skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great Job. Are any cooperations with car manufacturers already official, or do any exist?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27287716
that’s 14 years ago. i would have expected voice programming to be solved by now. The original iPhone was introduced in 2007.

Ray Kurzweil’s predictions are taking longer than expected

https://singularityhub.com/2015/01/26/ray-kurzweils-mind-bog...
The golem from the sample project isn't just stitched together scans, it's definitely built by hand.
This video gives more of a feel for the language.

https://youtu.be/4WYxAfX_fTw

It's definitely… interesting.
Its probably very specific to your country.
> Well, first and foremost, perhaps the media could pause and reflect on their treatment of anyone who raised the lab leak hypothesis for the past year.

Most didn't stop at "maybe this escaped from the lab in Wuhan", but went down the real rabbit hole accusing the Chinese government of manufacturing and releasing a bioweapon.

In any case there won't be any proof ever for any origin theory, the Chinese government has made certain of that.
When I come across old HN posts, some links are broken. If someone looks at this post 10 years from now he'll be thankful that someone bothered to post an Archive link.

Edit: Also, many articles are edited with no transparency about what's been changed. It's useful to have to have the state of the article at post time.
> There are plenty of really minted PhDs who would be quite happy [...] for a postdoc with no teaching duties.

As one of those people, I'm happy to move to the middle of nowhere, IF it's for a place with a stellar reputation that's going to help me do good science and (unfortunately) has some name-brand recognition.
There are plenty of folks who have left Russia for the US because they can't stand the corruption. Perhaps you just haven't met any of them.
> Let’s throw even more fuel into the fire of a new Cold War.

Right. Because if an autocratic bully is offended by a name change, it clearly is the fault of the people changing the name. Appeasement is totally the solution. Let's just do whatever they want us to do, I'm sure it's going to be great.

In the real world though, naming streets is the prerogative of the city councils or mayors, not the dictator next door.

> As if Bucharest has no other problems to solve.

Sorry, this is just stupid. I am sure you realise that people can do more than one thing at one given moment, right? Reality is not turn based.
IYHO?! It's patently absurd to expect anything less

Edit: I'm agreeing with you but it seems absurd that it should have to be opinion!
No. Apple never ever planned on having only web apps on their iPhone.

They were quite obviously saying that to hide their true intentions since they came out with an entire SDK very shortly after the iPhones release.

WebOS was the one web based OS for mobile. I'd like that back please!
“During a caesarean, many people become shaky, nauseous, uncomfortable, even faint,” Grant explained. “These are normal physiological reactions. In order to facilitate skin to skin in the OR, an extra nurse needs to be available to assist.”
You missed the word “much”. Is a lead of one step a much better position? If it’s a 2 step race, then for sure. If it’s a 2000 step race, almost for sure not. If we’re not sure how long of a race it is, then who can say.
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Live by the sword...
Allow "extract canvas data". It breaks a lot of graphics visualizations within FF.
The immediate post I responded to was arguing that the US doesn’t do the right thing, but tries to extract max profits for its big businesses and a bunch of foreign policy mistakes.

My point was the US is more than that, and “good” as illustrated by its popularity with immigrants. You can, actually, in this court system receive justice, you can speak your mind at least legally without reprisal. You can leave this nation if you so choose.

Being just a “rich” nation isn’t it. There are many rich nations and many not as accommodating.
No one is going to bet the farm on that solution. I'd be surprised if big SaaS vendors like Atlassian or DropBox go with it.

But on the other hand I can see F500s (oil & gas companies, big engineering and defense firms, etc.) getting a rack or two to run their cloud-like stuff. They would not be taking much risk; this would be one system among many others they have, and it will have a life of 5 to 7 years anyway (a few million dollars and 7 years is peanuts for an oil & gas or mining company whose CapEx goes into the billions, over 50+ years horizons).
I think the value is in having a cloud-like system that doesn't require an entire IT/Ops team to run.
Like anything, if you know how to moderate your experience and balance your time and energy, you can derive something positive getting it. Speaking from personal experience, my Twitter experience got much much better once I got diligent about adding muted words for anything political or the outrage du jour.

The problem is that not everybody does, or want to do that. Teenagers, for example, are highly influenceable (sp?) but their peers, so they get controlled by social media rather than the other way around. Same with people following celebrities/influencers. It's easy to build a collective consciousness that people compare themselves too, to their loss.
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Reminds me a bit of Tinder Gold "hide my age" feature. Everyone has their age shown unless you pay extra to hide it, so hiding almost always will look worse than your actual age.
The OpsSecSecurity.com response: https://twitter.com/OpSecSecurity/status/1397695279932096515
The immune response works as follows: Strange new protein in your body -> immunity

mRNA is the blueprint to a protein. You can get the mRNA into your body directly (super cool novel tech) or using a carrier virus that has the blueprint as DNA (eg. a modified chimpanzee cold in astrazeneca's covid vaccine). Here, the body first has to turn DNA into mRNA.

