skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> this is what I’ve heard — rumors

This whole article is just discussion based on a rumor.
Interview with members of the new PHP Foundation
> Few people realize how big the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers are

To be fair, Perseverance looks as big as I imagined it would be, about the size of an SUV but wider (because even in 2020s, they still don't have streets in mars, what a bummer): https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/science/mars-2020-rover-n...

Or did my googling fail me? :)

edit: direct image link around paywall: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/02/18/science/18mars202...
Waveguides, the hollow pipes used to transmit microwave signals
Wasn’t this story the exact plot of Outbreak?

On a serious note, if the CDC told them to test for something, wouldn’t that answer the question about what the monkeys could have had?
I think it's a bit of both.

It's not only about the money. Many people are realising just now that they don't get paid enough to take all the crap they get from work.

Anecdotally, I know a handful of engineers who quit their jobs because of this. They were making good money, just not good enough for the number of sleepless nights and stressful days they were going through.
That's part of it (with regards to rocket motor tech). The other is that the Soviet's designed the vehicle through a different process, versus the American's where it was design by committee (between NASA and the DoD [1]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_design_process
The surprising thing is that a judge would go along with it, since his injunction, and by extension his office, is essentially being instrumentalized as part of a negotiation tactic.
Fight Club was recently released on Tencent Streaming. Check out how they edited the final scene:

https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1485707293769584641
Oh that's interesting. It doesn't even have to be that good at plane identification, just "what's the main focus of this picture".
> Raspberry Pi 4

Before everyone moved to cloud services, self-hosting was a goto choice for nerds who wanted their own stuff, including me. One challenge that self-hosting has not really conquered is availability. If your rpi dies, so does your self-hosting. You might want to explore (and blog about) setting-up a failover device. I'd definitely read about that.
A mile is not far. "don't run distances" is an excuse for most people (people with immutable disabilities notwithstanding) and gatekeeping in this case is not only valid, but necessary to maintain an objective idea of what bare minimum physical activity should be for a human body.
But one doesn't come without the other...

/ducks
Allegations were similarly raised about the lab origin of covid, called "designed to spark outrage and clicks" and then walked back for fear of political repercussions.
> Pay and opportunities are infinitely better

...if you're lucky enough to be among the privileged.
Somewhat related / complementary - Capture2Text is a great Windows OCR screenshot tool, i.e. for capturing graphical text and converting it to textual text:

http://capture2text.sourceforge.net/

No affiliation with the project, just a tool I really like.
> Pearce was quick to walk back the allegations by expressing her reluctance to discuss any specific films or games "because I’m so worried about getting sued by Tencent, but this is what I’ve heard — rumors. I’m not sure if any of this is true.”

This seems like a non-article.
Neil Young wants to quit Spotify over Joe Rogan's vaccine misinformation
> you want to live like that or remain free

Depends on how you define free. The US population is definitely not free either when seen from Scandinavia. The US is only more free if freedom is defined as Free to be unprotected from big business etc.
985 lines in rut plus the haders, if anyone woners.
Quite the contrary, we didn't like waiting for image-heavy sites to load.
And yet the Russians, in this case, would have been better served ignoring the Chesterton fence.

It's a neat analogy but it has limited utility as a general rule for either side.
Also 22-02-2022 is palindrome.
Just tell me which lines do I need to modify in chromium to feed it fake data.
I can certainly see this as a contributing factor.

My own experience is that during the first year of the pandemic I was just cooling my heels in a stable position. Later, the prime factor for me moving on was the whole return to office narrative. I've embraced fully remote and now demand it.

As such, I found a new job in Q4 and moved on, for a 25% pay increase as well.
I was planning to move the other way before Covid - from Sweden to California. It's much less likely now as I have a stable position and my partner lost her job in the US.

Mainly the US has many benefits:

- Much, much higher salaries - like 2-3x higher than Western Europe _before_ income tax!

- Much larger houses for the price. i.e. you can have a big house with room for hobbies or children rather than just a small flat.

- Lower prices on a lot of fixed-price goods - cars, electronics, fuel, electricity, natural gas, etc.

- Lower income and sales tax so you can save for a property and retirement. This is really tough in Europe, the sort of Tech FIRE culture doesn't exist due to that - wealth is primarily inherited.

The downsides are:

- It's a necessity to drive, but at least outside the big cities it's a lot easier than Europe overall (big, wide, straight roads and automatic cars).

- Healthcare is tied to your employer so it can be incredibly risky when moving as an immigrant since until you get a Green Card, you are tied to the one employer (good luck negotiating a raise!). Note that in most Tech companies, the health insurance gives you better coverage than public systems in Europe (e.g. covering dentistry and annual checkups).

