inverse of dxvk to allow Vulkan or GL apps to run on top of the DX12 driver.
Thanks for posting this, was very informative.

I think The Register did a fantastic job in their reporting on this. They clearly skewer the CEO and cronies on the board, but always back it up with clear data and arguments that just emphasize how poorly Nominet was run.
Jefferson, and the founders in general, were referring to covenants or trusts governing the use of property after death, such that no living person had unrestricted use of it ("to bind it up from posterity", not to decide which particular posterity inherits it). I would generally agree that someone currently living must always hold the property rights—the dead cannot own property, so if the rights did not transfer then the property would be abandoned and free for anyone to claim via homesteading. That, however, is a separate matter from transferring rights to a designated benefactor at the time of death via an explicit prior arrangement such as a will.

As for Smith, here we'll just have to disagree. I find it beyond bizarre that anyone would claim that a person has the right to dispose of their property as they wish at any point before death, but not at the moment they die. That distinction is nothing but the most trivial technicality.
I don't think that's what orthogonal means. :) If I'm forcing you to upgrade, why on earth would I support older versions of the software?
A token of authenticity to support creators and platforms.

Or crack anonymous advertising.
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This kind of reasoning can be used to justify slavery..
How Penny Arcade manages PAX tickets
Why haven't real estate agent fee %s gone down then?
You don't even have to be bad at safety, just less than completely perfect.

There is also the matter of biosafety levels. Something like smallpox is studied at biosafety level 4, which is very intrusive and difficult. The alleged gain of function research would have been BSL 3 or even 2, meaning a lot fewer precautions are taken, and a leak is correspondingly more likely.
4 years seems like a bit of an insult in this scenario. These laptops are very expensive bought new and this is a defect; you would think they would repair them for life or at least as long as the life of the laptop.

I've been using the same MBR laptop since 2013 for personal use and haven't found any reason to switch. I would be pretty mad if I owned one of these and had to get it fixed, or wanted to resell it and had a lower resell value because of the keyboard.

It also feels worse because they continued manufacturing them for years after they knew there was a problem. 4 years smells similar to the planned obsolescence scandal in iPhones, as it implies that the lifetime of one of these is 4 years which is just not the case in my experience. They are hoping people will say "my laptop needs a new battery and a new keyboard, might as well drop another 2 grand for a new one" instead of keeping their perfectly good laptop.
Have you ever seen people talk about how the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution outlaws slavery "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted", leading to the modern prison-industrial complex that overwhelmingly targets black Americans with arrests for petty crimes and traps them in The System? https://sites.lib.jmu.edu/civic/2020/09/17/slaves-of-the-sta...

The ECOA makes it illegal for lenders to discriminate for home mortgage loans, which would lead to reduced racial segregation (following the Fair Housing Act of 1968), reduced discrimination against unmarried/divorced women, and many other nice things. The exception is that discrimination is still totally legal if the person just can't afford the home. As Atari once told me, Do The Math: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OEHRENWBSHNO

Bonus points if we use the fear from the inevitable housing insecurity to make discriminated populations want to segregate themselves: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=gentrification...
In the situation, even for statement also become monster.
> One of my fundamental aims for C++ is (from the very start in 1979) to provide equally good support for user-defined and built-in types. For example, I’d like to be able to build an integer type that is as good as the built-in int in every way (with the possible exception of
compile time).

~ Bjarne Stroustrup, How can you be so certain? (2019)
Don't forget AMP. I accidentally typed google in the url and decided to use it to see how's it going after so many weeks of not using Google. Got redirected to a blank page with AMP's frame which instantly reminded me why I no longer use Google for search.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26549294
The thing for me is DDG results aren't worse either though. I'd much rather support them than Google. Very often when I use the g! modifier to redirect the results aren't much better.
This might be the first time I've read a "liberal bias" take that I didn't immediately disagree with.
Probably 35% of my individual stock purchases are done via a series of (hopefully more than 1) naked puts until I finally get assigned.
An alternative hypothesis is that a human was infected near the bat caves, then traveled to Wuhan and spread it to other humans and animals at the seafood market. There's no specific evidence for that, but we can't rule it out either.
I would love for the EU to even give glimpses of a super government; what I see is fractal bureaucracy. Every crysis that seems to come up, it's a show of people in suits, negociating and coming up with plans and commisions and big worded manifests, and coming up with solutions sometimes decades after the initial spark.

I come from Central Eastern Europe i.e. the poor people of the great EU. Our government is incompetent, corrupt, all the stereotypical attributes, and somehow, the most incompetent, lazy and corrupt end up Europoliticians (note: this is not a rule, there are exceptions). It's almost like a status symbol of when you beat the system; you get a nice cozy place where you do nothing. I am highly skeptical that we are alone in this.

Then, from a ground level, as someone that wants to love the European Union and can see the great economic benefits it brought us since joining, I can't help but stare in awe as all the brain gets drained from my country. Every single capable person has to decide whether they want to stay here and basically fight for scraps or go to the west where they get money they couldn't dream of here.

