skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the issue is people's belief system kicks in. Even now, people read this probably think: I knew it was from the lab!

Well no, we don't know where it's from yet.

I personally felt the messaging had always been that we don't know the origin clearly but there are a few possibilities, a lab leak being one, wet markets another, and bats a third.

I could see though how there could have been a "conspiracy" minded movement who'd start to hold strong beliefs of a lab leak and then mix that in with anti-asian racism and such. Then it becomes political, and probably people start posting things that make it sound like it is for sure a lab leak, and all that.

As an example, in more Chinese driven countries, I had read, there are lots of theories about how the virus is American made from a lab at the Maryland military base.

Basically all these conversations are about "pointing fingers" and "pushing blame". It's very political, and the truth will be hard to come out. Personally I think best not to care where it's from, we still have to deal with it none the less.
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Great work on the 'feel' of the movement. Would love to know how the gravity/jumping works.

I'm a little disappointed the sound effects of the feet are missing - that was one of my favorite things about Joust.
What you want is api access and a decent client (Tweetbot, Tweetdeck).

My client does exactly this (no ads, feed in order) and I can’t believe I have this for free already while others can’t even pay for it.
I have been trying to transition to mastodon/pleroma.

ActivityPub is an open protocol for this kind of thing.

I use twitter as an external brain not that dissimilar to a a Xanadu inspired Memex intermixed with a Zettelkasten.
True, people will always be the root of the problem. But they are also the best part of everything.

We need platforms that encourage the good stuff and minimize or discourage the bad. Not the other way around.
He already approached it on Pivot. Galloway's model is obviously better: Charge those that get value off a big following on Twitter.
Is it mostly only for programming/software lists? A couple I searched for like these ones:

https://github.com/davidliwei/awesome-CRISPR

https://github.com/seandavi/awesome-single-cell

https://github.com/danielecook/Awesome-Bioinformatics

https://github.com/eselkin/awesome-computational-neuroscienc...

https://github.com/websemantics/awesome-synthetic-biology

aren't showing up when I search, but they are obviously more biology/software related, so not sure if that's by design.
I don't know ECC at all. But a note:

Finite fields are of two types: "Prime Fields" (such as the mod 19 field discussed in this blogpost), and "Extension Fields" (which would be prime^n, such as 19^2 or 361. Or more commonly, the 2^x fields, such as 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64... 256... 65536 ... because the 2^x fields correspond very closely with binary numbers).

Prime fields can be taught very quickly: maybe 30 minutes of study and examples is all you really need to really get what is going on. Be it a 2, 5, or 19 field, its really cool and simple.

The "leap" from prime fields into extension fields takes a few hours of dedicated study (which probably will be done over a week to a month if you're a busy adult like me) if you plan to do it rigorously. A lot of blogposts, textbooks, and other reference material will handwave the extension field because its... really hard math.

My best advice is "believe in the textbooks", extension fields are possible. And this is one of those situations where you can just "believe in the math" and learn the details of extension fields AFTER you understand the applications of them. "Extension Fields are like prime fields but way more tricky". They behave like a prime field in almost every way that's important, but its just way harder to understand.

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I do recommend making the leap at some point, and truly understanding the extension fields. Once you get there, you finally understand the underlying math behind CRC32, AES, GCM mode, and ECC. Its a very worthwhile endeavor, but you really need to dedicate yourself to quiet study for some time to really get the concepts.
It's impossible to have HN-like discussions if platform targets general population
The 2020 budget request for the National Institutes on Aging was ca. $2.7B US. [1] The overall budget of the National Institutes of Health for 2020 was $42B US. [2]

[1] https://www.nia.nih.gov/about/budget/fy-2020-justification-b...

[2] https://www.aip.org/fyi/2020/final-fy20-appropriations-natio...
Author here: I agree with number 2. My intention was to show how context can pile up and that it decays over time. So in tip number 4, I show how I record context as I go. Think of recording context as archiving your focus towers.

I'm my own worst enemy when it comes to interruptions, which is why I kept 2 of my 4 tips aimed directly at myself for how I improve my focus.

At a team level, I made a clarifying point that small interruptions are okay, but often not worth it. While I can bounce back, there's a high risk I won't. I'm my own worst enemy (not passing the blame to anyone, I personally need to work on my habits to be better at bouncing back to what I was doing). So it's important our teams work together to make sure the interruptions are worth it. One way my team helps each other is we setup a @mention rotation in Slack (see tip 1). It allows us to schedule shifts daily, so only one person has to plan on their day being interrupted with brush fires. It's a win-win, because we share the load, but we also make it so frontline support knows who to contact (we use @devs).

