skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how this is harming anyone even if it's a bad translation.

And if doing things without an author's permission upsets you don't ever take a look at fanfiction.net.
Being wrong is not at issue, especially when the source reverses their position as better info arises. What's at issue is malevolent intent — knowingly spreading falsehoods. I'm aware of no credible basis for believing the latter about Fauci.
"Genomic analyses(3) show that SARS-CoV-2 is a chimera, with most of its sequence identical to that of the bat CoV RaTG13, except for the receptor binding domain (RBD), which is almost identical to that of a pangolin (Manis javanica) CoV and has been optimized to bind the ACE2 receptor in human cells.(3) Such gain-of-function chimeras can in principle arise via natural recombination, but that would be unlikely in this case. The natural recombination would require that the viruses from bat and pangolin infected the same cell in the same organism simultaneously, a rather improbable event considering the low population density of pangolins,"

The last line settles it -> "The natural recombination would require that the viruses from bat and pangolin infected the same cell in the same organism simultaneously, a rather improbable event considering the low population density of pangolins"
Same here-- not on HN, but in real life. It seemed so obvious from the start that this was airborne and we can stop it with ventilation and masks. I actually helped start a mask distribution non-profit. But it became an uphill battle to educate people against the political warfare that happened.
The fact that Bose has to set their retail prices to include the Amazon surcharge makes it an even better example.

If you buy the headphones at a brick and mortar store, you’re still forced to pay the Amazon shipping surcharge, even if the money is not going to Amazon. This puts brick and mortar stores at an unfair disadvantage, and it is directly traceable to Amazon’s anticompetitive behavior.
Even in the valet scenario, the valet would be treated as the one legally responsible for the charges in, say, any sensible small claims court.
You haven't seen outright conspiracy theories, though.
You could sell the services of one of these via Bitcoin. Have a killer drone primed and waiting, do a crypto based auction and then the drone would autonomously lift off and perform the mission.
This is such a big thing nowadays and it needs regulation. Dispute a charge on Steam? Banned for life. Return one too many item according to some neural network on Amazon? Banned for life. Do nothing wrong at all? Random chance to wake up to a banned Google account, no recourse. Your business runs on GCP? Bad luck.

There need to be serious consequences for this "the computer made a mistake" bullshit.
I don't know about this project, but I have used tmate.io (self hosted ssh server) for almost seven years for remote pairing, using vim inside of tmate.

Compared to vscode: when sharing the terminal, you don't need to worry about following the other person's cursor or them following yours, as there is only one cursor.

You don't need to worry about telling them what dukes you are opening, as there is only one editor.

You also don't need to worry about registering for an account, as (at least with tmate) it's simply an ssh connection for the remote person.

It is the only way I've found that allows for effective remote pairing. There are a number of downsides, but it is a wonderful tool.
You’re talking about Bitcoin when there’s a multitude of other cryptocurrencies that are not trying to be the digital gold but rather a mean of payment.
It definitely exists. I'm part of it. I understand the technology perfectly well even if I'd fail on your list of 100 gotcha questions about irrelevant details.

I have several friends that worked in the industry professionally, for one of the few exchanges that takes KYC and such seriously.

None of them continue to work in that industry. One of them found it to be a net negative on their resume. None of them hold cryptocurrency.

There are many of us that are in fact informed, and have come to the same conclusion: this is internet tulips, and the music is going to stop some day.
It depends what you want and what you're willing to compromise on I think.

I ended up building my own, which has the advantages it's designed specifically for my needs (but which obviously means it's less likely to be useful for other people with different requirements or workflows).

My two main criteria were: supporting galleries of non-square images (very few solutions support this, they just crop to squares which makes things much easier for layout, but I don't like), and having portable catalogs with the metadata (mine are basically YAML defined metadata per photo, like geo location hierarchies (Europe / France / Paris), tags, categories, such that I am not locked to a DB, and can move the catalogs (and images) around on arbitrary drives / volumes, and can transfer them.

The large downside (although I'm willing to put up with it), is having to fairly manually curate each photo item, but a lot of "tourist photo" style stuff is quite similar for me, so I can share multiple metadata for multiple photos, so it's not too bad.
Right. He directly violates the HN rules, and I get modded down.

He posted a dismissive snark about my (substantive) comment, and I replied in kind.

Edit: For the record, I've read plenty of papers in both Nature and Science, so his claim that I haven't is objectively incorrect.

My response stands: he doesn't know what he's talking about.
The wiki article, if anyone is interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(job_description)
Well, it is not like adults should believe in such things as free shipping. There's no free shipping. period.
Classic UX Books from the 1980s
>In our entire human history, we have no proof of aliens, what hasn't happened yesterday, isn't likely to happen tomorrow

I think that it makes sense to assume that aliens, if they ever arrive, will totally reshape pretty much everything on our planet, kind of like invasive species or human colonizers transformed/ravaged where they settle.

