skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That's not a false positive. False positive happens when there are no viral particles in the sample, but the test comes back positive. Those are very rare with rt-PCR and can usually be tracked down to cross-contamination. Cycle count has nothing to with those.

You're not arguing with me. You are arguing with Fauci. https://youtu.be/a_Vy6fgaBPE?t=231

If you could explain to me if you don't mind. Why are you saying Fauci is wrong? Was he lying again?

>If there is no SARS-CoV-2 genetic material in the sample, there's nothing for rt-PCR to amplify.

I made my entire post literally Fauci and not me at all. I made no comments or assertions.
Timeghost has a great series on this:

https://youtu.be/3tnxiJ9n1c8
Where I am, and in many places in the US and Canada (not sure about the rest of the world), part of the agreement for residential electricity hookup (and the rates that you get billed at) is that you won't be using the power for commercial use.

You might have already waived your "right" to do whatever you want with the electricity you buy.
Videos: Ever Given ship is free and moving, Suez Canal traffic resumes
Oh good, HN can finally settle all questions of religion and moralism.
DNS based network load balancing. If you have two data centers, and you want to be able to dynamically and deterministically shift load between them, you want a short TTL so you can control the percentage of traffic going to each data center.
Proof of Stake doesn't just have a problem with rich get richer effects, it's fundamentally logically unsound and is inherently insecure as a decenteralized consensus mechanism.

Schemes which claim to have 'proven' the security of POS do so by assuming that you externally have a secure consensus mechanism (or one in disguise, e.g. a network which delivers all messages in the same order to all users), resulting in a completely tautological "proof".

For more info on the unsoundness of POS: https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/pos.pdf

The reason you see it as part of the plans of some altcoins is that the creators of these coins wrote into their ledgers enormous numbers of coins for themselves, and are now stuck with largely illiquid billion dollar "investments" that they can't substantially sell without collapsing their markets and which aren't earning interest-- using POS gives them an excuse to guarantee themselves a return. The fact that it locks others out of the consensus or undermines the security is just collateral damage.

As a bonus it also creates a new avenue to pump their systems vs alternatives which are actually trying to remain secure and decentralized. I expect to see HN and other venues flooded with more anonymously authored articles promoting this stuff in the coming years.
I don't see much point in discussing these latest commits. It's very unlikely they were actually malicious in intent (at least to PHP).

The vulnerability that is of interest is the one that allowed these commits to be injected. That is what I figure was sold years ago, and was burned recently.
If the government fails to provide basic services the government and everyone working in it deserves to be replaced and have their 'life ruined'
See comment above. I dont make the definitions and neither do you.
Take a loot at sshuttle [0] for the next level of this. Support other protocols transparently without messing with SOCKS support.

[0] https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle
> The CDC contacted me and asked me to take it down.

That's horrifying. Can you provide the email text they sent you?
I wouldn't assume beach lifeguarding to be an easy job, and I would expect a job that puts my life at risk to compensate me fairly for that risk. The overtime numbers are concerning, however, since the last thing I would want is to have exhausted lifeguards on duty.
We raised our kids the same. Even allowing that they might want to go to church themselves. While I suggested it only once or twice they were not interested.

I think we all know what is right and wrong. And regarding death, none of us know anything at all.

Religion then might offer a sense of community and also solace for those times when there is nothing you can do but suffer. And for that I wish I could have found a religious community that I was comfortable with and could have shared with my children.

The closest I ever came was a Quaker Meeting my mother took my sibling and I too when we were young. Perhaps I should have tried harder to find another but it didn't seem as important as other aspects of raising children — finding as much time to do stuff with them, take them traveling, etc.
Lighting serves a basic human need. Bitcoin does not.
The part that's missing in DNS is the ability to tell people that the cache expired. You can't really do this in DNS itself since a cached response will never hit the network. You could add a signal in the application protocol for example: <meta name="dns-refresh" value="[.. some date ..]">.

