skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To make the discovery, Marc Eloit, a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and his colleagues in France and Laos, took saliva, faeces and urine samples from 645 bats in caves in northern Laos. In three horseshoe (Rhinolophus) bat species, they found viruses that are each more than 95% identical to SARS-CoV-2, which they named BANAL-52, BANAL-103 and BANAL-236.

The most scary thing about this research is scientists creating a non-zero risk of another zoonotic virus transfer by getting up close and personal with live bats.

The benefits of the research (extremely minor) don't seem to justify the risk. We should just defund not only gain of function research but also trips to remote bat caves that have no particular benefit but a lot of downside risk.
Did an American hack kill a Netherlands tech company? [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiNotar
I know this is not reddit and I will gladly accept downvotes, but you nailed it!

That's what I was trying to talk about.

There are things that deserve to be preserved, like we do with our artistic heritage, Ferrari's ICEs are one of them.
> tight regulation of social behaviors

Yeah, I'll pass on societies so backwards that coming out as gay is a death sentence.

Note that I'm not saying your father's village does this, or that everywhere Islamic/religious/whatever does this, etc. But those strict social mores often come at a heavy cost. The cost is also often competely unnecessary, but nobody is willing to change, because they don't actually understand the reason for the social more. They were just told it was bad as a child and mindlessly propagated it to their children.
> Functional programming ideas became mainstream, except in Go, which is a sort of reactionary back to basics language.

I feel like there is also a return to basic imperative programming, with OO and functional where it makes sense.
Why can't you brake aggressively with regenerative braking?
In US 55% of people carry iphone. Depending on app, people with affordable phones are not your users (b2b).

Browsers would cache parsed javascript. More likly loading images will be slower.

There are use cases that general perfomance matter a lot but people are obsesing on js bundle size too much.
> too often people are just blindly accepting because they do not want to put any efforts in.

Sure but nonbelievers experience the same thing with believers. I was asking a Christian about his interpretation of the two creation stories in Genesis. He didn't even know there were two. Most Christians don't.

And they always shut down when I want to discuss in detail the possibility of mistranslation changing their understanding of God. They seem to not understand that it's possible to lose meaning or change meaning when translating from one language to another. Even if you try hard not to.

I am totally respectful in these interactions. I'm not ambushing them with questions... I just genuinely want to learn something from someone who apparently should have deep and intimate knowledge of Christianity... and it's always disappointing.
When my friend used to work there, he was issued a macbook pro which was used mainly to ssh into his Linux workstation from a Chrome tab.
Yeah, up until 3.x Paint.NET was released under a MIT license in a source available sense (no outside contributions accepted, just source dumps with releases). The author didn't like when people would relabel paint.net and release it (sometimes for a fee), so he stopped doing that somewhere during 3.x.

Pinta is based on using the engine for one of those with a new Gtk# UI. Though at this stage a lot of that's been rewritten, so it's pretty much just some filters that are used as-is from old Paint.NET.

Even though Paint.NET moves much slower these days, Pinta has moved even slower and the UI rewrite was never as polished as Paint.NET's WPF UI.
Miatas are completely impractical cars. Have you actually driven one?

Of course it comes down to personal taste, but I can’t understand why you’d buy a “fun car” but strip away all the things that make it fun. There are much better alternatives at that point.
Basically this line of argument boils down to assuming something about something we don’t and may never have.

Until we have this technology should we adjust laws for hypotheticals? No.
Despite the consistent misinformation around it (very frequently flat out lies), Corporate Personhood does not mean that corporations are people. Corporate Personhood only acknowledges that corporations are groups of people, and that if it would be legal to gather a large group to do something, doing so under the auspices of a corporation is also legal. That is the precedent that Citizens United set - That it is as legal to make political contributions and endorsements as a corporation as you would as a rotary club. You can argue that the rotary club shouldn't be allowed to make contributions - And I would agree with you. I in fact, encourage it. People should not be able to hide their political contributions through entities like Trade Unions, which are actually the most pertinent part of that class.
Or... we could save people time and link to exactly what you're talking about. And even explain it!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01792-5

Tldr; The 1998 movie "Enemy of the State" had a fancy eye-in-the-sky drone that inspired military drone surveillance tech developed through DARPA funding and deployed in various systems. One such is known as Gorgon Stare, used on Reaper drones.
This seems like the antebellum for an IP reckoning similar to what resulted in the DMCA in the United States in the late 90s. The technology is getting to the point where it makes the law as it stands pretty nonsensical in the face of what can be done

