skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Below the surface level question of "did it escape a lab" is the question of why that matters to people. Both escaping a lab and evolving naturally in the wild are in essence freak accidents. A roll of the cosmic dice. A bristling array of implausibilities. What difference does it make that we got unlucky in this way as opposed to that way?

Would the logical conclusion from the "escaped a lab" theory be that China shouldn't be allowed to have virology research? Should any nation? Who gets to decide? Exactly what actionable conclusion depends on knowing if the origin of the virus was a lab or not?

There are maybe one in a dozen proponents of the lab theory that are legitimately interested in these questions. For the remaining 11 out of 12, the Wuhan Lab theory is just a belief that they wear in public to signal "China bad". An alarming number of people think China created the virus and released it on purpose. I once heard someone say China released the virus just to prove that our healthcare system is bad. Let me highlight the absurdity here. This person believes China engineered a virus and then released it on their own people in a city most foreigners were unaware of so that it would eventually make it to the US. They did all this just to prove some politically left point about socialized healthcare. That's not a real belief about how the world works. That's thinly veiled "I hate liberals and China".

Most of these people are trying to reach a conclusion that the world should punish China with sanctions or (in extreme cases) war. More than a few of them are using the lab theory as a fig leaf over blatant racism. There's a huge overlap between people who believe the lab theory and people who insist on calling it the "China virus" or "Wuhan Flu". That's not a coincidence. In short, the majority of the people agreeing with your theory aren't actually on your side. When you say "How does it take so long for the truth to win?", they have a very different idea of what "the truth" means.

Don't give them legitimacy or talking points. Being honest about the lab theory in the face of people who will use your words dishonestly is a fools errand. Don't be the fool who thinks he can be nuanced enough to pull it off. Until you know you are talking with someone who cares about the lab theory for the right reasons, the correct thing to say is "it absolutely evolved naturally and did not escape a lab".
This isn't a browser-based script, so no real fear of conflict. Plus, it's basically past time to retire jQuery anyways, outside of maintaining legacy apps.
I think with this project you can control the display at the pixel level instead of the character level, like this link in the article:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nxFad7Rxw7Q

However that demo is quite old (2013?) so I could be misunderstanding something
It is, on the whole, but not immediately. It is kinda like the idea that while having eyes is a huge evolutionary benefit, having just part of the eye confers none. Or like guessing a password by random chance. If you get some immediate feedback by being partially right then it is pretty easy, but if you only know if the password is right or wrong, then the odds of guessing the password rounds to zero.
Doom is playable on MiSTer, so assuming this display can be used as a generic output device, the answer is yes.

https://twitter.com/misteraddons/status/1283620207978741761?...
Evading the uncertainty principle in quantum physics
I've pretty much stopped paying attention to these numbers. I read/listen to multiple sources of news, and the amount of vastly different interpretations of these numbers has me concluding that its pointless to give a damn.
Are we making fun of it? Indicating something as surprising is valuable because something that is surprising is something that has higher informative value. It seems to be a valuable and succinct indicator of a relevant point in the paper.
I thought I remembered the name from the LCD display on my Apple Network Server, which was supported under Linux and gave me a mini 'top' on the front of the box... and... I think that was enough, thanks.
I meant no disrespect to users as a group. Nonetheless its clear that we can't get >99.5% of ùsers to implement this security control properly, and that makes it a bad security control. And to be clear, its my belief that if someone implements a security control that constantly fails due to misuse, the party at fault is the implementor, not the user. Whether that's because users don't understand or just that their interests/incentives are disaligned, doesn't really matter.
First off it's been over seven years, it's not hard to understand that black lives matter is a decentralized movement that is not centrally represented.

The website is not the movement.

Second, both of those "opinion pieces" have references to high profile black lives matter activists (deray, shaun king, etc) speaking out about Daniel Shaver, so that's about as official as you're going to get.

Third, that "facebook post" documents an actual event organized by the family of Daniel Shaver, thanking the local blm chapter for their support.

If you have a more substantial voice that has done more than blm in bringing attention to this issue in a productive way, feel free to bring that forward.
Task-Agnostic Visual Representations
> Click user@account in top right, click My Billing Dashboard, spend this month is on that page in giant font, click Cost Explorer for more granular breakdown (day, service, etc.), click Bill Details for list breakdown of spend by month.

