skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Contrast to the incredible lab work of African scientists when Omicron first came out.

And yet, if hindsight is 20/20 those South African scientists probably should have kept their mouth shut since the entire world (briefly, I'll grant) responded to the open sharing of information by essentially embargoing the country - while China remained in a pretty positive light through early COVID receiving praise for aggressive lock downs and quickly produced procedures to help try and stem the spread of "the disease that just happened to hit them first".

You can say that one of those parties acted in a way we'd like to see more of in the future - but the world's reaction rewarded (or was neutral at least) China and punished South Africa. It sucks but it's true.
Your patience, Dang, is admirable. You might be the only force that prevents HN from going feral, Reddit-style.
> To think you only deserve a couple Life Changing, two or three week trips, even as a high earning tech worker… Such poverty of spirit makes me depressed just thinking it.

How does one live this lifestyle with children and/or other dependents, such as an elderly & infirm parent or a permanently-disabled sibling?

A lack of obligations is another kind of wealth; a privilege, even. I guess only people like you can afford to rise above this "poverty of spirit".
It was denounced because at the time there wasn't any evidence, mostly racism (see: "kung flu"); the accusation was rooted solely in a desire to rile up the president's base. It generated substantial harassment and violence against anyone who even appeared to be of Chinese descent, another reason it was denounced; not because of some vast media conspiracy.
The judge in the Epic case said that Apple though not a monopoly was acting like one and might be on the way to becoming one.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/06/house-antitrust-subcommittee...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/eff-appeals-apples-mon...

So sure. Not a monopoly. But also not far from a monopoly as you claim.
I think Stumble Upon was too early for its time, back when forums, FB, Google worked fine for discovery. Pocket did this well for a while, but seems to be terrible now. Same with Product Hunt.

If someone wants to do it, it's a great time now.
Biggest plant in the solar system. I wouldn’t trust whoever planted it.
I don't know why apple don't just allow third-party app stores but with requirements like the new app store needs to provide the push messaging, with the seriously large investment that would require?

They could then warn users their battery life would be worse, cos 2 persistent connections, and make it scary. Meanwhile I, as an Android user would happily take up the offer.
If we know it came from China we might embargo them for causing the mass casualties.
RandomSwede's comment is accurate, but maybe the below can help add some 'flesh' to their response.

Basically, the problem is that you can't just multiply it all together.

(1/6) ^ 3 is correct, and the probability of rolling 3 sixes is indeed 1/216 today, but if you repeat independent events, you don't just add up the probability.

Imagine instead of dice it's coins, and it's only two. Your odds of getting HH today are 1/4, but the odds of getting HH by day four are not now 4/4. We know that it's possible, although unlikely, you could flip coins for the rest of your life and NEVER get two heads. So we know that you can't ever have odds of 4/4 (or 1), only odds that approach 1. So that means that we can't say 216 days from now will be 216/216.

Instead, you need to work out the probability of the event NOT happening, and then repeatedly NOT happening independently (so we can multiply together to get the probability.

For our four coins, the probability of NOT getting HH is 3/4. On Day 2, the probability of NOT getting HH on both occasions will be (3/4)×(3/4), (9/16, 56.25%). By day 3, it will be (3/4) × (3/4) × (3/4), or 27/64. On day 4, it'll be 81/256, or 31.6%. Now we can subtract from 1, to work out that by day 4, the odds of us having hit HH are almost 70%.

As RandomSwede explains, there's a 50% chance that you will have rolled three sixes by day 149. By day 496, you're down to 10%.
Yikes. I had to look it up.

So the Internet intelligentsia have:

- Re-discovered that hard and soft sciences (or, gasp, the liberal arts) attract different people
- Declared their preferences (and themselves) superior
- Invented a disparaging name for the inferior class

I feel like I've seen this movie before. It does not end well.
This person used VISA, a part of (debatably the worst tri-opoly) as example of something open? Insane. I was genuinely interested in where he was going but this was just a huge fail.

New entrants who wish to take on credit card offerings cannot flourish due to Visa and Mastercard's monopolistic practices.
Te Ka causes the blight that drives her to set off on her journey.
It feels more similar to wringing gauge blocks (or other very flat surfaces) together, though it is more disputed how that works. You can separate the two objects if you pull them apart with a reasonable force (or more typically shearing and some leverage) and if you imagine the atomic scale structure of the surface, the crystal lattice will break down as atoms on the edge have bonds going into the material rather than free electrons hanging out waiting for another atom to bond to.

I don’t know if cold welding is really welding but contact bonding is certainly not like welding.
> Its name unfortunately looks similar to mutex but it's not a lock.

Hmm, looking at the latest source code, my original quote has been split, but:

* Fast Userspace Mutexes (which I call "Futexes!").

