skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "activity indicator color" one is "wrong" to me. It says "2h" by her name, meaning she was last online 2h ago, meaning that her activity indicator color should not still be green.
Already feeling like some of these are one person's opinion, biased towards the current status quo in mobile/web. Although there are a lot of good points around padding, font, contrast, etc. Main theme seems to be around consistency.

Edit: Okay, well, I got

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Rank: PLATINUM (top 5%)
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I think a lot of this was more "find the difference" than it was "tell me what version is better". Once you are able to find the subtle difference, it's pretty obvious which one is better, mostly because one of them lacks self-consistency. I think a lot of the tracking, color, and tint differences were pretty opinionated.
Just wanted to say that is an exceptionally well-written launch post.

- Solid summary

- Novel solution (omg AIDA in a CRO tool!)

- Clear benefits spelled out vs the competition

- Relatable use cases

- Jumping off points to explore the rest of the product

The product of years spent thinking about the problem I guess! Good stuff :D
It's really good and just works as long as you're using maven/gradle. The only time I have to reach for IntelliJ is mixed code bases (scala/java) and when I want to run arbitrary code while debugging.
Playing the opposite game with all recommendations from China and the WHO would have been a good start. I think responsibility and fear of discovery are at the core of how crucial information was suppressed and distorted leading to nonsensical actions like the SF rally for Chinatown in late February 2020.

Part of this has resolved itself since every piece of information is no longer being evaluated on whether it helps or hurts Trump.
Probably so they can’t be blamed for giving intel aka maps to Palestinians fighting for their lives
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Is this available as data anywhere?
Correct. Rybka believes it has the piece superiority and doesn't consider sacrificing a pawn to be an issue but the only pawn that it can sacrifice opens up that side of the board for black. Nakamura explains a little before the sacrifice that if they exchanged queens it'd be almost certain that Rybka would have to sacrifice that pawn to avoid draw.
But that's not what you would start with. If you have an incident and discover that your response plan was hilariously inadequate, you would prioritize making more robust response plans because even if you can prevent that exact incident from happening again, there will be other disasters.
3.7M for

"UNDERSTANDING THE RISK OF BAT CORONAVIRUS EMERGENCE"

with awards to

"WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES CAPITAL CONSTRUCTION"

https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_R01AI110964_7529
> Working out the initial cause of the Covid outbreak is far far far less important/actionable . . .

I think the saying "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" applies.
Simpler syntax, avoiding all the declaration code

Don't need to be compiled

Easier to keep changes small and local to the code changing

Unit tests need less boilerplate/mocking/stubs

Simpler metaprogramming

Easier generic programming
Note section 9.5 of
Project Evidence

9.5 Arrest of Lab Animal Seller
From the same ECNS article in the previous section:

We are looking for contributors who can read Mandarin to help us find and translate the original article from The Paper that details the arrest of the ’top academician’.

Medical staff and experts have long been asking for better regulation and supervision of biological research institutes in China, but with mixed results.

A top academician at the Chinese Academy of Engineering earned 10.17 million yuan ($1.46 million) by illegally selling off lab animals and experimental milk, according to a report in the Shanghai-based The Paper.

Li Ning, a leading expert at transgenic technologies at China Agricultural University, was sentenced to 12 years in prison on January 2 for grafting 37.56 million yuan.

Author’s Note: "Li Ning" and the "top academician" appear to be two different people. Li Ning was sentenced to prison for allegedly embezzling research grant funds.

The academician’s arrest shows that the regulations concerning lab safety were either too lacking or not properly enforced and enable a bad actor to put many others in danger for their own profit. The new biosafety rules were likely put in place to rectify these deficiencies.

If a "top academician" was selling lab animals at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, could a worker at the WIV or WHCDC have been doing the same thing? Why not?

Could one of these lab animals have been sold to the Huanan Seafood Market?

@https://project-evidence.github.io/

The "it's common" may be overstated, but it is not unprecedented.
XIV is an inverse of the CBOE volatility index? So you could think of it as a "stability" index ETN?

How different is a stability index from an index like S&P 500?
That's a false equivalency though; whether or not this was a lab accident, there will be future pandemics which aren't (like every single previous one in history).
Look up Dwarka city that’s submerged under water! Age old civilizations that knew city planning, rock cutting and other advanced technologies who knows.
How to turn an oil boom town into an oasis of renewable energy
And yet, this is what Google serves up as one of the first results when searching for ancient civilizations during/before the last Ice Age: (No, There Wasn't an Advanced Civilization 12,000 Years Ago)[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-there-wasnt-an...]

