skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is an oversimplification. Chinese culture places a lot of value on saving face — so low and mid-level bureaucrats will massage the numbers so as not to appear to be the weak link in the chain. Do this at every level of an enormous country and you can see how hard it is to even know the truth when the first instinct is to cover everything up, even if it’s a scandal that won’t be published outside China.

Of course, all this allows the media to disclaim the party’s responsibility for basically everything.

Also, yeah; they view China as a self-determined empire stretching back 5000 years. The Chinese generally view Americans as arrogant children and not that smart. I suggest any white person who doesn’t understand racism go to China — they don’t give a fuck that you’re white and in many places will actively disdain you. If you tried to date a Chinese woman outside the large coastal cities you’d likely be literally run out of town. They are reaching the point where they don’t really need us; their own internal consumption is overtaking their exports to the US.
I'm glad the notion of the shitty first draft has grown more popular. For me, I believe I heard it from Anne Lamott–which is basically that first drafts should be expected to suck. I heard it when I was relatively young, so it seeped in. It really gave me permission to let go of expectations, results, hope, despair, etc. and just write.

Frankly I don't know if it actually makes things more "effective" per se—the editing phase is the most difficult for me. I've collected some tricks to edit my own work (e.g., read out loud, change the font, triple space and print on paper, etc...) and also enlist the help of a friend, a peer, or a freelance editor. But this is where the doubts I had let go of come boomeranging back. By then though, the idea is usually strong enough for me to make a case for it and to keep refining. (If it's not I'll just shelf it and start on a different draft.)
Generation Z and millennials have different expectations around tech preferences
Julia if anything is unlike Ruby. The very first Ruby example on the official site showcases its object-oriented nature. Julia instead of objects has multiple dispatch.
Wow -- what a credible source you've quoted. It's the rantings of a madman.
It's much more than just a "guess." Calling it a "guess" is trivializing quite well established evolutionary biology.

> "Decades" worth of mutations can happen in a single immune-compromised host in a matter of weeks.

SARS-CoV-2 has been circulating for a year now. The number of mutations it has undergone is a tiny fraction of the number of mutations separating RaTG13 and SARS-CoV-2.

> fwiw I'd love a source for that "decades" claim.

A paper in Nature Microbiology estimates the most recent common ancestor of RaTG13 and SARS-CoV-2 to be in the 1960s. The latest possible time of divergence is 2000.[1]

> RaTG13 is the closest virus found in the wild to SARS-CoV-2. Samples of it were shipped to the Wuhan lab, which does so-called "gain of function research"--AKA experimenting with artificially sped up mutation rates.

First of all, gain-of-function does not mean "artificially sped-up mutation rates." It normally refers to specific, targeted changes to the genome, done in order to test a particular hypothesis. What you're describing is a type of experiment never done before: passaging a virus thousands of times in order to generate a massively different virus. This would be an massively time- and labor-intensive experiment, with no apparent motivation.

Second of all, RaTG13 has never been isolated. It exists as fragments of RNA in a fecal swab. Its genome has been reconstructed from sequences of RNA samples, but actually extracting a replicating virus from a fecal swab is a major undertaking. To date, the WIV has only isolated three SARS-related coronaviruses, all of them much closer to the original SARS than to SARS-CoV-2. Before 2020, nobody cared much about viruses that are 20% different from the original SARS. If you read papers from the WIV before 2020, they're all about viruses like WIV-1, which is closely related to the original SARS.

1. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-020-0771-4
No, the double masking recommendation comes from studies performed that demonstrate a better fit, especially with the cloth masks that are in widespread use.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7007e1.htm

Don't get mad at Fauci over a personal lack of information.
That's an extra thing they could get wrong. Seeing how some banks cannot deal with copy-pasting my legal name correctly, I prefer to not give them anything else out of the ordinary.
> I don't think this is easy, but it's not as impossible as you make it out to be.

There are many things which are easier for you but others take more time to do the same. This doesn't mean the person who does it within 30min is any better than the other who does the same in 2h.
Those quantum computers can't execute Shor's algorithm, which is required to attack RSA. AFAIK the best relevant factoring result is still 21=3*7 from 2012.

There are claims of bigger factored numbers, but they exploited special cases (e.g. factors differing by only two bits) and have no hope of being extended to attack cryptography.

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/59795/largest-int...

