skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What i feel is that as much as science has distinguished itself over the pandemic e.g. identifying the virus developing a vaccine etc, it has disgraced itself. First of the criminal and disgraceful actions of the WHO helping China cover up the virus in the initial stages. Then afterwards, despite obviously and understandably being totally ignorant of almost all basic data on how the virus spreads, works etc. (data that the Chinese withheld) they felt confident enough to offer clear guidelines. So much so, that when Trump closed the US to China, he was slammed as xenophobic. The scientific community have a lot to explain, but shockingly they don't seem to be hanging their heads in shame. Rather they are soldiering apparently oblivious to that fact.
*again.

He's is playing with the stupidity of the crypto markets and he knows it.

Downvoters: It's true. Don't mess around with the whales and market movers or else you will become a diamond handed baghodler, like the sheep buying at 60K.
Telling a Story vs. Telling the Truth
Depends on the composition of CORP. If it is comprised of developers with strong respect for OSS or FS community they might not stand for non-disclosure. OTOH, plenty of orgs would be mainly folks without a strong opinion either way and would just follow executive direction.
Fun fact. This is not a new concept. Doom used overrides with their WAD file format. Mod authors could release their mod files replacing or adding content without stealing the game level files.

There may be prior art to that, but as a young coder that was the first time I’d seen it
You don't need to create or capture a mesh. This is synthesizing one from a few 2d images, with impressively accurate results.
Partially through the informal economy described elsewhere, and a fairly robust welfare system that provides grants and other social support to about 18 million people.
SCRIPT_DIR="$(dirname $0)"

It also works when you're not running bash.
This was known. What's new is the "why".

Sometimes the Hacker News "de-click-bait filter" removes meaning from titles.
Yes, because you need to keep up the appearance of neutrality. If there is a conflict of interest, then you need to be careful to ensure that everyone knows you are ensuring those conflicts don't happen. That means you need to know and admit a lot of things that don't happen.

My company wants to know if my brother in law works for a competitor. It won't change my job, but they will be careful to ensure that I don't work on things that it would matter if I let something slip over dinner.
My Second Phase of Adulthood
Launch Now: If Your Idea Has Potential, It Will Be Obvious
Paul Graham famously said that you should launch when you can serve at least 1 user. Why such a low bar? Let me explain.
Announced and demoed. Could be a severely lacking demonstration version but it still had to be presentable.
You can't go back and forth between theoretical and real-life. I don't accept the claim that democracies are always better than monarchies. Monarchies and authoritarian states are great in theory, if they enforce the worldview you want. Look at how America's republicanism has allowed its own self-degradation through lobbying and regulatory capture. My first point is that everything in the real world is case by case and it's intellectually dishonest to go for such grade-school arguments as saying that democracy = good, monarch = bad. Capitalism can be good or bad. Monarchies can be good or bad, etc. My second point is that the only common theme is that some humans are bad actors, therefore it doesn't matter how your society functions, there will always be people who exploit the system. The only reason you think monarchies is bad is because historical monarchs have been abusive. But there have also been abusive democratic leaders. Humans are the problem, not the systems we create.
The poster above also stated their beliefs as absolute truths, by your standards: "You don't need to travel physically when you can do it instantly with your conscience.". My tone is perfectly identical with theirs - we are both plainly stating our opinions of how the world works.

Of course, you are again wildly off base with your reading of my replies. "You" in both my post and the post I was replying to were not referring to someone in particular, they are obviously the rhetoric "you". They weren't telling me that I, personally, am able to travel instantly with my consciousness, and I wasn't telling them that they, personally, were not allowed to do so.

Then, adding "I think", "I believe" etc is generally just noise - obviously everything I say is a personal belief or thought. Saying "my particles can't travel with speed greater than c" or "I've never experienced something traveling faster than c" would be needlessly specific - my belief in the theory of special relativity only works if it applies to everything, so that is the belief I stated.

At best, if I wanted to be quite pedantic, I could have added an "According to special relativity,".

You're really quite offended by basic speech and physical facts...
I’m not sure why we should rely on a ‘phd astrophysicist’ to evaluate the evidence for this.

This article doesn’t seem to add anything to the debate, and certainly doesn’t persuade me that this hypothesis is a ‘conspiracy’.
> the sometimes ever-reliable

?
Oh please. Your one article doesn't change the fact that even mentioning the lab leak theory got you labeled a right-wing conspiracy nut and in some cases banned from social media.
About a year ago I wrote a Mac application to strip formatting out of copy-pasted text. (Note: I was mostly interested in getting an application in the store as a learning exercise.)

In general, copying formatted text is a mess on Mac. (I haven't tried an equivalent Windows app, although I'm primarily a Windows developer.) The problem is that many of the data structures for formatted text don't preserve context. IE, it's impossible to know that something is just "italic," "bold," or "underline," because the formatting is details about how to render the fonts. IE, "italic" converts to kerning, "bold" and "underline" are really separate fonts.

