skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting! At some point on harder levels I started forcing myself to select the example which looks worse to me and thus I started getting more of the questions “correctly”! I suppose some people find things beautiful that are slightly imperfect. Or in other words to be attractive an image must be “interesting” and slight “tension” does contribute to it (for me).
Of course I am not speaking about gross problems like buttons having inconsistent spaces between them or different shapes. And still. That shorter line under the user card! Or that claustrophobically small padding around the “enable camera” button! How can those be “correct”?! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Said book describes the role of Michael Ventris who actually deciphered Linear B. Ventris was an architect who had no formal qualifications in classics, didn't attend university but had an extraordinary propensity for languages. He started working on Linear B when he was at school.
Porn blocker 'missing' from Online Safety Bill
I wonder if there's a general principle when you can assume any scientific finding that makes currently alive humans seem special, will underestimate how non-special we are.

And if you can plot that against some metric does it asymptotically approach how special we really are?
It's more about intent instead of blockage from opposition. We conveniently pass the buck to opposition because it is easy to do so.

There is opposition but where is it when $$$ are poured into unnecessary wars? When the taxes are increased? When scam happens?
I cannot wait for my US based medical record to be leaked at some point. There will probably be somebody who creates a torrent of these records to be downloaded at some point in time.

I have little faith in the US government or the various US healthcare providers keeping their databases properly secured from attack. I am saying this as somebody with 2 rare immune-mediated neurological diseases affecting my peripheral nervous system, plus type 1 diabetes (autoimmune and insulin-dependent).

I have far more faith in the European Union, even though it has issues. I live in Europe, and it is a breath of fresh air.
They’re not the same, but I’m more curious how you managed to miss the pages of outraged comments here on every thread pertaining to AirTags (for extra fun you can also check the outrage in the thread where Apple announced they were giving higher quality music to subscribers for free).

Shit, this is a thread about Amazon and Apple are still getting flack somehow.
Drug dogs are not called in on every stop.
Easiest thing was to look at the class name applied to the element.
First, I think you've misunderstood the significance of that genetic similarity in the 1977 pandemic, since your use of the word "except" doesn't make sense. That genetic similarity is itself the evidence that the pandemic was probably of unnatural origin. After 27 years of natural transmission, the 1950 virus should have picked up mutations along the way. It didn't, thus the widely-accepted theory that it spent those intervening years in a laboratory freezer:

> The reemergence was probably an accidental release from a laboratory source in the setting of waning population immunity to H1 and N1 antigens

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra0904322

So the statement above that "every single previous one [pandemic] in history" was of natural origin is probably false. The 1977 flu killed about 700k people worldwide, less than SARS-CoV-2 but more than a typical flu season.

To emphasize, humanity doesn't have the technology to invent viruses de novo. A lab-manipulated virus is always going to be derived from a naturally-evolved virus, whether that's in simple ways (like storage in a freezer for 27 years) or complex ones (like genetic engineering). The question is the causality--if a pandemic was caused by the actions of scientists, then if not for those actions, those thousands/millions of people would still be alive.

Second, why would we need to invade China? The USA was literally funding this research, so couldn't we just stop doing that?

If SARS-CoV-2 arose from a lab accident, then China certainly deserves special blame for the coverup. But before that, this wasn't a political topic--it was an obscure academic debate between a small subset of virologists who wanted to perform certain risky experiments, and other academics who thought that risk was unacceptable. It's quite possible that the CCP is currently wishing they'd blamed the whole thing on a rogue, American-funded researcher early on. If they had, then it's quite possible that narrative would have stuck--it would be stupider than what most people seem to believe now, but not by much.

Finally, the indifference you express above is bizarre to me. Do you believe the same thing about Chernobyl, that it's better for us to devote all our resources to improving treatment for cancer (which will also occur naturally, with or without nuclear meltdowns) and none to preventing meltdowns? If not, how is this different?
Awesome examples!
IMHO, the USA has made the mistake of privatizing too much of its crucial infrastructure, ignoring that certain things are inherently monopolistic in nature and do not benefit at all from being in private hands.

Privatizing infrastructure is extremely positive if there's any chance for competition to arise - for instance, Italy has moved from a monopolistic state phone company to a well regulated and open free market, which has caused a boom of competing companies that has massively driven prices down. I now pay €27/mo for unlimited 1Gbps/300Mbps fiber and €7/mo for my phone plan with 50 GB of data, unlimited calls and unlimited SMS.

This is offset by the sad state of our highway system, which has been handed off to private companies a long time ago. There is obviously no way to create competition in highways (what are you going to do, build a cheaper highway next to the already existing one?), so the main company (API) has been neglecting mantaining infrastructures up to the point that a few bridges have collapsed, killing people and creating huge preventable disasters. Tolls are also crazy expensive, often amounting to half the cost of a road trip (and here petrol costs €1.50 per litre).

