skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an interesting question. In the more classic sense, what proceeds should be stripped if you get cash in exchange for drugs and use that cash to buy GME calls which skyrocket?

On the one hand it's all "blood money" / tainted, but the actual proceeds at the time of the crime have a specific value.
I was confused by this post because I'd never heard of a Fort Detrick before but I found these articles explain well what's happening: [1]

Domestic propaganda push in china is leaking externally, including posts by a non-existing Swiss scienist that has the Swiss embassy protesting. [2]

With the Wuhan lab theory we at least have independent confirmation of gain of function research at the lab and knowledge that covid virus fragments were sequenced from the area before the real outbreak started.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58273322
[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-58168588
I guess I just wanted to be on a high horse and declare that anybody who puts something other than what you asked for on stdout is doing it WRONG. But you're right, fixing the universe to fit the convention isn't always in the cards.

If I could design it all from scratch I'd have a convention for getting a program to tell me:

- info, user prompts, debug -> stderr

- foo data, bar data -> stdout

That way I could use those defaults sometimes, but other times specify per-execution preferences that would route the data differently.
There were many, many protests against many drafts, so yeah, people don't want to be forcefully drafted either.
And testing, I believe the Linux community needs more testers.
Well that would require fairly detailed knowledge about me, but point taken. Not sure how random words are much better though, if the person on the other side is ready to accept whatever.
Not once have I ever been able to use self-checkout at a major grocery chain like Safeway without violating whatever weight constraints the machine has. Not once. It's absurd. It's been over 10 years, though for most of that time I only ever try about once or less a year and never by choice.

By contrast, I can't remember the last time violating the constraints at a CVS, and I've used it at many. I want to say that it used to happen regularly many years ago, but in any event it's easily been at least 7 years, now. I've also regularly been using self-checkout at a small City Target for the past several years, again without any issues.

Maybe some engineer in the industry can chime in, but my working theory is that CVS either disables their scales or uses huge margins on the thresholds. And CVS can do this because of the already ridiculous markups, whereas margins tend to be razor thin at major grocery chains. Similarly, the pricing and product selection at the City Target I frequent is much more like a CVS or Walgreens than a grocery store, and they also have at least 2 security people standing 15 feet away and watching everything like a hawk, along with the checkout clerks directly face the machines.
Reporter's fiery interview with Taliban leader after Afghanistan devastation
> But would anyone pay for it?

Content owners' greed is ruining the web. Build websites without any intention of monetary gain and you'll find a much better experience in the web.
The West in its hubris won't learn until after its knock-out punch in the nose.

But this is common to all militaristic cultures. They keep going until they try it on somebody who gets up and destroys them.

A very good example is the German-Soviet war of 1941-1945: the all-conquering Germans thought the Soviets would be another quick walkover. It wasn't.
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I went a few years liking firefox's reader mode. But it's worth noting that reader mode does _not_ disable javascript.
Electron is like its own possibly out of data copy of chromium packaged with other resources.

This means that it shares little with the installed browser and will consume 300MB-1GB of ram itself.

I do not suggest a web app is an adequate replacement for a native application but rather that a website may be a superior alternative to electron as it uses fewer resources while providing a similar UI for some applications.
> I have yet to encounter any real solution to this problem

I can think of a number of solutions. One of them might be taking advantage of timing + an external contact:

0. Require a point of contact upon signup.

1. If any change requires bypassing ordinary authentication, ask contact to approve.

2. If they approve within M minutes, authorize.

3. If they don't reply within H hours, authorize.

4. If contact rejects operation, then deny.

5. If customer disputes denial, require them to wait O(days) for some out-of-band resolution mechanism (like mail verification, video call + ID verification, or whatever makes sense given the context).

(You can also allow the customer to customize the behavior here if they're e.g. particularly paranoid and want longer delays or explicit approval or whatever... lots of possible variations on this method.)
My understanding from the article is that it was a phone conversation between PNW and all their retail stores, which were each customers. The customers were all competitors of each other, which is why they discussed how to not undercut each other.
Imagine if the human immune system had evolved to require small innoculations of pathogens to develop antibodies in preparation for larger infectious infiltrations down the line.
In general hydrogen is safe to use. It's only flammable when mixed with oxygen and it's 10x cheaper.
I guess HODL was easier while in jail.
Exactly. After they bought Doubleclick and promised they wouldn't merge the two third-party cookies and the associated data, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. No display advertising ever again!

