skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At the time I knew literally nothing but I knew that was dumb as hell

Why? If you're worried about XSS, remember you're already toast in a million ways - including the ability to spoof a login/password form.
A simple tax like that on its own is also socially regressive. Implemented on its own, people would go hungry, causing social unrest.

What would you suggest as a simple social stabiliser on top? A negative personal income tax up to a certain rate?
I like some forms of abstract art. I just don’t particularly like this form. Also, your opinion that the author is relatable is subjective. It is relatable and enjoyable to you just as it is not relatable nor enjoyable to me.

To me, this author is the modern form of Jane Austen. Flourishes, flourishes, flourishes. Full of inner dialogue.

You overstate the abstractions. They are obvious.
"In February, as a plague enters America, I am a finalist for a job I am not offered."

I learned English first (American), but I don't understand grammar well enough to explain what language rules were broken. I hate when ESL friends ask about this. In Chinese they don't really modify the verb words, they just add other words. Does anyone ever break rules in Spanish for poetry? I don't know.

This author uses present tenses to talk about the past. Is it hopeless or deterministic? I'm curious.
Leaked info of M1X suggest slightly higher clock frequency and twice as many high performance cores. But 32GB memory which I think is very welcome for many.
First, try to return it. Next, get the cheapest Sonicare you can find. It should be $50 and dumb as a doorknob. After, get a new dentist that doesn't push overpriced garbage on you. Finally, make sure you floss because gum disease sucks.
I do this too, sometimes I put it in a drop box so as to not piss off my carrier. It works eventually.
Anyone with Experience Involving This?
Hi. I am new here and this may not be a big issue to some but it really bugs me. Last year I bought a new laptop and decided to become involved in some online discussions involving controversial subjects. Since then I have had more computer problems than ever. Here are some examples. Constantly changing permissions for camera and microphone. Receiving outdated or "cloned" browsers that refuse to abide by their initial settings. G mail hack which also infected a phone. Today I received a DDOS originating from Fastly out of Atlanta Georgia. No one has taken any money (yet) but its just the basic idea of it that I find unsettling. I hold no position of importance for anyone to have this kind of interest in me so I am open to suggestions and will answer questions honestly. Also 2 weeks ago I was digging around in my sytem files and suddenly ran into some pages that seemed to be conversing with themselves. They stated that "secret" defender and anti virus pages had been discovered and that shutdown would commence. I thought it was a joke. It wiped the system image from my computer. I had to purchase a new copy. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks and have a great night.
YADM is great. Was suprised I had to scroll this deep to before it was mentioned.
So, $50 annual gym credit?
Your linked article at the Sydney Morning Herald opens with a blurb saying "The discredited theory that coronavirus is a bio-weapon created in a Wuhan lab is gaining new momentum". To be clear I am not making this claim. I am however, claiming the Chinese government had an interest in biological warfare, including weaponizing SARS, and that a lab leak related to SARS research (even without intent of biological weaponry) is a possibility. I feel like the article is opening with a strawman that doesn't represent the legitimate speculation many harbor regarding the WIV lab leak theory.

Now getting back to the article's actual content - I don't think the article makes a great case for dismissing the notion that the Chinese government was interested in biological weapons. One of its sources, Luke de Pulford, is quoted as saying about the paper/book, "What’s beyond doubt is the paper’s provenance. It’s legitimate and poses questions which deserve thorough probing." It goes on to note that Xu Dezhong, who authored the paper/book, is “not a fringe player”. "He held a senior position at the Air Force Medical University and reported to the Chinese Military Commission and Ministry of Health during the SARS epidemic in 2003." It then goes on to say "Conspiracy theories are regularly published in China, including by those connected with the government" to discredit what Dezhong has claimed. But that isn't evidence that Dezhong's claims are wrong - it amounts to saying "a nonzero number of people in China have said false things before, so therefore we cannot take the word of this military official".

All that said, it is entirely possible that China was not and is not interested in biological weapons, and that the source is untrustworthy and false. But we have to process this possibility using probabilities, since there are no definite answers proving or disproving anything here. Given that China's government took over Tibet, has been oppressing Hong Kong, operates concentration camps in Xinjiang, has built up various military capabilities as it threatens aggression against Taiwan, suppressed early reports of COVID-19, arrested journalists who reported on the virus, and denied visits to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for over a year, there is no reason to trust them or give them the benefit of the doubt on matters relating to SARS or COVID-19 or militaristic goals. As Homeland Security Committee member Ron Johnson is quoted in this article when asked about China preparing biological weapons, “Does that shock anybody? It certainly doesn’t shock me."

