skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The city seems to be at it's most lively since covid, but the offices are still empty. Before covid SF actively did it's best to antagonize the companies who's tax revenue it relied on. Now that they've taken their ball to play elsewhere, I don't see what the city is going to do for revenue.

I work in the financial district and the number of empty spaces that used to house cafes and restaurants is shocking. Unless they manage to pivot that office space to housing (Very difficult for multiple structural reasons), the downtown of SF is going to continue to look like Zombieland.
Yes, but how has the millions we have spent on collecting and modifying wild coronaviruses helped us with this pandemic. Despite over 100 years of technological advancements and the virus is still impossible to stop! So why do we want to risk creating new viruses when the decades of research has proven to be such a colossal failure?
I want to believe this explanation (under Occam's Razor), but from the article: "Danish police believe 'powerful explosions' blew *four holes* in the pipe and its newer twin, Nord Stream 2.

Wouldn't a rocketing hydrate plug likely blow a single hold in the pipe?
From the press release: "The new Apple TV 4K with Siri Remote will be available starting at $129 (US) from apple.com/store, in the Apple Store app, and at Apple Store locations. Apple TV 4K is also available through Apple Authorized Resellers and select pay TV providers."
For further clarity, this is for NTLM hashes. And the entire article is indeed clickbait and considering the numbers they're referencing, they likely came from this tweet [1] which the article doesn't link as a source at all.

[1] https://twitter.com/tinkersec/status/1580722789245280257
Is it really a good idea to make your graphical logo as "a Devil smiling" ?
Switching it off might involve conractual penalties. Blowing it up and blaming it on whoever can be argued "force majeur".
> it would be true for aliens that one can get better at something by practicing

We get better by practicing only because of our brain's neuroplasticity, which one might argue, is a mechanism of adaptation, and thus a result of evolution. An intelligent life might have developed other ways of coping with change, and not necessarily through a neuroplastic brain, but for example, through an instant rewiring of the brain that doesn't require any practice.

The same can be said for justice, even though it might seem as a social construct, it's still rooted in our biology (emotions are still "physical" reactions in our body) and so an intelligent life might have developed a different biological system different than that of emotions.
>From this perspective, it's a lot easier to just pack it in, write off the boss and company, and find a new job. It's less satisfying, to be sure, but less terrifying.

This exactly. I've tried having 'difficult' conversations with my boss only to wind up on their bad list.

Thankfully I'm at a company with a strong culture now and I'm much more financially independent than when I was younger.
Apple unveils redesigned iPad
The treaties in place to restrict biological weapons have exclusions that permit the development (and use) of incapacitating agents. The DoD/NIAID/Daszak/Fauci model has been that a hostile nation would release a biological weapon that would compromise the ability of members of the Armed Forces to engage in combat operations over a period of months or years, and to address this they had planned to be able to quickly marshal a new transfection to induce neutralising antibodies [in the relevant groups before they were deployed to combat zones], hence the focus of research into these particular areas from the defence establishment and its partners over the last few decades.
But neither of those facts are true in non-Euclidean geometries like Spherical Geometry or Hyperbolic Geometry. The jury is still out on whether the universe is flat or has some sort of curvature. Meanwhile spherical geometry is fundamentally useful because we live on a sphere, not on a plane, and it is more accurate at modeling the 2-D space that we navigate in.

My point being, assumptions get baked-in to systems in surprising ways. Even something seemingly-objective like math. Especially when you're using it as the basis for communication, then what counts as "basic" or "fundamental" or "standard" reflects a perspective, not a fundamental truth.

It's likely their mathematical systems would eventually reach the same conclusions as ours, but the prominence or significance of fields or results (like circles and triangles) might be radically different. Even though we view those components as absolutely fundamental, it's possible an equivalent system could be built from different primitives.
That suggests an easy strategy for anyone who wants to shut down lab-leak discussion: just post maximally-unhinged support for it. See also "cognitive infiltration".
Traffic lights may want a word. ("but that's not yellow!": weirdly, we know that, but we call it yellow anyway).
What would be a secondary career to software developer? I feel like SWE is wide enough that it isn't worthwhile to be a trained, idk, accountant just in case the software world collapses.
> different pumps and tanks

This sounds suspiciously like “rip out the gas station and build a new hydrogen station”
Of course that every place can have beautiful people and encounters but spraying this toxic positivity around places which are morally questionable doesn't really help much.

I can go to beautiful places, with friendly people and lots of amazing nature and food. Some of these places I can also be murdered. Or the government of some of these places can take me away for no reason other than ransom due to some geopolitical issue that I have nothing to do with.

It's not ignorance to be informed about the general feeling of a society and then be able to judge myself if visiting said place, transferring my money to those regimes, is something that I can morally support.

