skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“If you don't want to live, I respect your decision, just please don't force it on other people.“

Isn’t that the funny part? It’s fascinating to me that the people arguing against life extension here have two main points:

1. People don’t deserve it because they are inherently bad, they are poorly optimized, are selfish agents, would exhaust their value, are incapable of managing the impact of life extension, and so on.
2. Life is meaningless without death. <—- I am willing to entertain this second idea but the first has a disciplinary puritanical feeling to it which I really don’t relate to at all. This profound pessimism is alien to me. I can’t help but feel that there are ultimately some religious undertones at play here.
It doesn't even have to be the US government itself doing this; US companies are becoming large and strong enough to do as they please without regard to what lesser organizations and even countries have to say.

Perhaps governments around the world should do what the US did (and still does) to foreign companies before its too late.
I had to do so too.
A friend of mine wrote a paper on the effects of cosmic rays on memory errors in data centers a few years ago[1]. He also posited they had effects on hard drive reliability.

The first thing I thought of when reading this article is whether the increased shielding from the water reduced the impact of cosmic rays on the hardware.

[1]: https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/ASPLOS2012.pdf
EBCDIC; EBCDIC... Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time.
As a Linux user, the existence of open-spec boards that I know are supported by it (and a variety of other OSes) actually puts the BSDs more on my radar than they would be otherwise.
Yeah, except I cannot always carry around my laptop, as my small mobile is already heavy enough.

I don't understand the need for snark here on your part, do you not think I have already considered it?

By "desktop" I meant "desktop environment".
There are much better ways to do a billing scam. If someone is doing hysterectomies in a camp where people have no rights it's not to jack up medicare charges.
Only if money remained the engine of political campaigns. But if others can't raise money either, then I think that helps the grass-roots candidates.
American company buys a
British company from a
Japanese company.

How exactly is this only like in the states?
> 1st amendment advocates are soon going to be put in the same position as 2nd amendment advocates to retain any semblance of freedom.

You mean living in the country with the broadest, most unrestricted recognition of such a right in the entire world? And suffering from a persecution complex, nurtured by a steady diet of historical revisionism, concurrently with a creeping expansion of those rights?

I'm pretty sure we're already there.
>People will be able to smell the bullshit. The idea that climate change will be apocalyptic (for first world nations) in your grandchildren's time frame is just as loony-toons as denying it exists at all.

Who said apocalyptic? I said, sooner; even a millisecond reduction in lifespan is sooner.

> The scientific consensus is nowhere near that bad.

Behavioural changes due to climate change leading to increase in skin cancer already has scientific consensus even in our lifetime.

>(for first world nations)

Oh, right /s.
Parent does not agree, if parent agreed, then parent would not have used the word "abuse", which implies that the worker is the one at fault.

There are many nuances to the English language that are difficult for non-native speakers to pick up.
With a 1.5 year old daughter WFH is great. Sure, there’s distractions — she wants to climb on my lap and bang the keyboard and play with the mouse. In the start I used to get upset about the interruption but now I take a 5-10 min break and play with her. It gives me purpose to why I’m behind the keyboard in the first place. If I were in an office I’d miss these moments, leaving the house before she wakes up and returning just before she goes to bed.
Interesting, I find on boarding easier with WFH teams because so much of that informal stuff gets documented. Transcripts of troubleshooting text only (slack/IM/etc) meetings for example are a gold mine. It’s really the mix of WFH in mostly face to face offices that’s difficult.
I posted what appears to be the top comment on the previous submission of a similar paper describing the probable laboratory origins of SARS-CoV-2 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23875758), so I'll try and do another quick summary here. (Caveat: I have no particular expertise in this area, I just read a lot of scientific research)

The lead author here is an immunologist who, unlike the authors of prior papers alleging laboratory origin, is Chinese and was trained in Chinese institutions. At the time of the outbreak Dr. Li-Meng Yan was working in a public health lab at Hong Kong University and was asked to investigate. She claims that she fled to the US after realizing that there was a cover-up going on and she knew too much already.

The most striking and novel claim made here is that the bat coronavirus RaTG13, which is a 96% genetic match to the novel coronarivus, is a total fabrication. This argument is based upon a few key observations:

1. RaTG13 was supposedly discovered in 2013 but not publicly reported until after the outbreak already started, in a paper (published by researchers closely affiliated with the WIV) that claimed it as evidence SARS-CoV-2 likely originated from bats.

2. A number of independent preprint papers raise significant concerns about the veracity of RaTG13, and one published paper indicates that the RaTG13 spike protein is actually ineffective at binding to ACE2 receptors in horseshoe bats (the supposed reservoir).

