skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure,

> The prior probability of a lab escape is low

but the prior probability of "a pandemic from natural causes envelops the world" is also low, say below 1% a year. But now, given that "a pandemic does envelop the world", the posterior probability of lab escape and natural cause of course rises dramatically... and then saying "we didn't see much evidence for it" on a superficial tour organised by those responsible for the lab does not strike me as a very powerful rebuttal.

It's akin to "the prior probability of labour camps is low", and "on our tour of North Korea (accompanied by several North Korean tour guides showing us just those places they wanted to show us when they wanted to show us) we didn't see any labour camps, therefore we conclude that the probability of labour camps in North Korea is low".

While we're invoking statistics: Take the null H_0 = "the virus emerged naturally in any large Chinese city with > 1m inhabitants". In 2017, there were 102 of those. Thus, the probability under H_0 that the virus emerged in the one city in China with a level 4 biolab has p < 0.01.
Hopefully by then we have some sort of anonymous “voting” technology so that each individual can have a vote on all public issues. It’s a pain to hold a referendum now, but if we could answer in 2min on our phones and know that our vote was secure, reliable, and 100% anonymous, we could reshape bureaucracy in an instant.
Trusted Computing: Promise and Risk(2003)
I would add one more thing to your arguments: people who don't like ads should simply ask web devs of their favourite sites not to serve ads at all. Even if ads and trackers exist it is still ultimately the developers choice to include ad code in their websites.

I sense A LOT of misdirected anger towards ad companies when the "enablers" of ad companies – the web developers willing to monetise traffic with ads – are not getting any blame directed at them.

As long as you guys at Facebook are transparent about what happens if you embed your like buttons or comment sections in blogs and forums etc. the onus is on the developers to serve their visitors with safe content.
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Arresting Drs talking about a possible repeat of SARS is something China clearly wouldn’t want out unless it absolutely had to. The effects on markets, general panic etc are not nothing issues.

Later discovering they really did have a problem and it was even worse than SARS going to a full lockdown at the main crossroads city right before Chinese New Year (the largest human migration event).

The motivation feels very normal/predicable for China. And also similar to their SARS response. So is SARS also an intentional self inflicted lab leak? And is MERS a secret belt and road initiative?

Seems weird there is a conspiracy about the third deadly coronavirus but not the first two... or the common cold for that matter? Where did that come from and was that a lab leak?

Whole thing smells of lazy arm chair enquiry with a touch of xenophobia
> which is key as each instance issues a lot of parallel requests to Amazon S3 and tends to be bound by the network

I wonder if most of the cost comes from S3, EC2 or the "premium" bandwidth that Amazon charges ridiculously much for. Since it seems to be doing a lot of requests, it wouldn't surprise me if it's the network cost, and if so, I wonder why they would even use AWS at all then.
Humans are animals. Humans do not feel pain differently from other animals. Humans do not suffer differently from other animals. This is why intentionally causing animals like cats and dogs to suffer is illegal and viewed as abhorrent. The only reason this is not extended to other animals like cows and pigs is convenience.
Is it possible to translate C into (unsafe) Rust while maintaining both human readability and link-level compatibility?
I really like Guile
True, but not as catchy
The company is still developing its products, and the extra margin reflects the fact that it hasn't yet been able to amortize the costs as Tyson etc. have with already established slaughterhouses, monopolies on the business to secure their trade and other infrastructure.
Launch a drone to spread sulfur dioxide in mesopause above mountains at winter, to create highly reflective clouds, to create shadow.

https://m.economictimes.com/news/science/sulphuric-acid-clou...
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It's not a government that enables it, it's a government that enforces it through laws that guarantee and endow a local monopoly. Whenever you have an endowed monopoly without substitutes, you have extremely high prices. It's econ 101 and will happen 100% of the time (that's why I call it enforcement instead of enablement). If the government just got out of the way, the price of insulin would plummet.
Thank you for posting -- I had never heard of tagged template literals!

Reading the docs [1], it appears there is a `raw` property which might make this even simpler?

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
@gwern's site[0] has tooltip popups, basically Wikipedia-like page previews on the rocks, that employ this paradigm. If you check some of their articles, they're very dense in content and sources/links meaning that having a quick way to check them works good.

