skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This brood is orders of magnitude larger than the others. I grew up in Maryland and I don't think I've ever seen a cicada up close except for now and 17 years prior. Sure I heard them sometimes in the summer, but this is something else.
Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) is a BSL-4 lab, but US diplomats were concerned by the untrained staff operating the lab (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-dep...). Even with the best of facilities and staff, containment can be hard. For example, back in 2014 86 lab workers at the CDC were possibly infected with anthrax (https://time.com/2902415/cdc-anthrax-atlanta/) because protocols were not followed.
> the waste of paper gave me a mental block

Serious question—not a pointed remark disguised as a question—but what's the impact of that waste paper vs the what goes into a latest gen reMarkable? Where's the inflection point where a device like that figuratively "pays for itself" (in terms of reduced environmental harms) over pen and paper?

Even if those numbers are good, I assume that the human rights abuses associated with paper production are minimal in comparison to the the kinds of things happening to support the manufacture of modern consumer electronics. Am I wrong?
its not a bug, it was a undisclosed "feature"
Bark – Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving
Thin skinned or not if it was a lab leak they’re liable for millions of deaths and trillions in economic devastation world wide. I would say that reason enough to get to the bottom of the origin question.
Though secondary explosives (TNT, etc.) are usually safer than fuels like jet fuel / hydrogen because they don't explode without a primary explosive percussion and don't ignite as easily.

You're safer crashing a glider full of TNT and lit sparklers than a jet full of fuel.
Summary: Europe doesn't really want American tourists, but they tolerate us because they want our dollars.
I'm in Maryland too. Are you seeing them in any quantity?
If there's a major enough project in it that I can look at, maybe :) Looks promising, but I've been let down by many half-attempts in this space
Bark: Open Behavior Benchmarking in Multi-Agent Environments
This is how oppressors keep the bottom caste in their place while promoting a sense of justice to the unaffected.
Personally, my favorite shells are Ipython, Ammonite, and JShell.
I always wondered why people used the phrase "dunk on" when referring to Twitter. Then I witnessed the purely and obviously performative nature of the bulk of these kinds of user's statements.

Even ones who claim to be activists will ignore any good faith questions, because every second they spend engaging in meaningful dialogue doesn't allow them to sit there and attack others for points from their followers.
A privacy precaution would be to `ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=password -o PubkeyAuthentication=no jobs.hackclub.com`. By default ssh will send all its public keys to a server unless given an identify file to use as an arg or in ~/.ssh/config.
Make sure you're not doing agent forwarding or port forwarding.
I'll step in because I really took a different (and perhaps incorrect) read of the statement "There are too many innocent people being arrested to worry about the guilty ones."

On it's own I take this to mean that we need to address the issues in policing and the justice system to have a lot less bullshit and a lot more impact. Time/money (and resulting fallout) spent harassing innocent people creates all manner of problems and is also time/money not spent on actually doing the job. In this I wholly agree.

That said, There is still room for nuance and appropriate recourse in actual crime. There are a lot of crimes, and it's pretty clear that in many cases the punishment doesn't fit the crime, or that the crime even makes sense.

Ultimately if we ever get our shit figured out I'd assume both of these would be accomplished. I just hope that we get there.
Show HK: What memecoin are you?
It's not a personal attack. It has in fact nothing to do with you at all. See the post upthread.
As someone who struggles with impulsive speaking in meetings, I use notes as a buffer between my brain and mouth. I jot my thoughts down when others are talking. Instead of wanting to interrupt them to speak, this gives me time to consider what I should say-- and if it is actually important enough to say without having to worry that I will forget things. It also gives others a chance to talk and perhaps express what I was thinking anyway.
This link title is extremely misleading to the point of being disingenuous and provocative. The title of the linked article is “Israel-Gaza: Why is the region blurry on Google Maps?”... because the entire Israel / Gaza / West Bank region is blurred in the exact same way. There is no preferential blurring of Palestinian areas. The clear answer is to prevent actors on both sides from using Google’s satellite imagery to plan attacks against one another. But please continue the breathless hot takes.
I wouldn't necessarily assume so, and neither does TFA:

>According to researchers at the University of Missouri, people who develop this condition are also three times more likely to be involved in a vehicle accident.

They don't mention lack of light, but instead associate the higher crash rate with sleep disorders brought on by consistently working graveyard shifts.
Basically a fun QA test. Even if you disagree with what's "correct", being able to notice and articulate why something is off is a valuable skill.

The only only subjective ones I disagreed with were about tracking. With one I preferred more spacing, and the other I preferred less.

People complaining about dark patterns with buttons are missing the point. More than one colored button is bad with all current design. Whether you disagree with the other option being plain text is besides the point.
It's the concept of "no code software development" applied to law, and it'll have the same problems. Edge cases by the million.