Sure, you see a number but I was just talking with someone at AWS who said it you still can’t trust it to be up to date especially across zone boundaries. That means it’s useful when everything is working as expected but can be actively misleading when troubleshooting.
Ask HN: Best Paid Email Provider?
I would love to hear suggestions for best paid e-mail provider (trying to move away from Google). I see the debate a lot about Protonmail vs Fastmail but I don't know the difference besides one being in Switzerland and the other in Australia.
Thank you Biden
This is my single biggest beef with Elon and Tesla. From the jump I think that the name overstates the ability of the vehicles. I think his tweets have been consistently optimistic regarding timelines to the point of hyperbole. I agree that autonomy is a worthwhile goal, but I think the real selling point of a Tesla is that they were until recently the best electric car you can buy. That still may be the case today but others are catching up. To me it would be a shame if autopilot NHTSA investigation brought Tesla down or a giant class action by everyone who plopped down 10 grand to get full autonomy and it never shows up.
Often I will use amazon for research/discovery and might actually buy direct from another site which has a better price - gear for music in the UK for example.

You also can tell low quality products for the poor English/Grammar and knockoff similar brand names.

Amazons search really sucks quiet often a long tail search term will return product that in no way matches searcher intent.
One of the biases in Hacker News is that comments like yours tend to get downvoted.

Some of my more reserved comments get downvoted, and then flooded with replies about 360 vision and cars never getting sleepy.

IMO: Most of the autonomous driving tech will evolve to be driver assistance and safety tech in the upcoming decade. I still believe we'll get autonomous driving someday, but not until we have a few more AI breakthroughs.

Until then, "Autonomous driving" will be like "Duke Nukem Forever."
I mean, if you accidentally choose the wrong option you can just go fix it in settings. I do this all the time when downloading new apps, my default is declining everything and then something usually breaks (like location on Waze) and then I go fix it.

Incredibly mild inconvenience for the benefit of having the default option be not tracking me unless I specifically allow it.
You can't just look at absolute deaths. You need to compare the chance that a hard drug user dies of a drug-related cause with the chance that an alcohol user dies of an alcohol-related cause. The number of people who drink alcohol is orders of magnitude higher than the number of people who do drugs, but the number of alcohol deaths is not orders of magnitude higher than the number of drug deaths.
And what did you think would happen if you blindly paid people to not look for work? The Biden administration does not seem to understand basic behavioral economics.
I still can’t get over how deceptive the marketing was on the Autopilot page on Tesla.com

>Full Self-Driving Hardware on All Cars

>All Tesla vehicles produced in our factory, including Model 3, have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver.

How was it possible to know in advance what hardware will be required?
The alternative title should have been 'don't use 80-20 as a crutch'.
Can you give an example of a single type of statistic where this argument can't be made? Are statistics overall categorically useless? Should they not be reported?
>Why would games, or non-gnome apps care about decoration?

I don't think they would which is why the low level toolkits like SDL are the ones that have to handle it. Unfortunately that's the way it is, libwayland is very barebones and doesn't have a way to draw decorations.

>this is not the only case where gnome devs just decide to be jerks.

Please do not assume bad faith and suggest that someone is being a jerk to you personally because they didn't implement a feature that you were interested in. This is a sure fire way to cause burnout and stress to open source developers.

>wlroots and sway developers are doing good work to try to bring wayland and its tools to same level as X11, but then we have these other groups that just actively reject anything that doesn't go along with their "vision".

I have seen wlroots and sway developers reject patches and features that don't go along with their vision too, so I am not sure what distinction you're trying to draw.
To be fair to Elon, there were a lot of naysayers coming at him about Tesla and SpaceX but he has accomplished more than they ever thought he would. Most of the time, however he has exaggerated the timeline in order to keep the hype around him and his companies. I think he would do better to under-promise and over-deliver. Especially with a technology that could potentially cost lives if delivered too early.
It's a great clip - possibly my favourite Jobs clip.

Agree with the point 100% but Apple also has a history of long and sustained investments in key parts of the stack where it sees long term value - including compilers and silicon - and long relationships with suppliers. I suspect their relationship with Arm is in that category and so in the absence of something that is demonstrably better, then that will continue.
How do I get authorized to publish on my Facebook Page?
Today, auto in C is still a storage class that denotes stack allocation of a variable. This is related to the other storage classes of register, static, and extern.

In C each variable and function has two attributes, type and storage class
Human-less moderation is regularly wrecking the livelihoods of many Youtube streamers, who provide valuable (often irreplacable) educational and entertainment videos to the community. Getting banned, or getting innocent videos demonetized/removed by "the algorithm" is very common. This, if nothing else, should be a motivation to provide some level of human arbitration/appeals court.

