skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it’s irrelevant and assumes that anyone participating in the discussion was listening to any politician of any kind to begin with. The problem isn’t with ignoring the politicians - something that is nearly always prudent - it’s assuming that we weren’t also completely ignoring Trump.

This investigation was happening among scientists regardless of whatever Trump or Biden or Cotton or Paul or whoever else had to say. But the mainstream left treated them as though they must be dumb backwards thinking Q anon Trumpers who got this idea from him or Alex Jones or some conspiracy nut.

The way that people following this were treated was bad enough, but the most worrisome part is the reputational attacks, largely coordinated by Peter Daszak of the EcoHealth alliance, that these scientists faced. It was a huge risk on their part to challenge someone of his standing in the community, and he was relentless in spreading the meme that these were fringe quacks deserving of nothing but derision for their “conspiracy theories”. In another massive media failure, they were happy to use him as their subject matter expert without bothering to disclose that he’s the one who ran the very same program. And to a lesser extent, Fauci as well.

To be clear, no one suspects that Daszak and Fauci were anything but well-intentioned in their original pursuits when starting and funding this research program. But it’s obvious why anyone faced with the possibility that their decision may have been the reason that this all happened in the first place. And the implications - that their entire organization and much of their life’s work will be shut down immediately - may put even the most reasonable mind in an extremely difficult position.

How would you react upon realizing that your program may very well have killed millions around the globe and destroyed economies? I’d imagine that must be quite a burden on the conscience for anyone who is not a completely sociopathic murderer.
This is not really a Safari-only thing. All password managers that I have used in the past had some kind of heuristic to decide whether a field should be auto-filled or not. Here is a nice explanation by a (former?) 1Password employee (https://1password.community/discussion/94198/autocomplete-of...).

To me as a web developer (among other things :D) this is quite annoying because password managers often hijack our forms when they decide that the label (or id or classname etc.) sounds suspiciously usernamely, passwordly or credit cardly.
WhatsApp’s Fight with India Has Global Implications
> Because extension-market web sites censor desired extensions that they think are bad.

Have you ever uploaded an extension yourself? There’s more to these extension hosting portals than a public-facing website. There’s also an authenticated area for you to manage your own uploaded extensions, where extensions go through a set of states similar to a CMS: from “draft” to “private/unpublished”, to “private beta”, to “in review”, to “public.”

I’ll say that again: in even the Chrome Web Store, “private beta” comes before platform review. You can publish an extension for just yourself + a limited set of friends, give them the URL, and they can install it — without the platform owner ever even taking a glance at it. And they won’t in the future, either, because the behaviour of private-beta extensions just don’t matter to them. They can’t spread like public extensions — they have explicitly limited install-count caps — so it doesn’t even matter if they’re malware.

But, just like with emulators on iOS, anyone who wants one can just take the source code, change the identifier on it, and deploy a copy of it to their own device for their own use, as a “test.” And unlike with iOS TestFlight, these private-beta browser-extension deployments don’t expire after a week.

Yes, that’s still a big hurdle to expect non-technical people to jump, compared to just allowing these extensions to get published. Yes, that puts Mozilla/Google/etc. in positions of censorship, where they may make arbitrary decisions.

But don’t just say “don’t do that then.” Carefully envision an alternative. What do you want the browser to do: let you add alternative extension trust-roots, like adding repos to apt? Then a virus could go in and add its trust-roots. (This would, again, be fine if it was only something the browser trusted if set in an MDM profile / GPO policy, signed with some remote key a virus couldn’t grab from the local OS; but it’s fundamentally not something the browser can trust if it’s just data sitting in the user’s personal preferences directory, or even the OS’s preferences.)

I’d be happy to see any solution to this problem that lets the locus of control remain within the local computer, while preventing viruses from tampering with it. Capability-based OSes were there decades ago, and some sandboxing approaches are kinda-sorta getting there. But nothing that consumers use is in any way there yet.
For hard-core irrefutable evidence, get your IgG antibodies assay test done. Problem solved, you're a model citizen now.
PirateChain and Aeon as well.
On the plus side every A4 page is 2.5g you don't have to move/store. Does help if you have a double sided sheet feeding scanner
windows for workgroups 3.11

iirc
> I act responsibly and do not go out when I am sick.

How many days before you are noticeably sick can you spread the flu or COVID?
No, the website should have the option to overwrite the browser decision.

