skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favorite theory is that the Wuhan virus lab created the virus and used bats in experiments. One bat escaped and infected other bats that eventually ended up on the wet market in Wuhan. Edit: a more plausible theory is that one researcher got bitten by an infected bat and chose to hide this fact.
It's us vs them. And by us, I mean western democracy.

I fully support crushing them under the heal of our boot.
The article talks about UBI meaning getting money "just for being alive". But in the actual source[1], Pope Francis says:

> This may be the time to consider a universal basic wage which would acknowledge and dignify the noble, essential tasks you carry out. It would ensure and concretely achieve the ideal, at once so human and so Christian, of no worker without rights.

This is talking about a dignified, minimum living wage for doing the essential jobs humanity needs.

[1] https://movimientospopulares.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/...
> Is this mostly for using w/o i3?

Yep! I can't think of anything magical that could arise from usage with i3, but I'm open to ideas.
This was pretty much my experience exactly... I was dual booting, though, so also had a lot of downloaded docs that I could read on the other drive partition... And then reboot to go back to trying to get things running on the gentoo side. And inevitably have to wait to go into the university computer labs on Monday to look for answers in the forums.

Incidentally, I had actually picked gentoo because the forums looked fantastic... My first linux attempt was with suse, but all the "interesting" answers were in German. So next time I tried the one with the liveliest forums. Turns out the forums were lively for a some of the wrong reasons (everything was hard), but the people were the right combination of friendly and incredibly helpful and knowledgeable. I learned a huge amount from the process and the people. Though, indeed, the whole from source distro thing was foolish, in retrospect.

Gentoo will forever be my "uphill through the snow both ways" story.
And generally speaking I appreciate the context for the recipe. It's why people still buy cookbooks these days and subscribe to the (sadly) diminished number of cooking magazines that are really about food and travel. (RIP Gourmet.) If I'm really only looking for a recipe it's really not that hard to spend 10 seconds scrolling down.
Interesting bits (to me anyway): John Von Neuman and the colonization of Mars [0], the Halting Problem [1].

Love the rabbit holes....

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_spacecraft

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem
Great ruling! Anything else would've been quite absurd or inconsistent as it would allow for e.g. a grocerer to pin a "whites only" sign onto the door and anyone deterred would not have standing.

I also want to laud the beautiful design of the webpage.
I think that The Onion should run an article: "Coders Shocked to Find Accounting Systems Written in a Language Designed for Accounting Systems."
Art of Electronics is a nice book, but pretty irrelevant to verification.
>>As part of the agreement, Foxconn was set to receive subsidies ranging from $3 billion to $4.8 billion (paid in increments if Foxconn met certain targets), which would be by far the largest subsidy ever given to a foreign firm in U.S. history.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn%27s_Wisconsin_plant

Why should Americans cares how there tax dollars are spent, right?
He's tanned, rested, and ready [1], and now available in convenient PEZ dispenser form factor [2].

"I'll give you my Millard Fillmore PEZ Dispenser when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!" [3]

[1] https://louisianavoice.com/2015/07/02/taking-a-break-to-addr...

[2] https://www.momopez.com/dispenser-detail.asp?ID=7583

[3] https://www.momopez.com/dispenser-detail.asp?ID=5954
that's mostly a gamble about timing, not the validity of the p/e ratio--that you can both get into and get out of a short position with sufficiently precise timing.

so no.
Why your users should store their own data
>and accelerant
The ruling seems reasonable, the law... Very surprising. Since when is line of work/business a protected class? And its also not clear whether the "person" applying needs to be a natural person or if it can be an llc etc. I wasn't aware LLCs could suffer discrimination (at least not directly)...
How Trump turned ventilators into a form of patronage
A lot of wasted time to write an in depth article. Let me make it easier. Like just about everything having to do with Trump, It’s a scam.
Drive by lawsuits for discrimination? I'd like to hear more about how this would work.. Is this a thing? Like you would go sue a perfectly legitimate and non-discriminatory business for excluding black people, even though no such discrimination exists? And how would they win that? And how many attempts before they lose their license and/or are barred from bring any more cases?

Here's the Unrah Act:

All persons within the jurisdiction of this state are free and equal, and no matter what their sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, or sexual orientation are entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or services in all business establishments of every kind whatsoever.

Seems to me that the only business that would be concerned is a business that is engaged in activity that they shouldn't be doing anyway. And if that's the case, they should be sued.
I'd be interested to look at that sequence comparison in more detail. IIRC you can link BLAST results etc. directly from NCBI's site, and I'm sure you can link the sequence accessions to which you refer.
Very nice! I had exactly this idea a couple weeks ago when on a 25+ person “zoom party”. We needed a way to break into little groups. This is a cool way to do it, obviously with little improvements. I think requiring a face is good too! You could have not map in the background too, it’s not really necessary, just the radar is fine!
They'll just make the fees be 110% of the transaction or something similar. That's how credit card processors do it now.

