skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's absurd that this is almost never talked about anywhere

FYI, this really doesn't match my experience. I got curious and Googled about the lab's location myself about a year ago, not long after the outbreak, and found the hypothesis tantalizing, even in the absence of hard evidence.

I've seen ongoing discussion about this since then on various blogs and on Twitter.

As a more meta-comment, we're all in tiny, personalized information silos nowadays based on the sites and communities we frequent. Even a pseudo-public forum like Twitter is not really public - you only see the slice that you follow.

IMO 'nobody is talking about it' is more about how you've curated your own info-stream, rather than about the world at large.
Suppose DNA was left at the scene and strong circumstantial evidence points to the man as the culprit, yet he refuses to let them compare his DNA to exonerate himself.
Well, maybe the lesson there is that you are subject to warrantless search when on other people's (or govt) property. I don't think kids are under the illusion that they own their lockers...
The evidence is irrefutable:

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

It very clearly spells out that the virus was paid for with US taxpayer dollars.

Fauci needs to be arrested.
I remember a brood came out one year when I was a kid, we lived in the country. I loved insects and it was the most insane thing I ever saw. Millions of them. It was like something out of a sci-fi movie.
What if doing the first thing helps us do the second thing?
Just noticed this account is anything but throwaway. With >3000 Karma in a year, throwaway888abc is quite the prolific poster!
Cops will only buy and use them if it gives them the results they want. It's the same reason the field drug tests are designed to give false positives[1], and why body cameras can be turned off at-will and are advertised to police departments as devices that keep cops safe from the lying public.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/magazine/how-a-2-roadside...
Fascinating article, but flagged for being off-topic. Culture wars here are not usually enlightening.
Fast, Cheap, Safe - Chose two
>Rear drive standard range model 3 starts at 40K

Even if you round up $39K to 40K. It's still a far cry from your initial $50k assumption. $10K is not even close to being a rounding error and makes it seem like you're reaching.

You also made quite a bit of other assumptions here. You should actually fact check some of your claims. You can do the math yourself. Numbers don't lie.

If you can somehow show that the articles and data is wrong. I genuinely would love to see how. Because I put a high value on facts/data vs opinion and that will be news to me.
3.7M Grant to EcoHealth to Study Bat Coronavirus
I'm not sure it always both "increases their productivity by broadening the scope of their work" and "allow[s] them to focus their efforts on areas that require nuance and judgement." It might increase productivity, but it could actually decrease critical thought. For example I've met some (disclaimer: some, not all) accountants who have become so reliant on software that they've essentially become data entry personnel and haven't nurtured the ability to think strategically about how or why to do certain things in light of the ever-changing tax code. It's easier to answer a software prompt. This isn't to say it has to be this way, and I agree that freeing up time doing mundane things should allow greater focus on the difficult and more important things. But often times it promotes a "good enough" mentality that enables higher volume, more competitive prices, more free time, or some combination of all three. So for every professional who is now able to do their work better, there are also probably some whose inability was disguised by the fact that they were able to do much of their job without a full understanding of the intricacies. This is especially dangerous in law, because a judge isn't going to care if you were spoon-fed language that "looked good" without fully understanding the overall legal context involved. It's often said that in law school, the most important thing you learn is how to "think like a lawyer." While that might be exaggerated a bit, it underscores the importance of critical thought and why it's a "practice." Automation is good if used as a tool to assist that process, but there are definite downsides if it's allowed to diminish ongoing competent understanding of a rapidly changing landscape. Or worse, if people without a legal background rely on it, thinking that they are getting the right "advice" which in some cases is very difficult to give even for seasoned professionals and is certainly not an exact science.
> Uranium decays by emitting alpha particles

Oh, I stand corrected. No concerns about the emissions then. And no, I wouldn't eat or breathe glass dust at all!
Yes, beamforming radar exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phased_array#Radar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_antenna_array#Radars
If the study doesn't support the claim, then it should be retracted. I don't think the analysis you linked shows that it should be retracted. It performs a different analysis on the data and the author of it concludes that the original paper overstates its claims. I am going to assume that this criticism is valid.

I can similarly counter with a study that criticizes studies that show a positive correlation with SAT and freshman GPA. For example, [1] cited 440 times performs an analysis showing that these positive correlation studies overstate their claims and over-attribute the freshman grade point average to SAT score. I am certain you can counter with another study (google scholar has 300,000+ links on the topic).

The point I am making is that the value added of SAT/ACT is unclear and not worth the time and money students spend on it. Instead, they could use SAT II or AP test scores, which are subject tests on useful material, that is already taught in schools. At least then students will spend time studying topics they may actually use in the future (chemistry, biology, US history, calculus, physics, Spanish, etc.). It would show that students can learn material on a particular topic and pass a standardized exam on it (which is most of what college is anyway).

