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The connectedness of the earth's inhabitants including microscopic beings is in full effect and spotlighted by Covid. Regardless of where the Covid strain originated, we can't deny how closely linked every being on earth is. I ruminate on this known and cliche fact, but I struggle to pin point why. I know we are all connected and its obvious we share one planet. I know we all share distant relatives and descended from simpler earth-life eons ago. But living through the connectedness of Covid is both frightening and enlightening.
There is the Chromium Embedded Framework which makes it somewhat easy to embed Chromium: https://github.com/chromiumembedded/cef
What a sadly modern philosophy... Sure, why should we learn anything from the past? Let's just adjust the past to be whatever's most convenient for today. If it's not convenient at this immediate moment right now, let's just ignore it ever happened. Those millions of people who died unnecessarily? "Boogeyman" "propaganda" for the "out group"?
i made no demands, I'm not the one making the initial assertions, and you don't even have any idea to what extent we may agree/disagree on these issues
came here to say the same. great book!
I'd say public opinion is absolutely swaying in the direction of a ban, especially as the facts become clearer.
SARS's zoonotic link was only established in 2017. You can't expect it to be find. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. And it's going to be harder for this virus than SARS.

Right now, over a year later, reality is conforming exactly to what you would expect to happen starting from that hypothesis a year ago. So I don't even understand why you're mentioning it, it's not a logical argument.
You just wrote it is "silly" to compare XMPP with Signal while constantly doing it yourself.

> Signal admins too can ship you an app

Or I could just use my own Signal client since it is open-source and there are several working forks such as https://molly.im/. How do "Signal admins" (whoever this is) manipulate these open-source forks?

Instead of providing any proof or details, you just post one assumption after another to distract from obvious problems with current XMPP servers and clients. As soon as we debunk a myth, the next assumption comes up.
The source is undeniably Reddit, in a sense (in the sense that it is opposed to a peer-reviewed journal).

Regardless, I directly addressed a portion of your comment. I believe the portion was meant to borrow some of the creditability of serious journals and give it to Reddit - which is, perhaps, a bad idea, for the reasons I laid out. To label my comment a non-sequitur is ridiculous.
Additionally the closest cave containing any viruses resembling SARS-Cov-2 are 1500 km away from Wuhan.
Ok. What is the art of building things that are good, but violate some constraints of the real world? I’d like to use the products from that discipline.
Not the person you asked, but I've done the same. The answer: you have to choose the classes well. If you go with some easy classes for credit, you will be disappointed. If you decide to really do the program, then there are at least 15-20 classes worth taking. Some are really theoretical (ML), others are practical (Big Data for Health, lots of Spark and Scala), and some in between. To be the best class was AI, which deals with classical AI algorithms (minimax, tree search, etc.) - well designed class with some lessons by Peter Norvig.

All in all, I know it's not the exact same program taught live (although they say it is), but the classes are available online are good quality, I learned a lot, and at $841 per class, the price is unbeatable.

Downsides: I have a job and a kid. The workload for some of these classes is massive, so weekends (at least full Saturday) is gone for the duration of the semester, if you study at night every day - then Sundays are yours. Except for the ML class; that was pretty fucking insane and incidentally, the class where I feel I learned the least so far.
(2021) privacy comments on Wi-Fi 7 standards work for 802.11bf, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.14918.pdf

> it has been shown that SENS-based classifiers can infer privacy-critical information such as keyboard typing, gesture recognition and activity tracking ... since Wi-Fi signals can penetrate hard objects and can be used without the presence of light, end-users may not even realize they are being tracked ... individuals should be provided the opportunity to opt out of SENS services – in other words, to avoid being monitored and tracked by the Wi-Fi devices around them. This would require the widespread introduction of reliable SENS algorithm for human or animal identification.

