skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's still no evidence that WIV was doing GoF research in Wuhan. Nobody has ever come forward to say that was happening and there's no evidence that it ever happened. The simplest explanation of why nobody is defending the GoF research is that it never happened.

Researchers from WIV collaborated with UNC Chapel Hill in 2015 to do that kind of research on SARS-1-related viruses, and that happened in the US.

That gain of function experiment in mice was also to gain function in mice, it would reduce its ability to infect humans.

And if you took RaTG13 and spliced in the surface protein of SARS-1 so it bound to ACE and then ran it through mice you'd still not wind up with SARS-CoV-2. The original virus is too far distant (only 96% homology) and running it through mice would produce a virus that was poorly adapted to humans. And the spike protein would look more like SARS-CoV-1.
that's a very naive attitude. the financial regulators were competing before the 2008 crash. what were they competing for? who could give the most lenient ratings.

what are nations competing for? who can afford to take the least tax revenue

who can afford to take the least tax revenue? already rich countries, or countries that don't give a shit about distributing wealth equally

who continues to get richer? I'll let you answer that one
This question has been answered at least twice in comments in this thread.
Emphasis affirmed.
You have the opposite of that at the moment. Big companies can shift their profits around the world to avoid corporation tax but small ones have no choice but to pay it.
Princeton Corpus of Political Emails
Well now I'm worried that I'm brushing my teeth wrong. What were you doing wrong?
Is that still a booster at that point?
Notes on sex and dating during the year of the pandemic
"What are fish even doing down there?"
I wish more stuff came with fun illustrations as canonical "covers." Also the file looks like it's probably exactly what they gave to the printers (the left and right margins are different for odd/even pages.)
On the contrary, I think the author spent a lot of effort to understand the underlying tech stack - honestly I can't understand why, but maybe they were exceptionally bored? This is the first time I learned that the underlying VM is single-threaded, for example.
Not likely unless you by court mean US court. If any other court find that there's evidence this is bad for some reason then nothing will happen. Space should be decided over by everyone. We need better, more restrictive, laws.
Politicians are bound by literal centuries of free speech tradition and precedent. I trust them much more than I trust activists in Bay Area meeting rooms who believe that a company's mission should be promoting a worldview they got from Tumblr and Twitter.
Sure, and that can be reserved for power users. You can right-click on applications to open them as folders, and the same could be done with DMG's.

99% of people just want to install or uninstall with a click, which is why I wish Finder made that the default workflow.
I believe you're thinking of Firefox Send: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-happened-firefox-s...
Will be? There is an ad-hoc standard.

If the standard fails to be used, the standard is defective.
Just don’t use AWS. There are other options out there that do not lock you in like this. Adding environment specific complexity that is tangled to AWS is to avoid by all means.
You mean "after spending just a few hours poking around it"? It's a big, ambitious project that's been worked on now for nearly two decades.

It seems more likely that you're disappointed by your understanding of the execution, which can be nothing but extremely limited.
Thanks, in Windows that starts the program, but I guess there's another key for that...I'll have to experiment more. I love my M1 Macbook Pro so much that I want to get used to the OS.
He says lots of people burned out and quit afterwards. Doesn't sound very refreshing. Sounds like the exact opposite: they spent everything they could and the adrenaline of the situation kept them going, and when that stopped they collapsed.
I feel like talking about genes in % similarity seems to be useless.
It's a Clojure(Script) library, but it's still so good it's worth mentioning: Instaparse[0] generates a parser for you from a BNF-y grammar specification. Sample from the readme:

(def as-and-bs
(insta/parser
"S = AB*
AB = A B
A = 'a'+
B = 'b'+"))

=> (as-and-bs "aaaaabbbaaaabb")
[:S
[:AB [:A "a" "a" "a" "a" "a"] [:B "b" "b" "b"]]
[:AB [:A "a" "a" "a" "a"] [:B "b" "b"]]]

[0]: https://github.com/Engelberg/instaparse
This is the first comment I've used HN's "favorite" feature on. How wonderfully insightful.
I use drop bars on my commuter bike. The only advantages I can think of for flat bars are a safer hand-on-brake position, and more reliable shifters (drop-bar brifters have to route cables around tiny pulleys, causing the cables to fray too quickly). Drop bars are comfortable for all-day riding.
What is money? It is a token of value. If you're rich, it means you have provided a decent amount of value to society somehow. How is that a vice?

