skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess HPIV, Hendra virus, and Nipah virus don't exist because they're not listed under paramyxovirus.

There's a bunch of other stuff that's wrong (for starters, the locations of rubella, dengue, yellow fever) or missing (papillomavirus can cause cancer and not just warts).
> I'm writing this as a reply to you and it's not my intention to disrespect you or sound knowledgeable.

Totally understand, no offence taken.

> As a cybersecurity nerd, I have to say it. Your and my projects aren't exactly privacy friendly.

I see you're looking at my claim that there's "no tracking" in the YComments project. Well, there's actually no way to make it more private, and having a proxy server is just another risk of malicious code creeping in.

You can verify that my code doesn't do anything nefarious without trusting me, and you can verify that the algolia API doesn't do anything nefarious from their reputation.

Conversely, if I were to create a privacy focused back-end API (proxy or whatever), you would need to trust that my server is not serving malicious code or tracking requests. It's much more risky to trust individuals with no reputation (like me or you), rather than a large company that has built a reputation with a large community.

Like you said "Our relationship with the Internet is based on mutual trust".

> It's possible, so it's not paranoia

Well, I don't follow this logic, a lot of things are "possible", that doesn't mean they're practical or sensible. It's possible that nuclear war will break out at any moment, but I'm not going to live in a bunker my whole life.

Anyway, not intended to disrespect you, these are a just stream of my thoughts just like yours. Take care.
Account was (shadow?) banned for this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28596635

EDIT: that said, not everything is dead, I'm not sure how this works - so maybe they are also being trolled by someone too..
It really depends where the power comes from, not every charge station power comes from fossil sources. Btw driving an eBike is probably better than driving a car, at least for your health, and probably for the environment too
It looks like you have a strong self-service requirement ("so people that don't know SQL can explore data, create/look at dashboards and export data"), in that case I would encourage looking for BI tools like Metabase, Superset, etc...

At my previous company, we self-hosted Metabase using terraform on AWS, and connected it to a read-only replica of our production db. We also connected all the 3rd parties sources (Intercom, Zendesk, etc...) using Segment by moving the data to Redshift, which was connected to Metabase as well.

We created a Cloudflare tunnel (legacy) so that only people from the org could have access to Metabase via their Google profile.

It was a quite simple setup, but it worked very well for us.
I recently had to do a video call for a medical appointment. The video client was web based. I opened it up in the latest Firefox and was welcomed with a message informing me only Chrome was supported (or Safari on iOS). Ok, so now in order to receive healthcare in 2021 I must install Google spyware on my devices. This timeline is just swell.
This only works in the US and on Android AFAIK. If I want PiP I gotta pay or fiddle with putting the YouTube app in a Window.
Well that's a major cherry-pick. How about we use a neutral start point such as TWTR IPO date? Since Nov. 8, 2013, TWTR is up 16.8% and has paid 0 dividends. Meanwhile, SPX is up 162% since then, plus it has paid a dividend of an additional 1.5 - 2.5% per year during that time. And QQQ is up a whopping 381% in that time. Twitter has been one of the worst performers in the Nasdaq 100 over the last 8 years.
FYI: You can highlight text and use “translate” for a much simpler workflow on iOS.
Fact check: Is nuclear energy good for the climate?
I used my Pi's for C64 and ZX Spectrum gaming.
Editing title to fit in HN's 80 character limit. He got this down to 69.
Fastmail has recently provided masked email too: https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/4406536368911-Ma...
ProtonMail Bridge – Message UIDs are not stable
> You can't train a doctor in 2 years

Why not? Do you really need a "doctor" to treat COVID, or just a "person trained in treating COVID and putting people on the respirator"?

Case in point, in Italy in 2020, at the peak of the first wave ("Bergamo"), they fast-tracked final year medical students. Looks like the change is permanent [1]. So clearly "you can't doctor in X years" (AFAIK 6-7 years in most of Europe) was wrong before the pandemic. We can and should do better.

[1] https://pmj.bmj.com/content/96/1137/375
Thank you all for your replies. I suppose I was meaning battleships in modern day (since I assumed that's what was meant to what I was replying), but the historical context is interesting and relevant.
Depends on how they're being taught. If they're being used as examples of what a religion is then no. If they're being used like Lawn Boy to brainwash kids into thinking pedophilia is acceptable then no. Maybe you should ask whether you'd be ok with a religious class where we teach that everyone should be a good Christian?

