skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering the OP's other comments here, I can't help but think that they're trying to solve the problem with a "we know better than you what you need" attitude. Their UX is the best, their website UI is the best, their policy towards a subscription model is the best, Yada Yada.
> An ape can leave its group and move to a different territory and not have someone else decide his life for him.

Ah, the myth of the noble savage taken to evolutionary extreme.

I highly recommend Steven Pinker's "The Blank Slate" if you'd like to disabuse yourself of this pernicious old wives tale. Then his "Better angels of our nature" should fix you right up with a more accurate and informed view of the world and society we live in.
> Am I alone in not seeing a paradox here? It's no different from a variety of things that make sense at some scales and not at others.

Yes, it's not a paradox at all. Use this thing until it doesn't make sense, and then don't use it anymore (or be comfortable with the lack of optimization). This is not a paradox.
Seems like the best solution; maintain compatiblity with Chrome while keeping the more powerful APIs available for those who want to take advantage of it.

If Google screws this up, more effective ad blocking extensions could end up being a good, concrete way for Firefox to differentiate itself from other browsers.
What source is this from?
Better safe than to wake up the Nazgul.
> To me what gives me credence to the "lab leak theory" more than anything, was China's behavior during and initially after the outbreak [...]

That all sounds to me just like a massive authoritarian government bureaucracy dealing with a quick moving disaster on their soil where the beaurocrats didn't know what was happening, because the scientists couldn't tell them, so they leaned in on trying to control everyone.

The argument rephrased reads to me like "The reason why I believe in the lab leak theory is that an authoritarian country behaved like an authoritarian country, when I would have expected them to behave like my western democracy".
This is a perfect summary of why self-driving doesn't work (yet?).
I see, that's an interesting model and impressively fast turnaround.
My mom refuses to be vaccinated because my grandma’s health tanked (and then she died) after taking the vaccine.

She was old, so, you know - who knows. Certainly it was worth the risk at her age. It’s concerning though that if it does come out at a later date that there are more vaccine complications than we think due to how rushed this is... it will really hurt vaccine confidence.

It’s a shame they were politicized. My mother-in-law keeps on asking if I’ve been vaccinated, even though I had a serious case of COVID in December. She also disapproves of my wife, who is pregnant, not getting the vaccine. I’ve seen YouTube put forward videos on their front page trying to convince pregnant women to be vaccinated.

It’s crazy. Chances are it’d be fine, especially with the mRNA vaccines. But my wife was already exposed when I had it, can still work from home, and confirmed cases are in free fall. It’s like people have completely disregarded risk/reward due to their political affiliation, and that goes both ways.
Happy to see you try AGPL honestly. It might turn out to not be the right choice, but I think as a license it didn't get a fair test because of how businesses avoiding viral licenses made software authors shy away from them. With the AWS situation I really wish to see more use, and if it can be successful.
I see that a lot in America as well. Very typical on modded Subarus and Infinitis.
> Of course, Sweden's largest export are lessons about morality

Not sure why you were downvoted. I think your comment is rather fair. :) Although, let's give them some credit, they do have a pretty successful mixture of socialism and capitalism.

> Interesting for a country that slowly eradicates their indigenous people btw.

I think that sad story is over. They significantly ramped up protection for indigenous people.
Future of work is Hybrid, period
I'm not sure Wall Street Journal is considered left-leaning
Café is live on Product Hunt today (and right now #2 in the ranking ).

Café empowers you to make good decisions when it comes to "When should I go to the office?"

If you could help us stay there, that would be awesome

Thanks for your help on this special day!
Black ants just have to make everything about the fire ants huh!
The zoonotic spillover doesn't seem to address geography. Why would the virus first appear in a city near a virology institute instead of out in the country near bat habitats? The speculation from scientists like Dr. Daszak is that someone ate an infected live bat from "southern China."

I've seen the studies about air flows in restaurants and buffets and none seem to indicate that Covid is food borne. So we have someone in the wet market about to bite into some delicious live bat and they give it a big sniff right as the bat expels some of its last little virus contaminated breaths. "Squee, squee" says the bat. "Hmm-mm finger licking good" says the world's unluckiest connoisseur of things that flutter in the night.

