skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’ve always believed this was an lab accident by a technician that needed their job so they covered it up until they and too many family members got sick and it was obvious something was wrong.

Really drove me nuts how early on everyone, everyone was working overtime to try and dismiss the possibility that this was some sort of lab leak. I’m sorry but the way China went absolutely DEFCON 1 (welding people into their apartments, blocking the roads out of town, nightly fumigations of public spaces) within a short period of time strongly suggests that they had a “oh crap, _that thing we were working on got out_” moment. Never understood why people were so eager to dismiss this possibility.
RMS literally created the thing.

Others can and should be doing active, mass outreach.

Leader does not have to mean public figure.

Someone has to really mean it. RMS has no peers in this regard.

Maybe the right thing to do here is firm up a 5 year plan, go on a donation drive and fund organizers, who can work the crowds.
Everyone here is decrying how awful this meritocratic system is, and I'm just thinking about how awesome it would be if they made some tweaks to their entrance criteria.

Give students a score-bonus for:

- Completing a triathlon

- Doing 60 push-ups in a minute

- Performing 500 hours of community service

Even if it doesn't change how competitive the system is, at least you'll end up with an army of nerdy buff do-gooders. Hardly the worst outcome for any society.
H2SO4 isn't that intimidating. Neither is HCl. HF is VERY intimidating, if you're smart. And you *REALLY* don't want to encounter the anhydrous gaseous form.
New Ebola outbreak likely sparked by a person infected 5 years ago
Several doctors were discussing it in a WeChat group in December 2019 and were basically arrested and forced to apologise for spreading “misinformation”. The main person who became famous for sounding the alarm (Li Wenjiang, an ophthalmologist) later died of the disease.
we have had nazi forums forever.

the problem with conservative social media is they are going to be reminded constantly of how they are minorities, and that will detur the mass from growing and the toxicity will also grow as they refine their most ardent users.
> Our thought was that if it makes sense for GitHub, it makes sense for us

lol I'm sorry, but what? this is total amateur hour

I'm in total disbelief - this isn't how you deliver software.
Is it developer tooling or deployment tooling?
Just get the 63811-1000 and be done with it. This will suffice for 99% of open-barrel long-crimp terminals you'll ever encounter. (For short-crimp stuff like JST PH, look at the Iwiss 2820M.)
Multithreading has been present behind a compiler flag for a solid 7 minor versions (since 2019). The feature is maturing for a release in the 1.0 -> 2.0 range.
that's the print is for you.
> But a company that purpose-builds the rocket for you does not, for instance, have to deal with a RUD of the booster it wants to use for you.

What?!
Feature completeness. There is no reason to preserve only ECDH-based cipher suites, for example.
There are USB to SATA controllers that default to read only - typically used for forensics reasons. About $250 if I remember correctly.
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Does it have API access and hence list all content on the supported platforms? That would be great. It really should be added to the Play Store's description as now you don't really know what you get.
> Why not just outright reject issues on outdated version of the software? Decide that you won't support versions older than x and roll with that. This way the users can consider that when they weigh the risks of updating.

In my experience the overwhelming majority of bug reports do not include the version.
There is no blame or antagonism towards British or South Africans implied by the use of those terms. No British or South African communities have seen a rise in violence against them in the last year.

It's not mental acrobatics. It's pragmatism and empathy.
My bad, should have verified first.
I’m not saying you read a biography of Marcus Aurelius, I’m saying you read Meditations. It’s basically one of the enduring blueprints for developing a plan for your life from first principles.
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Optimizing for human life would have meant spending a potentially unlimited amount of money. Maybe a few EU countries would be happy with that trade off, but the poorer countries wouldn't have been able to afford it.

The EU was in the difficult position, as either the eurosceptics in the poor countries would complain that the EU was throwing them to the wolves, or the eurosceptics in the rich countries would complain that they were having to subsidise the poor countries who refused to pay the full amount.

When faced with a global pandemic, vaccinating just your own country while your neighbours become a breeding ground for new variants isn't really solving the problem, especially if your neighbours are closely integrated with you and citizens have freedom of movement across borders. This is why we can't have nice things.
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I remember trying out Firefox for the first time (it was v2.0) and it would take well over 5 minutes before it would even display a window on my computer (regularly, not just the first ever launch). I would have to check Task Manager to make sure that it did start.

IE6, on the other hand, would be usable in less than 10 seconds from launch. Granted, it probably got preloaded by Windows, but even Windows took less than 5 minutes.
Well here is what the US richest are doing with their time and money.

