skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just want to throw this[0] in here because it's easy to think that the opinion within a bubble is representative of actual consensus:

> New public opinion data from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute shows after more than two weeks of unrest, Canadians are now more likely to oppose measures sought by protesters.

> Overall, more than two-in-five now say Canadians say the protests have made them more inclined to support ongoing restrictions related to masking indoors (44%) and vaccination requirements to cross the Canada-U.S. border (44%).

> As the country rolls into another week of uncertainty, nearly three-quarters of Canadians (72%) say the time has come for protesters to “go home, they have made their point.”

> As to how the situation should be resolved – most feel the time for talking is done. Nearly seventy per cent either think local police need to step in and send people home (45%) or that the military should be summoned (23%). One quarter (26%) say it’s up to politicians to negotiate a dénouement.

> However, those same politicians, including the prime minister and the leader of Canada’s official opposition, are roundly criticized for harming, not helping events. Two-thirds (65%) say Prime Minister Justin Trudeau comments and actions have worsened the situation, while two-in-five (42%) say this of Candice Bergen, leader of the official opposition.

The consensus here is pretty strong: Canadians supported the masking and mandates and supported it more strongly in response to the protest. Canadians supported ending the protest, including by force (military or police). Canadians think politicians on both sides handled the situation poorly.

[0] https://angusreid.org/trudeau-convoy-trucker-protest-vaccine...
This is russian propaganda!!! And I am half russian!
Well we certainly have a surplus of weak men. We’ve been hard at work creating them here in the West. I don’t suppose anyone who requires a safe space or trigger warnings is going to volunteer to defend the moral high ground they love so much.

We (the west) are not what we once were. I’m so sorry Ukraine.
No, it's not that they don't dare to think it, it's that they realize it is stupid.
>What happens if you refuse to participate?

Luckily, nothing.
The probability is also some argument by increduality anyway: 10-11, or you know, an occurrence rate of 10 after a trillion attempts.

In an "average" COVID-19 infection course in an adult human, it is estimated that at peak infection a person has 10^9 to 10^11 virion particles in their body alone. Multiply by the all the people infected, + all the animals, + parallel gene transfer with other viruses in the ecosystem...

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/118/25/e2024815118
Many people use the BSDs for their transparency and despite Linux catching up in many areas, BSDs (which are arguably more political) have a rock solid reputation. (Maybe that's why all of Apple's flagship products are based on BSD - never heard of them using Linux though) IMHO people forget that software development is of course about the tech but really half of the work is about people, both in Opensource and Commercial developments. Large orgs think twice before they use a (perhaps free) software with bad reputation
Let's remove street addresses altogether, because that requires hard memorization, right? Instead let's all put any house of a city all along a contiguous space and refer to them via a description of their appearance.
That's a strange technicality to get hung up on. "Hallucinogens" are perhaps a broad class of psychotropic drugs, of which dissociative anesthetics are a part. A laptop is still a computer.

From Wikipedia's definition:
"A hallucinogen is a psychoactive agent that often or ordinarily causes
hallucinations, perceptual anomalies, and other substantial subjective
changes in thought, emotion, and consciousness that are not typically
experienced to such degrees with other drug classifications."

The traditional dissociatives definitely would classify as changing your thoughts and consciousness.
Wonder if we’ll be able to make something equivalent to a gravitational camera at some point.
Your question is probably why submissions about the conflict/war in Ukraine are getting flagged and why there's only few articles on the frontpage.

It's a breaking news event that all TV channels, radio, all newspapers already report on. The newspapers have 24/7 real time coverage. And that's mostly off-topic for HN https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Many users come to HN to avoid the breaking news cycle that's present on other platforms and where more niche topics are discussed.

It's similar how other major events were handled. US presidency, Hong Kong protests, Iran, Ottawa protests, COVID, school shootings, wildfires to name a few.
If any here are unaware of the origin of this phrase, one of my former bosses worked in the U.K. and said this anytime someone asked for something unreasonable. He was also nice enough to introduce me to Little Britain - here's one to get you started: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNDS4kVwA68
> If you're worried about platform censorship, the solution that gives you more control is to self-host

Thanks for pointing this out! This is precisely what the Peertube project is about. It's *not* a P2P tube where discovery/notification is unmediated between peers. Peertube is a software for selfhosting your own "tube", which supports federation between hosts so your content can be discovered from elsewhere (with allow/deny lists supported).

