skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The first SARS and avian flu and swine flu, and CJD and mad cow disease were just more warnings that humans were continuing to play russian roulette with the way they were living with an using animals.

How do we live with and use bats that makes viruses crossing over more likely, though?
Awesome to see this published here. There was an episode on the SE Radio podcast about this book.

See: https://www.se-radio.net/2021/06/episode-462-felienne-on-the...

The author is also a regular host on this show. Highly recommend it.
It can, at the very least, harass and threaten people outside their borders, as is already done today in many Western countries against Chinese/Russian/Saudi-Arabian/Belarussian/etc dissidents living abroad. Modern democracies are wholly ill-equipped to deal with modern authoritarian governments and the means they have and are willing to use.
I think it's the oposite. People continuing calling it RSS is limiting there understanding of this domain. Most people are all about RSS this, reviving that and talk about the specific format, instead of the purpose for which RSS is actually used.

This also leads to rather poor solutions and discussions which are just reinventing the old stuff again and again, instead of letting the domain evolve to match modern demand.

Take for example this project here. Is there any feedreader out there who has this built-in to make it comfortable for the user to use this? The state of tooling as I know it is still at the level were we have seperate tools which pushes out a newsfeed-format, which than must be maintainend seperatly in our feedreaders. Which is an extraordinary hazzle to maintain configurations on multiple places.
edit: parent changed their comment from claiming the US had a murder rate 23 times that of Canada

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False.

Canada has a murder rate typically 1.5 to 2 per year (per 100k).

The US murder rate is typically closer to 5.

In 2019 there were an estimated 16,000 murders in the US (~4.8 per 100,000).

From Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Canada

"After dropping to a low point of 1.44 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants in 2013, Canada's homicide rate has been rising again.[6] In 2015 the rate rose to 1.68 per 100,000 people, up from 1.47 the previous year.[7] According to Statistics Canada data from 2016, police reported 611 homicides across Canada in 2016, a rate of 1.68 per 100,000 people.[8] Canada's national homicide rate 2017 was the highest it's been in a decade, Statistics Canada says, because of a spike in gang-related violence and shootings. The agency said there were 660 reported homicides in Canada last year. Not only was that an increase of nearly eight per cent from 2016, it also pushed up the homicide rate to 1.8 victims for every 100,000 people, the highest since 2009"
The original topic of this thread is keeping the money as cash.
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The problem with China is that they consider everything that's not unconditionally positive automatically as criticism.
Because the scientists were too busy playing politics.

> "... it was scarier to be associated with Trump and to become a tool for racists, so people didn't want to publicly call for an investigation into lab origins."

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/lab-leak-theory...

It never occurred to these people that claiming the virus came from bats because they eat bats there is the more "xenophobic" thing and not the possible lab leak caused due to poor handling.

The next time someone asks us to trust the science, our response should be "okay, but can I trust the scientists?" And if they can be so easily manipulated based on politics, what else are they and the dissenters being silenced on?
I think most would call the original pagerank algorithm unbiased. Sure, any algorithm will have a bias towards a certain content length, or towards pages that contain the search terms at a particular density. But by doing that you don't arrive at algorithms that have an opinion on the holocaust or Tiananmen Square [1].

Of course Twitter somehow managed to implement the worst of both worlds, with a sorting algorithm that promotes controversial content (without bias regarding the actual content), but then does biased moderation on that content.

1: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57367100
It originated because we know for a fact that lab leaks do happen. SARS leaked from a lab in Beijing a few years ago and there have been leaks in Russia, the USA, the UK and many other countries. It's just a fact that these things can happen. That by itself doesn't make this particular lab leak theory particularly likely or plausible, but it definitely make it possible.

I have no time whatsoever for the nutters who say the lab leak is definitely correct or has been proven. Likewise I have no time for people who say the lab leak was not possible and should not be considered. In both cases there's a big chunk of motivated reasoning, and quite possibly wilful ignorance going on IMHO.
Sorry, but I'm not speaking about reverse engineering. WPInternals doesn't work reliably on all models and it's understandable. As others said already in sibling comments, RE shouldn't be necessary at all.
Does anyone have experience with finding product-market fit? Can anyone share some tips?
P.S. I watched all the "How to start a startup" lectures.

So, we released this app a year ago — https://nutritionanalyzer.app/ and nothing.

The app helps to create a personalized diet plan that balances around 40 nutrients in a person's diet based on what he prefers to eat and according to the USDA Dietary Guidelines.

While we give an extensive nutrient breakdown, practical recommendations based on science, and allow to get to the fully balanced in all nutrients diet (which competitors apps doesn't do at all!), competitor apps such as MyFitnessPal (that only provide calorie counting feature) have tons of users and make $6 millions a month (according to the sensor tower data).

