skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just wanted to add that I probably was exaggerating when I said "we have no idea how that happened." re: VP40, bats, and ebola.

Best guess is: a retrovirus and an ebola-like virus infected a bat cell at the same time, the retrovirus accidentally picked up some of the bat genome, which then somehow recombined with the negative sense RNA genome of the ebola-like virus. We have no proof this happened like this, but it's the best guess.

Just as an example of the crazy things that we think probably happen in the world of viruses in nature.
I see lots of comments here assuming absolutely everybody uses Chromium-based browsers. The Firefox "cult" (which I have been a part of since 1.5) is a bubble inside a bubble.
Funny. New drugs existed before patents were a thing.
GPU have high latency. For a chess engine like stockfish which is designed to search as many positions as possible, the latency of a GPU is a big problem.

Engines like LC0 that do use the GPU work by searching fewer positions but with a heavier eval function. This makes the latency less relevant because it is a smaller percentage of the GPU time.
Not a (drug) policy expert by any means, but my speculation is that drug legalization is too much of a "soft on crime" move to be politically viable in most places. Note that this doesn't require that a majority of people are anti-legalization, but rather that enough (as few as a percent or two in a swing district) won't vote for you / will vote for your opponent under any circumstances if you vote for legalization, whereas you're not particularly likely to pick up new votes from it.
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Yes, that’s more accurate than my account - thanks.
Laravel is pretty quick to get up and running with just a few terminal commands, I wouldn't say there are lots of pieces of tech you have to learn. Laracasts.com is a great starting point.

I'd recommend using Laravel Jetstream + Tailwind + Livewire.

Jetstream is free and give you auth 2FA and nice user profile out of the box. Spark v2 ($199/yr unlimited projects) is only the billing portion now, you could use cashier for that for free.

So you get a decent SaaS starting point with Jetstream + Cashier. Spark is probably a time saver, unless you want to customize plans/payments, then it might be better to just go with Cashier.

For local development checkout Laravel Valet.

There are some paid products and services, but they are well worth it. Laravel Forge is amazing for spinning up VPS, SSL certs and more. Plus they support the open source project and community members putting out great content.
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>Conservative Alabamans

Bessemer voted about 5:1 in favor of Biden in the 2020 election.

https://www.sos.alabama.gov/sites/default/files/election-dat...
Hi,

it's actually voted on by users.
> 1929 occurred on the FED's watch

And the longest period of economic contraction in the US happened before the Fed (which isn’t an acronym, so all-capsing it just makes you look like a kook), in the Long Depression.
1. The game industry obviously is not a single business.

2. Every single company in that industry uses cli tools.

Both assertion from your original statement are incorrect. What’s your beef with the command line anyways? It’s just an interface.
I make $550K/year when I close my eyes at night
Part of me thinks it's because that's an easier argument to make than actually addressing any of the substance.

Easier to just assume I won't respond and then they'll look more "right."
Having to pay more for product than what you’re willing to pay is exploitation.
"trim" is so psychoactive.

Because it is not as psychoactive as the flowers does not make it non-psychoactive
Yes. Specifically, POSIX does not specify whether id_t, uid_t, gid_t, or pid_t are signed or unsigned, so whenever it refers to the "default"/"leave alone"/"unspecified" value, it always does it as a cast of -1.
Not sure this theory holds water.

Corporate use was the bread and butter of blackberries because the BES server provided end to end encryption.

This was separate to consumer blackberries where the encryption keys were manged by blackberry themselves (BIS).

blackberries were replaced replaced by iphone and android devices once similar encryption was available, and was pushed even harder once BYOD was viable with its associated cost savings.
Nope, my vim+gpg usage has not been very frequent (although I use them independent of each other A LOT) so I haven't looked into it very much. I will have to get the plugin installed and play around with it. :)
No, I have not been any such situation as of now!
Then why has Shi Zhengli continued to support the zoonotic crossover theory as the most likely when the communist party no longer does?