The dude clearly has a bone to pick with Graham Hancock, and honestly I'm not a fan of some of his crazy ideas either. But it seems like he is missing the bigger picture by making this is a personal battle.
Yes, it will take time. In my yard here in Reston, VA, they’ve been emerging in small but increasing numbers each night for the past seven days. I was just outside a few minutes ago — it looks like like tonight will be a big night for them!

That said, it also depends on where you are. They can only grow in soil that remained mostly unmolested (no construction) for 17 years. Recently constructed neighborhoods will not have many cicadas. Also, they feed on tree roots, so areas with few trees will have few cicadas.
I used to work for a fairly small retailer in the southeast and the head dba was old school. We had multiple offsite backups of every major system, on-site backups, and frequently ran drills on restore procedures. He was generally disliked by most folks in management and he always said he didn’t mind because one day they’d be happy all the backups were there.

And then some construction crew did something to a water pipe and flooded half our building. And the amount of ass kissing that fell on that man was something to behold. He and his team had us up and running again inside of a couple of days. Minimal down time and minimal negative impact to the business.
Yes - he's trying to hide this:

https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_R01AI110964_7529

It is funding explicitly to study bat coronavirus and it is explicitly for the Wuhan Lab.

This is a government ran website that shows government funding.

He perjured himself last week under testimony and that is why the CDC has made the new recommendations.

This is bigger than treason - it is genocide.
Conversely, if you discover that the cause of the issue was inadequate controls during virus research then you should absolutely start with fixing those.

Put it this way, if the cause of the worldwide pandemic was because it leaked from a lab then you should fix the lab.
The Iliad and the Odyssey were originally oral works in a prehistoric (pre-writing) culture. Transmission of culture was done orally and visually just as they are today. Culture wasn't just technology. It was also origin stories of the tribe, origin stories of the universe, and so on. A lot of information can be exchanged orally and visually without writing.
Ever cop knows the phrase "you can beat the rap but you can't beat the ride". Arresting people you know will get charges dropped just to hassle them is standard practice.
Two years ago when I saw Google car in front of me about to pass, I sure as hell opened the window and give it a bird, Maverick style. And sure as hell some 6 months later punching the address of my encounter, there I was in my car, with blurred face showing a middle finger that was surprisingly not blurred. So I showed it to all my friends all proud and stuff. Sadly a few months later the photo was replaced by I guess another drive-by. I imagine for many reasons since they already have a car in place, I'm sure they take few takes when passing by and someone must have reported me.
> justice system is actively contributing to that

Please help stop use of the phrase "justice system".
It's possible to view arbitrary slices of the 24-cell using the demo version of Stella4D, but I recall it being very difficult to find the right combination of menu items.
yeah that's the thing who owns the bridge? some may argue that control of ownership should be decentralized and some may disagree. but like I said it wouldn't be too bad if users ended up using it under some TLD but that's my opinion
Here it is more about how you treat the proven guilty. The answer I think should be measured proportionally, and geared towards rehabilitation. Plea bargains and privatization of various aspects seem to go right against that. It takes away control of the court systems and gives it to the executive branch, to people who are measured on their conviction rate and arrests. This all badly needs reform, but good luck when the Supreme Court is now just another political game.
In this case more like 50 tons of cure.
The copy on the landing page is incoherent. The product is a smart core buddy on steroids who uses science to help me see things from 10,000 ft, which allows me to get unstuck, think laterally, and tell stories. It’s also simple and I’m not alone.

Can you see what I mean?
Just to clarify: these are the neighbours that expelled all their Jews leaving them refugees in Israel and also tried to destroy the country and many of which have not stopped trying for its entire history. Getting along takes two.
It’s not a matter of physics.

All things being equal, it takes a lot more energy to slice through the air at Mach 2 than at Mach 0.85. But all things are not equal: Concorde flew about twice as high as regular subsonic planes. At that altitude, the air is about half as dense, so it takes less energy to move it out of the way.

In the end what matters is the lift to drag ratio and the speed ratio. In cruise mode, a regular commercial jet has a L/D ratio of about 17, and Concorde of 7 [1], i.e. about 2.4 lower. So each minute it spends cruising, Concorde will burn 2.4 times more fuel than a subsonic jet of equal mass. But Concorde flies faster, so it spends less time to cover the same distance. How much less? About 2/0.85 = 2.35. In other words, to cover the same distance Concorde burns about the same amount of fuel as a subsonic jet, while in cruise mode. Concorde’s fuel economy was horrible at takeoff though due to a triple whammy: L/D ratio of only 4, need to use the (very inefficient) afterburners, and the tyranny of the rocket equation.

