skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This guy is cool: being raised by teachers, spending time in nature and avoiding politics is pretty astute. What a shame he didn't live to see the era where open source observations on iNaturalist et al could allow him to do international field work by proxy in his old age. I think we will hang a picture of him in our company office (foodtech robotics in China).

He really picked an interesting retirement spot: Hainan is a tropical island known for surfing, sailing, obtaining US spy planes, former cultural and ethnographic diversity including Austronesian and Tai, an influx of Russians to the point where the street signs are in bizzarro alt-Blacksea cyrillic, and alleged tests of GFW-free internet in China. The powers that be are giving lip service to setting it up as an HK-alternative investment gateway to China with proximity to SEA, perhaps largely just to spite HK.
How does cryptocurrency fit into currency export control exactly?
Recent Linux kernels default to not using an IO scheduler with devices that support multiple queues, which includes NVMe SSDs but not SATA (at least through AHCI HBAs). Individual distros can override the kernel's defaults. However, I'm not sure the difference between no-op and mq-deadline IO scheduling for SATA SSDs would be big enough to matter for the purposes of this article's measurements.
> Should everyone accept your email? Of course! I'm just saying you live in real life, and in real life people suck at building email forms. The problems you run into are on you.

No, the problems they run into are caused by (at best) mediocre developers. They’re entirely to blame. We have specs and standards for a reason.
We Age – and Why We Don't Have To
The irony is that judges believe fingerprinting (and sketchy police lab DNA processing), but would laugh you out of court for applying that to cheese.
> even during BLM when protests were just declared as "riots" to then crack down on them with the full force of a militarized police arresting thousands of people

Many Americans actually died in these events in addition to dangerous fires (with people still inside buildings!) and random acts of violence, so the riot characterization has at least in some cases been fair. It makes sense thousands of people would be arrested when hundreds of crimes have occurred.

The difference in the US is that these events could not be stopped from occurring, and people were not immediately arrested and water cannoned and so forth by police. It was only after the event grew and escalated and changed in nature.

That is where France differs — a protest can, from the beginning, be declared unable to occur, and police respond to it accordingly.

This is not at all to say that these events were all wrong or created with ill intent, but that there is a clear advantage and disadvantage to the right to freedom of assembly in the US.
Both of our comments can be correct. I’m not sure what the new field has to do with it. Irrespective of anything else, setting db_index on both columns individually, instead of creating a new single composite index, suggests the authors are far from experts in Django’s ORM.
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22340398
Because the core problem with right wing, anti-censorship sites is they turn into repugnant shitholes the moment they get traction. Because it also turns out that there is a large overlap between people who cry about cancel culture and people who have strong opinions about Jews, the Holocaust, the Nazi party, Democrats, “liberals”, transsexuals, gays and whatever other Republican Party talking point is flavor of the month.

You can spend 5 minutes on those sites to verify the claim that it’s full of hate speech.
I once got far enough into Urbit to reach something like a chat room. I think I may own a star, or planet, (a medium sized entity - not a large or huge one) if I can find where I put the key. I have been meaning to explore more. Glad to see it is still around.
Of course they're a bad programmer. But we live in real life, where bad programmers exist.

Get a big brand .com email and you'll never run into an issue.
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This would establish a standard for global minimum taxes, an instrument of power. The history of such instruments of power being repealed without dramatic catastrophe (warfare) is near zero. The failure of such standards to fulfill their intended purpose is high.

Who exactly is ceding what to who here? Extremely naive people seem to think this is a “let’s hold hands and jump into the pool together” idea, as though they’re holding hands with everyone from Gates, Buffett, to bin Salman, Putin and Xi, and that’s going to work.
It's great that RStudio is a B-corp, but that, by itself, isi a magic bullet.

Is there any information you can share on what steps RStudio has taken to reduce susceptibility to buyout and IPO pressure from VC?
>Also, what's stopping them from just lying?

Well, hopefully the prospect of fines if they're caught. I'm hoping that the local data authorities won't be lenient if a company is caught outright lying.
> Kuiper is way behind Starlink in terms of actual satellites deployed

Wikipedia says they've contracted with ULA for some launches, but as far as I can tell, they've haven't launched anything.

I think commercial development of space is a wonderful thing, but amazon seems to have been obstructing a lot while actually developing little. I think they need to prioritize on execution.
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It has Amazon ads (for physics books) at the bottom.
Now is the punishment important part or eventually reclaiming it? In systems where taxes are done by agency and unreported income is found they still have to pay. Was pretty common with cryptos some time ago here.
Yeah, I gave up caring a long time ago. You can’t fight emotion and attachment theory with logic. Let people feel what they will. For example I feel like a tendency for critical thinking is a curse.
Your explanation doesn’t check out. First of all, construction hasn’t necessarily slowed down. Second, jobs were always in cities. That hasn’t changed. Third, new construction trends follow economic trends[0] and that has always been the case, since the dawn of the industrial era. It would be one thing if you were arguing that rising wealth inequality is a result of no new homes being built, but you’d still have to account for all the people who live in homes but don’t own them.