They left that behind a long time ago in favor of "The US did it."
The whole point of apple is ease of use, your average muppet user isn't going to figure that out.
For anyone looking for an interesting rabbit trail, they may want to read up on Eastern Orthodox calendars and their controversies; specifically, the Revised Julian calendar, which is effectively a more accurate Gregorian calendar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_Julian_calendar
Hi,

I actually provided several links filled with sources above.

here is the main one you're referencing again: https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gk6y95/covid19_did...

Thanks
black bread is common in the north and can be found in variations from north germany to the baltics.

you can still find it in the south of germany and in austria, but there it is usually not freshly baked but sliced and packaged.
Although `~0` assumes twos-complement signed numbers. Which, well, is probably a safe assumption, but still.
There will never be international cooperation on labor laws. Countries have too much to gain from allowing companies to open sweatshops.
Yes, just reading a couple of paragraphs of this story reveals the obvious corruption, incompetence, or both, of the court room this took place in.
Cuirass – the GNU Guix continuous integration software in guile Lisp
You're probably too tired out to have the neurotransmitters to promote the energy to consider so much more.
Perhaps not divvy up the world, or people, as "good" and "bad" and instead focus on truth?

Or perhaps consider that if truth is good, then more truth is likely to be more good, and good people would (should) embrace truth and bad guys speaking more truth would be better than bad guys using less (as surely that is one way to measure who is bad).

Given these options (and I could go on) I'm not sure why a "noble" lie or suppression of speech are the only choices, or better choices.
This is a weird opinion - Garmin is arguably the market leader, and they opened up all their formats and protocols to be standards which are now widely adopted (.fit files, ant+ wireless communication), and they also now work with the competing wireless communication standard too (btle).

And just looking at exercise bikes, it's true that peloton/flywheel/etc are closed. But the products in that space from the established fitness tech players (eg wahoo and tacx) are entirely based around communicating via standard protocols (ant+ fe-c trainer control).
It’s for two people over 50 with no aid from the gov’t for the premium (which means we’re in good shape financially). The “Affordable” in the ACA is not for everyone.
Tips to Not Drop Your Phone (Even in the Toilet)
The warehouse workers have similar issues, according to stories I've heard they can get reprimanded for using bathroom outside of lunch or one 15 minute break per shift.
Depending on the toolchain, they absolutely can. Tech is more complex but there are still pathways to extreme productivity.
YouTube would likely remove the videos as well. YouTube removes videos by conservatives all the time.
What Does Home Mean to Us? Not the Same Thing It Did Before the Pandemic
It's freed for the same reason it could be freed in Java. In Java it could be freed immediately after as_ptr() returns if that was the last reference, but may be freed later. In Rust it would be freed immediately after as_ptr() returns because that was the last reference.
Uber Won’t Let CA Drivers Set Own Prices After Rider Cancellations Rose 117%
Apple privacy – green bubble/blue bubble – hypocrisy?
Apple's PR sells privacy so much - but don't you think the green bubble/blue bubble thing violates that fact?
There's no reason not to do both.
Just do it. If you have any hesitation, you’re not cut out for this type of work.
A accident of history, combined with some of the less savoury parts of the human character.

Cannabis was hardly known in the USA in the 1930s, and when alcohol was re-legalised the prohibition agents, who had a vast infrastructure, needed work. Henry Anslinger picked on pot as it was widely used by Mexicans so they would be able to work more freely. Trouble with alcohol prohibition is rich white people, who then and now, have the political power, drink. Mexicans could be "othered".

In the 1970s when it started to be more popular amongst the counter culture types prosecuting pot was a way of beating on the "dirty hippies".

The meme that "drugs are bad" made it into our collective consciousness and we have been trying to root it out (seemingly one funeral at a time).

