skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fauci in2017:

> Fauci said the Trump administration will not only be challenged by ongoing global health threats such as influenza and HIV, but also a surprise disease outbreak.

https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20170111/fauc...

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/07/29/fact...
No, because they use processor bugs as leverage to get a discount on the next batch they order.
Have you been to west and central Africa. Frances still has huge influence here. Like you can’t be President without their implicit backing. And you can’t last as one if you loose their support. May change with China coming, but only time will tell
You're probably thinking of gecko style robots which use electrostatic chucks on the surface they are adhering to.

This is the same sort of application but a completely new method for the suction effect.
I am trying to build a SaaS myself, currently, it's at $80 MRR with minimal costs (single server). Though if I counted my time spent there and compared to the average salary, that project would be a total failure.

It's been probably 15 years since I started thinking how having a passive income covering living costs would be greatly liberating. I like FIRE movement, and was lucky enough to create a website for tracking dividends as my master thesis at the university. As any website requires time just to keep it running, I always knew I have to create a website that would be useful for me, so I don't lose interest in it and the project doesn't die after few months.

Financial independence is not that hard, it's just simple math on cash flow and how inflation and debt works. I knew dividends will be probably hard to beat long-term with other passive income, so I was pretty confident I would keep building a dividend tracking website for me, even if nobody else would be using it. I thought there must be a better way to track dividends than putting them manually on spreadsheets.

So how much time it took me to reach profitability? Probably a few years. I have not been asking for paid membership before that. I added a paid membership that was equal to free membership about a year ago. I called it supporter, as there were no upsides from paying for it. But some payments did come. And as I had new ideas, I started to bring these ideas to life only for paid memberships. Slowly it grows. I still want to have a usable free membership for the majority of users, but I think I would not be doing it forever for free.

So what I think works well? Find a community for a problem you are solving, so you get a lot of feedback and improve it all the time. Give paid membership to valued members in those communities - moderators, admins, youtubers, ... Be active on those reddits/facebooks, solving their problems and getting the users for your service. As the site grows, you can slowly implement more and more features for paid membership only, until you have a good free/paid ratio (up to you to decide ideal %).

Most importantly I still use it myself, for tracking my own portfolio - https://www.digrin.com/portfolio/24-dividend-growth-investin... and keeping an eye on my estimated financial independence year. I feel much better building a tool for myself and like-minded people, not just profit.
Most accents that aren't your neutral evening news accent sound "heavy".
That’s alright, it just didn’t stick with you.
If you have a game, where you have large packs of files (like a 2GB sized textures.pak), and in a patch you want to add 2 small things, you can just ship the differencd between the old anc new pack file, and skip transferring the rest.
By these standards, everyone (in such a position) is always in some "conflict of interest". Had Fauci blamed that lab, he certainly would have been, as his organization also funds its competitors, and of course because he works for the US administration.

The ideology behind throwing around this kind of allegations is: all facts are fabricated by somebody, nobody can be trusted (they all have a conflict of interest), so we can as well make up our own "alternative facts" that fit our ideology best. In the end, it's just "us against them", so arguments and facts don't matter any more.

As a side-note: I doubt that Fauci just spontaneously pushes out his personal opinion about this kind of affairs, so I suppose his organization largely agrees with him. All corrupt and in a "conflict of interest"?
And I think his position should definitely be paid better than the president. Why not?

None of this says anything about Fauci as a person. He might be opportunistic, a bureaucrat, and whatnot, but that is hardly relevant in this context (other than discrediting everything he says).
How about this one?

https://youtu.be/1NH01GSOhwk
I have never heard the word runbook but I am going to borrow it. I can confirm that uncontrolled updates are the number one of instability in our Jenkins environment, where plugins seems to be the most vulnerable, to Jenkins core updates, other plugins and their own updates
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The paper was cited in the article: https://perma.cc/8M8L-GCUC

And yes, it is limited to an elite college (Duke University).
> It would be interesting to have a 64-bit version just to play with for projects.

It could be built in an FPGA. What would you change beyond wider and more registers?
Implementing software updates where you don't want to ship entire binaries again (and only the diff) would be one. In some video games the assets are also packed into massive binaries, so you don't want to ship gigabytes of data because you replaced one icon. Sadly many games do this anyway nowadays.
Feedo: An RSS/Atom reader that feels like an SPA but it is not.

Built 100% on JavaScript, using node, express, prisma, tailwind and unpoly.