* (C) Rusty Russell, IBM 2002

...

* "The futexes are also cursed."

* "But they come in a choice of three flavours!"

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/kernel/futex/c...
I'd argue that wine is a bit of a stretch considering that we're on the third implemention of win32 in Microsoft land as well (DOS/win32s, Win95, NT/Win32k). At that point win32 is a concept already abstracted away from a specific implementation

I totally agree with your main point though that emulation is a broader topic than is generally thought.
Mazda is pretty allergic to touchscreens and views them as a safety risk. Environmental controls are physical button and knobs in all models I’ve seen, and even the infotainment feature are controlled with buttons and a central knob. I never have to reach up and touch the screen. The screen isn’t even responsive to touch while the car is in motion.
Sure, but it illustrates that Apple's argument that "it would weaken security" is rubbish. It is technically possible to allow side-loading with exactly the same security as provided by the AppStore, if they simply used a signature to indicate that an app had passed review.

It would still use the same sandpit, still use the same permissions system, still able to be disabled by Apple, etc, etc.

Without the argument that "it's less secure", it becomes obvious that the only motivation is commercial.
Link to the study: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1330800/v1

Found via: https://biotechnews.net/2022/02/09/antarctic-soil-sample-fro...
I think it would be interesting to see TV move more in the direction that transit cards are moving. You tie your card to your account and pay per view. But if you spend enough money in a week, you're no longer charged for access (a "week pass"). Then, if you spend enough in a month, you're again no longer charged (a "month pass"). This idea could potentially be passed onto seasons and series rather than being time-limited.

That way, you're always getting the optimal price for your content consumption, streaming companies can make a little more money (since these Pass rates would likely be higher than the current monthly membership), but those who just want to watch one series or one episode aren't left out to dry.
Also a Disney character…
But remember, the French have no word for entrepreneur :) [1]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisoncoleman/2014/02/14/entrep...
The roughly 1 trillion usd market cap. The whole reason people get into bitcoin is to make or move money. Sure, it could go down, but even if governments crack down there will be a residual user base and the blockchain will persist.
but you don't understand! This is taking away from AMERICAN profits from surveillance capitalism! Think of the jobs at stake!
Perfect, as i own a RDC 3210 board. Here is someone else with the same board + pictures: https://forum.archive.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=19168

It has a x86 Microprocessor architecture, but it is not IBM PC compatible because it does not has an BIOS, instead using a more embedded-style RedBoot setup.

Maybe you should do a quick web search before talking shit.
Woah! I didn't expect a response from dang!

I think this article is light on facts and high on sensationalism, making it a poor quality article that does more harm than good.

Re reading my comment, I see how I failed to communicate that and focused more on the source than the paper.

I will keep this in mind in the future, thank you.
I’m totally open to the idea that it was a lab leak of some sort. What I’m opposed to is certain political figures presenting that theory as fact, without evidence, for political gain at the expense of an entire race of people.
The point was made as to what Apple currently maximizes for, and explained as "no matter anything else, like profit first , honesty later". This is what we're arguing about.

Long term profitability that involves thinking ahead of time of what would become unsustainable is, logically, speaking not maximizing for profit NOW. Honesty (ethics in business) will become increasingly important for the next generations. The current generations, however, don't care that much just yet.
I unironically feel like the best way to communicate with co-conspirators would be through snail mail, if you could put up with the delay.

Oh, and don't forget to do all of this while not altering your normal habits at all, because sudden habit changes would also be a red flag I'd imagine.
The leaked DARPA report confirms that it was a lab leak from Wuhan. Why is this report ignored by the media? Am I missing something?
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. We want curious conversation here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Why America Wins If Russia Invades Ukraine or Not
Fusion research is the „building a cathedral“ of our times.
I agree that throwing out what we have is a recipe for disaster and reconstitution in the same or worse form. But I think we can build anew from within, constructively.

I like the Baha'i view that breaks it down into 3 components: the individual, community, and institutions, and then works on gradually reforming each of them, and recognizing their interactions. Here's my summary; there are undoubtedly better summaries out there too:

* Individual: Empower people to act on ethics first, and material benefit second — by emphasizing the inherent value of ethics, based on the view of humans as intellectual/spiritual as well as physical. Educate them to be good electors (see Institutions, below).

* Community: This is the one I understand least, but I think it's about the emergent behaviors of groups of people who interact informally. Like a neighborhood or interest group.

* Institutions: Reform their selection process & functioning. There are plenty of people who would make great public servants, but they are precisely the people who avoid our current electoral processes which are so poisonous and dumb. So have elections that focus on the qualities that are good for office — caring for the well-being of the whole, wisdom, appropriate skills & abilities — and prohibit all campaigning or discussion of individuals. You'd think it's impossible, but the Baha'i electoral process actually works in practice and people love it.