And the web smelled like roses ever since.
In fact, I was in your core Ops Management course, but I dropped it & completed the requirement with another instructor.
I hope you’re enjoying Phillie; I’m still in Chicago.
BTW, I really enjoy your blog posts!
Maybe not "very likely", but Peter Ben Embarek, the head of the 13 member team at the WHO investigating the origin of COVID-19, recently said [1], "An employee of the lab gets infected while working in a bat cave collecting samples. Such a scenario, while being a lab leak, would also fit our first hypothesis of direct transmission of the virus from bat to human. This is a hypothesis that we consider to be likely."

Further, from the article, "But the WHO scientist pointed out that none of the types of bats suspected to have been the reservoir for the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 lives in the wild in the Wuhan region.

"'The only people likely to have approached these types of bats are employees of the city laboratories,' he said."

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/13/who-scientist-puts-...
Even if the true origin was irrefutably confirmed, and it was manmade, so what? What is there to be gained rather than just dealing with the problem? Finger-pointing and violence?
Once we have a high quality "LLVM of digital logic", we have a great foundation for better high-level tools. It's just a matter of funding and motivation. In my dreams some Chinese FPGA upstart decides to invest huge in the open tools rather than negotiate with the current toolchain vendors...
I recall reading a story about someone who became legendary among squatters because he somehow managed to negotiate the rights to commercialize Colombia's TLD (.co), meaning he positioned himself to take a cut of every .com -> .co typosquat ever.

Here's the guy himself talking about it in a NYT article[0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/jobs/from-dot-com-to-dot-...
There’s only no choice in a lot of areas if you accept as axiomatic that we must have street level parking. While that’s a framing that anti-bike advocates like, we could also decide to make driving and parking harder in order to make other, more efficient forms of transit better.

Personally I’d argue that it’s extremely odd that we dedicate so much public space for people to leave their private property laying around.
you misunderstand the zero covid strategy. The endgame is not zero covid forever. The endgame is zero-covid until we get as many people vaccinated as possible. This is the best result that can be achieved. less deaths, AND less economic disruption.

"They might as well do it now" is misguided. Would you prefer to release a virus into an unvaccinated or fully vaccinated population?
>the reason that Florida is drowning in COVID right now is that the majority of people there don’t think it’s a big deal.

Source?
> There's good reason to suspect that long-term COVID will be on the order of influenza or the common cold -- common and mild for most patients.

In slovenia, by some estimates of our expert group, half the country got infected by covid (~1mio), 4450 died, almost half of them in old age/nursing homes, and out of all that, only 4 were under 35yo, only one (out of those 5) under 25, and we count every death within 28days of infection as a covid death (even suicide or a car crash).

For a large percentage of the population, it already is common and mild.
Army to field laser-equipped Stryker prototypes in FY 2022
9 C for 2hrs?? That is hypothermia.
Love the idea. How do I reach out for employment as an experienced data science leader?
This is a pretty garbage take. Goldman Sachs is easier to get into as a software engineer than any FAANG. And every FAANG I know takes the majority of their new grad hires from public universities which, at least in California, are banned from affirmative action and legacy admits. Despite the UC administration's best efforts to remove merit from the equation by not counting standardized test scores admissions into a top UC is still merit-based.

Software engineering is not investment banking or law.
Can you control boyancy by compressing and decompressing the helium slightly?
For what it’s worth, I made the same decision several years ago. I am 110% happier! I can look at myself in the mirror and feel good again.

For me it wasn’t just tech though; its all of corporate America. I just can’t take the lack of humanity, empathy, kindness. Nor can I take the useless work, endless, pointless posturing, forced “fun” activities, and the general dishonesty.

I weep for what we’ve done and the awful future that awaits. All this is probably histrionic too. But like you, I’d rather be able to look myself in the mirror, and get a good nights sleep.
>That might be barely enough for herd immunity for some diseases

How can herd immunity be achieved with a leaky vaccine?
Not a source but a little bit of googling and you'll find estimates that malaria may have killed half the people that have ever lived.
Platypodes is more correct than platypi, but I think that English rules apply once a word is a part of the English language (I don't know who decides that). So it should be platypusses.
Why did the Swedish govt buy so much drugs? #joke
It gives you a general idea, how significant or insignificant an economy is and also roughly how many other moving parts of the global economy it has complex gears in.

And thereby how many more fold damages can result from a catastrophic shutdown of the country, something a small geographically-on-the-periphery-of-the-world nation need not worry about, to the same degree.
Thankfully you are not the only person to realize this and a multi-billion dollar industry sprung up to help independent retailers compete. A Shopify website has a customer experience similar to Amazon. The real issue is Amazon has so much market capture that most people don't even look for independent retailers. In fact even suggesting that you can go other places online gets a bunch of push back from people insisting that nothing can compete, and that somehow it's moral to ignore all externalities in the name of pure market efficiency.
There's a book from the philosophy circles by a prof that caught fire and made it to lay audiences. A central theme was inflation on with a similar theme. It's been a while since I read it. One theme was if what you're shilling is worthless it leads to dynamics whereby to distract from that lack of truth while simultaneously trying to get air from the junk flying around, it's always good to come with an alternative that grabs your attention. And hey, since we're not getting anything worthwhile done, each new new thing is darn cheap to make. I'll find it asap. Maybe a smarter person knows ... It was a long series in a uni journal I believe from brown in the US.
This article is way too focused on him being a drug-dealer.
The problem is, that the media is creating the wedge. Instead of a huge spectrum of pro- and anti- people, they combine them into two groups.