I think a large part of why the SAT I is so controversial is because it is testing "broad abilities" and "capacity for future learning" which are definitions that changes over time and it is unclear what that actually means and how useful it is. In contrast, a subject test is clear: Can you learn material on subject X well enough to pass a test on it? If you can, well that's what completing college is like. There are studies that support the use of subject tests (SAT II) over the use of broad psychometric tests (SAT I) [2]. I think that sticking with these "broad intelligence tests" is based more on "well we've done it this way for a long time" than actual utility.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03044...
[2] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/S15326977EA0801_...
This is where the human element comes in though I would think: a guiding hand to say "start ramping up to more of that, okay now you want a lull here..."
In your last sentence you mentioned that it's unheard of to go from software to anything you'd be interested in.

What are you interested in?
Downvote away - the evidence is painfully clear!

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

ARREST FAUCI!
Thanks for that link. It's remarkable.
My dog tried to train me to give him a night time treat.

When I let him out at night, I give him a treat when he comes back in after doing his business outside.

Then he got smart enough to scratch at the door to go out again, then came right back in and sat by the cabinet to wait for his treat. Finally he gave up on the extra treats when he found it didn't work.

Dogs are very good at figuring out the actions they need to do to get a reward.
Bright Machines Going Public in $1.6B SPAC Merger
"genocide"

Patently false claim. About 210 Gaza civilians have been killed in this war, out of 2 million, despite efforts to minimize civilian deaths. It's definitionally not genocide.
Conspiracy? None whatsoever. Support for Israel is public and apparent even from politicians and lobbyists. This has guided US votes and vetoes in the UN. This is not a “narrative” nor a hidden story.

As far as PA exerting control, Israel has actively worked to keep the PA weak and frowned to recognize any sovereignty, even to this day keeping occupation forces inside and protecting illegal settlements.

> The reason the US does not recognize Palestine is that right now there is not a fully formed Palestinian government.

This is a funny narrative. Afghanistan does not not have a full government but that does not mean they are not recognized.
This is an incredibly weird take. Corporations have had internal chat since all the way back in AIM days, and email threads have been around longer.

Slack was the medium for the organizing against him, but if it hadn't been Slack, it would've been Teams, FB, email, MMS, iMessage, or whatever.
Somewhat of a tangent, but I think is worth mentioning. In many states, police dogs are given the many of same protections as police officers. If the dog attacks you without reason (happens more often than you would think), you can't defend yourself. Essentially, police dogs recieve more protection under the law than most people do.
“Chinese labs sell their dead experimental animals in food markets.” This is actually true and not uncommon.
I think this is a semantic disagreement rather than a real one. A task in a map-reduce style model doesn't need to synchronize with any other task executing in parallel; of course a task cannot start until its inputs are available. If you want to implement that on top of a threads-and-shared-memory model then you'd need to use synchronization in your task scheduler, but from the point of view of code written inside the model there isn't and can't be any synchronization, which makes it much easier to write correct code.
The Youtube channel "Veritasium" featured a great video on Penrose tilings and their relationship to quasicrystals [0]. A fascinating example of a mathematical discovery with a previously unsuspected physical incarnation.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48sCx-wBs34
I love the idea because it's like an automatic FizzBuzz filter

http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/01/dont-overthink-fizzbuzz....
I thought this was good for teaching things to look for and attention to detail. If I did this sort of exercise more often it might help me pick up more mistakes. Some of the styling may have been subjective but I think the aim was consistency which is something you probably want regardless of platform or theme.
60 years later, is it time to update the Drake equation?
As a math and CS student, switching to an e-ink tablet (reMarkable 1 specifically) has made a world of difference in increasing organization and I can freely use it as a scratchpad without worrying about waste or misplacing it. This semester, I found myself constantly referring back to my class notes and keeping in mind that page number is correlated to time, it was convenient to jump to a concept based on recency. Being able to rearrange things between pages also greatly improved the value I've gotten out of my notes. (Note an iPad would work equally well, but I wanted something more dedicated for note-taking).
The facts remain; Israel did bomb the offices of Al Jazeera and The Associated Press.

That action looks a lot like Israel targeting news agencies and the two news agencies involved have both raised their concerns about that unprecedented action by Israel.
I actually agree with that, to an extent.

But I would also argue that when the software in question is a game, a game console can indeed be a relevant analogy. Games are games—whether you are buying them to play on a smartphone or a GameBoy or an Xbox. The "business models" and "stakes for society" are the same regardless.

