skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they haven't already they need to reach out to Steve Blank and his Stanford Hacking For Defense course.

https://steveblank.com/category/hacking-for-defense/
> Brilliant name.

The name is a bit of a blunder:

1. Because of the placement of the ♭ in ♭Flat, that's actually read as "FlatFlat".

2. The note D♭ is the same as the note C♯.
A lot of people have tried to ascribe the reluctance of many scientists to admit the possibility of a lab leak to some conspiracy from the top or even political leanings. But it seems more likely to me that many scientists in the field, especially those that work specifically with gain of function, are going to be reluctant to blame a lab leak because they know that if it is found that covid was from a lab, then their funding is at risk. Not to mention those that may not have funding at risk but believe that gain of function research is important regardless of the risk.
I'd also like to see more info on this, Teams will consistently bring a quite powerful laptop to it's knees.

Posting something to chat while in a meeting will take 5-10 seconds, i have never seen it work instantaneously.
You didn’t address whether engineers at Netflix would put up with this.

> I'm pretty sure that is what they are going for here with the global leaderboard

Sorry, I’m confused. This seems like a change in your position? Earlier you argued the intent is for employees to be able to showcase their skill to recruiters… you also responded to someone else who said they already have recruiter attention with “you are not their intended audience”

> paid her full time salary just to compete on Deepracer

Wait, are you seriously comparing a global competition in cutting edge tech to squashing bugs … in your own codebase? Come on.. there’s no comparison. If anything, a company would be semi embarrassed that they have so many bugs in their pre existing codebase.

I’m asking you in good faith. Why the contortions to defend such a product? I see from your profile that you are an investor and advisor. I would seriously try pushing this product to your companies and see how they react. If they do adopt it, run an anonymous survey of the devs .. then I would love to see you argue with a straight face that it “benefits developers”
In the US*. People flow betweem parties much more in Europe.
I would argue that Dunbar's Number is the wrong number to use for this. At least not by just naively dropping it in.

Remember, it represents the total number of stable social relationships a person can maintain. If you're looking to allow your employees to have personal lives, you'll want to leave ample room for their family and friends.

Maybe an important question to ask is, how much of your employees' social-emotional carrying capacity is it appropriate to consume? If 10%, then 15-25 is your number. If 20%, then 30-50 is your number.
What's unfortunate to see on this platform is amount of armchair virology experts who reject scientific process.
It's been a few years, but I worked on a dotnet core C# project once. Prod was Linux and dev usually OSX. I remember running a dotnet build to generate some kind of artifact (dll maybe) that still needed the SDK to run. Is there some other way to do it that made a self contained executable?
If I don't have time to do more than to skim the text, then my own lack of understanding / misrecognition of jargon can also "obfuscate central facts or [the] salience [of] peripheral details."
The activists perfecting the craft of anti-surveillance
And then we have .net 5, which is dotnet core, but they've dropped the 'core' part
This is nice, I have two questions if you don't mind:

- Can bflat be used to compile F# code?

- How do you build multiple files?
> Your best bet is a general-purpose game engine like Unity or Godot which can export to web

Totally disagree about Unity. Unity's web export is awful. If you want a good web game you need to use a web-native engine like Pixi, PlayCanvas, or Phaser. I guess the Haxe & Godot tools are good too but I've never used them.

The huge advantage with using a Javascript/Typescript based game engine is that you can use the latest & greatest build tools like Webpack, and the latest ECMA/javascript features, instead of some proprietary tool chain that hasn't seen a major updated in years.

I think mobile game companies who have only been using Unity and have all their games built in Unity will have a hard time transitioning to mobile because you just cannot use Unity to make good web games. You have to rebuild them in a new engine.

But, if you use a web game engine, you can still target mobile. So, I would not use Unity for any new mobile/web game projects.
"Hate" is a word that has a variety of meanings, and I was using it as a suffix - it's basically a synonym for '-aggro', a way to describing a pattern of oppositional or antagonistic behavior. (My usage is colloquial. If I were saying what you have mistakenly read it to mean, I would have mentioned hatred of China", or maybe "China hatred".)

I am not using it "dishonestly", and I think that the conclusion it guides people to is completely reasonable and accurate - we should dismiss the majority of opinions that take the form "yup, that's just like China" or "China is doing this shit again? what a surprise."

The behaviors of individual workers in a system where they're being incentivized improperly don't have anything to do with China's current geo-political actions, and I get tired of so many people acting like 'China' (or 'the GOP' or 'California') is a single coherent entity with self-consistent behavior at all scales.
Was Hackers referencing a real event?
I think Germany recently voted for this as well, so we will have this soonish :-) so if you can sign up online, there needs to be a similar way for cancelling.
> Seems like we've survived this many times as a species

I'm reasonably sure the species will survive climate change. Some nation states, civilizations and cultures' odds look more iffy.

