skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The virus likely didn't originate at the wildlife market, because many of the early patients had no connection to it.

There is a building of the Wuhan CDC (not the WIV) near the wildlife market, but the Wuhan CDC has numerous buildings and this particular one doesn't seem to be implicated in coronavirus research.
Huh, interesting! It makes sense in that context.

Having never tried one of these, I wonder if they take that slow camera stream and do higher framerate image stabalization on the phone to make it less jerky when hand-held.
Those millions of peasants living near bat caves would have traveled to thousands of markets all over China, but the virus originated at the one market in China that is basically across the street from a virus lab? It's not impossible, but my money is on the lab.
It's impossible to remove that conflict of interest. The search engine maximizes expected utility when serving ads: argmax(predicted-click-through-rate * cost-per-click). That's the only rational thing to ask for from an advertising network, and it's what the advertiser optimizes for as well by running the ad auction in the first place. It doesn't matter who computes the ad-quality score (the predictor of click-through rate); rational actors with sufficient information will agree on the value.

One could artificially prevent the search engine from e.g. sending keywords and viewer profiles to the ad network, but that is a completely separate regulatory approach from monopoly-busting.

While we're stumbling around the regulatory possibility landscape why not just ban advertising altogether? It's a ~1% drain on the economy that people who know better go out of their way to block.
Emergency Covid Stimulus Will Likely Reveal UFO Documents
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It's a fairly common English expression that's used especially when giving a quote for development of some product or service to a client (or manager): "Good, cheap, and fast: pick two".

Cheap is just the everyday word for low cost. It can also mean low quality, but that connotation depends more on context.

Besides, there are many other successful companies with "cheap" in their domain names.
Famotidine use and quantitative symptom tracking in Covid patients: Case series
Folks interested in learning more about dithering in genreal or blue noise dithering in particular should read Bart Wronski's blog posts here:

https://bartwronski.com/2016/10/30/dithering-in-games-mini-s...
Same situation here. This service is a joke.
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> If they could, they would eliminate dog/kid photos entirely because they don't make money off that stuff. They just show you enough of your friends dogs and kids to keep you around to view the profit generating crap.

Therefore it makes them money.
I read Baker's 'House of Holes' in 2014 and enjoyed it a lot. At least among a certain set, he's a well-known & respected author (here's a NYT review of House of Holes [0]). It's perfectly intelligible for a book about sex to be whimsical, raunchy, and intellectually serious all at once. He's also written a pacifist take on the Allies' involvement in WW II [1].

I agree that neglecting to include a bio was a strange choice. But, as Jim Geraghty at National Review points out today [2], The venue (New York Magazine) is what puts this hypothesis into the mainstream. Conservatives have been suggesting this was a possibility for a long time, but a NYM piece (potentially) legitimizes the idea to a very different audience:

> Baker is pretty blunt about the fact that many scientists have had these suspicions, or at least concerns, since the beginning of the pandemic, but didn’t want to speak publicly about the possibility of a lab accident while the Trump administration was touting the same idea... New York magazine reaches a different audience from National Review, and it is good that a more left-of-center audience will be exposed to all of the evidence and arguments about this possibility. The possibility of a lab accident should not be seen as another crackpot conspiracy theory in a year full of them.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/08/books/house-of-holes-nich...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/books/review/Toibin-t.htm...

[2] https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/01/the-wuhan-lab-leak-hy...
I recently read the Atlantic piece about semi-rich kids getting world-class coaches of prep school sports (crew, lacrosse, etc.) so they might be able to get on the team at elite colleges. Oops. At least it sounded like the general gist of the story was accurate.
First glimpse of polarons forming in a promising next-gen energy material
Wouldn't be surprised if this is for the inevitable multi-socket, high-bandwidth M2Z in the inevitable $5,000 Apple Silicon Mac Pro in a few years' time
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all the people standing up for faces are attractive, i myself like my face on a resume only because ive seen in the past how managers sort resumes, most of the time the face pics go to the top.
Read "Spycatcher" by Peter Wright. It's one of not many books on spying like this (Wright was cleaning up the mess Venona revealed for years) actually written by an intelligence officer, in clear breach of the official secrets act, and even better he was an engineer too so there are lots of tales of him reverse engineering soviet bugs like "The thing" and tracking down spurious radio emissions to find spies.

His theory about Roger Hollis is probably lost to time although MI5's complete failure to address it is probably a hint.
This of course has led to a lot of 'I told you so!' and finger-wagging that voters were too stupid, and shouldn't be allowed to have the initiative system because they're too easily manipulated.

Prop 22 wasn't unclear. The voters knew what they were voting for, which was to keep the status quo with regard to gig economy jobs, and roll back the broad, messy legislation that the state legislature had enacted.

