skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any time I see anything about hiccups, my mind immediately jumps to this [1]. Rubbing your butthole is supposed to stop the hiccups.

Never tried it, but it is firmly planted in my head as random trivia.

[1] https://malct32.blogspot.com/2011/03/rectal-stimulation-to-c...
This is a ridiculous accusation. Aside from the obvious fact that chimpanzees and humans cannot cross-breed, biologists consider the actual physical morphology and features of an animal when categorizing species.
When you take that into account, it's absolutely absurd to consider humans to be in the same species as chimpanzees. We - and this is by no means an exhaustive list - differ with Chimpanzees by:

1. Having far less facial and bodily hair than all primates to the extent that we are forced to utilize clothing to survive all the seasons in most of the biomes we occupy.

2. Substantially reduced general strength - a chimpanzee boasts the equavilent of 3 of us.

3. The lack of opposible thumbs on our feet which prevent us from using all four limbs with the required dexterity to climb or exercise fine motor control.

4. Being able to constantly stand and travel upright and boasting an incredibly efficient running gait.

5. The most powerful throw in the animal kingdom.

6. The ability to sweat which combined with the previous two differences would make humans an incredibly dangerous pack animal even without the next difference.

7. Substantially higher intelligence to the point where there is a qualitative as well as quantitative difference in general intellect between even the dumbest of us and a chimpanzee, even if they might be able to outperform the dumbest of us in certain domains.

8. Bit of a silly but interesting factoid - boasting the largest penis of the primates by a large margin.

Even having a few of these would probably be grounds for speciation, never mind all 8.
Netlify deleted my issue comment naming the developer who put `force: true` in their cli (sending a telemetry event when disabling telemetry) even though his name is still available in `git blame` in their public repo.
Every language added means less people are able to review patches, and it means a higher barrier to participation. Do you think there should be a limit to the number of supported languages or not? If yes, what would that number be?
Why did Microsoft's shares go down and Amazon's went up?
> nothing surprising

I'm upset, not surprised. Does evil suddenly become totally OK and cool just because I know it exists? Of course not.

> or even very controversial here

Hard disagree. The greenwashing faction makes a very big deal of having genuine positive intentions. They got caught in a lie. They got caught so hard that they had to acknowledge the controversy and double down on their position. We have an attack and a counterattack -- blood is running hot. Not only is it controversial, it's maximally controversial.

> I've participated in the process of hiring high-end firms to do lobbying work.

> The headline would more accurately

No, your proposal is not more accurate, but it is more in line with company interests. It works overtime to draw attention away from the inferences that can be drawn from the evidence (i.e. that the greenwashing is a lie and that companies are actively involved in self-interested efforts to curtail environmental efforts) and makes every effort to push the blame down to the individual level. How convenient.

Nice try.
Would you mind expanding on how fly.io dev experience is better.

See my similarly related question in this thread below.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27750950
Pentagon cancels $10B Jedi cloud contract
> I wonder if the xkcd comic about this is still accurate, being that it's generally safer to have longer passwords regardless of how it's formatted.

Indeed, that is what I am wondering. If the double length offsets that it is not random.

Twice the length is quite a lot, but it's also not random any more.
Yeah, as someone whose name contains non-ASCII characters, the association with ASCII is not exactly a positive one. I’ve wasted so much time dealing with data in non-Unicode encodings over my career that the mere word ASCII makes me want to punch something.
> Or only if it's a scummy company so that's OK and definitely not illegal.

Likely OK, but also maybe illegal.
You mean like Red Hat Enterprise Linux, that kind of commercial product based on GPL'd code?
This doesn't remove cost. It just imposes it on the owners of blockchain nodes, which presently don't charge anything because crypto coins shooting through the roof means they can pay for running the node by just holding coins. This can't stay the case forever. Pushing cost somewhere else doesn't remove it.
I think bigger problem is that you need "holistic, creative, critical thinking" to run an absolutely mundane, workaday Windows domain. Because there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions of those. Why don't we get the holistic, creative, critical thinkers to work at Microsoft (and the vendors people generally use in concert with Microsoft) to stop shipping this vulnerability-riddled crap.
The vast majority of software doesn't need serious engineering either. If Google breaks that isn't a big deal, even though almost everyone in the world will be annoyed.
What is the difficulty?

