skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect it is far more so than you're giving credit.

An entity which raises the ire of Facebook, Google (Web search, YouTube, and/or the Android marketplace), Apple (iOS marketplace), Amazon (AWS, publishing, retail), Cloudflare, other major hosting and service providers, etc., will have a hard time or high costs reaching an extensive audience.

Gatekeeping isn't specific to a single role or function, it's a property which emerges through cost structures, network effects, access to capital or talent, regulatory and political sway or vulnerability, and numerous other factors.

In an age of print, presses, paper, and distribution were limiting factors. Where these were controlled, fixed costs of production (writers, illustrators, editors) were amortised over the large number of copies which could be produced of a single issue or publication, and advertising attracted on that basis. Today, technical expertise in building infrastructure and support systems similarly is difficult to attain, but amortises technical staff and paid content (if any) across not and audience of merely thousands or millions, but of billions in the case of Google and Facebook.

It's possible for the equivalent of a zine to be produced and served to a much smaller audience (though one which would have made publishers of the 1860s, or 1960s, salivate), and at comparatively high per-member cost, though the absolute costs could still be low in most cases.

(Static sites and intelligent caching strategies can still make very-large-scale services on a shoestring budget viable.)

Discovery, promotion, engagement, and visitor insights / metrics are other areas in which today's media monopolies also acquire gatekeeper status.
My partner and myself got very sick on holiday in Germany, December 2019. Didn't think too much of it, until the symptoms of Covid started getting published and they all sounded eerily familiar. By the time antibody tests were available in my country it was too late. But no doubt in my mind it was covid. This just adds evidence to that fact
She lived in central(ish) London, where today still a car isn't a necessity or particularly useful other than for travelling to the greater UK or specific jobs.
Netflix: A Culture of Learning
Redis vs. Kafka vs. RabbitMQ
Calm your horses. His body was donated to science by the family, I'm sure they knew what he wanted and did just that.
Yes. If your users create an account with name and address data they need to agree to that data storage.

If your shop just sells them a virtual thing there is no need to collect personal information.

If you ask for the address and more or less directly print it on the label and then delete again it is a bit of an edge case where no explicit confirmation might be needed, however having a good data policy is good practice anyways and then having the extra checkbox in the order flow is not a big deal.
If I want to delete a project and not work on it why would I want to keep the secrets that I wouldn't use?

Keep, document and archive a .env.example file for others, I guess?
Because people buy Starbucks coffee to go. Glasses are heavier.
Yeah I did too, worst thing is that it stayed in water and I put grey water with lead particles in my hands.

I asked a doctor, and as long as it stayed in your skin, it's okay.
New DeadBolt ransomware targets QNAP devices, asks 50 BTC for master key
It seems the reasoning here is: the TLS handshake might have used an insecure TLS version, and so they cannot be sure that the handshake worked the way they thought, and so the certificates could have been issued to the wrong party.

I don't have a deep understanding of the TLS-ALPN-01 validation nor of the vulnerabilities they might be concerned about, but that would be the only reason for revoking certificates (unless it's more of a political statement, "we revoke certs when we screwed up!").
Jason Hickel (the degrowth advocate; a term that infuriates me) is a genius and writes very well. His critique of the end of poverty is very eye opening. I still feel the cognitive dissonance.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30083807
Browsers aren't to the point here, it is referring to servers seeking to verify control of a domain, by conducting a “acme-tls/1” handshake initiated by the Let's Encrypt issuance server.

If such a server only supports TLS 1.1, then TLS-APLN-01 validation will fail after this change is implemented.
Denying medical care is made either by individual health care professsionals or, in cases that require more consideration, health services ethics commity. I’d be surprised is anyone stating what you said would keep their medical license, let alone would be allowed to sit in a commitee.
> GIFs are ominous nowadays, being more popular than even newer and more efficient formats, such as WEBP or APNG. But, depending on their length and what has been recorded, you might want to pause, go back, jump sections etc. Video playback features basically… which GIFs don’t have.

