skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It wouldn't be hard, from a technical or scientific point of view, to give access to the labs' files to an independent commission of inquiry.

And if those files are shared, and nothing is found, you'd just move the goalposts, and claim the data was doctored.

Supposing the lab was not at fault - what incentive is there for anyone to attract a bunch of media attention, and possibly lose face, in order to vindicate themselves in an inquiry that won't actually change anyone's mind?

> That's what democracies do, but obviously not communist dictatorships.

Democracies also hold inquiries over and over again until they get the political results they want. How many Benghazi commissions have we had, by now? [1] How many people changed their mind thanks to them? [2]

[1] Ten.

[2] To a rough approximation, zero.
Never used it, but it does seem like 'zilla rather enjoys shutting stuff down if it's somehow useful.. probably to concentrate more on what really matters... such as minor useless UI tweaks, "hamburger" menus and turning tabs into buttons..

This bile was brought to you by the "Choose an application to open the ftp link." dialog in Firefox.
No, the point is that even newcomers can learn to do better than the team at godaddy did. They aren’t trying to brag, they’re pointing out that the team behind this compromise was negligent in their practices.
A mystery incident of course.
Capital may be liquid, but staff nationalities, values, ideals, and goals...not so much.

This isn't some far-flung conspiracy about dark forces puppeteering seemingly innocent companies. It's just people valuing profit over concern for human rights. It's a surveillance firm, what would you expect? What would be a benevolent use of this technology even be?
Countries lose 426B through tax avoidance: Tax Justice report
"The State of Tax Justice 2021"

https://taxjustice.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/State_of_T...
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sqlite (one file for a lot of a read, a few write) and another for the write only (log, ...)
Its on the list :

[2] Be careful to have the right number of customers (in the beginning, just one) and the right customers (whose requirements allow you to build out key technology); and grow that number carefully.
1: I understand perfectly how they work. I'll say it again. It's YOU who seem to have a hazy understanding of the real world and the tech you think is so great.

Universities have public facing databases where someone can just type in a name and birthday and see the degree conferred. You seem to think they would swap their current centralized database for a blockchain? Why? Firstly, they've always had the option of using an append only ledger. They aren't new. They don't though because you CAN'T SEARCH THEM. If you want to search, you have to go through each block sequentially, checking every single entry. That's the basic property of blockchains. So.....what happens if you want to search for Engineering degrees conferred to out of state students between 1990-2005? It takes forever. But you think they're going to drop their centralized database for the smoking dumpster fire that is blockchain? Databases are for ORGANISING DATA. How does a blockchain work? Well, when you get some new data, you stick it on the end. Great.

2: See #1.

3: No company will put in a whole bunch of work to allow a customer of one of their competitors to carry a bunch of "assets" into their sandbox. It's able to be done now, but have you ever seen Linden dollars being allowed in WOW or vice versa? Ever??

4: Yeah, I have one thing to say to that. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/09/apple-announces-first...
Wow, how about that? They didn't take advantage of the amaaaaaaaazing technology of the blockchain? Why not I wonder? Especially as how I'm sure a million crypto bros were pitching to them. Oh yeah, that's right. You can't search the database. See #1.
C# makes it possible to do C (not C++) like memory management but it does not make it easy. Unsafe C# code is really, really, really unsafe, much more unsafe than equivalent C code, and does not compose well. It's improving, with Span/Memory, etc, but it remains an absolute last resort.
Be more ambitious: a rational case for dreaming big (if you want to do good)
Does GPC support ipv6 only subnets? Some cursory pokes around I can not tell. (I really only work with AWS). Azure? Any other notable services providers have done this yet? I can not tell if this is long overdue or actually something to take note of.
BANAL-52 is 96.8% identical to SARS-CoV-2. That is not particularly close. You need to get above 99% to even come close to zoonotic origin on this.

We also know that coronavirus samples from bats from Laos were shipped to WIV. Those samples have not been released. Hardly require decades to release that sort of data.
got it - it's like chisel. thanks
Majority of the people who gamble on crypto are doing so only to make a quick buck. They neither know nor care about the ideology, decentralization, removing intermediaries and other such lofty goals of crypto. Most people are in it because they either saw someone making a lot of money or read about it in the media and they also want a piece of it.

It's speculation, plain and simple. If not ban, government needs to regulate it like it regulates other speculative markets.