Had Prod 22 not passed, jobs would've been lost in other areas. The small fraction of 'full-time' gig workers would've come out ahead. The much larger majority of part-time gig workers would've lost their side job. Overall, in the end Prop 22 was a wash. We can't paper over our lack of viable careers by creating low-skilled jobs that pay the same as jobs requiring a college education. There is no free lunch.
2 good points. Being in the same city as the virus lab is a lot less suspicious than being across the street.
I feel like that is still a very narrow definition. Dithering's useful anywhere quantization produces an unwanted result, and is useful in a lot of places where "bitrate" isn't even a concept
These are fantastic criticisms. Almost exactly what I was thinking verbatim.
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Since printers do this, I always wondered if there's a good way to undo dithering (at the cost of resolution) for scans. Would it just be scaling down the image?
You point out the author lacks credentials. That’s a fair point. What isn’t relevant is whether he’s written novels...erotic or otherwise. No need to being that up.
Also an MIT alum, and in July I was considering the bayesian priors of the situation:

Roll a dice representing all the possible bat-human interaction sites in the world.

How often do you get a result so incredibly close to one of the few sites in the world that intentionally collects these things?

I have worked in clean room environments for years. Everyone eventually has an off day (lack of sleep, usually) where you experience a near miss... (glad I don’t work in bio).
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Or we should make it so companies can't write an unrepealable law and then dump hundreds of millions of dollars into a disinformation campaign to get it passed.

Both are probably wishful thinking though.
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I'm saying both user preferences and search algorithms change. Even absent an algorithm change, it's not reasonable to expect search traffic to stay high over time. A drop in search traffic is always a potential, and one that exists regardless of any change in the search engine.

And it's also unclear whether algorithm changes - "Google's preference" as you put it - is a problem. Unchanging algorithms would likely trend towards a small set of incumbents collecting most search results. A shifting search algorithm landscape means users are more likely to see results that were previously buried. This story highlights one loser of this change, but not all the aspiring websites that would be eager to get even half of goodcheapandfast's traffic. These search results went somewhere. One site's lost traffic is another site's opportunity. Algorithm updates changing things up is not altogether an undesirable factor in a search engine.
dude, it's about scale. If a food doesnt market well, the company won't survive, same as pharm. don't think adding billions of dollars to anything matters...jesus you're entitled and stupid
* DNS really is a good match for fast globally distributed reads and slowish writes to a hierarchal k/v store*

sounds like another good candidate for distributed TimeSeries DB or DHT type of things.
This is not my literal belief; it is only a logical extension of the discussion so . . .

If covid mostly kills old or otherwise compromised individuals then a socialist country could see it in their interest to release a virus that eliminates the least productive part of the population. It would not be as much self harm as an exercise to increase the strength of the whole.
I can't find anything definitive on that.

However looking at Wikipedia, it seems that Starship is supposed to weigh around 500,000 pounds empty, and will have 6 raptors. Each raptor can produce between 200,000 to 500,000 pounds of force. So it is theoretically possible to hover on them.

However Elon wants to land on Mars. There a single raptor produces more thrust than is needed to hold up the ship. So you're back in suicide burn territory.

But Starship is supposed to have 6 raptors while SH to have (in current designs) 37. So there is hope that
You still need dither for print, where subtle gradients on-screen can suddenly become very visible. I’ve had some large format giclee prints surprise me with nasty color banding.
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With 14x the population, isn't the cost of a given mask-finder app like the one the OP pointed out amortized over 14 times as many taxpayers?
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> 1. The inventor would pay the R&D costs with no good way to recoup them, because he'd be competing against knockoffs who didn't have to make that investment, and can price accordingly. You'd be putting the actual inventor at a disadvantage.

So what? They would just need to sell the research at profit instead of subsidizing it with future monopoly revenue.

Patents are nowadays written to obscure the research as much as possible anyway.

And remember how putting a 3D printer in a box to keep the material warm has been patented? Suuuure, wouldn't get discovered independently.
It is a bit worrisome that the CIA's poor reputation will cause virtuous people to steer clear of it, and it will only attract those who agree with it's tactics. This will cause it to only polarize further. Those who disagree with the government cannot change it from the outside.
If wanting the world to be a better place is an ideology then I suppose call me an idealist. It shouldn't be political to say killing is wrong and we do alot of it directly or indirectly. You're welcome to call that what you want, I just think of it as civil and just, if you wish to call that progressive I could easily call things to the contrary regressive.
I've wanted to try something like this (on a smaller scale), but haven't had time. It's good to hear of an implementation that reflects my expectations. How long did it take you to migrate over?
Quit down playing the inequality. Let me make the math easier. Of 10 people, one owns 86% of the stock. The other 9 fight for the other 14%. You are trying to justify that and it’s unfortunate. Also, the few billionaires are still very much a problem. However, the top 10% still displays a large inequality, quite the opposite of “doing very well”. And, I’m glad there are 10%’ers who are pro-equality, they aren’t complaining about being oppressed. They are displaying solidarity with the less fortunate and I hope they are showing it by voting for pro equality measures and politicians (an oxy-moron, I know, but there’s a few good ones).
Any thoughts about making this an open platform where people own their own data but apps are built on top of it? And users can design their own UIs too? I'd be an early paying customer of that API.
A binary tree might require you to visit only O(log2(N)) of your data, while a linear array on average requires you to visit one half. How does that correspond to less loading from memory?

