skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's terrible. Modern package management just works on a different assumption - the dependencies and their artifacts are required at build time, and for libraries they cannot assume the version required by the software exists outside the build environment or in deployment.

If all of software respected those assumptions then we wouldn't need containerization nearly to the degree we have it today.
Sorry to be harsh here, but that's exactly what I meant by dodging: Parent asked for evidence that the R0 of influenza is higher on average than the R0 of SARS-Cov-2.

If there are no studies to show, refer to an opinion of an epidemiologist or any other expert in the spread of infectious diseases.

You seem to argue against a vast field of computer scientists, mathematicians, physicists, biologists, medical experts that do nothing else but study the spread of infectious diseases.
Bus factor – Considering the consequences of losing key technical experts
There appears to be a disconnect. Their FAQ says otherwise.

> We did not introduce or intend to introduce any bug or vulnerability in the Linux kernel. All the
bug-introducing patches stayed only in the email exchanges, without being adopted or merged into any
Linux branch, which was explicitly confirmed by maintainers. Therefore, the bug-introducing patches in
the email did not even become a Git commit in any Linux branch. None of the Linux users would be
affected. The following shows the specific procedure of the experiment. [1]

https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/papers/clarifications-hc.... [1]
"Gram" also means grandma. The full English translation of this name is "Gramgram"
Apps on the app store already do this.
> I agree that we are dealing with a new paradigm and should treat it that way.

I don't think it's that clear - it's more like people are still arguing about a) is it really a new paradigm and b) if so, is it on net enough benefit to be worth doing.
"so more handwashing (good to minimize a broad spectrum of pathogens), masks (already culturally ordinary in many countries), and especially better indoor ventilation systems"

Let's not forget a substantial portion of the population working from home, using less public transportation (choosing to travel by car when traveling at all), a huge decrease in tourism and large public gatherings, much less eating out at restaurants, contactless food delivery becoming the norm, etc.

So many factors figure in to why much of the (wealthy, developed) world is a lot more resistant to contagious pathogens today than it was a year ago.
Exactly. If you renamed flu to FLU-21, did extensive testing for the flu (doesn't really matter how reliable the tests are), you'd have a pandemic every year.
Agreed. The "even a mom can do it" is broken on so many levels. There's a documentary about the developers of Mozilla, and one of them makes a comment while golfing (I think) in response to this cliche. He says, "My mother writes optimizing compilers." Can't remember the film or the person, but they were wearing launch t-shirts that read "zaro boogs" (zero bugs) still sticks in my head.

EDIT: Pretty sure it was "Code Rush", 2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Rush
Even though the plural of anecdotes is not data, I must say that my personal experience matches yours as well. I pay no attention to disinfection or antiseptic cleanliness, and I can't remember the last time I was actually ill. In the good old days, whenever someone would "warn" me that they were a bit sick before hugging/sharing a bottle/shaking hands/etc, I would even joke “Don't worry, I don't believe in the germ theory of disease”, because in my personal experience it wasn't worth the effort to avoid it. Needless to say, that joke is now retired—not only because there are very good reasons to be cautious regarding COVID-19, but also because with so much bizarre denialism that has trended lately someone might even believe I was saying it seriously.
“Who cares about PII leaks when there have been other breaches” is a weak argument.

Aside from being helpful for phishing, leaking the last 4 is enough for the issuer to pull the card, which is a major annoyance if you have other things billed to that card that will now all need to be updated.
Ask HN: What should be the order of a SaaS-Product launch: HN/PH/Reddit/Twitter?
Look I really don't care what their arrangements are. Can I get someone to drive me to the airport from an app? Great, I'll pay what it charges. If the law says they have to do X and Y for those workers, I expect those costs to be passed along to me, and I'll gladly pay them.
Verizon tried to start a media company called Oath when they bought AOL and Yahoo but it failed miserably. It barely lasted 2 years.
You are setting up a scenario where we have to choose between:

A) teens and retirees having access to low paying scut work jobs

B) eradicating wage slavery for non-teen, non-retirees by making it illegal for employers to pay poverty wages

I don't know if it's really such a simple binary opposition, but if it is, B for me.
I tried this for the first time the other day and it was a great experience. Ironically the most cumbersome part continues to be Python environment management. I'll spare you my usual rant about that, but hopefully by Python 4 they'll find a solution.
This is a an excellent point. As a corollary, it's easy to tell precisely who the elite is just by looking at who's doing the most censoring of others (and doing it effectively).

