skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The solution to your confusion is geopolitics. Everybody knows if it was a lab leak, we'll never know, because the CCP would never admit it.

What's more, even if it's proven to not be a lab leak, it should still absolutely prompt the reassessment of how we work with infectious diseases. The fact that such a large number of prominent scientists even think it's plausible that a cutting edge virology lab could leak a virus this deadly (and that viruses have leaked before) means this is a sector that direly needs regulation.

So the rational conclusion you've drawn is basically valid whether or not there's an investigation.

And since there's never going to be any proof either way, the obvious motivation for the way this has been framed and pushed is about geopolitical tensions between China and the US, which have been rising for a long time, even before COVID.

I remember listening to a presentation, about a book called (pretentiously)
Thucylides Trap'[0] where one particularly deranged woman was advocating for a
war against China, the kicker being, she was a US military employee, a
strategist, and she said multiple times that this was a normal position in the
defense establishment.

These morons exist, and they tend to accumulate in foreign policy and defense establishments, and the way they operate is by leaking 'intelligence documents' to the press, who then publish it just like they published the 'leaked intelligence' about Iraq twenty years ago, to awful effect. It's like the human centipede of sourcing, but instead of getting less substantial with each person the material is passed through, it gets more and more believable and concrete as it gets bounced between spooks, hacks, and quacks, even though there are no new facts, and everybody knew the whole idea was a priori irrelevant anyway.
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Its funny and pokes fun at the larger conversation but I hear you.

Though I think its fair since neo vim is referred to and means new vim. The author here likely believes helix to be more modern than neo vim hence, post modern.

Whatever, I'm sure you understood that. I enjoyed the humor and think its fair
I work in biotech and our business would cease to exist without access to native apps. So would many other businesses in many other industries.
AMD went from 64kb in Zen 1 down to 32kb in Zen 2/3. Bigger isn't always better. It only matters if the architecture can actually use the cache effectively.

M1 has a massive reorder buffer, so it needs and can use more L1 cache. It's pretty much that simple.
well I did somehow manage to screw up my dad's linux box like that so anything's possible. (although I suspect it was because I liked to be an asshole and shut his computer off using the power button)
What about arguments like "the code the FSF owns isn't what I infringed?", or "the FSF doesn't own the code because this other developer wrote this bit and isn't a party to the suit; let me call them as a witness"?

I mean, it's true that you could still win a case having to win those arguments, but it's harder.

Defense in depth isn't just a computer security technique. Any lawyer will tell you that the easiest argument to win is one that can't be brought in the first place.
The opening part of the documentary going over the Cuban Missile Crisis is amazing. I can watch it over and over.

Fog Of War is probably the best documentary i've ever seen.
If discount the entirety of the implementation responsible for the quality improvement as "simply ML", then it is just fancy a deinterlacing indeed. Just like every ML breakthrough is just a fancy matrix multiplication.

But the fact remains that DLSS 2 is friggin amazing: achieving combination of visual quality and performance that was not possible before it, and in some cases it looks even better than rendering at the native resolution. It's solving a hard problem, and does it very very well.
As if there's a scarcity of food in the US so that missing out on calories from meat could not very easily be substituted. Incidentally that would also result in a diet commonly regarded as healthier.
Why would you not want to fight nazis?
> Emacs people tend to play a lot with customization

I used to do that when I was young. Lots of elisp. Then I threw away a lot of customizations I didn't use anymore, added packages for the languages I'm using now and I think I ended up with a straightforward configuration.
My i7-10875H pretty much stopped thermal throttling when running CineBench R23 when I changed the thermal paste to Kryonaut Extreme.
The framing is a bit dubious, at the very least... The statement about 'preferring beer to water' ignores cholera, and the general difficult of keeping water potable over months at sea. Fermentation was, believe it or not, a public health strategy for ship voyages.
How do it and they answer the question in another way to mine given that it is a toxin and millions are using it to damage their health every day?