Question: WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?

So the problem to solve and the market definitely exists.
The design and user experience are very good.
From what I know, we don't even have bugs…
The aha-moment is when you balance your diet and realize how unbalanced it was before and then read about the importance of every single nutrient you've balanced and how it will help you.

I've tried talking to users, answer on forums and run AppStore ads.

What is wrong with my understanding of how does startup work?
> If you actually wanted to do something about the US murder rate, it's very obvious where to begin fixing things. Nobody wants to talk about it, it's not a national discussion at all, it just keeps getting swept under the rug (while the dead bodies pile up, year after year).

Gun control, you mean?
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No. A helmet is very tight, and it has to be. It has to stay on if you take a spill.
My kid would be super happy with it. His teacher as a 'reward' for doing his language-related stuff on time/quicker, lets him do math worksheets
You're right, it's 'only' 3 times more, not 23 times more (per 100k).
Visiting/exchange doctors come here to pick up skills for combat zones because so many ER trauma shifts are going to have gun shot wounds. And if it's the work of the untouchable assault rifle, well, you are going to be learnin', boy!
That’s just how we express our emotions in this country. It would be racist to suggest otherwise.
Google's time will come
It's specifically the black community driving violent crime rates up to insane levels in the US.

Canada only has a ~2% black population and many of them are skilled immigrants that immigrated in the past couple of decades.

I guess if you're still clueless as to why all of this is happening you should read up on human biodiversity and the effects of genes on human behavior.
The water was always hot. There's no there there, never has been, never will be.

> SYSTEMS DON'T WORK FOR YOU OR FOR ME. THEY WORK FOR THEIR OWN GOALS.

Though you can be sure that in the future many new execs will spin the veil of uniqueness, genius, coolness around something new, something that in reality is as benign as Google - an internet advertising company, a company that maxed out the craft of selling ads. Over and over again. It's a fascinating thing to watch.
Thanks, this was very helpful !
Yes. I really would want a bootloader unlock, and unlimited side-loading for Windows Phone 8-10. One last update that enables this would be so awesome, although you'd also need a Visual Studio version that doesn't require a dev account, but there's probably hacks for that.

I just like collecting old and obscure HW and actually use it. WP8.1 is unusable: Store shut down, no new apps. Logging in with your live account doesn't work anymore. If you were already logged in, you could keep using it for quite some while, but in January, the calendar stopped syncing with your live account, and since then, it will regularly wipe all appointments you add, so it's completely unusable, even without cloud sync. MSN weather is also broken, and I can't get an alternative app.

Today you can show people how tech from 30 years ago worked. The same isn't true for anything made today, or 10 years ago.
Trash content alway existed. Always.

AltaVista was all spam results when Google came on the scene. From where I sit, Google just doesn't care to work on search any more.

For example:

- pre 2005?, Google search terms were never aliased.

A search for Bob, never returned Robert or Bobby. To make things "easier", alias searching was added. Now, there is all sorts of algorithmic aliasing happening, and it poisons the results further.

- Couple this with the desire for verbal google searching to work, without complex queries, and even more aliasing/approximation of search results happen.

I've seen homonyms aliased as of... 2016? Why? Google voice searching.

- Quotes are only suggestions, only verbatim search forces precise terms (+ used to mean a word must appear as written, but was removed because it was interfereing with Google plus username searches..)

- These days, Google spends more time trying to take content from web pages, and insert the answers at to of page. They want to be wikipedia, with you never leaving their page.

All of the above, and more, show a steady decline in the desire for precise results, and instead, a desire to sacrifice search quality for profit, and pet projects.

As others in this thread have said, Google isn't Google any more.
Even a poorly fitting helmet will fly right off in an accident. A simple hat won't stay on the part of your noggin that needs protecting.
It is very impressive. I can not even get my mothers win10 to work on an hp i7 laptop. It is very slow and needs patches all the time. It is actually useless.
Outside these gangs, what is the murder rate like though? Surely still many times higher than Canada or Europe with all the rednecks and white supremacists and school shooters.
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Particularly when the syntax bakes in things like support for converting certain ASCII sequences into Unicode characters [0]

[0] https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/text/quotation-...
Not 23, but 2.5.

23 times is the absolute number, which is easy to explany with the differences of population.
Annual deaths per capita would be more helpful
By increasingly moving into their territory and disturbing populations of animals with which we were hitherto not in contact.
If you're excluding the most violent areas in the US in your comparison, shouldn't you do the same for Canada as well?
Pure optical switching is hard. MEMS might permit unamplified optical crossbar switching so no optical- electrical-optical delay and buffering.

