skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The timeline for COVID-19 also needs to be adjusted [0].

"The 2019 Military World Games ... was held from October 18–27, 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei, China" [2]. Many of the athletes are said to have gotten very sick while visiting Wuhan. Similarly, I've talked to many people who were super-sick in the US in December 2019 or January 2020. Some people have reported their suspicions of having #EarlyCovid on Twitter...

Many of the healthy people who are having severe reactions to the vaccine probably already have immunity. I'm planning on getting the T-Detect test [1]. LabCorp doesn't have this test as something that clinicians can order; I've decided I'll probably have to pay for this myself.

[0] Dating first cases of COVID-19 - https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j...

[1] https://www.t-detect.com/covid-19/for-patients/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Military_World_Games
Already did long ago.
Teams is terrible. Is like they let mentally disabled people design user interfaces.
Ask HN: What Are You Learning?
Hey Hacker News, what are you learning?

Personally I'm learning Elixir, and it's such a pleasant language. It feels great to write, and the packaging/build tools feel refreshing compared to the mess of Python.

Now, handing you the mic. Is there a new stack or language on your mind?
This is a bizarre complaint. What do you think is happening here? That there is some group of people who are pretending to be shocked, specifically in order to mislead another group of people into actually being shocked, for some nefarious purpose?

In neither the press release from Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc back in May[0] nor today's announcement from Cowessess First Nation[1] is there any claim that this is a "shocking discovery". Most of the Canadian media appears to be reporting on this as the start of a process to help the affected communities grieve and find closure, not as some kind of big, dramatic surprise.

I assume most of the people shocked by these findings are either not Canadian, or just didn't know much about the history of indigenous people in Canada. For those people, I think being upset is an authentic emotion.

[0] https://tkemlups.ca/wp-content/uploads/05-May-27-2021-TteS-M...

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/cowessess-mariev...
"Free upgrade" from Microsoft doesn't bode well. I wonder:"what's the catch?"
I use predefined templates I made in Confluence for requirements and tech specs. Part of the page header in the template has a spot to link to the other docs. I defined a process where the person reviewing the document uses inline comments to keep the history clean.
> Gamestop is clearly an exception.

Your argument is "Cryptocurrencies are dumb, i'll just put my money in stocks instead" which not only young people also put their money in, but are also just as risky and subject to high volatility as well?

> They're not used for anything other than speculation, crime, money laundering, scams and BS like NFTs and cryptokitties though.

So they are also not used for a save fast way for money remittance? You're forgetting that lots of companies and countries are adopting cryptocurrencies.

> Not sure what you're saying here. You think regulations are going to send values higher so they're smart getting in early? Or you think they're smart taking advantages of all the volatility before regulation puts a stop to all that? If the first then you're wrong. If the second then you're just encouraging gambling.

And putting your money in stocks involved in SPACs isn't gambling?
Writing your password down in an insecure location will get you written up at most jobs, straight out fired at others.
Your faith in the internet doesn't match mine. (Far too many single points of failure.) But suppose you're right. I can buy 10 drives for cheap, but not 10 different cloud accounts.

I also don't care to have the internet snooping on my data. Yes, I know about encryption. Enough to know it cannot be trusted.
Tokyo Has Built the Best Subway
Phil Mason is actually a chemist.
> Most of my apps are just hobbled versions of websites anyway

Most of the time it's the other way around.
he VERY LIKELY isnt.
It's more like a business failure as in the decision to discontinue the devices were taken prematurely.

But really as pointed out above, any IoT device will eventually have a security flaw discovered if updates are stopped.

As a consumer the best bet is to switch to a supported device or disconnect the device from the internet.
> High Security organization (banks)

Hahahahahahaha. Good one.
> Based on childhood mortality alone

> So your argument is “things aren’t perfect in the US, so the US has no right to claim its approach is better”? That’s an absurd statement.

The core of the problem is exemplified with cherry-picking a few metrics and generalizing it to a sense of superiority.

In other words, the real absurdity is reducing complex multidimensional problems to a single "better than" metric, and acting as the world's savior based on that self-aggrandizement.

US is by far not the best in many of childhood related metrics, yet have a disproportionate amount of arrogance regarding the superiority of its approaches. You are welcome to check PISA scores, ADHD diagnosis and medication rates, childhood obesity rates , adverse childhood experiences, single parenthood, juvenile delinquency etc. among the first world countries and see where US lands.
Just because Google scrapes my website once to seed their database doesn't make me responsible for being their data monkey to keep it updated.