3. After excluding RaTG13, the next closest relatives are two bat coronaviruses (ZC45/ZXC21) that were discovered and characterized by Chinese military research labs. A Chinese lab published research near the start of the outbreak which identified these viruses as the closest relatives, and that same lab was apparently closed for "rectification" shortly thereafter.

The paper goes on under the assumption that ZC45 or ZXC21 was the backbone for engineering the SARS-CoV-2 virus, noting how the particular characteristics of the genomic match (100% E protein, 94% Orf8 protein) align with what one would expect after the gain-of-function modifications that produced the unusual RBM and furin cleavage site which were also identified in the Sørensen paper. This paper goes into much more detail on those two points, and provides counterfactuals to describe how unlikely these observations would be in a naturally-evolved virus.

In the second half of the paper the authors describe in detail how a lab with sufficient technical acumen could engineer a virus like SARS-CoV-2 through a sequence of well-defined steps, with references to published research demonstrating these capabilities. Then they postulate the exact components involved in engineering the actual SARS-CoV-2, along with a projected timeline of six months for the whole process.
I personally prefer all antialiasing off (especially subpixel, which looks good at first but feels fatiguing to read and eventually causes tears and headache), and found the fixed-width bitmap font he uses to caption the images the most readable of all --- it appears to be one of my favourite fonts, the X Fixed family: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_(typeface)
Thanks, I'll be sure to explain this to all my friends and family, right after I teach them what onclick, "real destination", "hover", etc. mean.
I think it’s more an indictment of the former employee’s naïveté. Who, at this point, doesn’t think that the point of Facebook is to engage in manipulation at a global scale?
I agree with this. I often write up notes in Org mode, but, after trying for a while to have all of my 'sources' in Org, I also came to the conclusion that for actual papers, it's far better just to write them directly in LaTeX (other than initial notes).
Set hard work hours and refuse to deal with it outside of those hours.
Yeah, I think that saying that people are forced to optimize for profit and harm society in the process diminishes their personal agency. Even if you're starting a new venture, you have a lot of choice in how you do it.

Wikipedia and Craigslist are great examples. Craigslist is for-profit, and Wikipedia was originally a project of Bomis, a "web portal" (those words meant things 20 years ago) that tried various things to be profitable and had a good amount of success with softcore pornography. Jimmy Wales was quoted as saying, "You know the press has this idea that I am a porn king. I really wasn't a king of anything, frankly, you know? Because at the time, when we looked at it, we were just like, 'Okay, well, this is what our customers will want, let's follow this.'" And even he, the guy peddling pictures of naked women on the internet because it's what his customers supposedly wanted, ended up spinning off Wikipedia as a non-profit and winding down Bomis.

When you decide to make a company that values profits above all else, it's a choice. You cannot attribute the moral impact of that decision to the invisible hand of the market - the invisible hand cannot reach out and grab things that weren't given to it.
Sorry, these are actually terrible. Some of the biggest questions off the top of my head:

1) How do we build machines that repair themselves?

2) How can we get human bodies to automatically repair and regrow damaged limbs and organs?

3) How do we build an energy source that is the same volume and mass as a litre of petroleum, is as stable and portable as petroleum but possesses 10x the energy density?

4) How can we get the human immune system to automatically develop suitable antiviral antibodies to combat a viral infection?

5) When will heated toilet seats become standard in North American homes (or at least north of Virginia)?
For fresh grads: x2 Manager checkins daily for first 2 months

For the 2-5 yr expirence: x1 checkin daily for the first month

For the 5+ yr experience engineer: x1 checkin daily first week.

For all: reduce checkins as appropriate for each, case-by-case.
Have you ever looked at the output of an OCR engine?
Character (T) at position 1.03409 38.953934
Character (h) at position 9.89402 38.927831
etc. And hypothesized line, para etc. boundaries that (at least in my experience) might have come from a Ouija board.
But notably not in SM64, where they disabled compiler optimization for some reson. Vintage Gamer has a good video about this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKlbE2eROC0
He also did a TED talk:

https://www.ted.com/talks/martin_pistorius_how_my_mind_came_...

There's also another good article, just recently published with a few extra details:

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/t...

> The podcast doesn't detail that moment. It just skips to when he could squeeze hands.

"That all changed when one of his carers, Virna van der Walt, noticed that he could use very small eye movements to respond to things she said."

> He met a woman over Skype.

"In 2008, Pistorius met his wife, Joanna. She was his sister’s flatmate; they were introduced to each other over Skype."
I have a Pi4, 4gb model running my NextCloud instance in a docket container, along with pihole and home assistant in another folder.

It’s always run perfectly fine for me and my needs, and I even tested having shared video calling in NextCloud and it continued to work great.

