skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny... Firefox was the first software to popularize browser tabs (though it didn't invent them)... and now it's the first to "destroy" them.

Though I must admit, I am utterly baffled at their decision to turn tabs into buttons visually, though the behavior is the same.

Tabs are now a universally understood UI element, as common as checkboxes or menus or folders. This is like... deciding to make checkboxes round instead of square, so now they're confused with radio buttons.

What possible reason did the Mozilla UI team have for deciding to make tabs... look like buttons?
There's been (according to them) loads of radar hits.
I don't think you'll ever be able to fully ban cryptocurrency.

Also, I'm not even sure ransomware is a net bad thing in the first place. It encourages better security and makes companies less likely to store my private information.
He spent 20 minutes of the latest podcast episode complaining too. I couldn't catch a single argument, he was just talking about how he "felt insulted".
It appears you and I have very different relationships with work colleagues...
It works out of the box on rhel 8.3, and I've used succession Ubuntu 20.04 installed by the PPA repos.
That makes sense! I am constantly interacting with new teams, so I like time because everyone already knows what a day is. A ticket, or a point, or other abstraction changes from team to team and project to project.
A good overview of the evidence so far.

Facts are hard to come by. It’s weight of evidence in context.

https://swprs.org/on-the-origin-of-sars-coronavirus-2/
> The number of filters they've passed through without destroying themselves suggests that they've overcome tribalism.

We can't know that - once you can spread to multiple planets, even planet-killer tech isn't an extinction-level event.

> selective pressure towards tribal conflict

Over thousands, or millions of years; not only that, but you have to have selective pressure against tribalism to actually remove the instinct. Otherwise there's no pressure, and it can remain, just like any other vestigial organ.
If I were a fanboy wouldn't I be in favor of a Tesla-brand restaurant existing near every super charger? I'm saying it wouldn't be so great.
Terra blockchain and dApps explained in detail
This definition of “refined sugar” includes starch, I guess?
A lot of the blocks are down to "Small Regional News Site" really being "small regional front for a large news organisation running a single platform" that seems to have just made a blanket assessment. I don't think many genuinely small independent regional sites have bothered.

E.g. Lee Enterprises is one of the publishers who still blocks European users, and they own 75+ newspapers.

If you're in the EU and get "451: Unavailable due to legal reasons", it's a good chance it's a Lee Enterprises paper.
I think the argument would be that the internet, while enabling bad things, is a net-positive with its good outweighing its bad. Whereas the value provided by cryptocurrencies is not as clear.
This approach works for I/O devices (and for things like network cards the kernel will typically poll them anyway), but I/O isn't the only thing that generates interrupts. For instance, a processor fault (e.g. divide by zero) should be handled immediately and synchronously since the CPU core generating the fault can't do any useful work until the fault is handled.
I'd like to hear how internet advocates address child pornography without deploying a fallacy. The internet makes child pornography possible, without the former, the latter cannot thrive. The defenses I usually hear come in the form of "CD ROMs facilitate bad stuff, too," which is a fact, but doesn't absolve the internet's central role in child porn. As the article states, there is simply no way to attain child porn without the internet. Maybe they could do DVD or CD ROM, but that would be sooooo slow (but not impossible?)
I'm not advocating to outlaw invasive tracking, rather advocating on solving the problem of the use of invasive tracking to harm people.
Someone shared a boilerplate template on the Elixir subreddit the other day, might help out. Can't really recommend anything for Stripe, though. From what I've seen people usually use Stripity Stripe.

- https://alex-min.fr/open-sourcing-my-phoenix-boilerplate/
- https://hex.pm/packages/stripity_stripe
I don't know much about economics but I do wonder why governments don't finance companies during crises by buying shares, and subsequently recoup our taxes buy selling them in times of prosperity. The UK government did this for the banks in 2008 but have recently been selling shares below market price. Is it corruption or is something you else at play?
Sorry but before cryptocurrency there also were hostage that were freed on payment of millions. For that kind of money life does find a way.
The Marshall Islands SOV cryptocurrency: the saga winds down
You might say you're "banning Bitcoin", but what you're really doing is banning Bitcoin's linkages to the existing institutional financial system. That's a very tenable project.
I recommend the official who report and also the YouTube channel / podcast this week in virology.
From the context and the word "Bier", "I'd like to grab a beer" perhaps
Maybe. Let’s say you can, for example, purchase a cruise missile strike in crypto.
Once a few cruise missiles land in LA I imagine the world governments will take a more aggressive stance on crypto. Drone strikes and military intervention will follow.
"My phone just plopped into the Landwehr Canal."