The P2P bits of Peertube is only for video delivery, which is very clever. It was always possible to setup your own Youtube (eg. with MediaGoblin) but who had the hardware and connectivity to do that?! Especially since:

- if a video has a peak of popularity, a centralized setup has to send a separate stream to every viewer

- if people want to view a video from which your instance doesn't have good connectivity, it will be terrible user experience, unless you as a server operator setup a sort of CDN which is expensive and more complex than it has to be

Peertube has a very interesting hybrid federated/p2p design where the owner retains control on the published material (you can delete videos from your account), but both viewers and federated instances replicating your materials can help seed it to more people.

Peertube is intended for selfhosting for existing communities (non-profits, conferences, classrooms, etc) and it gives us the practical power to do it without requiring thousands of euros of monthly infrastructure bills.
Ukraine will make Russia suffer though as they seem very determined to protect their country. And the rest of the world will make Russia suffer economically. So this is a lose-lose situation.
That is false, Transit costs go down per rider as things go up. The cost to operate a bus is just over $100/hr in the US (average), including capital costs. It doesn't matter if only the driver is on the bus or it is packed full. It doesn't mater if everyone is riding for an entire hour or they only ride for 5 minutes.

The cost operating costs for a train can be much less (a train can be fully automated which really brings costs down), or much more (if you run drivers and conductors). However as until the train is full requiring that you buy more the costs do not change at all.

Roads have similar concerns - the cost to build and maintain a road is mostly fixed, but it scales to much slower. A full bus every 5 minutes has far more people than the same road with the maximum number of moving cars, so you need to build more roads faster, thus the capital costs of roads is much higher.
I mean, I was a engineer that participated in those discussions when I worked at an IDP firm. The concern that if we got popped and the password database was leaked somehow, that with TOTP the attackers had everything to start logging in as users who had weak passwords but with public/private schemes they didn't. This was a very real concern that affected preference for public/private schemes (which included hardware tokens), and engineering effort to decrease the UX burden of hardware tokens specifically.

You might correctly call that concern more focused on CYA of the the firm itself, but I think that's not the worse thing in the world, and the underlying crypto primitives certainly played a role here.
Yes and they are frustrating to see as someone with some understanding of molecular biology. The science is so far very clear cut that there is no evidence for a lab engineered virus and only circumstantial evidence for a lab leak (but plausible).

But people keep falling back on political arguments which have nothing more compelling than an argument from some authority. Programmers can see that the media and govt lies when there is a “hack” which was just a result of poor management, and extend that to literally anything reported on by the news.
Have you looked at Phoenix?

A ton of new Rails features/development you mentioned is inspired by work the Phoenix team built, who were also once core Rails contributors.

https://www.phoenixframework.org/
That's because these "predictions"/recommendations are taken as school textbook (literally, it's required reading!) by Russian military.
I wish.

Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said this 6 days ago:

> If Russia enters Ukraine, it is assumed that this will lead to large numbers of refugees fleeing the country. Amnesty International warns of a humanitarian catastrophe.

> But Sweden will not be a major recipient country, according to Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson. She believes that the responsibility lies with other countries.

https://www.dn.se/varlden/magdalena-andersson-andra-lander-f...
The backend needs to be able to produce the same code that you produce. If somebody could do that with a public key then you’d need to keep the public key a secret.

If you want to do it with a protocol that enables signed messages and other stuff then the UX cannot be “type in a few numbers.”
What about upnp as an alternative to stun to achieve real p2p? You may need something native to setup but would not rely on a relay.
A lot of research into plasma confinement is completely empirical. No theory at all. The scientists try new settings, see how they work, and draw a line on a graph extrapolating from them to higher power settings. That's why you need all these small experiments, which have no hope of generating net energy: because you're trying to solve plasma confinement by
tinkering, without much of a map to guide you.
> but multiple hard links have been a thing in file systems since forever.

The UI around creating/managing/deleting them is worse than with a properly supported tagging system, though. Plus they're prone to breakage by any program that attempts to do atomic saves (i.e. renames the old file first).

While I certainly wouldn't want to give up hierarchical file systems as the default, there are a few things where I'd really wish for some OS/file system-level support for tagging, too
> full of garden path sentences

FYI, as a non-native English speaker, I have no idea what a "garden path sentence" means.
If you load http://example.com and the HTML there includes an image tag that says '<img src="http://othersite.com/image.jpg">' it means your browser will connect to othersite.com and ask that site for the image. It will not ask example.com.
It was built from the start and people tacked on even more :)

There's anything from quality of life improvements to complete game overhauls (like full magic systems, factorio-style factories etc.) to new content to new scenarios to... :)
Something like a collaborative document editor or forms with non-trivial logic.

