skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple ransomware leak corroborates 2021 MacBook Pro ports: HDMI, MagSafe, SD
> All those states are run by one party. They are cooking the books so they look good compared to the other parties.

This party is the ruling party in the federal govt. too. Cooking books wouldn't allow it to escape the wrath of voters, perhaps temper it.

However, I sincerely believe that every govt is cooking books. Politicians are not above that, no matter what party they are from.
If cloth masks don't work, they aren't doing much for source control either. They don't magically filter better in one direction than the other.

If everyone was wearing a particulate mask (e.g. N95), source control wouldn't matter as much. Masks with an exhaust valve are significantly more comfortable and comfort is the reason the CDC is currently citing in regard to their recommendation for people not to wear particulate masks.

If your protection plan relies on everyone else doing something complicated correctly, you have already lost. I think controlling the spread of a virus in the general population using source control is not something our species is capable of.
Reminds me of amodem https://github.com/romanz/amodem
It’s been available long before that, it’s just that MSDN compatibility listing often drop EOL’d versions off the list.
How does the virus RNA survive that long in the body?
How I don't know. But it is estimated it can take 1 to 3 months before it is completely gone.
No. It is a big deal.

Forgery is forgery, and this is a fundamental flaw in the ERC-721 token.

Provenance matters, and this is more than a shot across the bow. This is a direct hit on trust.

I only have to fool you long enough to get the tokens into my wallet. This kind of forgery seems to do the trick.
You can also check the decompiled source on eveem.org - doesn’t work with everything, but even if sources are public it’s good to double-check them there.

(I’m the creator of eveem)
Yes, as long as paying somebody 15$ an hour is cheaper.
This looks more like fear mongering than anything.

Do you have any citations or reliable sources that advise those taking vaccinations isolate themselves?
Sometimes the government does pay out for wrongful imprisonment, but it's always insultingly low numbers, in the range of a couple thousand usd per year. And in many cases prisoners are Monetized with the for-profit prison operator and their vendors collecting exorbitant fees for basic things.
That sounds sad. Why doesn't Google do something to become more nimble?
> most people were already using VcXsrv or similar

the devil is in the details and the painful truth is none of that works real well. I am using JetBrains Projector instead which would be great if two super annoying bugs were fixed. Meaning that doesn't work well either -- for now. Maybe it will, maybe X+VNC will someday be great in a Windows VM -- but I have much larger confidence in Microsoft driving this to greatness.
I'm not sure if agree. Almost everything major is written in Java or C++ still. And I'll disagree that the issue is with libraries at all. It's with other services changing out from underneath you.
In their Q&A [0] they sound very passionate about raising money now and figuring everything out later. I wish them the best, but definitely feels like a project that will fizzle out, or dramatically change in scope. I've never seen a more vague and generic description for anything - they want to combine:

an infinite world, millions of players, upload anything into it, every game genre, thousands of "biomes", craft anything, factions, pets, enemies, loot, Photoshop/Zbrush/SketchUp clone, PvP and PvE, mac & windows with mobile coming soon

Their vision for the game reminds me of how Epic Games reportedly raised around a billion dollars to fund their idea of the Metaverse [1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui6-qghm4Xo
[1] https://www.ign.com/articles/what-is-epic-games-metaverse-an...
Hospitals are overwhelmed. You can believe testing doesn’t work at all, but you need to explain why hospitals are so overloaded.
Corrupt data should be corrected by checksummed btrfs, isn't it?
I also wonder if the virus could be spreading fast through India's extremely dense urban areas, and would naturally slow down in rural areas. Since 2/3 of Indians live in rural areas, that would be another reason to hope for a low death rate for the country overall.
They might just have gotten a "wow these guys have no shame and can sell anything while stabbing your mother in front of you without you batting an eye" feeling that many people in the SV circles like to glorify.
> There are thousands of other cryptocurrencies that claim to have better tech than Bitcoin in terms of privacy, speed or fees.

