skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What nobody seems willing to say out loud to a reporter is that even talking at high levels about SARS-CoV-2 having possibly escaped from the lab would very probably sabotage Chinese cooperation in finding out more about its origins, whether it did or did not in fact did escape the lab.

Now it appears that whatever damage could be done was, and China did block access to key information. I haven't seen anything to indicate it did come from the lab, or didn't. China's actions are consistent with either scenario. It would be very embarrassing to Chinese leadership if the lab-escape idea became popular, regardless of whether it was true, but especially if it were found to be true. China will be acting mainly to try to stop the idea gaining popularity, and be much less concerned with whether the international community actually learns its true origin.

But if the Chinese leadership had confidence that it escaped the lab, my interpretation is they would probably do a lot more stone-walling than they are doing. But that doesn't mean it didn't.

My brother flies freight in and out of Wuhan, never leaving the airport, and says border-patrol behavior at that airport is very strange, unlike at any other Chinese city. Before they are allowed to take off, the whole plane is carefully searched by soldiers in complete-isolation bunny suits, and passports collected on arrival are then carefully matched, one by one, to each crew member before departure. His interpretation is that China wants to be certain that nobody in Wuhan leaves China whom they would rather have stay.

What that would mean, if correct, I cannot guess.
I would rather you criticize the facts of my argument than the platform it's raised on.

I was under the impression HN has a certain sense of propriety in its "comment guidelines."

Or do you want to stoop as low as the forums you criticize?

Thanks
I think you're overestimating the speed at which these changes will happen. It will likely be ~a decade before the first non-paralyzed person uses this device. It'll take many more decades before they're widely available, much less widely installed.
What was really amusing was that Trump and company were busy preaching the use of masks and how they would save us, while the WHO and a lot of medical bodies were busy trying to misrepresent "we don't know" into "masks don't work" so people wouldn't rush into buying them.

Then suddenly we got a few studies settling down that masks worked, and on the 2 or 3 days it took for those studies to be known both camps completely reversed their messages and insisted that they always had that new message and never changed their anything.
The controversy around how AIDS was transmitted lasted years. There are still arguments around that.
Firefox with uBlock works fine on my Pinephone ;)
They may have deliberately chosen a simple, easily understood, and easily enforced rule. Simplicity is a virtue in public communication. Creating a norm of masks-in-public does the job.

Otherwise, you have the cranks out there litigating endless edge cases and before you know it, the anti-maskers are in the elevator, sneezing on you.
> Or is it rather a few employees who, emboldened by cancel-culture, will toss their political agenda around the office while other employees, intimidated by cancel-culture, shy away from calling out the obvious BS?

This is it. The intimidation is real; look at what happened to James Damore.
If you have root access to your own system, or read access to /dev/input, then it's trivial to deploy a keylogger. No need for Wayland to get involved there. You can't log keys through the Wayland socket because that socket is intended to be accessible to sandboxed programs.
If you don't have any users you will soon find yourself without developers so it is in fact quite relevant.
Investors and especially advertisers may also pressure to remove content.
Meantime, some programmer is frantically adjusting his cosmic expansion variable to get the best pic to his boaed of directors (Gods)
It certainly wasn't lying.

It certainly was: https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/29/health/face-masks-coronavirus.... That's not a statement that mask effectiveness is uncertain, it's an authoritative statement that they don't help.
Use RSS feeds to automate your reading lists and keep up-to-date
I guess that performance gap didn't bother me at that point to switch to less privacy respecting browser and Firefox caught up well, so I never saw it as a problem.
The OP is referring to GPU passthrough setup[1], which passes through a GPU from Linux host to Windows guest (e.g. for gaming). This is done by detaching the GPU from the host and pass it to the VM, thus most setup requires two GPUs since one need to remain with the host (although single GPU passthrough is also possible).

Nvidia used to detect if the host is a VM and return error code 43 blocking them from being used (for market segmentation between GeForce and Quadro). This is usually solved by either patching VBIOS or hiding KVM from the guest, but it was painful and unreliable. Nvidia removed this limitation with RTX 30 series.

This vGPU feature unlock (TFA) would allow GPU to be virtualized without requiring the GPU to first be detached from the host, vastly simplify the setup and open up the possibility of having multiple VMs running on a single GPU, all with its own dedicated vGPU.

[1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVM...
It's probably that Spotify has less control than the big record labels did.
Try millennia...
It's true that cats and dogs have a non-negligeable impact on the environment. One study [1] estimates for the US, which has around 160m cats and dogs, the impact to be around 20-30% compared to humans.

I think it's fair to assume that globally this number is much, much lower than 20%, since no country has as many pets as the US.