But if someone can solve these issues, there is nothing that prevents a supersonic to be as fuel efficient as a subsonic jet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift-to-drag_ratio#Supersonic/...
Recently there was an article about software engineering where the (apparently non-technical) author defined colloquial phrases such as "to engineer an outcome" as to jerry-rig and generally do the opposite of any scientifically-principled process. I think the onus should be on the researchers to use clearer technical jargon or else it creates this kind of false dichotomy where a very narrow claim is used to imply much more. Frankly I think exploiting vagueness of words like that is sometimes intended, especially in titles/headlines. The careful technical interpretation is for CYA, while the broad colloquial interpretation is for social/political points and agendas.
It isn't a reach - it was funded by the NIAID/NIH:

https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_R01AI110964_7529
This is a very lengthy and well-researched story that basically just says "we don't know but could be". Which I think is where we've been for the past few months. There was a lot of whiplash early on between conspiracy theorists trying to peg this as a biological weapon attack and scientists trying to stick to the evidence. McNeil does a really thorough job dissecting the mess of nonsense and looking at evidence. But the result is still that we don't know. And probably never will.
Both Colombia and Mexico are OECD countries and have higher murder rates than the United States. Lithuania's is close. The U.S. is roughly on par with Greenland for murders per capita.
from a technical perspective, maybe (I don't agree with that, but I can see both side of the argument)

from a legal/international relations perspective, absolutely not

if this was a preventable bio-research accident rather than an act of God or Nature, there are huge ramifications for China's place in and relation to the world

at this point I wouldn't be shocked if it was an accidental leak or an intentional leak by the Chinese, an intentional leak by the US or even an intentional leak by another country to provoke US/China tensions

a forest of mirrors
The accidental lab leak theory proven would actually be great news, as the alternative is that civilization has reached the threshold where we have a hyper connected population in contact with so many natural disease reservoirs that pandemics are emerging spontaneously. If it’s a lab leak we change pathogen containment practices, otherwise we curtain our freedom of movement and association
I think you could improve this test by at the very least not saying "correct". There were many cases where I spotted the difference and disagreed.

Equally, there were cases where I simply guessed and got lucky or unlucky. You could make this test much better by making the user click near the difference. This both removes the subjectivity and makes it much less likely to simply guess.
> Even if you round up $39K to 40K. It's still a far cry from your initial $50k assumption.

Tesla 3's ASP was ~60K in 2018
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/08/23/tesla-model-3-average-s...

That was the latest data I could find and I decided to give them a break. You will find in analysts calls a number of 50K is a common estimate.

> Numbers don't lie.

Agreed
You're writing as if somehow general pandemic response has been deprioritized in favor investigating the lab leak theory, which is absurdly far from reality.

This incident has cost millions of lives and possibly undone decades of progress on reducing poverty worldwide. It is worth pursuing multiple angles in parallel.
My take on a solution: ban any statements from advertisement, that can not be fact checked directly. Same should apply to imagery - it must not imply anything beyond what is factually verifiable.
Matt Levine provided context for anyone, like me, who have no idea what this is about:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-02-09/invers...
Well there is gel chromatography, electrophoresis, light based techniques etc, but I don't know how well they fare for molecules of this size, sensitivity and relative concentrations.
Working out what we should do differently when (not if) another virus starts spreading is far far far less important than figuring out how to stop another such virus from spreading.

Understanding the root cause is a logical way to do that.
The strange thing is Apple removed headphone jack and now even their high end AirPods don't support lossless audio and you need wired headphones to listen them on an iPhone (https://9to5mac.com/2021/05/17/apple-music-lossless-requires...)
Supreme Court Restricts Police Authority to Enter a Home Without a Warrant
A story about similar, for those who haven't seen it: https://xkcd.com/1190/
> you can make people think you are a Russian hacker signed off by Putin himself by adding these Commonwealth of Independent State checks to your code.

Reminds me of:

> Uncle Milton Industries has been selling ant farms to children since 1956. Some years ago, I remember opening one up with a friend. There were no actual ants included in the box. Instead, there was a card that you filled in with your address, and the company would mail you some ants. My friend expressed surprise that you could get ants sent to you in the mail. I replied: "What's really interesting is that these people will send a tube of live ants to anyone you tell them to." -- https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/the_security_...
> If it happened over centuries then it’s a slow creep and hardly a flood

They probably flooded increasingly regularly before being abandoned and eventually subsumed, no unlike Venice today. Some could have been much quicker though, there are fault lines through the region though, so it's entirely possible a small tsunamis could have knocked out villages that sea level rise made vulnerable.
Seems to be increasingly uncommon with the rise of computer graphics. Far easier to edit a tank into the background than to have a real tank driving around.
I think the modern, mainstream opinion underrates oral traditions greatly, which is to be expected because we only practice empiricism in our world. However, oral traditions are very important in a lot of cultures around the world, and they have been for a long, long time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Russian_flu

