skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not just the media, folks, also the rest of our "sense making apparatus".

Wikipedia has been suppressing lab leak discussion, and still to this moment will not allow the old Lab Leak Hypothesis page back. It still redirects to a declared "Misinformation!" page https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=COVID-19_lab_leak...

And guess where else lab leak was suppressed? Here on HN. Yes, dang, you suppressed discussion of a perfectly reasonable hypothesis many times.

So, while I have your attention, the real problem vis a vis Covid19 is not the lab leak. The real problem is "gain of function" research, using gene splicing to make more virulent-to-humans pathogens. And don't read into anything I'm saying, please pay attention to literally what I say here; if you have to reword what I say to cast doubt, you're not playing fair.

This virus was likely man-made because gain of function man made viruses are quite common in research; and this is not a coverup conspiracy caused by the Chinese tendency for face-saving, swept under the carpet, "truths", though there is plenty of that. This scandal was caused by western experts: our best virologists are themselves engaging in gain of function research right here in our very own cities. If you ask them, as the media did, "what likely happened here", their answer is not going to point the finger at themselves, too much funding is at stake.

Good background and in-depth research on the gain of function and lab leak hypotheses was carried out and published on the web over a year ago by Yuri Deigin https://yurideigin.medium.com/lab-made-cov2-genealogy-throug... and it was covered on Bret Weinstein's Dark Horse podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5SRrsr-Iug

And surprisingly, it is easy for lay people to read/listen and follow because Yuri Deigan is not a virologist, just a really smart educated guy.

and it wasn't just the mainstream media and HN and wikipedia who suppressed the information from you all; sadly it was also because of the politicization, your politicization, of this crisis. If Trump said something, to most of you it just had to be wrong, and for some reason, opening our economy to the Chinese and disliking Russia were sacred cows to the Democrats, and anything Trump did that went the other way just had to be undone.

That is what covered up this most obvious and likely HYPOTHESIS from being discussed: that of a man made, gain of function virus escaping from a lab in Wuhan where the virus broke out.

Was there any Chinese military goal here, as a true conspiracy theory would allege? Sadly, frankly, there doesn't need to be. That's because advanced virology research is of deep interest to every military around the world. See the history of anthrax research. It is publicly acknowledged that it's part and parcel of germ warfare research both for defensive and offensive purposes.
In Ireland/UK any debadged cars are in the boy racer scene, I always found it interesting that without the badges it can be difficult to distinguish the make if the car.
How do you think it would play out if it is found that our government (e.g. NIH/CDC) supplied funding for research that created this virus?

I suspect many countries would take notice.
Many states have highway speed limits that _begin_ at 75mph. So yes this would mean autopilot (a huge selling point of these vehicles) is useless for highway driving, which is what autopilot in its current incarnation is meant for.
1-based indexing matters if you only code Lua occasionally (as you say, you get used to it when coding it all the time).

JS has better string builtins than Python IMO.

QuickJS is made for embedding and has similar performance to Lua (slightly slower). I don't think you'd want to embed a large VM like v8 anyway.

https://sabotage-linux.neocities.org/blog/9/
Hi Stepan Parunashvili,

I enjoyed your post "An intuition for Lisp syntax"

- https://stopa.io/post/265?repost=true

and I wonder what you could think of this another one:

- http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=coding

- http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=fromroots2canopy

Best regards

Alain Marty
> a self-driving car really only needs to be better than the worst humans to be an improvement

I think this is false because varying abilities of people will use the autopilot, not just the worst. The autopilot needs to be better than average for an overall improvement. I think it needs to be much better than average to be compelling enough for most people to adopt it. Most people consider themselves to be good drivers, even with sufficient evidence to the contrary.
We don’t even need to build those at all… let alone with wood.
Given the estimated gains of globalization just in economic terms (to say nothing of worldwide economic stability in most situations), which are in the 14-figure range, there's significant doubt here. Yes, there's likely room for things to be made in more than one place in many instances. But global comparative advantage is still the single greatest contributor to rises in global standards of living. Billions of people have been raised from extreme poverty due to globalization in the last few decades.

Those shortages we occasionally get are market opportunities that will encourage new market entrants. We don't need to attack globalism to get redundant production.
Why does the particular set of people matter instead of just the difference in numbers? If the Y people happened to be a subset of those who would die without the technology, is that better? If you somehow move all the deaths caused by a thing to a different but equally large set of people, is that bad because those people "would otherwise be alive"?
Well, there's an easy answer. Suppose a school student from Dhaka, Bangladesh wants to go to university in your country. She has her high-school grades and the application essay. How do you determine if she gets in?