Would this require a worldwide database of biometric signatures for each human that opts out?
Several top virologists have publicly tarred lab leak as racist conspiracy theory, while privately discussed that not only it is a possibility, some of them believed it's highly probable. Here's a very recent email that has been released yesterday [1]. So forgive me for not taking another virologist's take on why lab leak is improbable on redit seriously.

[1] https://twitter.com/TheSeeker268/status/1480930691919618051
> BTW: Has anyone got a good, working recipee for pot brownies that a) don't taste terrible and b) don't require lab equipment?

Don't make brownies, you'll always taste the herbal flavour. Instead, make savoury treats, as that flavour becomes more subtle I found. I used to like making mini sausage rolls. I've heard carbonara or stroganoff works well too if you want a hearty meal to weld you to your couch.
Large-scale, semi-automated Go GC tuning
The "flag" button gets replaced by an "unflag" button. You can Ctrl-F for "unflag" to find the things on the page you've flagged recently.
The key is "(2018)". Things are better now.

Use ccache, ninja, the mold linker. Lean into asysnc. Split off libraries. A little attention, once, saves time all day every day.
note: this was in Australia
Answer from Marc Andreessen: https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1481095915427577856?s=20
Is the last part really necessary?
I'd be surprised if this actually works.
Werdly enough, he's not even afraid he could be killed by foreign spies, or in a drone attack.
Right but when asked by biased people, with biased intent, it solicits biased answers. It looks innocent on the surface but it’s anything but.
Or with the internet , Linux and open source. Suddenly you could downloads 1000s of apps, most much better, what I ever could do byself.
Some courses are trash: Computer Networks, Knowledge Based AI, Databases, System Design.

Others are amazing: Big Data for Health, AI, Compilers, Deep Learning, Operating Systems, Computer Architecture.

All in all, for the price (and the right classes) it's a steal. Another thing to note is that courses are mostly run by TAs - professor availability/involvement is rare.
In Japanese anime, ethnically Japanese characters are regularly represented with unusual hair and eye colors, to help distinguish them from each-other. Including e.g. purple eyes or blue hair not naturally seen on humans.
I do think it would be actionable as sibling comments point out, but I would find this knowledge interesting by itself (intellectual curiosity, I think we are at the right place for this).

> focus hate

That wouldn't be me.

I would feel bad for the people who caused the leak (edit to be clear: if this is what happened, not assuming anything here). To be at the origin of such a pandemic spanning multiple years with all the repercussions must be uncomfortable.
Black app – Best dating app for black people in America
Kudos to you! Are you aware of any other masters which isn't as brutal as OMSCS, honestly I am thinking from my capacity and capability.
A clearly defined format probably prevents something like "Where is Task Force 34 the world wonders" from happening.
It's actually even worse. It's like, "we don't care how the oil spill started, or even if there are oil spills, or even if 'oil' and 'spill' actually have any business being used together, because what use could pointing a finger have?"
Similar motivations as gait recognition or accelerometer data harvesting as proxy for other human actions.
State of Machine Learning in Julia
I only did it once - the whole apartment floor smelled like a dispensary afterwards. Make it into a butter first and it’ll taste great. Unless you don’t like that flavor at all.
Please do not cross into personal attack*, no matter how wrong another comment is or you feel it is.

* "Lying" implies intent to deceive. Piling on with "blatantly" is being aggressive. Please don't post like that to this site. If someone else is wrong, it's enough to respectfully provide correct information.
Sad truth is that CDC/WHO are one of the most competent authorities on the matter, and they have experienced experts in the relevant fields. Only when politics comes into play, that the organisations' actions and intentions are called into question. The ideal thing would be to somehow remove international political considerations from the equation and then ask WHO to conduct an investigation.

Of course, the chances of that happening are probably lower than an actually lethal virus leaking from a lab.
Kentucky Coal Mine to Become “Water Battery” Energy Storage
That may work for domestic public opinion, but getting any international sanctions to stick on China would require a lot more than circumstantial "they won't let us investigate" evidence. International "law" (if such a thing truly exists in practice) is wonky, and rarely based on nuanced views or established facts.

