skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "lab or market" part of this is irrelevant. China caused a global pandemic by gross incompetence either way.

Add that to their ethnic and religious cleansing, suppression of all descent, acts of aggression towards their neighbours and 101 other issues and decide: is sanctioning them worth the costs?

I think so. Many disagree.
Also to Italian Social Security agency last year (anyone surprised the site was built and maintained by a big ITC company?)
Facebook is doubling down on its mistake after admitting it: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/26/22455076/facebook-misinfo...
It can happen in the mRNA ones too, but this misfolding will happen in the lab rather than in your cells. What percentage of an mRNA shot that is being mass produced is random biological material? We don't know, there's no kind of independent laboratory testing these things.
Here's a scientist explaining the various covid origin hypotheses going around, and which one is correct:

https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gk6y95/covid19_did...

The press likes to stir things up because emotional people follow their stories more and make them more popular. But this is definitely putting the cart before the horse. Stirring up a mob almost never ends well.
> There is an irreconcilable conflict between AI safety and AI openness. If you create a dangerous program, and you know it's dangerous, then it would be insane to release it.

If you remember OpenAI's creation, the whole idea was that AI safety comes from democratizing AI. Their idea of AI safety was AI openness.

It's like how some would describe the Second Amendment in the US — by democratizing these dangerous weapons, there may be more chaos but people will be safer from some overlord who holds all the dangerous weapons.

This isn't to say that I agree, but what you're suggesting as their mission is in fact antithetical to what they claimed to be their mission.
oh gosh but you're wrong?
I was referring to maybe/maybe not "most" people changing working habits due to the pandemic (and that might not be correct because I live in a bubble).

Most people will definitely be impacted by higher energy costs. I think we can all agree on that.

The French protest at a drop of a hat. Well-known for it. It's like a national hobby.
Done right, there would be no sonic boom when it goes supersonic [video]
Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?
What are your favorite blogs run by individual people?

For example, some of the ones I like are:

- https://jvns.ca/

- https://www.joshwcomeau.com/

- https://ciechanow.ski/
Just build a startup incubator instead for startups with really interesting early stage ideas.
Why is that even necessary?

Essentially you’re guilty until you declare yourself innocent, and you need to prove innocence if the Beeb’s minions turn up at your house? What if you didn’t realize you needed the license because the rules around live broadcasts and battery-powered devices are so absurd?

People get sent to jail over this ridiculous situation while the government cheers from the sidelines.
Resources are finite. One of the main resource limitations for leaders is time. This is a waste of the mayor's time.
They're working on it for the Xilinx 7-series.

https://symbiflow.github.io/
I live near the Continental Divide. I dropped a drop in Datil, NM, which is a few miles east of the divide, and it went west. But isn't the Continental Divide defined as the line at which water drains east or west? Is the app mistaken, is my definition wrong, or what?
Showing that there exists an example situation where a union reduces your freedom does not demonstrate that, taken on the whole, unions reduce the freedom of the workers.
You can say that, but I've heard the diatribes that the "China virus" was because they were playing with 5G and viruses and it escaped into bats and those chinamen ate the bats and...(cringe). Just go look up the conspiracies if you think I'm out of line - this is the mild version.

Most of the mouthbreathers talking earlier about the "China virus" labs was predominately with pro-trump, anti-vaxxer, anti-masker individuals (well, starting with trump first). It was political grandstanding at its best, combined with 'us vs them' mentality, and a hefty scooping of conspiracy theory. So yes, the bulk of us thinking peoples justly figured this was what it appeared to be: yet another Anti-Chinese diatribe done by a white nationalist conspiracy nut (aka: trump).
I've stopped being annoyed with what seemed like blanket unsupported statements and written a more patient response:

> But they don’t choose to believe Nazi ideology or to not believe it.

If one gets new information, one decides whether that information is worth changing their beliefs. That is one important distinction between innate qualities and beliefs. And yes choice is involved.

> You cannot change a single one of your sincerely held beliefs by simply choosing to believe otherwise.

I receive new information, I reevaluate my beliefs. Simple.

> people often believe they’re straight and later believe they’re bi or gay, for example.

That's true and a good point - heterosexuality (which is closely tied with the ability to reproduce) is assumed to be the default. But see the next point...

> Sex and race are externally observable fuzzy characteristics

Agreed that 'race' is a funny concept. Americans mainly seem to use it to refer to skin color vs actual ancestry. That's the sense I'm using it here.

