skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The CCP lies about everything from its GDP numbers to COVID infection rate and deaths. You simply cannot believe anything the Chinese government puts out.
The interesting thing about them is similarity across time and cultures.
There's a difference between being informed and feeling informed. The Western civilization have increasing distanced itself from the former because its "offensive and hurts others feelings" in favor of the latter.

When emotion triumphs logic and reasoning, that society is nearing end of times. Such was the case for Roman empire, increasingly people's mentality started to shift away from reality and into idealized and complex web of absurdities leading up to its down fall, much of which were spouted by its upper echelon awash with luxury and comforts unaffordable by its masses

We see such absurdities being pushed in schools (ex. Math is racist) and in society in general which then antagonizes and gaslights, attacks opposing nuanced views that throws its own narratives into question.

While doing business with authoritarian states, we've ended up resembling in some form. It's a damn shame, once again reminded that open societies remain open only as long as its participants believe it to be so. If we close ourselves to one view then we are doomed to repeat the same attrocities that closed socities commit against individuals groups.
Titles. Fucking. Matter
He's still at Apple, but he works on the Swift runtime these days rather than C/C++ tooling.
I think something like mastodon could be like that with a group of friends, but most people don't seem to want to keep up with that kind of decentralized platform. Lol we certainly don't need blockchain though. That literally brings nothing to the table and unnecessarily complicates it. I think people just keep adding and adding anything and everything to Instagram and Facebook, and it just turns into an amorphous fatberg. I pared both down a lot to more or less my top 50 friends/family/groups and it's a lot more useful, sorting by "most recent" doesn't turn up bunch of junk and defeats the facebook algorithm.
Agreed, the author sounds like a boss who hasn’t learned how to deal with conflicts gracefully and instead uses a pre-written script that gives them unquestionable authority over the employee.
The client side software can easily verify that. Whether you can trust the software running on your device is a somewhat different question that has nothing to do with whether or not you're storing things in "the cloud" (though it is still a valid concern).
Scientists hone argument that coronavirus came from Wuhan market
Compile once, run anywhere
Modern version:

https://youtu.be/-aEuAK8bsQg
I think that's a good idea.

No politics, you come to work to work, as long as you treat your colleagues with respect.

Companies shouldn't be changing the political landscape anyway, that would be a scary world.

I'm C-Level, so I can hopefully instil this as culture.
Wow. The fact people are downvoting this just goes to show there are people in the world who get their rocks off on defining cultures--as if anyone has the authority to do that...
>I don't need to spend an hour giving a coworker an explanation of why their actions are hurtful.

But the point is, saying "we don't do that here" doesn't inform the person that their actions are hurtful. It just tells them not to do something, but loses the value of saying why so they don't make the same mistake in a different context. I would argue that saying something to the effect of "It is hurtful when you do X, please don't do that again", is far more effective communication. This would avoid ostracizing the recipient and also clarify what exactly they did wrong.
No paywall: https://archive.ph/yOeJt#selection-807.0-807.64

> The researchers scoured data about the earliest patients, many of whom had direct links to the market or lived nearby. The geography of early community spread showed infections radiating outward from the vicinity of the market, Worobey said: “It’s an insane bull’s eye.”

> Moreover, when the market was first identified as the site of a cluster of cases, Chinese investigators took environmental samples searching for traces of the virus. A disproportionate number of positive virus traces came from the section of the market where live animals had been sold, the new study reports.

> “The virus started spreading in people who worked at the market, but then started spreading in the surrounding local community as vendors went to local shops, and infected people who worked in those shops,” Worobey suggested.

> He believes any alternative scenario — such as a lab leak — is implausible.

> “It now puts us at a point where we know that the Huanan market was the epicenter of this pandemic. That much is now established. If others want to argue with that, they’re now essentially taking a pseudoscientific approach,” Worobey said in an interview Tuesday. “Even though you don’t have the smoking gun of, ‘Yes we’ve sampled the raccoon dog with the virus in December,’ when you put it all together, it’s the only theory that actually explains all the data.”

> Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan and co-author of one of the new papers, said in an email that she agreed with Worobey: “There is no alternative explanation that fits the facts, so anyone trying to come up with one will have to become adept at willful ignorance, a logical contortionist, or simply a fabulist.”
It's my dad's back-up body, I switched his D200 back im exchange and got a D300 with, IIRC a shuttet count of 30k-ish, as a back-up. Service was 90 bucks, sensor and mirror cleaning, firmware update, general service, AF and exposure config, laser callibration of the mirrors and prisms. Rather decent IMHO, I have yet to get it back, looking forward to it!