That is from my memory but my main source for that is "Chasing teh Screem" by Johann Hari
I think US is going to side step Railways entirely and in 30 years achieve full autonomous driving (ofcourse electric). So roads will become the defacto "railways" with cars forming a convoy of sorts over long distances. Special lanes will be designated for autotraffic. Yet it will retain the conveniences of door-to-door transport. I, too, would love to see Japan-style railways in the US, but it's not going to happen. Any long distance will be dominated by Airways as we currently have.
Why is this an issue? People can take a taxi to/from the railway station at either end of the journey as it is done in other countries.
Can we cancel woke YouTube/google already?
The only way the 15% number would make sense is if they consider the share of iOS among all OSs (phones, tablets, PCs, servers, mainframes, etc.)
At the risk of losing some karma here... and prefacing this with: I hate these patent trolls, they go entirely against my senses... I am wondering: is there a charitable view on the "other side" of this that I'm not seeing, in which these people have some (perhaps weird) way of morally justifying this practice?
“I’m paying all these code monkeys, I want them at their **ing desks.”

- basically the thought process of all non-remote employers.
The article references mentions $100B over a period of 7 years, or $14B per year.

That’s a decent chunk of money, but it’s important to put it in perspective. Pfizer alone spends around $10B per year on R&D. J&J: $12B. Merck: $13B.
Seems like the true story is beyond Wikipedia. There was definitely a reason why it was banned in so many countries, when alcohol/tobacco weren't. Perhaps it reduces productivity?
This is a generic opinion about IoT that's woefully misapplied to sports tech.
Don't try to fix hard large-scale political problems. Fix easy local problems.

Or invest in seasteading.
If that's true, and consensus is only starting to come together now, how is the Wayland ecosystem considered ready for mainstream usage?

From the perspective of someone happily using X11 at the moment, Wayland (or whatever your preferred term for "the loose association of compositors, protocols, extensions, and nonstandard hacks making up the Wayland ecosystem" is) looks like a failed attempt at building an ecosystem with proponents who are now trying to push it on everyone else in an effort to get the rest of the open-source community to solve the problems they created.

Every compositor is doing their own thing, application and framework developers need to implement basic functionality in one of several different ways depending on which DEs/compositors/WMs they want to support, some stuff has no replacement at all, and we're going to have to throw out the entire X11 world in exchange for... smooth DPI scaling and vsync? Really?

I honestly want to switch to Wayland - some of the stuff I've read about the X11 codebase is terrifying - but the cost of doing that, throwing out the entire desktop world, and giving up legitimate use-cases as "you shouldn't want to do that" is just too high, and the benefits are minimal. I'd honestly be happy to switch, but the whole ecosystem feels like it's a decade or two from being ready to go.

A lot of the hate Wayland gets stems, in my view, from the way it's been pushed on people. Users who aren't invested in the ecosystem and just see people pressuring them to switch to a loose collection of half-finished software that doesn't properly replace what they already have.
I guess these countries still follow the older calendar still for some church activities. This years Easter is yet to to happen in Russia, for example.
They could’ve just skipped adding a day in leap years for like 40 years and avoid the big disruption. Apparently this was considered as one of the proposals but didn’t go through.
Show HN: Peppa PEG – An Ultra Lightweight Peg Parser in ANSI C
This is older but it shows the BLAST of the two viruses. They're more than the same family. RaTG13 is the closest sequence ever discovered (in open literature) to SARS-CoV-2.

https://yurideigin.medium.com/lab-made-cov2-genealogy-throug...
Yet another alleged would-be bomber who seems to have been goaded by the feds, I'm not too concerned about the alleged would-be loss of life.