I wouldn't trust a computer to be my doctor, and I wouldn't trust one to be my lawyer either. As assistants to my doctor and lawyer, sure, but to replace them? Never.
Pure JavaScript Spirograph
I didn't forget about Galileo, it's literally my first link and it's the same link that @jimmygrapes shared later :)
Practically speaking, it is because some modern browsers (and extensions) will throw up an error (either by-passable or not) if it's HTTP only. Yeah it's not necessary in many cases, but it's growing to be the standard expected behavior.
Here’s some evidence that it is naturally occurring from a virologist.

https://twitter.com/wanderer_jasnah/status/13942477140246609...
First API's don't support it, can't pin memory (which is what a PBO does). Then oh well they are not taking advantage of it. Move the goal post much?

TBDR came to prominence in UMA mobile architectures, it's a big part of what allows it to perform so well with limited memory bandwidth. The M1 is just an evolution of Apples mobile designs and PowerVR before that.

Mali GPU's are UMA and alway have been AFAIK

https://community.arm.com/developer/tools-software/graphics/...
I don't understand what you are getting at. If the US recognized Palestine that would also be a policy "determined by politics in its original, non-metaphorical form". There is no apolitical answer to the question of whether to recognize Palestine as a sovereign state.
That's a neat insight. I think I knew it intuitively, but I had never put in a structured manner like that.

Would a fair tldr be "you need to be willing to give hard feedback in order to build the trust to actually get hard feedback"?
A Stack That Runs Faster Than Std::Stack (2019)
> Engines treat these like any other line, without prejudice.

i'm not sure if i'm understanding 100% what you're saying but don't most engine heuristics try more potentially favorable first, such as moving a pawn? i think most modern engines have pretty aggressive move ordering
You mention moving from an iPad to remarkable. I have an iPad with a pencil right now and I feel pretty satisfied with it, but I’m curious about the remarkable. What do you think is better about the remarkable?
The suggestion being replied to here was: "I would vote for any candidate that committed to letting its registered users decide every vote he or she made."

I fail to see how that is substantially different from direct democracy.

What good would representative democracy be if each representative was just an empty vessel carrying out the collective wishes of a mass of Internet commenters?
Sometimes I wish I had a website that was just a collection of everything I've shared or written on other platforms, just fully under my control and backed up for later. Is there anything that can spider content based on providing integration creds with various platforms?
easier to read this file online? https://gist.github.com/zachlatta/3a5d780da6a3c964677a4f1c4c...
Great! I'd love to hear what you think, whether it fits your workflow or if there are missing pieces that you'd need. Contact info is in my profile if you're open to a chat!
Yeah, that's what I figured too after looking into why it's possible to use iMessage and Facetime in Mainland China when everything else is blocked. But good to see this reported so that hopefully more people learn about it. Someone's life my depend on it.
When I was in the military I was fascinated that they had us pull 24 hr staff duty which is pretty much secretarial work with no sleep and then expected to drive home afterwards.
There's a similar situation with Go where some positions utterly confuse bots trained on playing mostly normal games. There was this interesting research blog post on training a bot specifically to become good at solving one of these weird problems (Igo Hatsuyoron 120, the "hardest go problem ever")

https://blog.janestreet.com/deep-learning-the-hardest-go-pro...
I think it really depends on where you are. Even within their range, in some places they've been wiped out from pesticides, or tree removals, or got their signals mixed up and emerged early/will emerge late.

I can say that I was in Silver Spring, MD for Brood X in the spring of 2004, and for a few days you couldn't take a step without squishing 20 cicadas. Trees looked like you had dropped acid because they were literally covered >50% of their surface area in wiggling cicadas. I started carrying an umbrella because I would be picking them of of myself for a half hour from the mere 20' walk from my car to my front door.
How Can Hypertext Help My Glass Bead Game
You must be good at avoiding it or your programs are simple. Go is not much better than C in this particular case.

I forgot specific detail how it was possible (I noticed it 1-2 years ago) but in Go you could have nil value when using references. It was somewhere around implementing an object.
FNet: Attention may be all you WANT but we you need is good token mixing
> Bedford basically rules out an 'engineered' virus, does not rule out a lab leak, but leans towards zoonosis (pathogen jumping from animal to human).

Where are all these animals in the wild (since the lab theory has been "debunked") with SARS-CoV-2?

I'd imagine we'd have found tons of them by now, right?
The rest of the world can always go around the Cape. Egypt has no substitutes for the canal.
The audio world lost big when what.cd went down. Even non-members benefitted because what.cd fed so many people who went on to share the track lists, and albums, and “did you know this artist was in the background of this”, and so on.

They could have open-sourced the whole thing, put a paid API endpoint on in, and kept on.
Congrats! Nice bounty ($9K) for a relatively unsophisticated hack. Getting into infosec is becoming more enticing.
This paper has been making rounds in the last few days on Reddit ML and Twitter.
Most countries only want this for specific places: https://fas.org/blogs/security/2018/12/widespread-blurring-o...

