skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You use the python or JS web3 library to ask the users private key to sign a message you control.
Then you "recover" the public key/address from the signed message.
Then you ping infura and ask for the balanceOf the nft contact for that public address.
Consider the source.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-telegraph/

Excerpt from the link:

Bias Rating: RIGHT
Factual Reporting: MIXED
Country: United Kingdom (34/180 Press Freedom)
Media Type: Newspaper
Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: MEDIUM CREDIBILITY

They want you to read their paper, not to inform you. Should be no supprise they are posting polarizing statements with little to no proof.

Personally, I believe the lab leak is plausible. Doesn't make the paper a good source of info.
Exactly. This isn't a general comparison of china to the US. It's a specific comparison of how bad data collection practices and the only (IMO) sane conclusion is that it's all quite terrible. One is not disconnected to the other either. The reason tiktok can collect all this data is precedents and norms established by google and FB.
Homemaker role doesn't mean spending your days travelling, hiking or going to the beach.
The thing is - we’re at 4% unemployment. Which is probably about as low as a service based economy can get.
There are a number of problems with WfH.

There's no work community or camaraderie at home. Doggo should count. Kittah jumping on the keyboard is just using you for food and grooming.

There's no grabbing lunches.

There's no visiting X down the hall.

No grabbing a beer after work.

Boss G, H, or J can't see you around.

Colleagues M, N, P, and Q don't have a sense of your performance or amount of work that happens far away. "Out of sight, ..."

Pair programming becomes less effective.

It's 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.
The theory was not "crackpot", but it was asserted with 0 evidence back then. The evidence is judged, not the theory itself.
Yes, me too.

But, would you still feel the same if you had to stay home to take care of kids and a working spouse ?
Yes, Windows 10 has continually improved UTF-8 support. You can even set applications to use it by default now.
Except that everyone's 5% is different.

So whilst you may think Emily in Paris for example is crap it is hugely popular.
Machine builds druglike organic molecules in a snap – Science – AAAS
The point the author misses with examples of credit cards, ATMs, operating systems and video recorders is that those are all things you only really need one of. If there are two competing credit cards you pick the one that's best for you. With ATMs you use the most convenient. With OSs you use the one that came with your computer. And with video recorders ... well, you just don't use those any more.

Streaming services are different. You don't choose one. You buy all the ones that offer something you want and leave the rest. Sometimes if one feels stale you switch it out for a different one. Some people only have one at a time. Some people have several. There is no compelling reason for services to share or collaborate so long as they are able to profitably hold enough market share at any given time. Bundling is highly unlikely to ever happen. It's far more likely that we'll see product diversification like Netflix's alleged gaming platform. These services will need to show growth somehow, but it won't be by sharing content.
What makes it the Instagram? Netflix doesn’t have user-generates content. If you mean Instagram as a shorthand for crap generally, I’d choose a different comparison.
I like these and find them wise. Here are some additional fun questions:

1. How has the company changed in the past five years? How do you think it will change in the next five?

2. What was the biggest surprise about working here?

I like these because they force the interviewer to activate their brain a bit and really highlight differences over time and differences from expectation. The surprise question especially helps you figure out unknown-unknowns as a candidate.
I wish they would stop saying "solar systems." There is only one solar system, and we're living in part of it.

The closest sounding term that would at least be correct is Extrasolar Systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System does not describe any other star than Sol, our Sun, and it confuses lay people when we misuse the term this way.
> Got anything a little more widespread/recent to back up that claim?

The Norwegian study cited to "Dutton E, van der Linden D, Lynn R (2016) The negative Flynn effect: A systematic literature review. Intelligence 59:163–169". Here's the HN thread on that paper specifically: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13723859 (Haven't read it myself; was just curious.)
This study uses self-reported recognition of the word. Later in the study they compare their results to other tests that try to identify understanding of the words' meaning.

I also wonder if there's any gender differential between male and female respondents in willingness to say they "know" a word that sounds vaguely familiar... and if the sound of a word also affects people's willingness to take a leap. The study doesn't seem to have included fake words or anything like that to catch guessers out (and I don't think that was relevant to what they were trying to determine, anyway).

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that male respondents are more likely to take a leap for "piezoelectricity" or "thermistor" than they would be for "peplum" and "chignon".
> having to deal with political correctness at the office and other inconveniences.