Also sexuality is externally observable. If someone is a man and having sex with (gender here) that's externally visible. You can literally watch it.
Solo Instinct to Dueling Narratives
There's legitimate stories where there's a lot of smoke, and a lot of credible speculation (the Epstein story and lab-leak theory are two good examples). The problem is that these get coopted by qanon and affiliated groups and start to become less credible in the public eye as a result. There's some tragic irony to the fact that potentially well-meaning crackpots are being used as a smokescreen for those who are actually doing wrong.
It seems that the other side rarely exceeds 100mbps, so it only matter when you either got many users or very specific workflow.
These can act like a cache across all instances. For exactly this reason I use them only as final (constant) variables and very, very rarely mutable.
The problem with this is who is the arbiter on what is, or isn’t, a conspiracy theory. The main stream media in the US seem to innately believe certain claims, without evidence, while also portraying other claims as “conspiracy theories.”

In the case of covid there seemed to be universal belief in the media that covid originated in animals. There was no proof of this claim.

It’s one thing to just simply pick a claim and believe in it. It’s quite another to attack people who are providing an alternative claim.

The same thing rings true with regard to what is a “correct” thing to say. “China Virus” is apparently repugnant. However, naming the country of origin for variants is not. South African Variant is fine.
This is probably the most pointless comment I have seen on HN for a long time...

Its not like BitCoin and other Coins are free of scams/fraud because they are not regulated...

Most blockchains startups need to create problems which nobody has to sell it to people who don't know better...
IMO, some unions are bad for everyone. Worker and company alike.

Most (maybe all?) unions are meant to oppose the company. Their stated goal is get more for the workers, which means less for the company.

But to be fair, some unions actually end up helping companies that can't understand that treating your workers well actually has benefits for the company, too, and if you treat them too poorly, there will be a net detriment to the company. These unions actually help everyone, but it requires that the company really have their head up their ass.

So it's not surprising to me that every single company fights the union. The whole point of the union is to fight the company on behalf of the workers.
Saw some "BLM" forests along the The Tongue River. For the curious that's acronym for "Bureau of Land Management".
Seeing things like this makes me feel good about using a VPN on my phone and computers. I don't do it for vague "privacy" reasons, I do it to avoid getting doxxed and to just generally not have my actual IP address sitting in server logs.
Hack prompts new security regulations for US pipelines
That (not so) awesome time the police raided my home (2015)
This seems like the brain child of one ambitious smart person that still needs to receive feedback from the outside world.
Limit on lab-grown human embryos dropped by stem-cell body
It's not part of the current standard[1] as far as I can see.

There are some mitigations though, like the cables must identify what they can handle (else the high current modes can't be used), and both ends needs to verify the plug and cable etc.

In theory though I don't see why they couldn't include this in the standard.

[1]: https://usb.org/document-library/usb-power-delivery
The thing that should be noted is that a lab escape does not mean that the lab is the origin of the virus. It is equally plausible that the lab experimented with the virus after it was caught in the wild.
I see, so it wasn't some unexpected influx. It was a deliberate decision on the part of the authorities. I guess it makes sense that industry is clustered and you often can't bring the factories to where the people live.
Belief is the death of intelligence.
Kubenav: Navigator for your Kubernetes clusters on mobile
Way to go team! Can’t wait to see what future projects come up from this group.
If academia is 100% about status hierarchies this definitely wouldn’t work. It probably won’t work anyway but if there’s anything real in the function used to judge academic worth of work then there’s potential for it to work. There are multiple ways to improve that likelihood, more money most obviously of all. But new successful research institutes are founded so it’s clearly possible. Very unlikely unless there’s a very big budget, excellent taste in selection of applicants or both, but hardly impossible.
Is a resistor really enough to determine if a 5W cable gets 240W?
This could also be a cause:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/may/25/influencers-sa...
If this this interesting, check out https://serenade.ai/

I’ve only taken it for a test run but it seems really good and smooth.
I can't see anyone else commenting this here yet - I just get a blank white screen, both on Firefox and Chromium. And no, I haven't disabled Javascript for it. Any ideas?
I worked for a small think tank for a few years recently, there are tonnes of social science and policy outlets out there. It effectively operated as a social enterprise, it did a load of survey work for institutional clients (e.g. UN agencies) that paid the bills whilst the staff worked on their priorities on the side.

The way I'd approach the problem would be to set up a non profit or social enterprise, seek to build a core business and grant portfolio to keep the lights on and work from there.

From another perspective, I'm not entirely sure how OpenAI do things, but there may be insights for you in their approach.

You do really need to be thinking long term, you can either burn your own cash for a couple of years and quit with little to show, or build something durable over a period of decades. Reputation isn't something that appears overnight.

Germany seems a tough place to do it though. You'll need someone with a good head for paperwork.
As I read it, they did shut down as soon as they knew.
Seems like Klarna are trying to withhold their international rumour before international expansion and IPO.
SSD Failures: Common Causes and Main Symptom
Hey, thanks for the feedback. I actually struggled on what to do with the cursor, since the map is draggable (when not at min zoom level) prior to a click and the default mapbox cursor is denoting that. On balance, I think you're right that a default cursor might be better.

