skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or manufacturer any product from there...why does the world continue to be stupid on China and pump up their economy by having the majority of their goods manufactured there? Its going to continue to bite us and everyone in the butt.
The paper is over my head, so I can't claim to make any sort of a cohesive analysis about its data or methods. But the situation seems to be two countries using distinct and specific data to point the finger at one another.
Do you have this automated?
Where is the due process or do we outsource this to private companies too?
> Why can't that be fun, with like user profiles, Amazon-style reviews, Steam-style community features, social media-style feeds so you can sub to a developer, TikTok-style feeds of promo videos to discover new apps/games, etc.

Similar to the other comment, I read that with sheer horror. I specifically don't want to spend a lot of time in any app store. I want to find quality apps I'm looking for, download them and leave.
But large scale maps ("street level") are quite simple. You can generate those for yourself with ease. It's the small scale maps that seem to suck more often -- simplifications are hard.
In many cases, I had to step into an Augean stable of code, i.e. a 10x dev had to deep dive into code produced by 10 1x dev. Coming out the other end, functionality went up by 50% with 40% less code.

Prior to being downsized at a multinational, I was asked to explain my database update scripts to a lady who had never seen SQL. Some of the queries took most of a page. That system slowly sank into the sunset. It's hard to do customer support when the database doesn't know about their new machines.
I'm a native Swedish speaker in Finland[1], blessed with the rights that come with a second official national language.

Growing up, I was something of a bookish basement dweller
and didn't speak the majority Finnish language outside lessons in school. I did, thank goodness, read Finnish literature, comics, computer magazines.

So, when it was time to move away from home and I got my first real job that involved speaking a lot of Finnish, I had a couple of very awkward and terrible weeks at a corporate service desk call center. After that, I was fine, and grew more confident with Finnish as I developed a social life.

At the end of the day, it's all about speaking. Languages are meant to be utilized for communicating with other people, so you just have to find some way of doing that, I think.

I'm used to being clever and quick in my native language - and English - so I had to fight a lot of frustration with Finnish. I learned English and was comfortable speaking it in less than a school year, but English is also an easy language for a bookish and pop culture drenched Swedish speaker to pick up. Finnish has no relation to Germanic, or Indo-European languages, so it's a bit of an adventure.[2]

What I can say is that being the kind of person who can sit around and listen to conversations for a while and chime in with a joke or question always helped me fit in in situations where I don't feel like taking charge.

So, try and find your own social strengths and play to that.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish-speaking_population_of...

2. http://tasteoffinnish.fi/finnish/
> The reality is, the mobile app development is outsourced to incompetent teams for presumably the lowest price who "ensure security" by just saying, "lets chuck a library in that prevents running if the device is detected as being rooted, and call it a day".

I don't understand, why people think so. Banks hire good developers. They don't pay them well (by banks' own standards), but they still pay enough to hire competent programmers.

Unfortunately, working in bank is highly competitive environment, that fosters sycophants and rewards socially adept people, good at obeying orders to letter. Who cares, what the programmers think, they are at the bottom of command chain anyway.

The fraud prevention is often split into it's own department. As for "computer security" department, it is a fang-less security circus, that exists to satisfy PCI DSS. In some banks it outright pretends, that web sites and mobile apps don't exist. All your data will be processed in "secure server enclave", managed by "certified professionals", while sending hashes of credit card numbers to Google Analytics.
...and then Sir Clive died pretty much the next day.
RIP my bearded friend.
Apple CEO Tim Cook chastises leakers in leaked memo
I hope the mobile version of the Variety website gets canceled
Why are pictures of aborted fetuses online a problem?
And the number of times save compatibility has been broken is surprisingly small for a long-lived one-man project.
Regardless, in terms of humaneness, the aforementioned approach is a pragmatic step up from industrialised meat farming. Morally, however, the argument for killing an otherwise "healthy" animal regardless of the humaneness involved is specious at best.
>the last truly free alternative to a browser built by ad grubby organisation

Is it? Considering Mozilla gets most of their money from Google, I find assertions about their independence on very thin ice.

Also, the idea that discussing Firefox's problems is "ruining it for the rest of us" is absurd. People care about Firefox and are being vocal about the problems so that they might get fixed. The people being silent about Firefox's problems are the ones that no longer care and have long since moved on.
Depends on your architecture.

You're still restricted by physics with edge computing. If you need to make a call back into us-east-1 to get data out of a data store, it doesn't matter that there's an edge CDN and API layer.