If Google is scraping this information and keeping it separate, unlinked and un-updated from its source of truth, how is that anyone but Google's fault?
Mob justice is biased against people who are mobbable (have something to lose, are public persons). Is that justice?
Does anyone know if the backend code for this is made opensource on github or something? So it can run without windows?
Correct, these are the accurate things to consider

And also must be weighed against the consequences

He very well could have paid the 100% penalty of $2000 that year and still kept the asset in the Roth IRA because the desired consequence was still so much greater and worth it. It was 1999 at the peak of that tech bubble

There is also the possibility that the ownership % state changed so fast within the same year that you could look at the average % and wind up satisfying the condition with no penalty

There is also the possibility that the IRS was asleep and lost their chance to levy a penalty by now

All is possible
There are several comments in this thread that are well-intentioned and more or less on the right track. There are also a few that are quite problematic. I felt compelled to come make the point that--maybe this is obvious to some, but not to others--poverty is not a valid reason for child protective services to seek to remove a child from their parents. Here in the US, there are thousands of children who are homeless with their parents, and it isn't because they are skirting under the radar of social services. As long as the child is not being abused or neglected, and the parents are doing what is necessary to see they are clothed and fed, it is widely accepted that is always in the child's best interests to remain with their parent(s). Outside of imminent danger, even the most abject crushing levels of poverty are not an excuse to take someone's child from them.

--Source: I have worked as a Guardian ad Litem since 2008 and my mother is the director of a county department of social services, formerly the director the department's child protective services.
To be fair, Canonical partnered with Microsoft to make Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Perhaps the consultant was running Ubuntu (on Windows).
Howdy, I'm the author of PhotoStructure, and was interviewed for this article. AMA about photo metadata, deduping, asset management, or hierarchical folksonomies.
Each Microsoft Windows release makes me check how ReactOS is doing.
This seems optimistic to the point of being naive. Have you worked at many large corporations? None of the ones I've worked at attempted to perpetuate anything other than their own preservation, at any cost, and their profits. They weren't interested in 'progress' of any kind unless it furthered those previous purposes, and even then they didn't do it very well. They fought innovation all the way up until it was an absolute necessity.
This.

I've been confronted with exactly this a short while ago, and even produced Microsoft's official stance on this (against). But in the end, their argument really boiled down to "but my checklist says so".

Microsoft's [0] first entry of "Common approaches and their negative impacts". With a reference to the FTC website. [1]

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/misc/pa...

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/techftc/2016/03/time-r...
Some of their hardware is tough to do yourself. e.g. I've got a TL-D800S hooked up to my home server. I know I could build something comparable, but once hardware involves actual "building" rather than just "assembly", it's past the level of effort I want to spend.
Synology has a large enough following to get its own ransomware attack (in July 2019) too:

https://www.synology.com/en-us/company/news/article/2019July...
I think one thing it does is knocks out a lot of the de-facto 'debunker' style arguments that it's a balloon/swamp gas/weather phenomena etc when the government concludes that it's a physical object with an unknown point of origin that they've critically analysed and concluded that they don't have an answer for.
> And I really take issue with the racial angle that feels like it is basically part of every single NYT article these days.

Maybe racial issues are that present? Should the NYT hide them or report them?

Many believe (without putting too fine a point on who) racism has always been that present, but was ignored by those who could ignore it, who it didn't affect, or who didn't care or wanted to perpetuate it. In part, that was because the media, from news to entertainment, could ignore it and didn't want to annoy its white consumers. That perpetuated ignorance - white people rarely talk to black people, especially about racism; they rarely see it in their media; and therefore they didn't know how bad the problem was. Then, when it's reported, white people think it must be exaggerated, because it doesn't match their prior mental model - a viscous circle.

That's my experience: I had no idea how omnipresent race issues were until some experiences in my life (unrelated to mass media) changed that. Then I realized it was being covered up, with varying degrees of intention and ignorance.

Note also that it's a common response to issues of racism: Do nothing about the racism and attack the messenger. That's arguably the biggest way it's perpetuated. So let's not focus on reporting on racism; what do we do about the much larger issue of racism itself? The former seems discussed on HN much more commonly than the latter.
not your keys, not your coins. no exceptions.
Google's medical information boxes are irresponsible. They are not accurate enough to serve the general population. They aren't detailed enough to be a useful reference for professionals either. Even a Wikipedia article is a better resource.
Oh, it took some persistence and definitely wasn't a short process.

But damn was it satisfying.
Wait, is this the same sexting app from years ago? Why would they be involved in QUIC?
I don’t know where you get this from, but my Live devices all support nfs/smb/ssh. I have both a cloud one and a normal black Live one.
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That's not exactly how it works, but close in spirit. When you invest in Republic, you are entering into a contract called a CrowdSAFE. It's a convertible instrument much like a SAFE, but instead of converting into the next priced funding round into stock, it converts in a liquidity event directly into stock (or the cash equivalent if an acquisition for cash). There is no intermediary SPV.