The researchers show that the latter approach gives rise to errors in prodcing proteins, errors that can cause severe side effects.
You can go to zero-quota cap-and-trade.

I tried to find easy to read information on how has it worked so far but I couldn't find anything on the right level. If there's a carbon trading expert here, I would really appreciate some layman appropriate (international law perspective) links.
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You probably mean post-transcriptional modification; post-translational modification also exists and occurs after protein synthesis for both kinds of vaccines, so it is not relevant here.
If you can still reproduce the hang, I suspect they would be interested in a report, even if the problem is rooted in LLVM.
A lot of bold claims here. As someone who's worked on a lot of Excel business tools I can tell you there's no way something like this could replace anything in the companies I've worked for.
there's a lot of stories / examples about this an item in the hospital bills .
> If the Lab-Leak Theory Is Right, What’s Next?

What next is Western governments getting a solid scapegoat.

They can say "We completely bungled the quarantine, but now you can blame commies"

With so many Western governments guaranteed to loose their next election, only an absolutely massive outrage can save them.
This is precisely why it is so touchy. There’s been a strong correlation between people who believe lab leak and people who believe the Chinese were doing something bad.

As an anecdote, someone recently asked me if we could tell if the COVID genome had come via animals/natural origin or engineered in some way. I said that most likely, yes that should be possible. Their immediate reaction was that this meant I didn’t believe in lab leak. That’s not at all what I had said
> We know enough to acknowledge that the scenario is possible, and we should therefore act as though it’s true.

Kind of incendiary to act as if it's true.

I do agree that it might be worth examining the wisdom of keeping virology institutions near cities.
As always, those who were ahead of the curve were branded as schizos, yet here we are. Not only were us schizos right, we were so much righter than you could have dared allow yourself to fathom.

Now, you start pinching at the next little bit of this long spool of lies the WHO and Fauci has been perpetuating this entire time.

What proof do we need to hunt down to convince YOU as a person reading this, that you are being lied to?

If the answer is, you are in so deep that you can't go back and face the shame of being complicit in their narrative, then so be it. The only way then to resolve this is via violence, ironically, the way that the "Peaceful Protests" of the past year have gone down.
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Conspiracy!
Sure

https://www.vox.com/2016/10/4/13160624/medical-bills-birth-d...

"Skin to Skin after C-Sec" $39.95

[C-Sec here means Caesarean section, a relatively safe surgical procedure to delivery a baby via an incision in the mother's abdomen. Although mostly safe, and certainly preferable to situations where vaginal delivery would incur an undue risk to mother or baby, C-Section is undesirable because it increases the rate of complications both that time, and in any subsequent pregnancy. But it's very common in the US, for a variety of reasons.]
> Transnistria is not an issue really. With modern Western weapons, both Moldova, and Romania can contain it with a single division.

This would be an issue as big as Putin would want to make it. He would not have any qualm sending some troops there if it could further destabilise Europe.

> Romania, with all its flaws, still has a functioning military, ministry of interior, mostly stuffed with pro-nationalist cadres. The chance of Russia pulling Crimea on it is low. They will not have the same ease to bribe half of the general staff as they did in Ukraine.

Thankfully.
It looks like a functional(ish) reactive programming language, with an embedded database, and an SDK for compiling to JS and cross-platform binaries. Do I have that right?
Sofortüberweisung needed your bank credentials from the start.
Both can be true, that is no excuse
You can do this on standard Twitter too, and I do. But it's a game of whack a mole, every few weeks theres another political hot topic that floods the timeline and I have to add another word to the blocklist which is now over 1000 words.

What frustrates me is I know Twitter knows these topics are political, I know they could add a switch to hide it all but I also suspect they don't want to because they consider it important that I hear about what they consider important.

America is not the world but the rest of the world is subjected constantly to events and outrage as if it is the whole world because the people running these platforms only have a very small perspective of what the world is.
The MIT Lisp Machine used many of the same TTL devices as the first VAX, the circuit diagrams are available so it would be fairly easy to count the chips.
Narrator: The theory was wrong.
In the good old IRC where ops were gained by conquest not authentication/reservation/birthright people had some more honor.
> if we could tell if the COVID genome had come via animals/natural origin or engineered in some way. I said that most likely, yes that should be possible

How?
Belarus are arguing that grounding a head of state is worse. The West is saying that grounding a civilian plane and escorting with fighter jets is worse.

