skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gotcha, I was thinking more in terms of JSON as a serialization / interchange format (given the OP), rather than use cases such as the one you describe above.

To clarify: no, I do not believe that JSON is universally better than XML. I believe JSON is better than XML for the majority of use cases where people are currently using JSON today, esp. as an interchange format.
I know I got downvotes already but I guess that’s what I meant, that in a lab setting human researchers would have been manipulating the virus. I meant that I don’t think anyone is saying that researchers captured a novel COVID variant in nature and just held it in a lab until it leaked.

If the lab theory holds any water, it’s almost certain that humans were manipulating the virus in some form.

That’s why I don’t see much of a distinction between a lab leak theory and a human-made or human-manipulated virus.
I think Neil Tyson has the right idea in his focus on promoting scientific literacy, which does not refer to "believing whatever scientists say." If a scientist says something surprising, we should be at least somewhat capable of verifying that the research says what they say it does. Will you be able to verify everything, or even most things? Of course not. But you will come out of it better than you would have remaining standing in ignorance.

> someone who isn't knowlegeable enough follows your advice and is unable to notice their own errors in interpretation and understanding

This happens even with experts in their own fields. That's why it is supposed to be the beginning of a dialogue between the reader and the writers, not a research project that happens in a vacuum. Science is a collaborative effort.
I don’t know how to explain this, but how did it become acceptable to hold the “lab leak” theory about the origins of covid? For the longest time the experts and the news media was dead set against taking this origin hypothesis seriously and to have published this particular article a year ago would be tantamount to inciting misinformation. The insinuation of talking about lab leaks would be considered irresponsible because it could sway people into thinking the lab hypothesis could have merit.

So what actually changed? How did it go from a conspiracy theory to something that’s plausible and open to discussion?
Nobody post any jwz links and have him learn about the dangers of hotlinking images.
The single most important person for a cryptocurrency is the meme maker. Cryptocurrencies are literally “memed” into existence unlike fiat which rides the back of military/police power.
Yeah, they form a "cluster" of documents: https://www.rfc-editor.org/cluster_info.php?cid=C430, so that the earlier-numbered RFCs can reference later ones. For instance, rfc9000 normatively refers to rfc9001 and rfc9002.
C. A good friend knew the CTO at the company and recommended me.
> Have previous protocols (TCP, UDP, etc) been in widespread use before their respective RFCs?

As other people have noted, yes.

One of the interesting facts about the IETF is that they actually require two existing implementations in order to advance from an RFC to an official "Internet Standard":

The IETF Standards Process (RFC 2026, updated by RFC 6410) requires at least two independent and inter-operable implementations for advancing a protocol specification to Internet Standard.

I suspect that this requirement for two independent implementations that can actually talk to each other is one reason the IETF has a relatively solid track record.
If you want to do better, don't shy away from showing times you were wrong.

It's hard to present a universally right answer in tech (or in general), it's not hard to know when you chose wrong answer, and going over it can teach others how to identify the right one and show that you're capable of growth
So can't they do that and still work a job?

Or what else, if they can't? They starve? Or I have to go to work and provide them food?

What exactly is your plan here?
> you might just get blocked by UserAgent

Just pretend to be Chrome.
> The bigger lie triggers the amygdala in a way that the little one doesn’t, so that one is paradoxically more likely to get passed on.

That would explain how a conspiracy theory about a secret cabal of blood-drinking satanic pedophiles among the Democratic Party went from 4chan shitposts to a nationwide Christian apocalypse cult to a political platform that actually got someone elected to the House of Representatives. Galaxy amygdala.
I had two thoughts on this:

1. Is it even possible to bootstrap a biotech fund if you’re not rich (min 10mil net worth)? The author doesn’t really say why they even need funding but I imagine biotech has a lot of up front costs.

2. Given how you can “game” your pitches - from the VCs perspective isn’t this bad? Wouldn’t that mean potentially bad companies could “con” you into funding them? I wonder what the downside is of being strictly objective is (if possible).

This was an enlightening article. Good find.
"The boy who cried wolf", comes to mind.

If you spout a bunch of nonsense about Climate Change being a hoax, don't be too surprised when a lot of people start ignoring or even deriding the things you say. Even if the wolf does eventually show up.
That's needlessly technical. The original sentence summed it up better.
here's my favorite: https://swoop.com
I don't think having an embedded DSL for defining layouts makes it a declaritive language. By that definition, almost every language is declarative as its a somewhat common way to define layouts (certainly not universal, but common enough that i suspect every language has at least one library that supports it).

If the main facilities for writing logic in the language are procedural, than i'd call that a procedural language.
A number of games, but my favorite that I have a working back-end for is Battlestar Galactica ( https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/37111/battlestar-galacti... ), and it is complicated.

I'm currently designing my own deck builder similar to Dominion.

