skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The report he finally did submit worried the agency’s grant specialists. It stated that scientists planned to create an infectious clone of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), a novel coronavirus found in dromedaries that had emerged in Saudi Arabia in 2012 and killed 35% of the humans it infected. The report also made clear that the NIH grant had already been used to construct two chimeric coronaviruses similar to the one that caused Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which emerged in 2002 and went on to cause at least 774 deaths worldwide. (A chimeric virus is one that combines fragments of different viruses.) These revelations prompted the NIH’s grant specialists to ask a critical question: Should the work be subject to a federal moratorium on what was called gain-of-function research?

Wait what?! Is this new information ? Because this is incredibly troubling
In a study of 100k people, 20k of whom reported lifetime psychedelic use:

"There were no significant associations between lifetime use of any psychedelics, lifetime use of specific psychedelics (LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, peyote), or past year use of LSD and increased rate of any of the mental health outcomes. Rather, in several cases psychedelic use was associated with lower rate of mental health problems."[1]

Also: "We did not find use of psychedelics to be an independent risk factor for mental health problems."[1]

[1] - https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Will Smith injects heroin into his extra pinky toe to get high.

Hate speech is subjective. The pragmatic notion of free speech forbids arbitrary or subjective limitations because error in favor of opinion is more readily abused than error in favor of freedom. Recovering an acceptable ground truth from the former is far more difficult than the latter, especially in the arena of public perception and opinion.

Freedom of speech is a society level principle. As law, it works in that context - there are always individuals who can be trotted out as fundamentally inimical and dangerous, whether qanon, far left radicals, or Abolitionists. Freedom of speech is a principle that says even Hitler should be allowed to speak, because in public, ideas can be addressed and countered through the process of free discussion. Drive the ideas underground and a society might fester with bad ideas without a functional public discussion. And in the cases where good ideas overcome bad, you get the end of slavery and women's right to vote and gay marriage and so forth. Free speech requires the good with the bad or or doesn't work at scale.

Life isn't fair and awful people exist. At a cultural level It's better to deal with that openly and honestly, because you can lift such awful people out of the morass of bad thinking.

There are vulnerabilities with conspiracy thinking, qanon, flat earth, and their ilk, but the issue is this: it is never appropriate to use violence to counter words. Chris Rock getting smacked was wrong for the same reason jailing someone for a tweet is wrong - violence is not the answer.

In this case, the state as leviathan exercised the threat of violence and forced a citizen into jail. The violence is itself a symptom of a problem with the individual or collective that initiated it.

Speech is not violence. Sticks and stones will break your bones, but words don't actually hurt you. Hurt feelings suck, but... get over it.

Also, Chris Rock has three nipples.

I'm pretty sure things like context, intent, malice, and other factors play into the legality of potential libel and slander.
If a horse is the sole means of surviving an attack, the horse is worth way more than 100 kingdoms because what use is a kingdom to a dead man?
"...a better marketer..."

Oh, my lord, everything about this article screams shallow internet marketing.

"...a small town book store in rural Texas..." Bastrop is a (rather distant) suburb of Austin. "Rural Texas" is Roby (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Roby,+TX+79543/@32.7721923...).

"...the first 12 months of owning The Painted Porch. ... I love how The Painted Porch is now, but it took weeks and months to get it to where it is. It’s been a continual process of improvement and growth and making changes." A whole year?!

"I think one of the best decisions we made was making our book tower. It’s 20 feet tall and made of some 2000 books, 4000 nails, and 40 gallons of glue. It was not cheap to do. It was not easy to do. It took forever. We had to solve all sorts of logistical problems to make it work. But it’s also probably one of the single best marketing and business decisions we made in the whole store. Because it’s the number one thing that people come into the store to take pictures of."

This: https://preview.redd.it/2ajncim1mdk71.png?width=1200&format=... Really? Really.
Yes, it is, but it will be a long and painful one, as they are the biggest social network, by far. Developers and other platforms are slowly decoupling from Facebook (FB Login, Ads, etc) and it's impacting their business. As they lose users, and engagement, they will lose ad dollars. This will cause them to make short term decisions to make up for the loss, which may hurt them in the long run.