Sorry for the rant, your mention of a super government made me irrationaly angry at something I can't have, or don't want in its current form, and your deconstruction point is very much aligned with what I think needs to happen' currently.
No, a bug in the new release that the autodeployer autodeployed was the bug. The autodeployer worked flawlessly.

Presumably it also would flawlessly autodeploy the fix for that bug when it gets released.
Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k
Same thing with plan to plant trees to reduce C02. Unfortunately groups sometimes use outcomes (climate change, mass shootings, spotted owl habitat protection, salmon spawning) to propose solutions that are beneficial to an ideology or an agenda rather than a solution that is without bias. Problems are tools.
A native method of running GUI applications in WSL2 is coming, I believe it'll be in GA in the Fall 2021 release: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/whats-new-in-the-...

XDC 2020 talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2mnbyRgXkY&t=7975s

For Windows Insiders running preview builds, I believe some of the pieces are present but not preconfigured. The XDC 2020 conference talk discusses the advantages of the built-in support, including fewer memory copies and lower latency.
I have a full blown Linux install on dual-boot, but for my purposes (gaming and some development on Windows, some development on Linux) it's honestly just easier to have WSL1/WSL2 around so that I can have both OSes around always, rather than having to reboot to switch.
I’m a fan of this approach (or variations with a LTS schedule). But it’s worth noting that it’s also widely criticized depending on context. For instance, Apple has a similar support schedule for its various OSes, and that draws a ton of nerd ire because it’s frequently interpreted as “planned obsolescence”.
The value of any individual site on google is quite low, there are plenty of other sites to use. If a significant number of sites decided to pull their content from google and make deals with bing, google would reconsider how they operate.

There is no need to have governments force companies to pay each other when they are free to share content or not share. The government should however ensure there are no monopolies which prevent this kind of action.
> but there's just no realistic chance a novel virus coincidentally originates in the same isolated place as a lab that specializes in that exact same type of virus.

What better place to put a lab studying bat viruses than near a place where they originate?

That's a pretty frequent occurrence.
TheSTEERING – Autonomous car shipping software
I actually blame Johnny Ive for this clusterf*ck. Ive famously pursued a crusade for thinness. It's said that design is the art of compromise. Well, Ive took a no compromises approach to thinness and it showed.

Look no further than the 12" Macbook. One port (also needed for power), lower power CPU and (I believe?) the start of the dreaded butterfly keyboard. IIRC the butterfly keyboard's raison d'etre was to shave half a millimeter off the thickness of a Macbook. That's... it. Oh and that same crusade is probably a big part of why we lost the MagSafe adapter.

Compare the 12" Macbook to the (2010 and onwards) Macbook Air. A good compromise of thinness, power, ports and price point. For years, many (including myself) just wanted an upgrade to the Macbook Air with a retina display (and more modern ports). But we didn't, we got the "no compromises" Macbook instead.. until that was (thankfully) killed and the macbook Air came back.

And sure Ive designed the 2008 Macbook Air and he deserves credit for his design but... he clearly went off the deep end at some point after that.

The M1 Air even got rid of the stupid touch bar (thank God).
What if it was intended to break something? Still a bug? I say "no."

By your definition, all viruses, malware, and ransomware are simply bugs.
The EU has already exported 3.9 million doses to Canada. 3.1 million to Mexico and 1 million to the US (source: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_21_...)

Meanwhile the US is now exporting (as a loan!) 2.5 million doses to Mexico and 1.5 million to Canada (source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56451810) acting like it‘s a grand humanitarian gesture when the vaccine isn‘t even approved for use in the US. A further 3 million doses are being kept in storage.

I understand - but disagree with - you stance that a country should put its own citizens first. In the end, it‘s India, China, Russia and the EU who give the vast majority of countries any chance of vaccinating their most at-risk citizens. I suspect this won‘t be forgotten.
> you have no further passion or inclination to improve the world? No problems you could set yourself to solving?

Nope! I know who I am and what I’m capable of.

If I could, I would do literally nothing besides wake up, go to the gym, go to the coffee shop, read, watch TV, and surf the internet until I die. I know this because I took several years off and did exactly this until I ran out of money.

Best years of my life and it’s not even close.
Please read beyond title. Product in place is not Docker, but Docker for Mac. A product that can't be replaced by podman.
After giving this a few hours of thought, I now think it's all most likely a coincidence base on presently available evidence, for what that's worth.
Nobody ever said the job's going to be easy,hence so few doing it and hence such a high reward,in a case of success.
The scenario is that the user is being phished with an uncompromised, modern browser. The idea is that if the attacker doesn't have control of the browser, they can't spoof the referer.
It wouldn't be impossible. You could rent a VPS for $20/month and serve thousands of people your videos

A lot of coders tend to think of videos as being these big, unwieldy things since we used to download them when computers and the internet were a lot weaker. An hour of 480p video is about a gig, 1080p is only about 3 gigs