As a side note: your mention of Murdoch seems like an ad-hominem argument, using his name as a boogeyman to discredit this story. But that's not a substantive argument.
I hadn't seen your other comment when I wrote that. Thanks for the kind reply (and for teaching us about BCI technology!)
I used to try telling people that too.

It doesn't get anywhere. The responses are any one of the same set: "they should appreciate my high $$ income supporting their economy", "I'm just one person who will notice", etc etc.

I'm well aware of the legalities of working in Thailand. I've lived here (Thailand) for 8 1/2 years, I'm director and own (with my wife) a company here.
> medical professionals were having a lot of difficulty acquiring PPE

Weirdly, medical professionals were also being told not to wear masks. Multiple nurses were either fired or quit over the issue, because hospital policy didn't allow general mask-wearing out of a fear of scaring people:

https://www.wbrc.com/2020/03/23/nurse-claims-he-was-fired-we...

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/85760

https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/nurse-fired-wearing-mask...
It's a series of melancholy musings on the relationship between one's career and identity/self-worth in the context of a society like ours, told through the lens of a) the author's personal career experience and b) fairytales.

My takeaway, if I had to reduce it to one (it doesn't really want to be reduced like that), is that many careers in our society consist of jumping through a series of arbitrary and ultimately pointless hoops, in order to eke out some kind of feeling of identity or personal worth. For the people who fail these challenges, there is no story. They lose their story, in some sense, unless they reframe it around something different. The author is able to be aware of this state of affairs despite remaining subject to it on some level.
Why Linux doesn't register in healthcare and consumer space?
The Art of Making Debts: Accounting for an Obsession in 19th-Century France
Future of space explorations for sure. Similar situation portrayed in Ad Astra (2019) where the main hero's father have gotten stranded on a space station on the edge of the solar system for many years and went insane.

Humans are delicate machines. Gotta know how to keep the monkey happy.
But you don't need to sit them on the shelf recharging, so you don't need to have many extra hydrogen modules (vs your fleet size). So, compared to dedicated hydrogen powered trucks, you'd maybe end up having 110 modules for every 100 trucks, for a modest increase in those costly fuel cells.

Maybe the swapping/charging stations could support both kinds and would prefer to give you charged battery modules, but if running behind in the charging, would switch to giving out hydrogen modules. Or maybe only some routes would have hydrogen equipped cargo stations at both endpoints, so the trucks would get different kinds of modules depending on the route - making a gradual rollout of hydrogen fueling infra easy.
I'm not sure what you mean. C is a high level language. And yes it and standard library has obviously grown more complex than it was 50 years ago.

It's small and easy to grasp the entire thing though, unlike most other more modern high level languages.

That said, it's not entirely clear that matters too much. Almost any non-toy C project is going to be bringing in libraries outside libc, so you still need to go off and learn those if you want to work on a project. Doesn't really matter whether they're in the base language or not.
In my experience no - at least on current iterations - for very specific things such as a text editor where the DOM isn't really prepared to deal with the way it (the editor) has to be structured probably yes, if you knew what you're doing - but for most things not really - and to have the same functionality you would need to implement a lot of things by yourself (even if functionally it would work it wouldn't have the same accessibility unless you did that yourself and not sure how much you can fully emulate it).
Does it? It feels to me like it stands to gain a good bit. There are a lot more people remote working either part or full time, and many remote workers like to use coworking spaces. Their potential customer base is probably higher than it was pre-pandemic.
CB+Passive+Income+5.0(Optin+Page)
Tech can see inside fruit so we know when it will be ripe
Even GPL2 didn't allow that

> Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
Even if “most” cancers are genetic (do you have a source on that?) they absolutely can be prevented. For example, people with a family history of colon cancer can get colonoscopy screenings to check for polyps. Same goes for people with BRCA2, etc.

And environmental factors play a gigantic role in the prevalence of cancer today.
yeah my dentist recommended i get an electric brush that warns you if you're applying to much force. turns out i was, a lot.
I felt it was beautiful but I don’t think you should feel dumb you didn’t also think it was beautiful! I think it’s not a set of facts, where there are right and wrong interpretations, so research paper might be the wrong analogy.

For me, I think she made me feel what it would be like to work toward an achievement, to fail, and to look back and contemplate on the idea that maybe the achievement was arbitrary and as simplistic and fantastical as a fairy tale.

I understand, conceptually, that people work toward achievements and respond to incentives like more money or promotion or power. And I understand, logically, that people often mis-identify what outcomes matter to them, and are instead working toward something that won’t ever provide satisfaction, all while the work exhausts them.