A 2019 paper manged to factor 21 on a 16 qubit ibmqx5, but failed to go up to 35:

> the algorithm fails to factor N=35. This is due to the cumulative errors coming from the increasing number of two-qubits gates necessary to implement the more complex MEF needed for this case

https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.00768
Not the survey in question but we did one last year that showed a significant acceleration of digital transformation. https://www.redhat.com/en/global-tech-outlook-report/2021

Also lots of anecdotal stories from senior IT folks. A pretty common theme is that COVID forced a lot of experiments that were on the maybe someday/probably risky pile and a lot of them turned out better than expected.
On OSX I miss notepad. The dumbest possible text editor. No cloud syncing of notes, no attempt at being optimized for code, no intellisense behaviors, no spell checking or word processor functionality, no WSISWYGness. Just the dumbest possible text editing window to paste things, scratch a few notes, open raw text, etc. I haven’t found the equivalent in OSX even their basic tools are too smart by half.
The Phony Substack Controversy. What does it mean to be a publisher anyway?
Note that the first word of the phrase, “note”, is a noun rather than a verb.
You can put a signal handler in your program to catch the SIGSTOP and run some code before it gets killed.
I remember China had uncontrolled community spread for about a month and a half before even admitting there was a new virus, let alone taking action (earliest confirmed case was backtracked to mid-November).
Any place can be a "shithole". If you end up being one of 2 buildings that isn't connected via Fiber where everyone else is already at 10GBits they tend to forget about you. All provider maps show 100% coverage but every time you try to get service for some reason it doesn't work. But with large companies no one really cares when
you are just a rounding error.
> Let's make a distinction between "the tech world" and some substance we're injecting into people en masse.

Yes, let's, but let's also factor in "how many people die if we pause vaccinations for several weeks and it turns out not to have been an issue".
While no solid evidence, this does seem very logical, and DLSS + adaptive resolution would be a game changer for Nintendo.

Given the Shield 2019 features DLSS or some variant with it's Tegra X1+ (Ai up scaling) it's no stretch to suggest the new tegra to be used in a shield 2021 (my guess) and the switch refresh would have an improved AI/DLSS up scaling.

but that's just my predictions based on nothing but Nvidia's direction and hardware portfolio.
I like this, especially the “let me see it first.” , this is often missing from a lot of new services. I could see me signing up to this. Is trove doing well?
Just go inside a building.
Human manufacturing seems to pollute everything. Plastic in the bodies of water etc.

It’s the tragedy of the unmanaged commons! People don’t care about exponential growth issues until it’s a few seconds to midnight. Except in the case of Kessler syndrome, it’s even worse because it grows AFTER you stopped.

Bitcoin mining electricity use is another big example.
For some people it's just a mental change. I work from home and have done it for over a decade now. I'm reasonably productive and prefer it to being in the office every day.

I'm still going to a local coworking place once a week basically to have a change of environment - it makes a massive difference in a long run. I also really enjoy working from the car service waiting room when I get there every few months. I had one of the most productive days on a 6h flight. I don't expect this applies to everyone of course.
I'd be willing to bet a lot that it's not 5 years, and am still quite confident it's not 15.

Of course nobody knows, but these things are still very far from anything that is running today.
A lot of people have that on hand in Denmark or can get a loan from their bank. You also don't have to pay rent the last 1 to 3 months for your previous place, so it's not as bad as it sound.

People in USA live a lot more paycheck-to-paycheck than in the rest of the world.
A Tesla could make a left turn but they don't because the company doesn't want the liablity. Having to cross 3 lanes adds a lot of moving parts and you can't see a car moving 35mph in the 3rd lane when the other 2 lanes are stopped.

A plane basically has to avoid the ground and other planes.

The planes don't need human passengers. Humans are the planes Achilles' heel.
> this attitude, that is, that things must be hidden or people might get worried, is exactly why some do not trust the new Covid vaccines?

People don’t trust the vaccine because a lot of them are scientifically illiterate and paranoid. That someone on the Internet sees benefit in hiding something doesn’t factor into the equation. It’s an emotional response, not a fact-based one.
Me too and I want to die
Regulations have been eased?
This is another one of those comments that keep popping up... it's not by random chance that the majority of vaccine producers are established in Europe.

This type of operations aren't simple assembly lines that can be moved around, there's a lot of incentives to be in Europe, and this has been built up in decades.

No company would move out, they like Europe, a lot. There's a lot of qualified professionals, good infrastructure, and most likely good incentives to be there.

What you're seeing is the reaction to a company borderline criminal actions. They overlapped contracts, they are choosing what contracts to break and which ones to not break, they are delaying processes that are compromising deliveries, and they keep trying to move products while failing to deliver their contractual obligations.

It's like they are stretching the "best reasonable efforts" to the maximum.
Bridgeport BMW dealer decries state's 'Tesla Bill'
What evidencewould be sufficuent to disprove this theory?

And if no evidence is good enough is it really a theory?

How does it fit the detection of the virus in the material collected months before officual discovery in places far away from the place of official discovery?
Or you could subscribe to the Economist for $189/year.

