skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, can't find it. It was in some random facebook group about this stuff, I joined a couple dozen as the pandemic went on, so hard to find which one and my activity log search isn't turning up anything.

Sorry. :(

I don't have the time or bandwidth to re-write it at the moment. But a lot of her arguments are similar to Dr. Degerin's and also Dr. Ebright over at Rutgers. They are a small minority, like the OP says.

I tend to rely on expert consensus when it makes mechanistic sense like this one does.

Nothing, no evidence we have, makes either possibility impossible. The lab leak just requires a lot more cloak and dagger and new assumptions. Occam's razer tells me to favor the hypothesis with the least new assumptions. Hence zoonotic release is more likely in my opinion. That's truly the crux of it, the rest of it is arguing over the number of angels on the head of a pin.
Maybe it's me being bad in reading diplomatic, but Apple directly states:

> Apps that are found to disregard the user’s choice will be rejected

So, if I'm reading this correctly, if the apps will be found violating the policy they will be pulled/rejected? This statement seems pretty clear to me, to be honest.
… or nanotechnology. The Greeks already had all the right words for it.
I guess at those depths ground water contamination wasn't really a problem
Waiting for someone being labeled a ‘far-centrist’, since I can easily see motivations from all sides of the compass.
The paperwork that nervous HR makes American managers go through is an entirely different world then the process, say, a police officer or teacher is entitled to be a combination of civil service laws and their collective bargaining agreements. I do not exaggerate when I say it is in practice easier to put someone in prison than fire a police officer.

So partly whether or not it would be a good idea would depend on the details of the proposed law, and how they would end up being interpreted by judges.
yeah, not in the time frame available or with the tools available. It would either have to be some hidden virus that they all lied about, or somehow an unknown contaminant in their samples that then also disappeared when they looked.

All new assumptions that make this theory less likely.
Yeah, I don't think the right wing can disown this one. Illegal methods are obviously unacceptable and this guy is a loser, but after the last election the right wing needs to be honest about the situation. One of their biggest political opponents is the big tech companies and they need to organise against them.
You can only "buy" top people if your offer is better though. I see nothing wrong in people switching jobs for a better offer. Calling it stealing makes it sound as A Bad Thing while in truth it is a good thing for the person getting hired. If businesses shared the profits equally this wouldn't happen but then we are not in capitalism anymore..
Argentinian here.

My biggest piece of advice is to not expect the US to be Arg. “I can’t believe these Americans do X, in Argentina is Y” is a useless thought unless used as a joke or just a comparison. Some people come to the US and never care to teach themselves to be a US resident/citizen, and they stay in their bubbles denying that THEY moved to a new country on their own.

People in the streets will think you speak Portuguese.
Actually, those who are somewhat educated will know you’re near Brazil but for some reason won’t be able to figure out you are NOT Brazil.

Those less educated won’t even know where Argentina is.

I find it endearing, don’t get discouraged and use it as a conversation piece. I like to say “do you know where that is? Or just “let me show you on the map” after I say I’m from Argentina.

I know how this sounds, but I’ve travelled most of the country by car and I’ve been in very small towns of the Midwest and if you’re on the whiter side of Argentinian skin tone then you’ll be better received. Sad but true.

Learn to pronounce the letter “I”, and the Th. They are not found in Spanish so it’s weird. Scissors is not “seesors”, lift is not leeft. And Three is not tree, Thick is not tick. Etc

For the most part be yourself, our culture is not that far removed from the US.

Edit: not sure what your upbringing was like, but try not to fall into the consumerism that will make you take a loan or a credit for everything. You’ll see peers driving a $40k car in school and you’ll think that you can do it too, you can, but paying $600 a month in a car is NOT the way to do it. Argentinians are somewhat frugal, stay that way and you’ll find yourself not worrying about money very soon.
It's sulfur with notes of heat degraded rubber or scorched oil. Heated, it loses the pungent odor and has a flavor like mild, mellow onion with garlic, but not as distinctive as shallot.

Everyone around you not enjoying it will still assume by smell that you're eating a bag of farts, but it's pretty good. I wouldn't rush out to replace the garlic and onion powders in your dry rubs with it or anything.
Don't know how many here have an interest in Cardano, but hopefully at least a few. Spent a few weekends building this, where we hook a gameboy emulator to the Cardano blockchain. Main idea is to allow for a community playthrough. Had there not been random elements in the game, you'd be able to re-play the entire playthrough locally by just applying the same rules we've done.
Almost like one-dimensionalizing a whole lot of ideas doesn't make much sense in the first place.
But these are permalinks? This is like linking to a github. It doesn't just "disappear." Unless Reddit goes under, which is just as likely as StackOverflow or HN going under.

