skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's evidence pointing to an origin 600 miles south of Wuhan [0], based on sampled early cases and genetic sequencing.

[0] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2020-05-...
I don’t think the accepted wisdom is that pre packaged meals are bad vs what you cook yourself it’s the quality that matters. It processed foods vs non processed foods. You can get posh TV dinners that are good for you but you pay for them. The cheaper stuff manufactured at scale is almost certainly going to be using cheaper/substituted ingredients because that’s just how business works. You’re going to be missing the macros you mentioned, as well as fibre and you’ll be taking on a lot of dodgy fats and sugars and typically many other additives used to flavour and preserve the food. What you get with home cooked dinners is control over your ingredients. Of course you could just eat ketchup and chips and you’re not going to be seeing a benefit but it’s hard to go wrong with rice, fish and a few vegetables for example.

There’s various other confounding factors such as how and when you eat, and ultimately your relationship with food.

There is plenty of research linking processed food with health risks.
Terrible! I heard this single male voice also "explains" the jokes of comedies like the Simpsons, is it true?
The first named mention of SQLi was 1998 by Rain.Forest.Puppy (AFAICR), however classic ASP did not have any in-built protection from it.

I started in security in 2000, as an analyst for an org using classic ASP. maintaining security was a pain.

I then started as a pentester in ~2005 and what I can tell you is, in my experience, classic ASP applications rarely had good protections against injection attacks (e.g. XSS, SQLi) for precisely the reason that the framework did not protect against it, leaving developers to make sure they had routines to canonicalise/sanitize/parameterize input correclty, and also that they implemented them universally across all possible user inputs.

Whilst this isn't impossible, in my experience, it was rarely done perfectly.

In comparison, something like ASP.Net which had in-built protections available, at least had the chance of having good uniform protection.
For that huge number of audio fax pas that happens today, why would a physical switch have stopped it when clearly they already aren't using the mute button that already exists on their machine? Most laptops already ship with a button that mutes the built-in mic input and yet people seem to ignore/forget/not realize its there. IMO making that switch physical wouldn't affect most consumers because most consumers still wouldn't end up using it.
Ideally I agree, but I’m not sure it will be effective. There needs to be concrete consequences, and there’s a lot of room to hide.

If we required something like a P.Eng, which (at least theoretically) means you are responsible with real consequences (for say bad building design) then certified employees will be far more reluctant to attach their name to shoddy practices. This bubbles up to the employer. If a client requires you to have certified P.Eng sign off then there’s some reassurance it’s not just going to fall a part.

I don’t think you need this for everything in a stack, but security wise it might be a good idea.
Yes, I'm serious because a fail state can be of many bad reasons. One of the bad reasons can be it's created by colonial outsiders that don't really understand the geopolitical nature of the areas or do not have the best interests of the native people that are living in the artificially divided countries after the maps were drawn.

Here is one of the articles on Churchill's involvement in shaping up the the Middle East maps, "How Churchill helped to shape the Middle East we know today" [1].

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/22/winston-chur...
That's what I meant by presentations of his shapes of stories. There are a couple of lectures posted on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/oP3c1h8v2ZQ

https://youtu.be/GOGru_4z1Vc

The thinking originated in his (rejected) master's thesis at the University of Chicago. Here are some photos of some of the graphs:

https://capnmariam.tumblr.com/post/76564658108/kurt-vonnegut...

Even there, in an incomplete copy, there are seven unique story shapes. And there's a major difference between saying here are some shapes of some stories and here are the only story shapes.
I'm a hundred percent certain that 1 is what Spotify does. It seems every release they remove or hide features that I use occasionally (e.g. clicking on the currently playing album picture to reveal the active playlist). It's extremely frustrating that since power users now are in a minority they are completely ignored.
At the first release like this they basically said "This new version has a lot less features, but you can vote on which ones we will add back!". They added none of the ones that got votes, and eventually removed the feature voting system altogether.
So this seems to be amazon giving lumberyard to the linux foundation in hopes that a community builds around it?

edit:

> It's definitely not - it's a complete rewrite, with some useful parts of Lumberyard ported over.

https://twitter.com/derekreese/status/1412475974428463107
Turns out that mathematics pedagogy is poor, in general. Especially for geometry and vector calculus, where it's either obsolete, busted systems or incredibly abstruse ones.

Skipping over div/grad/curl and Gibbs-Heaviside vector calculus by going straight to differential forms and Clifford algebras (geometric calc) would save a bunch of heartache and pointless effort.

