skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the idea of bootable usb, but 9 times out of 10 it's easier for me to do a PXE boot to an iso. I have a linux computer setup to provide the PXE boot stuff in my lab.

I used to have a vmware player image that would run pxe boot on a 2nd nic I put in my laptop (USB), but it's been awhile since I've needed to do that.
I suspect not enough time has passed for them to see the period in living memory clearly.
I read Josh Rogin earlier articles on the subject. He also recently implicated Fauchi for covertly funding gain of function research, and he is pushing for congressional oversight/investigation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/cong...
Big Chinese rocket segment set to fall to Earth
Germany has a high rate of obesity just like most comparable countries.
There's a lot of virtue signalling on HN, but this takes the cake.

Are we all supposed to walk around town with a pig carcass over our shoulder to be as woke as you?
> No doctors were arrested early on

The following happened to Doctor Li Wenliang:

> On 3 January 2020, police from the Wuhan Public Security Bureau investigating the case interrogated Li, issued a formal written warning and censuring him for "publishing untrue statements about seven confirmed SARS cases at the Huanan Seafood Market." He was made to sign a letter of admonition promising not to do it again. The police warned him that any recalcitrant behavior would result in a prosecution.

Being detained and forced to sign a letter on threat of prosecution is the practical equivalent of being arrested.

> If there was foreknowledge of a lab leak, these doctors would be under surveillance and stashed away in safe house away from family/friends/work for months/years like in other politically sensitive cases.

There is no evidence that doctors like Doctor Li Wenliang had knowledge of the origin, and were targeted for reporting on the virus.

Huang Yan Ling was a researcher at the virology lab in Wuhan that has been missing since right before the outbreak.
You keep saying "orthorexic" and I keep saying "toxic", up to you to look up the info which is abundant.
No-ones got a choice, you have to use it in the browser.
It’s surfing. The wave is luck, but the successful ones know how to get up on the board and ride it.
It was a culture shock to me as an American that moved back to the US. Turned on regular TV only to see shows constantly interrupted by commercials. After that I put the STB in the closet and use streaming services.
One of the things I like most about interviews with Linus is that there are rarely any lofty ideas or ideological thinking. He seems like an extremely focus person, who avoids speaking to subjects that he knows little or nothing about (Something I suppose I could learn from).

It's nice to see someone in his position not trying to use it to bring about changes outside his area of expertise.
Yes, the article explains the "blueberres"[0] literally halfway through (but evidently there was more hurry to put a downvote on me than to read an article already published in March 2019 and easily found with little searching)

I would like to reiterate this: the author has already 'published' this 'paper' in the past in (vanity)newspapers of dubious reputation and has already been debunked (by nasa, esa, scholars and ordinary geologists) several times. They don't even fall for it on reddit anymore, and that's saying something.

[0] a.k.a. iron oxide/hematite
The problem Isee is that Ethereum is too expensive to do anything practical. So the “successes” have all been greater fool things.

Decentralized is really useful for many uses, but the monetary aspects are making it less useful, I think.

I’ve read some plans and thought they would be cool if it wasn’t going to devolve to people just getting money.

I think things like BitTorrent are successful because there’s not someone rentseeking over the operation extracting value as cash.

Ethereum’s issue, I think, is that the cost of transactions is much higher than the true cost. If it just focused on incentivizing distributed compute then there would be more benefit.

I’d rather have manual trust like seti/boinc did decades ago and greater functionality.
Holy smokes. 8TB SSD + 128GB RAM + Ryzen 9 for 100 euro a month.

Can you get anywhere close to this with AWS or even DO?
Space Research in Ukraine 2018-2020 [pdf]
Transitions from a monarchy often end in disaster, though it currently seems that the Linux developers would handle it better than the Python developers.

"Councils" mostly attract power hungry individuals and get a dictatorial touch. The usual corporations would try to get their representatives into such a council, which destroys the atmosphere because open source development is now like work: You have to submit to the council members in case you want to get hired at their employers.

If you don't, they'll intrigue against you and make your life difficult.
I guess I'll offer a counterpoint here because I was suckered into buying & pushing through this game after reading a hundred comments like this online.

Nier Automata is a game with boring combat that makes you play through largely the same campaign 2.5 times in a row to get the "full story". Gameplay consists of a lot of running around empty levels and bashing health-sponge enemies until they explode, interspersed with mashing the dodge function.

I reached the end of the first campaign and was thoroughly disappointed. Comments online said, no, really, you absolutely have to finish the third ending to really experience the game. So I did. In the second playthrough combat gets even worse, because the most efficient way of killing enemies is a boring 2d bullet hell hacking minigame.

People talk a lot about the story but it legitimately barely makes sense. If you're a fan of anime-style storytelling I guess you might find it compelling. It is not deep. The much-vaunted philosophical aspects rise to naming some characters & bosses after famous philosophers, and nothing else.

