skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> funding for research that created this virus?

The very question demonstrates part of the problem here: there are ways that it could have been 'released' by the lab without being 'created' in the lab (or any lab). It's not clear to me that people are aware of this when the lab origin theory is discussed. Please don't prematurely make an assumption about what was going on in the lab.

It's possible that some researcher went into a cave, took some biological samples from bats back to the lab. Thereafter, lack of proper protocol led to an infection that resulted in the pandemic.

Embarrassing for China? yes, and I'd imagine they'd want to cover it up (although such accidents have happened at other worldwide facilities).
True, and surely some did—not just in the Mediterranean but in Perú and in Punt, and not just 2500 years ago but even a quarter million years ago—but, despite the whole lunar-eclipse thing, nobody had a really compelling argument until Eratosthenes precisely measured its curvature.

That is, though the wise could imagine a spherical Earth for as long as they have had fruit, they could just as easily imagine a non-spherical Earth. More easily, I think, because, I mean, look around you, it looks flat. It wasn't until Eratosthenes that the wise lost the ability to believe that the Earth was flat.
>> home assistant out of interest? Sqllite of influxdb ?

Sorry could you help elaborate on this.

You want to access home assistant data which is in sqlite or something.
said the man who tested something like 6000 different kinds of plant materials as filaments for a light bulb
> The authors acknowledge that an enriched social, educational, economic and intellectual environment can and does raise intelligence scores, but they insist that even when due allowance is made in terms of statistical comparisons of all other factors and measuring their relative weights, intelligence still seems to be strongly influenced by the genes of one's forebears.

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/16/books/what-is-intelligenc...

https://www.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion/1994/10/16/books/what-is-...
This is not a bad idea. But coupling with protocol buffers is an issue and JSON doesn’t have a standardised way to parse expressions
That’s awesome - I’ll keep my eye on pricing. I’d be glad to support you.
Lol you are very naive if you think all Facebook does is show posts and messages. You need to track the users, collect sensitive date, and all the other malicious stuff
"We show (using relatively conservative assumptions!) that across 50 of the top public software companies currently utilizing cloud infrastructure, an estimated $100B of market value is being lost among them due to cloud impact on margins — relative to running the infrastructure themselves."

That completely overlooks the actual benefit and the reasons driving cloud adoption, which he states early on and then fails to integrate here. The real cost/benefit analysis would take into account the amount of time, money, and opportunity cost saved by using a cloud in development, a critical time that determines whether there'll actually be a profitable company eventually. Optimizing the cloud costs is certainly important, but being able to spin up highly integrated systems on demand offsets a huge amount of time and capital during development.

A takeaway might be that, e.g., AWS, should offer even larger discounts for large scale operations in order to retain mature customers.
That's not nice and totally uncalled for. Three years is a very short time.

The original comment did not compare xbps to BSD package managers. What it said was that xbps was written by a former NetBSD developer and thus arguably has different qualities than other Linux package managers. It is a different approach from someone with different sensibilities than a Linux developer. I have read comments from Void Linux mantainers and users that say more or less the same thing.
It continued because the ban on GOF research was lifted in 2017 (https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statem...)
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Someone will be making a subjective determination for each student based on something that isn’t a test score or legacy attribute (“feels”, their “story”, whatever you want to call it). Not exactly universal access imho (although I agree legacy should’ve never been a deciding factor).
As a minimum we would hopefully agree to a ban on GoF research for potentially dangerous pathogens.

Secondly, we could find the scientist involved and charge him with 3 million 400 thousand counts of involuntary manslaughter, just to put this into perspective.

That is more than some genocides, so it isn't that much of stretch for it to constitute crimes against humanity.

Crimes against humanity generally have universal jurisdiction, so we could charge the people responsible in the Hague.

I doubt we will ever see anybody defending themselves there, but it will cause the next person to think twice about this.
> People demand justice, in other words punishment

Not being able to distinguish justice and punishment sounds terrifying. To me this is as fundamental as "innocent until proven guilty". I am simply not interested in living in a society in which these two notions are confused for each other (and no, I am not privileged rich elite that gets to not be affected by crime).
And this is precisely why this dynamic exists — because there are workflows with far less friction than what you've experienced. I and others successfully use them every day for things far more complicated than one-off analyses.

I think your view of Julia as a "fancy calculator" may be part and parcel to the difficulty. I do use it as a fancy calculator, but I also use local packages all the time — and that's where you'll find the best success in both tooling and code structure for sustainable (and modern) development. We need to do a better job of helping folks more effectively develop and work with Julia before it becomes frustrating.
a spreadsheet and corporate espionage simulator masquerading as a spaceship video game...
Valorant bot AI using purely human interfaces (OpenCV and input spoofing)
Minority Report came out in 2002. I remember people were talking about the targeted advertising going on in the movie. Two years later Facebook came out along with their pitch deck[1]. Now that movie seems quaint.