Alternatively, someone was careless in a lab studying the same family of bats and viruses. In the sense that one need not attribute to malice that which is explained by incompetence, the leaked virus need not have been some "biowarfare" effort, maybe just something a bit entrepreneurial or a side experiment to see if something could work.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/who-report-says-covid-orig...
FBI says an APT breached a US municipal government via an unpatched Fortinet VPN
Burden of proof is on you. I backed up my claims.
If anyone is wondering why people are discussing this particular exit so much, look at this image: https://goo.gl/maps/Q2Qm5RR3myMkdsFE8

See that lane on the right that has solid white lines on each side of it? Now pan around: https://goo.gl/maps/TunvNLGvX9sUTbXp9 It actually leads directly to a barrier. If instead of putting smooth pavement before that barrier, Caltrans had placed grass or dirt or rumble strips or pretty much anything else, this would be a non-issue. But they didn't, so people hit it all the time. You can look at the street view history:

Feb 2008, the barrier is surrounded by cones (probably recently replaced): https://goo.gl/maps/faxMWWBCwXxnqqKS8

Nov 2008, no more cones: https://goo.gl/maps/LPLkCeqeojEgHV679

Feb 2011, the barrier is twisted metal covered in warning signs:
https://goo.gl/maps/G3oQ4NxkiweJwVdx8

Sep 2011, the barrier has been repaired: https://goo.gl/maps/zs7WrXgUa8cxShKN6

Dec 2013, the barrier has been replaced. Note that this is now a reusable crash barrier. Most crashes won't be noticeable on street view history because the barrier is typically reset within a few days of a crash: https://goo.gl/maps/34oVqmDAJuTepUT76

Aug 2014, damaged again. Now the barrier is shorter (needs to be reset by Caltrans): https://goo.gl/maps/LYHidVpVgCt8uDa48

Oct 2014, now it's reset: https://goo.gl/maps/5uhK8bx8cExJR13z5

Sep 2015, damaged again. Now it's ridiculously short (needs to be reset by Caltrans):
https://goo.gl/maps/m7ui9naztjRrgdx67

Oct 2015, barrier destroyed again: https://goo.gl/maps/6A6GCESsvjkKGK7A6

Apr 2016, replaced. Now the concrete behind the metal barrier is damaged: https://goo.gl/maps/zUiJzbrDMoUWaJqb9

At some point between 2017 and 2019, Caltrans painted between the lanes to make it more obvious: https://goo.gl/maps/zR8sGB2LxG1dUBSz5

Again, since late 2013 the barrier been reusable. Only particularly devastating crashes will damage it enough to require replacement. Usually Caltrans resets the barrier after a few days. Sometimes it takes them longer, such as when they didn't reset the barrier before the 2018 crash that killed an Apple engineer driving a Tesla with autopilot enabled.[1]

1. https://abc7news.com/dan-noyes-tesla-crash-iteam-barrier-bat... (Warning: auto-playing video)
Must be nice, actively exploiting human nature and then calling the humans dumb and gullible for having said nature and falling for your exploitation. Absolves you of any liability for being no better than a troll because what, you’re smarter than everyone else, I guess? You and your “publicist” (what are you, Ryan Gosling?) figured out dark marketing patterns and now you’re on a different plane of existence from the plebes?

I don’t know what you think this comment accomplishes, but it certainly didn’t accomplish that. Who’s shaking your bottle, enlightened one?
A colleague at work gave me a ride in his new tesla a couple years ago. I know that autopilot has improved a lot since then, but we were on a freeway and the left lane was merging onto the expressway and had come to a stop. The lane we were in was moving just fine. The tesla though we were in the left lane or something because it slammed on the breaks to prevent us rear-ending the stopped/slowing car in the left lane. This caused us to nearly get rear-ended for erratic driving. My colleague drove manually for the remainder of the commute :)
That last one is an interesting idea. I learned English as a 10yo with access to a PSX and FF7. Maybe it’s time to replay the same game now in French or Italian.

