skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is to be noted that designated struct initializers will be/are in C++20 (of course it has all the features, it's C++).
See it here: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/aggregate_initial...
Under-40s in Britain to be offered alternative to AstraZeneca vaccine
It is just a binary with first class support without needed to install the world like Emscripten does.

I still don't get why so many take the path of installing npm libraries, Python scripts, Java based closure compiler, LLVM based binaren, instead of just generating a wasm file and JS bindings.

Yes I know Grain depends on binaren, just making the point about the dependencies.
Linux Air Combat (2019)
> You're citing an article that literally has as its first sentence, "Nicholas Wade is not a racist". As citations go that's not very convincing.

I'm not sure you read past the first sentence of that article, since the second sentence makes it clear that Nicholas Wade is the one making the claim he's not racist. "It's not prejudice; it's science." It's pretty clear the reviewer -- in Scientific American, which I believe does have some bona fides -- is laying out the case that, in fact, it's prejudice, not science, and lays it out in a pretty convincing manner. The book being reviewed, as I understand it, has been pretty widely criticized not only by reviewers, but by scientists arguing that Wade misrepresented their research.

Does that have any bearing on Wade's case for SARS-CoV-2 being a lab-created virus? Certainly not directly; maybe not at all. I read the whole article, and it certainly makes a plausible and compelling case! But like it or not, a lot of the conversation around "the lab creation theory" for SARS-CoV-2 has had a decidedly racial tinge. Having it turn out that this plausible and compelling case has been made by a science writer who had a recent, major work widely criticized for, ah, a decidedly racial tinge is, well... let's say "interesting."

As a final note, gain-of-function research certainly sounds fraught with peril even under the best of circumstances, and these do not sound like they were the best of circumstances. I question whether that means "virology as a field needs to be shut down."
Why do you say it's no longer being updated? Looks like he last posted 3/30/21.

He's actually great, when he's online he has a chat option on his website and he'll help you with any questions you have, I somehow screwed up an E2B MBR and he very graciously walked me through fixing it.
That's a weird wording: Half more would mean 50% more (so not double, but 1.5x)?

I think the real reason people willingly take on that Big City grind is to have a shot at making partner at a top firm (which would mean they make 10x more than their midwest prairie dweller counterparts).
When the only tool you have is a hammer :)
True. Point to remember that client-side != serverless.
Reviewing architecture and reviewing code are totally different thing.

Pushing code to production is not a one-step process. It has at least two phases: first push code to the repository, then build the binary and push the binary to production.

Pushing code to the repository requires code review: most reviewers are your peers or owners if you work in other team's codebase. So really no central team to review code. Reviewing architecture, maybe, but it depends on the impact of the system to change.

Pushing binary to production doesn't really need review in normal case, assuming there is a good binary/release qualification and a good release rollout system, all can be automated. Emergency push to production may need a second pair of eyes but it also depends on the urgency.
That's not how Netflix thinks about it internally. The north star metric for Netflix is how many people choose to renew every month and the biggest correlation to this is number of minutes watched per month.

All else being equal, given a choice between a change that makes people watch more minutes per month or less, Netflix will always choose more.
This is all based on awfully bad epidemiological studies. Humans were eating MUCH more meat for most of our evolutionary past. Look how unhealthy we are now, and we aren't eating more meat. We're eating more plant fats and sugar. There is literally nothing unhealthy in eating meat, not more for us than for a lion.
How is that an advantage? A C compiler is needed in either case, either for using together with Nuitka or for compiling Pyston in the first place, right?
What do cattle eat in CAFOs, and how much of their lives are spent there and how much more do they eat there than when they are younger and smaller? And where does that food come from?
Ah, interesting! I will add it to a list, thank you.
Where on earth did you go to school? Most people I know — even in tech — aren’t making $200k well into their 30s.
As a Canadian in America I don’t know a lot of US schools. It’s pretty funny to see how offended people can be when I haven’t heard of like, Williams, or Vassar.
Worg (Emacs Org documentation) maintainer needed
They seem to emphasise that the kid likes to play and do normal things while also being a genius and achieving all these things. I wish Mike the best but where he gains in some areas he’s certainly missing out in others.
Ventoy is great, for a long time I used E2B but lately I've been using ventoy because of it's native support of UEFI, my only complaint is that I find it to be a bit slower on accepting keyboard input compared to E2B. Also E2B has great keyboard shortcut support which ventoy entirely lacks (last I checked)
I don't feel like tipping someone for making an observation or a joke. This means turning a conversation into an economic transaction. Is this where the world is going? Pathetic.
Wealth helps tremendously indeed.

