skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can I derail this to ask how you've been going about your project? I had the same lockdown project but with Japanese. It's been going well. I've found a little company called Wanikani that does a great implementation of a spaced repetition system. I've never rigorously used one before, but based on my progress, I'm now a believer in the technique and am a bit mad at myself for not doing this for school subjects as a kid.
> There are no trade wars.

There are trade wars, and there will continue to be.

> Both the USA and the UK have shown themselves to be extremely unreliable partners which will not respect the rules they profess to believe in as soon as it doesn't favor them.

That's rich coming from the folks responsible for GDPR. You pollute our web, and then cry about things that don't favor you? Boo-hoo.
Moderna and Pfizer are the "best" vaccines but it doesn't matter that much - everyone of them out there is good enough. The flu shot is only 50% effective, and all of these are better.

Some like AZ report low top line numbers like 60%, but you can look at the number of severe cases needing hospitalization. It's still approximately zero.
Hey man, you are supremely arrogant. No one is advocating that we loosen global pandemic preparedness, you can stop gasping. People talk about lab leak for a litany of reasons, but you are just grandstanding and straw-manning an argument no one is making. I can’t stand you.
to the same extent that Hollywood movies function as cultural warfare / propaganda
By "move computer science forward," you mean the part where he intentionally technically weakened GCC because of his ideology and refused to accept LLVM (an academic project to build a better compiler) because he thought it was too powerful?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26535789
Sure it’s private companies but it wasn’t random chance that led to AstraZeneca (a British–Swedish company) working with the Oxford group in the U.K. or Pfizer (an American company) with BioNTech. It’s a lot easier to control production when it happens within your borders (eg Trump did have some executive order banning exports but this was just symbolic when the defence production act was invoked.)
"I was responding to the idea that successful practitioners didn't get lucky."

Of course they are "lucky", but only because they took the risks and went in prepared. There is no 100% guarantee for anything, so you also need luck. The article here actually shows that, because the blogger was unlucky to have an expensive disease that made his plan nonviable.
As soon as it becomes popular, it will be backdoored for sure.
And there are plenty of ways to circumvent that, including converting it to various privacy coins, using mixer services, using it to buy mining power, etc., etc., etc. Heck, crypto may have even more ways to launder money than cash, and those won't go away with blacklists - which will just make the "privacy" coins, services, etc. more valuable.

The only way it could even plausibly work is for every visible and darknet service in the world to subscribe to and abide by the exact same crypto-wallet blacklist. Good luck making that happen when nuclear superpower governments are in fact transnational crime syndicates.

Assuming that the tracing capabilities are useful for anything beyond taking down the amateurs is overly optimistic.
Yea I’m frankly tired of hearing from the authoritarian agoraphobes. The ones that air their resentment of returning to “normal life.” Dumb stuff like getting dressed or not working from bed.
We have modest needs from a ticketing system, no desire for customer chat - just email to ticket workflow. Zendesk works, but is a bit oversized for our ticketing needs (and slightly overpriced, perhaps - but not by an order of magnitude, so to speak).

We have a lot of history in our zendesk - and some of our customers are acquainted with the workflow.

I would probably not introduce zendesk as a new tool, but I do not have a clear recommendation on what should replace it.

At a previous work place we were quite happy with Trac - and I was a bit disappointed ttha Apache Bloodhound seemingly died off (it was in many ways an opinionated Trac setup/distribution).

On the other hand, if the other choice was a monstrosity like jira, I'd probably prefer zendesk.

I do think it's important to realise that support ticket (sub)systems are not issue trackers/scrum tooling - and vice-versa. Not all tickets are issues, and many issues are not tickets.

But if the two sub systems have some easy integration, that can still be beneficial. Just don't fool yourself into thinking that it can (should!) all be automated. Good support ticket handling provides real value both for customers and the development team.

