skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Major social media sites and fact checkers all shunned “lab-leak” as a fringe conspiracy theory simply because Trump professed to believe in it. Once he left office we acknowledged it as a real possibility. I don’t think these organizations or people have the knowledge to correctly assess what he’s saying. This I suspect the ban happened wholly because he’s a controversial fringe contrarian.

Since I think that, I’m much more ambivalent about the ban. The politics of such a situation will NEVER allow for such a voice to be on a major platform if the stakes are so high and they’re rather effectual in their influence.
It's not unfortunately. And I worked there 6 years. But I have great memories and a lot of great experience from the gig.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

That Welsh bloke had a pretty decent turn of word.
Not much to it... time better spent kissing someone... he he

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How have dropbox and stripe not changed the world?

I remember paper filing cabinets, PCI compliance, jump drives, etc.
Why does that matter? When would a human need to read and comprehend base64 encoded data?
>Also, we know that ADHD results in reduced life expectancy, so ADHD medication just has to improve that number for it to be pretty good.

I'm hesitant to agree with this statement outright -- on the population level, I do think it makes sense to pursue interventions that increase life expectancy. But on the individual level we must ask, are we comparing apples-to-apples years of life? For example, I would pick 10 years of life with vitality over 12 years with mobility issues.
Food prices expected to climb in 2022
Webb encounters minor malfunction during sunshield deployment [thread]
Such a world exists. It's called "academia". Our measured units of success are publications, and citations.
Some of the best tech people I’ve met were history teachers in a previous life :P
This problem will sort itself out. As twitter becomes nastier and nastier and only one voice is left allowed on the platform, eventually people will get tired of it and go to other places.

But you've got to think, when you are banning MD's from giving their input on medical issues because it doesn't suit your political narrative, "are we the baddies?'
Ah interesting. I guess the case insensitivity (for incoming email) is a decision of the popular services then, like gmails decision to consider johndoe equivalent to john.doe.
Ebola's going to be the next "fun" one that pops up.

https://www.science.org/content/article/new-ebola-outbreak-l...
Why is 1.4cm at 1km great? You still missed, so it's terrible at any range.
That’s really not true though. 99.9% effective might not be good enough for an Antarctic research base, but that’s a pretty unusual circumstance. We’d be thrilled if our current countermeasures against Covid were 99.9% effective; we would’ve ended this in 2020 if that were the case.

If I understand correctly, you can mathematically model how effective countermeasures have to be in order to suppress a virus with a given R0. Given that the measles vaccine is 93% effective and sufficient to suppress one of the most infectious diseases we’ve ever seen (R0 of 12-18), I think 99.9% would be in the overkill category.
Honestly those are so easy to circumvent. I built translation functionality into an IRC bot in the past and it was so easy to avoid recaptcha if you did stuff in a clean way.
Just add an event to calendar for $date+1y:

"Replace one of SSD/NVMe drives in $server because I'm afraid of simultaneous failure (and probably still didn't configured backup for this server)"
So, no combining characters? Ok, even if you rule out Latin characters with accents and only use code points that consider the character with accent a single entity... you still have world languages which need combining in order to work, which means you can't really escape multiple encodings of the same "graphemes" (these languages don't exactly have "letters" like ASCII does).
Salaries surge for white collar workers
Males are socialised as well to sacrifice and build a stable successful marriage. The idea is that everybody gives and takes to create something of value together. Sometimes not everybody understands this and ends up taking way more than they give.
Wait... how was the username "ford" never used on HN until now?
i got myself back into the gym habit once with “5 minutes on the elliptical, then 5 pushups”. i still cant believe how well it worked.
Strep exists on the skin.
That's it! No wonder I couldn't find it, I had half the details wrong. Online gambling, arrested mid-trip and in 2006. But British not Russian, Texas not Florida and no unscheduled maintenance. Funny how the mind fills in the blanks 15 years after passively reading a news article.
It's more of using specialized, purpose driven applications vs using a generalized swiss army knife of epic proportions.