Linear algebra is essential since the whole point of differentiation is to construct linear approximations of functions...among other things.
If you install an app via Google Play, crash reporting & some telemetry are silent and enabled by default. This is in addition to any crash reporting built into the app.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6078260
I take this more as a thought experiment on how building a town without the primary nuisances of 'modern' places. Cars have enabled many things but they are not unequivocally good. I understand the positives, but they produce a LOT of negative externalities and there is significant cost to spacing things further apart.
An interesting exercise would be for just one fund to not care about deck spacing, font and background ... or whether they have a CEO ... or if founders are ex-FB ...

A fund that just backs raw R&D ... with no referrals or exit history ... only evals the tech on merit

The few pure R&D funds that do that, to my knowledge, are restricted to university spin-outs right now

As things stand today -- the individuals (I know) most capabable of building awesome engineering are the least likely to get through the current VC obstacle courses -- who are all looking for the same needle in the same haystack
Yes the government should prosecute people responsible for building insecure systems.

Just like an electrician is liable if your house burns down and their wiring wasn’t up to code [and caused the fire].

We need similar laws/codes for software. It’s time.
The planet is the lensing object. It causes a background star to brighten slightly in a very characteristic way.
Ah, I get your point now. In my hypothetical example, you could still have those 2000 students enrolled with only the 50 good teachers. The overall STR would still be 2:1, but most of the teachers would have no students, so the effective STR would be 40:1.

The main thing distinguishing online education is the ability for students to all flock to the good teachers and completely abandon the crappy ones.
Defeating Cookie Banners
A lot of laptops that only have a single TRS jack have the microphone as an additional ring on it.
We stopped using the solar system to measure time a while ago, and now use atomic clocks. Civil time is periodically adjusted to match the rotation of the Earth, but the amount of adjustment necessary is measured using atomic clocks, and atomic clocks are still the basis of civil time.
I am not sure I understand your point of distinction. Yes, Die Gedanken Sind Frei, the knowledge that exist in the researcher head is not copyrighted. The knowledge written down in the research paper by the researcher is. The knowledge in the head can however be patented, and so rendered unusable until the property owner has gotten paid.
Yeah, the idea was/is that you spend 5-10hrs studying for every hour in tutorial. You got what you put in.
On that side I suspect some of the smaller liberal arts colleges are your best bet for small classes. But I'm no expert on the overseas possessions.
Wow that sounds great. Were you be able to charge overtime?

And since you said "worked", what made you decide to stop popping back to the issues queue at this particular org?
This brings back memories of me, a naive and curious 11-year old keyboard adventurer, ignorantly running DriveSpace, in the pursuit of more space.

Months later I discovered the file I'd accidentally created, which when deleted, gave me my hard drive space back.

Since then I've been hooked on computer programming.
I have a tip on finding a cofounder. I've been looking for the last 12 months and I tried a lot of things, but the thing that worked best is this:

Post a job ad.

That's it. My ad sounded like a normal job in every way, with a title like "Director of X". A couple of specific notes: 1) the first line said "cofounder" in it somewhere, and 2) it specified "part-time to full-time, heavy on equity compensation" somewhere else.

The result: Lots of inappropriate candidates applied. But also, my 2 job posts resulted in three extremely excellent team members: a equity-only cofounder, a mostly-equity cofounder/early hire, and an amazing advisor. I have been working with these folks for months and they are very solid.

I also recommend my vetting process: just like a job. That is, I did a phone screen, a multi-hour interview, a little take-home, and I winnowed down the candidates at each stage. With the chosen few, I kicked off a "let's do this" conversation. My pitch was, "I know it's ridiculous, but let's get business married, we'll set up an offsite and start working together full-time... and, if we really need to, we'll get an annulment". That's what vesting is for!

Hope that helps :)
"College Towns" are about the only non-obselete instance I can think of ... at least until college itself is considered obsolete by/for enough people.
I believe I can push parameter binding back past 2000.
There are a lot of good people teaching at UNC. However, since the days of Jesse Helms calling the school a zoo and "pinko filth," there has been partisan pressure to tear it apart. Sadly, it seems that might finally be working. Short of the Boards resigning and the Legislature not gloating about all of this, it's hard to imagine how to undo the harm caused by the treatment of Hannah-Jones.
But there's evidence that it emerged 600 miles south of Wuhan [0], based on genetic sequencing of collected samples from infected people:

> In a recent paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Forster reported he found three main strains of the virus that he labeled A, B and C.

> 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.

It doesn't seem fair to assume this originated in Wuhan. Instead the Wuhan markets may have been the first super-spreader site.

