skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, I actually wrote a direct response to this idea in my original post.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vRbACWf90iBC35xNOwlI5bWcUq0... (Footnote 1)

Also, you can literally look around on this exact post and find people who believe that this virus was cooked up in a lab. There were also a lot of people on my original post who believed that.

As is often the case: never underestimate the intellectual overconfidence of people with little knowledge of the subject matter.

To draw a very clear distinction in the sand, I never said we can be 100% certain that this virus didn't originate in a lab. It's just really really unlikely. And there isn't any real evidence to support it. /Maybe/ some circumstantial evidence in the geographic proximity. But even that is probably irrelevant if the current epidemiological evidence is to be believed, which shows that the virus likely jumped into humans outside of Wuhan entirely. See here: https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gk6y95/covid19_did...

In order of likelihood, based on all available evidence and expert consensus:

zoonotic release >>> accidental lab release of a wildly collected virus >>>>>>> accidental lab release of a "cooked up" virus > intentional lab release of a "cooked up virus"
> as management I worked to have pay correspond to performance and had access to data that demonstrated that.

What type of data? Nothing but qualitative analysis of devs work gives any hint on performance IMHO.
Slaves? Like employees are forced to work, they have no choice in the matter, they're chained and cannot leave Amazon?

Either you're diluting what Slavery means or proposing the former which is false.

Every single employee at Amazon is free to go work for Walmart, Uber, local lumber yard, grocery stores or whatever.
But what if the people making the decisions agree with the people you're describing as a terrorist mob? What if some of them do, and some of them don't, and this compromise reflects the diverse viewpoints of the people involved? Or what if it's a purely monetary decision, where hosting rogan is expected to be more profitable than not, and removing a few of his more controversial casts is expected to be more profitable still?

In calling them meek, you're making a value judgement. They're weak because you see them as relenting to outside pressure. But that's what businesses do -- they chase money, and to do that effectively means following the whims of the market. And people are entitled to their own opinions, which may differ from your own. Neither is meekness.
So does that mean I can just hack together my own derivations in, say, Python, and bypass the whole nix-shell vs. nix-env, overlays vs overrides, home-manager, flakes, etc. menagerie? And use only Nix only for its central artifact store and dependency resolution?

It kind of looks like they're trying out different interfaces to the same basic core functionality and seeing what catches.

My personal gripe is that wrappers for languages that have their own package managers are abysmal. But griping about Nix on HN is just extra publicity. Now we're just waiting for someone to explain it in a sufficiently succinct way for the crowd.

Come to think of it, that's kind of like Monads in Haskell a few years back. Anyone remember the series of watered down explanations that failed to address the actual problem people were having, which was that that people were confused by the notation, if I recall correctly.

Nix's roots are close to Haskell turf, so it comes as no surprise they're struggling with explaining their abstractions, resulting in the series of mutually overlapping "official" ways to do things (none of which, incidentally, is the "obvious" way if there is one). After all, Nix is a build tool and not a whole language, so they get to try different CLIs and config APIs within with less overhead than experimenting with a language's syntax.
> Close everything older than 2 weeks. If it’s important/relevant, it will crop back up. If it’s not, then it stays unfixed.

This seems like a great idea: technical debt bankruptcy.

In reality, you're throwing away hugely valuable data that people spent real time and effort producing for you.

See also: https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
Elon Musk's Neuralink shows monkey with brain-chip playing videogame by thinking
Then don't make conclusions from insufficient data and manufacture consent?

I think historians in a million years will snort from laughter when reading "The WHO that denies the existence of Taiwan determined that COVID19 did not originate from the bioweapons lab in Wuhan researching that very virus, only in the city".
Yea not sure if anyone on the Firefox team is reading but I have not had any reason to consider Firefox until reading this thread.

If Firefox made their browser the best at ad-blocking instead of performance (which also might go hand in hand) I would consider using it again.
Ultimately my experience after almost a decade using desktop Linux is use the most common configuration.