Battery life if great, during a full week in Iceland I charged the two batteries once, and propably wouod have made without charging. Resultion is, at least for me, only proplem when it comes to cropping. Not cropping in changing the format or to cut of the corners (the D700 viewer covers only 95% of the picture which can lead to some stuff at the borders of teh image you don't want there) but rather croppong out stuff like bird to enlarge them. Then, and only then, the 12 MP are an issue. Otherwise a lower resolution forces you sinpmy take better pictures in the first place. And for online use 12 MP are plenty anyway, I don't plan to print a house wall with my photos. And lower resolution means smaller files, which a benefit in itself.

I love that camera, if simply because it gave me back the joy of photography.
Yeah, they were meant to be largely banned since SARS1, the presence of raccoon dogs and foxes at the market in Wuhan is deeply problematic -- all of the people skeptical of China can still be skeptical!
You can have all of this without giving up data.
It's really not the same thing, its the complete opposite. It's brain->consciousness vs. consciousness->brain
No one seems to be doing that. Can you tell us where anyone is claiming with 100% certainty?
I didn't think I was disagreeing with them, just pointing out breed dispositions. :-)
> When people complain about Python distribution, having to download different binaries for different operating systems is almost never part of the complaint.

Have you done a study?

This reminds me of when I've seen people say things like, "X is a showstopper for me when it comes to C++ [or whatever]", and someone responds, "That's not a problem in practice. People who write C++ don't care about X". And it's like, "Well, yeah, that's the nature of 'showstoppers'—all the people who do care about X noped out a long time ago." It's an intellectually dishonest way to justify choosing not to confront the X problem.
"autopilot" is just a marketing term for the next decade, it's not fully automatic, it's actually "computer aided driving" (where driving is the human) but that description isn't sexy enough to sell
What a weird statement to make. Sure, the coincidental nature draws extra suspicion, but new diseases appear naturally in the wild all the time. How often does drinking water in a city randomly turn radioactive from natural causes?
> This type of "because I told you so" style only works as a show of power,

A show of power expressed through "low", indirect language. Might not be sending the intended message. "That doesn't work for me", in particular, reads as "parochial middle manager" to me.
Great idea, I just made this my browser startpage.

What happens to the discussion from the day before?
How do you plan to solve comment spam?
What ‘age segregation’ does to America (2014)
Aren't paralysis, pain suppression, and amnesia somewhat separately controlled by different medications in anesthesia?

You hope you go under fully.
As a business owner, I have the authority to define what the culture of my company is. I get to print up manuals and make people sign them and everything.
Yup yup yup.

"Using a weapon gives your enemy explicit permission to use it against you." ~Me

I'd love to live in a world where we speak to the average most reasonable person in the room instead of the most sensitive, easily offended, and brittle person in the room. But that might be my age showing.

And that's the tension between the majority and the minority, an ageless tension.
There is an online segment that uses semantic stopsogns so much they have lost their power.

"That's racist!" "You're a bigot!" "You can't use that word!"

The response is predictably, "Yes, Yes, I'm a terrible nazi bigot racist. Now as I was saying..."

There is a guide to responding, especially to the repeated questions, which often comes with discussions. Yes, you may need to repeat that discussion a bunch. So it goes.
> This made me realize that the rules are arbitrary and what matters is if people can understand what you're saying.

I disagree. Kind of. Like all languages, English is a tool. The more complicated that tool is, the harder it is to learn/use, the less effective it is. YAML and HTML are easy examples of how the complexity of a language can hurt its utility. There's something to be said for maintaining a formal spec that guards against changes that would introduce unnecessary complexity.

However... a spec like that doesn't exist for English - at least not one that most of its users agree upon - and being able to understand what people are trying to communicate is absolutely the most important feature of any language. Therefor, I consider it a faux pas to strictly enforce arbitrary rules like your professor did. Frankly, it sounds like he was just using his position to take out his frustration on others.
I was getting a degree in physics. One day I had this conversation with a guy in a parking lot. I'd never talked to him before; I don't even remember who he was. But he asked me what I wanted to do with a physics degree.

"It would be really cool to discover the unified field theory."

"But what do you do with it?"

"Well, the first thing you do is collect your Nobel Prize."

"Yeah, fine, but what do you do with it?"

I realized that I could make some gigantic breakthrough in theoretical physics, and it wouldn't actually change anything for anyone in any practical way. It would be this great achievement, and be completely useless. It wouldn't help anyone; it wouldn't improve anyone's life.

I didn't go into theoretical physics.
> I wonder how many people who are seemingly willing to believe the self-serving CCP party-line on this

Which of the paper's authors do you believe are beholden to the "self-serving CCP party-line"? Do you see flaws in the paper's analysis, or are you perhaps employing a thought-terminating cliche?
For me, the difference is that the phone (with voice assist turned OFF) is not supposed to be listening all the time, while a device like Alexa is supposed to be listening. I don't want devices listening so I turn that feature off when I can and avoid the device when I can't.

