skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty sure this doesn't make sense at all. If I remember rightly, the way Covid-19 was originally identified was that two or three different private sector labs which don't normally work with this kind of virus at all managed to sequence it well enough to identify what it was - it had nothing to do with the virology institute. Not only that, the fact that they weren't officially meant to be handling this kind of virus was used to shut them up and get them to destroy the virus sequences they'd found.
I'm not sure whether it's plausible to non-experts like you or me is a valuable way to categorize it. But the reason to be cautious about it is the potential for violence. Both at an individual level against people perceived as Asian and at a global level of a hot war. A good example here is after 9/11. The US had a rash of violence against people who people thought looked Muslim, like the Sikh gas station owner Balbir Singh Sodhi [1]. We ended up invading not just Afghanistan but Iraq and we still haven't brought all the troops home.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Balbir_Singh_Sodhi
To clarify, it's the supply chain that is destroyed, not the hard drives themselves. Most Chia miners appear to be using enterprise SSDs to "farm" a plot. And consumer SSDs can't really stand up to this process long term, so they get killed relatively quick.

A typical plot is around 100GB and officially takes around 356GB (and a lot of SSD thrashing) to farm. Then that plot is copied off to long term storage (larger, slow hard drives via SATA, USB, etc) where it sits until a given plot of yours "wins". You can run one of these collections of hard drives off a Raspberry Pi.

Fun fact: In other crypto there are pools so that everyone contributing work gets a share of the profit. There are no pools in Chia. You're farming a digital lottery ticket that then sits there using up hard drive space and an always on PC hoping one off your tickets wins.

I researched it a bit so I'd understand the basics and the cost to earnings setup. It's so wasteful of hardware and space that I didn't want to set up a rig, though.
For some weak definition of "travel". Also, considering if it doesn't breaks laws of physics then than can't transport information.

The simplest example to illustrate such a scenario is a straight beach where the waves hit the shore with an angle. The point where the wave touches the shoreline advances sideways with a speed that is higher than the wave itself. But, it can transport information, mass or energy from on point to the other at arbitrarily high speeds.
If those cameras were hooked up to an AR helmet and a human had 360 view of the car through them, I bet they could drive just fine. The data is there.

Sensors might be an alternate strategy though and a way to at least take vision processing out of the list of hard problems.
Yes, so in essence:

- Only ever have a single key in each JSON object (treating them as tuples)

- Make all object values arrays.

It makes for some very unnatural looking JSON.
Paying cash for a car isn’t really that good. You should almost always finance it since rates tend to be well below what you can get in the market.
I agree that it's extremely important. If it was a lab leak, there are many safety process and regulation improvements we might be highly motivated to make. It's a thing we can actually have some control over. If it was a natural virus, there's good reason to collect and study more pathogens so we have a head start if one of them crosses into humans. Not that both of these things aren't good responses to the pandemic, but having a specific answer will direct more funding at the problem.
But Taiwan IS a country.

Reminds me of the video John Cena did recently apologizing to the camera that he let it slip that Taiwan is a country.
Gravitational anomalies, gravitational discrepancy, unexplained gravity effect? Hell, dark gravity, if you want.

Until the point where the observations are multimodal. Then I'd be more comfortable assigning provisionally normative names. Till then it should probably explicitly reference the fact that all observations are gravitational in nature.
It will probably not go extinct, no. But these changes might not be compatible with the kind of advanced civilization we’re all used to and that supports a population of billions. I, for one, am not ready to go back to whatever living standards they had in 1000 AD.
With digital goods users can buy. Reddit has already blazed the trail here with awards and reactions you can pay to add to a post or a comment.

You can make it completely optional and for the most part not upset users who don't buy them.

There is basically no upper threshold on how much you can charge. You want to have really cheap stuff too obviously. Something for everybody.

In gaming this trend of being able to buy cosmetic items has also been developing. In some games users pay hundreds of dollars for one cosmetic item.

Rather than counting on your own creativity to create the digital goods you can also create a marketplace for user created goods and then take a fee off the top.

You could do all this with crypto, or NFTs. There would be nothing wrong with doing it that way. But you could also just store that stuff in databases and it would work about as well for these purposes.
"Heritable" doesn't mean "genetic" or "inherent to a person".
Tesla finally releases driver monitoring system using its cabin camera
Weren't scientists from the Chinese CDC actually authors of the Lancet article that everyone cited? It doesn't seem like they were trying to push any seafood market hypothesis either.
> I could think, "but if they were a true friend, they would put up with the inconveniences caused by interacting outside Instagram." I want to believe this is true, but I don't think how my friend spends their time or what platform they're motivated to use is a major indicator of the quality of our friendship.