- Less stability in employment - at-will employment, lower unemployment payments (except vs. the UK), no trade unions in Tech.

- Safety in some areas wrt. gun crime, etc. - you have to choose where you live and work very carefully.

- Backwards in some technology (online payments, card payments, digitisation of government services vs. the UK and Scandinavia for example).

A main decision point would be if you have kids. Europe is great to move to if you've already saved a lot in the US, can move to Europe and buy a house outright, get permanent residency and then have children and benefit from better paternal leave and even universal child benefit payments (Kindergeld/Barnbidrag, etc.)

Whereas if you are child-free, and don't already have enough savings to buy property, it's going to be harder to achieve that in Europe IMO.
10 years ago google failed at machine translation and NLP, giving hideous and meaningless statistical translation, same no wonder they fail at language understanding by training algorithm with Indians. They will to do science R&D is lowering every year.
Apache Kafka
You can all downvote me all u want but my thoughts and the things I type/say on HN later show to be true.
When I was younger, I thought I could examine a situation until I understood it. Now I feel like one must experience a situation to understand it.

Chesterton's Fence is a good principle; so is "Go and See" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genchi_Genbutsu

Wisdom is deciding how much of each to do.
Firefox 96.0.1 on Ubuntu 18.04
Oh wow, they removed it. I apologize, I simply shared the link that had been shared before in December 2021. I should also have taken a screenshot.

Here is the HN post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29627105

Here's a Techradar post on this: https://www.techradar.com/news/eagle-eyed-redditor-spots-a-f...
> You cannot possibly blame the Chinese government or the people for the Corona virus. That's just insane.

Insane is what they do to animals in their so-called "wet markets". Take a look at some footage if you still have any respect left for the CCP.
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Myths#FreeBSD_is_Just_macOS_Without...

>FreeBSD is Just macOS Without the Good Bits

>This is as much a myth about macOS as about FreeBSD; that macOS is just FreeBSD with a pretty GUI. The two operating systems do share a lot of code, for example most userland utilities and the C library on macOS are derived from FreeBSD versions. Some of this code flow works in the other direction, for example FreeBSD 9.1 and later include a C++ stack and compiler that were originally developed for macOS, with major parts of the work done by Apple employees. Other parts are very different.

>Darwin - which consists of the XNU kernel, IOkit (a driver model), and POSIX compatibility via a BSD compatibility layer - makes up part of macOS (as well as iOS, tvOS, and others) includes a few subsystems (such as the VFS, process model, and network implementation) from (older versions of) FreeBSD, but is mostly an independent implementation. The similarities in the userland, however, make it much easier to port macOS code to FreeBSD than any other system - partially because a lot of command-line utilities were imported along with the BSD bits from FreeBSD. For example, both libdispatch (Grand Central Dispatch in Apple's marketing) and libc++ were written for macOS and worked on FreeBSD before any other OS.

>Apple's kernel programming guide goes into more extensive detail about the similarities and differences.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Da...

>The BSD portion of the OS X kernel is derived primarily from FreeBSD, a version of 4.4BSD that offers advanced networking, performance, security, and compatibility features. BSD variants in general are derived (sometimes indirectly) from 4.4BSD-Lite Release 2 from the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California at Berkeley.
Thanks for replying with that... there's no mass piles of bodies in the streets impacting the workforce.
One thing expats definitely have to do is readjust their expectations about cost of living and relative expenses. While the payroll for your average European tech guy is nowhere near the stellar heights of the SV bro's, the buying power in Europe is at a level higher than you might expect. Whereas, for a single night out in SoCal I'd spend $100 - $150, dinner movie and drinks - here in Vienna I'd get through just as much of an evening blast for less than 1/3rd of that figure.

You won't be buying million-dollar mansions on a European programmers salary, but then maybe you'll find less materialist goals in the European context .. just being able to take a train-ride anywhere is a vast improvement.
Respectfully, this is HN, and most people who are looking on this thread for advice are indeed privileged. I don't think it's an unreasonable default assumption.
Competition is a bad thing when it squeezes out cooperative strategies with superior outcomes. This can be expected to be more frequent in a society perfuse with pro-competitive and anti-cooperative incentives. Competition is conceptually aligned with defection strategies. The fitness landscape generally has fragile optima at cooperative strategies. That said, competitive substrategies may contribute to the beneficial outcomes of a cooperative superstrategy of which they are a part.

Not all life is competition. Ecosystems in general are a complex web of cooperation. One could say that all life is cooperation with equal merit.
it's because chinese goods are consistently good that anything bad is news. ironic isn't it

literally everything is made in china, if the quality is as bad as you say the world would have fallen apart.

