skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, I think the "trash" content is actually a sign that we're all putting way too much importance in big movies.

Large video games like Skyrim or Fallout or GTA are no different from a Hollywood production except for visual quality. The story telling is not far removed from minor and some major movies, but instead of passively observing the story you can actively take part in it. There are artsy games for those who would watch complex cinema, there are games that can be played as a sequence of action scenes, there are comedy games, the list goes on. Previously, everyone who'd much rather interact with their fiction would be stuck in the cinema, but these days that's no longer relevant.

Memes on social media show that you don't need an epic story to get fiction or a shared perspective among a large group of people. People can get the same joy out of a drawing of a green frog or a hidden "Loss" that they'd previously get out of a Monty Python reference. Cross-cultural borders have been opened by the internet the same way movies and TV did many decades ago.

There's also the specificity that the internet brings us. If you were living in a small town and had a passion for building wooden crossbows, there'd be nobody to discuss your hobby with and no way to find them. You could run classifieds, but there's no way you'd reach someone in Canada about this stuff. Now with YouTube you're one search query away from a world of people who share the exact same niche. Mass media is made for the masses, and designed to resonate at least a little with as many people as possible. Social media allows media to be made for a tiny subset while still gaining attention. Sure, it won't make millions or billions, but it'll connect people who'd otherwise thought they were the only people who'd enjoy a certain type of thing.

The internet and the age of interactive media has brought us a culture in which we can participate in rather than be a passive observer of. I think this is part of reason for all of the friction against copyright laws that exists these days; covers, re-enactment, let's plays and other such content is being claimed as copyright violation by the big media companies while the people participating in them see them as ways to express themselves and add to the worldwide culture that's grown around certain media.

I think the next generation will grow up with a mindset completely foreign to my own, accepting being recorded at all time, accepting that anything you say as a teenager can cost you your job fifty years down the line. The omnipresence of tracking and other invasions of privacy as well as the fact that a few large, American tech companies have unopposed control over your life will shape young generations in an interesting but kind of scary way.
Suburban living causes traffic congestion and parking problems.
Not the OP, but this is actually something I doubt.

There is a long list of expensive products that outright flopped or the public received them in a rather lukewarm way. The same is true about, say, movies.

If companies can make such huge mistakes in their core business, surely they aren't any better in gauging public opinion in politics.
I have a hard time distinguishing if the reason I find almost all new media content boring is because I am getting older and I have already seen a version of it, or if it is objectively overdone.
That doesn't necessarily mean it's exactly the same products. Costco can request changes to turn the product into something they are happy to put their label on.
OS maps is really good for hiking :) That’s what I mostly use it for (well running more than hiking, but that’s effectively the same use case)
More speculation . . .
No, I don't think Biden and Trump are enemies, I do think Bezos and Trump are enemies. In fact I tried saying that but because English is not my mother language maybe it came out wrong.
Keep In Mind that among he ignorant posting information that is transforming coupled to the bio-tech we now have access to puts the non-skilled-in-critical thinking to direct harm and death.

In fact YouTube just banned someone for posting self DIY COVID vaccines for this reason.

And on top of it we have social platform that aim to cause discontent harm to earn profits as their stated goal, FB in particular.

ITS not Censorship when are responsible for the things we talk about!

Do you post jest about doing a felony? No of course not. is it censorship because you exercised responsibility?

Be [precise with wording as those who want a darker future want everyone to delve down to non precision as a way to hide their own dark intentions.
In addition to not making new viruses, we should consider a moratorium on further digging up of old viruses, e.g. securing Arctic graves of Spanish Flu victims, or ancient viruses in the sea bed or icebergs, https://www.nature.com/articles/437794a (2005)

> It is thought to have killed 50 million people, and yet scientists have brought it back to life. In this issue of Nature, scientists publish an analysis of the full genome sequence of the 1918 human influenza virus … Some scientists have already hailed the work as giving unprecedented insight into the virus. Working out how it arose and why it was so deadly could help experts to spot the next pandemic strain and to design appropriate drugs and vaccines in time, they say. But others have raised concerns that the dangers of resurrecting the virus are just too great. One biosecurity expert told Nature that the risk that the recreated strain might escape is so high, it is almost a certainty.

Photos: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/reconstruction-19...

Only two years later, a version was created in a lab, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/0...

> "We know that the virus itself is different, and we know that the host response is different," said Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin who headed the international research team. "The virus is really a bad actor," said Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The virulence of the 1918 virus has always been a mystery.

