skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
" Despite all the pitfalls, organizations like Otherlab and many other small engineering firms have managed to get by on grants combined with contracts. However, their work often feels scattered and incomplete. The need to pursue different contracts and grants makes it hard to do the sort of deep long-term work that can lead to extensible breakthroughs."

This feels off to me... Otherlab is arguably one of the only working examples of what Ben is talking about here. This opinion feels not thought-through to me, and undermines much of the other opinions in the piece.
Discussion from Jan 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22130874 | 32 comments

Discussion from Sept 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17919297 | 76 comments
Generally speaking, demanding to be recognized as a victim doesn't do much to prevent or end victimhood, and in many cases, actually hurts.

I've seen far more people's lives ruined trapped in a victim mentality than I've seen ruined by saying "I refuse to see myself as a victim any longer. I have the power to do something about my situation."

Many people were a victim of an incident or circumstances beyond their control. But who benefits by continuing to define those people by the things that they were a victim of? What purpose does it serve to keep them trapped, rather than giving them the power to overcome?
When I visited the US a few years ago it seems like every TV ad break there was a "Feeling X, ask your doctor about Y". Where X was some generic condition like bloating or feeling old, and X was a brand name prescription drug.
The article mentions https://binaryfruit.com/drivedx to regularly check the SSD and aware of potential problems. Has anybody experience with this app?
1 File a written grievance against the other team member
2 File a written grievance against the guy you reported it too.

If its assault call the police and tell HR fire them and ill drop the charges "maybe"
You beat me to it. Digital marketing 101.
Hey Brandon & Ishmael,

I really like your previous product. It sounds like Segment, but when I dive deep into your landing page it's a way to embed Saas tools into your product?

It looks promising.
Better yet, always be logged out of google (and everything else really) unless you must. Then log out and erase all cookies ASAP.
Quite detailed and well-referenced look at the origin of virus. These questions were raised earlier too - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoUYq_QGJ0w

Can't help feeling sad, and bewildered in capacity of humans to cause damage at this level - the havoc this (human-made) virus is inflicting on people - close and faraway.
I agree. I'll occasionally come across full episodes of TV shows on YouTube. Uploaders will try to get around copyright detection by doing things like flipping video or inserting black frames. I'm assuming a simple dedupe based block could easily be bypassed.
Has anyone compiled stats on lab escapes?
Grain already contains language features and a standard library which target the webassembly runtime, and maybe even the browser, explicitly.

It wouldn't make a lot of sense to compile the intermediate (which they probably have, anyway) to anything else.
Lab escapes are not that rare, SARS-1 is known to have escaped 6 times. It also doesn't matter how safe and secure the WIV's BSL-4 lab is, since coronavirus research was done at BSL-2 and BSL-3.
Many?

Two to be exact. More than 640x480 and 32bit color..
Telnet Song – Guy Steele, Jr. (1984)
Report finds 82% of FCC net neutrality comments were fake
Uhm ... I would personally say yes. First of all, the "painlessly killed" part is pretty wishful thinking/rationalization on your behalf. In many cases, the killing is not at all painful.

Of course the other part makes for a pretty good ethical debate. Is it better to live a miserable life and die and early and unnatural death than it is to never be born at all? There is no right answer, but I myself feel like I wouldn't wish that kind of life on ANY conscious being. Is that a life you would want to life?

Last, none of the think-of-the-animals vegans, as you so nicely put it, would kid themselves about what were to happen to the already existing farm animals, should be stop/greatly reduce our collective meat intake. They are already doomed. They were doomed the second they were given birth to, which brings us back to the original part. Most of us think-of-the-animals vegans would prefer if we could stop doing that going forward.

I'm sorry to shake up your picture of happy little animal-life living chicken and cattle, frolicking on a green meadow, until one day they drop dead and become happy little meals. That is among the most delusional view of modern farming I can think of. Don't buy into the pictures companies put on their products. And if you say "well but I buy my meat from my local butcher..." ok cool. Most people still don't, and won't, and that's the real issue.
There are no easy links for this. You have to just research any given supposed UFO sighting, and if you actually try, you will find that people have most likely found an entirely reasonable and utterly boring explanation for it, that has not spread anywhere near as far and wide as the claim that it is a mysterious spacecraft, because the spacecraft is exciting and the explanation of what it actually is is not.
Could you still start somewhere and explain it a bit please? Thank you very much!
That's rather trivial with Deno.run, here I just wrote a gist for that out of curiosity: https://gist.github.com/zandaqo/93004fb265146a95aadb28ec851a...
What's with the firing after vacation thing? Always puzzled me.
You say you don't mean looking at future promises, and then contradict that in the next sentence.
I have noted that the best way forward would be to create stricter eutrophication laws and tax artificial fertilizers produced from fossil fuels. This would feel very contradicting to vegetarians and vegans, but factory farming would be hit comparable much harder and it would directly address the environmental factors of factory farming without harming biodiversity.