1: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
is it different from manufacturing work or work in service industry?
The article links to this Wikipedia page, looks like you can "force" the user to pick a specific card.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forcing_(magic)
Spotify bought Rogan because they want his average listener, it's cheaper for them to stream a podcast than to pay royalties on a song. They also don't want to have to answer questions about why a podcaster they (quasi) employ is doing X controversial thing. So that's what they do, they buy him and drop the controversial bits. It's not really that hard to understand is it?
So to be clear you want such a program to be implemented to be running as root in a way that the user can't individually control its just another root daemon that the user may or may not be aware of.
"[A]safoetida, was used as a cheaper substitute for silphium [by the Romans], and had similar enough qualities that Romans, including the geographer Strabo, used the same word to describe both." -- the article
Edge browser on iOS has an option to make use of content blockers in the same way that Safari does. Last I checked Chrome doesn’t.

I’m surprised to hear that Firefox doesn’t have the option to do so.

I don’t know if it’s just muscle memory, but Safari on iOS is still my browser of choice due to the way you open and close tabs in it.
What's interesting about that Workforce article is that the tone is completely different from the sources it cites. The "2 days less per year" article by Namely that they cite is about how to effectively implement an unlimited PTO policy that doesn't have that side-effect. In the Fast Company article they cite, they found this:

> In a survey we conducted just before we hit the one-year mark, our employees ranked unlimited vacation third-highest among the benefits we offer, just behind health insurance and a 401(k). It beat out vision insurance, dental insurance, and even professional development, all of which ranked highly in their own rights.

Their Unlimited PTO policy didn't move the needle at all on how much vacation people took, but it had a huge impact on how people felt about it. In short, they appreciated being treated like adults.

How the author of that Workforce article got from the two sources they cite to the extremely negative article they wrote is beyond me.
Woven Scheduling to Shutdown May 28, 2021
I'm curious where the line is for you. Is there any legal content where it is permissible that Spotify doesn't want to host it?
Or even whether it exists at all.[1] From Nobel-laureate scientists.[2]

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Notes:

1. It does.

2. Not, as it turns out, in medicine. Expertise has domain-specificity. Intelligence may not be general, at least in some cases.
> The government has clearly intentionally lied about things (e.g. government telling us early on that masks don't work,

Lots of people say this, but it's easy to see that it wasn't a lie.

Please try to find the good quality studies that you think the government should have been using to tell the public that wearing masks works.

Before covid we had lots of studies around mask wearing, mostly in healthcare professionals in medical settings. They really struggle to show a benefit.

Mask wearing (especially if you can't maintain distance, can't meet outside, can't ventilate properly) is important but even now the quality of evidence isn't great.

It definitely wasn't a lie. We know distancing and lockdowns work, and there were some people who were only pushing mask wearing in order to prevent lockdowns. The risk was that people would continue to meet and mix while sort of wearing a mask, and not doing it properly. That would have driven infection up.
The court does not agree with you. A peer to peer communication service, like FaceTime was originally, violates the patents.
was the expanding easy to control ? seems to me naive eyes that expanding on cooldown would lead to graphical issues too.
The thing that makes me less worried is that we're probably at one of the most open periods in history. Don't like Spotify? You've got about a million other options. Rogan freely chose to accept some limits in exchange for a truckload of cash. He was already doing quite well without Spotify, from what I understand.

I think the framing that he was somehow unable to succeed without accepting censorship is a little off the mark. He made what appears to be a deliberate choice to limit his speech to make more money. Is that a failure? I dunno. It seems like part of freedom of speech should include the freedom to make the decision to stop talking about some things in exchange for cash.
There is also no way to rearrange your containers aside from deleting them and making new ones in the desired order. Since I am using this for o365 administration it is a little annoying that I can't keep them in alphabetical order to find them easily.
Let's not forget Tree Style Tabs, no other browser can do it. Great for the tab hoarders amongst us.
> Whom does Spotify try to aquisice here?

YouTube always claims they're demonetizing videos for their advertisers. i.e companies threatening to either boycott advertising on the platform entirely, or ones who don't their products appear in videos with certain content.

Maybe Spotify is doing it for the same reason?
That's an entire family of tricks called card forces. I used to have a whole routine based on them. Here's a blog post with three of them: https://conjuror.community/best-card-forces/

I had about a 50% hit rate on the natural force. You just fan through the cards and time it so they pick the one you want. Wouldn't work for the tea trick, but works fine if you have a fallback.
I've had this as well. I just refresh as soon as the audio and video comes up, and this seems to keep it stable for the remainder of the session. Otherwise, there's like a 60% I lose the ability to do anything.
Still the same. Also the license is not monthly as they try to show. Its auto extending annual contract that you pay month by month and if you want to cancel you have to pay rest of that contract.
beat the 3c509, that's for sure.
This is a real concern, the quantity of scam apps on the store is a problem, but the article is also a bit misleading.

