skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No joke, pen and paper, preferably a small notebook with no lines.

One time I solved a very complex circular dependency issue this way. I think just writing down thoughts and process in a very human way can help with technical issues.
But if the substitutes are good enough (some of them are now, imo), that seems like the best of both worlds.
>CDC's ever changing guidelines

this was much more of a presentation problem then anything. of course the science will change in the middle of new viral outbreak, people's perception of science just isn't that.

>liability-free, fast tracked vaccine that doesn't actually mitigate transmission

of course you'll fast track a solution when you have a global pandemic? seems like a no brainer? and I don't recall transmission ever being promised, only a substantial lower chance of severe infection and death - which was a main goal to help reduce loads on hospitals?

>labeling of media pushed medical hypothesis as "science" and any debate as heresy

medical hypothesis are a part of science? and I think there's definitely room for debate on how vaccines, closures, masks, etc. could have been done - but when the debate is just over if masks or vaccines even work it's kinda silly to be wasting time talking with the "opposition"

>the effortless militarization of common citizens to socially pressure and attack their neighbors into compliance

I don't see the problem with this sort of social pressure in regards to a pandemic. it's not like being reported to the "covid gestapo" for not social distancing for something
Pretty sure he wrote this while working at Tesla also
One related issue is the death of integrated PCIe switches on motherboards. High-end boards used to have PCIe hubs on them so you could plugin in a lot of cards and still get all the bandwidth out of a 16-lane CPU.

The reason why they don't do this is because PLX got bought out by Broadcom and they jacked up the price of the chips. It turns out their most lucrative market was storage, because datacenters want to connect a lot of high-speed NVMe to one machine and they will pay buckets for a chip that will let them all share bandwidth.

So now consumers that want a lot of devices need a CPU with a lot of lanes, which meant buying into a more expensive high-end desktop platform with more than the standard of 16 or 20 lanes on it. Except these are also becoming scarce; both Intel and AMD's high-end desktop platforms haven't been updated in years. The way high-end used to work was that they were just last-gen server chips with overclocking and more consumer-oriented boards, so they got the extra lanes and memory capacity, but you still got the gobs of USB and so on that you'd see on a consumer board.

So with no lane expanders on motherboards anymore, and no high-end platforms with higher lane count CPUs in them, the only other option for buying something with lots of slots in it is to buy server gear. Not only is that more expensive, but you also lose out on all the consumer-grade creature comforts you expect[0] and have to deal with the added noise of small fans in a rackmount case.

[0] VGA is considered standard video output on most server motherboards
Sometimes you learn the hard way. I try to use a Yubikey on as many services as possible, and when a service doesn't support U2F/Yubikeys, I resort to TOTP using the Google Authenticator app. I also backup the QR code seed image used to respawn the TOTP challenge response.

I also make sure to grab any recovery code offered by the service so I can get back in, if my phone (which has the authenticator app on it) gets lost/stolen/damaged, or I lose my Yubikey.

Google requires a phone number to register, but you can turn on U2F or TOTP 2FA and it won't ask for your number next time you login, and requires a Yubikey/TOTP instead.
I am down with your "must". Its may be technically valid within the constraints of the paper - no supplementation, no higher cost etc, but it as a word has little place in the title of an academic publication.

My contempt is for the "people should just spend more money" crowd.
Mods... lots of mods...
Sorry, which link?
I agree in spirit, but here's one of the most successful abstractions of all time: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_(mathematics)
Signal is a nonprofit that depends on donations.
You can find 10gb compatible switches pretty cheap these days(ruckus, unifi, used cisco). There is no need for anything over cat6. If you pick up a switch with SFP+ ports you can run fiber to the server NIC. Otherwise cat6 will still be plenty. If you have a fiber WAN that's at 1gbs that will be your bottleneck for incoming and outgoing traffic. You will never pull that full gig on domestic fiber. If you are running additional to LAN ports to your switch from your router you still only have one point of failure on your router and switch so the redundancy doesn't gain you anything. Without a second wan connection there is no need for load balancing your outbound/inbound. If your ports on the switch don't need POE turn it off. If you forget to turn it off you wont notice any impact as most modern switches autodetect.
There is a damn good comedy about it:

