skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure I get what you mean - I assume you are referencing the fictional tale of the pied piper of hamlet where the pied piper cleared the hamlet of rats by playing a pipe and leading them to a river, but then the mayor refused to pay because he incorrectly claimed the pied piper brought the rats in from another town, so then in retaliation the pied piper kidnapped all the children and they are never seen again?

What’s the similarity here? I’m not entirely sure a fairy tale disproves OPs argument, particularly when the circumstances are so different (you can’t bring in bugs from another app, facebook has a history of paying up and the bounty fees are tiny for them).
The furin cleavage site is not present in known coronaviruses for any of the suspected progenitor viruses to recombine with to gain that feature, and utilizes an extremely unlikely codon for Arginine when you take coronaviruses as a whole into account, but an extremely prolific codon in human-centric gene editing tool supply chains.

The fact it appears to be an insertion if it came from a mutation is also highly unlikely.

These are, in fact, remarkable characteristics taking into account the proximity to an institute where this type of work took place, staffed by researchers who have done it multiple times in the decades leading up to the pandemic, who had funding for doing similar work at the time, who started acting oddly at the time, which caused such a stir that all related research was tightly perception managed by the state.

I cannot say as in my life it has been the case that with such smoke as that, there has not been a vigorous exothermic reaction to be near.
Thats why those settlements are usually all located on a river that goes into the the sea.

(but for actual drinking water, smaller springs are preferrerd and can be found almost everywhere, except the dessert, too)

So you have drinking water - and can do extensive fishing, in the river as well in the sea - and in the very fish rich area in between.

Also with a river you can more easily connect inland.

(have you never played civilisation?)
Use encrypted email. Don't listen to people telling you to stop using encrypted email. Their argument are weak. They promote proprietary services.
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> Starcraft's AI kicks the butts of every pro player, because you can scale up and overwhelm your opponent

Nah, it's because it has superhuman mechanics. If AlphaStar didn't rely so heavily on it's mechanics it might have produced interesting insights.

Everyone in the SC2 community was hoping for that, but it didn't really happen.
This isn't a pissing contest, it's simply the social standard here which sometimes accidentally leaks out to people who do not appreciate it, or wrongly interpret it as rudeness.

For us as practitioners of this behaviour, intended rudeness is actually easy enough to spot.
> Tesla is achieving vertical integration to a degree no other mainstream auto OEM has achieved.

That's because other OEM have worked hard NOT to be vertically integrated. There are benefits to splitting the value chain and letting each supplier concentrate on what they are best at, and get economies of scale from selling to multiple clients.

It seems to me that Tesla lack of focus is actually one of their biggest problem. You can't the best at making cars, batteries, solar panels, etc. all at the same time.
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The feel is much better. More friction, feels like paper. I prefer eInk to a bright screen. No popups or distractions (same as if I was using pen and paper). It’s noticeably lighter. Simple software that does everything I need well. No need to fuss with apps.
Take it for what it is: scientists chipping away at different problems related to storing energy in solid state batteries. There is a lot of that happening. It adds up to companies finding their way to the market eventually. Battery longevity and charging times are two of the problems addressed by this particular solution.

From the lab to mass production in a giga factory while being cost competitive with other solutions is not something that is going to happen overnight, regardless how good the technology is. It requires lots of investment, planning, prototyping, etc.

However, there are several companies gearing up to start battery production around the 2025-2030 time frame that are targeting mass production that have had lots of investment and are at this point beyond the prototype stage. This includes companies backed by car vendors including Toyota, VW, GM, etc. to the extend of many billions. That suggests that if their collective efforts pay off, we could see solid state batteries creeping into the market over the next eight years. I don't expect it to displace current non solid state battery technology until some time next decade at the earliest.

Cars may not be the first logical application. Planes are a much more lucrative target where the price of the batteries won't be as much of an issue and the increased safety and energy density are highly desirable properties. And the market is much smaller, making it possible to target it with a bit more modest infrastructure. There are several electrical planes in or near production right now where e.g. 2x capacity increase would be very meaningful in terms of range. E.g. Bye Air just announced a 500 mile, eight seat twin prop a few days ago. It's not going to be cheap. It would make perfect sense to use relatively expensive batteries in such a plane.

Stationary storage is not an obvious initial market for solid state batteries either until they become dirt cheap and mass produced. Energy density is just much less of a concern for those and instead cost per watt is going to be the key driver there. For commercial vehicles and (taxis, trucks, vans, heavy equipment), charging speed and cost are the main drivers.

