skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also animal-to-human viruses usually go over two phases: first animal to human contagion is possible but human to human is hard, then human to human gets easier as the virus evolves.

If Covid-19 started in the wet market it went over the first phase very quickly.

Part of fighting disinformation and conspiracy theories is also learning to distinguish when things are just lies (eg. sandy hook was an hoax) or truish but misused (eg. chemical waste in river does affect the sex of frogs).

It is also important not o make a strawman of the opponent. For some people the "Lab Theory" is "The CCP was trying to exterminate the US but failed" for others it is "A researcher got bit by a bat in a lab". The former is paranoid, the latter is completely plausible.

Overall there is good circumstantial evidence for both, and reasonable people can disagree.
Dual-band (one device using both 2.4GHz and 5GHz) has existed for over a decade.
If you believe oil should be then so should all energy; including the entirely government created "alternative energy" industry.

Investors will be scared of the US nationalizing specific strategic industries but not the changing political winds of foreign nations? I don't think so.
oathtool --base32 --totp VHR2WYCQPNXIFB2SPLIAE2AZHQ
Yeah, only computer tech geeks were using it then. The kind of people who would do wild stuff like go to college and install Linux on PlayStations.
Would have bought it if it had a headphone jack. As it is, there's nothing here to get excited about over my M1 Pro.
CDE makes me happy because it's really old but still actively maintained. Sometimes, when I get fed up with GNOME's latest "innovations" and Firefox's endless UI changes and all the other endless churn and change of modern software, I pull the latest version of CDE and start a session and just... relax. Because this is the same CDE that was around in the 90s, this is the same CDE that ran on Solaris and AIX, that outlived HPUX, that has had zero UX changes in living memory, that you could come back to after a 20-year break and find everything where right you left it. And I think that stability is beautiful.
I’d rather see a CA constitutional amendment outlawing special purpose taxes. Define a reasonable tax system, put the taxes into the general fund, and spend the general fund in useful ways.

(And while I’m dreaming, maybe a consortium of environmentalists should band together to repeal CEQA, which is a reasonable contender for the most environmentally damaging thing CA has done in recent memory.)
I hope you get fired, for your own good, my friend.
First of all, would you please stop posting flamewar comments and otherwise breaking the site guidelines? You've added a whole bunch of them to this thread already. That's not cool, and we ban accounts that do it.

If "amount of nonsense" is your indicator, then literally every internet discussion on every divisive topic is "information attack". The HN guidelines specifically ask users not to post insinuations about this kind of thing without evidence, so when you review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, please note that one.
> There needs to be an "OS" that manages all of that, and right now the frontrunner here is Microsoft.

I just don't see that. How exactly is Microsoft better placed than Apple or Google?
> I'd have told him that what he was doing was very inappropriate (without buy-in from the team), and if he doesn't back off I'll quit.

The reason not to do this is that you're very likely to provoke a defensive response and have the other person dig in their heels. A gentler approach is more likely to get results, less likely to create tension in the relationship, and sets the tone of future decision making as adversarial.

If that doesn't work you can try firmer approaches, and you can of course always quit or use the threat of quitting, but 99 times out of 100 leading with that will lead to worse outcomes.

You don't give up any leverage by first trying to resolve conflicts without threats.
'Smart plastic' a step forward toward soft, flexible robotics, electronics
I get you dude, Firefox got popular because IE stagnated and Mozilla capitalized on it, Chrome ate the world because Google made a significant technical improvement at just the right time neither of which can be replicated again so long as Google keeps up their frankly ridiculous development pace. Safari only lives because a popular platform requires it.

Mozilla angling for a cultural victory in the browser war is weird but it's the only thing they and every other alternative browser has. I actually thought the colorway thing was fun when it popped up, browser did actually look fresh and new but yeah probably not gonna move the needle.
Because this allows you to compete for jobs around the world instead of being limited to the city you're currently residing at.
Nope. I'm on 2021.3.1 and went to 2022.x. I have toolbox and a full subscription so I just rolled back.
Some people are definitely more willing than others to maximize grades for the sake of grades as opposed to learning for the sake of learning.
Depending on your needs you can go halfway with sqlite and the json extension as well. In general I start with sql and then when it becomes clear I need to I'll use a NoSQL to optimize or improve some portion of the application. I find that sql is usually the right default and you'll go quite a ways before you outgrow it. If you do reach the point where you are outgrowing it then your needs are going to make the correct NoSQL solution pretty obvious.
I appreciate what you're saying; it's only the first paragraph and he wants to nail some initial things down that he sees as straightforward context or examples.

