skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it suspicious that very few of these "researchers" seem to even have any expertise in virology. Furthermore, very few of them seem to even have a PhD in their respective fields, nor any significant institutional affiliations.

Two of them at least have research profiles, but their fields of expertise are in microbiology and nitrogen fixation, which have very little to do with virology or pathology. Their primary mode of publication also seems to be ArXiV and ResearchGate, which doesn't go through peer review, so there is no good way to verify their findings.

Calling these people researchers would be equivalent to calling your average software developer a physicist.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=LLlFfdUAAAAJ...

[2] https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=YWuJkRsAAAAJ...
No abandonment fantasy: but how are the states and federal government going to come up with billions of dollars that are going to make life easier for a handful of farmers and rich Californians? You think the the constituents of the southern and eastern states will vote for 100s of billions of tax money to be spent on something they see as helping liberal coastal dwellers?

How much is all that central valley land worth with ongoing saltwater intrusion?

Where will you get the gigawatts needed to run all the water pumps? New hydro dams?

You are throwing out a solution as if it's easy and feasible. It is certainly not easy, and feasibility , well... We shall see.
This NYT opinion piece can fill some gaps : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR_6dibpDfo

From there you can search up some terms and periods mentioned in that video.
The people isolated in Russia won’t fight the regime - they’ll have to work for the regime at military facilities literally for food and utilities to provide for their families.
> and give you no credit

so, are you not getting an itemised bill? You agree to a number for a house and stuff inside is assumed?

I wouldn't deal with a builder who wouldn't install the oven I bought.
Evidence is facts and information, not vague feelings, no matter how "common sense" it seems. You couldn't convict someone in a court of law with common sense, nor support a scientific theory with common sense. You need this external thing in the world that exists outside your mind. We have the word evidence to mean that external thing that exists outside your mind.
I don’t care who’s to blame, but I’ll just say that the proprietary drivers work just fine on servers and I imagine they’d work fine on Desktop too if distros installed them automatically. Loads of people try Linux on a PC they already have instead of buying a new one that has upstream drivers for every component. This is yet another reason why Linux desktop will never have >2% market share.
What was it like working on these projects? Was it clear that the performance per watt was falling behind Apple’s expectations, and if so how was that felt in your workgroup?
.config is the modern replacement.
You're trying to rationalize the situation in the US, not looking at it objectively. You can quickly train people to use a firearm, including long before fighting starts. You will need to store a vast amount of military equipment anyways. Storage is highly unlikely to be an issue.
A lot of theoretical physics research is funded by bored rich traders (who are disproportionately physics people)
Can you expand the ROC acronym for people that are unfamiliar?
work out a deal with russia (there were 2 rounds of talks and the third will be on 7th)
Market failure is real, but this is a situation where I wouldn't expect to see it happen naturally.
I wonder how difficult it is to de-smart these devices? Like hacking into the software and only allow the basic functionalities.
No, just like journalists. You're demolishing a straw man.
Same. Need a double convection oven to replace our failing one. Shocking how few are available without wifi.

As has been said in other threads about connected TVs, if a few companies would just make dependable, serviceable, not-effing-internet-connected appliances, i for one, would buy all their products.
The method described wouldn’t be as overt as all that.
Don’t forget CEO turnover.
The War in Ukraine Could Change Everything – Yuval Noah Harari – Ted [video]
I've been using Thredded for years now on a relatively popular site (~250k users on Notebook.ai; our instance at https://www.notebook.ai/forum) and have been extremely happy with its performance, scaling, and featureset. The devs behind it are super smart and care about code quality. Would definitely recommend if you need a drop-in discussion engine for your Rails app.
It's almost trolling to suggest another centralized vendor that can lock out people from their money at any time. Paypal is arguably the worst offender in this regard.
But with airlines, the terms of service and what fees tacked on are constantly changing so it seems impossible to know ahead of time that you are actually getting better service with a higher cost. And the pricing that is constantly changing makes it seem like a higher price is because of demand on that flight, not because higher service. It just isn't possible to know what you are getting vs what you are paying unless you do a ton of research or fly all the time.
No, I feel the same way about his writing. A long time ago, I read an article that said he was a practicing accountant before he took up fantasy. I'm happy that he has found success...it's nice that people can see an example of someone working hard for a dream that's so different, but for me he's never left his accountancy past. He doesn't have the "prose flow" of Jordan or Tolkien. But no one is forced to read his work...except if you want to finish WoT.
Link to the original paper, which seems accessible (at least with js disabled) - https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo...