The scope of patents in software and technology is already absurd, both because 12 years is an eternity for how quickly that industry moves, and because increasingly trivial "inventions" have been let through as the ability for patent officials to interpret complicated digital innovations according to patent law and policy has increasingly fallen behind the field. This is already a serious problem, but currently still takes expensive lawyers to take advantage of. Even if we make legal precedent that says that AI can't own patents, the advent of better purpose-specific text generation will quickly put patent trolling in the hands of laypeople

Personally, I think the DMCA was a horrible mistake. The provisions it added to copyright created a ton of horrible precedent that led to the draconian control private companies exert over the lives of billions of people worldwide, justified in law by their intellectual property concerns. I believe that if Intellectual Property ever served a legitimate purpose, it has now run its course and needs to be dismantled. I hope that this new challenge moves us more in this direction, rather than some new awful legislative band-aid that attempts to preserve the status quo by destroying more of our rights
No, the bursting of the tech bubble and financial scandals killed Nortel.

Huawei wasn't even a major player outside of China back when Nortel fell into trouble. From 2001-2004, Nortel's sales collapsed, it began downsizing, and the share price plummeted. In 2004, the SEC began investigating the company for financial fraud (misstating earnings).[1] Huawei only began to expand its overseas sales in 2003-2004.

The idea that hackers (whose identity isn't even known) brought down Nortel is just post facto rationalization of the mismanagement of the company. When the article says the hack began, in April 2004, Nortel's stock price was already down by over 90%, and the SEC was just announcing its investigation into financial irregularities at the company.

1. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nortel-timeline-sb-idUKTR...
Try clicking on the post itself and seeing if that page has an edit button?
Erm, the only way to know that is to put every effort you can into becoming a deist. "Every effort" is a lifetime of work, so you haven't done that, which makes your statement a statement of faith.

It sounds like you've already decided that you will never be a deist, and so you never will. How is that different from religious belief?
Apparently they were not considered if they had to do major retrofitting.

> In October 2016, the Seed Vault experienced an unusually large degree of water intrusion due to higher than average temperatures and heavy rainfall. While it is common for some water to seep into the Seed Vault's 100 m (328 ft) entrance tunnel during the warmer spring months, in this case the water encroached 15 m (49 ft) into the tunnel before freezing.[21] The Seed Vault was designed for water intrusion and as such the seeds were not at risk.[21] As a result, however, the Norwegian public works agency Statsbygg completed improvements to the tunnel in 2019 to prevent any such intrusion in the future, including waterproofing the tunnel walls, removing heat sources from the tunnel, and digging exterior drainage ditches.[22][23]
That's an interlaced PNG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlacing_(bitmaps)

The image data is stored such that downloading the first section of the file gets you enough information to display a low-resolution version of the image, and continuing the download allows for progressive refinement of the image.
And for those who like their games on Android ... OpenTTD is actually on the Play Store:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.openttd.sd...

But honestly... Without a mouse and keyboard it is barely workable.
I think you are right. I was incorrect. Indeed that implies that campaining was prohibited from Friday on.
>What will programming look like in 2020?

It will be a complete shit.

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4655#comment-73750
I think it depends on which version you sourced the original from.

The really old versions on TTD used midi for music, whereas the later cd-rom version had higher quality synthesized verionss.
Hacker News caps scores at -4.
Note that on mobile at least the page autoplays a loud video ad (1 of 2 for me before I bounced), which when you scroll down to get away from it simply pops out and follows you.

Did not read the article as a result.
To be fair, GIMP is a much more featureful program than Paint.NET.
I've thought about how RSS and social media relate to each other a lot. Social media works off the "feed" paradigm pretty explicitly (News Feed, Twitter feed, etc.).

I've thought about how to implement an open-standards social media site. Maybe with a feed server (FastCGI or otherwise) that takes authentication tokens in the request header or URL (over HTTPS only obviously), and - if the token is linked to a valid "friend" or "following" relationship, returns an RSS feed of the person's recent posts.
> It’s weird how people are trying so hard to convince others that the virus came from nature sources when it’s obvious now it didn’t.

It's not weird at all, as the host of the biggest virology podcast (TWiV) said, "lab leak confirmation would be the biggest scandal in the history of science".

The field of virology would be decimated by the fallout. No wonder almost all the virologists are circling the wagons and are desperate for any shred of evidence pointing away from WIV.
No, it works on no app (that hasn't been modified and configured to speak the Wayland protocol) because of a fundamental limitation of XWayland.
A couple small threads from back then:

What will programming look like in 2020? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4962694 - Dec 2012 (3 comments)

Ask HN: What will programming look like in 2020? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4931774 - Dec 2012 (12 comments)
1 out of 6 programmers can't solve fizzbuzz? That seems way too harsh. 2 standard deviations would mean 2.5%, or 1 in 40 -- that seems more likely, at least in my DX
It's just $$$.

