skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In general the web was at its best decades ago, when people published because they knew things and were internally compelled to share."

What does this mean, "internally compelled"?

If someone is providing systematic reviews of products, it takes time and resources to do so. Why would they do this for free?
I will just add, the author of the NYT piece has a book out on this subject. The book is decent, has some cringe worthy descriptions of technical things if you are a technical person, but overall I learned a huge amount reading it.

A lot of the commentary, accusations, and opinions in the comments here would be addressed or better colored if you're interested enough to read her book (https://www.amazon.com/This-They-Tell-World-Ends/dp/16355760...).

Also, just to be clear, one of the reasons I like the book is because it's written by a person that doesn't understand all the deep technical aspects of these things.
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I don't know about permanence, but some former steroid users suffer from prolonged hypogonadism, which causes testicular atrophy.

0. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23764075/

1. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Question from someone uneducated on this topic: is it impossible to get VC levels of investment without giving away board seats?

Is a board even required for private companies?
OP is asking about survivorship rate of people who get it, not how likely you are to die of covid. Herd immunity shouldn't come into play here.
Nobody took responsibility for the first one nor seem interested in investigating it, but I should worry about the next one?
I think you're doing a lot of math there to determine pressure and the fact is that pressure in a space station is going to be dictated entirely by biology - partial pressure of oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide for mammal metabolism first, and comfort and plant metabolism later on. By the time logistics of managing or building out a real habitat, you're in a ±5psi range. Anything outside of that died on the design room floor.

Windows are at a huge premium on cruise ships. It'll be much worse on space ships. But it's possible that inside windows will eventually look out onto something more interesting than the black void of space, so an inside window may be preferable. One of the reasons we look out the window in a car or on a boat is to establish the horizon and fight motion sickness. If you look 'outside' of a rotating space station - especially a rotating space station orbiting a planet or moon - you'll head rapidly in the exact opposite direction.
>I can see a future where we all need to get regular "security upgrades" installed to our immune systems in the form of an mRNA cocktail tailored to the latest bio threats that have been released.

I think it's inevitable, along with a medical infrastructure that tailors therapies to individual genome. The world is going to become a very dangerous place to the portion of our population that can't afford the latest updates.
Data is always good. It's not just about convincing anti-vaxxers, it's about having real data to determine the risks, effectiveness, etc...
Can confirm, the Dollar Tree near me has this.
The science and deaths due to the vaccine, or the unvaccinated?
I am all for Hanlon's razor.

But it reads to me as: Apple legal team has to act because Facebook suit (and the info made public) makes it impossible to say that "Apple was not aware" of such and such details.

To me it is much easier to believe the above, compared to your "Apple is only now seeing this info, and only now is aware, and only now can act".
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If you own a paper, and revenue starts dropping 10% YoY for multiple years then you are going to need to put in place changes to the business, finances, corporate structure that most people who owned newspapers do not want to do.

In some cases, this has been forced due to high levels of debt. But even in those cases, some change in operation is usually required because something has changed quite significantly.

So you try to sell your paper? Most corporate buyers don't want to buy a problem. Most PE funds don't want to buy a problem. Bond holders don't want to take control. The most likely buyer is a hedge fund that specialised in purchasing distressed assets. So it is the opposite of what you think: the hedge fund knows exactly what you know, that is why they are buying. The information in the decision to buy for a hedge fund is not the trajectory of the business but the price. You can buy a business in an industry that is failing, and still make money. Ofc, what journalists (outraged by someone coming in and telling them they have to earn their wage) forget is that this isn't easy work. Hedge funds that specialise in distressed assets are buying a problem...that is why someone is selling it to them.

It is is hard to generalise but from what I have seen: newspapers are still generating cash, there is a lot of scope to cut back on staff (to put it bluntly, newspapers were a monopoly business so they ran tons of staff doing things no-one read, they were a sinecure/tenure type job), digital strategy at most papers is very bad because managers worried about hurting offline, fully digital has a totally different staff model (a website is a totally different experience to a paper, all the views are concentrated in that top 10% of stories...no-one is going to hunt through/scroll down for your gardening guy), and there is scope for restructuring with debt holders. The business is declining but nowhere near as fast as other industries affected by online. Declining businesses like that are usually mispriced by the market who give them a control discount (and tbh, everyone just wants growth...look at Dillard's, they bought back effectively all their stock and the share price went up 600% in a month, people want to buy potential profit tomorrow rather than actual profit today), so taking the business private is usually very profitable.
For the same reason we were influenced to used COVID-19 as a name rather the presumed geographical place of origin as is traditionally done.
I don't know if you have experience with package carriers but for us we always get a returned label from dhl/ups/fedex even if the item is returned because of damage during shipping.
Pretty sure anti-vax people will still scream blue bloody murder no matter what, which is my point.
What about Apples own spyware they were going to force on users to scan for CSAM did they ever make a final decision on what they were going to do with that? Update to iOS 15 is what they recommend but then it is Apple spying on you not some foreign companies. I don’t want either.
Plex is a good example how a player should not be.

