skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Raccoon Dog DNA was still found at the market. That was previously denied.

I'm not making the argument that the DNA samples indicate that the Raccoon Dogs that the samples were from had SARS-CoV-2. I'm just arguing that previously it had been stated that there were no Raccoon Dogs in the market at all and that has been proven wrong.
It’s been 1 year plus of deleting IG and unfortunately I feel the same

Considering making it back let’s see
Let's go back to usenet :)
Apple customers don't complain a lot.

When you keep selecting people for an specific behavior, you get a population biased towards that behavior. If you suddenly decide you want something else, then you have a problem.
Passive investing is good because it's not a strategy you can get crowded out from. As long as the world economy grows, of course - if there's nothing to invest in then you shouldn't invest.

However there are two better strategies than index funds. They are 1. get married and 2. buy a house.
If you don't need it to be a Reddit like experience with posts/threaded comments bad just want the community then Discord is pretty nice.

On the pros the moderation tools are amazing and bots are first class citizens. Events are really nice for organizing stuff, A+ code formatting.

Search is kinda bad but not worse than Reddit. They do have a posts thing now but it seems seldom used and not as nice as arbitrarily nested threads.
Unfortunately, the current state of the market has nothing to do with research - it's pure bubble ! (for AI stocks)
I am absolutely blown away by the number of subs that have gone private and shocked at some napkin math of how many total subscribers are affected.

Further, the Discord is well, finally getting a bit too riled up to hear coherently, but is easily the largest live, wholesome gathering of people I've participated in a live event with. And on top of that, numerous people are signing up for Matrix and joining the bridged room.

Lots of conversations about what platforms will go down this same route.

Today is an okay day after all.
Early in my career I tended to spend time refactoring code for readability. Often this was because I just wasn't good enough at reading code, and the code wasn't written well, so the refactoring was necessary just to figure out how things worked.

Then I got better at reading code, and I realized that all that refactoring work was time wasted. I needed to focus on solving real problems. Prioritize rigorously, as the article suggests. I started to get more things done.

Then I realized that some code lives a long time. And the confusing syntax/formatting/patterns that I learned to overlook nonetheless tripped up other programmers over and over again. (And sometimes me too.) And instead of decreasing over time, the confusing parts grew, because people tended to work on those parts and learn those patterns, because those were the parts that needed work, because they were confusing.

There's almost a natural law at work: Confusing code outgrows clean code.

The corollary of this law is that you can't have some confusing parts of the code, and even if most of it is clean, because over time it will become mostly confusing. You have to keep it all clean.

Now, late in my career, once again I do a lot of refactoring. (I'm more productive at it than before, because automated tools for grunt work like formatting either exist or I make them.) So now we all get more things done.
Mastodon isn't a replacement for forums. People mostly toot past each other; threads don't happen that much. When threads get big they are hard to follow; there is no easily discernible tree structure.
From outside (I am not American) the anti-Cuba position seems to have an almost religious fervor!

Almost like They're socialist, we're capitalist; it's natural, true, and necessary that we must oppose everything about them. Similar to the catholic v protestant division that was very strong in the anglo world last century.

Surely, if one really wanted to dismantle an evil empire, one would open the borders as much as possible and release the forces of greed and assimilation.
I'm sure just about any product name is going to sound bad in some random language used somewhere on Earth.
From reading the early press releases on FS2020, I was under the impression that Asobo created a pretty app to view satellite imagery and the simulation part came afterward.

After tying FS2020 like you did, I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft decided to do a complete rewrite.
> SO gives people with points the power to bully others. When you protest you get collectively downvoted to the point that you a temporary banned, for asking a valid question.

If this happens, there is no way to recover. That question is forever blacklisted, not just closed. No one could ever ask it again. For a particularly long term problem I was having, I asked for a friend to repost it with his account. He wrote up the question, the verbiage wasn't mine (let along copypasta). I'm not sure what gave it away, but his version got -4 within an hour.

There are no effective appeals, no oversight, no reform possible.

And, if we evaluate it honestly what they've strived for the last couple of years, they don't even want the site to be a place for people like us to ask questions or answer them. They see it as some Wikipedia-like encyclopedia of "good questions". If your question isn't a good question, it does not matter that you need answers. It doesn't matter that other people out there have the same sort of question.

It's just not something they want.

Does anyone remember back in 2007 or so when we were all excited that now every link wasn't Expert Sexchange, and we thought the internet and the world were slowly being improved?
If you read TFA that's also Tao Lin's style.
> they converted it to a subreddit with 1.5k subscribers.

That definitely belongs in a textbook on absurd corporate decisions.

