skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a) There's no need for there to be an intermediary species. The "What is the probability of this pattern occuring in the case of a natural spillover? It's 1:atoms-in-the universe level" statement in the comment I replied to is just wrong - it's unusual, but nothing like as mind bogglingly impossibly rare are they claim.

b) Genetic analysis indicates that it most likely came from bats directly to humans, but picked up the ACE2 receptors from a Pangolin virus that was passed back to bats, evolved there and then infected humans. To quote the same nature article I lined above:

However, on closer inspection, the relative divergences in the phylogenetic tree (Fig. 2, bottom) show that SARS-CoV-2 is unlikely to have acquired the variable loop from an ancestor of Pangolin-2019 because these two sequences are approximately 10–15% divergent throughout the entire S protein (excluding the N-terminal domain). It is RaTG13 that is more divergent in the variable-loop region (Extended Data Fig. 1) and thus likely to be the product of recombination, acquiring a divergent variable loop from a hitherto unsampled bat sarbecovirus28. This is notable because the variable-loop region contains the six key contact residues in the RBD that give SARS-CoV-2 its ACE2-binding specificity27,37. These residues are also in the Pangolin Guangdong 2019 sequence. The most parsimonious explanation for these shared ACE2-specific residues is that they were present in the common ancestors of SARS-CoV-2, RaTG13 and Pangolin Guangdong 2019, and were lost through recombination in the lineage leading to RaTG13. This provides compelling support for the SARS-CoV-2 lineage being the consequence of a direct or nearly-direct zoonotic jump from bats, because the key ACE2-binding residues were present in viruses circulating in bats.

and:

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.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-020-0771-4
US officials: Anxiety drove vaccine reactions in 5 states
If it’s not it’s at least a functional basis one.
In case it is difficult to picture what 2nm is like, this page has the dimensions of the silicon crystal lattice, which is 0.5nm across: https://www.princeton.edu/~maelabs/mae324/glos324/silicon.ht....
When I need to run something async in Bash I can just add a `&`. Done. The majority of my scripts are purely sequential, though, as the language lends itself well to sequential data processing/piping.

I'm not seeing a benefit by wrapping almost every single command in 'await $`...`'. I get why you'd want to wrap Bash in a different language, especially when handling numbers. But I'd rather use something like Python than this verbose trickery.
The worst way is how my bank is currently doing it, they require SMS authentification but do not allow two phones at the same time, and to switch it on you have to sign something and wait for a letter by snail mail.

Now I'm stuck with a decade old phone just to confirm my online transactions, and if it breaks I'm out of luck. The alternative would be to not have working online banking for one or two weeks, which I cannot afford at the moment (thanks to Covid).
I totally understand what you mean! At least I think I do. I have spent a significant amount of time going down the "type flex" rabbit hole. You can always make thinks a little safer, a little more concise, and so on.

In that sense I really do get off the ground much, much faster in Clojure. In fact, it's my favorite language for prototyping and the whole interactive execution model of the REPL makes we want to learn Emacs and do everything in some kind of lisp, rather than awk, sed, bash, dash, whatever.

I think the key ingredient for me with Haskell is to know when to stop. You can be very productive even as an intermediate Haskell user if you restrict yourself to the features with the highest return on investment. Everything else can be done later. But I also know that it's very tempting to stress out over these details.

As a very late conclusion to my various comments in this thread: if I got better at taming type related errors in Clojure I could very well see it being my go-to language for everything.
I turned vegan after watching Game Changers: https://gamechangersmovie.com/the-film/where-to-watch/

It was made by a guy who trains soldiers in deadly unarmed combat. He got injured and read that a vegan diet could speed up recovery. Instead of trying to convince with ethical concerns, it gave me plenty of sound logical reasons to eat vegan.

The reason for me to eat organic meat was B12, but 39% of the people eating meat still have a B12 deficiency.

