skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you're a small startup with no sales trying to build a prototype, but you patented your idea so that you get a priority date, and also because a patent is the first thing investors want to see to know that your idea won't just be copied by anyone else. Now you just get run over by the big boys?

Now you're in the same situation, but you sell your patent to another entity because you can't afford yourself to sue the big boys for damage. You or anyone else you delegate should have no recourse at all?
It's only a matter of time before someone develops a wasm browser engine that renders to canvas and provides "trusted" delivery of ad assets over a websocket.
Fixing your own website is fine, I’m just saying that unless a standard to fix this in a systematic way comes along, 99% of the web is still going to be unusable. For example a reasonable solution would be <button href=‘...’>
In some sense, it doesn't matter dramatically which of the 3 it was.

All seem plausible because...

1) gain of function research is super risky and there have been lab escapes before. We need to do MUCH better about lab leaks. We should spend more on security and have greater transparency. We should also question whether it even makes sense to do that kind of research.

2) Same thing for natural research sample being leaked...

3) wet markets are probably a really bad idea. And we should probably keep a better eye on natural virus variants, HOWEVER... that's somewhat in conflict with the "maybe this research isn't worth it" line of thinking.

So we have some somewhat hard trade-offs, here, but there are aspects where we can just do better. Like, whenever we do do research on viruses, we should probably be a LOT more careful about how and when we do it.

And although it's very unlikely the virus was engineered, we should probably be careful with the technology that would let it be engineered. The technology that makes sequencing novel virus strains and developing novel vaccines using mRNA also makes it easier to engineer a virus. This is a tough one because if we had clamped down super hard on mRNA tech too early, we would've been perhaps unprepared to make a vaccine...
I tend to be verbose in tracking bugs, but poor in tagging, categorizing, and prioritizing them.

Ultimately, I've found the important bugs prioritize themselves no matter how sloppy your system is. The rest of the bugs are simply there to (1) provide context, reference (2) serve as fallback if product work tends to lag.
Yes green account, whatever you say.
I started agreeing with the article but then it becomes an ad-hominem attack, and I can only assume the author didn't really understand the paper since I don't see an actual critique of it. I also found the statements on "super-advanced" math to be suspicious as well:

> super-advanced math is a language game

I don't think so, and this shows lack of understanding. You have to proof things in math, and I expect someone's critique on Eric's paper showing why there is a mistake and where, instead of trying to decrease his credibility.

That said, I'm also skeptical this is such a huge breakthrough and was a huge blind spot in physics for decades, but I guess it remains to be seen.
That will never happen. Apple moved several years ago to the “content blocking rules” mode on iOS, where all that any blocker can provide is a set of rules to match URLs with (to put it in simpler terms). Safari would lookup every request against the rules and block requests without the extension getting any information about which URLs were visited, which rules matched, and which ones were blocked. More recently, it moved to the same model in desktop Safari too (there’s a detailed post on the uBlock Origin issues/forum about why there will never be a uBlock Origin for Safari even though the browser has started supporting WebExtensions).

The way uBlock Origin and similar extensions on desktop browsers like Firefox work is by intercepting all requests, which means it can exfiltrate your browsing behavior and/or sell that. I’m confident that uBlock Origin doesn’t exfiltrate data, but the same cannot be said of other extensions in this space.

Apple, with its already restrictive content blocking model, will not allow a way for extensions to look at requests or manipulate requests. Chrome’s Manifest V3, whenever it’s adopted on the release version of Google Chrome, will also kill uBlock Origin (it allows requests to be seen, but not intercepted/modified).
Curious how many of these can be tackled directly by a modern symbolic math package like Mathematica.

Question 2 in particular, I'd be curious if it can get there without guidance.

[EDIT]: Answer is yes: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Limit%5B%28Sin%5BTan%5...
I've found a happy medium is to have a garbage collection section of the backlog. You'll probably never touch it, but having the data can be important.
Yea, but let's reframe this... does it matter? Let's say people thought Bozo the Clown invented the printing press. What does it change? I'm not trolling. This might be more of me having too deep of thought on the matter. I'm the kind of guy that'll rabbit hole into the history of Macedonia for too much of 3 weeks because I came across an article about them having trouble getting into NATO due to the country's name (yes I did this). I know more about Macedonia (now North Macedonia) than 99% people... so what?