(It's far longer, with some cool graphics - but does not shy away from the math.)
I would guess it has to do with zero latency.

And possibly easier aiming/coordination/stability with the camera and hands at not just eye-level, but also nearly right up against the eye, moving in unison with one’s head. Just a guess though. Sports television cameramen seem to do just find tracking the ball without using a viewfinder.
There is the Alameda corridor which is mostly underground from the port to just outside of Los Angeles. Maybe its at full capacity?
> The game industry does this, which is crap

No, it's fantastic. If they did what you think you want you'd get the same games perhaps a year later.

So because they're doing it you can get what you'd have gotten anyway and more, because if you just buy games after they've been out for a while you'll likely get a large discount.

And people who are big fans of the franchise can get the game earlier if they want, and essentially pay for being beta testers.

It's a win-win.
Your first source writes in a way to trigger an emotional response (anger) in people so they look past the lack of real evidence being presented.
Effective Rust
Skill sets are being lost. At one time desktop development was the thing. Now its not. Things get memory holes as technology advances.
Not many brick layers around anymore that could build Brunelleschi's Dome.
The motivation to trade from rubles to crypto is obvious.

But if you're holding crypto today, what's the motivation to exit and assume a large ruble position?
Regardless of what side you're on -- this is a wake-up call. If you ever, as a civilian, get on the "wrong" side of any local or global event: you get to freeze on a park bench.

Your keys, your coins. Their keys, their coins.

Anyone who is paying attention, globally, is now realizing that they need to begin moving at least some assets into cryptocurrencies, in their own, personal accounts.

The problem is: BIP-39 is a train-wreck, from any practical security and reliability perspective. Basically, any "normal" person setting up a Crypto account w/ BIP-39 seed recovery is just gonna lose their money. I estimate 10% a year probability of total account loss: probably greater.

Use SLIP-39: https://slip39.kundert.ca/macos. Set up an account. Fund it. Get this done.

Because: you're next...
I legitimately don't understand how people keep interpreting "this doesn't seem to be going how Russia hoped it would" as "Ukraine is obviously winning". Those aren't the same thing at all.
I wonder if there's an RCT on whether these techniques actually work. Without validation, it's hard to take the claims too seriously.
That's bizarre. Given that Germans generally care more about privacy than most, it's surprising that BMW would be doing that.
The danger of owning a firearm, especially if it is always armed for such an occurrence, is more dangerous to the household than the risk of home invasion (which again, is rare). It is an idea that people defend using the concept of "safety", but in reality is motivated by fear or hypermasculinity as the main cause.
Weren't all three of them (ex-Maiar) angels?
Pardon my ignorance, but isn't it the case that a lot of stuff coming from China is stuff produced in China, but using western technology? If that's correct, moving production outside of China would be so hard I can't imagine it, but not entirely impossible. It would be a huge crisis that would be eventually, heroically fixed.

Another problem is the access to resources like rare metals, that China stockpiles.
You’re talking about the EULA, not the copyright license. The EULA can certainly claim you’re not allowed to do that, but it’s also unenforceable in most places so who cares?
As simple as the economic impact when China reaches this conclusion.
> Also I'm not sure I'd call it a sanction since it's coming from a private company, not a government.

It's following sanctions, which blacklist all big Russian banks and remove them from international banking and financing arrangements. Even if Visa/MasterCard aren't explicitly prohibited from dealing in Russia, how are they supposed to move money around with the sanctions in place? It's because of the sanctions.

> If I were any country right now I'd also take it as a warning to not depend on Mastercard or Visa given the immense power they hold

They can try not invading other countries, that seems to do the trick. Joking aside, countries like France have their own independent networks ( Carte Bleue in France) over which payments pass in some scenarios ( honestly couldn't tell, but for instance there are weird cards from some banks that only work on the CB network and don't outside of France, even if they're supposedly Visa/MC).
They do point out that there are no discovered precursors in the bat populations of that region.
Well US could recognize it, then it could join NATO.
The thing that really impressed me was that little thermal printer it came with. I had so much fun printing things on it!
It also takes time to interpret how the sanctions affect an industry and what actions need to be taken, and those interpretations are going to be pretty correlated.
Does this non-profit media also believe in a technological society? Perhaps with an allergy to challenging the concept of this type of science in the first place?
Important takeaway: Even one drink shrinks the brain.
But "more regulation" is in not an intrinsic virtue even though the media/politicians always think they have good ideas on that front. Also the policy question about regulation doesn't mean everyone in the industry will avoid empirical conclusions. Like much of the internet industry is based on ads but that doesn't mean you can't find a programmer to analyze how a particular cookie is set
I think that's part of why Anchorage is one of the busiest airports in the world
You also probably have no idea the volume of attention that being openly female gets you on the internet.
Which is why I said use Transferwise, if you cannot use Paypal. There are options like Western Union or Moneygram, but crypto is not one of them.
It's unfortunately a very rapidly evolving field and is difficult to "break into" as far as understanding internals. Though just understanding DLPP is a good start, but ultimately you need a lot of practice and experimenting on your own to get a good intuition for it.