FF7 is my favourite videogame and I know it well. That context might help when learning a new language.
Disclaimer: I'm a Co-Founder at Vantage, a cloud cost platform. I also worked in public cloud for ~6 years at AWS, DigitalOcean, etc.

While repatriation can make sense at a larger scale company, startups and SMBs can yield the same benefits discussed in this post by simply tracking and optimizing cloud spend.

We try to make this as easy as possible for people with https://www.vantage.sh/ - where we're already helping thousands of individuals, startups, SMBs and enterprises as it relates to AWS.
Doesn't honestly seem that different from 'undefined' and 'NaN' in javascript and I think the fact that your 'NaN' is called 'ERR' is making people who think of errors as exceptions recoil.

(I'm not necessarily sure I like the trade-off you've chosen here, but I think the viscerally negative responses people are having are because of that, rather than thinking through the trade-off on its own merits)
I have that passing familiarity and lived in soviet union and read a lot memoirs of dissidents. If did not appeared straightforward similarity.
I agree, I watched the weather channel with my father in law yesterday... Everything was "THREAT!" and "POSSIBLE TORNADO", etc. This is being shown in Southern California lol and they are reporting on minor weather risks a thousand miles away.

Fox news does the same thing... Find crime anywhere in the country, bonus points if it involves sex or a minority and make it a headline if it involves an immigrant.
> Let me try differently. Your premise seems to be that "base reality" (your words) is a single teeming interconnectedness, indivisibly unique, from which it follows "there are no discrete systems", no categories, from which it follows that counting discrete things is an "artifact of human cognition".

Yes, I think you summarized it pretty good! Thanks for that.

> Yes, we may be all part of the same whole. But there definitely are divisions – you are manifesting them with your own words. QED.

Woah, not so fast, there! Where exactly do my words manifest divisions? The words you read on the screen, that manifest in your mind as meaning are not discrete things themselves. No word stands for itself, else we would not need dictionaries. They are fuzzy things that often change their meaning, depending on context, place and time, on the reader and what she ate in the morning. To claim that words are discrete things that exists

> The world being interconnected doesn't mean it's undifferentiated.

I agree. Just as there are patterns in stellar nebulae that swirl and dance but never quite separate, all the world manifests its decay in wonderful shapes and patterns.

But none of these patterns can be isolated from the others, for non of the patterns can there a definite line be drawn to say "your existence starts here and ends here". The boundary of every definition, of every category can be shifted and shifted and shifted some more. They are - as already mentioned - artifacts of cognition that allow us to form a mental model of the world that surrounds us. Replacing the unfathomable interconnectedness with a simple game of blocks and strings and forces that fit into the limited capabilities of the simulation we run in our heads.

> All work is still ahead of you in showing that categories and words are somehow "not intrinsic" (again, your words).

Categories and words, numbers and letters and the human mind are fleeting. How can they be intrinsic if they exist for only an eye blink?
Yeah, I have little interest in any of the listed services. But, I'd be happy to contribute a couple dollars a month to a "pay what you like to support us" tier. Either way I'll probably sign up if it's priced reasonably (or tiered), but imo it's definitely worth marketing "support MDN" prominently for this.

Two issues I found:

1) I had no idea there was a waitlist til I read another comment here; I wasn't going to expand the article, and the signup CTA is gated behind doing that
2) the signup button seems to do nothing? I even tried opening it in Chrome (Firefox is my primary browser)
They're implemented with closures, not passing things through FIFOs. It's not magic. You barely need a compiler pass to implement the sugar for `for` loops: it's a trivial transformation to a `while`.
> Please don't take that demo site down, or publish it somewhere persistent

Feel free to spread the URL around, I plan to keep it online for the rest of my life, or until the feature is available in popular editors - whichever comes first. And if someone wants to mirror the demo elsewhere, it should be easy to do so, since it's client-side only and MIT licensed.

