skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I upvoted for this alone:

Another neat short hand is !$ which is an alias for the last argument of the previous command. This can be handy if one creates a new directory and wants to change into it without typing the the directory again. So commands would be

mkdir -p make/new/directory
cd !$

You've no idea how many years I've been thinking "This is Linux fer gawd's sake. Surely there must be some easy way to make a new directory and 'cd' to it in a single command!" But was never able to find or guess the right incantation.
The only viable alternative to knowing someone at Google, is getting your story to the front page of HN / Slashdot / similar, and hoping someone from the other side of the wall reaches out.
It’s worth reading what I linked. Gold’s inherent utility as a metal is largely irrelevant.
Wow, what an intellectually dishonest description of your citation. It’s looking at interventions to promote condom usage, not condom usage.

Forgive my tone but...just wow.
Are they normally overwhelmed to this extent in April?

I’ve never heard of mention of it before when I’ve been in Delhi talking to locals at this time of year in the past, but open for figures like hospital occupancy etc.
None of the virus build resistance to masks. what exactly is the hypothesis? Masks just reduce the transmission rate, so it shouldn't have any correlation with virality. A 10x more viral variant will still be 10x more with masks, just that overall transmission for all variants will be reduced by 90%
Same for me. The low sound levels of being alone at home are so much more comfortable than at an office with even one person speaking.

It's by far the best part of working from home.
Dnvgl/internationalization: support multiple languages/cultures in a browser
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The death rate is not low. Its falsified [1]. People are dying by the thousands and the govt is hiding it. Please look at the indian twitter struggling to find beds, oxygen tanks and drugs for their loved ones.

[1] https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1384782949879517185.html
We also harshly criticized 642 other "I just need a programmer"-posts here that month, and all of those companies are bankrupt and long forgotten
Would it be possible to define a "zone" that GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT can overwrite?

I reverted from btrfs to ext4 on my main desktop a few years ago, because grub couldn't remember the last selected menu item (error: sparse file not allowed), and I didn't feel like creating a dedicated /boot partition.
They addressed this in the paper by making the change small (5 lines). Obvsiously time is still wasted, but the team felt that the research warranted it. This is up to debate and should not be used solely as a reason to crucify them.
Roland Fryer mentioned this a while ago while discussing his paper on racial dispartiies in police use of force last year in a YT interview, he predicted an increase of felonies (100k's of felonies including 60k additional shootings i beleive were the numbers he used), due to 2020 politicans endorsing anti-police protests + large protests.

a big correlation for the uptick in crime he argued was related to politicans endorsing protesting controvercial police incidents + protests, which historically is assosciated with significant sharp upticks in crime.

https://scholar.harvard.edu/fryer/publications/empirical-ana...
It's a reference to this quote:

> New York State chief judge Sol Wachtler was famously quoted by Tom Wolfe in The Bonfire of the Vanities that "a grand jury would 'indict a ham sandwich,' if that's what you wanted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_sandwich
Is there? Please cite sources. (Preferably scientific or scholarly instead of political.)

There is overwhelming evidence that the virus is spread by fine aerosols:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

It is widely reported (and noted in the article above) that cloth masks are not effective against such particulates.

One of the only studies on the topic found that cloth masks were penetrated by ~97% of such particles:
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577
Thats certainly in the realm of possibility but the evidence of that needs to be clear. Accusations like that are one step removed from complete paranoia.
In Texas, the mask mandate has been lifted for weeks.

There has not been a surge of new cases.

Throughout 2020, Broken Bow, OK received millions of tourists, it was the #2 short-term vacation rental destination in the country, according to VRBO.

It's a small town with crowded bars. Very few locals or visitors wore masks.

There was not a significant rise in severe Covid cases, and schools mostly kept masking optional.
You are free to use Minix or Hurd, not sure if a modern browser will even run, but if you want a microkernel so badly...

So if only Linus would have listened we would have Linux as microkernel equally feature rich and widespread? Stupid Linus /s

https://www.minix3.org/

https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/
/etc/hosts let the system bypass DNS resolution step when the entry you are looking for is in that file. However, this is the case only if the software uses the standard POSIX call to do that (gethostbyname) and if the system is configured to behave that way (which should be the case).

Other software may bypass the system-level resolution for various reasons. (e.g. a software using DNS over HTTPS)

In addition to this, modern websites may have their IP addresses to change often because they are behind a CDN/proxying service like Cloudflare, Cloudfront, ... That is, continuously updating the /etc/hosts file by hand may be very tiring.
Remote positions in DevOps rose from 21% to 31% during last year
Also an HN story on this by The Verge at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26899593

Original story: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/21/22396283/apple-schematics...
> If you take it as fact that SARS-2 primarily spreads through aerosols

Is that actually a fact though?
cmder [0] is great. When I was forced to use Windows, a good terminal emulator was the first thing I looked for. The trouble is most Windows users don't know what a terminal emulator is or that anything better is possible. But it has been possible for a long time.

