skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the reasonable solution would be to have a place to record all the possible tasks you have available, but you only go to it when you add things or need a new task. Have it separate from your todo/doing list, so you don't always have an endless list of tasks smacking you in the face.
Agricultural viruses are dangerous to human food security. At least the ones under study usually are.
Same family, but post-dispute. IIRC.
> but they're still unusable by the average internet user

yep that asymmetry is deep-seated. but decentralized serving does not need to be extreme. I can imagine e.g. geographically local (e.g. city-level) infrastructure hosting - supported maybe by local taxes like a utility - and people using wordpress enhanced with activitypub.

Between each user doing self-publishing and all users being captive in one gigantic data-mining and humiliatingly abusive platform there are literally billions of options.

> most people don't care about their data, privacy, etc., and just want to consume content

This is something that is repeated a lot (also here on HN) and of course at some very basic level it is true. If the negative impact of current designs was obvious we would not have the nightmare we drifted into.

But it is a rather simplistic take on how things work with technology adoption, regulation of business behavior, markets etc.

E.g. people didn't not care about ozone layer depletion, they were probably completely unaware of it. That's why we have experts and regulators and institutions to advise the general population about what is safe and in their interest. In the case of the ozone layer, laws were passed. Substances were banned. Substitutes invented. The planet and our skin was saved. We moved on to the next existential risk.

The same playbook has repeated countless times. People generally assume that the system works to protect them and that is not a totally wrong assumption. If everybody moved fast and broke things modern society would quickly collapse.

Yet notice that nobody of authority ever warned users not to use these platforms. In fact the opposite. In what is unthinkable and unprecedented collusion, most public sector entities actively advertise them, by being in these platforms, providing links to them etc.

What has happened in this space is that a major social contract has been violated. Politicians, in a combination of ineptitude ("We run ads, senator") and capture have acquiesced to this drift.

This has played out for so long that people who are aware of what is happening are exhausted and defeatist. We should not give up though. This is important stuff.
Or it could be as simple as that the software update application on the device has been patched to re-add the malware after flashing the software update.
This happens all the time in industries close to the "asymptote of perfection" for whatever product or service they're producing. Think of products like ICEs, industrial processes or mature/standardised commodities

At what point does an influencial government say "it's unlikely there is substantial innovation to be uncovered for ___ product" and begin the process of deprivatisation for good of the public?
It sounds like you think there's some conflict there, but I don't think they're making any claim that developers don't need income/support/food (they pretty much state the opposite) or that open source projects don't need developers to (continue to ) be developed. The project isn't the developer, the users aren't the donations.
What often gets forgotten is that demand is not equally distributed throughout the day, week, month or year.

Everyone needs to go to school or sports practice at about the same time, everyone wants to go out on Friday nights and not Monday nights, everyone needs a car for monthly shopping at around the end of the month and everyone takes their vacation at around the same time each year due to school vacations.

When demand goes up, not only will it cost more, but there is no guarantee that you'll even get a car on time.

Uber and suchlike work currently because almost everyone uses them rarely, not four times a day.
If it makes you feel any better, in many big companies that's already the case. Talking about modern Big Tech, not dinosaurs like Oracle or IBM.
There's some middle ground. People's salaries charted over time compared to CEO pay, productivity numbers, purchasing power, or inflation, etc, have degraded pretty badly over time.
There may have been brought even closer relatives of covid-19 to Wuhan by lab personnel.

We don't know as for unknown reasons the database of specimens collected by the Wuhan lab was taken down in September 2019.

The distance in years between two viral strains you mention makes no sense at all, as the mutation rate is extremely dependent on environment.
ZFS on Linux has exactly this, you can specify specific devices to hold metadata. Caveats apply, you need to mirror those devices for redundancy.

https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/man/7/zpoolconcepts.7...
I don't value anything on youtube enough to pay for it. It's a garbage bin and honestly a waste of my time. I will never give google a cent.
I call this kind of clownery "climate masochism". If you really want to do something for the environment, don‘t have children and become part of the voluntary human extinction movement.

Anything else is nothing but lipstick on the pig.
This was the game of my childhood. I really hope someone creates a remake
Amazing article and well worth a read to discover how these sites would have worked in practice. It deserves a submission of its own.
Exactly, what merit is there to putting a manager that pushes failure onto the team? Might as well have the team itself report to senior management if one is too eager to get out of the way.
Way to miss the point. The point isn't the keynote / non-keynote itself, it's how it went from one to the other, and what that says about the state of the Rust project.