Also, the interface of HN works because of its demographic.
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I saw your original post when you introduced the project. I spent a couple days looking into SVGs after that. Thank you!

I agree it does look flat. More color and some subtle animation will make a huge difference IMHO.
If I knew, I would be rich.
> in American usage, the meaning of the word “nation” has largely
> shifted to mean the (entire) state or the country

So in American usage nation-state means what exactly?

In any case, no matter how Americans call their political entities, the word "nation" in the term "nation-state" has a clear, unambiguous meaning, referring to a race/tribe/nation.
Fission did keep getting cheaper up until FUD about accidents and explosions caused regulations that strangled it (that and overblown fears about proliferation of nuclear weapons).
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They tend to glue together a scientific fact and some vague conspiracy-esque implied conclusions that are anywhere from debatable to entirely nonsense.

In this case, it’s accurate to say that the same sequence found in SARS-CoV-2 is indeed found in a patent. That’s valid and accurate.

The claim that the occurrence is an impossibly unlikely random chance is the flawed part, though. Generic fragments aren’t actually random because they correspond to actual functions of the virus, and it shouldn’t be surprising that viruses with similar functions have similar genetic code fragments.

It’s like if someone examined the binaries of two executables from different companies, identified a small sequence of bits that was common to both, then tried to imply that they were secretly written by the same author because it’s statistically unlikely for that random sequence of bits to appear twice. As a programmer you’d immediately dismiss the claim because that small sequence of bits could be common code like a standard library part or a common algorithm. But the claim may appear to be proof of a conspiracy to the uneducated.

That’s basically what’s going on with this article, but swap bits for genetic code.
I would say they are different, not necessarily better or worse. In this case the target was political protesters who opposed the government.

Civil forfeiture is wrong, but targeting dissidents and threatening to make them economic non-persons is a different kind of chilling.
Not sure what's "normal looking" in the flow where you are supposed to dictate/type-out a TOTP code to someone while not being allowed to use it to attempt a log in (and that they have <60s to make use of). "Be quick and type me out your TOTP code from your phone before it changes, darn, that one didn't work, let's try again".

I also disagree it's that far fetched to get people who'd do that to also do whatever else you want them to.

And while SMS swapping is miniscule in comparison, the big difference there is that there is no signal at all that you are under attack. With phishing, there is no way you are not feeling something is at least a bit off, so you know to check soon after, even if you've been compromised.
Yeah because the totally competent CDU/CSU politicians would have solved this way better. Totally!
Or why we kept shouting that IP law needs a reform, without taking serious action.
someone should dose him with some acid, see if that won't make him chill out.

I kinda feel bad for him, he must live a rather unhappy life.
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Omg you fell for that article. Look at those dendrograms carefully. They bias to load up the dendrograms with "degenerate sequences" with very close/obscure accession numbers, and basically hide the diversity of viral sequences between the furin-bearing coronaviruses and SARS-CoV-2 (fig 5, which completely omits betacoronaviruses, a clade that contains SARS-CoV-2).

Furin cleavage sites are rare in coronaviruses, and even rarer in the closest ones to SARS-CoV-2. It's the case that there was a research proposal to put a furin cleavage site into bat coronaviruses to fuck around and find out precisely because they are rare in most classes but conspicuous (and possibly related to pathogenicity) in others (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21066966-defuse-prop...).

(Ps i am also a former molecular biologist that worked in gain of function for non pathogenic bioengineering and I used to look at dendrograms to steal ideas from nature to improve enzyme function -- and I was successful: https://jbioleng.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1754-161...)

Edit: clarified that betacoronaviruses contains SARS-CoV-2, because some armchair analysts don't stop to understand figures
I am glad that you added not an endorsement. This level of selfishness is the reason other people quit their jobs, and contributes to toxic workplaces. A really good book about dealing with assholes at work is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_No_Asshole_Rule, and I can't recommend it highly enough, as it has allowed me to deal with these kinds of people in the past (and sadly present as well).
I don't think those are regular Russians. They all seem connected to Ukraine. What do Russians who don't have Ukrainian relatives feel?
China doesn’t need Russia as an ally, a client perhaps.