Even domestically, that above quote only applies in specific cases - civil cases, or criminal cases where it can be proven evidence was actually destroyed. I'm not personally aware of clear evidence of bad-faith destruction of evidence right now on China's part. China's refusal to allow a third-party investigation would then be more similar to pleading the 5th, something even US courts are prevented from punishing.
> It's not really that either because PCIe 2.0 was "5GT/s" despite being only 4 gigabits per second.

Sort of, depends on where you're measuring. PCIe 2.0 runs at 5GT/s, which is the speed that the Phy layer runs at, but it uses an 8b/10b encoding, so the Data Link layer sees that 4GB/s. For Gen 3.0 and 4.0 (and I think 5.0) the Phy layer uses a 128b/130b encoding, which has much less overhead. So technically it's about 63Gb/s but we round up. But that's kind of a useless measurement because there's additional overhead from Acks/Nacks on the Data Link Layer and TLP headers on the transaction layer (which depends on the size of your TLPs, and whether or not you're using infinite credits.)

edit: I'm not sure which encoding the Phy layer on PCIe Gen 6.0 uses, since it's PAM4. The (approximately) 63 GB/s on the data link layer assumes 128b/130b encoding

> What makes you say that? The chart says x16.

Maybe that metric includes both directions. Either way, it's misleading, as you only get 128 MB/s (before protocol overhead) on PCIe 6.0 x16. (64Gb * 16 lanes) / 8 bits per byte = 128 MB/s
Well, digital art already allows you to copy/paste a layer and stuff that traditional art never allowed for. Imagine copy pasting a statue.

This is sort of the same thing on steroids. You can copy/remix previous art by feeding them into a ML model in training mode, and it will be massively utilized the same way ctrl-c ctrl-v is used, but it's a part of the toolset of art creation, not replacing it.
Ask HN: How do I avoid scrolling to the death?
I get distracted easily. I often check messaging apps/twitter/fb/reddit/hn throughout the day. I’ve set up a time limit on my phone for these apps but I always bypass it. I have a host file to redirect these websites to localhost but I’m constantly commenting these lines out. My router is configured to cut the internet connection for my devices after 8pm but I always override it. These things actually worked in the beginning, but I became so good and fast at bypassing them that they don’t work anymore.

My happiest times are when I don’t have internet at home, or I’m in the plane/train, or working at a cafe without wifi. How do I avoid all these distractions and these addictions in our always-on world?
This is the reason I stopped donating and stopped using Firefox. They won’t give up control and I don’t want a cent sent to anything but firefox/rust.
Paper (behind paywall): https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3485832.3485894
I remember it well, and also how curiously it died out. But I don't think it's really that related.
This is exactly what I last week and this seems to have fixed the issue. But the point still stands, I don't expect my mom who uses Ubuntu to do these things.
If you honestly dispute that there are options in foreign affairs between "do absolutely nothing" and "full scale military invasion," then our worldviews are so far apart that I don't think fighting about it on the Internet will be a good use of time for either of us.
Coinbase: 'Entire company will shut down' for four weeks
There is - get yourself a subscription to The New Yorker. This piece of long-form is not unusual for them.
An amusing factoid is that the Vatican astronomers bought one or more telescopes from Galileo and confirmed his observational data.
Looks pretty neat. Free floating text and drawing on infinite canvas makes it pretty usable for putting down ideas and brainstorming.
It will be nice if you add shape recognition feature something like these guys have https://lekh.app
Can’t access the article, but a few things make me skeptical.

They say micromolar (uM) affinity. That is usually not good enough. 10 uM is about the cutoff of what you would want in a lead compound - something to be further improved by a medicinal chemist. I suspect they were above 10 uM because if you have low uM affinity you should definitely call it out.

They used a pseudo virus but do not say which. They do not tell you which cell line or cell type they used for their disease model. This info should have gone in the abstract. It would not have taken more than a few characters.

