skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One day browsers will natively support modules and "Bundle Splitting" as the article calls it will just be the intuitive and automatic thing to do. Until then we have webpack.
This story is a real clusterfuck and really hammers home the point that humans are bad at dealing with probabilities and uncertainty. You mix some nationalism in and it becomes completely impossible to have a reasonable discussion.

This article already starts with a false dichotomy: "I missed the furious initial skirmish in what’s become the Long Discourse Wars over the idea that the SARS-CoV-2 virus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology rather than originating naturally in bats."

Those aren't conflicting hypotheses. If you're having a "war" over that question you need a cold shower and to go offline for a bit. If the institute was somehow involved in spreading the virus, the simplest story is still that they got it from bats. No matter what anyone tells you, there is zero evidence that any part of the virus is engineered (and it isn't even entirely clear what such evidence would look like, in general!).

Either way, no new hard information has become available. The only thing that has changed is we've gone from pure, wild speculation based on the mere existence of the Wuhan virology institute, to wild speculation paired with some suggestive, anecdotal reports that need to be investigated further.

I would agree that this has somewhat changed the probabilities that we should assign to different hypotheses about the origins of the virus, but it's way too early to have strong convictions.

In the absence of any evidence, and in the heated climate of early 2020, it was and will always have been the correct call to ignore the speculation about how the virus might have come from the Wuhan virology institute.

At the present time, there's nothing you can do except hope that more facts will come to light at some point in the future, even if that's somewhat disappointing. Jumping on the story because it's so juicy and fits so great with "China bad" preconceptions is totally unnecessary.
Referring to a "need" in a pointedly vague way whose meaning had to be inferred from context used to be a euphemistic way of referring to all kinds of biological imperatives. It is important to remember that this use isn't common everywhere. In particular, "do one's need" is unrelated to "do the needful".
In the finest Star Trek tradition, you've earned a commendation for a job well done, and the fact that you violated the Prime Directive will be silently ignored.

Also: "Hackernews", not "HN".
Why should I pay for other people's kids if I'm never going to have kids? The only people that should have to pay for those services are the people who actually use those services. For things that are unplanned like injuries (or even unplanned pregnancies), payment can be deferred if necessary and wages deducted straight from the paycheck to pay back for those services.

Ideally, roads are that way too. People licensed should be charged a tax for road maintenance based on their odometer readings, or something to that effect. Or just use a Fastrak-type system where it automatically scans a device in your car when you get onto certain roads and charges you for that usage -- but do it in more places.

Everyone else can get a very minimal tax for the upkeep of the administration in case few very people use these services.
Just realized that the "blogs" category in my Feedly has 347 entries in it, and about half of them haven't published in more than 3 months.

Here are some that are prolific and good:

https://marginalrevolution.com/

Marginal Revolution: wide-ranging and prolific blog about economics and culture.

https://evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com

Anecdotal Evidence: well-written personal blog, mostly observations on books.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/

Krebs on Security: about information security. It's written for a popular audience, which is about the level at which I understand the subject.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/

Michael Tsai: collects quotes from other people about ongoing software-related news.

https://acquisitiontalk.com

Acquisition Talk: about weapons system acquisition, government procurement, etc. Something I wanted to follow because it's a huge sector that doesn't get a lot of attention.

https://www.futilitycloset.com/

Futility Closet: wunderkammer-style blog with historical miscellany, quotes, puzzles, etc. Also a great podcast.

https://www.tor.com/tag/jo-walton-reads/

Jo Walton's Reading List: Not strictly a blog, but it's in my RSS feeds. I like to see what she's reading lately, and sometimes I get good recommendations from her (e.g. KJ Parker).

https://www.bldgblog.com/

BLDGBLOG: about design, architecture, etc.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/

Colossal: about art and design.

https://www.subtraction.com/

Subtraction: about design
Lol. You can imagine whatever you want, at the end of the day, CCP makes the final call.
Why are so many college grads bad writers? (2017)
That seems unrealistic considering credit card margins alone. Stripe will get you 2.9% + $0,30. Even if we assume Apple pays half that, it's already quite a bit more than you assume.

The physical gift card network is likely vastly more expensive. Not only are there frequent sales on these cards (I have no idea of why or how the economics of them work) but the cards need to be printed and the retailer will take a (small) cut.

Lastly, paid apps subsidise free apps. There is a ton of free apps, both from small indie devs and big businesses. They all pay $99/year. I'm pretty sure the bandwidth cost for all of Google's apps is a few orders of magnitude higher than that.

My, relatively unfounded, suspicion is that the App Store has a profit margin of around ~60%. Apple overall seems to strive for a gross profit margin of around 40% and it seems likely the App Store is doing a lot better. Of course this highly depends on what you consider part of the cost associated with the App Store.
>Every voltage below 20 maxes out at 3 amps. As far as cables go, 60 is the minimum watts supported.