Learn more about them here: https://www.economist.com/news/2020/06/19/frequently-asked-q...
Go, the RSL inducing language
The Abel Prize Was Awarded to László Lovász and Avi Wigderson
NTL, just googled it. They merged with Telewest at some point
The obvious solution: pivot face-recognition algorithms into top-of-head-recognition algorithms.
> Don't sanction for the mistake, sanction for the nontransparency.

Sanction the CPC for non-transparency and their constant lies to their and the world's population. Demand liability.
You mean the ones that can only be read from a few feet away at most, and can be blocked by putting them in easily accessible "rfid blocker" wallets?
Where your gait can be analyzed, and wifi analysis can correlate you by your heart beat and other things.

The thing is that after connecting all those databases, an AI can quickly figure out where everyone has been and what they’re up to. And as the Five Eyes shares info, you can ask friendly countries to spy on your own citizens.
It doesn't take very many steps of face-saving to reach an absurd outcome--compare CYA culture in the US.
They are rectangular cylinders. The shape works for the problem under discussion.
No it is not, because what you describe isn't open source.
Unreal Finance
The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boot the Covid virus out
You normally have to have a lot of data to get a machine to deal with a situation. There’s a lot more data for flying than making leadership-level decisions. There are likely a lot more unique and fuzzy situations in leadership as well. I’d start off with something simpler, like predicting the markets and weather.
Many high-performance regex libraries use SIMD these days. Hyperscan might be the most prominent example of that, being made by Intel and all.
davmail is a huge waste of resources and in 2022 it won't work as well as it did on a server.
http://archive.is/NLMPV
Some of the background buildings look completely flat when they should have some slight depth. It took me dozens of viewings before I even noticed
Working without (socializing all day) is doing your job. (Working without socializing) all day is being a drone. And likely not even doing your job any more effectively.
I am worried about many things. And I think we are already in serious trouble with regards to pollution and climate change.

For this one thing, spy satellites in low Earth orbit, I am not so worried. Without active re-boosts, these orbits tend to degrade quickly, and the junk gets dragged out on a relatively quick timescale.

Medium orbits, however, can last a super long time, and junk up there is a very serious concern.

BTW, as the average global temperature rises, the atmosphere expands, which will degrade the orbits of the lower satellites even quicker!
Yes, each of the COVID vaccines are under an "emergency use authorization" in the US that's not quite the same as a full FDA approval. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Use_Authorization

It's my understanding that the EU has a similar concept.

(It's an entirely appropriate use of these regulatory concepts, of course; this sort of pandemic is precisely why they exist.)
I think this has much more to do with EV's in general than Tesla specifically. My state (KY) is one of the states that limit direct-to-consumer auto sales and I had to purchase my Model Y in Ohio. I would love to support my local community and visit an EV "showroom" in my neighborhood. However that won't be an option unless this bill, and others like it, pass legislation and become law.
> Lay people - including reporters - are really bad at teasing apart normal "how the sausage is made" from "there's an actual issue here", especially with anti-vax propagandists ready to leap on anything with even a hint of confusion.

Exactly this. Journalists and laypeople are specialists in making mountain out of molehills

But it's said when specialists also do that (with the suspension of the vaccine when the thing it is preventing has a 1000x chance of causing the same problem)
That book is a work of fiction. The summary on Amazon itself is incredibly laughable (Plum island is not "unmarked on most maps").
It was Clubhouse, and it was down for a while yesterday (I stopped checking after an hour or so)
> with everything being remote there is no accountability on the work hours

I don't believe it's true. Or more precisely, I don't believe it's different than what happens in offices. Given the right (bad) manager, people will be pushed to do 10h days at the office too. In that situation it is on the employees to say no.
While the CTO enjoys his expensive scotch and big bonus for reducing his companies IT expenditure and modernizing their software offering to employees ;)
This paper basically explores a hypothetical scenario where scaling quantum memory ends up being cheaper than scaling computational qubits. The title (or abstract) unfortunately does not mention the quantum memory requirements at n=2048 explicitly.

For factoring 2048 RSA integers, the technique proposed in the paper would require ~430 million memory qubits (see the table at top of page 16).
What do you mean? Normally you should see the price at the start of checkout.

We are improving some stuff though:
- Better communication of what's include when you upgrade your project -> DONE
- Explain pricing on other pages as well, like home page -> TODO
Escaping the Fingerprint Crisis: A Blueprint for Essential Research [pdf]
Regular email+pw coming very soon!
Both can be defeated by a long dress and a bottle of water.
The Indelible Stamp of a Lowly Origin
> Is this the case outside of London?