Letting Israel have something more extreme was a concession that cost the US very little, and came at a period of exceptionally good US-Israeli relations. Specifically, the US wanted to reward Israel for successive handovers of bits of the Territories to the Palestinian Authority, and staying out of the Gulf War.
They already got pulled from the App Store (although Apple reversed course after significant badgering): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25605880
"Some scientist" = couple doctors "whistle blowers" without virology background, couple blogger journalists, and couple activists who got on Beijing's shit list for wrongthink politics. Aka exactly zero scientists with credible subject matter knowledge. Whistle blowers were initially "correctly" punished for spreading rumors that literal SARs came back, later their images rehabilitated as "heros" for domestic politics. The other four were put in shitlist for suggesting PRC covid19 response would be China's Chernobyl, and were in hindsight spectacularly wrong. None of them ever endorsed position on lab leak.
No, it does. MP3 has an issue with gapless playback. A one second pause is a player thing, but the format itself does not support truly glitchless playback, because it always stores an integer number of audio blocks, and adds padding at the beginning. This is why nobody should ever use MP3 for e.g. sending around clips for video or audio production - quality issues aside, it also screws up the timing and aligning the start of the track.

More modern formats solved this issue by precisely defining the start/end points so decoding can produce an output with precisely the same alignment and number of samples as the input.

There are certainly nonstandard metadata hacks for MP3 to retrofit gapless support into it, but the core format cannot do it.
Dead serious: I couldn't find one 404? Android 10, on Chrome
College students rescued at sea on boat made of buckets and kiddie pools
Captchas are pretty cheap to solve ($0.002 per solve) so I'm actually surprised there isn't some sort of captcha solving browser plugin aimed at consumers. Spending a few bucks per year to ensure I never have to solve a captcha seems like a bargain to me.
Thank you, that was a very interesting read.
As well as training kids that it's normal and expected to be searched by the police without warrant.
There are two aspects to that: 1. being able to take the difficult thing, even offensive, but also not holding the grudge. 2. being able to give in a way that doesn’t come across offensive.

Saying that honest thing as the person who can take it can be potentially damaging because it’s easy to lose the feeling for _how to say it_. Not everyone can take it the same way as _we_ take it, even when they claim they can. This kind of clarity requires trust from both sides.

Edit: it comes down to taking the ego out. Put your conscious self next to your physical self and focus on actions and emotions, not words.
Can anybody access the paper? I'm curious if they mention anything about energy density or specific energy.
They already can be manufactured. That's how they were first discovered.
The problem here isn't that we are missing a language for expressing laws. Indeed, DSLs for expressing legal axioms don't really exist, and I expect that formal verifiable languages will be created, but even when they are, the problem is not an inability to express laws, the problem is how to map them to entities in the real world.

To give only a single example, "what is admissible evidence?" Assume for a moment that we have solved the "what is admissible evidence in this context" problem. Now you have a giant list of pieces of evidence, testimony, etc. How do you prove chain of custody? The legal system is utterly blind to the world, its agents are intentionally blinded to much of the information, and practically blinded to others.

Even with modern surveillance the amount of uncertainty that is present in many legal cases is substantial, and machine learning won't help you here, because every legal case is a one off. I'm sure someone will try to create a statistical guilt detection net despite the obviousness that it will inevitably produce unjust results.

If you want laws to be written in formal languages, you need a system for defining formal semantics for the entities and relations that their abstracted axioms describe, and things like OWL and RDF are not sufficient, because they only provides the hypotheses, not the evidence. You can assert that evidence subClassOf admissible-evidence, but you need proof that the assertion is valid that can be checked by multiple parties (or anyone with the desire to do so). The one-off nature of many cases often means that you can't go out and test the hypothesis again.

These are hard measurement problems, and we don't have a good language for describing them, and how the measurements themselves are governed by the legals system.

That said, being able to bootstrap simulate court cases with juries drawn from the population would already be a massive win for interrogating laws and their implementation and enforcement. Similarly being able to simulate new legislation to reveal loopholes would be fantastic, though I doubt politicians would enjoy that.

There is quite a bit of data, but I don't think it is particularly amenable to the current fads in machine learning. Amusingly people complain that we'll never be able to write down all the axioms, yet someone wrote down all the laws. Economically unattractive due to a tragedy of the commons certainly, but at the end of the day someone is going to have to write down all the axioms, one way or another. Maybe modern machine learning techniques could be used to generate the axioms for humans to review?
These caveats make sense. I think that the role of computing and automation in law will be similar to their role in many other fields where the new technology does not necessarily eliminate humans completely, but instead increases their productivity by broadening the scope of their work, eliminating the bulk of repetitive and time consuming activities and allowing them to focus their efforts on areas that require nuance and judgement.