Re: interaction during the run, I thought about allowing you to interact and just pausing the run while you do, but thought that too many people would interact accidentally, pause the run and then not understand that they had to click somewhere to resume. It's a feature that would technically be ideal, but practically would throw a lot of people off-track with incidental interaction I think (I had this same issue with the decision to start the run right away instead of giving the user and overview at the beginning. Technically, I think it would be ideal, practically, I think a lot of people could miss the main feature of the site altogether).

Speed-wise, I've already slowed it down a good amount from the original iteration, if you can believe that, but I could take it down a little more. There's a weird kind of balance in perceptual speed between camera height and true speed, so I've tried to not give a user full control over speed/zoom, because most options are very bad. I can, at least, take the base speed down a little, and maybe give more precise speed control than what's there. Fundamentally, though, I don't want the default setting to take ten minutes for a run, and I also want you to really be able to see the mountains and canyons.
Email bomb threat sent after blogger's plane was diverted over Belarus
No, but there's often a trade-off between making a decent living as a cog in a machine, or living on ramen and working on what you want to work on. I've chosen both at various phases of life.
at least it appears to be high level.

For years people would always comment “I can type faster”, not realizing that we should be able also make it smarter than word by word, or character.

https://youtu.be/hGPNs5C1Lp0

Notice this guy is also using his “hat” as a pointing device
Yes. A large fraction of the experts are submitting to the same most-prestigious conferences every year.
Yeah, being able to reliably preserve state between reloads is an incredible productivity boost. It's also fantastic for figuring out what's going on in the app. Any time you're not sure what a particular piece of code does, you can just run it and see the output.

I find the REPL removes a lot of stress and frustration from the development process. I run every function I write to see that it's doing what was intended. Then once I'm happy with it, I move to the next step, and so on. So, the only context that I need to keep in my head tends to be what the last function I wrote did, and what the current function that I'm writing is doing. In vast majority of cases any errors I see are going to be found in the last couple functions that I wrote.
Same here, I don't seek out anyone on Instagram. I follow accounts that interest me, such as Museums, Ministry of Culture, language teachers, etc.

The Hermitage Museum, for example, posts excellent content.
Framed that way, more important than investigating would be aiming there is a 50% likelihood that this came from a lab, and to introduce reforms as is it did. That does seem more productive than essentially a criminal investigation.
No, they absolutely have:

"The Ryanair flight from Greece to Lithuania was compelled to land in Minsk on Sunday while traveling through Belarusian airspace, on the basis of what appears to be a fraudulent claim that a bomb might be on board."

Is what they wrote this morning.
I've been thinking of something very similar to this and have been working on the implementations. I currently have front-ends written in Java (Swing and SWT), Pascal (Delphi VCL, Delphi FMX, Lazarus LCL), C++ (wxWidgets and Gtk). I also have a HTML/JS prototype. I have backends written in Java, C#, Go, Crystal, and Nim. For the protocol I'm using JSON via HTTP. The more I work with this approach the more advantages I see. I think you're on to something.
> Isn't it kinda weird that every single large company moves aggressively to crush labor unions if they are so bad for the individual worker?

It's entirely possible for unions to be bad for both the company and the workers. A loss for one is not inherently a gain for the other.
They are looking to legalise their own business, after they got rid of all direct competitors.

Interesting.
It's mentioned in the article that the artist has sued people over unauthorized use in the past, so maybe that worried their lawyers. Though you'd think they'd have a reasonable fair use case here.
Ah, interesting. I stopped after book 6. Can I jump straight to 8 or do I need to slog my way through 7?
"I can't believe anyone would target us" says nation that is notorious for state-sponsored hacks and mass disinformation campaigns that are so large and widespread that they actually have a bureaucracy tasked with managing all of the various operations in motion at any one time.
There are multiple places where the divide forks and then joins back together, and even then there are other exceptions. If you live near it, I wouldn't visualize it as a single point, but as a general shift in overall trends.
This is cool! Did you have some info on this or use some data to find this? I was randomly clicking points on center of US and many were just ending in a nearby lake. I only found a few that ended up in the sea..
Your comment makes mostrovs point in the comment above.
This isn't about the public eye, primarily. It's about the "expert" voices in media who report on these things.

Most of what can reasonably called the mainstream media was misrepresenting lab leak theories as racist QAnon ramblings for a year before it entered the "it's okay to believe this" realm. This kind of dismissal ends up being the default mode for any idea which doesn't fall within a very narrow approved view of reality.
Dominic Cummings testifies to joint parliamentary committee
I am helping lead the first research group at a recently-founded institute in Germany.