Also, in a longer, more interesting form: https://courses.aynrand.org/works/the-meaning-of-money/
ICANN is only operating a very limited number of TLDs. Handshake has reserved those for ICANN, and introduced many more TLDs to choose from.
It's not hidden at all - it's actually a very easily-discoverable menu item under the "Go" menu.

In regards to consistency, though I know this isn't exactly what you meant, I just booted a virtual machine with System 6 (released in 1988) and Command-Up was the same key command to open the parent folder. :)
No. “Hate speech” is a vague BS term that can be applied to anything that disagrees with any established political group. I would rejoin the military to fight in a war that keeps “Hate speech” out of the US law books. The first amendment shall not be infringed on even if whatever being said is the most hateful diabolical thing imaginable. Absolutely no exceptions.
Spammers aside, I'm interested to know what strategy different saas companies do in regards to users creating an account with + alias - Do you let users create multiple accounts with the same email but different + alias ? Or do you recognize that it's an alias and say that the account already exists ?

Not all email providers support the + notion so you'd have to run domain lookup on some hard coded list
Concorde Agreement
Thanks for the feedback! The wobbling effect is supposed to resemble the feeling of holding a physical card in your hand. It's supposed to wobble only when you move your mouse from left-side-of-card to right-side-of-card, or when you move your mouse from outside-the-card to over-the-card. Let me know if it's wobbling in unexpected ways on your device.

In any case, I'm willing to remove the wobbling effect entirely if this feedback is echoed by other people.
Not allowing censorship of speech by private companies is precisely they same thing as the government censoring speech. It is the government being allowed to control discourse even among private citizens on private property; the steps from such a law to a society in which the truth is only what the government says it is are few.
Why would you think he spent a lot of effort? The second sentence literally says that he did not.
Taiwan chip bottleneck takeaway? Invest in software firms, teach kids Python
> Have you never lost a private key? I definitely lost the private key to my original PGP key.

For nearly twenty years now, PGP tutorials have often explained the importance of printing out a copy of your private key in a special OCR-readable font, and putting that in a safe place. Then you won't risk losing your private key even if all the devices it was stored on perish.
Seat tube too. I have a fixed fork mountain bike with 67/74.5° head tube vs seat tube angles and a gravel bike with the classic 71/73° or what used to be classic on XC bikes. The gravel bike climbs really well with a higher gear but I wouldn't tank over bumpy terrain with it, the mountain bike is really stable on descents and on flats, climbs okay. Of course a MTB with 63/78° like the new Marin El Roy probably doesn't climb that well?
I use Snapdrop (https://snapdrop.net/) to transfer files between my iPhone and my Linux laptop. It offers a self-hosting option, and there are apps for Android and iOS available (though I've only used the Web interface).
Here’s one older Eastern European telling you simply: you know nothing. You are parroting Soviet propaganda lies.
You'd write a reactive calculator with x-HTML in 5 mins
Have you encountered the CAPTCHA from this monstrosity of a company called Arkose Labs? I don't get angry but I was trying to redeem gift cards for an elderly relative and I was shouting and gave up.

Not sure if I am allowed to paste links but search for "arkose labs reddit" or just the name of this company on Twitter. Or search "arkose labs san francisco" on Google and just read the reviews.
Maybe it's just the kind of work I have done (web services, where objects don't live longer than a request), but I have never had a problem of "some other part of the code changing values out from under me" in Python or Go.
I also did a deep dive on Urbit a few months back (shameless plug: https://blog.janissary.xyz/posts/urbit), and I really agree with the author for the most part.

