skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You say the article feels like a conspiracy theory, yet it points to negligence as the likely culprit, which is pretty much the opposite of a conspiracy. You call it FUD (fear uncertainty doubt), but I'm totally uncertain how it would qualify as FUD.

There is one obvious conspiracy by the Chinese government to prevent all understanding of the virus. That does fit the definition of what a conspiracy is.

> "This document does not make any attempt to link the work done at these laboratories as part of a 'bioweapon' or "bio-warfare" program."

This makes perfect sense if you are an American, because in the anti-intellectual Trump era, there was a well circulated rumor that COVID was a Chinese bio-weapon that the CPC figured it could deal with better than Americans because China can weld people's door's shut, and you can't do that in America. This is on par with the widely circulated Chinese rumor that the American military brought it to Wuhan. Obviously both of those are extremely unlikely and very much conspiracy theories. Certainly on the American side our scientists said it's extremely unlikely that COVID was engineered and has none of the markers of bio-engineering very early into covid.

This is the article stating that it is not addressing that conspiracy theory, which was very much part of the conversation when it was written over a year ago.

> Just so you can throw the word "bioweapon" out there?

Out of your own ignorance of the context you are assuming malice.

>and never even stops to admit that there's the possibility that the causal reasoning is backwards

This is literally the second paragraph in the article, and it was bolded for emphasis:

This document does not attempt to provide a concrete conclusion
on whether either claim is factually true. Rather, it examines
the probability that each claim is true to allow the reader to
make his or her own conclusions. While either claim cannot be
irrevocably proven true, an attempt has been made to ensure the
evidence used to support these claims is as factual as possible.

Furthermore, you completely ignored the meat of the article focusing on a couple of weaker and overall not super central points.

> Very convenient. In other words, no-one with a serious research background could be convinced to put their name on this nonsense.

It's almost like there is an extremely draconian authoritarian ruling government with very deep reach that has a long history of disappearing people it doesn't like or punishing them via connections with people who have power over them that people might be afraid of.
I completely agree with you, also I can suggest a model to measure the gravity of your community in an open-source project, take a look at Orbit:
https://orbit.love/
Underpromotions are one of those "toy problem" things. A human might finish a whole professional career having never once promoted a pawn to anything but a queen, but in theoretical problem positions - like the one you're talking about - they happen "all the time" because it's a fun twist.

So it's understandable for a machine not to even bother modelling these weird cases I think.
No joke, plywood is $100 per sheet near me. I've seen NextDoor inquires for peoples' scraps in the $50 range.
Notably, the Apple Watch S6 sensor does not have FDA approval. It's for "wellness."

https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/7/21504023/apple-watch-ekg-...

> Blood oxygen monitors, or pulse oximeters, are considered Class II medical devices by the FDA. Generally, any company that wants to sell one in the United States has to submit documentation to the agency confirming that its product works just as well as other versions of the same product already on the market. There’s a workaround, though: if the company says that the product is just for fun, or for general “wellness,” they don’t have to go through that process. They can’t claim that it can diagnose or treat any medical conditions, but they can put it up for sale.

You might still use that as a cue that you should get tested for sleep apnea, but the watch itself isn't considered a medical device for measuring blood oxygen.
I just started listening to the audiobook of The Box[1] and can't help but be distracted wondering what updates a new revision would have a year in to this pandemic.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23126691-the-box
Someone with a good understanding of Latin could use this thread as an opportunity to make a Latin joke, by translating "Who will watch the watchdogs?" or "Who will guard the guard dogs?".
Oh happy to see that France is involved in the latest dirty politics tech :)

ce.qui-ne-te-tues-pas-te-rends-plus.fr
It's translated as disimprovement.
"clear your mind" practiced for milennias clears your mind, who would have thiught?
A quick glance doesn't seem to give conclusive evidence that pure engine play strictly dominates centaurs (the footnotes only have tournaments where centaurs still win, but these tournaments are also getting a bit old).