> Rust leadership person is probably a dickhead, great, lots of people are dickheads.

The point is, Rust isn't supposed to have a “leadership person”; it's supposed to be run by a group of people. The fact that some (as you so correctly conclude) dickhead is able to circumvent that, and in effect usurp de facto leadership (at least on this issue), shows that Rust’s leadership process isn't working as it is supposed to.

It's hard to conceive of how extremely narrow a view one must take on this “soap opera”, in order not to see that what it shows is actually a pretty big deal. Squinting really hard, aren't ya?
At my company (which I feel more comfortable not disclosing), the scale looks like this:

senior engineer == engineering manager.

staff engineer == senior engineering manager.

senior staff engineer == director / VP

This is in terms of scope, responsibility, salary, whom you report to and on which level... everything.
> This FUD is insane.

What are you talking about? The real FUD is Tesla not taking responsibility when "Autopilot" crashes into something.
How does this compare to say switching to n electric car?

I think it's important people focus their efforts on the low hanging fruit. What's the biggest impact at the lowest cost.
This is the study I alluded to:

>Evolutionary origins of the SARS-CoV-2 sarbecovirus lineage responsible for the COVID- 19 pandemic

>Divergence dates between SARS-CoV-2 and the bat sarbecovirus reservoir were estimated as 1948 (95% highest posterior density (HPD): 1879–1999), 1969 (95% HPD: 1930–2000) and 1982 (95% HPD: 1948–2009), indicating that the lineage giving rise to SARS-CoV-2 has been circulating unnoticed in bats for decades.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-020-0771-4

You should also know that SARSCoV2 1) is not a chimeric virus, and 2) that the present study includes viruses linked to RaTGP13 but more distant from SARSCoV2, i.e. it includes evidence from viruses unassociated with the pandemic.
That arms race has been here for a few years already. Sponsorblock is a crowdsourced extension that uses community highlights of good and bad parts of a video to auto skip through it. Really useful for cutting through the sponsorships and other useless fluff.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-y...
Copyright also applies to the structure of the code. So rewriting it line by line would not be enough to remove all of the GPL-licensed elements. You would also need to restructure and reorganise it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure,_sequence_and_organi...
Then what? They grew a conscience when Bush Sr became president? What was their "come to Jesus" moment that led to reform in how they conduct themselves?
i really don’t know what to count as mental illness now. is it when people make decisions that aren’t consonant with expectations of a reasonable person? are stupid people mentally ill? what about religious believers who believe, for example, that muhammad ascended to heaven on horseback?

coherence of thought may be a yardstick, and if so ted is as coherent and articulate as it can be. was he wrongly inspired? did he hate so much the current political organization that emasculates any single individual from achieving much? or causing a consequential national debate? did he take his anger too far? thinking about these, and having read all his material, i think we shouldn’t consign him to mental illness. it’s too convenient, it’s a worthless external judgement, and one that he vehemently rejected.

ted was a sane man acting on his belief. no different than me praying every morning and going to church every sunday to thank god for how far he has brought me.
The Density of Japanese Streets
Worst of all, Stack Overflow code may also come from a country which isn’t even divided into provinces.
I really recommend everyone listen to the 4 part series on MK Ultra from Behind The Bastards[1]. Its absolutely insane that the government did this and BTB really delves deep on how it all came about.

[1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/part-one-mkultra-when-...
Absolutely, it took me a long time to learn exactly that. Even though I remember what's in the file and where things go and can build the structure in my head, that's not without a cost, a significant one. Having a bad day, can't engage your "superpowers"? Whoops, now your entire project is in park until you get a chance to focus. And of course, as soon as the project hits someone else's desk, I can't rely on them knowing the whole codebase implicitly either.

One way I've used my ability in the past is that, for example, I can just read libraries or documentation and remember them, possibly better than the author does. I've done that for several major and minor versions of Rails, all historical now, but it gave me a significant edge at the time.

On the other hand, as I mentioned, that also means there's a disturbing amount of obsolete information muddying the waters - another commenter here mentioned that he has a hard time distinguishing between his recollections of his own voice vs other people's, in his memories, and that is much how it operates for me - Was that documentation valid for Postgres 7.6, 9.6 or 14.6?
Unfortunately, all it takes is something like Genshin Impact's anti-cheat system - which runs at the kernel / ring 0 level [1] - to be compromised, and then it's game over anyways.

Not to mention the potential of "what if the anti-cheat is deliberately programmed to be malicious?". A dismal state all around.

[1] https://genshin.hoyoverse.com/en/news/detail/103720
Pop ups are annoying and for me sufficient to close tab and treat website as spammers.