For the record these are problems many "solver-aided" communities struggle with; I'd say the #1 problem that people have with this class of tools is prospective, interested users struggle with the issue of "how can I encode my problem into a SAT instance with reasonable efficiency." I know this because it's my #1 problem!

On the other hand, there are a lot of "straightforward" NP problems you can run into and get good solutions for with little effort though. Binpacking comes up surprisingly often and being able to just throw it at a solver and get a good, generic solution quickly is always nice (not that this is exclusive to SMT solvers, but it's an easy way to get your feet wet at least.)
You'd think letting people transfer money outside of the sanctioned country is in accord to the stated goals of sanctions. Is this move really practical, or just a showing MC and Visa are politically in line with the rest of the businesses?
No one has declared it impossible even now. They are saying there is now a very strong preponderance of evidence favors natural origin, while no new evidence of lab leak has appeared.
I have a Russian friend living abroad for a longer period of time and paying his day to day expenses with savings through credit cards. They all stopped working and he has no way to pay for anything anymore.

I get why it’s done but it’s still sad to see people that have nothing to do with this situation get hit like this
Not to mention that Switzerland is 15,940 mi², while USA is 3,797,000 mi².
UK Property and football clubs don't contribute to the Russian war effort, though. Yachts are not warships. Since trade with Russia has stopped, even selling them would make little difference.

If anything we should be encouraging Russians to flee the country.
Seeing a few accounts parotting lines like these in here, and on LinkedIn.

Scary stuff.
It's the first action against Russia that made me angry. It's so stupid and wrong at the same time.

So, in Russia all the cards will work, nothing is changed here (despite the statements of Visa and Mastercard). Cards issued by Russian banks would stop work abroad. The same is true for any foreign cards in Russia. So, foreigners in Russia are fucked. People who left Russia in a hurry because they didn't want to be part of this craziness or because it's dangerous for them to stay (i.e. they are known protesters against the regime) are fucked.

Nice move. Simply genius.
That’s what I tell people when they ask why I use iPhones. And then they claim that it is not so.
Monero isn't really private or secure and was a subject to a 51% attack so this is a moot point.
An even better reason is that by having an xmalloc() that exits on failure the compiler's code flow analysis will be improved.

That's because it knows it'll be impossible for the return value of that malloc() to be NULL.
And this is what terrifies me. My daughter was born a week ago. I'd like there to be a world for her to grow up into.
Now imagine a future where all these appliances have personalities and then this happens, rendering your oven and friend useless!

Man, I have to read Only Forward once again. Lovely book
Sveltekit deployed to vercel and you might need no back end at all, much less a framework, and come away with a fast single page app with fast dev iteration speed.
Is there any difference between them and any other billionaire? At least Russia has free health care (albeit probably not the best in the world), US billionaires pay no taxes, an equal argument can (and has) been made to redistribute their wealth. The best system perhaps is each person contributes and receives according to their ability and needs :-D, of course who determines this? Most oligarchs would say I need a yacht and $20,000 watch!
How difficult is it to get access to BTC? Does it trade at a premium?
I'm sure they can achieve a degree of certainty, but not enough to hold up in a court of law because writing styles can be faked as well
Using crypto is actually productive use of it. It s speculation that is bothering you; that is not going to happen here.

But crypto is not immune from censorship, just from centralized censorship. If bitcoin was widespread now, users would block addresses or wholesale fork the chain to oust russia
Just a reminder that this is the equivalent of spray painting a poster put up somewhere by the FSB, and doesn’t constitute any kind of incursion into any system the FSB relies on or cares about.
> Hot take: I think this is going to backfire and we're going to see destabilization in Europe and America before Putin is ousted

That's probable, but it's not "backfiring". It's a risk taken in order to stand up to a war criminal. He got away with it lightly last times ( Georgia, Crimea), a line had to be drawn, finally, or he'd simply never stop. Most Europeans are aware of the risks, and many support taking them now, because a line was crossed ( the donation drives, manifestations of support, rearmament plans, polls, etc. - it seems most Europeans support Ukraine and want their governments to act on that). If anything, i think this will bring Europe together, finally end up creating better military cooperation and coordination.

