skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neither Michael Shermer nor Graham Hancock are archaeologists, so I'm not sure where you're going with that. If you're asking me which one to trust without critical reading (neither), I'm certainly not going to recommend the ancient aliens dude who's been repeatedly called out by multiple archaeological associations for publishing pseudoscience.

Anyway, part of the issue here is that archaeology doesn't have answers to every question you could ask and the farther back you go, the harder it is to answer even basic questions. And ultimately, the archaeological community as a whole is still coming to grips with trying to understand how the people we do see in the archaeological record conceived of the world, which is a necessary prerequisite to start talking about how concepts in it relate to concepts in our own. Take this 2019 paper trying to survey how we understand the term 'home' [1] or Maher's Hunter-Gatherer Home-Making? as examples of some of how primitive our current working vocabulary and methodologies are on this topic. Our understanding of paleolithic lifeways is still very much in its infancy. Nevertheless, suggestions like the presence of a industrialized society much like our own before the LGM is something I've seen no evidence to even hint at yet.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1086/701523
Anecdotal counterpoint: Google asked for my college transcripts when I was interviewing with them about 8-10 years after graduating.

Of course they’re the only company that has done so, including my first job out of uni.
"We'll tell a higher-up why his new plan is stupid and that we're not very excited to waste our time on it"

There's a difference between 'what my instinct is' and 'thoughtful communication'.

It's possible in these kinds of situations that 'the plan is objectively dumb' and surely therefore someone might not be interested ... but I've seen more often than not people not really understand why something is initiated, what the objectives are etc. and just make narrow assumptions with belligerance, which they believe is 'being direct'. It's 'direct' in a way, in that it's a 'direct articulation of a narrow set of assumptions' - but that doesn't make it good or professional.

"This is dumb, I don't want to work on it" is surely direct, but it's also essentially an immature and unprofessional way of communicating.

More appropriately it would be: "I don't think this plan will achieve the understanding I have of the objectives for this, this and this reason, but here are some alterations that might work" - or "Technically, I don't think this will work because of this reason, but I don't understand what the non-technical objectives are so my feedback is limited to that scope" - or "I think these areas are more risky than implied, but these areas will work" or better "This won't work for these reasons, but fill us in on the strategic objectives and we can fill in the blanks with something that will, if we can".

I personally appreciate 'directness' a lot, but a lot of people misunderstand that to be 'what I think off the top of my head without trying to actually address the issue'.

And yest, there's way too much sensitivity around criticism going on. Legit criticism needs to be allowed. It's also really hard for some people to separate themselves form their critique or their work and so communications sometimes gets mangled on both sides.
Sure, but the intended user for a lot of this stuff isn't the lawyer – it's the end-user who's glad to have an alternative to the lawyer! Like, owning a bicycle means I don't need to call a taxi for some trips. Not all trips, just the local ones, but that's a lot of my trips.

Free access to law, and software for filings like afterpattern.com, that's the boring stuff that lawyers don't want to do and I don't want to pay for, so win/win. And that's all part of the larger vision of computational law that Legalese wants to help realize. Thanks for the good wishes and I hope to deliver on the vision, we've been at it for five years and will probably be at it for another ten before we start seeing results percolating into the real world.
> So I generally give like zero weight to conspiracy theories

You know it was once a conspiracy theory to say the Earth wasn't flat. And it was once considered blasphemy to say putting leeches on your body didn't help an illness.

There's a reason why the term "conspiracy theory" is thrown around by the media so much...it's because they know a certain subset of people have been socially conditioned to bypass critical thinking if the term has any association with the underlying topic.

How is questioning and discussing things worse than blindly believing what you're told? Even when what you're told has no backing by science or logic when compared to the associated "conspiracy theory"? (for example, covid began by someone eating a bat-burger vs. the "conspiracy theory" that the Wuhan lab, with public documents showing funding signed off by Fauci, was experimenting with super-viruses, and one of the workers in close proximity caught the virus.) I'll never understand this.
> If not, my question for you is: why do we see this phrase so commonly in reporting on Gaza but not on other more densely populated areas?

One difference is that most of its residents aren't allowed to leave, from my understanding.
Note that they could only log back into your machine if you use the same credentials to between machines.

This is one of the arguments for generating a unique SSH key on each machine you use. It makes it far harder to break in if you mess up somewhere along the way.
I felt the same, so I eased into it. Personally I didn't find it a magical cure.

If I said anything has a pronounced effect on sleep restfulness or concentration it's been whole plant based food which I tried incorporating in my diet more after watching Forks over Knives.

I still eat the occasional meat and cheese, but I found especially useful to replace dinner with WPBF. I naturally, i.e. without alarm, wake up after 6-7h of sleep instead of 9-10h, and I feel much more awake during the day.

