skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Funny, that means its own intelligence and military are criminal enterprises.

It's telling that the Wikipedia page for ACIC and AFP have not a single mention of corruption.

Australian LEAs/LEOs are notorious for their corruption and criminal enterprising, see:

'Unlawful' conduct by federal police took huge bribery case to brink of collapse (2017) https://www.smh.com.au/national/unlawful-conduct-by-federal-...

These 2 books that focus on events pre-2010:

https://www.amazon.com/culture-corruption-Australian-Institu...

https://www.amazon.com/Code-Silence-Officer-Australias-Survi...

For something less academic I highly recommend Underbelly[1] especially the first 3 seasons and "Underbelly: Infiltration"[2]. While very entertaining, it's accurate on events and shows how much AFP are the most powerful and dangerous gang in town (no matter whether you're in Queensland, NSW or Victoria).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underbelly_(TV_series)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underbelly_Files:_Infiltration
Ah, my bad. The 'problematic' footage is at around the 18m mark.
I was big proponent for mass timber until engineer told me the lifespan might be poor due to adhesives in fabrication. Can't find any solid analysis though.
Synology NAS's have a UI like this.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/UZCuKtNMML225va5prEG...
Because that allows for out parameters and referring to memory addresses without the unsafety of dealing with pointers, something that even ALGOL and PL/I supported.
The 'problematic' footage is around the 18m mark. Sadly I can no longer edit the post.
Why on earth should the patient choose whichever drug put money into advertising, rather than the one their doctor deems the most suitable? How could that possibly be beneficial?

edit: reading further down the article, there is an advert for an antipsychotic medication which offers a $15 discount on your copay. This particular medication has serious discontinuation effects, it's not something you can just stop taking and it's not something that is prescribed lightly in the first place. Offering a discount for the first few doses is plainly exploitative.
PSA for us Euros that instinctively ignored latimes.com links since blocking us when GDPR came into effect: they now let us in! Time to unlearn the reflex.
I normally do not use webfonts either, although I do use a cascade of fonts ending in serif/sans-serif to use specific fonts if available. As you say, it’s not very important.

But there is one where it did matter: the Nigerian Oil Spill Monitor [1], a data entry and exploration application I built in 2013-2019.

I did try different free fonts, and found that with Ubuntu I could read the data much more accurately so I put it there as a webfont even if I was trying to minimize the amount of data loaded. (Internet bandwidth in Nigeria was not great at the time; many of our users used the application through shared GSM links.)
Maybe by now, with the application’s users having better screens and improved font rendering, it would be fine to remove the Ubuntu font. Back then, with fewer pixels, it was the best way to pack information in the screen.

[1] https://sentido-labs.com/en/portfolio/#Nigerian-Oil-Spill-Mo...
New Study Estimates More Than 900k People Have Died of Covid-19 in U.S.
Stablecoin 101: What It Is and How It Can Protect Your Money
If the blue tool you're talking about is an inhaler, I'm happy for yours being $6, as was mine I believe, but some still aren't so fortunate. They still go for $300-$500 for some people, in the U.S.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/millions-skip-medication...

"Died because couldn't afford inhaler" will bring up some fairly good hits.

Things have been fairly good, and are always mostly getting better - but damned if we couldn't be so, so much better than we are given the other things our country fronts billions upon billions of dollars for is the idea always lingering in my and others minds.
Your source doesn't support your statement.

The original poster stated, "They start heavily corrupting data if left unpowered for around a year or two though, in case this gives anyone false confidence in a use case they aren't designed for." A person asked if all SSDs do that and you said, "Yes, all SSD's suffer this effect." This statement is wrong.

The AnandTech article even mentions the falsehoods and states it wants to clear up the confusion. A drive must meet certain conditions before data loss begins. Simply putting a backup or thumb drive in a safe for several years isn't going to cause data loss and the AnandTech article comes to this conclusion.