Jellyfin is the open source counterpart.
what about your cofounder?
As a CEO of a company, I think this is one of the most important thoughts here. I was the owner too, hired a lady as CEO, later I fired her. It was very tiresome for me to keep wtf kind of promises she made just to maintain the credibility of the company and not to alienate people. Of course it payed out and I loved all the people, but boy... it would have been much easier to just tell the people that these are new times and those promises were against the company or whatever - pretty sure lots of people would choose the easier and cheaper way in "hard times".

I told to directors in multinationals several times that we have to sign this because it is not evident for their eventual successors that it is in their best interest etc.

Trust, but always be careful and assertive.
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My tongue-in-cheek point is that no one should wait for their employer to raise the price of the goods or services they are selling to ask for a raise, because there is no justification needed other than doing what you want to do, which includes selling your labor to a different employer for a higher price.
This is just on Reddit today:

https://reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/r0f9aw/realtime_control...

Graphics should get there honestly.
Beyond merely selling their products to Israel, the NSO Group itself is an Israeli firm, founded by ex-Israeli intelligence, and whose products are subject to Israeli national export controls.

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

That's a level of sponsorship way beyond simply being a customer... that's state espionage served with a side of profit. It's evil when the USA does it, it's evil when the Russians do it, it's evil when China does it, it's evil when Israel does it... but nobody does anything about it because all those states would prefer strong surveillance rather than rights for activists and journalists.
No, I'm just curious if it was possible technically. Obviously it's super unethical to do this to your CEO.
What might be less visible is emerging/growing businesses which skip over building SoMe identities due to the absurd work and cost in acquiring and keeping the audience. Instead it’s practical to sponsor disposable influencers, run sales promotion and other forms of traditional advertising.
Death is not the only bad outcome from COVID, though, so some behavior modification could be justifiable based on risk tolerance.
>i don't understand why the so-called "lab leak theory" of origin for sars-cov2 is treated as some sort of conspiracy theory.

Because wildlife->human is a lot more plausible than that. Consider for instance a novel mutation that arises from [0], transmitted to humans and is coincidentally discovered near a lab that was researching this disease. Would that also be considered a 'lab leak'?

https://www.wbur.org/npr/1054224204/how-sars-cov-2-in-americ...
Paper and linen are renewable materials that are made from easy low-impact resources to be extracted and processed, they can be remade and reissued many times for a fraction of the impact of a metal coin, not to mention the cost to transport any amount over pocket change.
I wonder if this is a consequence of the shared qualities a large group has. In a large group, there are lots of people with different ideas. The only thing that is the most similar between all of the people are their base animal instincts because we are human. Thus, the base instincts are accentuated in the group.
Less spread and delta was so contagious over the summer that it quickly burned through many unvaccinated populations.
I'm not the most informed person on HN who can respond to this but as a general rule it's within the bounds of normality to raise single-digit millions in unpriced rounds ("seeds") that don't generally have board seats attached, but your first significant priced round (your "A" round) will essentially always give up board seats.

Formal boards are not required for private companies.
Internet archive is doing actual archival work. But at an even more basic level old methods to archive stuff are still in active use.
Honest Question, admirable as their stance is, where will the yoof find out about their products then? Newspapers?
It seems you may have forgotten the old saying: if you're not paying for it, you're the product. Perhaps these practices create an ideal (or, at least better than what "display everything chronologically would) environment for displaying ads to receptive people.
Step one on this road: and you suddenly found a pendrive with 100kpcs of BTC.
The Fascination of Brutalist Architecture
Yup, tracing-opentelemetry is actually called out on the core tracing crate page (https://crates.io/crates/tracing) and it works pretty well.

I gave a quick look through the article's samples and I think the tracing crate has much better ergonomics. Wrapping a lot of code in lambdas to handle spans ends up making a code base pretty nasty in my experience.

Being able to simply tag a function for instrumentation (and skip/choose which arguments to include), the ability to enter/exit spans as one liners rather than wrapping a chunk of code in a block, and being able to easily add additional attributes/data to those spans without type wrangling are all quality of life improvements that I don't want to give up.