I think it's mostly that if you eat heavy (greasy, meaty, cheesy) food in the evening your digestive system is so busy you can't sleep properly.

I would say the effect is much larger than cutting out alcohol, even though that's of course also helpful.
How it scheduled is interesting, but I wonder is the feeling really related to the core scheduling.
> As far as I know, the client is not fuzzed (though I'd be happy to find out I'm wrong).

Just touching on this one part, the rest still applies, openssh does use fuzzing. [0][1] Both client and daemon are fuzzed using AFL, though it does seem to be on an ad-hoc basis rather than automated, but it generally happens before a new release.

Unfortunately, to run AFL on openssh, they do have to patch it a bit, so what gets fuzzed and what is released isn't 1-to-1. This is because the privilege separations tend to defeat methods of detecting most of those sorts of bugs on their own.

[0] https://github.com/djmdjm/openssh-fuzz-cases

[1] For example: https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/ke...
> prevents use of hobbyist or non-approved algorithms including some sketchy PRNGs

It prevents use of good algorithms like ChaCha20/Poly1305, and it allowed the sketchiest PRNG of them all: Dual_EC_DRBG.

> The executable signing also makes monkey-patching harder

Monkey-patching means patching at runtime. This is just as easy to do after the signature has already been verified.

> it will generally run behind and not get the latest algorithms until a few years have passed

It also won't get fixes for vulnerabilities until a few years have passed.
There's also an earlier open letter from March from a different group of scientists, which includes a list of limitations with the WHO’s visit and investigation, and what they would like to see happen in a new investigation:
https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/COVID%20OPEN%20...

Reason magazine wrote about this letter and circumstantial evidence that has been piling up in support of exploring the lab leak hypothesis further: https://reason.com/2021/05/12/did-covid-19-leak-from-a-wuhan...
I don't believe the conspiracy, but as a result, bad thermal designs works as great advertisement for M1.
Considering how much AirPods Max cost, I would be pretty upset if I’d shelled out all that cash and then saw this announcement.
What about the private cell phone data that showed the lab shut down in October?

Was this shown to be false?
I don't know who owns the bridge. What I know is that these people don't. Literally their only claim to it is deciding it's theirs to sell. It's a batshit plan and it's shocking to me that anyone takes it seriously. I want to do the same thing with ARP. You gotta pay me to talk to your Wi-Fi router. Affordable and convenient payment plans are available.
There are nuances to it. The criticism needs to be constructive and concrete. Saying “the new plan is stupid” without a coherent argument for why it is stupid won’t be listened to. If you have a credible, coherent argument you will be taken seriously by the CEO. However, offsetting this is the reality that in many parts of Europe that work like this there is a class consciousness — what will be taken seriously often needs to be on matters deemed appropriate to your perceived knowledge and ability. They don’t automatically trust that you have any idea of what you are talking about. It generally isn’t like voting on “rightness” or “wrongness”, it is about building a consensus on the true state of the world.

Lastly, you need to moderate your feedback because sometimes the CEO can take you too seriously! If you just lay out a coherent argument that something is stupid, it can look very dire to the CEO. Offering a thoughtful and slightly more optimistic alternative perspective can help a lot. I had to learn that I was unduly stressing CEOs in these situations, because they took the negative feedback seriously without proactively offering a counter-balancing optimistic scenario when that existed. The best approach is “this is won’t work but I have an idea”.

Even in cultures where this is considered normal, most people don’t do it, or don’t do it well. Constructive no-bullshit feedback is genuinely valued by CEOs at large companies. Being that person, which I naturally am, has been very high leverage across many large companies in my experience.
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Ah, understood -- I spent some time trying to figure it out after seeing your clarification. You are right that if you try the same rook sac technique, white won't be able to get the white king over in time to defend g2.

It turns out there is another very impressive move white needs to spot: after 1...Rh8, white needs to find 2. Rf8! and now black has to either trade into the drawn king and pawn ending, or take the rook and give back the tempo that's just been saved. Now the white king is in time again. Quite a move, that should be listed as a sideline in the puzzle for sure!
TSMC and Global Foundries are the one's AMD uses right now .
Came from nature = no accountability
Always wondered about this, can overlapping systems be used simultaneously for higher reliability or precision?
It was banned in the USA around 2013, then Fauci and Straszak shifted funding to continue it in Wuhan to get around the USA bans. Virologists signed on to the article promoted by Straszak claiming the wet market fantasy as Fauci and Straszak control much of the funding in virology.
Yes, I mean cafes.