Handshake was purpose built to work with traditional DNS while ENS is something entirely different. I think that's why Handshake is gaining more adoption in the traditional DNS sector as well, but whatever the case, I've opted to work with this technology based on a number of factors:

1. The ENS project is great for creating human readable Ethereum wallets. However, it doesn't seem that it was initially suited to be used for DNS and that this was later patched on.

2. ENS is centrally controlled by a federation of key holders [1] while Handshake is decentralzed.

3. In Handshake, you truly own the name.

4. With blockchain already inheriting many inefficiencies when compared to more traditional systems, ethereum, while very cool, tries to be too much and the bloat has led to extreme fees for interacting with the blockchain.

That being said, I'm keeping my eye out on all of the naming projects. It's something I'm very interested in.

[1] https://docs.ens.domains/frequently-asked-questions
Ublock origin on desktop.
AdGuard on iOS.
What I read, some schools were actually closed and only had remote work. That is clear evidence of bad data and grounds for doing a new study.
It would have to change transmission mechanism.

Until then unlikely
To be honest, any country that wants to arrest you would have no issues with grabbing you from the transit lounge/terminal.

It costs the US airlines and airports a lot of business because US requirements to enter are difficult while other countries just use their brain and help out their airlines by permitting transit-without-entry.
It is. And if you want to go Khaby Lame all the way on this issue: Just use a fan instead.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14596273/
Pfizer didn't write those slides, a third-party did, on which Pfizer claim they had no input. One could argue they did, but there isn't tangible evidence to claim they did.
So I went rummaging around to see what the stats were for flu risk vs. covid-19 (w/ vaccine) risk.

Judging by the this website of historical data, looks like deaths per year seems to average around 15/100,000 a year. It's interesting to see how the number has come down quite a bit over the last 40 years. Check it out. Was quite a bit higher even in the late 90s!

https://www.statista.com/statistics/184574/deaths-by-influen...

Now onto the fatality rate for covid-19 for those who have been vaccinated. Judging by the CDC's table here, looks like it is around 35/100,000 after the 2nd shot. I do think (hope?) the number will improve a bit thanks to post infection treatment protocols.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7043e2.htm#T2_down
Can't really go wrong with https://portswigger.net/web-security , which is a spiritual successor to the Web Application Hacker's handbook 2nd edition. If you want more practice, take a look at things like TryHackMe and HackTheBox, both of which have plenty of web-focused modules to work through as well.
E-mail (RFC-821), HTTP (RFC-7540), IPv4 (RFC 791), etc. Pretty much the entire internet.
This is solved with key management and security as opposed to with the fact on whether or not the technology has merit. Now, we're really moving goalposts. ;)
Jesus said we'll always have poor people. So you're not wrong.

It doesn't have to be a solvable problem to be the best way to measure success.

Your working definitions of "best" and "worst" still seem to be about net worth. If money isn't the measure of success, the delta probably wouldn't be net worth delta.
What are your predictions for 2022?
> You absolutely cannot fake a message being cryptographically signed without providing a broken verification function.

How about by obtaining the private key?
Ya I saw this Dan Rojas video linked on HN a while back when the laser mosquito idea came up. He uses an open bottle of carbonated water to attract them to the fan/screen trap https://youtu.be/6BhV-o77RqQ
It’s worth reiterating that police are effectively above the law, criminally and civilly. Aside from the obvious conflicts of interest between police and prosecutors, there is a court invented[0] principle that says that cops are immune to even civil suits if they violate your rights. This can only be breached if the courts had previous ruled that their specific actions[1] violated your rights. Since cops can’t go to trial for new abuses, new precedent isn’t being made and cops are for all intents and purposes immune.

0 - Funny how the anti-“activist judges” crowd is silent about the Supreme Court making this doctrine up out of whole cloth.

