skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't have to have been engineered to have escaped.
Why this convolution keeps happening is beyond me, we "know" this isn't a bio-superweapon.

Taking this as read, either:

Researchers at the lab failed to spot something like this in the wild, in an area where they were looking for this.
So, failed to raise the alarm appropriately with acceptable transparency.

or,
Researcher work at the lab led to the collection of this from bats and some set of unknown situations led to it getting into the populace.
So, caused the disaster they were trying to prevent/research.

Either way it's clear China reacted as-if this was the end of days. Which is understandable given the nature of the work going on inside the lab
The fact that everyone involved seems to have thrown up barriers into a sensible discussion on this is unfortunate and renders most conversations mute such that we'll probably never know how bad it was.
Yeah, I understand this becomes necessary to minimize maintenance effort on rarely used features,but it feels like even more often it's used to turn useful applications into barren wastelands. Firefox, perhaps the best example, is a fraction of what it used to be.
Sorry but can there be more context to why it is a powerful tool?
Meanwhile we've spent pathetically small sums on making vaccines and expanding production.
https://online-go.com/learn-to-play-go is perhaps similar but doesn't go very far or in depth
As a Canadian, the most educated nation in the world, we do pretty much give diplomas to anything with a pulse. It doesn't affect school credibility, it merely pushes people to feel like they need even higher levels of formal education to compete.
Windows Insider already had over 10 million users 4 years ago[0]. I'd say that approach works well enough. I myself used it on Windows Phone 8, because some upcoming updates came with cool features and being in the Insider program gave me earlier access.

I also used Firefox Nightly for a while because of the massive performance improvements at that time. As Audacity claims they're doing it for UX improvements, it would be easy to get frequent Audacity users interested in a beta build featuring tracking but also all the improvements being tested.

[0] https://www.networkworld.com/article/3185461/windows-insider...
He has two amusement arcades filled with his own interactive machines, "The Under the Pier Show" in Southwold https://www.underthepier.com/ and "Novelty Automation" in central London https://www.novelty-automation.com/

He talks about making some of the machines in his "Secret Life of Components" series on YouTube.
Give them more ideas!
Doesn't work for me on FF on windows 10.

There is no index on the left, the scrollbar thumb doesn't work, and when you scroll down with the arrow keys, it goes only a few paragraphs before stopping.
You're wrong by three orders of magnitude. It's 1B, billion.
> their initial telemetry attempt was using Google Analytics which is definitely malicious)

What's wrong with Google Analytics? As long as the ad retargeting bits aren't enabled ( they aren't by default), it's just a regular anonymous analytics solution.
Friendly reminder that BitBucket does not have a SLA:
https://confluence.atlassian.com/bbkb/what-is-atlassian-s-bi...

... and it is down a lot.
I've sent back 4 different sets for repair, after a few months the drift returned along with pairing issues.
I used to think that movie reviewers were out of touch with the common man. The fact that they would give movies like Transformers a low score but rave about obscure boring movies would always annoy me.

But several years ago I worked on a side project where I reviewed a movie every week for two years, and when it was over I became much more sympathetic towards movie critics.

I agree with this blog post when he says that movies are repetitive. The same gimmicks and tropes are used over and over. It really does become boring and annoying to see different shades of the same thing again and again.

This is why critics rave about the obscure weird movies that you never heard of. They have to sit through thousands of hours of generic crap and anything that is different is like a breath of fresh air to them.

Something really exasperates this problem of generic movie making that wasn’t touched on in the article is the soulless Hollywood factory system that is currently cranking out worthless junk that was designed by committee.

Look no further than the recent Star Wars trilogy for evidence of this.

Very rarely to we see movies that a result of a singular vision, directors are now just replaceable cogs that have to bend completely to the will of the studio or they will be replaced during production (like the Han Solo movie)
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I advise yourself to get acknowledged with IO Kit, Drivers Kit and Metal graphics subsystem.

IBM mainframes are written in mix of PL.8 and PL/S originally, with newer code being C++.

ARM apparently doesn't have any issues getting their stuff used in medical devices.
my question here is:

are we really concerned about console tools overreaching their telemetry? personally, I am not.

I would love to know why others think this is some kind of huge issue, without a bunch of 'what-if' scenarios.
The minute the PRC government destroyed the evidence, they lost the presumption of innocence. Let's also remember - we're dealing with very smart people who very well knew the price they were paying by not cooperating with the international community, and yet that path seemed more attractive than just "coming clean."