[0]: https://www.gwern.net/About
The whole premise of the T2/Secure Enclave (or TPMs or whatever name is fancied this day if you want to talk non-Apple lingo) is that the disk encryption key (or other private key kind of secrets) cannot be extracted, not by malware, not by knowing your password, not by electronic microscope, not -ever-.
Actually there are thousands of rats, snakes, moles and other pests that are killed every time crops are planted and harvested.

The realities of this world are quite ugly. We've just managed to put a civilized veneer over it
I remember a time when people could take being called a "doofus" without starting a smear campaign.
No, it probably makes you take unnecessary risks due to a false sense of bravado
Previous submission (3 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27026039
Unfortunately, having so many retirees that pensions are a problem means there are too many retirees for your suggestion to be politically feasible.
All 4380 Solar System planets are NFT's
running movable and resizable windows inside a browser is neat but it feels like an antipattern. the top bar just seems like wasted space on a page, and it is distracting from the actual content.

split panes are good enough.
Will people crucify me for suggesting that maybe you should also learn a language that's not JavaScript?
> why we can't compile a prototype straight into release code anymore like we did during the Delphi and WinForms days?

You probably can if you're making something with zero styling for one version of one OS on a 640x480 non-touch screen in one language that can't be deeplinked into from other applications for people with no accessibility requirements.
I'm not even using twitter and I know that the crypto community has a bunch of coins and twitter bots [1] that implement tipping way way better and also likely did this years ago.

The key part of making it better is that everyone can receive tips with these systems you dont need a payment provider that matches or in fact you dont need one at all.

Ofc you cant cash out without but you can tip what you got to others. The same "dollar" can move around to hundreds of people like that without any PayPal or whatever in between that would suck it up by removing fees.

[1]For example xrptipbot.com also cross platform and works on reddit and discord too.
People do take products back they don’t like. So statistically it’s not as unlikely as you might think.
> I wonder if most of the cost comes from S3

This current cost comes from the big dataset of storage in S3.

> it wouldn't surprise me if it's the network cost

Network cost is only outbound. Inside it's free (except multi region etc). Ec2 <-> S3 is free bandwidth (you pay for requests).
You're evidently misinformed, I've provided references (see Dr. Cate Shanahan for one) here regarding seed oils. There is no doubt they are toxic. Glad you're healthy, but look around you.

These are the worst ones: Canola, Corn, Cottonseed Soy, Sunflower, Safflower, Grapeseed, and Rice bran.

Also, olives and coconuts are fruits.

This idea that physical activity will balance out an unhealthy diet is wrong and has been proven wrong by decades of people attempting just that. It doesn't work. Once your metabolism is damaged by your diet, no amount of physical activity (if you can muster it) will fix it.
And then, there is a good chance our generation's Tesla or Einstein or Mozart currently herds livestock in the Mongolian desert and will for all their life.
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>I have a difficult time understanding why they would have been arresting doctors who were talking about the virus if it were natural.

No doctors were arrested early on. Few got cold tea lectures about spreading rumors that literal SARs returned not novel SARs like virus. Signed boilerplate paperwork and was released back to work. This is generic behavior for "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" tier infractions. Not particularly heavy handed at all as far as PRC behavior is concerned. Folks get talks with cyber security for far less. Arguably warranted, had covid not been once in generation virus, spreading panic based on rumors to some critical mass before CNY is pretty egregious. The fact these doctors got slap on risk treatment shows officials were essentially oblivious of severity of novel virus. If there was foreknowledge of a lab leak, these doctors would be under surveillance and stashed away in safe house away from family/friends/work for months/years like in other politically sensitive cases.
This analogy is not a new idea, see "The transactional memory / garbage collection analogy" by Dan Grossman at OOPSLA 2007: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1297027.1297080

PDF available here: https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~djg/papers/analogy_oopsla07...
Combining data-at-rest with some slim index structure coupled with a common access method (like HTTP) was the idea behind a tool a key-value store for JSON I once wrote: https://github.com/miku/microblob

I first thought of building a custom index structure, but found that I did not need everything in memory all the time. Using an embedded leveldb works just fine.
Yes, this. The delusion that greed, or the love of money, will always benefit society is a neoliberal myth.
> This is difficult as your need is not someone else's

It helps when the config accepts functions who are given suitable context about the content they're filtering.