Better example, I enjoy watching sports with friends and with alcohol. Every now and then, commenters and friends will mention some sort of niche bit of info. Like a certain football play and what it means. Knowing or not knowing the specifics of game plays changes zero of my entertainment of the game. In truth, it wouldn't mean anything to my friends either in reality. Any of us knowing or not knowing the exact, specific details of football changes nothing. We still watch it on ESPN. We still hang out at someone's house. We all bring food and booze. It matters to the players, coaches and anyone else directly involved. Them flubbing a named detail can change the game, yes. Me knowing? I could call American football, "ice skating" and it'll change zero in the real world. That's not a football, it's an ice cube. Pauly Shore was the nickelback for the Bucks in the last Nachobowl.

99% of people can get through life just fine thinking the printing press was invented by a hamster. That knowledge doesn't change the utility of a book. I think I'm just overthinking it, but maybe culturally we apply too much value on tidbits of facts.
Lots of people will offer to fix your problems for you, like increasing your wages.

Not all of them will be able to deliver.

Not all of them were genuinely interested in you or your problems in the first place.
> But anyway I doubt that people do it even though they should.

A lot of codebases certainly skip such checks.

But it's also fairly common to at least have a wrapper function that mallocs + triggers a fatal error if it returned null - and then to use that wrapper throughout the codebase. Gamedev tends to roll it's own allocators anyways, or need oddball system allocators for some resources, so they typically have a decent place to stick such checks already.
Employers absolutely do have more market power.

Imagine if most employees bring a contract of their choosing from one employer to the rest, and employers are the ones maybe hagling over specific provisions. Really imagine that. Totally different world right?

That's what it would be like if employees had more market power.
This might be similar to bigfoot.

"I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that's extra scary to me. There's a large out of focus monster roaming the countryside"
Mitch Hedburg
James,

I read your post on Reddit back in the day. It was evasive and frankly condescending because you basically argue against something no-one familiar with the science is claiming: that COV is a chimeric virus that is the product of copy-and-paste genetic manipulation rather than directed evolution or gain-of-function research that has resulted in phylogenetic drift against something that was found in the wild -- most likely RaTG13.

And why should anyone take your writing seriously when you don't even talk about "gain of function" research or the various other techniques that have been used in the past decade to aerosolize viruses like H5N1? If you know about them and are deliberately omitting all mention and analysis you are just being dishonest. If you don't then you clearly aren't an expert.

There are also lots of on-topic scientific claims you could address that would let people evaluate your competence and also provide illumination -- what do statistical models say about how long it would take for RaTG13 to evolve into COV19 in the wild? What about in a lab? How likely or unlikely it is to find virii so far away from known ancestors? What are the chances of finding them once we start looking in the wild -- should we have expected to find a closer ancestor by now? And what about the claims made by the State Department about WIV, its closure in September (related: who in the West should be able to confirm/deny if this is the case)? I'd also personally be interested to hear how long it takes to develop research mice with ACE2 receptors since their existence by mid-2020 surely suggests a targeted research agenda that preceded the outbreak? Could scientists in Beijing really have done that in 2 months or whatever?

If you want to be taken seriously, you need to frame the top two or three most credible lab-escape scenarios that work with what is actually public knowledge. Then address the evidence for and against. Setting up strawmen argument, knocking them down and then virtue-signalling on racism isn't useful or on-topic.
RIP legend
Yeah, it would be neat if it made it a bit easier to work with. Git's TLDR page actually breaks it down through subcommands.

tldr git commit

will show examples and explanations for using `git commit`.
Encryption Has Never Been More Essential–Or Threatened
Apple's Rationale for Not Bringing iMessage to Android Revealed in Legal Docs
the tab containers are amazing
This is such an amazing and inspiring article. Thanks for writing and sharing.
Congress should just invalidate all submarine patents, full stop.

When the 13th amendment was passed slave owners didn't get to "grandfather in" their existing slaves. Extreme example, but the point is sometimes old laws are so harmful to society we should not allow people to continue abusing them.
On iOS, the content blocking model has never exposed one’s browsing history to the blocking extensions. Whether it’s Firefox Focus or some other content blocker enabled in Safari settings (you can enable more than one), the extensions can only provide a set of URL patterns that the underlying Safari browser engine (used by Firefox Focus and every other browser on iOS) will match with requests and block. No information —about which URLs were visited or matched with the blocking rules or which ones were blocked — is ever known to the content blocker app/extension.
Yeah I get people want to point fingers as useless as it will be. But just tell me how we are going to protect ourselves from someone like Putin or Kim Jong-un doing it on purpose the next time when half the population refuses to mask or get a vax and stop it. That's the far bigger problem. You'll never stop it happening a second time but you can prepare with policy.
Forget the three of clubs, how you stop the volunteer from picking a second packet to check for the most obvious solution? You have to be incredible dumb to not check it.
The fundamental reasons is the entrepreneurial brain rot that is startup culture that makes all these "temporally embarrassed billionaires" also "temporally embarrassed business owners".