"Hahaha and now what"

"Great question"

"Now I could use a beer."
Exactly. Why isn't the control for this experiment a high sugar diet without the "processing"? It's very unclear what "processing" refers to. What the data suggest is that in combination the elements are bad, but they were unable to isolate which one was the cause and there is nothing to suggest processing was the cause. (For example, the rats eating processed corn oil or processed sucrose did fine.)
> However, if he had used Wifi, to connect to the MIT networking, the charges would have been unsustainable under the Van Buren decision because guests were permitted on the MIT wifi network.

That's not clear to me, because MIT tried several times to revoke his permission to use their guest network by repeatedly banning him by IP address, and then by MAC address. He kept changing those to evade the revocation of permission.

That seems like it would be enough to distinguish from the Van Buren case.
It's debatable if we'd know. The Earth is really old.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/are-we-e...
It would be negligent on the booking.com executives behalf if they did not take this money when it was available. If there's an issue, it's in the relief program itself.
> Whether or not you consider cryptocurrencies "progress" is irrelevant

I mean not really. If we were to decide, as a country, that it was bad, we could take actions to stop its proliferation. The dollar-BTC transition points are chokepoints we could easily target to get started.
> that's not a concern, because they don't have that many users.

Oh, so all of the sudden censorship is a matter of scale? I'd like to see a definition of censorship that involves scale in any way.

> That's not really what censorship means, because the radio station only has limited time, and they have to choose what music to play.

Yeah, and Facebook's servers have limited capacity and their bandwidth is billed at-cost. They're limited in the content they can serve, with the difference being that they can scale infinitely. In any case, your liability as a user increases as your share of that content scales. All you've done so far is deflect, without actually making any case. There are hundreds of social networks. You can build your own social network in 5 minutes with Mastodon and a VPS. Failing that, there's hundreds of decentralized and perfectly un-censorable protocols that you can use too.

Facebook is a business. They have every right to refuse you service if you break their rules. End of discussion.
The last point is wrong: once I have purchased the dishwasher i care _less_ about a dishwasher at any previous point, because I am not most likely to have a functional dishwasher and even if yours is better I am not going to buy one more.

If marketers would only get this they would make so much more money, and I would get better ads for more relevant products. Instead I get ads that target me because I am in AGE_RANGE and live in country, or ads for scam products.
> What kind of customer are you referring to?

The kind of small energy companies that answer the phone when a startup calls.

Presumably if you had an idea for how to do the forecasts profitably you'd just become an energy futures trader yourself.

I don't know, I'm not trying to poo-poo your thing. But the ESG / Biden green energy plan / renewables stuff your people are excited about, you make a lot more profit just by showing up and harvesting the incentives than you do like, doing a good job.

Berkshire did this (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-04/warren...) and it's funny, those people were a scam. That's what I'm trying to say. Profits are pretty dodgy in the energy industry.

I like this teeny tiny example though, Active Power, that became a Net Operating Loss shell (also common for biotech), because energy has an easier time booking losses as R&D expenses (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4126904-p10-industries-purc...).

I don't know. There are so, so many examples of hilarious bad actors, from which the profits for small energy businesses come. You're not making forecasts for Exxon, you're doing it for little tiny energy providers. How, really, are they profitable at all?
Many are wondering why this was marked as dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27395028
An atomic exchange fulfills this requirement, assuming your capable of auditing the code that runs the swap smart contract.
I'd advise reading pretty much everything that they write on privacy, its all very worthwhile.
Good point, thanks for the reply.
Why Does Spotify Pay So Little? [An Analysis]
> Geplumpst

Basically means something fell or as Google Translate says "flopped" -- however, GP seems to be excited over the apparent onomatopoeia in the word because it evokes the sound of something falling in water.

> "Mir ist grad mein handy in den Landwahrkanal geplumpst"

This essentially says "My cellphone fell in the canal!" but with the delicious "geplumpst" word sound.

> "Jetzt könnte ich ein Bier gebrauchen"

This exclaims "I could use a beer now".
I have had a completely opposite experience during the last 5+ years as full-time Elixir dev, but I can empathize with running into a few scenarios where some library wasn't implemented in Elixir, or the library you want to use is no longer supported.

If you're looking for an "every feature I will ever need to implement has a library for it" experience a la Rails or JS, you might not be happy with Elixir (although we shall see what 5 more years does to the ecosystem).

I don't have problems wrapping a service's API and creating my own library every once in a while, if it means I don't have to trade off slapping together a 5+ service behemoth just to get a good concurrent queue working. This is where Elixir/OTP shines: the hard stuff is easy.
It's true that some library coverage is definitely the weak point of Elixir. Authentication in particular is a gaping hole although efforts like `Pow` and `phx.gen.auth` do help to no small extent.