I'm vaccinated, and I don't care if others don't get the vaccine. Forcing people to get vaccinted is imho stupid. And we've already taken away a year from young people to "save grandma", and now grandma can get vaccinated (or possibly die, if she doesn't want to), and we're again locking down the kids, creating long-lasting problems, especially mental ones.
There's an awful lot of piss-drinking going on here.
The PUK itself is one such method. An ID is another. Have a separate contact #. And so on. There are many ways, but the essence is to have something out-of-band. It's really very simple.

Generally speaking, there are three classes of auth, who you are, what you have, and what you know. Single factor auth is meaningless, which is why many people are stumped by this situation. Use two factor auth, which is verification from two separate categories. Certain industries use 1.5 auth.

There are also software and hardware tokens. Those are generally what you have (and might spill into what you know), but are also time-bound.

Ultimately, security is risk-management. Risk can also be transfered, such as by using a different identity provider. Then it is no longer the company's issue to solve.
>factoids about totally unrelated topics all under a single heading that's the equivalent of "some dogs bark like other dogs".

that's a bit disingenious. if it were "dogs great other dogs with a hand gestures similar to humans", we'd have an interesting conversation.

>Why is this "article" upvoted here?

the fact that other animals give handshakes/fitbumps/whatever in an acknowledgement/recognizition of each other is interesting to other people than you. people find things interesting and submit it to this site. other people see it as interesting too and upvote it. now that you know how HN works...
> “The lesson to be learned from this is to keep the value in bitcoin, that the profit from the crime should be 36 bitcoin, regardless of what value the bitcoin has at the time,” [the prosecutor] reportedly said.

It sounds like the police tripped a loophole in law by liquidating some of the BTC. Sounds like if the police had HODL'd they'd have been fine defending it as just look, these were the assets he had, we seized them. But since they liquidated, the defense got to say, hey, you already got the full proceeds.
Uh oh. This makes me think my younger colleagues don't know what I'm talking about at least half the time, but never ask...

It never even registered with me until you asked, but that makes bitbucket the worst possible name, maybe next to "trashfire.com", for a service that is supposed to store data.
Curated = the next round of “help I’m being censored”.html
It's amazing how long it took to get even the basics of thermodynamics figured out. You'd think some clockmaker would have made a little brass steam engine by 1600 or so. But no.

Making a big engine with the necessary precision is hard, but a little demo-sized one was within the limits of 17th century clockmaking skill.
See if your router supports DNS64 (DNS server maps IPv4 addresses in responses to IPv6 addresses under a chosen prefix) and NAT64 (firewall translates IPv6 LAN packets with addresses under that prefix to the original IPv4 packets, and back). I don't know about consumer routers, but it's relatively straightforward to do on pfSense / OPNsense.

It doesn't work for protocols that embed IP addresses, like BitTorrent, since you'd need a protocol-aware proxy for that rather than just an IP firewall, but for something like HTTP there won't be any problem.
I'm skeptical that the Taliban leadership in 2001 would have actually followed any agreement in the long term. I'm envisioning them getting amnesty and then fleeing to Pakistan to start up the same insurgency they did anyway--just with less of their leadership killed by US bombs.

It's certainly not a risk I'd have taken without the hindsight that we have now.
Some BC hospitals are overwhelmed. Most of them are not. We want to keep it that way, and we also want to allow society to continue to re-open and move on from all this.

https://www.summerlandreview.com/news/50-surgeries-cancelled...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/nurses-quitt...

This vaccine card is how we preserve the liberty of the vaccinated majority from the tyranny of the unvaccinated minority.

While our average vaccine uptake is 83%, this is not at all evenly distributed. Most health areas have high uptake numbers. But there are local health areas in BC that are significantly lower than the rest of the province.

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/bccdc/viz/BCCDCCOVID-...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/covid-19-upd...

BC's most populated areas are Fraser Health and Vancouver Coastal Health. And yet, recently, the Interior Health region has been having more total cases than those two larger health regions combined.