Definitely the most concerning part of Urbit, for me at least, is the obscurantism of Hoon. Much like the author says, it's totally incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't read through every bit of the (lacking imo) documentation. Even a domain-specific language with a familiar syntax would be better, since at least a first-timer could grok basic logic/structure at first glance. This only compounds the security concerns, since reviewing any Hoon code requires being a domain expert - I doubt any security/crypto researchers will want to take a few weeks to learn Hoon just to audit something as obscure as Urbit. Hoon even has a kind of Lisp-y feel to it and Lisp lends itself well to the purely functional goals of Hoon/Nock, so I don't see why they couldn't have just made Hoon a Lisp.

On the whole however, I'm hesitantly optimistic about the project. Most other works aiming to address Internet centralization just seem like band-aids (federated social networks still have problems with moderation/deplatforming, self-hosting just means running it in someone else's data center, etc.), and Urbit seems to be one of the few things willing to deal with the fundamental problems from the ground up.

Also, I'm kind of glad the author didn't mention Urbit's original author despite most other posts on the topic feeling the need to mention it. He's long since left the project but it seems as though it'll never be rid of his influence. At this point I just feel bad for the maintainers/users that will constantly be associated with the guy from now on.
There's also incredibly low stakes in allowing a technically-invalid email address to pass validation. Just use a very permissive pattern (e.g. contains an '@') and be done with it.

No matter what you will constantly be getting addresses that conform to the spec but cannot actually receive mail.
I make a free mac utility and would be fine with notarizing it if it wasn't $100 a year. I don't want to pay $100 a year to give away something for free. And the message that pops up telling users to "contact the developer" because "the app needs to be updated" is just infuriating. To me it feels like Apple asking users of unnotarized apps to bug developers into paying Apple that $100 a year.
is that why i'm tired of programming after 25 years?
The reason I did this comparison was to try to better understand what is in this project as I may consider using it, not to compare to Java performance wise.
> Using the SSD can lead to data being re-written before it has degraded unrecoverably, through several possible mechanisms. But aside from drives like the Samsung 840 and 840 EVO that were retrofitted with explicit data degradation checks as part of their firmware's operation, merely leaving the drive plugged in will not help directly, and the temperature effects compared to leaving it on a shelf will be a slight detriment to data retention.

How about a monthly full drive read? That's easy to set up.
I have a friend who is into Urbit. It seems like a social club at this point.
Unpopular opinion: Just ignore these edge cases and focus on the 99.99% of the sane population that doesn't get off on having a weird email address.

More generally: If an edge case exists and has nothing to do with accessibility (it was caused by a user having a different workflow like needing a screen reader or being in a less developed part of the world with slow internet) then you should dismiss them and not make your code/life unnecessarily complicated.
Tech Stack for Decentralized Cities
Bourgeois scum.
From the copyright notice inside the opening pages:

> 2019 Alexandre Borovik and Tony Gardiner
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work; to adapt the work and to make commercial use of the work providing attribution is made to the author (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
> Perhaps it's because China clones everything and would happily clone a MacBook board and sell that to unsuspecting people

Isn't it "China" that makes those MacBook boards already? They wouldn't need to clone anything, just make some more of them.
FWIW, R started to make sense to me (as a programmer) once I read Advanced R by Wickham.
Even better is to invert the flag, that default is to dump the plan and have to pass an `--actually-do-it` to have it make the changes.
This is great. Do you have any more tips about how to be more human?
Because of the Fed and money printing, we're nearing an economic disaster of Weimar Republic proportions. The Fed has silently enslaved the last generations with QE, and with artificially low interest rates. The closer you are to sucking on the Fed tits, the stronger you get, and common people are the furthest possible.