Perhaps for PD 2.0/3.0 but there is also legacy USB PD 1.0 and USB-C BC. During that era I believe 1.5A was minimum.

>Are they valid though?

Probably not, looks like USB 2.0 data is minimum required.

>I don't really care how many combos there are. I won't need most of them.

Just because you don't need specific combinations, doesn't mean you won't have to wade through all possible combinations to find the cable you're looking for.
Rent a 26' or whatever the biggest you can get without a special license is, and DIY. Or if you have kids or relatives in their early twenties, see if you can pay them to do it. It is still probably cheaper.

I have always moved myself (never with as much stuff as you have though) and I think I always will. Like you say, there is no real way you can trust the movers, you have to be there for the loading and unloading anyway, so you're probably not saving time and effort, other than a bit of lifting. And if you can't do that, still better to get a friend or paid local to help you.

If it's really not feasible to DIY, you'll have to bite the bullet and just use one of the sketchy companies. You could look for those containers that they drop off and you load yourself, that may give more piece of mind.
Chia doesn't require running disks at 24x7 100% load. You fill up your storage and then wait until you win the lottery. Most of the time, you won't win and your disk can remain idle.
It talked about combat not being real-time and it was turn based but it could be multi-player. It had text pretend radio channels, corporations and you could be online at the same time hunting or being hunted by other players. You could track people back to their bases with limpet mines and use fighter destruction reports to find occupied space. It was glorious and I used it to measure ever game I played after. BRE, SRE, Food fight, LORD and MajorMud are other favorites.
What if deadalus’ claim is not true?

https://about.fb.com/news/2020/04/covid-19-misinfo-update/

I do not see where discussion lab leak is prohibited.
It's built on large files that act as bingo cards. You have a limited time to respond when you get a bingo. The more cards you have, the more likely you are to win.

They are designed so that precomputing the bingo card is expensive but once you have them, checking to see if you have a bingo is cheap. It's thought that nobody will be able to compute a winning bingo cards on the fly ("grinding"), so it will be cheaper to store and reuse them once you have them.

(I don't know the details of the algorithms though.)
FYI he replied to your comment but replied to the wrong person here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27305183
What the article forgets to mention is that there is a world power (cough China cough) which would use all its (social-) media manipulation skills and influence to make sure that the lab leak theory was written off as crazy conspiracy talk…
Under those circumstances, and without a concerted effort by the US and other democracies to counter China’s preferred narrative, no wonder that the debate turned very lopsided.
In cosmology, the "Universe" typically refers to the observable universe which is far from infinite. There is nothing to "accept" about the terms "dark matter" and "dark energy", they are colloquial terms that describe two unrelated phenomena that we have yet to explain (hence the "dark" part). Just because you have an incorrect assumption about what the informal names imply doesn't mean others do as well.
Without likes people will have no idea if people are reading their posts other than comments, which are rare compared to low-effort "like" clicks. It's not going to work.
> Who should evaluate the evidence for its credibility?

Why the Ministry of Truth of course
Whenever we empower someone/something to moderate anything we should see it as allowing the entity the to misuse whatever power we give them.

Ultimately responsibility is on us for allowing something like this to happen.
I wish I could be as open minded as you, maybe one day
The idea of someone unironically having a vacuum tube radio repair-related bone to pick with Paul Carlson is just funny. He should make detailed reaction videos where he shit-talks Paul for his poor technique, lack of electronics knowledge, and inauthenticity.
What the hell? What a meaningless metric by which to judge others or one's self. Facebook friends are cheap. I can send out 10,000 requests right now (~2 hours without writing a script, ~20 minutes with, assuming no rate limiting) and several thousand complete strangers will blindly accept.

I had no idea there were people out there who felt so strongly about this (not implying that you do, of course). If anything, I worry about people in the >2,000 crowd for practicing poor privacy hygiene given that the likelihood of truly knowing that many people is low and people share a lot of information on Facebook.
How does stg deal with periodical merges from remote/master into your current branch to keep things in sync? I find that with rebase, having master merges dramatically increases the complexity of rebasing, particularly if the code you are working on has been touched by others on a different branch.

Does stacked git help with this?
>CO2 levels aren’t even that concerning, both levels have been significantly higher

The sun grows stronger over millions of years (and it got colder over the last 200 years), however that doesn't matter because the earth is a balanced system where an equal amount of energy enters and leaves the system. The CO2 concentration will automatically adjust so that temperatures can fall within a narrow band.

Therefore it is completely unsurprising that CO2 levels have been higher in the past, they had to be higher to reach the same temperatures. If we reach historic CO2 levels today then we will also reach higher temperatures than in the past.
This is what I think is very likely given the storage of bat samples in Wuhan.

I hate that lab leak is being conflated with engineered.