Ubuntu desktop, default desktop and config.

Because Linux desktop is already fringe. If you use uncommon options on a fringe OS, you're going to spend lots of time debugging problems. I just like my tools to work.

I'll be sticking with X11 until wayland becomes the default in some future LTS release.
In case anyone wonders what Aristotle's color system was, I found this great page that explores historical ways of modeling and thinking about color:

http://www.huevaluechroma.com/071.php
Some of the recipes seem actually plausible, e.g. https://thisfoodblogdoesnotexist.com/30-Minute-Rice-Pudding-...
Wow, you do seem to have ruffled many feathers. One of your posts is dead and flagged.
Anyway I fully agree - you can do what you want with your body, others should have no say.

p.s - see if my profile, or the link on my profile catches your attention.
Remove background highlighting when pasting text into the terminal
The background highlighting when pasting text into into the terminal / shell has subtly annoyed me for a while. Here is how to remove it:

zsh: Add `zle_highlight+=(paste:none)` to ~/.zshrc [1]
bash (v4.4+): add `set enable-bracketed-paste off` to ~/.inputrc [2]

[1] https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting/issues/349

[2] https://www.garyshood.com/bash-highlight/
Hm, as a [former] drummer, I'm thinking bass drum pedal here. Build for up/down motion while sitting.

The pedal https://www.thomann.de/intl/millenium_pd222_pro_serie_fussma... [english language link]
Something to hit (incl. sensor!): https://www.thomann.de/intl/millenium_e_drum_kick_bass_pad.h...

Partially kidding, partially serious. Careful: These aren't noiseless. My former downstairs neighbor wasn't too happy with me so I could only practice when he wasn't at home ;-)
Oh yeah I think that's a great idea. NSF has been toying with this kind of thing for a while, and they've put mandatory public-facing time in some of their grants. There just aren't all that many good venues for it. But I think the principle is fabulous, and we should fund more places for it to happen.

The National Science Policy Network has a good Q&A site where credentialed scientists answer public questions about their subject area. I forget the URL but a google search should turn it up in a few pages.

There's a similar one called the Science Creative Exchange where scientists sign up to talk to writers in hollywood and work through scripts and make the science in fiction more accurate wherever possible.

I love both of these and have spent lots of time on them in my (ever dwindling) free time. But I'm also the guy who's commenting on a HN post when I should be studying for the biggest exam in my career (USMLE Step 1), so I'm not the best example.
What percentage of users on MyMilitia are actually FBI? Or do they just own the backend?

Hard to imagine this website isn’t a honeypot ...
Didn't Walmart do this in a lot of small towns? And sometimes just pack up and leave? What happens when they leave?
These are add-on features, not core cookie functionality.

I’m glad Google pushed a Web USB and Web Bluetooth. I use Web USB / Serial for a browser based microcontroller debugger. I use Web Bluetooth through the Bluefy app to control some Bluetooth devices without App Store apps.

Firefox’s excuse that “security risks of exposing USB devices to the Web are too broad to risk exposing users to them or to explain properly to end users to obtain meaningful informed consent” is infantilizing its users.

I’m a Firefox user, but I have Chrome installed for Web USB. I’d rather a feature exist controversially than not at all.
Thanks for naming "model-based testing"--added to my vocabulary. I was thinking more about this, and I would expect very little overlap in the bugs that you could expect to catch with model-based testing vs. fuzzing.

For example, if I get an error with TLA+--e.g. some state reaches deadlock, or there's an invariant that's violated by some behavior--it takes me a good deal of interpretation to see if there's actually a problem, or if just need to update my spec.