That is the Ozarks vs. Berkeley.
Cut Bank, Montana to Gulf of Mexico is also quite a ride!
I'll add my anecdotal evidence here: black people in France are also generally very respectful. Usually the homophobes I encouter are north africains/muslims/arabs, however you want to call them (edit: I realize that "however you want to call them" may not be the best way to put it. What I mean by this is that in my experience it's mostly north african people, however I have no evidence for this but have evidence for muslims. Still, not all north african people are arabs or muslims. I added "arabs" because the few kabyle people I know don't have this problem at all. It's hard to untangle everything here, and I don't want to pretend I know everything.). I also want to add that it seems that the first victims are LGBT people from these communities before white LGBT people, however they still suffer too.

The stats are what they are and I don't think it's healthy to deny them. However, just like minorities have to work on their homophobia, I have to work on my xenophobia, because applying my experiences to people I encounter would be unfair, and statistics shouldn't be used to discriminate on a person to person basic.

My main point is that I feel that "good thinking white people" have dropped the fight against homophobia like a hot potato because it became uncool, and talking about race and white privilege became cool, so now I can't even explain where homophobia comes from without being called a racist. Just like I would (and most/all white people would) benefit from anti racism training/interventions, I think most/all people from racial minorities would benefit from anti homophobia/LGBTphobia training/interventions.

I personally don't live in the United States, but the paper I linked seems to suggest that black people are more homophobic than white people. Of course black and white isn't the only thing at play here, class is also a big factor, but I don't think you're learning anything new here. Still, denying that there's a problem is unhealthy and insulting, just like if I would deny that there's a racism problem in the US or in France.
Seems like a fast way for China to black bag those people if they haven’t already
That's nice, I like it! We don't really need anything more than this.

It's hard to gauge whether or not it's better to go with an existing, possibly inferior standard, or to create a new one, like this...

https://xkcd.com/927/
Please keep your patronizing comment to yourself, or add some arguments to it.

JSON's spec is simpler, and the data are more compact. There are a ton of extremely fast parsers, as well as stream parsers. Many languages support JSON natively making it extra easy for interoperability.
1967, Salt Lake Tribune: "Dire Famine Forecast by 1975" - https://cei.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/1_2.png

1970, Boston Globe: "Scientists predict ice age by 21st century" - https://cei.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/3_2.png

1974, The Guardian: "Ice Age Coming Fast" - https://cei.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/8.png

1989, San Jose Mercury News: "Nations could be wiped of the face of the earth by the year 2000" - https://stevengoddard.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/screenhunt...

2004, The Guardian: "Britian will be Siberian in less than 20 years" - https://cei.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/29.png

2007, The BBC: "Arctic Summers Ice Free by 2013" - https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/09/08/article-2415191-1...

2011, International Energy Agency: "World Headed for Irreversible Climate Change in 5 years" - https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/world-headed-for-irreversible-cl...

2012, New Economics Foundation: "By December 2016 the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will be high enough to trigger a new phase of global climate change from which the chances of recovery are slim" - https://www.carbonbrief.org/can-we-estimate-the-tipping-poin...

2013, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: "Worlds best scientists agree that the point of no return for climate change might be
by the year 2100" - https://qz.com/129122/the-worlds-best-scientists-agree-on-ou...

2013, US Navy: "Ice free Actic by 2016" - https://cei.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/37.jpg

2019, CNN: "Climate change could pose 'existential threat' by 2050" - https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/04/health/climate-change-exi...

2019, Colubia ENgineering Report: "Glocal warming tipping point could be as close as 40 years away" - https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/climate-could-hit-tipping-...

2019, United Nations: "Only 11 Years Left to Prevent Irreversible Damage from Climate Change" - https://www.un.org/press/en/2019/ga12131.doc.htm

2021, CNN: It's getting more likely the world will reach a climate tipping point in the next five years" -
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/27/world/climate-temperature...

but who knows... maybe this is the year of climate change on the desktop?
> These men made a statement which I do not myself believe, though others may, to the effect that as they sailed on a westerly course round the southern end of Libya, they had the sun on their right - to northward of them.

It's 600BC. The idea that the world is a sphere isn't accepted yet. Herodotus explicitly says he doesn't believe what these sailors said- that the sun was to the north. Yet we know that if a sailor had done what is being described, this unbelievable fact would have been seen (and is regularly seen today by those living in the southern hemisphere).

If they didn't do it, where would this odd fact have even come from?