They won't be interacting very rarely here and there, at the edge of imagination and plausible evidence.

You can thereby conclude UFOs aren't aliens if we are able to ignore them.

But, conversely, if aliens did ever come to Earth, the logic runs in the opposite direction - they must have reshaped everything and become pervasive in such a way that we don't notice. I think it's a fairly common SF trope that humans turn out to be the aliens, for instance. Or something else familiar is actually of extraterrestrial origin.

Assuming that we haven't seen any extraterrestrials so far, I don't see how that gives any security it won't happen. On earth, lots of cultures have suddenly been introduced to others who have more effective technology with devastating results. Keywords/phrases that come to mind are "outside context problem(s)" and "black swans".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excession#Outside_Context_Prob...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory

I wonder what sort of religious/philosophical response people would have, if it seemed reasonably clear that Earth was unique and the only locus of life in the universe, and also that in the reasonably near future some not particularly exotic object was going to collide with it and destroy all life forever. Does this mean God exists, doesn't exist, broke the promise to Noah, etc? Does anything anyone ever did matter? Is the end of everything human different for an individual than the individual's death? Is it meaningfully different if it happens in 20 years vs 200 years vs 2 billion years? I ask these questions because I can think of a lot of "gut reactions" that are inconsistent with each other.
One could further raise an association with Nick Bostrom's vulnerable world hypothesis:

> One way of looking at human creativity is as a process of pulling balls out of a giant urn. The balls represent possible ideas, discoveries, technological inventions. Over the course of history, we have extracted a great many balls – mostly white (beneficial) but also various shades of gray (moderately harmful ones and mixed blessings). [..] What we haven’t extracted, so far, is a black ball: a technology that invariably or by default destroys the civilization that invents it. The reason is not that we have been particularly careful or wise in our technology policy. We have just been lucky.

https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf
Tbh most of HN has very little knowledge in cryptocurrencies as this thread shows…
Yes, they've been live for years. Bitcoin can't do smart contracts, it's not a Turing complete scripting language and it's very difficult to work with, so of course it matters.

And already more transactions and more daily volume is settled on Ethereum than Bitcoin, see https://money-movers.info/ and https://cryptofees.info/ (pink lines are Ethereum DeFi applications)
The entire defense industry avoids just saying what they mean. They'll work on a "computer recognition system for analyzing target response matrix" instead of saying "we want to know all the ways that someone will try to frantically get away from us in their last moments of desparate survival before we kill them, and kill them anyway"

They're a really twisted group of people that mostly feel like they have no other opportunities (that maintain their lifestyle). Not so different than people employed in any other industry, just important to understand.
Hey, over the last year we've been building ente[1], an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos.

We have shipped open-source[2] web and mobile apps that have preserved 180,000+ files. Apart from cross-device sync, you can share your albums end-to-end encrypted, and filter photos by location and time.

We recently had a "successful" launch on r/degoogle[3]. We wanted to Show HN after incorporating the feedback we received from there, but since OP asked, I thought I’ll drop a comment here.

If you’ve any questions, please ask.

[1]: https://ente.io

[2]: https://github.com/ente-io

[3]: https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/njatok/we_built_a...
You can use Ethereum to build contracts that look a lot like settlement execution, to my limited understanding
In my experience, there's never been a problem with my equipment. So I've never had to buy a new modem as a result. The annoyance is that this is their go-to excuse, and it's a waste of time to deal with this excuse every time I call in.
Ground based weapons will probably be more effective drone defenses than other drones. It just isn't practical to keep defensive drones continuously airborne, and small drones lack the payload capacity that would be needed to reliably detect and intercept other drones.
If you were cashing out as the money was coming in, then you wouldn't have lost all of it in a "hack", would you?

So, which is it? Would you have lost all of it in a hack or would you be withdrawing straight to a bank balance because you abhor "hoarding"? It can't be both.
The problem is you’re looking at a technological dead end (Bitcoin). There’s no innovation there, financial or otherwise, just momentum. However all you have to do is to turn your eye adjacent to the dapp space and see where developer and user adoption is definitely happening. There’s no shortage of “stuff to do” in DeFi and over the past few months the pattern is that it maxes out the transactional capacity every single network it touches. There are currently multiple networks in production (BSC, Polygon, Solana) that have billions in TVL and handling hundreds of transactions/second right now and no shortage of contenders/alternatives and a huge amount of innovation at every layer.

Complaining about nothing to do on Bitcoin feels like complaining how empty the gopher server are after everyone’s moved onto the web.
Wasn’t the first use of internet to buy weed between two universities?

