skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of this article: https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened
It's about how you get there ánd how much you have. E.g., no one needs more than ±10 million dollars. Having enough to provide for your family and spend some on hobbies should be enough. Pursuing money for the sake of money rots the soul; such greed is what's destroying our humanity.
I assume this is meant as a joke but it is in very poor taste
We've banned this account because all it seems to be doing is posting flamewar/unsubstantive comments. Even though I hate to ban any account that's been around HN for as long as 9 years, we can't have that here—it's totally against the letter of the rules and spirit of the site.

Btw, it's particularly bad to post like this if your position on the underlying topic is correct, because then you end up discrediting the truth as well, which harms everybody. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. But please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.
I think any reasonable person understands that international politics are inherently driven by national interests and thus are hypocritical by default, because often there are no perfect solutions that are acceptable to everyone. Least you can do is to call hypocrisy out when it happens, and ask yourself whether it was at least done in your interest as a citizen or not. If you want to compare political systems, do it systematically, not on case-by-case basis. Russia had jailed many more political activists and has far more draconian laws against freedom of speech and freedom of assembly than Western countries, even if Western countries sometimes unjustifiably limit these freedoms as well.
Thun: A Dialect of Joy Written in Python
Try longboarding. I street skated in teens/twenties took some time off then at 40 knew 1) I had lost some basic abilities 2) it was too risky to be jumping around and 3) I'm bigger = fall harder ... so I got a longboard. It's great a more mellow cruise type of activity.
This happened in conversation between friends and family and they were not Dutch but Greek. We are famous for our time-wasting culture, even more so than the Dutch are famous for being direct.
There has to be consequences, not only for the CCP but also for WHO and everyone involved in exporting the virus. I have little faith any of this will come to bear though.
You’re proposing giving jurisdiction to politicians, you just don’t seem to be aware of it. Someone, somewhere will need to decide what speech is and is not “censorable” (a gross abuse of that word) above and beyond the regular standard of “protected speech”. Basically nobody wants to live on an internet where Twitter cannot moderate some protected speech , as that’s how you end up with 4chan. Hate speech is protected speech, pornography is protected speech, as is all kinds of harassment and bullying. Someone will need to draw the line for what can and cannot be moderated on all platforms, and that is a huge amount of power to hand out.

It’s also fundamentally unconstitutional. You cannot do this via legislation alone. The courts have long held that forcing someone to speak is as bad as punishing someone for speaking, and there is no constitutional framework for anything other than protected and unprotected speech. The courts will strike this bill down, it’s pure political theater for the base.
In the event that you are not a Russian troll, let me explain two key differences:

The Morales jet was warned ahead of time in a legal way, not intercepted and forced to land in an unintended destination.

No persons from the Morales jet were detained.

One is an lawful act (perhaps imoral in some way) , and one is an arbitrary act outside of any lawful framework . I hope this clears the confusion.
You're right, my apologies.
I think we're missing the forest for the trees by focusing on exactly what the tax rates are and how much is "fair".

Money at the top levels is not at all like money for the rest of us. For a middle class citizen, money is about consumption and freedom to do what you want (with enough of it).

At the top end of the distribution, money is no longer about consumption or freedom (since you can never realistically consume as much as they have, and you don't have to work after you've saved like $10M). Money at that level is a proxy for power - a group of oligarchs can basically have the power of a shadow government, but unelected. And the real question to ask is "how much power/leverage do we want an individual (or a group of rich oligarchs) to have in a democracy."

So taxing the rich is not even about spreading the wealth, necessarily - if you redistributed it directly you might get inflation by redirecting investment money into consumption. It's more about limiting the amount of power that a person can accumulate over others.
While the Urbit tech stack is clearly insane (some say it’s on purpose), The urbit identity layer is interesting and useful. You basically buy your username as a NFT, and that username is bound to signing keys, ip address and ethereum wallet. This makes it quite practical as an identity for chat / social network. This identity is on the eth blockchain and thus nobody can steal it / ban you, which is a unique value proposition.

I hope one day saner apps will adopt similar concepts, or reuse the urbit identity layer for identity purposes
With Big sur and more permissions, it's harder. I understand them, I appreciate them but I hate how every app has to ask my permission and how I have to go into the settings menu to allow stuff.