Is the phone listening anyway? Maybe, but that violates a privacy expectation, and there may be recourse if someone discovers it's doing that.
There's an easy way to practice this skill and that's to learn how to say "no" without feeling like you have to explain yourself. Once you get the hang of it, saying no becomes a magic word that puts control of your life where it belongs: with you
I am pretty sure it is performance optimization, as keyword search can be potentially very expensive for database. And restricting this to logged-in users (1) decreases searches made by bots and spiders and (2) allows efficient ratelimit of requests if needed.

Note that github has something similar: the code search does not work if not logged in. They don't restrict issue search however.
On that basis it could have also been attack to discredit China by CIA or like... Release pandemic from China then politically and economically attack them. Entirely something reasonable to consider considering history of USA...
Also terrain contour matching [0] and Digital Scene Matching Area Correlation [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomahawk_(missile)#Navigation
/r/AskAnAmerican - Interesting to see differences across states and other cultures

/r/corgi

/r/dadswhodidnotwantpets - Pictures and videos of men (and sometimes women) cuddling with animals after initially rejecting them

/r/sbubby - Pictures of edited logos that look like other logos (e.g. Changing "The Price is Right" logo to say "The Rice is Aight")

/r/wimmelbilder - Imagine the Where's Waldo? images, but with pictures filled to the brim with everything.
Those all sound like good names. From the article:

> To avoid this problem and codify our mission into our company charter, we re-incorporated as a Public Benefit Corporation in 2019.

> Our charter defines our mission as the creation of free and open source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication. This mission intentionally goes beyond “R for Data Science” — we hope to take the approach that’s succeeded with R and apply it more broadly. We want to build a company that is around in 100 years time that continues to have a positive impact on science and technical communication. We’ve only just started along this road: we’re experimenting with tools for Python and our new Quarto project aims to impact scientific communication far beyond data science.

> [...] What does the new name mean for our commercial software? In many ways, nothing: our commercial products have supported Python for over 2 years. But we will rename them to Posit Connect, Posit Workbench, and Posit Package Manager so it’s easier for folks to understand that we support more than just R. What about our open source software? Similarly, not much is changing: our open source software is and will continue to be predominantly for R. That said, over the past few years we’ve already been investing in other languages like reticulate (calling Python from R), Python features for the IDE, and support for Python and Julia within Quarto. You can expect to see more multilanguage experiments in the future.

Apache Arrow may be the best solution for data interchange in "polyglot notebooks" with multiple programming languages where SIMDJSON-LD isn't fast enough to share references to structs (with data type URIs and quantity and unit URIs) with IPC and ref counting. https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/issues/2815
You can't pirate hardware.
Programming languages endorsed for server-side use at Meta
wouldnt changing the number break continuity in subscriptions / recurring?

Also wouldnt't it increase the barrier to use that card? (albeit still have to enter expiry/cvv , but it's less than if you use a new competitor card)
Panasonic Let’s Note machines look ancient but are packed with the latest processor/memory guts.
I met a nurse that said one of her family members lived in a small housing development where almost everyone got terminal brain cancer. A certain company that you've heard of handled hazardous materials next door and offered to do the testing in the development. Surprise, no contamination found. And they made it clear that if you implicate them, you'll be contacted by their sizable legal department.

Everyone affected was either dead or bankrupt from paying their family's medical bills. No lawsuits against the company.
One thing CSS still can't do is to properly put multiple elements in a single flex or grid without having to wrap it with a div. I'm glad to see work being done on CSS but I somehow seem to frequently run into things CSS still can't do and there is always some proposal that isn't supported in both Chrome and Firefox.
Speaking as project lead for Matrix: Matrix is not an attempt to reinvent XMPP, plus we had extensive XMPP experience before creating Matrix (running 10M+ user ejabberd deployments; writing XMPP clients based on Smack, XMPP.Framework and Strophe.js; writing our own ejabberd modules for things like push notifications and persistent chat history, etc).

Instead, Matrix is an entirely different architecture with different tradeoffs which you may or may not agree with.

The main differentiators are:

* It's a protocol for replicating conversation history; not for passing messages.

* You get eventually consistent conversation history, as well as decentralised key-value store for metadata about the room.

* Rooms are entirely decentralised over the participating servers; there are no single points of failure/control in a room.

* It automatically heals after network partitions

* It's a single monolithic spec

* E2EE is on by default.

If anything, Matrix is more like NNTP than XMPP.

Now, you're welcome to dislike Matrix and build on XMPP (or SMTP or NNTP or SIP or MSRP or IRC or whatever other messaging protocol floats your boat) instead, but it's completely and utterly wrong to claim that Matrix is just a reinvention of XMPP by people who don't understand XMPP, or a marketing gimmick.
I think a simple "This is against our discrimination policy" would be fine. Of course, it could not be applied just for "gay" people, but potentially anyone--including--gasp--Conservative Christian discrimination.
If you’re talking about civil behavior, you’re not working are you?
It's hilarious.