All of these need reform. A good place to look at current Baha'i thinking is the "Baha'i International Community" website: https://www.bic.org/ which is kind of a public policy outreach site.
I actually knew most of the words; apparently though I'm in the minority of men for not knowing taffeta. After looking it up, I'm slightly surprised that tulle is so much lower than taffeta given that both are used in gowns and I run into references to tulle in poetry all the time[1].

On the other hand, I am in good male company for being completely mystified by peplum only to find it's another word for "overskirt."

I'm also in the 1/8 of all men in not recognizing the word shemale, though if wikipedia is right it's just she-male missing the hyphen? Perhaps I was primed by all of the fashion words but I read it with a french pronunciation...

1: e.g. https://poets.org/poem/because-i-could-not-stop-death-479 (written by a woman)
People worked different jobs back then and did different things for recreation. Food was also different and so were the wages and cost of living.

Plz don’t trivialize it.
Does the company that produces crap software eventually produce good software by sheer volume over the company that takes its time and tries to release quality software?
Anyone knows how to set a Microsoft account so they don't require a verification code sent to another email? I want this to be the place where other accounts send their verification codes. The last thing I need is to go on a spree of chained verifications when on a hurry and/or on the go with my tiny smartphone.

What's worse with all these verification systems is that what happens if you make the human mistake of setting them to the other email, so each one sends their verificacion to the other one. I just want to use my very secure passwords and maybe a OTP key, not depending on third party emails :-(
> Best tool for boolean geometry I’ve personally used.

I have good luck with Blender... much more then with Freecad... haven't tried OpenSCAD though...
I’ll definitely have to give this a try. I enjoy the model train set feel of Transport Tycoon. I tried OpenTTD, but I never could get the text to look right, and something always felt off with it. I do like they have smarter routing algorithms though.
Some people say a man is made outta mud

A poor man's made outta muscle and blood

Muscle and blood and skin and bones

A mind that's a-weak and a back that's strong

"Sixteen Tons", Tennessee Ernie Ford

There are few Real Men jobs like that any more.
I just learned about pessary last month, after my second child and two different sex ed curricula.

And what percent of American adults use newsgroups or torrents, or even download software these days? It’s surely not the majority (software downloads notwithstanding).
This is an odd take, coming from the design head of a company notorious for making mostly terrible usability choices, e.g. screen-only car controls, and hasn't had an exciting car design until the arrival of the Cybertruck.
Yeah, the only conclusive proof we've gotten is that China demands everyone shut up and not piss off China.
What do you mean textiles? We just buy the gray-ish ones.
One ENS founder is already in jail for helping North Korea - just Google Virgil Griffith + ENS. He's been scrubbed from their site already.

Now this...

This project is rotten to the core.

That anybody chooses to use .eth in their Twitter handle is shocking to me.
Then where did the virus sample the lab was working with come from? Was it also from Yunnan where RATG13 came from? (1500 miles from Wuhan).

Why are they destroying all of their virus samples of everything that can trace the lineage of the virus? Why are they going out of their way to delete all of this data out of public databases?

(RATG13 had to be retrieved from the trashbin of history as well.)

If you believe that this all harmless and that this is all a normal part of studying the virus, you might be in the market for a bridge. Possibly two.
Comments here are really surprising. I really struggle to understand Product Hunt. I've spent multiple sleepless nights scrolling through it and I couldn't find a single meaningful or useful thing. I guess if you start splashing water around the streets, you will find a few perfectly shaped puddle. But I have never stumbled upon anything that made me think "wow, this is awesome" not even "this might be useful".
Yeah the model is definitely not perfect yet, and if anything it is slightly pessimistic, particularly with older cars. I am planning to address this by doing more fined grained analysis on the MOT history to see if there is anything more we can draw out to identify a car in good health.
If true, this is fantastic news. OMW to try it right now on a score of old models I have stashed around.
> Incels are fundamentally working off a broken model of women, attraction, dating, and sex.

That broken model is unfortunately widespread in both genders. Some "girls next door" can basically feel like failures in the dating/relationships sphere, which ends up making them even less appealing to others. It's worth trying to fix this of course, but it's not always easy.
This is called a strawman
They inspired me to do this, goole my username. LTM credits me back on the site, love them.
> x86 desktop right now at the moment. RAM and chipset

"chipset" is very different than a traditional microprocessor chipset though on that. E.g. you don't have an exposed system bus outside the CPU, but rather specialized interfaces. (And ARM systems have evolved the same way over their history)
Yeah. My take away from all this is that New Zealand might be the only country in the world that has even a small chance of engaging in bio-warfare without foot gunning itself.