They charge a variable rate based on the nature of the business and the risk it involves. Porn sites get charged 10-20% in credit card fees because of the high number of chargebacks.
I just went through this process on the other side as an 18F client.

Overall, I was happy with our experience, but the key (and in my opinion highest risk/resource investment) of their process was the identification and participation of the right product owner on the client side.

If you use 18F you are buying talent and a process. Besides money, you are also commiting a major personnel resource as well.

The key stakeholder is expected to spend a significant amount of time on the project on a daily basis. They also need to be someone senior enough to have decision making authority, ideally a historical perspective of how the organization works, and hopefully someone who had a moderate degree of technical knowledge.

Thankfully we had that person, and we were able to reassign a portion of his portfolio to someone else for the duration of the project. If we didn't have a person that checked those boxes, the project would have been much more unlikely to succeed.

The checklist itself is a fine starting point, but it's not going to be universally applicable in all cases. Again, this is why it's good to have that right key stakeholder.

I understand that agile may be a useful process for software development, but software is a tool/means to an end, not a goal.

I also think it's useful for folks in the software industry in general to have an honest understanding of the tradeoffs being made between different management processes. It's not a simple as waterfall bad, agile good. I'm curious how many people in this industry have real cross cutting (non software) engineering management experience. I get the feeling it's not a lot, which is too bad because those are the people you are designing tools for.
An intention to enter into an online transaction for the point of a business agreement is any attempt to create any online account. This is particularly true for social media where the user is the product and their data is a revenue generating business commodity immediately available regardless of whether that user ever returns to the site.

This legal decision is a very good thing. The terms of service clauses only exist to limit the rights of the user for the sake of lowering litigation risks against the site in question. These agreements need to be destroyed. If any site wishes to limit user rights or limit risks of litigation they should directly alter their products to apply such limits directly.

So long as online business makes a good faith effort to limit functional access to their products/services that would otherwise violate the agreeable terms they are already legally covered from litigation risks without need for a terms of service agreement, such as anti-hacking laws. The point of these agreements is to allow such websites necessary protection from litigation intentionally withholding any equivalent functional limitations upon their users. The reason for that is they want user contributions with the fewest barriers upon those users and the maximal harvesting of the resulting user engagement.

> And merely awareness is not enough.

How do you legally prove intention? The practical distinction that applied to this particular legal case is that the plaintiff merely read the site's terms of service agreement insinuating that had they not been serious about opening an account they would not have taken such an effort. They did not take any further action to engage that business, however, such as ever navigating to the site's account creation page.

I hope this is a step towards voiding terms of services protections from online businesses.
It's not just HW, it's all big, niche industry, today.

Networking for example is the same. If you want to test high scale network equipment OR virtualized network functions, you will buy hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of closed-source testing hardware, software and/or professional services from one of a few big vendors. You will not let anything about your algorithms and designs slip to the outside world, and neither will your test vendors.

Edit: the same is true of most of the software world in general. Sure, you have Microsoft and Google and many others collaborating on Linux, or releasing Kubernetes, VS Code, Go and so on. But the core IP that is key to their business? That is staying in-house, fiercely guarded, developped and tested by an army of engineers.

The main difference is that there are far fewer well-defined software classes that can be tested generally, so it doesn't make too much sense to look for a 'software testing' industry, like you can for hardware. There are some tool vendors, but they offer far fewer guarantees, since it's hard to imagine a product that could find a large proportion of the bugs in both the Haskell compiler and World of Warcraft.
It seems you might be right:

> White was personal friends with a partner of Shierkatz RLLP, and he discovered the prohibition on debt collection in Square’s agreement after reading the court’s Shierkatz file.
Yes and no. This means you can sue despite not being a customer. It does not mean your suit will succeed.
I drive what, at the time, was being sold as the cleanest diesel engine ever. A super efficient VW which could do 33km for 1 liter of fuel.

All lies it turns out.

You can smell it easily whilst idling on a warm day with low wind.. and it smells really bad.
Agreed, there's basically no current evidence to suggest it was engineered, and plenty of evidence to suggest it was zoonotic and evolved naturally. One possibility that can't be totally ruled out is that maybe this was one of many viruses collected from local animals which their virology lab had stored for current or future study, and some kind of mistake led to it escaping, perhaps through an employee unknowingly getting infected or taking home something with a contaminated surface.

edit: Rewrote everything below here to make my probability beliefs more clear.