For example, for a multiplayer game I worked on, you could set a password when you create a private room in the game. The browser always auto-filled it with your account password, which is definitely not good because you have to share the room password with others. Telling the browser to not autocomplete that filled didn't work, because "the browser should know better than the website" thing you mentioned.
It may happen, also it is worth to notice that the immunity should form after the second vaccine
I did this twice before, moving to Canada and then moving back to Europe. However now I've accumulated so much stuff it's hard for me to repeat that.
What is the distinction? Is a kitchen gizmo a tool or a consumerist item? What hobbies use tools (e.g. building birdhouses) vs consumerist items (snowboarding)?
> it also makes stuff like NAT, congestion control and QoS a lot less robust

That's a feature, not a bug. NAT is cancer. It killed the open internet by enabling a particular lazy form of "security" that forced everyone to hand control of their most important data to cloud services.

QoS is worse but has less fallout due to less deployment.
"Regulators can bar banks and investment funds from touching BTC" this is what they are doing for ages now.

1. India crypto ban is going on for years now
2. China crypto ban has become a joke now, they banned / un banned crypto like 50 times already.

I think what she meant is the very nature of BTC or crypto that even if Govt bans, its just unstoppable. You can still hold it in your wallet and do transactions.

Yes, till you buy your crypto with fiat currency, govt. can trace you, what if you mine / stake or get it by p2p somehow, can govt stop? No they just can't.

At the end, govt should put effort to understand it and regulated instead going completely against it. Its a new tech giving rise to new financial authority that is decentralised and may look scary in the beginning like any other tech for that matter.

And we have seen this happening again and again, Machines will take jobs, AI will take jobs and what not. Let's accept it and build a better future.
Studying income inequality in the US by gender and age group while completely ignoring race feels wrong when it's such an impactful variable, especially considering it's getting worse over time.

In 2016, the median net worth of non-Hispanic White households was $143,600. The median net worth of Black households was $12,920. Between 1983 and 2013, White households saw their wealth increased by 14%. But during the same period, Black household wealth declined 75%. Median Hispanic household wealth declined 50%.

https://inequality.org/facts/racial-inequality/#racial-incom...

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/disp...
Athanos 3D: Viewpoint-dependent 3D on existing screens
If you're majoring in STEM, degree choice has much less of an impact than if you're a liberal arts major.

If you're going to grad school- your second college matters a lot more than your first
I imagine the complete lack of anything actually being shipped into or out of the unit during normal hours was probably a big give away.

Most people when using an industrial unit to bake things, then sell the things they bake. Rather than just piling them up in a corner until the entire unit is full.
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Arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06824
I did. I never open the files again.
A cruise missile could close to within ~20-40 miles and then deploy multiple drones. Effectively making it a multi targeting missile.
Scientists have found that people who had SARS are immune to COVID. Their T cells fight it off. There was another variant of a coronavirus that went around and people who got that seem to be immune to. Some scientists testing on older blood samples found this. The older coronavirus didn't cause major issues in society and went unnoticed.

I share this to say that there is reason to believe that we will be able to fight this off, even with mutations. It's not baseless hope.
On my last bill that added 4.2c per kWh.

The bill previous was 3.9.

The majority of those fees are fixed cost so don’t scale linearly with usage.
This was not at all what I thought it was about from the title. The TL;DR: You can read more than one book at a time on various subjects.

What I thought it was going to be about: When reading non-fiction (in particular) you don't have to read the book straight through. Since this is HN, take a book on your hot new language of choice that you're going to submit 5000 posts about here. If you're already a programmer, the first 4 chapters or so are likely pretty useless to you other than for a quick skim: Here's how you declare variable, functions, classes, traits, whatevers. Here's the syntax for various expressions and/or statements. Takes a day, at most and you may not read it straight through, just skip around looking at the examples, look at the text if it doesn't click, type up a few examples/test cases and see if you grok it. Then the next 6-50 chapters detail specific aspects of the language, maybe a standard library or how a particular tool or feature is used. You're already an experienced programmer, you grok their OO model (if they have one), but maybe it has a somewhat novel concurrency model. Jump to that chapter. Go backwards in the book if something in it doesn't make sense to the relevant sections.

This can work with most non-fiction depending on your level of familiarity with the base subject or the style it's written in. History books sometimes have a narrative structure that makes this harder. A math book may be written with a different enough notation that linear progress is more critical so you can understand the author. But even then, I was reading an astrophysics book earlier this year and I did exactly like I described above for programming except with more attention to the first 2 chapters (calculus and diff eq were ages ago for me) followed by skipping to chapters that discussed things I needed to know for work.
> due to things like weaknesses in the mempool privacy

What weaknesses? Anything besides IP?
>"But the persistence of antibody production, whether elicited by vaccination or infection, does not ensure long-lasting immunity to COVID-19. The ability of some emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants to blunt the protective effects of antibodies means that additional immunizations may be needed to restore levels, says Ellebedy. “My presumption is we will need a booster.”