The usual messaging I see around centaur-based styles such as certain correspondence chess tournaments is that you will lose if you just do "push-button play," that is just blindly do what the computer tells you to do.

I'm curious if that's no longer true with the new crop of ML engines.
These scans don't update with much frequency.

That's like using Google Street View and noticing an unknown car in your driveway and assuming your partner is having an affair. Much more likely, the image is old, and that car belongs to the previous tenant.
Anyone interested in a fair comparison should point out the error of that comparison. Using wood in a managed forest it’s not a bad thing. It’s greatly preferable to extracting coal and oil.
> I abandoned my music library after I went to Apple Music. But 5 years later I'm going back.

How do you deal with the cost? I pay $18/month for Apple Music (Family) and I can listen to thousands of tracks in a single day if I wanted to. That same experience would cost me thousands of dollars up front to kick start it.

This also isn't to mention the fact that not all music is available to buy legally online. Dimmu Borgir, for example, use Nuclear Blast and I struggle to find retailers online that can sell me MP3s outside of iTunes. I don't want to have to deal with (read: rip) CDs and vinyl is a joke at 3x the price (not to mention simply being a dead format.)

So how are you going to curate a library, legally, so that the artist is supported, assuming you have at least 20-30 artists you like.
This just sounds like the “lack of evidence is evidence of a conspiracy” epistemology so often resorted to by conspiracy theorists. The problem with the epistemology is that it applies equally well to all conceivable conspiracies.
Here's a particularly extreme example:

https://old.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/ndz2lj/simple_mate_i...

It's a mate-in-93 puzzle that's fairly accessible to humans, using abstract reasoning. But not chess engines. Comparing against the OP article, the main "technique"/"trick" is zugzwang (#7), but on a dramatic scale.

I think this is the kind of position you could use to stress-test a candidate puzzle solver, just because of the shear size of the solution.
Well, you actually don't know the facts. Palestine is a land, it was called that way even when the time of the British mandate, before WWII. Are the arabs that lived there are Palestinians? Yes. But what you don't mention is that also the jews that lived there were called Palestinians. The land of Israel and Palestine are exactly the same thing. There are arab Palestinians and jew Palestinians. They were not so smart to not take the UN partition plan for Palestine, which the jews accepted. So, right now the entire land is part of Israel :)
Here's an explanation of past Israel prime minister Golda Meir, which has a statue in Manhattan. https://youtu.be/lhjB9W8UEgk
Check this out also:

- https://data.finlex.fi/en/main - Semantic Finlex – Finnish Law and Justice as Linked Open Data

- https://lynx-project.eu/project - Legal Knowledge Graph for Multilingual Compliance Services

- https://www.mirelproject.eu/ - MINING AND REASONING WITH LEGAL TEXTS.
The hate crimes started accelerating in March of 2020, around the time #ChineseVirus was trending on twitter.
Interesting, the article isn't clear how it's implemented and whether they dynamically adjust the QoS/Core, so I wonder if they solved the inversion problem. Basically you don't want a high-priority process to be dependent on a lower-priority process that's locked on a LITTLE core.

Windows solves this by placing basically everything onto the LITTLE cores, and user interactions serve as a priority bump up to the big cores. The key (which is difficult to implement in practice) is that they pass that priority along to every other called thread in the critical path so that every path necessary to respond to the user can be placed on the big cores. This means that if you are waiting for a response from the computer, every thread necessary to provide that response, including any normally low-priority background services, is able to run on the big cores.

I'd expect all the other OS's do a similar optimization for the big.LITTLE architectures. It seems to be the natural solution if you've worked in that space long enough.
Inequality has been largely driven by fiscal policy and this has been going on for some time, decades at least (if not centuries).

I'm not a federal reserve basher, I understand the purpose. But some policies they promoted have resulted in unaffordable housing and those with assets already becoming extremely wealthy while the lower tiers increasingly struggle to get by.