[0] https://cmder.net/
And FBI is still upset that Apple won't install a back door for them.
When my house got burgled, they didn't even bother taking my MacBook, let alone any real books. Your average burglar is looking for cash and items that can be quickly pawned, not corporate secrets.

If someone did break into my house as an act of espionage (corporate or nation state), I'd be worried about much more than just my password security.
EU preparing legal case against AstraZeneca over vaccine shortfalls
Facebook doesn't have permission to hold my data. Especially not scraping data, and if implemented, where would they scrape it from?

Certain regulations only consider meaningful freely given consent (all your popups mean nothing), and you still need to implement the option of no unnecessary data.

If they put monetary value on data, then they must have an option of paying out any extra, no? Of course they will try to weasel their way through cracks in laws, but they can be fixed, if (and only if) there is support.
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Fair game. I don't know practically anything of game dev so I believe your explanation. The video itself seemed to be mostly critical about the lack of funding to fulfill their promise so thought that was the main problem here.
> There is a reason that the health authorities advocating community usage of masks...maintain that SARS-2 spreads through large respiratory droplets. It’s because otherwise the whole concept of community masking is absurd.

But why would they keep saying it? Maybe they are effective. Maybe it's the politician's syllogism. Maybe they're worried that back-peddling would hurt their credibility. Maybe they create enough of a sense of both safety and fear to keep society functioning.
The problem with such experiment is that it can be a front. If you are a big entity, gov, or whatever, and you need to insert a vulnerability in the kernel, you can start a "research project". Then you try to inject it with this pretense, and if it fails, you can always say "my bad, it was for science".
Rumor: Microsoft planning new Windows Store that doesn't suck
Postal Service monitoring Americans' social media for 'inflammatory' content
Hej, almost the same for me, but after seeing steam-proton and wine overall more and more capable of running games, i consider switching to linux. Even Microsoft accepts that linux is so important today, that they started to do a hole lot to emulate/integrate it. Why bother with an emulation, when you can get the real deal?
I don't think they are. What I'm saying is that overwhelmed hospitals could be a less dramatic signal (or an earlier signal) of the epidemic taking off.
>If UFED just copies data from unlocked phones, why would they be using vulnerabilities to do so?

I think what he meant to say was that if Cellebrite is used on your locked phone it could be the equivalent of a person having your unlocked phone in their hands where they can do whatever they want. Only cellbrite doesn't do look at random things, it grabs everything.

Cellebrite devices are also frequently used by phone carriers to image your old phone and transfer the data to your newly purchased phone, to give you a clearer idea of what they can do.
Met Office and Microsoft to build climate supercomputer
We’re well into the start of the Metaverse fad for VC funding. I expect the bet is that they’ll pickup large investment quite quickly off the back of that and hire in expertise.

Not sure why they’re running a Kickstarter though!
Right but imagine the same study but performed on 1 billion people for a much less lethal virus. That’s what we’re doing with this mass global vaccination campaign.

So yes, that is my concern. But I mainly mention it because it’s a handy counter to the utilitarian collectivist argumentation without having to argue against the ethics of collectivism itself.
Lab Identifies New Covid-19 Variant; Genome Suggests Resistance to Antibodies
Is it possible to provide portable zips for Windows?
I've read the full report. Quoting just this is disturbingly misleading.

There is a family relationship between JS and BH. Even in 1987 (the time of the murder) it appears to be hostile. At the time this snippet was recorded it was 13 years later and BH had manipulated the police into agreeing to drop drug charges against her grandson in exchange for testimony. Oddly this seems like a pattern, because BH also offered to help police with the same evidence in 1994 when a Shawn Haddaway was being charged for 3 offenses -- no explanation for this is given, or the relationship.

[edit: From the other link posted by bb88 (thanks, reading now), Shawn Haddaway was the son of BH]

What other conversations, that were not recorded, occurred between JS and BH prior to this "wiretap"? Had BH been badgering JS for days and the responses JS gave were just "giving her what she wanted" -- if so, it would be classic broken family relationship crap -- I recommended reading some of Deborah Tannen's books.

This snippet also doesn't explain why someone else also admitted to the murder, for which there was physical evidence available, but was suppressed.

What happened is very sad -- a person was murdered. But it is far, far more complicated than what is in this snippet.
If a big chunk of the companies that are using it have to stop, I wouldn't say it's all that different.
Yeah, it is possible that the engineer thinks he can do anything and the other guy trusts the engineer.
Also some more details here from Met office:

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/press-office/news/corp...
> Kind of hard to justify buying anything else for a dev laptop at this point.