Student debt and mortgages should be illegal, their existence is against the interests of those taking them. Without them, the suppliers of education and housing would be forced to demand only what their buyers can afford today, instead of allowing their buyers to enslave themselves to compete with each other.
Yea currently it isn't optimised for mobile :S

Will get on that once I iron some of the main functionalities
Yes Google calculated that users privacy means jack , users security means jack but as long as you can do what you want on ur phone and they can siphon off your data it’s all good.

Hate apple as much as u like but I’m very happy they lock the shit down and don’t turn it into my pc , my phone is for calls an texts privacy is important running bullshit is not.
Oh, heck yes. You should definitely do it.
From low level emulation to cloud based distributed architectures. I wonder if the intersection of the groups of people who understand and enjoy each end of this project might be: you!
> This is a classic pg argument—I can't remember which essay

I think the essay is "How To Make Wealth" in Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham.
It doesn't help that various documents refer to the various actors either by their first name, last name, or screen name.

Andrew Lee <rasengan> currently controls the freenode domains and is being accused of a hostile takeover. The network was sold to Andrew Lee by Christel Dahlskjaer <christel>, who was head of staff until she resigned in March 2021.

The other side seems to be the "staff", which seems to have mostly moved over to the libera.chat side now. Among them <tomaw>, who was elected as head of staff after <christel>'s resignation.

What I don't fully understand is the structure of the Freenode network. There's the domain/website, presumably under control of Andrew. There are the individual servers, which as I understand it are under the control of their independent owners/maintainers, some of which are also "staff" but others aren't. There is the nickserv database that is likely under control of Andrew Lee now, although it's unclear on what infrastructure it runs, who owns it, who pays for it, where it is, etc.
You also don't have to use words from the default dictionary. You can specify your own code.
In Shannon's case, given how fundamental his 1937 thesis was (you can use Boolean Algebra to design digital circuits), most other people might have been afraid of not being able to top that. My impression was that he was always looking forward to bigger things through his own work and through his students.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Symbolic_Analysis_of_Relay_a...
I guess you really do have to preface your jokes with joke disclaimers these days.
I use yopp for this.
It's just a very crude local server with a file picker.

https://github.com/josephernest/Yopp
Ask HN: Node.js API Documentation
What do you use to get a swagger.json or similar for api documentation?

In the dotnet world there is swashbuckle. Is there a node equivalent or better?
I addressed the picture already in my comments above.

I really can't tell what's a bar end in that picture.

I even did an image search and the images are all over the map. The shapes of what is shown in the search are incredibly diverse and don't clarify much.

Point is, I just don't get the resistance here. I mean, the belief that articles should not explain the basic thing that their topic is about, just blows my mind. I'm not talking about every term in the article. I'm talking about the main item that is discussed.
Well they resigned from the company, they didn't die. They took the money and went elsewhere or on a break
Be lazy when clicking the images. Mailboxes are parking meters.
I still haven't seen anything about any infection-caused natural immunity involving anything other than the spike protein chosen for the mRNA vaccines.

Surely some people's immune system must be making antibodies targeting other features of the virus?

I know that might not make a practical difference at this point in terms of immunity, but it seems relevant to studies like these in terms of long-term, breadth vs depth immunity strategies that the body implements.
> I have no idea how, but two and a half-hours later, the fix is live. I'm assuming the release team used all the goodwill accumulated over the years to make the fastest app update I've ever heard of happen. Either way, it's done, and done fast. Let's just hope it works.

It's sort of amazing how we as an industry have all just adapted to the App Store industrywide censorship and gatekeeping.

It's astounding that Apple has been able to pull this off, and even more astounding that so many companies are willing to work as sharecroppers for them.

