skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Good luck finding developers that will write quality code and not cost a fortune each.

You pick one regardless of language. Not sure what's your point here.
One just has to look at wages in Sweden and Germany to decide that its not in your best interests as a tech worker to allow immigration floodgates to open.

Wages for a senior developer can be 250-300% higher in the US, with lower taxes. And no, "free" healthcare doesn't come close to making this huge pay cut worth it.

European developers get shafted badly, with the narrow exceptions of Switzerland and London (they get shafted less).
That’s marking syllables, not hyphenation opportunities. There are many places where conventional hyphenation doesn’t line up with syllables.
Yeah, the double negation is funny
It's about time for the US to get back into manufacturing. Wages in China have gone up enough that the cost advantage isn't as great as it was a decade ago.
The average manufacturing wage in Shenzhen is now about US $36,000/year. US average manufacturing wage is $70,446/year. That's a little under 2:1. A decade ago it was about 30:1.
He explicitly said "people don't like it either", meaning the same people flip-flopping, not "other people don't like it".

You're making unwarranted and derogatory assumptions and mistakes about people's reasons for opposing cryptography.

Do you claim that Bruce Schneier semi-blindly hates everything crypto related? He certainly believes and says cryptocurrencies are an incredibly dumb and useless idea, and he's extremely well qualified and respected in the field, and a lot of people on HN read what he writes, agree with him, and base their opinions on the facts and experience and wisdom he and other trustworthy experts write about, instead of getting their information from crypto shills with fraudulent financial agendas. Is that what you mean by "semi-blindly"?

Your assumption that everyone on HN who opposes crypto is doing it semi-blindly is quite rude and insulting, and you simply don't know where they got their beliefs, in spite of your completely blind and false claims to somehow know other people's motivations and sources of information.

What are your qualifications that make you know so much more about crypto than Bruce Schneier, and give you such deep insight into why everyone on HN holds their beliefs and where they get their information about crypto?

Schneier on Security: On the Dangers of Cryptocurrencies and the Uselessness of Blockchain

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/06/on-the-danger...
Right, but that's just it - they do not care about unborn children. They care about forcing their idiotic Taliban-like views on others.
Fully agree.

We've been in discussions with image agencies who are afraid that their images will be remixed by AI and then distributed as CC0. If that happens, they are competing against free "derived works" of their own photos, but with the AI remixing proving that in court will be difficult and expensive. The result is that prices will go so low that they can't pay their photographers a fair salary anymore.

I believe this is also why Adobe and some photography industry groups now heavily promote their "Content Authenticity" initiative which aims to make it illegal to use photos where there is no matching camera RAW file with Metadata. Because, obviously, AI-generated images don't have that.
This writing is great!
Here I am looking for this post - found a tick on my kid this morning!
Not all of us do. JP is one of my designated YouTubers to break my filter bubble. I can tell he is making the effort for a good faith discussion. I even agree with him on a thing or two.
>We did YC as well.

Did you do YC before seed or after seed? If you raised after YC, aren't you also not qualified to give advice? From what I understand getting into YC is guaranteed to put you among the top while trying to raise.
There's a line in one of Douglas Adams' books where he says something along the lines that things like VCRs were invented to watch TV programs so that you don't have to.

Who would have thought that one man's joke would become a reality?
> But, the Supreme Court should not be responsible for managing dysfunction in other branches of govt.