In theory, I could try to infer formatting changes, and then convert to very basic HTML, but I only had about a month in between jobs to finish the app.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/copy-cleaner/id1521489777?mt=1...
yep. i remember asking a question on google groups about some AppEngine query early on a Saturday morning thinking, "this will never be answered".

about 15 minutes later Guido van Rossum answered my question.
Thank you for sharing some of what you've learned with everyone in everything that you've published. I've been reading the latest addition of your systems performance book the past few weeks and it is amazing. You're work is pretty awe inspiring.
That's still absurd. Theoretically I could infringe on Cage's track by just not plugging in my headphones. Absence of work/product should not be copyrightable.
Another 10 years of progress, better facial expression control and voice synthesis, I suspect highly paid actors will be a thing of the past.
Show HN: Chrome extension – turn webpages into audio summaries
Yeah, the issue is a lot more ambiguous than my comment let on. If I had to make a determination, I would say any specialized technical knowledge or extra effort to access the resource would fall under the CFAA. So knowing of a default guest account that wasn't pointed out to you by staff, or finding the boss' password on a post-it note and entering it would count. Being given a superuser account is even greyer. Perhaps if you come across sensitive data in the natural course of your work, then you would be safe from this law. If you recognized your elevated privileges and then went out of your way to find sensitive information, then that should be a violation.
I saw an article on the BBC about scammers in the UK keeping track on dogs/cats reported lost/stolen and then pretending that they have it and demanding ransom.

This might be even worse than an actual 'kidnapping': Owners end up no closer to finding their pet with the impact of having been conned out of money on top of it.

That's on top of actual dogs theft, which have apparently boomed over the last year.

It's not only in 'poor' countries...

Unfortunately, animals are pretty much property in law, so the penalty is on par with stealing a bike from someone (although in the UK there are laws against cruelty to animals, which can kick in depending on circumstances). Recently it was reported that someone who drowned their neighbour's cat because it kept digging up his vegs in their garden was only sentenced to pay £1000 compensation (and short prison time but suspended, so same as nothing).
I use btrfs for my primary or OS disk and ZFS to store all of my data. Until btrfs can fix their raid 5/6 or ZFS on root becomes easier this will remain the case.
This is exactly my point. What exactly makes you think this is the case? How do you know there are animals in 'poor health' there?

Maybe the term itself isn't the problem, but the way it was used in American media, especially during the Trump administration. The term, and it's connotations were used in a way to disparage Chinese people. It has been used to suggest the reason we have this pandemic is because these 'inferior' people are eating bats and weird animals in their 'dirty' wet markets.
Serverless Functions: The Secret to Ultra-Productive Front-End Teams
Some companies just create new needs out of thin air and even manage to replace better technologies with inferior ones. It's mostly a matter of marketing.

If you want, many companies sell prestige, lifestyle ideas, and grand illusions. It's perfect from a business perspective because the customers will always remain dissatisfied in the end, no matter how much they buy.
It reminds me of a small coworking space I used in Sao Paulo, with three receptionists, a few "managers", lots of cleaning staff, someone doing just coffee, security, etc. They could do all of that with two employees total. In front of the building, there was a petrol station with one employee per pump. The pandemic was actually a relief for lots of companies that were able to fire expendable staff more easily.
can you point me to a good tutorial showing how to do this? i'm a conflicted web dev regarding loops. I love the simplicity that map/filter have, but I hate that they require looping over the same array more than once, which makes me choose for loops over them... Never thought I could have the best of both worlds
GPR-1 Teleoperation Hand Testing
"Opinionated software" is a established term, hence the use I guess.
Yes, I was going to reply and say that.

Interesting that there are marked male/female differences in Turkey, Colombia, and Mexico – followed up by less differences on the high end by Brazil, Costa Rica, Argentina, Chile, and then on the lower end by Slovak Republic, Russia, Hungary, Poland, Estonia, Czech Republic.

Weirdly enough you could say things are very out of kilter in the Czech Republic because even though the NEET rate for guys is a chart-topping 5% the rate for gals is 15%, triple the amount! (Same kind of goes for Estonia).

It's a fascinating socioeconomic demographic data-set.

By all accounts the Netherlands, Sweden, Iceland, or Switzerland is the place to be if you're young … (And we're all young once, right!?)
This article mix a bit of everything. There are no rules to create a killer product. That's the whole purpose of the product management domain.

Regarding opinionated software they are great at creating alignment between people who have different background. But are not really good for complex use case. Look at excel, nobody is going to say that this is not a killer product but still being not opinionated at all. On the other side Github is a killer product and very opinionated.