Don't browse news sites (including HN if the stuff here gets you down). Don't use social media where you have poor control of what gets in your feed. If you have contacts who keep sending you news, ask them to stop and if they won't, put them in an ignore list. If your in-person contacts with friends is always about the news, limit the time you spend with them.

Substitute that time with other things - be it other sites, hobbies or activities. Reading novels can be a lot of fun. Building things, etc.

It is in your hands.
On the flip side, if you want the best part-time moms, pay well, supply the hardware, and be very flexible with when work hours happen.
Not idiocy. Evil. Your safety and comfort are reasonable sacrifices to these cretins.

They know exactly what they are doing, who it impacts, and who it doesn’t.
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> That's a legitimate strategy by activist organizations.

Maybe. But you’d better be sure you would still feel that way if the ‘activist organisation’ is espousing views you find abhorrent.
Except there was never any evidence that Trump got involved, even after multiple independent reviews. MSFT just made a better proposal and AMZN was able to use the broken protest process to tie things up long enough to make canceling the fastest way forward for the DoD.
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Why is it called Ethernet?
Because it means MSFT now didn't have this exclusive contract with Pentagon?

Edit: DARPA -> Pentagon
GPT-3's raw output is "logits", or indexes into an encoding space. The encoding space contains individual tokens; for generation, it would be words, or even word pieces. The pieces are as small as "for", or "if". Constructing code from an embedding space, even if it is more specialized, is like constructing sentences by using a dictionary -- it is a lookup table, but it's not a database. Generation works by looking at the existing document (or portion), and based on what is already present, generating a token. Then repeating until some condition is met (such as length, end of sentence, something else).

The issue here is that certain sentences (code segments) are memorized, and reproduced -- much like a language learner who completes every sentence which begins with "Mi nombre" with the phrase "Mi nombre es Mark". The regurgitation is based on high probability built into the priors, not an explicit lookup. A different logit sampling method (instead of taking the likeliest) reduces regurgitation, without changing anything else about the network. (It also makes nonsense happen more often, since nonsense items are inherently less likely!)
I agree with you about Gimp and LibreOffice. As for Blender, I think it's the best on the list, it's absolutely great!
You can do both. And I doubt it’s about trying to modify the f-35 design (tho maybe), but more likely simply exfiltrate all the data, possibly with some ability to “rm *” on demand.
The push by the Trump administration to kick Amazon off this contract was as pathetic as it was ham handed.

Trump administration had asserted a “presidential communications privilege.” when asked if they leaned on the DoD to deselect Amazon.

Pentagon lawyers instructed Defense officials not to talk with the IG about any discussions they may have had with the White House about JEDI.

So basically - you know for SURE that there were communications about this.
Predicting aggregate impacts of a warm climate decade into the future is far easier than predicting the short-term process of an unstable system hypersensitive to initial conditions.
In which case, there's probably no conflict because you don't infringe trademarks if you're in totally different markets. Which is why it's OK that there's a Columbia encyclopedia and a Columbia sportswear. Or Fisker scissors and Fisker electric cars.
The lesson here is this: if you make it too inconvenient for people to do their jobs, regardless of why, people will work around you to get things done. Effective security policy must take this into account.
Great, so I can vape on high air resistance to induce low blood pressure?
Unknown is bad in itself, both for farming and for wildlife, both of which depend on predictable seasonal weather patterns.
I didn't know about the specification effort. It's great news!

I'm very impressed with what asciidoc-hs plans to do! Especially looking forward to LSP support and stuff like incomplete/incremental parsing.
Does not register on the scale of say, your twenty year war.
I'm not sure about your statement saying the earliest cases were near the wuhan lab. Do you have a source for that? I've seen the opposite, that there is genetic evidence that the virus originated 600 miles south of Wuhan, where there are bats:

> 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. [0].

The above would imply that the markets in Wuhan were a super-spreader site for covid-19, but not the origin.

Coronaviruses in bats and jumping from bats to humans is incredibly common, with 3% of people they randomly tested in bat cave areas with bat coronavirus antibodies [1], which this source extrapolated to mean that 1-7 million people a year are infected by various bat viruses.

I agree with you that genetic evidence is the strongest evidence we have at this point.

> To me, that far outweighs the idea that some - NOT ALL - researchers have agreed that if there was editing done it was very smooth

Would be interesting if some lab tried to duplicate some of this theorized tricky editing, to prove it could be done.