You can save a LOT of money in GCP by specifying the columns you actually need in your queries, and various very simple SQL optimization techniques.

Everyone is scared of the cost of these vendor tools.
Everywhere im the world you get a discount with every year of accident-free driving. And your insurance fee goes up after you cause an accident. So what are you talking about?
Probably when something gets down-voted/flagged edit is disabled so you cant "remove the evidence".

But I'm just guessing HN internals are p proprietary.
It's draws an interesting question though, at what point, if ever, does an AI system move beyond the scope of a tool and into the scope of an assistant? I don't think we are anywhere near that yet, but it's conceivable that we reach a point where that question needs to be answered.
An erroneous Canadian Covid-19 study has spread like wildfire among anti-vaxxers
Doesn't youtube have an option to allow the copyright holders to monetize the videos in these cases? i.e. Get a cut of the AdSense revenue that would otherwise go to the uploader? Did this user choose not to split that revenue and instead opt to take down the videos, or did the record label force the takedown? It seems to me that it would be interest of the record label to take a cut of the profits off of recordings that would otherwise not make them a dime.
"I guess I didn’t communicate my points clearly either. I don’t fully buy the hypothesis of the statement that purple is “close” to red. You’re explaining the answer to a question that I’m not convinced is even valid."

Ok, well if you are just rejecting the premise of the article, as well as my premise, I don't know what to tell you.

The article simply stated that purple is perceived as closer to red than green is. Do you disagree with that? I've never encountered anyone over the age of 5 that disagrees with that statement.

Most people learn that purple is near red in kindergarten. Most people know how color wheels work. Any color wheel shows purple closer to red than green.

https://imagesvc.meredithcorp.io/v3/mm/image?url=https%3A%2F...

You can also take the RGB value of purple and find the difference from red (by summing the absolute values of the differences of the red, green and blue values), and do the same with red vs. green. Purple is closer that way as well. Same goes for HSV representations of color, in which hue is represented as degrees of a circle...purple is closer to red than green there as well by any way of doing math on it.

Do you reject RGB as a reasonable way to represent color?

Do you reject the concept of color wheels?

How about the Munsell color solid? Are you familiar with it?

https://munsell.com/about-munsell-color/how-color-notation-w...

Honestly, it doesn't sound like you want to understand any of this. You're probably not convinced that purple is close to red, and don't know what that means, because you haven't spent much time studying color, thinking about it, or working with it. Have you ever worked with color, in any meaningful way?

This is one of many things that I've done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdh34D1-knk
> This is not at all accurate; the faith people express in science is generally identical to the faith other people express in religion, with no difference in the reasons, motivations, or justifications offered.

I think this is fundamentally incorrect. People believe in science because it produces results in the form of correct predictions and devices.
>WIV is fairly far from the neighborhood where things got going.

Still closer than Southeast Asia, though.
I apologize for my ignorance on this subject. Please ignore the parent comment.
What languages do you use, and how is that heuristic going for you? I find package managers help for some time after they're introduced, and then life sucks once again as they enable people to add lots of dependencies. It's kinda like how building more roads never seems to fully eliminate traffic jams.
I can understand why this is an unpopular take with this community regarding IP rights. Despite this being a valid opinion I'm noticing a lot of people complaining with their downvote button instead of an argument.
Soviets had a number of either accidents or sabotage incidents with lethal biological agents.

Afaik, there was zero additional clarity around those after USSR dissolved, so don't hold your breath.
And there are many small innovations tickling into Fedora, activated by default: zram, fstrim, earlyoom/systemd-oomd, systemd-resolved, btrfs+compression, and so on. Also the update GUI works reliable, even for release updates - worth recommending as OS for friends & family, too.

In comparison, Debian in the standard installation feels lacking behind, but I hope it will follow the path.
>that driving slower than the speed limit increases the risk of accidents

Nit: this is accurate when all others are driving the speed limit (or greater), given the likelihood of accidents increases as speed differential increases.
Microsoft files patent application for using brainwaves to mine cryptocurrency
In 1999 I ran a mail server with qmail that handled incoming and outgoing mail for my personal domain and also a somewhat large (20GB) pirate MP3 FTP site, all from a server in the closet of my campus dorm room. The campus IT never said a word!
> The answer is that it MUST necessarily be so. You can't have a one-to-one map from [2]^N to [2]^K where K < N.

Except that you've already noted that JPG is a lossy compression scheme, so it doesn't matter that a one-to-one map isn't possible.
Sorry I misread your comment, ignore me. Although I will add: It might be possible that someone gets high-DPI working eventually in XWayland. It's unlikely that X11 will ever support multi-DPI in the same way as Wayland. There is an open MR for something like it though: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests...
That is your opinion. From my point of view, what I have seen is consistent with both natural and lab leak hypothesis. One can argue how much indirect indications tilt the scales one way or another (from my point of view not much), but at least in my book the original question is still open. That's why I think more data is good.
https://archive.is/zbOvz
> It arrived one morning in March, bearing news that Facebook had received an order from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to turn over data from personal accounts Lackey uses to chat with friends and exchange cat photos.