Basically the quality of the abstract makes me doubt the quality of the research.

Also please keep in mind that this is a pseudo virus in a cell model. The graveyard of drugs is filled with filled with compounds that looked good in disease models, but did not work. Generally, the further away you are from a live virus in a live human, the less predictive the model.
One Blatant Wordle Rip-Off Takes the Cake
I wonder is there is some specific use case that makes this really powerful in comparison to Postgres. Something where you have lots of dependent queries perhaps?
New evidence suggests that Seattle’s soda tax is working well
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5549534/

Read the final section.

It doesn't all undergo decarboxylation. You are still inhaling THCA and CBDA
According to this

> Sep 9, 2003 (CIDRAP News) – Chinese scientists found that animals sold at street markets in Guangdong, China, carried a coronavirus nearly identical to the SARS coronavirus, according to a report published recently in Science.

> The animal viruses were found in Himalayan palm civets and raccoon dogs, which were sold for food in the markets, according to the report. The findings indicate a route of transmission between species but do not reveal whether these animals are the virus's natural reservoir or contracted it from another source, according to the report.

Source [1].

The same thing didn't happen for SARS-CoV2. I believe none of the animals in the wet market has been tested positive for SARS-CoV2 or SARS-CoV2-like viruses [2].

[1] https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2003/09/animals-...

[2] https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/26/1021263/bat-covi...
UFCS is one of the most popular features. It's utility is in extending the functionality of a struct without adding member functions that would get private access, but don't need private access.

It helps keep structs small and simple, rather than becoming kitchen sinks.
Hardware acceleration was turned on by default for me. I'm using Thinkpad x270. Also, there is an open bug already.
It's a divisive topic and the comment is adding almost zero information plus a bunch of snark. That's not what we want here. (This has nothing to do with who one agrees or disagrees with on the topic.)

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you wait 2 hours, you are Doing It Wrong. It will take you less than 2 hours to fix your build.
source code is here: https://github.com/Livinglist/Hacki
Come full circle – back to HTML (2020)
I think you’re mistaking a book tour for a media crusade.
Since 802.11bf makes most existing walls transparent, it should lead to innovation in wall construction.

It may also increase market demand for light-based wireless networking (Li-Fi) which has the advantage of being stopped by existing walls.
There is another hypothesis that an immunocompromised patient who took some type of drug that induces DNA mutations in the coronavirus, similar to what Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics offers. If COVID-19 stayed in the patient's body for a long time, it would have time to cause many mutations before transmission.
Yeah...

Q: What would happen if we deliberately did everything possible to artificially create the circumstances leading to a pandemic?

A: A pandemic

Any value of such research SHOULD be questioned.
The next step is basically a quine with a template of diff cruft around it. It has to output this, where N is the number of lines in the program:

1,Nc1,3
< HERE IT REPRODUCES
< ITS OWN N-LINE IMAGE
< ...
---
> #!/bin/sh
> head -n2 $0 | diff - /dev/null
> exit 0

Since "quining" via $0 is evidently fair game, that simplifies things a lot. Here you go:

#!/bin/sh
sed -e 's/^X//' <<!
X1,9c1,3
$(sed -e s'/^/< /' $0)
X---
X> #!/bin/sh
X> head -n2 \$0 | diff - /dev/null
X> exit 0
!

On first try, I didn't escape the dollar sigil on $0, so that got expanded to ./x3.sh, resulting in a minor difference. But since we are not doing any true quining, all I had to do was add the backslash without having to rack my brain on how to compensate for that character elsewhere; the "reproduce self accurately" requirement is trivially taken care of with $0.

