skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is fascinating. This reminds me of a book I read about John Boyd [1] who fought the Air Force to develop theorems about aircraft performance, namely the Energy-Manueverability Theory [2]. He went on to mathematically prove why certain aircraft would fail to live up to their assigned missions and help design the F-15, F-16, and other aircraft. Albeit, the mathematics of a "perfect aircraft" lost when faced with the bureaucracy of the government.

1 - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38840.Boyd

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy–maneuverability_theory
I am not a lawyer, but it really looks like Schwartz would not have been convicted on CFAA charges.

However, he was also charged with wire fraud. The gov't was throwing the book at him. If it wasn't one law, it would've been another, and if it didn't apply, they'd still convict (and he'd have to spend years appealing the decision).

Sadly, I don't think it would have saved Aaron Schwartz.
And Clojurian's zulip: https://clojurians.zulipchat.com
Actually yes.

I'd posted a spiel about how and why I'd made the site in a popular subreddit. The post got moderated in such a way that only I could see it and was never made public. A few hours later the owner of the subreddit got in touch with me about the site, mentioned they saw it as competing with what they were doing with their own coaching project. I suggested we have a call to see if we can work together instead and I'm now in the process of putting together a few ideas on how it could work.

I suppose the other thing is it's a grind. You have a few good days and a lot of bad days.
I keep seeing this and it just doesn’t make sense. What is more likely, a global conspiracy theory amongst all the tech giants who normally try to outcompete each other into the ground as quickly and with as much humiliation as possible and the Federal government, which they try to evade and subvert at every opportunity?

Or the idea that when COVID first hit it was the conspiracy theorists screaming the loudest about the lab leak origin and given the sudden interest of the US in xenophobia and specifically the anti-Chinese sentiment(hint: it’s not that sudden), it would have potentially resulted in violence against Asian people. And at the same time the crossover theory was pretty much as likely if not more based on what we knew then. Now that more info has been gathered everyone is doing an about-face on covering this issue since it’s become a serious conversation and not a crackpot fringe theory shared with the intent to spread hate.

Maybe what had happened was that initially we knew little and everyone was a bit panicked. Then the crackpots started spreading FUD via the most convenient COVID origin theory to their message. The old media mostly ignored this, dismissing it swiftly without giving it more airtime. Social media was too busy with conspiracy theorist and right wing activists spreading the lab leak theory so they viewed it as false (if 99% of the time what a person says is a lie, why would this particular thing be true?). Then articles like these revived that theory with new information. Most people took in the information as just “hey new data” and left it at that. A few people who were spreading the conspiracy theory version of this story felt vindicated while simultaneously upset because their low quality memes were not really allowed while new the WSJ, the NYT, and Vanity Faire is getting front page treatment because of course excellent writing is more compelling than some guy on YouTube angrily vaping in his mother’s basement.
Evidence could come from communications. Such a large scale coverup would have required quite a lot of exchanges. Even with China being somewhat opaque and inaccessible to foreign intelligence, there could be digital trails.
I'm skeptical of that, if anything everyone complains about Lambda being too expensive for general purpose API tasks.
But not everyone gets equally favorable bargains.
> There are a couple of downsides too, though. The biggest one could be that 200 Hz is a frequency that’s well within human hearing, which probably explains that soundtrack in the video—the robot is, as the researchers put it, “inherently quite noisy.”
Working backwards from February 2020. About 3 weeks after Peter Daszak started his wild PR campaign. Pretty impressive for a group of amateurs to still beat the pros to the finish line. Because here we are. Finally discussing it. This site can be linked, and exposed to ridicule and critique. And it keeps standing (Peter Daszak can not use his Facebook admin powers to block it!). Lovely!
Why just a money fine? Seems like it was an ongoing criminal enterprise to falsify documents to enter the country.
What if that's because there's less to the theory than you think? Your own quotations, not to mention other comments in this very thread, show that there is still a non-trivial amount of doubt on this one. I seriously think a lot of people leaving comments along these lines WANT this hypothesis to be true because they think it proves they were "always right".
Maybe she is. I see no grace in her performance though. Maybe I'm too used watching Soviet Bloc gymnastics. Isn't this artistic gymnastics? I see no artisticism in her performance, just routine - it's like a robot doing it, but failing to land properly.
It sounds like their workplace policy is as confusing as their editorial strategy.
You need the latest version of the Ring app to be able to see that setting and it’s super sluggish (on purpose?).
It took several seconds to open the Sidewalk page after I tapped on the menu item, no spinner, no feedback, it felt like it was bugged.
Cool to see this :) We wrote the JS version of Arrow with some of these insights in mind. We even had a wasm + webcl backends even before building arrow and then using it to standardize some of our protocols.

