skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that line is actualy a sample from a 1992 song, so presumably frank ski got a cut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IHUl8CwCvI
And if you did find them, one had to wonder how representative they are of the general population.
I've never even claimed it came from a lab. I'm commenting on YOUR arrogance and YOUR vehement dismissal that it didn't. You, despite never having studied viruses, are parroting publications and podcasts by your assertion that the lab leak hypothesis is "extraordinary" in the first place. The articles are just beginning to consider a lab leak, the podcasts are just beginning to pop up seriously considering it, the former CDC director has just expressed that he thinks it was a lab leak, and WHO now considers it still on the table. Careful, you may be embarrassed down the road.
Yes, I am too!
For user: the story feature is kinda like blog. They can share their thoughts, images, videos, stuff they are interested in with few clicks. General public never owned anything like blogs because it is not easy to set up as sharing stories. Also, stories actually engages followers/contacts with the content. I think that is why it's popular among users.

For companies: Best place to put ads is between stories. You get 100% views for the ads and hence more engagement. That is why every company is running after it.
"Scientist free science," -- being able to optimize systems without understanding them, has been a dream of the business world since the dawn of time. There's always been a market for cookbook recipes that automate the collection of data, and interpretation of results. Before ML, there were "design of experiments," and "statistical quality control."
It's not like 10% of sales goes to the song writer, so the artist changing a word means that the artist gets and additional 1% and the song writer only 9%. Surely at the point of producing a contract everyone negotiates the split and signs the contract if they are happy with the deal.
Re-framing problem statements is hard. Why and how to make it slightly easier
Project management is potentially a good option. Before you give up though I think you are potentially being too hard on yourself. Projects fail (a lot of them).

I'm guessing that potentially you brought your smaller problem solving skills to a bigger task than you are accustomed to. If that is true it might simply be the case that if you were to have broken the large/medium task into a bunch of small tasks then you would have been a smashing success.
I used Sublime as my only editor for many years on end. But I could never quite get a handle on the plugins and editor configuration, experimenting with options that didn't exist or affect the editor in any way. With the introduction of LSP, like many non-VSCode editors, integration lagged behind, and older language-specific plugins were no longer seeing much maintenance.

I do still prefer Sublime for the specific use-case of opening a random text file. Its startup time is far faster than any other editor.
Lots of promise with Thorium reactors: far cheaper and abundant fuel source, safe to operate at normal atmospheric pressure, can "consume the waste" from uranium/plutonium plants, and the operation of LFTR plants won't contribute to the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
Apple already did it [1] "Apple bent its rules for Russia—and other countries will take note"

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/apple-bent-its-rules...
That makes sense, I didn't know how small the team was. Thanks for the response, looking forward to ST4.
I think the parties themselves should build their own payment platforms. Yes, expensive, but it would solve deplatforming.
Have you read the article? "Credit" here is not meant as recognition, it's meant as retribution. Performers put their name down as writers/producers despite being no part of the songwriting process, taking a cut from the writer's revenue, and additionally get revenue for their performance + merch, concert tickets, etc.
How is it a scam if you get exactly what you paid for?
They still have scripts for generating configs manually -- maybe not NetworkManager, but I use it on a server to establish a wireguard tunnel.

https://github.com/pia-foss/manual-connections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mx_(title)
weren't those banned from flying on 737MAX's? (and all other aircraft)
New scientific computing benchmark – Network of differential equations
Running a Linux Application on STM32 MCUs
It is not a government, de facto or otherwise.

Apple does not have tax authority over you.

Apple does not have a monopoly on the legitimate use of force in any geographic region.

Apple does not pass or enforce laws or have citizens.

It is big and rich and powerful, and like all big and rich things with that much reach, literally cannot do anything without making someone angry.

This does not make it a government, and pretending it is one is a silly distraction from holding it to account when it does something bad.
You mean like restaurants opening and not requiring a mask? I mean if we're talking private companies that don't like your brand of BS....
Honestly I don't know and I'm amazed by the ability of people to burn cash like this.

Software is weird in that way, because a todo list is just some "mindmap", linguistic, psychological way to organize data. It could be done with paper too, or with some simple process one could teach himself or learn another way.

It's very difficult for me to really grasp and trust this startup economy. The good thing is that it feeds people and that it cycles this whole ecosystem of "throw it away and try again".

I wish software was not so chaotic and uncertain. When you add up agile, funding and decide to stop spending months to think about the app you are going to make, it's a recipe for disaster.

I'm wondering if this whole skewed startup model is somehow profitable for some people, like finance, etc. Sometimes it really feels like organized scamming.
> it messes up

Can you be more specific about the failure mode here? If we have a series master -> A_review -> B_review, and B_review is targeted to A_review in the PR tool, then a fast-forwarding merge of A_review to master just advances the master branch name and automatically updates B_review to now target master. No merge commits take place.
This may sound weird, but I genuinely hope they don't "spring back".

