skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seemed mostly fluff and argument from authority to me, with the main substantial counterpoint this:

> Gunnveig Grødeland, vaccine researcher at the University of Oslo, is one of the scientists voicing their disagreement with Sørensen. She explains that what Sørensen referred to as "inserted sequences" can enable the development of a more serious disease, but this is not unusual in nature: "Examples can be found in other viruses including subtypes of influenza (including "bird flu"), HIV, and several human coronaviruses (MERS, OC43, HKU1)." Grødeland also says that Sørensen's paper offered no biological confirmation on the relevance of positively charged patches.
Everything we're doing is wrong.
Go full Battlestar Galactica and make all controls analog.
That was my first thought too—but then part of me wonders if seeing the original would ruin the work. Some of the intrigue comes from trying to use the background to imagine the tree's original shape.
And Uber didn't do anything wrong at all.

>These people are the cancer of Silicon Valley that generally has integrity and decency in pursuing startup endeavors

The very same SV that has Airbnb, doordash, grubhub et all? give me a break
I think the more important cuts that went unmentioned are the CPU cooler and mobo. You could arguably cut the CPU cooler completely, since these Ryzen CPUs include one.

The mobo cut is also a pretty useful savings, though it will be an obstacle to multiple-GPU setups.

Also, the parent comment misleadingly suggests that a 3900X costs less than $300. That seems like an error in pcpartpicker, since clicking through reveals a true price of $400+.
That makes sense. What is the cost difference between those plans? (I’m not a Cloudflare user, just curious)
Peace in Libya war: Misrata security allowing for investment
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What risk do you see in universal mask use? Lots of people have worn masks routinely for many years (medical staff, cleanroom operators, East Asians, etc.), without obvious bad consequences. Lockdowns are indeed expensive, but mask use seems pretty cheap to me.
Because while the transmitter is off, the radio station makes zero money.
Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Drug_War#Government_co... ,

> In May 2010 an NPR report collected allegations from dozens of sources, including U.S. and Mexican media, Mexican police officials, politicians, academics, and others, that Sinaloa Cartel had infiltrated and corrupted the Mexican federal government and the Mexican military by bribery and other means. According to a report by the U.S. Army Intelligence section in Leavenworth, over a 6-year period, of the 250,000 soldiers in the Mexican Army, 150,000 deserted and went into the drug industry.
Am I the only one that wishes we had something like this in the US (but without the murder)?
I don’t listen to Joe Rogen much, his two interviews with Ed Calderon (former Mexican federal police in cartel areas) is incredible and highly recommended.

He talks about the corruption, the hearts-and-minds efforts of the cartels, the cartel cell networks, how they build roads, etc. absolutely fascinating.

https://youtu.be/llhb2ymtsw8
https://youtu.be/xPBejhoKlb8
Why does Amazon have two Alexas? (2017)
You also can't do that every time because of hidden, flagged, showdead, etc.
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You were not serving that traffic, you were just serving your core functionality - no tracking, no analytics, no ads, no a/b, no dark mode, no social login, no responsiveness. Are most of those shitty? Sure, just let me know when you figure out how to pry a penny from your users for all your hard work.
> But conditional on being in a pandemic the chance that the virus that arises to cause it is like SARS-CoV-2 is super high!!

This statement is a distraction from the main question. The question is: conditional on being in a SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, what is the probability that the virus arose through purely natural processes, vs. the probability that it escaped from a lab.

I am not equipped to assess the biological evidence, but I do know this: The virus came out of Wuhan, the location of a top safety level (BSL-4) lab that experiments on coronaviruses. It is China's first BSL-4 lab, and one of a small group of such labs worldwide. This alone suggests that the probability of a lab escape is not negligible and should be taken seriously. In fact, without considering additional evidence I would argue this puts the probability of a lab escape above 50%. But again, I am not familiar with nor am I equipped to assess the biological evidence.