> ..The experiment was done in a Canadian biosafety Level 4 lab, where researchers work in the equivalent of space suits. Kawaoka's team does not have permission to experiment with the virus in the United States. In the new experiment, Darwyn Kobasa, a scientist in a Canadian government microbiology lab in Winnipeg, Manitoba, synthesized the 1918 virus from scratch and infected seven macaque monkeys with it.

> ..The monkeys infected with the 1918 virus were so sick within eight days that they had to be euthanized. "Profuse watery and bloody liquid" filled 60 to 90 percent of the their lung tissue, "greatly reducing lung function," the researchers reported ... The animals infected with the 1918 virus produced less interferon, a type of cytokine that suppresses virus growth by limiting the microbe's ability to infect new cells. The virus continued to replicate and spread, reaching in one case 5,000 times the levels seen in the tissue of the monkeys infected with the modern virus. The ability to selectively limit interferon production is seen in other microbes, including respiratory syncytial virus, Ebola virus and parainfluenza virus, Fauci said.

> In response to the virus's unchecked growth, the monkeys' immune systems produced large amounts of inflammatory substances aimed at killing it and the cells already infected. That ultimately did lethal damage to the lungs of the animals.

That lethality was before Gain-of-Function research, which followed a few years thereafter :(
That's exactly it. Zsync works only once per file, creates a signature in a second file and that's it. They are both distributed with an HTTP server, the most scalable way of centrally distributing data. The client fetches the signature, checks what part is missing and downloads it with Range: headers.
Two caveats:

> The Indian government represents the will of the Indian people.

Not really representative of the will or the real issues that are bothering the people. The current government is more of a “show business” than a government (look at how the COVID vaccination drives are dampened and pumped up by sycophants just to please one person).

> If anyone has a problem with that, they can always approach the courts.

The Indian judicial system is excruciatingly slow, easily distracted by trivial matters (like BCCI corruption) and mostly doesn’t stop the government from bulldozing ahead while a case is pending. It took several years and across the terms of three or four chief justices of the Supreme Court to hear the right to privacy case. It took another year and several months to hear the Aadhaar case (which still has pending lawsuits), the cases on electoral bonds hasn’t been heard for years…all these are cases that affect every resident and the future of the country…the list goes on. Depending on the Indian judiciary to save the people from the executive is mostly futile.
"None of the bat viruses isolated in Laos harbors a so-called furin cleavage site in the spike that facilitates cell entry. It’s a feature of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that has led some scientists to theorize that it was created in a laboratory."
As a side note: Japanning, as mentionned in the first image's caption, is another of history's fascinating and forgotten finishes.

It was used to finish the Ford model T, Singer sawing machines, and cast iron hand planes, among other things.

Learning how to make it again (from asphaltum powder, boiled linseed oil and turpentine) to restore old hand tools is quite the rabbit hole. If you're looking for a good primer, aPlaneLife has a series of video talks [1] on the matter.

[1] Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NlltN3twUA

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzXmtzmKvKc

Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEC5SyenFcE
You know these kind of aggressive under the alcohol or party drugs people who will start a fight with zero hesitation if they think someone looks at their partner?
If these individuals just think you are filming them or their partner or families, this will end ugly.

This depends on the location and culture, but I have seen people having a gun stuck in their face for a single wrong look.

This is just one of the many, many potentially disastrous outcomes, not even mentioning the smart glass users with malicious intent.
Could you elaborate exactly on what that cost was? Credibility? Deaths? Economic?
>What is your evidence that she didn't have evidence?

I'm no scientist but I'm pretty sure that's not how that works.
Legal drafting and computer programming
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They should just use sexpr and call it a day. Nobody is going to write shaders in that stupid language anyway. Call it Not-Spirv to make Apple legal happy.
Thanks I see. I pay $10 per month for VPN and then 60$ per month for internet so I guess their magnitude of costs is well over 1/6 lower than what I pay for internet
If there are 10 people and 5 of them want to live in a single family home and 5 of them want to live in a multi family home then forcing all 10 people to live in a single family home will mean that single family housing is more expensive than it needs to be since people who don't want it are forced to live in it.
Then I think about Tom Cruise's stunts especially in Mission: Impossible series. It got his own brand out of doing things more real. Similarly how Mad Max: Fury Road was received. Most also have very good writing (certainly not M:i-2).

It may be not superhuman by Marvel standards, but certainly are by real life standards. At the same time in superhero flicks they are often unable to do things they should be able to do, because they did something like it before. Also most humans, that do not posses super strength in those movies are fighting almost like equals with bunch of baddies.

Funny thing about Ethan Hunt from M:i is that his biggest super power is luck, like Rincewind from Discworld.
Telegram had been banned by Russian authorities with a demand to disclose E2E encryption keys previously, then that ban was miraculously lifted last year. What is happening beneath the curtain is anyone’s guess.