I wonder what the judicial system would have to say if a murder was committed in my house, and there was evidence that I destroyed the evidence. Also, I don't have an alibi, and have multiple prior felonies. Would that be enough to put me in jail again?
If you are looking for the smallest case, then look at Oracle vs Google multibillion debate about this function:

private static void rangeCheck(int arrayLen, int fromIndex, int toIndex) {
if (fromIndex > toIndex)
throw new IllegalArgumentException("fromIndex(" + fromIndex +
") > toIndex(" + toIndex+")");
if (fromIndex < 0)
throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(fromIndex);
if (toIndex > arrayLen)
throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(toIndex);
}

https://www.copperpodip.com/post/oracle-v-google-shows-why-f...
A lot of bugs are hard to reproduce, occur only on certain OS's, etc.

In these cases, filing a ticket is often pretty useless. What's needed are widespread stats to determine severity, frequency, correlations, etc.

In fact, I'd say the Venn diagram of bugs that can be meaningfully reported in a ticket, versus those best detected through crash reports, is pretty small. So you need both.

Why do you think developers shouldn't fix crashes? Shouldn't developers themselves decide what they want to fix?
Nuclear power is clean and safe. Why aren't we using more of it?
The ai seems to die at the top of the map unexpectedly for some reason. Like 6:07.

Another interesting observation is that the wolves don't coordinate it seems. That probably implies that the reward functions are individual, so they're technically competing rather than cooperating.

Lastly... they seem to not be very good at the game even at the end
This might not be concerning to you but they also had some run-ins with sexist and racist behaviour.

It was what pushed my hobby group to Gitlab, though I recently set up github for my company as a temporary measure.
The Internals of Fractal-Next
Yeah, that definitely didn't help, either. Snapchat's one I can't really blame them for not allowing third-party apps for given its use, but some others were definitely playing games.

It might have survived one of these issues, but both was crippling. Poor app support and constant churn of APIs can't end well.
It seems like state-sponsored hackers were used by a democratic government to plant digital evidence on the devices of people critical of high-ranking politicians. I think that’s interesting because we know state-sponsored hacking is increasing but this is one of the first cases I’ve read about where the targets/victims are individuals within the sponsoring country’s borders as opposed to entities outside of their borders.
On a one by one case, this is very sympathetic.

However, if a company has eager competitors which can leverage an advantage, then keeping the 10 or 20% of a workforce which is minimally productive or counter productive can jeopardize a whole company and all its employees.

Say intel were to not fire low productivity employees but AMD does, then AMD can capitalize on this, intel loses share and then intel folds subsidiaries and so on. On the other hand AMD would be on a hiring spree to meet the added demand.
I thought so too. I've gone down the rabbit hole in the past. I've tried three different chips and the result is always the same. Sometimes it's spottier behavior but it always ends up staying on in the steady state.
The reason this is a pain is the projects doing that were already starting from a broken position. The code gen should be entirely managed by the build system. You should never need to modify or look at the generated code. If you need to change the generation output you should modify the "compiler" (tool doing the generating) or the input source you are using to generate.

Examples:

If you want to add an int32 into a protobuf you modify the .proto file with your message.

If you want to change `int32` to `int32_t` instead of `int` to make the code generator more multi-arch friendly you'd change the protoc plugin for your language.

"I have never encountered code that did not need to be changed" is the wrong mindset to have here. You're thinking of the generated code as source code instead of an internal build step (same thing as Clang or GCC's IR).

Also if you're in a situation where "code generation system was no longer available" then your build would never succeed. This should be like saying "gcc was no longer available". It shouldn't be possible and in reality the generated code shouldn't even be checked into the source tree.
Switching Costs in Software
Has anyone had any success in getting your TOTP shared secrets out of Lastpass Authenticator?
Android.

I often run into problems where the bloody stupid "use bitwarden to fill this field" hover button pops up over the field i need to paste something into. I need to do that because the app hasn't detected the app i'm using is actually a password i currently only have the web URI password saved for.
If we held tech companies to the same standards we hold for interpersonal relationships, most tech companies would be in prison.
After researching a bit and finding this: https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/israel-50-of-...

I'm wondering whether this number is a population-level observational result that has more to do with someone ignoring base rates rather than delta actually being much better at causing infection.
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Thinking in First Principles with Data Structures and Algorithms [video]
Gaming most of the time but some times I do some personal talks/Q&A. It took me over 2 years to get here, so it's not easy.
Yet another similar story. A side project of mine was building a rudimentary neural network whose weights were optimized via a genetic algorithm. The goal was operating top-down, 2D self-driving cars.

The cars' "fitness" function rewarded cars for driving along the course and punished them for crashing into walls. But evidently this function punished a little too severely: the most successful cars would just drive in tight circles and never make progress on the course. But they were sure to avoid walls. :)
It totally depends on your personal views on what victory or defeat would mean in this space.