The article's crates might be able to do the same things, I haven't looked into its documentation.
We should have leashed very short both politicians and virologists after this disaster, but the blame game has been shifted very skillfully at every point, from anybody worrying about a pandemic, to anybody not worrying about it, to your neighbor who wears the mask wrong, to three guys in the middle of desert who didn't take the vaccine, while nobody with power ever answers about anything.
It's a fair question. I find it fascinating just because of how freaking weird the videos are. If it was just some boring "Joe Sucks" message, it wouldn't be interesting, but instead it's a bunch of dumb random stuff, with the surreal VO and swirling background (corrugated metal?!) and flyswatter and... what? I just want to know what they were /trying/ to do. What was their beef with WGN? There's quite a lot of intentional symbolism.
Of the Tolkien books I've read, the LOTR-trilogy is a classic page turner. Once you get past Bilbo's birthday you can't really put the books down. The Hobbit has more of a children's tale-vibe, but still worth the read. The Silmarillion is harder and the first time it feels like you are cramming for some history exam, but I found that if you read it again you get more context and start untangling all the relationsships which gives a lot of extra character to the other books. The Children of Húrin can be found in abbreviated form inside The Silmarillion and is a dark and tragic tale, but really good in my opinion.

Fortunately Peter Jackson made a good job with the original LOTR-trilogy. You can be a fan of the movies and the books at the same time even though there are (probably necessary) differences between the formats.
Works normal on iOS
> One reason why SUVs are as popular as they are is that car manufacturers are allowed to produce less efficient cars if they are larger and with off-road capability

This was true like in the 1990s. It hasn't been true in a very long time (almost 20 years now). The only limit at which these standards don't apply is truly heavy duty (5000 pounds) and not even a hummer is over that threshhold.
I would expect the opposite to be true: big companies might be forced to "try hard" to cooperate with each other, but have no obbligation to allow <random app developer> access to their internals in any way.
So with crowdfunding cap now at 5 mil. in US sounds like a good way to avoid this whole thing?
For my money, it doesn't get any better than when he sings "A Man Loves
a Woman."
>Anyone who hasn't gotten a raise in the past year should get at least 6.2%, unless their employer is signaling to them that they value their contributions 6.2% less than last year.

Fruits and vegetables are very nutritious, but the price I pay for them has little bearing on their value to me. I would easily pay double or triple or even more. But I do not because a different fruit and vegetable seller is willing to sell them for less.

Similarly, it is possible for the supply and demand curves to move in a manner that makes the price of certain types of labor not increase or even decrease compared to price increases of other types of labor.

For example, labor where you can sit safely inside a home behind a computer screen rather than deal with sick people with contagious infections.
Well, that would be most countries, even in the West. Few places have an NHS-style comprehensive and universal coverage system, and in most of the rest (spanning Germany, the US, etc.) there are various levers of private insurance regulation that governments can employ to this end.

For instance, the coverage of tests and vaccines has been legislated and repeatedly updated through the course of the pandemic in the country where I live.
You've not made a specific point, so I'm not sure how to respond.

Why wouldn't file-extensions work? HTML uses .html and .htm.

Why wouldn't MIME types work? HTML uses text/html.
It's not a vanishing minority. The people over 65 largely have it because they've stared mortality in the face enough times to hedge on the side of caution. On the other side, you've got the under-65 crowd who aren't met monthly or weekly with an obituary of someone they know or used to know who think that they're "healthy" because they haven't had a triple bypass yet.
Love the idea, I made a little project a while ago grouping popular headlines across companies by topic and this reminded me of it. Great work!
Interesting, I hadn't heard about that. The difference seems to be weather it's a bunch of companies or a bunch of governments (even state ones).
Sorry it it came out as dismissive. I only wanted to show that my claim is specifically about the language, not current state of tooling which I'm not as familiar with (and which is important).
As someone who was online in 1987, I've found the internet significantly less enjoyable as it has become filled with "regular people", hoping to share the knowledge they don't have with people who didn't ask for it in the first place.

While I get what you're saying, there was also a time and place where you could wonder aloud how to do $technical_thing_x on $platform_y and get a knowledgable, competent response from a skilled professional who had done that thing. Now, we sift through thousands of pages of sloppy copy pasta, of unknown pedigree and unknown efficacy. Was that for the best?
Can confirm, AWS Amplify got 80% of my job done trying to deploy and manage a FE stack.
I don't buy this, obviously not an unbiased sample, but most individual liberals I know are on board with it being a lab leak. Can't necessarily say that about 'liberal leadership class' in the US, though.
>drinking and smoking and just doing whatever

Just to demonstrate one of the issues-- How about if your friends don't do this? Right there is a huge barrier to socializing-- you tend to hang out with people with similar drug habits. When someone gets sober, they often report losing a lot of friends because the alcohol is the common ground and without it hanging out on a couch doing nothing feels weird.