IF we consider Sublime to be a text editor and not an IDE, then all I really want from the Sublime dev team is to fix problems if/when they arise. If there are no problems, then push feature development into the plugin ecosystem, but leave out-of-the-box Sublime mostly alone.

When I look at that preview video, I see a team that shares my values in a text editor. They've made updates to keep with changes to operating systems, a few features that would be universally useful in a text editor, but not much else.

For me and my idea of a text editor, that's perfect. It's stable. It's dependable. It's fast. I never have to worry whether the dev team is about to destroy the editor that I love, nor do I have to worry about it becoming obsolete.

Some people may feel it's already obsolete, but every complaint seems to be for IDE-like features, not for a better text editor. If that's what you want, then by all appearances, VS Code is the way to go.

That being said, I hear what you're saying about the plugin ecosystem. If plugin developers have interpreted the relatively quiet and deliberate release cycle of Sublime as "this is no longer being actively developed", then of course they won't develop their plugins for it. But if that's anyone's interpretation, I think they're wrong.

To put it another way, I think of Sublime's approach like Google's approach to their homepage (at least when Marissa Mayer was running things): Job #1 is to say no to scope creep. Keep it simple. Keep it focused. If you can make it better at the focused list of things it's meant to do, then great, do that. But don't add, don't clutter.
Better start saving now. Even if spacex manages to get costs down to nothing, seating will be limited. It wont always be a lottery. People will fight tooth and nail for tickets. I think those with the deepest pockets will win out.
One thing 37Signals is very good at is limiting the scope of what they're trying to accomplish and market those limitations as a strength. Instead of doing that, it sounds like they tried to compete directly on features against competition that could outspend them.
Were you also employed or involved at their place of work where they were in a position of authority? No? Then why bring this up? Anyway, we are talking about intermediate consequences.
Here in the US, the land coverage needed to poser the country is a fraction of the land used for coal/gas/oil production, even without accounting for rooftop coverage on existing buildings.
If you click it, the `referer: news.ycombinator.com` header tells Google to redirect to the website itself.

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/gulf/2018/04/07/Saudi-Cro...
>I'm not sure if I can be a PM if I'm not able to code things the right way myself.

You don't need to know how to code the solution to be a good PM, it's a different set of skills.

QA - writing testcases, automated regression tests is also a possible path. Lots of companies want QA engineers that can write automated regresion tests (selenium etc)
Corporations are not “de facto” governments just because they’re large and profitable. They may have governance structure within themselves, but they don’t have a monopoly on the use of force anywhere, they don’t tax, and they’re not sovereign. Moreover, what de jure government do they functionally supersede in the places where they’re the de facto government? This is a tortured argument.
Following this article, is very interesting to read the "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC" by Von Neumann (1945):

http://web.mit.edu/STS.035/www/PDFs/edvac.pdf
Yes we should care about human rights. Nobody put a gun to anyones head and forced them to invest in China. They chose to, and were permitted to by the government, who chose to ignore human rights in China when they were far worse, firstly because it was a lucrative opportunity, secondly because they wanted to pressurise the Soviets, whose human rights violations they focused one a huge amount, which is fine, except that worse violations by China were ignored (referring to the 70's, 80's)

Now that situation persisted throughout the 90s and today. That said, I don't think this Huawei ban had anything to do with human rights, and everything to do with power.
What was this medium complexity task? I wouldn't discredit your ability entirely on the basis of one project.
Thanks. Whales are fascinating animals. Every time I see a photo of a whale's eye I am struck by the feeling that the animal is probably smarter than the photographer.

I feel that other animals maintain a complex inter-species communication network that we have evolved to lock ourselves out of once our own capacity to destroy larger, more dangerous animals developed to the point where the main threat to our own survival came from other humans.

Our senses optimized to detect and interpret those signals that come from the largest hazard to our own existence. We still have the ability to recognize other species warning signals - growls from dogs, roars from lions and bears, etc. but we no longer natively understand the content of the message, instead we can only interpret the context before taking any action.
I think the line is pretty well defined. If a songwriter writes a song specifically for an artist, that doesn't indicate any less skill and definitely doesn't mean the artist added anything meaningful. That song could have just as easily (as in the Elvis example) been recorded by another artist. That's akin to saying that I took inspiration from the Harry Potter books, so I should give JK Rowling a cut of my book deal.

As for remixes and covers, I'd say that if there was a change made that significantly altered or changed the song, it would be considered involvement. It seems that from the article, remixing or changing the song to the point where you would consider it substantially different is enough for a share of publishing revenues.