I feel it's unfortunate the title made it come off as just another article whining about interruptions, that wasn't my intention, I'll do better on my next title.
That is your mistake. People do not respond by being told how they are wrong. Instead, people will change their minds when they see that their friends do.
I like Twitter a lot. It's the only social media platform that has a lot of features for power users.

The trick is to regularly ban certain keywords associated with posts not relevant to you and to regularly block or mute users.

You can also use Lists to get rid of recommended tweets and create specific feeds for whatever use case you want. If you pin them, you can swipe left or right on your timeline to have a feed just for content related to the list.
The both figured it out with incredibly invasive tracking and profiling. I don’t know why this move is being seen as a slight to the company.
That was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a lot!
Chipping Away at Due Process Rights in HK NSL Cases
> In a 2013 interview with ProPrivacy, Lee was asked what his goal in life was, and where he saw himself in the next 50 years. He said that he wanted to ease “pain, suffering and stress” by harnessing technology. In the next five decades, meanwhile, he hoped to either be alive or be known as a man “who helped bring happiness to the world”.

Swing and a miss.

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/tech-design/article/312...
"And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died." - Genesis 9:29

You can argue that Noah was "grandfathered in" since he was born before the 120 year rule. But..

"And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters." - Genesis 11:13
The point is that this article conflates several things and is describing some fairly outdated or inefficient obfuscation techniques of which launderers would be some of the users of.

It goes from Hydra market duffle-bags of cash hiders (lolwut), to chain-hopping and scant mention of privacy coins. It randomly talks about Wasabi wallet same-chain bitcoin mixers, and then talks about Bitcoin Fog's operator being arrested which is much much older technology. It doesn't acknowledge or provide awareness about people actually wanting the privacy coins to begin with or staying within the mixing system (or trading claims to assets in the mixing system), and just assumes people are trying to obfuscate briefly with the end goal of holding non-private coins or fiat.

I don't get the impression that they were avoiding describing useful techniques for criminals, I get the impression that they have no idea.
Could you elaborate the scenario a bit? Two different loadable kernel modules would define two different (even if named the same) functions "func" so "&func" has to be two different pointers... or do you mean that if that "func" was defined in the kernel, and both of those modules are linked against the kernel dynamically, then "&func" should yield the same value? But even now they don't even without CFI: when "func" is defined in the dinamically-loaded library, the "&func" value is the pointer into the (calling object file's) PLT.
Yep. There’s a dangerous line of thinking when people start arguing for positive rights.
It doesn't matter so much wether you were venting or not, but how others perceive your output. Some people are great at that, while many of us are not. It's not about good or bad, skills, or anything like that. It's just, to get better results from communication, it requires anticipation how something will be received. There's often a gap between what others hear, and what someone else said. Many disagreements are just that. Often, just by replacing a word, something will be received differently. Though it's more about empathy and anticipation, being there for others and not expecting much.

It's easy to be liked saying what other people want to hear. When you have things to say that people generally don't want to hear, this needs refinement how to go about it. The best way is to make people realize it for themselves, even if you don't get credit.

How others hear you, matters.
Show HN: AR Telepresence Demo on WebAssembly
>Does the US not differentiate between those who have had it and those that didn't?

No they do not. Public messaging has completely ignored natural immunity.
He used *'s. He got it. ;)
Do power users click on ads though?
Not to excuse this or anything but aren't Verizon, Comcast/Xfinity, etc. also guilty of this? It's an issue with the industry as a whole not just Charter right?
Looking forward to the outcome.

Taking C# as example, I mean being able to do embedded stuff (Meadows, IoT Core), regular desktops, IBM mainframes, game consoles, and mobile OSes, without having to create my own compiler toolchain and self made druntime.
The GBZ80 is much more restrictive, right? I think it's missing the IX and IY registers, as well as the alternate register bank.

[0]: https://gbdev.gg8.se/wiki/articles/CPU_Comparision_with_Z80
It is absolutely okay to not get vaccinated! And if your family shuns you for that then you should question your family and the quality of their relationship to you. Especially because everybody who is afraid of Covid can get vaccinated ... so, then they are reasonbly protected. If they are afraid and not vaccinated then they can ask you to not seek physical proximity. I mean that's fine - but that's not shunning.

Also you do not have any resonsibility to do that for society. The society we live in is not even close to the level of solidarity and empathy to demand anything from an individual beyond respecting the law and paying taxes.
> I have very high antibodies and my physician actually recommended that I hold off on getting the vaccine.

what was their reasoning?
Most subject-specific forums are actually ok. Because posting there demonstrates that you have something worthwhile to care about. Of course one can troll and flamebait on such forums as well but it takes effort and it's not going to seriously rile people up about anything. Twitter is poles apart from that, it's like being in a different universe.
Yup, Twitter: https://twitter.com/PinkPigeonDigi

Or, if you send me a message via the contact form and tick 'submit', you can sign up to our newsletter at the same time.