Visiting Qatar, Saudi Arabia and so on is not something my morality can support. I'm not judging the civility or not of those societies but I can choose to support those regimes with my money.

Amazing people exist everywhere, I'm free to choose to not go to places that I know don't align with my morals.

And please, don't patronise me about growth by traveling, I have traveled well enough to know what beautiful encounters can happen. I've also traveled enough to not carry a toxic positivity that everywhere is amazing and should be visited, no, there are places where I won't ever visit again.

You also forget that there are experiences that can change you forever for the worse, like a friend of mine who had her husband murdered in Mexico. Or my friends back in Brazil (where I'm originally from) who also have horrible experiences with meeting people when traveling in the country.

It's an absurd naivete to assume that visiting places can always provide you with beautiful and engradising experiences.
Marketing prose is to be expected, but this is just too much. I suspect there aren't enough people at Mozilla with the courage to tell the marketing/brand management folks to tone it down. I don't necessarily blame them, though. It isn't easy to give criticism to creative folks with a great deal of enthusiasm.
There was an update clarifying that tweet.

https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1515637392190935041
I think you misread - they are talking about the non-crypto companies here.
Thank you and good catch; I quoted the infection number where I meant to quote the estimated fatalities.
I'm pretty happy in my job now. I've had at least one job in the past that I was pretty happy with as well. The issue is that the companies that are nice to work for are typically not the companies that pay all that well. At least not well when compared to companies that are less nice to work for.
New iPad Pro with M2
Agreed, it is a two way street... but that means both have to participate for it to work too.

Sometimes I think the fact that some devs move into management / senior type roles, not always great for communication. Yeah they can talk about bits, but the rest gets lost at times.
>Even if the original belief turns out to be wrong, you only have to slightly weaken it and it will remain true: "the vast majority of zebras have stripes". Even if you discover a new continent full of hordes of uniformly-colored zebras, the true hypothesis becomes "the vast majority of zebras in my original continent are striped".

The hypothesis does not remain true. It was never proven to be true and the new hypothesis is still not proven to be true. Science cannot prove anything to be true. I can find a cave full of of spotted zebras, and you have to further weaken your hypothesis of continents, I can then find that the stripes were actually microscopic spots and my perfect observation tool, though never wrong has limited resolution. Ad infinitum. Nobody ever considers your made up philosophy because it's changing the rules of the game. It's making a statement then adjusting your statement once it's proven wrong... people look down on that kind of thing.

What I'm writing here isn't something I pulled out of my ass. It's well known that in science, the scientific method, and reality itself, nothing can be proven. Proof is the domain of math and logic, not science. In science, things can only be falsified. To quote Einstein:

“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”

Einstein obviously isn't saying stuff like a single experiment causes me to adjust my hypothesis and divide split it into two different ones because it's kind of inconsistent.

There are people who truly understand science, but most of the population doesn't (including PG). I think what's going on with you is you're in the later camp, you've long held the incorrect belief that science can prove things and this long held ideology is coming into contact with the actual logic of the situation and your adjusting your belief to maintain a biased ideology.

Do you look up to PG? Bias can be corrected when an authority confirms the opposite. I quoted Einstein here. One of the ultimate authorities on science, a person who overturned the hypothesis about Newtonian physics being a model for motion. A single experiment proved it wrong and now Newtonian physics is simply an approximation that is ultimately wrong. Hopefully that will clear things up, if not... then you must be an Alien far more strange then what PG is describing.
I know you weren't expecting an answer: But yes, split them up too.
Ask HN: Which open source projects do you contribute to?
There are many OS projects that I would like to contribute but feel the onboarding curve is very high.
Curious about other people experience regarding the OS projects they are contributing.
It's definitely in the same vein as "you will be paid in experience."
uff, this is a complicated topic.

> I’d like to see better in the public debate.

I'm having a complicated thought... the same points he talks about information asymetry in relation to the preservation of value are at play in the political (i.e. public) games.

I didn't even know there were santa clara principles, in a rough sense, this is maintining some sort of value from the people who have read those to them who don't even know about such principles.

I seem to be thinking that information assymetry is statecraft, a "super-set" of the notion of abuse prevention (IA and security through obscurity) as trade craft (because the state contains the market/trade)

...
What does “Ordinary” mean in Ordinary Least Squares? (2020)
Every time I raise an issue like this with a manager, the manager makes all the right noises but nothing actually changes. Maybe I’m just not direct enough. But I’ve never had a conversation with a boss about an issue like a role mismatch and had it actually work out. Months will go by with no progress, multiple check ins with the same conversations, until I’m fed up and I leave.