Setting aside any speculation as to whether they are in fact a state-backed covert operation, last time I checked it appeared to be a tiny company of undisclosed structure, which—while in a way glamorous/romantic—does not strike me as a radically more acceptable/sustainable state of affairs, as it makes the individuals involved liable to be influenced (including through [in]direct fear for personal safety, a mechanism markedly more effective than fines or legal action) by whomever is able to find them.
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> Why do closures and objects arise in such a natural fashion

My reasoning is we need a partitioned stateful function which is impossible to achieve and the alternative are worse:

- partition global state with your own object id

- passing all state as arguments
The Wikipedia entry you linked to estimates 2021 internet traffic at 276 EB/month. That’s an average 839,625 gigabits per second. So 60 Gbps is one 14,000th of that.

Of course, one figure was about capacity and the other about actual traffic, but still.
So if I put my chemical hat on and suggested that a solution using a solution of HOOC-COOH/C2H2O4 would help shift the rust then I'd be in the wrong ballpark. Right?

Like the Mikado, maybe we need a little list of society offenders who've perverted the language with stolen nouns. As the Mikado would claim, to not only steal nouns for illicit purposes but to then morph them into proper nouns is the most heinous of crimes - a crime that could only be committed by those with absolutely no imagination. As wasted space, they are deserving nothing less than the axe!

;-)
Does YC accepts a startup with one or more part time co-founders?
We are a team of three people. Two of my co-founders have other commitments and would like to be only 50% time on our startup. Is this acceptable for YC application??
> iVPN (because they're based in a non fourteen-eyes jurisdiction, namely Gibraltar).

Gibraltar is an British territory under the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the United Kingdom, it's part of the fourteen-eyes.
In what area of the US do the police actually recover bikes?
A bigger city supports a bigger suburban ring around it since you don't have to live so close to the city center anymore to get high paying jobs.
If everyone cuts them off, yes! Free speech laws originally meant that you could stand on a street corner and rant freely (but no one was forced to listen).

It did NOT mean that for a particular person all street corners were suddenly unavailable. We have many de facto monopolies here: Google prioritizes medium.com nonsense over private sites, app stores are monopolies etc.

So while physical hosting and DNS providers should be available by law anyway, I think due to content discoverability and monopolistic issues the same applies to certain virtual market places.
The GoPro-Ification of the iPhone
Don't AirTags already start beeping if they spend too much time around a single phone other than their owner's?
Nice catch. Rather than date the author should've pass the DEBUG constant instead.

Or a function that return new date, but it'll make things complicated.
I would also love to add some sites which I were missing...

Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be a feature which new search engines are focusing on - Brave Search also misses that feature...
Considering Apple complied with this request, we can be absolutely 100% sure that they would never even consider complying with the request to abuse their “CSAM detection” system to find dissident content.

I’m just so sure of it.

They would never.
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Trickle-down doesn't work at any scale. If you want money to "trickle" down to a group of people, simply give cash to that group of people. This means lowering taxes on labour, for instance.

> We can't abolish rent-seeking entirely without overthrowing the whole system

Well we can certainly ameliorate it. Implementing a proper Georgist LVT would be a nice first step.
Ah, a fellow Georgist I see ;)
You don't choose. It's decided for you based on your ability.

Edit: not disagreeing that it's harsh, just wanted to clarify that point.
I didnt oppose accidental leak possibility. My main argument was that restricting the flow of information has caused (or rather may have caused as @simonh rightly pointed out) the accident to be worse than it could have been.

Perhaps including the second part you quoted wasnt necessary for my point, but if you think that makes my post politically motivated then Im afraid its only because you choose to see it that way.
Try your old Google Fu skills on DuckDuckGo (or Bing I guess). I've found it to have good results anyway
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I think its generally the case that people wildly overestimate how much they can actually differentiate between 'superiour, expensive' and 'pretty good, reasonably priced' quality on items like this. Once you achieve that pretty good level double blind taste tests stop showing significant differences. You're literally paying for the experience of spending more money. Nothing wrong with that, if that's your thing.
128-bit RISC-V assembler
We can blame the emission for strongly encouraging its dominantly speculative use.
While its emission is sometimes likened to Gold, it behaves very different in practice. Half of all Bitcoin was emitted in just the first four years, and 99% of all Bitcoin is emitted in its first 3 decades. In contrast, Gold has been emitted for millennia, and emission looks quite flat over the years, with nothing resembling Bitcoin's reward halvings on the horizon of our lifetimes.
Very cool! I'd love to see proper macros in a major language like Dart. And the proposal looks good, like a mix of Scala and Nemerle.
Your implementation is broken for any function that has more than two arguments.

const sum3 = curry(( a, b, c ) => a + b + c )
const sum3_10 = sum3( 10 ) // ...
const sum3_10_20 = sum3_10( 20 ) // ...
sum3_10_20( 30 ) // 60
sum3_10_20( 5 ) // 60

One of the points of currying is to be able to fork the partial application of the function at any point.
Actually, the article content doesn't seem to match the title.