If I were in charge of Apple, I would lower their store percentage to a very low 10% for non-game apps. 30% might have been a reasonable amount in the early days, but Apple's market success means they don't need it. (I would also completely abandon their pointless stance over reader content and allow Spotify, Netflix etc to bill customers directly in-app.)

But for games, I would have Apple match the prevailing percentage set by Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo—which I believe is 30% across the board.
Don't talk to the police:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

Regent Law Professor James Duane gives viewers startling reasons why they should always exercise their 5th Amendment rights when questioned by government officials
Sadly not. I'm not sure anyone expected the bot to lose. I've been searching for where I saw it, but 2017 feels like a lifetime ago. I'll link it here if I do.

You can watch Black beat the bot in a fair game here, though, which I find immensely satisfying: https://youtu.be/qov1NXsTSbs?t=88 IIRC he was one of only like... five? (less?) who managed to win one game.
I think the OP's service is pretty cool, it reminds me of ye olde BBS's. I am actually writing my personal resume as a command prompt based on old 80's PCs as well, albeit in HTML/JS, so I do dig the aesthetic.

Application-wise: The statement "In case you want to apply for a job without admitting who you are" is begging the question that the service is actually for job applications, something we have no trust in or knowledge of other than the title of a post on a public forum.

Identity-wise: You're also making the assumption that key = person. Keys can be set up to authenticate client applications and remote services with each other. People can have dozens of keys for various things they have installed via wizards or copy-pasting tutorials which they may not even be aware of. Key pairs are also shared by email and internal docs far more often than they should be with limited control over who they are distributed to.

Harm-wise: If I were an evildoer, I would have spent my career obtaining and organising databases full of all sorts of information; email addresses, hashed passwords, usernames / aliases, phone numbers, etc. I'd definitely have a special database set aside for key-pairs I've scraped from various plaintext sources that I haven't found a use for. The opportunity to target a subset of industry professionals (with presumably more privileged access to information than the average joe) to correlate even a small fraction of known public keys with specific IPs, email addresses, even hackernews aliases would be a huge value add to my "services". You could just slurp the data in, then even if you get no hits, maybe a year or two down the line it becomes relevant.

For anyone dealing with this kind of threat vector on the daily the stakes are pretty high and can include bankruptcy and professional ruin. Yeah we all visit random websites, but it's not every day people connect to an SSH server outside of their trust network. Do you really wanna be that guy whose key was used to leak a database full of medical data or something?

The audience of this website include people who work with PII and may not be familiar with the intricacies of the SSH command line utility, and the state of affairs in information security is pretty bleak in IT-backed organisations as we see every single day, so in this context I don't think it's cool to bash people being privacy conscious.
You can do both. If a plane crashes, you find out the cause. During that evaluation, if you also find that the pilots response to the engine failure was also wrong, you fix that too.
The link you posted still says we need to find out root causes. It just says some extra stuff about how to provide psychological safety so that people are more forthcoming and we are better able to get to the root causes.

You will not find a sane engineer on the planet who says "we don't need to find the root cause, we just need to move ON and move FORWARD". Such nonsense is the domain of politicians.
Well I mean never letting Covid out (if that is the source) would have prevented 7-13 million extra deaths this year so it is worth thinking about how we don’t let another one out if it is possible.

I disagree that it is less actionable. I am a former scientist. Proper handling of lab waste etc. is infinitely easier than having the whole world lock down, wear masks, and rapidly develop mRNA vaccines to try and put the genie back in the bottle.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27184525
> "slaughter wholesale"

Almost 200 dead in a few days. If you don't consider that slaughter than I urge you to ask yourself "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH ME?"

> As far as I can tell, warning civilians to evacuate buildings is QUITE the opposite of wholesale slaughter.

Shooting missiles into densely populated areas where half the population is children and their deaths are guaranteed isn't the opposite of wholesale slaughter. That's guaranteed wholesale slaughter.
In software you would never do a postmortem without understanding the root cause of the incident. If this was caused by a lab leak, or even gain-of-function research, that seems like a pretty important detail.
Cadmium exposure disrupts olfactory sensitivity of fire ants to semiochemicals
The proof burden is on the person advancing the conspiracy theory, not on the person asking for proof. Since no evidence was given, it is baseless.
Sure. Imagine a perfect mix of jet fuel and air in a weather balloon. Or metal shavings. Or a perfect mixture of wheat and air in a silo. BANG!

Now imagine a metal aircraft full of fuel with a cargo of wheat--if you dare. Oh the humanity!
If you use the same public key across services then there's a good chance that your user can be identified. Github, for example, publishes users' public keys [0]. So if I re-use the same public key then you know it's me. Re-using the same public key is bad for privacy. But if you combine it with other security nightmares.