[0] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2020-05-...
Thanks for responding! I really hope I didn't come across as too harsh, I definitely made some assumptions and probably straw-manned you.

For Twin peaks, of course the latter half of season two isn't great, but that's because David lynch left after the network made him reveal the killer, which was never a part of the plan.

So then after the incredible 3-4 lynch directed episode of early season 2 and he leaves, it falls down a cliff before what is perhaps my favorite 42 minutes of media ever in the Season 2 finale, where Lynch comes back and delivers such a dizzying and intoxicating episode with so many questions left lingering that I find it genuinely inspiring.

Then I'm guessing you haven't seen Twin Peaks The Return, but that is the thing that cements twin peaks as a masterpiece imo.

And a lot of lynch movies have an amazing second half, Mulholland Drive being the prime example where it's revealed what the film is actually about and it explores the psyche and dreams of a woman unable to live up to what she thought she could.

Of course, there is no objectivity in film and opinions; especially with Lynch. if you don't like his stuff more power to you! But my only issue is feels like you levy that people who like his stuff are pretentious, only liking it because it's 'cool' to pretend to understand his stuff.

And to be honest, I believe that his stuff has a dense internal logic that is fascinating to try to unpack and it does always have a deeper meaning.. but to take what you say I don't see the big deal if he genuinely is fumbling about because the things I draw from his best creations are so deep and inspiring to me. It's like a dream you have, where if you break it down it makes no sense yet still you ascribe meaning to these things. And to be clear, I really believe most great lynch projects are internally cohesive and do have something they are meant to say/explain; understanding what the second half of Mulholland drive actually was and connecting it all together is probably my favorite experience that I've ever had with film, I really felt like a detective finally cracking a hard case!

But again, this is not to say Lynch is objectively good, just that I'm insanely biased and really really like his specific brand of shit. My main point is just to say that I don't think the way you phrased your criticisms of him are valid because you took a very objective tone
A New Laser for More Efficient Communications
Happy to show you some code.

You cannot set up Bugout telemetry in your codebase without first defining your consent flow.

We have a library of consent mechanisms that you can chain together like lego blocks to build these flows. For example, our Python consent library is here: https://github.com/bugout-dev/humbug/blob/main/python/humbug...

Consent is calculated at the time that each reports are sent back. This means that your users can grant and revoke their consent on a per-report basis, which is the only respectful way to do things.

We are also building programs which will deidentify reports on the client side, before any data is even sent back to our servers. This work is still in the early stages, but here's v0.0.1 of the Python stack trace deidentifier: https://www.kaggle.com/simiotic/python-tracebacks-redactor/e...

Besides Python, we also support Javascript, Go, and we added Java support last week.

I would really love to hear any feedback you have.
In the timescale that human civilization has grown we've had the Bering land bridge. I don't think we've had a relatively static status quo climate.

Past few hundred years has had the greatest change in temperature in the last 10 thousand years according to tree studies.

I don't think you can have it both ways here.
Traditional French food (and furthermore, cuisine from Quebec and Louisiana) is far from healthy.
I've observed that large corporations are also quite capable of bureaucracy.

Although I've never worked in public sector so I can't make a cross comparison.
> Shouldn't builders construct houses that are safe enough?

Yes, which is why I mentioned building codes. I suppose "safe enough" is where the disagreement is.

Should you be prosecuted if a thief smashes your window and steals something you borrowed from a friend?

How incredibly irresponsible of you, to have a window in your home! When will we take security seriously? It is your fault that you were a victim of a crime and you should go to jail for it. /s
I believe you about your intention, but we have to go by effects, not intentions [1]. What you posted was certainly a swerve into generic religious territory and the sort of thing that, based on experience, is likely to turn into a religious flamewar.

The more important point here is that it's best to avoid generic tangents [2], especially on classic flamewar topics.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
This type of site is what always has me considering moving “up” in the stack.

Remote work on either hardware or systems level programming (embedded) is almost non existent. Remote and not full-time is even rarer.
> Processed food and fast food are cheaper and we know it, so if we get less of it, it is possible that that fact alone makes it less satisfying.

Food pricing, especially at chain restaurants and fast-food joints, tends to support this. It's not uncommon to pay 20% more for double the food, either because larger sizes aren't much more expensive than smaller ones, or thanks to "combo" meals. Restaurants seem to be optimizing for total sales, not margin on individual items, based on how they price—in many cases their entire menu seems to exist only to make the "combo meal" look like a good deal, but of course it may be more food than you really wanted.

