skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, citations please. If it really was a lab leak, who is to say it wasn't from a small specialized research team, maybe some academics who were aware of the science but not the implementation, and a couple people in management? The project does not need to have been a huge, nefarious, x-files program. That sounds like the conspiracy theory to me.

I think you might be vastly overestimating how many people would even have been knowledgeable about it in the first place.
Yes, and in addition, the comparison should be between similar vehicle body styles and manufacturing years.
Those may not actually be crimes in Seattle.
This isn't surprising at all. This industry is incredibly fad driven. Cloud became the fad, and the buzz was that cloud saves money, so everyone goes cloud, and then cloud eventually costs more than the original stuff did.

The same is happening with SaaS. SaaS eliminates the need for in-house IT! Except it doesn't. It just means you now have a bunch of recurring SaaS costs that you are locked into forever because they have your data and you still need IT people to babysit your massive cloud/SaaS sprawl.

Not following fads and buzz is a huge competitive advantage in this industry. Founders and chief engineers / CTOs / CIOs take note. Just make sure you can explain why you are not using (insert latest buzzword here).

The bottom line is that you should analyze the situation using your work load, your numbers, your culture, etc., and decide what works the best. Sometimes that's managed cloud. Sometimes it's unmanaged cloud. Sometimes it's bare metal. Sometimes it's on-prem. Your mileage will vary.
> It's very likely that SAT requirements level the playing field considerably if not completely. It's probably quite a lot of work (and cost of education) for those high-SES folks to get such high SAT scores, so by removing those SAT requirements they can be admitted more easily/cheaply.

Those are the only claims I made, and no, I don't have citations for them. Mostly just intuition that the requirements existed to ensure merit rather than nepotism carried the day, so undoing those requirements is likely to have the inverse effect.

> Anecdotal but where I grew up it was never much work for students to get high SAT scores, most people I knew scored relatively high even before preparing.

"Getting into prestigious schools" high? If you're doing that effortlessly then you should bottle your local water and sell it, because there's something in it. :)
You don't actually pay these taxes until next year, so it's perfectly legal for them to change the rates. The Congress may not choose to make the taxes retroactive. As you say, it makes people cranky to have their decisions changed out from under them. But they didn't become criminals retroactively; the tax isn't due yet.

So yes, it's allowable. Whether it's desirable is up to Congress. (Presidents don't set taxes. They just make budget requests.)

If you find this so upsetting, I'm afraid you're in for a rough ride. The government has the power to change lots of stuff after you've made investments. They changed the rules on mortgage tax deductions in 2017. Businesses buy land and then discover that the government won't build a road there. And so on. Hell, the weather throws off your plans.

You have a lot less control over your life than you seem to imagine, but it's not apocalyptic. People control lots of stuff, and smart ones plan surpluses for unexpected eventualities. That's easier when you're the sort of person who has capital gains taxes to pay, which is why they raise this tax rather than some other tax.
That assumes a binary situation, but it can be a sliding scale.

A system that prevents only Holocaust denial and flat earth theories is unlikely to ban anything that is actually true.
> the previous administration was filled with habitual liars at every level who kept pushing “alternative facts” over observable reality

As opposed to now? <cough>US/Mexico boarder</cough>
Driving with headphones is illegal in 17 states. Can Tesla's Autopilot hear a horn or siren?
Understanding does not imply computability. The halting problem is the classic example of this.
The word “stuff” there is exactly the point. It’s a lot more specific than “just a question mark” -- the hypothesis is that it’s some exotic form of matter.

If something like MOND gains popularity and there’s no longer a need to postulate invisible matter, it would be fair to say that dark matter is incorrect and outdated, just like ether or phlogiston.
I see only:

> TypeError: Cannot read property 'length' of null

Some nerdy innuendo or the site used to work and has some content?
That will be a fantastic outcome.
Why are you trying to improve the world rather than choose between two bad choices? /s

Applying data from other complex systems besides our own might not be easy, but surely other countries have some studies we could compare with our own. I'm going to go look. Hope you're having a nice day.
I'm trying to visualize the sailing conditions the Phoenicians would have faced at Bojador - and not really succeeding, because I don't know enough about their vessels.

