skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok maybe in the us. Anyway are you sure it is really free in regards that they don't give you a worse price or won't execute if things move in the wrong direction like Robinhood did...? My point is, its just inconvenient for me to rely on a third party without able to enter the "true" market on myself.
My favorite in this line is send+more=money.
Or anything with Martin Gardner's name on it. All worth reading.
>Okay, so what I _think_ you're saying here is that we should no longer be thinking about divs and spans and such as the raw materials we use to write a page, nor should we be writing HTML itself,

Yes. It seems you grasped that some time ago, as you refuted it.

>this also treads awfully close to the argument that "devs shouldn't be writing 'code' any more anyway

Is Java Swing 'code'? WinUI? Was VB?

I don't think what I'm suggesting here is really that difficult to grok. But, hey I believe this thread has run its course. Appreciate the discussion.
> Just sucks for everyone else

Not necessarily. I assume you mean it fortifies despot regimes in the Middle East right? I no longer think at this time there is any sane alternative.
Those two facts aren't mutually exclusive
One of those studies on the infected-then-vaccinated set (or, at least, an author of the study, being interviewed) claims “superhuman immunity” — effective against a spectrum of SARS viruses. Presumably the reverse (vaccinated-then-infected) is not true.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/09/07/1033677...

I will say that I do not particularly trust NPR any more; they have misreported events in direct contradiction of clear video and audio feeds of the events.
With the fly swatter, naturally.
> Aside from the contact-tracing, investigators were able to get positive PCR recovery of sars-cov-2 from -environmental samples- at the wet markets, indicating an incredible degree of contamination there.

So? It's a market. People go there, in large numbers. Is it really surprising that you'd find traces of a widely circulating respiratory virus in a place where large numbers of people congregate?

> By natural standards the Laos samples are extremely close

RaTG13 is closer than the BANAL viruses, and we already knew about it. You have to look at specific genes and squint and make hand-wavy arguments about how SARS-CoV2 evolved from recombination of ~5 different viruses to make any sort of claim that this is strong evidence of natural evolution.

I'll give you this: the RBD of BANAL-20-52 is the closest match yet for the RBD of SARS-CoV2. Still no furin cleavage site, though.

https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-871965/v1/986c09c...

> the evolutionary "risk surface area" of zoonosis is many orders of magnitude larger than this nutty lab-leak idea

I love this. The evolutionary story is too complicated and improbable to imagine, but sure, the idea of making a few relatively simple additions to a known virus is "nutty". And hey...it's not like there was a lab in Wuhan writing grants about similar transformations or anything.

You have to be kidding. Look, I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other, but you're simply in love with a theory and dismissing all evidence to the contrary.
Pharmacies can see trends and should have known something was amiss. Silence doesn't exclude you from wrong doing.
but the b&w from the 1st 2 pictures are actually of higher quality compared to the others in colour.

Im not sure this is the case here, but from my limited understanding of camera, b&w camera will produce higher resolution picture just because of how the monochrome sensor work vs colour sensor
Thanks to this article I can learn more. Expand my knowledge and abilities. Actually the article is very real.

https://www.toysruscreditcard.org/
US population for 2020 is 329.5 million. 18 percent of US population fell between 0-14 years old in 2019.
US has over 290 million smatphones in 2020.

We can confidently presume anyone who works for a tech company such as NSO does not live like a Luddite.
Sometimes reading HN comments feels like smashing my head with a brick. Stunning.
Brilliant!
Now if I could find my old cassettes, with the programs I wrote, and record them onto a computer, I wonder if they would run?
Right. It is remarkable that anyone would think of this method as a fad.
It might be worth mentioning that Khan Academy's main CS course has been based on an in-browser Processing.js environment, since even before P5 existed.
gRPC Java wins in part due to not allocating memory when reading and writing buffers. It uses Java-based implementation of jemalloc (via Netty) to manage its own memory. No/low allocations means the GC doesn't need to wake up so much.
No, because FB, presumably, developed the tails exploit locally and never needed to interact with an external server to do so. FB passed the exploit to law enforcement. In the NSO case, they used FB’s servers as part of their exploit development and exploit distribution.
@matijash congrats on successfully raising. Your blog post is super useful. I am a founder and at an early stage now. I am trying to raise and facing the similar situation. I would like to learn more from you. I sent contact invite to you on LinkedIn. I hope you do not mind connecting.
> Firstly, founder does not hire the board.