But I rarely contemplate that idea, marinate in it, feel it. She made me feel it. And she also made me realize that I’m also doing the same thing, and that I likely will some day look back on my life right now and contemplate that maybe everything I’m working for is simplistic and fantastical and not going to accomplish whatever it is I really want.
I’m curious, could you share some writing that made you feel something, and it made you feel?
Because right now Bitcoin can only do currency, whereas Ethereum (and some other crypto's) can do anything a computer can do, since they are turing complete.

Granted there are projects on Bitcoin, like rootstock, that have the goal of adding the capability, but my personal take (and I think a lot of others) from being in the space many years, is that its unlikely these will ever get released and/or adpoted.
This is right. Corporate taxes just create a tax evasion industry. If there were no corporate tax then shareholder profits would be higher. It's be simpler to tax the shareholders and an individual is unlikely to have an army of lawyers doing their taxes
I don't think any grammar rules were broken. The author is setting a scene as if it were the present; think of it more like fiction, even though it's nonfiction. A narrator in a fictional story might say "the sun sets over the plains", even though that isn't literally happening in the present tense from the reader's perspective.
Why not transpile python to JS instead of running an interpreter?
I'm no trump fan, but his administration did fund operation warp speed, which funded vaccine research and support vaccine production capacity
WHO, being an NGO, has no authority, governments do. States can either improve by cooperation, or become dysfunctional, but they are the authorities in this world.
In GP's other comments they're pretty set on downplaying the pandemic. Them spelling China as "Chyna" is not a good sign in that department either.
Seems like there is less and less reason for not using Erlang for distributed coordinated compute broker tasks.

I have a stateless java backend servicing REST APIs.
These backends are load-balanced by nginx.

Now the time is approaching where I need to introduce some form of global state (that involves global caching, message passing, registering/discovery of known workers, periodic (cron-like tasks), etc).

I would much prefer a single tool to add to my backend stack (currently Java + postgres) to cover most of the above needs.

With the performance improvement + persistent_term [1] -- in current Erlang, I basically get:

- a light weight distributed K/V cache

- a ZeroMQ like on-wire messaging system (built into erlang)

- discovery/coordination

- a distributed compute grid

- a way to write my own routines within that compute grid, and have them exposed via Java interface to my existing backend.

I do not need 'fastest' possible performance or least memory consumption. I just need them to be 'reasonable', 'known' and 'controllable' (not to exceed some baseline).

Erlang is just looking better and better (and I prefer its syntax to Elixir, for some reason.).

[1] https://erlang.org/doc/man/persistent_term.html
I mean, I don't think that anti-intellectual trend can be divorced from the general messaging problems here. If you roll back to mid-March 2020, things like

* Masks don't help, there's no point in wearing them

* Lots of people are gonna get infected, all we can do is tamp down this current spike

* We'll go back to our normal lives in a month or two

were all well within what was reported to be the expert consensus at the time.
What are you using to type now?
Oh boy, here we go again.

Username checks out.
Related video by Joe Scott: Murder at the South Pole

https://youtu.be/KtYhEaWi4lk
The article essentially dismisses lithium batteries as non-sustainable.
Huh. That's really slick.

I stand corrected.
Hope they get back to you. I am optimistic technologies like these will become widely available soon!
Oh boy, god knows how many international text rendering bugs this is going to uncover
So I decided to check this out. Used dd if=/dev/random to create a 100mb file, checked that in, used dd again to modify 10mb of that file, checked that in and the result were two 98mb objects.

Tracking changes of binaries makes a lot of sense if you use that to only store incremental changes to the file. Git stores each modification of a binary file as a separate blob since it doesn't know how to track its changes.

This is mitigated in large parts by the compression applied in git-gc, after packed, objects went from 196mb to 108mb.
Grand Theft Auto V Looks Almost Photorealistic Thanks to Machine Learning
I agree that the WHO bears some responsibility, however much stems from the fact how they are funded. Because they rely on essentially "donations" from member countries, they can't effort to offend anyone. There was immense pressure from many countries not to declare a pandemic because of the economic implications.

We have actually seen similar patterns in many countries. Strong resistance to measures because of the fear of economic effects and pressure from industry. Only when it was really too late did they implement measures. Similarly as soon as things looked up again they opened everything way too quickly which caused the inevitable second and third waves.

Take Germany for example, while they had a good initial response, much of that advantage was squandered because they did not really investigate how the virus spread and wanting to keep the economy (especially the large companies) running at all cost. This lead to measures like being very harsh about only few people meeting outside, but at the same time many factories etc, keeping to work without significant distancing, likely a much larger spread vector.
We hit this case with a customer service where each “domain” (transaction management, fidelity, auth, catalog data, etc.) was handled by a different internal org, with an orchestrating layer on top.