Edit: first thing bought on the internet apparently was weed https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-was-first-thi...
I'd guess the fare review only covers the $9.06 listed as fare, and not the service fees/net earnings
Wait... if you land on a property and don’t buy it it goes to auction where other players can bid (and start a bidding war)? My childhood has been shattered.
What’s the license? What can I or can’t I do with this after purchasing?
Pay pal doesn’t solve the low transaction friction problem at all. They’re less convenient than entering credit card info over and over again. The last time I logged into my account, their site was half-down.

On top of that, you could fill a large book with descriptions of esoteric con jobs that only work on PayPal.

Elon builds rockets because of a well-timed exit, followed by lots of hard work and success building Tesla.
> it's a well known 4 year cycle programmed into the protocol

First I've heard of this. Do you have more information?
No it's not. Open a window and stick a fan in it.

Total cost: $20.

Consider that during the pandemic, the good N95 masks were not even available for any price, so people were wearing flimsy cotton things that only block 20% of particulates. Opening a window with a fan works far better if you do it right and uses materials we still had in supply.
The best place to get started on that is with Corbett Lunsford's books/videos/podcasts. His book, "Home Performance Diagnostics", is the ultimate resource [1].

He also has a YouTube channel [2] that has a ton of useful information on proper ventilation, humidification, and environmental safety, along with podcasts [3]. You can also check out his main site, Building Performance Workshop [4].

Alternatively, there are books on the subject of "building performance" that you may want to check out.

[1] Home Performance Diagnostics Book: https://www.amazon.com/Home-Performance-Diagnostics-Advanced...

[2] Home Performance YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/HomePerformance/videos

[3] the Building Performance Podcast: https://buildingperformancepodcast.com/

[4] Building Performance Workshop: https://buildingperformanceworkshop.com/
The benefits of typing are, imo, largely unrelated to needing to manage memory
Sorry but no one who has worked at a newspaper for more than a day believes this.

If a cub reporter wants to run a story that will piss off your largest advertiser, I can guarantee that it will be discouraged by any editor interested in keeping their job.

Been there…
It gained function without involving any of what are formally considered gain-of-function operations. So, Fauci could fund it, and also truthfully testify under oath that he didn't fund anything that, by the definition, would count as GoF work. That a virus did gain function, by operations not covered by the definition, is a separate problem: The definition should be widened enough to cover what really happened.
Yes, but that's still a different thing than "a human sat down and decided that there would be trips that would cost the driver money to run; and that Uber wouldn't announce this change."

One is an emergent consequence — the "banality of evil", a property of the corporation itself. The other is active malfeasance — something that's not so much even about the corporation as about an individual horrible person in a decision-making role, where the correct move for customers/employees is to boycott the decision-maker, rather than the company; and where the correct move for the company is to fire the decision-maker, and distance themselves from them as much as possible. (Unless it keeps happening with different people in the same company, at which point it becomes a thing about the company's culture.)
Good choice, the Windows 10 UI and UX are complete trash. I'm not sure who at Microsoft thought it would be a good idea to use this kind of tablet interface even on non-tablet devices. Many times, when you want to change a setting, first you are presented with this flat useless UI, so you almost always have to go to the original one anyway. The look and feel is completely inconsistent and unintuitive. The notifications suck. The Edge bullshit sucks. The update mechanism sucks and wastes the precious lifetime and work of millions of people. I don't want my computer to take hours to install and restart a thousand times while I'm unable to use it. Cortana is useless, search is slow, I don't want a "dynamic", "fancy" animated interface, I don't want changing lockscreen pictures, I want immediate feedback when I click anywhere. Whoever directed this should be fired.
Not sure what the scope of your sarcasm covers. But there is no such person as a “Keynesian statist” outside a crypto subreddit.

Only a little part of Keynesianism involves the state, if you take a conventional definition of the theory. The only part that even involves the state isn’t all that controversial: people buying and selling is fine and self supporting, until the buyers don’t want to buy enough to support the sellers, which is the only time the government has to step in a buy stuff.

So Keynesians don’t put the state first. And the people who do put the state first don’t like all that buying and selling on the open market. Really disjoint philosophies.
Seems like an accurate emulation of the real capitalism, as intended by the game creator.
Is the bait an switch comment fair? Google have offered free photos for years and obviously the storage requirements must be growing huge. A business needs to be able to change.

Also haven't they said on both the big changes anything in the past will be held as legacy under free and future uploads will go to storage? I think you have to accept business needs to adapt models sometimes and Google Photos is more this than bait and switch.

