skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe folks in Mojiand have some immunity because other variants spread there before? Maybe that's why Vietnam (cause Hanoi is close too) have been largely spared. Maybe Wuhan has a bigger market for "wild meat" than rural places - that wouldn't surprise me. Maybe RaTG13 is present in a lot of places. Maybe there are some even closer relatives to sars-cov-2 closer to Wuhan.

Again, none of this is conclusive. It's all speculation. maybe maybe maybe. There are lots of potential ways for this to have happened natually.
Wow, there's Richard Stallman level Epstein/pedo comments, then there's this. I don't know why she has a job right now. I get that some people have rough childhood, go through things that a normal person can't comprehend and we shouldn't hold that against them, but why in the world would you take someone who is either that stunted or a pedo and put them in a position of power?
You joke but it's pretty funny to see this double standard pop up. People will screech and complain about "cancel culture" and then turn around and say stuff like "vote with your dollar" or "boycott <company>" without a hint of irony.
Partial Redaction Is Not Redaction (PEM Recovery)
Oh, thanks for the seed recommendation, I was looking for something like this!
Historically, HK protestors grossly over exaggerate for optics, but MSM usually endorses organizer headcount uncritically. Reality consistently closer to police (under)estimates. Professionals at crowd control are better at estimating crowd sizes. Study from HKU of pre 2019 protests:

https://graphics.reuters.com/HONGKONG-EXTRADITION-PROTESTS/0...

Another analysis with machine learning, about 1/2 protestor estimates.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/03/world/asia/ho...

And another, estimates protesters had to occupy 18 miles of streets to pack 1M protestors, actual protests occupied 1 mile. Acknowledges not exact science, but leans towards conservative estimate of 250k... incidentally close to police estimates.

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/how-many-marched-protests-hong-...

IMO just average protestor and police reports for ball park figure.
If I had not bought a house, I would have no savings. Yay inflation. Jobs don't pay enough and social security won't be there when you need it.

Anyone that is thinking of depending of govt for your long term financial stability, should consider if the most important vulnerable years in their lives, should depend on random govt employees and funds invested in politicians friends scams.
Let’s see how long it takes until the brigade arrives and starts saying how America is bad, and China does no wrong. :)
Totally a fair criticism, but I can't look past race when the white residents are accusing the mostly brown car club of dealing drugs.
Ask HN: Is it possible to create desktop adblocker app that hooks into Chrome
With the advent of Google Chrome's v3 extension manifest which will stop Ublock Origin from working in its current state, I was wondering if its possible to create a desktop adblocker program that hooks deeply into Google Chrome to provide similar functionality? It would be great if people deeply familiar with desktop development could share their feedback on the matter.

To clarify, I know we can use hosts file (and pi-hole) to block ads. However its too blunt of a tool. I think the key feature of adblocker browser extensions is the ability to allow ads/trackers on certain domains and block it completely on others. This is necessary because there's a lot of poorly coded websites (banks, phone carriers, brokerages) that simply break if say, a facebook tracker is blocked, meanwhile its perfectly fine to block it on a random blog website.

To narrow my question further, can a desktop application that hooks into Google Chrome be notified:

1. When a new tab is created
2. What URL is a tab pointed towards
3. Be able to identify all network requests of a given tab
4. Manipulate the network requests

It would basically be a firewall software program that is focused specifically towards the browser, with the options provided by existing adblock browser extensions (e.g., block trackers from a given domain).

There are a couple of benefits to this approach:
1. Since its NOT in the Chrome Web Store, its not subject to Google's nonsense.
2. Because it's a desktop application, it would be much faster as compared to javascript-based adblocker extensions.

I think this would be a great open source project.
So I send them money now and they promise as soon as they received $360B by this way to purchase Facebook? Sounds legit.
I don't expect my employees or candidates to contribute to open source, but the curve of those who do is shifted to the right in my opinion over those who don't. (It's the practical part of why I fight for HR policies to allow continued contributions to open-source, even unrelated to work: because otherwise I close myself off to that subset of the population, in addition to my philosophical stance of 'what you do outside of work is none of my business'.)

It's in much the same way if I were recruiting for an auto mechanic for a repair shop, a body shop, or a race team: someone who had their own custom car is probably a better bet for me than someone who is otherwise identical on paper but drives a stock Toyota Camry. I'll absolutely hire the qualified driver of the Camry, but I'll prefer the driver of the '65 Candy Apple Red Mustang that they restored and painted in their garage.
I should clarify... Vendoring is a terrible solution. Caching is a general good practice but not a solution.