Except another very recent one was also a lab accident. So, no, not every single previous one was, and 2 of last 3 will have been from labs.
This is a great, in depth fact filled article. Really explores the subject completely.
As i understood it Fauci denied funding gain of function research in the lab but readily admitted funding other research since this area is a hotspot for new viruses. Rand Paul tried to mix the gain of fuction research in the US with that done in wuhan which made it confusing.
That was quite a ramble Mr. Bananas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Russian_flu

But it keeps happening and maybe labs working with such viruses need much more careful procedures or shouldn’t perform risky gain of function research for example.
Thinking straight while making decisions is hard. We have so many biases and bad mental habits.
Keep in mind many people whose families that were affected by AIDS believe Fauci to be a mass murderer:

https://aep.lib.rochester.edu/node/49111
Deliveroo loses landmark case as sacked driver ruled an employee
Interesting story about how Apple is moving encryption keys to China
Who has this sentiment about advertising? Some advertising is stupid, but in general it is not, and it obviously works.
being Good is not cheap; you inherently limit yourself a very small market.

The Others don’t matter to determine the value here; there is only one person to sell to.
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Sodium-sulfur batteries are available commercially. They have good energy density but they have to be heated to 350C which makes them impractical for vehicles. They're commonly used for grid storage.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%E2%80%93sulfur_batter...
McNeil Jr also references this letter from epidemiologists and biologists in Science [1] calling for a new investigation.

[1]: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6543/694.1
Amazon in talks to buy MGM movie studio: The Information
Is it a stretch to imagine that the same country that created a news spectacle from their rocket falling back to earth uncontrolled, can't manage their bio research?
Oh my god, I'm so happy I could cry.

> Each vcluster runs inside a namespace of the underlying k8s cluster. . . It's cheaper than creating separate full-blown clusters and it offers better multi-tenancy and isolation than regular namespaces.

Kubernetes has invented a bunch of their own means of measuring & consuming resources, and everything under Kubernetes all runs inside one single namespace, hopefully carefully managed (by human operators who carefully make sure things are going ok, or else).

I keep feeling like I'm missing something, that I have to be wrong, because Linux has really good ways to divide workloads. Namespaces. You put different jobs or different classes of work into different namespaces. Weirdly Kubernetes is most unhelpful about doing this job, about assisting with this subdivision process.

This is the first project I've seen in Kubernetes land that explicitly names the clear, obvious, wonderful step of using multiple Linux namespaces to divide up work, as a way to more reasonably achieve multi-tenancy & separation of workloads. The first Kubernetes project I've heard that lets the Linux kernel do what it's good at.

I'm not sure what the use is for corporations or enterprises. I think dividing up resources amid different teams is a reasonable use. But I am incredibly excited for hyper-converged home-labs & other over-growing diy computer-science projects to start having a good way to host a variety of tenants in a reasonably controlled, semi-standard way. Introducing multiple namespaces is something Kubernetes has desperately needed. I am head over heels in love with what's happening here. I hope the implementation doesn't get too much wrong, because Kubernetes has ignored the best way to divide resources up on a computer, has done too much on it's own, within one namespace, and starting to expand across multiple namespaces is a game changer, opens the field for how useful and how interesting Kubernetes is.
Yes, and proper handling of nuclear bombs is infinitely easier than losing them or accidentally dropping them on your own soil, but the United States still managed to mess that up every now and then...

Mistakes seem to happen despite just about any amount of preventative measures in our world.
Woah, you've gone pretty far off the deep end.

You'd do well to remember there are two sides to any conflict (as my parents drilled into us whenever my brother and I would blame each other).

In my opinion you can see Israel exercising serious restraint, evacuating people from a target first when possible, firing warning shots before the real attack. Hamas on the other hand is indiscriminately firing over 3000 rockets at Israel civilians. That's like what the Nazis did to London with their V2 rockets. Now there is a big power imbalance here, and I feel for the Palestinians, but they're hardly the good guys here. That's terrorism, plain and simple. No country would tolerate that.
Thanks for the feedback! I really like flipping it more onto the core buddy side of things. I'm curious about the "I'm not alone" bit - there's something there, I wonder if people making decisions predominantly feel alone in making decisions - I bet they do!
From your examples only Bangladesh is referred to by reporters (not as a quotation) as one of the most densely populated in this case “countries” (which is much easier to count than “places”) in the world. (“Most densely populated places” means something different as of course cities are “places” and the definition of place is highly debatable as this thread shows.)

Kudos & good examples. I still think this meme is attached particularly to Gaza but clearly it’s not exclusive.
This would be a slam dunk for both parties.