[ed: maybe fogbugz warrant consideration?]
> I thought clubhouse was that audio chat thing

It is, but project management Clubhouse [0] has been around far longer than audio chat Clubhouse.

[0] https://clubhouse.io/
The parent was referring to OTM call selling, not covered calls only. Covered calls are pretty low-risk. Selling OTM calls includes selling puts, which is not low-risk unless you're unlevered (everything covered by cash.)
https://youtu.be/l7o4A16QCxE

Hidden camera investigation of Facebook moderators (ie fact checkers)
...but Wuhan is also 0km away from the wet markets that sell meat sourced x00km away near and around the bat caves.
And maybe people should not have dismissed it as a crockpot idea that should be dismissed out or hand and had Twitter suspensions over mentioning it.

And maybe if it was a leak and the world had been warned of the dangers then they would have locked down movement to and from the origin before it began to spread internationally.
China has many smaller Missile Destroyers or Frigates, and has far more production than the USA right now. True.

However, smaller ships aren't going to do jack-diddly squat against a Carrier Strike Group in a neutral situation (ie: both sides meet in Antarctica). F-18s have an effective strike range of over 1000-miles.

Submarines might have some theoretical advantages, but the 110,000 ton Ford-class Carriers moves faster than pretty much every submarine on the planet, so Submarines literally cannot speed up fast enough to engage.

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Those smaller Chinese Ships are going to rely upon a lot of Air support + Cruise Missile support from the mainland if they ever wish to actually engage with a US Carrier Strike Group.

Staying within the protective cover of SAM (against air threats), Cruise Missiles (against the CSG themselves)... and providing a launch platform for various missiles, Chinese Destroyers probably can do a job in a hypothetical fight vs US Navy within the confines of the South China Sea.

But once they leave the protective cover of China's mainland... its all over. Swarms of F18s will just launch missiles at all the Destroyers, while the Carrier Strike Group sits back a thousand miles away.

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That's why the question isn't about those small Chinese ships (even though China is making a lot of them). The big question is about the performance of those Chinese Carriers. At 70,000 tons or so, they're much lighter than the 110,000 ton Ford-class carriers.
Can't wait for your PR!
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There are no pertinent facts anywhere in this thread. There are no pertinent facts available. We just don't know, and likely won't ever know.
Go seems to have it's own SSL lib

https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/0za-R3wVaeQ
Re units of measurement in Rust, have you looked at something like https://docs.rs/uom/0.31.1/uom/ ?
Note you don't even need the "lockdown" for the economic damage, it will happen anyway. People don't want to go to restaurants if it's going to kill their grandma.

The lockdown is actually merciful for many businesses; it's cheaper to close a restaurant entirely than run it at 50% capacity, and it's the only way conventions and other events can get out of their contracts with their venues.
I’m aware of the US blocking exports of certain things but as far as I know the UK isn’t. If you have evidence proving otherwise I’d love to see.
What 'til you see a Solidity [0] smart contract...

[0] - JS ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I am all for shared libraries. Update openssl and everything else gets the patch. With rust/go, now I have to wait for all the authors to release their fat binaries of the same dependencies
Agreed.

When I was earlier in my career and was fed up at my then-current job, an older, wiser coworker of mine took me aside and advised me to leave for the right reasons. Be sure that I was running toward something new that excited me, and not just running away from something that made me unhappy. He wanted to make sure I wasn't going to just accept whatever first job came my way, or quit without any plan for the future at all.

The antidote to unsustainably stressful work is only quitting if you've thoroughly looked at what quitting really means and have decided that will truly make you happy.

Quitting might be an intentionally-short-term fix with a plan to find a better job with a healthier work/life balance. Quitting and retiring could be a long-term fix, too, but it's such a huge lifestyle change that it shouldn't be seen as simply a solution to the problem.
This ^^^ so very much. Think of it like infosec angle: Yes, it's interesting to identify and neutralize hostile actors, but the 100% more effective solution is to have defense-in-depth and system resilience in place - because you control that, but you can't control the external actors unless you have a god-complex.
Interesting pointer there but his answer on the issue seems plausible as well. Apparently they were "just fishing for funding":

https://twitter.com/PeterDaszak/status/1292819714935271424

I'm not a virologist but every TWiV episode I listened to, there was convincing talk about natural reservoirs being the most likely source of the virus.