Having the emitting entity sign their request in a standard format that can be checked by anything having with their public key helped a lot.
Story of a place where democratically elected Communist Parties is a real thing
> is HN the right forum for this?

If you need to ask that question, the answer is yes. The no's are obvious.
they're not lying. Loopring is one example among half a dozen. The issue is that current L2's are purpose-built by individual dapps. What doesn't currently exist (should be released in next few months) is the code that lets you copy/paste your current L1 code into an L2 code with almost no effort. At that point all the current dapps running on L1 can just port over to L2 very quickly and without the huge risk of a bug in a ton of new code lines.
I think this is one of those things that maybe it's okay if you don't understand.

In some ways this is about loss, and if you don't 'get it' it doesn't mean you're stupid, it just means you're fortunate.
Mental health issues were not publicly talked about in Chinese culture (it's considered shameful). As economics grow, society became more open about it, so people start going to hospitals about mental health problems. In the meanwhile, air pollution also grow along with economics. This could be just a statistical coincidence.
It's a deliberate decision to convey immediacy and urgency. Using present tense makes the memories read as closer and still unknown territory instead of farther removed and already determined, which matches the emotions of the memories that the author is trying to convey.

Consider the emotional difference between:

> It is summer, and the ice cream is melting.

> It was summer, and the ice cream melted.

These types of literary choices are a core part of writing prose at an advanced level the same way that camera angles and color palettes are a part of cinematography. Grammar "rules" don't really exist in creative prose, it's ultimately about using words to convey meaning however you can.
It's an advanced writing style that you see a lot in these kinds of personal essays, where the idea is to follow a stream of consciousness, weaving together different ideas that have loose relationships with each other in order to create a kind of mental miasma where the things can mingle together and connect in the reader's mind in various ways. The main subject tends to be triangulated by the constellation of ideas, instead of being addressed directly.

Specifically, in this case, the arbitrary and pointless (and impossible?) tasks in the fairytales are related to the arbitrary and pointless interview process. The author wonders what happens to her story when she fails the tasks, just like the characters who fail the tasks and then unceremoniously fall off the narrative map. But she's not a character, she's a real person who goes on living. But that living stops making sense in terms of the narrative that she was following before.

I don't totally get the connection with the bread myself. But part of figurative writing is leaving room for ambiguity and further thought.
While you're 100% correct, some organizations use S/MIME to send signed and encrypted emails with their TLS x.509 certs signed by their companies TLS CA.

But you can also get your X.509 cert signed by a public CA and then anyone on the internet can verify your S/MIME signed email.

In practice I've only seen this in government and government contractors, but I'm sure it is done else where.

The flaws with the above approach.

1. Smaller adoption that OpenPGP

2. You normally cannot encrypt outside your organization because their is no method for key discovery. Though if you received a signed message in the past, I believe you can use that.

3. Using pubic CA infrastructure means any trusted Public CA can impersonate anyone.

The OpenPGP CA solves all these problems because pgp Web Key Directory (WKD) and that is automatically scoped to domains.
That's very interesting. Thanks for sharing. Out of curiosity, did they actually call it the "Wuhan virus" in the warnings you are referencing?

How do you reconcile the transparency you saw on the ground with the fact that early reports were suppressed or downplayed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_misinformation_by_Chi...), or that a journalist was arrested and sentenced to years of jail for reporting on COVID (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/world/asia/china-Zhang-Zh...), or that China may have misled the world and hoarded COVID supplies (https://abc7news.com/china-misled-world-coronavirus-us/61470...). Is it possible that China was trying to walk a fine line by being transparent in those settings where it would be futile to lie, while acting differently in other settings to serve their own interests as much as possible? I'm genuinely curious to hear the opinion of someone who was in the middle of all this.
It’s usually implied, think: policemen, firemen, soldiers, window cleaners on buildings, steel workers, etc.

Some jobs are inherently risky to your physical and/or mental health.
WHO is an NGO and have absolutely no authority.

I agree we shouldn't trust reports from China.
And they also fired 200 Dutch people from their Amsterdam office.

Way to show gratitude, Uber.
Did HR at Apple hope nobody would google him? Is Apple’s diversity and inclusivity stance just marketing? How??
Try it in JupyterLab using JupyterLite- https://jupyterlite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_static/lab/ind...

(choose the pyolite option for Pyodide)

This project is actually quite impressive, I believe they've even gotten some pip install paths working??
FFmpeg as a Library : libav tutorial
Proposals for degrowth with consequent reductions in aggregate material use
> Experienced devs would likely feel that server-rendered HTML should probably be your default choice, and building an SPA when needed, [...]

Is there any good article why SSR is any better than SPA? I really do not see any advantages of SSR, especially for pages where you need to be logged in and data to be displayed is acquired via an API.