skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gain of function research is the kind of experiment that could develop a disease that kills billions. It isn't a game we should be playing lightly if at all. The argument is that eventually biology could make the same mutation. The thing is, it is extremely unlikely that Ebola becomes air born naturally, for example. But that is the kind of thing that gain of function seeks to develop, you know, just in case.
If I had to guess, no.
Hah, back in the flash days I did a similar thing. I ran a website, one of those one-page deals where the whole point of the site was a single button that played a sound. I too had a problem with people hotlinking my flash app, so I used the same trick to redirect it to a different applet that played loud horrific screams!
The government uses TOR itself so it has some incentive to both operate infrastructure and also try to make sure it actually delivers on its anonymity claims. If they screw that last part up, their HUMINT sources die.
I agree with you there. I believe I've seen dang comment that downvoting shouldn't be for disagreements, rather for poor quality content, regardless of whether or not you agree.

On Reddit, downvoting is always a matter of personal opinion, and so it took me a while to adjust to the downvoting style HN advocates for. But I'm mostly used to it now and I have to say I enjoy it. It makes me have to think more critically about why I want to downvote something. Many times I have stopped myself from downvoting something solely because I disagreed, not because it was hateful, racist, etc.
I don't know if the author is rediscovering or inspired by lossless image compression algorithms. For example PNG has a palette mode that supports up to 256 colors in the palette. And of course so does GIF. The run-length-encoding is probably just a primitive version of LZW.

I wonder if it might be better to simply use PNG with an extra chunk for the UUID and timestamp information.
if you were a wolf and trespassed another pack's territory, they would kill you.
there are rules and "property" in nature - where do you think ours came from ?
Also had great success with Roaring Bitmaps, a bit further on the compression/ease of manipulation axis.

Edit: I see you're already linking to Daniel Lemire's github, so I guess you're familiar with them, just mentioning them, since it's in a comment thread like this one that I discovered them.
Goatse is consensual porn, as far as I know. Maybe not “regular”, but that seems to be an unnecessary constraint in this context.
I wish the lesson were "If something might be criminal, check first and then don't do it".

Makes you wonder if anyone has started an "AI-powered legal database miner as-a-service" for rent to zealous prosecutors.
If China did leak COVID, as is looking more and more likely, by accident or on purpose, that is a POLITICAL issues.

First if it was a leak, we'd have to cut off all funding and shared resources just to be safe, which we have already done.

Next there would have to be some investigation that China would naturally be adversarial to. If it was natural they would want to collaborate (they are refusing to collaborate for the most part).
Oh it's not just tech startups. You can start a pizzeria, a barbershop, become a real estate agent. Success in all of these "lifestyle" businesses is usually found by people focusing on product-obsession, not customer-obsession.

The pizzeria focuses on the taste of the pizza, the decor, and politely refuses people who ask for canned tuna to be put on the toppings menu. The barbershop focuses on ambiance, banter, hot-towel service, and politely shows the door to people who insist on taking phone calls while they get their hair cut. The real estate agent makes sure the house is well-photographed, well-staged, has warm cookies in the kitchen (well known trick that helps people think of the house as home), takes appointments, and refuses to accept appointments at weird hours.

Even the businesses that you'd think are customer-obsessed are usually really product-obsessed. Even Eleven Madison Park, which Will Guidara wrote about in "Unreasonable Hospitality" as being focused on going to outlandish, hyper-personalized extremes for every customer they had at the restaurant, succeeded ultimately because Guidara succeeded at turning empathy itself into a product, from standard perks like putting more quarters into people's parking meters so they wouldn't have to worry about that in the middle of service, to hyper-personalized ones which were still due to standardizing a process of listening and creativity. But their process never allowed customers to dictate to them exactly what they would be served or exactly which favors they would receive.
> If you think it's been going up, it's because you were not in the group that has been crushed by it, which means you were in the group that, on the global stage, was crushing the other.

Which is the group being crushed by capitalism? The major complaint against it is inequality, which in practice has meant that it has benefited some people a lot and some people only a little. There are very few people worse off under it than what came before.

Its biggest failings are government failures to appropriately price externalities and the enactment of rules that constrain competition when a government is captured by industry.

But how do you want to fix that? Government-operated commerce certainly doesn't, the environmental record of state-operated industries is catastrophic -- you're essentially asking the industry to regulate itself. Anarchy can't price externalities, how does it propose to prevent anyone from dumping in the river?

So what do you want to do instead?
Try stopping by Maxie's in Milwaukee before you repeat that statement :) Though maybe Lake Michigan is big enough for Wisconsin to not count as an inland state.
Here is a good breakdown of funding in CA:

https://peecs.net/2021/03/10/how-are-california-school-budge...