AFAIR they also expect similar events to happen increasingly all over the world due to side effects of the climate crisis and global heating.
I used to think that the “holistic” criteria elite US colleges use to select students was a failure of meritocracy. My view was that the non-objective metrics were excuses for colleges to let in students who wouldn’t grind but wanted prestige and had rich parents.

But if you tie a person’s social status to performance on a single test, you suffocate all the useful things people could be doing if they didn’t have to solely dedicate themselves to prep. So maybe we’re doing okay as-is.
If you like that concept, then AppFS [0] is even more interesting since it removes the "install" step. CernVMFS [1] is very similar to AppFS, though AppFS has more features.

[0] https://appfs.rkeene.org/
[1] https://cernvm.cern.ch/fs/
No argument from me that you can easily go wrong in any language, but I would argue that Rust has features other than memory safety that can also assist in building more reliable/secure software.
Actually, the Thunderbird team throwing its weight behind Kmail/Contact, a client plagued by UX papercuts and a less than stable foundation (akonadi), but otherwise pleasant to use and portable sounds like an awesome idea!
It doesn't seem to me like parent is disputing the factual accuracy of the argument, but rather saying that the sarcasm was not well constructed (possibly because of the multiple negatives, which require a certain amount of gymnastics to understand), and is thus not as effective as it could be.
Let's also add in that the "Wuhan lab leak theory", combined with the "China virus" nomenclature, has resulted in huge increases in racist and white supremacist violence against people of Asian descent.
Per the above, no.

The UK purchased right of first refusal on the first 100million doses of Oxford/AZ produced in the UK factories that they funded.

The EU also funded factories (in the EU) but did not purchase right of first refusal only best efforts contracts.

The USA has a full ban on exports till they are ready to export.
There is no UK prohibition on exports.

The UK is not blocking exports. The EU were free to conclude contracts with the (not very productive) UK manufacturers at the same time HM government was doing so.
Nominet announces that four directors have been removed
A good rule of thumb for selling costs is around 10% of the selling price. And when buying, factor it around 3% just for closing costs (or more if you're paying points), but then add-in more for funding reserves.
If 4 22 year olds making 50k each share a $3,000 4bd 2ba rental "for the rich" I'd say they're middle class and can afford it.
> our lives would be different now.

How? Following your line of reasoning, it makes the US response look even worse. No enemy of the US would have imagined that US citizens will turn wearing a mask into a political statement. Before the pandemic, the US was rated #1 in epidemic preparedness. No one had imagined that it will become societal consensus to sacrifice 500k American lives.
The German chancellor is elected the same way. There is nothing preventing a candidate change after the election, plus there is no way to tell which coalition will actually form. And still almost nobody would argue that the German federal government isn't democratically legitimized.
Yeah. Here's some from GNU on RMS:

https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-pr...
(sorry it's not the page title but otherwise it's context-less)

more context: https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/22/nominet_board_sacked/

and https://publicbenefit.uk/
The trouble is that even if these facts are unambiguously correct, their reporting can be misleading, by interpretation, implication, conjecture, selective reporting, and/or omission. That's how bias is injected even into "factual" reporting, and why reality's "liberal bias" may just be a reflection of the predominant institutional bias in popular media.
The proposals for UBI have always seemed like a replacement of welfare where it’s a survivable amount of money but not ideal, so you are encouraged to find well paying work but can afford to take time off to train or find something new.

The thing is, we don’t need to encourage people to become content creators because we already have more than enough content being created and any more would mostly be a waste.

