skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can, without realizing it, be in an infinite loop, copying others, till you burn out.

+1, I was there, for years. Heck, I am there, still and again. I'm surely going to finish that Zettelkasten script I started in 2012; I just have to reconsider... LOL.

This HN post really resonated with me:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17893139

tl;dr for the post -- if you start with a method, you'll very probably end overengineering your system. Organizing your stuff per "use-case" might be more fruitful. Chances are you're not the Niklas Luhmann you think. (Then again, it's also fun to think that Niklas Luhmann was just another regular guy, so the simple "hammers and nails" he crafted might as well be used by a regular person like me. :)

Also, I love forgetting. Maybe our brain isn't that bad a tool, so most of the really important stuff actually "floats on the top" by itself?
That does seem like it'd be a good idea for them, actually.
There were a bunch of things in the past month or so that flipped the pandemic narratives in general, I'm thinking that made people start to question the rest. Here's some others:

* A Wired article detailed how the whole basis for social distancing and masking was wrong, based on two unrelated facts that got mixed together 60 years ago: https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwu...

* Texas and Florida eliminated not just lockdowns but also all mask usage and the predicted spike in cases didn't happen.

* Fauci was caught lying to Congress about funding gain-of-function research.

* And probably the most direct trigger for this topic, Buzzfeed got and released Fauci's emails through a FoIA request just a couple days ago, which among other things revealed that he was warned about it possibly being a lab leak right at the beginning of the pandemic.
If by diverse you mean characteristics such as ethnicity or gender/sex for example, then you're right. The value it (may) add doesn't justify optimizing my hiring pipeline for to increase their representation in my organization. After all, I'm not interested in building a mosaic of all sorts of people. I'm interested in meeting goals of my business. Everyone who can contribute to that effectively is welcome.

When we have a candidate who is from a "minority" group and we treat them differently because we assume they suffered more to get where they are so they paid their due and now are entitled to the job position, isn't that an unconscious bias too?

When we look at white men and assume they had an easy ride in life, isn't that an unconscious bias too?

Look, everyone belongs to different groups at the same time so they have more privileges and advantages in some areas, while in a minority group in another. How far should we go? should we also check who has the least privilege and representation within a minority group before we hire them? Do people in minority groups ever run out of privilege once they acquire it?

This whole idea of treating people differently based on their race or other irrelevant attributes is discriminatory and racist. How the hell did we get here? I don't know.
You can't insist on a signup for a demo of your product. 3/4 of your visitors will just click back. Myself included. There's no way I'm receiving junk mail for 50 years.
Does no one else remember the videos out of China with people laying dead in the streets, falling over as they walked, convulsing behind the steering wheels of cars? Who paid for all that acting, scenes, and filming and then have it presented as “news”?

CCP owns Hong Kong, that was over in 1997, the only surprising thing about HK is that China waited this long to make it better known. Now... The country of Taiwan on the other hand, it’s going to be a bit more tense there for some time.

EDIT: Added links from Jan, most videos have been removed but the articles and screenshots are there. The one I specifically wanted was removed from YouTube and I can’t find it, showed a guy being checked by a PPE marshmallow then nearly immediately going into spasms in his car.

EDIT2: To whoever might have been upset at my thoughts on Taiwan; I updated it with some italics for you.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7923981/Coronavirus...

https://www.ibtimes.sg/china-virusnew-videos-wuhan-show-coro...

Here is snopes with an eye roll worthy fact check
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/people-collapsing-coronavi...
“Unproven” ok, thanks for that guys.
I mean to be fair there were actually WMD in Iraq

https://www.wired.com/2010/10/wikileaks-show-wmd-hunt-contin...
Sure, but terrorism has always been the blanket "fuck it, max charge it, we can't be bothered to ACTUALLY come up with legislation" so maybe don't fuck it and work out a proper set of laws.
The decision talks about a gates-up-or-down analysis, which seems like the seed of a reasonable test: when the gates are up, entering a restricted area isn’t criminalized; when the gates are down, picking the lock or finding a home in the wall is criminalized.

I haven’t read the decision closely enough yet to see how well developed that idea is.
> In her twit she actually admitted that she was offensive, while “Sorry you’re offended” should be read as “I am sorry to hurt your feelings but I stand my ground”

"“Sorry you’re offended”" a priori concedes that what was said is offensive because it acknowledges that the recipient was offended.

I explain in detail why they are effectively the same here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27389282
> Strange that this article tries to paint anyone right-wing who postulated this theory way before the mainstream finally accepted it as being racist or crazy

That'd be because of the company they keep. If you're aligning yourself with with incompetent nutjobs like the modern GOP and its allies, it's kind of hard to take anything you say seriously even if it is grounded in hard fact or within the realm of possibility.