A complicating factor in this discussion is that a large portion of the feed to cattle comes as a by-product from ethanol production in things like bio fuel. The process result in about 1/3 of the original crop becoming fuel, 1/3 becomes feed, and the rest is waste/water. With more and more focus on producing bio fuel, a natural result is the creation of more feed as a by-product.
This was kinda explored at the start of April this year: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/pull/43480
You make better friendships through shared experiences, which becomes more difficult later in life. All my close friends I've known as a teenager.
> generally it’s beyond current science to independently create mutations for a specific purpose.

Labs are the places where people go to push the boundaries. If we go with lab-leak, it is extremely possible that they had figured something new out. They were doing something novel in there, because they were paid money to do novel things.
> - when working for a Swedish company, when they extended my contract and said they are very happy to have me but they can't pay me the same rate as my Swedish colleagues (I am Polish).

As an immigrant in Sweden, this is one of the instances where I'd love a name-and-shame (but it's just wishful thinking, I don't expect or really want you public shaming companies). Simply because I've heard this happening to other colleagues, in different companies, and for some Swedes this sounds almost fabricated.

I didn't get that clear message about not raising salaries up to Swedish colleagues but I noticed at some point that I was severely underpaid given my experience and skills, even more after a couple of years and I started to hear from much more junior employees how much they were making.
Good password managers are a dime a dozen.
Grain has a considerably smaller focus than Rust, and seems to aim for much simpler syntax and development.

When targeting Webassembly with Rust, there is still a lot in the Rust ecosystem that can get in your way, and not a lot in the standard language that will help you, either.
I didn't say the trait would decrease its own overall prevalence. The trait wasn't simply to be depressed if get the genes, it was a predisposition to being depressed if circumstances not good for reproduction. If resources are limited, it would simply ensure that more successful members of a species are the ones to reproduce and get them. Same as in your infanticide calculation.
Technically I don't think it's unique to the US. In Denmark doctors get a fee per consultation. It's pay with tax money, but still the doctor is financially motivated to see patients. It might only apply to general practitioner though, I think hospital doctors are on a fixed salary.

One issue, that could excuse medical companies going directly to the patients would be a lack of knowledge among doctors. Doctors contently write prescriptions for medication that's no longer available and is often not as updated as a pharmacy on new medication. This means that at least some doctors aren't suggesting the best treatment, simply because they aren't aware of it.
Have you ever worked on vehicles? E.g. for Airbags, there's one single box whose whole purpose is to decide whether to pop the airbags or not. This box is separated from the rest of the car's systems and only puts out status messages via the CAN bus. And apart from cutting power to it, there's no way to disable this box - and thus the safety mechanism it provides. Also the software running there is verified by multiple people and certified to always do what it's supposed to do.

Same for the other safety features - there must be no way to disable them. Or take control of them from the outside. (Yes, there was a case where hackers were able to gain brake/steering control of a Jeep, but that's definitely not the norm.)

I think in the end it comes down to trust. Do you trust some startup from 2016 (In&Motion is the company behind the airbag module) to get the software 100% correct?
I love this explanation even if I don't believe it!

The idea that a kind of forced toxicity can be a necessary protection to do good is worthy of a dystopian sci fi novel!

It's similar to the forced obscurity of the Urbit project.
>Thinking about him dropping N-words in his videos

Whats the problem with it? I hear that word in lots of Music Videos.
Just read coindesk.com daily. Don't read tech forums like his one. Another ressource is the crypto tier from realvision.com. Then, look for YouTube channels or Podcast.

Podcasts I can recommend:

- The Defiant, especially this episode:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0glWj5U8PUPv1YFvuDswsR

Crypto currencies is mainly:

- Bitcoin: Store of value/inflation trade

- Ethereum and others (Polkadot, Solana, Binance Chain) as the backbone of the new DeFi (decentralised finance)

What that means: DeFi is replacing Market Makers and the traditional finance space, lending and borrowing etc. So it's more used as financial tools for the backbone of the new financial industry.

There are obviously hundreds or thousands of projects trying to build on top of that, which I wouldn't pay too close attention to yet - or if you see it as a VC investment for 10+ years.

Information about these two are different. But coindesk.com is a solid resource, has many deep dives and daily articles about real world stories (like Visa using Ethereum for their crypto payment network etc.)

Then I would follow the links offered by coindesk, or look at the projects website themselves.
> It would also mean quite a heavy political response towards china if it indeed escaped a lab (which is why they're sabotaging everything even if it didn't...)