80% of farmland is used for animal husbandry, the size of Africa!
We can feed way more than seven billion, if we farm more efficient.

And when the strongest man in the world got there being vegan, i can skip animal products too.
I wouldn't say that claiming Mars is teeming with complex life closely resembling Earth puffballs is "fairly modest".
Not even HolyC ? Then what's even the point?
I was going write.. great, let's do networking too! but not in HolyC ? Nevermind then.

I'm gonna build my own TempleOS fork, with blackjack and...
Is this satire? Plaqunial is the infamous hydroxychloroquine...
OCaml is an excellent language but it has kind of undeveloped ecosystem except for one area where the language itself really shines - parsing and generation.
Or you can go the GUI way, and use for instance gnome-disks to write the image to the disk (which also reduces the chance of writing to the wrong disk; when writing through the command line, I prefer to use the /dev/disk/by-path symlinks for that reason).
I beg to differ. Going to lower level code usually results in much simpler codebase for things like implementing coroutines, threaded code etc.

Take z-machine for example. It was apprarantly so much easier to code a z-machine interpreter in Assembly for each architecture and run bytecode on it.

Who says assembly doesn't have code reusability. You can easily translate between architectures if you stay away from instruction set specific tricks. For me, assembly is a universal abstraction for how my computer works. I know it's not accurate, lots of magic happens on microcode and OS level, but still it's so much cleaner.

Going to higher level languages has many advantages, and I would definitely prefer to write any complex project (for example a web browser) with the help of higher level languages.

However learning and programming in Assembly broadened my horizon in a lot of ways.

Comparing C++ to Assembly in terms of complexity is not fair. C++ is "complex", it requires loads of tooling to compile, a special runtime etc.

Assembly is super simple at its core. Especially if you can free yourself from structured code ideology. C and C++ force you into programming a certain way, you don't use jumps, you can't manipulate the stack however you want etc. Once I leave all that and start playing with real spaghetti code :) with jumps all over the place, programming gets much more fun for me.

The cost of maintaining assembly code doesn't have to be high. You can write special subroutines you need in Assembly and keep the code short, simple and useful. I think it's a misperception that assembly is hard to maintain. I think people think that because lots of developers are afraid to even touch C code, let alone Assembly.

TL;DR Assembly is fun, leave everything you think you know about programming and jump in :).
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https://www.allocine.fr/

I'm live in eu so the GDPR applies, I gess this is legal because it's a big website.
So far I have found one another site using the same technique.

Do you use other website with the same behavior?
This completely blew my mind; If we disable cookies on this website it's working well, but everyone don't know that we can do this.
Theses websites makes people think cookies are only controlled "server side"
Even aggregated there is little monetary value beyond "people don't use this effect, let's try and ask why".

Analytics doesn't answer many questions, that's true, but it does tell you where to look. It supplements talking to customers, not replacing.
Are you looking for technical papers on how they work or practical blog posts on what you can do with them?

For both Bitcoin and Etherium the original white papers do not paint a full picture of the state of each cryptocurrency. Here are a few links I recently read on both BTC and ETH:

Bitcoin Wiki: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page

Bitcoin BIPs: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips

Etherium Website: https://ethereum.org/ (it has a lot of information spread all over it)

ETH2 Beacon Chain Blog Post: https://ethos.dev/beacon-chain/

There's a lot more literature that you can find via Google but it's spread out all over the place.
YouTube channel deleted for video warning viewers about DogeCoin
And it's also worth noting that eg. Debian has been providing hybrid images for years. Hybrid meaning you can write them directly to block device like USB drive or burn on CD. They exploit the fact that ISO images have first blocks empty and unused so you can put a classic MBR boot loader there.
I don't really think it matters a whole lot whether it jumped species or was created in a lab. I think the issue is that there are nearly 8 billion people on the planet and that fact has somehow fundamentally changed how disease spreads and mutates.

We need to be figuring out how to deal with that. Wondering where it came from is mostly neither here nor there.