What you're describing however is the way AngelList works.

The reason for this is mainly because the Reg CF terms prohibit crowdfunding investment vehicles (such as funds or SPVs).

(Source: I am former CSO of Republic)
It wouldn't be a smooth app, but it would still render, which would be fun to play with.
Product recalls are for defects that can cause physical injury. If the MyBook had an electrical defect that could cause a shock hazard or start a fire, it would have been recalled.

Many products have flaws, but if the worst that can happen is that the customer feels ripped off, they don't get recalled. There might be remedies under a express or implied warranty, but tech products typically disclaim all of that in their terms of service.
I don't recall ever reading such bland, uninteresting statement.

If you want to claim democracy doesn't work, post some explanation of your position. You might feel like your opinion is shared amd known by everyone, but that's just a social bubble.

I'm more towards your side than you probably think, btw.
Do you have anything to support that? One could say your comment is "exactly what will sell".
This doesn't appear to have anything directly to do with Linux, just crappy software written by WD running on it. Please be a little more careful with your criticism.
Lovecraft Country sporadically portrays this
All those different novelty options, yet you didn't implement metric time. For shame.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time
I'm sure if these theories were actually the case, the government/military/weapons manufacturers would have come to the conclusion and not youtubers that make a small profit from intentionally debunking things.
On the face of it, it looks fairly simple on Linux with the encrypted homes feature.

Don't have the need for that, so I've never tested it in practice, though.
Is there any modern, reliable replacement for the old "Time Capsule" from Apple?

I have a home server with samba, etc where I'm pushing Time Machine backups, but I'd prefer something standalone that doesn't require much setup. What are others using for this?
EU’s Broken ‘GDPR’ Needs Fixing, Departing Privacy Chief Warns
What degeneration of standards lmao. Desktop is the most degenerate of all platforms with their Electron cancer. At least on mobile it's mostly native.
what is the point of a lighthouse, now that they have gps, or glonass?
Agreed. This is similar to the sudden interest academia took to Science-fiction/Speculative fiction as a contender for “serious” literature.

It’s actually quite amusing how literary fiction has become such a closed off place when the works its academic apparatus almost worships is, historically speaking, genre/popular fiction.

Dickens was the equivalent of TV serials, Shakespeare was hardly high brow entertainment for its time (Ben Johnson was the court dramatist, not Shakespeare), and anything older than Chaucer didn’t even qualify as high literature simply for not being sacred/written in Latin.

The ivory tower is getting scared of its own irrelevancy and rightly so.
I couldn't help but notice they have 'Internet Computer' in their portfolio which became a bit of a joke after its dramatic decline (95%) post ICO. That doesn't give me a lot of confidence in the portfolio itself
There are a lot of comments on the situation itself, or the companies involved when these type of events happen. Speaking of evolutionary behavior as a whole, why does the industry still keep driving towards IoT / IaaS when events like these are becoming more common? Is there real risk analysis going on that determines that putting crucial operational infrastructure in the hands of a vendor is worth the consequences? I know this particular event is related to a consumer product, but consider how a lot of businesses work. Once a solid system is built, there's no reason to change it - hence the abundance of legacy systems in finance etc.

It makes me feel like these things could eventually go full-circle and companies will value owning their own datacenters. It may also make more financial sense for companies that have recently realized a lot of savings in office space leasing that they could pivot into infrastructure.
Yeah, they're wildly different measurements. I'm sure you've read about world record temps being set at furnace creek mojave but they're measuring the air. I'm sure the ground is much more hot. The air record there is 137F while the ground record is 201F. Your rubber boots might start getting soft. lol
And of course Qnap in the recent month. It keeps repeating, and keeps happening, and some ( me ) keep ranting about it and no one / company is doing anything much with it.

Majority of people buy NAS only use it to access their Data within their internal network. But somehow they all include Internet / Cloud features as upsell.
12 years?

Typical business life of a computer is 5 years. Typical service/support agreement is 1-3 years.

Try getting Apple to address a failed hard drive that's 12 years old. They'd laugh in your face.
Typically when building a device like this you get a version of Linux / embedded-OS from the SoC vendor and you are stuck with it because SoC vendor doesn't provide docs that would allow drivers to be maintained. This makes ongoing support harder than it might otherwise be.
Nobody wants slow, laggy sexting.
It’s not so clear cut and Congress randomly assigns and reduces duties of random agencies.

