skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd think they'd use some kind of chromatography to test each batch, right? And also test the reactors for contamination, after all bacterial toxins require bacteria. Don't they do this sort of QC?
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My recollection of the paper on the natural examples was that it was quite a long and exhaustive search through mineral specimens with likely candidate compositions before they found the natural one.
Maybe make them on the Moon. We can then safely observe the manufacturing process.
I think he means they are never declared unsolved on the sense that "this isn't solved and we are not going to think about it anymore, unsolved is it's final status"
I bought one and returned it. I made the mistake of adopting loose-leaf paper several months before buying it. I assumed it would be a minor cost in the writing/reading experience for a major benefit in not having folders all over the place anymore; but (a) the w/r cost was way higher than I thought it would be, (b) I realized the folders weren’t that big a deal if you, you know, but them in a box or cabinet, and (c) it was just too expensive for that c/b spread.
Looks like sshtron.zachlatta.com hasn't been found yet.

Try it: `ssh sshtron.zachlatta.com`
Which ones, pray tell?
I bought the Quaderno A4 for the bigger screen, and it is really nice how much it has changed things for me. I've started using it as an e-reader as well, and it's so versatile and great. Easy to share via wifi, bluetooth or nfc too
Consider also the disillusionment that a significant portion of the population feels when confronted with the nearly 1000 years of rule based knowledge representation that is common law.

Maybe a good law would be that if you can't be arsed to write the law in a formal language, or can't figure out how, then it shouldn't be a law in the first place :)
Given that OWL and RDF is meant for both open world data and data models, and is amenable to partial specification, it really solves the problem of relating legal rules to the rest of the world quite well. In your legal ontology you just specify evidence, and admissible evidence, and then another ontology can pick up from there and model it in a specific domain.

And OWL has formal and provable entailment rules. So everyone can agree, given samme ontologies what the implications are. There are unsolved problems there but most of the things you list are already thought through.
What? Rust is on the more expressive ends of the language spectrum. To go further you have go to functional languages.
Thank you. Me too.
As more and more evidence piles on, I wonder how long it will take for mainstream archaeology to accept these ideas.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/ncdy6m/r_g...
In the same way that ancient humans made timekeeping devices with a bowl with a hole in the bottom... one might hope for a superior method
I don't know where your numbers are coming from, but they are at the very least misleading because the population was not exclusively made up of Jews and the group we now call Palestinians and not all land was privately owned.

EDIT: I rephrased this to more clearly explain my point.
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The problem is you're bringing it in too early.

Discrediting your opposites is primarily a feature of rhetoric, not discourse.

If your goal is to have an earnest discussion, to go over the various sorts of evidence and the varied hypotheses, you need to address those first.

Some American scientists have claimed the virus does not look engineered. Why? What is their evidence for the claim? If you are asserting the virus is or at least could be engineered, can you account for the evidence supporting their assertion? Can you point to evidence that supports your hypothesis and not theirs? How do they respond to this evidence?

It may be -- in an earnest discussion -- that one side is not engaging, for one reason or another. Maybe they don't want to admit they are wrong, maybe they are getting paid not to. At that point, after you have yourself examined their claims, after you have examined whether you are just being stubborn yourself, it is quite reasonable to disregard them, maybe even in the future.

Bringing it in too early, before engaging with their claims, trying to find reasons not to examine their evidence, makes it seem like you are just interested in winning the rhetorical argument.
Isn't that a big advantage... if you can promote to bishop and the other player crashes, wouldn't you win by default or something?
Isn’t that tweet pretty clearly aimed at people who were already concluding that it was engineered in a lab? That’s a lot different than saying we should investigate the origins of the virus.
You consume in a slower manner.

You use an example of your ability to stream a thousand tracks in a single day if you wanted to, I don't have the same aspirations, so I'd also not pay thousands of dollars up from to kick start it.

To answer your question of how do I curate a library, legally, is just over time. I have a lot of musicians I like, and when I find them, I purchase their music, and I listen to it.

I do it less than a thousand times a day however. But I've been at it for thousands of days.
Most of the UFO sightings occurred around 8:15-9:00 PM, while the flairs were known to be ignited around 10:00 - 10:30 PM. Really bizarre fact about the Phoenix lights, the Governor of Arizona at that time has admitted he saw the UFO (UAP - whatever) [0].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Generals-Pilots-Government-Offic...
I'm sure the readers of hacker news can deal with that.
Right, but maybe later versions of CSS won't be indistinguishable from malware for basic web browsing purposes.
I don't have a reMarkable, but I use a Fujitsu Quaderno A4. For me, it's the eink screen that's made all the difference. Less eye strain, and a better writing feel. It's also helped keep me focused since the Quaderno, at least, has nothing else but pdfs and note-taking.
A pure tone. At 110 dB SPL. On one study.