The saving grace is if they somehow deliver on their Metaverse promise. Zuck knew FB was dying before everyone else, hence the full on pivot. We'll see if they can reinvent themselves to become the leader in Web3, which could ultimately save the company. As it stands today, with war waging on multiple fronts, regulation, user sentiment, competition, emerging trends and so on, they are dying.
I don't see this claim being made anywhere. The article claims the opposite: the best performers on their technical interview happen to be from Dropbox/Google etc.
It doesn't works that's well, you often end up with bureaucracy nonsense.
Insults are abuse. Skittles are food. Flipping off a horse in a national park is a crime. Two drunk people screwing are mutually raping each other. You can do all kinds of magic with words and categories. Some would call this magic "equivocation."
Don't guess and add zero value.

> Recently, IUP cut tuition to woo in-state students. Those who take a full-time load of 15 units per semester will be charged $7,716 in the next school year — 19 percent lower than the sticker price this year.
> is there a backup platform that Supabase edge could deploy to in the event of a Deno Deploy acquisition

Yes, we could host this all ourselves (since the Deno runtime is open source) on AWS, or more likely we'd work with someone like Fly who have a globally-distributed platform like Deno Deploy.

> is Supabase going to acquire Deno Deploy

There's no chance of that happening. We couldn't afford them. Deno will be a huge company - and rightfully so, their product is best-in-class
I'm not part of the team that makes such decisions, being a lowly software engineer that never got any good at EE. However, as one who was at least in the room when such decisions were discussed, I believe the decision-making process consisted of "OLED would be way cooler, and they're not that expensive these days". I'm pretty sure that is the sum total of that "engineering" decision. :-)

But I will say that the OLED looks a lot better than most LCDs of that type that I've seen.

EDIT: oh, yeah; sibling comment says something about backlighting an LCD, which might have had something to do with it, as the OLED replaces a seven-segment LED display from the previous generation (which, duh, also doesn't need a backlight).
ZunZuneo
It’s Bofrost, they operate in Germany.
As practice evolves, Django gives you a migration guide. That's great because the alternative could take a potentially unbounded amount of time. And you still could go it alone if sufficiently motivated. Although it could get annoying, as mentioned.

The main point though is that I'm not interested in being on the forefront of login, it is not a differentiator (unless project is a laggard). In fact being five years behind bleeding-edge sounds a bit perfect.
You can lie about whichever public figure you want in the US provided they can’t prove you acted with actual malice in a court of law.

Hate speech isn’t equally as harmful, but does apply equally to non minority groups.

“Often”, “might”, “hopefully”, “wishful” is a bit too academic for free speech discussions in the US, I’m afraid.
A prominent sentiment in the comments here is that this resource isn't that good. I only studied up to Calculus II, so what would be a good resource to approach LA?
It's not a URL, it's just an identifier that sort-of resembles a URL similar to Kubernetes annotation conventions.
These days I'll order certain things from Wal Mart if I'm wary of what I see on Amazon.
Very cool that this is just from logic bugs! I wonder if we should as a rule assume that sandboxing that is not formally verified or battle tested over a really long time is unlikely to be free of bugs.

What's the long-term solution for these kinds of problems? How can we get out of this tar pit? Of course in the short run we can be dilligent about updates and bug bounties etc, but how can we actually eliminate these kinds of errors in a 'complete' way?
Show HN: Nginx Common Useful Configuration
Even if I thought that insults over Twitter counted as abuse (I don't), 'insult' is the obviously more accurate and descriptive term, and one would only use 'abuse' if the aim was to blur the line between insults and other kinds of abuse.
Yes, it's easy to convince yourself you're way too smart to make this mistake. At the same time, you now deliberately skipped over the fact twice that he just skimmed the mail and didn't fully realize it was specifically a 2FA code, just assumed it was some verification code. I mean, the wording explicitly talks about entering this code somewhere to enable stuff. That's already two dead giveaways. Otherwise you'd be implying this guy, being an expert, doesn't fully understand how 2FA works. Pretty unlikely, but sure, not impossible. But I mean realistically now that this has been overstressed I actually do believe you'd never make that specific mistake in the future.
VC-funded SaaS wiped out any real possibility of a sane business model for a product in this space.
By an "AMD push" do you mean Intel should post a superior implementation a year before AMD does? ;)

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210205151631.43511-1-kirill.s...