In addition, if the virus did escape from a lab, both the Chinese government and the bio scientific community are clearly and highly incentivized to keep this fact a secret. Therefore, when a member of one of these groups argues that this is not a lab escape, this serves as very weak evidence in favor of natural evolution. The incentive to keep such an outcome a secret is so strong, that I would argue we should discount such statements altogether and focus on the actual evidence.
> Countries have literally been bombed over far fewer deaths.

This virus, itself, isn't anti-American or "terrorist" enough for the U.S. to wage war against, yet it's far deadlier.
The first step of that kinda exists, <template> is for HTML that shouldn't be rendered immediately. However, you need javascript to grab it and actually make it reusable.
One of the most interesting instances of this was the East India Company. Using it’s own army and navy, it eventually colonized Hong Kong and large parts of India.
I used to think this about myself (and I do still think money is a floor, not a ceiling). But I've come to realize that there are two monetary thresholds for me. A lower threshold after which more money doesn't bring me more joy, and a higher one (which is the real floor) which is compensation compared to others/the industry/the area. Although I try not to think this way, it's hard to feel recognized or appreciated when my compensation is much lower than others.
I feel like this is not the right comparison. Unlike Holmes, Levandowski at least knows his shit. He might not be worth the millions he's paid, but there's no doubt he's not an empty suit.
I've noticed everyone posts links in footnotes, is that just Hacker News etiquette?
> Instead of becoming a mass-market last-mile mover, the Segway became a slapstick prop in aughties comedies.

That GOB, always on his Segway.

https://i.imgur.com/PVKh2Hd.jpg
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Yea I really don't suggest opening this file.
> the chance that the virus that arises to cause it is like SARS-CoV-2 is super high

This statement obscures and oversimplifies, which is unfortunately what scientists sometimes do when speaking to the public because they assume people won't understand otherwise.

When she says "like SARS-CoV-2" she is not speaking about the physical structure of the virus, she is really just referring to general qualities that a virus would need to display in order to reach pandemic level: high infectivity, unusual disease progression for which proper treatment is poorly understood, frequent and unpredictable mutation, etc.

What the researchers in this paper have done is identify the unusual components of SARS-CoV-2, i.e. the proteins and their physical structure, which give it this pandemic potential. And then they describe a sequence of research papers, published by virologists from the WIV, which demonstrate awareness of the characteristics of these exact features as well as a laboratory capability to produce chimeric viruses with these exact features. And the epicenter of the pandemic is a stone's throw away from the laboratory where those virologists work.

If you're going to make a hand-wavy argument about real-world events using Bayesian inference, you need to be prepared to explain why certain evidence is independent of your prior. Or drop the argument.
Trump considering troop reduction in South Korea: report
> I think what he means is that first class is now very rare, except on A380s

That would still be wrong. Most decent First Class cabins these days are on 777s: https://onemileatatime.com/best-first-class/
the most misleading article ever. Twice as fast as best known method ain't gonna cut it for training AlphaZero Go for example.

But still 140,000 images per second! That's nuts. Even 70,000 is nuts.

I can only play 1000 2048 games in one second. Damn! I am slow
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What a seriously lame use of time.
I'll just add that the cartels are so unimaginably brutal, not bound by even the slightest pretense of laws of warfare, that it is impossible that anyone resist to bowing to their demands.

I'm talking "refuse to be bribed and we will skin your teenage son alive in front of you and send the video to his mother".
I will have to try that out... wish I had a spare phone number.
I’ll do it for their old comp.

It’s not like I’ll do any worse than they did.
I upvoted to counter the downvotes, but I'd guess the downvotes were because you described what some people feel were legal arrests as "abducting people", and because you suggested the the DHS secretary sent in forces solely because of graffiti. Your point of view is legitimate, but others might legitimately disagree with it. I think just about everyone would agree with the "call your representatives" part.
Thanks. That's very poor alright, I'll keep a note of it.
Can a brave soul upload a .pdf? I’m sure the mods would change the link to that.
I upvoted you and the GP without a bit of hesitation or cognitive dissonance.
When drugs are illegal, they tend to get more potent and lethal. You can smuggle a lot more doses per kg.

