skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you so much! I couldn’t find a video anywhere I looked, and started wondering whether I imagined the whole thing.

I think these kinds of adversarial examples will be extremely common in production models. People won’t be crafting images that fool the model into thinking you’re a stop sign; they’ll discover that when the human isn’t paying attention, you can run in front of a Tesla with a group of friends and it veers into oncoming traffic. (Terrible made-up example, but I’m pretty sure that it’s a losing game to play “can we think of all possible cases we need to train for ahead of time?”)
Even the dark pattern one, where it was "incorrect" for the skip button to look like a button?
Well the heresay comes from people like Donald Trump and the longer the Democrats ignore the theory the more credibility they lose and give to him, even if the way he said it was inflammatory. Seems like it would be far less destructive to bring it out into the open now than to just let people think that someone calling it the Kung Flu was more transparent than the political party that pretended like the lab leak is just a racist conspiracy theory.
If this means cadmium can be used to help control this invasive pest in Queensland, where its escaped every ring boundary around the breakout since landing this would be super good.

(bad quarantine of mud covered mining equipment coming into the port of Brisbane is believed to have brought them onshore, and they got established while council and state eradication programmes were still in their infancy)

That said, isn't Cadmium pollution quite bad for people? I'm pretty sure we don't want to just scatter this over the ground like salting the fields of Carthage.
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It’s great until it stops working and you end up stranded on the side of the road 100 miles from civilization because a seat belt sensor failed. As the saying goes, hell is paved with good intentions.
Once upon a time, working hours was 9 to 5. Even Dolly Parton sang about how exasperating working just those hours was. Now it's usually 830 to 530 because lunch is no longer included in those hours. That's pretty much 20 hours a month of additional work that wasn't required until recently.

Then people still get stuck answering work emails and texts, and "just finishing up that document" etc, when they get home.

We could start looking back to what were considered normal working hours, and the solid separation of work and home life that existed just a few decades ago.
The 68 flu killed between 1-4 million, so the high end in that one would be comparable to what we see with covid.
edit Changed "character" to "structure" because my intent is being misunderstood. This is ultimately about human psychology (as in homo sapiens), not particular nations or peoples. Each of us could very well have but for chance been placed in any of these boats, and our behavior would change to match because we're not morally special.

There are a number of things at play here that stoke up distrust, mainly due to China's current national structure. The world won't get China's cooperation on this, and there will be no smoking gun evidence one way or the other. But we can stop and think about it rationally.

In fact, someone already has, and I recommend reading it if you haven't already, putting the lab leak theory to rest: https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gk6y95/covid19_did...

So what's going on with China then? Well first off, they're an autocratic nation, which makes them EXTREMELY sensitive to criticism and dissent. An autocratic nation deals with criticism by dismissing it, dodging it, blocking it, and crushing it. You're not going to get cooperation on something negative like a pandemic outbreak because they don't know where it came from either, and it's better for them to just block everyone than to allow any potential negativity to stick to them. Again, this behavior is nothing new for autocratic nations.

Secondly, they're an up-and-comer nation. They've finally reached the big leagues (again), and that means that they expect big league treatment. It means that they can push back against anyone they choose and punish those who step on their toes. They've been doing this for years now, buying or bullying compliance like their more established brethren from smaller nations and organizations, even to the point of cowing the WHO (who, for the record, have always deferred somewhat to the powerful because they have no actual teeth and would lose access to that nation otherwise).

Third, they have a legacy to uphold as the Kingdom of Heaven. Xi's mission for the nation is a moral one to once again become the shining beacon of civilization, the center of the Earth. For a nation on such a mission, minor things like a pandemic are merely a distraction that could potentially be used by the other nations to disrupt their sacred task of purifying their people and seating themselves at their rightful place as THE representatives of humanity's best.

So no, the lab leak theory holds no water. And no, there will be no investigation. And unless you want to invade China or something equally drastic, that's how things will stand.
Please don't resort to sinister explanations without evidence, when a topic is plainly divisive. It's an extremely tempting but low-quality discussion move that the site guidelines explicitly ask everyone here to refrain from:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If there's specific reason to believe that comments here are somehow being manipulated, that's different and you should email hn@ycombinator.com so we can look into it. (That's in the site guidelines as well.) But the overwhelming majority of the time, there's zero suggestion of any such thing, other than people disagreeing, which is evidence of nothing but that the topic is divisive.

I've posted hundreds if not thousands of explanations of this over many years at this point: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....
Realistically, it is generally so that the other people can go home. It's not some sadist conspiracy. If a shift starts at 7 and another ends at 7 then having a lack of people means things could have to stop or others have to stay longer.