Usually, before accessing those schools, you have to study for 2 years in a preparatory program called a Classe Préparatoire. Point is, the best can be quite expensive.

The most egregious thing though is that during school holidays in France, some private organisms (in Paris) offer 1 or 2-week cramming programs for €10-15k a pop where you get tutored by the very people that write the entrance exams to the most prestigious schools.

Wealth is a key.
> What we want is to basically transfer work/resource tokens and make it resistant against depreciation. Lets add a simplistic example I help someone build a house and receive a fair token for that work. When I need to build a house 20 years later I pass that token, it retains the value such that someone accepts it to do the work I did 20 years prior. Because we’re mentally stuck into an outdated economic model that served ok prior to the digital age our imaginations aren’t creative enough move in the right direction. My thinking is that a direction will emerge, let’s hope it’s as far away from the possibility you talk about.

Yes, I think you have the right idea. This is a credit based system, which, I think is fairer because anyone can issue credit denominated in some numeraire and it holds its value over time as long as the issuer can be trusted to “redeem” the credit. The issue with this system is that bootstrapping it is difficult and it’s quite complicated because everyone now needs to become a credit risk/reputation expert!
It definitely was buffalo, still is in some parts. Grass is all that grows and young forest. Cereal and canola crops grow on the more fertile and irrigated sections.
> Historians discuss the economic impacts of WW1 when talking about the rise of Hitler and Nazi Germany.

The discuss it a little. The books I have read about rise of Hitler did not blamed "economic impacts of WW1" all that much. That was far from being a single or primary thing.

The choices, values and opinions of major actors plays huge relo.
Private vs. Public is not the discriminating point, centralization is.

The Soviet Union went down because it represented an attempt at strictly centralized management, coupled to punitive information management where any feedback was assumed to be dissent and swiftly repressed.

As you may know, negative feedback systems are the key to stability and USSR is a case study of everything the opposite.

China is hardly a legit market economy, more of a compromise to afford some autonomy of judgement and decentralization.
I've seen this approach being implemented (a lot clunkier, less polished and slower) in 2010-era stock market websites like https://tradingdesk.finanzen.net - essentially in highly-configurable dashboards that a user changes often (think: every few minutes.)
Yeah. Restated: Often, people who score high on TVI are a subset of people who have undergone trauma like PTSD.

TVI is learned according to the author, not general trauma or PTSD.
Neat idea, but what's the point of async-await when you just put await before 100% of calls like in the first example? Now you've got more to type for no gain.

I don't get this popularity of async-await, especially in JS where I find its combination of syntax and absence of pre-run checks overly confusing and error-prone.

And this, seriously?

await $`exit 1`
Yep, wimlib is the portable magic that makes FAT32/4GB a non-issue.

It is still annoying to have to use Windows to run NTLite. ;)

https://evanshortiss.com/create-a-windows-install-usb-via-ma...
....... Does being a good golfer really matter for this in the US? I don't like pulling the "haha Americans weird" card but I'm glad my education does not depend on my golf game here in Europe.
How about the west being founded on slavery, and genocides while sustaining racism and misogyny for hundreds of years.

I hear a lot of "head in the sand" thinking. If we don't talk about it, it doesn't exist and never happened.
I get it though, pretty f'd watching a chick get thrown into a grinder for being a male, etc...

It's tough... on the other hand nice how convenient it is to just walk into any store and buy food.
Neat, it has an example of the kind of thing Dijkstra was talking about when he wrote Go To Statement Considered Harmful.

main( ) {
auto c;
read:
c= getchar();
putchar(c);
if(c != '*n') goto read;
} /* loop if not a newline */

People forget the world of ubiquitous goto enabled control flow with languages like this and Dartmouth BASIC.
The C++ version is much worse. "Note: out-of-order designated initialization, nested designated initialization, mixing of designated initializers and regular initializers, and designated initialization of arrays are all supported in the C programming language, but are not allowed in C++.”

Arrays designed to be indexed by an enum is a pattern I use all the time in C and designated initializers make it a whole lot safer and reduce the likelihood of a bug when refactoring.
5M fine for illegal data transfer to China
FYI, Impossible ground "beef" sauteed for 10m with spices[1] makes for a perfect taco or quesadilla filling. No need for a separate product at all.