I think there is room for another look at this (without condoning it):

men have careerism out of necessity for stability - or at least conveying stability - and made environments that were comfortable for them to make it tolerable

women have careerism out of choice for stability and are finding pursuing this choice out of pride enters them into an environment that was never really about professionalism

so the two audiences are exploiting themselves in office and corporate environments for different reasons or pressures

I'm all for making environments comfortable for a greater population to be productive and sustain their lifestyle, I think acknowledging why an environment is uncomfortable for new entrants can help that
The reasons it was are very obvious, when you had Donald Trump consistently making it a political issue to further his re-election.
The meme is not about income or physical fitness, it's about psychological aggressiveness. Highly un-aggressive men are considered emotionally unattractive and don't get dates because, for one thing, they're afraid to ask, but they're nice and dependable and will take care of you forever. Highly aggressive men come across as dynamic and interesting, and turn out to have five mistresses in three states and a warrant out for their arrest in two of them.
Not explicitly. But I've had interviewers tell me "no unauthorized software" and "I don't know if ad blockers are on the authorized list"
Not automotive, but in my area of expertise (21CFR):

"Recall means a firm's removal or correction (emphasis mine) of a marketed product that the FDA considers to be in violation of the laws it administers and against which the agency would initiate legal action, e.g., seizure. "
I love these! Adding some follow-up questions:

To better understand the attrition rate:

- Who is the team made up of - internal transfers or external hires?

- How long have the current team members been on the team?

- When was the last time someone on the team was promoted?

Delving into career trajectory and your questions about training:

- What does the path look like in 3, 5, 7 years for this role?

- What leadership opportunities does this role lead to?

- Will my professional goals be linked to the company's goals?
I think the culture that allows for the sexist torment that you see in conferences, in games, etc is disgusting and cannot be tolerated.

That’s a leadership and culture failure. When a female employee or student is marginalized or harassed, that’s an issue that needs to be dealt with unequivocally and swiftly.

In the school scenario I’m familiar with, my son is in 5th grade. There isn’t a gamergate environment there. We should be exposing kids to technology and coding, period. School clubs should be building that culture where the idea of bullying girls is both unacceptable and repugnant.
Not sure you guys get it. The X-Wing could fly with a fully stopped main rotor. The rotor was completely still in forward flight, but then could start rotating for hover flight.
Sorry, but this is such obvious gender war flamebait as to be off topic here. Please don't post like this to HN.

Please don't post regional flamebait either, regardless of which region you have a problem with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The batching comes implicitly in LSMs: for the WAL, the writes are committed only when the WAL is synced, so the amount of batching is user-controlled. When writing SSTables (either from memtables or from compaction) the write sizes are controlled by the write buffer size.
>Nowadays it's easy to setup your own conference server

Not something any normal business has any business worrying about

Want to do it for funsies on your own time? Cool

For work? No

That's not sane
Obesity is largely linked to economic incentives and urban design. The USA for example is dead set on building car dependent cities, which has an knock on effect on both the amount of free time available to leisure and the activity.

In some countries people are slimmer without making a real effort cause there's a higher percentage of people walking to work, and there's less time spent in traffic so that can be redirected to leisure and exercise.
That's the energy into the plasma. W7-X plasma did not produce any energy because it was not using nuclear fuel. Don't despair! W7-X is an incredible machine and Germany and IPP should be proud of their achievement. The ECRH system is awe-inspiring and the sheer length and power of the pulses is unmatched by any MCF machine on the planet.

Until recently no MCF device on Earth was nuclear. Today's headline is the return of JET's nuclear operations.

There are dozens of MCF machines operating right now and only one is nuclear. That means Q as a metric is only useful for one machine. Something to think about when people toss around Q-related rhetoric around here.
> it was asserted with 0 evidence back then

The bat theory was asserted with way more force at the time with even less evidence.
We should end legal protection of ideas as soon as possible.
I worked at a place that did headunit software for like 15m. My understaning, most of the headunit software updates happen over cellular and aren't covered under the customers billing, the company eats those costs so they like those updates to be as small and as infrequent as possible.

Tesla maybe gets around this by using wifi when it's in the garage? Or perhaps the contracts on the tesla says that customers bare the cost of firmware updates that happen outside the service center setting.
If a government accidentally killed millions of people across the globe, how is that not political? Even a diplomat killing someone in a car accident causes a political incident, I don't see how you could remove political repercussions from an accident that kills millions. There's little incentive for a government to admit responsibility and lots of incentive to hide it.
Even ignoring all the other factors, there is a disconnecting between only managing to get five (free) upvotes in one forum, and finding a group of people willing to bet 12 million on it in another.
Unfortunately, Freeplane doesn't work with current Java. I just installed another, older Java, just for Freeplane.
JavaScript online playground for learning and prototyping
Maybe if they had taken the correct measures in the beggining, it would never turned into this cluesterfuck. China will be accounted one day for this.
Also it doesn't factor in that companies are bundling their streaming services with other services and so many people get them for free.

