skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Folks really ought to read the C/C++ literature to understand why Rust evolved in a unique direction. That gives better compare/contrast.

Sounds like a good idea for the post-singularity age of infinite lifespans, but what folks really need to do is learn what they need to learn as best they can when they need it.
with no shoulder buttons
But it seems like StrongDM is more an identity proxy, rather than a proxy that transparently encrypts/decrypts data at the row level?
Thank you for making silly technology
It's possible! I think our job descriptions are pretty reasonable, actually, so I don't think that's the problem. If anything, I'd say our compensation probably isn't as competitive as we'd like, and the kinds of folks we're talking about are in high enough demand that we just aren't putting enough dollars behind the push to get them... Not a whole lot I personally can do about that, but I do my best.

The Mighty listing and tptacek's thoughts are interesting ideas, but part of the process is the screening phase which, as you said, is more difficult if there are no barriers. But they seems to be fairly successful, so maybe it's working out!
The Luck of Open Source
What's the background here? Seems like a great domain name without a lot of content...
> He's anonymous enough to go about his daily life mostly unrecognized, yet a multi-millionaire

There’s a series of tweets from him where people don’t recognize him or mistake him for other celebrities: https://www.businessinsider.com/tony-hawks-twitter-unrecogni...
What hurts me (or maybe I'm blind or a dummy) is, it's not obvious which window is in focus because the dock doesn't highlight anything. The dock has a little dot under the icon if it's running, but that's all you get. Most of the icons have the same dot, but aren't in focus. This can be confusing. Windows highlights the running program in the start bar. Also, Windows lets you minimize or restore by clicking on that. The Dock is inferior to the Windows equivalent jn functionality. One hopes it's made up with the window/taskbar at the top.
There's avoid and evade. One's legal, one's not. One should not break the law - it is the foundation of a civil society.
My feelings still stand from that other thread.

I don't deny any of this hypothetical lab interference but this new thread hit the top 5 of HN in under 30 minutes with no comments. I don't like that.

Why is the view being pushed so hard?
Apple could start selling ads tomorrow and simply change the terms of service, which they have a right to. In that case the last N years of data they have been collecting on you is fair game to sell to third parties.

Is Google a worse example, sure. But plenty of us have been around long enough to remember when Google was restructured into Alphabet and the “Don’t be evil” motto was wiped from their corporate code of conduct. All it takes is a new CEO or a change of leadership and all of these corporate platitudes aren’t worth the paper they are printed on.
This article strikes me as odd. The premise is based on a "pattern of behavior" but to me it feels the author is attributing malice where there likely is none.

> For the last nine-months I have noticed that the term Tidyverse is being used more regularly to describe what had been the Hadley-verse. And???

Hadley never liked the name 'Hadleyverse' and the first appearance of the `tidyverse` package on CRAN is from 2016.

> RStudio management rode in on the data science wave, raising money from VCs.

RStudio is now a Public Benefit Corporation.
90% of US taxpayers used the standard deduction in 2018, up from 70% in previous years.

This has been a major topic of discussion in tax circles for decades, the vast majority of Americans do not benefit from deductions and the federal government's direct knowledge of your income is essentially identical to your own (because of mandatory reporting from employers, banks & other financial service entities).

Specific deductions are written by and for high income individuals, and supported by lobbying from the tax industry which wouldn't exist without them, but they're not used by the vast majority of Americans, especially with raised SALT limits and doubled standard deduction.
> so we end up without a night sky.

Please don't use hyperbole like this as some people believe it and it confuses the conversation. Starlink will not erase the night sky. Starlink in operational orbits is not human eye visible. This is only a concern for ground based telescopes, not the average person viewing the night sky.
The infographic being substantially about genocide, albeit not exclusively about genocide, does not change how I feel about it's use in that conversation: a blatantly hostile escalation. When you send somebody this infographic to scold them, you are insinuating that their actions might lay a foundation for genocide. That message comes across loud and clear, and in the Basecamp context, was plainly over the line.
Normally you have to be really young, really old or really sick to die from the flu. Not everyone but most. I hope the Wuhan lab didn't have multiple employees in any of those categories.

Edit: parent comment has changed so much my comment is no longer in context :(
As someone who's produced a large volume of educational content in my career, this idea ends up producing content that even most serious practitioners cannot consume.

The problem is that even amongst "serious" programmers people often have a patchwork of knowledge with small, unpredictable gaps in understanding; many of which will surprise you. You will find these gaps even if you've taken the time to handpick vetted experts. Once you account for this patchwork of knowledge gaps in verified experts you'll often notice that you're really close to a tutorial for relative beginners, which most people are, and just go the full distance.