Maybe I haven’t lucked out and found a manager who not only listens but is actually empowered to change things.
Visited SF recently. Did things always close early?
Yeah I can't say for any given person, OP, what they did or didn't do.
You might try looking at r/rust they have a who's hiring post like HN does. I have only looked at it once or twice but haven't seen a single crypto post.
Who do you expect will pay for the conversions if not landlords?
You're on _hacker_ news dude
the "collision" between earth and moon is entirely hypothetical in this context.
yes there was probably a colision involved in the creation of the moon, but that is an entirely different storry that has no relevance to this thread besides the fact that it also involves the earth, the moon and the word colision.
if you must continue a conversation about the origin of the moon please do it in a new thread, as any further exploration in this context will lead to more confusion and will ultimately do more harm than good
I use systems which require a 2FA code every day, or whenever a destructive action takes place.

So this is certainly useful for some people.
the city closes at 10 for the most part, yeah
Was just sharing my experience with the topic really. Tbh, building a PS3 supercomputer was one of the most educational experiences I had during my time at university. If they didn’t have an 11 figure endowment I might almost feel bad about it.

Edit: Also, I absolutely didn’t get rich from this if that’s what you’re concerned about for some reason. We cashed out after an early price spike, pocketing several thousand dollars each, which with both considered to be a major windfall.
Most laptops that compete with Macs have the same annoying limitations, barring SSD sometimes (Dell XPS, Microft Surface).

And even still, doesn't change my point in that OC'd answer is irrelevant.
I made an online multiplayer game
apologies, this is non-sense. this is what transaction fees are for. the gradual reduction in coinbase incentivizes miners to charge for transactions, and the desire for transaction completion incentivizes clients to pay for them.

the paper you linked hand-waves away this for some reason, either to suggest that interest in bitcoin is purely speculative (which to be fair would only be half-wrong), or ignoring that market forces put upward pressure on transaction fee cost.
Used nodejs, websockets with Phaser. Some lag issues but works well

Open source at https://github.com/codergautam/swordbattle.io
It is a clear case of derivative work (see also https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Derivative_works - internal docs, but their explanation of copyright status tends to be well done)
+1 on this. I live around FiDi and I've been bumping into way more people on my morning and evening jogs that I have in the past 1.5 years. Most of the city has appeared to begun to return to a post-Covid normal of around 60% capacity (which also fits in line with RTO).
Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham

A Mathematician's Lament by Paul Lockhart.
Remember that Sweden so far is not a NATO nation. Norway, Denmark, Germany, and Sweden are running investigations of the pipeline destruction and they are not necessarily sharing everything they find.

>German, Danish, and Swedish authorities have all been investigating the incident but Swedish prosecutors reportedly rejected a joint investigation out of fears of sharing sensitive information related to national security. [0]

From the video in the linked BBC article it is apparent that explosives were used to destroy the pipeline at that site.

The thickness of the steel in the pipeline is 41 mm (1.6 in.). It is coated with an anti-corrosion wrap and has a concrete coating for added weight.

You can clearly see a trench across the seafloor intersecting the pipeline where it was cut. The video shows the steel wall bent inwards at the top with the anticorrosion blanket cut and the concrete shattered. The trench could be from the initial blast or it could have been cut by the force of the gas as it was expelled from the pipeline. Since it is a nice, straight cut I lean towards the trench having been created by the escaping gas which would cut like a knife through the soft seafloor in a focused stream.

Since the pipe shows an inward bend at the top of the break that implies a downward force. This force created a nice, clean cut that allowed the gas to escape.

There are many players who knew exactly where the pipeline lay on the seafloor and could pick any spot for a rupture.

I will be watching this to see how it all works out.

[1] Here is one analysis that makes an interesting case. I stumbled into this and had never heard of these guys before. Anyone recognize this outfit - MonkeyWorxus?

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63297085

[1] https://www.monkeywerxus.com/blog/the-nord-stream-2-pipeline...
I want to like and use Firefox. Seriously, I really do. But when will they fix the performance of the browser?

They're spending devs time on useless crap instead of being improving the engine, which clearly needs improvements. For example, I wanted to send some thousands of pictures to Proton Drive (doesn't have a sync App yet) and tried doing it in Firefox. It literally started to take all the computer RAM (my computer has 32 GB) while with Brave it uploaded the entire thing without me even noticing in the computer performance.
Obviously government subsidy..
And then there's Perl's "syntactic syrup of ipecac".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrup_of_ipecac
Microsoft is only early to VR because it universally screwed everything else up. Wrapping all this text around it and marketing bullshit is disingenuous.

What is the truth is that they had all the opportunities and staff and squandered both on mismanagement and quality issues and continue to do so to this day. What we have left is pissed off customers, pissed off developers and a declining market position other than where they could lock businesses in. The only market keeping them alive is entrenchment and naive MSPs and retail pushing their crap.