[0]:https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?width=880&he...
One thing I don't understand is the difference between SARS and COVID-19 in the official Chinese response and willingness for an investigation into zoonotic origin [1]. How can we explain the stark difference?

As an uninformed reader, some possibilities I can come up with are the following:

1. Despite zoonotic origin, China feels its stature in the world is much greater than in 2002-2003, so it no longer feels obliged to allow international investigation into origins of the pandemic in spite of political pressure. For example, Wikipedia says: "After intense pressure, Chinese officials allowed international officials to investigate the situation there."

2. Despite zoonotic origin, COVID-19 has much higher death toll so CPC wants to save face by either hiding evidence or preventing investigations into a potential reservoir species. OTOH, SARS had lower death toll, so they didn't have reason to hide anything.

3. Despite zoonotic origin, Xi Jinping's regime is less transparent than that of Hu Jintao which was in power for SARS, so this time they want to either hide evidence or prevent investigations into a potential reservoir species.

4. Despite zoonotic origin and best efforts of Chinese scientists, a reservoir species has not been identified yet. Is it possible that it may take longer this time around?

5. Lab leak hypothesis: there is no natural, reservoir species to be found.

Personally, I think Reasons 1, 2 and 3 are strongest, because CPC feels like it has to play to its domestic audience and letting international investigators in may feel like a loss of face. However, this doesn't add up, because they already let WHO investigator in, albeit with very stringent limits and not letting them access raw data. I'd be much obliged if a learned person in this topic could tell me what kind of prior they'd put on each of these possible explanations.

[1] First human case of SARS was in Nov 2002, and scientists were able to isolate SARS in civets in late May 2003, so a reservoir species was identified in 6 months. It took 10 months to identify that for MERS (Sept 2012 -> August 2013).
The short answer is, you need to validate phone numbers every 6 months (which is the time phone operators keep the number closed when people change numbers) if you need 100% confidence that they are the real owners.

This is a problem if you are relying only on phone-numbers as a factor, which Lyft was (so was Uber, in some markets). In reality, a lot of the time you verify the phone number and present a password challenge (aka ask for password) so it's not a huge problem.

But then, you'd need to handle the case when Alice signs up in with the phone number 123, then changes their number to 456, and 6 months later Bob signs up with 123 because they are the new owners. Now, Alice has to provide a new number (with some Grace period) and Bob has to be eligible for all the promos / signup goodies that were previously tied to that 123 number again.

Software is hard.
There is an online Altair simulator https://s2js.com/altair/
At least half a billion malicious app installs on iOS and none from F-Droid. It does seem like open source wins there too.
IIRC a top European politician's, maybe Angela Merkel's, prints were lifted from a foto a few years ago and used for something, so it's not a new or rare thing - examples come up in the press about once a year.
Just because things have tended to get better the last century or so doesn’t mean it’s going to continue. Leaving behind wealth for future generations used to be a significant priority; now many people are barely interested in having a family at all. Some of those that do still decide they’d rather get a second mortgage to buy a boat than leave a paid off home for their kids. Predatory corporations liquidate the assets of the elderly when they’re deemed no longer competent by the state. None of those things by themselves is enough to sink things, but those things together combined with broader financial trends (seemingly permanently low interest rates + skyrocketing housing costs as others have mentioned) don’t exactly paint a good picture at least for a large portion of the working class.
It mostly depends on what you are trying to protect with your CAPTCHA.

When I managed a small phpbb forum, all I had to do was to change a few lines in the register page to make it non-standard and it stopped all bots. Better than the built-in CAPTCHA. Simply, no one cared enough about our forum to write a specialized tool, no matter how easy it was.

If it is all you have to protect, go ahead with your clever ideas, it can add a bit of flair to your website and stop bots effectively. For accessibility, you can always deal with special requests manually.

The problem is entirely different if you are Google. People will spend months trying to break your CAPTCHA for fun and profit. Hand crafted problems will be solved faster than they can be written so "bot vs bot" is essentially your only option.
>As controls, we also intracellularly stained PBMC from healthy volunteers 1 week after SARS-CoV-2 or seasonal influenza virus vaccination (Fig. 3a, Extended Data Fig. 1a-c). Consistent with the ELISpot data, low frequencies of S-binding BMPCs were detected in ten of the twelve convalescent specimens analyzed, but not in any of the nine control specimens(Fig. 3b).
I don't believe that you can sue under the GDPR. I've always understood it to be something that you can lodge a complaint against someone with your local authorities. No idea about the CCPA but I wouldn't be surprised if you could considering how lawsuit-happy Americans are.
I wouldn't dare say Slack has buttery-smooth performance. The problem with Element is all the little "what the f#ck?" bugs that add up.

