skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> because a large chunk of the user base refused to be responsible on patches

No, they were very responsible. They knew the updates are likely going to be UX downgrades, slow the machine down, make it bluescreen more, or possibly even brick it. That was the experience around Vista/7. That's still the experience today, maybe sans the bluescreen.

The cardinal sin of Microsoft and every other company pushing automatic updates is update commingling. Mixing up security patches (which users need and might even want) with generic bug fixes (which users need and like) with feature updates (which users don't need, and rightfully don't like). As long as all of those are mixed, updating is a risky job, and many users will responsibly decide not to do it.
This is why I don’t use windows right here.
Not sure what you mean. Anything in LEO like the ISS will burn up after a couple years at the latest if left unattended.
Transforming isn't exactly unknown; all insects do it.
Do they really take Western hostages often? What are the chances as a European nobody of being dragged into a Chinese jail?
For now Elixir/Phoenix as the ecosystem has a little more support (even if some packages have been abandoned). Elixir has also started to get first class status in places like Fly.io and Render which makes releasing a little less painless.

I've only just discovered Lucky, but definitely one to keep an eye on to see who puts something into production with it.
No number of seasonal workers obviates the needs of the non-season workers.

And seasonal workers still live near the job for a whole season.

I figure the folks who pick my vegetables ought have internet, same as they ought get paid fair for the work.
I'm sorry, I completely forgot that the file I used was from six months ago when I wrote the blog post (and then promptly forgot to publish it). In the last half year, the number of coronavirus sequences has increased dramatically. One thing that you could do to drop the file size down is to filter for only complete and unambiguous sequences, which drops the number down from 1.6 million to ~100k [1].

Alternatively, the exact file I used for the post is available for one week here with MD5 sum 3c33c3c4c2610f650c779291668450c9 [2]. Anyone who wants the file is free to reach out to me directly (email is on site).

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/virus/vssi/#/virus?SeqType...

[2] https://file.io/nUNc7cG5i8gj
So I'm going to get a subscription to MacDo, just because I want a burger three times a year?
A lot of comments against this, but I think this is a pretty good summary of why I think this is a zoonotic spillover event. To put it bluntly, evolution is much more creative than us and SARS-COV2 seems like a master stroke. Much of the arguments in favour of the lab escape hypothesis read like arguments made by people who are not virologists or related experts.
Ask HN: Every company should start building A.I capabilities
Leaving the future of AI to certain institutions is not something I am comfortable doing. I think companies should start investing resources in building AI capabilities. A good starting point would be to invest and partner across institutions that are already building those capabilities.
Yes, they could put that on a blog. It would be cool if visitors on the blog could comment there to interact with the author. Maybe not just at the end but on every paragraph or sentence of their articles, wherever it makes most sense for the comment. Not having to host the blog oneself would take friction out of the process and allow a lot more people to participate, so maybe that's also wanted. While we are at it, an API would be great, since some people might like to automatically collect the content and reformat it to their needs. Somebody make this, please.
Trouble is it makes it too easy to avoid other taxes. Just send your income and gains to your tax free company.
If you look to the west from Europe you see a vast sea. It doesn't take a great deal of effort to imagine some form of land beyond or in that sea. You would be quite a boring and unimaginative person to not wonder about this.

Edgar Allen Poe's novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket details a fictional account of what might be in the Antarctic, an unexplored area in his time. We now know that Poe's imagined account is a far cry from the reality of the Antarctic continent, but he could have been "right" in that there are people living there. That doesn't really imply any knowledge of such lands though. If Poe had lived several hundreds years earlier he might have written a similar story with s/Antarctic/across the Atlantic/.

Add a few hundreds years with confusion between "fiction" (or "myth" or "legend", if you will) and "science" (a concept which didn't really exist in the first place, at least not in the same form) and things get very murky fast.

I don't think that the mere existence of the concept of "Antillia" really proves any actual knowledge; there needs to be some additional evidence; reading that Wikipedia page there doesn't seem to be any. We'll likely never know for certain if the roots of Antillia were based in reality or entirely fictional.
That might be true for startups. But larger business organizations are far better of creating a specific heterogeneous team with data scientist, data engineer and ops in one. At least starting out.
That way, there is inherent knowledge transfer. You are not artificially limiting your hiring pool and can actually get some T shaped folks being experts in a certain domain.

Later on you can then build more specific teams or even more cross functional ones.