Where the founder also controls the voting majority of stock, yes, the founder hires the board.
> there's not much evidence for it

The fact that the first(?) major outbreak was in a city with a major virus research lab that researches coronaviruses is pretty strong circumstantial evidence. China's "nothing to see here" handling of it was also suspicious.
Shuffle-playing vinyl is easy: you put a bunch of singles in a jukebox!

The ~20-min/side LP record was introduced in 1948, according to Wikipedia, while jukeboxes date back to the 1890s.

Also apparently the term "record album" comes from the books people would put their collection of singles in, before the advent of the LP. Sort of like the folders we stuffed our CDs in to haul around in our bags in the 90s, except bulkier. Publishers would put a collection of songs by a single artist or group out in an album designed to hold them, with cover art and presumably liner notes; once the LP format was introduced, this got collapsed into a single disc in a package that was still called an "album". Now I know why it shares a name with things like a "photo album". I have never questioned that word use in the entire fifty years of my life, and now I wonder why I never did.

Wikipedia also notes that it is arguable that the first "concept album" - a record album designed around a theme, with the intent of being listened to as a single unit rather than a collection of songs - is a 1940 Woody Guthrie album full of songs on a single theme (semi-autobiographical stories about being a migrant laborer in the US during the 1930s), but they didn't really get started until after the LP made it a hell of a lot easier to make a package where breaking the order up was a lot harder.

(It would be interesting to see if there is any data on whether there was more sheet music of single songs or long-form works published in the days when that was the primary method of music distribution.)

Personally I generally listen to my music collection in shuffle-by-album mode and never even use Spotify, I am perfectly fine with the existence of music designed to be listened to more in hour-long chunks rather than 3-5 minute chunks and I generally find listening to my entire collection on shuffle-by-song to be a source of incredibly jarring genre whiplash, but the history of recorded music has a lot of work whose natural unit is measured in single digits of minutes.

(And mostly this comment is just recording my notes from the brief wikipedia hole I fell in about the history of recorded music.)

anyway now I think I need to make a playlist where I take a couple of self-important albums that really want to be listened to as a Single Unit and stick them next to TMBG's album "Apollo 18", which contains 38 tracks, 21 of which are 6-61 seconds long. :)
Well I've always heard that DNA is like the source code for life, so why not do

$git blame coronavirus.js

I assume it is javascript for obvious reasons.
I am personally betting 80% of the people that left NYC will be back. Plus a lot more that will move to NYC for the first time.

It sounds great to live in a cottage... but once you realize there's nothing interesting going on there, and you essentially live your life through a screen and a microphone... it's not what most people want long term.

Google just bought (not rent) an extra building for $2B. They said that when they give new hires a choice, NYC ranks #1 in their preference.

I live in NYC and I can tell you there are more people on the streets than pre-covid. And international travel/tourism is just getting started.
It's a problem of bureaucracy
Wait what? You don't hire people from Microsoft? Let's say I get Facebook (I don't really) but what's wrong with Microsoft?

How about people who eat meat? Or vote for the other party - the one you don't like? Are you trying to hire people who are morally compatible with you on every single question? That's gonna be rough hiring.