An interesting aspect of law-related automation concerns cases that could "be resolved with mathematical efficiency", but for whatever unfortunate reason end up slipping through the cracks in enforcement. Unequal, unpredictable and discretionary enforcement is often source of corruption and inequity, so filling those gaps would be welcome.
https://youtu.be/IUDTlvagjJA
Maestral (https://github.com/SamSchott/maestral) is a pretty light-weight Dropbox client that works well for mac
I would say that the computers are operating in a binary way, they don't have a "spectrum brain" which humans have various components to be able to analyze and see different scenarios. It is like humans have spatial awareness whereas computers are "one-track mind".
The other side needs to be ready to take it.
I also happen to live in Japan, that's prob why I knew this example well and I'm well aware/critic of the covid situation and the Olympics being pushed forward.

Abe resignation seems to be based on being sick though, there was some, well extreme people measuring how long it took him to walk a fixed distance over time and when he started to slow down significatively, they predicted he was sick. He resigned few days later, officially because of an illness:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/japans-abe-goes-to-hospital-for...
Knight instead of queen offers different moves. Bishop instead of queen offers fewer moves. It's easy to imagine (and demonstrate, as you have) positions where a promotion to knight is advantageous, but it's hard to imagine positions where a promotion to bishop is advantageous except that it may confuse the opponent (computer or otherwise).

Well, on a little bit further reflection, possibly you may want to promote to bishop instead of queen if it helped you get to stalemate when you were confident you wouldn't win. Or as others said, to avoid the opponent having an opportunity to get stalemate.
You completely misinterpreted the statement. It was rather obvious to me that the person you were replying to was curious if there was any conflicts of interest that would cause someone to ignore a conclusion.

Finding someone to blame as you say is not really the key issue. If you want to prevent this from happening again you might just possibly want to know where this virus came from.

4 months after SARS 1 we knew the intermediate host was a civet. 9 months after MERS, we knew the intermediate host was a camel. As of now not a single intermediate zoonotic host has been identified.

At this point the probability threshold has shifted towards a lab leak. We can acknowledge this fact or we can collectively acknowledge that maybe just maybe a research center with a quarter of a billion dollars in funding from the United States government for evolving Corona viruses from bats to infect humanized mice might have had something to do with the virus that broke out in the exact same city.

I mean it really is absurd how quickly people dismiss this rather obvious fact.

Figuring out where this virus came from is extremely relevant considering that the gain of function research that in all likelihood created it is going to be increased in funding as a result of the pandemic. If the public knew that the virus was almost certainly not a naturally transmitted one from a wild animal host, they probably wouldn't be on board with funding more of the research that created it.
Cicada Safari - Brood X Tracking App
Articles citing articles citing articles... aka cliche. They're not really wrong. The definition of "place" is just arbitrary, so it's always "debatable.^"

Bnei Brak, incidentally, is also often described as the densest place in the world. It's just in other contexts that don't interest an international readership. It was mentioned often, in covid related contexts.

^Meaning, pointlessly debateable.
How quickly did coastal areas get reclaimed by the seas? If it happened over centuries then it’s a slow creep and hardly a flood, though given geography, it’s likely some areas got reclaimed at accelerated rates. In any event we’d need some evidence before accepting that this was the genesis of the myths.
That's smart and sweet at the same time.
Because of ISP's between me and the target http awful track record of injecting their code full of crap, that's why.
Buying direct from the artist can be as low as $1 per album. Buying CDs and records used, then posting (edit: photos/hype about) them on social media is a form of social currency that supports the artist (as well, in some countries there are viable legal arguments for downloading pre-ripped files as a form of media shifting when you own the original, which means minimal hassle for turning a CD in to a FLAC)
Bringing frozen hamsters back to life with a microwave [video]
It reminds of how hostile people became when you merely questioned the effectiveness or need of the lockdowns last year.

I think many academics and scientists are so emotionally invested in the side they took they will defend it no matter of the evidence.
The cases I've shared were not about patronage (maybe Galileo, unsure), but about third parties categorically denying the science it based on their social/political thinking.
What about 5.1?
Human intuition is much better equipped to judge intuitively whether a person or a group can be trusted than it is to judge whether a piece of legislation was written by a trustworthy person or whether that legislation is effective
I will only accept your rebuttal in the form of an e-postcard

https://web.archive.org/web/20000511085018/http://www.askjee...
> It doesn't at all look "like a conspiracy theory"

Maybe for someone well informed like you. But I assure you it does look like a conspiracy theory for "the mere mortal". This is precisely what I was trying to explain. Please don't shoot the messenger.
it is like a middle-out compression version of an earlier PG column
If there's no apolitical answer, then going with the status quo isn't an apolitical answer.