skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My point is that the right wing cranks actually come out looking pretty good on this topic - as far as I can tell. I think it's wrong for this article and others to start out, and dedicate space in the opening of their argument, to try and balance things by saying, essentially, "Yes, maybe the experts were wrong here, but so were the crazy right-wing people."

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Worse is that said broken clock embraced thoroughly xenophobic language that almost certainly led to a rise in anti-asian violence. It unfortunately made it easier for the public to discount these arguments because it was impossible to tell whether they were being made in good faith, not to mention that these arguments were often made out of a (justified) distrust of the Chinese government rather than an objective understanding of the known facts.
A tiny menu of exceptional dishes is great for chefs, foodies and critics. However, for a many people, the social side of eating out is more important than getting the absolute best food. Too small a menu means you probably can't go with your friends - unless they're all foodies without dietary constraints, religions or allergies.

The idea that people sometimes suggest of just going to a place and asking for an ad-hoc halal, vegan or allergen free meal is not reliable. It might work, or the chef might have no idea what vegan means ("is chicken okay?") or just tell you that's not something they offer. You can call ahead - but at that point why not just put it on the menu?
Non-scientists obviously go into bat caves all the time, for guano collection, mining, etc. This certainly is a possible pathway for the emergence of zoonotic diseases, including SARS-CoV-2. Those aren't the bat caves I was referring to, though.

The WIV and Wuhan CDC sent grad students to hike through the wilderness to remote bat caves too far from any road or farm to have been exploited yet for any practical use. They chose those caves based on their expert predictions of where they expected to see the greatest diversity of novel coronaviruses.

There's obviously far fewer WIV grad students than guano harvesters; but the risk per person seems orders of magnitude higher, for an expert deliberately seeking a virus vs. a merely indifferent laborer. So that seems like a new and non-negligible risk to me, and thus one that requires investigation. Note that I'm not alone in this; Marc Lipsitch, for example, often mentions this possible pathway.
I assume the author, and others referenced in the article, don't want to admit the other "side" was correct. Nor do they want to admit their "side" was wrong.

Yeah, it is wrong to claim it was certainly a lab leak when there is little evidence. However, it is also wrong to claim it certainly wasn't a leak for that same reason. Let's just hope the truth is found, and we learn from it.

It's hard to do, but simply being able to say "I was wrong" or "I messed up" would make the world a better place. This is actually something I've been working on.
i mean tesla taught me deadlines dont matter.

also making big moves is complicated, attention spans are short, and peoples judgement of time is crap.
I'd love more information if you have.

Because per se it does not prove the claim of bioengineering.
There are a ton of different types of murder charges. This can be codified to be safe.
> His measly public servant salary only paid him $417K

Oh please. The median CEO pay at a pharmaceutical company is nearly $5 million. It take all the way up to nearly $50 million per year, which someone with the incredible experience (not to mention government contacts) of Dr Fauci would be on the upper end of, and that's not too mention the tens of millions in signing bonus and retirement packages. [1]

1. https://www.biopharmadive.com/news/biotech-pharma-ceo-employ...
What's been highlighted of the FOIA released emails so far suggests he didn't know if his NIAID was funding Wuhan Institute of Virology SARS type coronavirus gain of function experiments, but he was quite concerned that might be the case. Look for the one where he tells someone to keep his cell phone on.

It's something he'd likely be concerned about, because he's been a big booster of gain of function research, and the Institute famously houses China's first BSL-4 lab, although the article claims the Bat Lady said prior to the pandemic they were only using BSL-2 and -3 labs for their coronavirus research. This assumes she'd know about all that was going on the Institute.
The Spanish flu didn't originate in Spain -- its origins are disputed, but it was first observed in the US.

I'm surprised you didn't get this memo by now, but Spain gained that ignominy only by being the sole country to not apply censorship regarding the topic at the time ("Land of the Free" included).

It's utter nonsensical bullshit like this that made us collectively move away from naming diseases after countries.
The original of this Microware OS-9 was my first exposure to a "unix like" operating system in the 80s. It was pretty amazing that a mutli-user, multitasking operating system kernel can fit in 8k.
Apparently they ended up having to do just that even after paying the ransom:

"The decryption software provided by the hacking group DarkSide, notes Bloomberg, was reportedly 'so slow' that Colonial Pipeline 'continued using its own backups to help restore the system.'"

Source- https://mashable.com/article/colonial-pipeline-paid-bitcoin-...
It’s almost as if we learned new information that contradicts old information and the media is doing its job publishing articles about it. How weird.
He banned flights from UK and Italy as well as China. To call him racist for China is idiotic.
I did not look at any other source. Again, I am citing the post that got the Google diversity head in trouble, not anyone else's interpretation.
If I have to step into that virtual space and put my headphones on/off it is probably not in sync most of the time. Most people won't consistently remember/spend time letting your app know what social clues to give to other people. This is the entire advantage of those clues.

