skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worn out at least two MS Ergonomic keyboards, I'm I'll diligently working on my third. I've worn out two Matias Pro Ergo keyboards, and another one will probably replace this MS board. I've worn out quite a few Cherry and Cherry-compatible switches, but I've been able to replace just the switches in those cases.
Ooh I want a set of these which replace the bottom neodymium with an electromagnet coil. Keeb circuit boards for swappable switches almost all have extra traces for RGB which can be repurposed.

Complete control over the full range of force? Yes please!

But let's be real: I actually want my keyboard to start typing out of nowhere like a freaky sorcerer's apprentice thing.
Bitwarden raises $100M
The chips are down: Russia scrambles for high-tech parts
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>Hitchens' razor applies- what can be stated without evidence can be as easily dismissed without evidence

Say mr X was seen at the crime scene at 10 am, he also knew the victim and lots of people have seen them fight a week ago, the victim had just came out of the bank with 20k$ in cash in a bag, mr X who's broke have been seen driving a car a month after the crime worth 18k$.

There is no evidence mr X killed the victim, but he probably did it.

Your argument removes probability, we have many coincidences linked to the lab leak theory, we don't have a 100% evidence that supports it, so we can assume it probably leaked from the lab, maybe it didn't, and since we can't quantify it with precision and a certain negligible error margin, we can use a language where probably happened means >50% and maybe happened means <50%.

A woman can safely assume her husband is cheating if she catches him flirting with girls online, find a different long hair on his coat everytime he travels for work, etc.
Her stated issue is that the Stable Diffusion project is open for the public to use and modify.

She later elaborates that her concern is that the generator could be used to create fake photos of people, who could then be persecuted by using the photos as evidence.

https://twitter.com/negar_rz/status/1565246343769120769 (https://nitter.net/negar_rz/status/1565246343769120769)
Banned U.S. AI chips in high demand at Chinese state institutes
> "containerization" (as GP used that word)

No one used that word
TikTok: Stop Copying the Wrong Parts
That’s wonderful. Will they make a proper desktop app already?
Cash.

The only things you'll really need when traveling are:

- 3 changes of clothing appropriate for the weather

- Solid shoes

- A coat or jacket

- A durable bag

- A good hat

- A toiletries bag

- Ear plugs and a sleeping mask

- A charger for your gear, and cables

- AC power plug converters

- Maybe a battery

Everything else is situational, and better bought on the spot.
> She’s not “parroting republicans” by saying tech is largely operated by people who are elite and (ostensibly) liberal. As far as I know, this isn’t controversial amongst liberals - just a projection made up by Fox News anchors and talk radio hosts as they shout “hypocrisy!” while being funded by the likes of Rupert Murdoch.

I don't watch Fox News, just read comments on american dominated forums like this one and reddit (the regular subrredits like r/news or r/europe, not obscure ones). And I my impression is that the average left-leaning user does not openly acknowledge that there is a leftist bias on Twitter or Youtube. On the contrary.

> Didn’t you read the part about fascism? She’s talking about republicans lol, you realize that right?

I don't understand what you mean, I'm sorry, but I have read the whole thing.
Something I have not seen mentioned - just beware you might end up "stuck" at the new company doing nothing other than working with/on that very same piece of software you're currently working on.

They may never want to promote you or let you move to another team if you're "The Expert"(TM).
I am ignoring the 9-point standard refraction disclosure here.

Rectangular markings can be recreated by moving the 9 regular-pulsating jet streams emanating outward at various Cartesian directions:

- the four corners of their “rectangle” are comprising of pulse streams emanating outward but directly perpendicular to our view.

- their rectangular sides are painted by pulsating jet streams whose trajectory angle are further/closer with our reference (perpendicular)to our POV.

That’s one way to explain rectangular aspect.

Haven’t got a clue as to what the odds are of such stream placements to make an appearance of a “rectangle”.

But I could envision 6 or 9 asymmetrical jet streams from a gravity well (such as a star), but not ones caused by binary star pairs.

