skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I grant it's totally possible for this to occur naturally, at random (thank you, genetics) -- but when we haven't found any intermediate host animals and there's a lab at the outbreak location that:

Developed chimeric SARS-like coronaviruses
Conducted ’dangerous’ gain-of-function research on the SARS-CoV-1 virus, some of which had been funded by the US government (Asia Times)
Established a 96.2% match with SARS-CoV-2 and a virus they sampled from a cave over 1,000 miles away from Wuhan
Injected live piglets with bat coronaviruses as recently as July 2019
Published a paper on a close descendant of SARS-CoV-1, MERS-CoV, in November 2019
Was hiring researchers to work on bat coronaviruses as recently as November 2019

You have to imagine the very real possibility that it was just an accident.
In modern virtualized environments, there are usually methods for doing I/O that approximately bypasses the host OS so that your VM is doing I/O against physical hardware. This wasn’t always the case several years ago but virtualized I/O performance can now be very close to bare metal if you write the code for it.
The airtags model is completely different. Much more restricted, secure, and private.
I have a bunch of reservations, already when reading just the paper's abstract:

> The Unix shell is a powerful, ubiquitous, and reviled tool for managing computer systems.

Reviled? By those who use it often, it is more loved than reviled.

> The shell has been largely ignored by academia and industry.

Seems like a bit of an exaggeration, but it's true that corporations have a thing for creating custom proprietary software rather than providing shell-script-based solutions.

> While many replacement shells have been proposed, the Unix shell persists.

There is no single "the" Unix shell. bash is probably the most popular, but it isn't "the" shell, singular.

> Two recent threads of formal and practical research on the shell enable new approaches. We can help manage the shell’s essential shortcomings (dynamism, power, and abstruseness)

Again with "the" shell. Anyway, a shall should be dynamic and powerful; and I wouldn't say bash is _terribly_ abstruse. If you apply yourself, your code could actually be rather readable.

and address its inessential ones. Improving the shell holdsmuch promise for development, ops, and data processing.
The sad reality is that that the EU may have issued the fines but there are so many ways to delay paying them that it takes years for the EU to collect. I'm not even sure that Microsoft already paid their fine for the antitrust case from 2004.
Changing designs is what made me realize the need to push for free software and appreciate people like Stallman. I don't want to use the modern, awful designs for Firefox or Android. I prefer firefox as it was before this update, the original skeumorphism of iOS, and Android around the galaxy S3 era. It's incredibly frustrating that my user experience has to continuously degrade over the years just so managers and UI designers at these companies can justify their promotions. I immediately disabled the firefox proton changes and will continue to use the old UI or switch browsers when it's no longer possible.
I keep wishing someone would take C#'s concept of dynamic references and run with it.

Optional static typing, like what you get in Typescript or MyPy, is interesting, but defaulting to dynamic and making static opt-in undermines a lot of the potential benefit of static typing. I don't think that it works the other way around, though. My hunch, which I am not particularly prepared to defend, is that, at least as long as you've got good type inference, defaulting to static and making dynamic opt-in does let you keep most of the practical benefits of dynamic typing.

I guess it's kind of like unsafe code blocks, also from C#: Pointers and weak typing can be very useful in some circumstances, but I'm generally much happier having the compiler try to guarantee as much as it can, and then sometimes be able to tell it, "Nah, hang on, I got this one."
Note that these numbers are intended for text readability. They don't directly relate to the visibility of a rectangle.
If the rabbits aren't just staying in your yard, then I'd say you're being a bad neighbor. In my experience, the rabbits dig a bunch of holes, and leave piles of poop everywhere, even on porches and sidewalks. If you want to have a wild animals living in your yard, you should move to a rural area.
This might be politically difficult when the skilled workers (or their ancestors) were persecuting the population of unskilled workers for generations.
I used to use tree-style tabs with the normal tab bar hidden. I've moved off Firefox so no guarantee the new big update hasn't broken this, but I used the following userChrome.css (if you're unfamiliar with that then check out https://www.userchrome.org)