My advice would be to use first make a game without the network, and just have hotseat. Once you have a hotseat game, then the question is how to pull the state out of the client and then be shared between two computers.

The complications arise during the failure modes of the network, and how transactions play between multiple play. Chess is a fairly simple game to get started with (I'm not sure how makruk compares), but modern eurogames tend have a lot of rules that can be changed by pieces or cards. These get... very complicated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolism_(architecture)
Wait til I tell you about the custom UI system I'm building with canvas.

http://www.adama-lang.org/blog/ui-flow-with-adama
My understanding is that dog-related food/medicine/nutritional supplements have a lot lower bar than human-grade equivalents, when it comes to regulatory clearance. On one hand, that makes me very skeptical that this would actually be more than a snake oil in its first 5 years of existence. On the other hand, I imagine that this could be an interesting "proving ground" for potential human-grade longevity solutions. I think that's the real moonshot.
There is a huge difference! For one, suggesting it was man-made lends credibility to the conspiracy theory crowd ("plandemic", "they manufactured it to enslave you", etc), which is probably why the press over-indexed on debunking it. Also, it could imply that there was some intent behind it appearing when and where it did, when there may have been none (Hanlon's razor applies until a proof to the contrary appears). My understanding was that the theory that the virus was man-made was debunked, but I have not been paying much attention to what was happening to the stories saying it may have been an accidental leak from a lab, and given China's record, I wouldn't be too surprised to learn that there was research happening on it, it got out, and that was then covered up.
> Are there transmittable cancers among human?

I don’t think there are any known examples of cancer transmission (as opposed to transmission of viruses that cause cancer) in humans; leukemias have shown to be transmissible in mice in the lab.
The dog one is rampant where I live in Mexico. Treatable of catched early and the dog is lucky enough to have someone affluent watching over it, but most don't.
Why would a site have to explicitly support Firefox? The HTML that works on Chrome should work equally well in other browsers. This is the whole point of web standards.
I use OpenMPTCPRouter [1]. It's a bit of kitchen sink so I'm thinking of replacing it with something simpler, but the basic idea is that you have a TCP->MPTCP converter running on your router and MPTCP->TCP converter running on some cloud instance.

[1] https://www.openmptcprouter.com/
If they can help dogs to live longer, which animal could be next?

https://www.celinehh.com/aging-field

> The reasons we do not have an approved aging drug today are not due to the science - the biological blockers to a first-generation aging drug have been clear for at least ten years. The primary reasons there are no approved aging drugs today are much more tricky - they are regulatory, societal, structural, and cultural.

> For the last years, I’ve been a researcher in academic aging labs, worked in aging-focused venture capital and early-stage aging drug development startups, and am now the founder of the aging biotech Loyal. The common theme of my work has been trying to find the highest leverage way to support and accelerate the first aging drug approval.
The tide of the press turns on the persistence of people with hard to dismiss factual evidence.
Thank you! I'm always trying to plug things into the wrong things when it seems like they might work in a fun way.

PIDs have been a remarkably versatile hammer for lots of things that aren't nails.
I agree that there's basically never a good use case for shipping logic from server to client or vice versa in a formal application setting. BUT. I could definitely see a scenario where something like this would be handy for farming distributed processing out to naive nodes or workers that don't / shouldn't have access to the core logic.
What about (sqrt (+ (+ 3 3) (+ 4 4))) read as "square root of the sum of the product of 3 by 3 and 4 by 4" instead of √(3^2+4^2) where √ is prefix, + is infix, ^ is exponent, not to speak of implicits precedences.

in lambdatalk (http://lambdaway.free.fr) one could go beyond and mix html/css using the same syntax, for instance

{div {@ style="color:red"} the hypotenuse of a square triangle (3,4) is equal to {sqrt {+ {* 3 3} {* 4 4}}} }

which can be read like this « write in a div html element, whose style attribute is color red, the hypotenuse of a square triangle (3,4) is equal to the square root of the sum of the product of 3 by 3 and 4 by 4 »

is displayed as « the hypotenuse of a square triangle (3,4) is equal to 5 »

In fact prefixed parenthesis expressions follow the way we think and speak.
This reads more like Mozilla will abandon WebExtension standard if need be and fork it. The shared API was pretty short-lived... Maybe both Apple and Mozilla can share one.
You don’t give up operator precedence, you just write it explicitly. Operator precedence is a consequence of implicit infix operator behavior.

What is the value of this statement?

3 + 100 % 2 / 5

I’d like to have added a power calculation somewhere in there for illustration, but most general-purpose languages make that a function. It’s worth asking whether they ran out of infix symbols/syntax or chose a function for some other reason.
A lot of assumptions you're making about a hypothetical there.
Point still stands. I've made plenty of bugs writing both sql and prolog (although i've only written a small amount of prolog)

Certain classes might be more or less likely, but no paradigm is magic and stops all bugs.
>Loyal is developing drugs to extend dog lifespan and healthspan.