I think people who are fully one one side of this are fully convinced by one of those. I don't think it's swaying people on the fence, however.

The individual does matter. It doesn't look great to start naming streets after arrested neo-nazis. If that story has legs (unclear if it does) this will really not endear Belarussians to the West and will play directly into Putin's narrative, which is that we enthusiastically support neonazis who fight Russia.
Mods are pretty happy to change titles if they feel it makes it clearer too, and have less than a 100% success rate at that.

e.g. this topic they changed "Deno 1.10" to "Deno 1.1" in the title: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27127316

Which are not the same things.

Also I've seen attempts to clarify actors involved, but occasionally making it muddier. e.g. this one removes the fact that the response was from a Wireguard developer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25759477

Or once or twice, just wrong.

I'm not saying this is malicious, but the criteria for getting titles changed is definitely more loose than "title is false/misleading".
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To be fair, the lab-theory was hijacked from the beginning by conspiracy-believers who told everyone it was a bio-weapon and released on purpose. The idea of an accidential leak of reasearch-material is poisoned till today, because any hint of a proof will be fuel for the nutheads. And at the moment there many nutheads and racists aiming at asians because of the pandemia.
…25 devices that are downloading at 1Gbps inside a residential house? Not impossible but…. =]
How I, as someone who is visually impaired, use my iPhone (2020)
People can't use bitcoin without offloading transactions outside of the blockchain, which means entrusting an exchange, which could and probably has the same issues as Klarna.
Recruiting a postdoc at a new institute without a track record of advancing people is a very tough sell. That would be an extremely risky career move.

The best bet for a new research institute is to have a large endowment and recruit two or three large names in a field. People who already have a good reputation. The large endowment is necessary to prove that you will ongoing resources to keep the research funded into the future.
Facebook says Russia still biggest disinformation player
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I think whether or not there is a paywall depends on the reader. There was a paywall for me, which is why I liked to archive, as a service to others.

Have a nice day.
I remember running a FIDOnet node for a while in the late 80's/early 90's timeframe.

Figuring out long distance vs. local prefixes and next-hop's was half of the fun of it. Routing data long distances while evading long-distance phone charges felt rewarding in a way.
It's more about incentive alignment, and lack of free get out of jail cards -- people tend to assume you can just roll back fraudulent fiat transactions. Fuck up in crypto? Poof, the money is gone...

Compared to legacy finance, the exchanges are indeed bugfree. I would sooner trust Binance security team than people who think SMS is enough of a second factor. Never mind all the 'European unicorn' challenger 'banks'.
To be clear, this is a _per post_ selection, that defaults to off. So, any potential impact here seems to be throttled, intentionally.
Research institutes without a stable stream of new phd students every year tend to stagnate. Then they become mere displays of alten venerable greybeards. "Great minds" do not assemble, as you seem to mean. Young people become great by their interaction with experts that they learn to surpass.
As someone who ran servers on a few large IRC networks (Dalnet, Undernet and Espernet) as a teenager, I wholeheartedly agree. The temptation to abuse even this trivial amount of power turns rational adults into monsters. It also makes you a target for all the “undesirable elements” on the server (think DDoS, swatting, etc) if you try to do anything about it.
then why name it open "telemetry" in the first place? you know it has an extremely bad connotation to spyware.

> which puts into question the "after reading this"

> without even checking what the article is talking about will do that.

please don't do that, this is against the HN guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We’ve had 2 home births now. And the 1st birth was nearly a homebirth too.

They’ve all gone well for us, so I recommend them from that point of view, but on the other hand, I don’t recommend them because I’d hate to have any hand in a situation that went wrong for someone else.

Our last we actually delivered on our own because the midwifes didn’t get to us in time.
For all those jacked up to hype your conspiracy crap again, just FYI it says "IF the lab-leak." As in, this is an opinion column, just like your conspiracy, not based on facts. Worse, the very first line is "We know enough to acknowledge that the scenario is possible, and we should therefore act as though it’s true." We know you are all humans, which means you COULD be pedophiles, so we should therefore act as though it is true. That is the world you want.......
I don't know why some people are so sure that it couldn't be from a lab. People research viruses in labs and it's not impossible that a virus could escape from such a lab. And China doesn't like bad press and likes to suppress it as they did with Dr. Li Wenliang.[1]

I'm not saying that I know that it did come from a lab, but to say it definitely didn't is just as silly in my opinion.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51364382
Protonmail confirms[0] mail was sent after the plane was diverted.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/email-bomb-threat-sent-...
"However, energy consumption and carbon emissions are two very different things. While they may be correlated, emissions are determined by the type of energy used, not the quantity. Since we’re missing important information about Bitcoin miners, such as the hardware they use and their energy sources, making claims about emissions with any confidence is extremely difficult." yes, this!
These name changes may have some superficial "feel-good reinforcement" domestic value on social media, but they're never an avenue for change.

