skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it even matter any more? From where I stand Covid-19 might have been much less devastating globally if it had been treated seriously in the early days.

In fact, based on the initial footage from Wuhan, countries should have adopted more stringent protocols when they repatriated their nationals, i.e. quarantine on arrival etc... If in doubt throw everything including the kitchen sink at just to be sure. But it is what it is. I just hope we've learnt from this and are prepared for the next one.
It's a true joy to be able to learn a modicum of computer science from MIT as an engineer in a different field.

And it's so enjoyable because you don't really need any special tools beyond a basic computer, which most already have.

Thank you MIT. You helped me when I was made redundant, gave me something productive to do that I enjoyed (beyond frittering away my time.)

PS. The lecturers are amazing. Similarly those who run the tutorials.
I meant glass in the door that connects the room to the balcony. Not in railings. Sorry.
I've build a library to do that (based on various known techniques) in [1]; it's also combined with validation based on zod. I would say it's usable but of course having true nominal type support in TypeScript would be way better.

For complex types it also disallows spreading to prevent circumventing validation. However, errors are often not has human readable as one would like them to be.

[1]: https://github.com/renke/vo/tree/master/packages/vod
> but also predict the entire chain of events that has occurred as a consequence

I wouldn't have agreed with you a year ago, but having seen it for myself, it's scary how true it is. All the wild "conspiracy theories" about the vaccine passport notably came to reality 6-8 months or so after being voiced.
My take is that there is sufficient motive for China not wanting it to be a lab leak. It opens up the door for blame and scrutiny, something the Chinese Government hates beyond all other things if we look at their profile of operation.

That alone, and doors that got closed when it came to researching the lab is suspicious.

Whatever it may be, the original sars had a solid origin within 6 months of research.
Affordable Housing for All
Nice! I wanted to build something like this.
A feature I'd like is to receive a daily digest of all my links in a readable format.
New Balance still makes shoes in the US. Check for their made in the US line. They are round 180 USD per pair. Not cheap, but I think it is a fair price.
wait until you're all told cancer was cured years ago and they just now felt like "testing it" on sick patients decades later.
local dns-override is possible with hosts-file or a local dns-server. nextdns offers this as a service.

ublock with a cutom blocklist that is self-served (via gh-pages or whatever) could be the most simple solution.
Loose IP restrictions are a good policy when you are playing "catch-up" and basically need to implement a bunch of things already developed by someone else.

For an advanced country that actually has to create new things, the cost:benefits shifts in favour of more IP then the earlier stage. It's still possible to have too much restriction though, I think the copyright duration is ridiculous for example.
The original, canonical implementation of WireGuard on Linux predates io_during, and Windows has had IOCP for decades now.
Kirkland fish oil is also excellent, and reasonably priced as well.
The missiles are US but I was under the impression the warheads on UK tridents are UK built. No US warheads involved.
Fix Boat or Change Boat?
I thought everyone on HN had uBlock Origin installed with scripts disabled? I just see (desktop FF 92.0) a pleasantly organized page.

I agree it's horrible with scripts enabled though!
> The inability of the GIMP developers to work with others to incorporate needed features was the primary reason.

I don't know. I felt like Adobe and other companies saw the market and wanted to win it. It's easier to grab marketshare when you can hire lots of developers to implement all the features your customers are asking.

When Cinepaint announced that were moving off GTK+ and onto FLTK probably just accelerated the end of Cinepaint.

I haven't seen an FLTK app in years. Does FLTK still look like it came from the 1990's/early 2000's, or did they upgrade the widgets to make them look more modern?
Not without an authenticated proxy.

Otherwise, some routers allow you to set up separate rules for 'guests', which authenticate with different credentials. You'd have to do some research to find one that had different DNS policies for each zone.

A simpler, though more expensive, solution would be to just buy a second router for your kids to use, then connect its WAN port to one of the Ethernet ports on the main router.

You could, of course, just modify the hosts file to block youtube.com on their local machines, but that wouldn't affect mobile devices, and they'd eventually workout how to get around it.
I don't think there is one. React is the most popular on the front-end side but you can pick Vue or Svelte without taking risks too.

On the backend it's very open and you can select what is the best for your use case. Maybe golang, Ruby on rails, Django, express.js, Apollo Server, Hasura.io, Java spring, .net just to name a few.
Yes, many good British brands remain, it's not because French, British or Italian labor is much cheaper than US.
Thanks for the reply. We have pretty compelling historical evidence that the market does not solve this problem.
Yeah, the initial issue was that they couldn't hold any heading at all, because the autopilot wouldn't stay connected (and would not have worked correctly even if it had), and the control reversal [1] meant that in manual flight, any course correction they attempted didn't have the intended effect.