My impression in the UK is buying a new house is something you do when you start out if you can't afford an old house yet.
Bnp paribas have had this on their online accounts for at least a decade now
https://distributed.app breaks Safari's Back function.
You mean it will deliver upscaled 1080p.
Even if it was, 177days for cracking your password with the most advanced technology that exists in the world, still means you have some very powerful enemies. Practically you don't need to think about it.
Bubble Tea Calories
We calculate that for a 700 ml or 24 oz serving of bubble milk tea, which is usually the large cup size in most boba shops, the total bubble tea calories are 700 kcal. This is for a full-sugar serving that contains 60 g of sugar.

Let’s assume that the daily maintenance calories for an average adult man are 2,500 kcal, and for an average adult woman are 2,000 kcal. In this case, one cup of 700 ml bubble milk tea would take about one-third of the daily required calorie intake.
I feel like Tarantino is the perfect example of the shitty first draft. His older films were just...tight, for lack of a better word. They were dense, every second was relevant.

With the loss of his editor and his name recognition letting him get away with anything, his later films are what happens when artists ship a shitty first draft instead of putting in the work to refine it.
Give 'em 5-10 years, and it's a lot harder to tell them apart.
Expanding the Reach of Fuzzing
The authors hide the fact that this would require millions of memory qubits (which need to be as accurate as the normal qubits), so the title is a bit misleading IMHO.
Having cancer is better than Teams.
Negative news reporting like this is a far, far larger issue in vaccine hesitancy.
At this rate, maybe the first commercial Fusion plants will have asymmetric quantum encryption securing their management portal.
I'll second this on both counts.

I've seen my supposedly smart and well-read friends dismiss the lab-leak theory out of hand; rejecting all discussion and labelling me with the right-wing conspiracist label despite the fact I'm heartily left-leaning.

And, I have a lot of experience with political posts on Reddit being "ninja-banned"; appearing in New but not in the main feed; disappearing even from new for an hour and then re-appearing, comments ninja-removed without trace, even from their OP's direct comment feed.

Poor Aaron Swartz :/
Step into the shoes of a web marketing professional. They have built their entire career on Wordpress. It has themes they know, they have the skills to manage the SEO, how things look, etc. it’s got oodles of plug-ins tailored to the audience. There’s just so much mindshare and tooling available that no other ecosystem can rival. It’s easy to hire someone to build a plug-in or write for Wordpress.

Sure there’s security issues, but how do we know the CMSs you describe don’t also have issues? Wordpress is just pummeled much more so we’ll find more security issues. Plus now there’s a cottage industry of Wordpress security expertise that can mitigate these issues.

Something taking the place of Wordpress is akin to something taking Pythons place in data science. It’s possible, not insurmountable, but the tooling and mindshare have so much momentum it’s probably on a decade or so timescale for mass adoption outside of some niches.
This comment is a valuable contribution to the discussion wrt AZ's lack of experience & screw ups.

Although I disagree that there was any reason to hold up UK approval, there was clear safety and effectiveness evidence that overwhelmed any doubts about safety in spite of the screw ups.

But I have zero sympathy for AZ even if many, many people are compounding their errors.
It's worth noting that while we have 70 years of better technology, we have much less of it than we used to have, and the tech difference isn't that large - machine guns are almost the same, artillery is almost the same, and a ton of conventional bombs is as destructive as in WW2, except more accurate.

The standing armies are generally smaller than the ones before and after WW2, despite three times larger worldwide population. The effective mobilization potential of major countries is much smaller than before or after WW2 as many countries have moved on from total conscription where you'd expect most of adult men to have military training and a huge proportion of the population to actually fight in a war. The quantity of planes, bombs, guns and shells that we can muster is an order of magnitude smaller than 70 years ago, so while each bomb or gun is more effective, the total destructive power is less than it used to be. The world has 5 times less nuclear weapons as it used to have.

So the actual trend is towards a smaller scale of destruction. We have major wars that result in as much casualties as an average WW1 tuesday despite being as full-blown conflicts by the involved countries, mobilizing as much as they reasonably can in modern circumstances.
The Eye stores amazing and important archives. Drives the data hoarding community.
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Or your expectations are too high?
Like, this has never happened before, we dodged sars, mers and swine flu so absolutely nobody was prepared.

And have you offered to supply your government with all your vast supply chain knowledge? This stuff is complicated, and one link in the chain failing reduces all capacity.
Kind of... 1st gen Americans retain the drive from their parents’ cultures and do better. But rivers flow downhill.

While I’m not advocating the Chinese entrance exam system, we’re the polar opposite where being lazy is cool. Look at all the youth drifting to LA dreaming of making it big. Some of that is going to YouTube/Instagram type platforms but it’s still a one in a million shot at glamorous success rather than steadfast hard work for a steady career (we do have physicians and lawyers and MBAs who resemble the steadfast attitude but it’s a small slice of society) we’re just not good at instilling this culture in our youth as well as other cultures do.
Not the person you're replying to, but in my case it must be self-hosted and be able to function while completely offline (and therefore no phoning home).