Of course, if you only want feel the waters and check if DS use cases are viable at all, consider getting a (few) freelancers and but a somewhat technically inclined person in charge.
If that's a success use it to get funding for a proper team.
Unless it wakes for some weird reason, or does auto update and blows everything away which has been the general jist of this thread
Short Story of How I Got into React Development and Loved It
> Tether/crypto is going to pop when it pops, and regulators will then step in aggressively afterwards.

Or it might not. Unlike what Madoff was doing, it's perfectly possible for Tether to keep their game up in perpetuity.

Madoff kept his far more ambitious and risky operation going for decades, I think Tether can certainly last for longer if not eviscerated by lawmakers.
"Once they were too old or lame to keep the standard pace they became food."

That is still common in some areas.
Seems like one of those articles that predicts whatever's somewhat true right now, will continue getting ever more true forever. Like the growth of my puppy.

I imagine in 100 years, people will look back at articles like this as evidence of the strange time when people didn't own things. But eventually - so will go the article - the disadvantages outweighed the advantages and a new business model (or the recurrence of an old model) came to prevail. Until it too passed.
If you read between lines you'll see failures. This article is an example. Spawning 7500 servers to handle this traffic is a facepalm failure.
Yeah, because all those things weren’t scrubbed in the first 4 hours after this became globally known. All the evidence we have is by necessity circumstantial.
Missing : on the first line of code. When speed mattes, people use libraries that are considerably faster than plain python. It’s these libraries that turned python so popular in data science. Giving them up maybe makes sense, but that mans a whole lot of learning and development to replace already pretty well established tools.
Yes, but by the 18.th century, we knew that birds and mammals are a bit more complex than insects and quite shape stable.
Do we have to have this comment on every single twitter post? Jesus, we get it, you don’t like threads, get over it. Either use a workaround so it outputs blog-like post or don’t read it.

But for the love of god, stop complaining about. Every. Single. Post.
Plenty of paper millionaires out there who lost the password to their wallet, see [0] for an example, and will likely never cash out.

[0] www.fool.com/amp/investing/2021/06/18/the-man-who-lost-265-million/
" without the left hump purple would be still called "purple" but perceived as kind of deep blue (separate from regular blue, but not closer to red as it is perceived now). "

That's not correct. Without the left hump, almost everything would appear the same, with a few minor exceptions.

You see purple and magenta when both the "red cones" and "blue cones" are activated, but not the "green cones".

This can happen two different ways. One is very short wavelengths of light, which appear violet. The red cones are stimulated because of that left hump. This is where violet on the rainbow/spectrum comes from, and why a "black light" looks purplish rather than simply blue.

But another way is to have some long wavelengths (which alone would appear red) and some short wavelengths (which alone would appear blue), mixed together. Note that to see a hot pink/magenta/fuchsia, this is the only way it will happen.
This doesn’t sound like a problem due to GraphQL, though?
I can't find the reference right now but the evidence can be gathered from hospital records. There is a progression in cases and some particularities that can be studied to establish the origin of a disease.
As an aside, it’d be interesting to see what kind of requests that domain gets from improper configuration of dev environments, I imagine web.dev is a pretty popular example.com
I imagine the author would say that you'd get a subscription to Deliveroo, who themselves would have a subscription with McDonalds.
There are multiple definitions of security, but they are always dependent on a threat model.

Facebook measuring how much time you spend on a given post and building a profile of you based on that on their servers is not at all the same level of privacy concern as third parties having access to your location.

Also, linux phones give no way to defend against the former either way, and the latter is not a problem on android or ios phones.

Nonetheless, I apologize for the patronizing tone.
Dell has "fixed" that problem by disabling S3 sleep on certain laptops. Not even kidding, the ACPI tables don't have S3 sleep as an option and it's not even some matter of OSI string trickery either.
I am reminded of the Sega Channel that sold a collection of games via an add on through your cable service.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Channel
The link is to a story of a completely different kind. It appeals to a "virtuous salaciousness" in human nature, which signals high morals, but actually gets a kick out of the lurid.

The OP asks about wether the stories might be anti-btc propaganda. It's a reasonable question, though considering where the stories are coming from it's also possible that it's anti-China propaganda

I experienced the MSM campaigns in the build up to war on Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. I am suspicious of anything they report.

In this case, however I think it's just because both BTC and China generate clicks.
Thanks for the recommendation, I might check it out. I am curious about the notion that reading certain terms of words language or terms is could be challenging, regardless of whether or not that language would be out of usage now.

I would hope that as a society are not moving on a direction where people are uncomfortable hearing words they wouldn't use themselves or words which are considered incorrect in a modern context, it sounds very chilling to me.
Convenience & (for me personally) superbe sender reputation and spam filtering.
> Red green and blue form a triangle, which is essentially cyclic.