Find it on the Apple App Store under AOL keyword Uber!
May I introduce you to our lovely collection of traffic lights?
Neohabitat is an open source relaunch of the first MMORPG
Vintage Fashion: Second-Hand Clothing in Medieval France
On Android, you can install croc in Termux and send files to any other platform with croc installed.
In my city, grocery store parking lots seem to be the first places putting in public-use chargers.
Arch Linux Moves to Libera.chat
Ketamine, Coke
Ready for you 24/7. Prices ain't a problem. Legit deals with referrals and photo verification to you specifications.
email; teryplugofplugs@gmail.com
wickr; ter420
I second this. File transfers between my phone and computer are seamless and quick. I can even use it to find my phone when I use it. It is rare to find open source software that Just Works, and KDE Connect is one of these rare gems that does so.
(it's worth nothing that ruling was in 2005 and prisoners still can't vote so it's not as much of an override as people might imagine)
The HHGTTG cannot be wrong. You forgot to count 0. It is 42.
I still wouldn't consider this trivial. It takes a good bit of playing around with parameters like radius range and filters to consistently get all and only real circles. Even under ideal conditions, it's probably more than an hour of trial and error, and it's very easy for a layman to not fully understand why they're not getting the result they wanted. I'm no expert on jewelry but I imagine even a 0.1% error rate would be quite expensive, and that level of performance would be a real challenge for even someone very experienced with opencv.
Aha, yes, they own Pac Man.
Maybe overkill for you use-case, but something such as NextCloud could be used: https://nextcloud.com/

I use this for cross-family backup and sharing. My main use-case is getting my photos from my phone to my desktop.
Based on the title the first thing that popped in my mind was https://www.aseprite.org/ there source code is freely available to anyone https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/ and if you search some more you can find how to install it at https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/blob/master/INSTALL.md But none of these links are easy to find and the installation is not that simple either. Is this way of doing things good/bad? I just do not really know how to feel about it. It's partly better then not having the option available, but, i just don't know to feel about it.
In fact, I have used Windows since 3.11, and until reading your comment I thought that cutting without pasting would delete the file!
True. Just a couple of hours.

On the other hand... is walltime the only criterion worth considering?
Elon Musk “If you’d like to help develop Doge, please submit ideas on GitHub..”
Police in India raid Twitter in probe of tweets with ‘manipulated media’ label
No, you don't. Fortran is still an important language in scientific computing, and you don't support it. The gfortran compiler is part of gcc, so I think you should be able to. I also don't see Cobol, Ada, and Pascal. If you don't think these languages are worth supporting, so be it, but asserting that they don't exist may irk people using those languages.
> Not allowing censorship of speech by private companies is precisely they same thing as the government censoring speech

Nonsense. That's like saying that common carrier regulation [1] (e.g. requiring that railroads take all customers) is the same thing as the state imprisoning people without cause. It's the total opposite.

The state can, must, and will apply common carrier regulations to modern communication infrastructure like internet infrastructure and social media. That's not even close to state-mandated censorship.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carrier
Says one author of publication:
“It’s a major milestone,” said study leader and ophthalmologist José-Alain Sahel of the University of Pittsburgh and the Sorbonne University in France.

Says unaffiliated doctor:
“It’s a small step forward but it is a definite step forward in that they’ve been able to prove that this does work in humans,” said Paul Bernstein, an ophthalmologist and retinal specialist at the University of Utah School of Medicine, who was not involved in the study.

It's neat to see optogenetics (and genetic manipulations in general) being applied to humans. The journey from research to real-world application is effing long.
At the speed you're going when you edge to the wake, the water is almost like concrete. When I tore my ACL I was coming out of a backroll[1] and cased upslope of the opposite wake so all my speed and rotation came down on my back leg, compressing my knee and snapping the ACL.

When I went to my surgeon he said I was the 4th wakeboarder he had done that summer and asked me why it was so rough on our knees lol...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC3TEqcyT24

EDIT

It is amazingly fun though. If you can ride behind a nice boat with big wake and speakers so you can jam out while riding, it's a great experience. Plus, wakeboarding is social and always takes a minimum 2 people. Learn to drive the boat properly and always give some gas money, and you'll be invited over and over.