If they were a true friend, they wouldn't subject your 1-on-1 friend communications to constant Zuckerberg surveillance and censorship. There are links that Facebook has decided that you're not allowed to send to or recieve from that "friend". Any serious conversation about real shit that matters (life, death, the universe, hopes, dreams) is going to be logged for all time and turned over to the cops whenever for the asking.

That's not how friendship works. That's the same as telling a friend a secret and them writing it down and mailing it to a third party.
The same reason big companies pay premium for external consultants instead of directly hiring.
You don't want to deal with employees, as well as you don't want to deal with HW, data center, and all that comes with it. You know you are paying premium, but you are also delegating tons of headache and responsibilities.
It's ironic to even call those experiences discussions when no new ideas are exchanged. It's just people of the same worldview taking turns chanting verses of their creed. Nothing learned nor imparted.
> We welcomed our daughter a few years ago

Belated congratulations!

> You look at it all and think wtf...

Yeah, you do now. I remember us thinking differently around the time our daughter was born. Even though we both should've known better, we got the fear and anxiety to control us for a while. It was only at the point we found ourselves agonizing over choosing a breath monitor that we suddenly realized we're being played - we don't need it, our child isn't in the risk group, and we should stop letting our random worrying drive our purchasing decisions.
These don’t seem like features that should be behind a paywall.
The ones thinking that far ahead aren’t using AWS in the first place.
If your pursuing a misinformation campaign it does make since to occasionally publish some facts. That way people can wring their hands if they should ban you or not, and so your supporters have something to say that you were right about.
I don't know because I don't understand Proof of Stake well enough to know its weak points and vulnerabilities. I hope it works out, but what do we really know about its security and power dynamics?
But they're dealing with the problem at the stage of the pipeline which they can address, which is a bit late as inequity begins to solidify long before.

Some children will have AP credits and some wont. Some children will have completed calculus and others won't have started. By this time, years of advantage and disadvantage have already accumulated. These differences in student profile will interest both in-state and out-of-state colleges.

zulu314 is pointing out that tests can be meaningfully designed for predictive value, and I would additionally wonder whether universities all around the world will follow suit by diminishing test importance?
I like the comments. They're direct, probably useful and importantly kind and friendly. Well done all.
Immuno-epidemiology and Transmission Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 [pdf]
Bryan Cantrill's blog: http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/

I tune in every time I see a new entry pop up, it's so engaging.
The PRC is made up of people, some of whom may or may not tell each other the truth, or may or may not know the truth of what they say. Just like any other organization made up of people.

I don't know if COVID leaked from a lab or not. I think it's possible and very much worth investigating. What I'm against is these kind of "social proof" arguments which can seem convincing but are are often vacuous.

Investigate the evidence. Pressure the PRC to show their records and allow external investigations. Publicly bluster that refusal to open up in the face of legitimate questions should be considered evidence of culpability if they refuse to open up! But don't actually consider a repressive government being repressive by default as actual proof of anything.
I don't really think anyone with anything less than an 8 figure budget can get the perf/watt of Graviton2. They're literally not available for sale - AWS had them fabbed and then kept all of them to rent out.
What about the hotjar part and external JS libraries? (I might have edited my previous comment in the meanwhile and you might not have seen it)
So, question from a complete noob:

Can the thrashing of space be done on a RAMdisk, preventing SSD wear? Thereby only the 100GB would be moved onto long term storage, e.g. primary SSDs.

Is that worthwhile? Does RAM speed matter in this case?
You don't want any components that have been used in coin mining. Generally, GPUs, desktop CPUs, RAM, consumer disks (both solid stats and spinning rust) and even power supplies are not designed for years of 24x7 100% load.

This is a part of why NVidia cracked down on gpu mining recently - when ASIC mining became more profitable than GPUs, the secondhand market got flooded with cheap high quality cards (thus ruining the primary sale market for new GPUs) and people flooded NVidia support with support queries for slow or unreliable GPUs.
So what is the problem exactly?
I didn't really understand why kids like it so much at first, but here's what I think, in very few words it explores lots of things: counting, days of the week, day/night cycle, lots of foods, separating fruit from junk food, and of the lifecycle of butterflies. Kids will find something engaging in there.
A startup worrying about long term cloud implications is like a hot dog vendor in new York worrying about how his branding will be received in India when his hot dog empire expands there. 99.99% of startups will never have to worry about migrating off cloud, and if they do, they will have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams, and will be once sequential. Nobody is losing sleep over the prospect that their startup will only be worth 22.4 billion in 17 years, but if they eschewed the cloud and built in efficiencies from the get go the company would be worth 23.7 billion. Not to mention the fact that worrying about long term things like that would take focus off the present and in tease chances of failure.
https://thecityfix.com/blog/how-bogota-is-turning-7000-citiz...