Outside of that, there's compliance reasons too. Partitioning your data by region because storing customer information in say the EU is different than the US. More likely CN is much different than the rest of the world if you do business there.
governments as well.
That and politics. The frontline group was also involved in the Hydroxychloroquine debacle, and they were selected specifically by political actors as a pro-trump solution to the pandemic.

With any of these politically connected things, there’s always a mix of grift, political opportunism, and true believers.
I pointed out below that I actually DID mean microseconds but likely skewed by times I was seeing in dev. Hopefully it does not take away from my point that response times are still imperceptible when in roughly the same region (I'm seeing 1-3 milliseconds in the heroku-hosted LiveView app I linked below).
Thanks. I agree it is mostly about speaking. I have been speaking a lot but still feel low confidence while communicating in important meetings.
Facebook's Alarming Plan for News Feeds
There are many use cases for compute in every (or at least, 3+) regions. But it's very difficult to manage. So difficult that most things that would benefit can't afford the complexity.
This is making claims about people's current ideas, which is valid, and they may indeed be terrible investments.

But I suspect most people assume new technologies would need to be invented to make lab grown meat work. People haven't proven particularly successful at predicting what will be invented in the future, except in the very near term.

I personally suspect we'll see a lot of replacement tissues for medical use before any sort of food.
I have never heard of chinaxiv! This is news to me that it even exists and I work in this space.
I hadn’t seen that paper, but isn’t your statement missing the forest for the trees? If pathology was attenuated, that would help patient recovery, even if viral load wasn’t directly reduced.

> Even though ivermectin had no effect on viral load, SARS-Cov-2-associated pathology was greatly attenuated. IVM had a sex-dependent and compartmentalized immunomodulatory effect, preventing clinical deterioration and reducing olfactory deficit in infected animals. Importantly, ivermectin dramatically reduced the Il-6/Il-10 ratio in lung tissue, which likely accounts for the more favorable clinical presentation in treated animals. Our data support IVM as a promising anti-COVID-19 drug candidate.
I think the main use case are home and maybe small-business servers which generally aren't built with actual server hardware. Just look at the rack in his video which was basically just a bunch of desktop PCs on their side.
I've learned two foreign languages living in other countries, and never been able to speak them: so don't do what I do!

But, of people that I've seen go from bad to good when they are immersed - the traits I notice is "persistence", "volume (amount)".

I knew a Russian guy whose English was beginner level. He came to every web meetup and submitted talks constantly. His first talks were... painful. But he just kept going! I didn't even notice the transition, but each talk was better than the last.

Another couple I knew would come to every work event and the would tell stories to everyone. Again, they started terrible - but there seemed to be some point where they just "clicked" and again, I didn't even notice they had become fluent.

When I tried to learn, I got too embarrassed would never talk. But I think you have to just be embarrassed and talk talk talk!
lack of infinite scroll != no scrolling.
Something like http://kleinvm.sourceforge.net/ ?
Sympathetic to your story, it's a really unfortunate situation, and glad you were able to salvage your trip.

> Also what would have happened if we weren't fortunate enough to be able to pay for this in the first place? Would we just be out on the streets?

You would go to your home's country embassy and explain the situation?
Having your passport/luggage locked in the Airbnb isn't different from having it stolen on a train or something like that. This unfortunately could happen to travelers whether they're staying at a hotel or an Airbnb. At least you had your phone and means of payment available, and were able to recover the documents/luggage after some time.

I wonder what help Airbnb provides if the situation is flipped: let's say the owner has to change the locks for $750 because the renter never returned the key. Is the owner eating that cost?

In your situation, you're the party who lost the keys. Maybe Airbnb rental terms should have a clear cost for lost keys situation, $1k for this is steep!
I suspect that the raw meat costs (not including packaging, distribution, retail) in a “meal-size serving” (presumably 3oz) are less than a dollar.
Unless something about life is fundamentally adversarial I wouldn't expect civilizations to be hostile to one another by default.

You could make the argument that it does appear that life is fundamentally adversarial, seeing as in our one example all life feeds on other life, and to sustain life a creature must kill. I believe that's simple a circumstance of limited biomass in a closed system and so not fundamental, but you could argue that all civilizations probably get bootstrapped in this way and so it doesn't need to be fundamentally adversarial, but that all civilizations are accustomed to it so the distinction "fundamental" does not really matter. I'd disagree with that also, because a change in conditions to post scarcity changes conditioning and therefore behavior.

You might also come up with a prisoners dilemma type scenario where a civilization doesn't want to be adversarial, but it doesn't know the intentions of others and so to protect itself, as a rule, destroys any that it finds. This is somewhat plausible but I don't really think likely because civilizations that evolved from abiogenetic origins separate from one another would likely have very very different behaviors that might not even overlap in many cases, so even if they were aware of each other they may not even be capable of interacting.