At this point, SElinux sounds usable as a daily driver.
I think a notable absence of evidence that should be easily available and is not is perfectly reasonable. It points towards withholding of positive findings. Your statement is also needlessly inflammatory and doesn’t encourage discussion. Keep your ad hominem attacks to yourself.
Next, you’re going to tell me that social security isn’t going to collapse any day now…
Definitely what I want to know, and why I upvoted it. I have to imagine commercial interests would pay a great deal of money for this domain, so it's intriguing it's held out, presumably for a long time, as a location of a simple HTML page with some quotes on it.
I don't find key bindings in MacOS consistent. The first thing I started missing from Windows is the F2 button for renaming things. I can do that everywhere in Windows. In Mac there's no keyboard shortcut for it, so probably I could add it in Finder, but it probably won't work in other file dialogs (or maybe yes).
"Hot shit" is a US term, and it is old and was around in the 80s at least.
If only the world had both your eyes and monitor. I have a large 5K display and don’t find serif text nearly as easy to read, especially at small sizes, unless it’s printed out on paper.
If you don't mind the higher lethality and long-term damage of getting hospitalized with COVID-19 and then given ivermectin to try and cure yourself, sure.

I'd just get the vaccine and not get sick in the first place.
HyperPhysics is a fantastic website. Used it so often as an undergrad EEE student.
Yes, it appears they do... at least for the tested mRNA vaccines, which dominated early availability.
Yeah, I would do (2) if possible.

```

struct Person {
name: String,
}

struct Engineer {
name: String,
boss: String,
}

trait Name {
fn get_name(&self) -> &str;
}

impl Name for Person { ... }

impl Name for Engineer { ... }

```
FYI looks like magic-wormhole.io doesn't listen on 443, only on port 80 (which redicts to github).
@dang, just wanted to say thank you for providing related threads, and also thank you for your even-handed moderation even on items you might disagree with; your care really shows on contentious threads and certainly elevates the level of discourse on HN.
SARS isn’t nearly as contagious.
I come from C# and Rust absolutely drives me bonkers. I try to reference all the things all the time, cause its ingrained in my brain as more efficient than copying stuff around or/and requesting things from hashmaps. The first thing I've tried to implement was a string interning module and I was stuck on it for three days (I still don't know how to do it without duplicating each string twice). Rust is completely orthogonal to the concept of a nice garbage collected graph of objects.
Seek care at hospital != hospitalisation.

My doctors private clinic is at the hospital. It's normal in many places.
> It took over five years to find the reservoir species for SARS

You might want to check that. Afaik, it is 4 months .

(read comments below, I may or may not be correct. Sars1 has been found in Civets, bats and humans. We do not yet know the order of transmission and if civets were indeed the intermediate source.)

It took less than 4 months (feb 2003 -> May 2003) from identifying SARS1 as a novel virus to finding the intermediate animal (civet cats) [1] . It took 10 months to identify that for MERS. (Sept 2012 -> August 2013)

Given that we know it originated in Wuhan, have dedicated order of magnitude more funding to it and all the usual suspects have come up as a negative, the lab escape hypothesis does look increasingly more likely.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_respiratory_syndro...
that doesn't explain the _why_, that only explains the how this keeps persisting
Class is defined by the members of each group. Non-members are by definition mostly ignorant of the groups' culture that they are not a part of. So they can recognize people are different from them, but not which group they belong to.

"low-class" people would not determine who is "high-class" any more than the "high-class" people determine who is "low-class".
Oh don't worry about this at all because spammers are going to sign up with legitimate e-mail addresses that are going to get your reputation lowered. Very common tactic and you won't be saved by some dumb regex that would just probably hurt a few real users.
You didn't know that, because it's most likely BS.

BTW people and chimpanzees share 99% of their DNA. We're basically the same, aren't we. /s

80% is not close at all, and 99.7% still can render a vaccine ineffective, of course the specifics matter.
They look goofy. I ditched mine in the late 90’s. Bars now are much wider than they used to be during the heyday of bar ends.
Honestly if that'd ever work, the website has bigger problems anyways.
I don't think so? The planning stage generates something like DeleteOp(ServerSpec { tag: "foo" }).
In the 90s I had these funky Scott mountain aero bars that had the typical mountain straight section, a good bar end like extension, then they looped back around to meet in the center for the front part of the aero bars. Forearm cups and all.

Don’t remember what they were called, but I wonder if they’ll come back into style.
They're incredibly well compensated and for the most part have the financial freedom to quit at any time as a result. They can choose to work in terrible conditions for a lot of money - that seems totally reasonable.

Now on the other hand, consider people who are stuck in part time jobs that treat them terribly for minimum wage. They don't have the freedom to quit because they can't afford to miss a paycheck.

