skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article makes this very clear. There is no google-israel conspiracy. The limits on satelite resolution were dictated by the US government.
Density-wise, no, probably not. But you'll get faster SERDES and should be able to improve the internal routers/crossbars, which contain more logic than you'd think. But, yeah, there isn't a lot there.

When the higher cost per area is considered (just count the number of bloody masks...) it's probably a net loss.
The 4 hour vision is not at Mach 2. It’s their eventual aspiration, not their expected results from the current vehicle design.

An aspiration that is very, very hard to realize.
I think that's great and very interesting.

Unfortunately in many western cultures, criticizing is often synonym to mocking/shaming.

So if you are being honest but with a positive intent, people will still feel attacked because it's what the situation would mean in their own culture.
Pretty interesting! Reminds me of the opportunity solution tree framework in product development:
https://www.producttalk.org/opportunity-solution-tree/
When does not consenting to a search bring about threats that aren't from the law enforcement system?
Has anyone analyzed this with a Bayesian statistical approach? Considering that a zoonotic transfer could happen in a very large number of places on earth, I would imagine that the odds of an outbreak in any particular city would be quite small? With that in mind, how many virology labs are there doing gain-of-function research on coronaviruses? How many have had safety issues in the past? How many times have pathogens escaped? Also, how many zoonotic transfers have there been where no infected specimens of the host species could be found after a concerted investigation? It seems like one should be able to come up with reasonable estimates for most of these numbers with some digging.

I'm not qualified to make conclusions one way or the other, but it feels to me like this calculation would weight heavily toward a lab leak. To a layman's eyes, it feels a bit like we've got a lung cancer patient who just so happened to be a pack-a-day smoker, and everyone's searching furiously for any explanation that isn't the cigarettes.
oh I was just curious about the "I'm not alone comment" whether that meant the buddy is there to help you, or the sharing capability in Sparel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance

TIL. Thank you.
Tesla is not in the luxury vehicle market. They have carved out their own segment with some overlap. They have pulled in some of the Kia and BMW market for those who put a price on technology, EV, etc
Australians and Israelis can also be pretty direct.
In the USA I always had the impression that the east coast (specifically NYC) is more direct than what you find on the west coast.

It seems much better to say outright that you think something is stupid vs. thinking it's stupid and pretending it's not. In cultures where it's common people can take it, in cultures where it's not common you're perceived to be an offensive jerk.
You gotta add a little bit of entropy to the solar system every now and then to keep things interesting
The leak was a necessary component of the disaster.
> The accidental lab leak theory proven would actually be great news

For humanity, yes, for the CCP, not so much.
Exactly. This is what I meant by "not actionable".
What would you say in response to someone who believes that widespread belief of a coverup would do more to sow distrust and division than a transparent admission of the truth?
The truth is the truth and we shouldn’t cover it up because of the harsh realities it may bring.
This is really cool! Thanks for sharing! Looks like I have quite a bit of reading tonight because it links out to cool articles like this: https://www.producttalk.org/2019/02/prioritize-opportunities...

A whole area of mapping!
While that is denotatively a conspiracy, most people think of conspiracies as something outlandish, not business as usual for the CCP. I think that’s what the parent comment was getting at, anyway.
Gain of function research is not engineering, they are often conflated for some reason. Gain of function is essentially artificial selection with bells and whistles.

Such manipulation would leak some information into the virus. Already it seems like the virus has great difficulty spreading outdoors while great success spreading indoors.

It may be a coincidence but evolution does encode environmental assumptions into the genes of an organism under selective pressure.

It may turn out that the virus makes certain assumptions about its environment and if those assumptions are not compatible with open spaces in nature - where animals live, but relies on closed environments (certain humidity range, absent air currents, lack of any resistance to sunlight spectra) depending on how many of these assumptions are present a natural explanation for the virus may be all but ruled out.
That's weird though as a reason. KAL007 was so far off course that the distortion of SA wouldn't have mattered. It only distorted location by a couple hundred metres at most.
A more-clever technique would write two sectors in a row with the same sector number but different data in each.

This is also done in some optical disc copy protections, although the identically numbered sectors are far apart, causing seeks from the end to return different data than seeks from the beginning of the media.
Considering that the Horshoe Bat range encompasses a band between Portugal and Japan that would make the mongol empire jealous, I fail to see how this changes the point. The probability of Coronavirus emerging within the Horshoe Bat range in the same city as a virology lab is vanishingly small without a further confounding variable.
Oh, god no. It’s already hard enough to game the credit system to get a mortgage. (Get lots of credit cards, but not too many. Use them, but not too much. Use some of them, but not all, etc, etc…)

Now, they’re going to create arbitrary rules about spending and deposit records and make people game those too. Uggh.
>Jews and Israeli are distinct. Maybe diaspora is incorrect word, but those who call Israel their home country and reside in the US are of the diaspora of Israel.