And if I do spend the time, why not put me in the "available for chat" Discord room or similar? What's the advantage of turning those explicit status settings back into subtle social clues in a virtual 3D world, other than making things complicated for coworkers?
If you think that's neat, go watch Telnet Star Wars :)
Don’t be so certain. These sweepers are usually entering every possible sweepstakes they can. While you might be able to automate the entries and do it in 10 minutes instead of 3 hours a day, unless you start doing fraud like multiple identities, there may simply be no more sweepstakes to enter.
> My conjecture is we end up building AV only roads. initially one lane of a highway, then ring roads round cities and major warehousing hubs, then across urban areas. Walled off in some way they simply become railways with benefits.

Close, but I think it's far more probable that we just whitelist roads / intersections / routes known to work well and be reliable--whether with a general-purpose or location-specific algorithm. There's still a ton of value shuttling people to and from the airport and local hotels.

Then there'll be incentive for local restaurants to also be included in the available destinations, so there'll be pressure to both improve local roads / intersections to make them more easily navigable by self-driving cars, and on self-driving cars to get better at navigating them. With time, the locations / routes that self-driving cars can reliably reach will expand until it covers the vast majority of desired destinations.

We actually are following the same pattern with the horses -> cars transition. There are still plenty of places that cars can't reach and horses can. Over decades, though, we just kind of paved roads everywhere anyone really wanted to go. Nowadays it's more or less a given that if you want people to be able to reach somewhere, it'll need to have a road.

We'll see the same thing with self-driving cars. There'll still be roads that self-driving cars avoid and humans drive on, but they'll become less and less relevant as the value of self-driving cars becomes more apparent.
Because it is a conspiracy theory...
> Only a few years back, we could point at people getting killed by software bugs like the Tesla path-under-semi-trailer issue (not a lot, but it did happen and they were real bugs).
That's not happening any more.

Will you bet with your life on it?
>Humans need, intuit, and automatically fall into social hierarchies based on power.

Says who, you?
As another ML engineer I have all the respect for Andrej Karpathy and wouldn't dare to walk in his shoes. My ML model could kill people? No thanks, I couldn't sleep anymore.
Java 16 is good enough for us.
I didn't know about SSHFP, thanks for informing me. DNSSEC has always felt cumbersome to set up, so I've stayed away from it. Might give it another try.
im surprised we are still making manned aircraft.
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/08/ai-just-beat-h...
> This is not entirely true. Lower SAT scores are correlated with dropping out of certain majors at much higher rates.

This statement needs more careful examination for two reasons. First, students drop out for various reasons that are not academic, including personal reasons. It's possible that if you come from a lower-income family, your family circumstances change such that you can no longer attend school. Even those who dropout for academic reasons may have their academics affected by their personal life, and without personal difficulty they may have been able to handle the coursework. So such a finding would not contradict my claim that most people have the ability to handle the coursework.

Second, because of Simpson's Paradox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox). When you aggregate all students, you may find that lower SAT scores correlate with high dropout rates, but that would also be consistent with a school environment that discriminates against BIPOC. (Just because the admissions environment attempts to compensate for discrimination by measuring "growth" doesn't mean that the schools themselves cannot exhibit elitism and/or racism.) Your article doesn't provide any data (so I have no evidence to support this), but it's possible that if you separated SAT scores out by race, the score has little to no effect on dropout rates.
Ask HN: Why is there no product for specifying software?
After a long time working in software I’ve noticed that not enough time is spent specifying software, and that there is no formal process or software used to specify software.

Why is that?
Interesting. I appreciate the insight, haven't looked at it in a while.
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Robert Evans did a fantastic recount of how this in this Behind the Bastards podcast [1][2] and how this dangerous false premise (similar to vaccines cause autism) has persisted and informed some really toxic ideologies despite being proven inaccurate.

[1]https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236...
[2]https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236...
It's so far fetched to think a lab with known safety issues could be responsible for leaking a virus. We all know that humans are infallible and never make mistakes and accidents rarely occur in place with poor safety standards. Its just so crazy....
we've had great luck with gitlab-ci. Jenkins is just a nightmare.
The iPhone without then apps that run on it is somewhat interesting, but is largely a novelty

Others might have a different perspective. For example, personally I use an iPhone because the following are my requirements in descending order of priority:

1. I now need a smartphone running one of the two major platforms.

2. I do not want anything to do with Google, ever.

3. I don't like a lot of what Apple do but they aren't as bad as Google.

I do use a small number of third party apps on my iPhone, because they are now a practical necessity to function as part of society without extreme restrictions. For example, I do not want to spend 20 minutes trying to navigate a phone system with bad voice recognition in a noisy environment just to pay for 30 minutes of parking, nor do I want to break the law, and that leaves exactly one other option in many of the places I visit: use one of the well-known parking apps.