But I'm sure the challenge would be different, and potentially less scary, from Henry the Navigator's bane. The Portuguese were in high-freeboard open-ocean sailing carracks, with no effective recourse to rowing. And Bojador, coming from the north, presents a terrifying lee shore: the winds and current push vessels towards it, with shoals extending from the coast. Sailing close to a lee shore is a bit like walking on a slack line: one mistake and disaster is inevitable. You need to accurately predict your drift over the whole transit, you need hope the wind doesn't veer, and because there's a ferocious current too, the wind must not die. In short, it takes a skilled captain and navigator (and the much better strategy is just to sail offshore, which is what the Portuguese eventually did). Even a modern Bermudan yacht would be challenged attempting to transit Bojador southerly and close to shore.

A Phoenician trireme-type-boat would not be able to sail upwind at all - rowing would have been required for this part of the journey. Maybe on a lull day they could out-row the current? In any case, the challenges were different - and they would have had the additional motivation of not being able to turn back for home.

[0] Source: I'm a sailor!

Footnotes so formatted are a shibboleth of this community, not a practicality.
The alternative hypothesis is completely stupid. Chimps and humans have different intelligence. Are you saying that this isn't genetic?
Given a theoretical either/or choice between a PCIE 5.0 SSD, or more PCI-E lanes using the tech we have now, I would rather have a greater number of PCI-E 4.0 lanes in single socket consumer/workstation grade motherboards.

Leaving open the possibility for dual NVME SSD in a workstation along with a x16 video card, and 10Gbps NICs.
It follows the car if you sell directly to another person or through a third party dealership. If Tesla gets the car back, they'll wipe the upgrade and charge for it again.
Except there are enough cases of physical and irreparable harm caused by lies being spread on social media.

Let me be clear: there are multiple actual murders and lynch mobs that were the direct result of someone starting a rumor online and it snowballing from there.

How many of those are acceptable? You're dismissing this with "oh chucks most times they are right as opposed to always wrong" when we aren't arguing they are never right.
Yes, I have an NVMe M.2 device. Samsung 970 EVO Plus.
Currently those tariffs have a big impact on the markets in Germany, Austria and others in Europe too.
According to the media the US is buying wood at large [e.g. 1] in combo with local companies trying to stock up prices for wooden build home increased 20-30% in the region. If you talk to local carpenters (Austria) lead times are a roulette game and prices change daily.

The post-covid effect may complicate things furthermore.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-12/u-s-lumbe...
DFM: Dynamic Flash Memory
The poignant part about Fahrenheit scene is that in the end, they just end up "catching and destroying" some random passerby when they can't find the target because people the show must have an end and it's all about optics. "The enemy has been neutralised".
Klarna App Bug Exposed Sensitive Details About Its Customers
Amazing. In the Netherlands it is free. You get a midwife, hospital and medical staff when required. You get a box of goods for the first days of baby care. We get 4-6 weeks paid leave as a father and 16 as a mother. There is help in the house for about a week to take care of baby and mother and do checkups.

The only thing you pay a symbolic amount of money for is some to borrow tools like bath chairs.

Probably some pain meds require a contribution but you never pay the whole thing.

Children up until 18 are insured on your own insurance policy without additional fees.

It must be hell to live in a cold place as the US where everything costs tons of money out of pocket.
They didn't speak in the absolutes you're reading into.

Mobs do cause harm. Cars do kill.
You don't think that smart people are more likely to have smart children? Do you think that tall people tend to have tall children?
> [...] paradox: You’re crazy if you don’t start in the cloud; you’re crazy if you stay on it.