Isn't it the whole purpose of its existence?
You'd have to ask her -- but all of the initial reasons that everyone was unsure also apply to her. There was a novel bat coronavirus pandemic near where her lab studies bat coronaviruses - why wouldn't that be your first thought?
It’s well written, but I found the protagonist to be too pathetic to read more than half way.
At this point I feel like I should have used a throwaway with how many details I'm giving away here haha, but I have never attached a google account to my phone (I access any google services via browser), and while I don't run a degoogled OS but I have disabled play services and all google features + apps. I'm aware that there's still a chance that Google has trackers, but those trackers would (1) have to detect which reddit account I was using inside my FOSS reddit client (2) detect which video I watched on my FOSS youtube client. It's possible but I decided that this level of surveillance was both more nefarious and less likely than them using timing analysis.
No we haven't. At all.
Oh wow! I didn't know this reply got so much like, thank you! Sendlight.ml looks awesome and on that note, to make things easy to share between devices, i made a simple "tunnel" mode as well, you can try it here: https://www.relaysecret.com/tunnel

The way it works is super simple: the anchortag is base on the tunnel name (first round of sha256 if my memory serves me well) and the actual "tunnel id" is a few first characters of the second round of sha256. This way by enter the same "tunnel" both devices can share file without the need to share long complicated urls. The files in tunnel only lives up to a day.

Unlike sendlight though, it is not peer2peer webrtc and it is using the same lambda backend to create signed urls for s3 and encryption done in browser like before, just a neat little trick to have a simple way to setup "room" between devices ;)
Rather rude to ask it that way. My point is there for you to read, or miss. Up to you.
I use it only when (very rarely) looking for something on Craigslist.

Oh, wait; doh! I forgot the twits got rid of it some years ago, impairing the hell out of the usability of that site.

RSS is useful in the following way: the reader is vaguely structured like an e-mail box, where you have folders representing various feeds. You can dismiss items you've already seen, just like marking e-mail read.

New items are similar to new e-mails. You get some status visuals on the folders like new items unread with a count.

Almost a decade ago, also, I used a certain RSS feed program on an android phone to automatically download news podcasts, and listen to them while cycling. How that works is that the RSS items contain URLs of media files like mp3. Those get downloaded and played. Instead of going into some streaming site or app to get the latest news, the thing is fetching them for you, making them available locally in its UI. The items expire automatically. It made sense with poor mobile networks and data plans; it would sync while you're on Wi-Fi and then you have the programs there when you're on the road without using mobile data.
Thanks, I remember the Cape Town drought with the semi regular mention of Day Zero in articles. I recently read about another Day Zero in the Nelson Mandela Bay region and thought it was a continuation of the earlier drought. I didn't realize the distance and climate differences. Good luck to your mother.
> Racists

There's the exact reason "why it wasn't a media fixation": people calling anyone a racist for thinking bad of China.
That would explicitly not be in line with the GDPR. Specifically, it would break 5.1(b) - purpose limitation.

> collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes
I always assumed the point of those types of passwords is to prevent anyone MITM the password since you have to communicate it by voice and often in places where people might overhear. So you have a password but ask for a different (random) combination of 3 characters from it each time.

It’s kind of like a TOTP code for noobs (not even remotely as good as TOTP but something your gran could still manage understand).

The services I know which do this will have an additional password for online stuff which is different to the aforementioned and does have to be supplied in full. Thus, you’d hope, is hashed and salted etc. However you don’t supply that password when making phone calls. Sometimes you even have to supply both pieces of information when logging in online.
You know that repeating the same flawed argument over dozens of comments doesn't make it any better?
NASA halts Psyche mission to unexplored metal world
Annoying or scamming your own users in order to get funded. Too big relyness on marketologists in order to getting anyone use your app. Too big involedness of governments which citizens seems to be your users.
Why wouldnt it? It is not part of the Schengen area anymore, right?
I follow the steps; I just don't understand why they're treated as dispositive evidence of zoonosis. I also don't think you're correctly describing Bloom's position here. On Twitter, he writes:

> But the first sequences reported by Chinese government are lineage B from seafood market. So either outbreak was not seeded by lineage B at market, or something very complicated happened. I suggest the former, Pekar et al suggest the latter.

https://mobile.twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/153463283456805...

I'm taking this as a statement that he disagrees with Pekar, and believes SARS-CoV-2 probably originated from a single introduction (natural or otherwise) into humans. That seems well beyond "slightly less likely". Am I mistaken?