The lack of video features are exactly the reason for which gifs are preferred in some contexts:

- you are 100% sure that you're not going to have audio surprises

- you don't have useless UI components. I'm just watching an idiot meme, why there is a time slider, a play/pause button, a muted audio button, a full screen button...? Ok, controls can be disabled and customized, but it requires effort that a simple <img src="funny-dog.gif"/> gives you for free

The only GIF's issue is that the format is not disk-efficient, but who cares? I can live with it when I'm watching a few-seconds-lasting-low-resolution-dumb-meme
I lost 75 Lbs thanks to cutting sugar and a ketonic diet.

I’m down to my ideal weight, but going back on the diet after a break, because I find that it works for me.

Considering that it was physicians who started the whole fat panic of the 70ies, and have been ignoring sugar for all these years, AND considering their ties to Big Pharma, I’m going to trust my own experience.
It'd be great to be able to buy a pill that instantly turns anyone into a disciplined person.
98/6520 is about 1.5 percent. What is the false-positive rate for the antigen tests? Have the affected blood samples been verified by PCR testing?
This has helped me immensely. Nothing crazy, do 5 rounds of squats at your pace, 1 minute a part. Or sit-ups, push-ups, hollow-mans, etc. it wakes me up, and makes me want to work. I’m tired after, but that’s getting better as I get more into shape. Best of luck to all!
> As soon as you start dealing in packages of code[1], there’s no longer a meaningful boundary between your services, instead the boundary is completely arbitrary and each service becomes a microservice in name only.

While this sounds very radical (to me at least), I mostly understand how you've come to this conclusion. Obviously "just one package" is going to lead to further complexities down the line, and perhaps many more packages than that.

Perhaps a dedicated microservice for this piece of business logic would be better, as you suggested.
I Joined WorkOS
And all pages still gonna load at 100mbps tops

Kinda amazing only use for such bandwidth (for me) is torrents. Especially useful when Apple TV/Netflix degrades to shit at peak times.
Oh, it is very much the case, there's a famous saying that goes something like

There are two types of economists:

The ones that say what rich people want to hear, and the other ones that no one puts attention to
Amazon's 'pay-to-quit' program won't cover most US workers this year
Julia does take inspiration from Dylan and Scheme(the parser is even written in it) so it makes sense I guess
Pretty sure my banking apps - Monzo, Starling and Curve require SafetyNet. Also, I use Google Pay. And I'm running them on a custom ROM - Arrow OS.

I don't understand what the problem with that should be though.
Even simpler: By refusing treatment based on choices stemming from mistrust of the system you are validating that mistrust.
It's simple really, the things that can't be offshored have gotten more expensive.

Real estate, education, healthcare...
Anecdata, not sure who to report this to for investigative purposes:

1. Teresa from Rako Science saliva testing station used to work as Air New Zealand cabin crew. With 5 other crew members, they went to Shanghai, and also stayed in the Grand Hyatt hotel opposite Taipei 101 in October 2019.

They went to a nearby night market, presumably Taipei Hwahsi Tourist Night Market (which I went to on 2009-09-04, and had a lovely time).

After that visit, they all had a respiratory infection similar to a bad flu, which didn't clear up after the doctor provided steroids and iron supplements, and they have had recurrences since then, roughly every 4 months.

They're pretty sure in retrospect that they know what it was.

To my knowledge, this is earlier than any confirmed WHO reports, at least as far as Wikipedia goes.

2. Mum reports that mum & dad's neighbours also report a bad flu in October/November 2019 in the Pays de Gex, near Geneva, Switzerland.
This may be off-topic but over the years of working in a shared office with 3 others, I learned to distinguish whether they were coding, writing on their thesis, or just browsing.
The thing is that there are a lot of people out there who don’t particularly like fruits and vegetables (gourds or not), who can’t be bothered to spend hours every day on cooking “Real food” and/or who can’t afford “real food”.
Self-driving car users should have immunity from offences – report
> Good heavens, no.