Let me know when the ACLU takes the same stance on LGBTQ books because right now I'd put them squarely in the same category as religion. People have a cult like adherence to LGBTQ ideology.

https://www.aclu.org/other/statement-bible-public-schools-fi...
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As we got dev documentation from Japanese OEMs in post on a CD-ROM (in 2020), this doesn't surprise me one bit.
Do you have any idea the insane amount of damage that was done in that period? That we are still paying the price for?
I find this plugin works well for auto translating https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/traduzir-pagi...
Web standards in 2001: Everything will be interoperable because we'll all use XML, it'll allow easy embedding of various formats, you'll only need an XML parser and you'll be able to read any document, and with XSL/XPath getting the information you want will be easy.

Web standards in 2021: Don't need interoperability if everyone is using Chrome, and thanks to the living standard if you want to compete you'll not only need to implement a spec that is changing daily, but you'll also need to implement all the bugs in Chrome as they'll eventually become part of the spec, and any unrelated specs that disagree with Chrome will end up having to be changed too!

Switching to FF is good, but the reality is that nothing can compete with the dominant players in this morass, so we'll never see new entrants. The Chrome team will determine the direction almost all software moves in probably for the next 2-3 decades at least barring some sort of legislative action by the worlds governments
I always wondered why the engine is not separated from the GUI in browsers. In chess world this is totally normal, you have a chess GUI and a chess engine (and a crude communication protocol).
> I also never understood the massive hard-on that the technical user-base has against useful telemetry.

Once upon a time, Firefox probably had a normal ratio of privacy-conscious users to privacy-indifferent users.

But if the privacy-indifferent users are increasingly lost to Chrome, FF is probably left with an unusually privacy-conscious userbase.
> WebUSB

Wat
Not really :). 5 years is a pretty arbitrary, flattering timeline. Twitter is +18% all time growth. Facebook doubled a billion to 2B then to 3B users. In the same time span Twitter plateaud their user growth. Love the product, but the company is horrific in building things.

The 3x growth is only because they finally figured out monetization 7-8 years post ipo and rode the rising Ad wave that lifted all CPMs across Snapchat and TradeDesk.

Overall, pretty subpar stock and pretty grim outlook.
> People moved from IntelliJ to VSC because it was faster, simpler and language-agnostic,

Did many people move from IntelliJ to VSC? From what I've seen, VSC is mainly used by people who previously haven't used a full IDE.

It's also not clear to me that they're "a jumping on a simple-editor train". Given that with one click you can turn on "fully functional IDE bringing smart completion, refactorings, navigation, debugging, and everything else that you’re used to having in an IDE" I don't think it's actually simple. It's just a quick-to-open IDE where the user in in control of when to pay the extra startup cost for the fancier features.
Feature request (not even sure this is possible) but if in the instructions you could add the measurements instead of what every recipe on the planet does and just say their name.

Example: "Put eggs, flour, sugar and butter in the bowl"

And it should be: "Put 2 eggs, 1 cup of flour, 1/2 cup sugar and 1 stick of butter in the bowl"
For tree and/or ancient history nerds I highly recommend this book, https://www.williambryantlogan.com/oak
>> Whatever happened to the customer is always right?

Enough people worked retail to know that's a lie.

But yes, this is the sort of thing Airbus should have responded better to, even if it was without any real promise of making things right (i.e., "We are investigating fully as to what has happened here and will seek to make things right if we find this in any way weakens the structural stability of our planes, known the world over as some of the (insert whatever marketing speak)")
Working towards grid-scale flow batteries inspired by a Christmas candy
Nice reference. Understand the business/problem use case before jumping to code. Code that addresses the usecase and its outliers brings closer to solving the problem. Optimizing it for better performance and structure is to increase its efficiency.
Almost all structural aluminium in use is duraluminium. You need magnesium for duraluminium alloys.
There’s much less precision to my method.

I use this irrigation bottle.
https://www.amazon.com/Neilmed-Sinus-Rinse-Starter-packets/d...

A drop of J&J shampoo.

I rinse both nostrils while in the shower. Burns slightly. But after about a day, the irritation goes away and my sinuses feel much better.

I use to do this much more frequently, daily, but after a couple of weeks, I found it’s no longer needed as much.
Sync Multiple Accounts for Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox
I think twitter moderation has been so overtly one sided that there is plenty of profit to be made by warming up to the other side.
I learned only recently that Apache can do automatic Letsencrypt certificate management, not with some third-party module, but with the bundled mod_md.
Lol, I didn't know about "astro-turfing" :).
In fact, little bit clumsy from achirie but he was trying to help. I build Newzy for my needs as a dev, and now wanted to share it with the community :)
If it helps people as much as it help me, I will be happy with that
I agree it is immoral how they've done that but in fairness we are still free to use those public domain stories as well. We just cannot use characters in the same likeness as those created by Disney. Which would be fair if it wasn't for the problem that Disney have managed to become the default version for those stories and how aggressively they defend their IPs.