To me, that leads a lot of credence to the tale. Lots of challenges in the doing, but with the right experienced sailors not impossible at all.
Not just a raise, she got 3 million dollars.
And today Facebook lifted that ban:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/may/27/facebook-...
There might just be a lag post-adoption in a place, or require some initiating event. It was great in the US for years until around 2008 when people who are professionally political got on for the election. Until then it was mostly hobby talk, like a bunch of small subreddits that occasionally talked to each other.
Coronavirus Origins
The worst atrocities carried out by the British Empire
> Waymo coming to a controlled stop in front of a traffic cone

And then driving off again, and then blocking traffic, and then evading Waymo's roadside assistance, etc.

Do you see how these aren't different situations?
Yes! Exactly this. This builds an incredible toolkit that really brings the bicycle of the 21st century into view.
For history buffs: Tesla began to rely heavily on radar for AP after their vision only system decapitated people. But now they've run out of parts, so back to vision-only it is.
Better a crank scientist than a stable religious official. Because that's what it's called when there are possibilities you are not allowed to examine.
I read The Very Hungry Caterpillar to my toddler. It really resonates with her because of all the fun pictures of food!

What strikes me about a lot of children's book is that they often talk about metamorphosis - which is a strange and beautiful concept. But we rarely encounter it in real life, other than figuratively.
People ask this as some sort of weird gotcha, but it’s actually not that interesting, nor should it be surprising. After all, the previous administration was filled with habitual liars at every level who kept pushing “alternative facts” over observable reality and shat on the media at every opportunity. As such, everything they claimed was viewed as a likely lie, and rightly so.

New developments have happened as well, though. I believe we recently started hearing about Wuhan lab employees starting to get sick around late 2019 and early 2020. I don’t think we had known that before.
Upvotes and downvotes on HN only give you hint about the popularity (or lack thereof) of the views that you have expressed as an anonymous commentator. This can never be interpreted as a popularity rating of your physical appearance, lifestyle or of your worth as a human being, whereas in other social media this is often the case.
There are a lot of people making money by causing people to be scared. It’s principally one of the strongest business cases for a media outlet. Crime is down significantly on a historical basis, but media consumption is through the roof.
Clojure Spec works really well for this sort of thing. It doesn't serialize to JSON, but it would be able to check for it.

You could also think about Dhall as a front-end. You could represent the whole credential as a union type. This isn't deeply thought out, but this should give an idea as to how this would look:

let TestResult = < Positive | Negative >

let ScreeningTestDetails =
{ hasTestResult : Bool, testResult : TestResult, testTime : Natural }

let CredentialData =
< Vaccinated | RapidSarsCov2PCRTest : ScreeningTestDetails >

let Credential =
{ credentialName : Text
, credentialIssuer : Text
, credentialData : CredentialData
}

let result
: Credential
= { credentialName = "COVID-19 Back to Work Credential"
, credentialIssuer = "Acme Labs Inc."
, credentialData = CredentialData.Vaccinated
}

let result2
: Credential
= { credentialName = "COVID-19 Back to Work Credential"
, credentialIssuer = "Acme Labs Inc."
, credentialData =
CredentialData.RapidSarsCov2PCRTest
{ hasTestResult = True
, testResult = TestResult.Negative
, testTime = 1622145851
}
}

let prop0 =
λ(x : ScreeningTestDetails) →
assert : greaterThan x.testTime 1522145851 ≡ True

in result2

Notice here that the type for credential data can only be vaccinated or a test result. It can't even represent unvaccinated. You could probably take it farther with dependent types and assertions.

Edit: added an assertion to model the 72 hour requirement.
You can see what I mean by the word "doubt" in my other comment above. I'm using it to mean 'absolute doubt', the act of questioning something to the core with no presupposition.

You are proving my point with this statement: > "The Quran is the literal word of God"

Science cannot make such statements of certainty, but religion can and does. To the extent that religion has doubt, as you say, it just means you're still learning or something like that. Science allows restructuring its own foundation and has done so again and again.
Sure, but then "truthy" for that language is just true, and "falsy" is just false. It's still relevant to understand the concept of "what is considered true, and what is considered false", even if the answer is simple for certain langauges.
Are you aware of any research supporting genetic inheritance of intelligence. The psychologists I know have told me that there is very little evidence to support that.
Herodotus isn't considered reliable at all by historians in any of his writings whether his topic is close geographically or not.

Thucydides is a far better option , being at the beginning of the record for the continuous record of reliable historical writing.
It's much worse than that - there is whole industry around college admissions consulting. Why depend on your high-school counselor when you can hire an expert? In the worst cases the expert even helps students effectively pre-plan their whole high school experience to increase students' chances of getting in to elite schools.
I mean it is just lisp denoted in javascript lists, but sure we can call it a new standard if you like.
That ad says to get a prospectus, not "buy".
> vast network of scientists, civilians, and government officials

Few corrections:

* CCP government officials, who have every single incentive to participate in cover-up

* I am not sure how much cover-ups needed by any civillian, let alone vast network of civillians. An average civillian is probably not aware of lab leak to begin with, unless they were informed by media.