All in all, this kind of thing happens once in a blue moon...
> Does "support RMS being on the FSF board for life" mean supporting him on everything he says

Of course not.

I just say that I understand if people would not like no associate with him.
If Google penalized slow sites, they'd get to say that. I agree that none of this explains the need for AMP.
I wasn't making a moral judgement, just emphasizing that the chickens eat grain and will continue eating grain.

I could also get into a discussion of market inequities and whatnot but it'd be a bit off-topic in this discussion of environmental impacts.
How do you integrate this onto websites??
> They "almost" instated it shortly before the handover, but didn't succeed for some reason. Extremely amusing indeed.

Perhaps because China declared that they'd invade if HK was allowed to self-govern?

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/world/asia/china-began-pu...

"documents recently released by the National Archives in Britain suggest that beginning in the 1950s, the colonial governors who ran Hong Kong repeatedly sought to introduce popular elections but abandoned those efforts in the face of pressure by Communist Party leaders in Beijing.

"The documents, part of a batch of typewritten diplomatic dispatches requested by reporters from two Hong Kong newspapers, reveal that Chinese leaders were so opposed to the prospect of a democratic Hong Kong that they threatened to invade should London attempt to change the status quo."
Have been using it for a while now, extremely user friendly!
Both my monitors have an external brick. Unless that is something else?
thank you I fixed the links, they should take you to: https://www.getlistful.com/neighbors
CO2 is pollution. Do you like to pollute everywhere you go?
It still is. Under Linux you have Free Pascal + Lazarus and can target, natively, everything under the moon (see target section for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Pascal)
Is it not healthy to be critical of both Western influenced narratives AND CCP influenced ones?
> Glad to see the Trotskyites and Stalinists start to turn on each other.

Actually, that has been a thing for ages - even during Trotsky's lifetime he wrote scathingly about Stalin and his policies/politics. (Edit to add this parenthetical comment: Oh, and Stalin had him assassinated in exile.) The piece linked [1] offers some insight into this, and it also shows wider splits, fragmentation and arguments; it is written from a socialist perspective. It's an engaging read.

For drier considerations of Stalinism and Trotskyism, I'd just start with the Wikipedia entries for each - see [2], [3] - and for light relief afterwards, maybe watch the Python film Life of Brian, which actually captures rather well the concept of "splitters" and factions.

[1] https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/1973/...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalinism

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trotskyism
What's going on with the stained glass/haloe deification of RMS in the profile photo? That alone turns me off from even reading the letter. Its visible in the HN RSS entry and on the main page: https://github.com/rms-support-letter
Has great potential, really user friendly!!
It may surprise you to learn many on this site are uninterested in the latest slapfight on reddit, or any other social media site for that matter
Remember when censorship was supposedly about protecting the children? This woman had publicly shown herself to be more accepting of pedophilia and child rape than 99.99% of the population, and Reddit hired her as a censor. It really makes me wonder, what exactly were her qualifications?
There are aspects of this you probably just don't want to delve into. Ignore the people telling you to do research, it's not worth it.
There's already a couple of flagged and dead comments.
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This seems like a clear scam, asking for donations via paypal to "buy facebook" for $360B US
My dad's house had about 1mbps. Yes, it was barely usable. I couldn't really have seriously worked from there. (Very end of a DSL run in rural Maine.)

Some people do make do with conventional satellite. I worked with one person who bought a rural home with no broadband or hope of getting it. They had DirectTV and just mostly did without streaming video or other high bandwidth activities. Probably increasingly hard to do though.
I think there is a typo in "1000 amps of current."
I guess with the current state of even simple static website/apps we seem to often need performance. I hadn't even thought about compatibility of the web browser. Might any WebKit based browser (with user-agent overrides) be close enough?
Here's what I did, I put up roadblocks to mindless browsing: Use firefox nightly on android and do the hackery required to install arbitrary extensions, and install the "Request Blocker" extension. Block all browsing front pages, /r/all /r/popular /r/pics or whichever subreddit you want to block yourself from.

*://*.reddit.com/r/all/
*://*.reddit.com/r/popular/
*://*.reddit.com/

Also do this on your desktop machines.

Also, I use old reddit on my desktop, and I use ublock origin to remove the entire bar of links at the top.

www.reddit.com###sr-header-area

These blocks are permanent. If I run across an important link on reddit from a google search, or someone sends me a link, I can view it. But what I can't do, is browse the front page or dumb subreddits.
This organization wants to crowdfund the purchase of Facebook at current market value by soliciting donations via PayPal?