There are many that I have gone to that I could hang out all day and use their internet all day for the price of a few cups of tea. Some will not like you there all day, but that's why you have to go exploring. Starbucks totally got rid of their outlets, so I never go to Starbucks - my charge on my laptop will only last an hour or two, whatever it is. So fuck Starbucks. There were a couple of great ones near me, but they both closed down due to covid, so that sucks.
The alternative to being elected is they are (effectively) appointed by the elected officials. Either system has tradeoffs.
Fun vid, The Mill, Einstein short CG workflow used
It's not actionable for the US to force China to do something, sure. China doesn't want to suffer through another global pandemic either, so it would be useful to them to know if they need to improve lab safety standards. In fact, that information would be useful and actionable for all countries that have viral research labs.
Also, whoever made that table: the language is "Ukrainian" not "Ukranian"
https://youtu.be/bpQFCcSI0pU?t=255

Early last year (2020), whole Chinese internet social media was looking for "黄燕玲" - a missing researcher in Wuhan lab. She disappeared around Oct/Nov 2019. Chinese social media suspected she was patient-0. The messages showed up multiple times in my wechat feeds for couple days. They all got taken down a few days later.

Government officials still claimed she was alive but was not able to produce any proof.

If WHO really want to investigate, they just need ask :

If "黄燕玲" worked for Wuhan lab? Where is she now? Where is her families, friends, co-workers? Can we talk to any of them?
Christians are killed in palestinans parts like in most Muslim countries ... So clearly you are completely wrong and partisan
https://pythonforlaw.com/2020/09/27/mlang-compiled-python.ht...

> As Merigoux explained more fully on his blog, this project became possible because the French government open-sourced the code that they use to calculate residents’ taxes, which was written in a domain-specific language called M, but they didn’t release the compiler that would have been needed to actually run any code written in that language. MLang is a compiler for M code written by Merigoux, and it has two special features: it translates the tax calculation function to Python, and it enables formal verification of features of the tax calculation using an automatic theorem prover called Z3.
A library knows what happened, but not what to do about it. It doesn't know who the caller is. It could be an interactive user or a microservice RPC or a Spark job or a debugger.

There have been frameworks like the Common Lisp Condition System to let a caller dictate a recovery/retry policy, but they never caught on. In practice "do no harm, give up, and report the error" is what almost everyone wanted, and most languages support it without punitive effort.
The academic community is pretty opposed to the trump administration, which also is the one blamed for the covid response. Don't see why they'd be bending over to defend it there.
Isn't this easily fixed by counting held processes via pidfd towards RLIMIT_NPROC? You'd get a rlimit error when calling pidfd_open, but it already returns EMFILE for RLIMIT_NOFILE, so that doesn't seem onerous unless you're trying to enforce exact numbers of processes rather than "less than some reasonable limit".

Edit: note that pidfds holding same-uid processes have no effect (that process already belongs to your uid), and multiple processes holding a single foreign process only count once (that single foreign process is counted toward your NPROC, since it will stick around for pidfd even if its user kills it).
"Paying out at a rate competitive with malicious actors makes it a market and would incentivise bounty hunting. It would be a perverse incentive"

I don't get this. What's wrong with incentevizing bounty hunting? Isn't the whole point of bounties to provide an incentive to the public to find & report bugs?

Personally, if I found a bug that had a market, it's going to the highest (legal) bidder. Be it Mossad, Facebook or Mr. Bone Saw's personal security team. Bug hunting is a professional service not a humanitarian one.
Calling pattern recognition racist is a bad move because due to being necessary for survival it will never go away. You should probably focus on what is factual instead of what you dont want to be true and then calling it racist.
So in essence, the lab leak theory got scrapped right off the bat b/c we as a society have developed an aversion to Trump?
> So I generally give like zero weight to conspiracy theories. That being said, I don't believe anyone can reasonably claim with any degree certainty that Covid was a lab-leak BUT the WHO investigation simply hasn't done their due diligence to a sufficient degree to eliminate this theory.

It's okay, you're among open-minded people here!

FWIW, I think we should stop couching any critical examination of the received theory as if we're defending Heliocentrism in front of the Inquisition.

The evidence for gain-of-function lab leak is at this point entirely circumstantial, but that at least is evidence, not just speculation (or, worse, blind zealotry flying in the face of evidence). It's not a water-tight theory, but it's not ludicrous.

What we need is an investigation that follows those circumstantial leads and uncovers the truth. The CCP being the strongly authoritarian regime that is, often immune to impolitic truths, this may be politically impossible. But we shouldn't waver in at least discussing what could be true, even if the hypothesis ends up proven false.
> Toyota is not suddenly obligated to release free tools and libraries to allow third parties to port Firefox to their cars' head units.

Who argued for that? No one, it's a strawman.

> And before you start arguing in opposition to intellectual property rights, remember that copyright law is necessary to enforce the GPL.

Ordering companies not to lock down the customer's hardware does not require abolishing copyright.
Direct link to the story:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-ce...
And China’s lack of candor is disturbing. It denies access to the institute’s lab logs and whatever messages were swapped during its own investigations, took down 2018 statements critical of lab biosecurity protocols, retaliated against Australia for advocating an open investigation and sharply restricted the W.H.O. investigators.