You skipped the second part of the argument. And what "no" means in that context. What's your alternative?
Ah, you are correct. IIRC the French study was a single sample.

On the other hand, I feel 98 indicates a wide spread in Norway and probably in whole Europe. But that doesn't match the picture we had in EU around January-February.
But how do they enforce this watermarking on the "pirate" afterwards? Only for big enough cases?
My point is: "Basics matter, Readbility counts."

And how is my list "low level"? It concerns both "low level" issues like missing comments or inconsistent naming, and "high level" architectural problems, like introducing pointless abstractions.

Both are code smells , and thus a valid answer to the topic.
No idea. But 98/6520 is more than 2 out of millions.
The article is about solving a A-to-B routing problem, for which you would use something like a Dijkstra algorithm, which is not a heuristic (in its standard settings) and has nothing to do with solving a TSP.
Good advice.

There’s a couple of different kinds of “rut,” though:

1) Ennui

The project has become a “slog,” and I am tired of the grind.
This happens pretty much daily, for me.

2) Burnout

Is this my life? Where did I go wrong? Should I just pack it in?
This tends to happen as the project nears completion, and I’m “polishing the fenders.” The work is more “rote,” the bugs are harder to find, and I get disgusted, by looking at my code.

If it is #1, then “taking a short break” usually works. I may take a short nap, watch some TV, go out for a meal, play a video game, take a walk, etc. A change of scenery can do wonders.

If it is #2, then I need to take a more significant “break.” I will often find an alternate project to work on. Many folks will take a vacation. Coming back can be difficult, but, once I’m fully engaged, again, I find I am back to full sail.

I tend to work on alternate projects. I find it invigorating, and keeps me “in the swing.” That does not work for many folks, as they need a far more comprehensive “change of scenery.” I know folks that go on wilderness vacations.

I actually did a #2 break, the last couple of days. I have been working on a project for the last year, and we are approaching ship (still a ways off, but we can see it, from here). I was starting to feel quite “burnt.” As you approach “ship,” the work becomes a lot more “picky,” you have to say “no” to other team members, and you start to feel the responsibility, settling on your shoulders.

I took on a Web site project. I’m not a Web designer, by trade, but I do OK. It took me a couple of days.

It was one of those projects, where things had been allowed to “rot,” and I was cleaning up a “mess.” Gave me an excuse to grouse and rant, while I got the site back on its feet. I do a lot of volunteer work.

I’m done, and will be getting back to the main project, now. I’m looking forward to it.

One big problem, is that employers tend to take a dim view of employees “taking a break.” This is especially true of #2.

In that case, you may not have a choice. It can profoundly affect the quality of the deliverable. The employer needs to get with reality. It may not happen; especially if they are “self-made” type As (like many startup founders). Large corporations tend to be better than small shops.

I’m semi-retired. I can do what I want. I did not have that luxury, before.
if anyone wants to add me there: https://hey.cafe/r/datguy
This is a very narrow view.

The robots don't just create jobs for robot engineers. Entire new industries are built on their backs.

Look at the printing press. Did it destroy jobs hand copying books? Yes. Do we now have publishers, journalists, authors, distributors, illustrators, etc.? Also yes.
These findings aren't smoking gun evidence that "Covid19 probably did not originate from Wuhan after all".

The rumor of the "new pneumonia" was going around between doctors in Wuhan in November 2019 [1]. It's conceivable that there were people who travelled from Wuhan to Europe in November/December, and that the virus was actually in Europe before it was officially found.

Of course it could've come via humans from somewhere else to Wuhan (a good scientist doesn't dismiss hypotheses), but for sure the first outbreak was there.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7378494/
Ask HN: How to find problems to solve on social media?(to find business ideas)
I was wondering if you guys had good methods to find problems to solve on social media(I'm thinking reddit or twitter), i.e find people complaining about something that you could solve, preferably with software.

Out of the top of my head I'd try to search for things like:

"is there a way to ..."

"is there an app/website for..."

"how can I do that..."

But this is probably not optimal.