Other than using those few essential apps when I have to, I mostly use my phone as it was when it came out of the box: for communications, as a poor-but-present web browsing device, and as a general tool with a useful camera, mic and light.
Nominated positions means he has direct control of them. He can fire and replace them at anytime.
Eh, I think it depends on how the technology advances and if the battery remains a primary feature going forwards. We already have lots of battery powered devices and device consumption of battery energy could just as easily become the place to optimize. It's the primary hurdle now for EVs, but when people swap the AAs in their devices, I hardly can imagine anyone feeling as if they're degrading the product. I imagine in this scenario, quality control and branding would still play a pretty big part of the process as well.
using drones
> I'm surprised at how dismissive the comments are.

I've gotta ask: has the US's stance on terrorism been effective? Or did they merely use it as an excuse to militarize the police and erode human rights? Because I want the government to take effective action around ransomware, but "similar priority to terrorism" just doesn't fill me with hope.
Lexicographic ordering puts non-ascii unicode characters after ascii characters
While 60 fps is definitely better than 30 it is actually a complex subject and in some cases, it doesn't makes that much of a difference.

The big reason why gaming may look terrible at 30 fps mostly has to do with temporal aliasing, in other words, the lack of proper motion blur. For example if you look at a car going quickly from left to right in most games, you will see multiple copies of the car instead of a smooth trail, as if it was shot with a strobe light. Modern graphics engines can do motion blur but it is a hack. As an experiment, I tried doing it properly with very simple objects and it definitely looked smooth even at low FPS.

But there is a caveat. While it may look good if you are just staring at the screen, things start to fall apart when you start tracking objects with your eyes. The blur becomes apparent. You then have the option to trade blurriness for smoothness by adjusting shutter speed. It is the same kind of trade-off you can have when resizing an image: blurry or pixelated.

And then, there are jitter, tearing, artistic considerations, etc...
I love how each course has a unique web page. Do the teachers make them themselves? Almost feel like browsing their personal websites and have that sense of exploration going through them.
a basic question - why there is no multi threaded browser ?
I'm curious why you think that would be cool? It doesn't sound like a situation to aspire to.
The demographic for our app was primarily the US.
> But, if the same work _is_ available in another format then I think it would be reasonable to expect the seller to provide it (it costs them bandwidth, nothing else over what they're already spending).

Sure, but it's worth something to you.

I just downloaded a productivity app. The free version is great, so I don't think I need to upgrade, but I noticed that the paid version includes a Pomodoro timer. Would it cost anything for the company to turn on that feature for me? No, of course not. It's clearly just an attempted to make more money. But an attempt to make more money is exactly what they have a right to do. That's why they're in the business.
Does the owner then visit violent retribution on the thieves?
Holey'ier than thou? I kant splel.

Edit: I blame running out of coffee and almost falling-asleep at the keybbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbndfjhkngbc
I bet the car always sees the traffic lights at 5-10m distance ahead, but the graphics display is not capable of displaying a moving traffic light correctly. It's not a lidar problem, it's a UI problem.
> game of function research

I assumed this was a typo the first time, but since you repeated it - it's gain* of function. As in a virus gaining a new function.

Did you even read that paper? I doesn't say what you are claiming at all. It says they're going to hold a conference to determine if it's worth the risks, and says they should continue the moratorium while they do more research. Ah jeez.

> Oh, ok. So before his only reward was his "public servant salary", but now that you know he's the most highly paid government official (including the President) his salary is now being compared to FAANGs and he's underpaid. What a sacrifice.

Compared to what he could be making right now? Yeah, absolutely. I appreciate his sacrifice — he's criminally underpaid for how valuable his skills and experience are to the country.
You don't learn as much from using your own code as you do from sitting with someone who does.

Having to hang out with a patient the entire time might be an equal learning experience.
We fund the police and military with our tax dollars to prevent bad actors from doing bad things that we don’t want. Why is this different?
Really entirely depends on the product / service / industry. Without specifics, we can only give you broad answers. You could always pay for a list from a site like https://www.dataaxleusa.com/
Wu Dao 2.0: 10 times the size of GPT-3
You don't see a difference between:

"the virus that killed at least 3.5M people worldwide came from <COUNTRY>"

and

"as the pandemic spread globally, and as expected for almost any virus and for coronaviruses in particular, variants of the virus emerged in <COUNTRY A>, <COUNTRY B> and <COUNTRY C>"

?
Scotty has those ironic clickbait titles down.
Not from stanford but I enjoyed these:

MIT 6.824: Distributed Systems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQP8WApzIQQ&list=PLrw6a1wE39...