But the question then - why wavelength R=700, G=550 and B=450 form a triangle?

For your answer on Quora, it says "Hue is cyclical rather than linear" without any explanation, and this is part - in my understanding - can be only explained by "left hump" (red cells being sensitive to blue light as well) and nothing else.
The reason this will happen is NOT because it’s better for the customer (though in some cases it is).

If a company is getting a recurring payment they can afford to spend a lot more acquiring a customer because they can compare that with a yearly / lifetime cost.

If you’re selling a one off you can’t justify any more than that in your marketing.

It becomes an arms race and the subscription companies win out because they get more money from more customers and ultimately use that to make a better product.

It’s happened like that with iPhone apps. Remember when you could buy a gif editing app and it didn’t come with an annual subscription? I miss those days.
> It's like seeing smoke billowing out of a building and refusing to accept that there's a fire until you see the flames.

The stuff you cite is circumstantial at best. Yes, given the seriousness of covid i would like someone to investigate it, but i would hardly call it billowing smoke.

> Very convenient that your standard of evidence surpasses anything we can possibly obtain after the CCP scrubbed everything.

Is that really relavent? Say CCP would in theory destroy evidence if such a situation arised. That's not an argument that says it is china's fault, its just an argument that we might not ever know. Its not like the people arguing that it was natural aren't using lack of chinese whistleblower as the evidence for naturalness.

At the very least i'd like evidence that suggests there is a higher probability that it was a chinese experiment than a natural occurance. Occam's razor and all. Arguing that it might be impossible to know what happened, increases uncertainty, but doesn't affect the relative probabilities.
Funny you claim that, since we do study in school about Cartesio and Copernico.
Which other coincidence is there apart from the proximity of the lab to the initial detection site?
The benefit is that many third-party services and many users don't want to have to trust a centralized auth provider. The blockchain provides redundancy and security guarantees which don't require trusting company employees. Not to mention the financial incentives which are associated with being an early adopter of a blockchain project and the network effects which come from that.

I'm convinced that decentralized communities will eventually corrupt and destroy all centralized services and agencies by manipulating their employees and members... Because they can. People will always find a way to create new problems to make themselves necessary. In these political games, decentralized anonymous communities have the upper hand. Unlike centralized projects, you can't corrupt decentralized projects. What can be corrupted, will be corrupted.

To understand why it's the future, you need to look at the big picture. You're assuming that centralized auth providers are secure and trustworthy. This is not going to be true in the future. Trust in institutions and organizations has been eroding and will continue to erode.
I don’t think there is ever going to be any satisfaction on this issue. A lab leak is pretty unlikely, has nonzero probability and will never be falsified or proven. The pandemic has happened. The seeming weirdness from virologists is understandable because they don’t want to be stigmatised/regulated more/defunded/have their labs moved to the dark side of the moon. If you doubt this explanation then you must not hang out with academics very much, their capacity for self-interest is astounding. In fact they see the pandemic as a huge opportunity to get a lot more funding, and wouldn’t be so foolish to derail that by engaging with the lab leak issue in the slightest.
But the average BMI is already counting obese and overweight people so it's biased if you want to compare lethality or numbers of years lost to a baseline.

Consider if everyone was obese, with your calculation you would say the number of years lost is zero.
All my life, quite a while, subscriptions have been available. In spite of that I have almost none. I prefer to buy the flat, car, even my phone for cash. It's mostly cheaper and less hassle. I think subscriptions will me available in most businesses but whether consumers will chose them is another matter.
Leasing can be a very cost effective way to having use of a new car. The trick is to find lease deals when manufacturers are offering heavy discounts to shift volume. This discount is then almost entirely used in the amortisation of your 18,24,36,48 month lease. The residual values are often pretty high compared with the original price minus the discount. This makes the lease payments super low.

This may be market specific (I live in the UK) but I have leased Mercs and other premium vehicles paying less than 20% of the vehicles price at new for a 24 month lease. That's unbeatable value no matter how you look at it.

The advantage in this case over buying the car with the discount is you don't have to take on any risk on whether the car would sell 2 or 3 years later, nor have the money held up in the car. As interest rates are super low, it makes sense to use that money to invest in something else with higher returns.
>to be solved by my beloved Fuchsia in time, surely

As someone on the outskirts of Fuchsia, looking on with longing, desperation, and confusion... do you have some connection to the mysterious pink project?
The transition from "slow-down in working age population" to "subscription model" appears a bit drastic. Both are huge topics, but could be slightly unrelated. Population growth stagnation may not be the major driver for subscription model. It is just a new way to to increase the cost of product and spread the cost in time so that it doesn't hurt the customer.

