skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, blameless postmortems can be really useful for the process of getting to the bottom of things and creating a plan of action, but can also enable people who are reckless or incompetent, and make it difficult to ensure that the people who really need to learn something from their failures have actually learned something.

As applied to this situation, it doesn't really matter. The Chinese government has a vested interest in any investigation being labeled inconclusive. Whether it was a lab leak or a result of unhealthy agricultural practices, China doesn't want egg on its face. They'll do everything in their power (which is a lot) to avoid having the finger definitively pointed at them.
It didn’t for me. Mobile Safari. Also the question where yes and no switch, I have to select yes because of input lag.
This seems to be a US problem, it seems to be always in stock across the pond
Let's say you have two file formats. One is a open standard, the other one is not (but has it's specifications published, that's something at least). Both formats have the same purpose and basically works the same way. One has been around for almost 20 years, the other for around 9 years (but specification not open until 2 years after release).

Instead of going for the one with the open standard, that does the same thing, Apple prefers to invent their own format, that they can change at their own whim and that they now can optimize their hardware for, so they get an advantage no one else can use.

You don't see anything bad in this? Are you really arguing against open standards? I thought we went through this with the internet and the web already, and open standards is something people generally prefer. It just ends up better for everyone, instead of companies inventing their own formats time and time again, especially when a format that suits their needs already exists...
Some tax havens banned IP holding companies. Why is this not written in international law and closed once and for all?
> Unless you happen to have a suitcase full of cash with you

That would definitely not help you.

It's a mess on many many levels.
Would you bet millions of dollars on payment system with zero redundancy? Also with that kind of money involved I wouldn't be surprised if you could could get a court case running and force them to report how much they took.
Muller's Ratchet
Its like trying to not sign up for Amazon Prime
> The Anton 3 ASIC: a Fire-Breathing Monster for Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Finally, some computation that's not neural nets or hashing! :D
Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C++ had quite the market hold when a lot of this was built in the 90s
> It just doesn't make any sense.

It makes a lot of sense considering the amounts of money that are flowing.
There are clearly worldwide problems with the hardware, software and protocols we use today. For months now there has been a massive new catastrophe every week. We have an internet that has few mechanisms to identify bad actors and make them accountable, and hardware and software that allow careless or incompetent admins and users to leak sensitive data (perhaps an understatement, as it takes a gifted, motivated, experienced admin to stand any chance today). This industry should, but probably won't, rethink everything. Otherwise the world is in for an unimaginably bad problems as people begin to abuse the data from tens of thousands of these leaks and hacks.
It’s easy to hate the player instead of the game.
VSCode: Perform REST calls in a Notebook interface
I processed it backwards:

1. not clicking Yes -> clicking No

2. avoid clicking No -> click Yes

3. To opt out of opting in -> To opt out of

=> To opt out of receiving alerts click Yes.
The author of the book -- Ester Salgarella -- has also put together an online searchable corpus of Linear A:

https://sigla.phis.me

It's very neatly annotated, e.g:
https://sigla.phis.me/document/ARKH%201a/

and a good starting point to anyone wishing to try their hand on extracting patterns out of the corpus
I haven't read that particular detail but it wouldn't surprise me. Though it's not a particularly clever line of argument since fundamentally it is a game, even if it does have a sprinkling of non-game aspects to it. I'd argue that when a game has aspects which are "more than just a game", the error is in our description of what a game is.

I suppose you could bolt a rudimentary spreadsheet feature onto Call Of Duty but that doesn't stop it from being any less of a video game. This isn't interesting and it certainly isn't clever.

A more interesting question would be if Microsoft Excel iOS had a little Sudoku mini-game buried in a submenu.
Palestine with it's borders comes up perfectly with my Google maps
> Proper handling of lab waste etc. is infinitely easier...

Sure, but safety requires everyone be perfect about their handling 100% of the time. If a mistake happens, just once, with the wrong lab materials, that's it. And humans will always make mistakes, no matter how bulletproof we think the process is.
I always dreamed of being the one to decipher linear a. I almost hope this won’t stick.
Calendar Tetris Game
Yeah, same goes for retail. These practices have been bleeding out smaller businesses throughout the EU for far too long.
The difference is that the Colonial Pipeline is seen as an important part of the US Critical National Infrastucture - without oil large parts of the economy and security system breakdown, people can die. It's protected by Homeland Security and the FBI too a much greater extent than your average store.
Quiz: How much do you know about energy and electricity around the world?
So what again is the difference for instance against testing scientific codes on a "data-level"? For instance the way how the popular scipy/numpy python packages are tested: https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/testing.html#creating... (with assertions checking two numerical arrays for similarity) or for instance https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.f... (Example section where the output of an exemplaric fft run is printed as a 1D array which can be automatically checked by means of https://docs.python.org/3/library/doctest.html).