> Also, welcome to HN! :)

Thanks! Been lurking here in read-only mode for years, but today I finally had something to contribute.
I'm skeptical that making an argument that will probably only convince exceptionally altruistic people (at least among those who wanted to have kids to begin with) to not reproduce is good for future generations.
The tech for producing the fibers might be just what is needed to extract energy from wind with no moving parts.

What is needed is such a fiber with a surface charge–electrons–readily stripped off by passing air molecules, and slightly conductive. To collect energy, a wire grid is held erect in a steady wind with streamers of this fiber at intersection points. As the wind carries away surface charges, the grid builds up a voltage relative to the ground. Electron current flowing from the ground to replenish the charge in the grid can do work. Alvin Marks patented such a design in the '80s, without going into detail about how it would shed charge. (Alvin Marks is known for winning a bitter fight with Edwin Land, of Polaroid, for the patent on polarizing sunglasses.)

The grid would best be on a kite, with the wire to ground also the kitestring. Or it could be stretched between bridge uprights, or skyscrapers. The absolute efficiency, the fraction of wind energy extracted, is not very important if the construction and operating cost are low enough, as would be the case here. (The maximum practical efficiency of wind power extraction is about 1/3; if you try to extract more, the waste air blocks air you want to collect more from.) Stretched between existing structures, collecting too much of the energy would load the structures beyond their design limits anyway.

The real wind bonanza is way high up, thus at the end of a kitestring. Wind energy goes up as the cube of wind speed, and wind speed (and steadiness) goes up with altitude, so available energy goes up as the fourth power of altitude before leveling off. There are structural limits on how tall you can build a wind turbine, but kites follow different rules. Any absolute inefficiency could be made up with multiple grids, one behind the other.

Where to situate the kites, out of the way of air traffic, is an interesting problem. Probably the best place is on a former nuclear power plant reservation, that already has a big no-fly zone around it, and a power distribution network attachment point in the middle. There are other no-fly zones that could co-exist with kites.

At some point, all the existing wind tower blades will degrade to uselessness, and you can stretch grids between their leftover towers. The space between existing skyscraper towers is all going to waste already, and buzzing them is frowned on.
The author mentions something I noticed when I first read the WSJ article that precipitated the current rethinking on the pandemic's origin. And that is, that the hospitalization of the three Wuhan lab researchers in November 2019 was old news, i.e. already reported.

It's funny, and hopefully not a false equivalence, to realize that three major news stories with geopolitical importance in the last two decades have in common the inability of the news media to penetrate the fog and challenge the establishment view early on. The three I mean are the Iraq intelligence debacle, the Trump-Russia collusion investigation, and now the Pandemic origin. Where are the truth-seeking journalists of yesteryear that made their profession proud?
This. On prem required me to do so much ITIL work to get even a switch replaced, now I have a budget on azure I can do whatever the fuck I want
I'm not using it any more, but for a while I used stg publish as a way of working with a stack of patches but also providing other people with a "this branch doesn't rebase, you can pull it" interface. It was also nice when working continuously with the same stack of patches (periodically rebasing them onto a moving upstream, cleaning them up, etc) to have the publish view's commits as a record of "this is the delta since the last publish". But it's been years since I had a need for the functionality...
Yes it does bury stuff very quickly if it is flagged by sufficient numbers of users. I’m not sure it’s a good thing but it is a thing.
> They're not sending it overseas to increase domestic timber prices;

This is EXACTLY what they did. You missed the point.

They exported at a loss to drive up domestic prices.
As anyone who worked through high school can attest, not having thr time or money for clubs, volunteering and activism looks poorly in admissions.
The only conclusion I came to was that the virus was not artificial in origin. I did suspect it was not a lab-leak, though, due to the purported difficulty of a virus escaping a level 4 facility.
> Why? Does money produce CO2?

Seems pretty obvious, no? Private jets, multiple huge residences all over the world (full of air conditioners, furniture, manicured lawns etc).

I won't make the Amazon argument, but I'd be surprised if their personal emissions aren't many many times more than the average American.
Either you are describing something that doesn’t work for cross-compilation or you are missing the point. Common Lisp is a hard language to compile because of macros. Consider the following code you might see in bootstrapping:

(defmacro defun ...)
(defun ...)