Killing It (2022)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmOvgKSKokY

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14129378/
I watch Netflix daily and the content costs much more to create maintain and serve. costs less than a cup of coffee per month
I would classify various types of ToS offenses. ToS offenses that are also criminal offenses would have a different appeals path since, among other things, the user would get reported to police. As well, the civil liability on FB/whoever would be that if the claimed offense was false and sustained throughout the appeals internal process, then the user would have basis for a civil suit. A false claim that you put of CSAM would be devastating to your reputation, would it not? Surely you'd want to get made whole following such a devastating false claim!

Let's turn your boogie man around. What should happen if your small business page that you were using to drive revenue out of which you're paying a small payroll were taken down due to false or otherwise incorrect claims that you're violating the hosting company's ToS? You'd take that lying down and say "well, I must have done something!"? Obviously not, not if you knew you hadn't "done something".

I don't like your approach to debating these things. It feels like it's not in good faith. I put effort into my replies and you come back with boogie man retorts.
Noted - we're planning to add amount in the future. Regarding period, do you mean the cadence e.g. daily/weekly/monthly ?
After I replied I realized that your answer is better. The question makes no sense, if other aspects of academia are already rewarding, then sabbaticals and conferences make academia even more rewarding (unless you find conferences stressful like me, but I'm an outlier).
The biases are probably the biggest road block. You make an assumption of what is wrong and start looking in the relevant code. There thousands of if statements that all start somewhere at the top ,creating a big fork. It's easy to get stuck when you are looking on the right side when the issue is on the left. Always understand that your assumptions can be wrong.
A philosophy of how others should partake in a lifestyle that you don’t?

Sounds like how the vegan people at work would comment on other people's lunches.
*euler's
Ask HN: Why can't Apple's Screen Time blacklist certain URLs?
Apple devices come with a feature called Screen Time that can be used to put parental controls on a device, and it can also be shared across all devices that share the same iCloud account.

The feature I'm most interested in is the ability to blacklist certain URLs, which can be found by going to Screen Time --> Content & Privacy --> Web Content --> Customize.

But this only works for Safari -- obviously a person who wants to defeat this feature is just going to install a different browser.

Why can't Apple just adjust /etc/hosts at a root level?
I'm wondering: what exactly is this virus research for anyways?

Whether or not this lab leaked the virus and caused the pandemic, I'm wondering why they are interested in engineering new variants of SARS-like viruses in the first place?

Are the detractors of the lab-leak theory saying "Yes, they engineered plenty of coronaviruses in the lab, there's just no evidence that any of them leaked out" or are they saying "No, this lab was never trying to engineer new coronaviruses"?
Rotating crops is a solution to the depletion. The main reason that soy and corn are grown so heavily is subsidy
Our government has come up with a solution though - they'll cap consumer energy prices at the current below-market rate and subsidise businesses, and pay for the cost of doing it by running up a debt repaid over the next decade or two. Basically, we can continue using energy as before and will pay for it later - yay!

The unfortunate thing is that it was basically politically untenable for them not to do this. In the run up to the announcement (basically a u-turn) there was a steady drumbeat of news headlines and articles telling us that they were driving everyone into poverty by not capping energy rates, that it was destroying businesses and no-one could afford it, that the rest of Europe was doing this and only our incompetent leaders were failing to do so because they wanted us to freeze, and so on.
ok, obviously not forever... surprised you didnt mention eventual death of the contributors, heat death of the universe et al.

Jokes aside, yes there is some asymptote of peak velocity that will reach. But keep in mind that some amount of effort can actually increase velocity in a net profitable way given long enough time windows... cue the table of automation from xkcd[1]. Imagine if we're playing with legos, and instead of using the smallest units I start to build with bigger blocks? I can build the same house by placing fewer blocks (analogy-- faster) .