Pekar's theory makes sense if we believe that sampling in humans has been almost perfectly good, capturing every important lineage. But why would we assume that? Such confidence in the human sampling is particularly odd when Pekar's theory also requires us to believe that sampling in animals has been perfectly bad, since we've still found no animals infected (except those infected by humans).

Assuming that Lineage A evolved into Lineage B in humans, the hidden ancestors don't need to be less pathogenic than SARS-CoV-2; the IFR is relatively low already, and people die of similar respiratory diseases every day. The novel virus wasn't discovered until mortality became alarmingly high, leaving lots of room for undiagnosed deaths from cryptic spread before that.

> Guo found environmental samples of both Lineage A and Lineage B at the market -- so both were present there -- his second hypothetical would then be highly unlikely.

Why does that make his second hypothetical highly unlikely? I don't understand why two zoonotic introductions into the market are more likely than two human introductions into the market. Perhaps you'd expect to see other sparks thrown off from the cryptic human spread; but almost all chains of transmission die out, with highly stochastic spread until enough people get infected for the central limit theorem to take over. So the absence of intermediate lineages doesn't seem too significant to me, especially when the "missing link" (if it even exists; I'll again note the lineages could have formed in a single human-to-human transmission) is literally just a single SNP from either lineage.
There are two key problems with this analysis. The first is that the data to which we have access has been subject to gatekeeping by the Chinese authorities. (Is this a conspiracy theory? Yes, very much so, and rationally so given the way the PRC operates.) The second is that workers at the WIV aren't going to leave work and then hang around on the street outside, infecting passers-by in the immediate vicinity, causing a cluster that radiates around the WIV itself. They're going to get on transit and head home, mainly westwards.
Try textverified, you can even pay in crypto for legit unused numbers

Though I don't know if they are somehow blacklisted by Google. And the main service is just a one time verification rental but you can also rent a number for a few days.
It's hardly relevant what the WHO says or does in this discussion. They've shown themselves to be biased and untrustworthy on more than one occasion.
> executive staff and management taking pay cuts (ideally zero pay for C-level execs and directors) first

One can dream, but sadly I’ve never ever seen this happen.
This is a good looking phrase. But can you really?

I see as much if not more evidence that we can’t.
So basically Germany lost WW2 because they were devoting too many resources to saving sick Jews & Romany, trying their best as they were. I doubt that you believe such nonsense, but if you do it's a testament to the power of self-deceit.
We're all literally a clump of cells. Sperm doesn't grow into humans on their own. It boils down to personhood, and whether fetuses and embryos are people. On a base gut feeling, I think fetuses and embryos deserve human rights as well.
It only took me 60s to determine this article was BS.

Or was it 4.6B years?

Ridonculous.
Poland regressed in similar direction as US as the already very limited right to abortion there was severely restricted by government and Polish equivalent of Supreme Court that overtly subscribes to
Christian "morality".
The document includes quite aggressive soft hyphenation insertion.

The trouble is that the web doesn’t provide you with the tools for good hyphenation. You can disable hyphenation, enable it and leave it to the browser (I think Firefox is still the only one that’ll do anything with that), or insert soft hyphens all over the place and watch the browser hyphenate gratuitously. Anything like Knuth-Plass where hyphenation and too much space are both acknowledged to to be bad and weighed against each other is still not possible out of the box (and I advise against trying it in JavaScript).

Personally, I think automatic extensive soft hyphen insertion in web documents is misguided, but that’s what MB has chosen here.

The Utah document also is far too aggressive in hyphenation for my liking. The California one is much better, having hyphenated only one line.
> You still need to explain how there are two distinct lineages at the market among the first cases!