I don't know the particulars, but I imagine that Amazon is insured, so they wouldn't suffer greatly from the loss of one data center. Lost storage would be painful to some, but if folks are backing up regularly it shouldn't be a huge hit. I doubt amazon does long-term storage at the same sites as their cloud servers, so data loss should be fairly minimal -- though, if a long-term storage facility got hit, we'd probably learn a lot about amazon's commitment to redundancy. Smaller websites would be at the biggest risk, I think, but the internet would largely route around the damage within a few hours.
Why are we still using phone numbers?
Unfortunately, avoiding a new Cold War is something that would take equal effort from both sides. If just one side is eager to wage such a battle, it will happen unless the other side acquiesces at every turn.
I don’t know who the other two are but Dave Rubin, a right wing radical? He’s a classical liberal for crying out loud!
Some model Ms have high power consumption, there is a mod to replace a resistor which reduces it. This can upset some adapters and PCs.

I used one with a ps2->usb adapter I bought about 10 years ago, I recall I had to do some research to find one that's known to work without issues.

This is the adapter I have, looks like its no longer sold:

https://www.clickykeyboards.com/product/ps-2-to-usb-adapter-...
My guess is that fewer people are proficient in writing Rust than know about it being memory-safe, and only a fraction of Rust programmers have studied how to write unsafe code, its (footgun-filled) potential for undefined behavior, and the task of writing safe interfaces that don't allow for UB... yet the rest of them vote on HN anyway, thinking that "safe code can't cause UB" (which is an incomplete mental model).

On a related note, looking at the comments of a semi-"fluff" blog post commenting on an unsafe-Rust data race (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713037), I'm the first person across all of the Mozilla bug-tracker, Mozilla blog, and HN comments to point out that Firefox had "data races in safe code" because an unsafe block in a (module-private) "safe" function was unsound, allowing other safe code in the module to cause data races. (Maybe not the first, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26714209 pointed out the 'bad pattern of "sprinkle atomics it until it works"' (though not researching it as deeply as I did) and got downvoted even though they were right in this instance.)
This is quite a good communication tool.
What tech stack or technologies did you use?
No, these are not your risks of dying by selected causes; this is a population study.

“Hey, statistically the odds of dying on a motorcycle are Lower than driving a car!”

buys motorcycle
Portable keychain/tabletop stock ticker
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I don’t know much about this data center but I imagine it’s pretty massive. It’s probably highly redundant with multiple pipes in and out on all ends. I highly doubt this guy could procure enough explosives to take out the entire data center.

Granted, I’ve never blown one up so I don’t know what the hell I’m talking about.
Take this with a grain of salt, because I haven't done Kanban personally, but I think the theory is that if you hard cap work in progress, and everyone is sitting around on their hands, it puts a lot of pressure to eliminate bottlenecks to progress.
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The most probable solution to IP trolling is likely more attainable than most, here on HN. It is also not the most elegant.

If only 1 reader here on this HN thread ends up founding a unicorn company, you will have enough money & pull to get real patent reform thru congress, if you so wish.

Go out there, make serious money, then change the world of IP. Let that be your legacy.

That's your path forward.
If SARS-CoV-2 emerged due to the WIV's research activities, then it was potentially with the knowledge and funding of the American government, via the EcoHealth Alliance. Racism is always stupid, but in this case it's particularly so.

This absolutely shouldn't be China vs. USA, and it's deeply unfortunate that the Trump administration's early, characteristically unsupported rhetoric made it so. The WIV's safety was probably below American standards, but probably closer than a wet market is to American agricultural standards. So it's ridiculous to think a lab vs. natural origin makes it "more China's fault". If the CCP is currently covering up a lab accident, then they're probably quite unhappy that they've been "forced" to do so, and wishing in retrospect they'd instead decided a year ago to publicly blame the rogue, American-funded researcher.

Long before the pandemic, this was an obscure academic debate, between virologists who wanted to perform certain risky experiments and others who thought they presented an unacceptable risk:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7097416/

With the possibility (absolutely not proven; but not disproven either) that such an experiment has just killed 2.9M people, that debate takes on a terrible new significance.
All of your arguments are logical in the short term but I think you are not looking at the bigger picture. HSR isn't about just building one rail line between two cities and calling it good. It's about building a network, investing in more public transportation and general infrastructure supporting the trains to make the more efficient. It's about reducing emissions and pollution. Improving these things have more impact on people's lives and open up new opportunities than just reducing the travel times between two cities.