Monero isn't just claiming this though. It actually delivers on its promises. It's actually private, authorities are having trouble tracing it. Criminals are already switching to Monero. Transactions are fast and the fees are low. It's mineable by ordinary CPUs, no centralized ASIC/GPU mining operations in China. Since mining is more decentralized, nobody opposes improvements to the Monero blockchain like the bitcoin and ethereum miners do.

> at least 10x better

Monero is pretty much infinitely better. If any coin is positioned to unseat bitcoin it's Monero. If there's any sanity left in this cryptocurrency market this will happen one day.
Maybe, but holograms are a tall order. The resolution required would make things difficult.
That’s study says “Immunity elicited by direct vaccination or by maternal vaccination prolongs host survival but does not prevent infection, viral replication or transmission, thus extending the infectious periods of strains otherwise too lethal to persist.”

Is this your concern with the covid vaccine? That a strain which would have killed someone unvaccinated, that person will now instead stay alive and spread it?

The viruses used and discussed in that study had between a 60% and 100% fatality rate. This is pretty different than covid 19
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/m20-6817 - Only community RCT of masking for SARS-2 ever performed. Failed to reach significance, bounds are from (in plain english) “slight-moderate worsening” to “moderate+ improvement” in transmission. Endpoint was self infection not source control. No RCT of source control for SARS-2 exists, and yet everyone in this thread besides me is advocating for usage of this unproven intervention, how curious.

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577?fbclid=IwAR1eSyc... - cluster-randomized controlled trial of masking in hcw. Compared cloth masking to “standard practice”, not a no-mask control, but results caution against usage of cloth masks due to abysmal filtration efficiency and the
increased infections in the group relative to standard practice

I’d have to cite like 10 different studies to show the full story on aerosol transmission and I’m on mobile so I’ll leave that as an exercise to the reader for now. But I’d like someone to at least answer this:

If you take it as fact that SARS-2 primarily spreads through aerosols, what does that imply about the efficacy of masking for source control of SARS-2? There is a reason that the health authorities advocating community usage of masks (which they never did for any respiratory pathogen pre-COVID btw) maintain that SARS-2 spreads through large respiratory droplets. It’s because otherwise the whole concept of community masking is absurd.
Ask HN: How's actually /etc./hosts working? Govt-censored ISP Problem is solved
How actually does /etc/hosts work

Ruinous government-censored ISP problem is solved simply by feeding the ip info !?
Russian president issues stark warning about crossing red lines
Fair question. We've never done this before to this extent, so there just aren't studies, and this is just a hypothesis. It reminded me a lot of antibiotic resistance, though.
A surgical mask, bandana, cloth mask, or dirty T-shirt over a particulate mask (e.g. N95) is typically allowed. There are serious benefits to the wearer to having an exhaust valve. Wearing a second, less effective face covering over the particulate mask retains the benefits of the particulate mask and exhaust valve while maintaining the same level of source control as without the particulate mask.
I think monorepo makes it easier to update downstream dependencies atomically as part of an upstream change, and thus encourages a culture of unstable APIs.

That is, careful evolution of internal APIs is not given much weight, so modularity - in the sense of containing change - suffers.

I don't think monorepos must necessarily go this way, but expressing dependencies in terms of build targets rather than versioned artifacts has a strong gravitational effect. Change flows through the codebase quickly. That has upsides - killing off legacy dependencies more quickly - and downsides, wanting to delete code that isn't pulling its weight because of the labour it is inducing.

[I currently work at Google but I've only been here a few weeks. I certainly don't speak for the company.]
How do you decide what you hear is worthy listening to or not?
In Germany there is a agency for statistics [1]. It is regulated by a law (BStatG). "Cooking" statistics can be done of course, but is illegal and can get you in big trouble. The selection of data to use in Government press releases is free for the government to choose though. But one can go to the agency source.