Optical interconnects for chip stacks could use one-time collimation to align the channels maybe?
Devil's advocate question for a person who likes this research: What
formal definition of a "program synthesizer" would exclude C compilers
from being program synthesizers? Similarly, what precisely
distinguishes C or any other programming language from a
"specification" language?
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The vast majority are in specific places like the Southside of Chicago, a city with strict gun control.

It turns out that America is a really big place and broad criticisms from abroad are almost always wrong and misleading.
Social media networks and smart phones came around at that time, and in conjunction with increasing popularity of video games probably destroyed a lot of demand for video content.

There was simply a lot more choice for how one can spend time, and a ton of it at a higher cost to enjoyment ratio than movie tickets or DVD or Blu Ray.
Stop letting them use gun control to ignore the underlying issues in the community.

ME: Chicago has strict gun control but high gun violence.

THEM: They get guns from states with loose gun control.

ME: But those states don't have the same gun violence

THEM: Places in Chicago are poor & neglected so there's more violence.

ME: BINGO, it's a socioeconomic issue not a gun issue!

This site tracks Chicago specifically:

https://heyjackass.com

2020: 456 Homicides, 1,902 Wounded

2021 so far 6 months in: 378 Homicides, 1727 wounded, 2082 shot

Until the gang problem gets solved, nothing will change. And politicians are too busy disarming the law abiding citizens and cutting police budgets instead of focusing on the illegal gang problem.
> enabling the surveillance economy, inadvertent network dependencies, computers running at about 5% ability, etc etc

I can give you computers running slower. As for the surveillance economy, I am not sure why you think that installing someone else's crap on your computer is preferable compared to running that crap in your browser and blowing most of it away every time you leave the site (or blowing it away completely by clearing your browser's storage). As for network dependencies, websites are now perfectly capable of running offline, while native apps may need network access for doing anything useful as much as a browser app does.

As a developer, I would rather write once and run everywhere. As a user, I would rather not install hundreds of megabytes of someone else's "apps" that could have been a web page on my computer, other than the bare necessities that I am comfortable with. Nor do I particularly care to update those installed apps locally, downloading hundreds of megabytes more or having the risk to run into software version issues. Having vim on my machine is fine. Having Facebook, or Twitter, or Reddit is not.
This is the best assessment to date I've seen.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/1027290/gain-of-...
Have you looked into the VKG (Virtual Knowledge Graph) approach?
Extremely misleading article.

Article repeatedly says that "gun violence is rising", which may be true, but it cites exactly 2 comparative statistics:

1. Gun violence is down in NYC.

2. Gun violence is down in Chicago.

> In New York, where gun violence has been rising to levels not seen in years, there were 26 victims from 21 shootings from Friday to Sunday, a DECREASE from the same period last year when 30 people were shot in 25 shootings.
It is not that lab leaks in general are unheard of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak
But from a quick check those are the reverse of the OP implication, in this cases someone takes a big GPL project and inserts a small proprietary thing on top , I would like to see an example where someone had a bit proprietary project, a dev inserted 5 lines GPL code and a judge forced them to GPL everything.
and Chicago violence is down year over year.
Unfortunately this is not an isolated case. I have seen it play out way too often with individual contributors (ICs).

I have been in enough promo committees to recognise a pattern.

You have an IC performing perfectly fine, year after year, producing high quality work. After 3rd or 4th year of them staying in a position some senior director raises the inevitable question; "why is this person not being put up for promotion?" which then leads to "why are they not growing".

The person in question is just not interested in growth-treadmill anymore but no, our system won't let them work peacefully. ICs have to either grow or move out. All the while the management layer who create train wreck after train wreck ("bureaucratic mistake" as the author charitably puts it) will seamlessly glide within and between companies.

ICs have to prove relentlessly whereas managers coast along.
If you're okay compiling your own kernel I'd wager you could get by on around 30 odd megabytes using the Alpine base image (5MB userland and the rest kernel), though it would not be sufficient to do any compilation on its own.
Agree completely. Whilst it’s true you can use disable comments to make code worse, removing them is a technological solution to a social problem. Static analysis helps with implementing coding standards and good practice, but you still need to actually have the users care.
This is a dumb helmet, and if you survive a crash with it, you still won't look pretty.

However, it isn't much worse than the brain buckets Harley riders wear. Ironically, the loudest of the "loud pipes save lives" crowd tends to love riding without any protective equipment.

That being said, it's their problem. I wear full gear, they don't. They choose the risk they are willing to accept. Sure, tax dollars pay for their accidents, but in a world of smokers, heavy drinkers, cyclists running red lights and programmers never exercising, what's another person living dangerously?
> and Chicago violence is down year over year.

It is?