> So what can companies do to free themselves from this paradox? As mentioned, we’re not making a case for repatriation one way or the other; rather, we’re pointing out that infrastructure spend should be a first-class metric. What do we mean by this? That companies need to optimize early, often, and, sometimes, also outside the cloud. When you’re building a company at scale, there’s little room for religious dogma.
If this works out we'll either be adopting a previous standard or defining a new one for these evaluation matrices!

But yes, does look like other people have grazed this idea as well: https://www.i-programmer.info/programming/javascript/2380-ja....
IMO, determining the origin of the virus is of much more consequence than who was right and who was wrong back in 2020. If the virus crossed over naturally, it's reasonable to conjecture that this sort of thing is going to happen more and more often in the future. If it was human error in a lab, I would actually be relieved -- this seems like something that's much easier to correct. FWIW, I do think available evidence supports a lab leak more than any other hypothesis.
You haven't meaningfully challenged anything they said, though. Your thing was an odd rant about the need to name things (not a hot take), and theirs seemed more focused, well

>>That is, an interrim scientific theory that will eventually be completely replaced by revisions of our physics.
Sure there doesn’t HAVE to be, but there is. It’s pretty obvious that Maxwell worked for the Mossad.
Hard test scores reflect some sort of aptitude at least. The fact that higher income students get them is a second order effect with many many causes that need to be addressed separately.

Legacy checkbox reflects absolutely nothing other then nepotism.
Sad for Bill :(. he had just turned around
This.

Capitalism doesn't mandate hypergrowth or working yourself to the bone.

That's a byproduct of our centralised monetary system and inflation.
this isn't a paradox to me, this has always been the case.... big companies can optimize more. They have more non-optimal points due to sheet size alone
I made no assumptions of your competency. What I said was obvious to me but, your comment indicated that you didn't understand why people use footnotes on HN. To effectively communicate ideas to the largest number of people it is necessary to follow conventions. Bucking convention reduces your possible audience size.
The author is making the "vast network of scientists, govt. officials, and civillians" argument, which doesn't even pass the BS test. Few dozens researchers in Wuhan lab and CCP officials are more than enough to accomplish the cover up.
Don't think this is the case. It's downstream of RHEL but with a bunch of liberties, so CentOS/Rocky doesn't change much there
"And guess where else lab leak was suppressed? Here on HN."

And maybe is still getting suppressed? This post was #1 on HN one minute, and then, less than an hour later, it's down on page 3, ranked #88. Does the HN ranking algorithm really bury stuff that quickly?
I moved to evenings over two years ago and I personally recommend it. For one thing, your mornings don't suck. Just get ready and go straight to work. Another thing is you stop associating exercise with "getting it out of the way" for the day. It stops being a negative experience and almost ends up becoming a hobby. The other thing I noticed is how limber I am. In the mornings, running and stretching were hard. My body isn't very warmed up, everything is still waking up, and not to mention motivation is at 0 basically. If I had a bad day, I'd exercise to help forget. If I had a good day, I'd exercise to remember the good things.

Overall remember my experiences were anecdotal. But I think everyone should give it a try. This is coming from someone that would also run 5k's at 11pm sometimes because I was working and a full time student and had to fit it in somewhere. But overall, I think doing what makes your schedule easiest is the best.
At any point, there are many different types of instrument playing a variety of pitches and melodies.
> To use this video in a commercial player or in broadcasts, please email licensing@storyful.com

Is this an undisclosed ad?
Can this pull from home assistant out of interest? Sqllite of influxdb ?
I only have anecdata. Brand loyalty is strong amongst truck drivers. Those who want the Lightning will either use their current F-150s a little longer or get another ICE/PHEV. Jumping ship for Tesla, even with the better specs, might not even be a consideration for some.
That would make sense but be extra funny to label a happy Hanukkah post as sensitive for me in particular! That would be a pretty broken algorithm.