Are they aware that there is already a mechanism in place to buy companies called the stock market? Hypothetically the most efficient way to do this would be to ask folks to purchase then donate shares.
Can you change some of the tools you use? It may not be quite as cool to use Office rather than G Suite but much easier to work offline with them. (Appreciate it may be limited by employer requirements).
Also consider a decent external LTE/wifi aerial with adapters for your wifi and LTE dongles.
Jeez, that's disgusting and concerning to say the least.

Wonder if this is another case of reddit admins went rogue or even sanctioned by reddit.
popups have their positive uses. Security on banking websites, anti-cheating on web games, and social logins are a few good reasons I can think of to have popups on a website.
Yep, it is just a figure of speech here.
This has to be some kind of joke-headline. I know the Gizmodo group has a weird sense of humor.
and those authorities approved it because it's good and effective, or because it's the only one available on the market?
In politics most companies hedge their bets. They give equally to both political parties.

It doesn't matter who wins the elections, they have a guaranteed inside track.

It's just theater.
Like Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms, reddit has gone to hell. The only downside to this is the wave of nutjobs that will attempt to flock over to here. I'm crossing my fingers in hope that that they won't discover this place.
Hm, I'd say the mRNA COVID vaccines are probably a more important technology project at the moment. Realistically, most people don't actually care about the ideological purity of their phone, and the ones who do certainly don't have the time to personally audit the source of every dependency they install. So it's not exactly solving any practical problems, even more so since any internet connected device is at the mercy of our shared BGP systems and to a lesser extent DNS. Like it or not, you're part of a community and you can't solve every social problem with technology (or markets, for that matter)!
FYI: Verizon has "business" plans that give you much more "premium" data. I'm looking at one plan which is unlimited, and you get 60GB of hotspot usage per line before being throttled. With the business versions of plans, you can usually just call up the carrier and ask to talk to a Sales person. They can even cook up some custom plans for you if you're willing to pay a bit more. Probably worth it given your needs.
Arguably the primary React Native performance issue is that JS is single-threaded. Does React Native provide any useful tools for that?
tl;dr

A 16 page pdf booklet (for some reason) about how facebook is bad. (yea, we know)

That starts with the proposal to purchase Facebook for its fair market price of 360 Billion dollars, then dives into lots of lovely proof in quotes from intellectuals that Facebook is bad.

Then there's a paypal link to Donate.

Is this a joke? Is this a scam? It seems unhinged or at least delusional. No names, no history, no faces, no endorsements, no proven track record. The author doesn't seem to understand how much a billion dollars is and everything that goes along with that, let alone 360 of them.

lol, flagged
Yeah I'm interested to know if OP actually has any first-hand experience of this, because when I was there it was not difficult to find people who were despondent about the situation, even though none of them were directly involved with the protests anymore.

My impression was the general populace can't see a way out of this. That's pretty far from not caring though.
That's a good hypothesis re: the MCU firmware on the NAND. If it's true that all NAND needs to be periodically refreshed, then it could be as simple as losing power while one of the firmware sectors is getting refreshed. That seems like an obscure enough scenario that there's dragons lurking around it.

I like to imagine in my head that the MCU in an SD card can detect its voltage dropping quickly enough to get into a safe state most of the time. With all the recommended capacitance around the socket, it might actually have a few milliseconds to work with after external power loss. When you pull the card out of a socket, though, the MCU stops working before it has time to do anything about it.
Fedora Linux 34 beta rolled out
You can integrate SAWO's API in your backend.
Refer this link for documentation: https://docs.sawolabs.com/sawo/
I agree. The submit page didnt allow me to add the full title. So I thought... why not :)
This is such a cool idea! Will surely integrate in my app
Nice app! I remember that an extremely similar product was Sunrise. It was a well crafted product and it was bought by Microsoft. The development has been since then discontinued, and functions were integrated into Outlook. Hope this won't happen to Routine. Nice work!
Easy to say but not necessarily true. Let's look at the Halix factory, which is the main point of contention in the EU/UK dispute. The Dutch government (thus, EU) already offered them a major contract in March/April '20, for precisely this purpose. They already had started expanding in Feb '20 as part of their production for the AZ trial, so they declined.
If one drives down Alameda street in SF you'll see a lot of people trying to stave off a repair bill they can't afford with amateur shop night.

I get not having a neighbor who runs a covert or not-so-covert shop next door, but these laws are bludgeons written for selective enforcement.
OpenVSLAM – Termination of the release because of GPLv3
> On the hiring side, it’s rare to see someone come through with significant OSS contributions

Do you mean it's rare to see someone hired, or rare to see someone in the hiring process?

Because if it's the latter, that's exactly what I'd expect too. People with very significant and visible portfolios aren't sending their resumes because they don't have to.
Apparently the limiting question is how much force can be exerted on the ship and from what locations without damaging it (or, damaging it too much).