As for the libertarian goals of removing the central authority - that's not happening.
You can also render a full page and htmx to will intelligently update the current page where things match up.
This was the last time that someone whose high culture was Egyptian ruled Egypt. After that Egypt was ruled by people who spoke a different language and looked outside Egypt for cultural touchstones. Cleopatra was the first Ptolemy to speak Egyptian. Until the Arabs conquered it from the Romans it was ruled by Greek speakers.
This list is amazing for most software that i worked on. Dropping "database" from list name would only remove couple of items from the list. Most of the items are applicable much broader than just for database projects. Favourited for sure for future references.
Strongly-worded emails written by mediocre AI.
Whenever I hear advice about using connections and networking, I always interpret that to mean "be born with the right relatives".
IMO padding in that sense is lying on the resume. It's grounds for instant rejection. They expect you to have 6 years of experience, but you have 4.

4 years is still substantial experience. And it was peak COVID period, so people tend to not even ask why - maybe this person is dealing with grief, divorce, mental issues, etc.

Also honesty is a rarer and more valuable trait than those extra two years.
My company offered an (off-cycle) 5% raise in July. In August I signed an offer for a ~30% jump. Not FAANG, also not some thought-leading 10x engineer. If your company isn't offering you a 20-30% raise, someone else probably will.
By figuring out how it leaked, you can fix gaps in lab safety processes.
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When I had to install my first AppImage I got a horrible déjà vu from my Windows XP days. The Linux repo experience is just better. Trust the repo via gpg and https instead of trusting every download url and scanning every blob for malware. Upgrade the whole system at once, instead of hunting down every new blob (and remembering where you got it).
Bringing OS Architecture to XXI Century – Part I. Changes over Last 50 Years
It's not gambling if you consistently make more money than the person who thinks they're being prudent. It's a better investent strategy.
And let me address the "policy of breaking ABIs constantly the way Linux Desktop does."

As you probably know, there is no policy, and no "Linux Desktop" either. You've got Linux distribution releases that are supported for up to 10 years (like RHEL and Ubuntu LTS) by teams a couple of orders of magnitude smaller than either of MacOS or Windows. They usually get HWE kernel updates too (hardware enablement) from newer Linux series. By definition, they maintain ABI backwards compatibility for the duration of their support. If you care about it, that's what you should use.

But it's in the nature of free software world to want to mix and match, so the idea of a singular Linux Desktop does not exist. You should treat each one of them as a separate OS, which is unfortunate, but realistic. Flatpak/snapcraft recognise that to a point (packaging up everything but the kernel, regardless of the system packages already installed).
Something which is fun to do in your free time becomes a chore if you have to do it reliably, on a deadline.
It works well for coin speculation. You can take a heavily levered position of borrowing USDC, swap and buy X-coin, deposit and repeat.
If Taylor hasn't certified the Kytch product to safely integrate with the Taylor product, it seems reasonable for Taylor to say it could cause problems. If they said it will cause problems, that seems a bit different.
Google forms. Don't even need a cash incentive. People love giving their opinions.

In fact, the cash incentive is a bit of a turn off. I happily waste hours a day giving my opinion on the internet, but now that you've paid $20, it becomes work.
Slightly more interesting example which isn't disconnected is a H letter consisting of 8 blocks. 3 blocks high and 2 in the horizontal section.
I didn't learn programming from a classroom.

I have audited some programming classes, and learned very little, because I never did the exercises nor took the exams.

I know that there are some unicorns who learned math on their own. But I haven't encountered one in the real world.

(Ok, so I know one - Hal Finney. But that man was simply so smart, he learned it by flipping through the book, i.e. it was effortless for him.)

> it is neither the most efficient nor the most effective way

I simply don't buy that. After all, how do you determine if those students learned the material without tests? I've often thought I understood something, but when faced with solving a problem, realized I understood nothing.

I attended Caltech, where they selected for passion. I was passionate, too. With just auditing the classes, I figure I'd have learned maybe only 10% of what I did. That's neither efficient nor effective. Ditto for the bulk of the students. Even though I picked courses that I wanted to master.
How would this be any different from a thief breaking in anyways and taking your valuables at gunpoint?
Worth exactly what you’ve paid for them.
> Brown University allowed students to take all classes as pass/fail

Meaning they're still taking exams.

"The goal of the Reed education is that students learn and demonstrate rigor"

https://www.reed.edu/about-reed/history.html

Demonstrate rigor sounds like tests.

"Among the requirements for the major are successful performance on a junior qualifying examination, completion of a yearlong senior thesis based on original research or artistic expression, and a successful oral defense of the thesis before an interdisciplinary faculty board."

Testing is definitely done.
Headline follows logically from "Does not need Go"
What about using Electron?
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I am in love with language servers, the quality of life improvement is just unreal.
I suppose that's better than the Rocky Horror Picture Show quotes mine have been hearing... and I hope that they never find out.

The Monty Python and Pulp Fiction quotes, though... Yes I hope that they figure those out some day!
Good. The Core Team can govern and mod themselves. This general mealy-mouthed complaint about "un-accountability" - with utterly no specifics given - can be crushed and dumped into the dustbin.