Here is another article from PCWorld with commentary from the authors of the 2015 JEDEC presentation that started this hysteria.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2925173/debunked-your-ssd-wo...
Yes I just discovered this lastweek It worked fine from Linux.

I only had to patch script:
https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/pull/877

I guess it will be valuable to ship this in distros no ?
Some Viruses Use an Alternative Genetic Alphabet
For the benefit of those who may not know, this has been possible (by way of Grub2) with many Linux distros for a while now without custom software. Typically you just add extra boot arguments that point to the iso and flag that booting from it is desired.

Unfortunately the required arguments tend to be poorly documented and quite specific to each distro. This looks like a neat tool that's sidestepping that issue. If anyone knows of a good resource that documents these boot arguments for a range of distros, please share!
100% junk food. These are mostly highly refined oils. All the unhealthy side effects with none of the nutrition, densely packed into real meat.

If you want to be meat free, eat vegetables. Portabella burgers are deoicious, as is grilled eggplant, zuccini, etc. All healthy for you.

The fake meat trend makes us all more unhealthy. If you have issues with meat, work on addressinf the big farm, big ranch industry which needs their agg gag protections and subcidies immediately removed.
Who Is “Public” Data For?
This is such a good point to make. Us humans should definitely strive to hold ourselves to a higher standard than that.

Also, it's a hell of a difference between the wolf, who has to kill in order to survive, and the man, who just has to choose something else to eat in the supermarket or restaurant. Justifying ones choice by comparing oneself to a wolf is incredibly flawed. No one here would bat an eye if, for whatever reason, people have to hunt and kill in order to sustain themselves, like some tribes probably still do. We wouldn't call them evil for it. What can be called evil on the other hand, is the systematic raising, torturing, and killing of billions of animals every year. Because it's needless. We could easily survive without it, but we choose not to, because bacon. I get it, it's delicious. But at some point it becomes very questionable, and I'm even setting aside the sustainability aspect.
IMHO the "meatless burger" problem is 95% solved, and I would like to see similar effort turned to the "milkless cheese" problem.
it helps avoid the issue in the future...

It would mean countries that have labs would either be forced to allow constant audits and reasonable regulations (such as don't have labs in cities) or face isolation.

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...)
> Changes to C source files of a shared library should not require a rebuild of dependents

Yes it should, as dependents may be looking for the existence of a given function being exported from the library at build time (through dlopen/dlsym) and enable / disable features accordingly
Are you talking about Poland? :)

National Telecom deployed Ericsson HiS (https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_internet_Solution), a proprietary twist on ISDN (max 115kb/s, cheap to manufacture external USB dongle), between 1999 and 2004. Signup was about one full entry level local salary, then 1/6 monthly bill. I didnt hesitate one second, my monthly dialup bills were already approaching ~1/4 of what I was making.

At the time there were no alternatives other than local neighbor coop networks sharing >$1K monthly bills for T1 line.
The Opportunists – Why does a piece of art endure?
Hmm, I could have sworn I saw a comment somewhere on the site that it’s no longer in development, but can’t find it now, maybe I just hallucinated it. Good to know it’s still going then!
Is there some proof that big pharma really targets sick people? The article mentions targeting for things like "cancer awareness" as a proxy for cancer patients.

But why target patients? Patients usually don't decide on the drugs they take, doctors do, they should be the target, not patients.

So maybe we can take things at face value, big pharma is not targeting cancer patients, instead they are targeting those who are the most likely to have an interest in cancer besides patients: health professionals.

Note: I don't live in the US, and generally, only doctors get ads about prescription drugs, I heard the situation is different in the US for some reason.
Why the heck are people hurt by buying luxury brands like Apple? It's like saying poor people can't get the time because they don't have enough money to buy a Rolex...
>If you can compromise the device and extract the signal sent from the sensor, you should have a near universal replay payload. Right now that is still an espionage realm threat, but as these methods become more universal, mass attacks against large populations become more and more appealing.