And these things don't need to be payed for by the local governments, it can be nationalized and payed for by the fed like other countries do. The fed has demonstrated that it can print 5 trillion dollars in a year but it won't invest anything infrastructure. There is no excuse
Waiting a day for a credit card isn't the issue. Many auto repair shops now offer instant financing through partnerships with third-party lenders. The problem is that the customers have low credit scores and don't qualify for regular loans.
Ah, fair enough, I've only got experience with the flowers.
Magnesium, Vit E, turmeric, fish oil. B complex. Plaqunial

Had to give up the plaqunial. Shame it helped a lot
I'm a big fan of this kind of improved RAII. We implemented it in https://vale.dev/blog/raii-next-steps, you might find it interesting!
America's Race to Scale Carbon-Capture Technology
I don't see the problems with such non-practicing entities. They serve a legitimate purpose and advance the goal of patent laws by paying existing patent holders for their patents and suing companies for patent infringement. In this way, companies that would otherwise have to take on risks to mount an expensive lawsuit themselves can receive ready cash. If such non-practicing entities are outlawed, the inventors would never have been rewarded, and companies like Apple will likely not be held accountable for their patent infringement. Conceptually these companies can be thought of as debt buyers or debt collection agencies.
>colonization and oppression of many many other people.

There are probably valid reason why Indian hate the Brits. But not all period and all colonisation are bad and involves oppression. And I am sure there are some good involves that people excluded for their own interest. AFAIK Modern India is united to become one because of the Brits. The Turks also at one point ruled India.
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Why didn’t they just put warning that claims in these podcasts are not verified? I don’t understand tech righteousness and superiority what other people can and cannot listen. In this case, the thing sis already published, it’s already marked for mature audience. Why certain committees feel so superior of themselves that people cannot be allowed to listen some interviews? They even blocked coffee maker because his views on longevity is too controversial? Wtf?
Then why do it in a new and obscure account?
Ad homenim doesn’t really fly for me, even in a positive sense. But thanks.
I finally heard a good argument in support of "patent trolls" from a friend who has a few patents. It was something like this:

"The little guys can't fight legal battles with large corporations. So either you work with lawyers that are labeled patent trolls or you lose your patent by default by lack of defending it. Or you can go broke fighting in court."

It was the first time I had considered the possibility that there may be more at play here and that I couldn't see all sides clearly.
* Company image

* Snapshots

* Portability

* Isolation

Just a few things i could come up with as valid reasons someone would want to do this.
Just disable JavaScript, then the page loads instantly and works perfectly :)
Invests in high speed rail as per...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26746487

(Interesting these are on the front page at the same time)
Explain the one way valve mechanism of a piece of cloth.
This also explains the confusing naming of the two Russian revolutions: The February/March revolution, and the October/November revolution.
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> I am inclined to predict that the option to use ad blockers may come to an end because browsers and other software financed with online ad-derived revenue have full control over what extensions users are allowed to run. They have full control over that system for extending the functionality of their software.

I have a feeling that if Chrome (for instance) went that route it would quickly become Internet Explorer'd. If you recall, IE was the Chrome of its day for a good while until it slowly eroded away all its goodwill.
If that was the only solution presented I would agree, but in an online forum with several other answers someone providing an overly detailed source is handy. Most people may not be interested, but some might be.
Exploiting the letter of the law is the best way to prove the consequences of the law.
I was going to bring up how Russia was apparently late to the War of the Third Coalition due to still being on the old calendar, but it turns out to be not true:

http://dcjack.org/kagan%20on%20ulm.html

I have also heard similar (fanciful) stories about the start of WW1, when Russia was still on Julian.