/* Hide tab bar in FF Quantum */
@-moz-document url("chrome://browser/content/browser.xhtml") {
#TabsToolbar {
visibility: collapse !important;
margin-bottom: 21px !important;
}

#sidebar-box[sidebarcommand="treestyletab_piro_sakura_ne_jp-sidebar-action"] #sidebar-header {
visibility: collapse !important;
}
}

I think I probably got it from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/comments/d4hx49/ff69/

Edit: More authoritative source shared in the comments which is probably a better starting point (and has loads of other configuration too): https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/wiki/Code-snippets-fo...
Leave where?... How...? Many of these South Africans are rock bottom poor.
Some of them are but for quick stuff it’s hard to match the speed and flexibility of the shell
> Even when the grass is thick it decomposes fast.

I don't know what region you're in but that was not my experience in Georgia. During the summers there isn't enough rain and the grass clippings just dry into hay.

It doesn't matter if you vary your cut pattern and go over the windrows of cut grass from the previous week to scatter them about. It builds up and quickly kills the grass. It's next to impossible to maintain a healthy looking lawn without picking up the clippings.

You can try composting but, unless you're diligent about watering and turning your piles, it's too slow and you eventually run out of space due to the amount of grass clippings that amass.
I'm choosing a specific sentence that has been highlighted as unacceptable and is meant to disgust. I'm sure there is much more to the book Chaos Monkeys than "SF women weak," yet he was fired for that comment within his book, with no care given to context.

Hence the question, why the double standard?
The two big things that keep me from moving out to the country are availability of healthcare services and access to major airports.

West Lafayette would be out of contention because of the distance to Chicago and Indianapolis, for example
And at the same time eu is one of the best places to practice tax avoidance, with all inconsistent tax codes, combined with free market.

Those fines are fighting symptoms. Root causes of inconsistent law aren’t targeted. And for a reason - it allows EU to be business friendly, and at the same time keep tools to go after companies they view unfavorable.
Can anyone explain why companies like to make unnecessary design changes? It seems to be that there’s no benefit to this tab change. Other products like Discord and Google Meet have also been making slight UI changes recently and I find it nothing but a nuisance.
Looking at your comment history you seem to be projecting. Get back to Reddit.
Hah. Reminds me of this incident: https://newatlas.com/ai-art-auction-obvious-belamy/56984/

Someone downloaded the code for GANs (generative adversarial networks) from Github, generated (sampled) a painting using it, slapped the GAN objective function as a signature, and sold the painting for over $400k!
Why don’t hibernating bears get osteoporosis?
Depending on where you want to buy it can be impossible
How so? Are you running actual containers (i.e. on Linux bare-metal host) as opposed to docker VM's on a foreign OS?
Show HN: Gmail threads simplifier. Extension to navigate large threads fast
We know exactly what goes in an airtag message. It’s very limited. https://positive.security/blog/send-my
“ In computer science, bare machine (or bare metal) refers to a computer executing instructions directly on logic hardware without an intervening operating system. “

The definition may be changing, but at least Wikipedia still has it this way.
I'm honestly speechless in trying to come up with some reply to it. It's one of the most tone-deaf replies I've ever read on this site.
A scientist in a potato field founded the field of radio astronomy
Did the zoonotic origin story have a favored political party in the US? Who even introduced it?

I wish Trump had never commented on this stuff at all. I feel like what that did is take advantage of people's rage over Trump to sell them facts that they would have never otherwise bought.

Not everything is political, contrary to that foolish saying. I think politics ruins everything it touches, like Midas, except it turns everything to trash.
I don't think anyone thought Avenatti had any substance to him.

Nice try and trying to equate Fauci with Avenatti - please return to the cable Fox hole which you emerged from.
I also made my own tweaks https://kevincox.ca/2021/06/03/firefox-proton-tweaks/

- I changed the "button" to be a simple rectangle the entire height of the tab-bar.