A lot of the folks out there demanding that others be censored or cancelled still see themselves as scrappy underdogs, when in reality they're the Capitol in the Hunger Games.
Thanks for the tip. When you say grind, do you mean like put it through a food processor?
How about the jokers at UMN make an effort to “help out”? Sheesh. If the publicly funded universities can’t lend a hand or do their fair share, what hopes have we that big tech will come in and save open source. Do the universities have money problems?
When people use the expression "So simple even your grandmother will understand it" I don't think they are trying to insult anyone. But... it is an insult, whether it was meant that way or not.
Why What3Words is not suitable for safety critical applications
I was really into fromage before I transitioned to a plant based diet several years ago and I do miss cheese quite a lot. The vegan imitations are, as stated all over this page, lackluster at best. However, I think there is one exception, at least from what I've tried. That is Parveggio. It's a grated parmigiano imitation and it's super tasty! I use it on pasta, lasagna, etc all the time. I highly recommend it to vegans and non-vegans alike.
What's the idiom involving a researcher/reporting announcing their name?
Copyright ownership is ultimately determined by the courts. My understanding is about the best you could do today is have the author assign the copyright to a dedicated organization that would act as a proxy. Have associated legal contacts that specify that control of the copyright is determined by the blockchain. Even then that would all have to get tested in court and get some precedent in place before I'd trust it.

> If no copyright is transferred what is the purpose of owning an 'original' meme which is most likely also a copy?

Hmmmm... Please don't ask questions like that, you're bumming everyone out.
Epic can't do that alone... it requires cooperation from and agreement with the game publisher.

Don't blame Epic for spending money to bring customers to their product. Epic aren't using shady tactics to do this, and Valve is free to do everything Epic is doing.

Also, as a game buyer, you DEFINITELY want a multi-source purchasing ecosystem; you definitely want to avoid a monopoly if the price you pay for games is important to you.
Economic Recovery Masks the Dangers of a Divided World
That is fine if you are working sequentially, but often tasks involve going back to the original data and doing some wrangling.

data -> model(data) -> output(model)

So if you go back to mess around with the data, your model and output could be or would be recomputed, which you would need to do eventually but not while making iterative tweaks.

Another commenter suggested adding checkboxes which is a good idea, although then you are managing a bunch of checkbox states.
>Why should I, the non-Ubering taxpayer have to pay benefits for an Uber driver?

I think the argument is that there are certain public goods that should be included in the social contract and funded by taxes rather than via employers as part of the social contract. We can maybe disagree on what those specific public goods should be, but it doesn't absolve one from helping to pay for them if one wants to be a member of that society.

For example, public schools has been decided to be a public good paid for, in large part, by property taxes in the U.S. My sister does not get to opt out of that portion of taxes despite not having children. While it would be nice to be able to unilaterally choose each and every tax payment that we want to contribute to, I don't think that is feasible in a complex society. I would, however, like to see a simple chart on everybody's tax return that shows what portion of money they pay to each program at filing time in the hopes that it would lead to more informed decisions at the ballot box.
Yeah, Priority Pass lounges are generally more useful internationally given I (normally) have a Star Alliance lounge pass anyway.

Dining is very hit or miss. For example, there is (was?--who knows) a specific breakfast option at my usual home airport/terminal that's a great deal but I've not really found a use for it otherwise.
This theme keeps coming up. Some cohort of HN is upset that software manufacturers aren't directly required to produce "secure software" [1]

I would suggest people look at a very foundational essay on this [2]. Key quote: "Security is a process, not a product. Products provide some protection, but the only way to effectively do business in an insecure world is to put processes in place that recognize the inherent insecurity in the products. "

How many times do we have to learn this?