Lots of places have legally mandated requirements of the number of people to be working at any given time so there's no leeway for someone being late, it's a 1:1 if you're late someone else has to stay longer.
I agree completely, and the quote you cited more eloquently describes what I was trying to convey in some of my earlier comments. Coming from a software-development mindset, I started practicing law twenty years ago, and the hardest adjustment to make was to understand that even though the law seemed analogous to deterministic code on the surface, in reality it is much different. Today, both writing code and practicing law, I still have to remind myself of the difference sometimes. It is a completely different mindset when dealing with ambiguity, especially in the cases where ambiguity is sometimes desired, welcomed, or necessary. It is also eye-opening to realize that the parties never consider all of the future possibilities, and as such, it's not even possible for a document, however syntactically correct, to convey the intent of the parties 100% -- they don't even know their full intent as to infinite possibilities. I think many of the commenters, just like I did before, struggle to understand this. They don't realize that the "flaw" they're trying to correct is actually a feature -- a messy, sometimes annoying, irrational, subjective, human, necessary feature that's actually an important part of the functioning of society. It's intoxicating to think of a purely logical society driven by immutable, consistent, and brutally efficient laws for everyone, but upon further thought, it's a bit terrifying. Thankfully, it's also impossible.
It seems that the examples are randomly clearer/blurrier, or I'm going blind.
How do you deal with pests? I have had severe problems with spider mites, which cabbage moths and fungi. I dislike using chemical pesticides so much I am willing to give up gardening so as not to use them. And natural pesticides almost never work.
The Golden Gate Bridge is still screeching, but a fix may be on the way
I made the same decision for the same reason and have the same objection!
> It needn't have been a conspiracy

We have so used to calling "conspiracy theories" anything that deviates the official narrative, we don't even notice what it means anymore...
We have multiple plausible sources:

1) Mass hysteria, if you tell enough people about weird unspecific symptoms, a lot of people might experience it.

2) Chemical agents. Food poisoning, the paint used by government contractors, etc.

3) Biological agents. Maybe side-effects of covid or some other virus/bacterium.

4) Some kind of stress-induced disorder, e.g. PTSD.

5) Some kind of technology with radiation, whether microwave weapon or just an overpowered stingray over a long enough time.

To rule these out you'd have to start testing these hypotheses. They say in the article that people could move in and out of the beam, which might speak for #5, but doesn't rule out #1. We could distribute "tin foil hats", or more accurately wire-mesh suits, that block a wide array of microwave radiation, to officials. If they experience the onset of these symptoms they can put these on and see if it brings relief.

This still wouldn't rule out #1 due to the placebo effect, but at least it would rule out the other nefarious causes.

Now if that does still point in this direction you could start giving targeted people antennae to detect the radiation to rule out #1.
Humans are susceptible to being damaged by sunlight but it doesn't imply we evolved indoors in a lab.
In these classic papers, lawyers excitedly discover formal logic. Worth a quick scroll just for the diagrams, which wil make you laugh.

https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/4519/

https://repository.law.umich.edu/articles/29/

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8axPLLxhjQFWGc0ellBYTF3RnM...
Where I live only in the well-above median income population more than 50% have a car. Cars are for the rich.
The question really should be renamed from "Select the design that is most correct" to "Select the design that is most adherent to the doctrines of the cult of Apple and Helvetica."
Because any evidence that disproves the theory only makes it stronger for those that believe it is a conspiracy. Not that everyone that believes in this believes it is a conspiracy.
Saying this as layman that warned for years about virus engineering, this is just a given. The mere potential should be enough. However, speculation without evidence and mitigation is bad.
IT looks like you are correct. Unfortunately, I have seen simple reiteration of primary research findings removed with such frequency that there appears to a great amount of confusion on this topic

>In science, data is primary, and the first publication of any idea or experimental result is always a primary source. These publications, which may be in peer-reviewed journal articles or in some other form, are often called the primary literature to differentiate them from unpublished sources.

>All analyses and interpretive or synthetic claims about primary sources must be referenced to a secondary or tertiary source, and must not be an original analysis of the primary-source material by Wikipedia editors.
I think that practitioners of Postmodernism have spent a lot of time thinking about the meanings of words that they can cause people to perceive, and that they have had a very successful track record of using this to shift cultural parameters and achieve their political objectives.