How many of those millions using could genuinely give up today forever easily if they wanted to?
We've been doing this because alternatives like k8s burned out time, $, and other team members, and our on-prem customers like it operationally vs k8s. SW teams ran high uptime stuff before k8s, and you can still do most of those tricks. We're revisiting, but selectively and only b/c we're now getting into trickier scenarios like multi-az and potentially elastic GPUs for our SaaS offering

Ex:

- blue/green stateless nodes

- DNS/load balancer pointer flips

- Do the DB as a managed saas in the cloud and only ^^^ for app servers

- Backups: We've been simply syncing (rsync, pg_dump, ..) w/ basic backup testing as part of our launch flow (stressed as part of blue/green flow), and cloud services automate blob backups. We're moving to DBaaS for doing that better, which involves taking the DB out of our app for our SaaS users

In practice, our service availability has been largely degraded by external infra factors, like Azure's DNS going down, than by not using k8s/swarms for internal infra. Likewise, our own logic bugs causing QoS issues that don't show up in our 9's reports.
Yes - the technique is called ptychography [0] and there have been several recent electron microscopy papers too demonstrating how this technique (image reconstruction from Fourier space patterns) can reach beyond instrumental resolution limits [1, 2].

References:

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptychography

[1] 2018 Nature Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0298-5 arXiv version: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.04630

[2] 2021 Science Paper: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6544/826 arXiv version: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00465
> I'd like to have an analogue to jump back with my C-x stuff like I do with M-. and M-, - any emacs people have suggestions on how to do that?

If you use Xref UI for "Find References/Implementations/Type", M-, should work in those cases too.

There is a more general question: how to "jump forward" again, without re-invoking the previous navigation command with the exact arguments. IDEA, already mentioned in comments, has key bindings for that.

There are several third-party packages which attempt to solve it as well. I'm using this one:

https://github.com/tcw165/history

You can also add "jump back" to your other navigation commands, even if they don't use the Xref UI.
I mean, kind of, but it seems that the main issue here with the M1 is that it's only 30% faster than an i9. If I were buying a new Mac today, I would only consider an M1 system. It seems to be better at literally everything I want to do with it than the Intel equivalent.

While M2 will undoubtedly be better yet, I see no downside to jumping aboard M1 today for must people who aren't running specialized software.
Eh, you throw out the 1/3 of the religious who have a direct religious prohibition against drinking and the correlation probably goes away.

Maybe depends on whether "would never drink again" and "basically never drink" are included in your definition of "never".

There are a lot of non-religious reasons people don't drink, and a lot of daylight between "one drink a week" and "zero drinks an ever". I fall into the "maybe 3-4 drinks per year" category. It could be more, it could be less -- alcohol just doesn't really occupy a different space for me than, say, pickles. I like pickles well enough, if one comes with my sandwich at a diner I'll eat it. But I only think to get a pickle from the jar in my fridge like once or twice a year, and eating pickles and drinking alcohol have about the same impact on my life and happiness.
> I think you have stated it rather bluntly,

Oops. I was just talking from experience, where I had some expectations of understanding given the level of expertise professed that weren't met in practice.

I say that and I don't even have a PhD (or any other degree!!) in statistics or ML...

> I noticed a lack of holistic knowledge when it came to (say) the hardware that actually execute that machine learning.

Exactly, there are a lot of people I talk to who seem to use "black boxes", without any understand of how it works.

If they can be more productive, why not? However, when one of their black boxes is broken, they often get stuck: as they can't even understand how it works in normal cases, understanding when it may stop working, or even more importantly, how to fix it then, is just not possible.

I have found that to often be the case with mathematics and statistics.

Sometimes it can be a problem, so I have derived some quick test questions to evaluate the person understanding. They are not Shibboleth: they are not hurtful by virtue of having different "levels" of answer that the person may give.

Typical example for stats/ML: "Can you explain why the LLN happens?" Bonus points if the person just tells me the Normal distribution is defined by a Gaussian that is the Fourier transform of itself.
America's early history is mass drinking. Rum was 'invented' in Barbados in ~1650, but beer, wine, and brandy have been drunk in the Caribbean and Americas since it was first touched by colonizers.