[1] It was actually even worse than control reversal, because this aircraft (like many modern jets) uses the spoilers as part of roll control, and those controls were not reversed, while the ailerons (primary roll control) were. The resulting aerodynamics are... complex! So even if they'd been told exactly what had happened to the controls, the pilots still likely would have had to figure out some modicum of control by trial and error as they did.
Could be useful in the backend infrastructure stuff if you have beefy machines processing lots of IO. There could be myriads other use cases. Hell, some people have 10gbs machines at home. Even modern CPUs, definitely mobile, can struggle to hit line rate in certain applications like large file transferring unless you’ve got a beefier machine.
When will the general public stop seeing conspiracy theories as imaginary tales? They have been 100% accurate so far with covid.

This can either mean a) all covid conspiracy theories are 100% accurate or b) some covid conspiracy theories are 100% accurate.

Many covid conspiracy theories are incompatible with one another, so they cannot each be accurate 100%. So you cannot mean a). But b) is a much weaker claim: anything can be called a conspiracy theory, and consequently the claim just ends up being that somebody was right at some point in time. Claim b) has little to no predictive power.
Can it pose a risk of making other mutations? and adding too much variation that ecosystems are not ready to defend against? All the arguments of the GMO, repeated (although it seems the GMO argument is settled).
It may have been political. Germans are more likely to trust the BioNTech vaccine than the Moderna vaccine, so taking the Moderna vaccine sends the message that "All vaccines are good enough", which is the correct message if the intention is to maximise uptake of limited vaccine supplies. This was also probably the reason why she took the AstraZeneca vaccine in the first place.
John Calhoun's Experiment
AVHerald has (as always) a fairly comprehensive article about this event, with more details and less narrative: https://avherald.com/h?article=4c04438e
ycombinator is now being used as the cia's psyop grounds for disinformation programs.
We're really running out of sincere internet discussion boards, now.
I think details did in fact replace many of those checkbox hacks, but people also say it’s still the wrong tool for accordions and such, which confuses me.
Ukraine is worthless, like Afghanistan. Taiwan controls the world supply of advanced microprocessors, and is the most valuable strategic prize of all.
It’s always funny to me how much dumber the writing in Star Wars (1977) gets when it strays away from its source material (The Hidden Fortress and The Dambusters)
I have used normal denatured alcohol but it does not have a blue color where I am from. It did smell bad and have adverse reaction when in contact with moisture, but it was the cheapest stove fuel alcohol and I got good results.

Specialty stores for woodwork, art supply etc sell high quality denatured alcohol for use in shellac which is higher purity and smells less bad. I haven't tried that.
It's OK at best there's quite a few features missing that get in the way when I use it for client work

- Can't have numbered headings without them indenting
- No image captions (have to use a separate styled paragraph underneath
- Not enough text styles (only need a couple more)

There’s more than those but they're the ones I run into most frequently

Suspect the issue is no-one in Google uses Docs for writing documents that need quality formatting and production, sure they write lots of docs in it but how many are going to paying clients etc.
That's why I really like Bourne movies vs the BS Marvel movies.
Can you think of a strategy without the monitoring? I also don’t like it but I’m not sure how to keep them accountable. Maybe some kids may behave on their own with only pep talks
> my main gripe about git is the lack of a linear rev number for master

Unless you are using git as a centralised SCM, the concept of a linear revision doesn't quite match up.

Of course many workflows between different branch and people do eventually end up with there being a "master master" (or a main main to use more up-to-date terminology), and workflows for single dev projects naturally do, perhaps in those cases you could wrap relevant git commands in something that increments a build number stored in a file before relevent actions.

It perhaps do away with a simple increasing revision number and use the date of merge on that branch, which would at least always be increasing.
Things are messy, uncomfortable and "in your face" because that is how we relate to them, not because it's inherently in their nature. That is important, because among other attributes, those three have a strong tendency to wane with familiarity and over time.

To give two examples, sharing opinions and pieces of your life online was generally a confusing concept 15 years ago. Now it is considered a virtue by many and an important part of distinguishing oneself from their peers (or even a career in itself). Another one is new music being uncomfortable (although, of course, people would rather claim it's "bad") and in your face and that sentiment being shared by the majority. Until it "suddenly" isn't. Not because the music changed – it's a recording after all, frozen in time – but because it has changed us.
The aircraft was not "completely uncontrollable".
I've had to jump through hoops recently to update my Android from 7 to 8, because Slack announced that it was going to stop supporting it starting from September.

Mind you, the last Android 7 version was released in Q1 2017, while the last Android 8 version is Q4 2017.
Nothing wrong with that but a damaged nitro surface is difficult to fix. On the other hand it's probably more durable than just shellac.
I guess we have to accept the fact that when Russia or China is involved, then we cannot find the truth. The same can even be said of the US.

The 1977 H1N1 spread was never truly explained, here a possible lab incident in Russia was one of the possibilities:

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.01013-15?permanent...