Just to play the devil's advocate: Their ASCII representation of 1d data is error prone and violates minimalistic principles. It is nice to view at and surely easier to read compared to a binary digit sequence, but has little advantage compared to present day testing infrastructure.
Impressive work, especially for an one-man project! I've seen Aguila and Grafito. Would you say they are production-ready?
> Actually the most common situation is that someone will come with a very bad idea, and when asked what they think about it, the other attendants will something like "yeah, maybe that could work". They don't approve nor reject the idea. And it looks like more passivity than anything, but if nobody says "nope, that's wrong" and I'm convinced it actually is, maybe I am the one in the wrong ?

That’s called “The Abilene Paradox.”[0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_paradox
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27136002. This was on the frontpage of HN a couple of days ago.
Free decryption, you mean ;)
How to Streamline Your Law Firm’s Billing and Collections Cycle
I hate this retort - usually players don’t get to decide the game’s rules.

Tax law is full of loopholes intentionally created for the elite, politicians, and corporations.
Generally? maybe, but Gaza is a tiny, urban well mapped place
Prime lifespans help to avoid lifespan synchronization with predators. But resonance is important too.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120710081027/https://cims.nyu....
If you're going to have a billing system that you need to rely on for the functioning of your business. You're going to want to have ongoing support for that system, this is why so many enterprise options are Windows based. Especcially in earlier years, and financial suites, once implemented, are very rarely ever changed. If its still bringing in money, the higher-ups dont care.
I think the good idea would be to give this "Skip" button at least a darker gray background (which once pressed changes into blue) upon interaction so less experienced user would know that it is still an option that can be selected. Without it, this screen suggest that only action is to press visible "Invite Friends" blue button and that is an example of dark pattern design.

It might be the approved guideline in official design documentation but it doesn't mean it's a fair design for the user.
We're using Nats (https://nats.io/) for event streaming and pub/sub. The sessions are aggregated in memory, then they go to Badger (https://github.com/dgraph-io/badger), and finally the daily aggregates are easily distributable and immutable JSON files.

We're setting a session identifier to sessionStorage and those id's are wiped out once the session is processed and leaves the server memory. We worked together with a privacy specialist to ensure this is not violating GDPR. Details on what/how we collect data is here:

https://volument.com/privacy/
I guess only the tape heads would understand that...
Don't worry, the members of parliament of the EU are also extremely incompetent when it comes to technology.

What comes to my mind is this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnther_Oettinger
I find the author’s answer quite satisfying: sometimes human beings make choices for reasons they cannot remember, will never reveal, or for no reason at all.

It’s a way of saying, “I don’t know.”
It exists for abusers trying to break into accounts with automated tools. And yes, it’s very cheap and basically is a measure that generates a lot of friction but easy to bypass.
I was not aware of that, but a quick look shows that the officiel mascot of Plan 9 actually was drawn by Renée French (see http://glenda.cat-v.org/ ). I don't know whether the specific mascot for the uxn project also comes from her or not, but we know that Devine and Rek use the Plan 9 OS (see https://100r.co/site/about_us.html ).
You are being way too generous. Your first expansion is a very big stretch.
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Why doesn't it make a lot of sense? It requires for companies to have some representation here, probably the have a board of directors and a board of directors is where a retired politician usually goes to after their political career. You wouldn't want to scare the people away that will give you a really well paid job for hardly any work at all, would you?

We're still looking at the same people forming a new government after 10 years so the majority of Dutch people must absolutely love their achievements like the worst housing crisis since the Second World War or capitalism-presented-as-religion shit like this.
In the case of the election, "lies" is a perfectly appropriate word, since the people claiming voter fraud were lying about the possibility of fraud. No fraud was actually found, and everyone investigating found nothing to suggest any fraud was happening or likely.

So yes, if you stand up and claim that there was rampant voter fraud that changed the outcome of the election, you are at best misinformed, and at worst lying.

I wouldn't even call this voter fraud stuff "conspiracy theories". It's gaslighting and destabilizing propaganda by an administration that failed to get reelected.
Shell (the oil company) is actually named Royal Dutch Shell. For a moment I was confused by the title.

According to wikipedia it is really named after sea shells.
Or at least just eu regulations.
I don't think it's a conspiracy- Israel admit that it requested Google to lower image resolution. The question is the reason behind it
> You can use Can't Unsee to screen designers, developers, QAs, product managers and other people who job with technology.

“Who job with technology”. Not sure what you’re trying to say exactly, but needs attention.

Additionally, the “compare” button on mobile is annoying because (at least on an iphone) try’s to highlight the text shortly after holding it down.

All in all, well executed. Immediately made me think “oh this so what designers look for / at” which is not something I’d ever really considered.