In this case popup spammed me to read article that I was reading before popup appeared.
I can understand anti-Tesla motivation considering that Tesla doesn't act in a responsible way: they call their system "Autopilot" when it really isn't that; and they don't take responsibility in case of a crash. Both of these things should imho be illegal but somehow they get away with it.
The map showing the clustering around the lab is not labelled in the article. It looks like the map from the senate report which used internet search history. I recall that their point in the original report was that there was a cluster of internet searches for flu-like symptoms clustered around the institute, rather than the market.

There is no new direct evidence in the article, simply the weight of existing indirect evidence synthesized together. There does not seem to be another hypothosis for how the virus emerged that has as much indirect evidence pointing towards it?

The main gist of the article is:

* The institute applied for funding for a specific piece of research (inserting a furin cleavage site).

* The institute claims it did not perform the research.

* Covid is what we would expect if somebody did perform that research.

* The research would have been performed at the time and place where covid emerged.

It is not direct evidence, but under a weaker burden of proof (e.g. balance of probabilities) it is fairly convincing.
I think it's more general, trains have lots of single points of failure while there are normally many roads that can be used to get to a destination.

My experience in Germany is that the trains there are even worse. Every single one was delayed by up to half an hour.
You can only have that shot down so many times before you give up.
“hate the sin, love the sinner.” agreed!
It is made to be a barrier to competition. Good luck setting up an in compliance web store based on the current sales tax rules that Amazon basically brought to us.
In Europe. The UK, Germany, France, etc.

Actually, even in the US communication providers are required to stop people sending certain images to each other.
There’s the little issue that most formation are cargo cult crap. They’re teaching you some kind of method or canvas, but not much more - and cost a lot.

Good formations exists, somewhere. But they’re well hidden.
I've Time and Skills in Digital Marketing and Product Management
Got the advice from several senior architects / managers to never "grow" to manager of you deeply enjoy engineering. The skills for management and engineering are orthogonal it seems.
The whole Call of Duty series is riddled with bugs similar to the one in this article. This makes sense of course since their engines are based on the same principles, they all originate from the Quake engine. One example of an exploit found in the Quake engine in 2006 [1], also related to the “fast download” functionality, has been present in Call of Duty games such as MW2, and Black Ops - so at least 4 years after the exploit was found.

It seems like Activision does not allocate any development time to their older games, even if critical vulnerabilities are found. Black Ops 3 (2015) has a number of remote code execution vulnerabilities in its peer-to-peer networking code, making it completely unsafe to play - even though it is readily available on Steam. Of course, these exploits are fixed by the community in custom, modded, clients. Sadly Activision likes to send cease & desist letters to developers of these clients.

Personally I’ve found an exploit in CoD4 (2007) that will leak the CD-key of a person joining your server. This was reported to Activision in 2009 (ish), but also never (officially) fixed. It uses similar CVar leaking concepts as the one discussed in this article. Probably that would also make for an interesting write-up.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20080517095348/http://www.securi...
(2021)

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30706650 (44 comments)
Amazon, either USA or Germany, 12 TB (real capacity) LTO-8 cartridges for $60 a piece.
I think it's good to be skeptical, as there is indeed a lot of misinformation and speculation that has been more or less codified as fact regarding the CIA and other departments during these eras. I also don't think necessarily that they had the goal of making sleeper agents with the study.

However, I don't doubt that the CIA was interested in such an idea; the CIA was grossly overpowered, over confident, and overly ambitious during its formative decades. Reading about their own internal review of Bay of Pigs, it's pretty clear the CIA imagined themselves to have far more control over populations and manipulations than they really did.

So I think your sentence here:

>However, it's possible that's what it turned into once the principal experimenters realized they had a group of people they'd made highly suggestible.

Probably does have some ring of truth to it. I think it's supported by the idea that more or less this is what is done with the US military but with a much more controlled way now during the initial trainings. The numbers for actual landed shots in law enforcement and wars are pretty telling, since most persons even in direct line of danger still can't seem to land a shot on another human being intentionally. Having the ability to get past this blocker for killing probably was quite attractive to governments in general, and I carry an unsubstantiated belief that probably Ted Kaczynski becoming the Unabomber was an undesired effect, but a carefully studied one.