Yes, there are people here that have had bad experiences with American unions, many of which do suck for a variety of reasons, but their stories confirm a prevailing narrative not create it.
YouTube pulls Florida governor's video, says his panel spread Covid-19 misinfo
Abstractly it’s sort of funny as a joke against JavaScript, but it’s really not funny at all when the butt of the joke is people who have JS enabled on their browsers. It’s just elitist and obnoxious.

I like jazz and think rock/pop generally sucks. If I prefaced every blog post with “people who like rock are too dumb to understand the following” I wouldn’t be making a funny joke about music. I’d just be an asshole.
Yes, NVIDIA is actively malicious on that front.
Patents were made for a time before ubiquitous multinational corporations. If there are multiple sources of truth and markets for what is protected invention, then it greatly dilutes the power of that patent. This ends up hamstringing the countries most dependent on patenting to encourage innovation because we are still beholden to foreign interest who file their patents with the USPO or sell to an American troll. The US is the most fastidious in their preservation of patent law despite its many flaws and this is why we will lose out most in the global turning against protected invention.
>Roads don't pay for themselves

US highways do pay for themselves (http://www.bts.gov/publications/federal_subsidies_to_passeng...) (non-PDF version: http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/pub...), and help pay for other modes of transportation. Transit receives the biggest subsidy per passenger-mile, with rail and airlines in between.

(For those wishing more detail: From the executive summary (http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/pub...):

>*Highways*

>* Users of the highway passenger transportation system paid significantly greater amounts of money to the federal government than their allocated costs in 1994-2000.(http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/pub...) This was a result of the increase in the deficit reduction motor fuel tax rates between October 1993 and September 1997, and the increase in Highway Trust Fund fuel tax rates starting in October 1997.

>* School and transit buses received positive net federal subsidies over the 1990-2002 period, but autos, motorcycles, pickups and vans, and intercity buses paid more than their allocated cost to the federal government.

>* On average, highway users paid $1.91 per thousand passenger-miles to the federal government over their highway allocated cost during 1990-2002.)
TAE Technologies claims landmark in fusion, sees commercialization by 2030
Prince Philip: Tributes after Duke of Edinburgh dies aged 99
Hm, wait a minute. I'm not a webdev by any stretch, so I could be talking out of my ass here. But, couldn't you "fix" the issue by leaving the opacity alone in the HTML, and setting it to 0 in the beginning of the JavaScript?
That's even more depressing then that they are accepting what the corporation wants to give them.
You still need patents. Healthcare is an obvious example, if we eliminated patents we'd have 0 new drugs pass FDA approval over the next decade.

But software is very different from medical patents.
This is pretty unlikely, unfortunately. We're generally looking out for a Pi maintainer because it doesn't really have one -- it's not the most desirable platform to hack on, from a developer POV.
I really dislike this because it now makes the buttons not look like my platform’s buttons. I know this ship has sailed, but there are resets out there that allow you to fix most of the styling issues without making the buttons look like not-buttons.
Those realteks are internally still clones on NE2000, with some realtek tweaks and addons.
Alibaba Fined 2.8B
Neat!

Attempted to run on Windows and it almost works on my machine.

- Watchdog's win32 implementation watches directories rather than files. If Jurigged is patched to watch the directory instead, this part works.

- When the toplevel code is patched, the thread dispatching Watchdog events stops and won't pick up further filesystem changes. This can happen when changing code at toplevel or sometimes a file update gets picked up as Delete/Add instead which causes Jurigged to patch toplevel.

Still trying to track down why that happens.
HN isn’t a great example here, it’s still one of the last sites still using tables for layout.
Investors should pay their own legal expenses
Right, because it was withdrawn from service for being so unsafe.

I mean I'm all for "glass half full" but blaming the sample size when the sample size is a direct result of its unsafety seems a little misleading. If the 737 Max could have kept flying the sample size would have increased, and it would likely have become even more unsafe statistically as the casualties continued to mount.
Okay but get outside once in a while too.

Flapping your feet around under a desk is not real exercise.