So federal is...7%?
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This sort of childish generalizations help nobody, other than yourself (and virtue signaling)
We fund this research in a few countries around the world where their procedures are more lax so leaks are even more likely than they are in US based labs Plum island, fort Dietrick, etc). Still if US officials are responsible for lax oversight or funding poorly run labs they should be held responsible.
> I will never understand how people desire for revenge negate the bigger picture.

It is more that people tend to be extremely selective about when they see that bigger picture.

There are lots of smart people rotting in prison who committed very similar crimes who never seem to elicit sympathy. Coincidentally, they tended not to be white collar strivers before being busted.
Do you have a link to such a case? Genuinely asking because I want to know how the lawyers argue this in court without bursting into giggles from embarrassment.
I upvote things that are interesting to me and hope they will be interesting for others.
I rarely downvote. Maybe only rude comments? Not sure, but it happens rarely.
you are missing the forest from the trees. the point is, simpler solutions were available.
Amazon Has a Restricted License, Too
Please note that I said "will be". I am happy to be proven wrong but that will require the valley to make drastic changes in a lot of areas. As rich, progressive, and solutions-oriented as it is, it has a crime, homelessness, housing issues that are plain and obvious to the rest of the world (Garry Tan's twitter feed is full of examples). I can't see any company wanting to move there or start there UNLESS there's some benefit it cannot get anywhere else that's core to the business. I loved visiting SF back in the glory days, but the last time I was there (last year) there was a marked difference in atmosphere and energy - it looked like Chicago about a decade ago.
I change my default gateway from 192.168.0.1 to C0.A8.00.01. Is the problem fixed yet?
Case History: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/15573090/united-states-...

The delays were partially due to COVID then later he was able to get it caught up with SCOTUS review of criteria for denaturalization.

But geez his backstory is wild. Iranian born, escaped with parents to Dubai. Started his business in his bedroom at 16. Bought quite a rock for his sweetie back in 2012 (https://youtu.be/FhPiC7zC7wA). She divorced him after everything came undone. Apparently they have a lot of stuff in storage in London. Amazing what you can find in 15 minutes with google.
Chocolates & Confections by Peter P. Greweling. It's full of recipes, but more importantly there are large sections of information about how the cooking process actually works, how each ingredient effects the end result, why things like excess humidity can cause things to not set, etc.
I upvote stories that are important to me; those that are just interesting I rarely upvote.
Another reason your snark is completely misplaced is that punch ballots are not what people generally mean by hand marked paper ballots. The standard for HMPB is pen-marked optically scanned ballots with races and candidates clearly separated and bubbles directly adjacent on the outside edges.

The vast majority of states still use HMPB and the vast majority of states use hand marked paper ballots with optical scan and the vast majority have no problem counting ballots [0].

A lot of people opted to mail in ballots in 2020 when they could because of covid concern. Mail-in and drop off ballots shouldn't take much longer to count, but they do because of dumbassery in some states requiring counting on or after election dat. And also vilifying postmark-by causing a delay of approximately 3 days while absentee/mailin ballots are delivered. Postmarking works for official court documents but for some reason "they're stealing our votes!" when you're a losing and shrinking minority. Everyone should be aware that mail-in ballots are going to have a delay and none of the states vote counts are official the day of. That's how we always did it and it worked fine until some asshat decided to attack our elections before they even started.

Florida was a hole-punch system that was absolutely terrible. They fixed that.

[0] https://ballotpedia.org/Voting_methods_and_equipment_by_stat...
Architecture – Fireproof distributed real-time database
Even if it was accidentally leaked?

That's extreme. I work with transgenic, not viruses, but mistakes happen and the death penalty for researchers is crazy.
Techniques to Make Large Language Models Smaller
You could assign your devices IPs from fc00::/7 range otherwise known as "Unique local unicast"[1], which is the IPv6 version of 10/8, 192.168/16 and the like.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_local_address
I don't downvote unless it's an obvious troll. I upvote if it's well written ANDOR it's a well-made point. If I get into a debate in the comments with a smart person, I upvote every reply they make to remind myself that they deserve respect.
"I don't like this game anymore"
Some types of vaccinations against smallpox where available for centuries and there was also opposition to those.

When there were local smallpox outbreaks in the West in the 20th century there were drastic containment measures.
Thanks for that read! Some key quotes:

> Cheers director James Burrows has long denied his show was lifted from Park St. Under, maintaining that it was inspired by Duffy’s Tavern, a radio program created in the 1940s by his father, Abe, a Tony Award–winning humorist and writer. The troika of Cheers creators... claimed to have modeled the Cheers bar on Boston’s Bull & Finch, which they visited while developing the sitcom.

> The similarities between the two make an argument for some kind of influence. The question of whether Cheers took something from Park St. Under, however, obscures something vital: As special as the little Boston sitcom was, and there’s reason to think it was truly loved, it was never going to be Cheers. It had its shot. ABC Entertainment president Tony Thomopoulos... told Bennett, “I like them, but I just want to tell you they’re really not deserving of being on the ABC network level.”