What is the mission of your institute? Is this a collection of individuals doing their own research, or a group of collaborators working towards a shared goal? How do your ideal members measure their own performance? Is it through papers, blog posts, tech demos, products, or something else? With academics you need to be especially vigilant about the difference between vanity metrics and real output.

For funding, are you allocating cash on an annual basis, up-front, on-demand, or through some other scheme? What sort of timeline do you want for people to stay at the institute? And do you intend the budgets to be competitive, either locally or internationally?

What lab infrastructure will you build and maintain, versus having the researchers handle? As a lab-based researcher, setting things up can easily consume the first 6-12 months (plumbing, electrical, HVAC, optics, wetlab equipment, regulations...). Once someone goes through the effort to build this they can easily become quite protective, potentially locking out newcomers or creating an internal system of patronage.

Having answers for these questions and others will be essential for recruitment. Your first few hires will dictate the direction of the institute, since further recruitment will be driven largely by their networks.

Feel free to email me (username at gmail) if you would like to discuss further.
Ah, youth.
It doesn't mean anything. However, someone has suggested the recursive backronym "SICL Implements Common Lisp".
Listen to Milton Friedman. He explains this (and many more questions regarding the economy) extremely well. Begin with this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzYgiOC9cj4 (The Real World Effects Of Unions)
I mentioned elsewhere in the thread, but in other areas of computer science it works in a very similar way to yours.
Klarna says they are “experiencing technical disturbances due to technical errors”.

Sounds like a poltergeist.
John Carmack on Systems Engineering (2017)
Why would you say that "a research institute will never approach anything resembling beauty"? Researchers in mathematics and physics often work with beauty and elegance in mind. I, for one, work in math largely because of its beauty, and I hope to one day come up with something beautiful myself.
Canadian prof says he's discovered 'book from Shakespeare's library'
Unions are generally good if your living situation, and needs generally mirror the majority of your co-workers.

However if you have unique needs, or desires then your needs will take a back seat over the "majority"

In modern society we seem to have a majoritarian view of everything, and are losing individualism.

An example of this is the often advocated for Maternity / Paternity leave, this is something that is often fought for by unions as the majority of employees need / desire that leave. However if you are someone that do not intention of ever having children then you may prefer more Vacation time, or more PTO time, or greater health benefits in some other arena, your desires however will be ignored because the Majority wants the Maternity / Paternity leave
In Sweden there is a current cultural view that the only reason someone would not sign up for an account with any kind of banking service is because they are too old to navigate the registration process, in which case all they need is help going through it. Any other explanation for why someone does not have an account at X is perceived as perplexing or straight alien. Non-coffee drinkers will have an easier time culturally then those rejecting getting accounts at sites like klarna and swish.
Sounds bad. I like my online payments to have a little friction.
This guy has a PhD and never heard of gain of function research?
The hospital may charge for this due to someone needing to stay and monitor you and the baby while you hold them. Ridiculous charge, certainly very rare, but that is typically the justification given
The likelihood of that outcome seems likely to be proportional to age.
I must've been in the testing batch because in 2019 my Instagram simply stopped telling me how many people had liked my post and I could not for the life of me figure out how to fix that.

I just checked and for the first time since I can remember I can see how many people like my posts again.

I feel like a quick notification informing me that I was part of a study would have been appropriate.
Not all curves are straight lines.
Here is the part I didn't get--they are saying that a mutation of the spike protein causes the binding to epithelial cells. But the real virus, with correct spike proteins, also causes this inflammation. So why does the vaccine only cause it as a result of the mutation? Why do the correctly produced proteins from the vaccine not also cause it?
Respected media outlets frequently post retractions. That’s part of what makes them respectable, and attracts readers who are looking for honest reporting.
Don't they effectively do the exact same thing? As far as I know, they use screenscraping for most US banks rather than something OAuth-based.
Wow, imagine major religions eventually taking the next step to building their own official social media ecosystems, built by programmer priests.
I struggled with this a lot. Originally set that ending overview at the beginning, but was worried that practically a lot of users might miss the main feature. I've heard from a lot of people that they were surprised it went into the 3D view, and I think some people might see the plot and just assume that's it.
GALs are in essence ROM with both "halves" programmable (as the address decoding logic can also be implemented by mask or fuse programmable bit array). The end result is that you trade bit of generallity for smaller, cheaper and faster device.

Modern FPGAs (and IIRC even many CPLDs, as the line got somewhat blurred) are usually implemented as array of LUTs implemented as normal memory with fixed address decode and not with this PLA/PAL/GAL trick. Hence, "programmable logic is just bunch of ROMs".

Of interesting historical note is Connection Machine, which while marketed as "computer", is essentially an FPGA stood on it's head. Each of the thousands of CPUs is in essence FPGA LUT block, whose configuration changes for each microinstruction, while routing is fixed.