The Coronavirus from Wuhan, China has a similar story, only this time it is in China.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

To me a solid scientific explanation is still useful, e.g. the intimate study of the Wuhan lab into Coronavirus seems risky at best.
There's a certain large detail elided by this, which is basically the experience of opening up a container from China.

When you're doing any kind of non-trivial amount of manufacturing in China, you've got a chain of exporters and workers behind you that specialize in making the un-containering experience fantastic. As in, the standees of celebrity endorsers holding the shoe in their hand for the merchandising station are manufactured right across the street from where the shoe is actually made. The box company making the box are very close by as well. And then even the guys loading up the cargo are making it so it can basically go onto a container in China, go to a warehouse in LA, and be shipped over to Helena, MT, and have six or seven large cardboard containers all slide out of a twenty-footer, then the truck driver is on to the next shoe store.

ALL that labour of packaging and boxing and merchandising all happens at basically starvation wages for poor Chinese.

It's not JUST making the shoes, it's making the shoes, making the boxes for the shoes, making the merchandising for the shoes, and packaging all that shit together in a container-friendly way that is also friendly to unboxing by American minimum-wage workers.

The "supply chain" is about much more than just the contents of the box, but about the entire chain it takes to get to retail.
It looks like the ISSN would be for the entire blog.
Can highly recommend Ken Alibek's book about the Russian biological warfare programme "Biohazard". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Alibek
fact remains: everyone can opt-out
People may want to explain why you downvote?

Both Pentium 4 and Pentium M are x86? What has the ISA got to do with it? Seriously? Intel had the Fab advantage at the time, and IBM didn't want to design Laptop based computer chips. It was as simple as that. It has nothing to do with PowerPC incapable of making energy efficient chip.
I mean, there's a number of high-profile published articles that have issues with fryers study.

Ultimately, though, what's your purpose for making this argument? If we say that Fryers study accurately proves that conclusion, what do you think we should do with that knowledge?
> that $50 saved has slowed down $100M worth of stuff, sometimes by 50% or more. But... that's not the hosting provider's problem

Provided their clients don't figure out what's going on and move to another provider. If the client has millions of dollars riding on that infrastructure, they'd likely be doing enough performance-monitoring to notice this kind of thing, no?

> Azure does this, and they don't let you turn it off

Azure really don't offer any never-throttled instances? What about their dedicated hosts?
Both bioweapons and chemical weapons suffer from a deployability problem. Sure, you will cause some harm; perhaps even great harm; but there is no guarantee you will emerge out of the chaos better off than your adversaries.

What did China win so far? Paranoia of the rest of the world and an acute realization of most Western nations that they need to rethink their alliances (see the recent AUKUS story) and their supply chains.

The only active malice scenario I could find plausible would be "a single person or a small cult such as Aum Shinrikyo decided to unleash horror on the world". But in the real world, accidents outnumber crimes by orders of magnitude.
I think you seriously underestimating this site.
Also, why? What gain would come from putting little computers into people's blood?

If it's for some sort of behavioral tracking, it seems like a lot of effort considering everyone is already carrying a computer in their pocket.

I guess I also would like to know why Bill Gates has become such a target for conspiracy theorists lately? My impression has been that he's pretty sincerely involved in improving conditions in the underdeveloped world. I'm wondering if I missed something that caused people to believe he has some horrible intention?

I hope this is taken as an honest question. I know it's easy to bash on folks who buy into conspiracy theories, but I also happen to know (and am fond of) quite a few of them. Bringing up these topics is always delicate, and I'd be interested in getting to know what's going through their minds.
The OS data is still incredibly detailed. Practically every large boulder seems to be included, let alone every building. They licence some of it to Apple Maps.
You should really have a correction in the title, because the problem is coming from american wholesale accounts that purchase things around 100mqo from ali warehouses, it's not chinese people talking in english and scamming english speaking consumers into buying cheap plastic bought for 2$ a piece sold for 20$ on amazon, that's purely american greed.
Put a nat rule on your router to point a specific source address with target of UDP/53 to your desired dns server (and use the doh canary domain)
Agree, Rubyridge is just flat-out wrong. Check out photo pea for example, UI is remarkably similar to photoshop
I read that too that it's in the works. When they announce that it's official, I'll give it a try for sure.
It's well known that local Chinese authorities silenced a doctor (Li Wenliang) who was giving early warnings about the virus. That to me is a more grave mistake than an accidental lab leak, because they lost a chance to nip it in the bud. Accidents happen and quick response is essential.

An intentional lab leak makes no sense to me at all. Its like starting a fire in your house to spite your neighbour.
People who prefer peace to war know what kind of people downvote comments like this without offering a substantive response.
I suppose there are two kinds of terminals in real use today: terminal emulators (which all support vt100) and dumb / trivial consoles that use a framebuffer if not a segmented LCD display, that don't support anything standardized anyway, and you don't need much from them beside displaying characters.

