skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Q: How to be kind?
A: To not be aggressive.

The problem is, depending on the environment and personal positions, kindness isn't necessarily the most useful option, and even if everyone likes it, kindness doesn't necessarily sustain itself.

The most important new information about aggression I've got in years is from Prof. Robert Sapolsky's lectures on Human Behavioral Biology. Mind blowing, totally recommend you watch it on Youtube.

In the conclusion to his 4-lecture series on the subject of aggression (https://youtu.be/BqP4_4kr7-0?t=6081), he says:

We have this general notion that if we are rational, if we are learned, if we are scholarly, if we respect thoughts and truth and all of that, we will make the world a better place.

All of us who are professorial have somewhere in there this totally ridiculous belief that if you're allowed to lecture at a subject long enough, it will give up and go away. And that will be the cure for the world aggression. If everybody could be lectured to about the frontal cortex, it will solve world violence. But the basic problem is that aggression is such a messy set of behaviors.

Schizophrenia - no question about it, bad news. Alzheimer's disease, childhood cancer, global warming, all of these unassailably bad news. But aggression is a whole lot more complicated, because of that point where we started with, which is, the same exact behaviors, and depending on the context, it could be something that would get a medal for someone, someone you will want to mate with, vote for, reward, cheer on, join in. And in another setting, it is the most frightening thing that can happen to us. And it's the same behaviors in all those cases.

And it's for that reason, that violence is going to be the hardest subject for us to understand biologically. And it's for that reason, that it's always going to be the one we have to try hardest to understand.
Crocodiles can climb trees (2014)
What about the economics of this "proof of seeding" scheme?
> It is documented that the Chinese deleted sequences from a global database.

You're referring to something completely different, which has nothing to do with bat coronavirus research or the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

A group of researchers working on new sequencing techniques for patient samples (not bat coronaviruses) withdrew their raw data from a database. They then published the key data in a peer-reviewed journal.[1] It's better to have the raw data, but it's not as if the researchers hid their results. And again, this has nothing to do with bat coronaviruses or the WIV.

The WIV publishes the viruses it discovers. They published RaTG13, which is now recognized as the closest known relative of SARS-CoV-2 (but not the progenitor), in 2016. WIV scientists regularly publish papers, give talks at scientific conferences, and collaborate with international scientists. We have a very good idea of what they had and what viruses they were working with. Nobody from the WIV ever mentioned anything that looks like SARS-CoV-2 before the pandemic began.

1. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202002169
>I still have occassional heart arrhythmias and random muscle twitching out of it

What kind of proximate cause would lead to this effect?
Myocarditis is also linked to Covid exposure, due to the immune system response trying to clear the virus out of the heart.

I am curious how many of these individuals may have been exposed to Covid-19 before, even if they were asymptomatic and had never been tested. This may never be known.

If they were exposed to Covid-19, and still had viral particles in the heart, the vaccine could cause a major immune system ramp to go after those remnants.

And that could lead to myocarditis.
I would not be surprised if there is a market for the tools and the knowledge. That the real hackers just sells it and then other people do the attacks and thereby taking the risk. Similar setups existed with botnets.
Interesting that they keep such close track of this when at the same time hundreds of soldiers have been living next to burn pits burning the most toxic substances. Then years later denying that the burning of these substances caused the cancer these soldiers are suffering from.
Every day I feel like a passive spectator watching the industry move in a direction that is worrying: more telemetry, harsh rules about binary signing that hurt small developers, difficulty of accessing one's own system with full privileges, online accounts required everywhere, pushes to do away with traditional "general-purpose computers" in favor of restricted devices oriented around consumption.

I know that this post is peak HackerNews hipsterism/"old man yells at cloud," so I want to try to make it constructive: what can be done, at this point? What is the strategic move, beyond something like going with Linux or BSD for personal use? Is it too late and we've entered "hope for the best" territory?

Edit: To clarify, I do already use Linux, which wasn't clear from my initial wording. It's just that I worry it isn't "enough."
In just 2-3 years time DL algorithms will have as many synapses (parameters) as the human brain. The only thing needed to teach such algorithm to program better than us it to say to it that program needs to be faster, more secure and more user friendly (it's not impossible to teach this to DL alg.). This "tool" will make our work 90% easier in the next few years, so unless we have much more work to do we will earn much less and juniors will most likely be not needed anymore...
This was the user hostile trick I used last time. Tell it no internet connection and set up local account. I imagine one day everything will be 5G connected and then Microsoft will expect the account no matter where you are.
> the purpose of US intervention in the middle east is almost purely for reasons of power and resources

True, but the power and resources for a few corporations and individuals for sure! But not American people. Nah, not the common man.
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states
To make the other comments point more explicitly, OSHA is not the one that determines if a drug has a side effect, the FDA is. So, this means nothing about whether the vaccines are having side effects recorded at a wider scale, OSHA is just not going to track them. OSHA's efforts were probably redundant in the first place. He do see that the FDA is still adding side effects when that data comes in, like for example with myocarditis. [0]

[0] https://www.healthline.com/health-news/fda-to-add-warning-on...
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You just have to say that you're going to join a domain. It doesn't make you actually join a domain and it let's you create a local account. No need to unplug it or fail to log in or anything like that.
>There aren't 10 million people with new heart injuries in 2020.