Yes, if you blast humans with enough energy in any form they will eventually notice. This is not a relevant result for music.
Some more info:
https://ogleearth.com/2012/07/constraining-online-maps-the-c...

>Why is Google’s Korean map behaving this way? In short, because of Korea’s Spatial Data Industry Promotion Act from 2009, specifically Article 7, which states that:

>Spatial data business operators may produce and distribute any processed spatial data. In such cases, processed spatial data shall not include any spatial data on any military base provided for in subparagraph 1 of Article 2 of the Protection of Military Bases and Installations Act nor on any military installation provided for in subparagraph 2 of the said Article.

>And considering the existence of the most heavily militarized border on the planet between North Korea and South Korea, this means a substantial part of South Korea is riddled with military installations.

>By limiting the maximum resolution of its Korean imagery on maps.google.co.kr, Google appears to have satisfied Korean regulators that it is obeying the relevant Korean laws. Thus, Google avoids having to blur or otherwise censor the satellite imagery base layer for Korea — something which it has successfully managed to avoid in China, India and elsewhere.

Write up about Apples courser application

https://ogleearth.com/2012/07/apple-censors-ipad-maps-app-ov...
In case you want to apply for a job without admitting who you are?
I don't think people usually start coming to terms with death by their mid-fifties. Where I live they mostly seem to be training for their first triathlons.
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"This component maintains a 99.9% uptime and constructs a feed with p99 in the low hundred milliseconds. Which means that this design should hold as we scale to handle trillions of recommendations per day."

Is that why Reddit is the only major website that regularly can't keep up with demand? They are wasting all their resources on sending millions of spam emails filled with these 'recommendations'?
This trial-and-error history should also destroy any reverence people have for "Unix philosophy".
Does Egypt also claim their land?
It's one identity per computer, not one identity per FIDO key. But anyway it defeats the purpose of checking for humanity.
There is no such thing as a CD artifact for a CD in good condition. You can burn a 44.1/16 WAV to CD, rip it, and get the same exact file out. I do, all the time (I burn indie CDs and this is how I verify them).
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It's interesting to see the difference in testing between the US and Europe (or NL at least) - here getting 60% correct is a passing grade (usually 50% is the minimum)
WIV contains a BSL-4 lab, which is fairly new. WIV itself has been around for 65 years. It contains many labs, at various levels of security. It's a huge hassle to conduct work in the BSL-4, and researchers generally would only work in the BSL-4 if they were working with pathogens that required it.

WIV has acknowledged that at least some of their bat coronavirus research was conducted in their BSL-2 labs which have a far, far lower level of security.
Some broods are very localized and small. I believe Brood X is going to be a large brood for many areas East of the Mississippi. 2024 may be a bonkers year for SE Missouri/NW Kentucky, when two broods will come out around the Mississippi. I live in Kansas City, and 2014 was a brood year for the area. We won't be seeing much until 2024. Many of my friends have been posting about Brood X, here in KC. But I've been having to educate them about the locality of brood X.

The 2004 brood in KC was a good size. Totally freaked me out, since I had recently moved to the area, and had never seen a cicada in my life. At first, I thought they were alarms going off.
If you're doing agent forwarding in your .ssh/config for * this could be a massive security thread. Mods should probably put a disclaimer at the top of this thread.
A rook promotion is something regular chess players will need to do to prevent stalemate, but it isn't that common where it is required (as opposed to someone who could win with a queen instead but it is trickery so beginners should go for a rook ). A Knight is the better promotion choice often enough that you should study tactics that lead to it, while a rook it is enough to do a stalemate check before promoting. There are tactics that only a bishop wins, but they are things you study for fun, not because you expect them.
> "claims their land" sounds like Israel would like to annex Gaza and make it part of Israel - which is ridiculous and patently false.

It very much is not. A recent a Netanyahu election ad showed a map of Israel without Gaza and the West Bank cut out, overlaid with the words “one state”. Among other examples. https://twitter.com/jewish_worker/status/1394036492213833728...
Is that 59 ply? 59 moves without a pawn move or capture means the game was drawn nine moves ago.

Here's what's confusing me: if the chess engine has an initial numeric value for the current position, and the positions going out to the end of its search all have the same value or worse, shouldn't it be pretty trivial to conclude it is not making progress?
WIV has a BSL-4 lab, but not all the work there was done in it.