But to be clear, this thought lives in the same part of my mind as fantasies in the literal sense of the definition. (i.e., not desirable like we ascribe to the word commonly, just a thought in the realm of pure imagination)
I don't think anyone is talking about consciousness here. Consciousness is tangential to safety concerns.
More often than not I've seen engineers moving to manager roles because they weren't great at engineering.
Yes, did that a few times as well: not for an OS (but an antivirus product, so close-ish...) and not with Egghead but mostly with CompUSA and Fry's (both now also long gone, I think?). This was at a time when it was theoretically already possible to try/buy software over the Internet, but the resulting clogging of our connection lead to too many complaints, so a road trip it was!

Other than the bugs/extreme performance regressions they turned up in our product, the most interesting takeaways from these exercises were that: 1. most consumer software is really, really bad; 2. good package design is really, really hard.

It may be hard to imagine now, but unboxing software used to be quite exciting. How many manuals? How good? Early software releases had pretty good documentation: I still fondly remember the first editions of Microsoft's developer tools as well as their Office suite, which came with a full set of printed decent-quality manuals. That practice went out of the window for good shortly after, though, and online documentation has IMHO never reached the same quality. But that may just be the nostalgia speaking...
>They’ve reached their natural level of user base.

Perhaps in the US. There is another 96% of humanity left to go so a little bit of additional growth should be feasible
I had to find it online. The point of the story appears to justify murder as a legitimate means to enact change. Hard disagree here.

I think a movement that turns to murder as a means of gaining power will continue using murder even should it achieve its goals.

Someone in the past pointed out to me that the American Revolution is an exception to that. I don't disagree but so many other examples in history would seem to support my view.
"There just wasn't any good gameplay loop in there. "

Opinions differ, to me it was a fun arcade game, with some evolution theme. No more, no less. But I also did not read anything about it before and had no expectations.
Seriously, 15 months is kind of a slap in the face (to everyone who plays CS:GO)
I think this makes a lot of sense.
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desktop apps have so many issues (installation/breakage/crashes) that web apps are the only way to deliver software that just works.

I wonder if this will always be the case, or if we just need to keep going for another order of magnitude or two before we manage to render web apps as painfully difficult for ourselves as we've made the desktop.
WTF is a recommendation in the context of a language model? It does not have preferences, just weights influenced by proximity and frequency of tokens.
Depends on the human. If it’s myself, not really. But if it’s well done, yes I would enjoy death metal sonorities in lofi ambiant once in a while. But I admit the prompt is perhaps a bit challenging.
It rather depends on whether something has large constant cost that is punishing for small companies and negligible for large.

For example if something requires producing 10 000 pages of legalese it will block new companies and be not so problematic for large ones.

Or when company needs to heavily research what exactly they can offer/sell and it requires massive effort (it technically is "you can't do this" one).
Incorrect.

See here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/howto/legacy-databases...
I replayed it a few weeks ago and in terms of linearity, that's partially true. The game progress is pretty much set in stone, but you can chose how you play each stage, by being a diplomate or hostile (or a mix of both). Both options vary the game to some extent.

I for one see this simplicity as a feature. Recent simulation games are waaaaaay too complicated, and although fun, they start to overload my head after a few 10s of hours played. Spore on the other hand, is part of the classic game era where the control nobs are simple, but the fun you take out of rotating each nob is immeasurable.

If they do remake it, I hope they keep it simple.
There were plenty of good gameplay loops, they just didn't get enough time and development. Spore's biggest shortcoming, in my opinion, is that there's not enough of it.

The creature stage is interesting and fun, partially because it lasts long and there's an exploration element. Then you get to the tribal stage and the second tribal stage but with cars and honestly I kind of just rush through that. Then you get to the end game which is the most interesting (but least customisable) part.

The building blocks for two RTSes are there, but they've been dumbed down so far that there's no fun to be had. With a tech tree and bigger tribes, I think a minor Age of Empires stage could be great. The city stage would have the same benefits, but I can imagine a civ style game portraying the technological and cultural progress from the bronze age to the space age would be a nice intermediate. Instead of your evolutionary tree picking one or two arbitrary flags in each stage, you could keep the tech tree going for much longer. Show me how I got that teraforming equipment, don't just teleport it into the store because I traveled a thousand spots!

The end game could do more. Perhaps a Stellaris style unit distant unit control mechanic would allow for a more realistic galactic simulator, with different ships of your empire whizzing around while you go on your space adventure.

I have a feeling that if the game were developed by a Paradox or a Firaxis, the later stages would be a lot better.

It would be fun if Paradox were to set up a system where you can automatically launch the next game, all the way from Rome Total War through Hearts of Iron, and maybe jump to Stellaris from there. I know converters exist but it's not a perfectly clean process with fan projects needed for some steps.