skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it seems to me that the early cases would not have been so concentrated in Wuhan

There's genetic evidence that the origin was 600 miles south of Wuhan [0]:

> His research determined that A was the founding variant because it was the version most similar to the type of SARS-Cov-2 (the scientific name for the virus) discovered in bats. Many experts suspect that the virus migrated to humans from bats, probably via some other animal. But he also discovered that the A strain wasn't the predominant type in Wuhan.

> Of 23 samples that came from Wuhan, only three were type A, the rest were type B, a version two mutations from A. But in other parts of China, Forster says, initially A was the predominant strain. For instance, of nine genome samples in Guangdong, some 600 miles south of Wuhan, five were A types.

And this [1]:

> Upon further investigation, the first case detected from December 1st was found to have no connection to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. Also, that patient was never linked to any future cases of COVID19. A third of the first 41 cases had no connection to the market, including 3 of the first 4 cases reported. Given this data, we have a new hypothesis: The first human cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection must have happened before December 2019 and likely did not originate at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market.

[0] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2020-05-...

[1] https://leelabvirus.host/covid19/origins-part3
Not disagreeing!
I completely disagree with your definition of spyware. A crash report, absent any PII, is not spyware to me, and does not require my advance consent to be sent.

You're entitled to your own definition, of course, but I hope that for the good of society as a whole, you and people with your tyrannical/authoritarian attitude toward issues that can (usually) be resolved civilly with never hold positions of power.
> I wouldn't call more another massive privatized infrastructure "good" even if it does its job in the the short term.

Good in this case means meeting most or all of the project objectives. If they pursue a "perfect" solution, they may not do even that, let alone realize the other social goods you're hoping for.
I'm really happy that there are folks like you. I'm a big fan of audacity!
Kaspersky works for KGB, that was the main reason to avoid.
But an headless React is only tangentially related to headless components.

Acko is building a React alternative that follows all React semantics but without any render at all. That means no DOM, no nothing. Just components and effects (un)mounting and updating.
> Suppose you need to add new features or fix a bug, to do so you will need all of the original specifications and code generation tools.

Specs = source code.

Code generation tools = compiler.

How is this different from any other code? If you need to modify it, you need the source and a compiler.
Just a heads up, the site is a little funky on mobile. It works well enough but i’m finding it’s loading kind of slowly and your big image at the top is not formatting properly and cutting off the words (building green hydrogen’s). I’m also just seeing a bunch of white space between “our vision” and the “learn about green hydrogen” button.

Brave on iOS.

Now that I’ve said that, this looks really interesting! Good luck with your work, thank you for sharing your experience about finding cofounders.
What has any of that got to do with the Indian government planting evidence on 'activists'?
Why is it not possible to create a storage solution that protects against ransomware?

Of course, it is possible to do this but it requires considerable cost and diligence. External hardware that only takes data from the target machine, for example - long timeline + key transactions logged. "Backup can't protect against ransomware" statements seem to be just shorthand for "your piece of shit backup doesn't protect against ransomware", which is true but when shortened doesn't seem like the right message.
Can not agree with this more, if people want to plot something that is linear please use a perceptually linear colormap! Just a one second glance at the Mona Lisa in rainbow/Jet is enough to make you gouge your eyes out.
https://peterjamesthomas.com/2017/09/15/hurricanes-and-data-...

For a more technical description the information behind the newer matplotlib defaults, particularly the scipy talk, is great.
https://bids.github.io/colormap/

And for those that do not like the matplotlib options, colorcet provides a wider range of alternatives that are not trash (unlike Jet)
https://colorcet.holoviz.org/index.html
This sounds like you're laying the blame at the feet of developers. Unless we're talking about FOSS, most devs don't get to pick what to write; only how to do it, and then in a very limited way on artificially constrained (read: unreasonable) timescales.

Start holding companies responsible for their shitty priorities and then things may change. Until then, this is doing the equivalent of yelling at retail workers for company policy. They are not the responsible party here. That responsibility starts at the C-suite and filters down.
Nah. Closing roads is perfectly valid. Infrastructure is super important. Large construction can be dangerous and it's a great idea to block the public from hazardous risks (like moving giant beams suspended from cranes, an accident of that slipping and killing people sounds like a legitimate risk)

I live in LA, roads get shut down for silly TV shows all the time and that's fine with me as well. Entertainment is important for people's happiness.

Jobs arguments are scams though
In the inverse, smaller images can be bigger. There's a piece of software that I interact with a lot that's always trying to save space by crushing PNGs down to smaller dimensions, but in the process can introduce a lot of new complexity to the data (by turning what were crisp pixel edges into blurs), hurting PNG compression and increasing file size.
Yes, but equity-only is going to favor people with wealth which is often associated with connections (to additional sources of wealth).
SaaS could be a good transition, there are quite a few SaaS shops using C++ for example. Or possibly backend if you're willing to do some cloud based side projects.