The article talks about how the experts on this field "presume" we'll need boosters to get antibody levels high enough to combat the worse mutated variants, and of course, it could be a bit of an arms race between it mutating variants that are better against our antibodies, and us boosting our antibodies with vaccines to trigger responses and keep blood levels high.
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Good point. In my experience, the higher earning potential can be maintained, though overall salary growth is lower, as you start to hit a bit of a theoretical earnings ceiling. Though, that is generally of limited consequence when you're at those levels.

Another issue not addressed is lack of employment flexibility. If you are in the top 5% of earners, by extension you are likely limited to the top 5% of all available positions. Whereas someone with a more "mainstream" income can likely switch employers or industries, or even locations, with less impact (or maybe even positive impact, moving into a region with a better pay:cost-of-living ratio).
The thing that I find so wrong about this type of argument is that the vaccine is not proven to prevent spreading the virus. It is only proven to stop the onset of COVID-19 after one contracts the virus.

So the line of reasoning that argues one should get vaccinated to stop the spread of SARS-CoV-2 is not valid.

Edit: Wow - the downvotes... There is some evidence that transmission is reduced, but it is not proven:

"the risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection in fully vaccinated people cannot be completely eliminated"

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...
Vaccinate the high risk people then.
Until now, virologists had little evidence on whether having covid gives you lasting immunity or not. It seems possible that you're not giving your family enough credit.

The reason that not going out when you're sick is an insufficient precaution for covid is that people spread the virus for several days before they get symptoms.
After recovery you need a single shot instead of 2.
"conspiracy", "nuts" -- perfect use of language to shut any discourse down, playing right into the hand of whatever someone with enough power wants you to think.
That just sounds awfully lopsided. Is there any reasoning for why this is?
So you completely ignore the reputation of whoever is trying to convince you of something?
a tool doesn't have to be a clean room implementation to be useful
Research seems to indicate 2-3 days, if you even have symptoms. If you don't have symptoms until you fight it off.
>I act responsibly and do not go out when I am sick.

With the flu for instance, you are communicable before you show symptoms. Were you wearing a mask for the duration of the flu season prior to covid? That would be what responsible looks like if you're not interested in getting a shot.

>I have continuously been near or around folks that have come down with Covid and have yet to encounter a second infection or positive test since my initial infection.

I'm not sure you can say that with 100% certainty unless you've been getting weekly tests since your initial positive results. Early studies indicate that people who get re-infected are more likely to show no symptoms the second time around, but they can still infect others.

https://medical.mit.edu/covid-19-updates/2020/12/can-someone...
Could key-based SSH access theoretically be cracked? Maybe (probably not, but let's say maybe for the sake of argument).

Of course it could. Unless you're really going to posit that there are no bugs in any widely deployed ssh server implementations. Doesn't seem very likely to me.

Anyway... if you're being specifically targeted by a highly advanced adversary, it probably doesn't matter what you do. I tend to assume that most of us, most of the time, are not in that position, and should employ a layered, "defense in depth" strategy. Whether or not this specific technique is something worth deploying or not is an open question to me. My position is simply that we shouldn't just dismiss it out of hand without deeper consideration.
"get the vaccine or you are a bad citizen and will kill everyone"

Yep. Notice how the "follow science" phrase isn't used anymore. It's now just a demand to comply, or else you're a horrible person.
I feel like this is how we'll all look in the distant future when we've uploaded ourselves into the singularity.
There's a decent answer to the Fermi paradox in there somewhere.
Wanted to PM you but no contact info, so I'll do it thru here.

> Finding solid, dependable people with the right skills and attitude is really, really hard.

1. What are the soft skills of the candidates that you most value?
2. After 6 months, what the most important aspect that you value to decide if it was a good/great hire?
3. Offtopic: Do you have an all time favourite book for growth/self improvement you could recommend?

Thanks in advance!
Counterpoint.

My cousins wife's friends bosses therapists personal trainer got Covid twice and it made them more physically strong and able to do advanced math and play piano masterfully never having touched a piano before!

Getting Covid a second time made their life way better.
> could any type of life ever exist in or on a star or black hole?

if you like science fiction, you may enjoy Robert Forward's books "Dragon's egg" and "Starquake". Later, read "Diaspora" by Greg Egan.
Lol. Care to explain?
This comment avoids the facts noted in the linked article, which seem to point to perpetual immunity of anyone who was infected by SARS-CoV-2 in the past.
I'm in a pretty weird position right now myself.

I caught it in mid-February with mild symptoms basically just loss of smell. I have very high antibodies and my physician actually recommended that I hold off on getting the vaccine.

Unfortunately, I have several co-workers who refuse to attend a picnic if I'm there. All of them are vaccinated which indicates to me that there is no logic and simply a demand that I adhere to the same religion they do.

Because honestly it's sure feels like a religion with these people.
Why would you go through this elaborate process when you could just get HSBC to launder your money.
It seems as though large movements of cash is actually a pretty good way to find criminals.