Guessingly so, pulsating effect would be easily explained by a strong elliptical orbit between stars of similar size, one where closest encounter would grab all the dust clouds.

Note: I am not an astronomer, just a hobbyist for plotting trajectories between multiple celestial bodies thru space.
Ask HN: Could you share your serverless starter repository?
I think that serverless can be a huge time saver and be quite inexpensive when done right.

However, I find it hard to setup in a "simple" and maintainable fashion.

There are a lot of cloud-agnostic solutions out there: Terraform, Serverless.com, Pulumi, etc...
But also, for a given cloud provider, let's say AWS, you have: CDK, SAM, CloudFormation, etc...

Of course there are examples everywhere on the internet, but I feel that the HN community might have some interesting repositories to share, used to kickstart a startup, for freelancing / indie hacking or even for side projects.

Do not hesitate to also share the volume / number of users you handled with your stack, and how much it cost you.

Note 1:
I tried to check if this post was a duplicate by searching for 'site:news.ycombinator.com "serverless" starter' (and other variants) and found "The ultimate SaaS template", which is kind of what I was looking for, but with more things out of the box that just serverless related stuff.

Note 2:
I'm personally looking to replicate a setup that a startup I worked at was using on AWS (AppSync, API Gateway, Lambda, Cognito, DynamoDB, etc...), but they used Serverless.com and the yml files were huge and full of duplicates (not a problem per se, but there might be a better, more concise way).
Most comments here seem to lean a lot into the lawfulness aspect and that the individuals should be prosecuted, but the platform should be left to its own devices.

But the fat is that organizing criminal activities is a criminal activity! Having a whole platform where there is rampant, blessed-by-the-mods organized crime is not something acceptable. Even if you give credence to the idea that this activity is not representative of the platform as a whole, it is responsibility of the platform to prevent crime being harbored there, just like in any other business.

Morals and ethics are a complex thing, impossible to "solve" in a perfect way, and both restriction and freedom have their costs and benefits for everyone. Maybe instead of understanding this events as the demise of freedom, we could understand them better as a way to learn --as a society-- how to manage this balance properly.
If an organisation is not willing to fix the bug, the customer will go away, if you have the bug in your bugtracker or not.

Bugs in a bugtracker are not important. Fixed bugs are important. There is a distinction. Bugs in a bugtracker that are not fixed get you nowhere.
PSA for the younger reader and / or parents: Try being the janitor.

I was effectively the janitor for a public ice arena outside Detroit from the age of 14 to 16. I cleaned public restrooms, as well as hockey locker rooms. I emptied large trash bins (thankfully before recycling was mainstream). I cleaned below the bleachers. That was probably the worst. But, if I may say, that experience helped mold me, for the better. People were rude to me, but it wasn’t quite as consistently bad as I might have thought. Perhaps it was my age that softened the treatment and showed slightly more humanity. In any case, I wear the experience as a proud badge of honor (as if you can’t tell). And yes, just be nice.
This is great but what the article is about that you're underestimating is the decision anxiety and subsequent complexity of arriving at the specific configuration you've posted.

Even after you've for some reason decided on which tech to use (nginx, etc.), it doesn't set itself up (well it does but not in as easy-to-use config as yours). Examples of how to configure it well are going to vary depending on where you read - your example is unique, which should one follow.

Or if you want to create your own config from scratch reading docs, I'm sure your configuration is the product of many hours of trial and error and a bit of debugging.

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As an aside, for anyone reading this who is looking for a good static hosting setup, this is a great one.
> There is now evidence firmly against lab leak and firmly in favour of natural origins, covered in depth by a domain expert here...

A counter:

https://ayjchan.medium.com/evidence-for-a-natural-origin-of-...