With fuzzing, it seems like the errors would be pretty clear to interpret. e.g. uncaught exceptions, or out-of-bounds memory accesses are clear problems with an implementation, and I would think takes less interpretation.
As an early participant, while someone might have had this plan, I certainly did not hear this ever stated by anyone. Having the ability to run on Mesos was discussed as interesting and in the spirit of community but the work we did treated Mesos as a source of learning but not as a serious thing to integrate. I’m sure others considered it, but as justicezyx says it was an inclusive idea but at best something a few people cared about.
The problem is that this balanced system you bring up does not seem to exist for commercial meat. Having animals like modern broiler chickens are simply an environmentally wasteful way to get calories.

Supplemental feeding of commercially grown oats, for example, means that these animals are not only using resources on the land they're raised on, but they're also directly contributing to the crop monocultures we both agree are unsustainable. Humans could eat these oats directly, which is much more efficient than passing them through other animals first.

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Vegetables, crops, etc. can be grown effectively and less wastefully without farmed animals. Insofar as animals are necessary to a natural ecosystem, it's the native species with lower impact rather than the extremely modified modern livestock that consume massive quantities of input at produce large amounts of GHGs and other unwanted waste.

As for your last sentence, it's disingenuous to act like animals (including the animals in your example who require supplemental feed) aren't the ones consuming the majority of the feed and therefore are the reason for most of those trucks moving conventionally grown crops.

It seems like the most sustainable system is relying on plants: preferably grown in the same country, preferably grown in less intensive organic means, but even plants that don't meet these two criteria are still more sustainable than the best current forms of animal agriculture.

Consider that transportation is only 11% of a food's total greenhouse gas emissions, and dropping red meat and dairy for a single day of the week is better for the environment than making your entire diet 100% local food. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18546681/)

By all data I can find, trying to run plant calories/protein through the inefficient process of creating animal protein, which necessarily involves much higher GHG emissions and calorie waste, is not a good idea — even with a local farm using carbon sequestering.

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But again, given that 99% of U.S. farmed animals live on factory farms (https://sentientmedia.org/u-s-farmed-animals-live-on-factory...), if you're already eating according to the morals you've claimed in this post, our diets will be extremely similar. I'm assuming anyone who avoids animal agriculture we all agree is unsustainable (by not getting meat/cheese at regular restaurants or at general grocery stores, by avoiding baked goods containing factory farmed eggs and dairy, by eating plant-based when you're anywhere that's going to use these kinds of animals) will have much more in common with a vegan than with those following the Standard American Diet, so I'd still have a lot of respect for your commitment.
Some interesting additional information about "bracketed paste mode": https://cirw.in/blog/bracketed-paste
You are not being honest about Rogan's opinions on trans athletes. He does not want trans women competing against cisgender women.[1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e0qwXgjjDA&t=120s
The deskcycle has a port for its own odometer that's just connected with a regular 3.5mm audio cable. I don't remember 100% what the app does. I think I got as far as translating pulses to the same "speed" measurement as their odometer, but ran out of steam after that.
Looking Glass is agnostic to the hardware setup. it works both with pci passthrough and with intel gvtg (single gpu sliced into vgpus)
Comparing masks and birth control isn't meaningful until we add enforcement component.
Reading some of the comments here, it feels like one needs to lay out a lot of context before being able to describe their Nix experience.

(Is that Conway's law in reverse, or just Occam's beard? I can't help but wonder.)

And I gotta get back to trying to build Deno from Git with Mozilla's overlays. Thankfully, Nix pairs well with git submodules...
How terminal emulators deal with pasted text: bracketed paste mode (2013)
> Brave is Chromium-based and suffers from all of the limitations stated in the parent article.

Only for extensions. Brave Shields is implemented in natively compiled Rust and C++ (which is even more efficient than WebAssembly), is able to load rules before making any network requests, uses a compressed filter list data representation, and prefetching is disabled entirely in Brave. The only thing currently missing from that list is HTML filtering, which is fairly rare in practice and generally has fallback rules in popular lists anyways.
I'm simply pointing out that people who are into their actual work, as opposed to people who are into their work environments and cultures, are more productive. People obsess about managing time, but it's really about managing finite mental energy. Activist employees expend mental energy on social causes which don't benefit the bottom line of the company. I'm not saying they shouldn't be activists, I'm just saying they should do it on their own time, not at work and in the workplace. Exactly zero of the engineers at my company who were leading the charge on this stuff were standouts. Average performers at best, mostly sort of QA material and nothing more. I don't have real data, obviously, but my anecdotal, non-scientific survey of friends at Google, Amazon, Netflix, etc has shown a pattern of lower status employees being attracted to these activities.