Wow this is a huge undertaking. I wish you luck and I don't mean that sarcastically! If you can do that to a dog, it seems trivial to extend to humans. Have any drugs or supplements extended dog lifespan in the literature? Rapamycin I guess?
Gross. Even Amazon got slapped down and stopped A/B testing prices.
The following are all valid too:

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Coffee is not great for you (though there is some disagreement on that), it stains your teeth and it gives you bad breath.

If you don't even like it, then just get the equivalent amount of caffeine in pill form. Even better if you get it with l-theanine as it supposedly smoothes out the peaks and troughs.

I'm sure the caffeine pills are cheaper than coffee and you can save some time in your morning routine.
I find this a very repugnant thing to say. In what way is facing sexual extortion an advantage?
Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Isn't that how it's always been. People just regurgitate the media they consume. It used to be sermons at church. Then it moved to print, radio and tv. Now it expanded to the internet/social media. Whether we like it or not, we've all been programmed by the media that we consume.

"Whoever controls the media controls the mind" - Jim Morrison
I've tried Feedly, Inoreader, Old reader, Newsblur, and Elfeed. Newsblur is my average favorite since 2013.
Person not alive in the 70s here (and not researched it), but curious why our heath care system is so bad. Could you elaborate on your point / give some sources? It seems interesting to me.
Yeah that's fair, it's never going to be easy for the general public to stay correctly informed on rapidly evolving technical topics. But once some piece of misinformation got too deeply entrenched on one side the partisanship took over pretty hard. Maybe that's nothing new, I am relatively young, but something about it does feel like it's getting worse.
How can you tell how many flags a submission has received?
IMO it's functionally infinite until it's not, 1gb was a 'functionally infinite' amount of ram back when 64k was considered top tier.
There is no point in actually running build tools on a target MS-DOS system. Modern compilers are perfectly capable of running on a practical development system while compiling to code for a different, target platform.

Then, you can use any fully modern language you can find a cross compiler toolchain for. C++ is the most widely supported, so offers the most choices.
They went so far as to write a blog officially taking a position on the issue: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2020/10/14/extension-man...
In theory, sure. Realistically, websites of any complexity at all need to be tested in different browser engines. There's almost always something that works in one browser but not another.
This is the opposite lesson you should be taking away from this.
Better example: https://github.com/disconcision/fructure
I'd guess the stats favour non-hospital births because they are only done when deemed safe beforehand. No midwife will let you do it outside hospital if they spotted anything wrong.
You might like Typora, which will handle image pasting for you. Some other software to look up: Foambubble, Obsidian, Dendron, Neuron Zettelkasten
Javascript (netscape used to sell it as a server side language in the 90's, and more recently there is node.js).

But really with web assembly, anything you want.
Sorry for incorrect wording. I don't need multipath to be present in the same spec as the QUIC core. What I meant is when I will be able to have slightly less then 150Mbps over QUIC for e.g. a single file if I have 3x50Mbps connections. MPTCP can do that for me, even if the server doesn't support it as I can use something like OpenMPTCPRouter [1]. I hope multipath QUIC will be able to do that too, but it's not ready for production use yet, if I understand correctly.

[1] https://www.openmptcprouter.com/
I think if you have the right motivation it's fine. To be blunt I don't think self promotion and hirability is the right one heh I think that will lead to low quality content.

I'm not really a blogger, but I have written and posted stuff I found hard or interesting, like documentation for my self. I reffer to it occasionally too. Idk if any readers got anything out of it. People seemed to like it. I did find that worthwhile though.
Just asking, but why the teeth?
Without a bind mount, their state is explicitly contained. You can run one, delete it, and run it again, and know that your host system is unmodified inbetween, and that the state is coming up brand new the second time.

It's the reproducibility of a vm without the overhead of a whole 'nother OS/boot. You can keep all of the state in a single volume, and can back it up or move it to another machine and relaunch it with a minimum of fuss.
C is old. C++20 is as modern as anything, and more than most.
Without using a headset it's less privacy, as the phone would read out the screen contents to anybody in hearing range.
Do Mens' Shaving Clubs Make Any Money? Is It Worth Starting One?
I spent a couple of decades writing in disorganized notebooks, never looking at them again. Most of that time I was into various 'obsessions' for weeks or months each—learning about some topic, reading everything I could get my hands on about it.

The last few years I've been making LaTeX PDF books, one for each year, and books for particular subjects, e.g. I have a book each for writing music, programming languages, maths, my programs, my essays etc. These split off from the current year's book when they get big enough. I'm only capable of being into 1 or 2 things at a time, but now when I return to a subject months or years later, the beautiful LaTeX book is there waiting for me. Often I've already forgotten most of what I wrote into the book before. I just wish I'd started doing that decades earlier!!

