skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personal anecdote: My wife and I got COVID very early in 2020 (she’s a health care worker and picked it up at work) and we both had a very mild illness, only one week of flu symptoms then back to normal ourselves. 11 months later a family member got ill and we both were in close contact for hours with that person as we admitted them to hospital for a check up and were in a tiny unventilated room for hours. That person had high fever and a coughed the entire time and we were up in their face because that person needs care with drinking and so on. Long story short, we both expected to get ill again but it didn’t happen. Not a tiny bit. Clearly we had an amazingly strong immune response to the virus still almost an entire year later, contradictory to what most news outlets tried to make us believe.

EDIT:

People who downvote my real life experience are literally just poor tiny internet trolls who feel offended by other people’s positive experiences. I haven’t said anything which isn’t mentioned in the article itself, just confirmed that my personal experience makes me believe that it’s quite plausible. Clearly some people feel offended by just life itself. LOL to those losers.
Oh, #vim was also taken and closed. :O
You support privacy yet want to see and to end encryption removed (if the article is correct) and propose moving to a platform that in this sense is less secure from eavesdropping? OK.

Besides banning WhatsApp won't help with fake news - which ever dominant platform comes to replace it will suffer the same fate. It just so happens that everyone is on WhatsApp atm, so that's where everything happens. Including fake news.
m1stake, m1aculpa
The words "generalist" and "specialist" are relative, so different people perceive the roles of "generalists" and "specialists" differently.

To me, even a small degree of specialization within software development qualifies someone as a specialist. xyzzy_plugh seems to think many more people are generalists than specialists, even at larger (FAANG) compaines.
>they could secretly communicate with each other so both apps end up with both pieces of information

The could also just both ping a server to exchange data.
This should have been communicated better and for that I apologize. We published a draft policy update and worked with the community in #freenode-policy-feedback to understand the community's wishes.

The policy was updated today to make clear that inappropriate advertising was unacceptable. As many of these channels were simply wildly unmoderated and closed, yet by protocol standards, "open" under a primary (#) namespace while in "official capacity", we felt it was best to redirect users to an unofficial off-topic (##) namespace.

I apologize for this being communicated poorly. This is entirely my fault, and I take all the blame for that.
The tone of that blog post is a bit unhinged. Taking a break to talk about cancel culture, and the definitely-real hundreds of complaints Lee has received about it...
I doubt that very much: building space is scarce in SF, as a property developer if you have a choice to build an expensive high revenue buidling versus a more affordable building for low income people, what would you choose?

In capitalism there is no driving force to ensure customer desires will or can be met, making profit is what drives it. You need constraints or laws to ensure commercially unattractive needs ar served.
>There’s generally no incentive to not kill someone except going to jail.

I'd let some of you survive.
I guess I can see that, but whatever it was, it wasn't communism.
Is there another way to achieve what the product tries to do? Genuinely asking.
Understanding Multiple Neighbourhood Cellular Automata
I was pretty unaware of this drama(not a freenode user)
So I found me this summary to fill me in on the details (hopefully mostly true)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/freenode-irc-has-bee...
This together with the freenode main page/blog (a very defensive one side view of the occurrences) leads to understand the freenode infrastructure/entity is compromised.
I see this as turning into a worst case scenario of a free service that gets taken over and you can no longer trust it to secure your data.
Exactly this. Plus there are lots of other hidden costs (FCC certification, UL testing, etc that inexperienced people aren't aware of to bake onto the cost.

I've heard that Kickstarter, etc. Are best used as marketing platforms. I.e. only put a product on there once you've made it to the point where you are ready for mass production, have the suppliers waiting, and even products in hand. It's doesn't work to "launch" products from the concept of prototype stage to market.
Same, but I’m in South Africa now. I was impressed by how cool the banking is. But then, many countries were ahead of the US in that. My fave feature is being able to send cash by SMSing a one time pin.
That’s my position, too. I listen to a lot of jazz recorded in the 1930s and 1940s, sometimes with audible surface noise from digitized 78s [1], and the musicianship comes through just fine.

I can read a novel or poem on a smartphone, in a paperback, on a fourth-generation photocopy, or in fine letterpress printing on 100% cotton paper. The reading experience might be a bit more comfortable in the last case, but the author’s words are the same in all.

I like the Kingsmen’s “Louie Louie,” too. I played it for my grandson yesterday.

[1] https://archive.org/details/georgeblood
Adyen has payment links too
> That's what I meant.

Good. Sorry to be picky, but wording is important here and you don't wanna know how often I failed to convince people of the impossibility of exactly that guarantee.

> time doesn't work like that because of relativity/speed of light.