Bottom line is that while it's still subjective, most musicians and songwriters would have no trouble recognizing if someone else had a substantial impact on the final product.
Just yesterday [0] I also did an upper bound estimate on computing power of a human brain based on assumption that brains carry out irreversible computations. E.g. inputs of an AND gate can not be recovered from the gate output. This forces increase of entropy. This is known as Landauer's principle or Landauer's limit [1].

The Landauer's limit suggests that a brain consuming 20W at 36C can carry out no more than ~1e22 irreversible operations per second (20W / (309.2K * Boltzmann constant * ln(2))).

That bounds brains at ~1e21 FLOP/s (~10 bits erased per FLOP). The best supercomputer right now does ~4e17 FLOP/s.

That's log2(1e21 / 4e17) ~11 doublings of computing power until supercomputers will be faster than thermodynamic maximum of FLOPS power of brains.

Assuming we keep up the doubling time below 3 years, we will have supercomputers faster than a human brain in up to 3 * 11 ~ 33 years.

And at that rate we will need another log2(1000^3) ~ 30 doublings to reach humanity brains computational power, so up to another 90 years.

Overall, I don't see a reason why not to use biological platform for general type computations. If we are able to grow muscle tissue in a lab on an industrial scale, then we should be able to learn how to grow neurons in a lab on an industrial scale. Apparently neurons are a lot more difficult to grow, but it's still perfectly doable [2]. The issue is that we don't know how to grow them so that they do useful computation. But I can easily imagine that AWS and competition will be selling access to teachable biological neurons in the mid term future e.g. in 30 years.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26623730

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2YDApNRK3g
Not to be confused with citizenlab.ca, a research lab of University of Toronto that deals with high profile civil right violations using OSINT and tech analysis.
I myself verified this by directly going to the .onion link where the data was hosted. I searched for one of my friend's number who had a Mobikwik account. And I found his credit card info, email id, and a lot more.
I had this pop up in my twitter feed independently.

When I went to go look at it's basically a lite version of something like Jira. Far less featured, maybe not targetted as much at software development.

In competitive sales analyses (easy to find) it completely loses... far less features, integration, etc.. and yet quite a bit more expensive. It's base starting price is quite expensive compared to the competition (not just vs Jira).

It seems like the product had a lot of things they could have done to improve it and they just didn't execute very well.

It's a weird product area.. I kind of hate Jira, but I also kind of hate every other project management software I've ever used.

It seems like they came at it from the "we're expert UI/designer" types as opposed to project management/development experts. Maybe they cut down their features and kept it too simple out of a sense of design purity.

It also sounds like he had success in other areas that were easier and didn't stress his business management skills, but this product did and he didn't listen to his business partners or seek out better managers to help make the right decision. Perhaps he was blinded by his previous success.

It's an interesting read. As an engineer I would have been very very skeptical to join a team working in this area because my gut feeling would just be bad due to how many products have failed or been mediocre in this product space.
PwC says start when you like, leave when you like
The "prankster" angle is a bit of a distraction. This was a huge ongoing effort that those involved took very seriously. It would be more accurate to portray these people as obsessed missionaries who happened to have a sense of flair.
Plaid for DNS and custom domains-as-a-service
If you’ve ever wanted to give your customers custom domains, send email on their behalf or manage their DNS records, would love feedback on dnspassport.com. Built this out for my current company and thinking of spinning this infrastructure out.
Well then publish it just on steam/gog. I don't see any plus having your Game just on Xbox rather than the PC, sells are probably the same no?
Presumably paying salaries, hosting/hardware, and he specifically calls out marketing costs.
I would pay a lot of money for a curated vim distribution that works out of the box. I've used vim heavily for years, and still nothing compares to it when things are working well, but every time I want to change something I get so frustrated. Every extension uses it's own set of principles, the learning curve is steep, error messages super vague.

If anyone is looking for a side-hustle, I'd be your first customer
Performer do get a share.

The question is if performers should get songwriting royalties for songs they didn't write.
Driving through west Texas, there's a few oil fields, a lot of farms, and a lot of wind farms. Aesthetically I don't exactly like the windmills, but I don't mind them. Texas has a lot of very ecologically stressed areas with mass scale habitat loss thanks to big ag farming, oil, and other human development, but the areas where the windmills are are either a wash where it's mixed wind farm/crop farm areas or they're habitat that's affected by the windmills but still has a lot of habitat. While there are bird strikes, the ecological impact of the windills is by far the least serious compared to coal/gas/oil.

Also I live in Austin, and while some windmills froze early because the power company didn't pay for weatherizing, they were the fastest to fix and managed to excel over nuclear, gas, and coal at production. All of them failed because private power companies didn't want to pay to weatherize, but in areas where wind is really reliable it's a rare thing - a reliable, clean energy source like hydro can be.