Faster charging speeds means capacity becomes less important. If you can top up a 500 mile battery in 10-20 minutes, maybe a 200 mile battery is good enough for most. You can get that capacity with most EVs today and charging times are getting there as well. I know I don't last that long without a bath room break at least. Solid state batteries will be nice to have in this market but not essential.

IMHO solid state high performance batteries will find their way into EVs eventually probably starting with high end, overpriced vehicles.
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it's only rude if you're rubbing it in their face, rather than trying to inform them in a down to earth way.
There is no consensus on buttons' rounded corners. Square corners are fine, or you'll have to explain why it's not.
From the abstract:

> Our design also enables a specific power of 110.6 kilowatts per kilogram and specific energy up to 631.1 watt hours per kilogram at the micrometre-sized cathode material level.
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Is there a better source for this? Under all the breathless hype ("astonishingly, the internet itself may be the key that unlocks the link between the languages") it sounds like all that's being claimed -- not even proven -- is stronger evidence that Linear A and Linear B are related.
Not really. The reason seems pretty straight forward to me, "The vast majority of Antarctica is also in low resolution due to the bright, often featureless, ice and snow making high-resolution imaging both difficult and largely unnecessary".
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Replying to you and @smallnamespace, not only are we in extremely small silos, you can realize how small the silo is by

1) taking sporadic notes, but not full urls

2) attempting to follow your same trail again

I often find I can't even, with knowledge of what I read/saw find the same sources again, using the same tools and sites without basically taking detailed notes. The idea that information is public and can be connected in the same way is preposterous, but only via experience.

If you have an insight, or a linkage between facts and events, please document it in a way that is shareable and findable. I too saw the ad for the virologist post-doc position in the Wuhan lab. I think lab escape of either a wild virus or a slightly modified one is likely. It doesn't mean that it is nefarious.

I think a full text and graphical log of the research process would be highly productive.
One thing I have a hard time grasping is: how do you find out whether your soil quality is still good enough? How do you know when nutrients are depleted, and you need add fertilizer? How do you know when there is sufficient nutrients, and you shouldn't add fertilizer? Poeple just tell me "don't think too much about it, add fertilizer once in a while" but that to me feels lile flying blind.

I don't have a garden, only a balcony with a few boxes of dirt. Gardening manuals seem to tell me to replace all dirt every year (or 2-3 years at most) in order to renew soil quality and get rid of diseases. That seems... increadibly wasteful? Are there no alternatives? Why do real gardens and farms not need to replace all their soil so often?
ive been looking into similar things like jellyfin, mopidy etc for a long time, but i find syncthing to be a lot easier to get my head around and i can use whatever audio player on each app or platform. as long as it can play m3u playlists then im good to go.

only downside is that if you have a really large music library you will have to use syncignore filters to stop some things syncing to devices that don't have enough space.
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Change MSN Password > This article portrays how to recover your permission to your MSN account in case you have forgotten your username or mystery word. It gives point by direct rules toward how to recover it with a recovery email or phone, how to recover it with a security key, and what to do in case you have none of these things.

https://gorecovermail.com/change-msn-password/

https://gorecovermail.com/recover-reset-msn-password/

https://gorecovermail.com/msn-customer-service/

https://gorecovermail.com/msn-pop-imap-smtp-setting/

https://sites.google.com/view/msn-solution-center/
California DMV Places Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ Under Review
Of course the employer could pay everyone half an hour extra for a bit of overlap and a proper handover.
Yes, I would like to study the probably complex philosophic system of the celtic druids for example. But this is not really possible with the fragments remaining preserved only through the writing of christian monks.
Naming here is a bit complicated. Are we talking about the writing system or the spoken language, for example? The linked article is using some terms in what I'd consider an unusual way (e.g. talking about a "Linear B language", vs. Linear B writing system or script).

Linear B is mostly agreed to be a writing system for the Mycenaean Greek language [1], a language that was spoken on both Crete and the Mainland. So it wasn't solely a Minoan language. You could argue that it's sufficiently different from modern Greek to have a different name, but there isn't really a consistently followed rule for naming languages that way. For example, "Old English" is completely incomprehensible to a speaker of modern English, but nonetheless has that name.

What language Linear A was used to write is more mysterious. Some researchers do in fact think it corresponded to a separate Minoan language that was not closely related to Greek, but there's no consensus.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycenaean_Greek.
Palestine was a Nation. Not merely a land. It had autonomy and governance all through history
I believe this problem was solved in 2019 amidst little fanfare, my friend: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis
Cookie consent on this site looks very borderline illegal, or maybe it's just me that couldn't read it fast enough to know that it's not using ad or tracking cookies.
There is a huge difference between a comms relay sat (basically a transponder, a battery, and solar panels ) and an imaging satellite , which needs a huge collector mirror that coats O(billions) to polish.
Fail open has safety implications in the case of overcrowding.