BTW, MPX was clearly not the right thing. Nobody really wanted it. The world would be a better place if these address-bit-ignoring things (ARM TBI, AMD UAI, Intel LAM) had been implemented years ago instead all the effort spent on MPX.

Believe me, I know. I put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into MPX for Linux.

Disclaimer: If you didn't figure it out by now, I work on Linux at Intel.
I never take restaurant phone numbers directly off of Google, I always check their (hopefully existent) website before calling, or at least crosscheck it against other sources. There is no way Grubhub or any of the other mediating greedholes will get even Caller ID data from me if I can help it.
:) I'm curious what makes it not worthwhile?

From my point of view it's just an additional compilation pass of your SIMD kernels (written using github.com/highway; disclosure: I am the main author), plus shipping a few tens/hundreds KB extra code, plus ensuring your tests exercise that platform as well.
I had a similar scam fraud call from my bank and I asked them to verify the last 4 of my SSN. They had it! But later they said they'd send a text verification but it was asking to add my card to apple pay. So I hung up and called my bank back and they had no record of the call. It was freaky that the scammer had so much info though.
If these were UK participants with median age 60, and the last follow-up was june 2021, more than half would have been vaccinated during the period.

Also, the probability of hospital visits (not ventilation) for covid in this group was 1.5%.
"Call Google. Ask for Sundar."
The active maintainers of privacytools.io 'recently' split up into a new more community-focused site due to inactivity of the founder.
https://privacyguides.org/

Read more here:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivacyGuides/comments/pnhn4a/rpriv...
- https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivacyGuides/comments/pnh9n8/what_...
There's nothing mechanically or electrically complex about a speaker. It's a coil and a magnet attached to a bit of paper/plastic.
> I suppose for most places, the way to grow is to hop around often?

Yes. It is very unlikely (but not impossible, there's always exceptions) you'll grow your income and skills at a single org as fast as you would switching jobs every 2-3 years. Large percentage gains in comp, new stacks and environments to learn. Similar experience to working at a consulting firm, but with way more upside (versus grinding and then burning out).

"Vote with your feet" as the saying goes. If you're managing someone talented similar to the person mentioned in the post, either empower them internally or help them into their next role, because they're leaving regardless if the relationship isn't mutually beneficial. Talented folks (such as Alice in this example) have options.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=job+hopping
> accessing i, i-1, i+1, or accessing i and N-i,

A compiler can do loop versioning for that. And they do. Hotspot C2 (and Graal, too) does a ton of loop optimizations, partitioning the index space into in-bounds and potentially out-of-bounds ranges, unrolling loops, peeling the first iteration off a loop, generating code before a loop to dispatch to a customized version if everything will be in bounds.

When a compiler is doing that sophisticated of loop transforms, you are not measuring the cost of bounds checks anymore, you are measuring a whole host of other things. And sometimes if a loop is just a little different, the results can be disastrously bad or miraculously good. Which is why microbenchmarking is so fraught with peril. A microbenchmark might be written assuming a simple model of the computation and then a sophisticated compiler with analyses never dreamed of comes along and completely reorganizes the code. And it cuts both ways; a C++ compiler might do some unrolling, fusion, tiling, vectorization, software pipelining or interchange on your loops and suddenly you aren't measuring bounds check cost anymore, but loop optimization heuristics that have been perturbed by their presence. You end up studying second-order effects and not realizing it. And it keeps running away from you the more you try to study it.