The good thing about capitalist markets is they are able to prioritise things that are in need reasonably well. Once that need is met, prices move to stabilise that balance.

I’m all for the ubi to replace welfare but I don’t think it will do wonders for creative people who will never turn it in to a higher paying job.
I honestly think no one wanted to sign with the Trump admin. Remember, when the vaccines were being developed and worked on everyone was complaining about Trump rushing the vaccines and how they weren't going to be safe nor effective. If the EU signed on early they would be giving approval to Trump before the results were in.
So, when do the parents step out of the picture, if ever? Sounds like the worst affected would fly apart the moment they had to live on their own. This is a type of student I've heard of in the US of course, but this appears to affect a huge portion of the students.
No, I've seriously been rethinking the assumptions, benefits and merits of inheritance. I'm actually curious to learn what is the history behind it and the current philosophies for it. I'm not yet at a point where I'd fight against it, but it's been gestating in my head that it seems to be a wart to the system more than anything.

Here's some literature around it:

* http://www.ditext.com/current/0022.html#:~:text=No%2C%20Hasl....

* https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/06/why-do-...

It also appears that Adam Smith and Thomas Jefferson similarly were against inheritance, or at least struggled to fit it in a capitalist model.
I posted something along the same lines last week about my own struggles with the cost of healthcare in the US.

https://kingsley.sh/posts/2021/staggering-cost-of-surviving-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26497816

In my lil girl’s 147 ICU stay, $333,000+ of the $2.5m bill was IV medication. I wish they broke it down by medications because I would be really interested in seeing what makes up the $333k. She’s been both hyperglycaemic and hyperinsulinemic, really I’m just interested in what they charged for essentially sugar water.
There is an argument to be made that to be the best at something you have to commit like that.

You could write a similar story about pro athletes probably, although team sports would include some level of socialization by default, not all sports are team sports. And I imagine a lot of other sacrifices (friendships outside the team or sport, hobbies, education) are made in pursuit of a pro athlete dream too. And of course there are tons of people who put that kind of work and sacrifice into becoming a pro athlete and never make it.

I think the part that really makes this story stand out to me is the fact that even the ones who make it into this prestigious program don't actually wind up in some top echelon. The article says they find the skill gap between what the industry wants and what they have studied is too big.

That is incredible. Absolutely bonkers to sacrifice so much at a shot at some "top" thing that basically never actually pays off for anyone.
Not sure if this is related, but LibreSSL released version 3.2.5 with one fix last week:

* A TLS client using session resumption may cause a use-after-free.
If cheap housing is expensive housing built 30-100 years ago, we should have had decades and decades of delapidating housing stock left to go before hitting a shortage.

Not to mention your example of housing in Boston built at the turn of the 20th century. A laissez faire policy that makes the poor wait 120 years for housing is hardly any policy at all.
Based on your takeaway, I'm looking for this to convince me that it's more likely that it's a researcher caught it first than anyone else handling bats.
Bosses Are Clueless That Workers Are Miserable and Looking to Leave
Would you write the same response about chemical or nuclear weapons research? I hope not.

Yet we've just spent the last year proving that biological warfare will be potentially more deadly than chemical or even nuclear warfare.

Decades ago we banned research into those other weapons and implemented international treaties and inspection regimes.

Even the possibility that this could have been a lab leak should scare the whole world and motivate a massive reform of these labs and the experiments people are conducting.

I hope the people in power don't share your complacency.
It's crazy that we live in an economy where you have to pay just to live somewhere, but when the eviction moratorium ends, there's going to be a huge financial reckoning as there's no way anyone is paying all that back rent.

Biden is going to have to either bail out tenants or landlords and banks. I'll be taking bets on which one he does.
What name would you suggest people use instead?