That's an odd take, I honestly don't find anything about this article, or the broader topic of privacy and overreach by companies and law enforcement, amusing in any way.
> Something I wish the Left would figure out because the Right uses it on them all the time.

Nice flamebait but I'll take it.

Funny you said that considering the american left (and therefore the western left, delayed a couple years) is postmodernism distilled.

The left is the kids in your story, and society is the mom. The right is just watching and reaping the rewards.
Show HN: Chrome extension to suggest podcasts of a website
Learning about ayahuasca in 2011, randomly when at a business lunch - the day after breaking up with my girlfriend - and taking it a year later for the first time

Changed my life fundamentally
https://archive.ph/6WkbV
> Apple designs with privacy in mind.

I find that hard to believe when so many of their devices' functionality depends on you sending data over to them. Unless you go out of your way to make sure you're blocking all your devices from phoning home or sending any data over to Apple, then any supposed privacy benefit becomes a lie.

Either you're the only owner of your data or your data is not, by definition, private to you.
> Was it ever, in history?
Maybe not boats, but aircraft. Operation Black-buck in The Falklands war:
https://vulcantothesky.org/articles/falklands-war-1982-opera...
as another possible example
I’m sure it’s fun to fantasize about turning a conversation-stopper back onto a habitual wielder of such, but like with any other tool whose effectiveness is unconnected to the validity of your point (from universally condemned things like violence to fairly common and unpolarized ones like emotional-appeal PSAs), it seems to be vaguely hypocritical and self-defeating in the long run.
Just to add to this, in the linked paper by Worobey et. al., Fig 2(B) shows something they label as "Centroid of Blue Cases". That centroid appears to be almost squarely on the location of the Wuhan Institute of Infectious Diseases.

For some reason, neither the locations of the Wuhan Institute of Infectious Diseases or the Wuhan Institute of Virology are mentioned in the linked paper.
I wonder if companies using tech will go back to preferring CapEx as opposed to high OpEx. Back to buying perpetual licenses that will be renewed when it is worth it instead or because you'll lose access to the product. Partially back to raw hardware or VMs hosted at not one of the usual suspects instead of suboptimal cloud implementations that sometimes resort to expensive VMs anyway because it was implemented by cheap outsourced labor rather than subject matter experts.
What's wild to me is how consistently science has chosen to be politically palatable rather than come off as "alarmist".

Like in the original 1.5C report. We didn't have good data on permafrost melting and how much methane that would release. Permafrost melting has been hypothesized as possibly one of the biggest contributors to a runaway effect. But they just straight up decided to ignore the entire effect

That's just one of the many decisions made that makes the 1.5C report wildly more optimistic than reality.

It's no wonder scientists like Lovelock who were very familiar with this research were some of the most likely to point out that science is a political institution with its own biases and incentives
I've thought the exact same thing!!!

Consciousness is just the trapping of a pocket of some otherworldly field by certain configurations of matter and energy (i.e. a living human brain).

Dying liberates our pocket of consciousness, allowing it to recombine with the free floating consciousness in the universe.
> our current path of Orwellian new-speak, where a new group of religious extremists deem ever more language as blasphemous and everyone joins the witch-burners for fear of being labelled a witch themselves.

I think you perhaps do not understand the text of 1984, never mind the subtext. In the novel, Newspeak is a part of intense and total historical revisionism in support of a coherent government agenda enforced by a powerful central authority, not a decentralized and gradual change in the language people use "enforced" only socially.

> Someone starts to lecture you about how referencing "winter" is non-inclusive to Southern Hemisphere readers? "We don't do that here".

This is a very interesting example. If you're a global company and you make your product, say, snow-themed globally during the Northern winter, it's simply inaccurate for Southern hemisphere users. I don't really see how that's a political correctness or language issue as much as a factual correctness issue.
Some browsers might accept both. My computer accepts both (although not the Gemini protocol, but it does have Gemini file format, and can read this over HTTP(S) and local files (including inside of ZIP archives, so gempub files can be displayed)). (Also, curl does not have Gemini (although I think that it should).)

There are some problems with using Accept header (although you can use it as a start; if you can implement it, then you might do so). Even if it is mentioned in the Accept header, servers will not necessarily understand it, and if a lot of file formats are implemented then it can make the Accept header very long, knowing properly the preference, trying to explicitly download the raw file or a specific other format (regardless of the Accept header), and other problems, etc.

(My idea is a Interpreter response header, although this requires that web browsers will implement it.)
Pandas is MUCH more flexible than SQL