I don't actually disagree with a lot of the goals of the activist employees at my former Boulder-based tech company. I simply disagree with them using the HR department to impose their views and beliefs onto the majority of employees who don't want it, in a way that becomes disruptive and distracting from making money. At the end of the quarter, the assholes in charge who wouldn't shut up about equity are still making hundreds of times what the average employee makes, and will fire anyone if the numbers aren't what they promised in the earnings forecast. The social justice initiatives seem to be designed to turn the rank and file against each other, instead of having them ask if their CEO is really worth 300 software engineers in value to the company.
sneaky bezos
The economy isn't zero sum (from a capitalist PoV) and reducing someone's profit margin isn't exploiting them (from a Marxist PoV). It's important to avoid thinking partial equilibrium effects are the actual effects of something.
As long as they don't have an audited central database of all viruses that they sequenced, they have no way to demonstrate that they showed you all of their virus lines.

And if they had such a central database, we'd have probably heard about it by now.
Would you respond the same way to ethical concerns about the treatment of a small number of humans? If we could find larger groups of humans facing worse treatment (and surely we could), you might conclude that the smaller, less-poorly treated group is simply not worth discussing. But I'd argue in that case (as I would in this one) that the conclusion is mistaken.

Also, if I may ask, do you think we have to choose between caring about these individuals and caring about those in factory farms? I personally care about both (as well as plenty of other ethical issues, naturally). And I imagine other people feel the same. So your suggestion that we measure the two causes against each other is rather confusing.
what are those "some Geforce and Quadro GPUs that share the same physical chip as the Tesla GPUs"?
Einstein didn’t know about the Michelson–Morley experiment.
Taiwan's Drought Pits Chip Makers Against Farmers
Hey you can literally look up my name in the post I linked and find all the evidence in the world that I am who I say I am.

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gk6y95/covid19_did...

James Duehr, PhD

Here's my google scholar page: https://scholar.google.com.co/citations?user=8wCwbNUAAAAJ&hl...

Here's my PhD thesis: https://search.proquest.com/openview/8e7e18ee1e41133ae74a719...

Sorry I'm a green account but I forgot the password to the HN account I made like 10 years ago. I mostly lurk so I haven't logged in in a looong time. Since before password managers became convenient or commonplace. Like 3 email addresses ago.

I also wrote a pre-formed response to the criticism that I shouldn't be trusted in my original post, you can find it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gk6y95/covid19_did...

and the associated in-depth footnote (For the really hardcore sticklers among you) here (#10): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vRbACWf90iBC35xNOwlI5bWcUq0...
The 3rd Hitchhiker novel, "Life, the Universe, and Everything", is also a repurposed Dr Who script: "Dr Who and the Krikkitmen".
Yep! "NetMD" was just a new logical format on the same media, plus USB connectivity and ATRAC version 3. Hi-MD was the one that reformulated the media for 1GB total storage. Those discs don't work in older players, but older discs do work in a Hi-MD player.
How would you know they provided a complete list of viruses they were working on? Couldn't they just leave off anything incriminating?
> To maybe ask a better way: will this practically help me train my DNN faster?

Probably not. It will only help you if you previously needed to train it on a CPU because you were in a VM, but this seems unlikely. It will not speed up your existing GPU in any way compared to simply using it bare-metal right now.

> Or if I'm a cloud vendor, will this allow me to deploy cheaper GPU for my users?