I think your bar for worry may be a bit higher than mine.
This. Looks like they were on the old angular so some switching costs were already baked in to their decision making.
Removing “stupidity” on any platform, public or private, is absolutely censorship. And discussing any author bias is absolutely a contribution towards conversation surrounding the authors work.
Oregon to lift all remaining Covid-19 health and safety restrictions by June 30
There are certainly older settlements (not just remains) in the americas, australiasia, India and of course Africa. Undoubtably older ones in China too, just no traces yet found.

Genetic and linguistic studies demonstrate significant mixing of communities.
Actually, according to news, some of the vaccinated do have symptoms (no increase in hospitalizations so far) and looks like they did infected other people. (in Israel still done contact tracing)
I haven't played guitar in 20 years but I think D flat would have been a much better name
Fuck you fear mongering pieces of shit. Daniel Pearl ass media.
> it seems like devs just assume that people only use their app

It's the "people have powerful computers now so we can be as lazy as we want" culture. We have amazing computers but they feel less powerful than an 80s arcade machine.
>Telling people to "fuck off" isn't required (nor desired, in my opinion).

I'd agree with this for 99% of the time. There's a small 1% of the time though...where sometimes people really need to be told to fuck off.
I've said this before but I've been waiting for almost five years now to switch to Protonmail personally - and with several clients, SMEs and startups.

Why haven't I done it?

Well, for one, to this day their pricing and feature structure is utterly unattractive, orders of magnitude more expensive than competitors (especially Gsuite/Google Workspace and Microsoft 365) and thoroughly confusing.

Some examples:

- Want to put your whole family on the "visionary plan" (~$350/year)? Tough luck, it's limited to 6 users, so your wife's parents are out.

- No multi-user support in tiers below "Professional", i.e. a family of 7 (incl. e.g. grandma) pays at least $560 per year.

- Work as a consultant, juggling several projects or startups? Tough luck, 2 custom domains and 5 measly aliases included only, even on the professional plan (~$90/user)! Also a mere 5 GB of storage. Google offered twice that 10 years ago and currently 3x - for free. Google's paid accounts include up to 2 TB (!) at that price point. As for the custom domains, on my private Gsuite I currently run about 10 without problem plus and at least fifty aliases (I make new ones for many services I sign up for, my #1 spam-avoidance trick). Even if I wanted, I couldn't switch without losing a ton of functionality, security and convenience. Getting most of this in Protonmail would probably cost me an eye-watering additional ~$360 - per user!

What on earth is their value proposition? Switzerland + encryption, okay, all well and good. Happy to pay some extra money for that. But not more than 10 times the amount a user costs on Google Workspace.

They also have no discounts, let alone free accounts for EDU or NGOs which makes it hard very hard to convince any of these orgs to switch there seeing as they get a lot more value from Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, completely for free - and these companies know that people will be more likely to privately sign up for Gmail, Office etc. if they use it at work or at school all day.

Bottom-line, I've longed for a service like Protonmail for almost half a decade now but at least the people and companies I work with don't want to pay close to what they're asking and are not willing to be nickel-and-dimed for something trivial like aliases, a catch-all address or a reasonable amount of storage (2 TB would cost ~$21,500 per year on Protonmail, according to their published price list!!).

From statements of their management I suspect that they're trying to manage (and limit) growth and thus have positioned their product in a way that makes it a premium/high-end offer, certainly without the goal of getting "everyone" to switch to them. The price and feature/addon policy makes it extremely difficult to convince anybody to switch for whom privacy and encryption is "nice to have" but not worth $$$.

I am a bit frustrated by this and have been for a long time.

Here's to hoping that a competitor appears and offers a more attractive bundle. Or that they finally get together a growth plan or funding that allows them to reduce costs and scale to more customers quickly.
I don't think aerosolization matters when you're not in the same building and you're any reasonable distance away (certainly when you're miles away from the closest infected, you're safe, right?)
Often times if you change your address to be a CA address, websites will suddenly reveal an online cancel option. I swapped my parents' NYT account to be my CA address and suddenly "click here to cancel" was displayed on the website.

While I agree it should be a default setting, it's a useful little trick.
The unions do. However the police officers do not do anything about people voting against the union candidates. That is police officers may want you to vote some way, but they still defend your right to vote against them. (at least for now)
>The source code is in the respective Roslyn/NativeAOT repositories. I'm not ready for people to see (or to accept pull requests) things that are specific to bflat.

hmm?

edit: nvm, it seems he's MS employee, so it's I guess it's legit.
Surprised to see no mention of Unity.
Mind expanding read.