I thought you must have been exaggerating somewhere, but nope, that is exactly how it went.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubsmash

https://old.reddit.com/r/dubsmash/
I don't think anyone has a reasonable belief otherwise. Part of the point is to make reddit take that drastic of an action against its own users by removing mods and forcing subreddits to reopen.
Since the redesign they shifted their focus on images, and well, I don't have any hobby best communicated by images. So, lately I have been only looking at the joke subs.

I unsubscribed from the 3D printing sub a while ago, because the good stuff didn't get upvotes, because they were not images, so nothing good would make into my home page.
Your prior should be that it was just like the SARS-CoV-1 outbreak which happened in a different city without this research lab and also involved in a spillover in wet market of a virus whose closest known relative was found hundreds of miles away in bats (in close to the same area that RatG13 was found).
If you know Spanish and want to learn more about a similar topic, The Street Network[0] is a great episode about SNET[1], how it was formed, interview to key players in it and how it crashed. Really good journalism and a great insight into how people tried to stay connected inside Cuba without internet.

[0]: https://radioambulante.org/en/audio-en/the-street-network

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Cuba#SNET
I'm the mod of a small subreddit [1] with a few thousand members. Today I've spun up a Discord server [2]. Personally I've had a guts full of the banners trying to force the Reddit mobile app down my throat. It sucks it's a shitty app. Just no.
I don't like how Discord is a walled garden however it seems like Reddit too is also becoming a closed platform. I might as well go for the company that can actually build a great experience and Discord is miles ahead with their UX and people seem to love it.

[1] r/Redactle - https://redactle.net puzzle game | [2] https://discord.gg/VKnrnXev
Yeah, I'm done with Reddit. I've found some tech forums, some sports forums, and some carnivorous plants forums.

That's all I need, and now I don't need to worry about hivemind downvotes when I dare go against the grain.

Seems like a win/win.
I'd appreciate an analysis of how it compresses! The encoding looks highly compressible, so I'd expect it to be competitive with UTF-8 for English text, and seems like it would beat it for East Asian languages.
If you look at the profits these companies are making - with ~zero of it coming from AI products at the moment - the valuations are in fact conservative.
And also done as a local wifi server - https://internet-in-a-box.org/
I've always been confused about how ageism, racism, sexism etc. are even compatible with capitalism.

If there's a vast under-employed pool of people of the "wrong" age, race, sex, etc. because "bad" companies refuse to employ them, why don't their "good" competitors seize the opportunity and hire all that untapped talent being left on the table?
This actually makes me sad. Over the year Reddit became a treasure trove of great and diverse information and thinking it could just disappear like that makes me so sad.
I don't think you realize how much mods/power users, who act like a funnel for a lot of content, rely on third party apps and api access. The built in mod tools are hot garbage, with critical features going years without development or progress.

I have heard numbers in the realm of 10% of users make content and only 1% ever submit things. What happens when your users aren't getting that constant dopamine drip of new content when a decent portion the people submitting stuff use third party apps stop submitting content. Or even worse, they head to another platform and submit stuff there, which is how Reddit got its big start from digg.

For folks who were around during that time, things like lemmy or the fediverse are in a similar state that Reddit was in when the digg exodus happened.

Reddit needs to realize they aren't just losing users, but adding users to a competing platform, which is arguably a worse sin.
I might say "entitled HOA board members". Their job should be (in theory) pure drudgery.

And yet they find it so thrilling when they're measuring the grass on your front lawn with a ruler even though they live in the same neighborhood as you and know that it's rained every day for the past two fucking weeks without even 24 hours in between for it to dry up enough to push the damned mower through it.
If nobody— not the investors, not the drivers, and not the restaurants— is making money even though customers are getting gouged, that’s the market telling you this is fundamentally not a viable business and it should not exist.
I'd prefer to think of it as being WP:BOLD. Sorry to be insulting your org to your face, but if it makes you feel better it's likely a case of a toxic 10-20% or so more than everyone. I know nice wikipedians too, but they're not the ones that represent the interactions that turn people sour.

If it were just me, I'd keep my mouth shut (ok maybe not). Everyone knows SO and Wikipedia have culture problems, almost nobody has good experiences with their interactions on those sites, when that's the uniform experience you have an org problem.

But yeah, it's the paradox of intolerance in action. Being tolerant of shitty people leads to a shitty org culture or a shitty society/world. If they get too entrenched, you end up being unable to pry them off the levers of power and the dead-sea effect begins.

There's just also not really a way for them to move past them because the people causing those problems are powerful internal stakeholders. There's no easy solution to a rotten organizational culture and it leads to bad outcomes. It's a shame to see it happen but again, there's no magic wands to fix any of it. Whatcha gonna do.