- I removed extra space between the pinned tabs and the regular tabs.
https://archive.md/InXnJ
I think you can safely assume they won't throw it away instantly. Unless they introduce some new feature that is only possible with the new UI, Mozilla will probably just keep it around to appease fans until they redesign it again.
Problems with SOTA Text Summarization Systems
The best shops I've worked at have all either walked you through setting up your dev environment or had it ready for you to explore on day one.
Thank you for your candor! The socio-economic inequality in South Africa is staggering and its a powder-keg that's just waiting to be set off. Additionally, there is a wide chasm between black and white youth unemployment - I believe only 6% of white youths are unemployed.

I think blaming Zuma alone for mismanagement is not entirely accurate: none of the successive governments prioritised eliminating inequality - not the Apartheid government (obviously), but also not Mandela, Mbeki, Zuma or Ramaphosa. The economy is reliant on the exploitation of cheap labour, but this will have to change if the political will is there. BEE (affirmative action) had the right idea, but the execution was not great as it was riddled with corruption. It did help with the creation of a growing black middle class, but the floor wasn't raised.

There is a lot of corruption, but much could have been done to improve the education in under-resourced areas - a lot of rural and township schools do not provide high school science subjects because they do not have labs or lab equipment, not to mention teachers.

The spectre of Bantu Education will haunt non-metropolitan schools for a long time to come. "Bantu Education" was a lower-quality education black people had to endure under Apartheid - just enough to prepare one for non-skilled factory or mine work. A large number of present-day black teachers studied under Bantu Education, or if they are young, were taught by teachers who qualified under bantu education. It's a mess.
$350 per month full time (albeit with accommodation sometimes included). Surely this would be unheard of in the US?
The Asian Tigers rose precisely through masive investment in education.

Edit: you don't have to believe me, read any half decent economic study about them.
SO has a SEO moat.

As soon as the answers I need start appearing in some other site, I will use the new site.
What would be the point if you could opt out? The rules are so you don't have the one neighbor with trash everywhere, rusted out cars, and so on. Why bother if that guy can opt out?
Wait, you don’t develop coordination picking up tiny bugs, jumping rock to rock, climbing trees or moving over uneven terrain? The irony is particularly deep here because I’ve come to appreciate how much more agile I am as an adult due to my outdoorsy upbringing in a mountainous area.

You don’t develop valuable social skills asking adults about things you want to learn more about? Learning how and when to ask questions is extremely valuable. And that’s not to say you can’t play plenty of social games in a woods –– many that don’t work on grass, tag is way more fun, any sort of fantasy/imagination type game is much more vivid, hide and seek is actually a fun game.
I don't think the voting system matters that much except as a final refinement on top of an already working system. Some competition is worlds better than no competition. My state is effectively a one party state.

Voting for the lesser of the evils is also voting for the better of the evils. At least with a viable 2nd party there is pressure on the first party to suck less. When people blindly vote for one party they are free to misbehave. Let them get away with that for a generation or and it becomes the new normal.
While Java deployment has definitely become a lot easier in the past decade, I'd contend that java jars dont really solve the same problem. Uberjars get close, but you still have to either deploy the JVM yourself or ensure that your target environment is appropriately provisioned.
Seeed ReServer: Compact and Powerful Edge Computing
Not only that, but we spend billions of dollars on defense to protect those airlines from bad actors. I mean when a person blows up a bomb in an airplane, our response isn't "build bomb-proof airplanes".
I think they meant electronic sources that you can only access if you are a student or faculty member at the university.
Yes

Just all the other stuff plus audiobooks
Americans can identify accents from within the US. Any such accent would be identified by foreigners at least as American and probably as coming from a coast, the central US and the south.
Ask HN: What do you use to pay out multiple people (Stripe/Wise/PayPal, others?)
Hi all,

I'm lead dev at Tesults (https://www.tesults.com) and I'm looking at options to pay out users participating in our affiliate program.