Jeff Bezos, $183 billion: Blue Origin with a smaller side of Amazon. He's going to spend his fortune on space and giving it away.

Elon Musk, $173 billion: bound up in pursuing SpaceX, Mars, Tesla / electric vehicles, batteries, sustainable energy.

Gates & Buffett, $235 billion: giving it all away, saving millions of lives around the world. These two will give away $300+ billion ultimately, most of it going to people outside of the US.

Zuckerberg, $111 billion: Facebook at present, and supposedly going to give it all away (he's young, so we'll see what he does yet).

What are Europe's richest doing?

Bernard Arnault, $124 billion: probably just going to keep the dynastic wealth going based on what he hasn't been doing (he's 72 and clearly not acting to give it all away). Stagnant, dead money, entrenched generational wealth intent on never going away.

Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, $72 billion: she's what the next generation of dynastic squatters from the Arnault clan will look like. Just keep passing it down, doing absolutely nothing interesting or of importance, exactly like her mother before her.

Amancio Ortega, $67 billion: another dynastic passer-downer. It appears he's intent on just giving it to the next generation rather than doing something interesting with it or giving it away.

Francois Pinault, $42 billion: mini Arnault, rinse & repeat.

Fashion and cosmetics. That's one core of Europe's obvious problems. The other elite rich in Europe present the same problem, such as the Wertheimers in France. None of these people have the minds or inclination to build rocket companies or anything similar. It's entirely counter to European culture to take your fortune and risk it doing something 'crazy' like a SpaceX or Tesla.

And those fortunes are far larger within their respective economies than the huge fortunes in the US are vs its economy (scaled to the US, Arnault would have a trillion dollars). So they'll be even more of a rotting drag on the future there. Spain will probably be choking on Ortegas for hundreds of years.

This is the last several hundred year story of European wealth, repeating endlessly. Western Europe, among all major wealth regions on the planet, is the absolute worst when it comes to endlessly passing down dynastic wealth.

The US has its own prominent examples of recent epic dynastic wealth, as with the second generation of the Waltons or the Mars family. The US also has very large offsets that don't do that whereas Europe has none.
Not sure if your site is slow or my internet, but your Guide section is literally your logo and 8 links, was trying to figure out why it took ~5 sec to load for me (found out it loads 1.5mb+ of data).
Iridium (1987) doesn't count as a huge enough fleet to warrant reusable rockets? It took them a LOT of launches...
And yet, it's managed to avoid many of the OpenSSL CVEs.

It's not a "viable alternative" because nobody cares enough to test their code against it.
For low-density, old school edge connectors with a key cut are nice. That way, the connector is part of the board itself. Sometimes called "Sullins" connectors.
Sorry if this isn't what you're looking for. I just read your other reply that you're looking for philosophical logic. I've got no experience with that at all and can't give a suggestion. But good luck with your learning!
Alarms or cameras aren’t there to stop criminals. They are there to stop frivolous lawsuits. Just like driving without a camera is crazy.
Being long on a leveraged ETF is... possible... but unless you know what you are doing it is highly risky. No, the problem isn't the drift causing losses. When the price tanks 33% in a day on a 3x leveraged ETF you lose everything.
It sounds like the EU needs deconstruction not more construction. Go back to a free trade zone, not a super government.
If the delta is large enough then it should be statistically significant.
These may simply be issues that are not at the discretion of these developers to either change or discuss with third parties.

As tempting as it is to weigh in publicly on such matters, the best way for a developer to get results is often to say little in public and try to resolve the issue behind the scenes (as was apparently done here).
Compared to the video of the beta, the results may be the same
A lottery system with high acceptance requirements has always made more sense to me than obsessing over “objective” metrics to draw a line between students ranked 82nd and 83rd.

Put in other words, make a list of all students who you would be happy to have on campus and draw randomly if you have more students than freshman dorm space. If there is a large oversupply of students who passed the threshold to enter the lottery, then it may be time to consider increasing the requirements. If you don’t need to lottery at all, then there are probably difficult institutional questions to ask.

I will admit that this shouldn’t be the only system for admission at any school, as it leaves no room for the various specialty admission channels. My gut feeling says that at least ⅔ of the student body should enter through the general admission lottery with the remaining third reserved for athletics, academic scholarship winners, full-price foreign scholars, affirmative action, townies, etc…
>Glenn Greenwald has written a number of very good pieces on his Substack that I would in no way describe as quick take opinion piece.

He wrote a piece about Parler and the storming of the Capital[0], within a week of the event that was certainly a quick take. There is absolutely no way to definitively make any sort of claim about how involved it was, especially from his position, thousands of miles away on a patio in Rio.