We aren't going to magically stop doing lab experiments if we can know for certain that it started in a lab. If we can determine for certain that this jumped species, welp, it isn't the first time and it won't be the last.
Exactly, and with Wasm the barrier to adopt the new language is also way lower as it can be readily combined with modules written in other languages and shares the entire ecosystem.
You'll be glad when someone drops a load of watermelons in aisle three.
>Scores are highly predictable from income and factors like race. Yes. That's what makes standardized tests not just worthless, it makes them classist and racist.

Saying that "standarized test" is racist is some joke?

What's your alternative then?

>The fact that scores are basically a proxy for income+race does say something about their actual value today. Zero. Let's stop building on the infrastructure of racism and oppression that those who came before up put up.

Skew the odds then?

A lot of people do that, but it requires putting effort which in majority of the cases is what people lack - determination, desire and other.
And other than that I don't even think Mighty is better that Chrome, because it wouldn't work if you have a bad internet connection speed or if the connection drops
I would argue that you pay a harder mental cost in C because each project has to reinvent its own convention to emulate C++ features, and also because C allow for less abstraction which makes reasoning about the whole program more difficult

I don't see the relation with the fact that msvc and GCC have chosen different c++ ABI. That's not telling anything about the complexity of the language.
This is getting beyond rediculous .

It is already crossed into embarrassment.
> So it's entirely possible that fungi could survive on Mars while trees/moss/grass could not

Nope, there is no real chance to find fungi living at -50C to -70C, with no liquid water. There is no life on Earth that lives at such low temperatures, and there is no way for life as we know it to work without liquid water (or perhaps other liquid solvents, though that is highly speculative).

Also note, fungi in particular can't deal with extreme cold, the coldest I've read about any kinds of fungi living is ~0C. There are bacteria and other prokaryotes that survive at temperatures below that, but even then only at high pressures that allow liquid water to exist at very low temperatures - whereas Mars has extremely low pressure, much lower than anyone on the Earth's surface (Martian atmospheric pressure is comparable to Earth's upper atmosphere).
Phone Authentication in Ruby
Maybe that flawed logic / grammer you point out is itself a symptom of what the article is discussing (failure of education).
Temple OS is fascinating: TempleOS (formerly J Operating System, LoseThos, and SparrowOS) is a biblical-themed lightweight operating system designed to be the Third Temple prophesied in the Bible. It was created by American programmer Terry A. Davis, who developed it alone over the course of a decade after a series of manic episodes that he later described as a revelation from God.
No they don't. This myth originated when Alvin Cox (Seagate) gave a JEDEC presentation in 2015 talking about cell corruption when the drive reaches its end of life AND is stored at abnormal temperatures. Simply leaving flash unpowered won't corrupt data, especially consumer drives. This has been debunked by Alvin Cox and all the manufacturers of flash storage.
>Yes, all SSD's suffer this effect.

Wrong. Stop repeating nonsense.
Wow, this has justified an entire year's worth of Hacker News dues in one go.
I think the absolute gain is more relevant. 700 CPUs for one month costs what? 5k to 50k? Then it's worth doing for one sprint. On the other hand, 70% of 50 CPUs gains at most 2.5k. That's a maybe, maybe if the yearly maintanance cost is low enough.
Macro is interesting as it is built on top of an existing widespread tool Zoom. I see the same development in Notion, as more and more productivity products are built on top of it.
Local does prevent harm to animals. Local also does not change the metrics on how resource-intensive the product is (lentils are so much more env friendly than meat it's not the same league).

> decent meat

In my world that does not exist. "Decent" is just the level of harm/destruction that you're willing to accept.
I wrote about uncapped vs capped supply in

https://john-tromp.medium.com/a-case-for-using-soft-total-su...