Are you sure about that, and how do you figure? Covid-19 related deaths alone are 4M and that's only tracked deaths. We don't yet know the fallout and long term effects from non-fatal Covid-19. Research on temporary and permanent damage including "Long Covid" has only begun.

But with the data available right now, I have no problem imagining 10M Covid-19 related heart injuries globally.

E.g. there are studies, right now small scale (N=100), that suggest 4/5th of patients had "cardiac involvement" and 3/5th had "ongoing myocardial inflammation" after recovery from Covid-19 [1] (this doesn't yet mean permanent heart damage, nor is the small sample conclusive, but I think it's an indicator that we should pay careful attention to this area).

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/...
This is how the technology from which Bram derived the core of the BitTorrent architecture (MojoNation, where he worked prior to releasing BitTorrent) worked, and it was a failure. When storage is abstracted away from the publisher in this manner it gets flooded with content that is so nasty no one wants to host it themselves (child porn, etc), when the bandwidth and storage accounting is split from the specific content being shared you end up with a lot more people trying to game the system because credit earned from one node or piece of content can be used for something you really want, and when you have a global cloud of p2p nodes the power is concentrated in the search engine necessary to find content and you end up even more centralized than the web is today.

Been there. Done that. It doesn't end up working out the way you think it should.
I did a fresh install late last year on Pro (using the official v2004 ISO) and this wasn't the case while being offline during the install. Has it changed since?

Edit: typo, had 'online' while I meant 'offline'.
Every so often after a patch Tuesday windows 10 will try to force me the login with a MS account. I have to hit ctrl-alt-del a few time and logout of the local user to get around this garbage. I am so sick of this.

I wish everything I needed ran in linux.
If history has taught us anything it's that technology won't stop evolving. And whenever humans thinks surely we've reached the peak of technological advancements, time proves us wrong. One thing is for sure, it's going to look very different from what we can imagine today.
America’s trillion-dollar concrete bill is coming due
Wow, not a whole lot of appreciation within this thread of the fact that “influencer management” is an actual thing in the year 2021. Creation is an act generally based on personal decision or a passion to share work.

Influencers are managed just as smoothly as social media feeds now.
If the metric for being nature friendly is "doesn't interact with nature" I have bad news for you. If being a bee keeper is a crime against nature I hope you don't drive a car, live in a man made structure or eat processed meat.

You seem to think Humans are some sort of entities living outside of the realm of "Nature", we've been working/using animals/plants for as long as human exists, hell, most other animals do it too.

Bees are "stealing" pollen from flowers to store it as food, we're "stealing" honey from bees to use it as food.

Someone harvesting his own honey from his hives certainly is closer to nature than someone buying honey (produced god knows where and in what conditions) in a supermarket.
I just read your link [2]. She definitely didn’t fabricate or misinterpret the quote, which says that lab leak + concealed IS a conspiracy theory.

Full quote (as per Dr Rasmussen), and italic parts support the above interpretation:

> Unfortunately, this did little to quell often contradictory and sometimes outright ridiculous conspiracy theories that spread faster than the virus itself: SARS-CoV-2 was the result of a laboratory accident or was intentionally engineered, and this was concealed to hide either spectacular incompetence or a complex international conspiracy involving Bill Gates, the Chinese Communist Party and 5G wireless network infrastructure with an end goal of ushering in a new world order.
There is a package offer, but I believe it’s EU-based.

Also, in the guide, the shopping list links are all directed to AliExpress. When I built my sensor a couple years ago, it didn’t take more than a couple weeks to get everything I needed. Some of the pieces you can even source right from you local hardware store or might even have in our junk box.

FWIW, the firmware has improved to include more hardware, which you can find on Amazon too (not just AE). I accidentally purchased the wrong thermometer and humidity sensor. When I updated the firmware several months ago, I saw my sensor hardware was supported.
My suspicion is the option to allow installation via a local account (by disconnecting the network) will remain come RTM. They're likely just pressing the issue now to gauge reaction.
The situation would be different if browsers had it built-in.

Perhaps it could be mutually beneficial. If Firefox had a Bittorrent client, both could gain popularity?
You can have state-enforced copyleft without general
copyright.
It is predicted that Intel will also switch to my "warehouse/workshop model" to integrate multiple cores (workshop) and memory (warehouse) in the chip, which requires 3nm.