[1] <1lb beef, 1tsp cumin, 1tsp smoked paprika, 1/2tsp garlic powder, 1/2tsp chili powder, 1/2tsp salt, 1/2tsp pepper
What Is Liquity? Interestfreeborrowing
Nobody has spoken of malice. It could have been a simple case of one lab worker getting infected. That would count towards stupidity.

Rhetorically speaking, Hanlon's razor doesn't quite have the same weight as Occam's, if only because people tend to view behavior they don't understand as stupid. But I'll add another "razor": don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to self-interested.
This is good, enabling people with Javascript proficiency write complex scripts IMO.

There is also https://github.com/shelljs/shelljs which is implemented on top of nodejs APIs.
What is wrong with just using dd?
I've been in a position where my abilities vastly out stripped those of the rest of the team. I was insecurely seeking praise and adoration by fixing as many problems with the code as quickly as I could.

The mistake, in my opinion, that I made was that I did it alone.

I didn't communicate with team and work with them at their pace. I blasted ahead and did all the work myself. And it didn't win me any friends.

They were angry, very angry. They thought I made them look bad and I was being negatively critical of their work. They got defensive and stopped listening to the why and how of my changes.

When there's a huge skill impedence mismatch between you and the team of your peers you especially need to consider their feelings. Had I approached the situation by reaching out and explaining my ideas in a way that they understood and guided them along to the solution, I would have had a different outcome. They needed to be part of the solution even if I didn't agree with them completely.

I needed to accept and believe in myself and not go looking for praise from them. I needed to recognize that they spent their own time and effort on this work. Maybe they were lazy, maybe they didn't know better, or maybe they were too busy to write a performant solution, but the work was partly theirs and I needed to consider that. The best way to do that was to talk to them and listen.

More recently I have been more guiding and taken the team with me to a solution. I've had much better success with this. Sure it's slower. Sure I ended up with work that was good but not exactly how I wanted it. But I gained something I hadn't expected: a stronger bond with the team, knowing they would listen to me and I to them, and that we all respected each other. We also ended up producing better work as a team.

I'm not saying any of this to discredit toxic work environments. I've been on broken teams before where everyone is turned against each.

Part of the responsibility for this lies with the leadership individuals who matched someone with skills out pacing the rest of the team, placing them as a peer on the team. They should have considered the team dynamics they were creating.

You can help reduce the toxicity of your work environment by considering your impact on a team and how you work with them. Being "right" about the work is seldom the only factor to consider and does not absolve you of ignoring the thoughts, ideas, and feelings of others.
Active Learning Using Detectron2 on Comma10k
Yeah, it's pretty good with Pangolin.

This is a good summary of the current consensus:

It is clear from our analysis that viruses closely related to SARS-CoV-2 have been circulating in horseshoe bats for many decades. The unsampled diversity descended from the SARS-CoV-2/RaTG13 common ancestor forms a clade of bat sarbecoviruses with generalist properties—with respect to their ability to infect a range of mammalian cells—that facilitated its jump to humans and may do so again. Although the human ACE2-compatible RBD was very likely to have been present in a bat sarbecovirus lineage that ultimately led to SARS-CoV-2, this RBD sequence has hitherto been found in only a few pangolin viruses. Furthermore, the other key feature thought to be instrumental in the ability of SARS-CoV-2 to infect humans—a polybasic cleavage site insertion in the S protein—has not yet been seen in another close bat relative of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-020-0771-4
To tag on, what's wrong with plain ol' cat or cp?
I saw a comment in there about how files will get deleted by over zealous av's when you plug it into a live system, I didn't feel like reading through 60 pages of comments to see if someone solved that issue but I was wondering if you have any suggestions for preventing that.
Not where I am, it's mostly just pasture raised cows, there time in a feedlot is very short.
Rise in UFO reports is due to stealthy drone ubiquity.
Definitely weird, I installed windows about a month ago and it asked in the tool if I wished to install using an ISO.
Why "yet"? Those two ideas don't conflict at all. It's not like it's a binary choice between the current version of content id or no content detection at all. It is easily abused, and biased toward claimers.