Tangent. Made me want to read Around the World in Eighty Days. Here's a public domain ePub version:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/103
> For example, you may have a free or cheap concert that sells out extremely quickly, but with scalpers, those with lots of money can always get a ticket.

But how do you square that with scalpers causing the tickets to sell out so quickly? I mean, they're the ones creating their own market. They're not really providing a service if they're the ones creating the annoying need for the service in the first place.
Facebook Instant is actually a pretty incredible platform, IMO. Tons of games on there, available to play with 1 click and no install. They all load pretty fast and the performance is great.

Almost none are built with Unity. It's very very rare to find one that isn't built with a web-native game engine.

Check it out if you've never seen it, you will be impressed. https://www.facebook.com/instantgames/

The crappy thing is that iOS doesn't let you do IAPs on FB Instant. So you can only have IAPs on Android & Desktop. Ad monetization works everywhere though.
str = int

is perfectly valid python. So having str mean different things in different modules is already possible.
> yes, was it Nietscheze who says politicians are just sales people for their manifestos?

I strongled doubted it was Nietzsche, so I googled the phrase "politicians are just sales people for their manifestos" (in quotes), and there was one result—your comment. It's yours!
Turning over Cop Control to the Federal Government Backfired on Seattle
What I haven't seen in a superficial reading of this thread: Did the device really erase the data? A quick way to do this, nowadays, is to encrypt it and, upon reset, throw away the key.

If it's an old school quick format, some types of data can be recovered. A tool like "photorec" can scan the drive and recover pictures, MP3 files and so on, mind you without original metadata like file names and dates. May be better than a total loss.
That's why they call the economic effects of the pandemic and the recovery K-shaped. Some people are sinking, others are soaring.
No, parent is just joking :)
The general idea of the original zerocool hack does bear a slight resemblance to the Morris worm. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
It's OK to just say "I have no idea what you're talking about".
> People who need that feeling, should best avoid becoming artists, and instead become entertainers or performers, where your craft is done "in communication with" a direct audience.

Modern games technology allows this. I know many an independent developer in tight community with players. There's this dude who's making this game who emails me closed beta builds and I think he's an artist. He often watches streamers in his community playing his own game and having a laugh with them. It's very personal. He puts his biggest fans into the game as NPCs, it's adorable.
Again, it’s a very reasonable theory that the virus was lab-made. Stop taking other people’s reasonable conjecture in the worst faith, it is anti-intellectual.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-...
Sure, I understand your point. Have you dug into the problems of data linkage attacks? (see questions above)
Yeah, it was a big deal when they made it legal here. Bars, restaurants everywhere started doing them like immediately. Now it's rare to find a place that doesn't offer some kind of happy hour special.

Gotta say, I haven't really noticed any of the problems occuring that the wiki article mentions was the reasoning behind most bans myself. Haven't seen any news reports about those things since the laws changed either or anything.
It is very odd to call it gaslighting when it's a giant movement, attributing something like that to a young group of people with a wide ranging message looks very odd and because you don't look below the surface at all you have no understanding of the deeper meanings or you choose to ignore them. And it is very odd to expect a group of young activists to have a perfectly crafted message for you to understand... you're not realistic at all

"It's not on me or anyone to go decypher what a movement is trying to be. Yes, messaging is hard, but if you're a movement without a message, all you are is a bunch of angry people in the street occasionally causing riots.

If you're hanging around in a protest where folks are advocating killing federal marshals (protestors can't always spell very well) you aren't exactly... not endorsing that message"

This is a truly bizarre perspective to have... you're saying that someone is basically endorsing everything at a demonstration when all they are doing is listening to what is going on... THE DEFINITION OF HAVING AN OPEN MIND you think is a bad position to take... You sound very close minded and you mix rioters and demonstrators with another wave of your hand, yikes! Try going out into your community with an open mind. I'm not saying I would run up beside a banner that says that and be all buddy buddy, because thats a crazy statement, but it would behoove you to not just lump in an entire legitimate movement with one crazy person, because also like I said there's no way those people actually advocate killing people... thats so obvious!!! You found one crazy person or someone looking to stir shit up that's all.

You seem to have a really skewed perspective of this and on top of that are resorting to childish arguments like spelling errors... get real you don't know anything about me or most of these protestors (I won a spelling bee bitch but go ahead flex some more). I said I went to one demonstration and you have a slew of ideas and prejudgments.
Nah it doesn't take anywhere near that amount of time to raise some produce. Maybe a half hour total per week, if that.

Some stuff is easier to grow, some is harder, but for example I barely did anything on my strawberry patch this year other than picking them when they got ripe. I'd say I spent maybe 15 minutes a month on the strawberries.