Case in point: Amazon Prime and Apple One.
> If it was sequenced in early 2020, it may have been contaminated from experiments carried out by researchers trying to learn more about the emerging virus.

That seems like--by far--the most probable explanation.

I'm not even sure if it would need to have been researchers studying Covid--it could just have been that the technician handling the samples was infected and contaminated the samples accidentally, or that the equipment had previously been used with samples unknowingly contaminated with Covid.

In fact, that could have been the case even if it was sequenced in December 2019, since Covid was already spreading in the population at that time.
Yes, there is, just as I said: they were able to convince someone who looks at thousands of companies a year, then interviews a handful of them to give them $12M. You don't think they prayed really hard to the money fairy and got their wish granted, do you?

No, you shouldn't read much more into that, but there factually is information behind the number.
Oh wow. I read early Wiener account of McCulloch&Pitts work and even have one of their papers in my copy of 1956 Dartmouth workshop proceedings. It always puzzled me how Wiener and the whole cybernetics thing sort of just faded away. Had no idea that one woman single-handedly killed it.
> genocidal dictatorship

Do you believe in earnest that China is not a genocidal dictatorship?
I hadn't realized how dogmatic so many people are about "believe science" until the pandemic. It's mildly terrifying.

It also spills over into other domains. If people feel they aren't allowed to be curious or skeptical about the origins of CoV2, how are they going to feel when you tell them manmade global warming is "settled science"?

Curiosity is what fuels life. It's not healthy for us or for our discourse to suppress it.
Gotta remember how bad the early versions of Windows NT were...
I'm not sure which of us is confused and it doesn't matter: let us say that there is a confusion about double entry, which I used to have and no longer do.

It's exactly having from: and to: in a single entry which makes for double entry accounting. Or one from: and several to: but that's effectively an elision.

By implication there is a second double-entry on the other side, but that's often their business, not mine: as an example, the Income statements in my personal ledger are balanced by an Expenses:Payroll on the other side... spiritually, I neither know nor care about the details of how that accounting is done.

In the special case that both accounts are internal to the business, then yes, expense on one account becomes asset on the other. Whether that is one or two (double) entries depends on a bunch of things.

In terms of specific data modeling, I would urge you that yes, the rows corresponding to any debit or credit should include a 'from' field. The reasons are numerous, and have more to do with audit than data integrity per se.

The sufficient reason is that there might not be a counterparty inside your database.
My wife got her PhD and some of the things she would talk about that her advisors told her just struck me as nuts.

They would lament that it was “sad” people would leave academia to have families ignoring the fact that the jobs paid like crap and there was massive competition for any position. They acted like it was some conspiracy to keep people out of the field when it seemed to me to be mostly explained by people making straightforward economic decisions for themselves.
> It kind of felt like the powers were chosen for the sake of pretty animation and/or good songs, with much less thought to how they work in the core story.

There is a home run in "how the powers would work in the setting" (though not the story - neither character matters to that) in the character of Felix. He's Pepa's husband, and a person with her "powers" (inadvertent influence over the weather) would, in reality, end up with a husband exactly like him. He sees the positive side of everything. If there is no positive side, he talks about something else that is positive. He never, ever contradicts her. This is exactly what the local countryside needs!

But this only shows up in one verse of "We Don't Talk About Bruno". And I'm surprised it happened at all - Pepa and Felix are so insignificant within the movie that nobody needed to think about either of them one way or the other.
It was also damaged by the fact that a bunch of true crackpots asserted that COVID-19 was a bio-weapon released by either the Chinese or the US Military. There is zero evidence for that, and it makes no sense.

I heard someone once describe that kind of germ warfare as "attempting to use a grenade as a handgun." Yes it hurts your opponent, but...

Someone will bring up the fact that China seems (if you buy their numbers) to have had good success containing COVID, but the thing is: there's no way they could have known this would be the case. What if they released it on purpose and their containment efforts failed? What if it mutated into something 5X as deadly and 100X as contagious? Viruses don't take loyalty oaths.

Also: the global recession it caused probably did not do China any good in terms of net economic growth.

Also also: why would China release it inside their own country? Why not drop it in some random airport somewhere? If they really wanted to target the USA the thing to do would have been to drop it in Bethesda, Maryland and then spread a lot of anti-US conspiracy theories.

Lots of reasons it would have been a stupid idea to release it on purpose. China's leadership might be evil in some ways but they're not stupid or careless.
>The Hungarian team say that when it first pointed out the discrepancy in the sequencing data, the samples were immediately removed from the genetic database by the Chinese, although have since been restored.

The Chinese repeatedly deleting data from shared databases is one of the craziest parts of the pandemic timeline.