Same as buying stuff on loan. You can buy a car or home with almost zero down payment and keep paying the amount over next 20 years. It is essentially paying for usage. You can call it subscription.

Outrageously, I find that even education/training also moved to subscription model. You keep taking the same exam every few years and keep paying them.
That's great. However the method that you use to find the canonical representative [1] is quadratic (when the string has length N, there are N rotations and for each rotation you need to check N characters to determine whether this is earlier than the best on that you have found so far). For large strings you would probably want to switch to one of the linear minimal string rotation algorithms [2], for example Booth's Algorithm.

[1] https://github.com/Benjamin-Lee/viroiddb/blob/main/scripts/c...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexicographically_minimal_stri...
PS I was wrong, it works. See the comments above.
There is no difference between social media or not. You are not allowed to track without explicit consent.
Free and "Opensource" for less then 5 users, to be more precise...what a stupid price-list.
Who's going to respect you if you make the same money as a grocery store cashier? Personally I would think you're a sucker.

Also what power would you have in a Communist country?
I read stuff like that and I shake my head. I mean from get go the premise that everything will be subscription based is about as valid as that everything will be digital is just not true. There are things that people will not be willing to subscribe to ( https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/car-subscription-service-... ) and if you see the prices you can immediately tell why.

I will admit that I am biased, because I hate the trend Tesla started with making cars more like trial software and I absolutely despite Musk for his role in that, but based on what I saw in my MBA classes, he is certainly not a lone voice.

In other words, attempts will be made, but its hardly unavoidable version of the future. I sure as fuck am not paying extra for DRM'd lights in my car.
AMD also has GPU, embedded, and custom (like Xbox/PS5). Don't get me wrong, I'm an AMD fan since the day I bought my first Athlon and am happy for their success. Good time to be a customer.
The big items in that list of performance issues don't seem to have anything to do with GraphQL. They seem to be related to a heavily function style using lots of immutability and the Ramda library. I'd also suspect that these choices are responsible for the GC issues due to lots of allocations for the immutable objects.

I know, premature optimization and all that. But I think at the point where you're going for microservices because of scaling you really should also look into the lower level issues like that from the start. You should notice that the shiny library you're using is 100x slower than just writing plain code. And you should be aware of excessive allocations in hot paths.
Why does this get downvotes? It's simply how things are, FOIA is a rather adversarial process. If you spend any time on muckrock you will see that only a very small % of requests actually get serious replies from the government, more often the responses seem like straight up trolling "Hey, we were supposed to reply to you 2 years ago but didn't feel like it. Are you still interested in this request?"

For example, look at some of these requests pending (since 2019) with various agencies: https://www.muckrock.com/foi/multirequest/foia-outliers-queu...

Most of the replies are clownish at best.
> Can you answer the question "who gets money literally put in their pockets as a result of a stock buyback?"

The investors who sold the shares to the company. Markets aren’t some magical entity that conjure shares out of thin air.

If a company buys back 10 shares, they buy those 10 shares back from an investor who wants to sell 10 shares. That investor now has cash literally in their pocket.

How do you think this stuff works? Where do you think the money goes when companies spend on buybacks?
Apart from the "universal donor" vs. "universal receiver" argument explained in a sibling comment, Mr. Landley was apparently also involved (as a plaintiff) in the busybox lawsuits. He has explained in various talks etc. that, in his opinion, those lawsuits accomplished nothing except to drive away corporate users that had just started to dip their toes into the water with open source.

So one motivation for creating toybox was apparently that he wanted it as a busybox alternative for users afraid of lawsuits.
The question is if it is possible to stop this kind of research at all, given the potential military applications. Will it not just push research from publicly known and inspected (like Wuhan) into secret military labs?
So in Germany where they give up to 9.000 euros in grants for an ev, the price will be?
You got me confused. In the original comment you wrote:

> I disagree with the reasoning that purple looks closer to red than green because of the "left hump"

but now you argue:

> The red cones are stimulated because of that left hump.

So do you agree with similarities of red and purple caused by "left hump" or not?
German army ordered old analog radios while deployment of packet radios is slow
It already exists, quite a few in fact, except they are not called "blogging software" and they are not necessarily marketed to "bloggers". There is Slab, Confluence and many others.
Maybe not everyone wants or can afford a gaming computer? Being able to play any game from a tablet, phone, laptop or TV is very useful. And at the current costs of hardware, and the evolution of hardware requirements, even 2-3 subscription services come out cheaper than building an equivalent gaming rig.
At a guess 'personal or lived experience', why, what did you imagine?