Contrary e.g. to the US many top government positions are not political and not changed with every election.

[1] https://www.destatis.de/EN/Home/_node.html
Hey everyone.
Sanctions have always worked so well to deter escalation and countries getting nukes! Right?

First with North Korea the Congress and Bush scrapping the Agreed Framework and replacing it with sanctions...

Then with Iran, the Senate and Trump scrapping the nuclear deal and replacing it with sanctions...

And since 2019 the breaksown of the INF nuclear treaty and escalating sanctions on Russia since 2016...

What is going on here? Could it be that scrapping friendly cooperation on preventing nuclear escalation and replacing w sanctions just make situations much worse?

I’m glad Biden renewed the New START treaty and looks like will renew the Iran deal and put inspectors back into that country...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-extends-new-start-n...
> All those states are run by one party. They are cooking the books so they look good compared to the other parties.

Made worse because it is election season
Cellebrite tech is widely used by western authorities (as well as some “authoritarian” regimes)
My information comes from the fact that my colleague who got vaccinated 2 days ago, now has her 12 year old daughter exhibiting symptoms. The daughter is having 101-103.5 fever since yesterday afternoon.

My colleague told me whatever I said in previous comment.
Any party caught willinging sabotaging such a prominent open source project would definitely face greater consequences than just a ban.
I wonder if that would work, or if the sharpness is necessary? (Assuming you’re talking about a normal desktop printer and not the laboratories that use electron microscopes to print at nanometer scale, which will clearly be capable of this)

And in any case, I’d like to take one sentence to extol the benefits of laser cutters over 3D printers for things like this: they’re way faster when you basically want a mostly flat plane with a custom edge and/or stuff etched into the surface.
You are right, this is the correct counter-argument to oppose here. However, I wonder to what extent overwhelmed hospitals reflect relatively low hospital capacity, especially in crowded cities.
Mwahahahaaa!
You are grouping it wrong. It is meant to be read as:

> He left is job at Google

> He left his job at Facebook.

> He left his job at Apple to start Dreamworld

All of those are true, can see his linkedin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/garrison-bellack-1a55b165/

The sentence is poorly structured, but it isn't misleading.
Israel has reported that Pfizer-Biontech is effective, but with reduced effectiveness agains this variant [1]. I don't know about the other vaccines.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2021/04/20/double-...
Paul McCartney and Kate Bush lead call for change to music streaming payments
Check my response to kumarvvr
That video makes a case for the developers being naive or on-track to make a bad game, but it’s a stretch to call it an outright scam.
Found a demonstration on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqELtX28MQk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUy8lELWhJg

Someday when I have more living space, I'd like to set up a holography lab and make my own holograms. It's not too hard to set up, and the equipment isn't expensive... but you do need a dark room and a way to eliminate vibration.
The less corrupt a government is, the harder it is to falsify statistics without getting caught.
They are but I believe to will protect anyone extremely well.
I think the point isn't so much that having children without a family is no longer problematic as much as the fact that prostitutes no longer risk having unwanted children.
I suppose that typing "****" on the end of your passwords would work. Bit annoying to type out 7 asterisks every time though, maybe a word would be better?
Feature Engineering and Feature Selection for Beginners
Apple targeted in $50M ransomware attack resulting in schematic leaks
I know of one case in my locality of reinfection 6 months apart. And 3 cases of infection after getting the vaccine (within < 15 days).
Yeah cause they will direct the entire to attack states who are reporting real numbers, as failures and will work ferociously to overturn the govt. We are witnessing this live with the Maharastra govt.
The amount of real deaths now is in thousands per day and yet "the party" does not give a shit about anything and is focused on winning elections. So please dont come at us with childish arguments. Also try saying this in a public place in those heavily affected states. Then you'll know if people are in sync with you or not
Well, the vaccines aren’t 100% effective some will still catch and spread it.
The theory behind universal masking rests on early studies which indicated a possibility of asymptomatic spreaders.