If they want the world to believe they are not responsible, they are doing a terrible job.
It would inform our decision as a society on whether or not to engage in dangerous virus research. We do RCA in tech to prevent repeating errors. Why should we not care about this with the pandemic?
Here's the guide to using sandbox mode: https://pelm.readme.io/reference/sandbox-mode
Arguably goes back to the Norman conquest. You muck about in the fields with the Germanic swine but eat the French-derived pork. You raise cows but eat beef. Likewise mutton.

Military words also tend to come from French, which is how they got to be eating those fine foods.
> There is provable value in what Apple is doing, or the app store would not be a success.

There is provable value in what Apple is doing, by curating a higher quality and better integrated ecosystem than Google/Android offers. Polish which is funded by profits from the App Store.

On the other hand, the App Store's success also benefits from full capture of all iOS users and network effects of releasing when it did.

> Some people just want to have their cake and eat it too.

Some people think you shouldn't be allowed to put cocaine in soda, even if it's tasty. (To use a 1920s metaphor)
Postgres constraints for newbies
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Running complex software open to outside connections in the kernel is pretty standard - the TCP/IP stack is in the kernel too!
Because if I have $100m more than you, it's quite easy for me to get more, higher engaged customers than you
What do you mean when you say "manually deployed docker images"?

It could mean that you build the images on one machine, then export the images as a tar files, copy those to the destination server, and then import the images.

Or it could mean that you copy the Dockerfile and any necessary context files to the destination server and run the Docker build there.

Or it could mean you still use a Docker registry (Docker Hub, AWS ECR, or a self-hosted registry), but you're manually running docker or docker-compose commands on the destination server instead of using an orchestrator like Kubernetes.

As for me, I've done pretty well with that last option. I still use either an in-house Docker registry or AWS ECR, but I haven't needed anything like Kubernetes yet.
The only place I ever see people dump on Teams is HN

Everyone I know in the real world is between "it's a tool, I use it" and "this is pretty great"

I'm mostly in the "this is pretty great" camp - especially when you look at the integrated versioning of shared files, screensharing, and video/audio conferencing
> Thus force these companies to provide either better service or cheaper prices.

Let's be honest here, it will all come down to cheaper costs, which inevitably will impact quality.

But because the alternatives are clear - either have a roof over your head or go homeless - there is no incentive to maintain quality at the expense of larger margins.

This is essentially what happens with healthcare. You cannot just opt-out of it if, thus terrible but cheap practices will always exist, and people will die as a consequence of this.
I recently saw a great question that is generally applicable to all types of job:

"When you think about the person in this role doing really outstanding work in the future, say, one and five years from now, what does that look like to you?"
Where are the sources here? Shouldn't there be an arxiv link or something?
Another year passes. Still waiting for conclusive proof of an animal origin.
This has always seemed like a plausible scenario to me for the origin of this virus. It's just too bad it might have occurred in China, considering their government's propensity for dishonesty and suppressing information. I wonder what the handling/research would have been like if it had leaked from a lab in another country, like the US or Canada for example. Would those governments have been more forthright if one of their labs were to blame?
> an excuse to blame social phenomena on individual moral/ethical failings

The aggregate of individual moral/ethical choices manifests as social phenomena.
I agree with that in many ways.

However, I cant help but think that we do need to understand the causes of Covid-19.

Our society should be able to prevent this kind of thing in future. Regardless of it's a Lab Leak or Natural Transmission.

Just moving on and doing better next time isnt the entire solution.

All aspects of this Pandemic can be investigated, studied and learnt from!

Next time things could be considerably worse!
Also from TFA: "If it was sequenced in early 2020, it may have been contaminated from experiments carried out by researchers trying to learn more about the emerging virus."
I use one of these as a firewall (running OPNSense) and they're very nice but the CPU is indeed _slow_. It's plenty good enough for everything the firewall does but booting it up takes minutes and that's saying something for FreeBSD.
Sure. It's just a classic flamewar topic, and completely a generic tangent (unless the story had been about BG).

I totally get that it wasn't your intention!
I find sometimes it mixes a matrix of desirable and undesirable (but useful in limited contexts) traits together as a way of selling the bad (but useful) stuff enough. So, I don't necessarily entirely buy this argument, though it in principle makes sense, It's definitely a bit more nuanced in practice.
contrast to Ebola, too
Appreciate the advice. It is a bit harder than it sounds though. Building a friend circle from scratch is harder than any technical challenge I've faced before. I overcame my social anxiousness for the most part but that doesn't mean I can cold approach people and build a conversation up to a friendship.

Anyway, HN is hardly the place for this kind of topic but thanks again. I'm giving it my best but it's not a piece of cake.