Many systems use the turnstiles as a way to prevent overcrowding and people being pushed onto the metro tracks or killed by a human-crush.

Failing open in that case could be deadly.
I feel like there's a lot of Chartjunk [1] here. Some of it is necessary for interactivity, but there should be a middle ground.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartjunk
Interesting, thanks for explaining :-)
There are some fairly simple steps that get overcomplicated due to companies selling products.

1) Figure out what you want to grow

2) Look up what kind of soil pH and what nutrients those plants need

3) Test your soil for pH and those nutrients, where possible

4) Amend the soil with fertilizer to correct measured imbalances

A lot of it is trial and error, also. Take note of what you do and the outcomes and keep doing what works. There are so many local variables generalized advice can never hope to cover them all.
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You made this same comment 9 months ago in the previous discussion (linked above).

I personally am not bothered if I lose a few seconds of analytics, it's not going to affect my conclusions or the user experience.
There's no actual lockin, it's just that JetBrains put a lot of resources into the IntelliJ plugin and the quality of that plugin is a large part of Kotlin's value. You can easily write Kotlin in any other editor of course, but the experience won't be as good. JB have a team of over 70 people I think working on Kotlin as this point, and the IDE plugin shares the compiler infrastructure, so they improve together. If you were trying to write a competitive plugin it'd be a lot of work. Of course, if your editor was written in Java you could also re-use the compiler infrastructure in the same way they do.

Their planning is half internal/half external. There are public specs that get feedback for all language upgrades. How JB choose to prioritise is up to them, of course.
We don't have any evidence.

We do know that Israel has launched 1000 to 1500 missiles up until 10 pm pacific time.

Netanyahu has been blatant over taking back "theiir" land lately.

Netanyahu is in a very close political race.

I won't say what I thinking though out of respect for the rules.
Thanks! I agree that I suck at marketing and would love to hand that job off to somebody with more skill. :)
If you want specifics, he's given credence to qanon conspiracy theories, antivaccine and covid19 conspiracy theories, and parroted the same rhetoric as alt-right racist ideologues.

And then, after he lost the election by a very wide margin, followed the example of Trump by spouting baseless conspiracy theories that the election was a giant fraud and stolen from him, despite no evidence of such appearing.

Is that problematic enough for you?

https://www.kxly.com/hundreds-defy-covid-19-restrictions-to-...

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/oct/07/inslee-culp-sp...
Slack actually supports this directly, just send a DM to yourself.

> This is your space. Draft messages, list your to-dos, or keep links and files handy. You can also talk to yourself here, but please bear in mind you’ll have to supply both sides of the conversation.

Appears at the top of the self-chat =)
Looking at it from the outside (Europe) I am always surprised when some investigation occurs after some documentary or other media event instead of when the crime occurred (Cosby, R Kelly).
I never really considered this point. Just assumed cover-up equals culpability. Thanks.
Huh? People routinely have public identification they don’t share with prospective employers. I personally use the same handle everywhere so any employer who doesn’t want me can go to hell without me telling them. A lot of people keep quite public things quite private from their employers. And why shouldn’t they? Their employers are not their owners.
Full-blown boycott pushed for Beijing Olympics
Show HN: New and Cleaner Tailwind Components on Wickedblocks ( is free , 100% )
Finally, I have been taking care of all the issues I had on http://wickedblocks.dev and we have new and nicer components. This has been updated:
- Pricing
- Forms
- Navigation
- Footers
Now, all you copy is the right code.

Then the Gallery and the grids are gone for good, it redundant to have it when is all around. I had in mind to make the navbars with Alpine.js but not everyone uses it ( yet ) so its going to be like this. The new components are from a paid collection that I was building....

But because I have not worked on it for long, so now I put them up, instead to simply have them there doing nothing. Have a great day
I think more details can be found in the book mentioned in the article: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108783477
Please omit the last line. Go is actually far more verbose than modern java when you are comparing anything bigger than a single snippet of code. Modern functional Java is fairly concise. Go is not - though maybe this will change with generics and functional packages after Go 2.0.
> my boss taking a liking to me

The boss in the client company (the investment bank)? (Not in the agency that employed you?)