Embrace, extend, extinguish. We've reached the final stage already.
> John Ioannidis

Not a credible source.
Yes. You’ll find many results for the keyword ‘cellebrite’ on law.justia.com, canlii.org and austlii.edu.au. These free databases are far from comprehensive and most cases won’t go on appeal or end up in a legal research database at all, so this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Washington [0], Vermont [1], and Maine [2] all got mask mandates last summer. These states have had half the number of cases [3] as other northern-US states.

Masks reduce respiratory disease transmission in hospitals. They work outside of hospitals, too. Covid-19 spreads like any other respiratory disease.

If you don't want to wear a mask, then stay at home. I have the right to participate in society without catching a dangerous disease from you.

If your mask is uncomfortable, then try some different ones. I use masks made by Burlway [4]. They are very soft. They fit my face perfectly and haven't stretched or shrunk. I have 10 of them. I keep clean ones in a drawer near the door. My going out ritual is now "keys mask phone wallet."

[0] https://www.governor.wa.gov/news-media/inslee-announces-stat...

[1] https://vtdigger.org/2020/07/24/scott-orders-mask-mandate/

[2] https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/health/coronavi...

[3] https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areasRegional=uswa&area...

[4] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08DXY4TBS
It's also a disadvantage, to be clear. Tests take longer to run when you need to rebuild your database and not just your own code. There's no easy way to put something in maintenance mode and only take changes for bug fixes, because maintaining forks is not a significant thing. Thus downstream dependencies must pay not just for bug fixes but also for feature improvements, deprecations etc.

It works well enough if everything is making money and is being actively developed.
It's not a strong claim. He is absolutely a lot more popular. Popularity doesn't work in the same way as in the U.S., in the Orthodox culture where there is no concept of independent opinion: doublethink is innate.

Russian thinking is wholly totalitarian, in the good old Hitleresque sense (while ofc, Russian state is absolutely NOT totalitarian, it's just a soft dictatorship not unlike vast majority of governments in the poor world). Totalitarian thinking means that Putin is "us", i.e. government, State overall, country, nation, and society are the same, they are inseparable: most Russians could not explain how is "society" is different from "state", or discard the whole concept of "society" as Western weed. Rejecting Putin thus means self-rejecting. Very few people can even think of it.
Be sure to check out the switches, --ultra-brute is what I usually use.
It makes perfect sense once you realize that universities are in the business of selling reputation.

When someone graduates from the university, that is the same as the university saying "This person is up to our standards in terms of knowledge, ethics and experience."

If those standards for ethics are very low, then it naturally taints that reputation they sold.
Well the evidence would have to be clear to deport a single person. But a general trend could be enough justification to shut down immigration from certain countries. That is not a personal punishment like a deportation, so it does not need conclusive proof (which of course doesn’t exist, there is no country which sends exclusively or predominantly bad immigrants to the US).
Bangalore 99% cases are [asymptotic](https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/others/94-4...). So most would not be sick but still spreading the virus around.
You could just have a special build flag for IE11 support that does the slow path?
I don’t know much about India’s situation, but hospitals are overloaded everywhere. In the Bay Area everyone that wants it can get a vaccine tomorrow and we are about to fully reopen, but icu capacity is still pretty bad and full of Covid patients.

There is nowhere in the world that was prepared for this virus and had anywhere close to enough icu beds.
The other thing to explain is why deaths with people testing positive for covid lag people testing positive for covid by 2 weeks.

If people tested positive because of say extra tests, and it was just a general factor, then surely those deaths would increase at the same time, not 2 weeks later.

The rough covid pattern for someone who dies of severe breathing difficulties while testing positive for covid seems to be globally:

T+7 test positive for covid

T+14 into hospital

T+21 death
There's only one way the kernel dev team can afford to look at this: A bad actor tried to submit malicious code to the kernel using accounts on the U of M campus. They can't afford to assume that the researchers weren't malicious, because they didn't follow the standards of security research and did not lay out rules of engagement for the pentest. Because that trust was violated, and because nobody in the research team made the effort to contact the appropriate members of the dev team (in this case, they really shoulda taken it to Torvalds), the kernel dev team can't risk taking another patch from U of M because it might have hidden vulns in it. For all we know, Aditya Pakki is a pseudonym. For all we know, the researchers broke into Aditya's email account as part of their experiment--they've already shown that they have a habit of ignoring best practices in infosec and 'forgetting' to ask permission before conducting a pentest.
To be clear, I agree. I think the whole concept of source control is silly. Actually I’ll go one step further and say I think the whole concept of trying to artificially slow transmission of SARS-2 in the general population is a bad idea period.
Why would you quit a forum where you can spread your ideas if you have no way to create an alternative?
Well yes, that much I figured, but that happens no matter which way around I tuck the loops. I'm looking more specifically for what to do differently to not end up with a granny variation.
I vote for creating a « mkcd » alias !!
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I skimmed over the article because I'm interested in what platform the content creators are switching to. Unfortunately I didn't see any other platform mentioned.

