skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah people's contact information changes over the years, especially these days. Some people I develop a close enough relationship with to exchange personal email accounts, the majority I don't.

I'm independent as well and some of my biggest projects have been from former people i've worked with reaching out.
WOW, that is brilliant.
Myles @ WebKit seems to raise some excellent points, but I'm not up on browser internals. The criticism seem very much in line with my understanding of motives and incentives within Google, which leads to much duplication of effort.

The Nabla web page makes it seem like "Finally! Color fonts!" while Myles @ WebKit makes it clear that "Many OT-SVG fonts already exist," which seems true[0].

Sigh. I wish people viewed Google more accurately as breakers of web interoperability instead of praising the relentless Chrome hegemony.

0. https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/using/ot-svg-color-fonts.html
Exactly. I use Linux mint (without snaps) and Firefox works great. It updates pretty frequently through mint’s software update tool, which is just running apt and installing package updates.

All this talk of snaps and using PPAs sounds like a an unnecessary headache. What’s the point of a package manager if it doesn’t keep your packages up to date?
Governments do whatever they want and then find a PR friendly way of saying things.

Of course we're not shutting down all the small businesses who compete with Walmart's! We're saving your life from the flu!
This is a TOS breach for sure. One day you'll find yourself banned from all Google properties. Is it worth a few monies per month?
Remmina is looking for new maintainers
There is a huge variety of viruses, just because someone wrote the equivalent of "Hello World" doesn't mean you can write a complicated CMS anytime soon.

Synthetic biology (the actual synthesis of DNA) has come a long way, we don't understand all the components yet though.
> Genuinely surprises me that there are people out there who think or have been persuaded the virus is of natural origin. The lab right next to the market was literally studying and experimenting with the exact same type of virus. How can a someone think that that's just a coincidence?

It seems plausible, at least, that it leaked from the lab, in the sense that labs aren't magically impenetrable and leaks could happen.

> Add that to the fact that the funding for that research lab was approved by the same guy who become the de facto thought leader on the virus in the U.S., AND funded by the foundation of one of the most recognizable American billionaires. To put the cherry on top, even suggesting a synthetic origin resulted in bans on most social platforms!

I don't understand what this is supposed to mean. How does the fact that this guy (Fauci?) approved some funding make COVID seem more likely to have been leaked from a lab? It seems natural that somebody who's been working in government on medical topics at a high level for a long time would have approved funding on lots of things, and also likely that they'd become a figurehead in a pandemic, but I don't see any deeper links.
Sonos Spectral Correction
Living outside a city doesn't mean you get to roar through it in your SUV and park a step away from your destination. A city has a lot of important services, but it is also a place where people live, and those people get to make choices that put their community first.

But while we're on the topic of rural areas having terrible public transportation, I think that's a really important one. Switzerland has a smaller rural-urban divide (which is really where this whole "war on cars" thing comes in), in part because it is actually practical to move between rural and urban spaces on a regular basis. That isn't because the cities are more driveable, or because they build a highway through Bern: it's because they invested in public transit that actually works. This kind of talk benefits everyone.
>Never give a kid less than 50ms of latency and they won’t even realize they’re missing out.

The majority of the people now think 24 frames a second looks natural and 60fps looks fake. They're twisted by their malevolent environment into a wrong and unnatural state, like elves into orcs.
It's claiming that there are sequences on the viral code that are unlikely to have occurred naturally, but are really convenient for slicing the genetic sequence in a lab context.

Sort of like if you shaved the fur on a hyena and discovered a "THIS END UP" tattoo on its skin.
> which I wont link

Why not? HN promotes logical evidence-backed discussion. The least you can do is link the forum.
Ask HN: Is Seattle's air quality worse than that in Ukraine's war zones?
Seattle's air quality was reported as being the worst in the world yesterday and today. Is that really possible?
> why play blame games

Because of the question of liability: If it was lab made and accidentally released, was it due to recklessness or criminal negligence? Is someone guilty of involuntary mass-manslaughter? Or if this was state-sponsored research, could they be found liable for the damage caused?
> "Study finds this it could work"

> "restrict vehicle traffic to the streets on the perimeter" (keyword restrict, not solve)

> Thread is full of opinionated people who probably never lived there.

> ...used a computer algorithm to analyze data from the...

So many red flags. I hate this kind of thing. Go ask the people if they like to live long term over there. I mean real people not some politicized whacko that happens to agree with you.

I live in a post communist country near one of such similar places. In fact there are only 2 places in the world that have been designed with such planning and attention to detail. The aerial pic on that article actually resembles a lot the area I'm talking about. I've sent the picture to my brother who lives in the other side of the pond and he said it looks like a presidium. That area also has a really bad reputation.
OpenRTC2 is mostly C++[1]. Your link is to the source of their website.