The fact that contentid would go too far in solving his problem wouldn't be a reason for him to complain!
It’s way better than this, to be honest. It’s okay and safe to be more optimistic. These organizations are not perfect but I personally have seen for myself that they do tend to support the best and brightest, and they are actively expanding free offerings rapidly to do this for anyone with internet. It’s becoming more accessible each year to get that quality education in tech and science and business in general, in a condensed quality format.
Or use ventoy and never worry about large files again.
Wow, this is a much better article than the one from the NYTimes. Thank you. Especially for this gem:

Supplies of raw materials such as nucleotides are also tight. According to Dr Zarur, Thermo Fisher, an American chemical-supplies company, has spent $200m on a new facility in Lithuania to make these molecules, though the firm itself would not confirm this.

I would not have expected this, but it definitely explains a whole lot of otherwise-cryptic claims being made in the WTO debate. I guess it does sort of make sense. The worldwide demand for pure bulk nucleotides probably shot up hundreds or thousands-fold as a result of COVID-19 vax manufacturing.
Nobody is acting with urgency. Acting with urgency would mean a Manhattan Project level of effort where you pump in two percent or so of GDP into decarbonization. Instead we're still procrastinating goals to the n+1-th legislative period.
What's to stop the rest of the world from confiscating chinese overseas assets or writing off loans owed to china?
Your comment relates it all to bad performance. That doesn't cover the "brilliant asshole" problem though, do you think we should allow such behavior for people who show good (personal..) results?
Surely you’re not going to make me spell out for you why comparing a little window widget in JavaScript with features of the Windows operating system, isn’t helpful just because there was a soft analogy in the title. Surely, you could’ve seen more than that dichotomy you presented me with before you made me write this. But here we are.

This sort of “critique” common on HN and it’s a toxic culture. Not all critique is good critique. We should be against crappy critique like this because it’s not helpful, it’s mean spirited, and it’s anti-maker.
Your comment begs the question: Have you ever personally worked with graduates from any of those schools?
Trustworthy and loyal friends and colleagues have been difficult for me to find. It seems that so many of us who struggle to get where we are pull up the ladder behind us instead of helping uplift each other.
The fact that you brought Trump as a counter point shows that you have a pretty clear idea of which side the parent poster meant.
I remember an article from about a decade ago where a virologist was saying that China shouldn't be trusted with the highest danger (lvl 4?) labs (IIRC at the time when Westerners were about to or starting to help them build them) because Western labs themselves could barely (or not) be trusted with something as dangerous, and (s)he expected the Chinese to not be able and/or not be willing to fully respect the procedures involved.

This article suggests that lvl2 protocols were indeed used for lvl4 biohazards.
How would I test for damage? I had a Sanho/Hyperdrive dock that repeatedly crashed my 2020 MBP. I switched it out for a CalDigit and haven't had any problems since then, but I don't know how to ensure that nothing was harmed.
It's more the way it's said. From the guidelines:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. (...) Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work.
Yes, all SSD's suffer this effect.

Just plugging them in often isn't enough to make them notice and refresh all data - the SSD doesn't have a clock in so doesn't know it's been unplugged for a long time.

The real answer is "for every month an SSD is powered down, leave it powered up for a day"
Stock trading apps use UIs like this. I work with a couple these days, and they are surpringly well built, with movable windows, fast updates (every five seconds or so), alerts, charts, etc.
Can you explain what you mean by "the privacy problem"?
California dairy is totally a thing though. We had this TV ad campaign decades ago that always ended with "great milk comes from happy cows; happy cows come from California". Also, Harris Ranch is a pretty decently sized cattle farm down near Coalinga (you know that you're getting close to it when you smell the cow poop while driving down I-5).

The missing information from these almonds vs cows debate is how big the two respective industries are in California. (I don't actually know this answer, so I'm curious if anyone knows.)
> On Android, tips can also be sent within Spaces.

Why only on Android? I suppose they could not avoid 30% Apple tax.
Portability, RUFUS is windows only, most other tools require a lot more work to port. this one appears to be installable/usable on Win/Mac/Linux

Personally I'm a fan of ventoy[0] though it doesn't appear to be installable on mac, but if you set it up on linux/windows you can just drop any iso you want onto it from any system and it'll work like a charm.

[0] https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy
They kind of actually do. The ranchlands nearby my area haven't really changed since they were settled. Windmills and roads are the major change since the 1800's.
> On Android, tips can also be sent within Spaces.

Then why they couldn't do this on iOS as well?
I assume practically every city in China has wet markets. I wonder how many cities have facilities that do virus research. It might actually be more than you'd assume; I have no idea what sort of research might happen at universities, You also have to weigh this with SARS Classic originating in China.