Opium -> Heroin -> fentanyl

So maybe legalize opium?

The other thing is there is a huge difference between by a powder that you don’t know what’s in there versus buying a 100 ug ampoule of pharmaceutical fentanyl.
It's the whole "don't attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity" thing...

but I always like to add,
"and don't attribute to stupidity what can be explained by the fundamental complexity of life"
It seems the higher you go in the ladder of “success”, the more everyone around you is a cunt. How does one square this reality with wanting success?
Maybe Taiwan should make chinese sign a seperate country document for visa renewals.
I experimented with this some years ago, building my own mini-framework for components. The main system provided a global hook that javascript within the template file could attach itself to, so everything for a single component did exist in a single file. So it is doable.

(I liked that part of my system, but I'd rewrite about half of it if I wanted to use it again)
Author of the paper here. Ask me anything!
The purpose is to safely achieve learning goals, not to provide daycare.
Let's see. Travis Kalanick. Anthony Levandowski. One of these is better than the other? No, I don't think so. And as shitty a human being as both are neither of them are on the level of Holmes.
By the story, it wasn't the person who actually ran the exploit ("Kirk") who talked, it was other people in their Discord. Also, the hackers / social engineers in this OGUsers scene have a long history of talking / bragging to journalists. If you haven't heard ReplyAll's "The Snapchat Thief" on this scene, it is a great listen: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/v4he6k
It sounds like something out of a movie.
You’re assuming that there is a pool of hypothetical executives who are a) familiar with the industry, b) familiar with the company, c) available, and d) willing to earn an amount less than what the existing executives are offered here, and e) willing to take a very risky job that will likely end fairly shortly.

I’m not an expert but it seems like these people may not exist and that keeping the existing management on may be in the shareholders’ interest.
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Webpack tree-shaking and automatically chunking into multiple tiny js files, which can be selectively loaded only when needed, is also super helpful here.
This was especially bad because I use Cloudflare public DNS exclusively at my house and it went down as well. I didn’t even think to check DNS, I just assumed it was AT&T being shiest AT&T.

I should probably run a blend of 1.1.1.1 with 8.8.8.8 instead.
>YouTube is a closed platform (server-side), so I personally don't see much moral use of using a libre client.

I agree that this is an issue, but I'm not that much of a purist. As long as I'm not actively supporting a non-libre service I don't necessarily mind using it if I can do so in a way that does not completely disrespect my own privacy.

>To what extent does the cost of YouTube Premium pay for the client versus the creators?

That's a good question, which I would really like to know the answer to. In principle, if YouTube offered a libre client like Newpipe but with a payment model like YouTube Red, and if I knew that a majority of the money went to content creators, I would love that and very happily pay for it. I would be very reluctant to use a non-libre client (like Youtube's own), however - I prefer the browser, even with ads, in that case.
Damn I’m sure he’s appealing to the AI godhead that he is victorious here and doesn’t spend too long of a time in prison.

https://www.wired.com/story/anthony-levandowski-artificial-i...
> ... now that their options and RSU's are worthless

That's the ball they dropped. Yes, handing them a shiny new one out of a foundering company's budget is rather infuriating.
> xenophobic

Disliking the actions of the CCP doesn’t mean people are xenophobic any more than disliking Trump makes someone anti-American.
This does not jive with my observations living in a state with legal recreational marijuana. There are some significant taxes, but even so I can buy some decent weed for the same price as before legalization. There are definitely "high end" products in the stores that are ridiculously overpriced but the crappy stuff is cheaper than it's ever been.