>> That's just even more confounding variables.

> No they are not. We are trying to see how much bound checks costs. If you compare between suboptimal programs the comparison is meaningless (or rather not interesting to anyone) - the starting point has to be the absolute best performance that it is possible to get, and add the worst-case bound-checking (I'm happy for you if you never have to worry about the worst

We are always comparing suboptimal programs. No compiler is producing optimal code, otherwise they would dead-code eliminate everything not explicitly intertwined into program output, statically evaluate half of our microbenchmarks, and replace them with table lookups.

You're going down a linear algebra rabbit hole trying to come up with a result that paints bounds checks in the worst possible light. If this is the real problem you have, maybe your linear algebra kernels would be better off just using pointers, or you could even try Fortran or handwritten assembly instead, if it is so important. Unsafe by default is bad IMHO. For real programs bounds checks really don't matter that much. Where this thread is going is all about loop optimizers, and they don't really get a chance to go nuts on most code, so I think we're way off in the weeds.
Researchers used a decommissioned satellite to broadcast hacker TV
What about for becoming a Sr SWE or Tech Lead?
Yes, and this is how it works as another responder mentions.

The thinking by phone companies is essentially: guy calling pays for the call, so we can milk each call for a few extra cents each time even if they're shady or a wrong number.
It's very different than Nomad! The basic model is direct "machine" management with very little orchestration. Machines are kind of like allocations, but more permanent.

Some machines operations are slow, some are fast. Create is slow, update is slow. Start and stop are fast. Future "suspend" and "resume" are very fast.

For the regions case, people use these by having a couple of machines per region they care about. Then they start and stop as needed. A stopped machine can be migrated between nodes, but we ensure it's ready to start quickly if we do that.

Some interesting things happen with this model. Create is slow, but we are able to make it fast _sometimes_ because we can target creates at hardware that already has the rootfs cached.

Updates don't work like nomad, we update machines in place for a rolling deploy. This lets us do things like pull an image in parallel, then stop the machine, update, and restart very quickly.

We're also doing things differently with health checks. We may not wait for an active health checks before sending a machine an HTTP request. Many workloads don't even care about health checks, they just want a VM running and streaming logs back as fast as possible.

There are features I could ask for in Nomad to do what we'd need, but they'd make it not Nomad. :D
Dependabot gives you an easy way to review every single commit that went into a dependency update before you merge it.

Dependabot is by far the most convenient way that I’ve seen to actually check that your dependency updates are not overtly malicious.

It's not some tool that just removes your lockfiles behind your back, as you seem to be implying.
I agree with some of this but totally disagree with the point about aesthetics. Form over function is a major strain of modern design, especially within Apple specifically.

Just as one example, I've been using a work issued macbook for over a year and I still regularly send the screen brightness or volume off the rails because I lightly rested a finger on the stupid touchbar. But hey, it looks cool to use the volume slider!
On Decentralization
I've used golang at my employer for several years now, and I came out respecting and appreciating the design decision that have and are going into Java/C#/Kotlin much more given the atrocities I've seen written in golang.
I'm fairly new to blogging but I thought I should just start writing. Please let me know what you think. If you liked this article, you may like the previous.
As an atheist, this is a fascinating analogy, because my take-away is that Elijah made up a story to justify mass execution of political rivals. (Perhaps he played a magic trick, perhaps someone just made the story up whole cloth, but in any case a lie was told to justify a religiously/politically-motivated mass execution.)

This also has a reasonable take-away: sometimes lighting an altar on fire can be faked even when it looks real. Or, "beware the flashy demo". Fusion and especially some of the more shameless corners of AI come to mind.

My apologies if this stretches the analogy too far.
> I'm so skeptical of these "experts" especially if they write a blog post where they hate their bank.

Really? That's the thing that makes you skeptical and feel the need to use scare quotes?

Banks suck. Hell, mine hasn't even implemented proper 2FA.