Buy it and play it if you want. Maybe you'll enjoy it. But if it doesn't stick after a couple hours, don't continue - really, it does not change or improve at all.
That's an interesting direction, and I'll keep an eye on it. Unfortunately in this case though, it's probably too far off the company's beaten track to use, as we have to integrate with plenty of other teams' work, which would be vanilla web+js stuff. While I'm sure it's surmountable, I'm not sure a hybrid is worth it.
I like PubPeer idea and that it allows (basically, only has) reusable anonymous registrations. But though comments (from quick look on various articles) are high quality, if it was more popular very probably non-academic-related discussions will happen which will require time on author's side to filter through.
Wow, I've wanted something like this for literally years!

Pencil is OK, but fiddly to use, lacking in stencils, and basically unmaintained. Figma is a really powerful tool, but is too expensive unless you're a full-time UI/UX person (in which case, it's actually a good deal).

It's so great to have a powerful OSS prototyping tool - and one that looks like it's had thought put into it's own UI/UX. Can't wait to try this out and see if it meets my expectations, thanks so much for posting this!
Anything preventing this from running on Python3 on Windows?
This is very clever. I was expecting it to be a simple hardware switch that toggled power between the Linux and Windows storage devices, but it's way more advanced than that - the switch actually communicates with GRUB directly (by emulating a USB storage device with a dummy file).

However one problem I see with this (and dual-booting Linux & Windows in general) is that Windows will often tamper with other drives besides the one it's on, so there's a chance your GRUB will just be overwritten after a Windows update (this wasn't a major issue back in Windows 7 as this would only happen on an OS reinstall, but since Windows 10 a lot of updates are actually OS reinstalls in the background).
Not Racked based, but I'd say Cucumber/Gherkin. Yes it is absolutely overkill for small teams, but if you have a dedicated person who is not really a programmer but who is managing requirements between the developers and the stakeholders, Cucumber is amazing in that scenario.
Personal anecdote. Initially I wasn't interested in trying the Beyond Meat burgers. But recently, I've tried it once at a hotel restaurant and actually thought they tasted alright, so ordered it a few more times after, while I was staying at the hotel. Later the hotel changed the menu and didn't sell them anymore. I've ordered a normal beef burger and actually thought they taste worse than the Beyond Meat burgers. Since coming back home, I've bought the Beyond Meat patties at my local supermarket, and been making the burgers myself.
This would 100% keep me from using this. a11y is my number one reason for using third-party UI elements. Making things work with the mouse is usually easy enough, but for complicated widgets there’s a long tail of subtle accessibility issues that are tricky to get right.
A "wet market" is simply a market where you can buy meat, fish, and vegetables.

Every neighbourhood in every city in Asia has a wet market. Well other than Japan and Singapore, I guess. I live in Asia and there are two wet markets within walking distance of my house.

Wet markets are as omnipresent as convenience stores in America.
Java is the new Cobol. Java was always intended as an applications language. Due to GC and lack of direct memory access it's not really suitable for systems programming.
Again you're using sham accounting. Where did that methane come from? From the food. It came into the food from the air. There are again no net emissions. Just like a company requires expenditures to generate revenue. This is misleading. That carbon was borrowed from the air and then returned. Net emission zero. You only increase carbon in the air when you take carbon from elsewhere and put it in the air. Otherwise it's a cycle with net flow zero.
A Node.js and TypeScript framework for building APIs and microservices
Cyanide in apple seeds is toxic in proper amounts, should I avoid consuming apple seeds, or apples completely?

Toxicity of certain compounds in meat or other foods has nothing to do with the food itself being healthy or unhealthy.

Similarly how antioxidant, vitamin or macronutrient content has nothing to do with that particular food being healthy or unhealthy.

Promoting the idea that a particular food or ingredient is healthy or unhealthy is promoting orthorexic behavior, an obsession over what to include or not include in your diet because of a made up measure of (un)healthiness.
Bad phones can lead tonmass surveillance by dictatorships and persecution of dissidents, ensuring that manufactures keep up with security for an extended period of time could help those populations a lot.
I feel like iMUSE [0] by the fantastic Michael Land needs to be mentioned here. Here it is in action: [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMUSE

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N41TEcjcvM
Amazon Fake Reviews Scam Exposed in Data Breach
I don't necessarily agree with the earlier poster but how we slaughter the animals isn't really the issue they have. If aliens came and promised to provide for you for your whole life but on your 30th birthday they would kill you painlessly would you take that deal? What gives us the right to impose that kind of deal on other living beings?
It is easy to claim the opposite using this binaric logic: The US has lost the covid war to China with the most deaths in the world. The desperate fear of China's economic dominance which seems unstoppable alongside the fact that they do not invade and bomb countries (so if we do that to them we will have a really big propaganda job to convince people). So how do we convince China is really bad? Oh I know. Leak a deadly virus near their lab. Frame them. Keep it in your back pocket in case the cultural genocide framing fails. This is why these polemics lead nowhere. Rather, we have no evidence conclusive either way. The desire to speculate from our side, only feeds anti-Asian attitudes.
People are quite literally part of nature
> But the most important thing about them, and the reason I urge everyone to at least _try_ Beyond Burgers, is they require no violence against animals.