Perhaps in sum the policies have made the nation more wealthy or improved GDP numbers, so perhaps it's a tradeoff they felt worthwhile (or else they inherited a situation which left them with little choice).

Stan Drukenmiller gave an interview about this recently.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1393965498618978308
How do you deal with the cost of building a library of legal music? I pay $18/month for Apple Music (Family) and I can listen to thousands of tracks in a single day if I wanted to. That same experience would cost me thousands of dollars up front to kick start it.

This also isn't to mention the fact that not all music is available to buy legally online. Dimmu Borgir, for example, use Nuclear Blast and I struggle to find retailers online that can sell me MP3s outside of iTunes. I don't want to have to deal with (read: rip) CDs and vinyl is a joke at 3x the price (not to mention simply being a dead format.)

So how are you going to curate a library, legally, so that the artist is supported, assuming you have at least 20-30 artists you like.
It's available, but by far the actual high quality (<1m) data used/publicly available was taken by aircraft, not satellite.

This is usually a result of the data set already being paid for, either via the local assessor's office or the USDA. This doesn't mean it's always available for free, but that the economics means it's usually available for less than the actual cost.
Well it wasn't, but it's rapidly becoming more like Reddit, in a bad way. Most of Reddit's 50M active daily users are under the age of 18 as it's apparent by the front page, and the last few remaining older users are driven away day by day.

I've been using Reddit for 10 years now. I still mechanically go the comment section when I come across something interesting to find the link to the source. It's never there anymore. No intelligent discussions. No pointing out the obvious fakes and advertisements/astroturfing. People write long, idiotically fake posts just to get upvoted, to either farm karma or because they're children.

Unfortunately with HN getting slowly flooded as well, I don't know where else to turn for an online news aggregator/discussion platform that fits my demographic.
Semantic Finlex – Finnish Law and Justice as Linked Open Data
The secret is on Volument's ability to measure a bunch of "leading indicators", like the ratio of first-time visitors who stayed on the website more than 7 seconds (which indicates a better first impression). For every key conversion event at the bottom of the funnel (such as "signed up"), there are thousands of leading indicators to take insights from. By utilizing these top-of-the-funnel metrics you'll know whether the new version better in a matter of days — even hours on a very busy site.

Another fact is that Volument is a full-blown analytics software it already knows all the data for the baseline variant "A", so you only need to collect data for the "B" variant after a specific timestamp. Further cutting the measurement time by 50%.

More about the topic here:

https://volument.com/learn/
It is only one part of the recommendation service.

Anyway, the reason you don’t “name things properly” is because it’s one of those truly hard problems (in a class beyond EXPTIME in input program functionality).

By bypassing it you no longer have to worry about the connotations and you can do things like split the tool without having to worry if the name will stay the same or if which piece will retain the name.

I would strongly recommend it.
IT has always been full of non-descriptive names. Unix was a pun, Linux is named after its creator, Macintosh after an apple and programming languages are probably the worst offender with their single-letter names.
> What's so special about the soundwaves going into your ears

tongue in cheek answer: nothing. It's your ears that are special.

Less tongue in cheek, while we have got pretty good at making microphones, they don't behave anything like human audio system; this makes it really difficult to reproduce what we experience when generated a different way (e.g. multichannel playback).

There is nothing "special" about classical music here either, it's just got a lot of complexity (from multiple instruments, and room dynamics) and dynamic range.

I see your point: if we could a) design microphones that capture everything going by them in a neutral way and b) design speakers that precisely reproduce everything they are sent in a neutral way, and c) set up a room to reproduce things in a neutral way for your particular position ... then this would work. We can't actually do any of those things.
How do these synthetic assets implement tracking the original asset price? Are the assets still subject to the swings of the general crypto industry (e.g. BTC crashing pulls sGOOG down as well even though Google's real stock appreciates)?
It is really only a debate about when exactly trees stop growing and consuming CO2. Given enough time, sooner or later the tree isn’t consuming CO2. At that point there is no point in leaving the tree standing. Cut it down and let a new tree grow there.
Just want to point out that a "short squeeze" is not possible with these volatility ETNs. They are collateralized debt instruments for which there is an unlimited supply. The underlying for these products is /VX futures, which also have an unlimited supply. A short squeeze happens when short positions cannot be covered due to limited availability of the underlying.