There's no incentive for a private company to invest a single cent as soon as it becomes a monopoly, it is something that has been known since the dawn of man.
> Would you bet millions of dollars on the goodness of the typical person?

Somewhere in that question is an answer to the Fermi paradox!
Interesting - I should really try to find the specifics on how AmigaOS stored its data. I'm guessing it's not MFM as the optional driver slash virtual device for reading IBM floppies required an MFM driver (thus implying MFM is not in use for standard AOS floppies).

[edit] it actually IS mfm after all https://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/Amiga_Floppy_Boot_Process_and_...
> It really makes discovery of good content harder

You make a fair point but do we always have to say something meaningful. Sometimes reading about some randoms day and how their dog was doing a dog version of a crip walk is mindless entertainment before switching context into that behemoth cpp file waiting for you to refactor and debug.

This is a low effort comment but my point is we don't always need to have all the lights on.
They actually show it only once per StackExchange site, it's just that there are quite a few of those now. And the settings can be changed from a link in the footer. All in all, probably the best they could do without eschewing tracking altogether, in my opinion.
I bet their billing system is custom and was developed in times when Windows was a better choice. And nobody was able (or even tried) to justify a switch since then.
This was fun! I gave my data 2 times, questions 6 and 10 bit me. 6 because I only asked the wrong assistant and moved on, 10 because it got me really confused. The question didn't mention if true or false would opt-out, so I wonder if an accurate decision can be made with the information provided.
It would happen pretty quickly, based on how these cyberattacks are going. Also, Russia would like it.

The tip of the iceberg has not even been identified with the recent US SolarWinds cyber attack.

Then again, nationalizing care would bring up the standard. Not like I trust the US government, however, the third leading cause of death is believed to be preventable medical errors. The level of care is particularly poor and inconsistent outside of the east and west coasts, with a few notable areas as exceptions geographically. As a chronically ill individual with 2 rare immune mediated neurological diseases affecting my peripheral nervous system, it's not like I trust the system. I basically fell through the cracks, over and over again.
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They know an investigation of the origins pins it on China. With a zoonotic source China is still at fault. As an authoritarian regime that outcome undermines them.

A bunch of Americans angry about the lab leak theory works fine for them, that just enhances the bunker mentality for their own domestic consumption.

And they're more worried about domestic politics now and spinning propaganda than they are about preventing the next pandemic.
Unless you want to allow browsers that can't do HTTPS, such as old Amiga browsers.
> You'd do well to remember there are two sides to any conflict (as my parents drilled into us whenever my brother and I would blame each other).

What if the entire world was watching while you shaved your brothers head? Your lies would be pointless, because the entire world has seen what you were doing.

> In my opinion you can see Israel exercising serious restraint

Almost 200 dead in days. If you call that restraint, I think it's you who's gone off the deep end. Restraint would be doing nothing because barely anything has been done to you. Or shooting 10 Palestinian freedom fighters. That would be restraint. Firing missiles into a populated city isn't restraint.

> Hamas on the other hand is indiscriminately firing over 3000 rockets at Israel civilians.

Surely you jest. Those fireworks do almost nothing. A single Israeli missile is more deadly than 3000 Hamas rockets, so you have it backwards.

> Now there is a big power imbalance here, and I feel for the Palestinians

No you don't. Quit the propaganda.

> but they're hardly the good guys here. That's terrorism, plain and simple.

How is defending yourself terrorism? They're slowly been driven off the map. They should be firing 3000 rockets every day, and the world should be sending them more so they can fight for their families.
Next you'll tell me that the Jews who fought back against Hitler were terrorists.
I think that isn't defined as a writing system as you can only record numerical data.

Same as how the Inca Quipu[1] isn't generally defined as writing, despite the fact it seems they may have encoded some non-numerical information such as provinces for accounting purposes - like having a province_id in a database.

You can keep track of taxes etc. with a system like Quipu, but you couldn't write down the Iliad with it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu
Scummy contractor, incompetent as well as lying about it
> People who live in Gaza never leave, and nobody else enters

The border crossing with Egypt is (or was) open earlier this year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafah_Border_Crossing
The NHS is particularly incompetent in this respect.

edit:

Here are some sources to support my point:

NHS patient data breached at least 1,395 times in two years (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44682369)

NHS data breach affects 150,000 patients in England (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44682369)

Over 18K COVID-19 Patients’ Data Mistakenly Exposed by NHS Trust (https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/security-data-pro...)
In certain cases, such as when they come from the App Store. I believe other apps do not get this.
> I think Dixon's descriptions are a good first order approximation to understand the concepts, but they lack a certain amount of rigour

Oh, I completely agree. I personally quite like Deal’s ‘ergative’ and ‘absolutive properties’ [0] as a first attempt; but I haven’t yet seen Lazard and Haspelmath, so I should look into that more.