Not everyone shares your views
I think the crux of the matter is that I speak with the benefit of hindsight whereas governments had no such luxury. I think, perhaps, if we truly knew with certainty that the pandemic was a more prolonged situation than one could hope for (despite being warned of such), that a more organized and simultaneous effort to shutter economies and travel for a temporary short-term would have been an easier position to argue politically.
Same applies to C.

Anyway just search for Jason Turner's talks on targeting Commodore 64 with C++.
Xyletol sort of works that way, it looks like sugar to (at least some of) the micro-organisms that like sugar but contains nothing nutritious to them.

Not sure if one can separate the effect prolonged xyletol substitution has on the microbiome from the effect it has on the actual human portion of the metabolism, if one replaces any addiction with something else the original cravings will subside over time.
StudioHub on Supporting the Success of Startup Studios
Great post, one nitpick -- I wouldn't say that a matrix is a "sparsely defined" function, but rather a function defined on a finite grid. It might also be worth pointing out that same approach works for any graph, not just a grid.
It would interesting to surrender the whole process to AI.

Let's have AI decide what the productivity requirement should be, given biological constraints of us meat sacks. Feed it all the data - churn, sick days, the Geneva convention, employment law, recruit & training costs, development goals....the whole fucking shebang.

I'll have a sportsman's bet with any of you, that the targets for performance set by AI, would be easier to meet than those devised by mere human cruelty.
Folks are missing why this went viral in China. From the article "In an even more philosophical twist, young and demoralized Chinese corporate citizens also saw the suicidal wolf as the perfect metaphor for themselves: a new class of white collar workers — often compelled to work ‘996' (9am to 9pm, six days a week) — chasing a dream of promotions, pay raise, marrying well… that seem to be becoming more and more elusive despite their grind."
it started with 1h or 2h getting 0, literally, it raised to £20 month after several weeks... and here we go.
That makes sense. It would also help from a cache prefetching perspective.
There are definitely places in the US where a car is not necessary. Lived on the east coast my whole life without learning to drive.
The BBC built the most cartoonishly evil spyware ever invented: roaming surveillance vans conducting van Eck phreaking on their users' houses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_detector_van#Detection_tech...
That's not a one time risk though! So far it seems a person can be infected multiple times.

Say you get Covid once a year, that's 0.004% per year. Also, wether you need hospitalisation or not, doesn't change the fact that some people are having permanent issues like lost their stamina, hair loss, loss of smell. I have a coworker with neurological issues, but he is not in a hospital.

So the big question is: how effective are the vaccines against long Covid?

And we need that number at or below 0.001% or Covid will overtake other diseases in terms of life expectancies and QoL implications. Assuming we would get once every one to two years.

That's just too much rounds of Russian roulette.
Probably the terms of the bankers lead to modern new Yorks success.
I didn't downvote you, but the office was very much censored and there were articles about it[1]. The same article discusses Community having one of its best episodes ever yanked over black face that was explicitly explained in the episode. People have lost their collective minds.

[1] https://tvline.com/2020/06/26/the-office-community-blackface...
So, as I said, nothing changes compared to using existing high level language compilers. You wouldn't normally hand-edit .S files from your C compiler either, why would you do it with this intermediate form?
https://alpheios.net/

Is an open source project for making alignments like this. Great for learning and close inspection.
You are clearly misinformed.
The CDC has already created a new code for the disease, along with a name: PACS
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/clinical-care/...
At the end the author mentions there are a large number of methods available for solving. Also mentions there are a much larger set of applications that those discussed.
What does that matter? You'd decline $10 if it meant someone else got $20? FAANG pays extremely generously. You're either being paid enough to work or you arent; what someone else gets should be meaningless. When you call being paid some of the highest salaries in the world exploitation, you devalue the word.
https://archive.is/HrVFy
bitbucket server is a very different product. It's not the cloud version that's been containerized.
It has an undertone implying some sort of strange conspiracy amongst rust people. Generally to be suspicious of something means there is something nefarious going on.

It has an implication that Linux is something that any enthusiastic group of outsiders could force their changes into. And that there are rust people would create such a group of outsiders.

It has an implication that rust people and linux people are disjoint sets.

It's generally taking this strange adversarial view to a collaborative endeavour. People aren't "rustaceans" or not, it's not a sports team. People are people, they generally program in a wide variety of languages, and use whatever they think is best given a certain context.

I'm not sure if I've fully captured what seems "off" to me about the comment, but hopefully you get the gist.

As for asking questions, that's a clear example of https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions - but at the same time the general sentiment seems to be frequently reflected in internet comments. I don't think it's a malicious case of this, just how they chose to express their opinions.
Thank you - which was precisely the point I was trying to make.

further the 1938 high is also fact checked but not linked.

https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/323470-when-did-karachi-wi...