But anything is possible, look I'm currently building an alternative to Confluence. You could say that knowledge management is a perfect area for opinionated software, so why is Notion (not opinionated) the killer product in that domain now ?
Isn't having an opinion + figuring out how to match that w customer needs exactly what product management is?

I mean any product manager has to make a lot of decisions. Having an opinion does help in making decisions
There is a vast amount of unpublished research, not because of malicious intentions, but because it's either still ongoing, or abandoned, or postponed, or waiting for other results, or for review, or qualified specialists to help, whatever.

The VF article specifically mentions that the closest known virus was 96% similar (vs 90% for SARS-CoV-1), and had actually been renamed by the scientists studying it and that fact hadn't been put forward to the community.

It can still be shown that this has a completely natural (i.e. no human error involved) origin, but the burden of proof gets higher every day. It's much more probable that human error is involved, which is something that happens every day.
And in this case, there's basically zero evidence of zoonotic transfer aside from "China said so." So it's different.
Moving version control from Subversion to Git via Subgit
Thanks... first article I see about "IT Transformation" is soooooooo painfully accurate!
I wish in one of their releases they address the memory footprint issue. Firefox is a RAM guzzler, consuming at least 1GB, easily.
I never thought I would see the day where the National Review produces more responsible journalism than the mighty Washington Post, but here we are.

The right thing for WaPo to do would be to annotate the articles without alteration. Their prior positions on the Wuhan Lab theories are part of the discussion. Correcting them now is akin to wiping a conference room blackboard during a bathroom break because you're worried that it shows information that damages your credibility.
My grass is native. Its densely-matted roots stabilize against erosion and make walking on wet ground possible.

I let it go to seed once. It grew several feet tall and fell over, which led to thinning out, which left the yard muddy and slippery. Do not recommend. Bare spots quickly fill with saplings or poison ivy that have to be removed, anyway.

My electric mower and weed eater do just fine without direct pollution, and my fern flowerbed is still muddy.
The missing return statement has never been a big deal in my experience. In part it's absorbed by pattern matching (multiple definitions for the same function) and in part by "let it fail."

Tracebacks are not so bad but they tend to be useless when the cause of an error is in a different process than the one that failed. I know that my GenServer failed at line x with data y, z but I don't know what sent that x to the GenServer. I have no idea if there is a way around this except extensive logging.
That's why you need another system to pull snapshots to for backup.
It’s hard to think of anything more beautiful in all of mathematics.
Yeah, this pandemic shows me how widespread unscientific/illogical thinking is. I've seen HN commenters write "The Chinese government lies and hides stuff, therefore they must be hiding the truth that the virus is lab-made.". No! That's not how logic works!
> The analogy is ridiculous.

I'm not sure how this comparison is "ridiculous".
I think the analogy for players on team sports is more apt.
There are parallels.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6603920/

https://www.startribune.com/fleeting-glory-bodies-past-repai...

et al
> Well, I definitely remember left-leaning people ridiculing it when people were buying out the toilet paper, saying that there is no virus and stuff.

I didn't even realize buying up toilet paper during early pandemics was partisan, but I definitely remember memes about how inconsiderate it is to buy up years worth of toilet paper at once, emptying the cache for everyone else with no indication that toilet paper manufacturing was affected. I admit I made fun of this too, but drew no political association to it. It had nothing to do with (the existence of) the virus.

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure the criticism is that the narrative or the words you use, even if factually correct, might cause some people to have prejudice against the members of a certain group.

Yeah, I guess, but I don't think there's any valid and accurate criticism that would lead anyone to blame random Chinese people.

> You're (maybe not you specifically, I don't know) concerned about backlash against Chinese people over the virus, but you aren't concerned about the backlash against white people over systemic racism theory. That's what I find hypocritical.

I haven't experienced any backlash against white people for any and all systemic racism built by other white people. I still do not see your point.
You are 100% correct. This has been a common term in the manufacturing industry when focusing on ergonomics safety and reducing repetitive stress injuries for quite some time.

The connotation has generally been positive and was a created by the staff trying to improve safety and reduce injuries.
This comment perfectly represents the same lengthy corporate nonsense that the CEO wrote.
Can you opt out of Apple's similar thing for airtags?
It's also not some new phenomenon. The chart goes back to 2012 and is basically flat over the last nine years.

I'd be interested to see the same chart (a) going back another 10-20 years and (b) showing older age groups.
> Practical Unix

I hope this is a required course. I wish it was a freshman year course for me. I had to pick Unix up on my own (and fell in love while doing so), but a lot of my classmates didn't, and it made group work in the future a bit of a pain. Not that it is there fault, but it would have been nice to lay down an OS framework for students instead of focusing solely on writing algorithms and leaving what SSH is to mystery for a lot of students.
The Traveler and His Baggage
You have to keep in mind that with iPhone they built a truly revolutionary device not even remotely like anything that had ever been built. And then the jailbreak community took it and ran with it and immediately demonstrated the next level of what was possible.