Btw, there are many cryptocurrencies with tail emission, and resulting disinflationary supply.
> 80% of farmland is used for animal husbandry

and how much of that is marginal land that can't be used to grow crops?
Source for my claim: https://www.anandtech.com/show/9248/the-truth-about-ssd-data...
As always in this threads I hear people talking about SyncThing etc (and i have it and it's neat) but that works for Android. How do you exit the iCloud land in an easy and reliable way? There is no SyncThing for iOS.
What if skull shape determines a person's personality? It would be best if your hypothetical scenario was something with more than a shred of long discredited science behind it.
I really, really misread the title.
> He went from partner at a well funded firm to east LA metal salvage work. It was such an amazing feeling.

I read it as such. Any specific reason that you disagree?
Anyone who wants a very good modern C book that's only 272 pages, take a look at 'Effective C - An Introduction to Professional C Programming
by Robert C. Seacord. [1]. It's from 2020.

Robert Seacord is a Technical Director at NCC Group where he develops and delivers secure coding training in C, C++, and other languages. Seacord is an expert on the C Standards committee. > That's some solid credentials. He focuses on secure C code in the book.

Here's a short article on why he wrote the book [2].

[1] https://nostarch.com/Effective_C

[2] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9237323
This looks like it's targeted at webapp developers who want to use windows within their app. It does make sense for apps with a lot of modals, like an in-browser Gimp clone for example.
>So this is not about 'people making this about China', it has been China from the start

Military games / Fort Detrick vaping disease troll was in response to Tom Cotton and co. formally spewing lab leak theory. Note earlier date in Feb.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/16/tom-cotto...

US politicized first, when soft measures failed a month after warning Wuhan lockdown. There was ample warning, enough that many of PRC neighbors with high traffic contained well with at least some effort in coordination. PRC position up until then was let science figure it out, Wuhan was very covid19 was first discovered but doesn't mean originated there. The brief domestic deflection in early Feb was possible import from ASEAN. Even early PRC "dis"info campaigns emphasized harsh lockdown not lockdown skepticism. Countries that didn't take Wuhan lockdown seriously got burned. Queue west being prominent source of exporting covid world wide by taking lax measures. This is seen in import statistic of every country that rigorously tracked imported covid cases - PRC exported very little cases, and essentially none few weeks after lockdown. North America / Europe, magnitudes more.
Okay, but why would I do that instead of just

sleep 1 && echo 1 &
sleep 2 && echo 2 &
sleep 3 && echo 3 &
wait

and be done with it? Now I don't need to prepend 'await $`...`' in front of every other command.
I fail to see what is "just like Windows".

Specially when projects like Lively Kernel are already around for such long time.

https://lively-kernel.org/
Editorial: Creativity Lost (1978)
I think this was the tool that was happily reporting copying my files over to a USB stick despite there being copying errors (for which it didn't check, apparently).

Left me puzzled with regard to why copying over a new image still led to the older one booting for a while.

Switching to a different USB slot (2 VS 3) solved it, iirc (and I think I never used Rufus again).
Nix has been at the forefront of the reproducible build movement from the start. Large parts of nixpkgs build reproducible, due to the insane amount of isolation the builds are run in. Nevertheless, some build systems and compilers are still nondeterministic and therefore no package management system can make software builds reproducible with those tools.
I pretty much got rid of my bash scripts and just replaced them using shelljs. Makes it a lot easier and quicker to maintain, it means any developer can jump in fix it and add to it.
What? This makes no sense to me.
The website and title here state the goal is to fight misinformation. In this post you state the goal is to show we have reasons to be optimistic about the world.

Which is it?

I'm not super convinced that the framing of the questions does provide reasons to be optimistic. Instead it comes across to me as a down-playing of issues of serious concern.

What is the evidence that your approach does increase optimism, and what is the evidence that such optimism is warranted?

Have you tried the alternate framing as suggested in above posts, perhaps A/B testing? This might give the lie to your assertion that people are "systematically" incorrect, which frankly I feel to be an overstatement.

