skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But Mozilla deceived us by indicating they had privacy improvements for us! This particular incident is a minor annoyance, but it's an indicator of how those in charge view those of us who care about actual privacy and functionality.
I think people put way too much focus on growth. Trying to scale the corporate ladder is really starting to seem like getting a PhD and trying to be a professor. There aren’t enough director or C level jobs for everyone, but most of us are compelled to join the rat race to try and get one.
>Motion sickness in VR is essentially a solved problem for stationary experiences.

Oh really? I have a couple friends who didn't get the memo, apparently.
Shouldn't a post about a new release mention the version number? (It's 106)

I really like Firefox from a usability and features point of view. Multi-account containers are fantastic! I want it to succeed. But a private browsing shortcut and colors don't excite me. I'd love to see improvements in speed and efficiency because FF is still behind the others for me. FF is also the only browser that frequently crashes. Submitted about a dozen stacktraces already so hopefully they'll figure it out one day.
>this is not some unimportant bit player

Sure, but what about Google and Amazon, you don't think they're bigger threats that UK's limited resources should be focused on first?
Any reason they chose to use meson instead of make?
Maybe I’m the worst programmer in the world. It doesn’t matter. My code is still my code, and if I don’t explicitly license it such that you can copy it, you’re not allowed to.
I can relate. The optimal number of ceilings on fire is not zero.
I guess he was thinking of arithmetic.

In any case, any model which includes infinity (and Peano arithmetic already does) is pure convention and unconsciously assumes a lot of things.

Finitary induction may make sense as something "universal". Further than that, we are making things up as we go (and I am a professional mathematician). The fact that they work to solve real problems does not make them more real.
Maybe? I think that the system is poorly designed, but I can still do everything I want to do with a medium level of difficulty in achieving it. MyChart is way better than nothing, but it's not as good as "a good version of MyChart".
What do you expect when people grant GitHub an extra license to their repos[0]?

0: https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...
Moon has been drifting away from Earth for 2.4B years, rocks reveal
The wire is notorious for propoganda hit pieces in Indian political landscape. Based kn conversation is not enough merit when you see kind of reports the wire dishes out.
I had a situation once where we had a minor re-org and I ended up with a new manager. Literally day one, he made an attempt to change everyone's role. We were a team of developers and business analysts. He decided that everyone would become both and spend 50% of their time on each activity. Not sure why he thought this was a good idea, but he did.

After he announced it, I had a 1x1 with him and clearly let him know that he was the boss and I'd do my best to accomplish anything he assigned me. I also let him know that the business analyst duties didn't fit well with my skillset and that I would very likely struggle to produce output. We had a good, honest conversation about the situation and I ended up staying 100% as a developer. In the end he was happy and I was happy.

Why am I telling you? It's that I've learned it better to communicate and hopefully work things out then just pack up and head to another place.
In this snippet from the abstract, S stands for spike protein:

> "We generated chimeric recombinant SARS-CoV-2 encoding the S gene of Omicron in the backbone of an ancestral SARS-CoV-2 isolate and compared this virus with the naturally circulating Omicron variant. The Omicron S-bearing virus robustly escapes vaccine-induced humoral immunity, mainly due to mutations in the receptor-binding motif (RBM), yet unlike naturally occurring Omicron, efficiently replicates in cell lines and primary-like distal lung cells. In K18-hACE2 mice, while Omicron causes mild, non-fatal infection, the Omicron S-carrying virus inflicts severe disease with a mortality rate of 80%. This indicates that while the vaccine escape of Omicron is defined by mutations in S, major determinants of viral pathogenicity reside outside of S."

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.13.512134v1....

See russfink comment above for the relative mortality compared to the original Wuhan strain (100% for Wuhan compared to 80% for this hybrid). So this researcher-generated strain appears to be intermediate in mortality between the original Wuhan strain and Omicron, BUT it escapes vaccination relative to the Wuhan strain, making it more dangerous in that regard and more likely to spread through a vaccinated population causing significant mortality. I'd classify this as reckless and irresponsible research.

As far as the original Wuhan strain, we have about four theories of origin. (1) natural wild type with no lab research involvement, (2) natural wild type collected by a lab and accidentally released from that lab, (3) wild type 'heated up' by serial passage through mice and cloned human-type cells without explicit genetic engineering, and (4) deliberate engineering using a CRISPR system to insert a furan cleavage site in a collected wild-type virus, which allowed a bat virus to leap to a human host.

Really (4) has the most evidence at this point, and note that this is not entirely the fault of the Chinese Wuhan Institute of Virology as the research concept was partially developed in the USA and continued (despite an Obama-era ban on gain-of-function research) in China with Ecohealth Alliance funding.