Someone saying "the privacy of someone moving $100M is bad" sounds reasonable to my public ears.
Because it also generates revenue via bitcoin. So it's "cheaper" insofar as the bitcoin is subsidizing the operation of the rig and, as a byproduct, heating the space.
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Youtube has a great set of videos on the topic. Depending on your interests you can also find fighter pilots demonstrating proper techniques for dogfighting etc. in DCS.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=US+Carrier+grou...
> I’m fully in favour of using newer and safer languages...

And the ONLY way C/C++, that cost BILLONS on bugs alone, is replaced is that people rewrite things on something better (and Rust IS better).

And this start for fun.

And it could get new bugs? yeah... but it also NOT continue the old bugs that C/C++ cause, some that will be erased of existence (like nulls) for the rest of the life of the codebase.

And this is the point. Logic bugs eventually are squashed, but language design mistakes are nearly eternal for the life of the codebase.
Many others have noted HSBC which actually created special cash delivery booths in Mexico but earlier this year Australian banks were caught laundering nearly $500million in illegal proceeds for Latin American cartels.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5bkyq/drug-cartels-used-aus...
Texas has its own power grid
Could the drones be programmed with enough stand-alone smarts to target a giant ship surrounded by nothing but ocean? I know nothing about image analysis but it kind of sounds like the big boy version of detecting a black square on a white background.
It's amazing how viewing alien tech in focus is always just beyond the limit of current human tech. Even with 64 megapixel phones.
I mean, I’ve replaced Photoshop with Krita for my personal use. It’s not like everyone who pays for Photoshop actually needs all of the professional features that sets it apart from FOSS alternatives.
My copy is from a library. But you should still be able to buy it for $60USD on the Taschen website.

https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/architecture/all/...
"lost our minds collectively" -- no, made a sane tradeoff in the sensitivity vs. specificity ratio when the disease is common. It's not like the sensitivity is wonderful even with a large number of PCR cycles, and the false positive rate was not too bad.

As the disease becomes less common, it makes sense to turn down the sensitivity of the test. Base rate fallacy, yada yada.
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I don’t know anything about how effective that might be, but I imagine the logistics of transporting a live, deadly virus would be a nightmare.
I honestly had issues with audio also on Windows, so I don't think what you are saying is completely true. Even on Windows you play the lottery every time you buy a motherboard or a laptop, and if you lose, you're stuck with a shitty sound card with worse drivers.

For instance, my workplace gave me an HP Zbook which has a builtin Realtek sound card whose Windows drivers do not support separate volumes for speakers and headphones. If you unplug your headphone jack by mistake, the embedded speakers will promptly start blasting the entire room with whatever you were listening to at the same audio level you set for the headphones. The output source is even called "Speakers/Headphones".

If you uninstall the official Realtek drivers, Windows uses the generic HDA driver from Microsoft which supports different, separate sound outputs for the headphones and speakers, but it doesn't have all the weird hacks required to make the HDA codec actually work fine, so setting the volume at more than 10% creates clicks and audio artifacts. On Linux the drivers have been patched to avoid these issues, so both jack sensing and separate audio levels work fine.

Someone mentioned Pulseaudio having issues with front jack detection - this is an issue I had myself, and I discovered that the underlying cause in the case of my desktop machine was due to the sound card triggering random jack plugged/unplugged events.

This sent Pulseaudio's jacksense logic haywire, because it repeatedly saw sinks appearing and disappearing. I tried to remove the Realtek drivers on Windows on the same machine and - voilà! A very similar issue occurs with the Microsoft generic driver, which leads me to think that the OEM driver does some black magic stuff underneath to get jack sensing work fine on their sound card.

To get an idea of how buggy and terribile are the builtin soundcards shipped in consumer hardware, just look at FreeBSD's HDA audio driver, which is forced to apply hacks depending on the __specific model of laptop__ just to avoid audio glitches:

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/40923b0c81cc2c15...
The vaccine elicits homegrown anti-bodies. It's the same anti-bodies.
That’s pretty cool. We were relying on beaver dams upstream from our lake and a floodgate system going downstream, but the boathouse on the lakehouse property was getting inundated by rising water levels when there was a large inflow. After consulting with a data hydrologist we were able to maintain the data lake with enough security to enable year round data boating and even dataskiing. I’m available for vapid buzzword creation but you won’t like my fees. Please talk to my off-roading accountant and he’ll skywrite a quote.
The person you are responding to is not *most people". They had the virus and they recovered.

The vaccine is intended to create immunity in people who don't already have it because they haven't already caught the virus.

This really isn't complicated.
If the pentagon did not comment, I suspect Mr. Corbell would also see this as confirmation that he is on to something big.