I also agree 100% about everything you've noticed.
Years from now people will look back and say:

"Hmmmm. On one hand, Wuhan Institute of Virology is located where the outbreak started. On the other hand, they did have some markets where people sold animals. Tough call."

Then they'll laugh and joke about how badly people were manipulated.
The problem with defer is that it is a macro with all its problem.
Imagine such code

for (int i = 0; i < files_count; ++i) {
file_handle_t handle = open_file(files[i]);
defer(close_file(handle)) {
// ...
if (some_condition) {
close_file(handle);
break;
}
// ...
}
}

But this doesn't work because you did not know or you forgot that `defer` was implemented with a `for` inside and so the `break` or `continue` goes out of the wrong loop. and that's just one example of the many thing that can go wrong because it is a macro.

On the other hand, with RIAA, you just have your file_handle that automatically close so you can't forgot to close it, and the rules are well known and not that difficult to understand.
The electrical blueprints that orchestrate life (not DNA;D)
I noticed the same.. That said, it is an open source project and likely relies on individuals volunteering their time for such things.
> play it 3 times where each replay differs significantly.

is it really 3 times, if each time the story extends and continues on?!
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Doctors do, but I'm not sure patients will ever have enough knowledge to be able to make an informed choice.
People, not girls. There are actually more men than woman with that livestyle. Unless you are also consider Instragram-Influencers who are selling beauty-products. But those usally don't play games.
It's possible that invading Canada today would turn out to be the "right course of action" but that doesn't mean we should kill a million Canadians to find out.

That said, even if you believe that removing Hussein was a worthy goal, the Iraq War was a colossal shit show.
>Humans are animals.

I'll give you that.

>Humans do not feel pain differently from other animals. Humans do not suffer differently from other animals.

Humans do not feel pain differently than say, a mollusk?
Absolutely not. The Arma series might be an exception for a limited set of aspects, but that falls more into the "military simulation" category than what most people associate with an FPS.
This looks really interesting, I wonder how they will monetize it though.

As an aside, projects like these are what keep me wondering whether I should switch from cheaper but "dumb" object stores to AWS since on AWS you can use your object store together with things like Athena etc. and get pay-per-use search / grep and a lot of other things, without the egress fees since it's all within AWS.
Yeah I more-or-less made this point in my other reply to this thread. I yearn for the web of my childhood (mid 90’s) when web pages were small and highly personal. People formed communities via web rings. Search was very basic but largely unnecessary because the web was so small.
I thought I was reading an article before I saw the URL. Very informative.
Why can't people just eat vegetables instead? Seriously, I've worked at a renown vegan and vegetarian restaurant and I never understood why people didn't just eat veg/tofu stir-fry instead of having us go through so much non-sense to re-invent a burger or a crabcake? The things took so much effort and were an inferior version to the real thing, not to mention the amount of oils necessary to keep them intact.

The closest thing we had was this creole veg serve with polenta, that had tons of oil and butter in the polenta and the creole veg had been marinated in quite a bit of oil along with the spices to keep them moist throughout service.

I'm an omnivore with a massive conservationist mindset, and did Biodynamic Ag. So I just intermittent fast for 16 hours a day and only eat once a day now that I don't farm any more. But I grew up on cantonese food where protein was used sparingly, and unlike most kids in the West we gladly ate tofu and vegetables all year round in our homemade meals.

Eating unadulterated seasonal veg is way tastier than eating a mushroom burger with absurd amounts of oils and saturated fats and breading, smeared with vegan mayo etc... I never ate anything but the soups at work, as the rest of the menu all had so much more stuff added to it that caused a very noticeable feeling of inflammation--which is typical for vegetarians and vegans.

I've ate those impossible burgers when BK launched them and did side by side with a normal whopper when they were on the 2/$5 promo for a while, and the way I ate them (I sauted onions with korean BBQ sauce and garnished with kimchi and maybe an egg if I really had time) you couldn't tell a difference.

But, as a cook I was always perplexed: why put so much inputs into something (burger) that wasn't meant to be eaten more than once a week?