XIV collapse was caused by an unprecedented spike in the VIX index.
Thanks for your words! Did you started with the Saas business model or you served some support services before.

I'm having some asking from my community to open an enterprise support to my project and then we will see at the opportunities for other project, like a saas solution
With modern high powered CPU's, more detailed maps, and particle filters (which require all that cpu), dead reckoning has become much more viable.

I suspect you could go hours driving round a city with the GPS and WiFi location turned off before losing your position - simple wheel speed, gyro and compass is sufficient for most stuff.
According to the wikipedia page I linked to:

> In a practical dirigible design, the difference is significant, making a 50% difference in the fuel-carrying capacity of the dirigible and hence increasing its range significantly

But I wouldn't know :)
> I thought the problem with multiple wings is that the first one pushes air downward (to induce lift), and then the proceeding wings get caught in the downdraft.

Biplanes do increase lift, but there's always tradeoffs. The main problem with them is the struts add drag, as well as two wings above each other.

Some biplanes stagger the top and window wing, like the Staggerwing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechcraft_Model_17_Staggerwin...
I haven't read it but an intermediate host is a link between humans and the original host. The intermediate host was quickly found. I linked this elsewhere in the thread:

>"As no direct progenitor of SARS-CoV was found in bat populations despite 15 years of searching and as RNA recombination is frequent within coronaviruses, it is highly likely that SARS-CoV newly emerged through recombination of bat SARSr-CoVs in this or other yet-to-be-identified bat caves."

They also write...

>"After the causative agent of SARS was identified, SARS-CoV and/or anti-SARS-CoV antibodies were found in masked palm civets (Paguma larvata) and animal handlers in a market place. However, later, wide-reaching investigations of farmed and wild-caught civets revealed that the SARS-CoV strains found in market civets were transmitted to them by other animals."

Sorry if I made a mess of this as I'm on my phone and commented on more than on post too quickly really..

Edit: Woops, forgot the source. I knew it would be a mess..

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7097006/#!po=11...
Screw that, I don't want to live in a new cold war. Even if it came from a lab people should be told it's natural

Besides after Snowden whistleblowers learned that their life is basically over after they speak out.

Very low recognition and potentially jail time or worse

People interested in the matter should research but incentives are there for them to keep their mouth shut luckily
I haven't even referenced morality at all. I just applied your own definition of "smart", no more no less.

Just taking things because nobody's looking is not "smart" regardless of its morality, of course. Even if you were doing it to steal from the rich and feed the poor, there's nothing smart in it, even when it's successful. You don't need exceptional intelligence to do that. Just like you don't need exceptional intelligence to build your political capital on xenophobia. That's just dumb brute force, not smartness. Everyone knows you can do that if you're willing to get dirty enough, it worked many times in the past already. What could be smart is to successfully build that same capital without resorting to such lazy and harmful tactics, as that would require much more wit to pull off.
> If people had continued to develop Zeppelins

Not sure I'd want to cross an ocean in a Zeppelin, but I think I'd enjoy a quiet leisurely one week flight safari over the Serengeti, Ngoro Ngoro, Kruger, and Okavango Delta, for example. Particularly with panorama windows and a lounge and fine restaurant and bar. Pity.
Some info about their SPARQL endpoints and example of queries: https://data.finlex.fi/en/sparql

This is still rudimentary I think, but clearly a step in the direction the world should be moving in.
Oh that's baloney. There's nothing special about Apple laptops besides the metal case. Arguably they have worse cooling than most PC laptops. My 2018 MBP runs like it's trying cook an egg and has since day one. My Brother's 2012 MBP suffered complete logic board failure after 4 or 5 years.