The problem generalizes to a variety of subjects but is particularly pernicious in programming where small details are often of much greater significance.
At my former employer deadlines were often not even ostensibly about some rational scheduling or roadmap, but simply "the birthday of the long-deceased husband who made the company big and successful".
It should be according to the hypothesis, and it is an observable prediction that could confirm or reject it.
> Would you have been fine if Twitter would have marked content against them the same way?

100%. My stance is that twitter can add its opinion just the same as anyone. The government trying to censor an opinion is what I consider to be the problem. Even if that opinion is "covid is fake" I think people should be allowed to say it because I believe in free speech.

> My main issue with that is the sheer power a private company not answerable to the citizens holds.

Then you must really hate (almost) every news organization in the world. They literally make it their business to do the very thing you seem to oppose. And as far as I'm concerned they have no more credibility, but that's entirely subjective.
(Overleaf co-founder here.) Thanks for the feedback --- I'd be happy to hear more about what you would like to see improved, either here or via email (in my profile).

And to the curvenote team: Congrats on launching here! Happy to chat about collaborative scientific writing any time :)
> If you don't like, go do something else.

Many people don't have many options and companies abuse the shit out of that because people don't want to be homeless, get kicked out of the country or dead when they can't pay medical bills. Etc. Thus the need for legislation. And the lack of such legislation partially explains fabulous areas like skid row.
One thing is fantastically hard to ignore. The SARS2 phylogeny is rooted by a most recent common ancestor in October or November. This is as clear as day and no evidence has ever surfaced to nudge the estimate nor to indicate the virus was present previous to those dates, nor that there were existing proto-SARS2 strains. These would continue to circulate and something would have been found had they existed. (n.b. There _has_ been some now discredited science arguing it was in Europe before those dates.) The correspondence between the virus phylogeny, this report, as well as previous indications of a shutdown in the WIV in early to mid October 2019, is just an awful lot to say maybe to. So, what's the explanation on the other side of your "maybe"?
Noam Chomsky’s “Manufacturing Consent” should be on your bookshelf. Goes into great detail especially regarding the need that media has to toeing the government line. It keeps them relevant and included in general news at all. Telling the truth or at least failing to omit it could equate to biting the hand that feeds you other stories.
Can we add?: Why aren't the people behind GoF in Wuhan (from grant funders, to scientists, to CCP) shouting from the rooftops that their research (1) was necessary all along and justified their fight to protect it (2) and can now quickly lead cures and vaccines, as promised?

Instead, nothing. In their perfect moment of glory and justification, they prefer you didn't notice their work.
You land in Madrid. You hail an uber using the app. You stand there for 2 hours, hail multiple drivers. The uber never comes. For some reason the uber on the map drives in circles around the airport - then cancels. You eventually get in a cab. The driver says 1) uber cars can't be that close to the airport - and 2) that he doesn't take cards. You no longer use Uber in Spain. You tell the rest of your family to not use Uber when they get to Spain.
Because large companies have a huge amount of influence over the political parties.
https://archive.is/RohV6
That's literally a reddit conspiracy theory propped up on r/Ireland. Everything seems to indicate the editor you mentioned is very well informed & doesn't have any COI a part from vague allegations.

Like what do people think, some guy working in the City spent tons of time making extremely well sourced and well constructed articles just to... Divert some sort of "heat" from the entire London financial sector... On Wikipedia? Imo that's absurd, and it's very similar to the type of accusations people (pointing at the original reddit post that popularized the city shill theory) make whenever they find an article that bruises their nationalist ego.
> Why is the view being pushed so hard?

Probably because the very self-assure ''debunking'' of lab-origin was pushed so hard in so much of the media for the past year.
This is really the point we should be focusing on. There is an extreme lack of transparency and thus conclusions are left to political conjecture.
It is possible the spike proteins mutate too much and we need a booster
If you can prove that the NIH/WHO got their treatment guidelines right, win $2M
Finite Difference Computing with PDEs: A Modern Software Approach [pdf]
It's the thing that once was a conspiracy theory that was getting right wing YouTube channels in trouble, now it's an article from a legitimate news source. To me that makes it very interesting.
The closing of flights from China took place on January 31st. There was no notion of a spread through Europa whatsoever at that time.

You might be interested to know, that Trump was already informed about the seriousness of the outbreak in Wuhan in early January. However at that time he chose not to act on it because it might harm the ongoing negotiations over a trade deal with China.
So if you want to blame Trump for something, it would actually make more sense to blame him for closing the flights from China too late.
But practically every solution is "horrible at best" for these users who want Starlink where nothing else is available.