We're happy with using Stripe to receive payments and manage subscriptions but paying out is limited to US accounts only that's quite disappointing because we like Stripe. Tesults is currently based in the UK and need to pay out to people globally. I'm investigating Wise, PayPal and looking at others and wondering what others here are doing. Keen to here about other options I may not have considered.

Having an API is useful, rather than having to manually upload a CSV file.
Let me tell you all about that, in a much more coherent article.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1200696/
But if 1-5% of your data is affected, is it even worth doing anything about it?

Server side logs could be useful for detecting abnormalities indeed, but for getting overall usage statistics, i doubt the occasional bot or user with disabled/blocked JS execution is at all relevant.
How could anyone live on that kind of money in the US?
It's been a while since I used a Mac so I can't speak to that, but this is categorically NOT the case on my Linux (Kubuntu) and Windows machines.

I have TST enabled with the "regular" tab bar disabled, and can very much still see/use the window buttons.
There seems to be conflicting information. Sounds like they had orders lined up in 2005. One source says industrial launch was on 6 October 2005, another says final approval for the launch got delayed to 2006. All a bit ambiguous.

But in any case, it looks like Airbus has a similar development timeline for new planes that Boeing does. I suspect that is broadly applicable to other manufacturers as well. As a sanity check, I looked at the development of the smaller airliner from Bombardier (now Airbus A220) and it was January 2007 for industrial start, to September 2013 for maiden flight.
"In this case, it is irrelevant what the source of the pandemic was ..."

...

"Leak of a natural or modified virus would be just as bad. Same if it's from consumption of rare animals sent from remote places or research on the samples from them."

I disagree.

I actually think "lab leak" is better and more optimistic news than a natural outgrowth or animal consumption, etc.

Lab leaks are a problem we can fix - probably without too much trouble. They don't represent a fundamental problem with accelerating globalization, urbanization and travel.

On the other hand, a natural origin or a human-animal crossing due to animal husbandry in or near urban areas ... or "bush meat" consumption ... those vectors could indicate that globalization, urbanization and travel have crossed a threshold where events such as this become likely and will recur regularly.

Given the relatively recent emergence of SARS and MERS, I have been fearful that our very connected, urbanized and globalized world (which I enjoy greatly) is at risk.
Show HN: Mist – The Chrome Extension that reminds you to be more mindful
Also, if your lawn is not too huge, you can try out a spindle (mechanical) mower. They are much easier to push than I imagined and give a very clean cut since they work like scissors and don't just chop the grass off.
> But instead of reversing sweetheart legislation that makes it easy to ship jobs overseas and bring in cheap labor at home,

No or low taxes on imports is sweetheart legislation? There is no way US labor prices (some of the highest in the world) were ever going to compete with the labor prices in developing countries where families live in a single room. Not to mention the lack of labor and environmental standards.

I am not aware of any US import taxes that were removed to allow this labor price arbitrage to occur. It was simply a fact of international shipping efficiencies making trade and the labor price arbitrage much easier.
> so youths that are currently employed make barely more than the existential minimum.

Designer clothing and smartphones are the existential minimum?
I had a similar complaint so I wrote this in ruby https://github.com/nburns/utilities/blob/master/rson
Do you leave in LA, or had a long and deep history living LA?

Wondering where your bad faith come from.

Back in the old days where I live in China, there were plenty of situations where people had no other way to engage the economy, and had to be lazy. They gamble, they prostitute, they murder as well. The government was absolutely powerless to do anything, simply because they had no whatever resources to fix those. Then people just left. Look at what's happening in China's north east provinces. Same situation.
With HN recently devolving into a propaganda site for the lab leak conspiracy theory, recent UFO mania, and now long-debunked miracle cure truthers making a comeback, I guess this will be my last visit to this site. The chaff is just not worth the wheat anymore. Have fun everyone!
Despite all this criticism (because negative 'insightful' comments are what drive clicks nowadays), I just switched back to Firefox from Edge BECAUSE I love the new tabs' appearance.
Not entirely, but I have noticed I do more skimming of books when I read lately. Many popular books in the past decade feel like the authors have taken sparse material and expanded it with unnecessary elaboration until it becomes book-length.