If it wasn't for the replacement keyboard warranty offered by Apple a good chunk of butterfly keyboard Macs would be useless junk due to the fact it's so hard to replace them. Frayed MagSafe adapters were a regular occurrence. And swollen batteries pushing up the top case not that rare either.

I think maybe people keep MacBooks longer, but it probably has more to do with the fact they spent so much on them that they feel it's worthwhile to repair/pay for AppleCare than them actually being magically more durable.
>A particular favorite part for me is when they point out that their local PGP installation doesn't include CAST5 --- but does include 3DES, the canonical insecure 64-bit-block cipher.

All OpenPGP installations require 3DES as the ultimate fallback. It is hard coded into the standard (RFC-4880).

This comment seems to come from a fundamental misunderstanding of how OpenPGP works. The cryptographic preferences are signed by the certification key along with everything else in the OpenPGP identity (AKA public key). There is no possibility of any sort of downgrade attack. You would need to break the signature. This is one of the ways that offline encryption like OpenPGP is superior to online encryption like TLS.

So there is no downside to supporting old algorithms. Not that 3DES is inherently broken anyway if you are willing to keep your messages below a GB or so.
There were already workarounds in place before they switched off SA - the introduced error was consistent within a given area, so provided you had a fixed location that broadcast its coordinates, you could correct for the error. I believe there were products and possibly even standards that did all of this; would have been even easier in today's world of mobile internet. I have suspicions that this was a large reason for disabling SA - your enemy can work around it, so it's not much use, but if you get your enemy hooked on it without the work-around, you can turn SA back on in a war situation.
Except this is a long way yet from what the GP was describing, although it is an attempt in that direction.
More like a "good old boy".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/good_old_boy#Noun
No mention of Delgado?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Rodr%C3%ADgue...
If I keep cutting down and re-growing trees on the same plot of land over and over again I will reduce the total CO2 in the atmosphere as long as the cut down trees are not burned or rot. You can avoid that by building houses for instance. Or boats.
Some floors - news agencies. Other floors - Hamas Terrorist HQ. They deserved that. Israel evacuated all of the personnel before.
I think the condititoning is more like "train a dog to signal the presence of drugs _when the officer wants there to be drugs_"

At least that's what happened when I was K9 nonconsent searched.

The dog didn't signal for 4 laps and then the handler looked at him like i look at my dog when he eats cat food. Of course the dog then sat.
I don't know if the author would equate them, but I carry an eInk tablet (the reMarkable) with me most of the time. I write on it (in it?) every day for the most part. Best thing is, if I need to share something, a few simple clicks and the document is turned into text via OCR and everything else is a figure. Send it as a PDF.

At least for me, I've always found that doodling out problems helps me think through them a lot easier.
Isn't "beyond a reasonable doubt" a legal construct, rather than a scientific one? Science looks at probabilities and measurable numbers not one person or another's "reasonable doubt".
Radiolab had a nice podcast about this fascinating subject back in 2018 (re-aired July 2020): https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/baby-...
I've heard that just before Operation Desert Storm began in 1991 the reduced accuracy that affected civil GPS was temporarily turned off. This was a result of not being able to procure enough military grade GPS devices for army vehicles etc. If this is true it may also have had an effect on the decision to completely turn it off.
Think of each pixel. If you want 1m resolution, you need at least one pixel for every meter of the planet. And, satellites can't be told to stay over land only. So, how many satellites do you need in your constellation to keep a 1s refresh time?

The earth is 200 million miles^2 surface area.

So, no. I sorta remember 4 day refresh at 3m resolution was the "wish I could get to" goal.
I'll add it as a premium setting :)
You can quite literally "take a picture of a smell" with a mass spectrometer. But that's expensive kit that needs training to use and experts to maintain. Justice isn't worth as much as a year in prison costs, apparently