It seems critical thinking is rare among news outrage these days. The same comments were said of Japanese products back in the day, "IP thieves", "shitty quality", and here we are decades later praising Japanese products. Its hilarious at this point.
It seems that nobody in the western world realizes that China already is a moviemaking powerhouse:

- Worldwide Box Office 2020: 3 out of the top 4 biggest movies were Chinese

- Worldwide Box Office 2021: 2 out of the top 3 biggest movies were Chinese

Source:

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/world/2020/

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/world/2021/
I wouldn’t quote this YouTuber for everything, but he was born in South Africa and was a teenager when the country was still under apartheid: if he was horrified by the blatant racism when he was in China, I can’t imagine it was light or rare.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtVozQG2Q-4

I’m not really surprised. And I’m scared that might be good business _in China_; whether the effort to go against that trend will pay off internationally remains to be seen.
For a truck of sardines they could turn into valuable doublefin agents.
Infusion may be a technology, but tea is definitely a drink.
> You are moving the goalposts. I described a mechanism that addresses link rot in the current NFT ecosystem

it doesn't.

IPFS is already content addressable, knowing the hash doesn't solve the fact that the link is dead.

It's like having the address of a building destroyed by an hurricane.

> The hash-based method allows an owner to efficiently prove what content was associated with a rotted link with overwhelming probability

It only proves that a stream of bytes resolve to some hash using some hashing algorithm.

Whoever has on their devices the same stream of bytes can republish the same item on the chain creating a new link that is alive and sell it.

The old one is dead and the money spent to buy the content the link pointed at have been lost forever.

It's like the "All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt" trope

I spent money to buy a digital assets and "all I got was this lousy hash string"

> will likely evolve to create technical solutions solving many of the problems mentioned in the article.

or not.

as proved by the many problems in the cryptocurrencies space that people predicted would "likely evolve to create technical solutions" but didn't after more than 10 years and billions of dollars poured to the problem.

so why invest in something that fails to accomplish anything and will fail to do so at least for another 20-30 years?
I mean sure, the analysis isn't thorough and has some oopsies, but from my POV it's not a report written by malware analysts or experts (rather, by someone you wouldn't expect to analyse it at all), so I'm not setting the bar too high.
Mass Effect 1. 2 and 3 are still not bad, but I can't quite say with a straight face they rise to that level. They coast on the writing in Mass Effect 1 in a lot of ways, and one way of reading the famously controversial ending of Mass Effect 3 is that's when the fumes they were coasting on ran out. The franchise after that sunk into mediocrity as the writers were just imitating what they didn't really understand.
What do you expect? This is HN, full of tech folks making ridiculous salaries.
We've thought occasionally about going someplace else, but these days it does seem like you're trading one set of problems for some other set of problems. Of course, there may be situations where that tradeoff becomes worth it, if the problems you have are big enough.
Yes:

Can I control the topics in my browser, or opt out completely?

In Chrome settings, you will be able to find which topics have been generated based on your browsing history. You will be able to block specific topics or opt out of the Privacy Sandbox technologies completely.
Uses of de Bruijn Sequence
Centralization Is a Systems Design Problem
> targeted ads are necessary for ads to be useful for both user and advertiser

Citation needed.
Emails reveal scientists suspected Covid leaked from Wuhan lab
This feels like a spaghetti-at-the-wall sort of objection blob but let's see if I can disentangle some spaghetti.

When I said moderators didn't do anything, I meant we didn't penalize the post or override any of the software affecting its rank (or anything else). I was not talking about Sartrean inaction, which ontologically is also action.

Sometimes we do specific things, depending on...things? Who doesn't "admit" that? Everything the mods do is special treatment? Not following you. Instinct? Yes. Whim? No.

Stripe wasn't coached in how to achieve darling status. At least I never saw that. They were just really good at making products, writing, and interacting with the community. Is the community naturally biased towards YC? In some ways yes and in other ways biased against - it's complicated. jgc (assuming you mean jgrahamc of Cloudflare) is not part of a YC startup, so I assume that's actually a counterexample.

Unconscious bias? I strongly agree. But if you're making some specific point about it, I'd like to hear something specific—otherwise it seems kind of hand-wavey.
How does is differ to ghost?
Even if it was manmade the responsibility for that should fall on the international scientific community rather than the Chinese government and even less so on the people.

The lab in Wuhan was not scientifically isolated, funding came from abroad. Similar research has been conducted elsewhere.

