skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just wanted to say I found your series incredibly valuable! Thank you.
Name some names. Who is fired?
Both the US and China are good at running experiments. How they handle larger and larger experiments that fail is where both blunder.
They are also in telegram. Just search "Amazon reviews" in the public groups, you will find plenty of results.
There are many people that are convinced this is the case, however, most scientists with the relevant domain knowledge claim that the virus was naturally mutated.
https://engineerdeck.com

I tried to make a job board in the UK for Civil, Mechanical and Electrical engineers (and other "real life" engineering) because I'm in the field.

Really, I did it to have a list of jobs to apply to. I'm not even sure I can make money from it though. Learning a lot about the internet and websites, so not all a failure.

Maybe next year, I'll start charging.
Lets spend that spy plane money on mental health professionals and stuff that actually helps people and lets us not use the police for everything all the time.

AKA "Defund the police."
Thank you! Do you have an end-to-end write up for the experience? Tooling, libraries, deployment, etc?
Even if COVID wasn't man-made, could the eventual outcome have been any better for China?

1. Authoritarianism is glorified and justified with lockdowns, arbitrary rules, and tracking.

2. European societies which 'just aren't authoritarian enough' are plunged into chaos.

3. The economic problems of China caused by tariffs are forgotten.

4. The necessity of mail-in ballots assists the deposal of an Anti-Chinese American president, replaced by one who has corrupt business dealings with China.
When you spend that much time alone with your thoughts you start to see all of the negative parts of your life. Some can’t handle it. Then there’s Hunter S. Thompson’s routine for writing: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/33487/hunter-s-thompsons...
It's ~$100 per US resident. Given how much bigger the economy is than that, how much money moves in and out of the country per year?

Which isn't to say that automated systems couldn't catch more of it, I just wonder what the scale is.
What is this even supposed to mean or imply here?
Google Stadia to Use Predictive AI
This is actually, where I started [1]. However, I was looking for a more concise gameplay that would have a closer resemblance to Spacewar's mechanics. And the most important game mechanic is establishing and managing orbits while coping with any opponents.

[1] https://www.masswerk.at/gravioroids/ (unfinished, but playable, sound is still missing)
Continue to work on Gurlic and make it the best place to build new internet communities.

https://gurlic.com
So what you mean to say is

The British Office for National Statistics concludes that the impact of the covid with lockdown in terms of QALY (quality-adjusted life year) is far lower than impact of covid without lockdown
In the current system maybe. All things can change, laws especially.

But there seems to be heavy bipartisan support federally/executively for mass surveillance in the US so good luck with getting your privacy protected nationally.

Your best hope is some local policy changes at the state or municipal level in Baltimore or Maryland. Which may inspire change elsewhere.
Or just the ability for others too wager against them based on their conclusion. If they think they have a 99% chance of being correct, then let people put 1,000 up against their 100,000.
Most of the things you list are state functions, not federal government functions.
"possibly multi-MB messages"

Megabytes?

By "telemetry" does he mean "getting info on what our pumps out in the oil field are doing" or "snooping on users of a program"?
It's not just "very weird setups." Totally normal setups differ greatly.

One example of variation is that the users might be writing code using different languages. The parser and static analysis for a project written in Go will be very different than a project written in Java. All the language-specific stuff is different code that has different performance characteristics.

As an analogy, it's sort of like testing browser performance for loading an "average" web page, when each web site has different performance, depending on how it was written. Load times for Hacker News aren't all that relevant for Gmail or the New York Times.

Yes, you can make a benchmark and optimize it, but you might not even be running the same code that real users are running, due to plugins.
Google buying "green" isn't a justification because it fails the categorical imperative. It's impossible for everyone to buy "green" energy.
Actually, my understanding [1] is that the spike proteins are expected to come together to form a full spike, and that this is what the antibodies match off of.

So, even further from regex. The RNA gets turned into a sequence of amino acids, which folds in an extremely complex 3D shape, which bind together with two other proteins to form a large structure, the full shape of which is matched by antibodies.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/health/pfizer-biont...
agree, and .. wondering out loud how much "fake - look over THERE" is going on to cover actual corruption within the USA over these benefits, by those connected to the US system somehow
I don't like the black background.
Sadly, the ACLU today would support surveillance if someone made the argument that it could be used to track “racists and Nazis”. It’s a shame what has happened to the institution. I stopped donating a few years ago because it’s been captured by ideologues whose ideologies incompatible with civil liberties.
Looked, since we just did insurance elections- my semi-monthly cost is $580 and the company's is $735 for my family HSA plan. $280 of that is the cash contribution to the HSA, which will get spent, since all costs except checkups go directly against the deductible.