At this point, with their market cap and increased moderation, probably less likely than the two I listed.
But they don't and it wouldn't be an easy step.
We are at the very beginning of the history of computing. The age of print lasted 500 years, and there's every sign the age of computers will be longer. The notion that anything we are doing now has been perfected is hard to swallow. Especially given the way each innovation creates new opportunities for improvement.

I'm willing to assume that this is the best of all possible worlds, that everybody did the best they could in the moment. But having all that history behind us gives us lessons such that tomorrow's best possible world is surely better than today's.

I agree that we should have less technical arrogance and jackassery in the future. But that emotional immaturity is also part of today's best possible world.
> the precision metal tools

I was wondering about how those came about not long ago, and stumbled over this[1] nice video, "Origins of Precision".

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNRnrn5DE58
I’ve come to think about this more and more in terms of politics. The core problem is that not all people come to work with the intent to build high quality software in a rational and efficient manner. Also, what do you think film production would look like if you just hired a lot of “senior film developers” and let them hash out who should be the director and who should hold the microphone bar?
I've never owned a car, I move around either by public transport, by bicycle or on foot. I minimize my travels and outside transcontinental flights I attempt to use railways. (Rode my bike yesterday, traveled outside the range of what I can do on bike/foot more than a year ago)

I doubt that my partner and I will have children. (Of course I can't foresee if any of us will have a sudden change of heart in the next years, but in my specific case I've had a strong no-children stance for most of my life. I'm no longer young either so I doubt I'll ever change my perspective).

I live a mostly frugal lifestyle, with the possible exception of cycling and tech. Even here I feel like I make good use of my purchases long after their "planned" lifetimes. (In the past 20 years I had maybe 4 phones in total. I've been riding the same bicycle for about 5 years, the previous ones I donated)

I do my part in reuse, reduce, recycle mantra. (I would say daily :D)

I support politicians that have a vision that reaches outside immediate economic benefits. (Voted in 2020 for EU/local parliamentary elections with young politicians invested in a greener future. Not all of them proved to be true to their word, but I'm not discouraged yet)
Something I find very helpful, to maintain productivity when working alone at home, is this:

- open Notepad

- at the top of the page, briefly describe your development goal - a concrete project or task

- below the first line, break it down into a list of manageable subtasks (just the first few - more will come as you progress)

- keeping the list open on a separate monitor, maintain your focus on the first subtask

- as you get through the subtasks, cross them out or delete them. Add more items or details as they come to mind.

That's it.
yep, 11-14 minutes for TFA.
> In practice you'll have a head start of maybe a year before a grifter in China replicates your three years of R&D and floods the market.

So, not much different then?
But can it run Pied Piper network?
I think I figured out what it is. I turned off web assembly in Firefox to reduce my attack surface for general web browsing (I wish I could turn off Javascript completely, but that doesn't really work these days, so NoScript is as close as I can come). I think Netflix must be the only site I actually care about that won't work without WASM, so I'm fine relegating it to a separate browser with a higher exposed surface that I never use for untrusted sites.
Oh I did not know about Melange, thanks
I am so glad somebody made the effort of porting supporting latest reason syntax !
It's funny that people are criticizing YouTube here for stifling free debate on a scientific issue when it seems DeSantis explicitly selected only scientists from the Great Barrington Declaration to join the Round table. There was no free debate because DeSantis cherry picked scientists that had a certain viewpoint.
I'm not sure there will be images that quickly, just the telemetry to confirm if it was successful or not.
Is that viable in reality though?

Your body is a society of cells, each one prepared to kill itself upon malfunction. If a cell fails to suicide, it will be killed by other cells specifically patrolling for malfunctioning cells to kill. If that fails, we call it cancer, and the whole body dies of it.

Apparently societies must retain the ability to induce parts of them to kill themselves, or risk total annihilation.
> Let's say people thought Bozo the Clown invented the printing press

People write articles to provide information. Reader read the article and learn.
Yes while a lot of bad things can be said about Reddit I'm also convinced it is a lot more diverse. I'm not a Reddit user though. Too much meddling by admins and too much tracking.
The site obviously refers to people actually being able to use such a thing not a prototype in a "lab".

I hope you don't own any Tesla shares because that will be a rude awakening in a not to distant future.
They didn't suggest a boycott. Each individual consumer decision makes a difference in aggregate. Every failed business in history is a result of consumer decisions away from what they have to offer, so I don't particularly understand that rationale.
I would add E[1] language to that list.

[1]http://erights.org/elang/index.html
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The soroban uses rods with 4+1 beads. These amounts of beads is enough to represent decimal numbers.