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

[1] https://www.vox.com/2020/4/23/21226484/wuhan-lab-coronavirus...
And if we banned all drugs, all drug use would stop too?
This stat is referring to initial meetings between accepted match requests. Not all (or even most) of those initial connections will turn into an actual co-founder relationship, and founders can of course connect with multiple potential co-founders in parallel.
I'm just pulling the usage from the Catholic Encylopedia, via Catholic Answers so that I can't be accused of misconstruing anything: https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/paganism
Pursed lips work.
name a single large company that accepts crypto payments?
> You can't find any studies to back this up, can you?

The "($)" which you quoted indicates a reference at the bottom of my comment, where I linked a study that explicitly showed that natural immunity from COVID and vaccine immunity are similar (but fully-vaccinated with an mRNA vaccine is best).

I don't believe you're willing to have a conversation in good faith, as you are clearly anti-vaccine. Good day.
Interesting. This was a few years ago so my memory of the actual class is rather fuzzy, especially considering I have taken more first-aid/CPR classes than I can count. I've learned how to do a tourniquet probably as many times as I've been told that I shouldn't do tourniquets, it really seems to depend on the organization and instructor.

I think RedCross taught tourniquets as a last-resort but Ellis didn't even touch them because Ellis facilities are generally waterparks with on-site EMTs.
~None. It breaks too many assumptions when you can have the file system tree loop around on itself.~

Edit: WTF, apparently it's a core Apple Time Capsule feature. Okay. Cool. Never touching that.

Edit²: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7/12/ claims that hard links are actually hidden files(?) on HFS+:

> One particularly scary example is the implementation of hard links on HFS+. To keep track of hard links, HFS+ creates a separate file for each hard link inside a hidden directory at the root level of the volume. Hidden directories are kind of creepy to begin with, but the real scare comes when you remember that Time Machine is implemented using hard links to avoid unnecessary data duplication.
It aligns with the weird conservative attachment to conspiracy theorists.

George Soros is 90 and nobody really remembers why he was so “bad”, Bezos is a great replacement.
#2cents - its an oversight that if reported, I imagine would get mopped up. Optics are not great however - whatever phrase list they pulled together clearly is incomplete.
I consider Pagerank to be a discrete variation of the poission equation.
Couldn't you just as well conclude that lead-eating emperors lead an empire to expand and prosper for centuries?
How, then, to quit the vaping? I only managed to escape it by taking a severe enough injury last year which prevented me from smoking or vaping anything for 6 weeks. I could tell when I switched from cigs to juul that my nicotine requirements increased substantially, and quitting the juul would likely be harder than smokes.
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Definitely not the government but the citizens and even then, there are still many staunch defenders of Israel and the IDF there which makes sense given their ongoing relationship.
macOS.

IIRC ln(1) can't create directory hardlinks, but link(2) allows it (on HFS+, directory hardlinks were not ported over to APFS).

Directory hardlink support was originally added for time machine.
I don't trust my own mind on its own, nor do I trust people who trust their own minds, on their own.

It strikes me as the absolute height of arrogance, for anyone to believe they can bring a concept through to full maturity entirely alone.
You’d think they’d, y’know, mention the temperature of the water along with perhaps the historical temperature.

Business Insider is such junk :/.
I'm always interested in how societies have depicted and accommodated oddballs throughout history. Though I'm not sure if this is an actual example or if it's just a contrivance of the super wealthy.
Either way it is interesting to see what people are building.
Fantastic name
I'm a musician and composer myself (even used to work as a professional musician a couple of years). There are totally different approaches to composing music, from totally intuitive/non-intellectual to totally formal/rule-based. I would say that today the majority of composers compose music intuitively and directly on the instrument, without being aware of the exact processes involved. Formalizations in music are therefore mostly academic, arising from analysis of the compositions of others, as an attempt to explain how these compositions work. For algorithmic composition, such formalizations are necessary, but so far not sufficient to create a high-quality composition (just as one could not become a good musician just by studying music theory). Nevertheless, it is necessary to study such formalizations if one wants to advance the field of algorithmic composition. However, I consider most "classical" approaches to formalizing music obsolete for this purpose.
Only in that you don't know you're wrong for a much longer period of time.
I feel like people don't quite have a grasp at how many small businesses there are in the US.

99.9% of businesses in the US are small businesses.