As for Angie Rasmussen - she is hardly the dispassionate scientist that you seem to want to portray her as, in your post[0]

[0] https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/a-toxic-milie...
A smart phone is probably the most useful travel item, but I can also highly recommend an Aero Press for good coffee while on the road. I finally got fed up with bad hotel coffee and got one, and I am seriously impressed! Pair that with one of those small portable water heaters and you can have a good cup almost wherever you find yourself.
How to outsource app development: 6 hands-on tips to bear in mind
Find out how to outsource app development in the right way thanks to the latest article on SPD Group blog
Sorry for no references, it's off the top of my head. There were past attempts at confining / "jailing" processes based on ptrace, it ended up being racey and/or escapeable. If you're relying on cooperation for isolation, you're back to square 1.
I think their point is that if it's in the default configuration of Ubuntu or red hat, it's "shoved down their throat" because it is on by default and they assume they are made to care about it.
> Hitchens' razor applies- what can be stated without evidence can be as easily dismissed without evidence.

I think the problem is that there is very little evidence exists for the other explanations - and an absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.

The lack of non-circumstantial evidence for the "Lab Leak" theory can be partially explained by the fact that China blocked investigations within the lab until 2021, and there are obvious and strong geopolitical reasons why they would want to destroy evidence if the 'lab leak' theory WAS true. This is from a country already known to perform cover-ups.

So this is the problem - if the hypothesis was true, any biological evidence would have most likely been intentionally destroyed, which means we can't really apply 'Hitchens Razor'.
Show HN: Web Component "showcqt-element" – showcqt audio visualization made easy
It started at a wet market on the other side of the city. That's been very solidly established now.

The early cases were very heavily concentrated around the wet market, but not around the lab, which is more than 10 km away.[0]

> a lab that studies the virus

The lab did not study SARS-CoV-2. It studied viruses that are about 20% different from SARS-CoV-2. We know what viruses they were working with, because they publish papers, go to scientific conferences, etc.

> they've yet to find the original bat population spreading it

It took about 10 years to find the bat population that the original SARS came from. In the last two years, researchers have gotten closer to the origin of SARS-CoV-2, which appears to be somewhere in southwest China or northern Laos.

0. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abp8715
It's very un-Unix like. In Unix, everything is a file, right? But sockets are entirely managed via syscalls. There are also some very nasty skeletons lying in wait in more obscure parts of the API, such as cmsg.

Consider an alternative design (Plan 9 is something like this, it's been a while so I'm short on details):

1. Open /net/dns and write the desired hostname, then read back the resolved IP address

2. Open /net/tcp/clone and write the address and port, then read back a connection number

3. Open /net/tcp/$conn_id and the file is now a full duplex TCP stream

Compare this to BSD sockets: use getaddrinfo for the DNS lookup (gross!), create a socket with a syscall, then connect the socket with another syscall using sockaddr (gross!). Much worse and much less Unixy.
I think you are using a definition of evidence normally associated with criminal trials here, and not scientific evidence.
Tinygrad, a sub 1000 line core deep learning framework with Stable Diffusion
The way I read it they're arguing both that it's condescending to think that they need to be told to say hi to custodial staff, and that the custodial staff might find it condescending for someone to hold a door.

One of the interesting things I've found while travelling is the different forms of interaction with customer service, hospitality, custodial staff. US tends to have a 'customer is always right' sickly sweet interactions. China has custodial staff that almost live at the office (the feel of Mum doing the dishes and washing, and that you're almost in their house). France/Paris you always say hello (bon jour) when you enter the store or it's rude. I've never had such "rude" blunt interactions as I did in Sofia, and thought it was me/tourist/english, but no, I witnessed equally gruff dismissive interactions for locals.
why is this downvoted? this is an excellent thread with links to a paper that seems to show strong evidence against the lab leak ...
Longer Lasting Sodium-Ion Batteries on the Horizon
> don't tell them that you've cancelled the order due to fraud

NEVER do that. You’ve got a contract with the customer, you have to either fulfill that or properly explain why you’re breaking the contract.

I’ve had a company break a contract with me (as it later turned out, because I hit one of their fraud measurements) and it took quite an annoying legal battle to force them to accept me as customer (but they had to, and I got almost 2 years of free service out of the company).