[0] http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~ardeal/papers/Deal-ergativi...

> It's quite impressive how much you know without formal training. I spent years learning about these subjects.

Why, thank you! But I don’t think I’m so different in this respect: I spent a good portion of my spare time last year reading everything I could find about ergativity, and had read lots about linguistics even before that. (What can I say; it’s an interesting subject!)
The most interesting part ( to me at least ),

>The >5GHz next generation IBM Z processor chip

Keyword here is next generation. IBM shared a lot about their POWER10 design last year. ( It was delayed because GF quite leading edge node development ) It is interesting in that IBM shared so much about Z and POWER I kind of think because they are in an industry of their own.

>Arm Neoverse N2: Arm’s second-generation high performance infrastructure CPUs and system products

We already knew what N2 will perform like. And it wont be M1 or even A13 in single core perf in case anyone is wondering. Anandtech has an article on it [1]. But it will still be interesting to see what other ARMv9 information they will give out.

>World Largest Mobile Image Sensor with All Directional Phase Detection Auto Focus Function

I am not an expert in Image Sensor or Camera Tech. But every year I am just amazed at those improvement and what sort of picture we can take with a tiny camera on our phone. And we are still getting innovation like this.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16640/arm-announces-neoverse-...
> if they were innocent they wouldn't need to limit access

Never talk to the police
Have your tried Bandcamp, Qobuz, Boomkat, Bleep and others?

Personally I buy and find all my music in lossless digital formats. Any release I want to have. Interestingly you may have a harder time finding very popular mainstream music in a lossless format.
Voice in a Can Brings Alexa Echo Show to Apple Watch (APL-SwiftUI)
> If you have a shellfish allergy, you may have a cicada allergy if you eat them.

Both interesting, and slightly nauseating. I've eaten bugs myself, but cicadas seem very unappetizing.
If ever there was a good candidate for a company to bailout to prevent damage to the wider economy, this is it.
Yes. Yes I have. And that pan is older than me. It will probably out-live me too. The valuable lesson I learned about cooking is very simple.

Pay attention.

I rarely have to scrub anything going on months to years.
A little off topic. When I need and google for it Statista very often pop up and won't let me see the data. Like stock photo sites with image search. Not a fan.
Have you been there? Its just true. They keep you waiting for hours if you dont bribe.

And those backwater control posts are just living of the land like 30 year war mercenaries. Sorry if reality is offensive.
Oh! This part of my dissertation might also help answer your question: https://syndicate-lang.org/tonyg-dissertation/html/index.htm...
Yeah, true. But, the EU is a regulatory stronghold. The EU does take action on this sort of stuff, and will create standards if necessary. We still have a long ways to go, but it is a "going to the moon" type of an issue rather than a "solving global warming" type issue.

In the US, our Congress is extremely technologically incompetent, with a few isolated exceptions with respect to individuals.
The programs would be pretty much identical until they are lowered, which is generally not a bottleneck for Rust compiles…
I lived both in a high-trust society and in a low-trust society. That you seem to have experienced only low-trust society may impact you worldview, but take my word for it, things are different elsewhere ;-)
This post has missed the trick; the reason people don't pass on hard truths is because they are worried about how the truth-reciever will respond.

The entire game of getting honest feedback is making people think that if they give honest feedback then the situation will end well for them.

How feedback is asked for is completely irrelevant. What you do with the feedback might be relevant. What happens to the truth-teller after giving feedback is critical and often overlooked.
UI is awesome, i can't figure out what framework you are using or you are doing everything by yourself?
The UK alone spent £372bn on covid response: https://www.nao.org.uk/covid-19/cost-tracker/

It is, fundamentally, a choice. The UK has been cutting off megaproject funding since the APT (and before): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Passenger_Train

But it's not just a government choice, it's a choice of whole echelons of society. There are plenty of people who still get paid if the megaproject fails. We've seen a lot of that in the COVID response; pretty much every minister has been accused of routing hundreds of millions to their mates for items that were never delivered.