Actually, YOU do. You need to explain how a virus made two separate rare hops to humans in the same place, at the same time, in two different forms. This is possible, but statistically unlikely. The (vastly) more likely hypothesis is that it made only a single cross-species hop, which then spread and mutated later.
go partner with some big influencer like pomp or logan paul & give them 50% to promote it.

it's such a terrific service that just needs to be promoted to make millions of dollars.

youtube might never fix it bcz more spam bots = more monthly active users.

the only concern with your service is channels get higher rank in algorithm bcz of spam bots so they might never use it but some probably might prefer to keep their channel clean :)
> has to somehow make it into a lab undetected

Undetected? The lab was specifically searching for and storing pandemic-capable viruses, and had applied for grant money to insert furin cleavage sites into them!
Substack seems to solve that pretty well. No ads because authors get paid by readers, yet articles are still viewable publicly.
Isn't there a risk of introducing new zoonotic diseases?
Scrapyard, a WebExtension ScrapBook revival: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scrapyard/
What underhandedness? For the bucket shop to be doing something underhanded, they'd need to be able to intentionally shift the price of the stocks you buy.
It surprises me that the author didn’t mention Lua. More than just being a beautiful and simple language, it has been used for config-as-code in a variety of applications for years.
why have companies started making blog posts about firing staff. isn't it an internal matter. are they trying to get ahead of the social media backlash, it seems these strategies are not a good idea.

if you need to layoff 20%, then do it, in a dignified way.
> how evil Google is and talking up how Duck Duck Go really isn't so bad as long as you remember the shortcuts that make it use Google

These comments are always the pièce de résistance of HN absolutism.
Wait, wait...does this whole debate hinge around the idea that you think the WIV staff are reliable, honest agents? The very idea is hilarious. They operate within an authoritarian regime that restricts their freedom of speech and makes threats against them and their families for non-compliance. It is irrational to trust anything they report as being true.
Magnificent. A lead you down the garden path kind of trolling of the brain. Your brain.
Looks like all of your recent comments are dead, I think you've been shadow banned :(
I'm not a fan of justified text.. It's harder to read and follow than left-aligned. Maybe less lo when using hyphens, as it optimizes the horizontal use.

Big fan of 2 spaces at the beginning of each sentence.
> It doesn't have any impact on (2) moving forward.

Of course it does. If we know how the leak happened, we can increase safety measures to avoid it happening again in the same way. How is this not obvious?

A peculiar thing about humans is that we can learn from our mistakes. That doesn't happen if we try to pretend there was no mistake to begin with.
Kexec: Boot new Linux kernel from the currently running one
> Gen­er­ously large page mar­gins.

You know how awful large margins are if you have a PDF and a screen that isn’t large enough to display the full page at a readable size? You want to display one page at a time so j and k or Left and Right or whatever work to go to the next page rather than messing around with scrolling, but this actually means that you want to crop every page to throw away the ridiculously large margins, and most PDF viewers don’t support doing that. (To make it worse, add unbalanced left/right margins.)

I wish for a world where document formats don’t support page margins at all, in favour of choosing margins at display or print time. (Yes, I know that at the extremes this starts to conflict with static pagination which is sometimes even more valuable, but humour me anyway in contemplating what you’d change in such a world.)
Hashnode is not so much better in this regard.

These days I primarily follow InfoQ, Habr, a few select individual bloggers, few larger company blogs and my feed has substantially improved.
Legitimate rape rarely leads to pregnancy [1].

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/aug/19/republican-tod...
Facebook's Zuckerberg had the right idea. He sucked in some of his ego and hired Sandberg to help him run the company. I'm sure Facebook has done so much better thanks to the two running the company. She brought in the business discipline and know-how to be able to maximize profits.

Whatever people might think of Zuckerberg, one thing for sure, he's smart enough to know that he doesn't know everything and should ask for help. Many founder's ego just won't let them do that.
Data about logged in sessions is generally stored for security purposes.