I find most of his pieces, to be very much 'hot take' in nature, responding to something that is currently going on.

[0]https://greenwald.substack.com/p/how-silicon-valley-in-a-sho...
Nitpick: Average IQ cannot increase by definition. The median IQ value is defined to be 100 IQ points and one standard deviation in either direction is defined to be 15 IQ points. It's normally distributed so median==average as well. People overall can become more intelligent and the average IQ value will still be 100.
> The downside being a relatively slow compiler. It's the necessary trade-off for the type inference.

I'm curious about that, MLs usually have fast compilers (OCaml for example) and have type inference. I thought that the slow compilation times were due to LLVM .
One tactic that seems legal is to play a similar message while the company’s robot is playing their message. Since the company doesn’t disconnect it means consent.

Not aware of this being legally tested but seems like a stupid hoop to meet the two party consent jurisdictions.
What’s absurd about it?
This is just a Librem 5 / pureOS ad right?
I wonder if that discussion already occurred in Docker and now they are simply messengers executing something already decided.

I've had the position of saying that something desired will not be done with the only thing I could honestly say without airing private disagreements being "reasons", as the person I was talking to knew I also didn't think it made sense.

Deflecting with vague statements has also been a tactic I have used, hoping that they would not persist.
It also depends when you got into the IIT.

My dad got into an IIT and it was basically like you describe it. I got into IIT and it was like how this article describes it. It’s also gotten easier since I took the JEEs because they’ve quadrupled the number of seats available by enlarging the existing IITs and making a bunch of new colleges IITs, so I suspect it’s easier now than when I was taking those exams.
IKEAs zigbee devices are cheap, realiable and accessible and works great with Home Assistant + the deCONZ usb dongle. No WiFi connected devices, not internet access. When I'm out of the house I "phone home" with a VPN to adjust the temperature and turn off the lights if I forgot. I have automated several basic things, like the color temperature of the lights and the temperature of my heaters when electricity prices spikes.

Unfortunately this is not really accessible for regular consumers, only for nerds who know their way around a terminal and vi(m).
I think part of the difference here is that it’s easier to accept something like sports as a true passion where as grinding and studying to be able to answer arbitrary test questions isn’t. I think that’s why people look at a kid spending all day studying music, art, chess, and honestly even math, science or programming as kids being kids with passions. Yes they both involve work but cramming for tests to try and get into a good school probably seems much more like capital W work as opposed to the sort required for a true passion.
Of course. The issue is simply that it needs to happen within the site guidelines, for example this one: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

Commenters here need to learn the difference between posting in the flamewar style and having curious conversation. The issue is not the topic—it's which mode people's nervous systems are functioning in as they discuss it. Here is what to watch for:

(1) One mode is battle mode, in which people use grandiose, aggressive rhetoric to try to defeat an enemy, and take any opportunity they can to twist what the other side says to gain an advantage...

(2) ... and the other is curiosity mode, in which people explore together to find the truth and are interested in what each other are actually saying, thinking, and feeling.

(3) You can tell which mode you're in by sensing into your level of activation while posting. If you're not sure about it yet, or if you're feeling agitated, slow down before posting, set an intention to observe your own state, and it will soon become clear.

Another way of explaining this is the distinction between reflexive and reflective responses: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor.... Reflexive responses are lightning fast, associated with high activation, and oriented towards threat assessment and defense. They come from the fight-or-flight layer that we're all dealing with in ourselves. They're also highly repetitive, because they basically come from cache—that's why we're able to generate them so quickly. The reflexive system is not about responding to or creating anything new. It's there for survival and to prevent the recurrence of past painful experiences.

Reflective responses are slow, come from the drive to explore and learn, and have to do with new responses to new information—which take time to come together. They lead to conversations and outcomes that aren't simply replays of past reactions. They aren't primarily about past traumas and threat defense. In order to function this way, the nervous system needs a certain baseline of safety. One way to get there is simply to wait until the initial wave of reactiveness subsides, and then look around and orient to what's specifically new and interesting in the present situation.

Empathy comes into this too, because the ability to put oneself in the other person's position, instead of quickly scanning their comment for weaknesses to exploit, is a complex process that requires the slower cognitive systems to come online.
They generally have better things to do than blog about financial strategies, yes.

I’m 37, nearly five years out of the game, and I’m busy, every single day. My time is fully absorbed in building up a homestead, and my list of projects is many, many years long yet, and as diverse as shredded encyclopaedia.