[1] https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2
My partner pointed out to me this morning that we might chose to be casual about our medical history, but if the affiliate organisation is for overseas students, and they come from regimes with repressive views on abortion or gender, then medical history leak could be extremely damaging for them.

And you're right about optus+medibank getting over the 100pts threshold. That would be a really serious consequence for those people.
Friends from First Principles
Who are these people joyously accepting this? Can you point to articles, forums or anywhere where these people congregate and discuss it?
Well considering that's not what the OP said at all I guess it's ok you don't see that.
This is already being done in a lot of places in the American Midwest, such as my city and the neighboring city where my partner lives. The form it takes is a lot less glamorous than Strong Towns disciples probably want:

An entire block gets leveled and filled with cookie cutter 5-over-1s. The neighboring block also gets leveled to provide a giant parking lot for the residents. This happens even in city centers and near universities.
I can't wait!
There's a website called Simbad that keeps track of measurements and any publications that reference astronomical objects: http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/

Edit: For example, here is a list of articles that reference this event: http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=GW200129_0...

(Currently only two papers are indexed.)
I don't know what this guy is talking about. Subway in NYC has some annoyances but works pretty well most of the time.
That's going to come down to an individual observer's priors on probabilities of "pandemic virus being more closely patterned to every other pandemic in human history" vs. "pandemic introduced via a novel mechanism that has never become a pandemic before."
My take-away from that is that obviously localized small to medium scale corruption and buddy-buddy networks where things are done face to face, verbally, in cash, and without any advanced database/record-keeping are obviously much harder to discover and disrupt than something that's run as a centrally coordinated business effort.

As just about anyone who has done business in an entirely cash-based economy where things are done verbally and on handshakes with little or no electronic or paper based record keeping will know all too well.
Speaking as an artist, many (most?) of my enduring works were the result of an accident of some kind. I call them "happy accidents" because I recognized that the mistake was better than whatever the vision was that I had at the time.

As a corollary, there are unhappy accidents, and with respect to life forms in a chaotic system, such accidents can perpetuate and endure without human recognition.
If it was released from a lab, no matter whether or not it was accidental, Covid would be the mother of all torts. The entire planet can show harm and will be very interested in recovering their losses from the entity that mis-handled a lethal virus.
Sorry it does not. Was that virus more deadly, effective, or in any other measure better than the original polio? Or was it "polio" with a spike protein glued to it's head?
Add to that that China forbade investigations and furthermore these regimes have a long history of obscurity
here you go: https://huetone.ardov.me
Flip that: Democrats focus is on tyranny of the majority so that a few big cities can rule a nation that doesn't want to live by rules that are destroying places like New York and LA.

It's not that we don't care... it's that we know why our system was setup the way it is.

Because only an idiot supports "Pure Democracy" - we don't have pure democracy for many reasons.

You simply don't care to admit those reasons and address the problems with pure democracy.
Pretty sure it's against the ECHR
The paper on which the article was based. https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.11300
“Her resignation as Prime Minister will become effective upon its acceptance from King Charles III.” [1], does this mean she’ll have access to the king now too?

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Truss
Incredible, seems like AMD is having an edge over the battery life wars. Is Intel having an answer for that?
Does OpenBSD have any kind of cryptographically measured boot like Heads (which I believe can only boot to GNU/Linux)?
China has already Balkanized the internet. 1.4 billion people are restricted from viewing outside information and outside access into China is frequently disrupted or just outright blocked. Other countries do the same.
Does someone know how the law works with regards to Magnus Carlsen being Norwegian?
Completely open source means no place for supposedly secret Firebase Messaging credentials, which requires developers to bend over backwards, if they want reasonably quick notifications:

https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android/issues/82
Yeah, but same processor.
If on Windows, you might want to check out the Gamers Nexus reviews on YouTube: the Intel drivers are a dumpster fire and build quality is... not great.

https://www.youtube.com/c/GamersNexus/videos
It depends on bayesian priors.how mahy coronaviruses were studied, how frequently a new virus is found next to a biolab of said virus by chance etc. The extraordinary claim could be that it is of natural origin actually.
They used to call people that pointed these things out racist.
They’d be injecting hard drugs, especially fentanyl, constantly in this toilet, so signs and disclosures won’t mean much. SF is a rather “special” place, you can’t easily compare to other international cities.
> Is this going to be yet one more of those “will be withdrawn after peer scrutiny but by then it is too late because the false meme has been injected into the public consciousness” things?

They only get withdrawn if they go against the narrative. Any kind of paper that says masks work, lockdowns work, or any paper suggesting Covid is worse than any virus ever… it’s totally cool to share publicly. Doesn’t even matter if it is poorly constructed or turns out to be false.
Wasn't the lab working with coronaviruses? So maybe some of it escaped. I really don't see how that's an unnecessary multiplication of entities. Is the objection simply that, pandemics have emerged from markets, but not labs? But we know that an escape of a coronavirus could lead to a pandemic.