I'm sure that a good argument can be made that lack of human moderation makes Youtube an unwitting vector for videos that erode political and scientific discourse by spreading harmful nonsense, but I'm sure someone else already has written about it and I don't have the energy nor will to retread that path.
You do understand we’re in the middle of a major pandemic, right? It’s not paying people not to work; it’s paying people who were chosen (by the company, not the government) to not work. I was furloughed from a job in March last year. I wasn’t paid unemployment to leave, but instead, paid because I couldn’t work.
This is a very surprising number given the expectations. There are many companies hiring in the service sector that cannot find enough workers. As such, average hours worked is skyrocketing as well:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/AWHAELAH

It seems likely that unemployment benefits are contributing to this labor shortage.
PyTorch Lightning v1.3: Lightning CLI, PyTorch Profiler, Improved Early Stopping
Announcing the release of Lightning 1.3

This new release includes:
- a new Lightning CLI
- PyTorch profiler integration
- improved TPU support
- new early stopping strategies
- predict and validate trainer routines

Install: https://bit.ly/2PTVZBa
Release notes: https://bit.ly/3b5acTk

Big thanks to everyone who contributed to this release
Nesting GitHub's API in Your GraphQL Schema
Not sure how you think governments could demand changes from major cryptos. They're not currently beholden to governments, and it seems unlikely they'll become more beholden as they grow larger.

Volatility is ameliorated by stablecoins pegged to fiat currencies. Furthermore, the long-term goal is to not need an "interface to the real world", because you will be paid in crypto and you will pay for things in crypto. Even then, who exactly do you mean when you say "the people providing the interface"? I don't need a middle-man to agree to exchange crypto for fiat with someone. You can use one, sure, but it's not required.
I dont LOVE walled gardens but has there been any exposure of this scale in IOS devices?
NASA Wallops May 8 (Sat 8:02pm) Rocket Launch Visible in Eastern United States
That's some pretty strong spin... Unnamed forecasters thought the number of jobs added should be higher, so we're disappointed by a quarter million new jobs.
I've seen this scenario happen at other companies too.

I think this is where a code review process helps. You can submit changes, but you have to work with the team to review them. This way they have buy in on the changes that you make. You'll find developers can get upset if changes were made and they weren't aware of them. In addition to ensuring the code is of high quality, code review also acts as a medium to communicate changes within the team.
Lol. Who is this person you’re replying to, and can we get them banned for being a troll?

I really don’t know what this guy’s talking about in other comments. Web apps seem super easy to put together in Racket. For those curious, see:

https://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/index.html

https://docs.racket-lang.org/continue/index.html

(The troll also acknowledges that Arc is a neat language— apparently, they think that racket is a terrible language to write bad applications, but I guess it’s good enough to write a language to write good web applications in!)

(I have heard a Racket described as the “second best programming language, the best programming language is the one you use Racket to build!)
Show HN: Free and Open-Source NextJS Blog Template Styled with Tailwind CSS
What do you feel about keeping your own hens though?

I don't eat many eggs, but I find when I cut out dairy and eggs entirely, I do end up suffering some health problems.
Tweet from @NASA_Wallops in Virginia with visibility map:

https://twitter.com/NASA_Wallops/status/1390366941781626880
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_(acoustics)#Binaural_beat...
If the server in question is data breached, than they'll steal the 2FA secret. If the user's cell phone is breached, they will steal both the 2fa token and the password (or just the session cookie). Well what you say is true in theory, its not true in practise of how 2FA is commonly implemented.
You're not wrong. I am being rather blithe. However I'd point out that I'm not saying all masters students have no technical skills but a lot of meaningless accolades. I'm saying that a sigificant number of budding CS majors with no technical skills but a lot of meaningless accolades get masters. There's a difference of A -> B versus B -> A.
Elon used to be good but now has become corrupt. My sources says he is addicted to Cocaine ..

Such as this [1]

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/279270
The other likely factor is that many schools are either still closed or are doing remote learning, which means many parents are stuck with having to look after their kids when they would otherwise be working.

edit: why the downvotes?
Work at Waymo. Know lots of folks at Cruise. This is not reflective of the general outlook that most engineers have.
Escaping in the $ interpolator is a planned feature. You definitely have a point, but the project was made public 4 days ago and deserves a little bit of slack don't you think?
> The children that integrated schools in the south are still very much alive, and aren’t even that old [1].

The supreme court ruling that ended school segregation in public education was in 1954. On the other hand the people classified as white as well as asian experience racial discrimination by DEI education and company initiatives right here right now.

> “Hispanic” wasn’t even a category in the census until 1970 (they were here, they just weren’t counted). [2] While there has been significant Asian and Latin American immigration in the interim, the stats you cite aren’t comparable due to differences in collection criteria.

This is as far as I can tell an admittance that you are making comparisons over timescales that does not make any sense.

> This is a red herring, no one is arguing against education and work. Conservatives just want people to focus on those things in lieu of addressing racial discrimination. Also, treating inheritance as though it’s insignificant is a bit odd… 35 to 45 percent[4] may not be a majority, but it’s hugely significant.

The social justice prescribed DEI solution argues for racial discrimination in access to education and promition&hiring. So the outcome-focused thinking of activists are pushing racial discrimination which is objectively not a way to reduce racism.