[1] In quotes 'cause "secure software" does not exist. In two different ways; software always has bugs and using a piece of software incorrectly makes a secure system insecure.

[2] https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2000/04/the_process...
Which lasts until you send them the documents showing the real numbers and they figure it out.

Give people some credit. The education system isn't perfect but people can do basic arithmetic. Or if they can't then maybe solve that instead of this.
Absolutely. I'm very sensitive to that kind of thing because I have a 90-year-old mother who I hate people writing off like that. But unless I missed it he doesn't say "Even your grandmother can use it" in his thread does he? I just feel like you're picking the wrong item to hang this argument from.
Can you sell Second Life screenshots as NFT? Beware “gray interesting mysteries”
I don't deny it, and Vegan cheese aspires to bring processed cheese to those who otherwise wouldn't go near it for containing animal products, rejoice!

More products for the grocery aisles best ignored.
How much would it cost to make a convincing reproduction of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_(Koons)

Or this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Square_(painting)

The value of these artworks is already only in the provenance certificates.
Commercial parser? Hadean Lands and Anchorhead (the commercial edition) are just gblorb/glulx, a rehash of the Z-Machine with 32 bit capabilities.

Said this, I'd like people knew Inform6 more, among IBG.pdf (Inform's Beginner Guide) and DM4.pdf (Inform6's manual).

The language is dumb easy. It's object oriented (almost literally, you declare in-game objects as... objects with properties), and the games can be run on legacy machines fastly, such as Amiga/Atari/68k Macs.

Here's an Inform6 libre game to start with:

http://www.amirrorclear.net/flowers/game/devours/

Also, I forgot: There's Puny Inform, a reduced subset from Inform6 with few changes here and there in order to create games targetting the 3th version of the Z-machine. Thus, the games will run anywhere, even on the C64, Spectrum, MSX, BBC, Linux, OSX, Windows... everywhere.

https://github.com/johanberntsson/PunyInform

Example on a commercial Z3 game:

https://hlabrande.itch.io/tristam-island

A libre one (Calypso):

http://microheaven.com/ozmoo/games/calypso/calypso.z3
https://github.com/dave-f/calypso
Compared to Twitter, anything else is a shining light of social media.

Instagram may be nothing but vapid voyeurism, but the posts there are generally (fake) messages of "I am enjoying my life, look at it!" My stream's a bunch of travel photos and/or interesting things. Even if it's shallow or attention-seeking, it's a far cry from the flood of hatred and filth that spews from Twitter's fringe.

TikTok's a bit more varied (and feels more akin to reddit, which has a lot of ups and downs), but still doesn't feel as bad as Twitter.
> I think most people might know a little something about their own jobs.

So then why do articles like this exist? If people know all of the things that directly affect them, why do they make so many mistakes?

https://blog.stridehealth.com/post/1099-tax-mistakes

https://www.taxslayer.com/blog/rideshare-drivers-avoid-these...

https://www.ayroyal.com/uber-tax-form-mistakes-avoid/

https://www.ridesharingdriver.com/top-5-uber-lyft-tax-mistak...
The video isn't that long ;<). To summarize basically they have three choices:

1. Increase the price of wings 50%

2. Cheapen the ingredients

3. Take it off the menu until the price of ingredients drop

After surveying their customers they found demand would drop drastically if they raised prices. They don't want to cheapen the ingredients because it would hurt their brand so the only real choice was to take them off the menu.
There are more solidly middle class golfers than rich ones.
Omitting jazz from the list of African-American musical innovations is like omitting goal-scoring from Messi's achievements or MacOS from Apple's.

Also, by "rap" I think you mean 'hip-hop', which includes sampling and mixing, especially using turntables.