You're right.
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I don't want end to end encryption to be banned and tbh, I don't trust Whatsapp's end to end encryption.

There are better alternatives to whatsapp which are open source, you know.

and no, the government is not going to block end to end encryption.
Very fascinating - there’s strong parallels here with the Sikh system and the stages reached in meditation
I'd agree with that statement. Especially when people claim Bill Gates eradicated polio.

He matched funding with what Rotary international raised, they've been at it for 35 years and Mr Gates gets the glory!

https://rotary.org/en/our-causes/ending-polio

They did the hard part of standing in the streets collecting money, running events. When the Gates foundation had all the money outright!
I see they are learning from the best of the Silicon Valley social giants.

“The topic is in violation of freenode policy”, but no mention of the exact clause, and when you click the link you don’t find anything that you have plausibly violated.
> It violates the OS security model. You're not supposed to be able to send data from one process to another secretly.

I'd argue this is not the case. What mainstream operating systems have made credible attempts to eliminate covert channels from eg timing or resources that can be made visible by cooperating processes across user account boundaries?
Probably depends how many boosters you get, and the vaccine type. All the vaccines in widespread US use don't contain the whole virus, so it could have a reduction in T-cell protection, but that's not what's being talked about. It's quite possible the antibody levels in blood after five years would no longer be neutralizing after five years, looking at other subunit-ish vaccines.
I feel you might be joking but that would actually be pretty cool
"...you're going to be competing with 28 year olds who can write CRUD apps in the shiny new frameworks better than you at 2/3 the salary. Which is why many corporations don't really enjoy keeping on 40+ year old developers who expect to get 5% raises each year..."

I think you have already outlined the solution:

- don't expect 5% raises, or getting more than other developers at the same level. Your salary will plateau, but that's not a bad thing.

- keep up with technology and make sure you don't fall behind.
The topic is in violation of policies? For being offtopic? Or for advertising?

I hate it when I'm left to guess the reasoning for administrative actions. It causes me to assume "just because we say so".

I'm an op for multiple things and always quote the specific portion when kicking or blocking or whatever. Helps when you number each part, but to quote my old mentor, "Fortunately, I keep my feathers numbered, for just such an emergency." Ah foghorn!
Two more top-notch youtubers:

Leo's Bag of Tricks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq968AFgPhg

Tech Ingredients:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVSHXNNBitaPd5lYz48--yg
I say “notion” for Asian being model minorities is because it depends on how you define success.

Asians have, on average, higher incomes than other groups in the US including whites. Asians are overrepresented in tech. However, when you look at senior and executive positions, Asians are underrepresented. This is known as the bamboo ceiling. Tech companies while left leaning is still predominantly white in management positions. Since the Trump era, the American right is often accused of supporting or being white supremacists. Additionally, to suggest Asians are victims is equivalent is equivalent to being a white supremacist (hence the movement is coined Stop Hate Asian rather than Stop Asian Racism, because the left believes Asians cannot be the victims of racism ). Like “minority”, the word “supremacy” is selective. The Trump base is lead by poor rural whites who hold little economic power. Meanwhile, their Silicon Valley counterpart is highly educated and affluent. Again, whites are at the top. As we know, tech has huge influence of media and access to information, and so ironically, tech companies are quite possibly the White supremacists. As an example of this irony in white liberals, there were documented examples of a white Black Lives Matter protester yelling in the face of a black police office telling them they were the racist ones.
Grew up in the midwest, can confirm this.
So should you also delete userdata from existing backups? :)
Its hardly identical, much of N. Korea's current struggles have direct causes that are more recent than the war (massive sanctions), and even if it was, a sample size of 1 is meaningless.
Imagine

- taking a 20 min nap in your lunch break

- doing a set of push-ups between phone calls

- cooking your own meal at lunch

- giving a hug to your partner

- having your pet in the room with you

- not listening to your coworkers noises

- 3 x 7 minute yoga sessions

- a 20 min power walk while on the phone

- zero driving, waiting, zero miles on your car, zero car accidents guaranteed (where I live people spend 10h week commuting on average)

… during your workday.
If exporting freedom involves bombing civilians you're supposed to free and spraying their country with herbicides, then perhaps you should rethink your strategy.

The Vietnam war was a lost cause all the way from the start, just like more modern endeavours of trying to make ultra-conservative societies of Iraq and Afghanistan democracies by invading them. Pointless waste of money and lives.
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Perhaps it's time to cut your losses, throw out the syntax and build a new one? With a solid engine underneath this should in theory be feasible?