But it is not straightforward to me. Or, in my impression, most philosophers. I'm reluctant to agree that aliens will assign any importance or even understand concepts like geometry or calculus. So to me, it is not preliminary context but it is a critical part of the discussion.
https://archive.ph/ICWl6
Dear Apple, Does the new iPad case have a place to store the pencil when traveling?
1. X sniffs my connection.
2. X learns my address uses Firefox on Linux.
3. X sells the data to Y, whom I never visit.
4. Y correlates the IP with Z's subscriber data, and adds Linux to my shadow profile.

As the sibling said, the burden of proof is on them. They are the ones who push that on users when there's no technical need.
"Because no one ever wore a mask during a bad flu season"

Not true - picture from 1918

https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2021/12/17/USAT/bbeb7dc2-...

Also, a million people out of the labor force because they're dead seems like it would have a negative economic impact
The WCAG calculations for contrast are complete rubbish, in my experience they don't reflect reality very well at all. I haven't been able to figure out why though, each of the individual steps looks reasonable.
Why would Europe sit idly by while the US unilaterally reshapes their energy policies?

And we're talking about 50 meters of a pipeline several hundred KMs long. It's a trivial repair job compared to the effort to build the pipeline and its economic value. It temporarily changes the calculus but doesn't change the long term picture if Germany still wants to buy gas from Russia.

Plus, it seems likely to galvanize Europe into becoming much more of an independent actor. Destroying a major energy source is pretty far over the line of how you'd expect allies to treat each other. It would be a dramatic step and thus far the response has been pretty drama free.
I don't think I do. I used to own a Surface Pro with their Surface Pen, basically the same experience and I used it for everything from reading manuals to flipping comic book pages. It was great, but none of it's greatness was predicated by "the power" of it's chip. The iPad Pro would be equally as attractive if it used the base-model chip and ditched the LIDAR nonsense, and it would be cheaper.
Trees are not 100% carbon. Logging worsens soil conditions when no effort is made to preserve it. "Just keep planting lol" is not sustainable. Algae sequester carbon better.
I use the LiDAR of the iPad Pro to capture full schematic of room in 3D to prepare spatial datasets.

It isn't perfect. The sampling rate of iPad Pro is still lower than professional 3D cameras, but I can't complain when they cost a fraction of the latter. 3DScanner and similar apps do a great job at stitching the volumetric data on the fly & rendering on iPad itself (before I transfer).

We use these data to do some inference via 3D computer vision projects for clients
This sounds like an extrovert talking. I don’t network, find new colleagues, find opportunities beyond at work. As an introvert, all of that sounds absolutely anxiety ridden terrifying. Thankfully I am fully remote now so all of the interaction I have to do with coworkers is over slack.
When OSS code gets ripped off and people are mad: "Anti progressive luddites".

When closed source code leaks: "Copyright infringement by criminals".

What's the difference? There's plenty the world could learn from the source code of Windows or GTA6 and having access to the source of these large projects would move society forward faster. So why are OSS contributors protecting their rights "Anti progressive luddites", while the large copyright owners who guard their proprietary code like a dragon guarding gold are let off the hook?
Just more of the old "women are wonderful" effect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women-are-wonderful_effect
This just has to be a big use case. There’s a very large community of wealthy people who are extensive business travelers and their core job description is reading and marking up documents on the road.

Think lawyers, finance, basically anyone doing “deals” is in this category. As someone with about 3 million frequent flier miles lying around I’ve seen a whole lot of them in airports.

I have one too. Big screen, thin profile can be used in an airplane seat or wherever, has a cell connection so you don’t need to fuss with wifi to send back comments on something quickly.

It’s really a great application for these things. Agreed that the processor might be overkill but also who cares, when you live on the road and shit depends on you, you just max out all the choices and press the order button.
Denver/Boulder is another obvious one but not as large a job base in a number of areas and, of course, it snows in the winter. Salt Lake City for a smaller city--same.

Boston ticks a lot of the boxes but, again, snow and you're a couple hour drive from real mountains.
"Wiped out" is patently false. Gros Michel is pretty standard in Southeast Asia and still grows all over Central America.

Cavendish is actually still fairly susceptible to Panama disease and the Cavendish grown in parts of SEA are being pretty handily wiped out.

The real problem is the want to transport unripen bananas with thick skins to market and have them look ripe and unbruised. Bananas don't seem to want to breed pretty and thick skins.
Yes, the warning signs were there, but the EU was merrily speeding past them, finding reasons to argue against all of the warning signs. NS2 is one of the most emblematic signs of this: it was clearly going to tie Germany's energy needs closer to an already-proven-unreliable partner (Russia), increase the ability of Russia to use gas transit as politics, countries like Poland and the US were screaming at the top of their lungs "THIS IS A BAD IDEA" and until February 2022, Germany was responding "it'll be fine, nothing bad will come of this."