> Well, blues is the son of jazz music :)

Try some Muddy Waters and John Coltrane, listen, then report back.

With due respect, beyond every form of music being related to every other (just like you are probably a distant relative of mine), they are such different genres that my impression of the comment - which could be completely wrong - is that the commenter has not listed to jazz, blues, or both.
Team Fortress 2 isn't available on the Epic Games Store (or elsewhere).

Epic aren't doing anything shady, here.
No one said it's an easy business. Your arguments are basically "if they don't get control over that, then it's hurting the business".

If you need to either be at the edge of the law and discriminate or be the edge of the law and misclassify employees as contractors, to make your business work, then maybe your business model is flawed.
Who would've known... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yes, everyone with ILI symptoms (influenza-like-illness) who goes to one of the clinics or hospitals participating in the surveillance program gets tested for about 30 pathogens. That's how we know what's going on with all those critters.

None of that has changed in the era of COVID, although the pattern of who goes to clinic for what may have. If there were flu out there we'd be detecting it is the bottom line.
Around Autumn it was subtly mentioned that the UK figures were going to be for flu and covid combined.

Before that it was noted that flu was killing more than coronavirus in summer.
Aren't most people trained or told to smile during pictures?

Luckily this wasn't actually someone's house that they lived in.
> Am I safe? No. Because any entity with access to the private key of any of the certificate authorities trusted by my machine, is capable of intercepting the communication between my machine and my server, simply by MITM.

You're probably more safe than you'd think. Certificate Transparency is now required for Chrome, Firefox, or Safari or you'll get an error message during the TLS connection, before any private data is sent to the (potentially MITM'd) site.

Given that all certificates are logged, site operators can use some of the many CT alert websites to let them know if and when a new certificate is issued for their domain, so if some random authority they haven't heard of before issues a cert or it's done at a time they know they didn't need to renew their certs, it'd be time to raise major alarms about the occurrence and thus would mean instant loss of all business for that authority; plus, shockwaves would be sent across the internet as this would be a huge event, especially if it's against a company worth burning a CT for (eg. Google which houses so many fortune 500
companies' secrets).

> the .onion domains include public keys.

The .onion domain is, in itself, a public key. The side effects of your proposed solution are:

A) it would mean you HAVE to trust whoever sent you a link

A) 1) for web-based referrals, this would mean you trust your (possibly state-sponsored) search engine to never MITM you (this is currently mitigated by CT which would expose Google's GTS issuing a random domain's cert)

A) 2) for IRL events, this would mean you have to trust that the business themselves put up a certain QR code with the public key and not some malicious actor

B) This would mean site.com could never rotate their private key without changing all of their backlinks to one with the correct public key.

These are all problems Tor already faces - you have no idea if the onion site you're linked to is actually the site it says it is if it perfectly mimics it and/or reverse proxies the real site. You're currently always advised to get URLs from a trusted source once then only use bookmarks to access them to prevent reverse engineering. And you can't rotate your private key without doing this domain change.
Employers can vary the wages of their employees. They just can't pay wages that are so low that they violate minimum wage law. I don't see an issue.
Show HN: How we can call each other without phones
Okay, but he gets a comment from you and avoids a faded out comment. If his comment was simply faded out, you would not have replied. Frankly, you need to recognize that there is a mob mentality on this topic and that legitimate comments are getting downvoted.
they're free to pay for exclusives, just like Valve is free to pay for exclusives.
Where's all the people that were saying Covid is a completely separate thing from the flu?...and every "Covid Death" was a separate death on top of the normal flu death rate?

Occam's Razor: Covid isn't a "pandemic", it's a strong flu
I think that depends a lot on how people live.
How does RotaJakiro deploy on a not already compromised system. Without the enduser downloading and running an execututable? will it run on non-systemd systems? Or non-gnome desktops?

"How did RotaJakiro spread, and what was its purpose?"