Apple M1 has adopted my "warehouse/workshop model" and succeeded.

My "warehouse/workshop model":
https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow...

Disscussions:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/o0gxy3/predict...
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue is back
Ways to ship software
What about the purging that took place early in the virus (not this most recent "database purge" ... which as you point out may not be the important one.

March 2020:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/chinese-scientists-destro...
I've changed my personal laptop to Linux, and my development platform from desktop/PC to html5/web. I think (hope?) there's too much momentum with the free web for the same tricks to happen there.
See Wikipedia entry on the show:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Sorry_I_Haven%27t_a_Clue

And also the specifics of the game Mornington Crescent"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent_(game)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27712122
> check the world records of any sport to see the progress..

Again, I've specifically mentioned strength and resistance

most records you are referring to were broken thanks to better overall conditions

Bolt can't run as fast as he does today on a dusty track made of pressed clay wearing leather sandals...

> These people could not exist in the Roman age

they would have also probably died before puberty

also: in ancient times sport competition was much more important than today and it was a very serious matter

https://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/february/ancient-athlete...
> local account users ... won’t be able to sync content or use Windows 11’s ability to sync or recommend content from other devices.

Is that meant to make you feel like you'd be missing out on something? Do people still fall for this kind of language, or is it just the marketing department patting themselves on the back?

Yeah, I'd love to cripple my own ability to get "recommended content" (we all know what that is) from anywhere at all.
Who is „them“ referring to?
Covid has a ton of neuromuscular manifestations.

https://www.openaccessjournals.com/articles/neurological-and...

Interestingly, the cardiologist who took care of me had covid too, and he had muscle twitching lingering afterwards just like me.
It might be difficult on a different level.

Dr.Hipp mentioned GMail bouncing email sent to him - but hosting email yourself, will just move you to a different side of the bounce - now GMail will be bouncing emails sent by you! See, for example, first comments on the recent HN thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27707857 (ctrl+f for "pain in the" if it's not the first one).

So it looks like convincing GMail to respect your small server is a non-technical problem, which might be an issue for a person with "only engineering" mindset. On the other side, Dr.Hipp looks like a right person to try to convince GMail to respect smaller mailservers!
> how do you conditionally wrap some elements in another element ?

You use a dynamic component:

<component :is="condition ? 'WrappedComponent' : 'UnwrappedComponent"></component>

> That is a general theme, I've found - compared to React, Vue makes the easy things easier, but the hard things harder.

While react make the easy things annoying. It took me an afternoon to be productive with vue, several weeks with react.

And all that for what?

Having the privilege to "just use javascript"? Here is "just javascript" in jsx:

{items.map((items) => (
{display && <SomeElement
onClick={e => e.preventDefault() && foo()}
className="`${active ? 'current' : ''}`" />}
))}

Here is the same in vue template:

<SomeElement
v-for="item in items"
v-if="display"
@click.prevent="foo()"
:class="{'current': active}" />

Not only the react blob is impossible to scan, but it will be different depending of the dev who coded it, because there is no enforced patterns. You must use brain power to parse every single template line. HTML, that thing that was simple and declarative, now becomes complicated and imperative.

And that's not even weird or unusual code. That's regular stuff one writes all the time. Don't get me started on state management or spaghetti hooks.

I have yet to work on a react code base I was more productive than on a vue one. And the gaps get wider if the team is not composed of excellent coders, because react code by junior is a nightmare.
It is only crazy hours if you go for a start up with a goal of maximizing growth.

It is perfectly possible to start a sane business that focuses on providing its owners with a good life.

The nice thing about running your own business is that it is your own choice, as long as you don’t tie yourself up with large investments.
Does everything else you need either run under Wine or a locked-down windows 7/8 VM?
And for those who don’t know, Jim Keller is a legend.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Keller_(engineer)
My reaction will be to finally bother to install a Linux installation. Sure a lot of people say that then do nothing but seriously after losing my hotmail account and not being able to reach anyone for help and knowing my password and still being locked out I have no plans on creating another Microsoft account.
Why didn't you revert the vandalism yourself?
Software will inevitably eat all those gains
You're far from wrong, but I would quibble with a couple of points. Specifically, IRC does support basic text formatting; I've written a client library [1] to implement it. It's not very comprehensive or at all well specified, though. Some clients can handle emoji, links, and
images, but it is client-dependent.

[1] https://github.com/aaron-em/rcirc-styles.el
well, if you write a DRM in JS, it becomes law...
noob question, but how is the performance better? I thought clocks weren't increasing (due to heat), so is it that smaller chips mean more per wafer, therefore cheaper and you can buy more?