With agent forwarding the remote can enumerate all of your unlocked keys. The solution is 1) do not enable agent forwarding and 2) do not use key agents.

With X11 forwarding the remote side has basically full access to your local session. The solution is don't enable X11 forwarding.
I wonder about your right to question your accusor. You can ask the cop, but all he has to say is the dog signaled.

That seems kind of unfair.
One big whiff of concentrated hydrogen sulfide will kill you very dead very quickly. People tend to think they would smell it first, but if it's concentrated you'll be dead before the smell even registers.
If it weren't a well-studied gambit perhaps...
In many places, Uber was significantly cheaper than what local taxes used to charge. So on the margin, many more people could afford the former for more trips compared to the latter.

That's independent of still being expensive in an absolute sense.
Unless the release was due to gross negligence --like an outage is due to really bad decisions by someone. In those cases blamelessness is not productive and conducive to more mishaps,
Lefties going to left but everyone knows Fauci funded the virus.

Arrest Fauci Now!
This is hilarious. It's exactly the same problem as the "use AI to identify suspicious people" thing except that everyone freaks out about the former but loves this dog thing because they're fluffy.

If we ever make fuzzy happy fun killbot, I think civil rights might be doomed because there'll be an army of killbot fans who will defend them even if they run internally on an API call to random.org
Sorry if there was confusion.

It's an M1 Macbook Pro, so there is a fan, but I've yet to hear it.

My previous laptop was an Intel Macbook Air (2019?).
Verconception? - truth, 7 hits on google. Orthoconception? - straight, also 7 hits. Benconception? - good, 80 hits off topic. What else...?

At least in science education, misconceptions are so vastly more common than correct conceptions, that it makes sense there's a compact negative form but not a positive one. /s
Search dogs simply do not meet even a minimum requirement for probable cause because their accuracy is poor at best, yet they are widely used and accepted by law enforcement and the courts.

Law enforcement agencies across the US still use lie detector tests, despite their efficacy having been determined many decades ago to be exactly nil.

DNA evidence is infallible they say, yet an entire state( NY) screwed up their test procedures to such a degree that they are essentially trash. The system knew this, yet proceeded to use those tests because telling the truth was deemed too costly. They deemed it better to send possibly innocent people to jail than admit their mistake.

Fingerprints are another area where law enforcement regularly screws up. They try to glean useful information from a partial print, in many cases so partial as to be laughable. I know of two cases where someone was arrested for a crime, even after having soundly proven they were not in the same state and even in the country at the time of the crime.

Further, most of the tools in an arson investigator's toolkit are no better than using a divining rod to find water, yet they are accepted by the courts as valid.

There are tens of thousands of cases where prosecutors proceeded with pressing charges in the face of overwhelming evidence to a suspect's innocence.

The police are given tools that they do not understand, nor care to understand, and cannot employ with any reasonable amount accuracy.

The courts nearly universally side with the police on these matters.

These are simply facts, and should make everyone's hair stand on end, because the police are using what amounts to voodoo to determine the guilt of a suspect, and the courts go along with it.
Hyperbole or not, it sounds like you're now backpedaling.

Moreover, it's also the same (fire lasted 3-4 hours) false narrative that many media outlets ran. Even though there was never an official report or account of the firefighting measures taken.
> I am rather unlikely to hear the difference

Especially if your hearing has been damaged by repeat exposure to 19 kHz at 138dB SPL.
> Eventually consistent systems allow stale reads of older data plus deleted data for an undefined period of time. If you turn around and issue a write based on that you get inconsistency. Eventually consistent systems do not prohibit this.

An eventually consistent system does prohibit that, because as you say it would lead to inconsistency. If you want to do a write based on a read, you're supposed to express that using the system's abstractions, so that a change in the input will (eventually) be propagated to a change in the output.

> You're talking like there are no downsides to CRDTs. There are huge downsides to them, which is why they're rarely used in practice. Your analysis is only valid in theory.

In my experience the "downside" is that you have to actually take 5 minutes to think about your datamodel. They're very much effective in practice. I use them all the time.
The link should probably be to the specific URL for the referenced article rather than the author's overall Medium page.

https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/how-i-learned-to-stop...
Just worth mentioning, street view is available and updated regularly within Israel main cities.
cc \dang
Not really. The CCP is paranoid enough to do that either way.
I love this. It's crazy the amount of effort, procuring hardware, debugging and manual massaging it takes to work with old hardware, but I think it's great not to lose the past even if the past seems trivial like Old McDonald's Farm game.

Another great restoration in all its technical glory is one of the flight computers from Apollo[0]

[0] https://youtu.be/Bh_gP5aF3ys?t=185