[1]: https://xkcd.com/1205/
Have you checked if it's enabled in your accessibility settings? It needs to overlay itself over other apps. After having enabled it, it started working fine.
Dynamic libraries can be updated independently of the main application, that is the whole point about plugins, and commercial software is a thing.
Probably not the comparison you want to make. If your door blew open in a strong wind one day and a bunch of CP flew out of it and around town, you probably wouldn't have a choice, no matter how convincing your story of the previous tenant being a sicko was.
It's called foraging, it's what practically everyone did. It's a nasty business and you can't do it to the same people twice, because it typically involved killing and enslaving that people.

https://acoup.blog/2022/07/29/collections-logistics-how-did-...
Yeah, but Filecoin raised $250M two years ago. They have enough capital to keep writing these articles until the thermodynamic death of the Universe.
what is w22?
I believe it's still the same for the US. Some merchants will requires additional verification over a certain amount, but for the most part it is seamless.

I've bought things for 700-800$ that don't require any checks.
It's already happening isn't it? When WebAssembly gets direct DOM access, there will be many contenders to JavaScript's throne, e.g. Rust or some superset of AssemblyScript. Perhaps TypeScript will eventually transpile directly to WebAssembly.
I live in Europe, have two credit cards (& know many people with CCs), and there's no requirement to pay it off each month. Possibly a per-country thing?
Try Kagi[0] or Neeva[1] instead

[0] https://kagi.com/

[1] https://neeva.com/
The danger here is the birthday paradox. If it emerged at some other wet market, we would be attaching significance to some other city landmark to drive our alternate hypothesis.
I’m not an activist. I simply wish to not make the world worse via my own direct actions.

Using surveillance platforms makes the world worse, so I don’t.
This seems fundamentally wrong to me. You can not compare the efficiency of two methods unless they get the same result. But fake meat is not meat. Compare fake meat to unprocessed vegan food, let's see how that turns out for your marketing materials. And we can all guess which is healthier too.
> I was interested in preventing others from sniffing the traffic.

Unless you let others access your mitmproxy setup, then you do not need to worry.
Buying local and small batch generates more carbon dioxide and is less sustainable.
https://worksinprogress.substack.com/p/notes-on-progress-an-...
Is the service down?
Might be interesting for security/privacy oriented users.

In my opinion, if Genode OS wants to really become mainstream in this field, it would need to offer roughly the same level of assurance as QubesOS (or supposedly more since it promises sandboxing over virtualisation, something I have only seen in GrapheneOS to this point). Not only this but the other main advantage is that it is much less of a resource hog as QubesOS. Now on a side note, I also saw some opinions of QubesOS being used in combination WITH GenodeOS, so not necessarily one against the other. Moreover I heard (but maybe just rumour) that QubesOS do not exclude taking some of Genode's approach to QubesOS.

But the main question for me is: what guarantees does Genode offer for big security/privacy challenges that we are facing today, namely:
1- Protection against hardware: processor backdoors, 0-days, Pegasus and god knows what
2- Protection from the Web: apps, webapps, emails, downloads etc.

To this day, I believe the GrapheneOS is probably what gives me the most assurance, however the limited (really not opensource) hardware is a bummer to me...
I first became aware of Tsiolkovsky's equation 55 or so years ago, as an enthusiastic follower of the Apollo program, first venturing into the world of physics and the power of equations. At the time, I immediately wondered what it said about the suitability of various exo-planets (non of which were as yet "visible" or identified) for development of space-faring intelligent life. This wonderful article by Astronaut Pettit does the calculation I struggled with then:

>If the radius of our planet were larger, there could be a point at which an Earth escaping rocket could not be built. Let us assume that building a rocket at 96% propellant (4% rocket), currently the limit for just the Shuttle External Tank, is the practical limit for launch vehicle engineering. Let us also choose hydrogen-oxygen, the most energetic chemical propellant known and currently capable of use in a human rated rocket engine. By plugging these numbers into the rocket equation, we can transform the calculated escape velocity into its equivalent planetary radius. That radius would be about 9680 kilometers (Earth is 6670 km). If our planet was 50% larger in diameter, we would not be able to venture into space, at least using rockets for transport.