With the above template, you can diff back to any body of text, so it can be easily continued.
there's dscanner

https://github.com/dlang-community/D-Scanner
Sure, but they're also happy to let founders do their own thing too rather than blinding preaching get big now like most VCs. As pointed out they've already got their cut so they'd rather have a success than a business that burnt out by trying to scale too big or too soon.
Well, who says they haven't tried to do that. The 2013 Mojiang mining incident was claimed to be a fungal infection, while it was later proven it was a viral infection.
Not going to college is not your failure, that's what world tells most of us, but that's complete bullshit.
The largest-scale usage of D that I have personally seen is a AAA game studio who had an in-house 3D-engine in C++, and chose to write plugins and game logic in D because of easy integration and hot-swappability. AFAIK worked out well for them.
I’m surprised. The younger generations (including my own, and I’m closer to 40 than 20…) seem to have abandoned the main Facebook product en masse in favor of first Instagram and then others. Are people still using FB Messenger stand-alone even if not using Facebook itself?
My recipe has not a lot of basis in science, and this is just a personal anecdote of a recipe that works for me:

Break your bud up! Then, soak it for a few days in water (distilled, preferably) in a covered container. Then, before you make cannabutter out of it, blanch your weed (bring to a boil, then put it into ice water). This will take most of the flavor out of it. Strain all the water out.

The rest of the process is as usual - Decarboxylate your herb by baking it at 240F for ~45 minutes, mixing it up every ~10m so it doesn't burn or toast unevenly. Then simmer it with butter and water for like 4 hours. If you have a thermometer, make sure the temperature stays under 180F.
After 4 hours, strain all the butter thru a cheesecloth or whatever strainer you have, and discard the solids.

You'll be left with a reasonably flavorless butter you can use in any sort of cooking :)
I think future home privacy will go beyond blinds. We will be lining the walls in RF blocking sheets.
Since multiple queries is not a performance problem, would it be crazy to use something like mustache as an extension to SQLite and select your html components directly?
Same boat here, I have this bookmarklet in chrome to make links pop when they're otherwise hidden to me:

javascript:(function(){for(var x of document.links){x.style.backgroundColor='#ff0';x.style.color='#000';}})()
Because of the second law of thermodynamics.
How does beamforming position granularity correlate with speed?
I think its both valuable and important to recognize that the climate change is inevitable so that we can stop talking about how we might prevent it, and start talking about how we can sustain our civilization regardless of the weather. (How would we sustain ourselves if we lived in a satellite orbiting the sun?)

I also think neither democracy or capitalism is well equipped to ask people to make large sacrifices for the benefit of future generations. I think we should stop talking about people making sacrifices, and put effort into engineering our way out of this problem.
I can't stand when I sit down at a co-workers desk to help them and they configured a DSA layout!
But how are we going to make sure that users see ads between each query?
To whose satisfaction? Scientifically? It seems possible if the evidence still exists or could be found, based on a few of the other comments here. Politically? The faction that will never be satisfied, parted company with the scientific community, before the pandemic was even on the horizon.

As a scientist, I would have been OK with learning about the hypothesis from a credible source and letting it play out. I would have been OK with letting the public know about it. However, realistically, good faith investigation of the hypothesis would have been utterly drowned out by hysterically amplified versions of the same hypothesis that were already in circulation.
Parsing is not the hard part of dealing with the Web platform.
"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence."
- Christopher Hitchens

If you dig for documentation, for actual proof of your claims, I bet the answer(s) will be more obvious.
We’re not saying “what came first? The chicken or the zygote?”

Consider the context before trying to correct people. You’re just being pedantic for no reason.
Sure, it's more that I think antitrust is not really that meaningful a remedy.
they can easily extend the number of lanes. there are many examples of much higher speed serdes point to point.
I think you're likely to be underestimating how psychopathic / purely driven by their research to the exclusion of all other factors these people are likely to be. You're probably assuming they have a normal / social / reasonable level of empathy, which is an assumption you're extending them, not necessarily one they deserve.
in germany we have sth like ZUGFerD (in german it means carthorse). it is a pdf with a xml file for parsing.
PMs who hate their product