To macroexpand the second line you must have an environment with the defun macro definition from the previous line, which means that the code to modify the environment with that definition must have been evaluated too. This must be evaluated in the (emulated) target environment because (1) the host environment would otherwise clash with it, and (2) you need to write down the target environment as a build artefact. Evaluating these environment-modifying forms requires an interpreter you can run on the host. If you want a good programming experience for your standard library then this needs to be a reasonably capable interpreter.

But you also need an interpreter to evaluate code during macroexpansion. Three reasons:

1. You must emulate the target environment for correctness, eg JavaScript only has one type of float.

2. You cannot sufficiently interact with the host environment to use its own macroexpander (if you want to be portable). This is because compiling a macrolet requires extending the lexical environment with the macro definition so that calls (from eg the expander for setf) to macroexpand can use the definition. The only portable thing on the host that can evaluate a macrolet is the compiler/interpreter

3. You probably can’t use native types for things like symbols so the built in macro expansion is not sufficient.
Note that unless I'm very confused, the index.html is the transpiler output rather than human written.

The calculator example here makes rather more sense to me: https://github.com/magicmouse/beads-examples/blob/master/Exa...
It doesn't make any sense to look at a situation and say "well, I could save 5 lives at no cost ... but nah". It really doesn't matter who is responsible when a self driving car kills someone. We're going to respond by making the self-driving module of the car safer whether it is responsible or not.

We're putting a driver on the road who can still learn after suffering a fatal accident! This is huge, it means all parts of the system can learn from anything and will practically eliminate deaths in the long term; much like in the airline industry. If the short term is safer but confusing we should do that and who cares about philosophical technicalities.

This attitude could literally get people killed for no measurable gain. Saving lives and reducing road deaths (which comes with a whole host of other benefits, like freeing up an enormous number of hours of people's time) is much more important than worrying about holding people responsible. We shouldn't be trying to hold people responsible for tragedies, we should be trying to prevent tragedies!

And we need to keep getting self driving cars into common use to push them up the technological learning curve . This is much more important than worrying about who is at fault because it will make the cars an order of magnitude safer. The payoffs here are so huge it is even worth putting them on the road if they are slightly less safe than humans then subsidising the producer's legal costs to hold their risk down.
The heatsink doesn't really work, though, and is marketing for the most part [1].

I have a crucial P1 NVME SSD and I can make it overheat pretty reliably. Pretty much any synthetic workload makes it overload if the SSD is empty (it reaches 70° pretty quickly and even starts throttling until it reaches 80° and the whole system starts shuttering because of extreme throttling do it doesn't damage itself. Although I have not properly tested it, it seems that not using any heatsinks from my motherboard makes the temps actually better but it still overheats.

The main reason it can overheat quickly is probably because its sitting in a really bad position where it gets close to zero airflow despite being in an airflow focused case. Most motherboards place the nvme slot directly under the GPU. The main problem seems to be that the controller is overheating when it's writing at close to 2000 MB/s. It's also important to note that only the controller (an actual relatively powerful ARM processor), not the flash memory, seems to overheat.

Fortunately, this is mostly not an issue because it's a QLC drive and the workload is unrealistic in the real world. When writing to an empty drive at 2000MB/s (Queue depth 4, 128k sequential writes), it takes 2 minutes until the cache is full. The way its currently used, it takes 30 secs for the cache to become full and for write speeds to drop to 150MB/s. The only way it has every overheated in the real world was during the loading screen of a gameplay when it reached 78C quickly (and I only noticed it in the hardware monitor). If the GPU hadn't heated up the nvme drive before (it was sitting at 65C mostly idle), and starved it for air, I doubt it would have hit 60C.

So until motherboards start placing nvme where it can get some actual cooling, or they make actual functioning heatsinks, their power usage can make a difference.

[1]: https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2781-msi-m2-heat-shield-i... but there are many more articles/forum posts with similar issues.