I see nothing needlessly complex here, and certainly not extraordinary.
The problem is when you instruct a colleague to check something using nmap, they install nmap using snap and are surprised it doesn't work, while you are left wondering what the hell is wrong with their computer, oblivious to the footgun Canonical put into their distro; until you remember again after a decade+ of not using Ubuntu. Canonical shouldn't push out broken things like that. It's supposed to be a distro where stuff Just Works(TM).
Coincidentally, Alex Washburne is also trying to get his startup going: https://selvasci.substack.com/p/coming-soon
No it’s not, why would you claim it was? The domain TLD is South African (.co.za), the phone number listed is in Cape Town, and it’s a South African registered company.

> Voys Telecom SA (Pty) Ltd
A company with limited liability duly incorporated in terms of the Companies Act of South Africa, 71 of 2008, with registration number: 2013/114285/07, hereinafter referred to as “the Service Provider”;
I think they both extend up to the maximum of torture/murder, so I don’t really see how either is “worse” or “better”.
Off topic, but I’m really interested in the opposite. ie alternative desktop environments to Mac OS X’s WindowServer.
Interesting they both say "Official Sha3" and "by its designers", which as I remember it isn't that accurate. Keccak was chosen and then NIST added what is affectionately known as the 'mystery padding' before certification. What we know as official is not the way the designers submitted the proposal.

This isn't an attempt at a scary accusation, but as a pedant, this got me.

For those wondering, here is an explanation by a commenter:

The padding change is the only difference, this allows future tree hashing modes as well as the current SHAKE outputs to generate different digests given the same security parameters and message inputs. Up to 4 additional bits are added, which keeps the full padding inside a byte boundary, making implementations with octet only input able to switch to SHA-3 from Keccak with change to only a single line of code.

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/10645/are-nists-c...

https://cdt.org/insights/what-the-heck-is-going-on-with-nist...

ketccak team's response: https://keccak.team/2013/yes_this_is_keccak.html
nothing any different than any other social media app collect. this is all just FUD
I don't think a power plant can refuse, and an ISP shouldn't be allowed to refuse.

And I don't think it's that hard to get office space with a real contract?
I use pyenv and whatever it installed for 3.10.4 months ago seems to be fine with the example code snippet run in the console. It took a few seconds, but didn't crash.
The functionality you describe in "Handover" is achieved (and more besides, such as playback control) on Linux with KDE Connect.

I can start writing an e-mail on my phone, put down my phone and then continue working on it on my tablet, and then putdown my tablet and immediately finish it up on my desktop in Linux?

Handover is more than a global clipboard.
> His play is objectively insane

But he doesn't do himself any favors with comments like "the chess speaks for itself", or offering what according to other GMs is a lackluster analysis of those astounding moves.

Whether it's immaturity or cheating remains to be seen.
I love this quote in the article, something I've been feeling for a long time:

> There’s no longer anything being promised to us by tech companies that we actually need or asked for.
> I think you may just have to accept that if you want to verify an employee, you'll need to call their previous employers

You're talking about "they" as in the people reading the CV. Which works fine for the scale individual employers operate at.

But the point of this conversation, is what the services themselves, dealing with fake profiles at scale, should do. LinkedIn themselves don't make hiring decisions; they make money off of how reliable their listings are. Their incentive is entirely different than the employer's incentive.

By analogy: it's fine to talk about how a given person should carry pepper spray with them if they want to avoid getting mugged. But what should a city government do to make a city a place people want to move to, where people generally don't want to move to cities where they might have a high chance of getting mugged?

> Linkedin will never require proof of income. That's much more intrusive.

You seem to think we're talking about this being done for every company automatically. But my understanding is that bots are always trying to impersonate the same top companies — so this requirement would either be for a certain whitelist of important employers, or (more likely) would be an org setting that the LinkedIn org admin for a given company would set (when they're having trouble with bots), to require LinkedIn to do extended verification for people claiming to specifically be employees of that company. Very much like how Cloudflare has an "I'm under attack" toggle that forces visitors through CAPTCHAs. If your previous employer sets that flag... well, that's their fault. Same as it's their fault if they aren't willing to give you a reference for petty reasons.
Transit oriented development is a good solution as well.

Build bus rapid transit and train lines and remove height restrictions 500m in every direction of each station
Doesn't seem wise.

a) spend $250-500 to buy heated seats, which you will sell in 4 years with some portion of that $250-500 as a premium added to the sale price of the car, or

b) spend $200 (and the overhead on managing the bill for 4 years) on heated seat rent, and in four years you can sell the option to someone else to pay $10/mo, assuming the company decides to allow that option to be transferred rather than refuse in order to damage the sales of lightly used vehicles.
This little eggcorn in the article made me chuckle "little to know" (should be "little to no").
This is science fiction.