I've had projects fail because of org culture problems (may have taken down the whole company at this point). But when the boss and the boss's boss are part of the problem, what can you realistically do? Not interact with that org anymore, that's about it.
I wonder if they have any reason for driving people to the app other than "it's harder to use ad blockers".
Looking at FlightRadar24, it looks like the aircraft, VT-ALH flew from Magadan from Mumbai a couple of days later. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/vt-alh#30a79da6

So all of this speculation is outdated.
To play devils advocate does Twitter not seem fine now?
if you happen to be using safari on ios, someone just created an extension for cleaning up the mobile web version: https://apps.apple.com/ro/app/sink-it-for-reddit/id644987363...
I do find projects like this interesting, even if I wouldn't use it. I found the bit of the codebase I read fairly clean and easy to read. Nice work.
Who is "we" though? I met some English people who are great at speaking clearly but it somehow always smells of talking down (the "as a foreigner you can't possibly understand me if I speak normally" vibe) or absence of another linga franca to fall back to for efficiency, or both.

I always appreciate people speaking normally, I can always ask if I didn't get something and it keeps me on my toes. Teachers/instructors or news presenters are there for easy to understand language, normal people are for real street speak
Ironic, since even if you're using SO, you're simply having the fish delivered to you in the form of answers to your questions there. If you really want to learn to fish, read the documentation and code more to build up one's skill.
They need to shut that down. Even better, they should make a desktop app and force users to use that instead of the website.

If they really believe in their forced-app strategy, they should bet the farm on it, not just on mobile, but everywhere.
Because when you pull the RAM chip to add the module, it loses its data and the system crashes. This attack is for people who just got access to a running system. I have heard about this for FBI who have running system that they can’t turn off cause then it would be encrypted.

Their targets are unlikely to allow law enforcement to add monitoring to their computers. And if they had prior access, compromising the software or other hardware would be better.
According to the newest design discussion, that might be arriving with project Valhalla.

https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/valhalla-spec-observers/2...

But even if they do, I'm guessing that's still going to be a long ways away.
Good call - I'm sure the next private company won't eventually treat their users like garbage.
I have previously heard that it has found a use case in Vietnam and no other country in circumventing legally unusual financial policy, but I haven't been able to find:

* Anything reliable about crypto adoption in Vietnam from a more recent time than March of this year in English (or accessible with Google translate).

* Anything comparing different cryptocurrency proof formats by Vietnamese popularity, including differentiation of non-mineable proof of work cryptocurrencies like Monero.

* A convincing argument that the Vietnamese cryptocurrency market won't vanish in less than a year when their government caves to the State Department and IMF's lobbying and liberalises their banking and payments laws.
The aforementioned Sarbanes-Oxley act, plus the principle of "negative inference" in civil suits which dictates that a court can infer that someone refusing to testify (or destroying evidence) has something to hide. There's no 'plead the 5th' in civil suits.
I did not say people are paid the same based on the state they live in. They are paid based on where they live. Some regions are paid less than others, even within a state.
Lemmy is basically Reddit but fediverse: https://join-lemmy.org/
The average user won't think about it as a drastic action at all because they will neither know nor care about the blackouts and subsequent re-openings.
One thing I heard is that sometimes the brain misinterprets thirst as appetite, and that drinking (anything) instead of eating can be the first appropriate response (but obviously, if appetite doesn't go away, eat). I don't know if it's actually true, but this strategy works for me.
Fun to see this. I was gifted an internal Chumby prototype that was given to a VP at my company who asked me if we could do anything with it. We couldn't, but I thought it was a cute concept (it had a soft/plush body versus the more standard rigid plastic and was marketed as very approachable

I wrote a few AS3 apps for it and concluded there were enough hardware limitations that it wasn't worth bothering with.

But for a few years after I tried to tinker with it to turn it into something more useful but some physical component broke before I got too far and I didn't care enough to pursue. Glad someone is outlining this in detail.

What always struck me about the Chumby is it seemed doomed from the start. There was no real use case, no niche spot for it to exist in. If you can procure a Raspberry Pi and $80 you can build the Chumby1000 and have it do some interesting things, but nothing a bunch of commodity hardware already in your house doesn't do much better.
Just to add, you can't increase it that fast either.

If you double the number of employees of some place in a year, you have a really large risk of completely redefining its entire culture. And a software business has basically 2 things, a culture and locked-in people.
Well, that's missing a rather important part of the picture. The real culpit is Brian Krzanich, who, with beloved approval from the board I assume, completely destroyed the company. The cardinal sin was being way overly aggressive on the process technology which completely failed and left intel stuck on 14nm for way too many years. They use an "inappropriate work relation" as a reason to kick him out, but that obviously wasn't the real reason.

Bob Swan clearly wasn't the guy that could fix all this. Pat finally got the job he always wanted (he left for VMware because he didn't get it originally), but Intel is ship that's hard to turn (floating iceberg might be a more fitting analogy).

