skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When we were young and poor and bought used car A instead of used car B it was impossible to look back and decide that you maybe had made a poor financial decision at that time.

When your financial decisions though involve publicly traded assets, it is painfully easy to go back and with precision determine the exact amount you missed out on because of your risk aversion.
It is BS -- you can't split some work into smaller parts. If you interrupt pregnancy at 3 months, you likely won't get a baby in 6. Deep work may take time.
I expect, nothing. reads article Yup, nothing.

> The result would be uncomfortable not just for the Chinese Communist Party

Outside of the ethnic cleansing that's already going on? Pfft.

> It would shake science to its foundations for carrying out risky research despite clear warnings of the dangers, and then collaborating in an epic whitewash.

The grand statement in the face of history rings hollow.

> it would challenge a media that meekly accepted the establishment view

The "media" is as corrupt as the politicians (since access is traded as part of information dealing), but you still have some marginal sources that never give up on various theories. Unsurprising that what's considered crackpot and credible shifts under our feet. Facts are hard to come by, when they are withheld.
I'd love it if there were automated tickets for this. But California can't even get it together to allow automated speeding tickets, a bill for this just got killed.

In SOMA in San Francisco I'll often hear motorcycles drive by that are so loud they set off car alarms along their path.

And don't get me started on the cost/benefit of car alarms.
First of all, sorry for your loss.

Reading comments, everyone is telling their loss story, everyone has one.

I just want to say, you are alive, life is going on, keep moving, there is nothing any of us can do at this moment, know this, admit it, keep your love in your heart, keep living happy life, there is no other way.

Sorry,
Those estimates mean nothing. GoDaddy would list it at 250k+.
I think it's just a timing thing. Within a few months, I expect them to not ship with radar anymore either.
Vscode is now my go-to for opening and running notebooks. The issue I had with the normal jupyter was it it's support for normal python files were bad. With vscode I can work on both normal python files and notebook files in the same window without much overhead
Personally I don’t have a problem with repetitive content that is overtly aimed at beginners and junior devs, since there is a constant flow of new beginners and junior devs joining social media.

Seems like it could be a constructive exchange: newbies get useful basic content; posters get likes and followers. But, only if the content is actually good.
I would like to know if this is still true.
Tcl Calling Parallel C++ Code Using OpenMP
A few years back while working as a Linux admin I sent this to a newish co-worker who was struggling. They were an older Windows/DOS person and had little familiarity with UNIX. I thought this would be an easy way to practice completing tasks via shell and to demonstrate the possibility therein. I checked in a few weeks later and my co-worker never went past looking at the first page and saying 'This looks neat' - unsurprisingly they were let go about two months after I left.
The context for that is in the previous sentence:

> [...] you get an out-of-the-box, slick and capable computer that an idiot could set up and get running in minutes.

He's praising the simplicity of the setup. I smiled. That language is normal discourse in the UK.
True and for others perhaps. But they still rely on the ad networks of, and passing data on to Microsoft (DDG, Ecosia....) or Google (Startpage).

Apologies for the self-promotion but there is another way: https://www.mojeek.com/support/ads/
The point is, adding lidar to the car does not mean you are "done with it". If it were the case, Tesla would have done it long ago. Lidar is great for precisely detecting 3D surfaces. But it helps very little in characterizing those surfaces. Lidar could tell you precisely how far a sheet of metal is. Whether that sheet of metal is a traffic sign and what it says, it tells you not. Lidar doesn't detect lane markings and many things more. Also, there is the challenge of merging the Lidar data with your camera images.
it goosed economic productivity, which is what those positioned to capitalize on it (pun intended) wanted. what it didn’t do is bring the holistic prosperity that was promised, because that really wasn’t wanted despite the rhetoric. it’s time to insist on fairness and dignity for work, not try to devalue work further by trying to minimize it, which plays right into the hands of capital.
Just don't call people idiots.
When you admit, when you know we humans are so weak and still haven't solved some big problems, some of them maybe do not have solution, it can help with your feelings. Keep living happy life!
They added the reference to Germany’s constitution after I commented.
This article attempts and fails to keep a neutral point of view on this theory. Instead, it heavily implies that a wuhan lab leak is the most likely source, citing Occam's razor as a rationale. Just because we haven't identified with certainty the cross animal with bats doesn't mean the most likely explanation is a massive Chinese coverup.
Khan academy is great, but nothing is quite like listening to a certified genius.
The issue with human drivers isn't that we can't see well enough. It's that we're easily distracted and have slow reaction times. A self-driving car can be way better than human drivers without needing special cameras or other sensors that would give it superhuman vision.
I’m not sure the distinction matters to lots of customers. “Synthetic cannabinoids” as a term suggests to customers that they’re buying something like synthetic cannabis, even if it has significantly different effects, and even if it’s chemically nothing like actual cannabinoids. The only regulation (at least in parts of the US where I’ve looked into it) is banning them where possible, but like whack-a-mole new ones spring up, with new compounds and the same implication that it’s ~weed.
Was this article written by a 15 year-old?
If only America could just fly in a few Navy seals like we did to grab Binladen and just grab everything in that lab (and apologize later).