Companies are too stupid to get rid of middle managers (as a useless middle manager myself).

There is literally a generation of business leaders growing up believing crap they see on Linkedin whose only purpose is to make useless people feel needed.

Middle managers are here to stay for quite some time - at least until we have the same companies. And they have a lot of money to keep living the way they're living.

I think we can have companies without middle managers, but it will feel like working in 100 different startups instead of working in a single company.

I assume AI managers could automate DAOs (Decentralised Autonomous Organisations) and we might transition to a world where companies are basically all just DAOs
Can someone ELI5 the severity of this over the whole internet? What breaks/what not
Worked at radio shack during the Cuecat days.

One day word came down that we had to destroy all remaining inventory. Those things were nearly indestructible. Ran one over with a car multiple times and it was fine. Eventually everyone interested just took them home.

From my perspective the real decline came from canceling of the catalog.

We had so many people coming in asking for it. Only to be told to use the kiosk in store or the website.

That catalog was basically our training manual. We got to know our inventory from it. People always walked in and showed us what they wanted. That all dried up.

Then we became just a phone shop. In my region I was the highest selling agent of parts , batteries and accessories. That stuff was pure profit. Yet, I was constantly in trouble for not selling enough phones.

They did not care one bit about anything else.

They had a glut of engineers after the dot com crash, wish is how I ended up their.
He's right to be afraid, people have mysteriously fallen from windows.
Audio App Clubhouse Still Has ‘Years of Cash’ as It Shifts Strategies
They could just make the contacts API use an inbuilt contact picker than just supplies to the app the contact the user selects each time they make a call.

I assume they want google apps to have access to the whole phonebook without looking too suss though.
Counter example: I've lived here for most of a decade, and I'm a big fan of the superillas, ejes verdes, and other plans.

There's definitely some short term pain from all the construction works, but they're making steady progress, the city has already become noticeably more walkable & cycleable in many places, and I'm quite convinced that moving away from cars within the city is the right direction in the long term.
Even if your personal phone is an iPhone, tweeting as the Google Pixel account from your iPhone is probably not a good idea.
Yeah because the US govt isn't compromised by Russians, and politcians on their payroll. Lets just ignore the capabilities of Cambridge analytica and how they are able to persuade the mass population with psy ops. I feel like I'm in crazy world right now
Visual Studio Code has a secret Zen mode
would love if you could elaborate your definition for open core (and success) as curious to hear an alternative perspective :-)
Would be nice to be able to use my RSS reeder for this instead of giving an email address.
and thats different from other mobile apps how ?
Startup uses volcanic rock dust to capture carbon on farms
Well, you need to automate your infra anyway, so just use anything that converts a bunch of yamls into API calls, even bash script.
For assets (graphics, sound, etc.), yeah. OpenTTD, an older sibling project, eventually was blessed with artists willing to remake all of the assets so the game could be played without the original TTD installed.

I think a lot of the charm of RCT2 comes from the specific assets in use and the degree of whimsy and joy they contain, more so than TTD's matter-of-fact trains and planes and such.

It's not like these folks are setting out to make a totally free-as-in-beer game that replaces the old one; they just want to be able to fix bugs and add features, and you can't easily do that with the original retail stuff.
Its not at all like I dont see you being extremely extremely visible elsewhere doing tons of stuff. But I am excited to hear you still are excited for 3-party.

I'm not sure what thr designspace of a language that natively supports cap'n'proto would be & whether that'd be signififantly different than really good libraries or macros for a language. Maybe existing languages are flexible enough. But my gut is that we can mind of start having more ambient systems, ambient data, ambient code, more freely if we really built the language to work beyond the process scope from the start, using cap'n'proto as a base. I readily admit though there's probably some very fine ways to make this remote coding very seamless a development experience with what we've got though, if we want, perhaps with very very few rough spots.

Anyhow... thanks for the ongoing great work kv.
Finding out that there is alot of cheating among gms, as the chess.com report seems to indicate, might be a bigger distraction from the game
A courtroom drama (akin to the Depp vs. Heard trial) but WITH chess? That's going to be an interesting watch.

I sincerely hope that any publicity from this will have a positive impact on the public image of competitive chess (post computer supremacy), beyond what The Queen's Gambit was able to achieve.
when i was a kid one of my big ideas was to create a wattage normalized time/power coding scheme for microwave oven cook programs and to then equip them with barcode scanners for automatic programming based on codes that manufacturers would put on their frozen/heat and eat foods.

i think this was like 1992 or so, long before the cuecat.
If you don’t use that library then nothing.
If you do and you hash my crafted binary I probably could crash it.