> Before 2020, the rules followed by virologists in China and elsewhere required that experiments with the SARS1 and MERS viruses be conducted in BSL3 conditions. But all other bat coronaviruses could be studied in BSL2, the next level down. BSL2 requires taking fairly minimal safety precautions, such as wearing lab coats and gloves, not sucking up liquids in a pipette, and putting up biohazard warning signs. Yet a gain-of-function experiment conducted in BSL2 might produce an agent more infectious than either SARS1 or MERS. And if it did, then lab workers would stand a high chance of infection, especially if unvaccinated. Much of Shi [Zheng-li, head researcher at WIV]’s work on gain-of-function in coronaviruses was performed at the BSL2 safety level, as is stated in her publications and other documents. She has said in an interview with Science magazine that “[t]he coronavirus research in our laboratory is conducted in BSL-2 or BSL-3 laboratories.”

https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-peop...
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I choose to interpret the post as a sort of subversion of the usual way this meme is used: none of the boxes are checked, so in this case the battery technology has actually passed the rather rigorous battery-technology-skeptic's filter. The post is rather ambiguous, though.
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Quote: "Since IBM's Deep Blue defeated World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov in their 1997 match..."

Deep Blue lost in 1996. Its upgrade, called Deeper Blue is the one that won the famous match in 1997. Please SamCopland, do your homework.
Along this theme, I highly recommend Bill Hammack's (The Engineer Guy) book "Fatal Flight - The True Story of Britain's Last Great Airship".

It's also available as an audio book on youtube [0]. (I couldn't find it as an audio feed)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97OnTDaLqqk&list=PL0INsTTU1k...
Here's why you should care.

Keeping someone in prison costs tax payers about $70,000 per year (directly). In addition to that, it increases the chance that their family will need government aid, decreases the average educational level reached by their children, and isn't especially effective at deterring crime.

Furthermore, just because someone is guilty doesn't mean that the law is just. In the past, we have locked up people for (illegally) escaping slavery, being gay, publishing books the government doesn't like, and many other unjust laws. Currently, there are about 3 million people in prison for no crime other than drug possession, despite the fact that countries like Portugal have shown that decriminalizing drugs yields far better outcomes for individuals and society as a whole.

Lastly protecting the rights of the guilty is critical because doing so is the only thing in the US that protects the rights of the innocent. Countries like the UK are set up to charge officers and prosecutors who violate rights with crimes. In the US, however, we've decided that the better approach is to prevent misconduct by not allowing evidence that was obtained improperly. We as a society can not be lax on misconduct against the guilty because it is the only defense the US has against misconduct against the innocent.
It seems like you agree with me but are framing your comments as if you disagree. In my first comment I said:

>There is no potential choice here that isn't going to be viewed politically.

Maybe the two negatives in that sentence are throwing people off, but I can rephrase it to say "There is no apolitical choice here."

However any choice that goes against the status quo is going to be perceived as more political than a choice that accepts the status quo. That is just a general statement and isn't specific to the debate about recognition of Palestine.
Any reason why this wasn't implemented with telnet since no authentication is required?
So long as you don't crash the engine just evaluates when it happens .bishop promotions are rare.
Mostly teams within Google that have had success with it.
The one thing that bothers me about this is that it's still really hard to get high-quality audio to a high-quality speaker. Apple doesn't currently offer a first-party way to stream to a third-party speaker; you have to buy a homepod, find a used Apple AirPort Express Audio, or rely on a third-party airplay streaming device. I'm sure there are a bunch of high-quality third-party airplay devices, but the lack of a device from Apple directly makes me worried about relying on AirPlay Audio being a thing in the future.
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The waitpid() call isn't quite as broken; I think there are only races there if there is any chance other parts of your process call waitpid() on the same pid and it gets reaped twice.

Under normal operation (pid returned from fork, waitpid used in one spot until the child exits, no odd sigchild shenanigans), I don't think waitpid() has any races.

Am I missing anything?
If cost is an issue there are Garmin smart watches with pulse oximetry sensors and sleep tracking for as little as $130. (I do understand that can still be out of reach for some low wage workers.)
We also idolize overwork to an unhealthy degree.
Also related; toxic positivity, or FONO (fear of negative outlook)
Whoa, I had no idea about the math involved:

> "But the 13- and 17-year recurrence of cicada emergences may be an even savvier strategy. Both 13 and 17 are prime numbers, meaning they're divisible only by 1 and themselves. This means that emergences rarely overlap with predator population cycles that occur in shorter intervals. For example, if cicadas emerged every 10 years, they'd be susceptible to predators whose population boomed on a cycle of one, two, five or 10 years. If they came out every 12 years, they'd be a tasty snack for any predator on a cycle of one, two, three, four, six or 12 years. Thirteen years, though? Only one and 13. The same goes for a 17-year cycle."

https://www.livescience.com/periodical-cicada-prime-numbers....
The way the virus could have got from the source (where the animal host is) to Wuhan is interesting. How could it not be lab transmission?