Easy bet just walking the same amount of time is better for you with your own weight providing resistance against muscles.
I liked the article, but it's mistaken in its use of named centuries. It says "In the 12th century, the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan consolidated the largest empire in human history", but instead means the 1200s, which is the 13th century. (Recall the years 1-99 are the first century though the year numbers don't start in the 100s.) This mistake happens a few times in the article, but at least its consistent.
I'm not sure what you're specifically referring to by egress, but data transfer from S3/EC2/ELB etc to CloudFront is free:

> If you are using an AWS origin, effective December 1, 2014, data transferred from origin to edge locations (Amazon CloudFront "origin fetches") will be free of charge.

And in general data out from CloudFront ($0.085 to $0.02 in NA & EU) is cheaper than data out from S3 ($0.09 to $0.05 in us-east-2). For the lambda@Edge portion it's $0.60 per 1 million requests while the CloudFront requests are $0.75 to $1.00 per 1 million requests.

Those are public on demand rates and any customers with significant or consistent usage should definitely contact AWS for lower committed/custom prices.

Edit: Disclaimer I'm a principal at AWS, and in the past spent significant time working on CloudFront & Lambda@Edge, but all of the above is public information.
S&P? Do you mean SP (Southern Pacific)? They got bought out by Union Pacific over 20 years ago.
> Is it as easy as Flash? No, but it's still a pretty low barrier-to-entry for people

IMO it is too high. People who are not very much into tech are easily scared away by the need to write any code.

The thing with Flash is that when you launch it and create a new project, it looks, feels and works like a vector graphics editor — because it is one, and a very good one. You start drawing stuff. You start animating stuff. If all you want to make is a cartoon, ActionScript is entirely optional. But then you start wanting to add buttons that do simple things like "go to frame X". You copy-paste ActionScript for that. You go deeper and deeper into the ActionScript rabbit hole. Before you've realized it, you're coding complex logic for a game.

Flash lures you into wanting to write code by being an extremely easy to use animation editor. GameMaker repulses you by making writing code a prerequisite for going any further.
I embrace best tool for the job. Sometimes it’s code, sometimes manual grind or sometimes something else.

One time I had to fix a bug that was estimated at 40 hours and consisted of getting Python 2 type coercion in Python 3 (IMO a silly idea).

The users of this program were 5. Instead what I did: I taught them about strings and ints and how to cast (it was some template language they used). I added an answer with some examples to the FAQ.

It took me an hour. The previous programmer on this project never considered manual solutions.
I hate to nitpick. How do you end up bringing Lamarckism into this? It's thoroughly discredited, and misleading to call it 'evolution'. Did you just travel here from the late 19th century?

Mutations are entirely random, usually deletrious. Evolutionary pressure is the selection for fitness.
Also, all the other “problems” with X have been solved for years. (No tearing, no root X1q on my box, in particular)
Really? How about socializing all of medicine.
I mean, isn't the whole point of business to make money? I can't watch Netflix exclusives on Hulu because Netflix wants to make money and having unique offerings is one way to do that.
I believe you'll find that ubiquitous multinational corporations do indeed outdate the patent, by a couple hundred years.
> Is this distinct from the sub-prime crisis they already alluded to in their post?

Perhaps. There have been more than one...

> Inflation may still happen but what I'm trying to get at is: if inflation turns out to not be the problem do you have another case against fiat currency?

Inflation is already here. Cost of living, rent, gas, food, lumber, taxes, etc. are rising today. Coupled with the government mandated shutdown, particularly of select "non-essential" (aka small) business, we saw a large contraction in the economy. The government's official numbers are self-serving & moving goal-posts. http://www.shadowstats.com/ measures the economic numbers according to benchmarks consistent with the past. Inflation is here & has been here for a while.

> The early days of this were quite literally a mess which is why the government began instituting regulated monopolies.

It was even more of a mess before the invention of electricity. The regulation of utilities could be considered a success. At least the government did one thing right. Problem is despite the Trillions going into taxes over the years, we have a grid that is vulnerable to long term blackouts. With the Grand Solar Minimum being here & a geomagnetic excursion occurring, we can expect space weather to create more issues (e.g. Carrington Event). We are also vulnerable to CME attacks caused by foreign governments. Not good.

> Citation rather than glossy overtures are strongly needed here

My citation is the amount of time that people have to spend working to pay taxes & their unhappiness in doing so.

Who makes things happen in everyday life? The citizenry/people, not bureaucrats.
> the only influence it needs to take from flash lies in the UI/UX.

It could use the SWF file format too, there's nothing wrong with that IMO, and there already are many tools built around it.
Really? This is not a solved problem?