Also those petrodollars will slow if Russia has a single buyer.

Not to mention, carbohydrates’ days are counter. Gulf countries are diversifying like crazy, Russia not so much.
Remember that one wrong action (or even none) might get your google account permanently blocked without any recovery options.
Someone call Moderna, they filed the patent so I’m sure they will clarify
Any sport with coherent rules is no different about whether it may qualify as a "serious sport". Baseball looks pretty stupid to me as a European, and satires of Cricket often portray that as complete nonsense although it does have laws setting down exactly how it works.

In the end what matters to perception may be the attendant fuss, as you say with commentators and organised competition, but I grew up with the Football Pyramid†, which provokes healthy distrust of such things in trying to define a sport.

† Unlike with US sports like the NFL, in England Soccer is organised in a vast sprawling hierarchy of leagues, the Pyramid, with a system for teams to be promoted from a lower league to a higher one, or contrariwise demoted to a lower league, depending on their performance each season. Anybody can start at the bottom, if they can put together a group of people to turn up and play. In principle a group of friends or colleagues could create a new side, "Speen and Dean FC", that was just ridiculously good, and get promoted every season, until after a few yeares they were playing against semi-professionals, and then facing actual professional footballers in stadiums, and then playing internationals, it's all possible. Incredibly unlikely of course, but possible. And so this emphasises that actually the game you're playing kick-about with some friends, is the exact same game somebody gets paid eyewatering sums of money to play on national TV. If it's a "serious sport" is clearly just a matter of perspective.
True, but I still don't think it's stupid. You could argue that it's pointless, but I'd still tend to disagree.
Lol, your comment makes it particularly clear that you have no idea how antivirus software usually works.

> It was found to be uploading files to Russia when their algo figured it was good docs for the Russians to have.

Not documents, but malware-looking files. This is normal.

The problem came about when people working with government malware had Kaspersky on their computers and it happened to upload samples of that government malware, but presumably just about any other AV would’ve done the same.
Careful who you donate to, you could have your bank accounts frozen... /s
I'm going to add animation — I really do think that it's become necessary.

I have lots of ideas, and it's quite a fun process.

Thanks!
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Someone call Moderna. They filed the patent so I’m sure they will clarify
> Overblown issue when you think about it.

>> Assume good faith.

I think about it and I come to a different conclusion. Thank you for stating that I type such a long message without thinking about it.

> And there are many reactor designs and fuel cycles that make it totally unpractical for a whole host of reasons.

I am not convinced this is true. Please suggest a fuel cycle which could not be use for proliferation when one is allowed to spike it with other materials and one also can add steps to the waste nuclear processing to extract products? Fuel cycles also don't address nuclear waste which can be processed further allowing at least dirty bombs and fuel can be disposed in manners which violate out western sensibilities in totalitarian states.

> The reality is, its a very unlikely vector, if a nation has the finances to do it, they will just do it.

Well having nuclear capabilities makes it a lot more feasible to have the means and money to build them.

> you basically have the same thing as a Concentrated Solar Plant.

Except instead of solar mirrors which can be taken care of by every country you have a highly complicated plant which locals might not be able to maintain, build in slightly unsafe ways, not inspect properly, not maintain properly, not shutdown when it needs to be shutdown, shutdown wrongly or use for proliferation.

> So every country could be safe in assuming that they would continue to have power even if international trade was blocked.

This would be objectively be a bad thing though. Isolationism is what allowed for war in the last century. Borders which goods cross, soldiers (or nukes) do not. It also would weaken human rights in countries which are no longer dependent on the good will of the world. I hope that you were not aware of these implications.
I think a combination is good:
- Browser remembers passwords to sites I don't care about
- Google SSO for work-related when possible
- Yubikey-backed password store for all important passwords

Main motivation is, that when I switch job I can't accidentally keep access to any tool since my access to the Google work account is revoked.
His pre invasion speech has striking similarity to Hitler's speeches
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If you've responded to any of my emails, no thank YOU!
If you are building and distributing executables using Graal native-image, you probably care about cross-compilation.
Can you realistically open thousands of fibers though ? You will hit the db connection limitation pretty soon no? I'm just wondering what was the end goal - do people hit maximum threads limitation and need fibers?

EDIT: I might be wrong here it could be that each Fiber released the connection when it's de-scheduled. I'd still like to get a grasp on how this improves performance ...
Maybe not part of the filesystem, but part of the OS API, so that every filebrowser can support it.