Also I find it hard to say "100+ mbps with 95%+ uptime (improving with time) for $100/month" as "mediocre service". That's quite good service and revolutionary service for the people unmet by other services. Even if you need to do a bit of handiwork (much more common in rural areas) to get it installed.
Quote: "Finally, why are Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins still remaining silent about the NIH guidelines for these two drugs? If a computer entrepreneur from Silicon Valley can figure all this out 7 months ago that it’s virtually impossible for these two drugs not to work, why can’t the NIH leadership?"
Because we need accountability. This whole disaster of denying a problem, till it was a catastrophe, talking it small, until it was a pandemic, failing institutions and failing systems (face before scientific truth) is a liability that needs to be dismantled.
I think you are focusing on the business aspect and ignoring the humanity or lack of it in this situation.

I wonder what the health toll was on the all the hundred of people who worked on this? The reduction in life expectancy, health issues that arise due to 16 hour days...

It's not necessary.
It's being pushed hard because the push back against it was so weird. Random "experts" with no evidence writing all sorts of absolutes statements that a lab leak was impossible. Then for a while the media was calling people crazy or racist for believing a very reasonable theory that China has done everything in its' power to make un-confirmable.
I wish Apple would do this with the iPad.

M1XBoX
Someone bought the domain after I wrote this comment. Hope they’re working on this idea :)
Nobody here will buy their app; people are mostly interested in the idea and in the business model.
Not knowing AWS, this sub-thread reads like a real-life version of the Microservices sketch: https://youtu.be/y8OnoxKotPQ
Every now and then I think about trying skateboarding again, but I wince just thinking about all that force on early-30s knees

Nah, go for it. I got my start last summer when my kids bought me a board for my 49th birthday.

Their mistake, since now I’m the one dragging them to the skatepark on sunny mornings to beat the hordes of scooter kids.
It is strange to me that there is this much concern over whether COVID came from a lab or not because ultimately it is irrelevant outside of highlighting a need for additional safety protocols if proven true. "Virus from a lab" != engineered bioweapon, and regardless of whether infected animals existed in nature, got placed in a lab, and then an infection occurred or whether humans came in contact with infected animals in nature outside of the lab, we still should have employed much better disease management protocols than we did. We (Americans) aren't suddenly absolved of responsibility for our failures to contain this pandemic if it turns out that this was a lab leak, nor will the Chinese be any more responsible for the pandemic than they already are.
It might depend on your background how much you can enjoy that. I am physicist, did not yet know this quote of Maxwell and think that it is pure gold. When I read it, I immediately thought:

"Dear James Maxwell, you nailed it."
Are you referring to Uber as "highest regarded engineering org"? :grimmace:
Yes but that is only the door charge. If you want tools, that's extra. And water is $3 dollars. And that piece of quartz is $9 at the gift shop, etc
Looks like a custom job.
yeah that seems to be the thing.

a report that is highly circumstantial but implies a certain inference

from a foreign intelligence agency that says it 'needs further investigation'

provided to a historically right wing publication

when in contrast the people who do this for a living have consistently had exactly the same line: we need to investigate the cause, the evidence we have suggests one thing, and this theory that keeps getting pushed is scientifically without evidence
I think part of it is competition with Amazon's Project Kuiper.

Kuiper is way behind Starlink in terms of actual satellites deployed, and is facing much higher launch costs too. Kuiper is going to have to find a competitive differentiator to try to make up for being so late to the market. One obvious potential differentiator is integration with AWS. So I think this GCP deal is primarily about having a response to Amazon on that topic.

AWS integration is the kind of differentiator which will mainly appeal to B2B customers–although possibly B2C customers might experience some benefits of reduced latency. I think for a B2C differentiator, they may look at bundling Amazon Prime with Kuiper. I think it will be harder for SpaceX to answer that–SpaceX can probably do some deal with Netflix (for example), but Netflix is going to want to be paid for such a deal, whereas Kuiper can bundle Amazon Prime essentially for nothing. That said, if SpaceX is the technically better solution (more satellites, more capacity, etc), that is going to be more important to most consumers than free Amazon Prime included will be.
Pretty obvious this came from a lab. Theres no easy resolution to the problem though. Is the USA going to confront China? Spark a dangerous tension? They are meddling with technology that they dont respect, and we are all suffering the consequences
If you aren’t accepting very normal email addresses at perfectly valid TLDs, then you are a bad programmer. At least import a list of the new TLDs every ten years.
Transformers only block DC. Unless your house is wired for that (pretty rare in almost every country) You'll backfeed AC which will go through transformers.

In fact it's likely the transformer on the street between your house and the network that's responsible for the death of the linemen. IIRC that's a step down transformer (so step up when run backwards like this.)
No; I am not assuming that. The standard deduction does cover a lot of people; but a lot of the people that it covers end up filling out other forms as part of their returns for tax credits.

For example, the Earned Income Tax Credit is a means-tested benefit program that's delivered through the tax system. This is not a niche program - 25 million families benefit from it.