Embedded is a lot of fun but IMHO there is more opportunity and compensation up the stack.
I don't think capitalism is "wrong" for finding an exploit, but those liberal representative democracies should realize that turning retired power plants into miners is bad, and pass laws to prevent that business model from working.
You'd be surprised how much you can get done with Mac OS 9 with Classzilla.
Reminds me of the article I read yesterday about the importance of drills:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27735292
I agree, we are starting to see the bad-faith posters here not engaging in real discussion.

These trolls generally setup strawmen arguments instead of engaging with the real points made, terribly unfortunate and not a good sign of healthy democracy.

The reality is that yes Anthropogenic Global Warming is happening to a certain degree, but even without AGW our climate was warming. And thank god for that because we're coming out of an ice age... can you imagine if we were cooling?! Yeesh, then we'd have a real problem on our hands.

Instead we have an earth coming out of an ice age, getting slightly slightly more warmed by anthropogenic causes. The main end result of which is a more green earth, more agricultural production and less poverty.

Btw, in case you didn't clue into it, you're the bad-faith poster in this scenario.
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Yes, but Mac OS 9 (and any MultiFinder version of the classic Mac OS) at least presented the illusion of multitasking. And it did multitask, as long as the apps cooperated and handed off to each other, and an extension didn't go bang or smash into another one, and ...

But, jokes aside, I still got a lot of work done in Mac OS 9 back in the day, so it wasn't nearly that dire even if it was best not to peek under the hood.
But they didn't mention the volume. That might've been noteworthy, no?
That's not far off, at least based on the English descriptions of Framasoft.

With self-governance included in the package, it's not imposible to turn into another Framasoft in the long term.
If they are in a pentagon formation then it is simply the Puppeteers
I wrote a weird psychedelic road novel (my girlfriend describes it as The X-Files meets Big Lebowski) It makes me a couple bucks a day.

The Fact of the Moon Is Stranger Than Most Dreams https://www.amazon.com/dp/B095L3L4Z1/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_...
Lytton, B.C. fire suspected to be human-caused
The difference between us and gorillas is best understood as the number of genes, not the % of nucleotides. Virus genomes are much, much smaller.

Since viruses can multiply so quickly, when grown in large numbers of lab mice they can mutate relatively quickly into something with a "desirable" trait.

In fact if as you say the virus has passed through millions of wild hosts on its way to being perfectly adapted to infecting human lungs, why has no one found even one of those millions of hosts?
Does anyone have insights on the legal part of creating a town? The articles doesn’t seem to address that. Would one just start with un-incorperated land? Buy land from an existing city and try to split it off?

Are there any legal requirements from the State of Texas which need to be followed?
Which systems do not need serious engineering? How much money or damage is "no big deal"?

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

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?form_type=Basic&res...
> GCP can't even serve the needs of large organizations, they definitely can't service the government.

Not sure where you’ve gotten this information from. GCP serves many “large organizations” including government agencies [0].

> I've had demos from GCP sales reps, and the platform is shambolic. It doesn't even work during sales presentations.

This feels very hyperbolic to me. Either way, demos don’t always work out the way you intend.

[0] https://cloud.google.com/solutions/government
First off - I don't divide programs into "online" "offline", because what's the point?

It's not like program will stop working when it tries to send crash report without internet connection (if handled correctly).

>I guess the question is - is online telemetry and crash reporting reasonable considered and expected to "it's stuff" for an offline audio editing program?

For me - yes.

Yes, I do consider crash report as a part of software maintenance efforts and I have nothing against sending

critical data e.g at which place it crashed & e.g basic informations like OS, Hardware, GPU/Sound drivers version.
… but will nonetheless pollute the environment in differently harmful ways.
> Caffeine itself might not be bad for you, but the sleep it’s stealing from you may have a price. According to [neuroscientist Matt] Walker, research suggests that insufficient sleep may be a key factor in the development of Alzheimer’s disease, arteriosclerosis, stroke, heart failure, depression, anxiety, suicide and obesity. “The shorter you sleep,” he bluntly concludes, “the shorter your lifespan.”

> But here’s what’s uniquely insidious about caffeine: the drug is not only a leading cause of our sleep deprivation; it is also the principal tool we rely on to remedy the problem. Most of the caffeine consumed today is being used to compensate for the lousy sleep that caffeine causes – which means that caffeine is helping to hide from our awareness the very problem that caffeine creates.