I’m not sure your configuration, but it might be worth trying on a Pi4?
my best thoughts and wishes to you opendomain. Sincerely.

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
The article says, "Repl.it is already the best place to build your apps."

I'm sure it's not the best place to build a video rendering app using multithreaded rendering to a video window, or an allocation-free audio synthesis engine supporting real-time scheduling. I think these are basically impossible to achieve client-server, and difficult if implemented in JS+WASM.
> Is it possible to do audio processing using a GPU?

This thread fascinates me. A sibling comment addresses why it can't be done in realtime (barring some pedestrian-sounding hardware improvements), but the question of "how" fascinates me. I know a little bit about audio, I'm a classical musician with some experience with big halls, I know some physics, and I wrote a raytracer in JS back in the early aughts. Can we raytrace sound? It's a wave, it's got a spectrum, different materials reflect, refract, and absorb various parts of the spectrum differently... sounds pretty similar! The main differences I see is that we usually only have a handful of "single pixel cameras" (I expect to lose a bit of parallelism to that) and more problematic, we can't treat the speed of sound as infinite. I can imagine a cool hack to preprocess rays for a static scene, but my imagined approach breaks down entirely if the mic moves erratically.
Like all services of their kind and "app wizards" before them, they do the easy and expected stuff really well and fail when it comes to the challenging and unexpected. Wire up a executive dashboard ui based on well defined data providers with great exposed meta data is easy.

The reality is that for apps like these to be effective basically 90% of the real work to aggregate and expose your well defined data lake needs to be done. In my opinion apps like these wow the C-Suite with eye candy while obfuscating the real costs involved with creation of "executive dashboards".

Why don't they start consulting firms? It would require them to try to construct and manage a well defined data lake/warehouse rather than leveraging one for the eye candy win.
Hillary Clinton said that Joe Biden shouldn't concede under any circumstances. Should be a fun winter.
This:

"there were no humans on board"

Made me think of this:

"The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment."
Incumbents Have Neglected Their Video Chat Apps
I think that it is pretty screwed up that browsers allow this "feature"...
Take anything written by local media about other regions of the USA (anything outside of a 100 mile radius of their HQ) with half a pound of salt. Including (especially?) the Washington Post and the New York Times. They’re just as parochial as the Peoria Journal Star in their own way.

If anyone is bothered, make a note to send a box of oranges to the WaPo editors during the next blizzard in DC. That was the standard response in the 1900s.
Unusual Features of SARS-CoV-2 Genome Suggests Sophisticated Lab Modifications
nothing to worry about with your six figures salary.
Vim can be compiled to webasm and run in the browser now, so at least on the text editing front, there’s no reason the web text editor has to run a significant feature deficit compared to desktop.

I predict that at some point in the next five years we’ll start to see more apps that are written with webasm cross-compilation in mind, so that “browser” is just another target architecture, just like MacOS, Linux, and Windows.
Its definitely not up to code, but that is not really a problem unless you plan to do a larger (permitted) project in the future or when you sell the house and are getting it inspected. The one thing to watch out for is that if your house does burn down (presumably due to reasons not related specifically to the non-code-compliant wiring) the insurance company will try likely try to deny your claim.

At least in my jurisdiction (America) the only way to achieve what you are trying to achieve is by installing a dedicated subpanel fed by the UPS with appropriate breakers.
I believe that such an installation would only be code compliant with a UPS that was designed for such an application (with a hard wired output connection, and appropriately designed disconnects), but a lenient inspector might let you get away with feeding a subpanel from an extension cord as long as as of the breakers and capacity factors work out correctly and the grounding meets code.

The biggest issue I see is that the system is not labeled correctly (at all?). That is a pretty serious issue because if, for example, an emergency worker were to come into the house under the expectation that the power to the house was cut (at the service disconnect) but the house would have live outlets that are otherwise unmarked. See https://www.mikeholt.com/download.php?file=PDF/11_Generators... for more information (the relevant section for your system starts at page 16)

As other commenters have pointed out, just because you can buy something that says NEC approved on the sticker does not mean that it is approved for your application. A good example mentioned elsewhere is using a 16awg SJTW extension cord to power a 15a load--all of the connectors will plug together but the combined solution is obviously not code compliant and even if it doesn't melt/catch fire it will not supply the load with clean power.
Why was he there with a gun and why was the gun loaded with lethal rounds?
> They are asking which questions in political science will have the biggest impact on the world as judged by a utilitarian and long-termist framework, and I don't see why political scientists would have a confident answer to that.

> Likewise, I am a physicist with expertise in what questions are of intellectual interest to physicists, but I don't think that I or my colleagues have good ready answers to which physics questions will have the biggest impact on the world.