But removing the HSA contribution, that is $600 a month by myself, for the premium and $1470 by the company.
Circumstantial evidence is a part of some scientific analysis, especially as it edges up against forensic science.

It is part of divining what type of experiment or investigation is indicated to unearth direct evidence.

From the opinion piece in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences I linked elsewhere in this thread:

"""
An investigative process should be transparent, collaborative, international, and, to the extent possible, devoid of political interest. Recent, productive scientific collaborations between the United States and China, for example, provide hope that such a process can be achieved. But the kind of effort required will need to expand far beyond what’s taken place so far, and nations other than the United States and China will need to be involved. Conflicts of interest by researchers, administrators, and policymakers on all sides must be revealed and addressed, and all relevant global constituencies must be included.
"""
Was it even avoidable with global competition putting pressure on price and cost? Americans just don't want to work for the same wages some in China may accept.
From their Twitter account:
"Probably our most surprising finding to date: COVID-19 has likely originated in a lab.
A probabilistic analysis shows the proximity to a major coronavirus lab and anomalies in the genetic code are too unlikely for SARS-CoV-2 to have developed naturally.
"

https://twitter.com/Rootclaim/status/1343207878325383168
Where do they offer $100K to anyone who debunks their hypothesis?

How can someone "prove" it is Zoonotic in origin, to "win" the bet?

Is this a false challenge; Someone may be able to prove that this started in a lab, but no one can prove the opposite. Free publicity.

As an aside, it looks like they list "No whistleblowers" and "No reported infections at WIV" as increasing the odds it is not Zoonotic, which makes no sense.
Parent meant that the comment s/he replied to is dead, not that the replying comment (that s/he made and is reposting) is dead.
I created nextmobi.net (domain has not been renewed for a long time). It was gsmarena competitor. It mostly helped with my programming skills in teen years but did not generate much money but I earned quite a bit in early mobile days (before apps took over) with mostly warez sites. I also had my own torrent tracker. Those were much simpler times...
I watched the animation from Nat the CEO and what struck me as odd was the volume of which Brazil does “activity” at night.

Clearly the USA is more active during the day, as is India and Europe. Brazil on the other hand is backwards. Anyone know why that would be? I’ve worked with Brazilians before during the day so that struck me as really peculiar.
> It really makes no logical sense why these things are bundled together as one bill, either.

It makes perfect logical sense for a majority-government party which wants to quash scrutiny from the opposition, while also ensuring support from its own dissenters.
I used to do 4 days, with 80% salary, until I lost that job just before Covid hit. Best decision I have made. I used to hate Monday mornings, suddenly I loved Mondays, and hated Tuesdays instead. Loved the long weekends, especially that one day when all shops and offices were open. I don't think I will ever go back. This in Denmark, in a small but very international company.
That a person should threaten to kill themselves with a knife to their own throat every time they are not allowed to do something? Freedom doesn’t mean anarchy.
yeah, basically - there's an amount of complexity which is acceptable to business. Less than this and the business will add features until it's met. More than this and the features are not commercially viable.

The amount of complexity that the programmer needs to cope with is about the same, regardless.
This was 100% spot on, btw.
Legalities? You don’t want the server that relays commands for copyrighted games to go offline. With WebRTC there’s no servers :)
I understand that the existence of black holes is pretty widely believed, now, but how controversial is the idea of true singularities being inside?

I know, for example, there's Carlo Rovelli's "Planck star" hypothesis, which posits that the black hole is effectively (from an outside observer's perspective) an extremely slow violent explosion and hits an energy density limit before ever reaching the singularity stage: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_star
"Good" is a subjective quality but I'd say there is inherent value in deep thinking and one would generally be better off doing more of it if they aren't doing much.
It took me several minutes too, but to get to a different conclusion: I didn't notice the lack of reflection you mention, what I noticed is that the real Arnie must be the one "inside" the mirror, while the one giving us its back is a fake. This way they could open the port-cover in the head in a single shot!
5/10 troll
Why are they tied together? Because someone proposed an amendment to the bill, and enough people voted for it for the amendment to pass. Then politicians don't have to put their name on voting for the extension to the "Patriot" Act. But some of them still voted for this. With some research, they could be named and shamed.
I made a face mask and t shirt website filled with items I designed. Let's just say that I haven't quite met my quarterly sales goals... https://ronamerch.co
I have a windows 7 machine. nags/tracking disabled, works with most stuff.

I think linux will be the replacement, not 10.
When the compliance is good the lockdowns work well. Witness the results in the east Asian countries.