Of course it's still important to find out the truth on the matter.
https://github.com/zupo/awesome-lanzarote
So most of this happens in products made where most of these products are made? Seems logically. Besides it doesn't seem any better in the US. By far the most backdoored internet equipment producer is Cisco.
Yeah, as it got more popular during the pandemic it was quickly co-opted into more of a pro-workers rights subreddit, and nowadays it's mostly people posting clearly fake screenshots of themselves telling their bosses off over text for to farm karma.
This is completely true. And also, if money feels like it could be an issue, and you are coming from the US with a US network, it's still pretty easy to find contracting work with your US-based network at US rates. That's what we did once we quit our jobs and I was pretty much working 2 days/week.
> Within both Activision's and Blizzard's studios, management allegedly both allowed and encouraged "cube crawls", where male employees went from cubicle to cubicle, drinking heavily and making inappropriate advances towards and physically touching female employees. ... A woman employee reportedly died by suicide during a business trip after suffering "intense sexual harassment" in the preceding days, which included employees sharing nude photos of her at a company holiday party. The human resources departments allegedly did not keep reports of sexual harassment confidential, which as a result allowed managers and others to retaliate against employees who reported misconduct, such as by denying them promotions, transferring them to other departments, prioritizing them during company-wide layoffs, or preventing them from working on desirable projects. [0]

Let's fix China tho

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Department_of_Fair_...
This is 100% correct. I’ve never taken adrafinil, late night typi.
Wouldn't want their citizens getting any crazy ideas about challenging the social order, after all.
I'm giving purelymail a chance when I lose my Google Workspace accounts later this year (not willing to pay US$288/year for four own-domain email addresses).

The whole point of having "vanity domain" email addresses - for 20 years now! - has been to be easily migratable when something changes in the cloud. So I'll just do that again if purelymail doesn't work out. It's very cheap; I get the impression you're paying just enough for the sole proprietor to pay his AWS bills and be "ramen profitable". Who knows how long this will last.

Impression of the service with my other domain, whose MX records I've already switched, have been pretty good.

Note on the 20 years: Got the domain, ran completely on-premises email infrastructure for a few years, then switched to "Google Apps for your domain" when it became available.
Was it always intended to be a limited (3 year) trip, of would you consider permanently moving there, if it was made possible?
Pfizer Opens Study of Covid Shots Updated to Match Omicron
> That outline is hidden at the lower left in a small box collapsed by default. It's as if VS Code doesn't want you to look at it.

I agree with you here that you have to go one extra step to open the Outline panel in the left. I would rather the Outline panel be in the right. However, I don't use symbols that often. My workflow is a bit different. So I don't particularly miss this feature. When I really need to look up by symbol, I just use Cmd + R and just fuzzy search for it.

> In the case of breadcrumbs, clicking on it with the mouse is probably faster than searching.

Again, this is personal preference. I find Command Palette faster. You find Breadcrumbs faster. But I guess since you already use Emacs, it is fastest with Outline panel on the right.

> I realize it's a unique workflow, that's why I want to know more why it's prioritized in every editor these days as I don't think this uniqueness qualifies it to ever become mainstream, much less prioritized.

Maybe Telemetry data shows that the feature is used a lot. I don't know. Even if it was by default turned off, I would turn it back on because I just feel comfortable having it on the side. I use it subconsciously so whatever I gave you were mostly from what I could remember. It is only when it is off (or when I am using another editor), that I subconsciously try to reach for the mini-map and find it jarring when it is not there. I gave you few examples. But I am sure there are few more that I am missing out on.
>You can buy a salad at any fast food restaurant, meaning you have access to healthy food even in a "food desert".

Sometimes the salads are less healthy than the alternative at fast food restaurants because of the dressing and portion sizes they give.
it's easy to gain weight and hard to lose it.

It's the same process either way. As I've taught all my children, you can spend an hour on a treadmill and burn 400 calories. And you can then eat a 10 piece chicken McNugget and large fry from McDonald's to consume about 1,000 calories. Add a sugary soda to that and you can blow the vast majority of your daily calories in about 20 minutes.

My father never exercised, ate what he wanted, and was always skinny

There are definitely multiple factors in play but the #1 factor is how much you eat. I have two sons; one is extremely skinny and the other is overweight. Not coincidentally, the skinny one "eats whatever he wants" which isn't much at all. My overweight son thinks nothing of eating 3-4 slices of pizza for dinner and my skinny son eats 1 slice and he doesn't like cheese so he scrapes that off first.
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Reddit has a great sub with a decent set of guides on why how privacy in general:

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/wiki/index
I'd strongly disagree there, inflation is terrible for anyone with savings or bills to pay. Libertarianism is based upon Austrian economics, an entire economic school of thought. It isn't "ignorant" even if you don't agree with it.

> If you want to be taken seriously you need to do at least the bare minimum of understanding an issue before making big claims.

OK, so since this is your principle, will you retract your claim that bitcoin wasn't invented to combat corruption? Even if you don't agree with the method or ideology, there is good evidence this was their intention.

And please explain how inflation benefits me, a saver with ever rising bills to pay. I'd be very curious to hear it. Relieve me of my ignorance.