If the manufacturers had a sense of security, they would make the sensor into a hard-wired device that takes an auxiliary value as input and combines the input with a fuzzy extractor to provide a unique key per auxiliary value in such a way that neither the value nor the biometric can be extracted from the key.

But I'm not holding my breath!
My doctor is certainly not backed by investors who are putting her under pressure if she doesn't make 10% ROI.
I can’t, but it was published in Eureka (Cambridge Maths Society/Archimedean journal) somewhere between 1988 and 1993 I think. I don’t know how to get old copies but they were all typeset in TeX.

The same people also proved (earlier) that with 3-ominos its a win for the player.

Incidentally, if you’re into cool maths that isn’t part of any major research line, Eureka is a great read.
I'm not sure it's fair to compare cropping and slaughterhouses.

Anyone looking at that (nsfw) video and telling me "but what about the insects/pests" have to be trolling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O15Owo7jGtU

Anything we do will have an impact on the rest of our eco system, even if we just ate wild berries you'd find someone complaining about the beetle you stepped on while walking in the woods. But putting everything in perspective I doubt cropping comes anywhere close to animal slaughtering in term of crime against nature.

I think anyone will agree that modern industrial agriculture comes with its own set of problems.
Literally everyone I've ever spoken to about privacy has been a man. What the hell are you talking about?
Have a look at these 2 videos - https://youtu.be/hXW7nwNUPrg?t=1246

It’s amazing how many cars they are producing at prices similar to 10 year old battery-dead Leaf. Tesla’s household batteries cost more.

However the prices there are local as they are subsidised - once out for export they are much higher + local taxes.
I feel like this does exist already in a lot of places, we just call it different things. 20% time is a great analogy in my mind. Allowing employees to work on new ideas, but with some minor direction seems to be the nuance.

"I want to break into this new market and I need something that satisfies constraints X, Y and Z. You have a fat budget and as many Fridays as you need to come up with a concept/prototype."

Once a concept is clearly valuable, additional time and resources should be immediately allocated. You could just say to the person who proposed it "this is your full time job as of next Monday, how many people do you need?"

The more aggressively you pursue new ideas the faster you will find the really good ones. You can't be afraid to call out shitty ideas either. Just make it clear that no one will ever lose their job over a bad idea invented in good faith.

What I describe here is basically how our company operates today. Having the flexibility to try scary new things in a supportive environment had yielded some incredible intellectual property over the years. Our customers still can't figure out how we are able to ship to production multiple times per day with a 7 person team while our 10,000+ employee vendors require 3 weeks for basic reconfiguration tasks and entire fiscal quarters for actual software releases.
I wonder what people who disagree think malice actually is. Randomly harming others without even enjoying it?
The prices for repairs and replacement parts is inflated.
You don't need an account for that yet. I've been using Maps in "incognito mode" for 6 months, but I wouldn't be surprised if they're still using Maps to collect data about me.
I recently came across this interesting Czech variant of meatless burger: https://drinkmana.com/products/manaburger

As a meat-eater, I have yet to try it, but if there is anybody with experience, I would like to hear from you.
People still think the moon landings were fake 50 years later, and that Bush did 9/11 20 years later. I guess most conspiracy theories must be true if we go by "still around after a year" as our metric.
The problem is knowing how to put in the furin cleavage site, and generally if it's done in the lab it's done by copying a particular sequence from an existing virus as scientists can't predict how to do it themselves (without copying) with current state of knowledge.
The furin cleavage site in SARS-Cov-2 does not appear in any other SARS-related beta coronavirus (sarbecovirus).
Available free running water is cheap. Building reservoirs, with all their environmental and social impacts, is not cheap.
Is there a practical difference between intentionally targeting cancer patients and intentionally targeting proxy signals for cancer patients?