My favorite books are the dense ones, where I feel the need to read cover to cover or even read twice lest I miss something.

> In their place is a mix of podcasts, blogs, other articles, YouTube videos, and HN (a lot of which aren't reading at all but scratch the same itch for me)

I’d suggest a trial of removing some or all of these from your life for a while. Maybe a week out of every month. I’ve noticed that a lot of bite-sized time fillers feel satisfying in the moment but are overall less fulfilling than other tasks they replaced. For example, I’ve found that when I have 10 minutes to spare I’m happier if I go outside and go for a walk than if I click through HN on my phone. However, unless I make a conscious effort to go for the walk, I’ll automatically choose pulling out my phone because it’s convenient and low effort.

The most fulfilling activities are often not the most accessible.
Same situation in Nigeria. With unemployment rate at 33.3%, underemployment at 22.8%, and youth unemployment at 42.5%, Nigeria is sitting on a time bomb. Youth unemployment is actually worse than it's projected. Nigeria is currently the world's poverty capital, and also, with the highest number of out-of-school children who roam the streets begging. Is there any future for the country? Nigeria has a long road of redemption to travel.
Imagining a backyard infested with turtles made my day :)

But I totally agree with you.
To other readers: Not necessary to travel to SA to confirm truth of this description. A few minutes “driving” the roads with Google Street View will suffice.
This treatment may or not be effective. Hopefully it is. To me, this analysis seems pretty basic and surface-level. It fails to examine other factors going on which may also be mitigating the number deaths in different areas. It really doesn't have the rigor of anything scientific. It's like a collection of coincidences. Unfortunately, I see anti-vaxxers using this as an excuse to not get the vaccine on social media a lot nowadays.

edit: great, one of the promoters of this crap downvotes me before it gets flagged and now I lost karma because no one had a chance to come back and undo it

edit2: thank you whoever restored it!
Urban or suburban universities are entirely different than "college towns" particularly in the midwest and southeast.

Berkeley and Palo Alto have very little in common with these places - it would be more like Madison, Ann Arbor, Champaign and Urbana, Iowa City, Bloomington, Normal, etc.
The government should make it a criminal offence to pay a ransom to hackers. Just as with kidnappings, when you pay ransoms, you reward the criminals.
This statement is true for many other industries.
Here's the Verge article that this Reuters article quotes, but does not link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/3/22474738/facebook-ending-p...
De-propagandized title for Western audiences: The lab-leak theory: inside the race to legitimize blaming Chinese for absolutely everything, in order to cover our own failures

This new, wholly revamped narrative now comes with an Expanded Feature Set™, containing:

- 5 New Ways You Can Blame China without seeming like a Trump-nutbag, or Conspiracy Tin Foilist

- Talking points to refute the "racism is racist" balderdash pushed by pro-China sympathizers

- Impress your friends with Loads of Data and Legitimate Experts™, they'll never dare question you again

- In just 3 Days You'll Breathe a Sigh of Relief as You Discover it wasn't hopeless Western democratic mismanagement and ineptitude that lead to countless unnecessary deaths, but really it was China all along, as you should have suspected, you naughty pseudo-commie
I was expecting something Theranos-esque
It's really ironic that MegaTaylorism is touted as such a great "innovation."

I wonder if, like Uber is doing with transport, Amazon is scaffolding their warehouse processes so that it will be an easier transition when the day comes to replace all the wetware with robots.
Yeah good luck keeping plants with kids running around kicking a soccer ball
It's true for me.
> For me, the "instant back button" moment was the little pop-up at the bottom of the screen that played a loud chime sound.

I normally have my sound muted, precisely to avoid such nuisances. But this site shows why even that strategy is not always enough.
I think there's a standard Firefox preference to un-merge the tab bar and window bar. Maybe that would help?