Just invested a weekend and a couple more hours after work this week, so not many features and not well tested yet, but works.

https://github.com/msurdi/feedo
Banning crypto due to ransomware it's like banning strong cryptography due to ransomware.

Yeah sure it will make the problem 'smaller', but do you see the interesting lapse of logic there?
This isn’t about IP, but it is a pretty good screed on using lawyers.

It’s a video from a meetup, by the principal of a design firm, about the importance of using legal counsel.

https://vimeo.com/22053820
It's like your mouth was full of water - in contrast to British Received Pronunciation, which is like a mouth full of down feather. Also compare to "Hollywood Soviet English", which is like a dry mouth, but the tongue is filled with helium so it floats up, and then 'r' sounds like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Alveolar....
I used and hacked bsdiff in the past. A very neat concept and tool, many many thanks for making and publishing it!
To fight hate speech, we will ban mouths, pens, touchscreens, and keyboards.

To fight poor people saving to escape de-facto slavery, we need to ban paper money.

To fight flatulence, we shall ban vegetables.
Typical height of the polar front jet stream is 30-40,000ft, that's great for a 787 that's most efficient exactly in that altitude range. But doing mach 1.7+ you want to be much higher for efficiency, so it's entirely likely that the Boom plane will miss the jet stream.
Well that is what govs are trying right? No privacy because 'terrorism'.
Sun was the number one employer in town in Australia? What?!
For me as a German, the people in this video speak a heavy American accent: https://youtu.be/c9kI_rAFuKA?t=72
While I'm not the author of anything, I did on one occasion share Russ Cox' articles on regexes with a fellow developer, only for that developer to reply "that guy is making a mountain out of a molehill, just use re2".
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if (not authorized && access system) {
// unauthorized access = crime
}
else (if authorized && access system && access data &&
(authorized to access data && only under certain circumstances)) {
// FBI/prosecution said = crime
// SCOTUS said if authorized to access, but not in circumstances,
// then ! crime under CFAA but may be crime under other laws
}

Basically, it comes down to that the system let the user access the data, but their conditions of use where that they were only allowed to do it under certain situations (in this case, as a cop, when involved in a traffic stop, or some other activity).

The prosecution tried to say that this was a crime under CFAA, SCOTUS said that if the user is allowed to access the data, then it's not a breach of CFAA to do so.
Universal support for third party integrations such as connecting with a database that allows for arbitrary precision decimals, communicating with other services without forcing a use of a random lib (because there are many that do this kind of thing).

Support for this I believe is "low level enough" to ve implemented natively, it's not something like protobuf.
RFC 9000: defining the core of the QUIC transport protocol
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But did you try to restore from backup? I did and was flawless and smooth
I believe that's the promise of 5G
Electrogravitics
This “fluid” term always throws me off :) Then I’m reminded of Fluid Dynamics from my Vfx days. Playing around with 3d fire and smoke never gets old!
>The closest genetic match is only 3.8% similar.

Keep in mind there is an estimated 1.5 million viruses that have not been identified yet. There might very well be a virus in nature which is the 'missing link'.
It does not say that anywhere on the page of the magazine but the paper seems to be open access:

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/17/e2008819118 (HTML)

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/118/17/e2008819118.full.pd... (PDF)

There is a photograph of their "digital Lippmann camera" in the appendix but unfortunately no further information on it:

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/suppl/2021/04/15/200881911... (PDF)
Without any arbitration mechanism this kind of escrow seems fairly useless. The buyer always loses to a malicious seller who is now able to keep the funds locked up forever.

Oracles can’t really be trustless.
What is even more shocking is that the mass media and big tech have done everything to keep this covered. Most of the revelations are nothing new if you read alternative news sources where true journalism still exists. Big tech and mass media are now more like China state television, they decide what and how to tell you something based on what they want you to believe.

The greatest threat of our times is not the Corona pandemic or lies about it's origins. It is the loss of true journalism from mass media and free speech on social media. Mass media journalism and big tech are so terribly corrupted that due to that billions of people around the world are being fooled all the time. They are lying to you "for the greater good".

When you start reading alternative news sources you'll find out soon enough something is very wrong. From all over the world renowned scientists, doctors, politicians, lawyers, noble price winners, and many more, are being totally silenced and criminalized. It's truly horrifying.
Oil is fluid, oil in transmission is called transmission fluid.
This is great! Do like how the Coke branding is blurred out...
Last I looked, supercapacitors just aren't quite high up enough on the volume/energy curve.