As far as why doing gain-of-function research to predict 'emerging disease outbreaks' is a godawfully stupid idea, it's that it appears that almost any infectious animal virus can be converted to a human pathogen by selective transfer of human-receptor-binding motifs, even though such transfer would never take place under natural conditions. An immediate global ban on this kind of research (under the Biological Warfare Convention) is needed.
Certainly - I'm not very concerned about covid/vaccine inflammation for myself as I (unfortunately) have other health conditions that already cause a lot of inflammation. Though, aren't there mercury risks from consuming fish in large quantities?
I would approach this with a dose of humility. I used to think I had it all figured out too; now, older me realizes how ignorant I was and surprised how tolerant management was of my flagrant pomposity.
You are looking for a Yubikey and `ykman`.

This is secure because the secret never leaves the hardware key.

This is convenient because you launch a tool with a global keyboard shortcut and copy/paste the code. I use `yubikey-oath-dmenu` to allow me to quickly filter to the TOTP code I need.
> But the flip side is you don't have to save $,000s for your kids college tuition, generally much lower property tax and cheaper healthcare.

Irrelevant. Just because you work for a US company that does not mean your kids should go to US colleges.
Active discussion about TOTP underway here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33245042
>But I had the impression that US (maybe apart from NY) was trying to keep business as usual as much as possible.

More or less a lot of companies took some handouts from the government while half the country insisted it was a demonrat hoax and the others stayed home to try and stop having out hospitals blown the fuck out.
The technically minded can simply use a strong password.
I sold all my Ethereum miners around 2017 I think because proof of stake was “coming soon”. It arrived a few months ago haha. I used the profits and all future money to just buy coins and that has worked much better. :)

I do miss the heat of the Ethereum mine though. Thank you for sharing your story, it brings back a lot of memories. It also echoes the stories of most Bitcoin mining companies I read in The Age of Cryptocurrency by Casey and Vigna. Always racing on the hamster wheel of profitability against the difficulty algorithm and electricity prices and flirting with or going bankrupt. I’m glad proof of stake is finally here and we can move to a more sane way of doing things.
It's not generally true. It's true for the case when the runtime keeps track of every little memory segment.
> copyright holder might complain that the existence of an unlicensed copy inside the model is already objectionable

I'd be wary of this one. There doesn't seem much distance between this and the same claim against a human's memory of a work in their own brain. Yes, that sounds like dystopian fiction. So do some things that have already happened.
Because they operate in the UK. If they want to keep operating in the UK, they get to obey UK laws.

It's really pretty easy to understand.

There is no way in which this is "terrible outreach", it's literally "you want to operate in our market? obey our rules."
Lots of conceptions of justice don’t align with your definition, which centers individuals: Climate Justice, (some types of) Social Justice, etc.
There was a strong effect on medical services and the willingness or ability to use them for non-covid illnesses during the height of the pandemic. Many people who took Covid seriously locked down and may have put off getting routine examinations or even going to the doctor when they should have because of fear of exposure (my parents for example, who while in a Republican area where most people were not very concerned about covid were this way and many other people especially in major blue cities would do the same) and on the other side, people in areas that may have been skeptical of covid may have been turned off because of reduced or near zero service while local hospitals dealt with the effects of covid on the local community.
> So is JS a monstrosity? For blogs, sure. For apps? Hell no. It's fucking amazing.

That web application delivery is "fucking amazing" doesn't mean javascript is. Javascript very much is not.

What javascript is, is the only complete option until wasm is way more fleshed out than it currently is.

> Things that used to come with 100MB+ installers? Those are web apps now. They serve you 200kb

With an entire browser and server farm to do that.

> and load in less than a few seconds.

Instead of instantaneously.

> That spreadsheet app? Just a sheets.google.com away. Loads in seconds - using JS with a tiny payload.

10% the functionality, 20% the performance, at twice the heft. Amazing.

> Music player? It's a website now. JS.

Your music library? Doesn't exist now.
Well you need to think about the whole thing before coming up with a name. I don't care about blaming people here
Syntax in Programming Languages (2021) [pdf]
The finality with which you describe your experience leaves little room for understanding a wider range of perspectives, doesn’t consider room for misunderstanding or the chance that you’re simply wrong in your view of underlying events. For me, that’s the growth that’s missing from this anecdote. It seems unlikely you will be happy in your next role given this perspective.
If Meta wants to not be subject to UK or EU rules, they could certainly stop doing business there…

Personally, I'm really tired of seeing good products get subsumed into these faceless conglomerates, watered down, then finally borg'd into some tiny feature in the corner of the main app. Plenty of good ideas get tossed in the bin by these companies because they don't make 7-figure revenues out of the gate instead of being allowed to make something that makes self-sustaining revenue as its own business.