After reading just the headline my initial reaction was "Well, no. It's never time to give up caffeine." But after reading the article I must say my view has changed somewhat. Not enough to banish caffeine forever, but enough to question the amount of 'maintenance caffeine' I consume to offset the consumption of the previous day. This cycle is somehow culturally accepted when it concerns caffeine, yet frowned upon when it involves alcohol. Essentially, it's the same trap.
Not sure about O’Reilly but svelte is very nice and similar to plain HTML/CSS/JS.

Elm is also a fun but it can take you for a loop if you are not that familiar with functional programming.
Right—I suspect one factor is that we have/had a weaker and looser food-culture than many countries, which fact has been exploited by companies to wedge food (so, food sales) into more situations and parts of our day, badly eroding whatever weak norms there had been.

Way, way more stores having very late or even 24/7 hours than before has probably further disrupted any norms and culture we had about when & where to eat—not just for the shoppers who have those wares available more hours of the day, but I'm thinking especially of the workers—believe it or not, young'uns, but as recently as the early 2000s almost everything in the US but certain districts of major cities were shut down and dead by a reasonable hour.

Another, possibly minor factor: I have a suspicion we have more waking hours per day, on average, than Americans did 50 years ago. You can't eat (snack) when you're sleeping, even if food's available.
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They don’t care because they don’t know.
The contract should have gone to Amazon years ago. The fact that two fair evaluations in their favor got overturned (first by Oracle's lobbyists, then by Trump's intervention) was the cheating part.
My first thought when seeing the Baobob picture was I wonder if you can still travel to see them before they're gone? My second thought was how much CO2 would such a trip generate?
819!? 819 is not a lot of movies. Some folks over on Criticker [1] have thousands of reviews. Think 15,000. I myself have reviewed 440, and I've never seen a lot of well-known movies. To say "no more" after 819 just seems odd. Perhaps one needs a break.

I do agree that miniseries have grown as a genre, but I wouldn't be confident in saying it caused movies to decline.

[1] https://www.criticker.com/
The problem is that we do not know how long covid works, so both areas of research need to be considered. The discussion around long covid is very similar to the discussion around CFS. Both are somewhat subjective and not easily measurable, unless the form is really severe, yet to the people experiencing them are very real with a clear 'before' and 'after'. The exact mechanism for either of them is unknown. There is some evidence that CFS is caused by a viral infection (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32129496/). There is also some evidence that cognitive behavioral therapy can help with CFS (https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-cfs/t...). So there appears to be both a physical and a psychological side to it, and that is likely to be the case with long covid as well.

Just because something 'might all be in their head', or has a partly psychological cause does not mean that it is easy to treat or can be dismissed, or that it won't happen to you. It just means it needs to be treated with appropriate methods, e.g. therapy.

The bottom line is that long covid most definitely needs to be considered both when setting public policy, and when deciding on the risks everyone personally is willing to take. And we do not yet have enough data on the effects that vaccines have on long covid or on the risks of getting it.
>> Ultimately someone will have to write patches for binaries, even.

Yes, but it is not as easy to patch binaries compared to patching the source code.
I wonder if it's related to the immigration system: having a degree can score you enough points to be able to immigrate (no matter how employable or if the degree is real) [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHTg5zzFEKE
the right can't netsec
Oh cool thanks, I will check it out!
I wouldn't blame crypto for crime, but a system that makes it practically anonymous large volume payments overseas has helped make these ransomware attacks feasible. The 4 figure scams with bank transfers and mailing cash seem kinda quaint.
How different is this from Cornell's lake source cooling plant? Opponents of that made the same sorts of claims, but afaik were never able to prove that lake temperatures were any different once you get more than a few yards away from where the water was released. E.g.: https://fcs.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/2020-06/Final_FA...
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AI? I remember having a game on my dumbphone to program a robot to hunt and kill the other robot.
In Oklo, Gabon there was a natural nuclear fission reactor about 1.7 billion years ago. The concentration of uranium and groundwater was just right that nuclear fission occurred naturally.

We can measure the elements left behind and we have determined that the fine structure constant was the same then as it is now.

If the laws of physics have remained constant for that long then most scientists think they will remain constant in the future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reacto...
Even then, that's on the same continent. If Microsoft can't tell traffic is traveling across an ocean, what on earth are we doing as an industry?

And there's a difference between "ban everyone reporting outside their city" and "flag unusual behavior and trigger additional protections or checks". Think how your credit card works when you suddenly make a purchase in Las Vegas.

And in my cited example, the logins were reported as malicious to Microsoft, their account panel said the account had been "secured" since then... but Microsoft apparently let an Android phone the attackers linked up in Nigeria remain connected to the account, giving them persistence past password resets.
I'm a bit surprised they went with OLED and didn't try going with new hardware to prolong the battery life and maybe wring out a bit of extra performance.
The great thing about simple memory models is they work really well until you think about it. ;-)
How much effort do you expect from the police if you gave keys to your house to everyone who ever visited. Or if you teach your butler to follow orders as long as they are prefaced with "dahfizz said ..."