This has mostly been falsified in at least one controlled study [1].

The Danish study is the closest thing we have to RCT on masking [2] which found no statistically significant result from universal masking.

Wearing a mask while symptomatic seems like a good idea though, if you're unable to stay home for some reason, though that's good advice for most airborne contagious illnesses. I appreciated the culture of doing this when I was in Japan - if for no other reason than it told me who to keep my distance from.

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4695

[2] https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/m20-6817
I tend to charge a day rate - in Germany that seems pretty normal and I charge at about the going rate. If the client is more price sensitive or has a very specific task in mind then I do hourly. I track all of my time for myself (including invoicing, admin, side projects etc.) but I don't expose any of this directly to clients, this really helps me figure out which clients and projects are worthwhile and which not. Fixed price has never worked out well for me but that's not to say it can't work for everyone, as a sibling comment explains it requires very specific requirements and contractual agreements, if you are going to go fixed price I'd recommending setting yourselves some minimum price that you won't go under. This helps to filter out a lot of the work you don't want to do.
However working in an Amazon warehouse or a McDonald's is? It's not unlikely that a significant number of people lugging batteries at google would be forced to do that since Google would have no reason to hire them the.
Sure, but as someone working on a moderately sized 2d game in Unity - I’ve never really found that to be anything more than a minor annoyance. At most it’s just an extra cast here or there.

Are there other examples of it being better for 2d?
It’s unfalsifiable because it requires studying a whole community and sequencing every SARS-2 infection to attribute “blame” to the source of the infection. That is very difficult to do and that is why such an RCT does not exist. And yet most of the world is performing this intervention anyway.

That’s the brilliance of “my mask protects you”. It’s not feasibly falsifiable. “My mask protects me” is very easy to falsify. That’s why we have one RCT that studied exactly that and failed to reach significance.

Again, the theoretical MoA of masking only makes sense if SARS-2 spreads via respiratory droplets. If it spreads via aerosols, the sub-micron aerosol particles stay aloft for minutes-hours and bypass the comparatively giant holes of the mask with ease. The sightly altered directional flow is largely irrelevant. You can watch any of the many videos of someone vaping with a mask on/off to see what I’m talking about. Imagine that every time you exhale.
Suggestive Behaviour in Mobile Apps
FWIW, if you wanted to get the static from-scratch go image a lot smaller, try running the binary through UPX. It typically improves compiled go binary sizes by absurd amounts: https://upx.github.io/

Also, https://busybox.net is a 1.0MB static binary that provides all of the standard posix-compliant tools (sh, grep, tail, etc) and actually comes with an httpd implementation. So if you wanted a more useful container at about 1MB, you could use it.

Edit: here's a previous thread on UPX that has 80 comments talking about the tradeoffs it makes. You should definitely consider these if you intend to use UPX: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15456980
I honestly believe that this is a mistake. Current laws in the EU allow for surveillance (mass) that to limit the ability to discover, detect, individuals or groups that are dangerous to society seems self limiting. This is considering that they already have exceptional police powers. In a way, i think they are limiting this technology for society to detect illegal acts by politicians. Rather than the other way around.
I perceived it that way as well, but I have to partly agree.

Here's my reasoning: if someone just invented a new icon (created it from scratch and gave it a meaning), they should be aware that majority of their users will not understand the meaning of the icon, at least not at first.

Historical icons, such as a floppy disk or a cogwheel, are fair game. Creating new icons is dangerous territory, especially if you are hoping for your users to focus on the content, rather than getting familiar with your UI.

What do you think the following two icons (taken from utradea example) represent:

* A lightbulb with a dollar sign

* A deck of cards

Having to hover (which may or may not work on mobile), and actually clicking the icons and observing what happens, is not a good recipe for good UX. To read more about actual authority on UX, I recommend reading about Jakob Nielsen's 10 general principles[1] for interaction design.