There are something like 100k Israelis is the US. They have virtually no political power. If you want to say "Jewish Diaspora" say "Jewish Diaspora". It really seems like you are using "Israeli Diaspora" in order to avoid accusations of anti-Semitism. My comment was simply pointing out that using Israeli and Jewish interchangeably is probably a more worrying indicator than just saying "Jews have influence in US politics" which is at least true at some level. Although nowadays Evangelicals play a bigger role in determining the US's political stance on Israel than Jews as evidenced by Jewish people being overwhelming Democrats while the Republicans are viewed as the pro-Israel party.
Thanks Pierre and Paul for the links!

For folks who happen to be unreasonably interested in this stuff: there are research engineer positions open at the Centre for Computational Law at Singapore Management University where the bulk of the R&D is happening, in partnership between Legalese and the university.

TL;DR: Move to a tropical island, get paid to write open-source software, and explore the arguments being made in this thread in way more detail than you dreamed possible. DM me on Twitter, @mengwong
I disagree. If it was indeed gain of function research in China that caused covid we should immediately stop doing that sort of research and ban it. There’s a reason it’s been controversial and many virologists have jobs on the line when it comes to its origins
>>"Has anyone analyzed this with a Bayesian statistical approach?"

- YES. And they give lab leak theory over 80% likelihood

https://www.rootclaim.com/analysis/What-is-the-source-of-COV...
For imported labor or those workaholic types, how would you keep those choosing less work competitive? Why would a company not hire someone willing to work full time? I’d love to work 3-4 days a week but without mandates I see us ending right back where we are. In short, greed will ruin this idea if it’s left as optional.
Why do you call it a conspiracy theory? There's nothing conspiratorial about it. Any politically sensitive organization will inherently do whatever it can do avoid blame. That's as natural as the force of gravity.

I also don't understand why you say so vehemently that you don't believe it was engineered. Gain of function experiments are something they do in these labs!
Also other companies can buy self driving part from someone like george hotz. So that part is also solved.

But tesla price was never based on actual company financial, they were based on the dream Elon was selling his investors.
Having an open mind about alternative explanations than the official one from the WHO is not believing in conspiracy theories. Its just not believing in propaganda.
IDF doesn't need Google maps to plan any attacks. They have an arsenal of remote surveillance methods including 24/7 monitering by both low and high altitude drones, not to mention frequent flyovers in upgraded F-16s.

> But please continue the breathless hot takes.

This part of your comment doesn't belong on HN.
IMHO, this is a great likelihood-based analysis of various origin theories:

https://www.rootclaim.com/analysis/What-is-the-source-of-COV...
You appear, and i could of course be mistaken, to be blaming the palestinian people for "the failure to establish a functional Palestinian state or government". As if it the fault of a population that's mostly under 30 years old that they haven't been able to establish a government under the existing conditions. I'm not sure anyone else could.
There hadn’t been one at this scale for 100 years, who’s to say how long it would have been till the next natural one, I for one would rather not have experienced a global pandemic even if a natural one was due in 50 years
Israel lobbied for the KBA.
How is lab safety “not actionable”? Is it some special field of science where all improvements and progress has stopped? I don’t understand your point.

Haven’t more people died from SARS-Cov-2 than nuclear weapons, why we can’t have international conventions and inspections on dangerous virological research?
To save a Google for anyone like me - there’s nothing wrong with utf8. The problem was that MySQL had a broken implementation of utf8 (“utf8mb3”) which only supported Unicode characters which fit in 3 bytes. As a result you couldn’t save any data in your database which contained emoji.

This is upsetting because until recently if you asked for a utf8 column, this is what you got instead. You got something which was almost, but not quite compatible with utf8.
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No kireji, no kigo, not even close.
For patch and accurate information on the affected model please go to: https://bit.ly/2S6RBzK
I don't know what the OP was saying, but a lot of people use "engineered" as a byword for "released on purpose."
Regardless you would do both? And knowing it was gain of function research in a lab is an easy “let’s stop doing that” moment
From what I understand, similar sleep schedule insanity is extremely common in the current Navy.
Why does so much effort go into tracking and managing programmers? Does the customer care? Does it actually improve quality or delivery? Is it really any better than just letting people work?
I’ve done something like this before, 9 hours M-F but every other Friday off. It gets difficult if the schedule varies (as in the entire company doesn’t shut down on off fridays) or if you have to deal with another company not on this same schedule. It’s very nice having every other friday off though.
If you can force 2 surviving bishop promotions, you can force 2 queen promotions. There's no need for finesse when you can utterly crush instead.
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Sustainable Agriculture Evolution
Additionally, you can presumably make more money by selling drugs to tourists in Cancún than by kidnapping them.
The median age in palestine is (was, 2014) 18 years old. Compare to 30 in israel or 40 in france.