I also think while we want to believe scientists are all honorable individuals that would always speak the truth there are a lot of incentives to not fess up to this and a lot of incentives of other scientists to downplay this theory.
The scandal of uneducated college graduates
I don’t know for sure either, but I’ll be sad if that happened!
I think there should be at least an approximate pricing on the homepage. It would help people decide if this is something they can think seriously about using.
Boat Anchor Manual Archive
The waitlist deeplink doesn't seem to work. Has the link been removed?
Hm... I guess lots of times I feel like it takes too long for a statement like this to come out, and when it comes out it equivocates more than this one. But I would agree with you that this _should_ be par for the course.
Even living in major cities, public transit in many US cities is just bad.

I suffer from epilepsy. I live in the Bay area. Unless I get an Uber/Lyft, it's ridiculously hard to get around using public transit.
This kind of smacks of euro-centrism. Especially considering how the West at that time had colonies that practiced chattel slavery, producing vast wealth for the owners of the colonies.
The way it was explained to me is that when you "farm" your "plots" the first time, you are just generating and writing a lot of numbers that are written in the 100GB plots.

Then the transaction validation is done by whoever finds value in their storage (instead of doing a lot of computations online, they are pre-generated).

I assume there's a bunch of tree-like structures in the middle to make the search faster.
The government doesn't send you a bill if you elect to have a baby at home.

Most US citizens have babies in hospitals.

Many either don't know that alternative options exist or think of them as dangerous / an unnecessary risk.
Hotjar allows us to ask questionnaire about product. And the idea was to give it and google analytics as plugins so you as a customer can key in your own analytics. Happy to remove it and somebody had raised an issue of jsdeliver related to fonts.
The truly old fashioned way is to load your data and render the page with it in the server. A simplicity that was lost in the SPA, but that's what SSR gives back to you. But since this is an anti-SSR piece I'm not sure what it's getting at.
which is fine as long as the diffs don't overlap and you start moving them around
That's only part of the process (precomputing the large files you need to win). Once you have the files, they can be stored anywhere and that storage is only lightly used.
Ada/SPARK actually has dependencies like that as part of function specs. Including which variables depend on what.
No, it's not good enough. I see I got some downvotes: suits me, not like I actually LIKE this position. I'm just being a bit pedantic, saying that we will not be looking at human extinction no matter what. It's setting a boundary on the doomsaying, and also setting a bar for what we're gonna have to do.

I think everybody in control of things understands we will be seeing just what you say: hunger, conflict, massive waves of refugees, war. Water shortages may be even more significant than food shortages, and given modern supply chain capabilities, wet-bulb temperature conditions might be the most significant of all.

Humanity will get through this. The important question is how: and every downvoter to that comment knows that there are unacceptable answers to this. I think getting through without descending into monstrous behavior and inhumanity IS POSSIBLE and easier than colonizing Mars. But it's gonna be nearly as difficult to make happen, as colonizing Mars.

The easy out is the bad answers. That's not going to be acceptable. We're all stuck on this rock together.
I agree but I think it has to do with credibility and authoritative sources that used to be credible within some reason no longer being so.

I remember watching one of those movies like Zeitgeist 15 years ago (but it was about physics) and being enthralled by it and eagerly shared everything I learned with a bunch of people for months.

I eventually learned like 80%+ of that movie was made up BS, purposefully made to look more credible than it actually was.

That ruined the entire thing for me. It wasn't ethical or right to pick and choose pieces from a dishonest source -- The whole thing was thrown out much like not credible witnesses in a court case.

Again, I totally agree with the consequences of this and that it's not a good thing but if you met someone who talked about the flat earth nonstop and then told you about global warming, would you listen with the same openness if they believed the earth was round?
In my case the parse tree had nodes that corresponded with grammar rules (mapped to XML elements) and nodes that corresponded to the preserved but otherwise uninteresting fluff that surrounded them (mapped to XML PCDATA).

We wanted a parse tree that could be serialized out to produce the original document byte for byte, but still reflected the grammar.

Things get uglier for JSON in the real world case:

"5+7 #comment"

becomes:

<sum><integer>5</integer><operation>+</operation><integer>7</integer> #comment</sum>

The XML output is essentially the original input + grammar markup. Your solution also works but is a data structure representation with a lot more line noise for humans to read.
It doesn't take explicit assault.

When "The Circle" (minor spoiler alert) demonstrated just how such "crowdsourced chase" scenario can rack up a body count, the target wasn't attacked - he died because some excited rando fucked up and caused a traffic accident with a camera drone.