> One reason, perhaps, why the legend lived on so long is that Cheers affirmed that there really was something great about Park St. Under.

> To me, the things that are so lovable about Park St. Under—the local feel, the rough-around-the-edges inside jokes that make it seem familiar—aren’t the things that made Cheers such a hit.... With its production woes and shoestring budget, she didn’t even think season two of Park St. Under was likely to happen. The claim that Cheers made off with a ready-made hit misses what the local show really was—the good and the bad.

> Does this mean the legend is finally done? Doubtful... The claim that Cheers looted the show is just too juicy and has been part of local legend for too long to be forgotten entirely.
I know somebody is going to buy up the expired domain of an NFT image hosting service and do this.
Yeah I mean my interest is less in having a fun arcade game and more in having a ridiculously realistic complex simulation that really leverages the modern marvel that is current gen GPUs.
> Prosecutors showed that each of those shell companies involved the production of notarized affidavits in the names of people who didn’t exist. As a result, the government was able to charge Golestan with 20 counts of wire fraud — one for each payment made by the phony companies that bought the IP addresses from ARIN.

Golestan created 20 companies under false names. And wrote 1 check from each company. Which means 20 cases of (money) wire fraud.

What’s funny here is the chain of laws used to get to a prosecution. Apparently creating twenty companies under twenty false names was not illegal enough.
> The mayor ordered the police to arrest Petersen.

In most (I'd venture the very very vast majority) of cities, the Mayor is not in the PD chain of command. In fact, generally, the Mayor is a largely ceremonial and strategic role, and if anything, I'd expect the City Operations Manager to be the one.

In fact, here (Washington state), during a lot of the BLM protests and the "take a knee" stance, there was coverage of our Mayor asking the Sheriff to take a knee with her during a protest. He refused. The Mayor also asked the Sheriff (who is considered the senior LEO in the county, for all agencies other than state/federal) to withdraw officers into the City offices as a show of de-escalation, etc. He also declined.

Apropos of anything else, I can't see how that would be a valid order, anyway. It doesn't free anyone from the need for probable cause, for a start. "Officer, what was your cause for arresting this man?" "Well, the mayor ordered me to."
Question from an ignorant network person: is IP rotation still common on ipv6? My primary fear with IPv6 is the touted "feature" of every device having an IP. While it's possible, yea, it sounds like a nightmare for privacy and tracking.

Do the proponents of IPv6 also advocate for large ranges of IP rotations to deal with this?
Wow that's not just any hack, but a total pwn. Case management system is down and even their payment systems are down. Yikes!
Are they just going to convert into another cellphone shop? Last time I was there they literally hid all the good games and dvds to reduce shrinkage but it also made it appear like they were out of stock on everything. There wasn’t even a slip or something to know to ask the front desk for inventory.
right on! I used https://bugdays.com/gzip-base64 to go back and forth.

base64 generates slashes, so the site (and I) run encodeURIComponent in the devtools on the resulting base64 to make sure it's completely url-safe.

---

the poc "payload" is

eNqzKU4uyiwosUvJTy7NTc0r0UtPLXHNSQUxi50qnXMSi4v9EnNTNdRzMtMzStQ1ow1i9YpSc%2FPLUjU0bfShmrm4lBVKMjKLFYAoKTEFACeDHYg%3D

which uri-component-decodes to:

eNqzKU4uyiwosUvJTy7NTc0r0UtPLXHNSQUxi50qnXMSi4v9EnNTNdRzMtMzStQ1ow1i9YpSc/PLUjU0bfShmrm4lBVKMjKLFYAoKTEFACeDHYg=

which un-base64+gzip's to (using the site I posted above):

<script>document.getElementsByClassName('light')[0].remove()</script>

# this is bad
Cruelty Squad. Made with Godot.
Are they fundamentally different or could you always map a BB(x,y) to a BB(z), where presumably z is much larger than x?
i live in alabama. that is heresy.
Funny how norms shift, it's like a snowslide, it happens at once after nothing changing for a long time.

Trying to think five years back what was considered unreasonable was rather the other way around, from a ratio point if view...

It gives me hope that some things can change for the better much faster than we anticipate.
I upvote what I consider to be good points. That is not always something I agree with. "Disagree but made me think" is about the highest praise possible on HN.

I downvote things that I think are factually wrong, or things that are opinions but are stated as fact and are (IMO) wrong. I also downvote hostility, aggression, name calling, flamebait/trolling, blatant politics, spam, bad faith arguments. I sometimes downvote arguing without actually listening to the parent's argument.
Spanish flu is called Spanish flu because Spain was one of the few countries not directly embroiled in World War I at the time, so when the flu was identified in their cities, their media reported on it. The US and other European nations' military chains of command were aware of the illness ripping through trenches, bases, and hospitals but had a media blackout on public reports of it to avoid disruption of morale during wartime.