1 - Down to the terrain in which the abuse happened.
Definitely not a pain for a LAN. Case in point: navigating to your router’s web interface. Very easy to do with IPv4 to do, a pain with IPv6.

As my home router only supports stateless auto configuration, it’s an additional friction point to have stable addresses. Oh, and since the /56 is assigned by my ISP, it sometimes changes, so I can’t just rely on addresses being stable.

I’m not saying that IPv6 is necessarily bad — we _need_ the extra address space! - but it definitely requires a different way of working and I haven’t completely cracked that nut myself yet. I’m almost at the point that I’m just considering using NAT with IPv6, but I fear the IP gods will spell an evil curse on me if I dare to do that.
I think just modern computing in general replaced those not dropbox or stripe in particular
If you don't like the animations why not turn them off?
This is a fantastic, long-form essay on crimes committed by Ghislane Maxwell, and the criminal-justice system that eventually brought her to trial, written by someone who was themselves a victim of sexual predators as a child.

>> We have arrived at this moment of global awareness around child sex trafficking not because there’s a sudden escalation of powerful men preying on young people, but because we have found a way to name something that’s been happening forever. <<

I couldn't not choose some pull quote that sums it up, as I was pulled into the narrative and found myself reading the whole thing through.

I highly recommend that you do the same.
I've had to fix this before. A co-worker working with data from a 3rd party supplier had gone "Oh this input data is mangled with stray zero bytes, I'll fix that" and of course that destroys any non-ASCII inputs, eventually I'm told that sometimes the import fails, I investigate, and I realise the "mangled" input is just UTF-16 encoded, conditionally remove the "strip zero bytes" hack and tell the decoder it's UTF-16 and it just works correctly.

The "maybe strip null bytes" code lived for years "just in case" after I fixed that because people couldn't believe that's all that was ever "wrong" with the data.
That's like an inverse heckler's veto, isn't it? Anything that gets popular with the "wrong" crowd gets censored, through no fault of the speaker's.
> Remember the part where I said, "The Bay Area is not San Francisco"?

Ok, so does Oakland not eat? What about Milpitas? Are they photosynthesizing their food too?

> Also, you're implying that San Francisco, or the greater Bay Area, somehow didn't produce anything before the tech locusts arrived.

I implied nothing of the sort. But you haven’t addressed my question. What do they produce today? Hmm?
I have had several horrible reactions to medications. Think the super rare 1/10 of a percent reaction. Most of my family is the same way.

I’m terrified of any new medication.

I do support vaccine in general, but it terrifies me. I had covid before it was available. So now it’s “why bother”
I have mixed feelings about this. After college I basically tried that by moving from Chicago to Boulder CO. Restructuring my life around the very different area helped (in particular I lost a lot of weight), but my problems all followed me over. It wasn't some reinvention like I wanted it to be. I don't see it as the turning of a chapter more than events in a continuum sitting between a traumatic childhood and realizing I was in it too deep to get out alone.

Things didn't really start to improve until I started going to therapy about five years later. I had actually moved back to Chicago by that point.
That's a fair statement.

For ADHD medication specifically, for most people diagnosed with ADHD I would expect to see both improved life quality AND life expectancy. Of course, specific individuals may experience worsened life quality on medication, in which case they will have to weigh up whether they want potentially longer life with lower life quality.

Given the kinds of mortality causes from ADHD, I would think the calculus looks more like "ADHD meds make me feel yuck but maybe that's worth it to not get fired regularly, because my family needs me to support them financially and being fired regularly makes me depressed and suicidal".
The Most Serene Republic of Venice is not exactly the first historical state that comes to mind when I think of the word "honor"...
Tesla recalls another 200.000 cars in China over same safety concern
I've heard enough parables to know how this will play out, if it does happen: lots of dead bugs on the ground, bugs that will feed another species in the food chain. The lack of mosquito population and reproduction will starve species that depend on them. That change in the dynamic will ultimately be worse for ag production...