Like it or not the vast majority of palestinians alive today had nothing to do with what hamas did 15 years ago. They were mostly children or not even born yet.
Let’s Encrypt has provided wildcard certificates via the DNS-01 challenge type since 2018.
Ah, sorry, I had a typo, I meant 1. ... Rh8, after which the rook sacrifice does not quite work the same way anymore. I agree that 1. ... Re8 does not help.
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How can you assign a probability/likelihood to vague statements like "There is some weak evidence regarding lax security and procedures at the Wuhan Institute of Virology"
This is the basic vulnerability from the large cell phone db scrape that was released? contact to FB matching. Seems pretty bad not to check the problem doesn't still exist elsewhere...

I wonder if OP tried bulk requests see if there is any request limit or other throttling checks at least.
I'm not going to get that deep into politics here. You are basically arguing for a one state solution except it is Palestinian run instead of Israeli run. HN probably isn't the place to have that debate.
I don't know of a best resource, but good information usually comes from reading different takes on the same thing. Encyclopedia Britannica is still around.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Neolithic/additional-info#f...
Info for the curious:

There tend to be about 0–2 http: entries on the front page. A fairly large fraction of those are old things. http: submissions on domains that support https: (whether or not they redirect to it by default) are very uncommon.
It's also closer in "typo" distance (https://xkcd.com/1530/), although perhaps not with autocorrect.

edit: although now that I think of it, I suppose a "typo" distance is something of a weighted Levenshtein
Tiny black holes could cause white dwarf stars to explode
No one mentioned Dr. Limeng Yan, you won't get it right.
In fairness isn't that a result of your relationship with your isp? If you remain because of price or no other services available why wouldn't you use a vpn knowing your isp is a hostile actor and probably trying to deeply inspect packets, etc?
Their decisions were not subjective at all. At least if you accept "most correct" to mean "most standard", when you think it might be ambiguous. I've been working on software and interfaces for over 20 years and actually agreed with the entire game, 100%, without a single disagreement.

I was really pleasantly surprised.
There's correspondence play which allows engines (or any resource) and certain players which are consistently better at the game under those conditions.

Some of the other players surely try just running Stockfish overnight and taking whatever it says is the best move, and apparently that strategy isn't equally good.

Note that I think the "centaurs" are kind of playing a pretty different game than regular chess: they might have a knack for knowing when a particular engine is weak or strong and then trusting the corresponding engines lines more, or something like that.
It is not socially acceptable to point fingers or raise suspicion of anyone but the western man. The lack of honest and genuine conversation is concerning.
In case else is interested why, here’s an article about how aphids transmit viruses between potatoes, so it’s important to plant uninfected potatoes to keep the viral load down.

https://ahdb.org.uk/news/the-importance-of-testing-for-virus...
The citation system is broken since most publications in various fields are pure junk. Having a link to a biased or poorly researched source does not prove anything.
Did the model also choose the song names?
From starting price now to ASP. What's next? That's some mental gymnastics going on there. FYI there has been several price cuts since 2018.

> Agreed

So... Do you have that calculation handy where a Camry/Accord cost less to own after 5 years? I would love to see it, so we can compare notes.
I read the GP as saying that SA GPS was originally made available as a result of the KAL007 crash, so presumably they didn’t have access to GPS at all on the flight? Then much later the SA restriction was removed, unrelated to a plane crash.
U know, this theory was dead due fact controversial politician said it loud. Ofc he had to keep mouth shut until point there were hard evidence. Still one of main reasons why it was dismissed who said, not what being said.

As global pandemic is complex issue where are many bolts and knobs. However, it still would be usefull why engine blowed up, not just why pilots acted badly during crash
> So I generally give like zero weight to conspiracy theories.

Why? Assigning a prior probability of zero to anything is a recipe for disaster, it means you can never change your belief.

Looks like you had enough of an open mind to hear some of the arguments in favor of this one, and it increased your posterior probability somewhat, so I guess “like zero” is your way of saying “close to zero but not zero”.

Have you tried giving other conspiracy theories a chance? I think you’ll find mixed results.
Imagine my surprise when I learned that one of the 3 incidents with fully assembled weapons happened about 15 miles from where I live.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash
AI to the rescue fixing the worst traffic in the world – New Delhi
Not sure there were that many coastal settlements in the first place. Ultimately you need access to drinking water and being next to a river is much better than being next to the sea.
I've seen the warnings in both Chrome and Firefox.
I agree * is unsafe, but then again ssh devs chose to include it so that means they deemed it not completely useless, thus there are probably enough people who use it to make this thread somewhat malicious.

Also if you or another script once added * to your .ssh/config long ago it may still be lurking there among other lines without you realizing.

