skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China didn't act fast, they buried their head in the sand and denied it existed until the point where it was undeniable. China didn't start lockdowns until it was clear that their hospitals were going to be completely overwhelmed and that it was spreading fast. If they knew about SARS-CoV-2 they would have done that to begin with instead of jailing doctors for causing alarm.
Notable in terms of global cpu capacity. Linux on zSeries is interesting, but only makes financial sense in some pretty limited scenarios.
If Work Is Going Remote, Why Is Big Tech Still Building?
Thanks, looks interesting. I would order the dead tree book if it wasn't from Manning, which uses a layout that is almost unreadable to me: thin fonts and no bold text where it should be. just take a look at the difference from the CC licensed .pdf and the livebook at Manning's site, and on paper it'll be even worse (been burned before with the otherwise excellent Nim book which is hardly readable as well).

Why is it still so hard to replicate the readability of the K&R after so many years? Please stop using thin fonts!
I'm not interested in debating all of the technical points with you here. I've looked into it in the past and come to the conclusion that Mick West's theory is highly improbable (which he now appears to be admitting if you check the latest posts on his blog).

I will however point out that this statement:

> Cameras, like human eyes, have effectively infinite range.

is not true in any meaningful sense. Cameras have finite angular resolution. There is sufficient information to determine the angular size of the object in the video. I don't have the exact numbers at hand but I think it corresponds to an F-18 sized object at a range between 20 to 30 miles, well within the F-18's radar range, which exceeds 60 miles. If the object is much farther away then it is also much larger and that hypothesis leads to a different set of problems.
Thank you @ykevinator!
While the observation seems correct, I would not be too hasty to view it as a justification of telemetry.

Instead, I propose viewing it as a vicious cycle that should be fought.
Command-tab is slightly broken for me. When Alacritty is full screen, command-tab often switches to the desktop instead of Alacritty. It’s my only complaint, but it’s pretty annoying and disruptive. https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/3659
It's not even a "urban gang violence culture" issue. It's just the natural result of what happens when you can't use courts and threat of state violence to settle disputes that would be civil issues in any other industry.

If the people shooting at each other over bad business involving drugs were plumbers they would be arguing with each other in a courtroom.
But personalized ads offer so much value to customers! How could this have happened? All these poor users missing out on so, so much value.
Maybe the reason they aren’t cracking down on it is exactly because of their analytical genius?

I’m not sure how Amazon operates in the US, but in Northern Europe it’s main target very clearly isn’t the informed customer, but the people who’s next step is going on one or the Chinese sites like wish. Maybe having a lot of fake reviews is simply better than having few reviews for their target audience? Hell, half the stuff on Amazon.de is resales of things that are clearly imported from China, so maybe Amazon’s role is simply to broker these wares in a manner that’s not as prone to getting the buyer scammed? Or maybe shit reviews is just better for sales than no reviews?
I've got no experience with Datasette, but if it's all in pure python, then you can use Pyodide[0] to run it within a wasm module. I was surprised how easy it was - took about 15 minutes and I had a Python package working perfectly in the browser. The Python package is about 3x faster than the JS/wasm version, but I'm guessing that performance gap will narrow when we get wasm-gc.

[0] https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide
I've always wondered why Amazon didn't take a "collaborative filtering" approach to reviews -- basically take your ratings and then give you recommendations based on others who tend to give similar ratings. It seems like this would mean that the scammers would mostly just give their nonsense reviews to other scammers.
One reason this theory is becoming more mainstream lately is the lack of results looking for the natural reservoir of the virus after more than 1 year of searching and an amazing number of animals tested all over China.
Given that we don't let hospitals or paramedics check if people can pay before they provide emergency care, this is already the case.
Yep, you can actually go through the list of companies YC has funded on the website and most of them are out of business today (as you’d expect based on the stats on VC backed ventures). Of course, nobody talks about those.
What is Unscatter? A searchable index of what people shared in the past 30 days
Thanks for letting us know. Any thoughts on this article?
Yeah, you can find an ARM big endian distribution of, for example NetBSD. No Linux that I can find. Apparently boot issues are a bit tricky.
The excitement of making things real
This is a public health problem, not a crime problem. The fact that the United States treats it as a crime problem is a big part of why it's gotten so bad.
What Apple is doing is limited.
A law will force everyone (not limited to websites or mobile apps) to disclose if they track you, what data they track and who they share it with.

What Apple is doing is also a recent thing, so before this fancy privacy labels the market had no solution.