The threat of such a response to me is part of the problem. This incentivises an insecure player to act counter to the common goal by concealing the facts in order to avoid a scenario of being attacked by other players.

In the end we’re all human and mistakes happen. Regulations, audits, this can be implemented transparently for everyone; if that was the end of it and there was no perceived potential of repercussions, perhaps we wouldn’t have this problem.

(Not to say this somehow justifies the obstruction of the investigation, but IMO it’s something to keep in mind.)
> This is probably the most convincing argument: if they actually had worked on viruses similar enough to plausible be modified into SARS-CoV-2, this would have left evidence in scientific papers etc.

If I remember correctly, wasn't there no evidence in scientific papers etc that the virus RaTG13, which is the closest known relative to SARS-CoV-2, actually existed until after the Covid pandemic started and they suddenly published information about it?
"I think it hilarious when people like me, urban dwellers, tell me to my face they only buy meat from some small butcher because they only trust him, or some variation of that story."

I bought half a pig some time ago; I have a copy of his (probably 'her'?) earmark here next to me on my desk. I get an invitation each year to go watch it when it goes out to pasture for the first time that year. I can choose to have the half delivered to me as a carcass, for me to do my own butchering, or I can choose to have it processed (and I can choose to give away the parts I'm not going to eat, like the blood sausage and the processed head, tails and ears (for which I don't know the English word - it's a grayish slab, often eaten on rye bread here in North-Western Europe; that is, when it's eaten at all, I don't know anyone under the age of 50 who eats it).

Anyway, my point is - it's very much possible to know exactly where meat comes from with small farmers/butchers, even for urban dwellers, to the point that I looked the animal that I ate a part of last night in its eyes several times.
Yes. Authentication via shared secret (aka password) is actually ideal from most use case angles.

Sure it's broken if that password is "password123". And remembering 20+ characters (minimum to be good) isn't practical.

But all that is solved problem with password managers. Generate very long truly random & unique passwords which are never reused and that is actually very strong.
My Excel skills are a bit rusty but I remember the times when it was advised to not open .doc or .xls files from an unknown source because harmful VBA macros could be executed on opening the file. Did this changed lately? If not, how is opening an .xls file different from installing a non-tested python package from security perspective?
Whether that specifically is speculation or not, it is a fact that we have adapted to live off of both meat and plants, and are some of the best known generalists (in terms of adaptation), among large land-dwelling animals. Other apes are much better at specific things that help them do what they do (specialists). We're just different, and we gradually became to be that way. There are specially adapted humans as well, less-speculatively as a result of rare rich protein sources like fish, milk. By extension, it's also probably inarguable that certain groups of people would have disappeared completely had it not been for the capability of them to adapt, bioculturally, to a changing world or simply changing circumstances. By saying their claim about meat and big brains is "Complete and utter speculation", you're at least implying that there's very little substance to the claim, and that you have a better explanation with more than a documentary to point to. But why is it that we're not competing with other apes at this moment? Why are we well-adapted to eat animals? Do you have a more substantial proposition?
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Can Hack Your Car
If so, is the platform then obliged to take down every slightly different version of the same infringing content?

Well, no, because the platform doesn't know which of those links were published with permission of the copyright holder and which weren't.
I've never seen this on the web, but I get something very similar after I put my computer to sleep with an ongoing mosh session.
What load of bs.
I'm not even 100% vegetarian myself but looking at how animals are treated repulses me, watch this video and tell me what you think about good and evil again (nsfw): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O15Owo7jGtU

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I think you missed the entire point of the comment you're replying to. It specifically mentions breeding and slaughtering animals, this has nothing to do with wolves or hunters

> Is the wolf diabolically evil?

Do wolves have a sense of good and evil ?

Do wolves talk about the ethical and moral implications of breeding and slaughtering millions of animals every single day ?

> Our digestive systems, our teeth, our nutritional requirements are all tuned to omnivorous consumption. Why is it wrong to exercise our natural nutritional choices, plant and animal, that have resulted from millions of years of evolution?

A lot of people in the west eat meat two or three times a day, sometimes from multiple animals during the same meal, we didn't evolve to do that at all. We didn't evolve to sit all day in front of a computer, but here I am. We didn't evolve to use cars but we almost all do. Using evolution as an argument for anything usually is a very poor choice....

I personally have no issue with the idea of killing to eat, the problem is everything else in the process. We don't have to treat amimals like we do, we don't have to eat so much meat every single day
Elixir gives me that feeling of fun I had when first learning Ruby, which is a very rare thing and something I cherish. I still love Ruby, but now I love Elixir too :)

The two languages seem to share a common idea, of making it enjoyable, rather than having a lot in common with each other. They're fundamentally different but somehow feel familiar, which is pretty cool.