They failed horribly in countries where people care less about others and compliance is too low.
That's not entirely what I mean though. The real issue is having people like my parents get used to using a hub.
Did your YC feedback yield hints as to why you were rejected (I am presuming)?
After seeing people rise up in armed protest over being asked to put a mask on and maybe not stand so close to one another during a pandemic - in part because they felt it was part of an authoritarian power grab - I just don't see how we can come to the political and cultural unity that would be necessary. We either have to separate, willingly or forcefully, along mutually opposed political lines or else deal with a permanently crippled, self-sabotaging republic.
I created a binary serialization format and library that is comparable to json but binary. It uses 1-byte tags to give type information, which often already contains the value (in case of 0,1,true,false,null,empty string, empty list, empty object, single letter string or one of the last 32 interned strings) very similarly to msgpack. But it has the advantage, that strings are interned, which does about the same for performance as a runtime schema-based thing like Avro, but is more generic. Also, like bencode, it uses the convention that keys in objects are sorted, so that linear deserialization directly into the target objects is much simpler. And instead of prepending the size or length of objects and lists, there is a separate end-tag, so that you can start streaming data, before you know how much it will be. Sure, you can't skip without reading the data you skip over, but you (the receiver) can just do an initial pass and store the skip information in a cache, if you need. That seems better than requiring the sender to do multipass without knowing if anyone will ever use the skip info.
> their image is very carefully orchestrated and managed

no it isn’t. I met one of them, he was super nice. and I’m a very critical person.

chill out. sometimes it just is what it looks like.
It seems like the more I read about the police, the more I realize that in their current form, they are unnecessary. For general policing, as in keeping the population safe and dampening crime, they don't need spy planes, they need legs; they don't need pistols, they need communication skills; they don't need body armor, they need to earn the trust of the people that pay them.

If 99% of police encounters don't involve violence, then 99% of police don't need to be equipped for violence. We need 1% of high speed, low drag, well funded SWAT teams, and the rest can just trudge around on foot.
Navigating Uncertainty
Pretty sure the billing morass goes in each direction, with the insurance companies demanding that providers say what they did to get paid.
Ouch, my drink just came out of my nose.
Because the powers that be get sensitive about things that could allow people to physically attack members of the powers that be. Or, in simpler terms: Because the person hearing the lawsuit is a judge.
where under EU law

Though you're not really under EU law anymore, has the UK resolved these sorts of issues, i.e., EU law will apply unless/until changed by Parliament?
Emulators are very impressive! The biggest innovation here is running the emulator in browser (presumably a WASM cross-compilation of an existing desktop emulator?).

Dolphin has had a similar (non-browser) feature called Netplay for many years, and it works incredibly well.
Which is a lot more acurate than the title of this posting.

The posting says the startup "claims COVID-19 originated in a lab", whereas the Twitter post says it "has likely originated in a lab."

There's an important distinction between fact and likelihood of fact.
> There is also huge support to reduce high crime rates. People will compromise some things to achieve this.

Except crime rates are at their lowest points in decades[0].

[0] https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/amer...
I really like the way they lay out the probability factors that contributed to their conclusions - it's easy to follow, at least.

I'm glad they put money behind it, but dislike that they're expecting $10,000-$100,000 in risk from submissions. They hyped up the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge, but - as far as I can tell - that challenge didn't require the applicants to take on such risk.

I get that they want to stem the tide of low-quality submissions, but doing it this way really takes the wind out of their James Randi spiel.

With the paranormal challenge, you could say "the lack of applicants indicates they know the claim is false." With this, the lack of applicants could just as easily indicate a lack of funds/risk tolerance.
So when do posters here expect Google will kill it?
The assumption the writer makes about correlation of odds and probability is nonsensical - betting houses change the odds regularly so they make money based on essentially random bettors current intuition.
Oh, we also have a _mandatory_ week off in summer and winter. (Those that need to keep the lights on take a different week off.)
Also things start tasting much sweeter, like a simple fruit such as an apple starts to taste like candy, it's amazing.
Part of the reason that Kenton left Google and created CapnProto, was because he was the only person working on proto at Google trying to fix the problems Google found.
Hmm. Maybe it's a spectrum, where some situations are like moving homes and others are like like moving cities (need to find a new dentist, doctor, etc) or moving countries (need to learn a new language, learn new laws, get new electrical outlet adapters, etc).

Do you think those resonate better?
Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10
Oroboros
Thank you, great reply. I guess it's not a simple answer to a simple question.
What’s the issue? GMP is pretty portable, no?
You are right. The way they structure their challenges is different. Basically it's a debate between the two parties and judges with the relevant domain-knowledge will decide who is right.
I think this is the most unscientific way to judge a claim, but I think that it's possible that the a group of people with enough knowledge in epidemiology and biology will be able to win this competition.
How do you set the concurrency limit? I'm down to use your framework (thanks!), just curious how you implement it. I couldn't get Stream::buffered to work correctly.
They update their likelihood of lab origin from 1.4% to 42% solely based on the virus originating in Wuhan. They use fancy words like "evidence" but I don't even see a clear reference to Bayes.
I assume the website has something like "requests per second" quota, which then you'd want the `governor` crate [0].