Here's a "success story." Cities spend lots of time gathering feedback from citizens on transportation changes, but the feedback process can often exclude people who don't have time to physically go to town hall-type meetings. Or for those who do go, the options presented might not be easy to understand. And it's even harder for attendees to pitch their own variation. Streetmix made all of this easier, and it seems like it worked well in Bogotá.
What's fascinating about the Very Hungry Caterpillar was that the "stomach ache" and nice green leaf was forced upon him by his publisher. He wanted it to be "caterpillar eats lots of silly things because he's hungry, becomes huge, becomes butterfly".

The moralizing "nice green leaf" was neither his idea nor desired.
As a data point in the story's favor: there was the Phoenician Ship Expedition (conducted in, I think, 2010) which circumnavigated Africa in a replica ship. I assume it managed to get past Cape Bojador because of the boat's shallow draft.
CRTC Favours Big Telecoms as Final Wholesale Internet Rates Reverted to 2016
CO2 removal (and storage) at scale is impossible. We would basically have to recreate the Azolla event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event

We already have condensed carbon - in the ground, stable, in the form of coal, natural gas, and oil.

We need to just stop digging it out and burning it.

There's really no getting around the need for a direct and transparent price on carbon. The health benefits from lower air pollution alone would probably pay for the transition itself.

For example, at just about $15/tonne, coal is immediately dead (doubled in price) as an electricity source:

https://www.resources.org/common-resources/calculating-vario...

Whereas current techniques are coming in at about $500/tonne for CO2 removal.
25 of the first paper's references are to other papers the author has written. No matter what field a paper is in, having 19% of the references point to yourself is suspicious. For the other references, the high amount of citations from folks as general as Aristotle and Kolmogorov make doubly sure that the paper really doesn't pass the BS test of any researcher.
The real mystery here is your point.
It's called Ampere Altra. Maybe you should have picked a different example like Aurora...
In Spanish it’s La oruga muy hambrienta which is a straight translation of the English.
How do you plan to make money and sustain vitality from this open source offering?

Open source has a lot of overhead, and if you offer “enterprise” versions, others will compete with you, or worse, Amazon may offer your service for free as a bundle.

I’m interested in hearing your plan.
I don’t want to argue in favour of the Beads solution but I think the right way to describe the logic is as follows:

input is n
| 3 divides n | 5 divides n | result |
|—————————————|—————————————|————————————|
| Yes | Yes | “FizzBuzz” |
| Yes | No | “Fizz” |
| No | Yes | “Buzz” |
| No | No | n.toString |
print result

The key points are:

1. The logic is declarative: the order of the rows in the table doesn’t matter.

2. It tests for divisibility in words rather than a potentially confusing idiom (how does % behave for negative numbers? Is it defined for floats in this language?)

3. The structure allows you (or a compiler) to check that no case is missed.

4. It should be easier to convince oneself that modifications to the code do what they are supposed to.

The funny thing is that looking things up in tables is much more common in excel.
Tom Cotton is an idiot and putting his name behind anything is counter productive even if he has a point.
I guess you're a Firefox user now?

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
not to mention custom feature requests
Pedantic, off-topic comments also break conversational flow.
> such as AWS proprietary services like SQS

SQS is a message queue service. It's a bit weird to claim that as "simply aren't directly available as selfhosted replacements", a message queue is pretty basic stuff.
Exactly, the fact that it's a phenomenon gets lost--all we have to do is find the missing mass (X-Y problem) that's causing the gravitational effects.
There are few posts but I like all those. https://rgwrite.com/blog/
Apple has returned over $550B to shareholders since 2012
What incentive would the US government have to lie about this though? They were funding research at that lab, I don't understand why they would want people to think lab leak is correct all of a sudden - if that's what you're claiming?
The far right will use this as a reason to curtail research. Maybe just curtail "dangerous" research at first. Then whatever other research they can convince their followers is also dangerous.
Compiling between high-level languages is a similarly difficult endeavour to compiling to low-level ones!
SQS is "just a queue service" the way that S3 is "just an object store" and the iPhone is "just a smartphone".

I'm super into self-hosted shared-nothing queue services, but what AWS is doing with SQS is anything but basic stuff.
The cruise-ship industry seeks to refloat
The mining companies I work with often hire equipment semi-permanently instead of buying it. It’s an insane cash crop for the hire companies because the payback time on the equipment is a few months and then it’s pure profit, but apparently a $700/week car rental payment is easier to get through accounts than a one off $50k purchase.
This is so cool. Wow. Thank you for building this!
Many underestimate the complexity and the headache that comes with managing its own data center.
It is easy to get a couple of racks up and running. Then you have to deal:

- HW that fails, go get a new one, cost + time

- backup and geographical redundancy

- security

- certifications

- tooling to manage and forecast

- black friday! scale for few days ... more HW?

- etc ...