For example, the FBI has global jurisdiction over cyber matters and that agency specifically will send agents physically to other countries to coordinate with local law enforcement, seize assets and affect arrests

They’re all watching

I don’t think anything will really change until other countries are doing the same to us. Like imagine law enforcement from the House of Saud showing up at your door alongside local US police and they arrest you and eventually ship you off to Saudi Arabia all because a data packet passed through their borders. That’s allot of people’s experience with the US right now.
Show HN: We built an NFT marketplace for Code Commits
For those interested in following the development and best current understanding of the incident, Wikipedia now have an article on the collapse:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfside_condominium_building_...>

I've long observed that for complex evolving stories, this is virtually always the best way of getting a current snapshot of knowlede, rather than wading through the transactional style of news reports, which are both highly repetitive (rehashing existing knowledge), highly transactional (noting incremental new information), and often get trapped in early narratives.

As an example of that last, the current description is as a "partial building collapse", while a far more accurate description to me would be "a total collapse of part of the structure". The first phrase suggests the collapse didn't evolve completely. The second makes clear that the destruction was complete for the affected part of the building.

As I write, Wikipedia notes that there's no determined cause, though both structural defects and sinkholes are suspected, and that re-roofing and a recertification inspection were ongoing.
If the result of banning unhealthy fast food is the saving of millions lives and massive healthcare cost reduction then I would support it. I assume different, necessarily healthier, restaurants would fill the void, so they wouldn’t be missed.

I’m not sure why you would think otherwise. You’re talking to someone who clearly prioritizes personal agency less than overall well-being or positive outcome in certain cases.
Assuming there is so much coverage of those issues (how much? I don't remember those articles and read the NYT daily, but I wouldn't have read them) why is it disturbing and scary to address issues in society?
Not true.

Very high quality AI research regularly come from Facebool, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.

Yann LeCun at FAIR is pioneering Self-Supervised Learning which is likely to be a gamechanger in AI.
Read about the recent ransomware attacks.

> if these people had been running to a decent cloud service

They thought they were.

> If that is connected it could get infected as well, now what?

That's what the physical write-enable switch is for. A hardware read-only device cannot be written to.
They are a $100 billion company. They are involved in a lot of things.
That's essentially impossible for this class of device, though. While this case is a bug in the on-device API, there are countless others involving previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely-trusted software components. Heartbleed comes to mind.

Hardware needs to be liberated from unsupported software, and users should be made aware of vulnerabilities and support status. Making software vendors liable for future exploits of unknown vulnerabilities opens a can of worms that would have non-neglible consequences for everyone who writes software, and not all of those would be beneficial to security.
With the highly-subsidised nature of printer (it's the razor model: provide the razors cheaply, make up on the blades), the burner route is actually reasonably affordable. Particularly if your one-time use is a high-volume printing.
What rule would such a requirement violate? Does the SEC have rules saying high-frequency/day trading must be allowed?
"Fork" kind of implies the codebases have diverged and there is active maintenance of the fork; "Patchset" is the more common term for changes distros apply to an upstream project before they package it - and this is something most distros do when they fail to upstream the changes (usually due to some benign differences with upstream).

However, sometimes the differences can be sharp, such as when Mozilla disagreed with Debian's patchset[1] (it was around trademarks, UI assets and branding). IIRC Mozilla asked Debian to stop calling its package Firefox, so Debian - perhaps vindictively - chose "IceWeasel" instead. Good times.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_software_rebranded_by_...
I like the engineering effort here but I'm opposed to the content itself. First, I'm not going to provide my name and medical history to access anything on the internet, and probably not much outside the internet either. Second, I fail to see how this will motivate anyone to get vaccinated, it will only further move people into hyper-reactionary tribalism
This is one for a write up I'm planning to do. TLDR: Software recalls are a problem across all manufacturers. Thankfully, software has yet to eat the car, so most of these defects have been benign. Mechanical failures and battery fires still dominate the most dangerous recalls, and I have a feeling those issues will persist until the space figures out EVs.
> The only downside to cloud backup

Data theft is another one. Encryption might help, but you have no reasonable way of knowing if the encryption is secure.
One might be so inclined to label Google a peddler of fabricated misinformation...

I seriously can't believe that the sources of the image and text aren't labeled with their respective sources. Doing so seems basic, obvious and trivial. Not doing so seems to be a blatant attempt to hide expected inaccuracies and make meaningless combinations of information seem more authoritative than it actually is.

While I think this individual would have a hard time in any court system, let alone the US court system, could Wikipedia perhaps have a claim of damages for libel (or something to this effect) due to misattributed information and reputational damage?