The “animal cruelty” angle is probably the least effective tactic to get people to stop eating meat.

I do not care that cows are killed for me to eat burgers. I doubt the wolves care what I think when they kill the sheep.
I didn’t want proof they happened. I wanted proof they have the touted benefits. That is what I am not convinced of. I believe “exposure” through free work is of very little value.
Of course not. But that's why the "cloud" (as in the typical DO/AWS/Azure/GCP offerings) are a scam.
>"There is no clear yes/no answer here"

There is. We just do not know it. But somebody does.
This is a complex misunderstanding...

First, we are getting better throughput from S3 than I we were using a SATA SSD. (and slower than a NVMe SSD).
This is a bit of a secret.

Of course, single sequential throughput on S3 sucks. At the end of the day the data is stored on spining disk
and we cannot do anything against the law physics.

... but we can concurrently read many disks using s3. Network is our only bottleneck.
The theoretical upper bound on our instances is 2GB/s.
On throughput intensive 1s query, we observe an average of 1GB/s.

Also you are not accounting for replication. S3 costs include battle tested, multi-DC replication.

Last but not least, S3 trivially decouples compute and storage.
It means that we can host 100 different indices on S3, and use the same pool of search server to deal with the
CPU-bound stuff.

This last bit is really what drives the price an extra 5x down for many use case.
> Is there a line of succession?

His oldest child (the crown penguiness), Patricia, is next in line. It is expected that as part of the succession Linux will be renamed to Patricux.
> It merely doubling down on existing dogma by recasting contradictory prior politics as "wrong".

True. There appears to be no self-reflection that in the future, today's political and moral fashions will be seen as bad, in much the same way that the political/moral fashions of the past are seen as bad now.
On the other hand, under 1.5 seconds on common / basic search terms is pretty good.
I think the parent tried to make a point for accessibility. For example if you were a blind person browsing the web through audio, you'd wanna know which items are focusable.
A distinction without a difference.

I suspect that this is how Facebook justify some of these things. They don't explicitly provide data, anything that advertisers choose to intuit from data is up to them. But I think this is a fundamental misunderstanding (or unwillingness to understand) privacy.

Privacy needs to be treated like a security concern. It basically is one. In security any place where more information is disclosed than intended is considered to be a security flaw in some sense. If there's a correlation between likes and health concerns that allows for statistical inferences about users health, that's a security flaw.

The thing about security like this is that it takes active work to solve these sorts of problems. Facebook are only doing the "passive" work of not giving advertisers the exact data. A counter example is Apple's "differential privacy" which does a lot more work to only preserve very specific tracking information and statistical properties.
Isn't that just the norm for scientific papers?
Definition of veganism:

"Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of animals, humans and the environment"[1]

The key parts being "seeks to" and "as far as is possible and practicable". Veganism is not about being perfect (that's impossible), and although some might speak as if it is, they should not be taken seriously.

What we do know is that striving for a more vegan way of living is unequivocally less harmful for sentient beings and I and many others think that is a very noble endeavor.

1. https://www.vegansociety.com/go-vegan/definition-veganism
Monitoring as Code with Sensu
The proof that Tetris is a win for the computer was published in Eureka 51 (1992) by Richard Tucker. (Someone else has posted a link to another paper proving this, but it's from 1997; Richard got there first.)

The proof that Tris is a win for the player was published in Eureka 51 (1991) by Adam Chalcraft. Richard and Adam definitely know one another and I would be unsurprised to learn that they talked to one another about this stuff, but the actual writeups in Eureka were by different people.

(Quite possibly a substantial amount of the thinking was done collectively at meetings of the "Puzzles and Games Ring", a sort of sub-organization of the Archimedeans (the student mathematical society at the University of Cambridge, which publishes Eureka).
at which point do you think it would be more clear what the consequences of the 2003 invasion of Iraq have been? Someone born on the day of that invasion would be an adult by now so it should be possible to come to at least a few conclusions about all that death and destruction.
What the OP is talking about mostly is factory farming, where cows will likely not eat very much grass, and where animals will not be free to graze.

I think most people would agree that traditional livestock farming is a much better system, ethically and environmentally, but it would struggle to meet global demand.
What are the legal risks faced by Theo in this case? I’m guessing it’s not simply another DMCA takedown
Actions, resources, and condition keys reference for AWS IAM
Complex applications was probably an overstatement but I've created featureful IRC and Discord bots, a database management application and right now I'm creating a graphical browser for the Gemini protocol.