I accept your point, but I don't think you will look particularly informed if you ask for a "pre-SATA computer disk power connector", and the other person says "oh, a Molex connector?", and you say "yes but I don't know which one".
> Respectfully, there is still a sizeable contingent of the US population that thinks that the pandemic is "no worse than the annual flu" and that efforts to combat the pandemic are at best a wild over-reaction and at worst some kind of sinister plot by the government.

Respectfully, this just simply isn't supported by the data and the dozens upon dozens of polls available[1]. Sure, there's a bunch of QAnon weirdos out there or staunch Alex Jones acolytes, but most regular folks have been taking it more or less seriously: social distancing and mask-wearing has been almost universally adopted. Last year in April and May, the percentage of people that "weren't worried" about Covid-19 was in the single digits. And there is some mistrust out there, but it's been well-earned: 15 days to flatten the curve has turned into 365 days of economic and social limbo.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/308222/coronavirus-pandemic.asp...
You can write in a very similar way in python too if you want to. I think I'd argue this is cleaner syntax, even.

>>> foo = 10
>>> bar = foo if foo > 5 else 0
>>> bar
10
>>> bar = foo if foo < 5 else 0
>>> bar
0
> I wouldn't be surprised if it came to light that, in the UK, reports about deaths and side-effects have been suppressed

If we (I'm British) were accomplished enough to reputation-manage for the vaccine response, I'd have expected the initial (huge) death toll to have been under-reported too - which it clearly hasn't.
That's a good point. I have a hard time as well believing anyone who was even coming close to following BSL-4 protocols would get infected with this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosafety_level#Biosafety_leve...
Insufficient housing creates competition among workers and they do more work for less pay, as nobody wants to be an outsider. The number of building permits is set by city councils and those listen to the capital as the latter can choose where to create jobs.
The US lacks decisiveness ("you can always trust the Americans to do the right thing after all other options are exhausted" etc) but has the ability to mobilize (state capacity). We're just only good at one thing - war metaphors.

So we can't keep a lockdown going because that's not a war. But we can do vaccines great, that's just metaphorically shooting people.
We don't know what the vulnerability is yet. Sure it could be a buffer overflow, readily possible in a language like C, or could be a bug in the crypto/implementation itself, no memory safe language will save you there.
And you realistically have access to a 2x-3x lever on margin anyway.
Interestingly, if landlords were allowed to use larger security deposits, some would choose to do this instead of raising the monthly rent. My friend is looking to rent out an ADU, and the first idea was to have a sizable security deposit in order to filter applicants who fully intended on paying rent from those who would be more likely to use the eviction moratorium.

But apparently California tightened the rules around security deposits in 2020, which actually exacerbates this problem. Landlords used to be able to ask for up to two month’s rent as a security deposit, but now they can only ask for one month's rent.

This leads to upward pressure on rents, as landlords adjust the only lever they have left. I wonder if applicants can/do offer to prepay several month's rent, to signal that they are serious long-term tenants who have the ability and interest in paying rent (even if they legally could avoid payment).
I wish it weren't so, but more than half of mails I receive are HTML only. I think it's passed station.
I've never heard anybody call them "DuPont" connectors outside of Chinese e-commerce and electronics websites. (e.g. "dupont line") Usually I've heard them referred to as 0.1" headers or header pins instead.
Strategies for sustainable living beyond capitalism
No, quite a lot of the rich live in rental property, at least part of the time. There are disadvantages to owning, even if you can afford it, and not everywhere you want to live may be for sale.
Watch the debian security mailing list for information about when their fix is available to others through apt: https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ In general you should be following this list if you're managing production services running debian or ubuntu.
> And we need solid security in all these areas, not just the home.

Who is we who need solid security?

I haven't met them. They don't sign a check for security. They don't do anything other than put "Security" on a PowerPoint slide and forget about it.

We make our shipping IoT stuff secure because it's a point of pride and point of competence. But we built the whole architecture around that idea, and it definitely slowed us down at the start.

Until people start cutting checks for actually secure IoT, it's going to remain a giant field of cow dung.
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