The community is excellent though. You'll rarely find such a welcoming and ready-to-help community as ElixirForum (although the occasional exceptions do happen like everywhere else).

Elixir is not about the syntax or anything. It's about (a) the underlying runtime, (b) the very powerful metaprogramming facilities and (c) Phoenix / Absinthe / a few others.
> Mir ist grad mein handy in den Landwahrkanal geplumpst

My cell phone just fell into the Landwehr Canal

> Jetzt könnte ich ein Bier gebrauchen

I could use a beer now

(Google's translations, not mine)
Please don't break the site guidelines like this. These comments are beyond a dime-a-dozen, more like a nickle-a-thousand, and they're basically all the product of breathless internet user fantasy. HN users need to have a little more self-control than that if we're to preserve this site for interesting conversation. I've been trying to explain this to this community for years, so if I seem a little irritated and impatient, I hope you can understand why:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

I'm trying to figure out what happened (I don't keep track of these things while I'm asleep), but having taken a quick look so far I can tell you for sure that the flags were from legit, longstanding, entirely boring HN users. (Edit: I did not mean to insult those HN users. I meant that if people saw the list of usernames, they'd find it boring because there would be nothing sinister in it.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://incubaid.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/number-of-trailing...

is part of the solution. the other part is getting to the most significant digit.
HN is not a bastion of free speech and it is not meant to be. Controversial topics are routinely flagged because they incite flame wars and downvoting because you disagree is considered acceptable.

However, in this particular case, I don't think it should be flagged unless the comment sections becomes unmanageable. It may be a political topic but it is seen from a technical angle, and indeed, a lot of the comments are technical in nature: the effect of different options, different engines, alternative wording, etc...

What I think is interesting is how artificial the censorship looks. If I see no results for such a simple phrase, I know something fishy is going on and that would encourage me to carry on.
Ransomware is a gift — people are exposing insecure systems only for a few million dollars of payout. A more nefarious actor would do more nefarious things than just collect what is at the nation-state scale a very small amount of money. More ransomware will accelerate security improvements and protect systems from CCP, Five Eyes, etc.
RaTG13 is decades of evolution away from SARS-CoV-2, all over its genome.

You don't get there by splicing an ACE2 spike onto an RaTG13 backbone and passing it through a dozen mice. That gives you something that still looks similar to RaTG13 and infects mice.

The ACE2 spike also looks most similar to a previously unknown ACE2-binding spike protein found in malaysian pangolins.

So WIV would have had to have discovered that pangolin spike-protein, kept it secret, spliced it into an RaTG13 backbone, then not used mice but passed it through a species like that had a human-like ACE2 for a decade and millions of animals.

An alternative hypothesis is that Charles Darwin did that experiment.
Because companies would rather lay people off than sell shares.

Rationally, I think that governments should be ok with that as they will pay either way through unemployment or these rescue packages (at least with some industries where no critical supply chains are ripped out), but there would be enormous political pressure to stem job losses.
People abandoned cash out of convenience, not fear of mugging.
Recently I was struggling to understand MotionLayout in Android and how to make it do what I wanted for my app. I had searched all over the internet reading blogs and forum posts trying to figure out what I was doing wrong. I ended up watching one particularly helpful presentation video (I think it was from a DroidCon) given by this guy named Jason Pearson. It helped a lot, (watched various parts of the presentation multiple times) but eventually I still got myself stuck again. I ended up dropping a question out on StackOverflow in desperation just to see if anyone might be able to point me in the right direction. Well, fast forward a bit and someone responds to my question with a really great answer that helps me understand what I was missing. Happened to look at the user who wrote the answer and saw his name was Jason Pearson... Then I had to double-check and sure enough, it was the same guy!

So, shout out to Mr. Pearson for a great presentation and a really helpful SO answer!
Limbs can be tricky to animate correctly in VR… I still get nightmares from some of the abominations I’ve seen in VR Chat.
> Should we ban shipping?

Shipping is pretty useful, though. What are the other major uses for Bitcoin?
Just speculation: maybe a dupe of a dead topic.
Here you go:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27394925 [Flagged]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27395028 [Marked as dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27394943 [Currently on page 2]
I'm certainly part of that long tail. I tend not to have music on background most of the time.

You're absolutely right. Literally a couple decades ago Clay Shirky coined(?) the term mental transaction costs in the context of paying for articles, etc. It would be absolutely exhausting to have to decide whether it's worth a nickel every time you read something or listen to a song--especially, as you say, with music where it might just be on in the background.
What do you think consent means?
Consider this line from the comment you're responding to:

> (how? Why is billing being kept up to date and domain names being renewed but the site isn’t being maintained?)
Heh, what? Ransomware existed long before cryptocurrencies.