It just does not make sense for a space faring civilization to be hostile. A requirement for space faring and a result of it is post scarcity; resources abound in the vast swathes of dead universe. There is no reason to even think competitively, barring some as yet undiscovered unobtanium so rare and so powerful that civilizations fight to extinction over it, but I doubt it. If anything, I'd think that a space faring civilization benefits the more it understands the universe, and learning about biospheres and civilizations with completely different evolutionary paths from abiogenesis would be more valuable than destruction of them.
It's now possible to supplement C15:0 directly: https://fatty15.com/

Not C17:0 yet, however.
When I buy energy produced by coal, and the coal emissions contribute to children contracting asthma, my transaction is creating external costs that I don't pay. These negative externalities are unjust and inefficient. Pigouvian taxes such as a carbon tax work to price in the cost of these negative externalities, thereby changing behavior to reduce that form of injustice.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax
> Synology is great if you want to stick to using their GUI

Symnology supports rsync, ssh, scp, custom docker images, etc. you can probably run Borg server on it, although I have not looked into that.

So I don’t know what you’re talking about. I own one. Do you?
The vaccines become less effective over time. Just like other gene therapies which are correctly classified by the FDA as drugs. Mean age of permanent heart damage from the vaccines (DNA or RNA) is 33. No thanks.

I will keep taking ivermectin prophylactically based on overwhelming anecdotal evidence from front-line doctors. We know ivermectin is safe because Merck hands it out like candy in the third world. It is 4 billion doses in 40 years safe.

I accept the potential unknown risk of frequent long-term use because of the significant likely upsides. My body my choice.
Yes many hosting companies in NZ rely on that. It's going to be hard for them to keep their niche.
Don't worry, we will store those keys nice and safe.... In case we get subpoenaed. Just scan you retina.
A few interesting NZ tech developments that HNers may not be aware of:

* Microsoft announced an Azure datacenter back in May: https://news.microsoft.com/en-nz/2020/05/06/aotearoa-disclos...

* Larry Page was revealed to be permanent resident of NZ after his child was medievaced from Fiji to Auckland for treatment: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/448544/google-billionair...

* Gabe Newell has been here since the initial lockdowns around March 2020 (he was on holiday at the time) and has since applied for residency: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/nzs-newest-billi...
Manufactures and researchers/professors have been trying to push bioreactors onto civil engineers for wastewater treatment for years, because they're infinitely configurable and admittedly are neat, but they can't come remotely close to scaling up like a traditional WW treatment plant or even an activated sludge plant.

It's always seemed to be an inherent limitation of bioreactors.

Which tells me that the solution these people need to be looking for will resemble something between a wastewater treatment plant and an oil refinery, but in any case, steady state manufacturing, not bioreactors and batches.
It is great news and I am surprised to be honest. From New Zealand, our closest AWS region is Sydney with a ping (over Wifi, as I write this from Auckland) of 44ms. Our population is ~5M.

This only spells great things for the tech prospects in NZ which are already very bright. I, for one, am excited to continue to base tech businesses in this country.
How can't it be a sustainable solution? Cows doesn't magically generate carbon out of nothing, it comes from the plants they eat. If you have a stable farmland area like Europe and keep raising and slaughtering cattle on it then the carbon footprint is net 0.
> Either way, like someone else in the comments said, these past 2 years have shown us that laypeople are incapable of following active science in real time and drawing reasoned conclusions. Frankly, this is probably true of everyone who is not an expert in the field in question. We need organizations like the CDC and FDA to be much better about their messaging (remember the no-mask debacle? Great way to lose credibility, guys and gals), and we need much better tools to shut down the spread and weaponization of misinformation from the anti-vax crowd et al. I honestly don’t have any idea of how either of those get fixed, however.

These two things are at odds with each other. When the authorities are wrong, contradicting them is classified as "misinformation". If they cannot be contradicted, they are the only people capable of correcting themselves. The results of that will be pretty predictable.
Backblaze+others to match Time Machine

BB complements TM for me; it's super useful to have a local versioned backup that's updated every time I dock my laptop with the desk, and is also invisibly supplemented by a versioned backup of changes I've made that the OS maintains on unused space on the laptop's drive. Works even if I'm sitting at a cafe with all the radios turned off to get maximum life out of the battery.