In fact, one single Local Health Authority - Central Okanagan (a sub-unit of a Health Region) was responsible for 20% of cases in BC during Aug 13-19th. It's also a Local Health Authority that was lagging behind the rest of the province on vaccination rates. It's starting to catch up. These things are not co-incidences. Choices have consequences.

What is the end game? The end game is hopefully that this measure remains temporary -- currently it's set to expire at the end of January 2022.

It can remain temporary if enough people manage to move beyond the insane propaganda, accept reality, and realize that these vaccines are safe, effective, and necessary for life to be able to safely return to normal.

In the meantime, those of us that want to go about our lives and go to restaurants and concerts and sports events would like to be able to do so without taking needless risk.

We don't allow drunk drivers to operate motor vehicles, we don't allow people to wander the streets with hazardous highly active nuclear waste, now we will also cease allowing the presence of Typhoid Karen in discretionary/recreational settings.

We're done with unvaccinated people causing our businesses to need to shut down and we're done with them keeping us from safely enjoying all the things we used to safely enjoy in 2019.

COVID is done because we are done with allowing people to not be the ones bearing the consequences of their misinformation-driven poor choices.

People don't need to get vaccinated. And they don't need to sit in a restaurant next to everyone else either.
Thanks for the info, that is genuinely surprising. And Victoria is not some poor town either. I guess there wasn't much incentive to improve given the consequences of inaction were dumped literally on someone else's doorstep.
Is there any solution to this? I didn't get an app update notification to add all as members.
I can’t tell if you didn’t notice the site you were on, or if I missed your joke.
The atomic element of comminication is a sender, receiver, and agreed upon medium.

Everything else; identity, channel, reputation, moderation, policing, etc...?

Those are all social control mechanisms that get layered on top. IRC is fine as it was conceived in the 80's.

You don't need to know the person's name. They need to be the one talked to yesterday and agreed to talk again today. At x location at Y time.

This is what's been lost about Internet culture in the era of social media. We never cared who you were. We cared what you knew. What you said. What you had to share, teach, contribute or otherwise.

You could be a dog, and nobody'd care. You could be RitzyBoi4778 today, and PoorJohnicusTiberiusSmirk tomorrow, but if you knew what we were talking about yesterday, you belonged just as much as anyone else.

You could be an unusually tactically minded 12 year old asking insightful questions on a mailing list frequented by physicists.

You could party crash a super secret gathering of the most savvy Ops on the planet just by being bored and lucky.

Once you start building Gates and Walls, you've left the Net as Gateless Gate. The only obstacle being getting in, and finding your way around. Once you were in, the world was yours.

I miss that era so much.
"beds" and capacity can be synonymous in casual medical conversation. If the staff had plenty of literal beds, but no staff for them, they might still tell you that they had no beds, because they are just saying they don't have the capacity.
I understand the advantages to a global village but we rarely talk about the downsides. Perhaps the global village is a failed experiment and needs to be reconfigured into bubbles. Perhaps we need to move back to a protectism of sort.
>Damn right I’m emotional. Y’all are gaslighting me and trying to bully my daughter into wearing a mask at school.

No one is gaslighting you, nor is asking you to discuss things in a civil manner 'abuse'.

If you assume everyone discussing this with you are doing so in bad faith despite their best efforts to be reasonable, you don't really keep the door open for any new perspectives.
kind of like saying a river is making the ocean wet. . .
Forgotten History of Early Unix [video]
Slides: https://papers.freebsd.org/2020/FOSDEM/losh-Hidden_early_his...
If you use the proceeds of crime to buy a house then can't that house be seized (jurisdictions probably have different rules, but..)?

The house is then auctioned off. It's not valued at the time of arrest and any additional value returned to the person arrested.

I don't understand why it could, or should, be any different for electronic stores of value (stock, options, crypto).
The power grid has saved a lot of resources and lives... otherwise we'd have everyone with DIY stuff, burning coal, trash, and who knows what else, steam explosions all the time, etc. The optimization of heat rate alone saves tons of Carbon going into the air.
I'm not reading into it. I literally remember reading articles about this (i'm a reddit bicycling mod so i see a lot) in like... i dunno, like 2010-ish?

The best i could do to verify is this article about fake knockoffs from 2015: https://www.bicycling.com/bikes-gear/a20045553/to-catch-a-co...

I'm shocked that i can't find an old article about when they announced the change. Maybe my memory is wrong, and it could be, but I remember the local bike shop as being one of the main reasons for the change, even if that was just marketing.
>Thank you for doing this! I wish I could send the link to almost every organization whose web sites I have had to endure.

Yeah I almost wonder how many of the people responsible for the final UX actually experienced it themselves. Not some debug or dev mode, but what the end user actually deals with. Would they tolerate it? Then how does this stuff persist?