(To me, the unique thing about WW2 was that it forced the UK out of complacency and into employing diverse talent as a matter of raw necessity, because suddenly it was no longer possible to buy your way out of it as an individual. Suddenly the establishment would let a woman fix the Spitfires, a gay man break the codes, and nobody complained about all the Poles coming over here defending our country.)
not in europe, i can tell you that much
Not in theory, Sony's LDAC is lossless (in the CD quality range) and goes over BT4.2 just fine.
I’m going to be callous and say that Amiga browsers aren’t on the web. It’s a dead platform, if you’re actually targeting something for it you’re kind of not targeting the web proper, but rather a historical artefact that kinda lives in the same space. :-)
I sometimes find newly released deinterlacing failed production video on YouTube. I wonder how is it failed, and why the production recorded the original video on interlace.
Much of the open source world is critically underfunded yet critically important
This page basically says that PGP is better in most use cases
Anything that can be seen from a satellite is quite accurate, that's true, but oftentimes things like number of lanes, type or direction of the roads is unknown, footpaths in rural areas are very spotty. Basically anything that requires local human verification (addresses, business location, etc) is off limits and accuracy in those points comes from pre-ban times (or illegal activity).
Have you ever read a book where an author describes his love affair? How she is special among women? Probably never read a book, eh?
The Grand Unified Theory of Rogue Waves (2020)
On my way to work i would drive past our regional research clinic and we all knew, that the nightshift nurses would drive out at 8-10° clock in the morning. So everyone local drove super-slow and carefully, while the non-locals honked.
I agree that the CCP's incentives are to oppose such an investigation regardless of the true origin, especially after they've spent months digging in to that position. But if our goal is to reduce the risk of future pandemics, then do you have a better idea for a policy action to achieve that?
China is huge in coal too.

China's installed coal generation in 2020 is bigger than the rest of the world combined.

https://www.statista.com/chart/24544/world-electricity-gener...
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/on-the-hypocrites-at-apple-who...

I think people complaining here are full of it again.
Thanks a lot for the reply, sir!

P.S. I love your examples section too. That must be one of the best documented languages at an initial stage of development!
In 2017 I built Twitark - https://github.com/pantchox/Twitark
Its a Node.js CLI tool that connects to Twitter Stream API to archive tweets and trends (all countries)

You can connect to Twitter stream API which is about %1 of whole twitter (was mentioned in their forums) and you can connect to Twitter Filter API with predefined hashtag monitoring or users monitoring and get all these related tweets.

Twitark creates daily rotated zip archives for each day structured in folders where each minute of tweets is set is a JSON file.

An archived day of Twitter stream API is about ~2GB per day.

I use this to analyze big data and trends with Twitter, also for past data.
So far it is working very well and I've been working on database adapters such as Postgres, Sqlite which are on different branch (not yet committed to master) so you can write directly to your database instead of zip files.

The second open source project I released is actually being used in Twitark.
It called Joebear (play of words of Jobber) https://github.com/pantchox/joebear

Its a Node.js serial queue manager, using old school Node.js event emitter.
The goal of Joebear is to receive a list of jobs and run one by one, if one fails there is ability to reset or stop at any given time.
In Twitark it is being used to monitor the Twitter Trends API.

I still hope more people will make use of my open source projects, I really invested time to write the documentation as well, but I don't have many stars on Github.
"Carcerial state"
Seems this is an ITAR restriction and only applies to chips exported from the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Rest...
Same in Japanese, コンデンサ.
It looks like a new legal system would be more useful. Law is intentionally vague for all sorts of reasons both good and nefarious. Computational law is automated contracts.

OTOH if they succeed at coding a large % of finance law, they 'll have created an excellent machine to find loopholes to exploit.
Because its a shitty deal, like cigaretts are? You get social alienated, your health suffers and if you calculate the health-risk cost vs the more earned money during lifetime, it turns out nightshift workers actually earn less.

Its a "use-equipment-at-all-costs" method praying on the social weak and un-educated.
The opening sentence will be some time in the 1960s through to the 1980s. We're watching the midway point of trends that locked in around then.
That's how credit card processing operated worldwide for many decades. That's also how hawala works. And Wikipedia, if you want a non-monetary example.

They are all literally trusting in the goodness of the typical person. And then doing some careful analysis and planning. And fraud detection for the rare misdeeds.
I think this is the equivalent to Flink's statefun: https://flink.apache.org/stateful-functions.html

These are comparable to triggers on distributed tables under the hood, with a function addressing scheme and an ingress/egress story.

Compared to Flink, on the surface, I'd say these lack the integration with regular stream processing operators.

But anyway this is very refreshing to see! These are the future of large scale backend apps, with a clear and simple scaling path.
But it's the same electorate! So it's likely to be the same party?
> Where *.js isn't using the shell glob feature, it's just a regex compatible string.

Except it isn't, because a `*` at the start of a regex is invalid. `-name` patterns given to `find` are explicitly shell glob patterns. You might be thinking of `-regex` patterns, which GNU find also has.

It's a bit shonky when `find` does it because it's not saying "the shell pattern applies in this directory", and I regularly trip over it. It's something special you've got to know about how `find` works, but at least it's still anchored to the idea of being searched in a path that's also part of the command. There's a semantic link there.

With `systemctl status *.mount` you've not even got that. What path is being searched for `*.mount` files? Is that path part of the `systemctl` interface? Or is this just another way that `systemctl` insists on being a special snowflake that someone's decided I now need to devote neurons to?