I'll split that out into a separate newsletter signup in the next few days.

Thanks so much for the kind words, much appreciated!
The original article: https://stopthecap.com/2021/05/26/a-tale-of-two-homes-in-spe...
Not OP, but much of it boils down to partition the work into smaller, simpler chunks. So if you do lose all your context when QA has a nerf war, you haven't lost much.
> I’ve also learned to write code in a way that reduces cognitive load so that interruptions aren’t so disruptive to my productivity.

I have too, but sometimes I have to read other people's code, and I don't have any control over how difficult that is.
High-quality curated content has been SO's goal since day one. The question/answer format is a means to this end. That's why it has come that most people can easily find a solution to their problem. https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/991082088689381376
What the hell is Bell offering? FTTH? FTT neighbourhood then copper?

The product is called "Fibe" but their lowest plan is 10 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up? What on earth type of optics even offers that?
Basic utilities (electric, water, internet) should be run by government, not private enterprise, for the same reason we we do this for roads. Applying market forces to infrastructure has no benefit and many downsides. The value of infrastructure is multiplied by the number of people with access to it, meaning it should connect all of us. That's not compatible with a market system.
As soon as I found myself one degree of separation from drama I packed up and left. It was a major factor in my livelihood and professionally very important, but it's not worth it. I've been adjacent to some people who the Twitter hivemind deathray has focussed its sights on, and it was deeply depraved/disturbing. For me Twitter has nothing to offer that'd make it worth risking that fate.
It's been a while since I had that issue, so can't remember the exact details of what I tried at the time, and the workaround for that hasn't broken recently.
Winning My First Hackathon
Dust concerns were one reason, but avoiding glitches and ensuring the smoothness of position data is another.

> Then, once the vehicle estimates that the legs are within 1 meter of the ground, the algorithms stop using the navigation camera and altimeter for estimation, relying on the IMU in the same way as on takeoff. As with takeoff, this avoids dust obscuration, but it also serves another purpose -- by relying only on the IMU, we expect to have a very smooth and continuous estimate of our vertical velocity, which is important in order to avoid detecting touchdown prematurely.

https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/298/what-...
It did in this case. Nobody would have batted an eyelash if they had gone with, say, US Presidents, a list which excludes women.

This tweaks on that notion. Somebody got angry about it. That person got downvoted. We all learned a tiny lesson about the ways that women get excluded regularly, and how that would make you feel.

If one particular HN poster learned a lesson that not everybody supports them on "I won't complain about lists that exclude women but I will complain about lists that exclude men, and pretend it's about equality", then that's another tiny bonus. Not a big one, but this is the kind of thing that happens in tiny increments.
You have a point. We have been trained to think that "fair market price" is whatever the market will bear and that this is the just price. All you need is to sprinkle some "consent" on it. But a moment's thought shows that no sane person actually believes this. Consider:

(1) A storm hits your area and destroys homes. Hardware stores ramp up prices way up, not because the cost of labor to produce them has increased, but to increase profits because everyone is in a bind and needs building supplies so they have a place to live. Libertarian Man will say "the demand will constrain prices", but it's not a question of constraint per se, but rather that prices are exorbitant (let's say it means the local populace will need to go into a lifetime of debt as a result).

(2) A loan shark is approached by someone who can't get a loan from a bank, but desperately needs one. The loan shark charges compound interest that keeps this person in debt for a lifetime. Some might say "we have usury laws for that", but it's not a question of law per se, but rather that desperation is being exploited to fleece the loaning party.

Now, in practice, the market may often be a relatively good mechanism for determining an approximate just price, but not always and maybe we just have to play this by ear and live with this kind of nonsense (the perfect is the enemy of the good). But let's not pretend the market is some magical force that guarantees the good. I say this as someone who prefers the free market (not unregulated, though) and recognizes both the benefits and how natural it is as opposed to something as dreadful, stifling, and inhuman as a centrally planned economy.
I don’t think I said there weren’t, I was only referring to the posts that were clearly incorrect - they exist everywhere, but Twitter allows misinformed posters to have their speech elevated to the same level as sitting senators.
> I guess this is their admission that you cannot monetize engagement if your community is highly toxic

Heh funny I had the exact inverse assumption: that maybe they realized single-minded attempts to monetize only engagement exacerbates toxic human behaviour.

I'm thinking the truth is probably somewhere between both.

> What I would enjoy would be a button to hide all the accounts that post more often than once per day.

+1 on this thinking! But more vibing with the idea of imposed scarcity, rather that the hyper-customized view of the world.