And the ones with 5+2 beads rods are used to represent hexadecimal numbers. This was the configuration of the abacus imported from China, the suanpan.
What about botnet operators? This would give them a hard time if they have to hack each device specifically instead of recycling old linux vulnerabilities wholesale. The whole IoT industry is strongly committed to make devices available to botnet operators, indeed this looks like the main function, the function on the packaging usually works poorly and is likely just there to convince punters to install the botnet relays and pay for the hardware and power.

:-)
Show HN: BookStack – An open source documentation platform
I've been working on BookStack since 2015, as my first proper open source project, after not being able to find an existing open source, well-designed, ready-to-use (Without extensions customization) offering that would be easy to use for a mixed skill-set workplace. BookStack is designed to be a "batteries included" kind of project and both the design & content structure of the platform are fairly opinionated compared to other more common wiki offerings available. It primarily provides a WYSIWYG editing experience with markdown also available although the two editor types are not yet easily interoperable. Some fan favourite features include diagrams.net (Formerly draw.io) integration, SAML/LDAP authentication support, Role based permissions and a REST API.

BookStack is built on PHP using Laravel with MySQL as the primary data store. The project has steadily grown since first posted on Reddit in Jan 2016, and the community has grown steadily with it. I've found the community & management aspect of the project more difficult and tiresome than expected yet also quite rewarding. I do my best to keep the project stable and moving forward although it is all still done in my free time. I have not commercialised any aspect of it yet, apart from GitHub sponsorships, as my general preference has been to keep money out of the project so far.

I've been hesitant to post on HN before since I did not feel the BookStack was "ready" enough but, based on my experience over the last 5 years, I don't think I'll ever think get to that point. I'm looking forward to seeing what the HN community thinks of the project.

Site: https://www.bookstackapp.com
Demo: https://demo.bookstackapp.com
GitHub: https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack
X11 was designed to everything like OS, it's display server, gui library, font manager, printing server and more, X11 was ment to be like qt or gtk, you tell it that you want to display input and it will draw it for you, the issue now it that basically every app now display every window as one bitmap, because we do not want to use 98% of the x11. Also why do you think there wasn't much development activity in X for years now? There is so much wrong with it's state that nobody wants to work with it. It's like talking: why someone would like to use rust or go or c# when we have cobol? why not just write cobol extension?
I can sympathize, though, with situations like trying to use a remote debugger when there's a distributed backend of php services. In that case, your var_dump gets distributed everywhere too, so you don't need to chase where the request went to.
People are violent in general. There is petty criminals, white collar crime, there is systematic oppression by the people in power towards those at the bottom, there is young people just letting out steam, psychopaths and so on and so on.

Non radical people simply don't have the need to use violence because they are happy with they way things are. They have the police and the military doing the violence for them.

The use of violence is not inherently good or bad and yes you can use violence to achieve a state of less violence. That would be in fact the idealized view of what a police force should do.

The rejection of right wing radicalism should not be on the point that they use violent means but of what they want to achieve. That is to oppress and/or murder anyone not sharing their political views, race, faith, sexual orientation, nationality and so on. Every rational human being should appose that.

Right wing terrorism is a real and current threat. If you prefer to cry how bad the left is, you are part of the problem.
The numbers in the link is about gangs involved in crimes. The local motorcycle club isn't represented unless it's part of organized crime. It makes no difference to the civilians killed in crossfire if the gang has one or twenty members.
I don't get this opinion. Cars are inefficient in space, slow and uncomfortable. How does that replace a high speed train in any way?

If anything autonomous cars would be great for train travel as a last mile solution to replace taxis.
I've still seen no evidence that farmed animals (those that produce commercially viable quantities of meat/milk) do work to improve ecosystems.

As far as I can tell, even in the best case scenario, they consume intense amounts of resources and output a lot of unwanted byproducts, such as greenhouse gases, that are not removed by the farming system.

I honestly believe that current animal agriculture is a root cause of what I'm against, such as increasing global warming. There seem to be less bad forms of animal ag, but I've yet to see any proof that there are good versions.

I think you overestimate my feelings on this topic though. I feel compelled to act with my conscience, but if there were hard data that any of these systems are net positive for the ecosystem, I'd definitely reconsider my stance.
> All plant foods contain all 20 amino-acids, essential and non-essential

Yes but there's a catch, and you can see it in p 24 of the reference you linked.

Legumes are low on Methionine. Grains are low on Lysine. Ideally a consumption of both is needed to balance things out. (Hence why these "protein $thing" stuff on the supermarket is 100% marketing gimmick since they use the cheapest sources available - soy usually)

(Also of course this is the overall proportion, it says nothing about protein/gram. Yes, broccoli is high protein, but how much broccoli do you need to eat to match the content a steak? - answered on p.27 actually)

Edit: "oh look Gorillas and Cows are vegetarian" Cows actually have their intestinal flora make the proteins for them ;)
Also, I just want to reiterate here, we virologists have literally been saying this is going to happen from nature FOR YEARS.