An emblematic example is where the Android app sometimes glitches out and makes it seem a message you sent was sent by someone else. To be charitable I heard a fix is "on the way," but wow.

The markdown editor can also be glitchy. When I use italics or the triple backticks for code it won't always render in your client. It still feels like a hit and miss (albeit far more rare these days.)
How the object is mutated isn't really relevant to the smell. It's that an object can be mutated while someone else has a reference to it (and that the API is designed that way),
> I don't think there is that much chance of shooting war, both sides have too much to lose.

Everybody always thinks that, but unfortunately, these things sometimes happen, even by accident. Sane and reasonable people consistently and massively overestimate the high level decision-making around this kind of thing. James Mattis, for example, was quite keen on a war on Iran, which any reasonable person could tell you would be an absolute debacle, worse than Iraq and Afghanistan combined. MacArthur wanted to nuke China. A half-century earlier, Japan invaded China largely against the government's will, mostly due to a group of junior officers, and declared war on America essentially because what had started out as a worst-case contingency plan / way to get naval funding gained a life of its own.

If the American state ever decides that a war is preferable to the loss of global primacy, a war could happen. People will convince themselves it will be short, the loss of life will be minimal, and if they convince everybody else, then you have your awful, monstrous disaster - just like the Japanese had, or the Iraqis had, or every state that ever stumbled into something that ended up totally out of their control.
Well, it's a numbers game (pun intended)
I think with strong net neutrality rules this space might be more competitive.
My cheap-o approach to this is: Check there’s an @, and that there is a dot afterwards. This excludes local domains obviously, but I don’t want those anyway.
No system handles that kind of case. But they do handle one where person doesn't take the deductions. And is happy without them.
Here’s an idea. How about the government starts creating its own wealth and resources with investments in nationalized factories, farms ect with some of the wealth it has been given instead of relying on parasitically stealing it from the work of its citizens.
True, but if your business model depends on providing support, you may be less incentized to minimize the growth of complexity as new functionality is added (especially if your software has little competition.)
Question about single front chainrings... doesn't that decrease the clearance under the rear derailleur? I just looked at some of those new models and the derailleur droops scary low. I can see it getting banged up on rocks/rut walls a lot.
At one point I know they also weren't case sensitive.
Seems like Moderna is already working on it:

https://www.popsci.com/story/health/hiv-vaccine-mrna-moderna...
I turned up the person who actually made the image, and their choice for how they made this image makes me confused:

https://twitter.com/GrumpyOldAstro/status/139637061036883149...

Essentially, they chose to multiply any light from all of the frames.
This isn’t the norm though. Are you in a tech-center? BLS numbers show the average median mid-career salary for software is $110k. Starting salary is slightly below $70k based on university data that aligns with government data for median salaries.

When I see these comments I wonder how much it’s skewed by the SV peer group on HN
What irks me is that the former staff could have said something along the lines of "it's come to our attention freenode is owned by a privately owned company, something we can't stand behind. Join us at Libera Chat to participate in a truly community-owned network" and everyone would still side with them.

Instead, they decided to portray this as a hostile takeover in order to gather further sympathy from the public at large without providing any evidence that Andrew actually planned this.

Christel could have cleared any misunderstandings to both sides, yet she is the only person who got anything out of this, with an acquisition and a salary, while Andrew is the target of a smear campaign after spending who knows how much money sponsoring freenode for years, and the staff and community had to create a brand new network after spending who knows how much time on running freenode for years.
I didn't understand much, but my guess is that a different strain has a chance to reinfect
Ive been using AWS for a couple years at work now.. never ran into difficulties where flashcards/spaced repetition woulda helped. For example, I don't think you need to memorize IAM privileges or stuff like that. Maybe I'm just working on not so complex things?
What's a computer?