If a malicious person had access to your account you want to know for how long they had that access for example.
Show HN: Dismember – Scan memory for secrets and interesting information
This book's setup instructions are super easy to follow than OCaml's own site!!
>Or we could subtract from the list as well.

To what end?

That's not a rhetorical question. How far do you want to go? P90s? RPGs? Stinger missiles?

What would the societal benefit be there?
> The reality is that most interesting dev articles are about relatively unusual problems that a dev solved in an innovative way

Do you have a list of those articles? And which sites do you visit to find those articles?
Cutler *hated* Intel (and probably still does) and pushed any alternative incredibly hard, he is the reason that Windows calls this architecture "amd64".
At least with USD, when you gotta do it, you can do it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HrmD_vIMIk
How does Google know you're on a VPN? I'd assume that it could only be inferred from the source IP address of your UA, which implies Google keeps track of well-known VPN source IPs. However, apart from the fact this is imperfect (I assume IP blocks are shifting all the time?) you could easily spin up a VPN of your own on a cloud VPS, in which case tracking IP blocks wouldn't work.

Perhaps simplest of all, you could always sign up for the email on a semi/public wifi access point, or even from a shared computer, as from an internet cafe or even a friends phone.
It was not. This is a widespread misconception. The local bat populations in Wuhan were negligible and their viruses were not being studied. Indeed, the local human population in Wuhan was used as a control in the WIV's studies because of their lack of any significant encounters with bats and their diseases.

Shi Zhengli, the "bat woman" who conducted most of her research 1000 miles south, in Yunnan province, had this immediate reaction to an epidemic of bat-borne sarbecoviruses starting in Wuhan:
“I wondered if the municipal health authority got it wrong. I had never expected this kind of thing to happen in Wuhan, in central China.”

Her first panicked thought was that the outbreak might have started as a leak from her lab. Which is kind of curious, don't you think? She reported being relieved later when she found no evidence of this, but...why was that her initial thought?
> Upon reading the supreme court's Dobbs v. Jackson Decision, I was quite intrigued by its meticulous, book-like typesetting.

Apparently you can polish a turd.
Can you link to the time these scientists "refuse to say"
Back then, memory was only one cycle away, so was practically registers. This is why the 6502 zero page was so important. 6502 instructions took very few cycles, so you could move a zero-page byte to the accumulator in 3 cycles, sometimes 2, and is why a $25 6502 could match a $200 Z80.

Z80 had a faster clock, but instructions took loads of cycles. Nowadays that is OK, but Z80 did not pipeline. It had fancy looping instructions, but they ran slower than the loop would have.
The Russian aggression into Ukraine is an anathema; if sanctions are the solution, everyone supporting the Ukraine needs to take a strong position despite the human cost inflicted upon civilians.

Every country needs to not buy Russian goods or goods produced by another sanctioned country.

Every country needs not to sell goods to Russia or another sanctioned country.

All financial and commercial interactions between the Russia and its sanctioned supporters needs to cease.

For example, that means China and India should not be buying Russian oil and other goods. If they do, then they too will be sanctioned.

Likewise, countries that sell goods to Russia or other sanctioned countries, for example, aircraft parts, should themselves be sanctioned.

Aggressive sanctions can cause significant damage, disruption, even casualties.

Are there realistic models of the various economies that can be used to forecast the impacts of various sanction strategies? Where is there data on the economies of Russia, the Ukraine, and their global trading partners adequate to estimate impacts of different strategies.
> I'm pro-life and am considering moving to full remote to get out of states that allow unrestricted late term abortions.

Are you worried you'll accidentally have an abortion if you live where it's legal? Or do you just prefer to be physically farther away when other people do it?
Absolutely one of the best kernel developers to have ever existed on this planet. Working with him was terrifying (not only because of how good he is, but also because of him being a notorious grumpy asshole)
Sure, but doesn't Google assume the DMCA notice is valid unless proven otherwise? If that is the case, time is on the attackers side, and won't affect the attack too much.