And Wells Fargo is so bad they've been caught scamming their own customers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Fargo_account_fraud_scan...
Welders typically have to demonstrate their welding skills. That's the only one I can think of though.
So impressed with Supabase's ability to continue to ship quickly even as they grow. Congrats team.
No power BI users?
Can the damage this caused to society be quantified? Should we let it slide because it's hard to measure? What if I made a website that deliberately set out to sow division and undermine people's mental health, in exactly the same way as Facebook ostensibly does accidentally? Is that allowed? Supposing some people commit suicide because of that? Supposing I know I had that effect, and conceal it? Still legal? How many people in Facebook's infamous A/B sentiment tests committed suicide? Facebook surely knows - does anyone else?

Facebook is a problem. So is every company that plays god with our social discourse.
Not according to a number of experts it isn't.

Like you said, time will tell. The enquiry into it is just starting up in my country.

I'm sure experts from all sides will get together, and see what went wrong.

"Lockdowns Cost More Lives Than They Saved and Must Not Happen Again, Scientists Tell MPs"

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/03/30/lockdowns-cost-more-live...
I thought the Product Red things all cost the same as the regular versions?
> CEC, which is used mainly to power TV on/off

in my experience it doesn't even do that very well. I tried getting a raspberry pi to power off an attached display and support of on/off seems to be hit or miss and specialized.

I suspect it isn't supported because it will commoditizes the device, when manufacturers really want their own protocol that connects only to their own products.

much better sales of acme products if an acme tv can only connect to an acme soundbar and an acme dvd player using acme protocols.
Reason #99,999 that I don't use Amazon anymore. Just buy stuff in-person, pay the shipping, wait the week, or whatever. You'll be fine I promise.
That's so dumb! No wonder the industry is rife with scams.
I'm not sure if it's still true, but for a while this game had zero negative reviews on Steam.

I'm quite far in now, but I think there's still a while to go. The game purportedly had 300+ puzzles.

More than anything I'm really enjoying how comprehensively the rules are explored. There seems to be every permutation of rules used in a puzzle somewhere and the number of different 'rules' or 'ideas' that it gets out of a relatively simple premise is pretty staggering - probably more than most sokoban games I've played.

On that note, I'm really enjoying the glut of quality puzzle games recently. The Witness, Stephen's Sausage Roll, anything by Alan Hezelden (Good Snowman, Cosmic Express, monsters expedition), Bonfire Peaks, Pipe Push Paradise, Baba is You, Recursed and more. It's a good time to be a puzzle gamer.
LED-turn-on > pixel-change-color
Thanks for elaborating. I agree with what you just said, a high level of snobbery won't fix anything, and expecting everything to be "pure" is utopian. That being said, I think that the original commenter was just expressing his frustration at the fact that "tech minded" people continue to buy into Apples ecosystems and then observing the behaviour as though they didn't own their stuff. In a way, not dissimilar to your point elsewhere about how people complain about Nvidia drivers but keep buying their hardware.
When I bought my first Macbook in 2009 (the unibody) it had a 160GB harddisk. The 250GB upgrade would cost €150 more I believe. I bought the 160GB version, went to the nearest IT shop and bought a 320GB disk for €120 and got that 160GB as a spare.
> Now you give abusers the ability to get travel documents with an "X" which makes them harder to spot.

This assumes an overwhelming adoption of the X gender marker. I don't think that's a reasonable assumption; I'd expect the number of folks who do adopt an X gender maker to be an incredibly tiny and easy-to-spot minority.
It's pretty obvious what is a 2FA code and what is not. If I'm being sent a code on my email or phone, I know not to tell it to someone on the phone. Indeed, even that very email she was sent contained a reminder not to tell it to someone on the phone.

I read the entire article, I am just unimpressed by the justifications as to how this "could happen to anybody."
> Not sure how you can use an asset whose price is fluctuating so wildly (and is correlated/anti-correlated to indicators and trends having little to do with your local government) as an effective hedge against incompetent/corrupt government.

The informal market rate for the Lebanese Pound is even more absurd, though:

https://lirarate.org/#pills-graph-market