All my other previous attempts at using functional languages, like for instance Haskell, ended up in trivial applications, usually based in numerical analysis.
Not everything that hurts Facebook is good.

In this case a company which voluntarily uses a service of another company is reconsidering. They are challenging the status quo that everyone has to be on Facebook. That is good in my opinion. They might set an example and be leaders to which others may follow.
"Less" is used for countable things too. Some time ago some people tried to make up a rule that it shouldn't be, but "less" has been used for countable things for over 1000 years. See some linguists' takes: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003775.h..., https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2819
I draw the line in that I don't eat anything with a central nervous system. I don't doubt a biologist might make me reconsider my understanding of a CNS, but I've always found it a clear line for me personally.
> He also recently implicated Fauchi for covertly funding gain of function research

I'm sorry, that essay (which is an opinion piece, not a work of investigative journalism) says absolutely nothing of the sort. What's your source on that? That's a pretty ridiculous accusation if you don't have evidence.
This is something I do wonder, though. Is that absurd. Is it actually absurd. Might that not actually be what the morally and ethically correct course of action is.

We know nature is cruel. We know nature is absolutely horrendous and horrific. Why do we just accept that as a given?
It's not. The officially suspect bat population was some 800km away from Wuhan.

Similarly, Sverdlovsk lab (the ground zero of 1979 anthrax outbreak) wasn't located there because Sverdlovsk specifically suspect to anthrax. An interesting tidbit, the party blamed the local farmer (wet) market for the outbreak there.
Here's a riddle for you: if seed oils were not toxic, why are mice given seed oils as low as 4-5% of calories in order to cause cancer in the presence of other carcinogens? They don't get cancer with the carcinogens alone, they have to add the seed oils to trigger the cancers.
Right, the tiny in-group of mainstream journalists and elites use it and place way too much weight on what's being said on the platform. Outside of that, most of America (& the world?) doesn't give a crap about what blue checks are saying. That doesn't stop journalists from twisting themselves into pretzels over what this or that person tweeted. I'm not saying it's not important and influential to the people using it, I'm saying those people think everyone else feels the same way and that's not the case.

It's trivial to buy a bot farm and pump up your tweets to make it seem you have a large following or tons of people agree with your opinion when in fact it's all manufactured. But hey, all that tech is complicated right? Better to not think about it... /s
It’s plausible either way, and the behavior is by no means a smoking gun, but it seems slightly more consistent with a lab leak hypothesis. I’d expect a slightly different pattern of attempting to control information if there wasn’t any connection to the lab.

The disappearance of Huang Yan Ling is another bit of evidence that pushes me towards the lab leak.

If I were to assign a percentage to it, I’d say about 60% chance lab origin is true, 40% chance natural origin is true.
I'm an Architect and/or Tech Lead (depending on project), rather than a UI/UX person, but sometimes I work on smaller projects that don't have a UI/UX Designer assigned to them.

At the start of a project, I generally have several workshop meetings with relevant people from the customer. After finding out a bit about what they want, I use Figma to start building UI mockups - I can adjust these on the fly during calls, based on the discussion. Being able to make tweaks in seconds (basically in real-time with the conversation) is really important. Having these visualisations always helps generate/foster discussion.
Isn't the default for "Allow Apps to Request to Track" disabled? So that would keep this number very low
I think that's why the commenter qualified with "urban dwellers". Modern urban life abstracts away a lot of the realities of our industries.
The idea that the bat population is local to Wuhan is a misconception. The bats from which the gain of function research studies are being done were collected from Yunnan province 800 miles away, not locally in Wuhan. They still have not been able to identity any animals in the market, bats or civets, that would explain the natural spillover hypothesis.
Prior to modern journalism, newspapers were directly funded by political interests. Now that advertising dollars no longer provide a somewhat unbiassed source of income, publications like the guardian are relying on direct donations from their readers and I suspect that introduces some bias as well.
Telemetry is why the Firefox UI keeps getting worse.

Also I don't want to deal with an audio tool connecting out over the internet. They can listen to what their users say on an issue tracker and write regression tests. Hell if they need help writing regression tests I'll write some for them, that seems to be what caused the problem.
>"The much-vaunted philosophical aspects basically rise to naming some characters & bosses after famous philosophers, and basically nothing else."

Replying to this is tricky without spoilers, but I genuinely don't understand how you came to this conclusion. Did you really not find anything about the Android's lives to be even remotely philosophical? Or even the multiple playthrough aspect that you hated, what do you think is its point?

Honestly, the impression I get is that you didn't really give the game a proper chance, wrote it off early on and played it while you had written it off.

It's not for everyone, but your comment is too harsh.