Related: I personally feel that more elements of consensus reality should play a role in our digital spaces, not each getting our own view just because we can have it. Just because we can fine-tune our reality to our preferences, that doesn't mean that's good for a system for its actors to do so highly. Imho there's a reason human minds generally all evolved to be mostly on the same page in terms of perceived reality (except for a few subtle knobs on some generally minor axes). And the neurotypes that break theses consensus reality rules are generally perceived as maladapted and tend to be ostracized (e.g. schizophrenia, barring value judgements about their treatment in society). I do believe there's an evolutionary lens to place over that vague shared sensibility (ie. what underlying feature of network dynamics did evolution "learn" and tune into?) and imho this all informs how we might build tech :)
> Instead of lionizing celebrities, money, infamy, or hyper individualism, maybe it would be worth respecting wisdom, mastery, expertise, monetary-agonistic accomplishment, and insightfulness.

I wonder if that's ever happened in the history of humanity. I have my doubts.
It's about time blogs + RSS feeds come back :)
This is all theoretical... I think we will get exactly what we wished for and then discover the next worst thing since cancer...
Canada: Remains of 215 children found at Indigenous residential school site
Any other Americans avoid things that they might otherwise do due to real or perceived tax complications? I was hesitant to hire a nanny as that would make me an employer, and add various tax responsibilities. I did a little bit of Robinhood "investing" with a small amount of money during the pandemic just for grins, thinking everything would be neatly wrapped up on a 1099 form, but I accidentally found myself with an unexpected, incomprehensible (to me) "contracts or straddles" 6781 tax form to fill out, all because I made $25 in a specific type of fund. I haven't seriously considered doing digital nomading like the folks in the article but it is something that I might like to try at some point...although the tax issues do scare me.

It's not that I don't want to pay the appropriate taxes, I just don't want to accidentally do the wrong thing and then kick off a painful audit.
The question 'what is a good programmer' comes up regularly, and I've seen answers from 'people who can make stuff that nobody understands' to 'people that make stuff nobody uses' to 'people who make stuff everyone understands and uses'.

I guess it depends on how we look at it.
> Reader mode : Keep up with threads by turning them into easy-to-read text.

So, your current text design isn't easy to read?
That's true. I personally don't mind using banks and don't mind them knowing what I do with my money and perhaps the government knowing as well. But I wouldn't necessarily judge someone who doesn't want to use one.
Maybe you could pay $2.99/month to your Mastodon host, and the ads can go to hell.
Same. Social media is what you make it. If someone's experience with social media is that it's a highly toxic environment, the only person ultimately responsible for that is them.
Writing something new in rust is harder than rewriting because you need to think a lot about your memory model up front. In other languages you can leak all the memory you want and then (maybe) figure enough of it out when you've already shipped/already deployed. In Rust you need to do the up front work, so instead of releasing a leaky program, you don't release a program at all. If there is an existing program you can make assumptions more readily.
> The final straw for me was finding myself angry about the vague opinions of people I don't really care about at all.

I laughed when I read this because I've replaced browsing Twitter while eating breakfast with reading my local newspaper. Today I was so upset by what I read in the paper, the feeling stuck with me all morning. In my head I composed several "letters to the editor" and only now am I finally moving on. I won't write those letters, but I probably would have engaged with that content on Twitter. I don't know what this means, but being outraged at the news is not exclusive to new media.
A lot of them have an incorrect description.
There's a good New Yorker piece on this: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/17/was-jeanne-cal...

TL/DR: on balance the author concludes that it's easier to believe that she was genuine, all in all.
I just checked and while it’s promoted on the Rust site I can’t find a single embedded Rust product. If it existed it would surely be mentioned by the Rust Internet Defense Force. I certainly can’t find any evidence of “massive” Rust activity in embedded in the last half decade.
Are they? I think users are harmed by overzealous webmasters breaking a browser security feature. Sorry, but the people who disabled autocomplete unnecessary ruined that control for everyone.
I'm saying there is literally zero difference on chain between the two scenarios.
For everyone living in an area with no competition other than a singular incumbent telecom or cable company... or perhaps no broadband option at all.... I expect 5G fixed wireless to come into play in a big way over the next 5 years. T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T are going to be eating the cable companies lunch. Likely coaxial networks will become an antique of an older era. the same way POTS (plain old telephone service) did.
Some of the lists have a "Visit" link, but it is missing from many of them for some reason.
My Twitter feed is pretty good, overall positive.

Then again, I curate who I follow pretty closely and I have a long list of political buzzwords suppressed through the "Muted words" feature.

I don't get notifications that contain those words, and tweets that include them don't show in my timeline.
It truly is fascinating to follow the flow of cultures through time - sometimes coexisting, sometimes crashing against one another, yet other times melting together.

For a look at the least assimilated remaining descendants of Scythians (who were largely absorbed by early Slavs by the early middle ages) see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossetians
"The Media" is not a monolith. It's many hills and valleys.
I don't think anyone's saying React is bad, they're saying it's weird that this library depends on it.