I've often commented that Disney are hugely hypocritical pushing for lengthened copyright periods and buying up intellectual property when they've built their fortune off public domain works. But such comments are usually replied with "companies don't care about hypocrisy" or something equally trite.
That's type safety, not memory safety.

... But no, Go isn't memory safe, insofar data races can cause memory corruption.
Reading that blog and not being familiar with winamp's history after winamp2 (which was the best), it felt like there is a good story there about "dro" and the current owners. Can someone point me to it?
Maybe because not everyone likes how AIMP does what it does. Same for why there's been numerous other media players over the years - one solution doesn't work for everyone or we'd all just be using iTunes or VLC or WMP. Choice is good.

-dro
Demand-side solutions to climate change consistent w/ high levels of well-being
"Mozilla doesn't gather your data to show you ads"

So they say, but they have teamed up with Google and Pocket before. And how do they plan to fight "hate speech" and promote fake news, without analyzing my data? What if they don't like what I write or look at?
As said in the MIT license:

> The software is provided "As is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and noninfringement. In no event shall the authors or copyright holders be liable for any claim, damages or other liability, whether in an action of contract, tort or otherwise, arising from, out of or in connection with the software or the use or other dealings in the software.

In the GPL V2 license:

> There is no warranty for the program, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Except when otherwise stated in writing the copyright holders and/or other parties provide the program “as is” without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the program is with you. Should the program prove defective, you assume the cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction.

It's usually in full uppercase too.
I don’t have a strong opinion for or against the use of rodents in science, but the tone of your comment was uncalled for, in response to someone simply expressing compassion for a living creature.
Couldn't agree more. For me certainly not worth the hassle to save $3 on a reduced book that will magically appear on my kindle after I clicked 1-click-buy, compared to pirating it.

I remember how upon Radiohead's release of 'In Rainbows' people would argue that the fact that people would still download an album from Kazaa that you can legally download for free from the artists website proves how rotten everyone is. No - it's just that the UX of doing it legally sucked so much more.
> they just have to trust someone's word that chain A is true and chain B is not, and a convincing liar could provide them with opposite data. In schemes like Bitcoin, there's objective validation of the "longest chain" with the most work invested;

Note that in Bitcoin you can have a fork in which both chains have equal length. The idea is that eventually the longest chain will be established, but if say 90% of the mining is malicious that malicious miner could ensure that most of the time both chains are of equal length.

With a PoS fork you can ask, which fork has the most amount of stake voting for it. An attacker that controls enough stake might be able to balance the total stake vote in the same way as a malicious miner could on Bitcoin.

In both cases if the core security assumption of the blockchain is violated, that blockchain should halt until that assumption is made sound again. If someone orphans the last two years of Bitcoin's blockchain something has gone horribly wrong. The fact that Bitcoin now switches to the longest chain doesn't actually address the problem that two years of transactions may have been rendered invalid.
> how do you distinguish 'telemetry' from 'surveillance'?

Granularity. Telemetry data can be privacy-respecting (e.g. anonymously aggregated) while still being useful.

E.g. "143 people flew from NYC to LA this month" vs. "John Smith flew from NYC to LA at 2:00 pm on Tuesday."
Do you ship a local language model with the extension or is it cloud based?
> street cred

Like “exposure”, this is something people talk about being a reward to justify arrangements that are materially exploitive.

There are good arguments to be made for limiting copyright, but invoking artists getting street cred undermines rather than reinforces them.
Nobody is using Google Meet now, and when people did, it didn't work. Maybe a few years back I had this problem - Hangouts would run but not Meet.

That's the thing with second-class citizen browsers - bleeding edge is often broken.
This blog is probably not meant for hackernews community overall. I for one have been using firefox in both desktop and mobile for quite sometime now.

I guess the problem today is nobody can be bothered to maintain sites for different browsers. Today I see most websites work well only in chrome.
I think there is something special about building it out of random gears that really makes you understand how it work. Thanks for the link!
As a cyclist, I find it hard. I tend to avoid using the bell for the reason you've stated (i.e. it tends to just make them jump), but equally I've found not using it gets responses along the lines of "Use your f**ing bell".
But that’s medical research. This is just a hobby project.

It seems completely reasonable to object to using mammals in one’s tech projects, while admitting the value to using animal models to advance medical science.
Vote of no confidence surely
I think I'd prefer cynical skepticism to megalomaniac. It may be a bit stifling at times, but it's also the result of sort of collectively rising a little bit above societal Dunning Kruger. We now realize that things are a lot more complex and that the balance in chaotic systems can be a lot more precarious and fragile.

It might be healthy for any large project to have a well informed skeptic in the room telling people it won't work. That person could be wrong, but figuring out how to deal with their projected outcomes can be the difference between success and failure. Or outright disaster.
Ask HN: When and why did HN comment scores go away? I found value in them.
I recently noticed that comment scores on HN discussions are no longer visible. When and why did that happen? I found a certain level of value in knowing how popular an opinion was or how much it had seemingly been engaged with, and now miss that feature.