Going in the wild these last few years, we've had a few fundamental lessons-learned here. A lot of the above is still true, and in fact even more so. At the same time, for the data world, there are tough points like client heterogeneity and data scale. The way I like to describe it now is we've moved from a "thin <> thick" client/server model to "thick <> supercomputer" client/server. With modern latencies and bandwidth, your interactive compute session is distributed GPUs: it's a weird way to build apps and think about what a computer is, but totally commoditized and doable now. So Arrow is great for streaming MB/s to the browser. Potentially in a couple years, GB/s to v8/browser, mostly waiting for some basic issues Chrome devs don't prioritize, not fundamental ones. This gets hard when we want to interactively visually analyze say 10 GB of click trails: that can quickly get into 100 GB of in-memory representation needing streaming / out-of-core tricks, and download speed issues. Likewise, WebGPU is cool, but it's still not even what CUDA / OpenCL were exposing 10 years ago, again, mostly b/c Google WebGL people prioritize other stuff.

Given that, at least for the next few years, we've been continuing to build for "1-10 GB client GPU <> 10GB-1TB server GPUs". On the plus side, "on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog", so we've been free to do GPU nodejs extenstions that WebGL standards people don't get to dictate.
No, I wish I had insight here but I don't. I'm sorry I can't be any more help.
Acai and Jesus
This may be what you meant, but it's worse than just making multiple passes over a single array: it allocates a whole new array on each pass to hold the results, even for something like a slice()
Outline: https://outline.com/SwjZtr
Fedora is supposedly a community project and there are lots of desktop/laptop Fedora users and contributors who hold it to similar standards as eg Debian. Your comment seems to assume Fedora's aim is basically to be a RHEL incubator but that's not how it's supposed to work.
> But again I question the part where you said "if you haven't actually investigated the authorities' credibility yourself". How would I, a person with no training in virology, do that?

My point is that maybe you shouldn't stick your oar in in that case. The polarisation was exacerbated by a lot of non-experts who not just trusted the WHO (reasonable in itself) but felt the need to pile on anyone who was questioning them.
China's New Space Station Is Powered by Ion Thruster
I'm confused as to why this reflects on Python the language rather than random people writing Python code? Is it a complaint that FFI is too hard to get right?
Thanks that's really good to hear, embedding and repeating the theme throughout different courses really is the best way to build ethical awareness and mindset.
> unique email for each contest

The article at least suggests that some of them do; would be interesting to see what information they can glean from their side, yeah
But then you wouldn't be paying for an AppStore, you would be paying the real cost of the hardware.

This is also entirely hypothetical because Apple has really good margins on their phone sales.
This is actually Part2.

Part 1: https://klarasystems.com/articles/history-of-zfs-part-1-the-...
Yes I believe that is the byline of the Telegraph
There are many parts of the plant left over even after harvesting the parts you can sell commercially as food. Those can be used to produce compost which can go back in the soil.

Compare this to how most commercial farming is done today, where whatever is left over is usually used as animal feed.
Ah good to know, happy its at least a soft req!
Worth reading. The future of asymmetric warfare?

Oryx, a blog that verifies destroyed equipment using photos and videos, cited the destruction by the drones of 106 Armenian tanks, 146 artillery pieces, 62 multiple rocket- launch systems, 18 surface-to-air missile systems, seven radar units and 161 other vehicles. Total losses, Oryx noted, were likely higher.
Account of the Informed Consent Action Network
@ICANdecide reportedly locked out by Twitter after they announced to publish more emails from Dr. Fauci obtained via FOIA request, citing #COVID19 misinformation policy.

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1400571828230369282
> checkbox/radio inputs can be used to toggle state with `:checked ~ .foo` selectors

What kind of state do you mean? Could you give an example?
but my friends who are tell me that's a lot of changes, and that experiments might change a few base pairs or proteins at a time. A lab leak theory doesn't explain how gain of function study resulted in so many mutations, unless they were blasting these viruses with radiation

Or explicitly creating chimeric coronaviruses, which has been the state of the are for some time. Here's https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26552008/ one of the sources of smoke on this, a 2015 paper co-authored by the Bat Woman (2nd to last author), the key sentence from the abstract:

Using the SARS-CoV reverse genetics system, we generated and characterized a chimeric virus expressing the spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV backbone.

Have you read the fine article? It cites more than a few papers.
So, I made a comment about how vaccines are widely available in the US, on an article about the US, and you’re nitpicking it because you have an ideological problem with what I wrote.
All the more reason to repeat the experiment regularly in an organised way.
Most Denny's in Canada are not the typical truck stop Denny's(at least the ones in my area)

Been to a few in rural areas in USA, not the greatest experience.

I was impressed when a new Denny's opened up near me in BC Canada.