> Thousands of social media accounts got banned on all the major platforms during months of suppression all because this theory didn't fit Big Tech's political agenda.

Source for this claim? IIRC people of all stripes have been banned for a variety of things in recent months/years. But it just so happens right-wing pundits with audiences in the millions have been pushing thinly veiled white nativism and wild conspiracy theories that tend to lead to despondent, isolated people taking matters into their own hands in a violent fashion.

"Antifa" doesn't have a mouthpiece or a talking head on primetime TV every night, but some of their more popular accounts(followers in the tens of thousands) have been banned along similar lines.
Sorry, I did make a mistake in marrying my argument to "fasting." I meant, modulation I guess. You don't want to blast your system with dopamine constantly. Also "reducing the impulsive behaviors that are rewarded by it" is basically the same thing as "don't do the thing that gives you dopamine".
Thanks for the tip about zap-up-to-char.

> 'd/something' is doable with C-s something RET C-w
Doesn't this need to be C-s something C-r RET C-w? Because C-s positions the cursor at the end of the search match.
As others are pointing out it various ways in this thread, to put it bluntly, this viewpoint treats it as a 100% computer science theoretical question, there are many many angles to making this more painful, even just via signalling. Ex. the pipeline hackers backing off and creating a code of conduct for themselves, then disappearing altogether
Clear cache, delete all temp files....

Never heard about that browser. Try Chrome/Brave? Try incognito mode. You're using OpenBSD, may want to jump into their forums... Good luck.
But humans more closely resemble zoo wolves than small families of wolves alone in the wild, which is the situation cited in the article. Zoo wolves do have alphas. Do you interact only with your nuclear family, alone in the wilderness?
Technically you would use

Array.forEach(e => f(e))

If you don't care about transformations. Which is basically the same as your for

Map is when you want to return a new collection with each original item in it mapped to a "different" thing.
Would Fauci have known that gain of function research was now legal again?! Of course he would. Whether or not to fund that sort of risky research that has gone back and forth in legality is precisely the kind of thing that his job required him to know, isn't it?
> It was China's responsibility and the whole world must make sure to force China to ban wet markets.

lol, have you ever been to a wet market? Are you sure you even know what they are? It’s a typical Asian stall market that they hose off every night.

I’ve been to “dry” markets that they’re still cutting the faces off hogs and slaughtering chickens next to fruit vendors. That’s not particularly better.

I’m not sure if you think “banning wet markets” is a thing, but it’s definitely not.
Social media is in a very confuzed middle ground between publisher and public square. I don't want them to be the arbiters of truth nor do I want them to be megaphones for misinformation nor powerful tools for easy population manipulation... but here we are. The solutions aren't just in content moderation, but whatever it is, it is difficult.
PM and EM Rules of Engagement
It would be interesting to know how many scientists there are and how often they are admitted to the hospital. Then you could say how likely or unlikely the event was. Obviously there would be other factors like season, etc. But maybe this is a big outlier. We can't say without more numbers.
Fauci definitely knew about funding gain of function research. [1] Whether he was aware of funding going to WIV, that's a different question.

[1] https://twitter.com/ydeigin/status/1400321255824371714
You might try submitting that as an "Ask HN".

There are a number of cybersecurity folk here (tptacek, nickpsecurity, etc.)

And a few earlier threads: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
The extra electricity costs at DC fast chargers goes to the power utility in demand charges, for the equipment demanding so much current instantaneously.
At the end of the day it's up to everybody to apply their own version of the "reasonable person" test. Might a reasonable person misconstrue what you're doing to be unethical? If so, rethink your approach. Maybe there is no other option, but often there is.
Unit 731 Japan's Biological Warfare Project
you want your kernel to do that because it's the source of truth. And what if you want to audit execution that includes binary blobs you don't own the source of?
Except for some extra trivialities, like everything that isn't an ex command (and some that are).
> To just dismiss it and not try to investigate it, even at the highest levels of our government and public health bureaucracies, strikes me as negligent at best.

But this is the opposite of what's happened.
Hong Kong cracks down on Tiananmen commemorations, arrests vigil organiser
Yes, he knew. Here's the presentation he did on gain of function research back in January 2018 [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/ydeigin/status/1400321255824371714
Interesting, thanks for the context. I get that its tough to find the right dividing lines on these in a university context, though I admit I'm partial to more integrated approaches. Like, I can't help but imagine teaching ethics within a tech context would be far more stimulating for CS students than a general ethics course.

I guess the good part about a general ethics course would be exposure to students in other majors that think a bit differently, which would hopefully open up CS students perspectives.