To say nothing of the phenomenon of all-you-can-eat buffets...
I loved every single one here:

Great Talks Most People Have Never Heard

https://jamesclear.com/great-speeches
The force from wind resistance should be more on the larger person. It should be proportional, at a given wind speed, to the ratio of their cross sectional areas.

The acceleration from a given force is inversely proportional to the mass of the body it is applied to.

The larger person has more mass and a larger cross sectional area. The question then is this:

Is Mf/Ms > Af/As,

where Mf and Ms are the masses of the fat and skinny persons, and Af and As are the cross sectional areas of the fat and skinny persons?

If Mf/Ms > Af/As then the fat person will feel less force from wind resistance at a given speed than will the skinny person.

Let's say my mass was 50% higher than my friend's mass. Unless my cross sectional area is also 50% higher than theirs, I'll experience less acceleration from wind resistance than they do at a given velocity.

If my increased mass came from just being bigger in all dimensions, I'd be 14% bigger in all dimensions, and have 31% more cross sectional area.

In reality, the increase in cross sectional area is even less than that. When you get fat you don't get taller. You get wider, but not as much as you get longer. Height and width are the ones that matter for cross sectional area assuming you aren't ridding side saddle.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-well-have-climate-m...

Conclusion

Climate models published since 1973 have generally been quite skillful in projecting future warming. While some were too low and some too high, they all show outcomes reasonably close to what has actually occurred, especially when discrepancies between predicted and actual CO2 concentrations and other climate forcings are taken into account.
Yes, people were worried about apple's privacy (as it seems)...
I guess, but that's just your personal anecdote largely based on your grandparents genetics and the fact that they probably weren't exceedingly overweight.

My (100% American) grandpa also lived to 100...he also never exercised and even smoked for 20 years or so. He ate whatever he wanted but didn't over-eat candy and snacks, which I think is the main issue lots of people have.
I find it them interesting. Quite often these comments and submissions are (in my opinion) rightfully flagged or downvoted but there is the occasional gem among them (that I then might rescue by vouching for it).
Well, that didn't take long: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacker-dumps-...
Perhaps go to a state school or school with easier admissions. If you're really diligent then you can graduate at top of your class and make a good impression on your professors who are well connected in the industry. You would very likely have great prospects taking this route.
Thousands of companies have been hit by ransomware this year. If we were to accept your analogy that this is equivalent to thousands of mall bombings, I’d say making malls bomb safe would make a lot of sense.
For all practical discussions (i.e. top 10 languages used in real world production), when people say static they mean strong+static.
Like https://www.nist.gov/cyberframework/ or https://www.iso.org/isoiec-27001-information-security.html ?
Exactly. All life has a capacity to adapt, but it is mostly[0] constrained by lifespan. Individual organisms don't adapt - their type does, over time, through generations breeding and dying. But if the environment is changing faster than that - faster than what it takes to cycle through a couple generations - then the organism type won't ever be able to catch up.

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[0] - Excluding shenanigans like horizontal gene transfer, that are mostly relevant to bacteria and archaea.
Did you know that there's been evidence pointing to an origin 600 miles south of Wuhan [0], based on sampled early cases and genetic sequencing?

[0] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2020-05-...
This matches my experience exactly. I was offered multiple CTO positions in my late teens - and I took one, but I was woefully under qualified and it caused a degree of burnout I still haven't fully recovered from a decade later.

Steering people early in their careers into underpaid overworked founder positions at poorly led companies can sometimes be hugely destructive.

To the people at YC leading this initiative - have you ever matched a CEO with zero management experience to a newer engineer, and have you ever matched a CTO with zero professional engineering experience to a newer CEO?
Fwiw there was a commit in June 2020
Out of curiosity, what kind of product are you working on (B2B, consumer, hardware, etc)?
> don't feel really constrained by Vonnegut's theory about there only being six types of story

I mentioned this elsewhere, but I am not aware of any such theory by Vonnegut.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27748327
> The air is smoggy

In most of the US this is not true. Air quality in Europe is significantly worse than in the US, in general. This is form my anecdotal experience, but you can also see it in online sources

https://nimonik.com/2018/05/air-quality-in-europe-vs-the-uni...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/12/science/who-says-europe-t...

Check similar sized cities on the map: https://waqi.info/

We have to thank Europeans' genius idea to subsidize/force diesel engines on people's cars. Each diesel car pollutes as much as a bus, and half of cars are diesel! We saves 0.001 of CO2 emissions for the next decades, but we got pollution and cancer and deaths instead.