Getting rid of a few batteries to make space for a few supercaps so you can regen quickly when emergency stopping sounds great, but then you realise it can only capture a tiny portion of the cars energy at 70 mph unless you replace nearly all the cars battery.
I am British but have lived in [redacted] for a while now and I feel the same as you about [redacted].

If Brexit showed us anything it is that the UK is no way near as important as they like to think they are. Watching the UK and [redacted] at loggerheads has been a mix of frustration and amusement for someone like myself clearly caught in the crossfire.

As an "outsider" in [redacted] my biggest complaint is the staunch opposition to change. Any change. As you say they simply cannot look ahead. It is as if they only know how to live in their past glories rather than working towards future ones.

The UK is sort of the opposite but in a terribly executed manner. They have dreams of the future but do everything possible to make those dreams harder to achieve due to arrogance they can "do it alone". Harping back to "the good old days of the Empire" and "Blitz spirit!" as if the Blitz was some wonderful time (wtf?).

The sad thing is the [redacted] could learn a lot from each other but seems both sides are too myopic to do so.
I don't see how this is much different from kids in earlier generations wanting to become footballers, actors and djs.
That article's definition of "lab accident" seems narrow and legalistic to me. In either case, the virus spent 1950-1977 in a lab freezer. It ended up in the wild, with ~700k people dead. The only question is whether it escaped in an infected researcher (or in infectious lab waste, or in whatever else you'd consider a proper lab accident) vs. in that failed vaccine candidate.

Those details do inform some details of the correct policy response. For example, they determine the relative importance of better PPE at the bench vs. better QA before allowing the vaccine to leave the lab. They don't change the overall question of whether scientific research has ever caused a pandemic, though. That causality is what matters, not whether the sign on the door said "lab" vs. "experimental vaccine nurse".

For example, if the pandemic originated from a WIV researcher who became infected in the field (during their many expeditions to remote bat caves that no other humans would routinely enter), was that a "lab leak"? Literally no, since they weren't in the lab. The causality would still be the same, though--if not for that scientific research, that virus would likely have never left the cave.

To avoid such confusion, it's probably better to say something like "unnatural origin", or "origin arising from scientific research". A much bigger mouthful than "lab leak", though.
Which only works because they’re paying the ransom. The second the government introduces criminal penalties against the executives and boards for paying ransom, it will stop.

Making it a criminal offence to pay a ransom would eventually stop criminals ransoming the data they take to the company they took it from, but it wouldn't stop attacks and data breaches if there's some other way to profit. For example, attackers could sell the databases they steal. Or they could ransom individual's data directly to the individual. Or they short the stock of the company and then release the stolen database publicly to make the share price fall.

It's important not to over-simplify the problem. There is no single, simple solution as long as there are many ways to profit from data thefts.
> These people, should they exist, are too few for a whole industry.

I believe these people are called purple unicorns.....
Gift cards seem to be more stable than crypto (held value) and very anonymous (purchasable with cash, no-questions-asked). They do have the friction of limited amounts, the overhead of managing many cards, their acquisition without questions by employing many couriers, and liquidation.

Crypto has issues in purchasing, mixing, and liquidating.

PS: I wonder if anyone is using gift card networks for money-laundering? The answer is always "yes."
I would read that as an accent that isn’t a softer New England accent, but also not one that non-Americans would so easily place more specifically (Southern, New York, maybe one or two others?)
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That's reason more to use synthetics to generate and train on many many edge cases. Getting photo realistic scenes is easier than ever.
I agree! The argument is mainly one against it being a lab leak, but instead something that evolved in the wild and spread.
As battery designs are getting better, the difference is getting smaller and smaller.

Turns out cooling systems can have very thin tubes with very thin walls.
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Please try to refrain from personal attacks on people. It’s very disrespectful, especially when someone has clearly dedicated so much of their time to public works.
There's a long industry history of stealing code, but I'm surprised to hear this story of Sun allegedly doing it.

My impression is that reason for the stealing usually makes sense. For example, a key library that's hard to write that's just copied into the source tree, ignoring licensing. Or an appliance developer didn't want to deal with licensing for Linux or BusyBox. Or an individual developer in over their head quietly copies code.

The time I heard an explainable incident happened with my code, was in mid/late-'90s. An acquaintance, who'd offered to be one of the testers for an unreleased Java desktop application I wrote, then reportedly ran it through a decompiler, and passed it off as his own code, in a demo to investors. He later acknowledged doing this, and said he'd send me a Sun (ha) workstation as compensation. I declined.

Then there are incidents for which the reason isn't obvious, like the one from the article. I speculate that sometimes the explanation might simply be that the perpetrator wasn't quite right in the head at the time, like in some famous cases of journalism fabrication.