I mean, China knows we won’t go to war with them, and we know they won’t go to war with us. So let’s just do it.
"funded the lab"

This can mean anything from fully funding it to giving it some small amount of money and having no real control or transparency, or even funding people from the lab to do research in America. Can you provide a source?
That company is on a different level. They have their own high schools and private education. Many executives are 'bred' in-house so they actually never even experience 'real life', but graduate from a Siemens high school and start climbing the corporate ladder straight after.
GMPL and mGPL are acronyms for the same exception, the former is just the informal term. It's the GNU Modified General License. People have been calling the license of the FSF version "mGPL" for more than a decade at least.
Build Rails app with minimal gems and configurations
What is traceability and why does WhatsApp oppose it?
I think there are three categories of projects at Google:

1) Working out how they can milk even more money out of their magic cash cow of online advertising by providing more opportunities to serve ads (YouTube, Gmail, Maps)

2) Protecting their magic cash cow (ads) from external threats, the main threat being a loss of tracking (Chrome, Android, Fibre, Google Analytics, Ok Google, Maps). (As an aside, if you use Chrome and want to avoid this kind of behaviour, please consider swapping to a truly open source non-tracking browser)

3) Trying to find another magic cash cow before the first one runs out of milk (Eg Google Cloud, YouTube Red)

Some things will fall into multiple buckets, for example Google Maps and Gmail offers both an opportunity to further track users and serve them ads - double whammy!

I suspect Google Cars are more about category 3, although have no doubt that they will be mined for data as much as possible to serve categories 1 & 2. Agree with your point on fibre - it looks like that is an attempt to own even more of the tech stack to provide even more methods to track.
I have rigorously only accepted connections from people I’ve actually worked with in some capacity.

Makes for a nicer feed, but maybe that means I’m missing out on some recruiting opportunities? I thought recruiters could reach out to folks on LinkedIn without establishing a connection first.
Or, DRM removal, or, malware analysis, or...
Love this South Park Episode.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipDmsxQVxIM
Can't we have a smart contract system where every company in possession of some user data can be asked to provide a machine-verifiable proof that it legally obtained that information?
For me it's the screen. Been using an ultrawide for several years and I could never go back.

Also, I hear that you don't need as much RAM with an M1, but I don't have personal experience. I do know that I regularly push the limits of my 32GB Hackintosh and, using it only for web browsing, our 8GB Surface quickly becomes close to useless. I know the sort of edge case people you're talking about. I'm most definitely not one.
I recently (2 years ago) made motorcycle license (Poland) and bought 600cc Honda CBF600s.

During training we had to switch motorcycles (we started on 250cc, then after a dozen hours moved to 600cc which is required by Polish law to pass the exam).

I have felt comfortable on 250cc but moving to 600cc felt like I had to learn everything again from the start.

On 250 (140kg?) I could throw my weight around and cause motorcycle to do stuff while the same no longer seems to work on 600 (210kg?).

Overall I feel better and safer on 600cc because at highway speeds it does exactly what I need it to do and place myself exactly where I want without feeling that it is overpowered and that slight mistake with the throttle is going to cause me to loose control of it.

I tried a dozen different motorcycles from 125cc to 1000cc before I made my final choice.

One disclaimer is that I am rather cautious driver/rider. As an example I never drive/ride fast in relation to other drivers. I may ride faster but only so much so I still am able to react if they make something stupid. I also spend a lot of effort learning to drive/ride safer.

When it comes to pratical matters I think that for safety it doesn't matter much how large your bike is, as long as you are properly trained. 125cc or 1000cc, your prospects in an accident are roughly the same.

Smaller bikes (125cc or less) may offer better handling if you are not well trained and you panic but on the other hand they might be less agile in traffic where it is important to constantly place you away from blind spots of other drivers, etc.

The only danger comes from speed and acceleration. But if you are an adult and can restrain yourself to safe speeds I don't think larger motorcycle is less safe.

What I mean is that it is not the size of the motorcycle but the driver that causes it to be unsafe. And unsafe drivers may prefer to choose larger motorcycles because it allows them to ride faster.
I don’t know, I feel that people have to recalibrate their RAM expectations and experience just as they have their speed and battery life expectations with M1. When all of your experience is grounded in the x86 era whose time is up, it’s an apples and oranges comparison.
> In Greek, for instance, we say "yia sou" ("γειά σου"), for "hello". It means, basically, "have health". (...) I don't get the "have you eaten" greeting and I'm very very curious.