If businesses are looking for a buyout, I'd appreciate some up-front notice that I'll have to look for another solution once their dream is attained instead of being slapped in the face with a "hey, we got bought, but we're sticking around!" to "uh, we lied, it's going away; you have a week to save any data, hope you're not on vacation" a few months later.
Why don’t you give power users at the very least in about:config an option to disable ALL phoning home by Firefox upon launch and exit. As it stands even with all telemetry off Firefox is extremely chatty and I’ve had Mozilla developers tell me they have no intention to fix this.

You can profile this yourself on macOS with Charles Proxy (GUI) or mitmproxy (CLI).

Until this is fixed all I can do is roll my eyes when I see the incessant privacy marketing from Mozilla.
Syntax Design (2014)
LoB yeah, on small scale perhaps, I guarantee you will end up with a cluttered mess on large applications, unless you spend a ton of extra time/work to design for scale, maintenance and dev onboarding.

I do not agree with HATEOAS, so now you have an API which job is to produce html (SoC problem), and what if a Flutter app also needs to consume this API, do you build another HATEOS API just for Flutter?

Every few years its the same, devs adopting and defending the new shiny thing, though I have to admit, I love that this time its a way more simplified, sane alternative.
One privacy feature I’d really like is kind of like HTTPS everywhere, except it’s TLS 1.3 w/ SNI encryption everywhere.
How do you explain the current UI shit hole that we live in these days then? It surely wasn't to increase productivity or user experience. UIs in the 90's were more functional and flexible than the UIs of today.
The difference is that Bob's fulfillment isn't a billion dollar company with a CEO skimming billions of the top for himself. Bob probably pays himself a few times what his lowest paid employee makes. Bezos makes more money in a day than his lowest paid worker will earn in a lifetime.
In my opinion this is a key comment in this thread and everyone subject to United States law should read the Abstraction Filtration Comparison (AFC) legal test when refining their opinion. Also, I have no legal background, but as far as I know patent law != copyright law.

Specifically within AFC, note the "idea/expression dichotomy" [1] which clearly states:

"copyright law protects an author's expression, but not the idea behind that expression"

Thus, if this tools spits out someone else's code verbatim it is a definite copyright infringement. If it outputs code that is similar but not verbatim then it "could" be an infringement, at your own risk, and to be determined by the courts. Simply expressing the same idea in a different way is not a definite infringement.

Program code is naturally copyright-risky because the keyword/grammar space is constrained. It is far more difficult to accidentally duplicate verbatim the expression of one's ideas in a full language, such as English, than in C. And what of two separate programs (or constituent sub-parts such as functions) that by chance emit the same compiled binary?

Personally, for now I won't use this tool due to the risk of accidental plagiarism, and because it is a black box: I can't examine any lineage or attribution metadata to understand the source(s) of what I would then be incorporating into my own body of work. Of course I doubt I could get that type of traceability information for any other trained ML model I might use, so perhaps I need to re-examine my policies heading into the future.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea%E2%80%93expression_distin...
then they are free not to operate in the UK.

You seem surprised that UK law holds in the UK.
For those not in the know, what happened in 2019 with Americans? A quick search showed something about N26 bank leaving the US but not much else about it.
JetBrains – Addressing the New UI Comments
> Mathematics exist independently of biology or perception of reality.

Even the concept of "number" itself is almost certainly an artifact of perception that enabled our ancestors to survive our niche, planetary environment, and not an inherent feature of objective reality.

Aliens, evolved to survive in another environment entirely with a different set of initial conditions, almost certainly would not have the same, nor even any, understanding of "number".

Would we consider such aliens a civilization or some kind of insensate "process"?
Exactly - they’re not constrained by the same four-ish year terms held in most democratic countries, and are able to play out twenty- and even fifty-year scenarios without too much domestic uncertainty.

That strategy manifests in that slow chipping away: they don’t need to do things all at once.
Unfortunate :(

I moved to Germany (and Europe) in 2019. I was planning to attend conferences/tech gatherings like this that were previously prohibitive for me once I got settled in but then 2020 had other plans for the world.

It was a bit late when I realized this year that conferences and big gatherings are back. Unfortunately the ones I would've attended (PyCon, We Are Developers) were in conflict with other things like a concert that I already paid for.

This would've been the first opportunity without a conflict for me. Shame although I can understand (and even sympathize with) the organizers' prudence.
Is there a “proof” of that?

It's how we define the concept "mathematics". If a result was dependant on "biology or perception of reality" or anything else outside its defining axioms, it wouldn't be mathematics.
What are crypto companies doing that I should care about? Give me something I could go check out and use that is:

(1) Not speculation, gambling, or some variation thereof.

(2) Useful for something other than crypto itself.

(3) Actually works and can be used today.