Yes. This ports a feature from the XXXX$-range of GPUs to the XXX$-range of GPUs. Since the performance of those is similar or nearly similar, you can save a lot of money this way. It will also make the entry costs to the market lower (i.e. now a hypervisor could be sub-1k$, if you go for cheap parts).

On the other hand, a business selling GPU time to customer will probably not want to rely on a hack (especially since there's a good chance it's violating NVidias license), so unless you're building your on HW, your bill will probably not drop. But if you're an ML startup or a hobbyist, you can now cheap out on/actually afford this kind of setup.
we use it in prod to instrument code to check up on some internal data, say, from the database, when some forensic analysis is needed
Yeah if you're deleting bugs older than 2 weeks then they're just gonna resurface and you're gonna have to classify them later, in an ongoing process lasting however many weeks. Might as well instead grab the bull by the horns and get the beast tamed right here and now.
These ideas all tested in Python and then I achieved results. I did not add codes because it is a 'philosophical' research for me actually.
Like https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app/ ?
I worked with tech companies and some banks in the early days of Kubernetes who were deep in Mesos and many of them felt the same way. It’s really hard to see this as it’s happening.

Kubernetes is absolutely “worse is better” when it comes to scheduling. But scheduling isn’t the problem most people needed solved. Kubernetes standardized deployment patterns of multiple apps well for most people. Everything else was a nice to have (scheduling, scale, ease of initial setup, etc).
Ok. It should make literally zero difference in that case. What problems do you see without it, and could you mail me dmesg for both cases? (mjgarrett59@googlemail.com)
This is a great look at the hardware and of vector display - if you want to get a good in-depth understanding of how Atari's original vector graphics display systems worked from the software side, though, Retro Game Mechanics on YouTube did an incredible deep dive into how it all worked, including emulating the vector instruction sets and step-by stepping through complete frame renders from Tempest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smStEPSRKBs
> Did Solidity fuzzing run out of gas?

Heh.
Why can’t we talk about ideology’s role when killers aren’t white?
In the context of MMA what he said was they should disclose it and ciswomen can choose to go into the fight or not, I am not lying about that.

The clip you posted was about weightlifting. If a biological man can call himself a woman and compete in women's weightlifting, why don't we just get rid of the gender categories altogether and have men and women compete together? If we did that, do you think any woman, trans or cis, would ever win a title again?

Regardless, reasonable people can disagree about these things. Back to the original question: in what conceivable way does any of this constitute promoting hatred or violence? Rogan said that people who are biologically male should compete with other people who are also biologically male, I don't see where he said we should beat them up or kill them or anything like that? So we are not allowed to have differences of opinion about which competitions people should compete in?
I don't think it matters much how long we take, because it's not figuring out the pandemic - that we're already failing to do, even without an origin story - but instead figuring out the origin.

The origin, truth be told, is basically irrelevant, just like the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto. We live in the world today, and while the story of how we got here might be somewhat academically or historically interesting, it's about a million items down the list of things that are actually important right now.
FDA Authorizes Marketing of First Device That Uses AI to Detect Colon Cancer
That's still a remarkably good health plan being offered unless somehow people are expecting Amazon and other corporations to offer their warehouse workers a better health plan than they or Microsoft offer their own engineering staff. Even a union isn't going to get them that.
It's not possible to remove gangs while an incentive of huge unregulated and untaxed market exist. So committing police to that is like trying to fill buckets under a leaking pipe, instead of just cutting off water and fixing it.
Totally agreed. Sometimes, just putting in the labour is a great way to get it done. I wasted a ton of time last night thinking about how I'd write a scraper to download my bank statements from my damn bank that uses .net postbacks, which may lead to something, but ultimately I just took my damn ritalin and manually clicked and waited for each one. (then wrote a bash script to rename them all with regex and sed :))
No, it isn't, because it was written in 1977, almost before the microcomputer – and until the Mac, Adams hated computers.

It's not a binary joke, either.

However, if you add together the numbers on all the faces of a pair of normal 6-sided dice...