I once contributed to and even built a number of projects using CMake, but have since vowed that I'll never EVER open another CMakeLists.txt again, and will toss any CMake-based project that has builder errors I'd otherwise have to debug. CMake is the only build system of the dozens I've used over the last 30 years that has driven me to this. For awhile I held up hope with the advent of "Modern CMake", but alas it's not enough to fix things, and I doubt the syntax could ever be fixed.
not sure about this one but if it makes you feel better most of those high profile ones are either blatant money laundering or advertisements in disguise.

for instance the beeple one that sold for a lot was purchased by a guy who runs and nft website as basically an advertisement for his site.

who knows if they even had a prior deal before the auction where the artist would return some of the money
That is not what is suggested in link I have posted. I advise you to read it.

It is not wrong to acknowledge the problem and point to the other reference of it. But comment under which I have posted the link was just redirecting attention to elsewhere without acknowledging the problem. So maybe next time you should be more attentive before posting your comments.
DevOps friendly Golang webservice framework with DI,Telemtry and more
You're quoting the same person you're replying to.
Ok boomer. /s
It seems odd there is no mention of labels. I am never sure about how accessible they are or if they can stand in for their target.
Made me want to give a shot at writing a custom bash completion script for an internal tool (having a lot of sub-sub-commands and many options, kind of like git). How hard could that be?

Then I looked at git-completion.bash [1] and suddenly all my motivation vanished. Maybe Fig found a more declarative way of describing a tool's syntax?

[1] https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/completion/gi...
it's difficult to adjust the width of sidewalk, roads, etc.
A lot of the affected projects have registered their trademarks. Could this be grounds to sue Freenode?

I’m not much into IRC these days, hadn’t I seen this topic I would have easily been fooled into thinking that the affected channels still represent their respective projects.
MdPara
This will probably just kill IRC entirely. Freenode was keeping IRC alive and now that it has fractured, there will be little reason not to use Matrix or Discord as the new wave of developers do not care that you can't talk on Matrix via netcat.
Emotion Detection Software Startup Affectiva Acquired for 73.5m
Ask HN: Is there an app that helps you retake a photo with the same framing?
Is anyone aware of an iOS app that helps you retake a photo with the same framing as old photo? (Maybe it shows an old photo with a lower opacity to help you line it up?)
> How the US avoided international courts

You do know there is no such thing as international court, right? There are few organization which has name court in it like ICJ but they don't have any hard power like courts, and definitely have no force/military to stop a country.
It's not allowed in the States either, but it still happens. It happens in the EU too. In general, the Western countries are not free from blame when it comes to war crimes due to complicity with the US :/
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Because South Korea would be so much better off today had it fallen to Kim Il Sung rule...
I think you should apologize for attempting to fracture and disrupt the choice of communication channels for 100s of open source projects instead. You are making life harder for maintainers, who volunteer their time to give people software and support for free. Please stop doing that.
I've used the Timy (https://timy.website/) free tier for this in the past. The one feature that was missing though was to schedule messages to be sent at a certain time in the recipient's timezone. Unfortunately it looks like MessageThemLater doesn't support that feature either.
Starts his article in the very first sentence with referencing another article written by himself where he praises his achievement of having invented interstellar travel during a hollywood movie shoot for which he was the science advisor and which showcased the language invented by him and called by his name.

Stephen Wolfram is so self-centred, I sometimes wonder if it's actually a stage character invented by a really talented comedian.
news outlets until very recently were selectively quoting worst case scenarios very consistently. it made many members of my family anxious and some friends thought it would never end.

dozens of times i would repeat that most likely the immunity would be lasting and would protect against variants but i think the whole time they thought i was an idiot to be contradicting actual experts. but i wasn’t, these were the worst case scenarios that could be found among experts. not likely scenarios.
> It doesn't matter, they’ll use private jets.

Closed airspace means closed airspace. That's not only applicable for commercial flights.
What data were you trusting with freenode? It's almost all public and often logged to a public web server. So you had PMs and your irc password on there. IRC has never been a place for secure communication.
Real? I'm confused by a particular infosec quote.
> How the US avoided international courts is something that should be better explained.

It's probably relevant that the horrible health effects of Agent Orange were a result of accidental contaminants (dioxins), not the defoliant itself. Not that this makes it ok, but it's something different than dropping mustard gas on Kurdish civilians.
Most people don't make (enough) money from YouTube though, and to get to the point where they could, they spend hundreds of hours of their time.

I'd say that's passion and i see nothing wrong with getting rewarded for doing something you like and other people enjoy watching.
Rutger Bregman has a book called Utopia for Realists.

Quite a few successful studies on UBI - people become more productive, get better education, wean themselves off of addiction. It is an overall better investment than pretty much any other program - including because it doesn’t carry thenoverhead of controlling how money gets spent.