You'd also have to do that for SMTP, IMAP, etc. Probably not worth the complexity as low TTLs seem to work well enough with few enough downsides. DNS is already a tricky enough protocol.
There is John Williams' First Greek Book, but it only focuses on one text though (The Anabasis).

https://daedalus.umkc.edu/FirstGreekBook/
I have no idea who "Z" is, but I would do the exact opposite.
The Antiscience Movement Is Escalating, Going Global and Killing Thousands
Every single miracle we have investigated seriously has been proven to be perfectly normal.

As an example:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/nov/23/india-blasphem...

Just because something is unexplained currently does not give any weight to the idea that it was a miracle.

Millions of people saw David Copperfield vanish the Statue of Liberty as well... But I certainly wouldn't be tempted to pretend he actually made it vanish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=823GNH4Rczg

We don't have a single example where the opposite has been true.
This is an excellent essay. Lots of interesting thoughts on how culture develops and and spreads. Thanks for linking it, I feel wiser after reading it =)
I disagree that it’s a government in itself that makes this possible. I believe it’s the restriction of predatory governmental practices that allows for a flourishing free market. A descent into chaos is prevented by an impartial legal system and police force, neither of which technically require a government. Chaos erupts when there is no fair third party to appeal to for resolution of disputes or protection from violence.
Same with Torrents as well.
I doubt that the number is 90%, and I have no idea how anyone would rigorously measure it, but I understand your point.

One of the annoying things is that it isn’t even quite true to say they preach “conservative,” political action. There’s a particular political philosophy of the “religious right,” which is really it’s own flavor of thing and doesn’t fit the classical definitions of liberal vs conservative that we would have used in say, 1980.

That’s a lot of what’s turning over the Republican Party right now. Old-fashioned “conservatives” like Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney are being uprooted in favor of... whatever you call the hodgepodge of today’s Republican ideas.
The issue here is whether a one-time migration lazyness justifies millions or billions of DNS requests to a web service that could've been saved for customers.

And I do not think it does. DNS without caching is useless traffic overhead. Just like HTTP responses without gzip compression. DNS entries almost never change, therefore it should be cached accordingly.
Thermonuclear bombs are cleaner per kt than conventional fission bombs, but still quite dirty.
But Bitcoin is not needed. It currently provides little to no positive value to society and a lot of negative value so it is hard to classify it as society progressing.
> to be a good person

It's the other way around. The religion needs to be investigated to see if it provides proof of its correctness, and if it does, there really isn't reason not to accept it other than wanting to follow personal desires.
Unicode tables are gigantic. If it’s possible to build an abstraction layer, it should be done.
This is a pretty solid example. Edward Snowden dragged the US press into reporting on US Gov's surveillance misdeeds. Before, revelations like those from Mark Klein got a huge yawn from the entirety of the US Press Corps.

The most likely reasons for news orgs refuse to publish damning evidence about US Gov malfeasance are collusion and/or ineptitude. I feel that showing unearned deference to US NatSec state implies the latter.
Heck yeah
The other exploit, the one that allowed the commit to be injected.
In the early-ish days of the consumer internet, consumers had a new and huge information advantage over companies. People moved from relying on brand name, to reading online reviews. Often finding niche brands which they had otherwise not heard of.

Now, in 2021, that experience is flipped on its head. Amazon reviews are gamed and cannot be trusted. Companies build niche brands like fly-by-night companies, and the lesser known brands have a very high chance of being both seriously inferior, and also short lived.

At least, this has been my experience, and the experience of some others.

[edit]

And as further anecdotal proof that things have come full circle, my elderly mother in law keeps getting tricked by Amazon purchases. "The reviews were good," she'll say before returning something.
There is no evidence the guy existed, either. They are most likely just stories meant to motivate a movement — nothing wrong with that in principle. Especially given that a lot of the message is “be kind”.
Do you think the United States objects to Chinese nationals buying up property in the US and sending their kids to school there?
The practical alternative for most blockchain applications is just a public ledger
Decentralized 'currency' with wholly unregulated asset transfer incentivizes violence and needs to banned.