>I think the key here is to just find grounded, normal people.

I agree, I'm kind of exaggerating the difference between cultures in order to highlight it-- but it's not like I have no Caucasian American friends that can just hang out. I definitely do. It feels more like some people are more within that isolating sort of culture, while others aren't. A close friend from high school reached a point where he wouldn't hang out unless we were doing something, while there was a less close friend who I still hang out with as he's open to just hanging out for the sake of hanging out without needing to include an activity. The experience of the first friend still puzzles me, but the second friend is just like most friends from my culture.
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Not just any videos. Now I even speed up movies on netflix. That's why I have to watch them on laptop now, as I can't speed them up on TV.
>Conceivably couldn't we do some kind of trade agreement/embargo

Imagine, if you will, a scenario where one country is manufacturing such a large percentage of products so that an embargo would cause massive disruptions to pretty much everyone everywhere. Now imagine that country being the suspect in a situation where the punishment is that very embargo. What do you do?
Well, but we certainly need to do something about this. SARS-CoV-2 is relatively mild compared to other potential lab leaks.

It has nothing to do with taking an anti China stance, as this has happened elsewhere.

It would also be advisable to investigate the early stages of the pandemic as clearly many parties were deliberately hiding information. This led to avoidable casualties and, ultimately, the whole pandemic might have been possible to contain.
The rate of death over what period? The site does not make that clear.

Is it annualized? Should we compare it to the murder rate of 5 or 6 per 100k?
If someone doesn't catch it to start, they can't spread it.
Ah, you got me by a minute to submit.

This is a bummer but not surprising. There have been a number of outstanding bugs that were never addressed and releases were slowing down - even when github commits were getting backed up.
You can deploy next.js application on any server which supports Node.js.
Not all unions are strong enough to actually strike.

If management thinks the union is too weak to strike, they can stonewall. And if the union can't muster a strike, management tends to win. If the union CAN muster a strike, then (1) people in the union develop a stronger belief in their union and (2) management updates their estimate of what they can get away with.
But still, it is worth noting that the peak US vaccinated death rates on those charts (e.g. ~1.47 / 100k for Pfizer) are higher than the current _unvaccinated_ death rate in Chile. Vaccination contribute an order of magnitude decrease in the death rate, but surges can contribute an order of magnitude difference as well, within a country over time or between countries. Vaccines matter a lot, but all the other public health tools to prevent/combat surges also still matter.
Pretty much everyone involved stands to lose from it proving to be true that a lab leak occurred. China looks bad, the CDC/US looks bad, researchers look bad, EcoHealth Alliance looks bad[1], the lancelet looks bad.[2] Heck even politifact and factcheck.org reported the idea as debunked for the first year or so, and Facebook for around the same time took down content with that angle.[3] It would also likely result in a backlash against interest in GOF research in general.

The only group that stands to benefit are those who benefit by making those groups look bad, who will also unfortunately exaggerate their claims for greater effect.

[1]https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n1656

[2]https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

[3]https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/26/facebook-ban-covid-...
Because people actually want to buy fentanyl laced products. I've known people addicted to stimulants that they buy knowing that they are cut with fentanyl just to get that combination with the opioid high.
Lab leak doesn't mean modified virus, and yeah those types of bats don't exist anywhere near Wuhan except inside that lab.
You can literally use nuclear plants to manufacture hydrocarbons through the Fischer–Tropsch process.
I've always been fascinated by the depiction of the 70's in media: an era of excess and debauchery. the linked article (thanks!) reinforces the notion "truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't." Each rabbit hole feels more bewildering than the former.
I use Alpine.js in a handful of my production apps and have had no real issues when Vue, etc is overkill, except that when dealing with a lot of data, I found Alpine.js to be just way too slow with rendering. Swapping out Alpine.js for Vue fixed my problem. I likely was pushing Alpine.js beyond it's intent of "small" snippets to enhance a page.
Addressing CPAN vulnerabilities related to checksums
I am quite certain that your previous comment in this thread is correctly classified as snark:

>"critical or mocking comments made in an indirect or sarcastic way."

These kinds of comments are turning HN into Reddit.
If you don't think a lot of people died early on in the US because the Surgeon General went on TV and said masks were basically useless for the average person, with every talk/news show running pieces about how you'd just touch a doorknob then your eye, and thus are more likely to get infected by wearing a mask, then you either can't remember what happened or are ideologically driven.
If they were going to change anything, it would be likely to get rid of both the penny and nickel and use 1 decimal place for prices; the current US nickel already has a melt price/ face value of 124% currently (https://www.coinflation.com/), which is never a good thing