I recall a Sophie Wilson talk about how things will never get faster, past 29nm.
Coming straight from the Museum in Nîmes, France where there is an arena :

You could become a gladiator in one of several ways. Many
gladiators had been taken prisoner in one of the numerous wars
waged by the Romans. They gave the spectacles a multi-ethric
character. Others were ordinary slaves whose owner had sold
them to a gladiator manager. Some had been found guilty of a
serious crime. None of these people had any rights
Free men also became gladiators. These so-called auctorati
elected to become gladiators of their on free will. They signed
a contract relinquishing their civil rights for a given period. Mary
hoped it would make them rich or bring eternal fame and glory.
Among them were a number of high-placed officials, such as
senators. Emperor Commodus even liked to appear as a gladiator.
Gladiators lived in ludi, a cross between a training centre and
barracks. Each was trained to become a certain type of gladiator.
Life was tough. As a rule gladiators fought twice a year. Few
fought more than twenty battles in their career. Many didn't
survive beyond the age of thirty.

A gladiator was trained in the ludus by experienced former
gladiators. They trained both in the morning and in the afternoon
using heavy wooden weapons and a reed shield. Corporal
punishment was common practice. Research into the bones of
gladiator corpses reveals that they were fed a muscle-enhancing
diet consisting largely of barley and beans and rich in minerals.
I also installed Pro some weeks ago using the May 2021 ISO and didn't have to use a Microsoft account despite being online. I don't remember having to sidestep any dark patterns either, though maybe I've just become desensitized to them.

edit: Specify that I was online while installing.
> what can be done, at this point?

* VPN for network encryption

* Black hole filters for telemetry

* OS-like special purpose software running as admin to escape from default OS tooling (i.e browsers, game launchers)

* Throwaway accounts for all online services

* VMs for everything else

* A strong stomach to endure this burden
Doesn't work like that. The main way respitory diseases spread is via socializing (ie talking face-to-face indoors).

No matter the population density, rural or urban, people socialize at roughly the same rate nowadays.
React hooks with useState are very similar.
>These people can tell you so much about the theory of security by heart that it will make you dizzy but then won't actually understand the underlying problems.

I've thought greatest failure of many professionals in this field is in the "protect the network" perspective rather than "protect the data". While many of them fess up to "we can make it difficult but not impossible" to breach the network, that is not evinced by the protections instituted.

If companies actually understood that they WILL be hacked, the focus would turn to protecting the data. Actual resting data protection would allow a "I don't care if I'm hacked," posture. Either behind encryption, VM's, segregation, or architectures, preferably all, if data is actually protected, then a hack can be weathered. It's still a pain if the computer-touchers have to rebuild and reload, but that's what you pay them for. If the data is protected, a hack is just a painful exercise rather than a newsworthy event.

I do understand that segregating (through protection and architecture) data is difficult, but I do not understand why it is not the focus.
Being a Windows or macOS user starts to feel a bit like living in a Cold War Eastern Bloc country, doesn't it? The government knows what's best for you, now be a good citizen and don't make such a fuzz about it, if we all follow the great vision of the Party the future will be glorious, promised!

The big difference is, if you make a fuzz, Apple or Microsoft won't send the secret police after you (not yet anyway), so I guess the only option left is organized outrage on social media (or flee the country to an uncertain future in the "Free West").
I was wondering the same, and looked up "hack easiyo", lots of examples of people coming up with their own ways to use the system, without having to purchase the EasiYo printer ink, so to speak.
It might be time to accept that the general public does not need "general-purpose computers". We're at a fork in the road, and both paradigms of computing are here to stay. It's up to us to make sure our branch of the fork is great at what it does, not fight the one that's backed by the giants. It's
not all grim, there are some wins for consumers, not the least of which is security and user friendlyness.
I think you misunderstood the example, classification of marketing as R&D spending for a tax break is the equivalent. This isn’t about people stealing office pens, this is about people falsifying internal records for tax savings.
How the increase in work from home will impact corporate cybersecurity
Muscle twitching (fasciculations) are super common. Stress makes mine worse. So do things like caffeine and lack of sleep. Perhaps they're not a direct effect of covid, but more of the stress that comes with the whole situation?
Well ZFS is fairly good at caching, so while I might not be able to saturate the 10gbit/s from the disks directly all the time, it's still a noticeable jump up from "merely" 1gbit/s.

So depending on which disks is hit, I can get 300-500MB/s for uncached data.

However when copying to the NAS, it can saturate as long as there's room in the RAM cache.

In sum it was a quite worthwhile jump in performance given the investment of about $30 or so, even if it's "only" 3x in some cases.
Clocks aren't increasing much, but IPC still is. Density is also still increasing meaning lower latencies, lower power and therefore higher performance per area.
> could be ideal for conducting search and rescue operations or investigating other hazardous situations

I always understand these as 'will be used by military for search destroy operations'.