In general, I don't think people who freely opt into anything should get sympathy for it.
Extremophile
The dual flu season is only in south china. Northern china follows normal winter patterns. Wuhan is center, more towards the north, and had a fairly chilly winter.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3321959/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan
If you're doing a lot of modifications to a filesystem or a database, one pattern I've used and liked in the past is to have your code simply dump out the commands to run. Usually to stdout and you save it as a script.

That way you don't need to worry about issues with bugs in the dry run logic and you have a record (a script) of what you actually ran.

Even better if you can extend this output script so that it's idempotent and fails on the first failed command.
> I think it would probably be better if there was a standard for an out of band way to validate the servers public key.

In addition to the mentioned SSHFP record, OpensSSH 8.0 added:

> ssh(1): When prompting whether to record a new host key, accept the key fingerprint as a synonym for "yes". This allows the user to paste a fingerprint obtained out of band at the prompt and have the client do the comparison for you.

* https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-8.0
You're correct that they are no longer visible to the naked eye. They're reduced down to (right now) approximately 6th magnitude and SpaceX is trying to get them down to 7th magnitude. The human eye in a perfectly or almost perfectly dark sky can see down to roughly (humans vary quite a bit) 6th magnitude but it would be very hard, especially for a moving object.

In order to see 6th magnitude you need a very dark sky (no moon or clouds, low humidity, no human populations anywhere nearby), you would need to dark adapt for over 30 minutes with no viewing of any sources of light, you'd need to be pretty young, and then you'd need to use averted-vision viewing where you look near an object, but not directly at it such that you can use the higher density of rods in the rest of your eye in order to see the object. You'd then have a chance of seeing current Starlink satellites, but you'd see a ton of other satellites as well as there's many satellites above 6th magnitude. (In 2017 or so I was in rural Nebraska the night before the solar eclipse and it felt like there was a half dozen visible satellites in the sky at any given time.)

However that doesn't mean they're not visible to telescopes.
School alone is ~$20K. Babysitter costs vary based on hours, but it's never less than $1K/month. So those two make up ~35K/year. Add food, toys, camps, etc and it gets to 40K.
Agreed - but I'd take it further.

As a hypothetical let's assume this disease was created, enhanced, released and let's even say all of this was done deliberately with malice of forethought.

Doesn't alter a thing - our collective response was 'C-'
For what it's worth, and I know you're not looking for this fight, but I think it's important:

There is a world of difference between what Magic Wormhole can promise and what Wormhole.app can promise. Magic Wormhole relies entirely on clientside cryptography; once you have it installed, you can trust that it's doing what it says on the tin. Which means you can reasonably use it operationally.

"Wormhole.app" --- which has a frustrating name, given the distinction --- demands that you trust the server, since the server can on every transaction defeat the cryptography you're using.

If someone owns up a Magic Wormhole relay server, there's not much they can plausibly do to intercept the files you send. But if someone owns up Wormhole.app, they can, I believe, quietly pick up and store people's files.

Incidentally, apropos none of this: I've been using the Golang https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william port on some of my machines for a year now, interoperating with the standard Python Magic Wormhole, and it works great.

Magic Wormhole is an achievement. I wrote a blog post about modern cryptographic tools, and what I have to say about Magic Wormhole is that everyone I've introduced to it immediately starts wormholing all sorts of stuff; it's kind of addictive. Thanks for designing it!
Have you heard of the command scp? It comes standard on most distros.
That’s like saying you will be fined if you don’t allow politicians into your house.
What I don't understand is why they did a complete rewrite. If the CEO wants a "new app", you get to work doing a redesign of the UX and a refactor of the code base. You usually end up with a better product and better code, and it gives you the flexibility of not being all or nothing.
I'll copy my answer from above since I think it's an important point and relates to your question:

"Money at the top levels is not at all like money for the rest of us. For a middle class citizen, money is about consumption and freedom to do what you want (with enough of it).

At the top end of the distribution, money is no longer about consumption or freedom (since you can never realistically consume as much as they have, and you don't have to work after you've saved like $10M). Money at that level is a proxy for power - a group of oligarchs can basically have the power of a shadow government, but unelected. And the real question to ask is "how much power/leverage do we want an individual (or a group of rich oligarchs) to have in a democracy."

So taxing the rich is not even about spreading the wealth, necessarily - if you redistributed it directly you might get inflation by redirecting investment money into consumption. It's more about limiting the amount of power that a person can accumulate over others."
I'm frankly excited about Helium and did go ahead and buy a 'miner' access point.