So, now, to the Fermi paradox: where are they (the intelligent extraterrestrial life we should have met by now)? Stuck, perhaps, in a gravity well?
> Daszak made strenuous efforts to hide [...] that the signatories to the letter had any connection to EcoHealth Alliance or the Wuhan Institute

That's a strange thing to argue given that Peter Daszak's position within EcoHealth Alliance is public and well-known, and he signed the letter publicly.

His extended conflict statement isn't exactly a smoking gun either:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Be sure to check your employer rules before doing this! It is probably against the rules to short or trade derivatives of your company stocks as an employee. At least at my employer this also applies to any fund containing >10% of our stock too.

A safer approach would be to just purchase a fund which excludes tech. Personally I'm too lazy to do this and just have a total market fund :)
I think you’re leaving out the part where, for political or other reasons, there are and were groups motivated to sell distrust in American institutions as well as their political rivals.

You cannot seriously have a debate about this mistrust without acknowledging the role of misinformation and motivated actors looking to sew mistrust.

Remember when 5G causing Covid was trending? Or memes about how hot water in a netipot would kill it? Or that if you had a strange cold anytime in 2019 you probably already had it?

Theories about microchips in the vaccine started spreading before the vaccine was announced. People becoming magnetic after the vaccine was trending.
I always think it's interesting to view meat production through the lens of history.

Goats or sheep can be raised on land that's completely unsuitable for farming. Pigs and chickens can recycle food-waste into usable protein.

You can make an argument that modern feedlots aren't great for the environment, the animals, or our overall health. But it's a big jump to go from that to "all meat is bad for the environment".
It was actually this site that made me realize my understanding of this material is weak!
That's 16 MW for all of Europe, which would be provided by the one nuclear carrier in the EU, the French Charles de Gaulle.

That's basically a drop in the ocean, not enough to even consider that "every little thing helps".
Yeah, it should be quite easy to add on top of predefined periods (3m, 1y, etc) custom ones
Killer thank you!
The underlying blog post goes into details on that, too. It is covered in "foraging" https://acoup.blog/2022/08/12/collections-logistics-how-did-...
6 to 8 g/hour which is roughly 1/5 of what a single human consumes (0.84 kg per day).
No standard utf8 string library is scary - I would happily learn all the mem gymnastics to make this work but fiddling with competing UTF8 libraries as is the case with C/C++ is just not my cuppa.
The good thing is that it won't probably take us a couple billion years to catch up.
Agreed. When I am really stuck, I print out code that I think has a problem, bring a pencil and nothing else and go somewhere else. Coffee shop, break room, park, it doesn’t matter. Just a change of scenery. It’s amazing how well it works for focused debugging. I just need to do it more often and sooner.
Here're some interesting parts from paper's concluding section.

>These findings suggest that infected animals were present at the Huanan market at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic; however, we do not have access to any live animal samples from relevant species. Additional information, including sequencing data and detailed sampling strategy, would be invaluable to test this hypothesis comprehensively.

>The sustained presence of a potential source of virus transmission into the human population in late 2019, plausibly from infected live mammals sold at the Huanan market, offers an explanation of our findings and the origins of SARS-CoV-2.

It doesn't eliminate or prove anything. Only makes a case that zoosis is a good hypothesis.
Reminds me of VT agriculture college that upset the town residents when they learned the 2 scenic cows were planned to be slaughtered. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/11/01/colleg...
We spent well over a million dollars on the various bits and pieces that were required to get set up - this was legals, consultancy fees, and all the paperwork and so on necessary to comply with the ICANN registry agreement terms, as well as our registry back end infrastructure provider - but that was for a registry selling domains to end users. That included putting a substantial sum in escrow for “registry continuity” - so if your registry goes bankrupt ICANN can ensure the registrants of domains are not left high and dry.

