skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not all that big of a grant. It's roughly twice the standard NIH R01. I can't imagine the head of NIAID being directly involved in that.
I just quoted from the article. Are you seeing a different web page to me? The 5th paragraph says:

The Oversight Board said the initial decision to permanently suspend Mr Trump was "indeterminate and standardless", and that the correct response should be "consistent with the rules that are applied to other users of its platform".

And the first paragraph says:

Donald Trump's ban from Facebook and Instagram has been upheld by Facebook's Oversight Board.
Not really sure what is so shocking about it.

This is just about what I would expect from governments to behave (both US and China).

This kind of bullshit where people are more concerned about their departments future funding and prospects, and try to bury "unfortunate" incidents is happening in all the governments(and even inside larger companies) I am familiar with. It's a lot easier to bury if you can prevent investigation, than bury results of such investigation. As shocking as might sound this is pretty much businesses as usual in bureaucracy .

For me that doesn't even comes close to Snowden revelations (even though, again we suspected some of it).
Reading about fuzz testing all I could think of was 'is this not property testing?'... That is strange. It sounds like both communities could learn a lot from each other unless there is something I am missing (there probably is..)
It has (tiny) motored wheels mounted at the tips of the chassis...
Chrome and Chromium used bsdiff for updates:

https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/softwar...
I worked for a government research lab and it was the same, only work coming from inside the lab was respected and contractor work was looked down upon.

That's really interesting, since you were so close to Sun they actually thought you were a Sun employee!
> Of course, this scales badly.

Like with plenty of such ideas, the answer is to do it anyway - scale it until it breaks, making sure you're always making profit yourself, and then call it a day. Enjoy your money and do something else. A while later people will forget, and someone else will do the same thing.

(The real answer is, of course, to not do this at all, because it's unethical. But that consideration doesn't stop everyone, unfortunately.)
Would anyone have a look at the photo of the digital Lippmann camera and let me know what you think?

There seems to be a camera on the left-hand side, a beam splitter in the center, a mirror to the top, another mirror on a translation-stage to the right which would leave the bottom for the incoming beam.

So this digital Lippmann camera is "just" a Fourier transform spectrometer that has a camera instead of a single detector element as sensor, right?

Compare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier-transform_infrared_spe...
You can't have too much awesome.
You can do this in Powershell

cat file.csv | ConvertFrom-Csv | ConvertTo-Json
Looks interesting! Tried signing-up for the free emails and no network activity in the networking inspector
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The article says the story was from 2005. Open source was very much widely known at that time. Linux was 13 years old by then, and Sun themselves open sourced both DTrace and Solaris that same year.
It is similar with extreme couponing. I worked at a pharmacy chain in the US, and had a few regular customers that did such a thing. Absolutely amazing what folks can get for little money, though sometimes they had to invest start-up money to get going. After a while, it snowballs and you are paying $10 for $175 worth of stuff.

But the time invested is not small. One of the regular customers did the stuff until she had a child: A baby takes up a lot of the time and mental energy that she previously used for coupons. I think she had months of supplies stocked up before giving birth, though.
TV/film - is there something new even remotely popular across the world that's French?

It was the case up to the 2000's, I think, but I can't even remember the name of a new French director since then. The last one I remember is Luc Besson. Kind of similar story for actors/actresses, are there some major French stars popular across the world?

I feel most of the influences are leftovers from a different era, folks like Depardieu.
No I'm not saying the mechanism has changed, mob rule has probably been a thing since humans organised in groups larger than 5, but the scale and level of scrutiny definitely have.

I'm not familiar with the case of celebrities or Sinead O'Connor specifically, but no celebrity in my lifetime before the advent of this new wave of cancel culture has been completely cancelled the way they are today (even Michael Jackson, who had serious allegations of child molestation, had an O2 concert scheduled shortly before his death).

Even for the average person, if you lost your job due to anti-mob comments in the 50s that didn't bar you from ever finding a job again (which is the case for some today), and this is without even touching on the way some people have had their entire twitter history crawled and pulled apart from a time when they were generally very different people.

As I said, this is probably a function of social media in the modern era more than anything else.
The varint format also isnt as dense on average as it could be and allows for non-canonical encodings. I.e. you can encode any integer in multiple ways (up to 9 or 10 bytes)

The solution for this is to subtract 1 from the integer every time you encode a byte (since the existence of the next byte you're adding already indicates that the intermediate value isn't 0)
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Um, airplanes are constantly undergoing revision and improvements and bug fixes. Only very serious ones result in grounding. Eventually, they become too expensive to upgrade and Boeing/Airbus designs a ground up replacement.

Just like software.
That's an interesting take on language. If you said many cats were blue, given that cats are never blue I'd certainly feel you were justified in saying many were if 10% of them were.