If you don't want to "publicize" it, then don't make a formal, public post on Reddit Rust - handle it internally.

If you want to publicize it, then have the courage to provide the specifics to the public.
> [2] http://www.helmeth.eu/images/joomlaplates/documents/Publisha...

I've been seen exactly this link thrown at me multiple times when discussing synthetic methane, yet it comes with a fatal flaw: It doesn't consider the process to get the CO2 in the first place.

If this is supposed to produce (close to) climate neutral methane it needs to include Direct Air Capture to gather the CO2. It also needs almost perfect avoidance of methane leaks.

Luckily none of that matters very much: Most people agree that synthetic methane isn't very useful to begin with. We can do storage and many industry applications (like steel) simply with hydrogen and avoid the whole CO2 handling and the methane handling, and the few applications that absolutely need methane can be done with biogas.
Cobalt free batteries are already being produced and the cobalt used in the remaining batteries can be recycled.
By that logic, even people in cars should be driving up on the shoulder, driving in unused bike lanes, squeezing in wherever they want, utilizing the unused space. I don't think it would work that well if everyone operated like that. Thankfully they don't.

But you're on a bike, so you deserve special treatment. An award for sacrificing comfort and safety in the name of efficiency! You demand deference when drivers see you, for them to slow down and fall behind as you sit up proudly on your bicycle in defiance of modern technology. You shout to the heavens, "I don't need infrastructure! I have yours already! I'll ride wherever I want!" The thought makes you chuckle at the plebs still riding in comfort and safety in their automobiles, capable of carrying a drunken friend, an elderly parent, or a new piece of furniture. What a bunch of fools. Don't they see how efficient they could be?
Yeah but I saw huge surge starting from end of October to begin of November. Like double from normal.
So, given that we emit ~30 billion tonnes/year, we could do it for only 100 trillion dollars of electricity per year?

At 10 cents/KWH, that would be what, a million TWH?

For the record, the world's total electricity production is ~25,000 TWH.
It's better if you read the warning label first.
That assumes, wrongly, that Apple only patched the vulnerabilities used by NSO since 2016 in iOS 14.8.

In reality, Apple has been reacting to and fixing new exploits all the time, with NSO Group (and others) successfully finding new ones to replace those that got patched.

For instance, the main class of NSO-related attacks has been via the Messages app and related frameworks, which were relatively poorly designed in terms of their original security architecture. Apple has since 2016 substantially hardened those subsystems, including with a new 'BlastDoor' isolation layer specifically for Messages in iOS 14. That closed off entire classes of exploits, but is clearly not perfect.
Well here lies the crux of it:

If you tell a lie in the woods and no one hears it and calls you a liar…

You can also invert the above with truth instead of lie and get a similar realization.

Anyway, I’m sure you get the point.
This book is a classic one for kids participating in math competitions in Romania. I once had to solve a variation of this problem at a math contest when I was in 6th grade.
only possible with online/remote education
Then they are not guaranteed to win.
This appears to be a blog post from 2015 so maybe not as newsworthy as the headline would indicate.
Many come straight to Germany or other more rich EU countries.
> tourists seemed to prefer them

Interestingly, in studies tourists actually do not prefer the food from McDonalds over local cuisine in almost every market studied. What they did prefer was the consistency: knowing what they are going to get.
I have the exact same problem. Never been good at telling stories. I have two recommendations for books:

- Story Craft - Jack Hart

- Story: Substance, Structure, Style - Robert McKee

The first one focuses on non-fiction the other on fiction. I was partway through the second one when I got the first. My immediate want is to be able to write better non-fiction text for my blog-posts etc. So I wanted a more focused book on that subject. But I think I will finish the other as well at some point because there are shared principles across.
A fun side effect is you can see where the spammers get your email. Sometimes a company has a DB leak and the emails are all over the dark web.
The functionality as been subsumed into Firefox.
Does it really matter for the adoption if at the end you are using an ELB with an IPv4 anyways?
Yeah, it's poor messaging.
Thanks a lot for this. I am not OP, but have the same issues so really appreciate this.
There are many St John colleges. Please be more specific.
The only group that benefits are those who want to know the truth, and that is dangerous cause the truth will make the liars look bad? I mean, no offense but that sounds like something a sociopath would say.
Doesn't this sort of... miss the entire point of serverless? It's an API framework, with syntax like serverless, but without the whole advantage of serverless: not having to manage individual servers, CDNs, networking, mirroring, etc.

So you end up with something like Flight PHP or Next.js's API routes, but still needs to be deployed and then manually managed and scaled.

Cloudflare Workers is innovative not because it's isolated or follows a particular syntax, but because they allow very fast and cheap functions to be run, globally, with zero maintenance on the customers' parts. Just write code and click save and it's available at data centers all around the world, instantly, for not even pennies.