If you follow this advice, expect that at some point a customer will be accidentally affected, and some of them will sue you. And you’ll lose.
Reminds me of how the early bloom effects looked like in video games
What speeds are you getting?
> It's not a mechanical keyboard switch, anyway. There's nothing to click. No moment when the force required decreases.

What you describe is called “tactility” and there is another DIY magnetic switch design that offers it, using three magnets instead of two:

https://hackaday.com/2022/01/17/3d-printed-magnetic-switches...
Which is like a plaintext equivalent, so if the clip is easier to guess spammers will just do that instead.
If you say there's no evidence for something, what does that mean? Are we talking about something without positive verification, or that there is evidence the opposite is true.

If you are witness to a cover-up, that's not a signal that "no evidence" is a good position to take.

There is evidence they lied about what they were doing. What does that say about the probability of the existence of positive evidence?

They aren't covering up something that would make them look innocent I'll tell you that.

WRT policy, it doesn't matter where the leak actually occured. We should treat both scenarios are likely and plan accordingly. If the next leak does come from a lab, it's obvious the Chinese will cover it up anyway.
Yes. Basic isnt like the movies: a quick few weeks afterwhich one is a soldier. Basic is only the very start of training. More advanced stuff comes later at more trade-specific training. Basic is deinitely not the place to test potential soldiers for such problems.
There are still some limits to these (for example Netlify limits the bandwidth you can use each month), but yeah, for most practical purposes the free tier should do just fine.

On a side note, I'm wondering if one can host one site simultaneously on e. g. Netlify and Vercel and load-balance those (for example, with round-robin DNS) to stay within free limits for longer.
the article calls it 70 years old. it isn't -- 1959 was 63 years ago. The big birthday cake is due in 7 years.
To skip the Twitter noise and get straight to the paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715
Ask HN: Post-Mortem for July 21st Microsoft Teams Global Outage?
Re: https://www.reuters.com/article/microsoft-outages-idCAKBN2OW03G

Anyone seen a post-mortem for Microsoft Teams' global outage back on July 21, 2022? Would be curious to know what happened.
Ah I expected to get downvoted into oblivion, I know it's a cliche to say it but HN isn't what it once was.

A key point to take away is that the fact there are 2 lineages means that lab leak is super unlikely. It would require somebody from the lab to come to the same relatively small market to give lineage A, then somebody else who got infected through a totally different evolutionary route at the lab to happen to come to the market just after and both to not spread it anywhere else.

Of course lab leakers are working hard to try to deny this or claim the data is wrong or yada yada. It's an ongoing battle and they have several highly dedicated 'independent scientists' (lol) working on it seemingly 24/7.

It's quite dispiriting to see.
And refused to let me work from home!
Copying the entire address space into a second process just so it can be overwritten by exec a few instructions later is a big mess, and the implementation problems raised by "what if the program doesn't call exec soon?" are severe. A spawn model is much better for creating new processes.
There is nothing wrong with cobol. And it is old because it is good.
Read the post again. The author is clearly talking about smaller blocks of code and speaks of edge cases and AI generated code blocks not large systems. By saying "of course programmers can read code" are you not essentially agreeing with me?

By the way, the very definition of utopia is that it is an imagined fantasy land and most often used in negative ways to suggest delusion.
"Accident". So it's OK to shot other palastinians as log as they aren't important people? How sick of a statement is this. There should have never been a sniper in such a situation in the first place.
> On the other hand, many people would like it to be true, because it feeds into a conspiracy narrative.

I think this is missing Occam's razor - many people believe it because they've seen more evidence that it is true than the reverse, but they aren't necessarily good at judging evidence.

It doesn't make much difference either way. Given the number of people in the world, it seems likely we're going to see similar waves of disease in the future. The Asia-Pacific region has been on high alert for exactly this happening for 20 years, this could easily be a 1 in 40 years pandemic or worse as the world keeps getting smaller. And if it is even half plausibly a lab leak then given where tech is up to it takes one lab anywhere with bad safety standards - this is almost a level of risk that is hitherto outside the human experience.
Haha oops!