1. A device with a screen, a keyboard and some kind of pointing device.

2. A device that can be used for every purpose a computer can be used for.

The Ipad is obviously not 1, so Apple must be claiming it is/will be 2.
Closing an airspace is letting people know they can’t fly there. It is hostile but really not the same level as an ambush and kidnapping. Had Belarus just closed their air space, the aircraft would simply have flown elsewhere and the journalist would still be free.
The issue isn't whether it'll hit a branch, it's whether it will let go once it happens. Get a branch inside your bar ends, and you're going down no matter what. Smack it with your regular bars, and you have a decent chance of recovering.
Never if I can help it.
The long tail of the distribution combined with the media’s search for interesting stories ensures that unlikely events will be featured more prominently in your observations of the world than they would deserve according to their probability alone.
I failed this 3 times in a row as a human (I promise) on a touchpad.
And you dont need to have one:

.... hiring an actual Data Protection Officer is only required by the GDPR if you meet one of three criteria:

* Public authority — The processing of personal data is done by a public body or public authorities, with exemptions granted to courts and other independent judicial authorities.
* Large scale, regular monitoring — The processing of personal data is the core activity of an organization who regularly and systematically observes its “data subjects” (which, under the GDPR, means citizens or residents of the EU) on a large scale.
* Large-scale special data categories — The processing of specific “special” data categories (as defined by the GDPR) is part of an organization’s core activity and is done on a large scale.

https://gdpr.eu/data-protection-officer/
> the Android app sometimes glitches out and makes it seem a message you sent was sent by someone else

Wow, ouch.

> When I use italics or the triple backticks for code it won't always render in your client

Infuriatingly, Slack very often does the same thing. It's super broken.
Helmets aren't tested to prevent concussions, and looking at football, certainly not capable either.
I'm not an immunologist or even a biologist, but: biological lifeforms are complex things that don't really work in absolutes, but in shades of gray. Having antibodies and so on is not an absolute protection from reinfection, but rather helps fight it. If there aren't enough of them, or in various other circumstances (suppressed immune system, different virus variant, etc), it seems only natural that it is possible to be infected again.
Where I've mostly seen bar ends is on bikes with MTB style bars, including hybrids, being used on pavement. I also see a lot of people trying to make straight bars comfortable in other ways, e.g., with their palms cupped around the ends of the bar, or fists resting on top of the grips.

Granted, it's probably a matter of every rider having different requirements, and you can eventually find a bar that's comfortable and performant for your body and riding conditions. But that means trying out different bars, having to remove all of the controls, possibly lengthening the cables, etc.

Or you can add a simple accessory that will at least provide a resting position, that can be attached with minimal tools and effort.

In my own case I ended up with swept bars on all of my bikes. Even a moderate amount of sweep, and the resulting change in wrist angle, is night and day for me in terms of long term comfort.
It's hard to know how common this is. But I have personally witnessed the L4 top folks talking down someones novel contributions as "this is nothing knew, you should have used L4, we did this stuff 10 years ago" and making a young researcher feel miserable.

(IIRC the very same people also published a paper introducing the same novel idea in L4 some months later, but that's another discussion)
.email is a new-ish TLD.
Everyone's talking about DNT, but P3P from Microsoft circa 2002 is probably more instructive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P

Privacy is nuanced. It's' really hard to encode all ways you may or may not want your data used into a few boolean questions.
I honestly don't understand what you're trying to say. What's actionable about your view? You going to call up every business that doesn't accept your email and tell them their programmers suck? Businesses like this are never going away. It's a losing battle.

Instead you can just get a big name .com email and call it a day. Live your life without trying to make some statement about email standards.
The best thing to work on if you hate Apple is probably an iOS emulator.
Reading about bar-ends made me think about the Brompton P-type, which (alas!) Brompton recently discontinued:
https://www.bikefolded.com/brompton-s-m-p-h-type-handlebar-d...
> Amazon.com Inc. is nearing a deal to buy the Hollywood studio MGM Holdings for almost $9 billion including debt, said people familiar with the matter, a pact that would turn a film operation founded in the silent era into a streaming asset for the e-commerce giant.

What surprises me is that at $9 Billion, why hasn’t it been acquired by now?

Right now, video streaming is pretty much a solved problem, and it is content that differentiates one service from another.

If you are an Internet giant, $9 Billion seems like a pocket change to get access to a huge catalog.
Looks like R is having their own systemd moment.

At this point I would like to read a book about the Confessions of an Open Source Hit Man.
See my reply to the comment above. Sometimes I feel these UX issues or bugs linger for too long, even if they're acknowledged. Could be due to the complexity of open-source + decentralization but still :(
> nobody likes a bulky phone in their pocket.

Sure, the ~5"×2"×2" 1997 Motorola Whatever was a little unwieldy in your jeans. But after Nokia had brought the thickness down under 0.8" with the 6210 a few years later, that really wasn't a problem any more.
>>almost a third of existing small businesses were wiped out by the pandemic

Isn't this good for Gen-z? Assuming not many owned these businesses, which I would because they are young. Doesn't this leave an opening for young people to open businesses?
Not sure what’s wrong about it, it’s fairly well known that Android users don’t pay for software?
One thing you could setup on the Commodore drives is file copying from on drive to another without it going thru the computer, they just talked to each other. You could also do the same thing if you had a straight text file and sent it to the printer (I am not sure which printer models) with again not using the computer after the handshaking was set up.