Do you have good methods/keywords/patterns to look for this kind of thing?

I'm thinking about finding the best ways to do that to create a website with real time fluxes of problems detected on social media with votes.

Once I have enough data, I could also maybe make a classifier to remove false positives.(and also maybe to identify problems without relying on simple keywords)
The small cities and towns booming from remote work
As a coffee enthusiast I wonder what the definition of "really high quality" is here. For me the coffee bean needs to be well roasted (most/all big brands roast too hot to save time and burn the bean. Starbucks too, they cover it with milk and lots of sugar), freshly grinded before brewing and made with a portafilter. No full automatic coffee machine I used produced high quality coffee, at best acceptable coffee, usually nearly undrinkable office caffeine shots.

While Starbucks coffee isn't top quality coffee, it still beats your usual office space full automatic poison by a long shot and is readily available everywhere. That's why it's considered good coffee by many.
> I understand the political implications of this (namely that Covid19 probably did not originate from Wuhan after all)

I do wonder (honestly, not rhetorically), if the virus emerged somewhere outside of China, what are the odds of the first major outbreak being in Wuhan? Why did we not see major outbreaks elsewhere at the same time?

Perhaps the presence of cases outside of China this early on simply means Covid was simmering, and spilling out, earlier than we thought.
That makes me happy. It might as well be seen as an old man's rant.
> Here in Australia, you can get a really high-quality coffee from just about any petrol station for $1

7-11 or Coles Express coffee do not have high quality coffee. Everyone I know who drinks it does so just because it's convenient.
Ask HN: Did you have your Google Account frozen?
Why?
Did you have 2FA turned on? Advanced Protection?
Did you appeal? How? Was it successful?
In info tsunami type conditions, and the given huge info asymmetries in society its not even clear what the purpose of these debates are...
Well, we must be careful about what goes into blockchain. I've once publicly announced my love for my geeky GF in the transaction data of my Ethereum transaction, which was cool at the time...

Then we broke up.
I'm at http://erik.itland.no and also my old blog is available online at https://techinorg.blogspot.com

I also have a mastodon account.

I'll happily make money from my efforts, but my thoughts goes in direction of creating something useful and offer hosting for it, not ads. So far I have created "nothing" (at most something I created was used by up to maybe a couple of hundred happy souls for some years to simplify the life of a local community, and I didn't make any money from it).

I simultaneously want to downvote you for your dismissive attitude towards everyone here while I also want to upvote you to bring all examples provided to the front. I chose to upvote but now you know the reason.

Also remember: many people here are shy and won't post so I think there is probably a lot more going on.
The book “Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging” examines this in detail. By looking at places where people were thrown back from civilization (wars, famine) and historical examples where pre-industrial civs lived alongside colonial powers. Quite fascinating really.

For example the book explores the fact that much more europeans went into the indian tribal societies in colonial America than the other way around. As well as people longing for the times they were under siege (Saraevo) as they remember the closeness and belonging those situation caused. Fascinating really.

And it also has the virtue of being short - recommended.
Ok, not sure what point you’re trying to make then. The vaccines worked very well against delta and omicron variants and had we halted vaccinations once variants began to take hold it would have cost millions of lives. There are many thousands of known variants of Covid-19
I exercise regularly for years. Weight lifting, rock climbing, HIIT at home.

I've tried having rigorous trainings in the morning for weeks and the only thing that happens is that I feel tired for the rest of the day.

Only late-night trainings before bed work for me.
I also have my system without polkit and without systemd.
But how do you get rid of dbus?
It seems to be needed for many GUI applications
You are assuming that in that world Compaq also manages to ripoff IBM.
Filtering query language: how we built our powerful transaction search
Listen, I don't know if you have anyone in your family with mental problems, but it's very common for them to result in poverty, despite having what would appear to be opportunity, well-aligned incentives, knowledge, and correct beliefs. And I really don't think this is a thing you should be making fun of.
How 5G puts airplanes at risk – an electrical engineer explains
I'm using it (mostly locally at the moment) for semi-automating testing of django db data migrations, and it's really great.