I agree checking fingerprints helps, but that can turned off pretty easily too.
You should use a 301 (permanent) redirect, not a 302 (temporary) redirect as you currently are.

Just speaking generally, I found the use of an http: link on this very curious, given that it’s about SSH (and thus encryption in no little part), so I’m guessing you’re not a “Web Developer”. So here’s my advice on the matter: everything on the web should be HTTPS now; nothing should be plain-text HTTP, with zero exceptions.
You compare TDP 45W CPU vs 15W. I think this is great improvement. (But latter one is also 25W cTDP and turbo boost provides more power, many factors depends on how the laptop implemented)
"they all make real time API calls to do the conversion on servers"

Can't imagine why anyone would want that to happen.....
There still are zeppelins! If you lived on the SF Peninsula or South Bay 10-15 years ago, you might have seen the Airship Ventures zeppelin flying low and slow over the area.

Alas, Airship Ventures went out of business about ten years ago, due in part to the loss of a corporate sponsor and no luck getting a new one. I remember seeing 23 and Me on the zeppelin when it flew overhead.

Ten years ago, a good friend treated me to a ride on one of their last local flights (this time the zepp was decorated with the Farmers Insurance logo). They still fly in Germany, though, so if you are ever in the Friedrichshafen area and can afford the somewhat pricey flight, do it! I promise you won't regret it; it was truly an experience of a lifetime.

I posted a couple of comments here in the last year or two, so rather than repeat all the details and photo gallery, you can find them here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21662645

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18897492

p.s. These new Zeppelin NT airships do use helium!
Most scientific research is not self funded. Why assume outside sponsoring has no influence. You dont see TV news bad mouthing pharma companies as TV channels rely on pharma ads...
Slack destroying American companies is one of the core points of discussion in Ezra Klein's interview with Cal Newport, nominally about his new book "A World Without Email"[1][2]. Great conversation. We feel weirdly run aground at this minima, to me.

I think there's still an unresolved but asked question about how we got stuck here. I forget who observed, but worth noting that the workers themselves tend to demand the popular, already mainstream product, which entrenches tools like Slack.

But I think there's a general lack of willingness & interest in catering to more alpha geeks, in trying to enable humans, in giving them means to tool themselves up. Industrial software is, almost universally, highly massified in nature.

Worth noting that Ezra's already a fan of Cal's work. From 2017[3], discussing Cal's book "Deep Work",

> I was asked recently to name a book that changed my life. The book I chose was Cal Newport’s “Deep Work,” and for the most literal of reasons: It’s changed how I lived my life. Particularly, it’s led me to stop scheduling morning meetings, and to preserve that time for more sustained, creative work.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/05/podcasts/ezra-klein-podca...

[2] https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2021/03/15/one-step-closer-t...

[3] https://www.vox.com/2017/4/21/15382282/cal-newport-taking-li...
The Zanclean Flood (refilling of the Mediterranean) happened about 5 million years ago. That predates not only Homo sapiens sapiens, nor the Homo genus itself, but even Australopithecus itself.
If a scientist is telling people to unfollow them because those people believe it's a possibility that they don't want ruled out without evidence; that is the very definition of being a child. In fact, maybe they shouldn't have credentials at that point.

If someone is telling people who already only believe that conclusion then that makes sense.

It's important to ask people that do this stuff to be very specific about their motivations in the moment, document them, and hold them accountable at a later date when the dust settles.
They are easing you into the revelation of the virus being a lab leak and the CCP being maliciously irresponsible costing millions of lives from the initial leak and holding back information after the fact.

Revealing it all at once would cause economic and social chaos. The racist assaults alone would be horrendous. Not to mention the political and economic consiquences.

It's no coincidence that the Uygar genocide is being talked about now despite going on for several years.
Perhaps not own in the "i can sell it" way. I think some number of high schoolers that have never had their lockers searched, including myself many years ago, assumed their lockers ensured a level of privacy.
You think they wouldn't clean house if the virus had naturally hopped to humans but the WIV was still being publicly blamed? I think they responded to the accusation, not to the reality on the ground.

That's not to say that I think it didn't come from the WIV, just that they'd act the same way regardless of where the first transmission occurred.
Concrete Without Sand?
People are absolutely shocked when I tell them what China reports as their numbers for testing and cases.
> There's nothing conspiratorial about it. Any politically sensitive organization will inherently do whatever it can do avoid blame.

This implies multiple high ranking officials and organizations conspired to hide information and cover up evidence. We have a word for this: conspiracy theory.

Americans tend to equate the word "conspiracy theory" with being crazy or ridiculous, but that is not always the case. Many conspiracy theories turn out to be true. Look at the recent Pentagon disclosures on UFOs for instance. Or look at any of the plans the CIA had in the 50s-60s which turned out to be true: MKULTRA, COINTELPRO, Operation Mockingbird, etc. These were "conspiracy" theories that turned out true.