There's no evidence it has spread, apart from being uploaded to the VirusTotal anti-malware engine?
Yes, most certainly. Development boards like the Arduino suite, Adafruit Feather series, various ESP32 / ESP8266 boards and even the Raspberry Pi Pico makes it really easy to whip together a simple (or more complex for that matter) project at low cost and with little effort.

Add to that cheap PCB professional manufacturing, and the world is your oyster.

Some of the projects I have recently completed include:

- A door strike interface with RFID input that allows me to use my condo entrance FOB to open my apartment door.

- A custom sous-vide controller at 1/10th the price of a commercial one

- A secure hardware password manager.

- A cheap sensing unit installed in every room that measures light level, environmentals and presence, and communicates with my home automation system to adjust heat, cooling and light levels automatically throughout the day.

Currently working on a remote ePaper notice board with updates through LoRa. As I said, the possibilities are endless and it is really easy to hack something together with the tools that are available these days.
I've always thought of nano as simplistic, but reading the discussion here, I see there is more to it than I thought.

I learned vi (precursor of vim) in the 1980s and the commands became second nature to me. However, as window-based systems and applications became the norm, I found it difficult to switch between vim and Windows or Mac applications, including the web. A good example of my problem involves the use of the escape key in vim to switch out of text entry mode, but many other apps use escape to cancel an action. I got tired of typing a paragraph, hitting escape, and then having to retype the paragraph because I had cancelled my input.

Nevertheless, it's great to have an editor I can easily invoke from the Linux command-line, so I still use vim for that. However, I will consider moving to nano for that purpose. At my age, I may never know it as well as the vi/vim I learned in my younger days, but it should still be useful.
> Sorry to be harsh here, but that's exactly what I meant by dodging: Parent asked for evidence that the R0 of influenza is higher on average than the R0 of SARS-Cov-2.

Burden is on the parent to prove their claim, not for me to disprove claims advanced without evidence.

All current estimates for R0 have wide, overlapping confidence intervals that make it impossible to differentiate them from other viruses. The best anyone can say is that Covid and influenza have similar mean R0 estimates.

> If there are no studies to show, refer to an opinion of an epidemiologist or any other expert in the spread of infectious diseases.

I cited just such a paper. Please refer to it.
And yet you have merely restated that caloric density is relevant, not explained why it would be. (Nutrient density wasn't your original point.) Asparagus is not grown or eaten for it's calories.
It was dead to me the moment they switched to chromium
"well, if we want to do right by workers, I recommend we refactor the labor system like so...". That is, pass that on to Congress

At which point congress is free to ignore the secretary. Ultimate authority always lies with congress. We can change that, assuming we want to change the Constitution. But today, congress is in charge of making laws. It is not in the remit of the Secretary to short circuit the Constitutional order. The best the secretary can do is, effectively, to send an email to congresspeople and senators. Which email would be a whole lot more effective coming from the voters instead of the secretary.
The effect of low dose X-rays or other low dose radiation is unquantified below a certain threshold. Some people believe it’s actually good for you. In other words, prescribing an X-ray is not doing harm based on our current understanding, it is doing “undefined”
I have some rather complex technical documentation and guides to write, and this strikes me as the perfect tool for this purpose.

I'm starting over tomorrow.
Probably 2 and 3 are bigger factors if not getting sick than 1. Although never eating out also reduces your exposure to others that may be sick.
Of course avoiding people who cough and sneeze send a bit paranoid.
I don't do any of those things, and precovid the only times I got sick were after a plane trip out standing in a long line for hours.
That is not correct: they are two different viruses.

Even if you’re making a loose analogy that’s still a poor comparison.
I am hoping people get serious about staying home if they’re sick. “I’m not contagious.” If you’re not contagious, then how did the whole office get wiped out?
That's in Code Rush:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q7FTjhvZ7Y&t=656s
I love the integrated terminal too! It's such a great idea which is now integral to my workflow.
Get yourself over to the continent. If you start partying at 4am Sun morning you can finish at 10pm Sun night and be fresh Monday.