I'd love for my mind to be changed, but if governments and other parties with grievances can't freeze or compel control over assets that leaves violence. Just the world we live in.
The DNS based load balancing isn’t a myth if you want to do any kind of load balancing that isn’t round robin. If you want to, say, send 10% of traffic to data center A and 90% to data center B, and you don’t want to use up 10 IPs to do that.
Here is a writeup that provides a good review of the context for this [0].

0. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/buffer-overruns-lice...
Why is he a troll here? Seems like a solid message.
"If I wanted to be turned down, I'd just hit the bars!" :)
Real economics is boring for most people and the only way to make it attractive to the masses is to be sensationalistic. Mainstream financial news has never been good and never will be.
"you" being the 67 millions citizens that are not train conductors but need to move around, yes.
I believe we are reaching a singularity.

Like 90% of content is written by marketeers for bots. SEO they call it.
Now we can take out the middle man. Bots writing crap for other bots. And then we use that content to train more bots to write even crappier blog spam. And finally the bots decide the actual recipe is no longer needed on the recipe blogs and they kick us of the internet.
John von Neumann’s Minimax Theorem
No malware or bundleware in the portable package I maintain either. PortableApps.com and PortableApps.com Format prohibit it.
Economic Surprises and DeFi
The Soviets actually got around to trying this.

It didn't work very well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagan_(nuclear_test)
If I need to get a web service up and I can save 4 minutes by setting a low TTL when I configure my DNS record why wouldn't I?
The positive value is that it protects from inflation.
Catholic priests are less likely than the general population to be predators. You only hear about it because the media Is hostile to the church. School districts across the country have done similar things in terms of cover ups but I don't hear the outage there.
Sorta related;

I often travel for work and was having an annoying time with Verizon’s hotspot throttling. 4G LTE should be able to run at ~5Mbps but devices connected to the hotspot get throttled down to an insufferable 400Kbps. This was super annoying and felt like an arbitrary action on Verizon’s part. I found out I could run a SOCKs proxy on my iPhone via a Pythonista script and tunnel hotspot connections through it to fool Verizon’s throttling systems. Worked great, even though the UX of launching a Pythonista script as a service and pointing clients to it was slightly clunky.
My Grandma is from this island Roatan, the history of it is kind of interesting: The “native” islanders are largely descended from cayman islanders and long considered themselves British, although their opinion on the matter counted for little. It was a back water until it became a popular dive location relatively recently due to it’s proximity to some beautiful reefs.
Yeah, got the same thing and remembered reading "This will require that you have an Nvidia GPU". SOL, but still pretty cool.
The rights to privacy and to be forgotten could be superseded in the cases of significant public interest. Especially the right to be forgotten is in regard to petty crimes, revenge porn or stupid posts done by minors. Right to be forgotten does not allow for censorship or rewriting history at the will of the subject of an article.

Something that Wikipedia reminded me, rtf is obligatory only in the EU and search engines are not obliged to comply with it on its international websites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten
I'm not religious, so I don't go to my wife's church, but with the pandemic now, they are streaming their services on Sundays for the few of their congregation who are respecting stay-at-home. Now that it's background noise Sunday mornings, I can hear what they're saying, and it's essentially a Republican sermon. Sure, the pastor mentions Jesus every once in a while, but for the most part it's straight up conservative talking points and propaganda. If I didn't know it was a church service, I would have thought she was streaming Fox News. I know, anecdote and sample size of one, but wow.

They're all anti-maskers, too. She had to stop by once to deliver something during service, and everyone's packed in there singing and shouting, zero masks to be found. Pretty scary.
As a UKian, I'm not sure that the intellectual property landscape is the same over here as it is in the USA.