It is just all round a bad idea.
Why do you get to say what someone's purpose is? Why is being a provider necessarily the purpose in life? People might have done it before (I'm dubious of sweeping, golden-age claims like that), but for almost all of human history we lived short, brutal, illiterate lives as hunter-gatherers. I don't feel that is necessarily my purpose in life.

Find a meaning that is important to you; be a provider if you like. IMHO, people are spending a lot of time getting wrapped up in these questions, debating what is possible, participating in trendy despair - it's all a parlor game, like worrying about whether your car will start because you don't understand the physics and some people online say it can't possibly. Just stop talking to them and they will fade quickly; get up, turn the ignition, and go.

> The people who desire to go back are actually who are rebelling; the rest of the men are either locked up in prison, or overdosing on opioids, or being incels or numbing themselves with video games.

There are a lot of males - most of them, really - doing other things.
Height is way more important than fitness to women.
> typing away by yourself like a writer, occasionally seeing "holograms" of other people on screens, or taking calls like you're working a call center

You say this like it's a bad thing .
To be clear, we're talking here about the general category of "things stated by scientists", not the more specific "things stated by scientists about the findings of the scientific process." Many people conflate the both of these as "trusting science" — and that's a problem.

You can believe in scientists' claims about what scientific studies say/mean, or about what the scientific consensus on a question is — without believing any random claim a group of scientists makes about any random subject.

Specifically, there is strong reason to treat scientists as just like any other group of people, where claims about how the work of science gets done (e.g. whether it's possible for a lab to have an accident resulting in a leak) are concerned.
Interesting take! Escalating the information being demanded to recover the account beyond that used to sign up is not something I can really get on board with.
> The fusion announcement is great news but sadly it won't help in our battle to lessen the effects of climate change.

> There's huge uncertainty about when fusion power will be ready for commercialisation. One estimate suggests maybe 20 years. Then fusion would need to scale up, which would mean a delay of perhaps another few decades.

> And here's the problem: the need for carbon-free energy is urgent - and the government has pledged that all electricity in the UK must be zero emissions by 2035. That means nuclear, renewables and energy storage.

> In the words of my colleague Jon Amos: "Fusion is not a solution to get us to 2050 net zero. This is a solution to power society in the second half of this century."

Between promising results like this, the Wendelstein-7X (which sadly seems to have been delayed by COVID), and then the exceptionally exciting CFS in Massachusetts, I have a sense that we're making real progress toward fusion for the first time in a few decades. Doom and gloom won't do anything to increase investment in fusion that is beginning to look like a reasonable bet.
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My only issue with that is Bitfinex, a company with lousy security(they lost the coin) now gets a windfall. Is that morally right?
The real problem with Netflix is that it's a middleman - besides its handful of original productions, it's really just providing replaceable infrastructure. In the long term, bandwidth is free and payments are frictionless, so what value can they provide?

Its existence relies on the delicate balance where it's providing what's perceived as a superior deal for both viewers and producers. Not a comfortable position!
Not disagreeing with the main point of this article (boys are struggling), but I don't think men's losses have been women's gains. (I'm aware this wasn't stated in the article, but this type of article invariably brings up "Men vs. Women" debates in a way that ignores how intertwined our successes and failures are.)

Rather, the pissing up the wall of men's potential in the name of "equality" has made life more arduous, stressful and anxiety-inducing for everyone.
Time for a shameless plug. I'm working on a decentralized, end-to-end encrypted email, and it is currently functioning, with support for POP3/IMAP clients, as well as a web client.

The idea is keep the identity registry on a blockchain, so your identity cannot be taken away from you. Messages between users are always encrypted, in transit or at rest. We also have a gateway that allows you to use the system as a regular email, and proxy server that translates our internal API (protobufs, gRPC) to the legacy email protocols, SMTP/POP3/IMAP.

https://ubikom.cc
Fear not, you didn't lose any of your progress (unless you plaid on a realm), all the worlds are saved ~/.minecraft/saves.

If you don't want to buy another account you could use one of the many launchers that allow you to play without an account (tlauncher, shiginima...) but your mileage may vary.
You could also use multimc but, since it requires an account to download the assets, you'd need to copy around the files in the .minecraft folder used by the official launcher which can be challenging and annoying to do.

Edit: I have a similar thing going on with Microsoft too, to migrate the account I need access to the email which I no longer have. I've been opening a ticket every ~3 months for the past ~2 years and they still refuse to switch my email address.
Luckily I can still play the game (not for long) since I still have access to the account
TikTok has a very good algorithm for suggesting content for users, and this can end up with different users being exposed to radically different subsets of content offered through TikTok: in scientific terms, it’s very easy to get stuck in different local minima.

So for many users, TikTok will
not involve “showing off to friends”, will not involve audio trends, and will not involve memes at all.

These users would describe it as containing short-form video content relevant to whatever their particular niche or interest may be.