This is the whole part of internet marketing targeting right? You don't know for certain if someone is a cancer patient without their medical records, so you record a load of signals and infer that someone is likely to require cancer medication in the absence of absolute information.
> As a European I would've been in favour of more export controls, but a total ban seems to go too far. Why should 18 years olds in the EU/US receive a vaccine before 75 year olds in other countries?

I don’t know if my intuition is correct, but reigning in COVID’s R₀ worldwide at once seems like a moonshot in current state of civilization (keeping in mind its mutations and all).

Meanwhile, for better or for worse, the planet isn’t a single community: given border controls that can serve as a barrier to virus spread, it might just be more realistic to get things under control in smaller disconnected populations, which can then “bubble up”, restore quality of life and allow freedom of movement between themselves while at the same time helping bring other parts of the world back up to speed.

And yes, this does smell of the trolley problem and I wouldn’t want to be the person who would have to make such a decision.
No. It's right. If only S pieces are provided, you can make lines for ever. If S and Z pieces are provided, you can't.
SSDs More Reliable Than HDDs: Backblaze Study
If you absolutely want to golf it into one line:

#[inline]
const fn is_valid_scalar(c: u32) -> bool {
matches!(c, 0..=0xD7FF) || matches!(c, 0xDE00..=0x10FFFF)
}

But I prefer your version for its clarity. It should compile into the same thing regardless.
"How Big Auto finds users with car troubles on Facebook"

"How Big Lighting finds users with blown bulbs on Facebook"

"How Big Chocolate finds users with cravings on Facebook"
Yes SerenityOS is great, the founder has some really good coding sessions on YT.
That would raise up the price of most cheap Android devices that don't come with update guarantees, not even for 3y.
The big-O notation is unnecessarily over-complicated and confusing
Did you fill your date of birth on any age-protected content (websites for distilleries or breweries, for example) as 1st January 1940 or something? They could just mistakenly believe you're 81 based on that :)
Links to the ZIPs on https://pencil.evolus.vn/Stencils-Templates.html appear broken, folks.
That's such a mischaracterisation, I don't even know where to start. That Quay-guy obviously searched for "furin" on pubmed, found some papers (that don't even say that - and most definitely not for any coronaviruses) and thought it fit his thesis. If only viruses and infections were that simple!
This is being downvoted, perhaps because I put a humorous analogy in there, but I really am curious, isn't this what is claimed? The "real" ground truth of the universe is "configuration space", which is some kind of mathematical construct, and which can't be perceived directly but only partially inferred?

I'd like to know more about this since I have never heard of this concept before and I feel like it has far-reaching implications
The Hume paradox: how great philosophy leads to dismal politics
Paying attention to more than one thing "at the same time" - is not humanly possible. So when you are simultaneously doing two tasks that demand attention, what you are actually doing is rapid context switching. The thing to understand is that - “attention has inertia”. Context switching has two implications:

1. It drains your energy - You have limited energy available every day. If you spend most of your energy in context switching, very less is available for actual work. And if you over-work, you cause real physical damage to yourself.

2. You can’t do any deep work - Deep work requires attention on a single thing for a sustained period of time.

The idea is to work with your attention - not against it. The best way to do that is to reduce context switching and eliminate attention residue. Here is how:

1. Short-duration tasks - When you pick a task, finish it completely before moving on to the next one. Have distraction-free slots for work and batch similar tasks together.