[1] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/
Ironically situation in india for time being is worrisome and adding to our worry is this new report [https://www.indiatoday.in/coronavirus-outbreak/story/coronav...]
Millennials are the group of people who have to leave homes for earning and by seeing the declining numbers there became bit lenient and stopped following appropriate covid-19 behavior and the new mutants which were detected added fuel to the fire and things messed up and we are seeing massive surge now.
There is one thing which is clear now that we haven't had so called 'herd immunity'. In fact there have been lot of cases being reported where people are already being vaccinated [https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/shashi-tharoor-covid-positiv...] be it pfizer or Covishield or any other vaccine, but i am just hoping that it will atleast moderate the impact of the Covid virus.
Maybe it's just me, but after testing Steam on Linux, which promised a good coverage [1][2], i'm more and more feeling like replacing the only left Windows device with linux. The only thing that would make sense for me, is that microsoft should port their UI to linux and handle their backwards compability with wine.

I mean, what is the benefit of keeping their own kernel, when obviously they understand that another kernel and userspace is more and more important, and even used by them selfs.

1: Protondb: https://www.protondb.com/
2: ProtonDB Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25333219
The RAID 5/6 striping feature is still incomplete after all these years. There's still a risk of data loss in certain cases. Seems like a feature companies would be very interested in so I wonder why nobody's ever fixed it.
Yes if all your walls are individual meshes and you use large slabs for the ground (not the entire map being a floor).

If you're keen on this, I recommend using Trenchbroom for level design and the plugin that goes with it in Godot, it's pretty cool! (Qodot)
Wait, so if it's not good at 3D outdoor scenes, and not good at 3D indoor scenes, then... what is it good at, in terms of 3D games?

That would only leave 3D models + minimal scene (e.g. top-down/isometric games), which minimizes the amount of occlusion?
I think monorepo has an effect, but the bigger effect is dependencies expressed as build targets rather than versioned artifacts. When your dependencies are in the eternal present, you're forced to upgrade, or you're a blocker. And I don't think you can do dependencies as build targets well without a monorepo.
Its not someone on the same team. Its someone working underneath one of the research members- a grad student who likely had no knowledge of what his supervisor did.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YIBBt6ypFtT+i994@pendragon.idea...

> These are two different projects. The one published at IEEE S&P 2021 has
> completely finished in November 2020. My student Aditya is working on a new
> project that is to find bugs introduced by bad patches. Please do not link
> these two projects together. I am sorry that his new patches are not
> correct either. He did not intentionally make the mistake.
Fair coin distribution is easy to solve in new coins if all the bitcoin owners get equivalent proportion of the new coin and developers/founders get nothing. But how many are brave enough to create such coin?
"Paaarrrrtaaaayyy! Meet hot singles! Erotic conversation! Intimate 1 on 1! Talk Live! Horny ! All ready and waiting for you.... Well, maybe not. Actually, if you get into one of these multi-party audio chat servers (kinda like audio IRC) you're probably more likely to run into some hairy-palmed geeks in boxershorts, but that's beside the point. Internet Party Line is a unique application that takes multiple voice streams, queues them up, and plays them out in the order that they come in. The effect is kinda like a free-wheeling cocktail party where only one person can speak at a time (I know, not too free wheeling, but its the only metaphor I could think of, damnit!)"
What kind of game did you ship? Was it 2D or 3D?

I was starting to make a 3D game for mobile and was planning on using UE4, but I've heard a lot of good things about Godot. Are there any pain points or blind spots in Godot's feature set?
Words aren't enough. We need ACTION. Right to Repair
> USSR wasn't necessarily a socialist state

it wasn't communist (defined as: no money, no classes, no state). it was commi thoug
On the Perceived Inevitability of Unreal
There's also applespi for their input drivers. I think with macbooks you never know what protocol apple will change the next iteration. Not something I would use as a daily driver(running linux) anymore.