Let me know all the downsides to a transparency law and for each downside specify who is affected by the transparency.
I wish by law Amazon (and other stores) were forced to show country of origin of the products.
Last week I needed to buy a new kettle and this was a nightmare to find a product that is not made in China (for ethical reasons). It should be as easy as selecting a country you want a product from - instead you have to go through each individual listing, look through photos or answers. Sometimes it is easy to find where product is made by just looking at description (e.g. broken English), but some sellers go out of their way to mask where things are made. As a consumer I should be able to filter products I don't want more easily.
Then when you order a product you get these cards that say if you leave a positive review, you'll get a discount or free product.
If you leave a negative review, you can brace yourself for being bombarded by Chinese companies threatening you in various ways to delete the review.
Amazon needs to sort this out and if they cannot do it, regulator should step in.

edit: here we go again, something negative about China and commment is being downvoted. Can Hacker News do something about Chinese bots?
I have colleagues in relevant sectors in China and they were telling me about lab origins when this first started last year. I didn't believe them but I'm not qualified to really have an opinion on the matter.
Last year, I posted a negative review of an inexpensive (~$10) electronic device on Amazon. A few weeks later, the seller contacted me with an offer of a $20 Amazon gift certificate to take it down. I didn't respond. A few days later, they offered $30, then $40, then $50.
Microsoft Proposes Godiva, a Text-to-Video Machine Learning Framework
There is at lease one open issue¹ with the clipboard crate that causes a high amount of wakeups (under Wayland at least). Whatmore, the wakeups scale with the number of terminals open. The project is ruthless about performance[latency] regressions, but not so much about performance[energy] overhead.

[¹https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/3108]
That could be confusing as it may look like other ordinary really dead code. I propose 110% instead.
'a middle finger': Audacity opts to add telemetry capture
Isn’t this someone has to do? Making profits are not a bad thing. It’s a prerequisite for sustainable, growing business that provides better services over time. Unfortunately, quality of the services provided has to correspond to payment received. If you are running a hospital , you are segregating patients into different rooms depending on money you get. This is not acceptable in education so we have government run those but does funeral services be government run? If no, then making profits is necessary and someone needs to do it.
Revlimid, Humira, Trikafta, I can go on and on. There are many, many great drugs that save people's lives. Obviously Purdue committed crimes with how they marketed the drug but remember Oxycontin was FDA approved and it had a massive black box warning that said THIS DRUG IS ADDICTIVE.
Why in your opinion is the lab leak so low in probability?
Link to the paper: GODIVA: Generating Open-DomaIn Videosfrom nAtural Descriptions - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.14806.pdf
I've been using Alacrity/Sway for at least that long, and it's been perfect. Maybe I have a low end machine.

How does it misbehave on Wayland?
This might have something to do with the GPU you use. Alacritty spawns instantly for me on AMD GPU with mesa drivers.
Who is charged with these crimes right now? You point to CDC data of overdoses but is there matching data about people being charged with crimes here?

If not I don’t understand how the proposed amendment could make this situation any worse than it is now, while it may help many other situations.
The daily newsletter (/commentary) from Messari is a great way to stay casually updated on what's happening in crypto: https://messari.io/newsletter

If you're looking for something more technical, the Week in Ethereum newsletter is incredible: https://weekinethereumnews.com

For learning the basics, the docs on the Ethereum foundation website will get you a long way: https://ethereum.org/
Well it can't be known for certain without performing benchmarks to test it, but I would presume a hardware-accelerated renderer is far more efficient than a software-based one.
As this is now over a year later, this is a data point.

It isn't proof. But it is a data point, not lack of data.
My high school science classes taught the "an experiment was conducted..." passive style of lab report writing as mandatory for science writing. That, and the idea of long, clause ridden, sentences. It wasn't until 20 years later when I went into industry that I realized how bad "traditional" scientific writing is. Clear, short sentences. Active voice. No flowery or euphemistic language. All make things so much more readable. But I think many of us were raised to associate simple writing with simple ideas, and taught we had to write things that only smart peopl could understand. I'm happy to see science writing trying to be more readable.
If it was 50% likely that people would break the speed limit when driving, should they be banned from driving?
It's easy to make false equivalences all day long but it is of no benefit to anybody.
Bees in the Netherlands trained to detect Covid-19 infections
Original title says "a massive middle finger", but it seems HN has filters preventing that.
China-based chain: surveill. cameras in CDN. restaurants for security not spying
Alacritty is obsoleted by Foot: https://www.reddit.com/r/swaywm/comments/n6kznh/yes_welcome_...

https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot
Note only 8% of prisons in the US are private prisons. By focusing on private prisons we are focusing on a small part of the problem that while emotionally outraging is pragmatically inconsequential.
short-term: Add the terminfo file to your vm provisioning tooling: ansible, terraform, etc

long-term: Maintain an alacritty package in your distro of choice so the terminfo is automatically included
This is a good point about finding good recipes that use less animal products.