People like Michael Osterholm and Peter Daszak and Vincent Muenster and Ralph Baric and Shi Zhengli have been saying this was going to happen /for years/. It was a matter of "when" not "if" to us virologists. We absolutely saw the writing on the wall and saw specifically SARS-1 and MERS and knew that meant there were likely other coronaviruses that could emerge.

But funding was always so low, because the viruses weren't currently infecting anybody! So the sampling efforts were always very minimal and underfunded!

And now, because of the lab leak theory, that has actually gotten worse, not better!

https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/gb8yye/nihs_axing...
I've legitimately never seen so many words used to say absolutely nothing.
I don't see it that way.
People are creatures of habit and prefer to torment themselves with existing problems that they have learned to deal with rather than get involved in something new.
The simple solution is not to look on Instagram (which is a bit trite).

The more complex solution is to develop a worldview where you only compete against yourself, i.e. is what I'm doing now going to make me a better person in X time.

It's up to each person to decide for themselves what better means, it could be an emotional thing "will it make me more empathetic?" or a financial thing "will this allow me to earn more money?" or something else "will it make me a better programmer, chess player, cyclist, *happier*?".

For all the size of the world and its complexity it collapses down to a local optimisation problem for you as a person.
> Wikipedia is silent on this, but the skipped days are there to make up for the errors in the Julian calendar dating back to the beginning of the common era, and not merely the transition as decreed by Pope Gregory.

And Pope Gregory did this so as to put the equinoxes and solstices back to where they 'should' be: on the 20-22st of their respective months.

Most importantly (to the Pope/Catholics/Christians) was the March equinox, the first day of spring, because that determined when Passover/Easter was supposed to be celebrated.

Jesus of Nazareth was crucified on Passover (Friday):

> So sure enough, when we come to the Gospels, what does Jesus do? When He goes to Jerusalem to die, does He do it at the Feast of the Day of Atonement? No. Does He do it at the Feast of Hanukkah? He could have died at Hanukkah. No. Does He do it at their New Year Festival? No. When does He choose to go down Jerusalem? At Passover, and there’s a reason. He, of course, knows the Scriptures, but as a Jew He’s going to fulfill even their traditions about the fact that the Messiah was going to come on Passover night, and He’s going to die just like the Passover lamb died.

[…]

> The first Passover started in Egypt with slavery to pharaoh and it ends in the Holy Land. But Jesus’s new Passover—watch this—starts in the Holy Land and where does it end? Where does it lead? Not to the earthly promised land, but to where? To Heaven.

> Because, see, ultimately the Passover is a shadow of what Christ is going to accomplish. He doesn’t come to set us free from political slavery to pharaoh. He comes to set us free from the slavery of sin. […]

* https://catholicproductions.com/blogs/blog/passover-and-the-...

So to find the 'proper' day of Passover/Easter, one starts with the (northern hemisphere) Spring Equinox, move forward to the first full moon, and the first Sunday after it is Easter Sunday:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computus

If the day of your equinox is off, so is the celebration of your salvation from sin.
No way! Who refers to a company as a plural?

Unless the Romans did it, but I was under the impression that "organizations" like the Senate (senatus) were singular.
What about setting up some honeypot open-with-no-IP wifi hotspots near google HQ and near places where googlers are known to congregate (or in residential areas with high density of googlers working from home). Once it's their problem, they'll fix it pronto.
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This is like saying thanks to car company with X security feature, it really doesn't make sense to have competitor without security feature. Why eliminate your options? You don't gain anything.
In my experience, I had no network until I answered "no internet connection, disconnect?" dialog that pops up in that case. Maybe you could also say "don't ask again". Then it was working fine.

What is not working fine though, is that I cannot access the internet through the mobile network at the same time. But this seems to really depend on the phone: it works on iPhones and on my previous Android phone, but not on a Pixel 5. I would like to download updates for the esp32 firmware through the mobile network, but this prevents it.
"Hence everybody learns to suck it up and do the bare minimum that keeps them employed, perpetuating the cycle."

In my point of view, that's how you lose solutions to stay in the comfort zone, and I'm not saying the people whom actually "just obey orders" but those who make them.

As I gain more experience, with age and some wisdom (I hope), I see that most top-down decisions are actually the worst way to decide things, people who are "at the bottom" maybe not understand how a entire system works however they do really knows (and suffer) on how their work is sub-optimal.
Submitter here: I'm pretty sure that I've just copied the story title from the webpage (with the ampersand) and pasted it into the HN box, so I assume that HN software then replaced the ampersand by "and".
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