I tend to interpret many as a relative term, meaning "a high number relative to what you're probably expecting". The dictionary is no help here as it just defines many as "a lot", but that in turn is also a relative term.

I think if you want to argue with this point, a better tack would be to argue that the British PM is underpaid and EU staff are what "normal" compensation should look like. Quibbling over whether 10% of them being paid more qualifies as a lot isn't that worthwhile.
Assuming a popular standard transactional database, PostGreSQL for example, you could have a checksum column and a column containing the reference to the previous row primary key. The checksum value could be computed from the previous row checksum and the new row data. You would have to insert data sequentially though, so you would probably need something in front of the database to do that sequentially, and you would probably need some trigger to fail a transaction if the another row exists with a reference to the previous row so you are sure you don't have branches in your tree. All of this would require some PL/pgSQL.
Several years ago there were already more electric charging stations in Japan than there were gasoline pumps (of which there are many!). When I heard that I was very surprised because I hadn't noticed any. So I started looking, and yes they're there - just not so easy to spot. For some reason the ones in my own country are very visible, they are flashy and with lots of lights and big signs.
The 100V (not 110V) network in Japan is indeed a lot of trouble for a lot of things, but it doesn't seem to be a hindrance for EV. It's just that it may not be as many home chargers there as in e.g. the Nordic countries.
An alternative explanation is that the other COVID-19 narrative - that vaccines work, but those who are hesitant are essentially beyond convincing, and this is going to be both a long and boring years long slog to control globally and longer to find the origin - makes for exceedingly boring news.

On the other hand, talking about "If X is true, then..." and spending the rest of the section talking about the lab leak hypothesis as if it was true" is much more exciting.

Especially given there are now three "lab leak" camps - Bioweapon, GoF Gone Wrong, and Genuine Accidental Release of a Natural Virus all of whom claim they have the smoking gun for three mutually exclusive theories.
No, it wasn't, I don't even remember the VIP's name. Met him that once and never heard of him again.
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While I was reading this https://www.facebook.com/help/103873106370583 I have stumbled to this :

"Contacting other people for the purpose of harassment, advertising, *promoting* or other conduct that's not allowed.

A funny thought: Should Facebook disable itself completely along with all users as they using entire platform for marketing?

:)
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In 2013 I was able to pay for something internationally once with Bitcoin when the merchant's credit card processor couldn't handle my credit card. With the price of transactions not maybe that's now practical, but that's one possible application.
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Interestingly, it's also the third best. And the fourth best. And the fifth best. And the...
Ask HN: How do you invent with such contracts?
Reading a proposed employment contract and honestly I'm pulling my hair.

It actually says that anything I make during my time with them -even in non work hours- belongs to them. Same goes for whatever I make 4 months after my termination.

Also that I cannot work for any competitor worldwide -unless me and the competitor is in California!!

How does anybody invent with terms like these?
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So did the CDP1802.
The page says they use something called Courgette which is similar to bsdiff
Nope, never heard back again. I'm not too surprised, Sun was a big company.
SQLite is good and open source.
I've tried MariaDB on a Python project. The connector has bugs very hard to debug. I tried to download the python source, C++ source and failed to locate the bug. I tried to add issue but find nowhere to report. Finally I give up and use MySQL instead. It works like a charm.
Open source adds value, but IMHO being good is first priority.
Ebola Reston did.
It's not a tiny country... it's about average for country size and when you consider that it's an archipelago, the area of the world it controls through territorials waters and such is basically continent sized. New Zealand is actually smack-bang (#75) in the middle of the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...

I'd group countries in 4 categories:

1. Continent sized (Russia, Canada, China, US, Brazil, Australia).

2. Large countries: anything below 1 up to probably about 500k sqkm.

3. Middle of the pack countries: everything from 500k down to about 100-200k sqkm.

4. Small countries. Everything below 100k sqkm (200k sqkm if you want to stretch it out).

The categories are somewhat fluid since for example Indonesia is not continent sized in landmass, but it's an archipelago that does stretch over the area of an entire continent, when you consider it end-to-end and include its territorial waters. Plus having a very high population for your group also moves you up. Germany is average in size but in population it's a large country. Same for Japan.
Its old now but here's a description from Chromium about something they use called Courgette which is similar/related to bsdiff

https://blog.chromium.org/2009/07/smaller-is-faster-and-safe...

The explanation here is pretty fascinating

https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/softwar...
Well, since the Oracle purchase of Sun was only announced in April 2009 and Btrfs was in a stable release of Linux in March 2009, I suspect it was being worked on well before Oracle had that capability, and because it makes different tradeoffs than ZFS, there are reasons to prefer one over the other in both directions.