It seems like there's a lot of focus on replacing meat with something else pretending to be meat but I don't know that you're going to bring many people around that way. Vegetarian food needs to be good in it's own right, and it absolutely can be, but that generally means going beyond your grandma's copy of "Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook".
Gnome developers actively hate their users and non-gnome developers. This issue takes the cake: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/217
> The (body image scanning) technology is ... without the ability to ... transmit ... the images,"

> the images are examined by a security officer in a remote location

oh dear.

More seriously, at least TSA can at least make a proportionality type of argument, along the lines of, this invasion of privacy is justified on the grounds that it might save lives.

Adtech is just going to use it to try and figure out how to convince me to buy a motorized turnip twaddler.
Any constitutional amendment would require the courts to work out what it means; and we have seen the courts come up with very complicated rules for seemingly simple constitutional ones.

A relatively simple system would be to require the state to articulate who the victim is. It is then a constitutionally protected defense that the alleged victim was not a victim.
Regarding the insurance company, this seems like the exactly the type of scenario that corporate personhood was designed for.
They would just ignore or find a way around it. Civil asset forfeiture exists despite the 4th amendment. "Drug sniffing" dogs do to. They will just charge people they don't like with something else, like arresting someone for resisting arrest.
I feel exactly the same. Loads of super positive comments and encouragement from friends as "the best game ever made" made me finally play it and I felt so disappointed. The combat especially is just....not fun at all. The bullet hell combat was fun for about 5 minutes and then urghhhhh. I restarted the second playthrough on the lowest possible difficulty just to avoid having to actually play it, all based on the promise of "the game gets fantastic on the 3rd playthrough". Well, it didn't for me, thank you.

And I absolutely agree about the story - it's not "deep" in any possible way. If you ever played any sci-fi game ever in your life you can probably guess the "incredible and deeply philosphical" twist in the first playthrough. Maybe if this is your first entry into video games it will blow your mind, but really.....meh.

However, I have to agree - the soundtrack is incredible. Some of my friends went to listen to it live performed by the London Orchestra, I wish I went.
> Their algorithms get tuned by users saying they don't want certain ads.

Do they increase or decrease the targeting of ads towards the types of people who say that they don't want to see these ads?
I flatly refuse to have the Facebook app on any of my devices, and if they start charging to use it I'll happily delete my account.
OpenBSD is the only OS ever to run on my Tadpole laptops without any modification necessary. Even Solaris 8 and 10 needed special software to run on them. OpenBSD works right out of the box.
Again. You're attacking them. If you let them express the opinion and move on, nothing happens. But you call them a pathetic manipulator. That to me suggests disproportionate anger and a bit of paranoia. I don't think they're really trying to manipulate you so much as explaining how they feel about it.
There's a perverse incentive to jail people driven by the stupid war on drugs. Besides, if someone steals a bread leaf, they might go to jail at the expense of the whole society. This has to change. Justice should not be punitive, but rather reparative... and people who commit crimeless victims are the victims themselves of improper incarceration (in other words, state sanctioned kidnapping).
Why shouldn’t it? Youtube has hundreds of millions of users and most of them don’t care the slightest bit about human moderation. If you only want to use platforms that have extensive human moderation systems, they exist (HN is one, I believe dang reads every comment).
In the floss world that competition could come from more active social media presence, which is marketing - nothing else.
Bitcoin produces a money that cannot be debased by inflation on a whim and which is very hard to forcibly confiscate. It can be transferred in minutes to any place on the globe, across any number of borders and past any capital controls, with transactions that cannot be stopped or censored by even the most powerful and invasive government on Earth. It's a safe haven from fiat currencies and almost a perfect medium of savings.

Unless we are working with a weird and strict definition of "tangible," I'd say it's tangible good that is, rightly, valued by many millions of people.
Basically every Amazon product has a 4.5 star average rating now, the reviews are useless.
I don't think it is just bias, as if changing a setting somewhere would fix it. There's no easy fix, like the pill in Limitless, if that's what you are thinking.

It is more an energy management issue. The human brain consumes 20% of our energy intake if we are resting. And about 28% of our energy intake if it is performing some effort.

And all this work also generates waste, which needs to be moved to the blood and this takes time.
It's a general problem with maps.

We like to joke about the bad roads in {Upstate} New York where frequently you see some routes that look passable on a paper or digital map but are not passable or barely passable when you try it.

Garmin maps and OSM show a road near here being passable which I rated as "barely passable"; Google shows a break in the road.