I've previously spent a fair bit of time tuning postgres for fast/less durable settings to speed up testing, and this puts all of that to shame when you need to start with any non-trivial schema/data and revert back to it.

I had been testing out some ideas with `docker commit` to save derived images which included a premade db, then reverting to that, but I don't think it's worth bothering with since I found dblab.

Haven't yet tried using it CI, and I suspect it might need a somewhat-custom-than-normal VM setup to use ZFS than you could easily do on most hosted CI runners, but it's on my list of things to investigate/setup eventually.
I'm not Norwegian(Swedish) and as far as I understand the article makes no mention of antigen tests. The article is talking about *antibodies* being found in blood tests from December 2019.

I think the title should be changed, if someone who speaks Norwegian can weigh in that'd be helpful.

This section is also interesting

Det er også tidligere i pandemien påvist at koronaviruset sirkulerte i Italia i 2019, så tidlig som i september 2019, viser en italiensk studie fra Milano.

Forskere har påpekt at viruset trolig også sirkulerte i kinesiske Wuhan lenge før det ble offisielt påvist. Hovedteorien er fortsatt at viruset først spredte seg der.

Translated it says roughly:

It has also been proven, earlier in the pandemic, that COVID19 was circulating in Italy in 2019, as early as September, according to an Italian study from Milano.

Scientist have pointed out that the virus likely circulated in Wuhan a long time before it was officially detected[påvist, unsure if this is "proven"]. The leading theory remains that the virus originated there.

See also, danielskogly's comment below.
> I feel like I'm encountering more and more sites and articles where I can't seem to find the date.

It seems to me that its become standard practice on marketing type blogs for corporate websites to remove the date from their posts. I think its because (from personal experience) the company will go though a burst of "blog productivity" create a load of content but then not touch it for years, they don't want that content to look out of date or their website to look stagnant.

Removing the date from their posts, or any other content, hides how old it is and therefore obscures how active they are at crating new content.

Most companies try to use their blogs to attract new customers, a new customer may visit their website once or twice and will never see the blog again, it's not important that they do. They don't want it to look stale.

As a counter example, an interesting thread from yesterday [0] was about how CloudFlare use their blog not as a marketing tool but for technical content and attracting employees. They very regulally use their blog, and so keep the date on it showing how fresh it is.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30070422
Probably a maintained whitelist.
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Yep. Nearly everyone but equity owners is either hurting or not going anywhere while delivering more for the same or less. Graph after graph Robert Reich has put out there shows the dismalness of the situation. Another infographic video about the distribution of wealth in reality vs. perceived reality vs. desired: https://youtu.be/QPKKQnijnsM

Somehow there is also a systematic economic double-standard that works for some but not others: "free markets" of dog-eat-dog inputs (i.e., suppliers), but less free markets on outputs (i.e., monopolies, mega corporations, patents, proprietary-ness, closed-source). Unregulated greed fixes all problems by the "invisible hand", right?
> If this guy had died due to the experimental heart failing, we'd probably be seeing a bunch of op-eds about our moral failure to prevent exploitation of a vulnerable (ex-)prison population.

On the contrary, you’re probably massively overestimating how much the society at large cares for convicted felons.

The sad reality is it’s not a lot.

Which is why I doubt we’d see a single op-ed about it.
The basic flaw in the article is that they used the Bank of England calculator, actually explicitily saying how it wasn't suitable, to then make the conclusion:

>What we can say, however, is that there are far more people who make $50,000 in today’s America than earned £700 in 1919 Britain. Agatha Christie claimed she wasn’t rich, but her income was far above average in 1919. In contrast, most American households earn more than $50,000.

It is more likely that the "real" correspondence is to current 100,000-150,000 US$ today (after taxes).
Well, in short because I want to keep the option of coming back to it open.
It was also much more unusual to be in long-term debt as that often would have ended in serfdom-like situations. The ease of getting huge loans and credits nowadays is very novel.
https://archive.ph/pEz2h