As for why they haven't done it now? Who can say.
> I invite everyone to read this article about how Wikipedia took several years to implement the "show preview when hovering a link" feature.

But we are talking about Firefox not Wikipedia.
I would be happy to read a full article about mozilla's choices.

Overall the design seems better, but there are some points of this new design that are widely questioned such as the new tab design.

Moreover we don't use Firefox as we use a web page like Wikipedia.
A browser in my opinion must be as discreet and customizable as possible in the user experience, whereas this is not the case for a website that offers a fixed user experience for all users.
The removal of the compact mode for example goes against my vision of what a browser should be.
All this talk about software (in)security within companies reminds me of a typical conclusion after a data leak. When it's a large company, the conclusion is they may, and should, have done better, but it's inherently impossible for a large company to secure everything well enough. When it's a small company, the conclusion is they should have done better, but it's inherently impossible for a small company to, well, do better, they are too small.

Now, I'm all for treating ransomware, and generally all the large scale and/or state-sponsored hacks with a much higher priority, send the drones and whatnot. But this MUST be accompanied by more accountability on the commercial entities.

You're too small to secure sensitive data of hundreds of millions of people? Maybe you shouldn't have amassed this data in the first place. You're too big to secure everything? Well, did you secure ANYTHING? Did you follow reasonable procedures, did you, crazy idea, make sure you can't access critical systems from the internet and/or with a default password, etc.?

And if you fail, and fail you will, there's no perfect system, I believe there should be penalties not for failing, but for not doing enough to prevent it. To refer to all the plane analogies, if your wings are made of cardboard and everybody knew but pretended it's OK, because otherwise it would slightly diminish shareholder value, well, there will be consequences.

In aviation, you could go to jail for signing off on something that you know is not secure, if it causes an accident and people die. Specifically not for accidents, but for neglecting your duty to make sure that you've done all you could. For lying, deceiving, ignoring, faking, for being too lazy or too greedy to do things properly. Sounds familiar?

With large scale infrastructure under constant attacks, people dying because someone couldn't be bothered to do things properly is not an "if" any more. And better hope those autonomous trucks are very, very hard to hack.
And even if it's verifiable as a product of nature, that doesn't negate the possibility that it showed up in Wuhan as the result of a lab leak.
Looks nice, but unresponsive on small screens.
That sounds a lot like Sweden's approach to prostitution, where the clients are punishable but sex workers aren't. The result is sex workers are less safe than they are in countries where prostitution is legal or decriminalised, but the sex market is otherwise undiminished.

It also sounds like how many countries handle drugs, where possession is criminalised but somehow the consumption of drugs doesn't decrease.

Shouldn't we be talking about what actually works?
> The obvious examples that come to mind would be sports. NZ excels in Sailing, Cricket and Rugby against much larger countries.

Those are niche sports, very popular in that part of the world. They're not major sports, though.

Cricket is sort of a major sport, but it's also very culturally concentrated. Outside of UK & some former UK colonies, almost nobody plays it/watches it.

Does New Zealand have any famous footballers, basketball players, athletes, etc.?
> Let's just hope

Is that the best USians have at this point? Hope? After "useless wars, TSA and all the security theater" the best you have is hope it will not repeat itself?
The first US outbreak was in Washington state.
Just by reading your post containing the "deaf democrat" trident of a) lying by omission, b) ad hominem attacks and c) argument from authority, you kinda discredit your entire point.
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Quote from Statistical Rethinking:

> We must keep in mind the lessons: Inferring cause and making predictions are different tasks.

Models that are causally incorrect can make better predictions than those that are causally correct. Yes, it's a paradox.
But in most country's you get sued first for illegally recording other peoples, and your proof is nothing worth because it's illegally obtained.

Better make detailed notes, who said what with time and date.
Not historically. Also remember that Pythagoricians were a mystic cult.
I don't trust "prestigious" science magazines, since they publish substandard research on cannabis for political purpose. I am an expert in that topic. If they do this with cannabis, what else they publish with an agenda?
Oh it needs to be redressed and some knuckles soundly rapped, maybe someone even fired depending on the situation, but suing is a last, last, last resort. "WARNING: Do not feed the Lawyers".
I'd include the US music industry in that. Songs are <<super>> important for learning a language, if you're constantly surrounded by songs of a certain language.

Plus... American multinationals are somewhat close behind. If you want to get a good, well paying job at an American multinational, you have to speak English at least a bit, and you have to know it well if you want to move up the ladder.
What are the benefits of building out a whole separate part of the test framework that handles this? Is there a way to fuzz non-string inputs?
> because a lab leak is theoretically impossible anyway, given the lab safety standards

It's obviously not impossible because we're seeing evidence that it is possibly a lab leak, that's the whole point of the Vanity Fair article. This reasoning works backwards from a theory where a lab leak is "theoretically impossible" but obviously if a fair and impartial investigation revealed that it was a lab leak, then logically that theory is wrong. If theories about lab safety are wrong, that's very important information.