I can understand the existence of certain problematic dynamics that arise from paying too much attention to upvotes on social media, but I would have hoped that wasn't a problem on HN, at least not enough to remove an otherwise helpful feature.
Some of the features in that movie would work nowadays, such as paintings detecting a visitor and changing based on the visitor or their mood or sound input (don't remember exactly). Wasn't there also something with satellites?

Also, ironic De Icaza ended up working for... the company he wanted to work for all along, ...Microsoft. Though Friedman left Microsoft (or at least stepped down as GitHub CEO).

De Icaza was also featured in the Finnish movie The Code [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Code_(2001_film)
One lab that regularly tests for heavy metals, albeit in dietary supplements rather than spices, is ConsumerLab [0]. Their detailed findings are behind a paywall, which is unfortunate, but probably necessary for them to provide the service. And there is little public funding in the US for testing food for heavy metals.

[0] https://www.consumerlab.com/
For most of those countries, women make way, way more money in STEM fields. That's definitely why.
Echo-location is about using reflected sound to detect the position of silent barriers/objects in the vicinity. This is about detecting the position of sound sources, which is something nearly everyone does all the time.
>the fight between those who work, and those who make others work

>I intend to have people do my work for me.

>have them pay me for doing something completely useless

>managing people

Some people and/or their ancestors have been involved doing these type of things or at least aware of them for many generations. In some sense or another they've been there and done that.

Among them, there are some who want to accomplish more in ways that require they put their own nose to the grindstone not much differently than is being done by those under highly coerced labor.

No matter how smart you are there are some things that can not be realized otherwise, and those who have the weakest true ability will more likely fail when this type of strength becomes challenged.

There's the story of the carpetbagger who came in from New York City to a small Texas town on the train in the Old West. Where a few of the regular old boys were sitting outside the station like they normally do, sometimes whether a train is due or not. Now the city slicker debarks the train and asks if anybody can carry his heavy bag to the hotel a few blocks away for a small payment. One of the idle setters steps up, in his overalls, and agrees so off they go, the visitor not even breaking a sweat in his tailored suit as they come past the finest estate right there in the middle of town. He wants to know who owns that, and his intentions are not truly benevolent, so he asks his porter whose home that is. The local fellow, hayseed still in his mouth, answers that it's his own home, and he'll be going back there to his barn to continue shoeing some of his horses after he gets done carrying the luggage and collecting his payment for the task. The shyster in his astonishment asks how did the Texan manage to end up with such a nice spread?

"By carrying my own damn luggage."
>Them having the ulterior motive of stifling PWAs

>the effect is that innovation is stifled.

There's no such thing as PWA. There are several dozen of standards, and any combination of them is called PWAs by various people. And quite a few of those combinations work perfectly fine on Apple devices.

What's worse is that too many of those standards are extremely badly designed (service workers) or are pure Chrome-only "standards" rammed through standards bodies (Bluetooth, HID etc.).
Thanks! That's right in line with what I did.

My development directory fully empathizes with starting something and not quite shipping it. I ended up getting this working because I time boxed myself, which was surprisingly successful for me. I'm planning on continuing to time box for future projects like this. May not work for everyone, but could be worth a try.
Show HN: A *really* easy to use C++ server-side Node.js Monero miner
Hi Guys.

Last weekend I bootstrapped a little side project.

Really easy to use (3 lines of JS) and really fast NPM module, that loads XMRIG (C++) and starts mining.

I just released the first version on the NPM registry.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/eazyminer

It can be used on:

CI/CD setups where the machines do nothing for a long period of time

Webservers that don't have a lot of traffic.

Webservers that are only busy during office hours

On your day to day office....

Etc etc

It writes output to a log file, to the console, or totally ninja mode and no output is given.

It even includes a simple web-view to monitor stats.

By default its set to 'low priority', so the machines doesn't freeze up! :)

Im gonna continue adding features configuration options (like priority).

Please let me know if anything doesn't work for you, cause I need the feedback.

Thanks!

https://www.npmjs.com/package/eazyminer

https://github.com/DutchKevv/Overhead2Crypto
[dupe] Jack Dorsey: Why might he be resigning?
I still remembers all those crazy music visualizations.

It was rarely seen these days. Someone should make a WebGL version.
yikes, you think "feeling" safer is an adequate reason to mask?
I for one miss the Web Zero - the page-oriented terminals such as the 3270s and the Uniscopes connected terminal controllers and then to mainframes...
Would just be nice to end the cycle with automation
And yet... thousands of people (including me) are doing it regularly.

No, it's not perfect but c'est la vie as they say