I'm all for reducing toxic chemicals from the food supply chain and this approach looks somewhat promising. Its just difficult to predict the consequences of even an ideal outcome. That isn't to say that we shouldn't try, but maybe we could work together to mitigate such effects before mass adoption, or reframe the problem such that lasers may not be needed in the first place.
This may not mean much, but I am truly sorry for all the misery you have had to endure. My hope was that caste should die when we immigrate. But that was too optimistic. The light on the horizon is that it will die with the second generation Indian-Americans.
Belgium actually had the first winter expedition to the Antarctic in the late 1800s. Although it was mostly Belgian in name only and also a complete disaster, save for a commendable amount of scientific data being collected.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_Antarctic_Expedition

The book "Madhouse at the End of the Earth" by Julian Sancton is a great read for this story of the first humans to spend a sun-less winter in Antarctica.
While that looks good as far as it goes,it is incomplete as it leaves out the 8080/Z80 and 680x worlds of the 1970s-80s, along with the main disk-based OSs of that period (mainly CP/M).

Well done.
Good skills mate.

Rustle it up for all of the original verses and then set it to a faux sea shanty. Tik Tok will wet itself.

Was hal.
The instructions you pasted are for claiming a name that was pre-reserved when Handshake launched [1]. This is different from creating and obtaining a new name on the blockchain.

[1] https://github.com/handshake-org/hs-names
> Nose swabs reveal whether you're shedding the particles and thus infectious. It doesn't matter if you're infected if you're not shedding the virus.

No, they really don't. Swabbing for RNA picks up gene fragments that may or may not be from infectious virus -- it's why we see positive tests for months after infection in some people.

Swabbing for viral protein is debatably more likely to detect the thing of interest (the virus itself, in some semblance of functioning order), but these tests also have a high false-negative rate (around 10% for the better tests I've seen; I have never heard of a test with a sub-percent FN rate, as you claim). You can be shedding live virus and these tests won't pick it up, either because you're not shedding enough, or because the antibodies in the test don't bind to the protein in your sample for whatever reason.

Either way, you're measuring a proxy for what you really care about. A true test of infection involves taking a sample and incubating in cell culture. Nobody does this, except to validate the original tests and provide clear positive and negative samples. It's slow and orders of magnitude more expensive than even PCR testing. But this is the direct test for infectious virus. Everything else is an approximation.

(Let me be clear, though: I wholeheartedly support the use of antigen tests -- even ones with low sensitivity -- over the insanity we're doing now in the US. It's just bad to misrepresent what they're actually doing.)
I mean just because you don't see it as having changed the world doesn't mean it hasn't. I've worked at companies that couldn't use stripe / existed before it was a thing and accepting payments was/is a difficult problem subject to all the regulation from multiple countries and building and maintaining it yourself is a total crapshoot.

Starting a business and accepting money with stripe is super simple comparatively.

A lot of world changing happens behind the scenes and isn't necessarily super flashy. They lowered the barrier to entry making it much easier for anyone building new things to get their customers paying which is world changing for people involved in doing business and business has always been a huge part of humanity whether you like it or not.

I wonder how many things exist because one person somewhere was able to integrate stripe over a few hours and start making money versus needing a team to maintain a payments system.
The ultimate dad poem.
I did some calculations of my own. Assuming a index of size 2^64 and a block size of 256 KB, you could store 6,949,999,424,954 hours of 4k
REDCODE36 RAW 4K video @ 120 fps before you ran into problems.
Of course living in denial makes it easy to ignore harsh realities. Unfortunately for them, humans don't work that way. Things aren't gonna spontaneously change just to make their life easier. The software adapts to us, not the other way around. People complain about the complexities of dates and times but they still make every effort to get it right because it matters.

If a programming language allows text processing but can't even properly compare unicode text, it is buggy and needs to be fixed. If an operating system can't deal with unicode, it's buggy and needs to be fixed.
I was disappointed "this be the verse" by Philip Larkin wasn't available.[0]

My other favourite poem is this one by Bertold Brecht: who built the seven gates of thebes [1]

[0] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48419/this-be-the-ver...
[1] https://allpoetry.com/A-Worker-Reads-History
Happy New Year to you and yours.