While answering the question involves predicting the future in ways no one should be overly confident in, it's worth noting that social impact questions of that type are, in fact, within the domain of political science in a way they are not within the domain of physics, so practitioners within the two fields aren't exactly similarly situated with regard to the question.
Part of the problem is the exclusive nature of the social graphs.

Suddenly the world is full of cliques, cabals and clandestine societies.
Like the Scorpius (1989)?

https://archive.org/details/scorpius_architecture
this is a bit rush, but an example setting up the quadratic equation.

f(x) := a*x^2 + b*x + c
solve( f(x),x );

from sympy import symbols, solve
a, b, c, x = sympy.symbols(('a', 'b', 'c', 'x'))
y = sympy.Eq(a*x**2+b*x+c, 0)
solve(y, x)
My favourite is a torrent of people telling them to google it, and chiding them for being so lazy.

And it’s inevitable that this will be the top result in Google’s results along with many like this.

The only thing worse is finding people with the exact same issue and then “I fixed it myself”... with no hint of what they did.

Nobody writes for the 3rd party from the future
What do you mean by 'you had to vouch for this'?
Direct link to the paper: https://zenodo.org/record/4028830

I posted what appears to be the top comment on the previous submission of a similar paper describing the probable laboratory origins of SARS-CoV-2 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23875758), so I'll try and do another quick summary here. (Caveat: I have no particular expertise in this area, I just read a lot of scientific research)

The lead author here is an immunologist who, unlike the authors of prior papers alleging laboratory origin, is Chinese and was trained in Chinese institutions. At the time of the outbreak Dr. Li-Meng Yan was working in a public health lab at Hong Kong University and was asked to investigate. She claims that she fled to the US after realizing that there was a cover-up going on and she knew too much already.

The most striking and novel claim made here is that the bat coronavirus RaTG13, which is a 96% genetic match to the novel coronarivus, is a total fabrication. This argument is based upon a few key observations:

1. RaTG13 was supposedly discovered in 2013 but not publicly reported until after the outbreak already started, in a paper (published by researchers closely affiliated with the WIV) that claimed it as evidence SARS-CoV-2 likely originated from bats.

2. A number of independent preprint papers raise significant concerns about the veracity of RaTG13, and one published paper indicates that the RaTG13 spike protein is actually ineffective at binding to ACE2 receptors in horseshoe bats (the supposed reservoir).

3. After excluding RaTG13, the next closest relatives are two bat coronaviruses (ZC45/ZXC21) that were discovered and characterized by Chinese military research labs. A Chinese lab published research near the start of the outbreak which identified these viruses as the closest relatives, and that same lab was apparently closed for "rectification" shortly thereafter.

The paper goes on under the assumption that ZC45 or ZXC21 was the backbone for engineering the SARS-CoV-2 virus, noting how the particular characteristics of the genomic match (100% E protein, 94% Orf8 protein) align with what one would expect after the gain-of-function modifications that produced the unusual RBM and furin cleavage site which were also identified in the Sørensen paper. This paper goes into much more detail on those two points, and provides counterfactuals to describe how unlikely these observations would be in a naturally-evolved virus.

In the second half of the paper the authors describe in detail how a lab with sufficient technical acumen could engineer a virus like SARS-CoV-2 through a sequence of well-defined steps, with references to published research demonstrating these capabilities. Then they postulate the exact components involved in engineering the actual SARS-CoV-2, along with a projected timeline of six months for the whole process.
The Smallest Market I’ll Go After is $200m
Don't young bank employees just sit around all day until their boss asks at 7pm for powerpoint they rush to research and make for the next 3 hours?
Exploring Monster Taming Mechanics in Ffxiii-2: Finding Monster Materials
Humanizing GPT-3: The Rosales Project
My favorite one continues to see the 1000+ dns requests that my Philips Hue lights send after disabling diagnostics on them. It was the same beforehand :)
The coddling of the neoconservative mind (2019)
> Surely Virginia Woolf’s analysis applies here: in a sexist society, the arbiters of taste simply can’t help thinking that books dealing with war are more important than a book that ‘deals with the feelings of women in a drawing room’.

Am I missing something here? Books about war are also more important than books about facial hair grooming. Still sexist? I don't get it.
I think the factor Social media misses is the get popped in the mouth factor. People have always spewed trash, though they dealt with the responses of others "popping them in the mouth".

Social media / the internet as a whole, allows you to say and do things without any real fear of repercussion in the real world. That definitely doesn't help. Compound that by the ease of which we all can fall into an echo chamber, only hearing the ideals we seek out, and it's risky for sure.

The dopamine fix of winning in arguments or commentary through the various gamification definitely feed an unhealthy addiction.