Food was good and decent selection(decor looks good), but when looking at 15-20$ an entree, may aswell go somewhere a little bit better.
Space Elevator here we come!

Edit: Y'all don't know about the Space Elevator ? There was a competition to figure out how to get a thing to climb a really long rope to space... This looks like it could do it
Half true, they did get conflated - but it wasn't just the titles, the articles themselves were using one to debunk the other.
I am not sure why you think it was UI blocker and not actual problem affecting the driving?

In many places, the road rules say that if you see a broken traffic light, you should treat it as a stop sign. So a theoretical L5 car should have stopped there, in the middle of the road -- and again, and again. Seems pretty bad to me.

And yes, I agree that you "just.. fix them" -- but of the difficulties of the real road driving is that the number of unique situations like that is very large, and many of them would not happen during test drives / development.
I think the release that three scientists fell ill in November 2019, who were working on gain of function research at the Wuhan lab with Covid-like symptoms, may have made the lab leak theory more probable, at least in my opinion, since a year ago. Note that doesn't say they definitely had Covid or that anything conclusive about the theory was settled.

Did Kevin Drum say otherwise?
Go back and look at the reporting on every American war of the last 70 years. You will see the same pattern, and yet Trump had nothing do with any of them.

Go back and look at the reporting on every major environmental disaster of the last 70 years, from DDT to oil tanker spills to lead in gasoline to anthropogenic climate change: same pattern. Trump had nothing do with any of them either.

Hint: the media is pro-status quo. On every story, there are a few outliers who provide contrarian accounts, while the majority take a don't rock the boat (much) approach. Eventually, evidence accumulates, the culture shifts, the media changes direction.

It's not, for once, about Trump.
The relationship between academic preparedness and persistence in STEM majors held true between White, Asian, Black, and Latin students. It also held true across class and income. A white, wealthy trust fund student with lower test scores is just as likely to change from a STEM major to another as a poor BIPOC student. In other words, a student with the same scores had the same likelihood of dropping out across any race. This is much more consistent with an academic testing system that accurately predicts academic ability.

Is it possible that it's actually a predictor of who will predict later extenuating circumstances inhibiting their studies? And one that works with remarkable consistency across all demographics? Maybe but I feel confident enough in the former that I'm going to expect to see data on those circumstances to which you allude before shifting conclusions.
I’ve had a worse experience - I end up looking for a solution to a problem only to find an unanswered question from years earlier, which was also asked by me back then :(
No, it’s a scientific term. It has a definition. Not just something you’ve made up based on your feelings.

Herd immunity is when Rt = 1, or 1 - 1/R0

It is the point when infections begin to decline due to acquired immunity.

https://royalsociety.org/-/media/policy/projects/set-c/set-c...
A good teacher can make a great difference but as you say, the pupil needs some motivation - some reason to want to learn it.

I took exactly one class of 2nd year physics and couldn't see the point of it. I walked out, quit physics altogether and came back the following year to do CS.
I've been hearing more and more that science is moving from the model "theory holds" to a set of arrogant people backing them.
Having the computer science department, specifically, offer more ethics classes is controversial and has gone different ways at different universities. It may seem like an obvious win if you care about society, but many people interested in tech ethics (esp. those who don't consider themselves computer scientists) think it pushes in the wrong direction as far as systems and institutions go.

At one place I've taught, there was quite a bit of pushback from ethicists against the CS department expanding ethics education in its departmental courses. They viewed this as part of a "CS eats everything" trend that would hollow out humanities and social science departments, as well as diminish the role of a broad liberal education codified in the core non-major-specific curriculum. Instead, they preferred CS to stick to more technical classes, but simultaneously were pushing to include at least one ethics course as part of the gen-ed requirement that all students have to take, with ideally a 2nd course more tailored to type of major. In any case, courses taught by social scientists or philosophers, not by CS profs with a CS course number.

Some of this is just university turf warring, but I think some reflects real differences in opinion on how to structure things. Particularly in the U.S. version of university education, where majors are not as dominant a proportion of total course requirements as in some countries. (Depending on the university, courses in your major are something like 35-60% of the total.)
Luckily people who espouse such beliefs in dominance hierarchies are easier to manipulate because their intentions and motivations are usually so obvious.
Other than the aesthetics of the charger, I couldn't agree more. The CCS connector is a big ugly thing compared with the svelte Tesla connector, but you never see it unless you're charging.
I prefer to have readable code first, and performance improvement later and only if needed.
Ethics required for a degree, sure.

Ethics required for CS in particular, no.