I think it's extremely likely to be zoonotic and not spread by anyone intentionally. As for the chance it was an unintentional lab escape, it's difficult to assess what the probability of that may be.

I don't think you can just simply assume "virology lab in proximity = likely source of outbreak" without looking at a lot of other factors. Wuhan is a massive city and economic hub, a lot bigger than NYC and the surrounding area. From what I've heard, there's basically every kind of facility and institute one could imagine there.

It could be a coincidence that the lab was there due to the size, density, and economic importance of the area.

Or maybe the lab could've been established there because they knew the area was biologically diverse and close to many species of animals carrying viruses which could jump to humans, and that such animals were commonly hunted and sold for food there. If that's true, then it would be a confounding variable, and one would expect outbreaks to be more likely to occur near the lab regardless of whether they originated in the lab.

There appear to be other potentially credible pieces of evidence which may support the lab escape hypothesis, but I think the whole case needs to be analyzed very robustly and carefully, with all of the possible priors and evidence taken into account.
It's over already
"more than they would be willing to pay if normal movie theaters were open" seems like the safe bet.
>if Foxconn met certain targets

Have they been met? Has it been a net negative from the taxpayers' standpoint?
This is the same nonsense discussion we are having with the unfiltered NSA data collection: you know it's happening, they say it's happening, but no one can have standing to sue because you know, you being spied on is secret.

Standing should never be the hurdle these kinds of claims fail on.
I wanted to write a git diff for files like KiCad or even Word. I didn’t know custom git merges were a thing. Do you have a link for how to get started?
I use imapsync, http://imapsync.lamiral.info/
Not hugely, although the current Labour led coalition is trying to make them more widely used. They used to be common place, I'm not really sure what happened.

And even then, we only have them for the trades - plumbers, sparkies, joiners etc.
The title should be: "Foxconn Runs Grift on Wisco GOP, Owns Them Like a Boss"...

#justsayin....
Is this the inspiration for the Simpson’s monorail episode?
Those business should price the risk into their fees?
This is what’s important from a company.
I think several factors led to IBM's non-standard symbols. The standards didn't exist at the beginning, so different companies used different things. IBM also had historical baggage, wanting to stay consistent over time. In some ways IBM's symbols were better, for instance making NPN vs PNP obvious. Finally, IBM was big enough that they could do their own thing and train their own people.
I as well. Though not the term, the idea is very old. In Ecclesiastes 4, Qohelet says something like The dead are better off than the living, and better still are those who were never born.

I will say that the question of whether the living should commit suicide is rather different than whether new lives should be brought into the world. Sunk costs and all that.

We will all be dead soon enough. Not sure there's much point in speeding things up.
I drive outside of rush hour so there aren't a lot of cars on the road. So as I originally said, for me it would be a problem.

For other people (like yourself) it isn't a problem.

I'll stay watching movies at home.
FWIW it’s worth I didn’t downvote you however your assertion of life after death was provided with no evidence but appears that your are asserting your faith as fact.

That will rub some people the wrong way, me among them though not the way it would have once, I’ve someone what mellowed with age.
Wouldn't require hosting your own server as far as I see. Gmail or Fastmail could do something similar.

Provider could have UI to generate unique alias, the alias address being account.uid.hash@provider.com. The uid is unique per alias, and the hash is h(account|uid|salt). The salt is of course stored by the provider. This way the provider can easily verify the alias is not forged, and it is easily blocked if leaked.

Mails going straight to the account (not an alias) could then be strictly whitelisted.

Or did I miss something?
When will Papa be redistributing the Catholic church's vast wealth then?
really great tutorial.
This idea of the mutations being 'random' is pretty meaningless. A real question is whether or not something is intentionally engineered to pass these kinds of 'randomness' tests.

Just to give you an example, this is an active area of research that Raytheon is engaged in: https://www.raytheonintelligenceandspace.com/news/feature/ri...
No, that was the very popular musical, The Music Man, which is a very similar story.
https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync

I run it nightly from my home server. It has a few limitations (due to limitations of the Google Photos API) but overall it does what you want.
That doesn't look like the seafood market in Wuhan.
"and simulating full sense perception for something like a soldier in a shooter game is very computationally expensive, so "smart" opponents tend to feel like cheaters since they are thinking in terms of the underlying representations instead of behaving or reacting in a believable way."

I am not saying it is easy. But today, we got some more cpu power to throw at the problem. And even if you simplify a lot, you would still get better results, than plain cheating, which breaks immersion for me too, when they all storm my position, they could not know exactly.