It requires filers to identify how many qualifying children they have, which in turns depends on things like the educational status (is this child in school, college, are they a full-time student) and residency (child must generally live with you, but with exceptions for overseas military service, etc).

In cases where multiple filers can claim a qualifying child (e.g. cohabiting single filers), you're required to make an election as to which return will claim the qualifying child.

The EITC also encourages reporting of informal income (because it's only available to people who earned an income) which might not be on a W-2 / 1099, e.g. baby sitting, to qualify.

None of that stuff is known to the IRS from W-2s, 1099s etc. and they are dependent on the filer to provide it every year, especially as circumstances change; and filers are strongly incentivized to provide it as the credit is refundable.
I had no idea one could do this!
I had http:// 192.168.100.123 :7654/lights_on.sh that idempotentially turns on lights in my room. Trying to query or even pre-fetching does it. I was aware it’s not wisest, wasn’t as stupid as to expose it, also it broke so it is no more, but there’s always the guy who does that.
Good! The west doesn't need to get any closer to being a corporatocracy.
The mRNA based technology underlying both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are expected to power a whole slew of applications in the future. I think these companies are quite happy that they just got an expedited, large scale demonstration of the effectiveness and safety of their tech, which will lead to many billions in future revenue.
You are repeating what the video has already stated...
Musk isn't taking the sky from anyone. Please don't use hyperbole that skews the discussion.
I host my own email server, and .xyz is one of the 2 or 3 TLDs I went in the config files and manually blocked since nothing but spam comes from it (and lots of it).

Definitely would not recommend using it for your personal address.
Perhaps there is a perverse incentive to not worry about simplifying now, but I think complexity will eventually piss people off enough to either leave the community or develop an alternative.

Atlassian's Jira is a good day example of what the author's gunning for. A complex, unintuitive, hulk of a product .. with seemingly nonsensical UI updates and archives of out of date documentation.

Amazing for people providing support and training. As a potential user, I've been annoyed by badly set-up instances so many times I'd gladly turn my back on it.
Because during the pandemic, the major media outlets dismissed it as a conspiracy theory and completely shut down conversation on the topic. The New York Times claimed this theory was "debunked". Fact checkers claimed this was "pants on fire" lying. For months, Twitter suspended accounts sharing the lab-leak theory, because they were "spreading misinformation".

The past few weeks, all the above parties did a complete about-face, with no apology. Vox silently edited one of its March 2020 articles "debunking" claims that Covid-19 originated in a lab leak https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1396769717805780994 . The fact that the mainstream media can so effectively censor a theory against the prescribed narrative is extremely harmful to our democracy.

It makes you question what other narratives being pushed today are similarly misguided.
> Why is the view being pushed so hard?

Because it validates a certain worldview. "I need things to be this way, or else the universe is wrong."
Just took a break from playing Doom Eternal to find this, it's so cute! The simple embed is a great idea too, I hope as the internet starts to decentralize we'll see more fun things like this floating around.
One of my frustrations when working with Python is that it has been adding very useful FP-inspired tools, but any random library I invoke can pull the rug out from underneath me.

I have long felt that retrofitting a language to add support for immutability/FP constructs is better than nothing but significantly worse than starting with immutability as a core principle.
Chinese is also a hugely popular language, does not mean that it is familiar to a large amount of humans
If it's a lab leak it gives us people to blame. That's huge as far as a world wide pandemic goes.
American Express at one point let me set a password over 8 characters, but logging in after only worked if I provided only the first 8.
Good question. I grew up mountain biking (did my first race 31 years ago) and it was an eclectic mix of people who seemed to enjoy back country single track the most, which included both the climb up and the descent. I'm still in that camp - I don't enjoy 'shaped' (jumps, drops, banked corners etc...) trails as much as more natural looking ones.
Huawei develops first RISC-V design to overcome Arm restrictions
Fox very much claims to be objective.

“Fair and balanced” I believe the slogan is.

Nonetheless, you are correct.

Fox/Sky are shameless hard right propagandists.

Sadly, CNN/Nbc are hard left propagandists. I don’t know enough of the history to say that was always the case as it is for Fox/Sky, but it certainly is today.

It’s disheartening to think that even once respected papers like the Guardian have become so departed from objective journalism. I can’t help but think that journalistic freedom of speech is ultimately on borrowed time if the situation becomes much worse.

I’ve taken to following Reuters for news now, but even then I don’t know if what I’m watching is well sourced or it just happens to agree with my own biases more often than not.
The Google Reader Discontinuation Page Has Been Taken Down
Is this a story about a lab leak or media incompetence? What evidence has meaningfully changed since a year ago when this was a harmful conspiracy theory?

Next you’re gonna tell me that really was Hunter Biden’s laptop...

FWIW I made this HN account a year ago to post an article about the lab leak theory. I couldn’t use my main account because it was so obviously wrongthink at the time.