I can’t see myself running out of things to do before I myself run out. I occasionally tell people snippets of what I’m up to here or on Twitter, and people ask if I have a YouTube or a blog. I don’t have time. Or inclination, to be honest. I do this for me.
Wouldn't you want to see what caused the alarm?
you can write tests using it, though, and that has the added side effect of nudging you to write tests in general.
I definitely agree that authors and readers should seek out platforms that reflect their values. But to me, what you described is more fairly called a "reshuffling" rather than a "backlash." Some writers that have been canceled elsewhere are finding a home and an audience on Substack, and others are leaving because they can't, in good conscience, share a home with the first group. Both groups end up better off than they were before.

I think Substack's lack of stickiness is part of its appeal. Writers are starting to see the downside of writing for someone else's platform, and Substack is a reaction to that. The writers on Substack own their content database, subscriber list, and even use their own Stripe account to process payments. This makes it easy for a writer to migrate, and makes it hard to deplatform people-- what's the point of getting someone banned from Substack if they'll just be back online in a day on Substack2 without having missed a beat?
I would think that the reason that people calling COVID the "China virus" are accused of racism is that there is really no reason to use that term for the virus outside of trying to offend others.
No question, nothing is ever perfect, and best efforts should be made to utilize the available tracking. Especially so, when the threat is rising to the level of national security concerns as attacks start moving to infrastructure, and are sponsored or unofficially sanctioned by criminal nation-sates, where the response should be kinetic.

The problem is that to kill ransomware, we would need a near-perfect system, and that is extremely unlikely, or thee will be substantial leakage, and continued profit for ransomers. I'd say it'd be easier to entirely shut down crypto globally than to ransomware-proof existing crypto.

Probably means that the real solution will be to do both. Sanction only fully traceable cryptocurrencies and shut down the rest.
As a little kid I took one look at that design and knew there was no way such a noodle would cook right. Either the overly thick bits would be underdone or the flap would be sogged and floating away. And it didn't even look good except in cross section. It seems work on the aesthetic of the die consumed the rest of the design which is a lesson in balancing factors.
Enterprises should be paying customers if they want that kind of support: it's expensive and requires substantial staffing investment to avoid making matters worse by, for example, delaying installation of security updates.
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Again, are we talking about the ideas or Stallman?

None of that even moves the needle on how high value the ideas are for me.

What we are basically talking about here is solidarity on software freedom.

Acting in solidarity means priorities. This is why I am focused on ideas. Liking people is not as high of a priority as the software freedom is.

To put it bluntly: even my enemies, "those other people" benefit from greater software freedoms.

Having a strong anchor matters. Stallman is not going to dilute things down or be co-opted. Great.

Given the last decade, I definitely value those things highly.

You appear to have other priorities. That is fine, but it is also not about software freedom anymore too.
Possibly. I'm ok with that too. If a site wants that info they can pay for it (vs trading their own visitor's data for the service).

IANAL, IMO, etc.... in terms of how I feel personally about the use of my browsing data, a lot depends on the scope of what/where/who I'm visiting. I don't have much expectation of privacy for simply visiting a site - some unique tracking ID gets passed around, ok, I can live with that. To me, the meatspace equivalent is a neighbor telling another neighbor they saw me at the supermarket.

But, once I start actively engaging on the site - buying things, entering PII for some reason, posting in a forum - my expectation of privacy is higher (even if the reality isn't the case). I don't want that info traded without my consent.
The Washington Post has already shifted:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-...

It's less what new information has come to light, and more what hasn't. For MERS and for the original SARS, the proximal animal hosts were identified within about a year. For SARS-CoV-2, we haven't found that yet. (See my comment history if you're thinking pangolins; they're pretty much abandoned.)

So a year later, despite the considerable effort spent looking for evidence of natural zoonotic origin, we still have nothing. We also have no evidence of lab origin, but that investigation has been thoroughly obstructed--for example, the WIV's private database of viruses went offline in September 2019, and any reporter who approaches the mine where SARS-CoV-2's nearest known relative (RaTG13) was discovered gets turned away by Chinese police.
You’re right, the government and its people are not equivalent.
There are margin calls on real estate loans - they aren't nearly as capricious but when mortgages are renegotiated banks will usually refuse to offer a new mortgage if the property is underwater - in that case the bank will generally try to foreclose on the property and recoup the lost mortgage balance through debt collection. This happened all over the place in 2006 and led to the housing bubble.
This is very exciting :)
I've used Crystal for a bunch of toy projects, it's been a pleasure to use so far, Congrats to the Crystal team!
I didn't think maildir worked on windows at all due to the colons in the filename (or does TB use a different character for that on windows?)