Developers and entrepreneurs are actively chasing dystopia. We've become increasingly numb and blasé about the encroachment of the internet and smartphones into our lives. Eventually we'll have The Running Man with live streaming. The end result of our social isolation and filter/engagement bubbles due to technology is moral apathy and rot. To speak the VC speak, the past few years have validated a market for cruelty, hate, and mob justice. The only question left is, how do I buy in today? Citizen seems like an early answer to this.

[1] https://app.slidebean.com/p/s15UZQkE7T/Facebooks-original-pi...
> The original Blizzard allowed the community to play with their games beyond the intended main experience of the game.

Blizzard has never been afraid to come down hard on it's fans. I think they may have even invented it in 98 with how they handled the bnetd situation [1]. I had certainly never heard of something like that before the bnetd thing happened.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bnetd
>Are there not other ways of evaluating a students aptitude? Like... their grades?

also known as SAT/ACT.

The US does not have a government issued testing or grading system, so SAT/ACT and AP exams serve as grades. High school grades are known to be laughable inflated. For example, my high school grade point average was over the "highest" amount due to extra points being added to Advanced Placement classes.

The problem is it just so happens that being poorer is a disadvantage for basically everything, and being richer is an advantage for basically everything.

So instead of addressing the actual issue, which is the ever widening income/wealth gap, US society is engaging in these funny little acts of plausible deniability so they can say they tried to something, when in reality are avoiding doing the only thing that will address the actual issue (wealth transfer from rich to poor and narrowing the gap).
Almost as if the user is the product instead of the app. The app is doing everything in the background to monetize the user
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Once you are in school, perhaps with a scholarship, you have many more resources and time to prepare, to compete with classmates. That's the point - just getting into the school is filtering out students, even those that demonstrate achievement and commitment in other ways (i.e. grades).
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And this type of whataboutism about irrelevant topics was one of their favorite tactics.
My wife is from a fairly poor background and had few advantages growing up, but her country rigourously uses standardised testing for university admissions. She didn't have any extra curriculars or after school activities to brag about in her personal essay, but she aced the standardised test and got into the best university in her country and now she has a successful career and lives a lifestyle far more affluent than anything her parents could have dreamed of. Without standardised testing she wouldn't have had a chance.

The drive to eliminate standardised testing is insane, and it can only hurt minorities and the already-disadvantaged, to the benefit of the elite. But then that's the whole point.
There are legitimate uses for such things. We are currently implementing a processing rules configurator UI and backend that must ultimately be executed in sql. It must support arbitrary nested boolean logic and comparison expressions. Last time we did this we ended up developing a custom data structure for the front-end and a custom printer for the sql output. This is a standardized version of solving just that problem.

My question is if not a solution like this how then SHOULD I be implementing communication of such rules from the frontend to the backend?
The media really aren't the story here. their credibility couldn't be any lower. what is interesting is how the scientists stayed quiet, how big tech continues to use fact checkers to censor, and how the Chinese communist party and their allies were able to call discussion of lab leak theory causing hate but the notion of Chinese eating bat soup would not.
> Founders and chief engineers / CTOs / CIOs take note. Just make sure you can explain why you are not using (insert latest buzzword here).

1) It takes amazing intestinal fortitude to fight back against the fad tide. And, when things go wrong, your decisions get the blame even if they aren't at fault.

2) As the article points out, cloud is FINE for startups and small companies. If my startup company reaches gigabucks in revenue and I now have to worry about $75 million in cloud spend, I've done my job. And then some.

3) Cloud is often about blame and liability transfer. I don't want the company website getting hacked to be my problem--I want it to be somebody else's problem. I'm willing to pay for that.
Saw this poster at my local station the other week, so yeah
..selling would have been a great idea then
> (if) Stream can start working with the patch sets prior to release on RHEL, then it may not be such an issue...

From the chats I had with people who work either on RH or Fedora, CentOS Stream is actually RHEL's next point release's candidate version.

In practicality, CentOS will move from RHEL-1 to RHEL+1 with security patches included.

We're one of the parties get pretty burned by this, but things look better than the start. We'll see.
Oh, so code that's entirely dominated by property loads will be much slower in Sparkplug than in TurboFan, by a factor of more than that 4×, perhaps closer to the 32× I was SWAGging for Ignition's overall relative slowdown? I guess at this point I ought to be running microbenchmarks instead of asking you to do it for me... ;)
> URLs are not supposed to change since a URL identifies a resource

Strictly speaking, you're wrong: a URL specifies a location of the resource, and a mechanism for retrieving it. If the location of the resource changes, so would a URL.