It is cheaper to provide UBI than not.
That's what you get for centralization combined with a couple of decades of poor architecture choices.

signed,

the wumpus who gave the world EFNET
There's something about the really low tones that simply... changes at lower bit-rates. High-frequency tones are somehow clearer when uncompressed. It feels like the tones are right, but the waveforms distorted. Your rippling lake MPEG analogy is pretty much spot on.

That being said, age, tinnitus and amazing progress within the audio compression sciences have made it more difficult for me to separate uncompressed WAV and 320 kbps MP3, though the 320 kbps files in the article had noticable artifacts in most cases.
Sure.

But is the added complexity worth the whole thing? For a personal blog?
Wouldn't that make it better timing though? Revitalize hype and stay relevant?

This isn't a direction I expected from gme but I'm interested to see where it goes
What is a point of making a vaccine and then starting antivaccination PR campaign?

Disclaimer: I live in Russia and what is told about Russia here on HN slowly kills me with its striking primitivism.
Thanks both of you for the info.
You can add new scripts to the page though. You don't have to interfere with the existing scripts / change them. That doesn't break CSP if you do it the right way.
WhatsApp sues India government over new regulations
Pompeo effort on Covid lab theory shut down by Biden over quality of evidence
> In the communications books I've read, the emphasis is to ask questions only out of genuine curiosity

Then these books are presenting a pastel-colored, declawed, decaffeinated version of the Socratic method. This may be useful and sane advice, but Socratic method it is not. Recall that Socrates was an annoying, unkind person known as the "gadfly", who was hated by many people, and who was ultimately condemned to death by his thought-provoking questions. On the dialogues, you'll see that he does not follow at all the childish advice of your "communications books".
Any good CLI clients for Matrix?
WhatsApp sues Government of India, says new IT rules mean end to privacy
1. Robinhood - Wall Street’s frenemy
2. Stripe - The GDP of the Internet
3. Discord - The Internet chat room, re-imagined
4. SentinelOne - A SolarWinds saving grace
5. Didi Chuxing - Your $100 billion IPO is on the way
and in related news today ...... "Emotion Detection Software Startup Affectiva Acquired for 73.5m" by Smart Eyes

https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/25/emotion-detection-software...
Great. I was feeling good about myself for managing to pick the uncompressed one, and now I keep wondering if I just got lucky. :D
Indeed.

Without this vulnerability, there would still be a million ways to send data between cooperative processes running as different users on Mac OS X.

For example, a process could start subprocesses at a deterministic rate and the other end of the covert link observes how fast the pid counter is going up.

This is a non-vulnerability, because it targets something there was no effort to protect.
The problem is that the extension can alter or fully remove the cors headers before it injects scripts, neutering even the best configuration.
People have been so scared by the news, they are still wearing masks outside (where it doesn't spread) and even when vaccinated!
Is the Universe Discrete or Continuous?
How come you think you will have any community left? A chat network is entirely composed of and founded on the trust of its users. Trust that you have irreversibly severed.

If there is no trust, there are no users. Where there are no users, there is no community. Without a community, there is no chat network - people just migrate elsewhere and there's no trick you can pull to stop it. You have destroyed freenode and there is no recourse.

My question to you is: How did you actually think this would turn out? It all seems like a pointless exercise, and a person with half a brain should have seen this coming miles ahead.
To repeat some advice I once got: Find something you're not good at, and don't do that.

You're not good at operating an IRC network. So, don't do it. Do something else with your life.
How the Data Labeling Service Empowers VR and AR – Part2?
We know why, but like the price of gas and the exchange rate of the dollar no individual can change it.

Both parents have to work bad jobs, are angry, struggling, and commonly there's only 1 parent. Add a child that costs even more money and requires further responsibility and time and it's no wonder why teens are having to grow up on their own and feel the world they've been born to is just a meat grinder with little sense of justice.

University doesn't save you anymore. White collar work can now pay just as much as walmart. All the things people in their 30s and 40s talking about has no bearing on today's landscape. It's a natural result of a market system that allows for the 1%. Someone is squeezing value, and the socioeconomic result brings us here.

The animals are running the circus.
Slow Travel 2021
This is so VERY true, many years ago while working for an audio company I went along to ETH and met some researchers working on video compression.

Once you've been shown the effects of overly strong video compression it is really hard not to spot them everywhere.
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Stewardship is not ownership, though.

A king, an absolute monarch, effectively owns the country, and his position is hereditary. A prime minister does not own the country, despite "being in charge", and it's not hereditary. People overwhelmingly prefer the latter system.

I don't see why business (economic production) should be any different.