Even the weapons industry is a tough one. The knee jerk reaction says it's immoral to work for them. But after contemplating - if the U.S (or Europe, or anyone else) doesn't have an advanced military it will be taken over by its enemies (Chinese, Russians etc). Yes, the fact that "they" build their own militaries for the exact same reason is tragic. But if the U.S just dismantled it's arms industries what do you think would happen in a few decades?
Sociology is not known as a hard science, regardless of the professor.
This is a rare insightful comment from the usual mainstream thought you find on hn. Exactly, what if it's someone you like? So few people consider this when they give up their rights for the "common good" eula's are just one these things we just allow to happen to us because we assume good intentions.
No that doesn't work well because it penalizes the consumption of electricity created by wind the same as electricity created by coal.

Taxing the point at which the CO2 is created makes the most sense, then you don't have to try back or forward tracking penalties or incentives through the chain to incentivize carbon efficiency.

What makes you think polluting power plants would not pass on costs to consumers?
PHP – Sending Emails
But people seem not care that much about decentralization, as long as they could trade tokens.
The U.S supports the same regimes. The U.S made huge weapons deals with UAE, Saudi Arabia and more. Selling actual fighting jets that destroy thousands of people, not some cyber app.
Ah, the ol' "rubber hose cryptanalysis". I was literally just talking about this an hour ago.
My favorite pet math problem so far is: how many times of day are all three hands on a clock equal parts apart?

I have a close but wrong answer that is more interesting than the right answer. I wish I knew of a STEM periodical that accepted amateur articles because I want to do a write-up on this.
So, means testing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behistun_Inscription

This is as important a discovery because it helped decipher cuneiform, a language that existed in parallel to hieroglyphics.

The Demotic language mentioned as a shorthand form of hieroglyphics... it's the script used to write what we now call "Arabic". That's right, written Arabic is a direct descendent of hieroglyphics.
Thank you, I jokingly wrote rot26() expert once in a resume and got asked about it during an interview.
FYI, the wastewater story you refer to was clearly nonsense and has not withstood any serious scrutiny. But, I agree with your larger point.
Processing is the best tool I know to make people get impressed by, interested in and wanting to learn programming.
PHP – Sending Emails
The <a href="https://www.alphacodingskills.com/php/php-sending-emails.php">PHP mail() function</a> allows us to send emails directly from a script. The behavior of this function is affected by settings in php.ini. Hence, the php.ini file must be configured correctly with the details of how the system should send emails.
[Sep 2021] Crisp.chat AMA on Reddit - 2 person team - $4M ARR
Several hundred Google employees sign manifesto against vaccination mandate
Feel your pain. Canadian citizen who previously founded startup in London and had to pay double taxes. Enjoyed the life in London though. Would love to go back some day.
It seems you are agreeing with the comment you replied to.
https://www.alphacodingskills.com/php/php-sending-emails.php
> It is actually part of the Israeli state-sponsored terrorism around the world

Care to explain what you mean? When the U.S sells arms by the billions to despot regimes is it also a state-sponsored terrorism around the world? Or just when Israel sells a cyber app you call it that?
I guess that a hard question for user facing API: you need to support both the old and the new features during the migration.

In our case, this design principle mostly applied to our internal APIs. Particularly, we designed our internal sub components (consensus protocol, particularly) in a way we can swap it without any downtime.
Can people please, for the love of all that is sacred or for whatever God they believe in, stop posting on medium? I really don't want to have an account for reading articles. What a anti-pattern.
If you're using up renewables that would be used by other energy consumers, you've probably just pushed a bunch of them onto non-renewables. Is that actually good? Maybe some % (20%?) of those customers will simply opt not to do whatever power-consuming thing they were going to do, but the rest...
Implementing zip archiving in Golang: unzipping
Means testing has never been a positive thing for poor people.

I don’t believe you can have capitalism without rampant global warming. We should already understand these dystopian proposals are just asking for failure.
> The first couple of photos are black and white.

If you look carefully, you'll notice that in the black and white photos the operators are wearing headsets, there are posters on the walls and in one of them there is a SNES on the table.