I'm rooting for Intel; I have friends there and competition is good for us consumers. Also, Intel is a friend of open source.
At the end of the day, it's unfortunate that the average user won't be able to wrap their head around Mastodon.

Because that's a beautiful UI, honestly.
On the record blocks is a protocol mistake that has been ported over from Scuttlebot. They'd be better off with a client side mute button.

It's an algorithmic choice, but most who've used these platforms for years know public blocking can also be a form of abuse on these kinds of protocols.

BS could (and this was done by the people who sunk Scuttlebot/Patchwork) for example choose to list all of the people who block you on your profile page as an act of shaming and exclusion.
> To add to this, most countries have turned away from infectious biological weapons because they are near impossible to control.

Most countries ( small to mid-tier ) lack the expertise, will or reason for it. But most major countries are working on biological weapons. If you think the US, Russia, China, UK, France, Germany, Japan, Israel, etc aren't running bio-weapons labs, then you are being too trusting at best or too naive at worst. Or maybe I'm just being too cynical.

> The the release of them might harm your enemies, but at a serious cost to yourself.

Never prevented intentional disease warfare throughout history. What makes you think leaders aren't willing to hurt their own countries to hurt their enemies? More importantly, what makes you think these countries will develope bio-weapons, but not vaccines for them?

> The threat of a infectious weapon is not from other nations, but from a terrorist organization (which of course dramatically reduces risk).

Every major terrorist organization is or was created, funded and controlled by major nations.

> Contagion weapons are the weapons of those with nothing left to lose (which aren't big/rich countries, even in dire circumstances).

And yet, all weapons labs in history were created by big/rich countries. You so desperately want a world without bio-weapons that you are blinded to the contradictions in your argument.
It's hard to argue with, especially if you've experienced using good documentation. OpenBSD's man pages are one example. It takes a little time to break the habit of checking Google first and instead checking the man page first (you eventually learn that you rarely need more than that).

The key word is "good" documentation. That takes time and effort to write, and it takes time and effort to keep it updated as things change. As the author notes, it will have to be something that is made part of the culture of the organization. And given that recent agile programming approaches proclaim that "the code is the documentation" and that formal, separate documentation is an impediment to productivity, you'll find that many developers will dig in their heels if asked to write documentation.

Bad, outdated, or just plain wrong documentation can be worse than nothing, as it tends to lead you to incorrect conclusions and beliefs about the system.
> If this is due to Ukraine war, let's be mindful Putin wanted to join earlier during Bush Jr reign.

Let’s be mindful that Russia wanted to ascend to NATO differently to everyone else.

This is against NATOs policy that everyone joins in the same way.

Russia then abandoned its application when they where told to apply like everyone else.

Russia, not NATO rejected that relationship.

> Again, Putin accepted implementation of Minsk 1 and 2 but Nato insist of creating war path.

Russia also signed the Budapest Memorandum that didn’t stop them from invading.

Russia only follows international agreements when it favours them and flagrantly breaks them when it wants to.

> Vigilantee assassination maybe illegal but morally it is right. Sometime doing the right thing is hard but have to for tge good of many.

I agree someone must kill Putin before he escalates this to world war 3, the new fascist beast with its Z swastika must be stopped in time before it makes things worse.

We mustn’t let the new Hitler take his Sudetenland.
It sounds like someone (from the article a single someone) went through and altered a bunch of articles, possibly after initial publication.

The article talks about journalistic standards but it sounds like they need some kind of security to ensure such silent modification isn’t possible.
I would also like to add that the dark side of this protest seems to be the "walled garden"-ization of Reddit. It's entirely possible that post-protest, the website or particular sections of the site and users will continue on in a Private mode where accounts, authentication, credentials, verification are required for creating and consuming content to a larger extent than before, and content is not visible or linkable to or from this and other sites.

That will probably have a knock-on effect across the entire Internet. If users start to accept, for instance, account creation as the cost for entry for consuming content, the Internet will become a very different place. Reddit is one of the only big sites where you don't need an account to consume content, and there are tons of links in and out of the website. Is that about to change?
While I do not agree with the trend, especially how it's currently going, I think this is how Reddit leadership (and many other C-level/PM people of other brands like YouTube) view it: the site isn't a place to choose what to see, it's a consume consume consume kind of thing.

Similar to YouTube removing granularity levels for filtering videos on channels, it's not a content library. It's not even a video rental store. It's a movie theater. Sit down, watch what's on today, move on.
> Is "VC" tech's catch-all for capitalism?

No. It's a term specific for those investors working with: I don't expect you to survive, but if you don't get at least 10000% of return, you could as well be dead.

Almost all of capitalism works differently.
Hypocrisy is a bad thing to me. "No bad tactics, only bad targets" is a bad thing to me.
Or I accidentally bump the top of screen while trying to upvote and it brings me to the top of the thread