So I think it's fair to say that the EU was caught off guard by Russia, even if because of the EU's willful ignorance of affairs rather than Russian duplicity.
This appears to be mostly a rebranded 2020 iPad Air, now available in multiple colors at $150 cheaper price point than when the Air was launched.

https://www.apple.com/ipad/compare/?modelList=ipad-air-4th-g...
That wouldn't be an alien truth, that would be a mundane fact of human psychology.
> In particular, we humans still hotly debate which math is the "right" math. Is the axiom of choice "true"? Does it make sense to say that it has a truth value?

I would love examples of this. Seems pretty cool to think about. I always assumed that “math” would be one of the constructs we could always reliably communicate with.
It's turtles all the way down -- we don't know what "truth" is, or how one can come to "know" truth (as opposed to just believe it). I'm less informed on these topics so I avoided them, but I've heard that our notion of truth is intimately tied to our experience of physical reality, and it seems easy to imagine aliens that have different experiences of reality.

For example, what if aliens are so large that the non-euclidian nature of space becomes obvious to them? Perhaps they would never come up with euclidian geometry. Maybe they would never create the notion of pi. Yes it shows up in other areas but you can certainly imagine an alien civilization that has a different circumference-to-radius ratio or disavows the entire idea of having a constant circumference-to-radius ratio.
You're free to want what you want, it doesn't make it an objective positive thing

> corrupt

In what way ?
Think of most offices. Central elevator shafts and stairs and bathrooms. A massive floorplan with all the windows on the edges. How do you convert to residential? Have 5 feet by 500 feet units so everyone has light and a connection to plumbing by the elevator shaft? Residential buildings have a lot more access to natural light throughout the structure and they are plumbed entirely differently. Hvac and wiring too.
I’m sorry I will delete some comments.
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How is it the top comment? I thought comments were mainly sorted by vote-based ranking?
> as an avid comic book reader, the 12.9" iPad Pro is _perfect_ for reading comics, you don't have to zoom in or out at all and you can simply read.

The really cool thing about this, for those who haven't tried, is that in landscape mode the 12.9" is really really close to the same size as a two-page comic spread, so you can read them like they were intended, not one page at a time. It's a little smaller, but not much. Makes a huge difference vs. page-at-a-time reading.

(I use Chunky, which is amazing and I wish the author charged money for it or had more options to pay them than one mostly-unnecessary and really-cheap IAP, because it's really good and I never want it to go away)
They also save a ton of time spent on sourcing maintenance, getting competitive bids, and managing the process. Not something most can appreciate until they own an older home. They also reduce the odds of one batshit crazy neighbor destroying quality of life and property values for the rest.
Nationalization is the innovation killer. Works in mature industries, but not something like semis which require big risks.
It’s already back online, with a new iPad Pro in store
Teaching is hard. Absolutely! But sitting one-on-one with your child helping them understand something is _way different_ than trying to manage a classroom and explain concepts to 30 people who are all at different levels of knowledge and development. The beauty of homeschooling is that it does not really have to scale. To steal an analogy from the tech world, when homeschooling you can approach your "students" as pets instead of livestock. None of this means that homeschooling is easy, but in my experience (was home-schooled myself for 12 years and now my wife and I are homeschooling our children) a lot of the skills you need to effectively teach your children at home are the same basic ones that are necessary for being an effective parent in the first place. (As I mentioned before, though, this is a very different set of skills than is required to be an effective teacher in a classroom environment...)
Even better, you can manage LibreWolf updates via homebrew on Mac, and it doesn't harass you about new versions. If you browse HN routinely, you end up seeing the Firefox updates anyway, which is a good reminder to update LibreWolf. I've been really annoyed recently by software that doesn't respect my decision to update on my own schedule, or software that doesn't even let me make that decision at all in the settings. LibreWolf is a real diamond in the rough of web browsers these days.
You're getting downvotes but this is why. Putin wants to end relations with western nations because democratic ideas are becoming more popular in Russia (and Ukraine, whom russians can easily compare themselves to, starting to prosper as a result) and that is a huge danger to his authoritarian legacy and to him. His ego is that Russia has superior culture and genetics when compared to the west and his losing to Ukrainians and NATO supplied weapons is really hard on his ego and reputation which is everything to him.
Your point about ASCII codes ignores that we don't just want individual symbols to be numbers, we want entire formulas to be numbers too.

Of course, you can encode any sequence of ASCII codes as a number (just concatenate the binary digits), I didn't doubt that. But to formally prove that this leads to unique parsing requires unnecessary technical work that mathematicians prefer to avoid because the exact coding scheme doesn't matter.