A big part of my role was to try and moderate costs as much as possible because the registry owners had been talked into the whole project by a consultant who had convinced them that their particular registry was going to make them $100m a year in registrations and renewals.

My job quickly became persuading them that spending $100k on some crazy thing was not going to achieve anything and trying to stop cash being burnt before they realised the whole thing was a crazy pipe dream.

I don’t recall the terms for private registries, but I’m pretty sure the detail will be on the ICANN site somewhere. Searching for “private registry operating agreement” or something similar might surface the relevant documents.
anything a sex robot can do, a goat can do cheaper and better. goats have been available for quite some time now without destroying morality and society.
DCA has been shown demonstrably to outperform timing the market, at least as the optimal average choice
The questions wording doesn't explicitly mentions voting fraud. People could be referring to the handling of hunters' laptop or something like that.
Some people demean GPT-3 saying it's just a Markov model.
It's a demand issue.

Business users get: laptops, mostly. You need a desktop? It's either because you aren't trusted/don't need to take a laptop around or because you need a workstation. The low end doesn't need PCIe slots for anything: integrated GPUs are good enough to do all generic business work, integrated sound, network, blah blah blah.

So we've identified workstations as the business case for more PCIe slots. The AMD workstation CPUs (ThreadRipper and EPYC-P)have lots and lots of PCIe lanes. More than that. The Intel workstation CPUs ... don't. G12 has 16xPCIe 5 and 4xPCIe 4. So you buy AMD this year.

Home users: either you're a casual gamer or a hardcore gamer. Either way, you need a maximum of 2 PCIe slots for GPUs, and you're done.

What's left? People on HN who run server and workstation tasks on repurposed desktop hardware, some of whom buy used server gear and live with the noise, some of whom buy AMD workstation gear
They're doing it because it allows them to sell 'workstation' motherboards that do have decent slot spacing at ridiculous prices.

I had to resort to a mining rig style setup with 16 lane extenders to be able to properly utilize all the slots after running into the same issue.
> This seems rude

As the recipient: I've decided to cut @wheels some slack. You should, too. It's difficult to tell whether your online interlocutor is really a jerk, or just guilty of occasional jerk-seeming behavior. Who of us can say they've never done the latter?
3 years ago, 160 comments.

Not particularly strong science.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22276468
> Too many of our smartest minds are working on trivial tasks and spending their time in corporations where they feel invisible. The vast majority of my friends who work for big companies say they’re bored, unchallenged, and under-employed. They don’t see the tangible benefits of their hard work.

If you work for a big company you could potentially work on exciting stuff. In my experience the smaller places tend to be risk averse or they just can't afford the bleeding edge stuff. So you'll often be stuck fixing obscure bugs introduced by former employees and dealing with bad infra decisions.
My old boss gave me one of hers at lunch one day. I noticed instantly.

But I'm still of a mind that if you want to promote vegetarianism, make vegetable recipes taste better; don't make the vegetables imitate something they're not.
How would you pay a plumber who came at short notice to unblock a drain?

Or, say, the fees paid for your child's karate class?

Or a 'cash' gift for a teenage nephew?

Those are/were cases where cheques were used in Britain, but the first and second are now often a portable chip debit/credit card reader, or else an electronic transfer. The third could still be a cheque, or could be an electronic bank transfer.

(No-one has paid by cheque in a shop since about 2011, when the system to protect against fraud in this case was removed.)
I would think so, on the business side of things. I'm not entirely sure what we pay for 1Password because we pay it without question tbh. We have a fair few subscriptions but 1Password would be up there with the indispensable ones.
the soft vice of robot lips sounds appealing