Unless it's per region perhaps. Are you in the USA?
In fact, we had an anti-circumcision pitch. They showed a video of the process. It was horrible and makes me queasy just remembering it.
But what happens when the road is suddenly closed for an accident? Or new construction appears? What will database-based self-driving cars do then?
As I read it i couldnt help but think the following

Yes, but the benefit of cloud is we only work to optimize those which gain market adoption. For every twilio there may be 100-1000 startups that did not make it, it's a good thing if those were constructed rapidly, tested for product market fit and then turned off without optimizations applied.

Also if cloud adoption actually accelerates building, then it may also aid its adopters if there is a race to product market fit.
AWS announces general availability of Amazon Redshift ML
> declarative languages have almost no bugs

That one piqued my attention. It's one thing to say "fewer bugs" and quite another to say "almost none". Rust is a declarative language with one of the more rigorous static analysis checkers (for pedants: among mainstream languages) and I still write buggy code.
Don't overabstract your components (React)
Improve your component's API by writing focused abstractions that make your components composable.
Thanks, looking at it this way makes more sense!
Maintaining a browser requires an enormous amount of people. Building a new one or even forking existing ones is essentially impossible if you don't have huge financial means.

The only other companies doing it are among the richest companies in the world (Google and Apple). Wishing for fewer bugs and better performance isn't invalid, but you have to put the stuff Mozilla is doing into perspective. There are only so many things you can do.

The addons post shows a compromise in trying to the keep browser compatible (even if that means adopting the `chrome.*` namespace and implementing stuff from Googles wishlist). But it also shows that where it matters — where Google wants to abuse their market position — they diverge from the spec.
See also: Reddit's Internet Detective routine in response to the Boston Marathon Bomber.
Everything is "BREAKING NEWS" these days, complete with fancy graphics and soundtracks. But there just isn't enough news day-to-day to warrant that level of importance. Not everyday is 9/11, much to news outlets' dismay.
I can't edit the original comment anymore, I posted it in a rush and didn't have time to check the script contents. The loaded script also loads a script called "firebase.js" from this URL: https://1658209995.rsc.cdn77.org/firebase.js (archive: https://archive.is/gdij8). That script is obviously not the actual Firebase, you can paste it in a deobfuscator and see what it does, it has some funny things such as a postMessage called "GimmeResults."
Floppinux – An embedded Linux on a single floppy
Getting rid of the SAT serves two purposes:

1. Pulling up the drawbridge for smart kids from disadvantaged backgrounds, thus making room for less talented children of the wealthy.

2. Getting rid of objective, falsifiable assessments so they can select instead for ideology and party loyalty.
It's okay on github, if somewhat implicit. You can click the "commits" tab of a PR, and then clicking any individual commit brings up the usual github diff view (like you'd see for the whole PR). It's not immediately obvious but you can leave comments in that view, unlike the other view for a single commit on branch history.

But I find most people on github end up reviewing the whole PR as one unless we all are on the same page ahead of time. So despite supporting the functionality it's not all that highly used compared to, say, the way individual patches in a set might be reviewed on the Linux mailing lists during later revisions. I feel like on github it's more common to see asks to break up PRs (maybe just as a result of the projects I've seen? both approaches have valid usecases imo, and there are good reasons to break up PRs which can be done in single commits anyway).

I still feel it's good hygiene even if reviewers don't look :)
Use HDMI ARC or eARC with your Apple TV 4K (2nd generation)
Storj – Technical Disclosures
When generating cosmological initial conditions for use in simulations of large-scale structure, one common method is to utilize random numbers (distributed about a known power spectrum) in k-space and then transforming back to real space. Some details can be found here: https://enzo.readthedocs.io/en/enzo-2.3/_downloads/makeics.p...
I'm not saying it's a good system, but I'm not following your logic here. If the government is in power of your health insurance, how free are you? I can change my employer a lot easier than I can change my government.
There was no evidence to review. Even now the whole reason we are having this discussion is because over a year later there has still not been an adequate investigation and lots of statements made early on have since been shown to be false.