And it's always a game. Europe is staring down the barrel of an energy crisis, but Russia is staring down the barrel of economic ruin. Let's see how stable Putin's regime is with lack of everything bar basic foodstuffs ( furniture, electronics, vehicles, internet).
I mean, that's a really bad position to take. You can't evaluate news based on the medium. Evaluate based on the credibility of the source. MSM reporting on COVID has been very consistent and very accurate. Almost all of the mis and disinformation is coming from political sources or unqualified opinionators. If you just follow the most obvious sources like the NY Times, BBC, NPR and the like, you'd be right over 95% of the time.
This is great but why can't they just do it? If a majority of EU members agree then why can't Ukraine be an EU member today?

Yes there are rules and red tape to negotiate but I don't see why a majority can't just agree to waive it under emergency circumstances.

Otherwise it just seems like a hollow gesture.
EU is irrelevant. They could be EU if they agree to neutrality and let go of crimea and donbass.

EDIT: EU was explicitly mentioned as irrelevant by putins press-secretary in a recent press conference (he was asked about it).
Political/humanitarian circumstances aside, this is a good reminder to all of us, everywhere, that 100% reliance on centralized electronic payment systems is risky because they have rare but total failure modes.

ALWAYS carry and travel with cash, no matter what.

ALWAYS keep enough cash hidden in your home to cover a month or more of expenses.
Good job, Mastercard (and Visa)! Now all people opposing Putin and trying to gather money for leaflets will have to use state-created MIR instead. Putin will be pleased!
Apparently. The correct URL is here: https://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2022/02/investigators...

ETA: The study was done in mice, so maybe the title should reflect that?
> Furthermore, very few of them seem to even have a PhD in their respective fields, nor any significant institutional affiliations.

I see this as a sign that they're more trustworthy. This is a poor situation to be in and not really something we can productively argue about.

Trust should be the most important priority for any scientist (or any person really, but that's another issue).
2000 deaths a day.

Still higher than most of the pandemic over the last two years.

They're lifting them because they're realizing the restrictions are pointless and hopeless.

Which means they were wrong all along and Tx and FL were right.
I dislike the precedent that AWS/OpenSearch sets/reinforces.

It’s basically tacit approval that “AWS should be allowed to swing in and destroy your business and you can and should do nothing in response”, it lets AWS (or anyone else who wants to try this) continue with this kind of parasitic behaviour.
I don't think it's enough that Chromium is open source. Yes it's very different from the MS IE monopoly, but Google has a very different business model compared Microsoft.

The value of IE to Microsoft was to lock people into Windows - both developers and users. They recognized that the web would become a software platform in its own right, and knew that if everyone ended up using web software then it'd be a lot easier to use non-Windows platforms.

Google gets much of its revenue from web advertising, so the value of Chromium to Google is to keep the web profitable for them. For example, Mozilla can't do to Google what Apple did to Facebook. They can do things like veto any move away from cookies as the primary tracking mechanism, at least until they have an alternative ready to go.

An open source license doesn't fully solve the problem because forking Chromium isn't enough. All the software on the web is built on top of APIs that Google gets a say in, and these are designed to be useful for ad/tracking networks.
Visa and MasterCard suspend Russian operations
This is still not a usecase for 'cryptocurrencies' at all. In fact the big crypto exchanges have now blocked Russian users.
Nazi Germany had no choice but continue war in 1939. The economy was close to collapse and food shortages were coming. Nazi concept of Lebensraum would require conquest to the east. I think with social media in that period, national socialism and communism could win in more countries.
It's not a wake up call for me. This is in line with expectations. If the economic sanctions don't work I assume the next phase is cyber war at scale. If that doesn't work, traditional hot war.
I was really quite interested in film at one point but the overhead in terms of big equipment and film processing cost was just more than I wanted to handle. A smartphone today with a bit of software would have been a game changer.
It's a newsletter about transit, for transit nerds. If you're subscribing to that newsletter, you know what BART stands for.
Ask HN: What's the best way to enhance/enlarge a graphic?
Hi, I found this[1] image online and would like to enhance it so I can hang it on my wall. What would you recommend?
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Other rdbms have identifier quoting, yes. But the problem isn't that identifier quoting exists, it's that the library interprets an object as a key = value statement (compounded
treating the key as an identifier), which it shouldn't.

... AND password = password = 1

is just wrong, quoted or not.