The vast majority of those app reviews performed per day are for updates to existing apps. Clearly these can be much less rigorous than reviews of new apps. Also just because someone doesn't have the skills to review apps when they are hired, doesn't mean they can't be trained to do that perfectly well.

Like I said though, I am concerned. The copycat app problem is an embarrassment. I am optimistic though, I remember back when there was a lot of concern that development apps were running foul of the review process, but apps like Pythonista and Codea seem to be doing fine and Apple found a solidly workable compromise position on that issue. The new 15% tier for small app publishers is a nice concession. These things don't improve without pressure on Apple though so it's good their feet are being kept to the fire. I just don't subscribe to the most pessimistic assessments myself.
Nitpicking but it's "who" not "whom". One tries to acquiesce someone, so "who" is used as it's the direct object, not the indirect object.
That seems like the reverse of the way it's always been on Linux, where there are only developers and no users...
Personally, I have no need for one as I've been perfectly capable of advancing in my career without the baggage that comes along with collective bargaining. I'm compensated very competitively, get raises, negotiate PTO, sick days, etc. I also do not like my freedom of association to be infringed, by being required to join a union and dues extorted from me that I do not want to pay for.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26367726

Not anymore.
Sorry. I noticed a significant uptick in negative Boeing press coverage the moment the union dispute started. It went from nonexistent to constant.
Flight loads miscalculated because women using 'Miss' were treated as children
If I tell you your house is burning down, you won't ask what's the temperature of the fire.
First thought when I see the headline is another case of the FBI "catching" a bomber that they gave the bomb to.

Read the article and the complaint and it's the FBI grooming another useful idiot while patting themselves on the back. I'm just picturing this kid with his hand drawn crayon maps of the AWS buildings and talking bout "70% of the internet" and "oligarchy". Funny but sad.
I am amazed at the scale.

On HN you read about a hustle some startup had to undergo to raise a $1 million seed, and here a second-rate actor https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4878976/ has access to $690 million?
Not to sound egotistical, but did you learn that from a HN comment? Because I literally pointed that out to someone 4 days ago on here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26702559
Firefox, gecko specifically, performed very bad on Mac OS X when chrome just came out.

That was also an era of websites crashing all the damn time - in firefox it was crashing the entire browser.

Chrome was a significantly better browser for a while. Now it's just "why switch?" to your average consumer.
Unsupported presumptions of others' beliefs are exceeding fraught ground.

That may be a logic you encounter in others. It is not mine.

Hygiene practices haven't been harmful, hence, they're a safe choice. They weren't especially useful. As far as misallocated resources, the general disinformation and misinforation campaigns and amplification in various quarters has been vastly more significant.
> Pop-out videos (aka picture-in-picture)

Chrome has this.
Some fair points, but... do we really want political campaigns aimed at, say, 8-year-olds? They're stupid enough as it is when they're allegedly aimed at adults.
To some extent, I wonder if the perception that your peers aren't that smart is just due to getting adapted to your environment.

I've met people who I would describe as "bonkers smart", as the comment I was replying to had it. That is, people who are literally 2-3 times faster at getting to the next step, and just leave the entire room behind, when the room contains a dozen graduate students. They are not that common, even in a place that's supposed to be populated by the intellectual elite.

how well behaved people were in classrooms and also how quick/smart people were to grasp what I was saying and build on it

These are just skills/habits that can be learned!
Thanks for the correction, I did not know that!

Every time I dig into ACA, I find that it’s a pretty decent framework for a non taxpayer funded healthcare system.
I've heard all the excuses.

None of it changes the fact that Wayland was either intentionally or unintentionally designed to exclude extremely common software use cases, or worse, to make those use cases someone else's problem (e.g. screen sharing), thereby creating fragmentation in the ecosystem due to a lack of standardization.

After all, it's pretty rich to blame Gnome or KDE for "[deciding] to do something different" when Wayland was very deliberately designed to offer no standard for how to do the thing in the first place.

I'd actually prefer it was unintentional, as that would imply simple oversight. If it was intentional, that implies deliberately bad design choices that have gotten us to the semi-broken place we are right now; a place we're only finally getting out of as other people (e.g. the PipeWire folks) step in to cover up the spike-filled holes that Wayland has left behind.
Good for you. I like seeing stories like this, especially in here.
This is interesting. I think you'll soon find that the in-memory data structures provided by Rust's std::collections aren't going to work for you when you start thinking about on-disk storage of data.

One resource that is invaluable for learning about databases is the code to the original Berkeley DB

https://github.com/386bsd/386bsd/tree/9eaf3b3359255f461055b8...
Great write up! I hope Brave can improve on this.
Their intent may have been simplification but they have certainly crossed into the territory of being incorrect.