"In contrast making soldiers that are satisfying opponents requires a blend of assets: carefully managing their positioning, animation states and voice callouts"

And here is the crux: there are tons of ressources thrown at the animation states and voice callouts, which is even more frustrating, when their behavior is as dumb as allways.

And not everything is expensive to simulate: in allmost every game with stealth elements for example: you can kill some enemies and the others are looking for you for some time - and then they go back to their default state with "ah, it must have been nothing", even though they might have been already wounded by you and witnessed comrades fallen.

Here you would not need more cpu power, but simply a third state: where they can still give up the search, but remain on guard. (And tend to their wounds, etc. )
This is why many technical tenders have both a price evaluation criteria and a technical feasibility assessment. Best practice would be for folks conducting both assessments to be subject matter expert in those areas.
what do you use for email forwarding
Thanks for the link. It's an impressive sermon. Pope Francis says that "technocratic paradigms (whether state-centred or market-driven) are not enough to address this crisis or the other great problems affecting humankind." He's expressly talking to "you who are informal, working on your own or in the grassroots economy." I think Nathan's interpretation is correct, Pope Francis is not talking about raising the minimum wage, he's talking about a fundamental restructuring of our society.
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Another FP post, another pron comment passive-aggressively delegitimizing Haskell due to lack of empirical evidence
:eyeroll:
Given that this clamping down came about earlier than any discussion of this matter by the American leadership, I don't think that's a good explanation for this.

*Reading this comment again, perhaps I should have phrased it more carefully - I'm not saying that any clamping down that is happening now has come earlier, but that China started clamping down on this from the very beginning.
Isn't that discrimination too if we go by this precedent?

IceCreme? We can't refuse you, but it's $4500 for you!

Where do you draw the line? Litigation is expensive!
I have conducted a large number of interviews from the other side of the desk. The questions I ask myself are.

- Is this guy a habitual liar? Can he give a straight answer or he is a horrible communicator? If I am in a jam, can I rely on him to help me or he will wind up wasting my time?
- Does he know what he is talking about or he just memorized a bunch of interview questions? If I ask an open ended question, does he tell me exactly what was going on in his mind and all the minutiae & surprises that happened to him?
- Do I trust him? Will he make work life easier? Will he pro-actively talk to the right people and figure out what the real ask is? Will he pro-actively try to figure out a solution and handle it himself? Or will he dump everything in my lap and consume more of my time when I am already at my wits end?
why would you like to see more?

tbh I don't get the point of this...it's boring and useless(for me)...
it's nice project for learning or demonstrating the technical aspects behind it...
"The bathrooms are non-negotiable."

That certainly implies bathrooms or nothing.
Drive-ins have no less overhead. They require much more expensive D-Cinema projectors (for higher lumen output), more real estate, radio transmission equipment and all the same expenses as conventional theatres except potentially less manhours required to clean the 'auditoriums.' They are likely cheaper in your experience because drive-ins are almost exclusively independent and in rural areas.
> A real number with infinite digits can’t be physically relevant.

but

> Popescu objects to the idea that digits of real numbers count as information.

I don't know where to stand, what about information encoded in geometry, like pi. If I get a spherical system, in a small enough space - no, in any space - then there's a "cutoff" to the actual number of digits to pi. Because a chunk of spacetime can't contain infinite information? sounds good.

> Quantum math bundles energy and other quantities into packets, which are more like whole numbers rather than a continuum. And infinite numbers get truncated inside black holes.

Layman here, but AFAIK concepts like black holes aren't consistent with quantum mechanics so I'm not sure it's wise to use concepts from both theories at the same time. (i.e QM predicts that wave functions evolve deterministically but GR predicts information loss in black holes, these two views conflict).

It's way beyond my grasp but some theories seems to quantize space, I wonder how those agree with the notion of "thickness".

I'm disappointed that the article doesn't point into any mathematical theory that models the "thickness" that comes from removing the empty middle theorem.
I agree this started in Nov., but dont have a source. Do you have a link?

As I've written before, "a powerful flu like corona" was circulating in SE Asia already by Dec. 10. So the Dec. 31 WHO notification was pretty slow.

I'm lukewarm on congratulating China since they were the epicenter for SARS-1 in 2002/2003, and various bird flus since. I wonder how many hospital staff Wuhan lost in Dec. 2019? Must have been dozens - did that make the press?
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That's a leading question.

Authors of some libraries did not consider the security implications of the object serialisation part of the spec. I assign the blame to them for not looking beyond their own limited horizon, metaphorically speaking. When they made their libraries, the reference implementation was already available and it was secure by default.
I think your question is riding the edge of what might be considered too confrontational on HN.

the overall sentiment is reasonable, of course. you shouldn't listen to people who say the sky is about to fall while they continue buying $SPY every other friday.
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