(4) Continues to make sense even in a crypto bear market. (In other words: I will still buy milk even if the US dollar is falling because the point is the milk not the dollar. What in crypto is like that?)
Something that took me way to long to figure out: know when it's time to leave a job.
In the articlr it says Stability AI was founded 2 years ago, so they are not popping out from nothing.
Jasper.ai raised $125M Series A at $1.5B valuation
... to add to your point, then take companies like Google who rely heavily on ML to improve the quality of the photos further and the distance between "RAW data off sensor" and "the best Samsung/Apple/Google can generate" is a HUGE gap.
> Important underline: the lab database is not available to us

Genuine question, as I'm not aware that it's been made externally available to anyone - do you mean it's available to researchers around the world but not the general public? Or do you mean it's available to Chinese labs?
The CCC organizers probably hope that it will be.
Firefox at least tries to restrict fingerprinting. For instance, you can force websites to require permissions to access canvas data.
So far so good!

Putting the UI in a canvas elements have some distinct drawbacks (https://github.com/emilk/egui/tree/master/crates/eframe#prob...) but for us it is definitely worth it. Having one unified codebase for our web app and native app, and having it all in Rust, is just amazing.

We're currently working on a 3D renderer based on wgpu (https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu) that we will likewise use for both web and desktop.
This can't possibly hold up in court, can it? I have multiple repos that are mirrors of various open source projects. Some are not even Free Software! I have no right to grant such things to anyone let alone GitHub.
Routine checkups and other non-urgent care was frequently postponed or canceled, especially during the bigger waves when hospitals and ICUs were at risk of being overwhelmed.
I mean, at what point will this change? When the AI has to first be trained by being in a robot in the physical world for 10 years learning human concepts before it can start looking at art in the ultimate goal of learning how to draw?
> The goal of the research was to determine if the mutations in the Omicron spike protein were responsible for this variant’s increased ability to evade the immunity to SARS-2 that humans have built up, and whether the changes led to Omicron’s lower rate of severity.
Is life expectancy measured from 5 years old onwards, or from 1 second old?

It's frustrating to see numbers thrown around about how much life expectancy rose over the years in the past, only to discover that the average was so low because so many kids never made it past 5 years old. Why would including those deaths be in any way informative for people alive? That average tells me almost nothing about my life expectancy! :(

The article never mentions it, but the graph says "at birth" is the starting point.
The important bit about savings accounts and MMFs isn't specific to a country. Its about openness, regulation, and public trust.

I can confidently buy Schwab, Capital One, Vanguard, or other funds in the USA (without any research) because the US Government regulates the words "Money Market". Anyone claiming to be "Money Market" follows strict regulations and guidelines.

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This is NOT true for stablecoins. Stablecoins attempt to recreate the same thing but without openness, without regulations, and without audits.

They work because people "want" them. Everyone wants a bank, especially one tied to the US Dollar. Unfortunately, the easiest way to get one is to simply lie about your connections.

Do we truly know that Tether is tied to the US Dollar? No. We don't. There's been no audits. The yields generated from such loans are innately at risk. I recognize that people in other countries want that kind of trust, but you can't just fake trust. You have to rebuild it up from the ground up.

In those other countries, other entities must build that trust for themselves. Tether obviously wants to be such an entity, but I have my doubts to their legitimacy and safety.
Would transcoding GIFs to VP9 and repackaging them into WEBMs be enough to eschew sanctions ?
> Can you elaborate on this? How can I become a capitalist so all my possessions start earning me money?

Capitalists make money from simply owning things, but that doesn't imply in the slightest that everything that can be owned produces income.

The classic example is a landlord: he collects income because he simply owns the land others need or want to use. He doesn't necessarily have do any work that's useful to anyone else, not even maintenance or "capital allocation."
I can imagine a perfectly just society with no laws.
To me it sounds more like they are trying to force them into a bullshit-job.
This is exactly the problem.

Plenty of folks who’ve worked at small startups that haven’t faced regulatory scrutiny can tell you about how poor the common data handling practices are relative to the major leagues.

e.g. unilateral write access (no multiparty approvals), no TTLs or deletion guarantees, overly broad access, stale / unmaintained ACLs, copies of production data all over the place, supply chain vulnerabilities, lack of mTLS / endpoint security, etc. etc.

The upside (for end users) of big brand names being big targets is they have a lot more to lose than your average startup that no one will remember when it folds and sells its data.
Apache Apisix vs. Kong: Open-Source API Gateway
It depends on whether the "reality" you see is via video a la Quest - and if so, at what responsiveness - or actual reality like with the Hololens.
And there I was, thinking for a split-second that Feathers[1] would finally get the recognition it deserves ;-)

[1] https://feathersjs.com/

(Edit: Well, it kind of already did. Has massively more GitHub stars than when i last checked.)
> There is no distinct identity. You have no power over space time.

Agreed.

> There is no arrow of time.

This is almost certainly wrong. Just because some of our models don't include it, doesn't mean it's not a meaningful physical construct. Show us an egg unscrambling itself, and then we can agree that there is no arrow of time.