Even without this philosophical argument, there is an actual practical issue that URLs do change all the time. Both HATEOAS and Persistent URLs are mechanisms to cope with that: HATEOAS proposes to write clients that instead of using hardcoded URLs would use late-bound URLs supplied by the origin server; PURL proposes to hide the origin server behind a proxy that would translate hardcoded URLs used by the clients to the current scheme and either proxy or redirect the requests.

The main problem with either solution is that URLs use domain names as their "authority" part, so whenever you lose control of the old domain, the "entry point" URL has to change and there is nothing much you can do about it.

Yes, I know that URLs (URNs, actually, IIRC) were supposed to be immutable and eternal, with redirects set up (and maintained somehow, by someone, forever) to point to the current locations, but that didn't work out for obvious reasons.
Which lisp though? There are still too many choices.

The fact that people say "use a lisp" instead of "use Lisp X like everyone else" should tell you something.

It's like the difference between "use SQL" and "use SQLite" or "use Postgres."
Yes, the Edge version isn't official. The GitHub repository only supports Firefox and Chrome: https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect
Who says "Goodnight nobody?"
Angels certainly can’t dance on the head of a pin, whose with me?
Yes. That seems reasonable. Gp suggested deferring such things to the os package manager (apt or pacman etc.) which doesn't, for example, handle keeping versions X and X+3 both available because I have different projects that depend on different versions.
Cloud is just a big toolbox of premade tools and resources that you can play with to your hearts content with much of the friction taken out, both technical and bureaucratic.

You pay a higher price for what you use than if you maintain those tools yourself... but you don't have to maintain those tools yourself. It's hardly a buzzword, it's almost defacto standard nowadays.
Perhaps we could alter government policy then?
Would be cool to have a general liquid cooling solution for all components. We'd install a radiator outside our homes just like an air conditioning unit and then connect the computers to it.
Am I alone in not seeing a paradox here? It's no different from a variety of things that make sense at some scales and not at others.

Seems similar to office space - a 5 person company will find the economics of coworking space compelling, a 500 person company will do better with a long-term lease with a commercial landlord, and a 50,000 person company might have their own property management team in-house. That doesn't create a paradox in the commercial real estate market, just different solutions for different needs.
I'm no expert, but China has much, much less arable land than Europe. Something needs to finance industrialization, and in preindustrial times, food was finance because that's what supported a growing population.
You live in Seattle, there's your main problem. The local government keeps the police department hogtied, cops can't do much outside of their narrow rules of engagement. On top of that, the city's residents don't seem too enthusiastic about the 2nd Amendment either. So who or what is going to protect the flock?? Nothing it seems.
The problem is not about judging creative intellectual work. We already know how to do that, and the academia usually manages to do it just fine.

It's not really about judging people either. When it comes to choosing which people to reward with jobs, promotions, grants, and prizes, we already know the solution: expert panels that spend nontrivial time with each application. Sometimes there are political or administrative reasons that override academic excellence, but in general the academia has figured out how to evaluate shortlisted people.

The real problem is shortlisting people. For example, when a reputable university has an open faculty position, it typically gets tens of great applications. Because the people evaluating the applications are busy professors, they need a way of throwing away most of the applications with minimal effort. From the applicant's perspective, this means you only get a chance if the first impression makes you stand out among other great applicants. And that's why it matters that you publish in prestigious conferences/journals, come from a prestigious university, and have prestigious PhD/postdoc supervisors.
> For example, AOC's "Green New Deal" proposal was full of social justice programs. Socialism is often put forward as the solution to climate change, although socialist countries have a very poor track record of environmental stewardship.

Which "socialist" countries are those? Do you mean (ex-)communist countries instead? Socialism != communism.
Rootclaim has some fairly compelling analysis which suggests the lab leak scenario is more likely: https://www.rootclaim.com/analysis/What-is-the-source-of-COV...
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Which in practice just means that the land didn't get a chance to appreciate by 20-30k.

Houses cost every spare penny that we can save up to pay for them. Whether the pennies end up going into raw materials, or speculators doesn't really matter to the end purchaser.

If labour and materials became free tomorrow, the cost of housing would remain unchanged, but the cost of land would rise to pick up the slack.
What does 'bad for the school' mean? As long as they continue to rake in the cash from tuition/sports/grants and can keep funding their ever-growing bureaucracies, will they care if educational standards have cratered? The evidence suggests that they don't.
There are politicians built on this model. Reagan became a canonised saint for imprisoning a record number of African Americans and Hispanics.
Am I missing something or does this really contain zero tests of any kind? I found some empty cypress boilerplate and https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb/blob/master/packages/nc-lib...
This is a controller, not flash.
I feel like this assessment lacks a lot of nuance. I wouldn't really call "cloud" a "fad" as much as an overused option.