The real issue to the obesity issue in much of the West is a lack of exercise coupled with over consumption of calories, from all sources be it veg or animal protein, instead of having a burger as a treat once a week: many people, mainly the poor, subsist on this stuff due to the race to the bottom price wars typical in fast food paired with a sedentary lifestyle. But the price factor is not as day and night as it's made out to be if you actually have an education on diets suited for your lifestyle, something entirely missing in the US.

I think post-covid people need to take a very serious look at who was really affected by COVID in the West--I'm aware that India is getting hit hard and they have a mainly plant based diet, but this seems mainly due to an inability to convince it's population to follow lock-down, quarantine, or mask wearing measures and an ability to vaccinate due to an ongoing lack of trust in their government.

Most of the deaths in the West were from the elderly population, and the medically ill with a remarkable concentration on people with diabetes, obesity, asthma as the co-morbidity factors.
Ah, the eternal question. How do you respond to this? Applaud and encourage even more thorough self-reflection, or criticize because the self-reflection was not thorough enough?
The leading causes of death are diseases, cancers, dementia, road injuries, etc. These are inarguably more "horrifying" deaths than how we could kill people with methods such as those used for euthanasia, which is the point the original comment was making.

If a human has no friends, and their death would not bring great and lasting sadness to other humans, is it ok to murder them?

If a human is mentally or physically incapable of improving the lot of other people, and is in fact a burden on society, is it ok to murder them?
The study says 5.6%, and how you’re defining “white supremacy” is extremely dishonest:

> Respondents were asked how important their race was to their identity on a five-point scale ranging from “not at all important” to “extremely important.” They were also asked a question measuring their feelings of white solidarity: “How important is it that whites work together to change laws that are unfair to whites?” This followed the same five-point scale. Finally, we can assess survey respondents’ feelings of white victimization from their answers to the question of how much discrimination whites face in the U.S., also on a five-point scale, ranging from “none at all” to a “great deal.”

These people are opposed to affirmative action. The Biden administration is literally excluding white people from things like farm loan forgiveness and SBA loans. Cities are excluding them from things like mortgage subsidies. Companies are openly talking about quota systems. “White men” is used as a pejorative.

Maybe these people are like the “war on Christmas” folks and are blowing this stuff out of proportion. But when there is literal discrimination against white people being baked into our laws, calling them “white supremacist” for saying in a survey that white people should try to get those laws overturned is totally psychotic.
Normally, for UEFI boot, you could be able just to create a FAT32 partition and copy the ISO content there. In the past, it was perfectly workable way to do so.

Except for the unfortunate install.wim file. The first releases of Windows 10 were fine, they had it under 4GB, but some of the half-year releases have it grown over 4GB, and FAT32 cannot handle that. Thus all the mitigations you see here.

The Microsoft's USB tool does not use install.wim; it contains install.esd instead. It is basically the same thing, but with different compression, so it is still a bit under 4GB. You can recompress install.wim into install.esd, if you have the inclination ...and a windows machine nearby (dism /export-image).
One metric is aligned with the goal of the org, the other is orthogonal. One wonders why the second is rarely picked.

If I was a chef, my metric isn't going to be reduction of customer obesity. My metric is going to be customer satisfaction with the mail. They're also coming for the latter and not the former.
Memory is allocated in pages, which are split in subpages, etc., then you throw at it heaps, queues, linked lists and so on.

All of this structure doesn't exist in the memory. So you need transactions at the page level which is too crude, or the byte level which is too granular.

Hardware is simply the wrong level to solve this problem at. Unless the hardware starts understanding how we use memory way, way, way, way better than it does right now.
Note that C11 added _Generic to the language, so things like the type-generic functions from tgmath.h can nowadays be implemented in user space.
Half of it is paid by my employer. There are no deductibles (generally) and no surprise bills here but the health insurance is useless for e.g. the dentist, the insurance only pays for the minimum (the joke is they only pay for the removal of teeth and a blender).

But for the sake of comparison I don't have the impression that US health care costs are much worse than in Germany. Certainly not to the extent the internet wants to make one believe.
> What do you mean by search ?

Search maybe is too strong a word - "lookup" is probably more correct. I have a couple of identifiers for each document, from which I want to retrieve the full doc.

I'm not sure what you mean by running custom code on the data. I usually do some kind of transformation afterwards.

I didn't find anything either, which is why I was wondering if I was searching for the wrong thing.