> Any system less powerful than PA is trivially incomplete.

That is false. See here for examples of complete theories, for which Gödel's incompleteness theorems don't apply because they are not strong enough: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_theory

(Moreover, there are theories that are neither stronger nor weaker than PA. One such theory can give rise to an interesting proof of consistency of PA: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentzen%27s_consistency_proo...)
It’s being addressed here:

https://github.com/e-dant/watcher/issues/10
Complain to the developers? Windows will tell applications if they're in laptop or tablet mode, if you don't like tablet mode then don't use it.
Long tap space bar and it should become something like a trackpad for the cursor.
This is not an unsafe language failure! The same logic, ported to Python, would exhibit the same error.
Because using Category Theory for explaining things is the opposite of applying Occam's Razor? :-P
Hmm. Pleasantly surprised to find Kerala being mentioned in this context - I wasn't aware of this.

But on a related note, the south west of India has a rich tradition of "Sarpa Kavus", literally, "Serpent Shrine", but which are in reality, sacred groves in some corner of the yard of many traditional homes (see [1] for a typical example) - these are mostly left to themselves for most of the year, except for a couple of festival days. In practice, it is almost a biome within the yard.

[1] https://nandakishorevarma.wordpress.com/2016/12/30/a-sacred-...
I actually like the VB-style, but VB did it mostly wrong: if you start the block with X, you should always end it with "End X". Thus, you'd have While ... End While instead of crap like "Wend" and "Next" (in For...Next).

It's more legible to know what block is being ended. C-style continually frustrates me that area. The End-X style just never found a nice way to wrap text for longer statements.

C-style also has a problem in that there is no way to define arbitrary blocks: it relies too much on key-words. I'm trying to remedy this with "Moth" syntax:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/ky22d...

It's LINQ-esque but without the bloated Lambda conventions, and influenced by XML in that you have a simple syntax pattern that can "implement" many domains' needs. It started with an attempt to merge the best of Lisp and C-style. (Whether it succeeded or not is hotly contested. I welcome other attempts.)
Monoculture of very fast growing trees let’s them maximize the value per acre when sold as carbon indulgences. Actual impact is much lower, but by then they have moved to the next project.

That said, in areas that got deforested having any tree cover can make the area much more habitable for other trees. Thus single digit survival rates can still result in new forest over a few decades.
Well, that thing adds like five inches of bevel so it doesn’t seem like a response to shrinking bevel sizes. If it only added an inch, the observation would make more sense.
I really like the Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. In this case: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philosophy-mathematics/
Yeah, anytime we're discussing work from home it's important to realize that people's living situations are very different.

In my case, our house has a room that is basically only big enough to be an office, and we have solar that means we barely pay for electricity. It's a no-brainer for me to save the time and money that would be sunk in a commute and just use that room for work. However, I can totally see how someone without that extra space would find an office important.

I think what would be optimal for society is if we could reclaim the space that is used for central, commuter offices and bring that space closer to home. Whether that's building more homes that have rooms specifically designed to be offices, or building coworking spaces in the middle of residential areas, we need to do something to eliminate commutes. The amount of pollution, accidental deaths, property damage, and wasted time inherent in people driving to work is insane. Technology is at the point where, for most office workers, the harm caused by commutes far outweighs the benefits of being in a centralized work environment.
This is the most "media blitz" I can ever recall for an Apache project. These Apisix folks are in every http thread, banging the drum. I'm having a hard time squaring what the motivation is: for example, if folks use Apache Tomcat, I guess it's motivating for the Tomcat developers, but otherwise Apache doesn't get any kickbacks. Maybe the api7 folks are trying to use the Apisix for lead gen?

OT1H, maybe it really is great and I am at fault for not making the time to kick the tires on it. OTOH, my life experience has been that the louder the advertisement, the more suspicious I am of their claims
The distinction between legal and illegal hacking it relatively recent.
Stealing small amounts of money or value goes way back.

And Hacker News is run by YCombinator, which has an application form that asks applications to explain a time when they cheated ("hacked") a system for personal advantage.
this is prop 30 designed (and funded by) to benefit Lyft, not Californians.
Some retailers look to end 'free returns' policy
They are named that way to give them some kind of authority when they aren't actually science (i.e. those things studied using the scientific method). You are being way too charitable.
Collaboration

Mentoring

Engineering a physical product. Maybe not the norm on this forum, but certainly the norm for many engineering jobs.
I believe this comes from the same roots as "just buy n yubikeys and register them with every site"
I think you have the right idea. Most human truths are contingencies of our evolution and the evolution of life on earth. It's very hard to extrapolate from this to universal and alien truth.
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