Was hal!
I didn’t mean faking some small upper caste clique, but rather someone from a really “bad” caste simply getting rid of their backstory by assuming an identity in some very common caste. I couldn’t pretend to be royalty in Europe either. Such as when taking a new name - theirs are (surprise) not available to take.

The difference is that while we have the small majority genealogical nobility in Europe too, the more problematic one to me is the opposite where people are born into lower castes. That’s what I’m wondering if someone in India could somehow get rid of (if they are willing to e.g move and break with family). Not if they could fake their way into the small top minority.
- Rounded window corners make the first character on the bottom line of terminals unreadable

I've never come across this? Do you use some xwindows app that lays characters right on the borders or something?
. . . I don't even need to say anything here.
On the other hand, the Catholics have a patron saint of Chess.

https://www.chessmaniac.com/saint-teresa-of-avila-patron-sai...

In which I found an old familiar anecdote:

“There is an anecdote that Charles Borromeo, Bishop of Milan, was playing chess among friends and someone asked what would they do if they were just told that they were about to die and that Christ was at hand for Judgment Day. One person said he would start praying. Another said he would go straight to confession. A third person said he would rush off to church and prostate himself before the Blessed Sacrament. But Charles replied that he would continue his game of chess, for that he begun it for the glory of God, and should continue it for the same end; whatever was done with a single view to God was a holy and meritorious act.”
I used to be a Sandstorm user but yes it was abandoned. Have been a Cloudron guy since the start and have been very happy with it.
Show HN: Web Game – Squirrel shoots nuts
> I dream of a world where we try to solve problems first and monetize them second

I dream of a world where we don’t create solutions, such as blockchain, and then try to find the problem.
I read an essay years ago describing "If", "Invictus", and "Trees" (by Joyce Kilmer) as the three worst poems in the English language. I can't find the essay, so maybe I have the three poems wrong, but once you read them side by side, you definitely get a sense of the different kinds of nausea literature is capable of generating.

But the common feeling is greeting card sentiment poured forth with the stridency of a real professional.
Isn’t the government’s purpose to enforce property rights? Medallion owners didn’t just mint these medallions in their own shed. The government created the medallions, and intentionally limited supply to prevent road saturation (and other questionable reasons), just like the government intervenes in the agricultural market for farmer’s well being.

With ride sharing, the incumbent sucked, and the challenger happened to be popular with the voting public. I suspect that reimbursing medallion owners is being considered because a large political donor acquired a number of medallions at discount, and is looking for politicians to “enforce his property rights”. The government should have done their job in the first place. Now, I smell something dirty. I’d recommend buying medallions.
So seemingly this is a Tensorflow model compiled as WASM? Pretty cool no matter how it's accomplished but I'll echo the other commenter that a more detailed writeup would be nice especially for the HN folks!
Perf c2c is extremely useful. Especially when using it with call graphs. Seeing which call stack interacts how with a cache line can make it a lot easier to find solutions to contended cache lines.
When I last wrote one I was very new to it and rpm.org (where most of the public docs on the format reside I guess) was down/abandoned. It looks like rpm.org and the docs are back now? I had a bunch of special requirements for the lib I was making and not having docs for the format, especially all the funny macros, was pretty frustrating.
Why? This is what firewalls are for.
As the beloved doctor Gregory House put it, "tell a surgeon it’s okay to cut a leg off and he’s going to spend the night polishing his good hacksaw" (instead of looking for other solutions).
Quite. Now what we need is a response. Done right, it could be quite something.

Anyone up to a response to "it", ie. son's response to father?
The Mahabharata prominently features Yudhisthira losing a game of dice to his opponent, and Yudhisthira is a demigod, being fathered by Yama.