CMU The Databaseology Lectures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkgDDs9EJUw&list=PLSE8ODhjZX...

You essentially learn systems by looking at lots and lots of examples of how good real world systems are designed.
From the beginning gain of function research has been done at levels as low as BSL-2, and this article claims the Bat Lady said that all their coronavirus research prior to the pandemic was done at BSL-2 or -3 levels. The Wuhan Institute of Virology's BSL-4 lab would likely be booked up for research known to be very dangerous, and as you go up in levels it's more and more inconvenient to get anything done from the physical protections (there are also supposed to be biological ones).
As Psychedelic Shop owner Ron Thelen put it in October of 1967 during the “Death of the Hippies” funeral:

“It must all go — a casualty of narcissism and plebeian vanity. ... (Haight-Ashbury) was portioned to us by the media-police, and the tourists came to the zoo to see the captive animals, and we growled fiercely behind the bars we accepted, and now we are no longer hippies and never were.”

https://www.sfchronicle.com/thetake/article/Death-of-the-Hip...
If a field is an int and the incoming data has a string the parsing shouldn't succeed - instead it should give an error like "expected an int but saw a string". Maybe include the string it saw in the error. Add in the JSON path for bonus debugging points.

You shouldn't get to the point of having a CreateTaskRequest with a 0 that shouldn't be there.
Providing security and protecting property is one of the core functions of the state. Police protect businesses. The US Navy protects shipping lanes. I do not understand why this particular case could be so objectionable.
What Chamath Palihapitiya hasn’t realized: Content creators don’t want to manage their audience. MrBeast, PewDiePie, etc. got rich and famous without owning their audience, doing marketing, fiddling with Wordpress, etc.
> Would Fauci have even known?

Firstly, he has no excuse to be ignorant. Secondly, I’d wager every administrator and CEO who has any involvement with viral biomedical research were making urgent albeit possibly discreet inquiries into any possible involvement around February 2020.
Wow, you can see the big spike in Garmin interest when they got hacked in July 2020.
They could enforce a time limit. Cars are also starting to charge to a usable percentage much faster. Tesla was talking about charging at 1000mph or ~ 83 miles range in 5 minutes of charging.

Also, at a 7-11 near a freeway exit, I would assume it's a different story than an urban 7-11.
had a GF who is a GP doctor.

she never wore a seat belt.

Why? She's immortal.
It's not fraud if you use others' identity with their consent.
Imagine all the hilarity that can ensue when they release this beta stuff in production... oh wait.

But seriously, these are just slightly funny obscure weird cases, imagine when the hackers start coming up with malicious cases to mess with these cars.
I’m sorry you are having trouble with Clojure.

One thing to keep in mind is that Clojure has excellent interop with Java, and it is trivial to write a small Clojure wrapper that just does critical thing for your dependency injection system e.g. startup and shutdown, and just pass through a reference to the Java object when you need to make function calls.

Another thing to keep in mind is that Clojure code is extremely stable, so pure Clojure libraries often require minimal maintenance, and code written for Clojure 1.3 runs on 1.10 99.99% of the time with no modifications.
Looks like Arizona forgot the last time they tried this. From Wikipedia:

> During the April 6, 1992, execution of Donald Harding in Arizona, it took 11 minutes for death to occur. The prison warden stated that he would quit if required to conduct another gas chamber execution. Following Harding's execution, Arizona voted that all persons condemned to death after November 1992 would be executed by lethal injection.
Rundeck comes to mind
The Curious Case of OpenBazaar
This claim is laughable. It was all labeled conspiracy theory, fringe, even racist.

Twitter and FB had policies against it and even now, today Twitter suspended the account for the Fauci email leaker(s). So much for open discussion.
Because that isn’t the goal and is often not what happens?

It is purchased to make return, not to save them from bankruptcy. If it is a side effect, that’s fine, but that is not why it’s done or what the goal is no?
The Top Ten Martin Gardner Scientific American Articles
The point is that it adds no value over existing systems. You're all over the place here with your replies and it seems like it's disingenuous so I'll end it here.
I don't think it's cool, but I refuse to use something as lame as "/s".
> I don't understand why this innovation doesn't get more love.

It's been in the Prius since 2003.
https://www.mobygames.com/game/x-com-ufo-defense

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That's kind of a cool idea. Enter your table number and it would charge by the time you're ready.
Ask HN: What are some ideal applications of blockchains?
I have heard of smart contracts and cryptocurrencies. How do you envision future applications of blockchain?