I don't know much about MountainProject (beyond going to their website). But I am a rock climber and Alpinist, and I contribute to a UK equivelent of MountainProject, UK Climbing, as moderator for a couple of crags - I basically act as an editor to ensure user-supplied information is correct. While UKClimbing is owned and run by a commercial entity [Rockfax], there is a huge community and a lot of goodwill.

I have to say that from what I have read, openBeta appears not to be acting fairly. As far as I am aware, they have scraped the MountainProject website, and are now presenting the data without any attribution. Did they even ask MountainProect whether it would be OK to use their data?

For me, I contribute to a community, and I am happy and glad that people find what I do useful. But I'd be well p*ssed off if some internet random started scraping the data without asking, and without engaging with the community.
> I disagree. Communications is a core competency for public health.

And yet Dr. Fauci became the US public health figurehead despite not having a degree in public health. Dr. Fauci has a BA in classics and an MD, and has spent his career specializing in immunology. Shouldn't we have picked someone with actual experience and background in public health and not someone who has specialized their career in studying viruses? Fauci is first and foremost a researcher, not a public health figurehead who is good at communicating with said public.
You can have a contract that makes striking illegal and that you have to do arbitration instead when disputes arise.

This is not necessarily a bad thing. A good arbitration setup can be less combative and feel fairer than a setup where the threat of strike is the motivating factor.

A wildcat strike is what it is called when workers strike when their contract says they can't.
It's an attack on PoW, not bitcoin. Bitcoin can switch tech if the community wants.

1) the problem is that usage != waste. PoW is mostly waste

2) No, it's also about available electricity. Mining is causing blackouts. also health issues due to high coal usage and so on

3) You are not going to run your mining rig on solar power, much less the night. if I cover my house in solar panels I get 6Kw... at the peak. Lots of people can't do even that, it's not their house to begin with

Solar/wind/Hydro is wonderful, but at the end of the game it's not what runs the mining rigs
Maybe for losely coupled systems. Unavoidable in tightly coupled systems because it's a convenient way to do things unless you already have elaborate HA infra and protocols in place.

For example, if you offer an "entrypoint" that you can guarantee and technically make to be stable, then use longish TTLs. Anycast IPs are an extreme, but inbetween there are many useful modes of exploiting longish but not too long TTLs.

On the other hand, if you implement system failover in a locally redundant system and want to exploit DNS so you don't have to manage additional technology to make an "entrypoint" HA (VRRP, other IP movements, ...), low TTLs are nice. AWS is I think using 5s TTLs on the ElastiCache node's primary DNS names.

Finally, 15m max is what I'm comfortable with. Any longer or much longer, and ANY MISTAKE, and you can easily be in a world of hurt. It's no fun sitting out a DNS mistake propagating around the world and the fix lagging behind.

And this is only a view on "respectable TTL" values. DNS services like Google's public dns probably ignore any or all TTLs for records they pull, and refresh them as fast as possible anyway, at least according to my observation. In that sense, I doubt that most of the internet is still using "respectable" TTLs --- I suspect most systems will RACE to get new data ASAP.
I think it's great that lifeguards are paid well but close to $400k a year? I know Cost of living in LA is outrageous but WOW.

Teachers even in LA aren't making 1/4 of that even at the top of their pay charts they'd be lucky to just touch $100k a year.

We need good lifeguards, sure, but we don't need to pay them $300-400k a year...
Did Coverity not pick up on any of the bugs that were later found?

The folks behind PVStudio regularly spam the /r/cpp subreddit with actually very intersting articles about issues their static analyser finds in several open source projects. Does anyone here use it?

(I do not work for them or use their product)
Do cephalapods dream of aquatic sheep?