I have been dreaming of a good youtube alternative for some time.
That does sound like a good system indeed. By extension imagine if you could login to anything using that certificate if it was digital. The problem with digital data is that it can be copied arbitrarily.

NFTs prove authenticity of some data, so now your identity can be provably yours, only a single one can exist, and you can use it to login to things, sign a message that is provably from you etc.

Yes NFTs are tradable because they are tokens but you don't have to, and I'd argue an extension to ERC721 which limits NFTs to only a single issuance with a single token would make such a system reasonbly whole.
Except owners have foreign passports and never come to Belarus since many years. Only some middle managers are in, and key team is usually in the U.S. or in Cyprus, too.
I can't say I'm fond of the BLM movement, but hey at least I still think they should be able to advertise if they wish.

But I am kind of pleased that finally the censorship also hits left-leaning people as it previously was very dominated against more right leaning people.

Maybe now we can finally agree that censorship is bad, whomever it hits.
But by then bitcoin would have started using quantum hashes.
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What are the obvious negative of face masks?
The last time a bunch of game developers got a ton of funding for a terrible MMO it ended up becoming a $30 billion chat app.
sure I'll be in between jobs soon, so I got some time to write something
You can already transfer your identity to someone else in your public/private key example. If you accidentally expose your private key it's no longer your identity. You can "transfer" this identity to your new machine by copying it across etc.

NFTs are just a standard, there's no rule requiring you monetise and trade them.

Say your wallet seed (which is used to derive your private keys) gets compromised, you'd want to transfer your NFT to yourself in a new wallet.

A typical use-case for burning (irrevocably destroying) tokens is to send them to specific burner contracts or addresses. MakerDAO does this with fees burned in MKR. You could "burn" your identity NFT by sending it to the burner contract if you need it changes or re-issued.
Or just ship a statically compiled binary, with resources inside, without having to mess with anyhing docker related.
Please stop saying this "we may be more immune because we are exposed to more viruses". Doctors have repeatedly clarified that this is not true and this immunity does not help in COVID's case. This is an argument used by antivaxxers all across the country. This also pushes people to false medicines like Ayurveda/Homeotherapy
> Also try saying this in a public place in those heavily affected states.

Not 100% sure what the insinuation is here, but just because the general public may respond negatively (perhaps angrily) to a particular viewpoint, does not indicate anything about the truth value of that viewpoint.
I think a review of the relevant literature shows that it quite obviously is, but I’m about to go to sleep and don’t want to fight that battle thus why I’m trying to direct your attention to the actual point.

So let’s try again:

If you take it as a given that SARS-2 primarily spreads via aerosols, what does that imply about the efficacy of strapping a warm, damp piece of cloth over your breathing holes?
I hava a mkcd alias to create a directory and changing into it.
Ugh. Cygwin was such a pain back when it was the only option. It was yet another ABI and had all the breakage that implies. Even today, so many open source projects are full of ifdefs for cygwin.

I much prefer WSL1 and I've only run into a couple of issues over the last year (can't set Windows time from Linux and ssh-agent doesn't work out of the box) which is a significant improvement over cygwin or even a proper linux distro (which would occasionally boot to a black screen after updating anything related to X)
Your phrasing isnt quite clear.
> We spoke to eight YouTubers who said they were quitting, each with relatively small followings of less than 2,000 YouTube subscribers apiece.

One of the people interviewed had "a few dozen" followers on YouTube. I get that the original reporting on advertising blacklists may have been newsworthy, but this article in particular seems to have only been written to push an agenda. Less than 10 people with a combined reach probably in the 4 digits leaving YouTube is not noteworthy.
You are repeating what your colleague said. In effect, you are telling me that you will listen and believe what anyone (or at least your colleague says around you. If this is not the case, you don't really answer my question.
I've not read the article, but this came into my inbox today, which you might be interested in. An in-depth look at Project CETI, a research effort that seeks to use AI to understand the vocalizations of sperm whales off the coast of Dominica.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/scientist...
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I use `z` as a less manual way to search common directories instead of changing $CDPATH. It's based on 'frecency'.

https://github.com/rupa/z
One of the ways in which the “Fake News” term is earned is by taking inconsequential individuals like Youtubers with 30 followers or random Tweets and forming a “people are saying” narrative out of them.
In Afrikaans the NT book of "James" is called "Jakobus"; closer to the mentioned ideal, but confusing to many when looking up references from English.

"John" is also "Johannes", again closer to Ἰωάννην.
How can you be such knowledgeable in networking..

Gosh wish i were
They can’t spread their ideas on YouTube either... the ones quoted have TENS of subscribers.
That is really interesting and something I hadn't heard before. Got any recommendations for detailed write-ups on their histories?