It is way more convenient for the average enterprise to pay premium and be done with it. So they can focus on the actual business and not building infrastructure and tooling to manage it.
Yes, ram speed matters A LOT . That's what is called "temporary storage" in Chia, and people who mine look for the fastest SSDs to mine faster.

The big problem is whether you can setup a 400GB Ramdisk?
I disagree with the part on the ugly comments. It is very typical and blocking every single nasty comment on your appearance can be a mentally taxing effort that you can’t quite put under a « just block them off it’s easy » assertion.
> "There are decent patterns in the form of GraphQL, but for a React component that loads data with fetch from an API, the solutions have only gotten weirder. There’s great documentation for everything else, but old-fashioned data loading is relegated to one example of how to mock out ‘fetch’ for testing, and lots of Medium posts of varying quality."

What is "old-fashioned data loading"?
I just don't see that as feasible. I consider the entire concept of Palantir to be disgusting, but there are clearly enough software developers who think that enabling state surveillance makes people safer.

All it takes is a few thousand such people (a small fraction of a percent), and it doesn't matter what "the industry" agrees not to work on.

I feel like you might have the misconception that "tech people" are some homogenous bloc that believes in the same things and would stand behind a single policy platform. The reality is nothing at all like that.
Adding to the recommended books: 'Bats at the Beach' by Brian Lies.

My kids never got tired of me reading it and I never got tired of reading it. They loved that book. The illustrations are extremely well done. Who would draw bats wearing floaties?
Came across the ironic comment on Twitter today “We tend to forget the intense bombing raid on Kansas City in the second world war”.

That (https://twitter.com/lennartnout/status/1397893839038332928) was about a photo of part of Kansas City now, and, I guess, early twentieth century that shows how much work there is to do on this.
The author of that article is actually Peter Daszak of Ecohealth Alliance, that was funding the Wuhan lab for gain of function research, seemly using money from US government (NIH and another department I can't recall now).

EDIT: why people are downvoting this? I got something wrong? The Peter Daszak that signed the article is not the same one that runs Ecohealth Alliance?
I believe that censorship is more harmful than misinformation.

Censorship is a bottom down initiative. It requires a few bad actors or 'mistakes' to completely change the information landscape. Misinformation is bottom up. It still needs to compete with a whole bunch of other ideas and it requires far more effort to spread. You also don't create a pretence that all available information is correct.

Censorship carries far larger risks, with small short term gains. It's like picking pennies in front of steamroller.
Plus the holes. Kids can't seem to stop themselves from interacting with it.
Yes, though that might depend on your definitions of both long term and vaccine. There is actually a quite interesting body of literature surrounding these developments, so it might be worth doing some searches and some reading.
Pretty simple to refer to it as COVID, no? West Nile Virus was named in 1937, so hard to really say it's equivalent. Ebola is named after a river, I doubt it gets offended by the association. MERS is widely acknowledged as a mistake in naming by the WHO.
I've worked with Will on a large XML based system. I'll try to briefly describe our workflow. Our company created reference books. Those books ended up both as printed books and as HTML in a web application service people could subscribe too. Various people would create the content, some in WYSIWIG editors, others editing raw html to tag content to give it structure, and tools that fall somewhat in between. XML tags and annotations can do things like indicate where the title is, sub headings, links to other books or content. etc etc.

This annotation structure not only lets us transform the xml into HTML that resembles the physical book via CSS, but also lets us search the content with awareness of what the content is. Simple example, if a search term appears in a title give it more weight.

When a book is done the XML goes off to a printer to become a book, AND into our XML database. A nice feature of which is a lot of our content is in the DB as XML, you ask for a book page and the DB returns the HTML for the page, backend just forwards that HTML to the browser which displays it. ZERO parsing/transformation anywhere once the DB sends it! Just fling the payload at the browser. Super cool at times.

Anyway we all work with these formats differently, some of us never touch the json and xml, some of us only tweak values in config files. Those of us who work with it like that, the only differences between XML and JSON are "how nice are the serialization apis and how fast are they? how big is the payload?"

But when working WITH the format directly there can be more meaningful differences. And the tools that actually exist for the things you are doing may push you towards one format or the other, even if in principle it wouldn't have really mattered.

note: I keep mixing tenses here but this was all in the past, we got bought, don't do any of this anymore!
> It only seems expensive and complicated from the perspective of someone that does not have experience with it.

Isn't that the target audience for this sort of change?

I mean, do you see teams of networking , siteops, high availability, and security engineers hanging around doing nothing and just waiting for a company to decide to go in-house?

No, because those teams do not exist in free-range. That's something a company needs to build and train and experiment from the start until they are able to learn all the lessons.
These new languages are way too big to build themselves on MS-DOS and there are already good compilers. And the runtime will be huge too, compared to native hosted compilers designed for a constrained platform. Nobody does embedded Rust or Go or whatever you have.