Well done.
I'm fairly sure BSD should have died by now? I definitely remember the death of BSD being reported on Slashdot a couple of decades ago.

This announcement is clearly a mistake.
All of the questions were possible for me on mobile. There was just one question where you had to press and hold if you were on mobile and you can't know to do that unless you've played it at least once already.
The entire scaled down photo also hides meaningful content since I can't see the details.

Either way, it looks like a part of a grid with multiple product cards. The full photo would be on the product detail page.
Anyone who knows the U.K. justice system will know their excuse of preventing child abuse is rubbish.

Police in the U.K. have no trouble as it is finding pedos, it’s too easy currently.

The problem is that after being caught, most of the time they don’t get jail time and if they do it’s for a few months or maximum a year or two.

If the U.K. truly cared about this matter, they would increase the jail time.
True. But, honestly, health insurance claims would be an excellent target.

If released via a torrent at the right period of time, it could be powerful, such as right before health reform, if it is the right legal bill to prey on. The same would apply if there is some huge financial crisis in the US.

In the US, I was receiving a blood product that cost my employer (not insurance--the employer was self-insured) USD $275,000+/year.

I require other expensive drugs too.
This is emotional lowballing - would somebody please think of the children - type of manipulation.

The answer is definitely no.
Let's see. 1 isn't great but lacks context. 2 is a joke. 3 is impossible to evaluate without context. 4 is whatever. 5 is not an actual quote.
Very nice! I hoped somebody might know an easy way like this when I mentioned it! HN for the win!
Come and visit. As far as I understand, foreigners do not have much trouble visiting the West Bank.
And what goal would that be you’re betting on that would override established accessible web text contrast ratios?
What Is Imposter Syndrome and How to Deal with It
You have much greater odds of killing yourself or a pedestrian within a mile of your home because you weren't paying attention than being hit by a tired driver.
The death of morale... It's OK to commit fraud, kill, and rape as long as you can do it within a loophole in the law.

Of cause it is a societal destructive way to see the world as a game.
Amazing job! Keep going!
Ask HN: Well-Crafted Manuals / Handbook?
I moved into my new apartment a little over a year ago. I bought lots of different stuff, like a new TV, entertainment center, vacuum cleaner, and so on.

Today I realized that I collected a whole box of manuals with them, most of them I've never read or touched. However, I tried to get them digitally — and it was not that easy. And by now I realized, that most — if not all — manuals out there are not good. The best thing you will probably get is a PDF file of the printed manual, but that's it.

So, do you know of any well-crafted manuals or handbooks? I'd love to see some of those! Well, if they exist.
It's not the Hardware not the Software and NOT the Protocols, it's the Human Factor, neglected systems, and often not even a try to use "best practices".

The only way to change that is massive fines, there is no chance that a technical system can control human behavior...ATM at least, like Plane-crashes technically it's always human error.

EDIT: Corrected Plan-crashes and told Mozilla to pay a 1 Million $ fine, because the auto-correct software did not work correctly ;)
Oh, I think they are talking about the earlier period where you just did a carbon copy of the card, got it signed, and if the card was a fake there was certainly no way to tell at the time. It would be the equivalent of a bad check, talking the days before swipe machines.
Ok, so the government steps in and says the pipeline operates without a billing system... now what?

Pipes are useless without something to flow through them, and no oil producer is going to fill the pipe without a system to get paid.
Did you even tried to open Google maps on the area? even at the lower resolution you can clearly see houses and roads
Parent provided some (albeit weak) basis for the conspiracy. Israel trying to hide the damage it is inflicting is a credible motive. Cynicism is a justified qualifier for the claim, baseless conspiracy isn’t.
There's more than block selection which is actually quite limiting in comparison with the other possibilities. What I do often (SublimeText, VSCode for instance) is select a token, select a bunch of occurrences of that over multiple lines, then start editing from there. So in the case of e.g. unaligned equal signs select the first one, Ctrl-D to select the equals sign on the next lines, then move cursor around word by word and edit. Or indeed start by creating multiple cursors at the front of a line and start from there. Etc.
Yes, it was rather late when I wrote that comment, but that's essentially what I was trying to say.

Of course these people did this to themselves, but perhaps they shouldn't have been able to pile on this much risk, or even have had this type of trade available to them in the first place due to suffering from diagnosed mental health problems, or for having recently displayed behaviour that is indicative of addiction.

The crypto exchanges are also ridiculous. 125x Leverage on Bitcoin, available to anyone who wants it with only a cursory ID check. Most of these apps are also plastered with ads for their own internal gambling products (e.g. "Battle to win, long vs short").
I do not assume every person on that side of the state is any sort of cretin. I assume that an above average number have baseline views on reality that are so off the beam as to dangerous and unbalanced. Which is why they vote for people like Culp and Trump not stupidity. I will do you the courtesy of assuming you could very well be a reasonable person with your own perspective instead of assuming you are dumb.