For the majority that get wealth through educational and work merit being racially discriminated against in those spheres cause harm. Even for people with inherited wealth, how many would still have any wealth if they weren't also successful at education and work?
What's important here is that Wolfire is not complaining about the 30% Valve cut, but that Wolfire is not permitted to list games on other sites that have lower overhead (like their own sales portal) for a lower price.
What do you think about SQL?
If it was true that the way to create more jobs was simply to make people's lives even more precarious, then it would be as simple as just removing every single social welfare program in existence. It turns out, unsurprisingly, that a large demographic of poor people with nothing to lose is not exactly conducive to a stable and thriving society.
Funny thing is, I moved to the bay area shortly after the Nisqually quake, and still haven't been in a "real" quake. I guess the closest was the Napa quake which was a 6.0 and ~80 miles away from my house on the peninsula. My home was built in 1947 so I'm sort of living under the "it's lasted this long.." premise w/r/t construction.

Couple other quakes happened since I moved here, but I was out of town for one reason or another. I even was in eastern France when they got hit by an extremely rare earthquake in ~2004.
Economic idea of Offset: A credit card powered by trust between people
I know you’re trying to be high minded, but yes if it escaped from a lab, China should stop doing independent unsupervised virology. Full stop.

EDIT: If a kid crashes a car, you sure as hell are going to make them take more driving lessons before letting them drive again. And hearing them then say “it was a cosmic accident, why should anyone be allowed to drive” is not going to absolve them of negligence
That is always on the company as they incentivized and tolerated that behavior.
Google changing course on remote work, will now allow permanent remote employees
Anyone that buys art assets online will tell you this is a bad idea. You’re obscuring the subject of the image and changing the feel of the picture. Watermarks and low res previews make sense because they will just make the image look worse while still being 100% recognizable. In his examples I cannot tell anymore that it’s an image of two men fighting.. so why would I buy that picture if I can’t tell what I’m looking at?
It seems likely that low wages are contributing to this shortage. There's lots of evidence that once employers bump wages to $15+ an hour, the have little difficulty filling roles.

This report from Pittsburgh is a good example: https://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/news/2021/05/04/how-l...
Meanwhile Canada lost just about as many during last month due to lockdowns.
Australia. This is the rule in most developed world economies, although I have to admit complete ignorance of the US (... the largest developed world economy)

I was invited once, by another doctor, to speak (paid gig, curtin closer) at a conference being put on by a pharmaceutical company. It was on digital health and the company I think may have had an interest in anaesthetic drugs or supplies or possibly it was surgical - (I’ve just trawled my records and without spending an hour or more I don’t think I’m going to find it) either way there were lots of Anesthetists and surgeons there, mostly because for only $100 they could knock off 20 CPD points by coming and listening to something half interesting in a nice venue for a while and get a meal and catch up with each other.

I had to fill out pages of forms with the company to get paid, firmly renounce that I would be promoting any drug or product, resolve to declare my affiliation with them for a minimum of 12 months, etc etc (this was in around 2018).

The company’s logo was on the pull out banners and the projection screens obviously but there wasn’t even a hint of drug or product anywhere in the room. No tote bag, just some mints and the pad and pen.

The ethical bar has been raised so high that medical companies are now reduced to running paid conferences on adjacencies that clinicians may possibly be interested in, that align with their college’s professional development goals, and can’t even mention their products!

So why do they even do it anymore? I pondered this as I filled out my forms - I believe it is due to residual infrastructure and marketing apparatus and budgets from the days when they could offer the world. Now they’re like vestigial organs, floundering to maintain purpose but knowing that a KPI is eyeballs on logos

The kicker is, if it was anaesthetics, there are only probably 2 makers of sevofluorane in the world anyway!
https://fanfare.metafilter.com/
Practically ? News from last few years says: it's vaporware.

Every few years we hear "IBM made actually-smallest node" and what ? Just x86 cabal keep trashing our lives.

It's possible IBM is making CPUs for secret govs projects. But if not then all that "IBM made x node" is fraud news.
Or something other that change f* nothing. Just scary potential fab builders.
Typically the forecasters are not this wrong. Thus this is cause for investigation and possibly concern. We do want policy makers to be given forecasts on these sorts of things and we do want them to be alarmed when the forecasts are so far off.
Programming, Not Coding
It came down from the higher ups. There would be no more coding; just programming. That means you state what you want to do in advance, read manuals in advance, and never look things up while you write code ... hmm, programs.

The task was then given: write a website.

Everyone using python wrote a full website.

Everyone using C got to printf("hello, world\l");.

Everyone using Javascript started adding numbers.

Why? Just try it.
I wish I didnt read this. Now I feel dirty because it's exactly what's happening.