They'd probably prefer that you didn't notice they were doing this.
Interestingly, this was a mistake even the creators of UTF-8 wanted to make

> The 4, 5, and 6 byte sequences are only there for political reasons. I would prefer to delete these

Obviously 5 and 6 byte sequences are consigned to history but 4 byte sequences turned out to be useful for more than "political reasons".

http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history

(scroll right to the bottom)
Tom Gruber (one of the cofounders of Siri) had a talk a while back where he spoke about this. https://www.ted.com/talks/tom_gruber_how_ai_can_enhance_our_...

> Tom Gruber, co-creator of Siri, wants to make "humanistic AI" that augments and collaborates with us instead of competing with (or replacing) us. He shares his vision for a future where AI helps us achieve superhuman performance in perception, creativity and cognitive function -- from turbocharging our design skills to helping us remember everything we've ever read and the name of everyone we've ever met. "We are in the middle of a renaissance in AI," Gruber says. "Every time a machine gets smarter, we get smarter."

I'm a big believer in Intelligence Augmentation, in the Engelbart tradition, over completely independent agents. I don’t think my ideal AI is one that has its own sense of agency and autonomy, rather I think of technology as an extension of myself, one that enhances my autonomy.
+100! I have been growing tomatoes for a few years and am slowly improving but the guide here notes they’re “moderately difficult” to grow, which, yes, yes they are. Tomatoes will break your heart.

Cherry tomatoes, however, are easy, produce plentifully, and are great for kids or sprucing up a salad. Sungold are a great variety.

Full tomatoes are of course fantastic and have a great payoff. I love the high acid ones like Green Zebra. I know people honestly like making their own sauce, but, it’s a PITA and Rao’s can be bought, so I don’t recommend paste varieties.
I want to second this, as another archaeologist. Most attacks on 'archaeological orthodoxy' come from a very misinformed and outdated perspective of contemporary archaeological views. Moreover, in general, archaeologists tend to be extremely aware of the limitations of our methods and theories, to the point where we are often unwilling to make universalizing claims. Perhaps this is why many confident 'facts' that were established in the 1960s, and which have since been reconsidered and problematized, still linger. Archaeologists now rarely talk in terms of absolutes, but those kinds of claims grab more public attention than nuanced and tentative discourse.
Hard to ignore that the “person” buying the beers in this case is one of the wealthiest and dystopian corporations on the planet. In some twisted sense, I have to ask if it might be more ethical, at least in the sense of serving humanity, to leak this to someone malicious and capable of causing damage to FB’s brand.
Jane street has certainly been doing a good job of getting across my radar lately, but because they produce good content I'm actually quite happy to see it.

They've been sponsoring a few Youtube creators (like Matt Parker of Stand-Up Maths) and featured a bit on HN. It's interesting that they seem to do it as a recruitment mechanism rather than for publicity's sake.
Yeah, the more black-and-white domains tend to be financial and commercial – and in those domains, there have been some pretty cool illustrations: http://complaw.stanford.edu/complaw/readings/sla.pdf
I don't know the technical distinction between rockets and missiles. Hamas has some guided explosives that other people that know more about this than I do call missiles. They used to only have unguided rockets - not anymore, for at least 6 years.

"The Russian-made Kornet anti-tank guided missile, often called ATGM as an acronym, is accurate and effective. It has a range of around 5.5 kilometers and has been used by Hamas and other terrorist groups for years. In 2015, Hezbollah fired several ATGMs against Israeli Humvees on the border."

https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/what-do-hamas-an...

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/why-anti-tank-missiles-pos...
I know what it means. I'd assume most people here do too.
The Problem of Distributed Consensus
> It feels like they just want you to use the App so you have to look at their advertisements.

I browse using iOS Safari in privacy mode. Over the past few months Reddit has been doing everything they can to discourage that, including blocking me from reading threads by throwing up a non-dismissible modal with the bogus statement “We cannot verify this content yadda”, preventing sub-comment expansion, and screwing with the URL made available to the iOS share via messages.

The latter is just stupid: instead of the URL for the thread, they substitute the Reddit homepage. Instead of being able to track which of the links I send are interesting to the recipients, they get no useful info whatsoever, and discourage me from attracting eyeballs to their product. It’s stupid, squared.

All they are really accomplishing is hardening my resolve to not give an inch. Eventually another popular headline & dopamine feed will come along and they’ll lose my eyeballs.
I tend to trust Prof Shi Zhengli on this one. She has been open [1] to investigations into her lab and has the most evidence in her favor. Notably, she's showed that miners who died 8 years ago didn't die of Sars-Cov-2 and that none of her staff had antibodies.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55364445
Suggesting that because it has happened before in China, "Chinese labs" do it, is indeed racist.
This article is the kind of thing that, by strenght of title alone, will reinforce the feel-good feeling of belonging-ness in people who bought into Bitcoin (and likely own some, and see Musk's comment on energy consumption as a betrayal).