My goal is to highlight some of the echo-chamber bias on HN. One "interestingly dead" comment at a time.
What's wrong is that the code is being generated, shown, pushed to repository, and distributed (for the purpose of human editing). With a compiler, the binary output is not shown, not maintained. The source code is. The generated code is no longer source code. Giving it an appearance of source code and even distributed as source code, is wrong.

The source code for the mentioned example is:

...
[copy linked list: annotations]
...

I am not saying that the compiled/generated output shouldn't be human readable -- I strongly support readable intermediate outputs. But we need always recognize what is the real source code and what is the tool. Confusing them inflates the complexity and promotes wrong attitude, such as not taking responsibility for one's code or not caring about understanding the code.
The concept of building an audience to the point where you are possibly internet famous/know-able in the software world is probably pretty hard these days. I would guess that a path to that is making significant contributions to open source projects that you use.

From a hiring perspective, I might glance at someone's repos if they mention them but it's not really a factor at all.
“Good films get smaller audiences, but more of the viewer.” - Jean-Luc Godard
Seriously I LOVE 1password. I moved away from LastPass to it after reviewing some of the OSS offerings. I have not found a more feature-complete (and pretty for that matter) alternative.

One of the my favorite features that I cannot find in other password managers it the built-in 2fa support. Click to login to a 2fa enabled site and it copies the code to your clipboard so you just paste and voila at the next screen. Perfect!
Oxford University has started a first stage trial for a HIV vaccine based on the same research as their Covid 19 vaccine (mRNA), it's looking very promising.

The mRNA vaccines didn't spring up out of nowhere, they are the culmination of ~20 years of research into mRNA vaccines.
> Creating more social and reputational consequences for individual worker bees who make such commits on the job is also on my to-do list.

Wow. This is a terrible approach for a worthy problem. You want to make the options into "lose my livelihood via being fired or lose my livelihood via social and rep consequences"? That is awful.
It's right that mainstream Hollywood movies chase an ever more mainstream blockbuster audience and narrow the types of movies made as a result. Much of the article seems emotionally challenged. If a friend came to me with this much talk of losing joy in a hobby, I'd recommend they see a doctor or therapist. I hear the words, but mixed with echoes of depression.

The thought that there's nothing good from a century of cinema in the entire world left to see is a little hard to imagine, especially after only six movies a month for some years. If that's really true and not just the author being cynical, then there are lots of other hobbies. I think either the article reflects more on the author than on cinema or perhaps the author's selection process needs improvement.
There's also page 14 here, where more vaccinated than unvaccinated patients died:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

Very odd, especially given the much higher numbers of unvaccinated hospitalizations.
Thank you! That's a good question and yes, there is a small story to it. There were several problems with the old name. A lot of people were confusing "Luna" with "Lua", the name is so popular that absolutely good website names are already taken, and also, "Luna" has no logical connection to what we do.

On the other hand, the name "Enso" is not similar to any of the popular languages names, we have a beautiful https://enso.org domain, and also, in Zen, ensō (円相, "circular form") is a circle that is hand-drawn in one or two uninhibited brushstrokes to express a moment when the mind is free to let the body create (source: Wikipedia). This is exactly what we want Enso to be – a creative canvas with two perfectly connected parts – the textual and visual one :)
lol they subtitled the black people speaking English
Thanks, this is great, I've started watching some international movies recently, so this comes really in handy.
Have you checked "La vita è bella" if it's worth watching? or do you have scheduled?
This was a very interesting read even as someone who probably has no practical use for these tools.
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This is a working system used to produce https://aquinasinstitute.org/operaomnia/ - you can sometimes see changes made in real-time if you’re observant.
An upgrade like that implies hardware and software developing and testing, that cost a lot of money. Possibly more than the margin of benefits that could give them versus a simple new screen.
Actually, there is a much more sinister systematic problem underneath this, which imo makes this sort of political abuse of law to curtail dissent seem like a minor issue in comparison.

India seems to have completely given up on any attempt to genuinely implement common law principles that judicial systems worldwide are based on. Instead of conviction and eventual prison being the goal (along with the presumption of innocence until conviction), our system seems to rely mainly on pre-conviction detention as a deterrent for criminal activities.

All relevant participants in the system (namely the police, the judiciary, the criminals and the citizens) have given in and accepted the fact that convictions are hard and extremely rare to come by. Instead, the process itself is the punishment. The goal of the police is to keep everyone in jail for as long as they can. Judges also regularly deny bail to the accused when they think that there is some preliminary evidence. And the citizens also join in this game by asking for ever stringend laws that make getting bails difficult for more and more cases. (I think most people in India don't even realize that "non-bailable" is just supposed to mean that bail is not automatic, but to be given on the consideration of a magistrate.)