Unfortunately I have the distinct feeling of wool being pulled over my eyes.
Some SO user mention it seems to work with dd, however I did not test that recently. Most comments seem to mention that it‘s more difficult than dd.

[0] https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/598632
Six Ways Artificial Intelligence Is Used in Aviation
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is steadily being adopted in a multitude of commercial products and services. It is pushing the boundaries of automation to places we could not realize before. And the Aviation industry is no different. In this article, you can read about how AI is being applied in six different domains of Aviation. From operation optimization to fully autonomous planes along with leading companies and startups.
Finally Vi become emacs-evil.
Assuming YouTube does dedup on their backend then this is the same issue that megaupload has to deal with before they were taken offline. Namely, if an infringing file has multiple links pointing to it, is the platform obliged to take down all of them when presented with a DMCA notice? If so, is the platform then obliged to take down every slightly different version of the same infringing content? Where do their duties end?

As much as we malign content it is still more workable than having YouTube manually purging all videos that appears to be infringing based on very little information. And most content creators who sample copyrighted media under fair use have learned to cope. The more egregious issues are more concentrated around misattributed licenses and musical performance.
> If we apply Occam's razor [1] decision between "Wuhan, however, is home of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a leading world center for research on coronaviruses" and "Wuhan, there is a wet market where under certain conditions virus can jump from bat to monkey to person" is relatively straightforward

The conclusion that "the coronavirus originated in Wuhan therefore the Wuhan Institute caused the virus" could be backwards even if the correlation is real. It could be the virology institute is in Wuhan because there are bat coronaviruses near there.
Sure, but you also haven't seen geological processes working at -50C at pressures similar to the upper atmosphere, have you?
After "seapiracy" I don't really think we are addressing the biggest issue here. I would like to know if there's anything like that for fish. I would buy anything that tastes like tuna but it's fully vegetable, or any other fishes. Just give me the same taste on my sushi, please.
WoeUSB is what you have to use on Linux to create a bootable Windows thumbdrive, dd only works for isohybrid images, and Windows isn't one.
Sounds like someone dry heaving. Is that we actually sound like when we talk?
Yes, also the huge benefits C++ offers in structuring large programs makes it well worth it to switch, even if one does not want the more fancy features of it.
honestly I don't really see the point of eating a burger that doesn't taste or feel like a burger. I'd prefer to eat meat less often than try a subsitute
I'm reading it as shorthand for, "The prior probability of a lab escape is low, and we didn't see much evidence for it in this particular case, therefore we conclude that this instance being a lab escape is low", which is a fine argument.
Considering the well studied links between testosterone and social behavior , and the well known precipitous drop in testosterone in recent decades, i wonder why they didn't talk about it

> testosterone seems to possess the ability to influence such processes; in particular, it appears to confer high motivational drive, low fearfulness, and high stress-resilience, either directly or via interactions with other hormones and neurotransmitter systems

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13646...
Right, but "Let's not eat any animals at all ever" is a different target than "Let's raise and kill animals in a way that's ecologically sustainable and humane". I'd argue that working towards #1 is actively working against #2.

The other factor that I don't quite get about think-of-the-animals vegans is this: What exactly do you think is going to happen to all those cows and chickens if the entire world becomes vegetarian? Are people going to keep them as pets? No -- they're simply not going to exist. Isn't it better to have free-range chicken and cattle, which have happy little animal lives, and then are quickly and painlessly killed, than to have (almost) no chicken and cattle at all?
> I admire vegetarians for their genuinely caring moral position

Actually vegetarians follow a diet along traditional lines (dairy okay, meat nay), they are not so much into moral positioning. Vegans are the ones making an ethical stance: "no animals harmed for me whenever I have the choice"

Hence vegans dont wear wool/silk/leather, dont go to zoos/animal races, and dont consume eggs/dairy.
This one's #3. MERS (#2) was the deadliest of all, though it didn't spread so well.