I used to manufacture "shatter" in my basement lab which I extracted from "shake" I bought off of friends that ran grow-ops. Since legalization I had to wind that entire operation down because in addition to noticing a precipitous drop in my own sales figures no one I know is growing anymore! Now I can buy bulk flower from the store for less than I used to pay for trimmings.
Being a smart engineer is no more a pass for being morally bankrupt than being skilled in some aspect of business,
This is the same stuff that causes conspiracy theories around airplane crashes.

The conspiracists go

“It must be a conspiracy because there are like these 6 redundant safety mechanisms and the odds of them all failing at the same time are extremely low”.

But the answer is obvious. If the 6 redundant mechanisms hadn’t failed, the plane wouldn’t crash.

So as long as the odds of failure of each redundant system is not 0%, every plane crash that ever happens will look the same, with multiple redundant items with extremely low likelihood’s of failing, failing together.
I was careless enough to open it, so here you go:

https://ipfs.eternum.io/ipfs/Qmd9PTEtuSrKKtJQw36aNzpjJwZAdCd...
What if the US had a system wherein drug addicts would register, and get their drugs for free (or at very low prices, administered by professionals)? Just take away the middlemen, and provide the drugs in safe, controlled, monitored sites. No questions asked: as long as you are over 21 and can prove a need, you can get a card. Just walk in, get your fix, and either walk out (or lay down right there).

Once you have people in this system, then you can work on them to get them off the drugs.
The self service plans are free, $20, and $200 a month. Enterprise is $2000 a month and up (having recently been quoted on it)
"marijuana and cocaine"

WTF. This isn't 1989. The two drugs are meth and fentanyl. This is so inaccurate I don't even know where to start. You can buy Marijuana in a store on the west coast as easy as a beer - the cartels have moved on. There is zero money in Marijuana. Cocaine was taken over by the Dominican Republic ten years ago. Cocaine takes actual agriculture - the cartels are no longer interested in mass slow farming competing with 3rd world producers.
It depends on the service. Not everyone does it, but many services ban the Amazon, Azure, Google, DO, and many other AS sources simply because they won't originate "normal user" traffic.
It might've if he didn't use his real name while posting on stack overflow. Plus, a few other lapses in security.
Thanks! I think this link might be a little better (direct to the PDF): https://ipfs.eternum.io/ipfs/Qmd9PTEtuSrKKtJQw36aNzpjJwZAdCd...
Huh. My apologies for the misunderstanding then. It's definitely not how I read that wording, largely because I'm highly skeptical that a viable alternative exists for any significant number of non-recreational opiate users.
If you opened it in LibreOffice still same vulnerability? I usually at least try vm's if dealing with something potentially unsafe ha.
First example that popped into my head was Mutiny on the Bounty. Anthony Hopkins as Bligh.
Yup. Lots of opioid users use it to get off of heroin and other drugs.
Modern take on it:

Scrum meetings will continue until morale improves

Edit: Accidentally submitted twice
Generally it’s the shareholders approving these payments. It’s in their interest, and perhaps in the interest of the creditors as well, to have a competent management team who know the company well in place to maximise enterprise value through Chapter 11.
The network in our work is exactly the same as in IMPALA paper. The overall score of our agent is slightly higher, it did better on some envs and it did worse on some other envs. These lasertag levels are exploration problems, and with a bit of hyperparameter tuning they are not difficult, it's just the agent that learned to do 30 different things somehow sucks on these levels.
>Imagine if we could figure out how to legitimize it

Legalize it and the gangs go bankrupt or pivot to another black market.

It's unfortunate many do-gooders are more interested in enforcing their mores on others than working toward harm reduction.

People will always crave drugs and humanity has always had junkies. Embrace this with compassion, not intolerance.
Thanks for explaining this so concisely
When studying for interviews, I tried to use Python as much as possible for its clean syntax and expressiveness. However, it was surprisingly hard to find a "cheat sheet" where I could get a quick glance of trivial language-specific interview questions that I might get.