Great job btw.
Christ Jesus, yes.

I mean, there can be reasons why not, but why use an RDBMS at all if you’re not going to take advantage of its features?
I agree! But the person at the top of this thread wanted to help the janitor, and that's not what they are doing: they are, at best, helping the people who pay for the janitor, whether you want to model that as the company or the customers of the company. And that's a reasonable (or even "noble") thing to optimize for (though if you work at the company and are being paid to do something else with your time or mental effort you aren't helping the company either as you are just reassigning peoples' roles that were carefully chosen), but it simply isn't the same thing as helping the janitor, which is what everyone seems to think they are doing. You 100% shouldn't be an asshole to the janitor: they are people like you and you shouldn't avert your eyes or ignore their presence as if they are a pariah... but I think if you talk to them for a while you will realize more of them than you seem to think understand how this works as they are often a unionized position and their organizers are making sure everyone knows to keep work up and not tolerate their job being redistributed to others.
The word "group" smells of an anti-pattern in any context to me.
Usually people don't quit when I join and are rather happy that problems are solved instead of not solved.

I would also not sit at my desk one day, and close all the bugs - but talk to developers, managers, leads, QA and product on how we solve the bug problems together. Slashing the number of bugs in the bugtracker is only one task and people didn't object but agreed to it as a way forward.

I created by first bugs 40 years ago, I've created bugs that brought down sites and have been a tech manager for 25+ years learning on the way on how to deal with bugs. From my experience: "fixing yet" this is the problem. It's not "yet" it's "ever". If a company doesn't fix bugs in 6 or 12 months, it's never spending enough time to fix these bugs because new feature development is always more important.

With the slashing of the bugs and a different approach to quality (E.g. fix bugs first) I would assume you're much happier that the bugs you report get fixed and developers are happy for your good bug reports than bug reports sitting in a bug tracker who no one acts upon.
Examining the game industry’s hidden impacts on climate change
Looking into “Zeta Functions for Complex Arguments” all I found was Elsevier paywalls. Curse them.

Does anyone know of an open-source C or Fortran implementation?
‘Lab-origin’ and ‘engineered’ are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
Stable Diffusion free demo and production API (~$0.0025 /image)
I HATE slides, so when I need to show something I just use Emacs/org-mode, animations are limited but possible see for instance https://youtu.be/B6jfrrwR10k though I do avoid them. I can "embed" anything since Emacs is my windows manager (EXWM) so any X11 application can be "embedded" as a buffer even if again normally I do not use them. It's VERY easy and fun to use once you've learnt a bit (a not so quick but not so long thing for the outcome) and it's not mere slide but anything. I have essentially anything in Emacs, my home infra (NixOS) included via org-mode tangled from org-babel/org-roam notes. I have my files attached, I access them via Emacs (search&narrow/org-roam-node-find etc), my mails and so on.

When for some reasons I have to provide slides to others I'll simply export them to LaTeX/beamer sharing the resulting pdf.
> People can't believe things like global, deadly viral pandemics can occur naturally

Isn't that what most people believe? To me it seems people can't just believe all of this was not a coincidence at all, artificial hyped through oligopoly media, not even as deadly as advertised, and just another bamboozle to keep everyone in their hamster wheels.
Travis Kalanick quietly expands kitchen venture across Latin America
The repeating music reused in every episode just flashed in my head.
As Ex-Uber Executive Heads to Trial, the Security Community Reels
Simnet was a network with displays for real-time distributed simulation
Touché - and that m'lud is why even the best barristers seldom get awarded the Nobel prize in any of the sciences.
My one and only beef with frameworks like this is that one ends up learning the idioms of the framework to deploy as a first class citizen, then when faced with deployment issues, having to learn the basics of the target cloud platform as a second class citizen. I get why this is appealing, much in the way jQuery was appealing over raw DOM back in the day. However, I much prefer abstractions that are closer to the bare metal which still provide convenience and good DX such as CDK or Terraform.