We weren't at war this time, but pandemics are inextricable from international politics for the same reason everything else that has massive impact on people's health and safety across national borders is inextricable from international politics.

I agree with you on the desire for depoliticization of the topic, but I lack a mechanism to get there; it's not like an independent agency run by, say, the UN would be free of politics on this topic.
Yeah I guess this would be more in the domain of those demos that Nvidia used to release with every new generation of Geforce card back in the day highlighting the new features. But I do think it could have a lot of educational value (especially if it were open source).
At least one source gives shoplifting as the plurality of shrinkage at 36%, with employee theft close behind at 30%. But if theft isn't prosecuted, this would seem to affect incentives for both shoplifting and employee theft.

https://lithospos.com/blog/shrinkage-in-retail-and-how-to-pr...

Together this puts theft at a solid majority (66%) of shrinkage.
That is one expensive coffee machine! And error prone, too. The stereotypical example of how automation should not try to copy how humans do things 1:1 is washing machines: they are not humanoid robots carrying laundry baskets to the river and scrubbing the cloth on a rock. The lesson learned from that example is: automation is a lot easier (cheaper, more reliable, better, ..) if you modify the environment. Coffee machines did that, too. Why un-invent that now? Seems like nothing more than a marketing stunt for venues that would deploy them, but if that's the value (attracting customers for adjacent shops) then there are much cheaper ways of doing so.
there's way more shameless titles that make it on HN. i dont see a problem with this one at all - clear thesis statement, invitation to read more.
When you desperately want your hammer to be valid and worthwhile, everything becomes a nail.
Linus is not the CEO of the Linux Foundation. His job is to review kernel patches. This email was not sent directly to Linus. Even if it isn't his job to encourage and teach it isn't his job to be unnecessarily rude in his reviews.
The fraternities at the university I attended were required to hire police at parties too. This was in the 90s.
ROCm likely won't take over, because of its flaws. Eventually, of course, either it or something else, would emerge as a solution.

But it will take time. Buying time is what this ban is trying to achieve. Slowing down the rivals.
Also LibGDX - many of the games are Very Positive or Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam, too:

https://libgdx.com/showcase/
I upvote post that I want more people to see.
On the Torture of Tinnitus
> they can't correlate it back to your actual account.

Can't is a strong word. They might not bother, but if you're logged in to your Google account on other services from the same IP they might tie those together. Wouldn't be 100% accurate but if they decided to go nuclear ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Citation sorely needed.
For a time, I tried modifying my behavior by hiding downvote links on via a Stylus CSS:

[title=downvote] {
display: none
}

I had an already high upvote:downvote ratio, but this made me even more conscious of the few times I bothered to downvote a comment (because it meant I had to take extra steps to disable that CSS). I mostly only downvote for flamebait or outrageously unproductive comments.
They might increase the number of reports per manager and then layoff managers more. This could be seen as getting the same amount of work done more efficiently.
I'd argue it's you who are focused on trees. Use DNS if you prefer.
Take it one step further and create an audio track tailored each viewer. Simply read the user's tastes and marketing profile and generate something that appeals to them. If they have a preference for rock, add some guitar. Country would get a bit of twang, jazz could add some brass. It's likely no two viewers would get the same audio.
It is valuable, but what are folks going there for, nowadays?
> For instance, if the mayor thought a comment or question was “derogatory,” the mayor could enforce the city’s policy however he saw fit

The mayor doesn't get to define statutory law, though.

Leaving aside "was this comment a problem or not", stopping someone from speaking at a council meeting is one thing, "and then having them arrested for disorderly conduct" is quite another.
This was probably 20 years ago now but I don't think it was a formal paper
But it unconditionally calls a memory barrier, which is most of the cost of an un-contended futex-style lock already.

And I'd be interested in your ideas on removing the lock - as I can't see any paths that don't change semantics (e.g. unconditionally doing the init work at process start time when you know there's not multiple threads, for example)
SteamDB detects game engines based on games’ file manifests.

https://steamdb.info/tech/

It’s not perfect because some engines (like Godot) have export options to bundle games into a single executable that SteamDB can’t use for engine detection.
I took the stance that downvoting for disagreement was not OK on HN. dang replied to me, saying that it was allowed. (Though perhaps not ideal? I don't remember - it's been a while. Also, his stance may have changed since.)
I would bet that the numbers on even DVD impulse purchases are pretty low
This seems less true for ICs. Layoffs hit the juniors much more than seniors and Ma y principal+ ICs I know barely do anything. Although it could just be a transient phenomenon based in relative supply/demand.
Yeah they seem to be more out of stock in stores on items. Customer service is terrible too. What’s their deal?