So the choice to support the common case of the terminal emulator looks reasonable. Even when you attach a serial cable to a tiny controller to do something on its tiny command line, you likely do it from your laptop. Having a readline lookalike in this situation would be nice.
Story of the Dog in the Osama Bin Laden Mission
Berlin and Brandenburg were not always separate and they might not stay separate (https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin-Brandenburg), but that is semantics.

Brandenburg is a very low density area (85/sqm) surrounding Berlin (4227/sqm). It might be a problem politically but the space is there.

Other cities are surrounded by areas of similar density, and cannot expand. Brandenburg has a lot of space (enough for a gigafactory) :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Berlin
On the Schumacher Documentary
Bing maps UK have an Ordnance Survey layer which can be handy. Most County Council's have an interactive footpath map which uses a bigger scale OS map, very handy for finding a house name.
Formatting (without "arbitrary format specifications") has been available for years:

- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

- https://caniuse.com/mdn-javascript_builtins_intl_datetimefor...

Parsing, however, is an entirely different topic. I assume the Temporal proposal authors learned from the Date.parse fiasco. To this day, there are browser inconsistiencies that make it largely unusable for anything else than the full-length ISO date format. Hence, it might be better to use a userland library that works consistently regardless of the browser (version). There are also some notes about parsing in https://tc39.es/proposal-temporal/docs/parse-draft.html:

> Temporal's approach to most operations—including parsing—is to encourage strong typing, e.g. Temporal.Instant.from vs. Temporal.PlainDateTime.from. A type-spanning "parse anything" API goes against that strongly-typed model.
Helmhurts – optimising the WiFi reception in my flat
National Intrepid Center of Excellence
I've found open street map much better in the lake district. The car park at walna scar is missing on the os map, which is the best spot to walk the old man. There are a number of missing paths on the os map around rusland pool.
The lower class of today is out of luck due to immigration and globalization. Very different to previous generations who had significant leverage when they decided not to work and often got offered great benefits/higher wages after collectively withholding their labor.
Ah yes. Are you also this indignant about Iran's interference with the Syrian civil war? Who knows how many people were killed because of their involvement.
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China is not about cheap labor, most manufacturer love to put up factory there because they have access to almost all raw materials for their products. That's the hardest part to move to another country all the logistics and supply chains.
You seem to be under an illusion that most people would attend university for fun if given the chance, whereas coming from a country with free university degrees - isn't the case at all.
The amount of censorship, especially among the qualified scientific community in just about every facet of this disease is alarming. Even if the origins were accidental or lab-born or whatnot, the response has been so politicized worldwide that pure science has been largely thrown out the window. Every possibility should be analyzed & tested, even if it goes against the interests of a ruling party and all parties are guilty of exploiting this.
Hmm, does not work for me; Ctrl+X Ctrl+E does, as expected.

(Be sure to set VISUAL to something nice.)
Hyperparameter Optimization with Argo
In your link, I really enjoyed this link on creating a 45-byte executable:
http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm...
Context switching overhead is bad for microkernel performance. All the reasons why the userspace wireguard implementation was slower apply to each and every part of a microkernel system. And all of this got worse with spectre and meltdown, secure context switches are now even more expensive. Modern CPUs generally always increase the context switching cost, they optimize for single-process benchmarks.

So microkernels are dead, performance buries them deeper and deeper.
A great example is Blade Runner 2049.

In my opinion, it is essentially a perfect movie. Fantastic music. Gorgeous sets. Great fight scenes. Good story. Interesting characters. Proper science fiction.

Most importantly, it stayed true to the original, while still having a novel story, that nonetheless touched on the theme of the original without being overly repetitive like the latest Disney-made Star Wars movies.

I thought the movie was basically genious, and I will now watch anything Dennis Villeneuve directs.

But if you listen to reviews by typical moviegoers, they panned the movie. "Too slow", "Boring", etc...

Interstellar similarly polarised viewers.

This is why most movies are made the way they are: to avoid negative reviews by the mass market viewers and hence to maximise profits.

Or to put it another way: Their only metric is ticket sales, not the level of your enjoyment. They don't get a cent more if the movie touches your soul.
I was considering adding the ability to specify /when/ you want the email delivered -- something like a weekly/whenever-ly newsletter, curated by yourself.
Gift cards, serial numbers and hard technology
Russia's Space Program: Running on Empty (1995)
It's clearly too virulent to contain as is evident nearly 2 years later.

Yes it matters. If China (and other orgs) are responsible they should be held criminally and civilly liable. Millions have died on account of what appears to have been reckless and dangerous gain of function research. If there's no accountability, it will happen again.