It's not the wingnuts I'd be afraid of. It's the overexcited normies.
again, nothing high danger. That is not a neural net, it could have easily been programmed to not try and maneuver around and just stay stopped, so sounds like a behavior that needs some additional improvement. It didn't lose sight of the cones. It was an issue with generating an appropriate path around the cones. Notice how it didn't hit the cones or anything else

That is fundamentally different than trusting a neural net to tell you where the lanes are, where the objects are, and what kind of objects they are.

you do not drive into an oncoming lane if you have a hd map. you do not drive into a concrete wall if you have lidar.
This argument seems to assume that Internet hosting is like air — a natural resource which by default is available for everyone to use, but social media companies restrict unfairly.

As everyone here should know, it’s not like that: hosting can be awfully expensive, especially for media content. Social media companies receive money from advertisers, and use that money to host content from users and partners that hopefully makes those ads look appealing too. It’s that simple.

Should these companies be compelled by the government to display content that makes their customers (advertisers) look bad? That seems like an awfully deep intrusion into a private business.

If the social media companies truly were monopolies, that would be another thing. But it’s hard to make that argument when new entrants like Snap and TikTok are able to conquer entire market segments and reach $100B valuations in a matter of years.
I've been a digital nomad for about 4 years. got stuck back stateside for a few months due to the pandemic but I can't wait to leave again.
Brazil's Covid Inquiry Reveals Bolsonaro's Mismanagement
Looks like there are some tests in the nocodb package, but nothing for the gui?
thanks, I will look for documentation on that debate.

I think he looked at the energy work value as stable, as you need a fixed amount of Jaule to boil 1 liter of water from 20C.

In a way, he foresaw an energy based value system. maybe 'predict' bitcoin was a stretch
It seems like half of my personal journal entries all begin with "I really need to figure out how to do this more often."

Haven't even tried to write one in almost two weeks. Always such a struggle.

It's even worse when I try to make them public blogs, though. Haven't had one of those in many years, yet I've written about 300,000 words in my personal journal over the past 5 years.

I did start work on trying to retroactively rework some as a blog, but that stalled and I never made the site public.
The US probably isn't lying, the foreign source they got the info from might be. We won't know more unless the matter is further declassified or investigated.
What an interesting question!

As others have said, it's definitely a 'softening' of a request to make it more polite ('Go home' vs 'Would it be possible for you to go home?').

But I think there are some status games going on here, too. A subordinate would never use that phrasing with a superior.

While the phrase uses conditional language to 'soften' the request, it's also an imperative (an order) that's made to look like a request.

Try to imagine the boss saying this. How would they have said it - with an upward inflection at the end, as in a question like this one? Definitely not! The phrase would definitely end on a downward inflection, as in an order like 'Please go home'.

It's a curious turn of phrase that I'd suggest is particular to managers, parents, and other authority figures that need to maintain a veneer of respect for their subordinates. It also strikes me as uniquely American; I couldn't imagine a Brit or an Australian saying something like this (but happy to be corrected).
Seeing as how lotteries are normally a government monopoly that makes poor people poorer, it's nice to see an attempt, at least, of using the same structure to make people healthier.
Isn't this why you hire domain experts?
It's important to be clear: they don't overlap at all.

They are objectively independent arguments.

If they overlapped you couldn't say this: "SARS-CoV-2 leaked from the Wuhan lab" and "SARS-CoV2 was not man-made". But you can.
As long as Joe schmo with no time to figure that stuff out exists, it won't happen.
As mostly a user that doesn't develop web apps anymore, all this feels very true to me.

I'm soooooo sick of interfaces that load an empty useless shell of UX chrome and then slowly trickle in content at some later time, and leave spinners, or even worse, gray boxes simulating text.

Send the text content in the initial reply, please! It's bad enough having to wait for webfonts, but when you wait to start doing the slow database query for content until after an html shell has been loaded, and after a huge JavaScript bundle has been parsed and executed, you're just wasting time. Reminds me of the Google Web Toolkit of yore. We really haven't progressed much in the decade for single-page apps since then, when it comes to the user. And that's a horrifying thought.
Providing poor service and still making money isn't capitalism. That's a lack of competition. Plenty of countries have poor government run services and there's no alternative. Same deal - no competition.
Are there any schema assumptions, like numeric primary/foreign/surrogate keys?
This reminds me of this BBC article I came across: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55829879

> To use Klarna's pay later service, which defers payments for up to 30 days, shoppers only have to provide a name, email, date of birth, mobile number and billing address.

It’s mind blowing that’s all the information you need to process a payment via Klarna.
I’ve implemented models for two well cited published papers. While I didn’t develop the model I implemented it. I’m familiar with those “professionals”.

These models are notoriously bad at generating predictions historically. Today, we have better modeling, BUT they rerun the models over and over again tweaking them to get the results they want. Then they don’t do corrections such as Bonferroni correction.

At the end of the day, the data isn’t there.

Finally, the funding and scientific community have a bias. Good luck trying to come out with a paper showing the community is not taking everything into account or has made a mistake.. you can only do that with new data, which takes years or decades