Will it pan out? IDK. But the use case and implementation (For those not aware, a Helium 'miner' is providing a low data rate wireless access point, and you get coins for providing coverage over an area) seem far more feasible from a conceptual standpoint.
You're asking me to comment on the entire theory, I think. I'm only commenting on the value of an unseen intelligence report of unknown source. None of what you've said increases the validity of this report.

Everyone commenting on this post is acting immediately as if this report is 100% true, but the reality is that we know very little about the report.
No. The variants are variants, not strains. It's based on gene deletes primarily. More Sneaky just means a bit less effective. Studies suggest about half as effective. So from 90% to 80% etc still highly effective.
There are other solutions, like handing them a bill for damages, and nationalizing all their property we can get our hands on if they don't pay it.
Partial recovery of visual function in a blind patient after optogenetic therapy
Do you have a source for your claim? Can't find anything about SARS, covid transimmunity.
> Rogue Squadron III

Ok, never played that game. I’ll better try not to play that on my ancient Intel powered laptop ...

Different games run differently well on Dolphin if you got older hardware. While Mario Kart Double Dash runs perfectly fine in full screen, „F-Zero GX“ suffers massive slowdown in some levels on my 7 years old CPU/GPU combination. Interestingly, both games employ the „heated air“ effect on similarly looking levels — but still I got 40 FPS vs. 60 FPS in that case. I wouldn’t mind but the sound needs to be in sync with the graphics subsystem on the Game Cube — audio is broken with even slightly slower frame rates, unfortunately.
This is a great patent esque idea. I thank you good sir, now to see if I can steal it as my own.

It also reminds me of only Konami able to have mini games in loading screens.
well i guess one benefit of this system is that it can be gamed if you put in x number of hours preparing for the semi-standardized test, regardless of your background, education, connections and even experience, while in non-tech roles hiring decisions could be more subjective and prone to bias.

not sure which one sucks less.
Maybe check out one of the existing string interning modules? There are some good ones. I believe it's common to internally use indexes instead of references to get around the borrow checker in these kind of situations.
The only good experience I've had with it so far is Slay the Spire (mysteriously missing on Android). I play it full-screen with a gap in the middle -- I wish there was an OS or app-level setting to let me choose whether I want the screen to be slightly smaller with pixel perfect gaps or have a random chunk missing from the middle of every full-screen experience.

I pair an XBox controller, but I don't tend to travel with it (I just keep one on my coffee table). It would be pretty sweet to have a switch-style dock that let me put my TV in "big screen mode" and just let me navigate the whole phone with the controller. More like an XBox Phone than a Windows Phone at that point.
Yeah, its not so hard to groc. Its just a data driven style all the way down. You get pros and cons. Its great at working on data sets.

That said, I feel like correctness should be given a higher priority in scientific computing and yet a dynamically typed, lazily evaluated language is used.
I _really_ want to see the Rust version get more mature and see this made into a browser plugin. I keep mulling over trying to help out with the project, at least on the Rust side (since I know nothing about WASM).
I’ve never tried that so i don’t know the challenge but my first thought was that it doesn’t seem incompatible with rust’s ownership model - assuming an interned string has static lifetime and then hand out immutable references?
Whoever owns this domain is sitting on a lot of money. They should sell it to someone who has better use than quotes.
See also: https://github.com/schollz/croc
I'm a little confused about the security model - with a default middle server and a 1/65536 chance of guessing the password, isn't it fairly likely it could be guessed? Or just a clash of passwords (birthday paradox)?

I think I'm probably missing something.
Or you could buy a domain.
"And if there is to be any secrecy around national security - most believe there should be -
then there must also be consequences for breaking this secrecy, regardless of the justification. "

I believe in the necessary secrecy of some state organisations - but only if they are trustworthy and play by the rules set by the democratic institutions.

And Snowden showed that they don't do this and cannot really be trusted. And he tried the proper way to report and it did not worked.

So he became: a whistleblower

And a hunted man by the law breaking agencies whose cimes he unveiled.

So why is your conclusion, there should be only consequences for him?
Here are SQLite's suggested use cases:

https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html
That's actually quite helpful, as most of the problems are in terms of the tooling and/or compiling. It's good to be clear about this. I know Laravel the best, but it does depend on the types of compiling that I'd like to avoid.
For some reason I arbitrarily typed physics.com and was pleasantly surprised as well.
Yup. Is this a recent change? I still need to use some 32 bit programs for work so I'm on macos 10.14.6 quicktime player 10.5
Hello! I'm Miquel the author of Doom Captcha

Thanks jukkakoskknen for sharing it on HN and everyone here talking about it, I hope you enjoy it :)
If all you do is publish that link, it would not be a disservice to your readers IMHO.