It's for those reasons that I really am pro-windmill. We really need mixed sources of reliable clean energy sources if we care about future generations of humans, wind is a great one.
You can't trust Amazon when it feels threatened
I think a missing bit of context here is that you shouldn’t be writing Easter eggs (or jokes in general) in your software if

a) your software is used in critical operations involve real human lives or large amounts of money; AND

b) your company is developing a reputation for buggy and insecure products

Both applied to Microsoft in 2005! While the author is perhaps guilty of abstracting the concerns too much and avoiding MSFT-specific issues, I think it’s a fair point that Easter eggs are unprofessional and can blow up in management’s face for high-profile software.
Did you use reader mode? because I noticed that when I use firefox's reader mode it will cut off part of the article on the New Yorker site.
I get the impression that copyright infringement on permissively licensed works is more the norm than the exception these days. It seems like most popular JavaScript libraries are MIT licensed, but it seems lost on the users that the MIT license requires attribution, something I rarely see on a lot of highly interactive websites that are almost certainly redistributing attribution-required code.

It would be interesting to see if one could make a bot that could detect minified versions of popular libraries and see what the compliance rate is.
Yea, that was the point, layered under a little snark. Time saved up front by relaxing the requirements so that you don't need a backend service or Internet means you don't even have to think about x509 provisioning.
Agree, with the caveat that specific testing for graphene is actually not trivial (it is fundamentally carbon). But functional safety testing, supplier surveys, etc can be put in place to catch this sort of issue upstream.
A quick Google search suggests that SNN200642 masks are advertised as having graphene in them. Googling "biomass graphene" yields a bunch more links, including this one: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0371/0792/5125/products/3_...

A Chinese patent for a potentially toxic mask material?
Spack vs. Easybuild
Does anyone have any opinions on which is better and why?
Why would you need to be a great coder to be a Product Manager? The challenge will be proving your product chops. Being a bad coder is quite good enough technically to be a good PM.
Good to know, and I'll be looking forward to seeing the full changes.

> Open sourcing Sublime Text isn't a rational thing, as there is no massive tech company who would be donating the primary engineering resources for the project.

Just sayin, there are porn video games making $20,000 per month on Patreon. I think something as popular and beloved as ST could make a lot more than that. I'd personally pay at least $5/mo to support a full-time development staff for my most important development tool (by far), and that's way more than the $80 I paid once for ST3 back in ~2016.
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

This case could be said to be creating misleading data. If the doctor's offices aren't recording appointments more than 48 hours in advance, the System is losing visibility on the total number of people who want appointments. Every office will appear to be 100% efficient even though there is effectively still an invisible waiting list.
Labels have been cooking the books and running dirty schemes since forever. Hell even Pink Floyd wrote a song about it.

I would not be shocked in the slightest if a few artists are increasingly also starting to throw their weight around and that is gaining some traction and becoming more of a norm as well. Thats also not new, ranging from the inane (no brown m&m's back stage) to stuff like this.

I think a lot of people would be shocked to learn that

1. Many artists dont write their own songs

2. Many bands dont perform in their own studio albums and often use hired guns/session musicians

3. A lot of 1&2 are actually a relatively small number of people with a pretty prodigious output.

People like Max Martin, Ryan Tedder, Sia Furler, Dr. Luke, Bonnie McKee in the current sphere/conversation.

But even going back to Elvis...Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller are the actual writers for Hound Dog, Jailhouse Rock etc. And theres some for other Genre's, Motown had their own with Lamont Dozier and Brian and Eddie Holland. Otis Blackwell, Prince Nelson Rogers etc etc.

This revelation happened for me when i started getting into playing music. Over the years I have gained appreciation for those that dont really need to deal with 1 and 2, but that takes a very special type of talent and dedication.
You know there are issues, so that is a good thing.

Hang tight. You can clearly learn to fix these issues and become better at building/architecting solutions. Spend some time reviewing projects on github and see how others have tackled the issues you are struggling with. Practice by creating your own projects. They don't need to be complete but will allow you to try different strategies for structure, hard coded values etc.

You could become a PM if you really wanted to... the PM's I work with have zero coding experience. This would be difficult for me as I don't see a PM as being creative and I like to build things.

You can do this!
>competitive sales analyses (easy to find) it completely loses.

Could you please share? I wasn't able to find anything.
HTTP/2 and /3 are where "the web" really changes to become just another shitty network protocol. The beauty of HTTP was in it being hyperTEXT; now it might as well be some Novell crap.

I know that there are Reasons and blablabla but at an emotional level it's the end of an era, same to all these sites going React. The web used to be built on simple and easily-understandable tech, and now it just isn't.