That's why recovery specialists are flying in. They know how to do that kind of engineering calculation, as well as all the weight & balance calcs needed to e.g. move ballast in unusual ways, etc.
I'm hiring a few engineers right now. I agree that some companies exploit "passion", and that companies doing that tend to over-weight weight things in a way that encourages having no life. I think that's a mistake.

That said, I do think some sort of "passion" is really useful. I've been coding a long time. I'm on something like my fifth major language. My first computer had 4K of RAM; now my phone has a million times that. I can't even count the number of business domains I've had to learn. I can't imagine people keeping up with the pace of change in our field without finding ways to love the work.

In contrast, I've worked with people who learned enough to be employable and then just kinda stopped. I remember one guy, a great manager, who kept giving technical advice based on his Vax BASIC experience at least a decade past the point it was sensible to do so. Or programmers who had basically become fused with legacy systems, only employable until the old code was replaced. It's not impossible to make a career of out that, but it's risky.

Especially given the release cadence of modern frameworks and tools, I think continuous learning is vital. And I think keeping up (or better, keeping up and getting ahead) is much easier to do if people really enjoy the hour-to-hour details of the work.
> In other words, when they do release their secret sauce, the good will they get far outweighs the risk of a competitor improving on top of their secret sauce and getting a significant chunk of their market.

Which is completely understandable? I can't see how things would be different and I'm still pretty satisfied with the outcome of releasing "the secret sauce" after it is a bit more stable instead of going through a turbulent development (looking at you, Angular).
Put it on your truck or your boat.
It's really hard to take a picture when you meet a shocking event. It slow down your body. Mind become crazy.
The only detail necessary here: I don’t trust people like this to control my life, and I will fight infowar, real war, whatever is necessary to ensure that they never get the chance.

The strong words are a deterrent. Feel free to stay on your side of the argument, but just don’t get any dumb ideas.
That's awesome. You can start from here https://dev.sawolabs.com/
What you may be missing is how hard it is to actually create a good take home. Every take home test I’ve seen was rife with potential for the problem to explode in complexity. Even things that seem simple like names and dates have so many potential pitfalls that it can be impossible to tell as an applicant whether they intentionally laid a trap or not. Then there’s the incidentals, should I send them a docker image to increase the odds it’ll work on their machine? Oh, they’re going to want me to extend this in real time, should I include other nice to have services that this problem could dovetail into needing, like redis?

As far as I can tell, any company that isn’t willing to pay contracting rates to solve real problems on their stack is likely being disengenuous with their take homes and largely biasing against experienced devs who aren’t as likely to waste their time. And worse with a take home, is that they have no skin in the game. With an in person interview they lose at least as long as the inverview. With a take home they lose nothing except short email exchanges.
The problem with analogies is that by their nature they're rarely entirely realistic.

Say there is a SAAS that provides CRM features used by customer support teams. If you're a user of that SAAS, maybe it's saving you 25% of the time you used to spent handling customer support enquiries with your previous software and process. That's clearly a win. If it's also priced per enquiry, but at much less than that 25% saving rate, using it is still clearly a win. Are you really going to invent whole other systems and processes to try to minimise how much you're using the one that you already have and that is demonstrably much better than what you had before? Are the front-line customer support staff whose time it is saving?

IME, this kind of argument usually arises from a sense of fairness or feeling like you ought to be able to get a better deal with some other pricing model elsewhere. But in business, good management is logical and evidence-based, and that includes investing in good tools and improving processes if these offer a good RoI.

Indeed, with that same logical, evidence-based approach to the management of the SAAS product itself, users who are going to be swayed by a negative emotional reaction to a pricing structure that objectively offers them good value for money may be more trouble than they're worth. If your pricing model sends them somewhere else then that may also be a win.
Very cool. Love the simplicity :)

I think this is a great solution!

Congrats with the launch. Pretty cool feature and a great onboarding experience for users!

I look forward to working on an integration to securely gate content.

Current solutions allow folks to easily access content by just disabling Javascript.
Mach+MIT
That approach is roughly being taken in this fork: https://github.com/jellybob/mimemagic/issues/1

With the difference that the gem will by default download the XML file at runtime, with the option of using a local copy specified by an environment variable. I guess they are operating under the belief that including any GPL file taints the library, or perhaps they're just playing it safe.
>But honestly, if Zoom is your biggest bandwidth hog, just get a cell with unlimited data and use it instead of your laptop.

Or mostly just use a dial-in number and do without video. Doesn't help if a presentation is being given and hasn't been shared in advance of course.