If you eat well, you'll grow healthy, if you eat poorly, you'll grow unhealthy. They stem from the same principles :-)
It’s Wired.co.uk. British humor is less reverent than what’s practiced in the US.
A question I always wanted to ask: why stereo vision cannot replace lidar?
OK I really tried but my Googlefu seems lacking. Any pointer, pretty please?
Ninja Edit: I didn't downvote you by the way.

The first objection is that the system allows them to marshal massive amounts of resources to achieve their objectives without support the very infrastructure that they rely on to acquire ever increasing control of resources.

The second objection is that they've lobbied for a system that benefits them. Do we really think of adding years to copyright is something that actually benefits everyday people? No. Of course not. But the wealthy pressure the politicians and the politicians cave and most of the public is too busy to understand or fight it.

The third objection is that they drive up costs for others for areas of the economy that are naturally limited. The larger their house and plot, the fewer people can live there, the more they drive up prices for land. They buy multiple homes. The best lakes and groups of normal people can't compete. In basically any market where there is an arms race the ever increasing economic disparity is making the day-to-day reality of the poor worse. Automation has helped bring the cost of things down, but in so many areas it's a hollower copy of what it used to be. People used to bake bread at home all across Canada. Now, it's wonderbread for the poor. To an economists spreadsheet things look great, but there's a humanness that is getting pushed out of interactions.

Imagine this continuing on and on, as technology continues to ever centralize returns. We're going to start having trillionaires soon. Right now the word is marked as incorrect by my spellchecker, but once it hits the news there's going to be the new bar people hit. A new top class.

There should be wealth limit. Or very high wealth taxes after, say, $100m. It doesn't make sense for such a small percent of people to own such a large percent of our society.
Research labs attempt artifical evolution of viruses and bacteria under extremely controlled situations in order to attempt to find cures preemptively. They also identify symptoms and severity before natural evolution has a chance outside the lab to create these novel pandemics itself.
That’s not what we call an ‘observation’ in science.
Yes that’s annoying. In the past you could use a country’s domain to choose Google’s localization but it’s not the case anymore. And their “ncr” (no country redirect) feature doesn’t work anymore.

It’s one of the main reason I’ve been using Duckduckgo more and more.
I’d be curious what proportion of developers build to a specific ISA at all, versus simply caring that their tools are available for the one they’re developing for.
Retired train writer from berlin here, I’d love to hear more stories from you…
As soon as you increase the average education of potential employees, you increase the average value of potential employees. Which means your business is better at creating value?

Where do you get better educated people mean everything else stays the same?
It's deep trolling, as it doesn't even do Linux any favors. Alternative slogan; "Port your game to GNU/Linux! Gain less than 1% players and no revenue while increasing your maintenance cost in ways you couldn't imagine. Try to reverse the decision without too much bad PR or lose all your established customers, then watch it all die. Educate yourself about GNU/Linux!".
Photos of Atoms from Cornell University
To this day, if I scroll off screen on Google Maps and then hit the "center view" button I get nagged to allow Google to use my phone to wardrive even when wi-fi is turned off. It would be nice if I could use Google products without audibly wishing violent misfortune on their executives.
> adding lidar to the car does not mean you are "done with it"

It will mean Tesla is done with trying to avoid adding it. They test with lidar so they might as well start using it:

https://insideevs.com/news/508669/tesla-model-y-luminar-lida...
It is even worse. SARS-CoV-2 virus has not yet been found in wild animals. That indicates it has no natural origin. And there are interviews with scientists and job ads, that points to gain of function research.

But that will be "conspiracy theory" for another year, before mainstream catches up...
And a reminder that he did in fact have covid.
A funny tweet that explains the trade offs of that kind of test: https://www.newsweek.com/space-karen-response-elon-musk-vira...
1. There have been and will continue to be many pandemics in the course of human history. If we can understand viruses better, perhaps we can stop those pandemics for good one day, and the risk of one outbreak is worth the benefit of potentially stopping or slowing many more (which may also be more lethal).

2. Hindsight is 20/20. While there were prior lab leaks and those who thought this would happen, I think the fact that Covid happened and the severity of its effects will cause those believe point 1 above to reconsider the degree of risk and whether it’s really worth the potential benefits.
Is this actually true that families are less or equivalently as safe as institutional living though?

At least one study found that rates of abuse in foster homes are ~4x higher than in other homes.
This is as far as my lay understanding goes: the idea was that you could better handle potential outbreaks by creating potential outbreaks in a lab, and studying them there. If you have bad priors ("we have perfect protocols, because we've never caused a global pandemic") I could see how you'd get to this being a net positive: there will be another pandemic, probably involving one of these, so let's study it before it's a pandemic.