2. Long-duration tasks - Pause-and-resume approach. When you pause a task, take a mental dump of its current state. This helps in two ways - first, your attention will not linger when you move to the next task and second, it will be easier to pick up when you resume that task.
The natural origin hypothesis is also pushed for ideological reasons - at this level of meta analysis we are at a stalemate. The article was good at revealing that there is not just ideology - but also material interests involved and that the two prestigious letters that were so categorical in dismissing the lab escape hypothesis were quite a bit tainted by conflicts of interests.
Yes! What could be/are reasons to not do this?
It's mostly because of the job specialization - In a project, there is an engineer and there is a UX person. There are also UX-minded engineers and these people tend to skip the mock-up and just dive into the code. The semi-WYSIWYG editing in IDEs still aren't that bad.
I'm surprised to learn from this piece that this wasn't always the case, as I would intuitively think that moving parts are prone to wearing out, and intuitively think of circuits with no moving parts as reliable -- at least if they don't have manufacturing defects and don't drastically overheat or something.
> allows for out parameters

Out parameters are mostly a legacy feature from the time when C compilers didn't allow struct return values though, or implemented this inefficiently (besides, out parameters via pointers works too).

> memory addresses without the unsafety of dealing with pointers

I never understood the "increased safety" argument. C++ references can become dangling just as easily as pointers, and arguable they're even worse, because most of the time they look like regular value types.
Sure, but water isn't scarce everywhere, so optimization for water cost is not like carbon footprint where it all gets blown into the atmosphere and is bad. Many regions don't need to worry about water at all so it's basically free.
I was referring to the things from the video, where RAII and generic types are emulated with complex macros.
And where std::string(_view) is re-invented
Really can't re-emphasize this enough. Do not depend on any of these large monopolies, but most particularly not google, for anything that matters. They can and will evaporate you in a nanosecond for no reason ("ML says so") and there is no possibility of recourse or even dialogue with any human.

Own your own passwords (don't use "log in with XXX"), own your own domain for email (even if you don't host it, you have the option to do so later instead of being locked out).
Funny, back when I was playing we recruited people after meeting them in PuG instance groups. If they were fun to play with we tried.

We specifically did PuGs with 4 people from the guild and one random for recruiting ;)
This comment is a fantastic example demonstrating why everyone hates vegans[1]. I'm all for everyone being more aware of where and how their food is made. If you come out of it choosing not to consume certain categories, that's fantastic. But the moment you start demonizing others for not making the same choices as you, you become an anti-social and dislikable person, and one that's not conducive to building a better society that moves forward positively. (This applies to politics and the woke movement too)

[1]: generalizing obviously
We don't explicitly need growth though. Average productivity is still what it is (very high) even without growth.

The thing growth gives you is the ability to increase the average person's standard of living without increasing their portion of the pie.

In other words, growth is how you can make people's lives better without redistribution. I think it's no coincidence that we've seen this period of slower growth in developed economies (aside from the 90s) at the same time we've seen stagnation in the standard of living. And also we see an increased interest in redistribution as an answer.
On the contrary, fat is prized by hunter-gatherers and humans likely had access to much more fat (megafauna) for much of our evolutionary history. Fat allowed us to supply for the high energy needs of our brains. This isn't my own speculation but collated from various sources, I can provide if interested just don't have them on hand.
What's a deadname?
Consider when you want to use WASM in the first place, when it's not just to pull in legacy code (like from C). You'd want to use it for performance-sensitive portions of code. Then it does make sense to have a well thought out language that doesn't have the baggage from other platforms but integrates well with WASM. Similar to "AssemblyScript", but with less baggage from Javascript.

The other advantage of WASM is that it makes Javascript and its runtime get out of the way, enabling Grain to develop its own runtime and standard library. Then you could write a web application (or increasingly other things, too) in Grain, leveraging the language features. The appeal there would be less about performance and more about a more pleasant experience than you'd get with Javascript or Typescript.

That's what I understood. I haven't even tried Grain yet.
This would be an absolute nightmare experience. It would force you to make small decisions about money constantly. You would have to constantly make the decision "Do I want to pay some money now or do I suffer through this ad? How much have I paid lately? It feels like it might be adding up? But I really can't be bothered, maybe I'll just pay. I feel bad about paying so much though..."

It would be utterly exhausting, which is why it will not happen.
The EU has 448 million people, the US has 332 million. So nowhere close to 2x.