I really just need to figure out a viable hobby project for Elixir so I have something to play with.
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A logic programming language like Prolog seems like it would have been a good fit for solving the bytecode packing with constraints.
I'm currently in a similar situation. Got an email domain snatched from me when it expired without me noticing, and now Google won't even go through the account recovery steps, just keeps sending emails to an address that no longer exists. I swear having a human contact would resolve this in absolutely no time, but that's just not how Google works.
You are not competing against the average non-tech person, but against professional investors that study the companies inside out, question the management, consult domain experts etc.

The knowledge you described is unlikely to give you an edge if you have never even looked at the companies' financials or don't know what a discounted cash flow is.
Ask HN: What are a few examples of developers tools which aren't control planes?
Read this twitter thread: https://twitter.com/fishmegs/status/1386442736153239553 which made me wonder about such tools:

> I’ve had a dev tools rant brewing in my head so long that I can’t even write it. TL;DR there is no control plane — products that promise such generally aren’t satisfying to users. Get crisp on where you snap into a toolchain and make THAT easy, or even — dare I say — delightful.
I recently had to create a bootable USB drive, and tried following the instructions on the Arch wiki[1] to just use coreutils:

# cat path/to/archlinux-version-x86_64.iso > /dev/sdx
or
# dd bs=4M if=path/to/archlinux-version-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdx conv=fsync oflag=direct status=progress

However, this was ridiculously slow. I waited a long time for cat, but not long enough to figure out if it would ever finish. dd reported speeds of less than half a MB/s, gnome-disk-utility was about eight times faster.

I wonder if a different set of options to dd would have given better results. From what I can tell, gnome-disk-utility is just open() and write() (with suitable flags) in the end.

1: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/USB_flash_installation_medi...
California has a number of desalination plants online already, including the large billion-dollar Carlsbad project, and several more plants in various stages of planning or construction.

I'm skeptical that desalination will be enough to prevent a reckoning over water in the near future though. It eases the strain on parched coastal communities, but it's pretty hard to move a lot of water very far inland. It's also expensive, in both up-front and ongoing costs, and the predicted intermittent wet years are going to make the economics of desalination tricky. And then there's the environmental impact; it's a good bet that 40 years from now, the state will be even drier than it is now, and 40 years of brine dumped up and down the coastline may have more severe consequences than we are anticipating. (To their credit, the Carlsbad project has made a large effort to remediate this with the construction of 60 acres of wetlands.)

For perspective, the Carlsbad plant is the largest in the western hemisphere and it produces enough water for 400,000 residents in one county. It is, aptly, a drop in the bucket.
> How Big Pharma Finds Sick Users on Facebook

Living in a country where advertisements of pharmaceuticals are allowed, it's unbearable. Basically Facebook in real life - in TV, on billboards, in newspappers, YouTube ads, omnipresent leaflets. All flavours of dietary suplements, Rutin and Ibuprofen products, cures for fungal and intimate infections, wonder cures for liver and joints, "digestion catalysers". They're throwing the most awkward and malignant stuff at everyone. Pharma industry is malicious scum and has to be kept on short tight leash.
Late reply, but I was speaking in generalities. HN doesn't quite fit the bill for a general forum that would improve from those tactics. There is a somewhat focused expectation of submissions, and the comments typically need a certain caliber of quality. Forums like this that deviate from those core tenets converge on being a Reddit clone with fewer users and features.

It's natural for users to engage less and less over time. However, holding the community to a certain standard keeps users from outgrowing the submissions and discussions. No one is too old, too mature, or too "smart" for earnest discussion.
I didn't know The Markup.
The articles and the methodologies used are very clever.
This is the goal with WebAuthn and FIDO.
Doesn't it feel somewhat hypocritical to accuse others of having their head in the sand whilst claiming slavery, genocide, racism and misogyny are uniquely western phenomenon?

I think the irony of the self-loathing westerner, is that in believing their history is uniquely evil, are practising a sort of white supremacy. Not only in being completely oblivious to the history of other parts of the world. But by believing that only white people are/were so powerful that the evil they wrought could never be replicated by the much less powerful other races.
Not controversial at all, very true.

Make the password unique and >128+ bits of entropy and that's all that is needed. At that point it is as strong as a shared AES key.
Fair point, but cleanup and string handling are hardly problems where C++ has a monopoly, or even particularly good solutions to offer ;)
Occam's razor is a heuristic that says to test the most likely hypothesis first. It doesn't make the simplest explanation automatically correct.
While I agree with most of what you said, I hear some insinuating connotations about DARPA.

Might I inquire how DARPA was a bad actor?

My stand here is that a good thing came form a good agency.
As if the Big Mac is healthy now. We need sustainable replacements for both healthy and unhealthy food. Pick your battles.