Dismissing the problem with facile insults degrades the dialogue and avoids dealing with the actual problems that face us which isn't as simple as saying hurr hurr you're stupid.

The Republicans have been presenting themselves as the party of white identity for decades at the expense of support from anyone other than Bob the white man. They are now incapable of pivoting to a broader platform without losing Bob. Favoring the bird in the hand they have begun selling bob on the Fable that nonwhites are stealing their country in hopes that they can pass repressive enough measures to stay in power for a few more years or even end democracy itself if that is what it takes. The majority of Republicans would rather lose democracy than lose their country, as they see it, to brown people and colorblind white folks.

The simple fact is Republican support with nonwhites being what it is and our nations racial demographics trajectory being what it is loss is inevitable. By the 2040s America will be only 49% white and someone who does only as well as Ronald Reagan will only lose as bad as Mondale did to Reagan. If you project their performance with whites and non-whites into 2040s demographics this is true for every Republican since Reagan.

The propaganda that has been increasingly effectively pushed on the right since the dawn of social media is a show to cover their incipient and growing weakness and as loss looms closer it stands to grow and the situation stands to grow more volatile. Standing on one side and screeching is an ineffective solution when what we need is a large enough critical mass of sane people on the opposing side keep things straight. In service of this we do need to together call a spade a spade. Eastern WA like the rest of team red is on the crazy train.

Its great and all that you deal with less property crime and bums in small town America but I'd rather deal with bums and vandalism than in the ISIS like ethnostate Shea would like to enact or the Dystopian post Democracy wonderland people like Culp fervently supported where either the courts or the military fills in democracies death certificate and gives its goods and titles to a fascist pretender.

The same people you see as fit stewards of their small towns and cities are unfit to run nations because literally every time they do they botch the job.
I bet on that although this is really stupid since houses and roads are clearly visible and most of Israel is mapped at street level as well
> Purely from a numbers perspective if you put aside all other variables

Why would you put aside variables that are more important to casualty numbers? It's not a symmetrical situation.

One side tries to increase casualty numbers on both sides of the conflict.

The other side tries to decrease casualty numbers on both sides of the conflict.

How would comparing casualty numbers in this situation tell you anything about the conflict?
They are way ahead than the US when it comes to competence in tech legislation.
Angela Rasmussen is indeed a virologist and is heavily quoted in the media, but this appears to be more because she specifically seeks that (she has a publicist!) than due to any prior distinction.

Ralph Baric invented modern coronavirology. He was Zhengli Shi's mentor, and published frequently with her in the past. He signed Jesse Bloom's and Alina Chan's letter in Science calling for further investigation of the origins of SARS-CoV-2:

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6543/694.1

As to the specific tweet that you've linked, David Baltimore seems to disagree:

> “When I first saw the furin cleavage site in the viral sequence, with its arginine codons, I said to my wife it was the smoking gun for the origin of the virus,” said David Baltimore, an eminent virologist and former president of CalTech.

https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-peop...

My own impression is that the FCS points only weakly towards lab origin (and other evidence, like the origin city, lack of intermediate host, and pre-adaptation to humans is much more significant), but I'm not the one with the Nobel prize. But my point is that if you choose experts by almost any metric other than Twitter follower count, you'll see a very different picture.
I second Luke, very clear write up! However, I don't understand one thing: how are European visitors secretly tracked with Simple Analytics?
I built my own statistics module for Hello Website. There's no tracking going around, so no cookie-bars for my user's visitors. I say statistics explicitly (instead of analytics), because I didn't add a conversion/goal/funnel-part. Even building some site statistics module for yourself gives you more accurate numbers then GA, that A/B-test went well. ;)
Gaza’s first 3D printer destroyed
Tashkeel3D, Gaza’s first 3D printer, which manufactured medical devices for years, has been destroyed by an Israeli air raid according to Dr Tarek Loubani, a Palestinian Canadian physician and founder of the Glia Project, Tashkeel3D’s partner.

Tashkeel 3D was started with a 3D printer made by its founder from scratch, following open-source designs online, because the printers were not allowed in Gaza by Israel.

The company, who represented half of Gaza’s 3D printing capacity, was producing stethoscopes and tourniquets to support Gaza’s medical system.
""AI"" will probably never be good in games like Dota2, League of Legends

they're way too complex, even in above mentioned example it was 1vs1, meanwhile in general those games are 5vs5 (lol at least)
You can have your beliefs, but that doesn't make them facts.

Meanwhile a cleptocratic regime is firing missiles at civlians using as launching pads hospitals, kindergartens or office buildings housing international journalists.