* again, not vast network of scientists is needed for cover-up. Mostly researchers and officials in Wuhan Lab. Like CCP officials, who have every single incentive to participate in cover-up
It's interesting looking at the timeline before Western media picked it up -- in the very early stages, chatter online referencing a leak, (or there was something released deliberately) seemed to be fear of it being a SARS 'biological weapon'. there was overlap with the newly emerging health crisis and the Hong Kong protests, which seems to have fueled that speculation. A good analysis of that time period was done by the Atlantic Council [0]

I have also been archiving different web findings pertaining to all forms of 'leak' speculation in the form of a timeline [1]

[0] https://atlanticcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Weapo...

[1] https://news.coffee/wuhan_lab_snippets
>And you assume that nobody will fork it to keep webRequest.

No, I'm not sure how you got that idea. There are plenty of instances in the past where Mozilla/Firefox has been forked.
It's also possible that there is something unrelated to the coronavirus outbreak that a thorough investigation might stumble upon which they are trying to keep secret. The WIV was china's first biosafety level-4 lab and has close ties to China's military.

from [0]:

> Despite the WIV presenting itself as a civilian institution, the United States has determined that the WIV has collaborated on publications and secret projects with China’s military. The WIV has engaged in classified research, including laboratory animal experiments, on behalf of the Chinese military since at least 2017.

If I had done some work in the past on biological weapons that I didn't want the world to know about, I'd be very concerned about letting a bunch of international investigators examine labs that might be literally right down the hall. Alternatively if I were a government hostile to china who knew damn well what china was doing down the hall but can't find a good way to call them out on it, the opportunity to send investigators in for an unrelated reason would be a godsend.

[0] https://2017-2021.state.gov/fact-sheet-activity-at-the-wuhan...
The "camouflage" here indicates an increase in the speaker's politeness level. Some languages use explicit terms or forms of address to do this; English, however, utilizes indirect phrasing to achieve this effect.
Or build consulting, management and integration partners. Strategic use of tools / trainings, etc. are really important. See how Oracle grows with consulting teams.
I'm working on dev tools in this space. Care to exchange notes with me? Email is in profile.
And they say if you return to that very spot on a moonless night and listen quite carefully - you will hear the silence of the leg at the bottom of the ocean to this very day.
You vastly underestimate the number of people who would have to be silent or silenced. People are terrible at keeping secrets.
Parent stated that Tesla is using party tricks to recognize a larger than merited portion of FSD revenue. Your links do not make this case.
Mockintosh Features Overview – #0: Introduction
There are a ton of scenarios where this would be useful. Not everything has to be the new paradigm shift. It's just a tool
Digital Self-Determination
What do you mean by, “they couldn’t understand/answer any difficult questions”?
I posted this in another thread, but it seems relevant to what you are looking for: https://stopa.io/post/265

It walks through the process of building a Lisp in JSON and the associated parser in JavaScript. It could be a good starting point to build out a cross-platform approach to sending logic over the wire.
Here in France, elite STEM schools run a series of highly competitive exams that consist of a series of written tests and oral interviews over several weeks. These are brutal, students basically prepare for them for 2 to 3 years and there is no alternate way to trick your way in. Not if you're a billionaire.

The system is far from perfect: only a teeny tiny fraction of students who make it are from poor/underprivileged backgrounds (some do). Yes it is infinitely easier to prepare for these exams in a middle class family than in a ghetto.

Yet it still seems an order of magnitude MORE FAIR then checking whether daddy is a big donor to the school. Or having SATs that are so ridiculously easy that we're gonna have to fallback on whether you were a member of the theater club.
I think the person you're replying to may have been sarcastic in their comment because all those things they mentioned do exist in some form on HN.

Without those things, HN would not have the same allure as it does now. Of course upvotes/downvotes are a core part of HN; they even have a leaderboard. At least one particular "eccentric" character tends to boast about being on it as if it's a status symbol (which it may very well be, particularly if you're frequent on HN).

One advantage with HN over reddit is that buffoonery is generally not rewarded.
> The whole idea behind Protect is that you could convince people to pay for the product once you’ve gotten them to the highest point of anxiety you can possibly get them to," one former employee said, referring to Citizen's subscription service. "Citizen can’t make money unless it makes its users believe there are constant, urgent threats around them at all times,"

There are a lot of businesses built on this model. The news outlets spring immediately to mind.
Depending on what "not working" means to you, I'm ok with that. I think the point of the Waymo approach is to not work very frequently so they can flush out the issues.