Fair call on the lockout. This is a real issue for Google.
From a quick skim it looks like the key is base64 encoded into the URL in terminal_id param, so presumably you just share the URL and the collaborator stays on the URL with the key? If the key is ephemeral/regenerated for each session it seems to eliminate most of your concerns.

https://github.com/cs01/termpair/blob/1d273fa306a543fefbf2cf...
I don't understand how dark patterns like these are ever a good long-term business strategy for a company

You drain user trust for short term gain. What is the point of continuing to take someone's money if they no longer use your product? If someone doesn't want my product, I sure as hell don't want their money and would be embarrassed if they ever paid by mistake
Why use LTSC over, say, Pro? Genuinely curious. I have been running 16299 on Pro since about when it came out. I would be running win2k if drivers, etc were updated for it.
It certainly feels illegal to have the threat of a ban when you make a good faith report of fraudulent charges. A business could have a pattern of deliberate overcharges that they layer in with regular transactions with the knowledge that enough users will just give in and eat the fraudulent charge to avoid losing access to the service. If the business has run the numbers and found that it's a net gain in profits from this practice, there would be a reasonable (if completely corrupt) motive for operating the scam.
I subscribed to The Economist for a quarter. Loved it, read every article in every issue. I ran into some slightly difficult times so I decided to cancel, intending to pick it back up later. But their cancellation process was full of dark patterns (ultimately I had to make a phone call to an operator in Singapore) and there's simply no way in hell I'll ever come back.

I cancelled my Netflix at the same time and have come and gone several times since, as they make it as easy as possible.
Grand-Ultimate-BTC-Hacker
The most advanced bitcoin hacking system on the planet. It works, and it will find 'lost' bitcoins all day long.

https://github.com/room101-dev/Grand-Ultimate-BTC-Hacker/tree/master
No links, but I've seen the change in myself and others I've known for a while. A few examples I suppose might be helpful:

Things I used to do 10 years ago:

- launch headlong into a task as soon as I understand the problem statement

- pick up a ticket/bug, quickly attempt to do as little as possible to make it go away

- unit tests/integration tests pretty much never

- lots of (many times unnecessarily) complex SQL

These habits led me away from a place of understanding an overall system and towards a place of adding lots of entropy to the codebase. In an ideal world, every time you touch a codebase you should be trying to remove entropy. If ever you introduce new rules or ideas into a codebase, it should be like pulling teeth because every time this happens the cognitive model you have to hold onto just to work on the project increases, which slows down the entire team. Being contemplative about the repercussions of a change (especially its impact on cognitive load) can help steer a team as a whole toward better decisions. Being quick to point these factors out in kick-offs and PRs helps protect the codebase as well. It's a lot of work, but when a project operates under this kind of structure there just aren't that many things that require a large amount of focus. And those that do don't necessarily require active focus.

Having a variety of things to do helps. If I start to death spiral on a problem (which is how I describe the feeling that I'm overloading my mental map), I'll put the problem down for a bit and work on something else.

Having a strong grasp of the subject matter is also a huge help. E.g. I work on a payroll platform. Learning how payroll should ideally work while at the same time writing code for the platform wouldn't be an ideal scenario (we definitely had to do this at times, but most of us had at least a few years background around payroll-related business functions). I've found this to be the biggest blocker to my productivity whenever I start a job in a new field.

Over the last 10 years I've worked in:

- Payroll/HR

- Luxury/Athletic Clubs

- Autism care providers

- Workers' Compensation Insurance

- Financial Performance Reporting

I've done the above using probably half a dozen different programming languages, team sizes everywhere from 2 to 50+, and (I believe) because of the way I approach my work that there's really never been a time in that period where I couldn't hit pause and pick it up later.
I’ve found Amazon’s return policy to be extremely unpredictable. In some cases, there’s no problem. In others, the seller says I need to pay return shipping to some random factory shipping dock in China (at a large multiple of the price I paid for the item).
If you have a Synology storage device, you can run Moments on it, which has a lot of Photos’ basic feature set.
It’s imperfect, but I’ve liked it because I have wholesale control over my photos.
If you're interested in a self hosted cloud, take a look at nextcloud.

https://nextcloud.com/

I've been using for a couple months and been extremely happy with it.
I have no idea why you are being downvoted. This is absolutely valid reasons for bitcoin to exist, but you don't have to be a failed state.

I'm from Canada, and moved to Australia. I was moving money from Canada to Australia, it was easier, faster, and cheaper for me to move that money via crypto (I used Eth rather than Bitcoin at the time) than going through the banking system.
Nir here, author of the blog post.
Question - Did anyone else notice that the NYT did not accurately describe what the "roach motel" dark pattern is in their original piece?
They wrote, "To prevent your information from being shared with third parties, you have to opt out after the payment screen."
But that's not the roach motel, that's a default.
According to DarkPatterns dot org, a roach motel is when the "...design makes it very easy for you to get into a certain situation, but then makes it hard for you to get out of it."
Why did the NYT get something like this wrong?
I don't understand that either.

Other virologists seem to interpret the out-of-frame insert as being counterproductive.