> It is also highly plausible that China has already taken steps, internally. Like, the Wuhan lab is closed now.

That doesn't help other labs overseas. Other countries also perform bio-research in labs and any safety discoveries can prevent similarly bad outcomes internationally as well. If a fair and impartial investigation reveals that foreign labs are susceptible to the same lab leak that caused this pandemic, that's really valuable and essential information in preventing the next pandemic. Whether or not the origin is a direct consequence of Chinese government carelessness or whether it's an accident that could happen to other labs or whether it's not a lab leak at all, we need to know the truth.

> If the answer is to change the whole way China is administered, this will just not happen (unfortunately).

Not with that attitude. If your only response to bullies and bad actors is absolutely nothing, of course they won't change, they have no reason to change. The international community should impose punishments for China's bad behavior and non-cooperation.
They used bsdiff before and now Courgette.
What does an NDA-encumbered GPL document mean in practice? You're allowed to spread the document, but not tell anyone where you got it from?

I once received a library under a modified Apache 2.0 license, where all the conditions under section 4 (attribution, etc.) were just inverted for a given number of years (effectively an NDA), after which the normal Apache 2.0 would apply. Which worked because it came straight from the original copyright owners, but here I assume AOL weren't.
> Yes, building a safe airplane is doable.
It didn't start out that way.

And now only FAA/EASA etc. certified companies and individuals can build a commercial aircraft.

And they can only build the aircraft they are certified to, using the same certified components, and the same certified tools. They cannot change any aspect of the construction without another round with the authorities.

Let me know when the CIOs of listed companies are up for that kind of lifestyle for their email and word processors.
According to Wade's article it's actually even murkier than that. Only Fauci or one other person could have actually overridden the ban to keep the money flowing and prevent oversight of it:

The moratorium, referred to officially as a “pause,” specifically barred funding any gain-of-function research that increased the pathogenicity of the flu, MERS or SARS viruses. It defined gain-of-function very simply and broadly as “research that improves the ability of a pathogen to cause disease.”

But then a footnote on p.2 of the moratorium document states that “An exception from the research pause may be obtained if the head of the USG funding agency determines that the research is urgently necessary to protect the public health or national security.”

This seemed to mean that either the director of the NIAID, Dr. Anthony Fauci, or the director of the NIH, Dr. Francis Collins, or maybe both, would have invoked the exemption in order to keep the money flowing to Dr. Shi’s gain-of-function research, and later to avoid notifying the Federal reporting system of her research.
That blog post is disgusting, and 2007 was not such a long time ago. There is no way one can be:

- the head of diversity, i.e. THE LEADER pushing for justice and equality for minority groups,

- while having an anti-Semitic inner-self, i.e. secretly advocating for the discrimination of a minority group.
They feel free to ask ;-)
Ask them to remove paragraphs you don't like
Widely known... by a few techies. Well, certainly many more than in 1995, right? But can't compare those times to these days.
> "whataboutism" is a twitter stop word to kill reason.

That's not how I use it, at least. I use it as "stop changing the subject", and "two wrongs doesn't make a right".

What am I supposed to say to this distraction, if you're triggered by the word whataboutism?

> It's hypocritical to aggressively combat one energy waster whilst allowing or even demanding 200 others.

If that were the only thing about blockchain, then maybe. But it's not.

But also no, I don't think it's hypocritical in that abstraction level. There are doctors out there who want to help people, yet are not working on malaria. That doesn't make them hypocrits on malaria.

Yes, there is arguably hypocracy. Just like how you would save a drowning child if you walk past them, but you won't give $2 to feed a starving child on another continent, or $10 for a malaria net.

Maybe you actually do. But even then I'm saying you'll ruin your nice shoes to save the drowning child, but then you'll buy new shoes instead of using that money to save another life.

And then we have descended into a completely different point from the value of bitcoin. It's a distraction. You've effectively changed the subject to not have to discuss that you're making the world worse by pumping bitcoin.

In a world where children starve and die from malaria we don't have to discuss any issue at all. How convenient.

> shitcoin like Dogecoin

What makes Dogecoin shit and bitcoin not?
Yeah, 1-2 years, you must've missed it then. Regardless of the sustainability of corporate strategy, the Solaris kernel team pushed out a solid fs and David and Andy capitalized on it. ZFS is technically great, but like the awesome software no one knows about, tying it to Solaris hardware was a mistake. They should've spun ZFS off as freemium open source (against the wishes of the Solaris team./?) almost like what FreeNAS is now.