Also, I'm continually writing into a text file—every idea I have, quotes, links, ideas for things to do etc. Then every week or two I move stuff from the notes file into its appropriate LaTeX book.

Oh, and the movies/series I've seen in the last 10 years has its own web page[0]—the page I visit most often on my website, by a long way. I'd have forgotten the names of 95% of them if I didn't have that page.

My site was initially inspired by Bill Beaty's approach on amasci.com[1], of putting everything online, making your site your filing cabinet. I think I got sick of carefully-designed pages changing how they looked every time I saw them, or formatting breaking, so lately I've done most stuff in (private) ebooks, which maybe is a shame. Just my bad web-design skills I guess.

[0] http://www.adamponting.com/movies/

[1] http://amasci.com/faq.html A lot of great advice/wisdom on this page!
Where are the statistics blogs?

Christian Robert https://xianblog.wordpress.com/
Andrew Gelman https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/
Deborah Mayo https://errorstatistics.com/
Frank Harrell https://www.fharrell.com/
Radford Neal https://radfordneal.wordpress.com/
Variance Explained http://varianceexplained.org/
Larry Wasserman (inactive) https://normaldeviate.wordpress.com/
20% Statistician https://daniellakens.blogspot.com/
Jim Albert https://baseballwithr.wordpress.com/author/bayesball/
The R blog https://developer.r-project.org/Blog/public/
Graphic Detail, by The Economist https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/rss.xml
The Royal Society Data Science Section https://rssdss.design.blog/blog-feed/

Many good “blogs” can be created by following good users on Cross Validated. StackExchange provides RSS feeds of user activity.

Many statistics journals also offer RSS feeds. These feeds are sometimes hidden, but an RSS reader like NewsBlur can discover them for you. This post[1] is a good starter collection of statistics journal RSS feeds.

[1] https://robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/rss-feeds/
PyTouch: A Machine Learning Library for Touch Processing
That information isn't public. I'm a mod here (in case that wasn't clear), so I looked at the private data.

Edit: if you meant what you can tell from public information: (1) sudden drops in rank, as walterbell points out downthread—(edit: but it's important to know that sudden drops in rank can also be because of the flamewar detector, which is unrelated to flags), and/or (2) the [flagged] annotation, which appears when flags outweigh upvotes by a certain threshold.
I'm not sure if that's actually fully settled, but the supreme court only recently rejected dismissal of a case on this (sending it back to lower courts), and DOJ has not specified if ADA applies to websites/etc. IANAL, but I believe this issue is still being contested.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-dominos-pizza/u...
Why?

I think that politicians have a responsibility to not tell obvious lies. If they do, then I'm going to stop paying attention to the things they say, and I'll tell everyone else to do the same.

If they eventually say something insightful, well, that's a shame, but they no longer have my attention.
Why can’t a business in the cryptocurrency space be classified a legit company?

Gitcoin is doing amazing work to support creators in the Ethereum and wider crypto ecosystem.
> makes it easier, not harder, for women to raise money compared to men.

Do you have a citation for that? Because the article links a blog (that links a paper) that seems to say otherwise:

https://medium.com/janeventurecapital/female-founders-you-de...
Oh thats interesting, I guess yeah if something actually gets popular enough to bubble up it could be decent content.

I water color paint, in the end I was pretty disappointed with it. I was hoping their might be helpful community but it's non existent
But again, the "normal" isn't that great: the visitor might have just so happened to click a link before using a broken form, but that's not some architectural guarantee that you'll avoid errors. It's just a happy accident that the visitor might have unknowingly triggered an entire app update before using an outdated form.
Are we sure that was the lab leak theory, and not just the emergence of a novel pandemic disease in China? The kind of people who attack random Asians in the street don't need a lab leak to justify it: they just need the fact that the virus spread outward from Wuhan.
It seems like the infix issue would be a pretty simple modification to eval: if the first thing isn’t callable, try the second thing. But I’ve never seen this done, so it must be more complicated than I realize.
AFAIK we have found that SARS-CoV-2 can infect certain animals but no-one has found it in any animals that are plausible candidates for the original zoonotic transfer. (If such candidates have been found, I'd like to learn about it!) For SARS and MERS we had identified candidates already by this stage.
No more “it worked on my machine”
There has been an attempt by some researchers to determine when the first cases of covid were detected in wastewater samples. There are three known studies so far.

December 2019 in Italy:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7428442/

November 2019 in Brazil:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.26.20140731v...

March 2019 in Spain:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.13.20129627v...
They probably didn’t; they probably just reset the password by authenticating using the phone. Using SMS as a second form of authentication is a really bad idea, and password resets of all kinds are usually the weakest point in your account security.