> the email said Facebook had been forced to keep this intrusion secret

This is some scary shit. Seriously, social media companies are sociopathic friends who record everything you say and then throw it into the public in a mangled mess if you don't obey.
The bio weapon theory just seems crazy, because why would a nation make a highly transmissible virus that it has no tools to control the pathogen? I’m working on the assumption that states like stability, workforce not dying, and strong economies.

The Trumpist attacks on China make the most sense as being for the domestic political audience. The Chinese coverup of anything that makes CCP rule seem imperfect is SOP. I mean seriously, that guy in charge is afraid of a talking teddy bear.
>Personally, I'm over 30 now. I once watched one of my riends using Ubuntu install security updates and be confused by their patch to firefox to pop up a "I'm broken now" dialog. Screw that. I'm turning the dial towards reliability.

This is a great punchline from your first link.
>If it was a natural virus it is way, way more likely that it would have infected locals

Not really, if they've been coexisting with the virus for a while they could be somewhat immune already. Also, you cannot compare the impact of an outbreak in a rural town in Laos vs. Wuhan with 11 million people and much more international commuters.
Right on.

I challenge anyone who disagrees to come up with a benefit that religion offers that cannot be offered by a secular organization.
Managed Kubernetes is the serverless paradigm, done right I find.

Kubernetes is hard because it needs to be hard, stateful machines are stateful because they have to be stateful.

Managed Kubernetes is the compromise between vendors desire for vendor lock-in, and customers wanting a standardized interface for serverless applications.
Is 'Critic' an Endangered Career in the Twitter Era?
That’s nothing! The original Super Mario Bros was 40k!

What allows these old games to be super small is that they’re 8-bit and use sprite, tiles, and tile maps; and palettes for everything. Almost everything was done in hardware so you didn’t need to implement a renderer in software, you just poked bytes in various places and stuff happened. Even the loading data was handled by DMA.
Honest question: there is a famous and very funny stack exchange answer on the topic of parsing html with a regex [1] that states that the problem is in general impossible and if if you find yourself doing this, something has gone wrong and you should re-evaluate your life choices / pray to Cthulu.

So, does this apply to URLs? The fact that these regexes are....so huge...makes me think that something is fundamentally wrong. Are URLs describable in a Chomsky Type 3 grammar? Are they sufficiently regular that using a Regex is sensible? What do the actual browsers do?

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...
...or a 21 year old Iranian student...or the Iranian government? [1] The source you've provided isn't exactly clear on that point.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiNotar
Sure, so do religions.

But people make no distinction between believing in science in the same area where it makes correct predictions, and believing in "science" in an area where it has nothing valid to say, because it makes correct predictions somewhere else.

To most people, science is just a word, and they support it because they know that that is the right thing to do.
This is childish. You could say the same thing about putting your name or even the company names you worked for on your resume. People hiring want to get to know you, they have to work with you, if you want some pretend construct that focuses in the appearance of some being "unbiased" you can probably look for a government job. Otherwise, people will see you, interact with you, and learn about you eventually.

That said, I have rarely seen a photo on a resume. Most people have LinkedIn now so hiring folks have a photo that way regardless. The only place I consistently see photos is on professional services (consulting etc.) "resumes" which are usually more a blurb about you and the kind of projects you've worked on. In that case they are standard, and they would be on a lawyer or accountants website.
Is this going to eventually be meeting in person or will it be online from here on out?
I've always assumed that the `0x` prefix is to make copy & paste easier, i.e. so that you can copy the number, then immediate use it in a a C- or C++-like expression.
Wouldn't that move the power from the app store owners to the browser owner? These are the same companies just a bit different market shares.
I'm russian as well, and rbc.ru is not the most independent source at the time of publishing, but even according to them, RDIF(РФПИ) invested about $2mil, that's a drop in the bucket, and since it was secondary market, it proves nothing but active propaganda from both sides(russian government has an agenda to promote as well as telegram)

bonds being traded wherever they are traded isn't really a proof of anything as well, wouldn't be even if it was shares of a company, but as bonds it's not that much of an influence, especially if accumulating big share of them would cost a fortune.

As to rumors, i would love to see any of it, again it's entirely possible, after Telegram official's attendance of government pr public forum(will use the same source, but it was all over the internet https://www.rbc.ru/technology_and_media/09/07/2020/5f0730bf9... ) it would be surprising if telegram isn't dealing with them in any way.