It was recently used to implement rate limiting middleware for both tide[1] and actix[2]

[0] https://docs.rs/governor/0.3.1/governor/_guide/index.html

[1] https://github.com/ohmree/tide-governor

[2] https://github.com/AaronErhardt/actix-governor
Income Sharing Agreement. I think they are mostly used by coding boot camps. The idea is to pay a percentage of the salary for a fixed time/amount. It probably depends on the price of the sessions if this makes sense
I would argue they have and there are plenty of examples though the closest to aviation would be high speed railways.

Their first trainsets were all manufactured with licensed technology (Hexie Hao) and as their demand for, and expertise on, trainsets increased they created new models from scratch (Fuxing Hao) that are consider technologically superior to other alternatives _and_ at a price advantage. (There are many reports on a recent push to start exporting those new Fuxing Hao trainsets that started operating in 2017)
pb is also used in low-resource/embedded systems (to send the data to the servers).
In these cases, the processors typically have little to no cache and very limited RAM,

Performing multiple encoding passes is the only option and each pass is as expensive as the first.
Costs aside, what about something like mag-lev tracks for cars, that can start/go on a dime, and on freeways go faster, even switch lanes to get around slower traffic. Maybe even do away w/ speed limits just go as fast as you 'feel safe' going with the only limit being the max. In cities you'd have sensors/grids everywhere to detect non-car traffic, and regular cars could even drive over the mag-lev, or it could be a separate track, and you can go in/out of mag-lev/drive modes. Maybe it parks you, til you're ready to take over control (say you're napping on the commute). Alarm goes up, you wake up. Stretch, even get out and stand up for a minute, get back in. Buckle up - drive the final block to where you want to park at your job, or if it's a country side location, up in the mountains, etc you might drive for longer then park where ever.

Essentially you could just cover cities and highways to nearest gas stations. Car's running out of gas/electricity it routes itself to nearest depot.

Going cross country and want to stop at lunch? Program the car, and it'll pull to nearest gas station in tim-buk-two and let you figure out where to go from there.

Point: A/I self-driving aren't the only way to get autonomous cars. 50/50 re-thinking infrastructure, sensors, car-to-car communications could get us a lot closer faster.
Algorithm for Engineering Management
You would also think that an unemployement claim might have a red flag thrown if it's still reporting unemployment taxes because the person is still working. My company had many individuals that were notified the state had been paying out claims in their name...but they had been receiving paychecks the entire time. Washington had an auto-accept policy without any verification until things could be verified, but by that time hundreds of millions were gone.
Its pretty irritating to me that any theory of conspiracy must outright be rejected in the english language because "Conspiracy Theory" has somehow come to mean undoubtedly wrong. And the same thing with "Circumstantial Evidence", somehow in common english language has come to mean not very good evidence. Guess what, eye witness accounts of the accused murderer at the scene is circumstantial evidence, but damn if its not pretty devastating evidence coupled with the bloody clothes!
As always, there’s nuance. You can schedule workloads, machine learning/training included, where the power is cleanest (low carbon). Google relies on electricitymap.org/Tomorrow to do this.

https://blog.google/inside-google/infrastructure/data-center...

The more folks who elect to pick where to compute based on low electrical carbon intensity, the faster the grid turns over to clean generation. You must vote with your fiat. I encourage technologists to include this consideration in their workload scheduling requirements. Renewables are almost always cheaper than fossil generation as well.
> BASIC was pushed on to the home micro scene by Microsoft

BASIC existed on many different platforms (including mainframe and minicomputers) long before MS got in on the act (see also the sibling comment here about when BASIC was invented).

> Any talk of BASIC being useful is nonsense.

Now, this is nonsense. I started with Apple BASIC in 1979, then simply due to curiosity learned many other languages (many have fallen by the wayside, 6502, FORTH, Pascal, COBOL) and it bootstrapped my career as a software developer which I still do to this day (like many others of my generation).

All your other comments about having to "unlearn" stuff was perhaps your problem; apropos directory representations, by 1987 due to work and college I worked with multiple different OS directory mechanisms including ADFS, RDOS, AOS, VMS, CP/M, MSDOS and UNIX. Not that big of a deal and just made the week more interesting.
It's still almost brand new still, they launched a new homepage around Dec 14th, or maybe earlier.