According to the article, this would place them at the same timeframe as the other photos.
God if you only cared as much for the ppl that worked at McDonalds
In fact most of the crime around it would be a result of it being illegal. High prices, marginalisation etc.

Not saying we should legalise meth as it seems to be one of the nastier drugs around. But the war on drugs does seem to create problems itself. By moving the drugs into the criminal zone you're creating a lot of crime around it. It's not the right way IMO. For example supplying unrecoverable addicts with seized drugs stops them from having to steal. It was a success in Europe.

It's kinda ironic that this policy comes from the US which learned a valuable lesson during its prohibition period.
Yea, these three are correct - I use the word Client tho.
I always thought the Schlörwagen would make a great BEV
Firefly: “Half the human race is middlemen, and they don’t take kindly to being eliminated.”
Startup Cognitive Space using AI to manage satellite operations
Once I discovered functions are pipeline-friendly, I started pipelining all the things. Almost any `for arg` can be re-designed as a `while read arg` with a function.

Here's what it can look like. Some functions I wrote to bulk-process git repos. Notice they accept arguments and stdin:

# ID all git repos anywhere under this directory
ls_git_projects ~/src/bitbucket |
# filter ones not updated for pre-set num days
take_stale |
# proc repo applies the given op. (a function in this case) to each repo
proc_repos git_fetch

Source: https://github.com/adityaathalye/bash-toolkit/blob/master/bu...

The best part is sourcing pipeline-friendly functions into a shell session allows me to mix-and-match them with regular unix tools.

Overall, I believe (and my code will betray it) functional programming style is a pretty fine way to live in shell!
I've played with processing and p5. Processing is built somewhat on Java, but its hard to tell. You could compile it into stand alone applications. Its also hard to google. p5.js is slower but much more accessible ( everything ends up being ported to Javascript). Its fun because its easy to make interactive programs.

the p5.js has an account system and an online editor, which is fun to play around with, but not needed.
Its got fun interactive examples too:https://processing.org/examples

I stumbled across it when someone left Dan Shiffman's book "the nature of code" on our buildings swap table.
https://natureofcode.com/

Dan has a youtube channel. Its kinda a weird mix of children's themes and advance math. The tutorials are great however.

https://thecodingtrain.com/
I think this is entirely dependent on the country in question because rules around central bank operations are very different in different parts of the world. Some can directly create money and some can even seize assets.

Note that if Central bank digital currencies are allowed then Central banks will most certainly be able to influence the currency in circulation with much more power than they currently do.
The difference is that a VP at an F500 has significantly more resources at their command.
O'Neill's book is at the Internet Archive / Open Library, available for check-out.
I have a decent spec PC with 32 GB of RAM and a 500 Mbps connection and that site just straight up seemed to have "hung" for a long time before loading that ugliness.
In state bureaucracies and very unionized workplaces people will be afraid to fix something, even if they can and they should to avoid extreme waste, because they are afraid that it would take the credit away from someone else.
In spite of every thing, I do not believe its a majority.
As with many things, it is the loud minority.
We would not have progress, if your statement were true.
>Somebody clicks a button on an un-negotiated text form in a piece of software, maybe it should take more than that.

My litmus test is I don't consider a contract valid unless I've actually had a chance to do a counteroffer.
The Central Bank money printer?
I tutored a 20 year old CS major who could not understand the equation to convert from Fahrenheit to Celsius. Nice guy, talented guitar player. Was not meant to be a programmer.
Free market machine broke
What's interesting is this, which speaks to a level of entitlement that's kind of bonkers:

"I imagine you believe that the decision to stop being CEO of the company you started should be your decision, not someone else’s. But the fact is, it often isn’t. Often, it is the board of directors’ decision."

The CEO serves at the pleasure of the shareholders. If the founder wishes to maintain control until he or she decides to walk away, there is a very simple choice that will absolutely ensure this: maintain control of 51% of the voting shares.