Nor can one use a slippery slope argument.. while arguing against a slippery slope. It is possible to have clear distinctions: "Are you outside and generally six feet away? Great, you can take your mask off."
Actually it might. If expansion accelerates indefinitely, which is one of the theories, then eventually expansion will be stronger than the binding force of atoms and then sub-atomic particles. This is called the "Big Rip".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rip
If nothing else, the absurd mining costs constantly pulls fiat out of the cryptocurrency markets. Tether has been able to keep things afloat (4 billion USDT printed in April so far), but it’s only a matter of time before everything collapses under its own weight.
NIO Has Now Produced 100k Electric Vehicles
It is obvious that he isn't going to crash and burn hard - to you. So forcing you to reconcile with the inability to take a bet that is in accordance with your stated predictions has no value - it doesn't force you to confront the fact that you don't believe what you are saying with enough conviction to act on it and it doesn't force the audience to recognize it either.

Asking me to take a bet that doesn't match with my stated predictions isn't as reasonable. Why should I bet on something that I never claimed would happen? That said - I'm already invested in long positions in various AI & robotics companies. You can bet against my actual beliefs by taking positions which would benefit you if those companies aren't the future.
Where do I find the sampler? I think I checked every page and nothing.
Hi, I actually ended up responding below to point 3 in particular but I also respond to it in my original post. Very few, if any of these arguments are novel.

The reason you will find extremely few people with actual credentials in the science we're discussing in these discussions is that working scientists don't have the time or will to get into these debates with people who wouldn't have the faintest idea how to actually conduct the research they're criticizing.

That post I linked took like dozens and dozens of man hours to write, workshop, source, and edit.

And I wrote it so I could link it in situations like this, and not repeat myself dozens or hundreds of times.

Personally, I'm studying for the biggest exam of my professional life at the moment, and I'm procrastinating here because I find these discussions so horrifying.

This entire thread could be a valuable case study in the Dunning Krueger effect.

Not saying it's not worth talking about, but rather that the amount of time and effort it takes to refute bullshit is several magnitudes more than the amount of effort it takes to create it.

In my case, that's 10+ years studying viruses so people on the internet with no credentials can tell me I'm wrong.
always pay attention who you hire, especially in HR. Woke and activist HR hires woke and activist people, woke and activist people will cause you trouble and can wreck your whole ship. This is true for every industry but especially for media, just look what happened to the once so prestigious news outlets, all taken hostage.
Wayland is power-user hostile. If all you do is watching cat videos all day long Wayland will be great for you.
Ah, that does make sense. It doesn't explain why GSuite is a factor, but I do get the browser sync.
What does this mean for the different devices? Will more be supported? I’ve got a cubietruck and a pinebook pro...
What percentage of MIT grads could answer even half of these. Pretty hardcore questions it seems.
The problem, at least in the US, is what we consider a "serious crime". I don't care about people smoking pot, growing pot, or selling pot. I don't particularly care about people speeding on the highway. I do care a lot about murder, rape, fraud, and theft. These crimes have a massive deleterious impact on social stability and quality of life in my community and have direct (sometimes deadly) consequences for the victims.
> "And while staying at home and away from people is even more effective, going about your business with a mask is much easier for many people."

it's even easier to just distance appropriately in indoor spaces (most are already low density enough to not worry about). if you want to then stuggle up on or sit down and chat with someone, then slap on the mask. much easier than what you're proposing.
I've been using https://iexcloud.io/docs/api/ and it has been pretty good so far
One wonders if it is some fundamental assumption that limits further understanding of the Universe. Is it our intuitive relationship with numbers, time, and physical space that is limiting? We all grow up with societally imposed relationships between numbers, time, and physical space, but are these learned or do they actually reflect objective reality. The frameworks derived from these fundamental assumptions are excellent for making predictions and are testable within those frameworks.
to me the biggest so what is if it's a lab leak then that lab is liable for millions of deaths and trillions of dollars in economic damage all over the planet.
No one ever got fired for choosing Microsoft.
Interruptions are definitely harmful, but if you look at what he did, he could have done it in spite of meetings. What would be bad would be starting it and being told (implicitly or explicitly) not to finish it.

Better to have meetings than to have what you’re doing cancelled several weeks in.
I imagine IMAP would provide access to most cloud-based email services, and I bet there are some IMAP-based export tools. However, in my experience, Microsoft Exchange email accounts are only accessible through the Exchange Server protocol, whatever that might be. Outlook is the perfect intermediary.
Podcast presenting problematic ideas seriously persuade more effectively, like non-fiction contrasted with fiction.
I use both - uBO at the browser level and a PiHole for DNS. It's "defense in depth" - there's more than one layer of defense for something nefarious to get through.
An ne2k uses programmed io, where your cpu is constantly interacting in a fifo way with it.

Shared memory or bus master cards are easier on the CPU. Some compute and pass checksums too, which offloads more cpu.
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