Linear arrays are often faster, not because they require fewer memory loads, but because the cache has intelligence built in (the prefetcher) that loads some memory in advance even before the code requests it. That intelligence works way better with linear array scans than with pointer chasing. (I'm not sure if these loads will count as cache misses or not).
Not to take away from your larger point, but you can get an email address without a phone number from ProtonMail. In the past, gmx.com also let you register privately, but I didn’t know anymore. Also, there are lots of sites that let you receive an SMS in their number.
I priced Amazon's prescription drug service and it estimated I would be paying my co-pay on each of the drugs. Sounds good if you usually go to CVS but at Walmart I get the four prescriptions I get for $26-30.
It's repealable the same way it was passed: by popular vote.
This looks like another C++ project that doesn't think about FFI from other languages, unfortunately.

Not so much as an extern "C" to be found in any header file.
This reminds me of an old meme that was a fake screenshot of SimCity 4, where the player is confronted with a dozen popups asking them to make a ton of un-fun decisions about things like building permits and policy minutia
What a real life comparison ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If you ever send a gold bar across the world, I'll send you a beer.

I won't pay the beer with bitcoin though, to expensive for normal use, that includes conversion to euro back and forth in USD/EUR to actually use it :)
>>"We can't paper over our lack of viable careers by creating low-skilled jobs that pay the same as jobs requiring a college education."

Well, why can't we? If we are saying that these types of jobs need to exist, why can we not agree that the people who do the job deserve to be compensated with a living wage and deserve dignity and stability?
Take this quote from the article, and s/Google/Apple/g: "If you don’t mind being spied on by Google, and if you trust Google to decide who’s a scumbag and who isn’t, this is great."
Bit flips are reasonably common, but mean is of very little use when one stick can throw no errors and another stick can throw thousands. A more useful quote is "About a third of machines and over 8% of DIMMs in our fleet saw at least one correctable error per year."
He's a fiction writer.

I think that's relevant.
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I see your point.

I'm not afraid of the CIA or NSA or any other three letter agency in the US. They are doing what Congress has allowed them to do (mostly.)

What scares me is people like Mitch Mcconnell who somehow continue to get elected when polls show nearly the entire state of Kentucky wants him out. That is keep-me-awake-at-night level of scary.
It's been a couple of years but I was able to set up 2FA for security keys (Yubikey and HyperSecu) and Authy (same as Google Authenticator but allows me to user more than one device to authorize). I then removed the phone number and backup email address.
> Had Prod 22 passed, jobs would've been lost in other areas. The small fraction of 'full-time' gig workers would've come out ahead.

You mean “Had Prop 22 failed”?
But it's not generic. I have to track the provider version, the Terraform version, my module version, and any sub-module versions, long-term. Each internal team has to jump through hoop after hoop just to run terraform apply reliably.

I've never yet had to rewrite a shell script that used a new version of AWS CLI. It's very possible that that's only because I've not been using it enough. But even that would be just one level of complexity to manage, rather than four.

And in fact, even within a single provider, interfaces aren't generic at all.

You have to write every single resource of every single provider to be specific to its definition. It would be the same amount of work if you were writing a shell script with curl to plug into each API call. I know, because it was actually faster for me to write a Bash implementation of NewRelic's APIs than to figure out its ridiculous Terraform provider and resources with no documentation.

The only benefit of Terraform is that I don't have to write the API implementation [for most providers]
Wait... how come before AB 5, companies didn't do this, why wait till AB 5 was passed then repealed by Prop 22 before doing this (are they clairvoyant)?

In other words, had AB 5 not passed, this would likely have happened anyway as a progression towards off-loading "non-core" competencies to third parties as has continued to happen across industries (an iconic example is janitorial services which used to be handled in-house but were off-loaded starting in earnest in the early 90s?)
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Has the author looked at how GNNs are used in say predicting molecular properties[1] or molecule generation[2]? GNNs are the state of the art on those tasks and those problems are certainly much harder than the Cora/Citeseer/etc semisupervised node label prediction tasks.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.01212

[2] http://proceedings.mlr.press/v80/jin18a/jin18a.pdf
Everyone is so against this move but it I was a grocery store I wouldn’t want this responsibility either. These stores are in the business of groceries, not delivery.

They got into delivery because they had to and I’d imagine it was losing a lot of money and not to mention tough for them to accomplish and manage.

Everyone else and their brother is moving to doordash white label because it makes the most sense. They focus on their core competency and allow doordash to focus on theirs.

People are most upset about the health insurance aspect. The issues need to be decoupled.
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Which would be worth every penny, gauging from the M1.
This looks nice, I like it.

One thing that worries me about CV social networks is the possibility of that site going away or loosing it’s relevance. Once you have lots of comments/recommendations etc, loosing that could really cause issues to your employability.

I don’t know what the solution is, maybe some type of distributed crypto bitcoin setup?