For years I drove to Manchester, NH from Rt 9 in Vermont via Rt 101 which is a notoriously dangerous road for steep slopes, twisting turns, local traffic, heavy traffic, etc. I never got the idea of taking 9 and 202 to Concord and then drive down 93 until my Garmin GPS said so. Although that adds quite a few miles it adds very little time and is a much easier drive.
I don't think most of products they sell are actually legal to be sold. If you had these products in your mom and pops shop, the trading standards or whatever agency would shut down your store, but somehow Amazon is allowed to sell all this dangerous junk without consequences and they are even allowed to avoid paying tax. Something isn't right.
Well in the kind of political views such arguments come from, a victim would be someone who's rights were violated, not just someone for whom the interaction turned out to be detrimental but consented anyway.
It's not as if it has to one or the other, it can be both. The fact is, there is both a public health component as well as a moral component associated with the drug trade.
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but this is one of the few films that due to a few small cuts and tweaks, is so much better than the book it makes it not worth reading.
What are you, some sort of beef industry lobbyist? This is a widely accepted fact among the medical community and supported by reams of evidence. Metabolism has almost nothing to do with this. The link between environmental exposure (red meat, smoking, etc.) and cancer has to do with DNA damage and inflammation.

https://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2021/03/17/bacon-sa...

The rest of your comment is clearly irrelevant to the topic at hand.
I don't know what kind of community you're advocating, but I'd much prefer one where my neighbors don't play judge, jury, and torturer, attempting to enforce vigilante justice by physical assault against my person because they think I might have committed petty theft against their property.
There's also quite a lot of "3 strikes" and "your misdemeanor is now a felony due to some prior conviction" type laws in the US.

Similarly, fairly minor infractions while on probation/parole result in lengthy sentences via revocation.
To those downvoting: do you believe that dogs are able to mourn when their companions die? There are myriad examples of this occurring. If so, do you believe that dogs are the only animal capable of this?
The ones I know of are locked in corporate IT departments, but Zed Shaw in his "The ACL is Dead" talk[1] from 2008 describes the use of one in relation to permissions on documents with rules specified in the DSL.

1) https://vimeo.com/2723800
Government requiring car manufacturers fit seatbelts and airbags is intrusion in the free market. And a good one that saves hundreds of thousands of lives.
What's the problem with the Chinese sites? Whole large businesses are based on simply buying on them and reselling offline... Yes they sell crap, but these days, everyone sells crap. It's just a difference between poorly advertised cheap crap and well-advertised expensive crap.
It depends on the use case does not it.

Shared nothing is the best architecture for e-commerce search for instance.

But if you have one query every minutes or so for a 1TB dataset, it feels a bit silly to have a couple of servers dedicated to it doesn't it?
Imagine this is the case for all big data search you can think of... Logs, emails, etc. This is a waste of CPU and RAM.
A pizza machine pops up in Rome called Mr Go Pizza, serving up mixed reactions
Is it odd to think there should be more? I see people stealing, doing hard drugs like heroin or meth, prostitution, and doing other anti-social behavior daily but we all just accept it now. Cops give tickets for heroin or meth and there’s no consequence if they don’t show up to court... I’m kind of ready for the pendulum to swing the other way again, especially before my kid grows up and has to be exposed to it.
I don't ever log in to my personal accounts on my work computer/phone or vice versa. Another perk of having a work only phone is that I can leave it at work or turn it off when not working.
And how does this justify moral superiority to those of us who understood from the beginning that the lab hypothesis was the most likely? Or was that not true until you decided it was true?
I'm not sure the author is unaware of that. The last paragraph explicitly calls this out.

>> Secondly, the rate of homicides in the US has been going up quite a bit for the past two years. This is supposedly a localized effect of a few high crime cities, but even in South Carolina the number of people in prison for murder has gone up by about 10% in just the last four years. This is concerning.
Interesting that Linus comes from a family of journalists!

(The same is true of Jon Corbet, who runs LWN)

It did seem to become useful as the job shifted again and again from coding to reviewing to maintaining and setting maintenance standards through communication.
Not really. Well-crafted ads that convey a compelling message in context are fine the first time or two that you see them. Even the best ones get really irritating when they're played over and over and over, at which point they motivate me to ignore them.
Yes typed racket works the same as typescript. But it's an earlier work. Typescript probably took inspirations from it along with others.

Typed-racket has some form of refinement types now as well.
Lulz. Wrote that I find Americans weird and comment got removed. I guess racism is a forbidden word. Great shitfest. 10/10
Just a funny thought, but ladders about 3 feet tall are significantly more dangerous than the ladders in wind turbines. Not that they are more pants poopingly scary though.

https://cultureofsafety.thesilverlining.com/safety-blog/2013...
Got a couple of questions - what's that IDE like, and how's Racket compared to Clojure?

I'm a newb to the paradigm, but fiding it useful to understand Javascript better.

Thanks.
A public school system reflects its community. I have known kids who have received excellent schooling in public schools. In general, this has meant that they lived in prosperous districts.
Microsoft Shelves Windows 10x, It is not Shipping in 2021
Did you review the materials? There is hard science proving SARS-CoV-2 isn't zoonotic. It was gain of function research.