Money laundering via ACH, SWIFT, stolen credit cards, gift cards, and all sorts of online payment systems like PayPal are still huge, no cryptocurrencies required.

Cryptocurrencies are used today because they're the most efficient way to make online payments, which is a net positive for everyone. It's just as easy to hunt down criminals using cryptocurrencies as it was to hunt online criminals before cryptocurrencies got popular.

https://www.knowbe4.com/ransomware
Question to those who believe the lab leak story:

If it came from an animal in the lab where did that animal come from?

If it was synthetic, how was it synthesized?
God, you're a conceited nutter.
4G and 5G are going to depend on the mobile carrier. In the US, at least, that's usually going to be somewhere between 850MHz and 2100MHz. I recall reading something more recent about 700MHz being opened up in some areas.

Looks like Germany is 700-2600MHz for 4G, with 5G up at 3500MHz[0].

For underwater stuff it looks like you need something much lower in the kHz range[1], at least for distances of up to a couple hundred feet. Obviously this particular situation involves a much shorter distance. The page on MF radio[2] does mention water, and talks about frequencies up to 3MHz, but that's still way lower than any LTE bands used.

[0] https://www.gsmarena.com/network-bands.php3?sCountry=GERMANY

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_with_submarines

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_frequency
Argh, why do author's write stuff like this -- "It is, not to put too fine a point on it, a creaking old bit of wheezing ironmongery that, had the gods of microprocessor architecture been more generous, would have been smote into oblivion long ago."

Just because a technology is "old" doesn't mean it is useless, or needs to be replaced. I'm all in favor of fixing problems, and refactoring to improve flow and remove inefficiencies. I am not a fan of re-inventing the wheel because gee, we've had this particular wheel for 50 years and its doing fine but hey let's reimagine it anyway.

That said, the kink in x86 architecture was put their by "IBM PC Compatibility" and a Windows/Intel monopoly that went on way too long. But even knowing why the thing has these weird artifacts that just means the engineers are working under constraints you don't understand, doesn't give you license to dismiss what they've done as needing to be "wiped away."

We are in a period where enthusiasts can design, build, and operate a completely bespoke ISA and micro-architecture with dense low cost FPGAs. Maybe they don't run at multi-GHz speeds but if you want to contribute positively to the question of computer architecture, there has never been a better time. You don't even have to build the whole thing! You can just add it into an existing architecture and compare how you do against it.

Want to do flow control colored register allocation for speculative instruction retirement? You can build the entire execution unit in an FPGA and throw instructions at it to your hearts content and provide analysis of the results.

Okay, enough ranting. I want AARCH64 to win so we can reset the problem set back to a smaller number of workarounds, but I think the creativity of people trying to advance the x86 architecture given the constraints is not something to belittled, it is to be admired.
at some point they have to turn monero into currency.
The fee you pay would almost certainly be less than the value they can extract from your metadata (especially since it can only grow more valuable as time passes)
Yeah, and it can take a surprisingly small amount of flags to take down a post. So it could literally just be a dozen people flagging them, not even in a coordinated matter.

Something similar happened on Jan 6 this year with a lot of individual users being like 'No, this isn't related to tech, so we'll flag it." until a couple posts got enough traction to actually stay at the top.

BTW, you can 'anti-flag' by vouching a submission. I've done this a few times when HN insta-flags posts about inclusion in tech.
I'm also surprised you haven't heard of this before. Every New Year millions make resolutions that are not kept because 'it is easier to start from scratch' or a clean slate, but it is very difficult to actually follow through.

People who diet non stop because they might get to day 20 and it isn't working and the solution is to start over in a week or so.

It is much easier to make yourself think that behavior will change if only one got a clean start. But inevitably you find yourself at a similar point, and a similar result.

In order to start from scratch and make it effective, you should have a reason why things will be different in the future.
A few crews have started asking for Monero.
There is circumstantial evidence for a lab leak, and there is circumstantial evidence for the wet market. That's fair, but somehow the wet market was accepted as truth for the last year, and the lab leak was treated as a crazy conspiracy. We don't know the truth, China is blocking access to look into the facts.
If your premise is that these aircrafts aren't man-made, what makes you think that extrapolating human behavior has any relevance here?
Het Nigeria! I deleted an email from your prince once. Please ban all email!
> compound matrix ops can also re-normalized and re-orthogonalized as they go

Certainly, but as you say it's a bit harder.

> does it make up for the general complications with using quats?

I'm sure that's context dependent, and don't have much of an opinion which way it's likely to break in general. I was just throwing something in the "pro" column that hadn't yet been discussed.
Optionals are of course 100% reliable.

What are you actually trying to do? "if let _ = nil" makes no sense and doesn't compile.