Would the USA have been any more open if an American government lab was suspected as the source of an outbreak? Especially under the former administration which outright lied to the American people about the severity of the pandemic.
Given how much control they have, and how much of a priority saving face is, governance in China is rife with perverse incentives.
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> I don’t believe for a second this virus was in _any way_ engineered.

Does ‘selection’ constitutes engineering in your vocabulary. And if yes, then why don’t you believe that this virus was carefully selected during the gain of function research?
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> The whole world, China included, needs a hard answer, whoever is to blame — so we can prevent this from happening again.

Really?

Is that what will happen if someone confirms the lab leak theory?

We just tighten bio security in labs and off we go, back to normal?

Don’t make me laugh.

This isn’t about science any more, it’s about playing the blame game and deflecting responsibility for a massive public health disaster by an administration that lacked competence to deal with it.

It would be economically catastrophic for China to admit any evidence that implicated them.

So... given the overwhelming cost of releasing evidence, what the hell benefit is there from pinpointing blame?

Restore trust? It’ll only cost you trillions of dollars in blame and finger pointing... yeah right.

That is never going to happen.

So... we’ll never know.

Attempts to resolve this haven’t convinced me that the effort is not better spent trying resolve the current situation, rather than blame someone else for it.

Am I missing something?

Seriously, given how plausible either animal or lab leak scenarios are, we are required to address both to prevent future pandemics.

How does knowing one way or another help?
Reflow, a language for distributed, incremental data processing in the cloud
I'm struggling to think of a great unified resource, but with regards to Gobekli Tepe specifically (which is the a major focus in this thread) the blog maintained by the actual archaeologists who work at the site is fantastic: https://www.dainst.blog/the-tepe-telegrams/
Thank you, @echelon
Minoan language Linear A linked to Linear B in new research
Maybe there is no first-class support in the main opus encoder for object based audio, but as I've said above you can encode arbitrary matrices, so you can encode arbitrary positions for channels. That's enough for stationary objects. Moving objects, I'm not sure if Atmos supports them, can't be encoded in a single opus stream, however one can chain multiple opus streams after another. I don't think you need high time resolution for moving objects, something like one stream per 100ms should be enough, 10 per second. So in theory, opus can get get very close to object based audio, even if the encoder right now only does ambisonics.
I see. Do newer 3gpp/ETSI standards take this kind of surveillance into account? Surely this must not work for intercepting VoLTE or 5g voice calls?
We may never know for 100% certain if it truly was a lab leak, but what we can be certain of is the denialism and withholding of information in the crucial first 2 months of the emergence of the virus. In at least this, China is culpable for devastating millions of lives and disrupting the global economy, all for the Chinese government to save face.

Edit: Removed claim about Chinese new year
Imho calling the lab leak theory a conspiracy theory is a form of gas lighting. It is telling people that it isnt legitimate to use basic common sense to question why the bat coronavirus outbreak happened down the street from the lab studying bat coronaviruses. You must deny what is plainly in front of your eyes.
That wasn't the only concern. If you only give free data for certain services because they are a) already very popular or b) have enough money to pay for it, then you create a huge moat for the incumbents and make it much more difficult for any new, better alternatives to compete.
I just add an case using my adblocker (uBlock. Been doing it for a while now. Stackoverflow? clean. Vice? clean. Even instagram's login popup (when you scroll too far), clean.
> Why is the sterotype that youth is very attractive in woman, but the same sterotype doesn't apply to the same extent in men?

I assume because women’s fertility is pretty much gone by the time they hit 40, while men are fertile till past 100 years old.
A huge number of people are extremely eager to tell you their long-winded justification on why some group of people should be exterminated.

I don't see how there's any value in trying to understand that because the division is built right into the premise.
Have we become so exhausted by New Battery news that we don't even post the checklist? Where's the beef.
https://www.ombo.nsw.gov.au/news-and-publications/publicatio...

26% of searches initiated by a drug dog led to drugs being found.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2011-01-06-ct-met...

44% here.
The universities and labs in China usually subcontract the work a few levels down to some people who have no training or idea about what they are dealing with. And they would be more than happy to "recycle" whatever that can be "recycled", including dead experiment animals. For what is worth I had probably ate a frog I dissected from a school restaurant many years ago.
Americans don’t trust government because they feel economically insecure [pdf]
Americans’ declining trust in government and each other (2019)
https://www.csusb.edu/sites/default/files/FACT%20SHEET-%20An...

https://secureservercdn.net/104.238.69.231/a1w.90d.myftpuplo...
> But Google Maps doesn't do it, for political reasons I suppose?

FYI: Google has never really quit China. It has running offices in Beijing, Foshan, and, recently, Shenzhen.
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