The best predictor according to the article (50% of variance) is fluid intelligence. Language aptitude was a distant second place at 8% of variance explained, narrowly edging out memory for third place.

I don't think anyone is at all surprised by a result that says "being able to think logically in novel situations is a better predictor of whether you will be able to pick up programming quickly than all other predictors combined".

Nor am I particularly surprised to learn that the component of mathematical expertise that is not derived from fluid intelligence (e.g. ability to perform mental arithmetic, for example) isn't predictive of the ability to program.
Hmm, that makes sense. I actually watch plenty of non-leftist lectures and speeches too (keeping my mind open, you know), and neither those start flooding my feed x) I guess the problem lies in the metrics the algorithm is optimising for.
Gibraltar is a British territory under the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the United Kingdom, not much different from the US.
It takes non trivial logistical efforts to deliver HIV drugs to people. Think folks living in slums in south africa, homeless drug users in the USA, etc.

Around 680k people died of AIDS related illnesses in 2020 alone. https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/fact-sheet

Also the number of HIV infected people is still increasing.

https://www.avert.org/global-hiv-and-aids-statistics
It was (and still is) widely used in printing industries (transfer ink, lithographic ink), in arts (India ink is basically a black pigment suspended in borax solution of shellac), in paints (addition of shellac to acrylic water-based paint improves the performance), production of music records, in watch making (as a thermoplastic glue), in paper production as a calendering agent ...
This was not a question but statement. IRL = In Real Life.
Doesn't load on Firefox on Android.

The year of the Linux desktop was 2016, when Ubuntu 16.04 was released. It went downhill ever since.
I don't know why people have such a hard time believing this. A 50 cent army to steer social media opinions is certainly a lot cheaper than aircraft carriers
I think "Linux Desktop" means something other than "a computer running the Linux kernel that runs desktop applications".

ChromeOS is as much a Linux computer as is a Tesla automobile. Sure, there's a linux kernel down in there somewhere, but it's not the thing we mean when we say "Linux Desktop".
Ah yes, the free market of home owners forcing their wishes upon everyone else.

Housing demand and supply isn't something to be decided by individuals, instead by a special group of interests that must tell you what you want and what should be available.
Marxist can mean many things. It is clear in the former soviet states or in the western world.

However, Marxism is a global project. In India for instance Marxists are mercenaries for hire. The network built by the soviets and later coopted by the Americans have their tentacles deep in the English press and universities.

So they do control school textbooks and the minds of the English educated urban kids.

But sooner or later kids figure out this propaganda. And anyway social "sciences" is not what the bright kids aspire to learn.
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I think we're talking at cross purposes. (In any case, thanks for explaining!) I'm talking about defensive measures that a species needs to take to protect itself against dangerous respiratory viruses. You're talking about security measures that a laboratory needs to take to protect the world from the escape of things from containment.

While finding out the answer to the latter is interesting, I think "a ban on GOF research" is likely closer to the answer to the former, which reduces the significance of the latter.

We're going to see more of these, whether from SARS-CoV mutations, bioterror, or future lab leaks. The large-scale changes our society needs to make are identical even if we were only facing a subset of these threats (ie if lab leaks could be completely eliminated, which is what I believe you're talking about).
That is nonsense. Legally, Apple can do nothing if a movie maker wants to go out and buy an Apple product and show a bad guy using their products.

That director is probably referring agreements the movie maker made with Apple in exchange for free Apple devices to use in the movies. Or he is trying to misdirect for the next movie he is making.
Just printed your doodles and put them on one of our whiteboards.

Most of my fellow devs are from a 3D modeling and design background and have a hard time understanding anything more than push and merge (using a GUI). I tried to explain them numerous time, but they just phase out after a couple of minutes.
Do they all have accurate captions/transcripts? It's kind of an odd situation that if no student in the class has a need for them they wouldn't have to be made but then you can't publish it for a larger audience.
If Linux ever really gained mainstream appeal (say 40-60% adoption) it would be ruined by many of the pressures which ruined most mainstream operating systems. I think we’re far better off with Linux at 1% or so.
> There is absolutely no problem getting a higher degree—say in literature—and also becoming a plumber.

There is when you're not the one paying for it.