"Chicago saw 1,916 shootings through the first six months of the year, according to city records, an increase of almost 12 percent compared with 2020 and an increase of 55 percent over 2019."

https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2021/7/2/22560417/4-kille...
I wouldn't go as far as to say it's completely irrelevant. If it was a leak, we will want guarantees that another leak is not possible (ie. better safety, or downright stop dangerous research, such as gain of function). It's all about reducing risks.
Of course, just wanted to say that not two big US companies are the same, it highly depends on who leads them. The powers that be that decided that a guy like Schmidt was fit to run a company like Google could do that again.
Can you imagine the Department of Justice declaring Twitter to be no longer protected under section 230, after flagging Trump's tweets?

This feels so, so wrong.
They must have fired a thousand people when built that.

That happens when your min wages are high.

Also, UBI seems to be inevitable.
Cooooool!!!
I mean isnt the main question if we destroy ourselves before that time?
I doubt there are many Russians who trust current government, I live in Russia and can't recall anyone. Even kids today are mostly opposite to government due to huge information campaigns. Those who deny Soviets crime are mostly misinformed, like US citizens believing in little green men.
I just wrote an entire book in asciidoc and honestly I don't like a lot of the decisions and the syntax, the tooling is also quite messy and hard to use/configure.

Having said that, I'm not sure if there's really any alternative. If you need the extensibility and diff-ability of asciidoc, then you're probably going to have to use it. If you don't need it, stick with markdown.

EDIT: so that people get an idea, I use asciidoc because it provides callouts, sidebars, captions, figures, cross references, LaTeX (via hard-to-use plugins), themes, fonts, etc. when converting to pdf or epub, etc.
I think Haskell's return-type polymorphism makes this much easier.

In other languages, a monadic structure is at least general.

A "monad" is just a type with a sequence operation. The heart of it is just that we aim to do "1 then 2 then 3", etc.

This only becomes something worth talking about when not using the semi-colon to sequence, as we then need to use function application (ie., passing arguments).

The benefit of using a function to sequence operations is that we can just "make it the semicolon", ie., and do nothing extra. *Or* we can add extra functionality, "sequence and ...".

In the case of free monads (I just skim read the article), it appears this "extra" is just a "package" operation. So rather than sequence to execute, we (recursively) wrap in a container.

This recursive container is then an abstract syntax tree, and we can define an interpreter separately.

This I think is very straightforward, and really just confused by terminology. We are just making a AST constructor from a linear sequence of operations.
> I don't think they've really switched. The advent of streaming has let many TV programs tell longer narratives across multiple episodes, which some filmmakers may prefer to the time limits of a film, but that extra expanse of time can be both a strength and a weakness.

As a viewer, the drawn out nature of TV shows is an insufferable time waste these days. I can only stand short productions which have a definite end, like Chernobyl.

Otherwise, I have to assume random time wasting tangents or filler scenes and cliff hangers due to trying to sell as much play time as possible.
Comparing US to Canada is asinine.

Canada has extremely low population density in all cities and population of 1/10th of US. US also has the third-highest population in the world. Look at the population density of the 10 highest dense municipalities in Canada (highest is 5,492.6 people per square kilometre in Vancouver, B.C.):

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/170208/t001a...

Now compare it to USA. Top 50 cities amongst them all are ALL signifiantly higher than the Canadian numbers. New York City alone is 10,431.1 people per square kilometre, San Francisco is 6,658.9, Boston is 5,143.4):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

Canada also doesn't share borders with cartels nor do they have a gang problem like places like Chicago, Baltimore etc do.

Considering these factors, the 420+ million guns in US are pretty safe for vast majority.

As someone pointed out "The Chicago MSA is just under 3% of the US population, and about 25% of the shootings."

EDIT: Why the downvotes? Do people really think comparing 2 countries with completely different population density and borders is a valid comparison?
Yeah, this was always such a weird complaint. I'm sure that there are moving companies which will do that for you, or you can probably rent some truck and do it yourself if wanted.
When making such a substantive edit (from 23x to 3x), it seems appropriate to disclose the edit.
Actually, if remove gang related killings, the US gun murder rate is remarkably low.
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That's not necessarily the best response even in that case. We know for a fact that animal to human transmission happens, and that it will happen again. I don't know the ins and outs but it's possible that gain of function research could be crucial in preventing or fighting future natural outbreaks. That's a judgement that we should consider carefully.

If you're fighting a shooting war and you have an explosion in a munitions factory, you don't necessarily decide to stop making munitions, or perhaps even that type of munition because it's too dangerous. You make a judgement that balances the risks.
Don't know where you get your stats from but that's not true based on a quick Google search.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/chicago.suntimes.com/platform/a...

For a real perspective on the violent hoods, CharlieBo313 visits them all and does interviews.
Guns are pointed at him in many of them.

Here's his latest Chicago video:
https://youtu.be/UOeEykKtobs
Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=YSaJfudt8S4

(dang might want to update if he reads this)