And frankly, in the absence of evidence, some guy getting sick from bad meat at a market is a much simpler explanation than an artificially created virus escaped from an institution with good safety standards. Only after an extensive search for the host has come back empty and the institution's actions have been found to be questionable does occam's razor meaningfully shift, and even then it's still hardly certain that this alternative theory is actually correct.
As opposed to all those other academic tests where resources and preparation make no difference?
A "full self driving" car does not exist in this universe, from any company, let alone Tesla, so the fact that they've recognized any revenue against "full self driving" packages does "make the case". If you think the name was meant to mean something lesser, when this $10000 option was added, Elon Musk was publicly saying that there'd be a million Tesla Robotaxis on the road by the end of last year, earning money driving people around while the car owners are at work.
It isnt really a paradox at all. Its specifically the opportunity that companies like Oxide will go after. Basically the stage of your business determines the best course of action. Youd be insane to start with large datacenters and high capex for an undefined ROI for most projects. Similarly you dont understand your requirements or workloads yet, which would also affect the efficiency of your architecture.

Whenever a rewrite happens in software there are usually massive performance gains. The same thing happens with infrastructure.
Nice, looks quite neat. I'll dive into it a bit deeper!
Not so much myself physically, but I certainly have written code that destroyed my own projects (hurt my wallet).

Many years ago I was working on a mobile outdoor hobby robotics project (RoboMagellan) and had two glitches in parallel. One was the software controlling the robot, the other was in a microcontroller in the kill switch mechanism.

The main computer was reset by a brown out which also caused the uC listening for inputs from the radio used as the "enable" switch to lock up (with the motors enabled) and I hadn't yet learned about hardware watchdog timers.

Drove straight into a river.
Genuinely curious, are you indicating that the current POTUS is better qualified to be leading potentially that same military action?
Really? Try querying JSON, or transforming it, or validating it. There are fast JSON parsers? Cool, there are fast XML parsers too (that stream). JSON's spec is simpler, it's also more limited. I don't know what your point is. OP claimed XML was "worse" than JSON for large, deeply nested data, and his most compelling argument was "Haha nope." But sure, I'm patronizing. Go police someone else's comments.
Good question... wikipedia did not yield an immediate answer.

Could there be an "area effect", where one fog trap decreases yields of adjacent fog traps?
I remember having read the story that it originated a millennium later.
Volvo uses both and I trust them more with safety.
It means the tweet went viral (9.5M views of the video alone), licensing company noticed and contacted the OP to serve as a licensing middle-man, which OP accepted and publicised.
I hope that the arm healed well, and that, after the painful demonstration, everyone in the organization was fully onboard with workplace safety protocol.
Both this and the originally linked article are long on politics and conspiracies and short on science, which is why the responses end up being political. The interesting questions here are not about CCP secrecy but about mutation rates in different environments and how effectively scientists can engineer mutations versus evolving them. It would be much more convincing evidence of lab leaks if examples of effective gain of function mutations being injected by scientists (or some kind of accelerated evolution by manipulating lab conditions) could be discussed and explained.

There won’t be a scientific conclusion based on an analysis of what media leaked what when.
I can't, but like Justice Potter Stewart, "I know it when I see it."

In fact, I believe that the difficulty of even _defining_ AGI is yet more evidence that we are not anywhere close to it.
...and this Colorado bill is addressing it head-on, by diminishing test scores in admissions decisions.
I don't understand this at all.

JSON is a serialization format. So say you have an in-memory AST, and you want to serialize it: why not use JSON?

If you don't want or need to serialize it, then of course don't use JSON. I can make up plenty of other reasons not to, but they're variations on some other format being better for the application, not JSON being inadequate in any way. I'd probably use JSON myself, and I don't care for it much.

Or are we talking about building up an AST in JSON directly rather than taking some parser output and serializing it? Ok that's... not an AST then, it's a programming language with JSON compatible syntax, and yes I would try and prevent that from getting implemented as well.