I created an interactive tutorial that covers the basics of Python, and possible interview questions that might be asked at the junior-mid level. It allows you to try the features as you review them. Hope you find it useful!
He needs this money because he will he broke after his prison term
Me too, I thought it was some tree operation I had missed in my recent Covid pre-interview Leetcoding.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/nyregion/fahim-saleh-susp...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/17/us/fahim-saleh-killing/index....
Startup Idea: Anonymizing data provider based in a country where most big governments can't easily touch you and more competent at removing information that can be used to identify the whistleblower than current news agencies.
Until they introduce some technical measures to provide some degree of anonymity to clients (of the paid service, of all things), all VPN providers should be treated the same way. They share the same business model of making money by selling kindergarten grade technical service and promises of “security” to the same crowd of clueless people by the same methods that include widespread misleading advertising, and now you tell me that some of those are actually freedom warriors.

Essentially, you describe that they provide bulletproof hosting (or network access), and no one does anything to deal with them. Simply because they are a VPN provider. And reply to officials with “Sorry, we have no data”. That's hard to believe.
There is a reason why these types of governments overtime descend into chaos. It's not the exception it is the rules. The western world is just getting a refresher course on what that looks like.
I feel step 4. is just a more specific detail of step 2, and the critical tricky piece of their argument is step 3 because that's the step that synthesizes steps 1 and 2. I imagine that the rebuttals would try to show that step 1 or 3 do not hold.
I like that you'e carved out a space for yourself -- one that cannot just disappear due to an acquisition followed by a "pivot".

Thank you for making and sharing!
I was too young to buy into the hype when the Segway was released in 2001. I will never forget the first time I rode one though, I thought it was the most incredibly fun and cool thing. I ended up saving every penny earned from two summer jobs to finally buy one my last year of high school.

It actually ended up being the perfect vehicle for living off campus at university, as I learned first hand watching my friends and roommates struggle with all kinds of other forms of transportation. Cars needed to be parked in expensive and crowded garages, bikes were stolen all the time and uncomfortable to ride in the desert summer (in southern Arizona), busses were unreliable, etc.

The Segway was actually totally rideable in extreme heat as opposed to riding a bike. Something about being vertical made the breeze totally counteract the heat. Obviously the no physical exertion helped with the sweatiness as well.
Sure, a blatantly outrageous tweet would be caught

But with that kind of admin access to many accounts, it would be straightforward to spread a LOT of chaos from a number of compromised accounts with a series of plausible tweets. The rate things move, it could get out of hand, and a lot of people killed before it got sorted.

Especially true for experts at provokatsiya (provocation) & dezinformatsiya (disinformation) as the RUS FSB & GRU.

And yes, we do have bigger problems than Twitter's absymal security (start w/FBs, which was hacked to hack multiple elections), but to act as if the capability to make comments from a verified world leader accounts is irrelevant is, to be polite, foolish beyond belief.
I have a similar policy that all complex ideas in my field should be thoroughly explained on a small test model. It makes learning a lot easier.
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I'm pretty sure CNAME setups are allowed on the Business plan ($200/month). I had to set one up not too long ago.
To be fair, this claim (the main paper) is released for a month. I even remember encountered a HN submission for it. However, the claim doesn't really attract much attention. A few UK media mention it, but focus mainly on the MI6 chief. Googling the researcher names also found mostly Norwegian sites.
Since the traction of this claim is quite low, then not much further discussion by other scientists as well.
It's election year in the US. Republicans demand that school should be reopened so Democrats must demand that they should remain closed. The evidence shows that school closures are not effective. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/apa.15371

(I.e Trump is right for once)
It's an interesting failure mode I've only recently started to see clearly---before bankruptcy, shareholders are comfortable, thinking, "w/e, if the company goes bankrupt, our management gets nothing." But they fail to realize that if the company does go bankrupt, or close to it, it will be hard to find a replacement for someone with that level of knowledge of the firm. So the initial implied threat is now toothless.