I look forward to their VR strategy going down the toilet with Meta, where it belongs.

Fire the board. Kill off the marketing situation which is basically lies at this point, remove telemetry from your products, invest in QA again rather than getting “insiders” to do it, remove decades of bloat and build quality not quantity and perhaps people will have confidence again.
I think yes and no. After working for 7 years+, you will hit a plateau. To break through, you will need to study on your own free time. That's because most individual work doesn't get harder after a certain level. It is the scale of it that makes the work difficult.
I wish I did! :-)
The central point of the article missed right over you. The critique is about the culture that surrounds: changes in UI for no real reason other than subjectivist opinions, design trends, fashion or what-others-are-doing, unoriginality, homogenization and frameworks, and the complete disregard for professional users and their infantilization.

Furthermore, changes need to be evaluated against retraining millions of people with new UI. This part seems to be missing in the calculation.
CDE 2.5.1
It doesn't take too many data points to at least make you suspicious. It's not a conspiracy theory.

We know Peter Daszak lied about his involvement in this research. We know Fauci made decisions about coronavirus research. We know the NIH funded coronavirus research in wuhan. The chinese took their virus database offline. They refused any serious investigation. The batwoman has disappeared.
All these organisations have a lot to lose if it was partly their fault for this pandemic. Yet at they same time they hold the keys to any serious investigation.

This does NOT mean that this is proof that it was a lab leak. But it is extremely suspicious behaviour and circumstances. At a minimum it should warrant serious pressure to investigate what happened.
Laws are relative as well, they differ in every country. Why would justice only exist in another relative system? You know vigilante justice is a well accepted concept that exists outside of the law by definition.
Are they culling microsoft teams?
Yep. SF wasn't really a late night city for most of my life growing up here.
"If we take the moon's current rate of recession and project it back in time"
is a very straight forward way of saying, lets assume the moon receeded from the earth at the current rate.
Yes, as Apache APISIX is community driven (owned by the ASF), features and roadmap are discussed and voted by contributors and PMC members.
"Easy. I've been working at 50% because of the s*t pay anyway."

Jokes aside, if someone tries such manoeuvres it might be time to reevaluate if 15% is enough to stay.
> impossible to stop

I don't think one stops a pandemic; IIUC, one gets out in front of it with vaccination. Which we did, thanks to previous mRNA research conducted on other viruses. GOF research is one of the few ways we're aware of to get out in front of vaccinating viruses that don't yet exist but are probable to exist.

This argument treads suspiciously close to "Sometimes people use fire to burn a house down, so why do we allow cooking? People should only be allowed to use naturally-occurring fires and not create new ones."
It is a clear case of derivative work (see also https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Derivative_works - internal docs, but their explanation of copyright status tends to be well done)

This specific one would not be a problem, but doing it with a still copyrighted work would be.
Better color/theme support would interest me if it extended to containers. I've searched but I never found a theme switcher that worked with containers. It would be nice to have a little more control over customizing the colors/themes based on the container you're current open on.
I think this really depends on what they are asking you to do. If part of the job is say writing documentation, moving and documenting your work with Jira tickets, report progress, or helping your team accomplish the sprint then maybe you need to build those skills to at least be ok at it. If it is to manage people or move up in job title then I would agree maybe that isn't something you should try for. You were not very specific on the details.

Also growth isn't always just building on strengths. It is also knowing where you are short on skill and learning more to at least do that skill ok and then maybe delicate or trade tasks with someone that is better at it. It is about understanding yourself.
Unfortunately, for recent historical reasons this is nothing to do with the EU.
Copyright has a purpose. I don't mean a purpose in the Disney Hegemony sense but a real, actual purpose.

Dropping copyright cases is great if you hate proprietary code. That's fine. Open source is also powered by copyright. If we start dumping copyright cases we don't get the "well bob we may as well open source it!" We get large companies like Google just completely ignoring copyright and using open source code without attribution. What you've described (causing enough a problem in the courts) is the exact purpose of GPL. If we start dropping copyright cases altogether the open source movement may as well be dead in the water.
That was my first problem with Linux, getting docs to configure the system was horrible. From Debian Woody to SuSE and then Debian Sarge, every distro was chaotic and Yast and Debconf overwrote everything.

With NetBSD and OpenBSD everything looked sane. They explained you everything, from /etc/profile, managing services without making you mad with runlevels, to launching X and so on.
And how did our decades of Coronavirus research help us prevent/fight this last pandemic? Given the fact it was already known at the time that the spike protein on SARS2 was what researchers have been using to attach to wild viruses so infect humanized mice/cell cultures via the ACE2 receptor we should have already known that Airborne H2H transmission was possible!