At best, they are a distraction. At worst, they reinforce the more juvenile members of each nation's diplomatic core that encourage non-constructive tit-for-tat "optics" politics.
The response to "conspiracy theories" is: show us your proof. Otherwise we will wait to give it any credibility. If time and data prove out your claims, then we will give it the proper attention it has earned. (ie, science > social media)
They can say what they want, while the media keeps stalling just long enough to keep people from learning the actual truth. Just long enough for Snopes to create another laughable "debunking".

The term fake news and pizzagate have interesting history on google trends.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=f...
> You weren't born with an account.

A merchant I shopped at, and paid in full by card, opened an account for me and shared line item details with Klarna, apparently because they are using them as their payments processor in addition to an installment payment option.

I noticed this when I later did in fact "open" an (or rather, claim an existing) account with them.

Very disturbing, and the bad aftertaste has never fully gone away.
Since most techies seem out of touch with how physical data storage used to work...

Your medical records may be a ream or two of paper. They don't get stored at your doctor's office, your doctor's office requests the records it needs on a daily basis. Medical couriers exist to handle emergency requests. Your data is stored in a warehouse with perhaps hundreds of employees. The threat model is different, not absent -- everybody from your doctor's receptionist to the warehouse workers have access, and can read or modify your data.
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Shouldn't you do it the other way round? Set software volume to 90% and limit to safe levels with a good old potentiometer to be safe from any software issues?
And that’s the issue. It’s only a lifelike setting if your life is like that of a Jeremy Kyle victim (who’s lives are likely not like they are depicted at all).

Give us money against your will to pay for things you don’t agree with or we’ll take away your access to live media from everyone else too.

Now whether or not they can carry out the threats they’re notorious for or not, I’m just saying if it walks like an extortionist and quacks like an extortionist..
There's quite a comprehensive document compiled by a virologist on reddit discussing what the options for engineering would be, and what traces they would leave, I found it quite interesting: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kAHSEx9-eIyVIahczH8itHaUm9j...
Not going to stop Trumpies from lathing onto this article like flies on poo.
And later in Belarus he worked against authoritarian fascist regime and against exactly what azovs ideology now represents. In a country where you are actively pursued by cops for critiquing people in power and cops have no responsibility and any kind of limitations on use of force, being a journalist that even somewhat challenges the system takes balls and dedication.

Most of my family got affected by the regime at some point before leaving the country, witnessed massacre in 2011, gov-t staged terrorist acts. And knowing how Belarus needs people like Protasevich, Putilo, Zavadski, Byabenin, Cherkasova i am willfully dismissing his misdoings in favour of his later achievements.

I know that people love to let their entire opinion be based on a single article, but let the bigger picture in.
TL;DR:

They have found first computationally then experimentally, a high number of potential splice sites in genetic code of AstraZeneca and J&J adeno viruses. This means instead of producing Spike protein, its shorter versions may be produced by cells infected with these adenoviruses. Those short proteins can cause rare sever side effects.

Quote: Here, we present first molecular evidence that vector-based vaccines encoding the Spike protein exhibit a problem that is completely absent in mRNA-based vaccines. This is due to the fact that during the vaccination step, the adenoviral DNA enters the nucleus and use the host machinery to transcribe its (trans)genes inside the nucleus. However, RNA viruses have evolved in the absence of any post-transcriptional modification systems that are usually enabled to process the primary RNA transcripts of nuclear encoded genes.

In this study, we experimentally validated our assumption that potential splice events cause the production of Spike protein variants that have lost the important membrane anchor, resulting in secreted, soluble Spike protein variants.
With Klarna, any fraud that results from this incident can and will be reversed thanks to both company and government regulations.

With crypto, anything but perfect opsec on the entire stack through which your money travels means potentially losing all your money irreversibly. I’ll take “just use a database” thanks.
As an exercise I once went through the process of manually requesting my information removed from most of the top brokers.

It would be difficult to automate because the opt-out processes usually aren't straightforward like unsubscribing from an email list. Many sites make it purposely difficult and involve going through multiple steps, providing verification like a drivers license, and email confirmations.

Here is a really good check list of different brokers: https://inteltechniques.com/data/workbook.pdf