Backblaze? Backblaze is there for in case my house burns down and I leave with nothing but the clothes on my back.
Bill Gates squirms as PBS' Judy Woodruff grills him on ties to Jeffrey Epstein
Here's an example: I was writing some code that needed predicates and assertions and at first I did the functional thing and mapped the list of preds into a list of assertions. It worked and was short and DRY, but it had lots of downside, not the least of which is that it ruined stack traces (this was in JS). It turned out to be better to just do the simple thing and statically define a list of assertions that mirrored the preds. It was far longer and more repetitive, but much easier to read and understand.
> seemingly and anecdotally, doing it when receiving updates rather than over time based on some metric such as battery cycle count.

You have absolutely no evidence to support this statement.

> That said, I didn’t like their approach of secrecy

Apple is under no obligation to disclose every practice or behavior, especially one which is completely innocuous and benefits the customer with zero downside. The alternative to slowing down the processor to account for increased internal resistance is "the phone crashes", which is exactly what iPhone 6S models did until Apple released the fix in an iOS 10 update.

Several generations of iPhones have been clearly specifically designed to make the battery and screen easy to replace (Apple even uses pull-tab-releaseable adhesives for the battery), and doesn't place the lightning connector on the main board unlike damn near every Android phone; it's an easily replaced module.

The "slowdown" was specifically to increase the amount of time before the phone's battery would have to be replaced. Other manufacturers have done the same.

How strange that this anti-repair anti-consumer company's OS releases support their phones far longer than any other phone manufacturer...
> They have a responsibility to provide adequate human customer service.

A moral or ethical responsibility, maybe. A legal or financial one? Not under our current system, unfortunately. And corporations are not ethical actors.

Just to be clear, I'm not victim-blaming here. It is abhorrent what has happened to this person and to many like them. This is why education about avoiding snake oil I believe is essential in the school system. Economics courses should devote a full module to identifying snake-oil claims and inherent risks of "something for nothing" swindles, which Google Drive is a classic modern example of.
In this scenario, the team uses dev tool X for project Y. I'm not arguing that X shouldn't be faster, or even that it's not beneficial for Y to run faster.

My original point was that the team that worked on project Y so far is unlikely to do a better job in a completely new language, just because some other team managed to write fast software in that language, because the other team isn't the one working on project Y.

I didn't think this would be a controversial point. I probably should have phrased it better.
Try "sudo" before the command that failed.

I think it will become: "export DISTRO="bullseye" && sudo curl https://repo.waydro.id/waydroid.gpg > /usr/share/keyrings/waydroid.gpg && sudo echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/waydroid.gpg] https://repo.waydro.id/ $DISTRO main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/waydroid.list && sudo apt update"
You can still only get one or two, if you're lucky, high speed Internet service providers.
Long live Ruby. It has never lost wide interest; however, it seems there's a king of resurgence around it recently.
So what evidence would you accept to prove you wrong? I have two injections and didn’t get a heart attack. Millions of people have two injections and didn’t die of heart attacks. If that doesn’t make you hesitate believing what you believe what would? If your answer is “nothing” then you are not being rational.
RTT to Sydney from Auckland over fibre is about half that at 25ms.
I don't have any expertise here, but I don't really see anything in the article to support the idea that the problems are fundamental. That's certainly the conclusion their experts come to, but it all seems to be based on looking at the proposed technique and poking holes in the assumptions. There are all these problems, and while they have solutions, the solutions are expensive. Ok, but maybe there's another technique that's better. We can't think of one right now, and maybe we never will, but it's not in the same class of impossible as faster-than-light travel. It's more like fusion power: the engineering is too hard.

The article is pretty persuasive on the lesser claim though - all this enthusiasm is unwarranted, and we shouldn't invest heavily.
Crashproofing the Original NoSQL Key-Value Store
I think what he means by "special" is that "every civilization will go through the same phases we go through" and not "we are the only ones that have it." This disagreement really hinges on that very disparate use of the term "special."
https://www.synopsys.com/blogs/software-security/cve-2020-79...
Leverage means having the life situation that allows you to walk away. That's something you can build, later in life; but having it from the start can build a huge advantage.
That amount of protein is entirely, totally unnecessary.
Would it be big deal if they said the vaccines would stop covid and then they didn't?
The Tea Party was hijacked by the Republicans, who attempted to galvanize American racial, xenophobic and anti-leftist fears against Obama in predictable race-baiting fashion. They failed to prevent a second term, but Trump's populism capitalized on the seeds of white rural discontent, reactionary fear and paranoia that they planted.

I think all of this is the result of the presence of a Black liberal (not even a leftist, mind you, but Stalin incarnate as far as the right was concerned) in the White House causing a cascade failure in American culture, and it's kind of beautiful to see.
This is such a crucial point that so many people overlook, even when being cognizant of the risk of storing data on the cloud, somehow SSO integration is many tech-literate users' blind spot.
Due process does not apply to companies choosing not to service you.