Blueboat would be incredibly difficult to scale up and maintain across clusters. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is no way to deploy this at a cost even remotely similar to what Cloudflare offers, since individual customers don't have their economies of scale (and peering agreements).
Reminds me of mirror go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_Go
You can literally read what I claimed, verbatim, a couple messages above. Please do!
The idea is discoverability. Once, people looking to purchase Nespresso coffee online would go to Google. Now they go to their app store. If your app isn't there, they those people are going to install a competitor's app and buy your competitor's coffee.
Java’s GC is the state of the art, without doubt. Other managed languages can be faster for some workloads (by not generating much garbage in the first place, eg go), but where it do come up:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29323468
You are too late. They met at school!
> Why not pick, say, the top four countries, (recently South Korea, Japan, Switzerland, and the Netherlands) and adopt their methods that are working?

The critically important part of their method is funding of schools being independent from wealth of the kids’ parents.

I’m not sure US can adopt that; American voters view that method as communism.
I solved this in a hedge fund interview with "Consider the limiting case of a coin the same size as the table... You can only place it at the centre, and you win... Now make the coin smaller. How does the strategy change?... It can't, because of symmetry."

They didn't consider it a valid solution :|
I had to tell some support guy my gibberish over the phone to get them to talk to me at all ... what a fun.
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What if I'm feeling cynical about humankind but for very different reasons? Like historical trajectory, discrepancy of growth between technology and culture, or even cynical about the very idea of life?
It is not. Israel does not fund NSO in any way. They have clients.
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They'll surely all allow some kind of measurement, otherwise someone will overfill their tyre, burst it, and then sue for the fact the explosion has left them with brain damage.

Car tyre explosions are pretty deadly...
People don’t care about years experience, or exact start and end dates on a resume.

The same way they don’t really care about if any of their top 5 candidates can do the job better than one another.

What they really care about is do they believe your competent enough and do they like you.

Their answer to those questions has nothing to do with if you took a break or not.

They do however rest on how good of a story you can tell them. So go and tell them the best story.
> standard high-school Algebra

I didn't take Algebra in highschool, so.. maybe? 5th and 6th grade were called Pre-Algebra. 7th and 8th were Algebra. 9th was Geometry, 10th was Trig, and 11th and 12th were Calc.
China accuses US of ‘mistake’ after Biden invites Taiwan to democracy summit
web development -> REST -> JSON -> JSON parsing libraries

So like js frameworks, json parsers are everywhere
> Why would I throw that away for a native app that ... has much greater access to my device?

You wouldn't, because you understand. But for every one of you there are 99 other who will install such a app if it is pushed to them. Apps are almost like bookmarks now.

Bookmarks with access to your location, contacts, and camera.
Hm, I feel like that there is no challenge to "how did they do that" hurts in that regard.
Yeah, same problem, but I don't think I ever saw more than 50k resources per user.

I think the best solution potentially is to have the system monitor the "whale" users and have a special case where you turn their list of resources into a single group/tag behind the scenes and add this single identifier to all the relevant objects. It'd be hell to get right and keep consistent but it'd be fast.
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This is exactly the problem I see with religion and how literally (some) people interpret religious texts. The texts have gone from spoken word to written and then gone through several translations. Languages have intricacies that change meanings when translated. It’s context-specific and region-specific and time-specific. Words don’t always have the same connotations. Some phrases don’t exist. The translator can put their own biases into the translation despite trying to maintain neutrality. I wouldn’t dare bring this up to a religious person, but I can’t relate to the confidence of accepting their particular linguistic and stylistic variety as being the correct one.

On a more technological note, a COBOL to Java translator has probably made unforeseen mistakes that will change reality for people.
Hasura, nextjs and auth0
Wow. I wonder what the rationale was.
I'm not a huge fan of "appeal to authority", but I'm curious what your credentials and experience in this area are?

The person you are arguing with claims to have direct experience working with viruses in a lab setting.

Is this another of HN's all too frequent, "computer science major arguing with expert in field completely unrelated to computer science"?
I believe it's a group: Hacker News is a community. That we don't act as a hivemind is a result of our contrarian community culture.
Wait until you try a fully featured "real" IDE. The features language servers provide are only some of the many things that IDE users have had for literally decades.
What kind of practice is that??
Huh. That stuck around in my brain for a bit. Never really seen it put so succinctly before!
Comparing apples to oranges. Java has been around for multiple decades so there may be some bias on your part based on very old examples, but also, your “average” java program is more likely much more complex and larger code base than your average go one.

Also, shitty code does get written by developers quite often, regardless of language — at that point the runtime can only do that much.
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