Strangely, I think it will also reinforce the "bitcoin is a scam" position in people who hold that opinion; mostly because the article seems like on the level of those shady multilevel marketing "talking points"

What I means is that it is strange to consider an article that will change nobody's mind an inch, but may dig them in a little bit further
Politicians and journalists are probably a bit choked that others are stealing their bit!
> I'm not sure how a person can stand to eat okra.

Pickle it, and it’s a pretty great snack (popular here in Texas).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yYey8ntlK_E
Deprivation of rights under the color of law is a hell of a thing.
> But what’s the point? Political conversations, even civil ones where everyone walks away understanding each other’s POV and agree to disagree, usually aren’t going to accomplish anything concrete, because very few people have the opportunity to affect government policy.

That's true of most conversations - not just political ones. Why put them in a special bucket?

> The best case scenario is that talking about politics doesn’t make your relationship worse.

This is silly. There are lots of good case scenarios. Even "I enjoyed the conversation" is a good case scenario, and there are many better outcomes.

> The good outcomes of more ordinary conversation, where we learn from each other and put what you learn into action, doesn’t exist.

If you've convinced yourself an entity doesn't exist, then it will not exist for you.
Its so disgusting that I believe you
There are so many incorrect and vague things here, but rather than listing them out, I point back to my counter examples. Zooming in on Kumasi, Ghana should show you why you're wrong. Look at the mosaic lines. There are both N/S lines of disparity as well as E/W lines of disparity of resolution.

Use your own example, if you wish. Zoom in on Taiwan, and look at the cars. Next, zoom in on King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia at the same latitude. Look for cars there.

Verify if your explanation fits the data.
It is a well made product, returns and defects were minimal (less than 1%) when I was selling them. I simply replaced any returns and would occasionally repair them myself or send them back when I had a box full of defective ones. Most defective returns were actually just a bad battery or misconfigured unit.

When I sold them, my listing made no mention of Thermoworks. So I felt no obligation to spend time clarifying that the products could not be returned to Thermoworks for warranty servicing. Just like Walmart doesn't make it clear to buyers that they cannot return their product to Target. But I did actually match the warranty length that Thermoworks offers. Though I don't think I ever got a warranty claim outside of the 30 days or so that Amazon allows customers to return an item.
Because there are no Intel Mac with heterogeneous cores. Lakefield is first CPU with LITTLE cores, but not available for mac.
Cucumbers are pretty easy to grow and one plant can produce a lot of cucumbers. They’re great if you have kids who need daily vegetables. Highly recommend growing them up a fence or a trellis so the cukes don’t rot on the ground. They do require near daily watering when they’re producing.
>If it had emerged in any other century, Covid would barely even be on anyone’s radar.

Surely you can't be serious. I mean, I think we would have noticed. In fact, it would have been on a lot of people's radar. They definitely would have noticed in India, Italy & Brazil.

I mean, are comments like this hyperbolic, and I'm just not in on the joke?
I think the marketing friendly term is "Recycled". About 25% of the steel and other metals in todays cars will have been used before and we'll probably get to a point where batteries are heavily recycled in electric car too.
What rubbish. There must be some way to comment on Chinese practices that isn't racist.
> And don't start off trying to grow from seed

This is great advice if you're just starting out. There's a bit of an art to starting from seed.

You need to understand the dynamics like light, temperature, moisture, and seasonal timing. Where I live, you can start tomatoes indoors around February to have great starts that'll go into a greenhouse in March, or into the soil outside in June. That's quite an undertaking to time and get right. This year I got the timing, lighting, temperature, and all the rest right - the plants look amazing - but I have eighteen extra plants taking up a lot of space that I guess I'll just leave on the sidewalk for a lucky gardener in my neighbourhood. I could have used that space in the nursery for so many other useful things, but I had no idea what would survive or if some would be too small or whatever.

Each plant demands its own special conditions, and it takes a lot of space if you start indoors. Unexpected harsh conditions can suddenly ruin outdoor plants. Forgetting to water one day could more or less stunt an entire bed of seedlings. They can be so delicate, and it can really suck the fun out of gardening.

There's no harm in starting out in easy-mode.
I didn't ignore any questions related to warranties. I always offered full replacement if there were any issues.
building and maintaining a reliable public transit takes a lot of resources and planning, things that politicians are notoriously bad at managing. In France there's a lot of public transit but it is plagued by strikes all the time making it completely unreliable to use it for work.