We've learn't a lot more about viral transmission in places like Australia with very low COVID incidences and very strong contact tracing when an infected person does go out into the community. It's very clear now that many people are extremely poor at spreading the virus - out in the community for 2 weeks with one of the infectious variants - in restaurants, pubs etc. - and only manage to infect 1 person, who is a close contact. Others are super spreaders, that infect many many people (but these people seem much rarer).

I can easily see how it could get 1000km away from the source. A person who had the virus with no symptoms could simply have traveled to Wuhan. Didn't infect anyone on the way. Infected a close contact once there. Gets to a super spreader, then off it goes.

I get the feeling that the lab leak hypothesis ignores the unevenness of transmission that is now evident.
To get them out of circulation. A lot of these incorrigible people are pretty obnoxious and make everyone miserable around them.
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Not to self-reply, but this idea of having an opaque and highly volatile basket of cryptocurrencies on your balance sheet might be important. It's not cash, and it's not inventory, it's something more powerful.

It means you can sell tranches of it to make your quarterly numbers do what you want them to, with a crypto-hammer you can use to shore up numbers wherever you want. As an accounting device, their liquidity and volatility means you could use them to obliterate shorts by uncloaking a realized massive "profit" just before an earnings call.

Crypto can absorb loose cash that creates other liabilities, while carrying the value of that cash over calendar years in a super liquid asset. I'm not a corporate accountant at all, but I would wonder if these properties of crypto could be used as a superweapon against shorts.
other OPSEC practices we all need to follow, regardless of threat model.

That doesn't really add up - a goals of things like more secure phones and secure general purpose messengers is explicitly to provide a high level of security without following a bunch of OPSEC practices. You aren't going to get mass adoption of more secure systems by insisting everyone take up OPSEC practices 'regardless of threat model'. The aim is to reach that adoption through systems that offer a lot of security without a lot of security-related ceremony. It's sort of inherent in the notion of mass adoption.
American states are still "places" and each had a different response and thus we can use it to measure effectiveness. Doesn't much matter if you are talking about Illinois or Sweden in this case.
Under ideal circumstances they are accurate to within a couple percent. But accuracy varies widely based on watch band tightness, skin color, hair, etc.
I’d even say it’s even fine for present humans.

But the only thing they had to suspect Wendy Farris of was being a responsible motorist in stopping when too tired to drive safely. Maybe a breathalyser test could be warranted just to be safe, and if passed apologise for wasting her time.

It sounds like the officers were either running a scam or were just looking for people to harass as make-work. “Field sobriety test”, what is that even? Sounds like a total scam.
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> Buying direct from the artist can be as low as $1 per album

Not the artists I listen to. They're all signed with big labels, thus you can only buy from that label.

> Buying CDs and records used, then posting them on social media is a form of social currency

And criminal currency known as Copyright Infringement. I'll pass.
I’m in MD as well... there’s a big maple tree in my yard that’s attracted probably hundreds of them at this point, lots of holes in the ground around it from when they emerged, but they haven’t started singing yet, or even moving tbh. And hundreds is a lot, but not “covering the entire tree” by any means. Just a surprisingly large number of giant, docile bugs in the corner of the yard.
> Your friend does not think you hired a string quartet.

To be fair to the audio system, a significant reason why they'd sound different is because of room acoustics—and we rarely listen to string quartets playing in residential living rooms.
In 1) and 2), it's clear the speaker is making some kind of conjecture. In 3), I think there's some bleed-over interfering from the idiomatic "I guess" which indicates that you're reporting hearsay or hedging your commitment to its accuracy. Some languages express this "evidentiary" modality more formally, e.g. via some kind of morphosyntactic change that makes it explicit. English has a ton of ways of expressing modalities, but they're wrapped up together in various kinds of constructions that express tense and aspect as well ("TAM" is an acronym for tense-aspect-mood used in lots of linguistic analysis across all kinds of languages).

Usually it's an error to add -ing to a mental process (Are you knowing the answer?, I'm believing in a deity, etc.). (We can choose to construe a mental process as a material one - it's not a lexical rule about those verbs, but a grammatical means we have access to, e.g. I'm lovin' it, I'm thinking about you contrue them as an activity rather than a mental state.) But perhaps the reason why replacing "guessing" with "guess" changes the meaning so much is because "I guess" is already taken. It should modify the meaning as "I think x" => "I'm thinking x" does, but saying "I guess" sounds like a way of hedging information from a 3rd party.