There is nothing special about a CS degree which requires an ethics course, and this is even if one conflates CS with software development.
What does that say about social media censors and "fact checkers"?
If you want to take the military lab work with coronavirus seriously, you should instantly forget about a mass-casualty biological weapon. Coronavirus is studied for other purposes than that. Military wants to be able to release a coronavirus which can target on gene profile, or even activate for certain DNA. That way you can release a virus, let it run with all the regular flus, and have your targets die in their own country, of say, a stroke, blood clothing, or they stopped breathing in their sleep. Another study of coronavirus is as a debilitating weapon, much like a cyber attack on hospitals and the energy grid. The entire country suffers an economic crisis and needs to turn their attention away from you to manage it.

The bioweapon thing is a distraction though, I think. There was massive military activity at WIV, and they accidentally released a GoF virus mostly used for publishing papers such as: We made this virus in the freezer infect humans cells, and you can't believe what happened next! It shows (potentially) the potential to become a future pandemic!

It is all so painfully ironic. I think the virology community got afraid of advanced in data modeling, and, avoiding missed grants and early retirement, started to hack Nature because only they could/were allowed to. They bugged out. It happens. They released a "biological weapon" which estimated killed over 8 million people now. They did it from a lab where shady military research is happening. Expose either and the jig is up. Maybe one protects the other...

Edit: since the parent is being flag-botted, here another morsel for you to chew on. Taiwan is a country.
Last Thanksgiving we cancelled Hawaii vacation and went to Florida instead. It was nice and everyone (but one foreigner couple -askholes) were friendly.
My money is not going to Hawaii nor NY. They can have fun impoverishing their remaining people.
What’s really missing in the analysis is the base rate of WIV workers visiting the hospital with cold symptoms. I’ve heard plausible explanations for why it might be pedestrian or why it might be exceptional, but it’s all meaningless without the base rate.
How many years before people with gas cars have to check in advance to see which gas stations are in business, open, and have gas?
> Looking back in hindsight, I wonder how we could have picked out the lab leak theory as being worthy of consideration, given the context.

There were a lot of threads to pull, and some of us were following it. For example, this video was posted in April 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpQFCcSI0pU
Are you thinking of Dave in 2001?

"Open the pod by doors, Hal."
"I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that."
> Is a video game console also analogous to an entire town?

Kinda, except that video game consoles, unlike iPhones, usually allow you to play physical media that you can buy from any source (so consoles aren't quite as bad.)
Man discovers banking system is centralized and prone to corruption? Shocker!
Why do you think crypto tokens are skyrocketing in value?
You can remove the GIL without bumping the Python version number because it isn't actually specified anywhere in the language but is an implementation detail of CPython. If you were willing to compromise CPython's single-threaded performance significantly you could remove it tomorrow. Or if you are willing to give up C extensions you could use IronPython or Jython today!
Perhaps "no evidence" would have been better phrasing than "no reason"? I do think it's possible that some Chinese (or American, or British, or ...) military officer has at some point wondered if coronaviruses would make good bioweapons, but there's still no evidence.

They don't seem like obvious candidates to me, though. Both SARS v1 and SARS-CoV-2 show unpredictable, stochastic person-to-person spread, via super-spreader events. For a bioweapon that would ideally infect all the enemy but no one else, that's the last thing you want, hard to reliably get started and hard to reliably stop once it starts. So that reinforces my belief that if SARS-CoV-2 was of unnatural origin, it was almost certainly an accident during basic research.
> you want to at least test with JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver

It depends on what the stakes are but if you’re consistently confirming things work with just one screen reader, that makes most of the difference.

NVDA with Firefox or Chrome is probably the best to test with; it’s free, probably the most common choice now, and it has a lot in common with JAWS. But if testing with Windows is inconvenient, testing VoiceOver with Safari for Mac is still very useful, in part because it’s very similar to VoiceOver on iOS.
I wouldn't consider Tesla cars as mass manufactured, and that's a good thing because it's what keeps them ahead of the competition. Prices aside, I think they couldn't even sustain the production numbers required to sell cars to everyone, which is something the competition can easily do.
As much as I would like to be able to buy a Tesla, they better not enter that minefield that is mass production.
I don't think you, or anyone else, should have any say in that, quite frankly. Let their current words and behavior speak for itself.

Which crimes do you feel are beyond rehabilitation? I can only think of one area of crime where the majority of people would agree without hesitation.
B2B Partners for Digital Projects
How do you find and select a supplier for a specific digital project? Do you find it relevant to reduce risk in projects?. is there a solution can help us with this problem?
Ass-in-seat mentality (AISM)

Commuting is wasteful.

Office space is wasteful.

Daily, in-person meetings of 30 people to listen to a middle-manager show how important they are for an hour is wasteful.

Fire all the managers except those who help workers improve and get things done and lead company direction.

Work from home (WfH) it at all possible. It should be an option for almost all office employees.
Genetic Diseases to Guide Digital Hacks of the Human Genome [video, 2017]