I've thought of the intent as a little like using a fuzzer in security research, although that might not by a great analogy.
I think that “почему/зачем?” is more of an entertainment question in Russia, because the most popular answer would be “it just so happens”. Like, all by itself. You will generally spend much more than three syllables (and maybe some amount of alcohol) to get your answer even from friends. Another fun observation about “почему” is that “normal” russians mostly deal with consequences of the processes out of their direct control. Snow and cold? Ok, find a shelter. Alien invasion? Ok, burn them down and return to a shelter. New “strange” law? Ok, it can’t be properly enforced, or someone will come up with a countermeasure in a week, no need to even leave a shelter. It’s all weather, you don’t question weather.

(Disclaimer: I do not smile)
Perhaps they do client fingerprinting across browsers so they didn't need to verify you ...
Ahhh yes. The old "the-ones-who-caused-the-problems-will-fix-them-honest" routine. Never gets old, and it's been playing out for thousands of years!!! What a sale job.
I like how some of the photos show the same place years apart.

These two images [1][2] show the same junction near St Martin station.

Note the patch in the ceiling in these two pictures: [3][4]

The pink graffito on the back wall in this [5] picture can still be seen years later if you zoom into this [6] picture.

A red graffito can be seen on the back wall here [7] (very small) and here [8].

[1]http://web.archive.org/web/20130513204844im_/http://sleepyci...
[2]https://www.urbextour.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/21.jpg
[3]http://web.archive.org/web/20130513204844im_/http://sleepyci...
[4]https://www.urbextour.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/8-1.jpg
[5]http://web.archive.org/web/20130513204844im_/http://sleepyci...
[6]https://www.urbextour.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/58.jpg
[7]http://web.archive.org/web/20130513204844im_/http://sleepyci...
[8]https://www.urbextour.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/59.jpg
LinkedIn is a matchmaking service for recruiters and resumes to find each other. As such it works pretty well, just ignore the feed which is mostly inspirational and self-serving crap.
They can, but they seem to want to connect too.

I’ve never taken much interest in the ‘feed’ part, and view the site mostly as a tool for finding work, though I’ve not had to look for the last few years due to non-LinkedIn networking...
What I find interesting (I speak not a word of Portuguese) is the multitude of Portuguese-X creole languages, particularly the ones tha flourished and are some time still spoken in Sout Asia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese-based_creole_langua...

I think many originated as trade languages, but I find it interesting that languages with such very different roots would mix and create a new language (a Creole, more so; not just a pidjin).
If you're knowingly annoying people for your own pleasure, I don't much care what your intentions are. You're either intentionally mean or too self centered to consider your actions effects on the people around you.
Maybe put a banner at the bottom which says something like "Redact supports the EFF but is not affiliated with them. We encourage you to donate to open source privacy software at this link: <Link to EFF>"
You can still get really, really good air travel, if you are willing to pay those past prices.
I have struggled to find a good combination of paper and fountain pens. Any recommendations?
Hospital operating margins are in the single digits: https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/hospital-margins-.... Almost all of that $10 aspirin goes to paying doctors, administrators, nurses, rent, etc. All of those are in short supply and demand continues to grow.

Why would you reflexively assume “the upper upper class” is involved? Billionaires tend to make things cheaper for consumers while gutting the upper class below them. Amazon wipes out owners of regional or local retail chains, but makes things cheaper for consumers. (That’s a big part of why the 0.01% is pulling away from the 1%. It’a billionaires eating the lunch of millionaires.)

Contrast areas like education, where there are no “upper upper class” making profits. Tuitions continue to skyrocket due to growing expenses—in salaries, physical plant, etc. It’s a racket, but it’s a racket run by the upper middle class.
Writing down website rules (ie which websites have length requirements, etc) is not the same as writing down passwords. The former is already public information. I keep track of website rules in a Google doc for reference and if compromised it does not give an attacker any information that isn't already public.

If BitWarden can be accessed from a browser it means all my passwords are on their servers, whereas with an algorithmic password generator the passwords are in my brain alone
There is not one "lab leak theory", there are quite a few distinct possibilities. The problem is that the nutcases ran with the one that said China was working on weaponizing this exact virus and then it leaked.

But there are other explanations for lab workers getting sick. They could have been working on samples of this virus without knowing it, and not taken enough precautions. They could have infected themselves outside the lab and then each other.

The question about what a "Wuhan lab leak" means is a lot too early, because nothing is known about what exactly happened and probably there will never be enough information, given the general CCP policy.

And still, any deliberate attempt to weaponize a Corona virus would be unlikely and require much more evidence. Certain other pathogens, maybe, but not something that has pandemic potential. It just doesn't make sense.
If there will be an indicator like that, people may assume that the account that doesn't have it is worse in some way.
I would say it "is" more like Western philosophy suggests this, or you could also say they have not yet discovered a way that it is useful.