It’s not that strange it didn’t all work out the way they had planned. If, prior to the original demo, you had asked just about anyone how long it would take to build something like the iPhone they would have probably said it was a decade away.

There is a reason the Android project had to throw their whole UI out of the window and start over. And if took years before they were anywhere near the iPhone experience.
Poser requires an existing rigged, textured mesh.

Poser requires that you manually animate the skeleton.

This approach is more like a mixture of mocap/photometry; given an input video (a) and (b), synthesise a fully textured model from (a) and apply the motion from (b) on it.

Of course, the output of this is horribly bad compared to state of the art 3d models; the point is that the inputs are trivial and it shows that NeRF are increasingly plausible as a solution for real use cases.

Of course... this is all a bit 'proof of concept stuff'.

> To further evaluate our method on a wider variety of body poses and more challenging textured clothing, we captured a new multi-view human performance corpus with 79 − 86
cameras at a resolution of 1285 × 940. It contains four sequences, 𝑁1-𝑁4, and each has 12,000−16,000 frames for training and around 8, 000 frames for testing

These captured images are also, notably, green screen, although not with the traditional mocap markers.

So, no, you're not going to get a 3d animation from a video off your phone anytime even remotely soon.

...but, it's still pretty darn awesome, and they're going to release the datasets for others to play with.
The article mentions:

> the solution is relatively available - get youth to first complete high school and then be equipped with skills they can use to earn a living

But is it? Does SA actually have lots of jobs waiting for post-high school people? With requirements which are not trainable in a few months to people who haven't completed high school?

I'm finding it hard to get answers with public statistics. Looking at https://tradingeconomics.com/south-africa/unemployed-persons for example it seems like SA lost a few million of both unemployed and employees people last year...
Telecom-heralded entanglement between multimode solid-state quantum memories
more specifically the problem with type is it's not clear whether "An error occurred" includes the case where the command is not found. one could reasonably argue that printing "command not found" is a successful run. additionally, it's only present in the XSI extension. for these reasons, command -v is usually preferred for better POSIX compatibility.
It is a testament to the solid economic foundations of the crypto market.
That's fair! I was considering Ansible for the same reasons but felt that:

1) Ansible on a Mac host is lacking
2) I didn't enjoy setting up Ansible first-thing
3) I hated running around looking up Ansible module docs when I needed to change/fix something
4) I wasn't psyched about writing more YAML

FWIW, the cognitive load of adding another tool here should be fairly low. It mostly leverages tools you're probably already using, and the management of those is still up to you for the most part. The configuration piece is pretty minimal. Write it once and forget about it. There is a CLI surface, but for the most part you can get away with just running `mstrap`.
Yes. Making copies internally is also copyright infringement... Performing it to Brendan might also have been (but not sure on that one).
> People making that claim have said that the virus seems to be particularly effective against humans despite no intermediate forms discovered yet

But such forms were already discovered back in 2015 as a result of the research that's now labeled as "GoF research", even tho it didn't actually fall under the GoF moratorium back then [0].

Imho the whole thing has a very "shooting the messenger" vibe to it; The evidence we had for this being a very real possibility of happening is now turned into the alleged cause of it actually happening.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.18787
I don't see how fixing a flag would be too much work. What I do see is having to deal with customer support when somebody comes in and says, "Matomo says you are charging me for clicks that I'm not getting." That could turn into a real headache, even in the most honest or best-intentioned cases.
I am in the process of doing this. I would highly recommend starting with your backyard... because it's surprisingly difficult and it's better to make your mistakes out of view of the street. I've already noticed an increase in bees and other insects though!

Another tip for helping out your local insect (and thus bird) population... leave your yard "waste" where it is! It's a whole ecosystem that most people pack into bags and take to the dump every year.
I had a Coco 3 with both a bit-banging serial port and a UART. One was connected to a DEC Correspondent printing terminal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECwriter#DECwriter_Correspond...

and other into a TRS-80 Model 100

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100

I could log into those two terminals and into the main console (keyboard and screen) at the same time.
Windows 10's new look with rounded corners teased again
Well, survive maybe but certainly they're not thriving. The welfare state has all but ensured that those people will never get out of their situation. Maybe their kids have a chance but it's clearly a major contributing factor of generational poverty. It's unconscionable what it has done to black Americans. It gets sold off on well-meaning but ill-informed voters as a way to help people but ultimately it only serves to make those people wards of the state.
HOA won’t let me, but I use electric lawn tools now and I don’t water it beyond what the rain gives it. That means it goes a bit brown and dormant during the heat of the summer but the HOA rules don’t say anything about that and it recovers just fine with rain.