4 out of 5 businesses in the US are so small, they don't have any employees at all.
I'm not sure the takeaway from that essay is that PETA's tactics are "legitimate". Arguably they are effective (at least in the short term) but it remains to be seen whether the cost of such tactics on society are worth it.
> I'm a developer, I know what I'm doing.

famous last words
Maybe computers shouldn't be talking to strangers in the first place. Why do they accept connections from anyone? These problems would be rare if only authorized persons could connect. Single packet authorization makes the computer ignore all traffic unless a cryptographically signed packet is sent. It's like the computer is not even there. Can't exploit anything without the ability to send payloads.

Of course, the internet would lose its mass appeal. Maybe it wasn't meant to be.
"Overall, given the high binding energy of S protein for pangolin ACE2, the possibility of pangolins being an intermediary vector for SARS-CoV-2 cannot be excluded"

There's really no wonder that virus that spreads through human population is slightly better adjusted to humans than animal species its ancestor was infecting.

It's the case of water in the puddle surprised how well the puddle shape fits the water shape.

What I'm saying is that this virus is sufficiently general that it can infect multiple species with high efficiency and if hamsters were more densly connected than humans it could have been a hamster pandemic before it would become human pandemic.

This virus fits us well but not uniquely well.
I always find it interesting to hypothesize why an automated system does the things it does (the implied theory in the OP video is, unsurprisingly, idiotic).

I'd assume that it's a blunt filter that tries to catch racism by not allowing people to say "black" in their advertising profiles. The reason "white" isn't caught up in this filter is probably because the consensus doesn't consider it to be racism when directed at whites ("racism = power + prejudice", all whites have institutional power, etc). I'd guess that the same block would be in place for other groups that are considered to be the "oppressed" instead of the "oppressors" under the childish, binary framework that afflicts so many these days. I'd also guess that "Trying to fix white people" or "Against white people" would be allowed, while the analogues for "black" wouldn't be.

That is to say, their threat model is aimed at _negative_ racial phrases, not positive ones (even ones that they wouod definitely reject under manual review, like "pro white supremacy"). The examples in the video are artifacts of this clumsy approach, not evidence of a conspiracy to keep black creators down like the metaphorical Alex Jones in the OP video claims.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27746655.
> "Cloudflare Workers runs many guest isolates in a single process, therefore we cannot simply kill the process when one guest misbehaves. So, we have to do everything very differently from what a container host would do."

Does this imply that another guest Worker can impact/takedown my Worker due to their tasks misbehaving?
"A federal court said on Wednesday that it did not dismiss the possibility that former President Donald J. Trump interfered in the awarding of a military cloud-computing contract worth $10 billion, a decision that could result in the overhaul of a long-running effort to modernize technology at the Defense Department."

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/technology/trump-jedi-pen...
macOS allows it as of 10.5, but it is not exposed to the user. The "Time Machine" backup tool built into macOS relies on it.

AT&T UNIX System V allowed it for the root user only.
Would that be content like saying you support white supremacy?

Because that's what he does in the video attached to the article and TikTok is totally fine with that. The phrase "black people" is a no go, though.

Next time, you should probably try clicking the link and maybe reading the article or something before you decide to comment on it. You come out much better that way.
BS is lampooning a lot of things - corrupt politicians, demagogues, racists, ignorance, religious intolerance, Western movie tropes, cinema tropes in general, and by the end it turns into a total glorious mayhem where everybody gets a pie in the face (in both metaphorical and the most literal sense).

So you'd be tempted to ask - why would Woke Hollywood or their woke twitter mob watchdogs object to lampooning corrupt politicians or racists? And the answer to that is exactly the reason why woke cancel culture is so awful - because the intent does not matter. If something can be taken as offensive by any construction of the most hostile reading of it - and a hostile reading (watching) of Blazing Saddles surely could find a lot of "problematic" things within it - completely ignoring the intent, the context and concentrating only on the form and the worst possible interpretation of it that could be invented - then it's unacceptable and must be destroyed.

That's exactly the crux of the problem and the point of the argument about Blazing Saddles - the problem is that even when you agree on the premises, like racism is bad, corrupt politicians are bad, etc. - if you express it in a manner that may seem to somebody, even in theory, "problematic", you're still the enemy.
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We’re already in the middle of a mass extinction event:

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

And regarding your second point, we know it won’t do anything good, but we don’t know exactly what (nor could we ever!).
It has not been done yet, it is a work in progress, but it is being done. https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/sealed-rust-the-pitch/