Would this imply that dreams developed some 500 millions years ago or that the different trees of the animal kingdom both developed the ability?
I'm curious where you're from, because this trend seems to be occurring all over the western world (for example they yellow-vest protests in France, etc.)
Worth noting that this seems to be by Douglas Comer, the guy who write the book on TCP/IP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Comer
"illegal strike"

- For My Friends, Anything. For My Enemies, the Law
Stanford Scientists Reverse Engineer Moderna Vaccine, Post Code on GitHub
Distilling Stock Patterns Using Python
I mostly agree with this, after using Node the last several years. IMHO the primary valuable components are making it free to implement the commenest kinds of concurrency correctly. I.e. most programmers don't even know they are doing it, other than "Oh I have to use `await` here". Even in something as simple as Go, you still have to intentionally set it up. And in Java, I run into very slow very low volume apps all the time because programmers don't realize they added a blocking call somewhere.
I wouldn't write it off yet. The popularity of protestantism is very prone to wax and wane with the times. A really charismatic preacher or two can make a big impact. Most of the mainlines we see in the US today started from just itinerant preachers and camp meetings. Personally, I think that's because the emphasis on "personal relationships" with God lends itself to more of a "social contagion" model of popularity, as people seek to imitate friends and neighbors who share spiritual experiences. That's not a negative thing necessarily. But they can't lean on tradition like the Orthodox or Catholics do.
> Electromagnetic waves in these spectra have nearly optical properties, and definitely resolve enough information to be highly invasive. So who's getting access to this information?

In my uninformed opinion this is a likely reason for five eyes nations to put up strong a strong fight against Huawei 5G hardware.
You might enjoy this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vw_X7IkXB0
the universally considered authentic Pauline epistles are commonly dated from the mid 40s to the late fifties AD.... So any arguments made about church leadership 'before' then are arguing from a very small body of evidence (luke/acts) ... rather a less persuasive argument than the iron clad one you present here.
SQLite's case is super interesting.

It is said that they can get away with having it as Public Domain because a key part of their business is SQLite's reliability which is asserted by their large and closed source test codebase.
There's no digital currency or methods to transact that are more efficient than Bitcoin?

Like ACH, Venmo, wire transfers, etc?

Bitcoin is like CFL bulbs. An unfortunate ecological misstep while trying to improve what was available. I'll agree the parallel is clunky since CFLs still saved energy, bit bitcoin burns through it.
AI can also convert audio to text, one of great examples is https://audext.com/. What do you think?
I’ve met a handful of Jewish rabbis who teach exactly this btw.

However their comment is not the stories are “myths”. But instead are verbal stories that likely greatly exaggerate the situation to teach us a lesson and keep us engaged.
The ICU4X project[꧁] is working on some of those goals, and they're also using Rust as a primary implementation language.

[꧁]: https://github.com/unicode-org/icu4x
Sleep problems as well and migraines.
I wonder if GitHub will ever support requiring signed pushes. It supports requiring signed commits, but that isn't always feasible, since you could want to merge commits signed by an external contributor without rebasing those commits in order to sign them yourself.
I did this in New York when I was younger. Not as highly paid, and shorter seasons of course. The common thread I see here is that the pay scales with seniority/leadership more than with risk. The main difference is that this can be someone's career in LA, whereas in New York it's more or a seasonal supplemental (usually only teachers are longtimers) thing.
To be fair, there are more reasons to hate on Reagan than this. Severely restricting mental health care to those who could afford it, and leading to an explosion of homelessness to save the upper 5% of earners a tax break wasn't very popular either. Trickle down economics was/isn't a popular economic policy to all but, again, the top 5% of earners.... Granted, these strategies are wonderful for garnering political donors, but there are plenty of reasons to hate on Reagan's policies (and FDR's really).
For a non-neural AI take on text-to-scene generation (statistical parsing, symbolic representation, rule-based, 3d models with inverse kinematics), check out Bob Coyne's WordsEye:

http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~coyne/papers/wordseye_siggraph....

https://www.wordseye.com/

http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~coyne/