The interests of the owners of a firm trump the interests of an employee of the firm. A minority-shareholder founder-CEO is an employee with equity, and can absolutely be fired.

The tl;dr is that if you dilute your ownership, you're not in control anymore. This is often part of the deal. But don't act like it's some huge injustice. It's literally the deal the you made.
It isn't enough to be an idiot, you have to be an idiot with connections to get spaffed
I thought they managed it in 2001.
In general when talking about quantitative subjects, we need to use quantitative measures. I think the author is nearly there, but in general, unless you have data to refute your claims, it should be ignored. I don't say this snarkely, but in a domain where we actually have hard quantitative measures, they should be used and required for argument.
Iranian Hackers Broke into Newspaper Publisher Lee Enterprises Ahead of Election
Positive global gradient is insufficient; positive local gradient is necessary, at all links of the value chain.
You seem to have a very strong negative opinion about something which you have a very tenuous understanding. Is this you approach most things you don't understand?
This problem reminds me of another problem.

There is a round table and two players, A and B. The players take turns placing a coin on the table in any location they desire, but coins may not overlap. The first person who is unable to place a coin loses. What is the winning first move?

Answer: the winning move is for player A to place the first coin in the center of the table. After that, no matter which location player B chooses, player A can always play the 180 degree rotationally symmetric location.
Interesting, I did not know it predated p5. That explains some of the inconsistencies and weird restrictions - I remember it only allowing specific syntax for things like declaring functions
The wired article was extremely short not sure if I’m just not getting the full article? It seems from my perspective that Taylor and McDonald’s conspired to take money from the franchise owners. What a shame. Because all it does is incentives owners to cut corners like say serve cold fries so they don’t lose money. McDonald’s used to be great but somewhere lost the way. They used to be the affordable place anyone could afford a couple burgers and fries for their family and it used to be quite enjoyable.
Just wanted to say that I sincerely enjoyed those works!

I would not have stumbled upon those unless you had shared; and I’m considering making one my iPhone wallpaper, they are so striking. :)
Ah yes! A new shinny thing. I've had plenty of conversations where some 'new' framework / language solves a 'huge and unsolvable' problem (but that has not actually been deeply investigated), or is just 'cool because XYZ company are using it' ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Amex Sold Some Tax Deductions
This is too complicated, and could instead be handled by an intelligent, dynamorphic anal-probe which you sit upon to,

and then have your individual inner patterns recognized.

This could have many other benefits, like corporate approved application of nutrients and drugs by enema,

connection to plumbing to save toilet time, and motivation by dildonic gratification for good work.

It could also give a spine.

Baa! Baa! Baa! Mew!
Very typical in acquihire situations and probably isn't anything to spend energy feeling bitter about--the company simply wasn't worth enough to trickle value down to common shareholders, and didn't yield the result the founders and early investors imagined.
Did Go ever fix that problem where short term high memory usage can cause large empty heaps because of the lack of compaction?

I remember a rash of articles about this phenomena a while back. This article seems to think its not an issue so I'm wondering when it was fixed.
well basically you have to throw out proof of work and then it's fine. If that's a philosophical thing then you're constrained to highly inefficient systems that yeah, are designed to fork like you say. But if you're okay with any kind of proof of stake setup, you don't have to consider forks, because you trust your validators.

Ultimately it comes down to what you like about the blockchain chimera. Some people like proof of work for its own sake; they think that's the way forward. Some of us think that public distributed append-only log structures with cryptographically enforced permissioning are super interesting all by themselves, maybe even MORE interesting without proof of work!

Long term I don't think it's going to be any fun until a larger subset of homomorphic computing is cheap enough to run distributed-consensus style. In the meantime all I know is it's a lot more fun once you stop trying to be the source of truth for the universe, and accept proof of stake as a natural compromise necessary to keep playing with our toys w/o burning up.

I'd be happy to share but you'll have to message me. And I'm an idiot.