I wonder what your coworkers in the client company thought about you / your skills, in the beginning
As far as I know, besides the generating slow code, qemu also does not support multi threading when emulating strong memory ordering architectures (x86) on weak hosts (ARM).
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The problem with that is there are way more pathogenic viruses originating in animals than prion diseases, and (probably?) way more virology labs than labs studying prion diseases. That makes both factors in the equation much larger in the case of viruses than prion diseases. Just off the cuff, I'd guess that would make the overall probability of a zoonotic virus emerging near a city with a virology lab at least an order of magnitude greater than your prion disease scenario.
Nevertheless, these are people who apparently have been disappeared by the Chinese government.

That's not something to be brushed off lightly.

Not only because of the effects on them personally and (best case scenario) their careers.

But also because of the chilling impact on scientific and public discourse.
All this recent hubbub around whether it’s possible to engage Autopilot without a driver seems like a witch hunt.

First there was the crash. They said the driver was not in the front seat, but that was proven false.

Then there was the ghost rider Tesla, where the driver was claimed to have climbed back into the driver’s seat just before being pulled over.

It would seem some people are manufacturing controversy against Tesla.
Marketing is difficult. I have worked at companies where I made 200 phone calls per day, every day, for months. Cold calls. Follow up calls.

People go to conferences and get booths at them to meet and greet conference attendies (before covid, or course).

People go to speaking events, like chamber of commerce meetings in order to inform, but also to let people know that they can work.

Write articles for blogs, get on TV as an expert, there's a lot of things you can do.

But generally, you can't just pin a notice on your grocery store bulletin board, or create a website, and get jobs pouring in.

The thing is, is that yeah, "you never heard back from anyone", as you write. Because YOU are the one that THEY need to hear from, over and over. Why do you think McDonalds, and Farmers Insurance and Fritos Nike advertise so much? They have to show their brand over and over and over and over and over again.

Well, you cannot afford a $200 million ad campaign. So you have to figure out your target audience and market to them, over and over, and not expect them to come and kiss your ring. I have to sometimes call 20 or 30 times to get a sale, over the course of a year. But my product's price is usually a minimum of $2,000 per month, or $24,000 per year, so I can invest the time. If you are trying to sell a survey for $20, then that might not be do-able. So what you have to do is put together a bunch of stuff that they can do into a package deal that you sell for at least $1,000 per month in monthly recurring revenue.

I don't really know how to sell low price point stuff. I think you have to spend a LOT more money up-front to market it, or else hook up with different companies that will distribute your service or product for a cut of the revenues, which is usually 50% if there is some kind of revenue split. I know a guy that sold software for $45 per pop, but he spend $20K or $30K per month in marketing costs.

When you have a $1000+ recurring sale, you can be a lot more focused and targeted in who you want to sell your product to. Maybe law firms or doctors or veteranarians or health care companies, none of them will blink at a $2,000 per month charge. But you will have to call and email 10,000 companies to get 50 or 75 or 100 sales, depending on how much they want your stuff. But if you're charging $1,000 per sale, and create 100 sales, that is $100,000 per month in ongoing revenue. Shit, even 4 sales will be $4,000 per month. But you will have to make 150 calls, every day, for 6 months to get there, and do presentations, and write content, etc.

I'd really try to figure out how to bundle as much pre-existing stuff out there and wrap it up nice and neat and sell it that way.
>I am of the surprisingly-controversial opinion that ML’s future is going to be as a human empowerment tool

After a recent article about an ai driven text adventure game I seen on HN, Aidungeon, I decided to give it a try. The article was about some issues with the company and content filters or something, but my number one impression from trying it out was that it would make a great base for writing short fiction from.

At least that was what it seemed like to me. The first few times i tried it, playing it like a game, it was like wandering through a dream that kept changing. After that i figured out the different command modes and realized, it was far more useful as something of an idea generator where it's more like a collaborative writing partner than a dungeon master or something and I found it more enjoyable.

I think it would be a great tool for a stuck writer with a vague idea and a concept, but isn't sure where to take it, but as a game by itself, the human element is definitely missing. It seems to works best when you're the one controlling the narrative bouncing ideas off the ai as opposed to human crafted text adventures where the game is more in control.
I doubt it will scale to millions of views per day something like 50 million views because database is directly exposed to the write intensive operations.
The floppy disc controller doesn't have a way of knowing if the write worked or not. There are some corner cases here, like the drive can signal a fault line if it's on fire, but if there's simply a dodgy patch of disc surface, nothing will be apparent during the write.

So, the operating system could verify the write by reading it back, but I don't think the BBC Micro disc ROMs typically did that for file writes -- only for formats.