An inexplicable one involving my code was when an open source developer took a substantial and novel package that I wrote, stripped out my name and license notices, including out of the main file, and posted the package with themself identified as the author. There were also a couple other incidents with that person that seemed like that hadn't yet learned how to play well with others, in engineering or open source. I asked a mutual acquaintance, in confidence, what was going on with that person. The acquaintance checked, and was also baffled. In that case, I suppose that maybe the perpetrator was going through a difficult time, and not thinking clearly. Or maybe it was a combination of unlikely accidents that looked worse than the intent was (which happens).

In the article's story of the Sun incident, I'm a little surprised that (speculating) an engineer could do this despite all the other people in engineering who might be in a position to notice something funny going on. And Sun had been the dot in some dotcoms by 2005, so presumably they had some strong engineering processes around what goes into product.

Maybe the demo was something put together by a systems engineer, working as part of a small marketing/sales team, rather than under an engineering organization, so a lot fewer engineers were aware of it?
I may be wrong but I seem to remember that Concorde was never asked to go into a holding pattern because it just couldn't deal with it. Am I wrong?
Websockets. We do price feeds for inhouse trading platform and we don't use anything else, it works very well for browser-backend and backend-backend comms.
That's been answered in other cases where someone violated a ToU and SCOTUS ruled that's not a breach of CFAA and not a criminal act.

The second situation they've just ruled is not a crime under CFAA. That second clause "you are just never permitted to do" would depend on whether it was implemented as an employment policy or as a technical implementation that you "hack".
EcoHealth secured a NIAID grant of roughly $3.7 million, which it allocated in part to various entities engaged in collecting bat samples, building models, and performing gain-of-function experiments to see which animal viruses were able to jump to humans.

It was a $3.7million dollar grant to EcoHealth Alliance, which I wouldn't doubt he was involved with. $600,000 was sent from EcoHealth to Wuhan Institute of Virology.
I see why Jenkins is complex, but a nightmare? I use and manage a rather complex setup and hardly ever had problems related to Jenkins itself.

I do advice to limit users access to the internals of the framework (not the jobs but rather the core or plugin installations) and leave that the a small number of people
Knowing what i know about ML, it's the problem if we are rellying on cars to see unusual cases on the streets for the first time and handle them well.
You wouldn't call your local farmers market a 'wet' market because it isn't.

Wet market is the standard English term for a market that sells live animals, typically seafood. They are full of tanks and water filled buckets and polystyrene boxes etc., thus the "wet" adjective. There are 2 less than a mile from my home and I've never heard anyone use a different name for them.

You'll find this term used by the HK (i.e. China) government, so I fail to understand how you came to the conclusion that it's based on racial paranoia:

"As at October 2019, the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department ("FEHD") managed a total of 74 public markets, of which 35 were standalone wet markets and 39 contained both a wet market and cooked food centre." [1]

In Cantonese, it's "濕貨街市", which is literally wet goods market/area.

[1] https://www.legco.gov.hk/research-publications/english/essen...
if you assume ZF, then 1={0} and existence follows from existence of empty set.
You can hear a European perspective on it in the song Prisencolinensinainciusol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8
> Each part of the system should validate what it needs

Easier said than done. Each part of the system can't know what it needs, since you've just added a new thing it might need to contend with.

The point of closed enums is to force these checks, even if all you're doing is adding a new fall through to ignore it, since at least that means you've considered it.
No one is arguing that he did not commit criminal acts, but breaching CFAA was not one of them.
> I'm surprised at how dismissive the comments are. We need many angles of defense against these criminals. Dismissing this because companies should do better security is like dismissing doctors because people should get more exercise.

No it is like increasing price of cigarettes and giving those money to the health system.

>That's silly. We need preventative care and treatment and everything in between.

No, we need secure by default. These things are already criminalised, this does not seem to stop anybody.

Why is a child on a default Windows 10 account able to install a program by clicking a link ? Why is this program able to install itself as a service ? This is not security.
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The main problem is the malware that makes you lost access to your data.
(Pseudo-)anonymous payment (BTC is not fully anonymous) that facilitates the payment is just a side effect.

Backup and threat management directly address the main problem. Banning crypto just like you say, deter the payout potential, but it leaves the malware as is.

It's pretty funny when we talk ransomware payment in term of friction—as if we are talking about new payment method user which user will be inconvenienced.

Criminals doing criminal transaction don't care about 'friction', they will grind through any obstacle to move the money.