That is the current level of software security. That's why I have a joyful smile anytime I read of another hack, because maybe people will start caring about security.
Brewers Retail was a reasonable solution coming out of prohibition when it was jointly owned by all of Ontario's brewers, balancing their needs with the needs of consumers along with the needs of those still worried about the end of prohibition. However, it should have only been considered a short-term solution.

By the time mergers and acquisitions left it to be owned completely by foreign interests, all while Ontario's emerging craft beer scene were prohibited from inclusion, there was absolutely no excuse for it anymore. How the 2015 Master Framework Agreement got signed continues to boggle the mind.

Rural Ontario has allowed the sale of alcohol (all kinds) in grocery and corner stores since the 1960s. It is amazing how slow the rest of the province is to catch up. It took until the year 2000 for Toronto to fully let go of being dry.
> they parrot something google could have told me

anecdote time... went to the doctor once about an issue. She started typing into the computer. I caught a glimpse and she was literally scrolling through a Google image search, looking for a match.

That's the catch-22 with professional help. You need to hire a lawyer to help keep you out of trouble or solve your business problems. But since you're not a lawyer yourself, you can't judge the quality of the work. You're at the mercy of Yelp-like reputation systems or, possibly worse, recommendations from friends and people you know.
They've rewritten the engine from scratch, it supposedly doesn't use any Cryengine components in it.
Yeah, the mangler removes numeric prefixes, I guess to fight against "10 Breathing Exercises You Won't Believe (#7 is Amazing!)"-style clickbait.
How to tell whether you're using a computer or an arcade game
> The glib answer is never, of course

Dismissing “never” offhand without explanation is glib.
Passing statistical tests is the lowest, most basic, requirement for cryptographic RNGs.

Beyond that, you need to prove that no other party (i.e., the 'attacker') can predict the output any better than random chance, even if they've seen all the output leading up to it.

Beyond even that, many CSRNGs attempt to recover from 'state compromise': even if a snapshot of all the contents of the secret state get leaked somehow the system will soon return to producing secure output.
The article has far more severe accuracy problems than that. The author appears is a typical journalist with a left wing axe to grind, so nothing in the article should be taken at face value. Look at this sentence:

"Republican Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas entertained a particularly fringe version of this last variation, speculating that China might even have attacked Wuhan with a biological weapon"

She actually provides a link here, which goes to a Twitter thread [1] where Cotton starts out by saying the exact opposite:

"@paulina_milla and her “experts” wrongly jump straight to the claim that the coronavirus is an engineered bioweapon. That’s not what I’ve said. There’s at least four hypotheses about the origin of the virus: 1. Natural (still the most likely, but almost certainly not from the Wuhan food market). 2. Good science, bad safety (eg, they were researching things like diagnostic testing and vaccines, but an accidental breach occurred). 3. Bad science, bad safety (this is the engineered-bioweapon hypothesis, with an accidental breach). 4. Deliberate release (very unlikely, but shouldn’t rule out till the evidence is in). Again, none of these are “theories” and certainly not “conspiracy theories.” They are hypotheses that ought to be studied in light of the evidence, if the Chinese Communist Party would provide it."

In other words, merely enumerating every hypothesis that had been proposed by anyone got turned into "Republican thinks China might have attacked its own city". That is a blatant mis-representation of his position and shows the journalist is willing to manipulate her reader. Moreover this was in February 2020, long before the recent evidence of a lab leak became available, and thus Cotton's openness to the lab leak theory looks rather prescient in hindsight.

[1] https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton/status/1229202139232292866
I'm more comfortable walking through Marrakech's old town at 35°C than the sidewalk next to an asphalt road in Seattle at 25°C.
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There definitely is such thing, and claiming otherwise is a weird, very recent trend.
This sounds reasonable to me, assuming Mercury didn't either fall into the Sun or hit Venus. However, from the perspective of Earth, we might not notice this much, due to the effect of Jupiter (usually) either flinging comets away from us, or actually absorbing the impact of the comets.
Big discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27727150
Depends what sort of work you're doing, but it's really not that hard and personally I find it great for focus (maybe it's like old school writers banging out a novel on a Remington). I've got at least half a dozen 386's and 486's that run DOS (diskless) to this day and the lovely thing is the lack of distraction.
> cannot exercise general intelligence because they are not "in the world".

Implies dualism. In a materialist world a computer can learn anything given the proper structure and stimuli.
There is no real bit-endianity on the same level as byte-endianity, as there is no real bit-order. You could easily imagine bits to be perpendicular to byte memory cells.

There is one place in computers where there is real bit-order, and that when it is represented on serial lines.