Now if you're trying to grow a lot of stuff then the time investment might increase but most backyard gardens don't take up that much time once you've planted everything.
I mainly just want out of Gmail because all of my internet accounts are tied to that address and it's known that your account could just be terminated by a bot for no reason and the only way to get it back is to make a stink on social media until a Google employee with connections sees it and takes the time to bang on some doors during their lunch break.

I'll probably switch to Fastmail and get an address set up with my personal domain so I'm not tied to any service. But yeah, as a service I don't really have any issues with Gmail.
Yeah, it's crazy that even things like my fingerprints are out there somewhere.

I've sorta lost track of what's happening, but the credit monitoring thing they're offering has been really good, and seems to be extended indefinitely.

Bizarrely it's given me some peace of mind; no matter what other breaches I'm part of, it can't get worse.
You have to ask what is the motivation to keep the storage usage down, I can't see any. If an app runs at a speed acceptable to the end user, nobody cares.
The CDC miscalculated costs vs. benefits of 2nd Covid vaccine doses in children
And specifically about a pandemic, even if 50% of humans died in it the species would continue, but that would very much be something to worry about. Even at much lower percentages it would be worrying. Or the fact that it could continue for generations.
So they all signed a letter stating they were political actors and jokes of scientists and now have second thoughts. Too bad.
I played with WebView2; while possible to save some disk space, the memory is (surprisingly) worse than Electron, and the API surface is also not as rich.

I like the idea of using a (system-deployed) WebView in general, but this implementation needs more work.
First HDD crypto Burstcoin(not that joke Chia) coming back as Signum
Exposing IoT to the world is (going to be) common with IPv6, not sure how much SLAAC privacy extensions and "temporary" (hours to days ?) addresses help ?
Same here. I switched to Fastmail from Gmail a few years ago and it’s absolutely fantastic. The app is great, no AI magic, things just all work exactly as they should.
Because it destories the root structure built up in the ground over the years. Those roots then break down quickly, and in turn the whole microbe profile is different. Sometimes tilling is still the best thing to do, but it isn't a good thing and should be avoided.

On a different note, tilling also costs large amounts of energy. The less tilling your do, the less CO2 you are putting into the atmosphere (even if you do the tilling by hand with a shovel you are still emitting more CO2 than if you just sat in your easy-chair)
Note, that doesn't say that 55% of submissions from Chinese authors were retracted. It says that 55% of retractions were from Chinese authors. If 60% of all submissions were from Chinese authors, then actual rate of retraction would be less than average. If say 40% of submissions were from Chinese authors, then the rate of retraction would be just slightly higher.
I didn't set it up beyond creating a skeleton "Event", cause I have zero interest in paying real money to kick the tires on this, but as I understand it one would add existing repos to their AWS Code* tooling, at which point machine learning awesomeness takes place and it surfaces findings (inside those AWS CodeWhatever APIs, having nothing to do with BugBust)

If those findings are imported into a BugBust Event [which is defined by the tuple of (start date, end date, scoring, and repos in scope)], then one can (invite|publish) a link to the BugBust Event and at the end date the participant who fixed the in-scope issues with the highest point values claims the cited prizes. Further (again, AIUI), at the end of the *AWS* event, the BugBust account who has the most *overall* points wins a re:Invent trip

I don't believe AWS gets into the business of monitoring the PRs, only observing the CodeWhatever outcomes -- if CodeWhatever found an issue, time elapses, and the CodeWhatever sees the issue is fixed, then BugBust will look up the category of said issue, multiply it by the assigned score in any Events it is associated to, and award the Internet points to any Event participant it knows about
Founder here. I've been eager to make such a product for a very long time, so I very much hope you'll like it.

We're like Mint.com but open-sourced, with end-to-end encryption and anonymous signup. No way for us to sell your data or even peek into it.
Sample size: 2.

Nice neighborhoods were powered down. Poor neighborhoods were powered down. Maybe some had essential infrastructure. Maybe they didn't. There's a possibility that poor or minority majority neighborhoods were unfairly targeted. The inverse is also possible.

The bottom line is, you and I both have NO idea who was affected, how, or how that decision was made. So stop trying to pretend racism or inequality can't exist. There literally is a grand mystery here because the companies responsible won't inform anyone.

And yes, I fully accept that while it can exist that doesn't mean that it does exist in this situation but you have to also accept that with incomplete data you can't prove it doesn't.
I feel the lack of non compete is one of the main reasons tech took off in CA. That and the weather. For as much as people say starting a business in CA is hard, and it can be. For tech it is so easy I can just quit my job and start my company.
Bitcoin may be useful but the calculations done for its proof-of-work don't do anything useful outside of Bitcoin. The same is true of Chia. It uses up hard drive space as a mechanism to validate transactions but IIRC that space is essentially random bytes. On the other hand, with arweave or filecoin you are storing files for people.