On the other hand, a CS specific course would be able to do something like assign students a project to build something, and then follow it up with questions of whether that should be built at all, because the thing in question was ethically problematic.
I’m not, it’s clear you’re too lazy to even consider anything until it’s kicked down to you by the political machine
One popular case for :checked JavaScriptless visual state is popups of various kinds; these days, many of those can be done with <details>, which is normally semantically better out of the box and generally equally capable (even down to things like “click anywhere outside and it closes” via some full-viewport ::before, on the summary rather than label in this instance).
> a very poorly designed site allows "My-Obscure-User-Agent", but denies all other User Agents.

> to authorize access to a specific set of internal clients,

Are you, the person, authorized to access the site? If yes, setting a User Agent header to "My-Obscure-User-Agent" is truthful (insofar as it bears on whether you (the person) are authorized), regardless of whether you are using the prescribed internal client. If you are not authorized, the use of said internal client doesn't change that.

Edit: as a analogy, suppose you took a job and your employer provided you with a uncomfortable uniform jacket which your employment contract stipulated you must wear when on the job. If you acquired a more comfortable jacket and dyed it to resemble the uniform, your employer would (arguably) be within their rights to refuse you access (blocking by user-agent), but if they let you in, that does not mean you have entered (the employee-only portions of) your workplace without authorization. Same applies to cars, phones, power tools, etc; you may have done something wrong by bringing them to work, but that something is not unauthorized entry.
What makes you think it's less probable than natural origins? The wet market has probably been there for 1,000 years and this hasn't happened. Compared to the virus appearing in one of 3 labs in the world that would be studying it.
One of India's biggest YouTubers (200M subs) threatens to pull out over RTM
RTM: Right to Monetize

https://thevocalnews.com/tech/motivational-speaker-sandeep-maheshwaris-open-letter-to-youtube-over-unfair-change-in-policies/29182/

https://youtubemini.com/sandeep-maheshwari-an-open-letter-to-youtube/

From the YouTuber, Sandeep Maheshwari, in Hindi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnMiKW2gCq4
You make some interesting points, but I don't think you can get around the logic that more people on the planet has a significant contribution to global warming (with all other things kept constant).

If we if ignore population size/growth as a factor, we will ignore possible solutions related to that variable.

Reducing the world's population doesn't have to some dystopian horror show, with forced sterilization and mass cullings.

Perhaps the most cost efficient way to combat global warming is lifting the world's poorest out of poverty. It's been shown as populations become richer/educated their growth slows and shrink over time.
Good argument for government imposition of external costs via taxes, regulation etc.
I understand you’re self interested, so why are you even commenting on this thread? Get back to your ‘life’ for however rewarding that is to you
Useless, to you. Having weekend security incident response people with auditing like this we love because their system is actually introspectable
Is that true? There are polar and temperate sharks, and I know from my local diving there are quite a lot out even when temperatures are around 7-10 degrees C.

I suppose most of the type I see are less glorious varieties about the size of my arm, but sharks nonetheless.
I read the blog post and it seems like you feel like you have to sell this product yourself. But you don't have to do all that, hire a salesman? Pay them commission. That's what they do. They enjoy the challenge.

Also maybe hire a manager? It's a job that many people are good at. They will run the warehouse and report back to you. If your most valuable contribution is technical guidance and software improvements, then label yourself the CTO and hire experts in these other areas.
So you agree with me but believe the probability is low. That's fine.
It’s covered in the article and it’s called RaTG13 and no one can get a straight answer on where it was acquired or when. However independent researchers found it is identical to a virus previously known as RaBtCoV/4991 that made several miners ill in 2012.

It’s 96.2% similar not 98%. The issue is that coronaviruses in nature don’t mutate fast enough for that to be the missing link, and they have tested something like 80,000 animals since the outbreak without finding anything closer. One possibility is that the gap was closed through gain-of-function or serial passage research.
There are quite a few combination 7-11 gas stations that I’ve seen on road trips. I’d guess those are the targets.
Whether or not I agree with everything you wrote and sourced here, let me offer some enthusiastic praise for such a comprehensive and well-informed writeup. We should all aspire to be able to post something as substantive as this.
Right you are. But you're supposed to run grant proposals past a board which was created as part of the end of the funding moratorium, and it's been alleged this wasn't done, and that was routine for either Fauci's institute or the NIH as a whole.
Ask yourself this, then. Would you be content to replace your iPhone with an older iPhone that fulfills the same needs? Maybe an iPhone 6S for a half-decent camera by today's standards? Or even an iPhone 5c? If you only need it for essential needs, how basic should an iPhone be?
Those bets could be easier to trace than the ransom payment though. Is there a way to make market bets completely untraceably?
Apparently you haven't read the Fauci FOIA emails.
> Oh, ok. So before his only reward was his "public servant salary", but now that you know he's the most highly paid government official (including the President)

He is far from the top paid government official. That honor, by a long shot, in nearly every state in the country, goes to college athletic coaches[1].

https://fanbuzz.com/national/highest-paid-state-employees/
The key difference seems to be restructuring the course to include EBM (Energy Based Models). From the README:

I thought I was going to repropose the same practica I've used during NYU-DLSP20, last year edition, just in different order.