> Cloud became the fad, and the buzz was that cloud saves money, so everyone goes cloud

Cloud services _do_ save money for businesses of the appropriate size (meaning, those that can't or shouldn't be focusing on physical servers and networked hardware).

> The same is happening with SaaS. SaaS eliminates the need for in-house IT!

Again, SaaS _does_ eliminate the need for in-house IT _for certain classes of businesses_.

> 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.

The cost of employing someone to babysit a SaaS product is much lower than the cost to employ someone to build and maintain an equivalent in-house SaaS product. If you're fine with vendor lock you're saving money.

> Not following fads and buzz is a huge competitive advantage in this industry.

Ignoring all nuance and claiming things that are popular are "just fads" is, to me, so much of a competitive disadvantage that it almost certainly outweights any perceived gain.
> and they can't stand that poor people would have a fair shot through a standardized test.

That's quite the accusation. Citation needed.
> CentOS would have fail had Redhat not taken over...

CentOS had a great backing from supercomputing centers at least (I work for one of them). We'd have supported it with no problems whatsoever if they needed any help.

They're in a pretty good shape even before acquisition. Even CERN has decided to migrate (which is a big deal), as mentioned elsewhere.
I don't think humans are the AGI benchmark, but smart mammals probably are.

What I think an AGI needs to have is the _ability to learn_. To me, that's what intelligence really is. For many people, it's having a lot of knowledge. However, that is merely lack of ignorance.

The reason that the ability to learn is important for AGI is because the true thing we miss with self-driving cars is _adaptability_. When roads change, humans adapt. But a self-driving car does not, unless a human interferes and tells it, "You learned about cones today."
If you are genuinely curious, you might try this book [1].

On the other hand, if you were genuinely curious, you could have figured out who Vandana Shiva was.

[1]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780128176740/inequality-...
how do you manage getting around the hospital system? seems overwhelming with having a different language, and it isn't as simple as going to the ER I assume
You know how much my household contributes? Add a few more zeroes. Do you know how much that car over there contributes? Very, very, very little. That plane? Hardly anything. Nothing poses an existential threat.
Whats Valued More in Canada?
I am currently Pursuing a B.Tech degree in Computer Science in India.
I am currently in my 3rd year.
And I am sure I will be going to pursue masters in computer science in canada
I do Competitive Programming, Are cp rating on websites like codeforces valued there too ?
I know Mern Stack development and also learning Machine Learning.

What all should i do in my undergrad so that it would be helpful for me when i will reach canada.
Please recommend what all things are valued there.
I also mentor under previliged students at an ngo.
> Have you considered the possibility that it first appeared in the vicinity of a lab that experiments on similar viruses is because if it had appeared elsewhere, there would have been no sufficiently-equipped lab to isolate it?

You are essentially arguing for lab leak theory. Initially there was only one cluster of COVID and that was at Wuhan. That's why lab leak hypothesis is more plausible.

It was not the case that there were dozens of clusters all over the world and Wuhan lab was first able to identify the virus. Your argument would have _some_ validity if there are lot of clusters of outbreaks at the same time. But that was not the case. The initial cluster was only at Wuhan.
On that note I often use my ipad to take a picture of my iphone just in case the particular app has screen shot notifications

It’s usually benign stuff, it’s just that you can’t risk having to explain why you ever screenshotted to your friends
I'd rather not make any one adblock extension the single blessed one that's included with browsers and given exclusive permission to actually block ads reliably. Browser makers and extension authors have gone bad before and surely will again. We need to retain the ability for anyone insufficiently satisfied with ad blocking effectiveness to be able to fork and deploy as a new extension with the same access to the browser as the last one.
> Suppose a school student from Dhaka, Bangladesh wants to go to university in your country.

It's up to the university. Here's how the University of Waterloo looks at applicants from Bangladesh:

https://uwaterloo.ca/future-students/admissions/admission-re...
So this is how supervillains become a thing.
> Pop quiz! (Actually I'm genuinely curious.) Can anyone name the typeface used in the FUNCTION and Whole Earth Truck Store headings in the MoMA page? I used to know it well (pun intended) but have forgotten its name.

...

> Update! I found these newfangled things called "Google" and "Wikipedia". (Well - pun intended again - I guess I already blew my cover with those Street View links.) Anyway, the typeface was called Windsor:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsor_(typeface)

Damn I just saw your update, I was going to chime in with that! Such a cool looking font for print.
There are grim realities involved in eating vegetables, walking to work, and taking a piss. I will not stop doing any of the above.