But I couldn't.

This year's students have LV-EBMs on their side. We told them about the cake and now I cannot pretend it doesn't exist and teach as if they were unaware of the elephant in the room. It would have been intellectually dishonest. Henceforth, I've redesigned my whole deck of slides.

...

Last year material is still valid. This year you have a different take. A more powerful one.
The tone of many comments is certainly unfortunate, and we certainly shouldn't go from unjustified confidence in natural origin to unjustified confidence in lab origin; I'd put the odds near a coin flip myself. That's perhaps a backlash to the last year, though, during which anyone pushing for investigation of this reasonable hypothesis was maligned as a conspiracy theorist or worse.

For example, here's a message from an academic virologist quoted frequently in the mainstream media with a wide Twitter following, who calls Yuri Deigin's summary of the evidence for lab origin a "Turner Diary-esque manifesto". (The Turner Diaries is a novel about a race war, popular among violent white supremacists including Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber.)

https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/13462322082063810...

That kind of rhetoric is nothing unusual from anonymous Internet trolls, or even from politicians. It was strange to see from scientists, though. I don't think the backlash is good, but it's not surprising.

Finally, if the CCP wanted to stop this speculation, then they could allow an open investigation, giving international scientists full access to the WIV's documents and samples. Perhaps the reason that the CCP hasn't is just an authoritarian state's reflexive secrecy, and there's nothing to actually cover up; but if that's the case, then they have only themselves to blame for the suspicion.
> You might complain that the Brasilian is leaving money on the table

He's not though. He's undercutting someone else to get the business. Race to the bottom is one of the most fun features of capitalism!
Show HN: Mstrap, a tool for automated dev environment provisioning
Aha, nice! Where has this site been all my life?
Definitely B.
> Therefore: When you generate a request that spoofs the obscure user agent string, it is authorized only if you were also authorized to use the obscure agent. The string is a secret like any other, even if it's a secret shared by the entire group of people who were provided with the obscure agent.

"it is authorized if and only if you were also authorized", but otherwise yes, exactly.
A.I. Drone May Have Acted on Its Own in Attacking Fighters, U.N. Says
Can you explain a bit more what do you mean by "it doesn't parse tests"?
What you said upthread stood out to me.

> suggesting that lazy people investigate and seek out the truth instead of clinging to dogma that validates their biases

What's more common with the "do your own research" types is seeking out sources of information that validates their biases. And calling everything else "dogma" or "MSM" or whatever.

I know my own field (software) and I'll readily call out BS when I see it. In this field, I can trust my own judgment after doing my own research. I don't care for my doctor's opinion on encryption or network protocols. It's likely to be seriously misinformed or lacking in perspective.

By the same coin, I recognize that I don't have the expertise or a sufficiently strong knowledge base to form a serious opinion on other things just on the basis of "research" i.e. typing some terms into a search engine. That's intellectual humility, not laziness.
> Is there anyone who doesn't think "company culture" is bullshit?

There shouldn't be, but if life has taught me anything, it's that there's always an audience for whatever bullshit someone is selling.

Politics in the US over the past few years provides proof of this that's so far past reasonable doubt it's not funny.
Hmmm. Good question. I was using standard format to mean two things:

1. Common code format across the Power platform, and

2. the branding MS was using to describe everything that would be put under source control.

I have some doubts about whether the second point is true.

This article (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/power-fx/ove...) discuss PowerFX stored as YAML files under source control.

And this article which predates the PowerFX announcement (https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/source-code-files...) discusses UI YAML files under source control.

But nowhere does it say that they are branding the UI YAML files under the PowerFX moniker.
When encoding types for requests like this, I'm exactly as strict as I need to be: no more, no less. Any assumption about the shape of the data that my code will make is encoded in the parser, but the parser is very generous with everything else.

For example, if a request has a field I didn't expect, that's not an error, I simply ignore that field because I obviously didn't need it. Likewise if requests start using a more specific schema, such as now sending only positive integers. If, however, the schema changes such that a field I rely on is dropped or changes type, my code will eventually fail anyway as soon as it makes an assumption about the data. Why not fail at the point of entry instead of saving it for later?
> Send out a lot of spam, wait for someone who clicks on it and is running outdated software and boom.

outdated Windows software
An Unbelievable Demo