Wayne Curtis reported that in the 1600/1700s the average person aged 15 years old and up drank 6 gallons of pure alcohol a year, equal to 75 fifths of 80 proof rum a year, or roughly 5 shots per day. Continental european emissaries who would visit towns in the new world would be shocked at the drunkenness of just countless near dead bodies laying in the streets, and from this British, and sometimes Irish, indentured workers got the reputation for being insane drunkards.

He posited that the main driver of heavy drinking was misery - in the colonies and early corporation towns back then, when the weather went bad and there was no work, you drank until things improved. Not too different from today imo.
Yeah, I've lived in both countries and UK is worse for sure.
You can do it for Rust threads - but it gets tricky with Rust coroutines (async functions).

I made an attempt of implementing it for async Rust in

https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/issues/1879

with a concrete implementation in

https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/pull/2579

It mostly follows the Kotlin model of structured concurrency. However it has its sets of drawbacks due to Rust Futures being immediately cancellable, which then leads to problem if a parent task gets simply dropped.

In order to handle that case better I've written a proposal for async functions that run to completion with https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/187312-wg-asy... . However that is all theoretical, and might never see the light of the day.
It wasn’t worth reading the first time and it is definitely not worth reading again. It’s LiveJournal level writing and philosophy.

It’s also quite possibly the most banal thing I’ve ever read. I can think of nothing more predictable than Marc Andreessen trying to be edgy. This could have been authored by GPT-3.
I just experienced this when looking for a car. It seems that the wagon (or estate car in the UK and EU) has become primarily a luxury offering in the US.

The only semi-modern options wagon I could find were Volvo, Mercedes, BMW, Audi and Acura. With essentially all being performance oriented. VW was the exception, with their smaller sport wagon.

I’m hopeful that the crossover trend will fade back into wagons. Heck, a lot of crossovers these days are essentially a wagon on a raised suspension with a big engine and AWD.

I have similar feelings about MT cars. Give me a middle of the road modern, reliable, fuel efficient MT wagon and I’ll be really happy!
If you're wondering that, you might enjoy "For All Mankind" mentioned in other threads here as likely inspiration for this post.
Does that mean you prefer a different standard for "signed statements", or do you think the idea of "signed statements" is just not useful (or not useful yet).?
"there have been no executions for seven years following the botched death penalty of the murderer Joseph Wood in 2014, The Guardian reported. Wood took two hours to die following 15 injections as he lay gasping and gulping on a gurney."

My picture of the US justice system was already one of callous, vicious incompetence. This surely takes the cake.

Honestly, if you're going to effing kill someone at least do it right.
I once visited and saw in a realtors window a water meter for sale for $300k dollars. No land. When I enquired why this water meter was so expensive the realtor said you can only connect a property to Bolinas water using an approved water meter, and this was the only one of its type available for sale. Crazy!
Ask HN: Replacement for Flash for interactive art websites
In the early 2000s, there was a plethora of "arty" websites that used a Flash frontend to deliver a non-traditional UI.

High-end graphic design websites like Praystation, The Square Root of -1, and many more I've forgotten, usually found from k10k.net.

Recently the Nintendo website y-n10.com was posted on HN and it gave me a hankering for that retro style, but Flash is no more.

Can anyone suggest a modern day replacement that will output HTML5 or similar? Bonus points if it has a desktop visual editor that imports SVG and images for animation, can play audio, and can easily be linked into backend APIs.
The solution literally starts at the 19:52 min mark of this video.

And it's a combination of
1. Bike registry
2. Building more bike lock up sites out in the open
3. Giving loaner bike locks to restaurant/Store owners, to lend their customers.
4. Having event organizers provide a security guard at the bike parking of events.

He thinks that if combining all these little things together, we can put a big dent in bike theft.

Personally I think the real solution will be the one two punch of adding an air tag like device to every bike to keep track of it combined with the inevitable rise of security/ring cameras everywhere.
If only that were still completely true.

https://wwf.panda.org/discover/our_focus/food_practice/susta...

You could completely strike meat from everyone's diet and still feed everyone.
Is there a glossary? I know how to play poker roughly but I have no idea how to use this awesome website.
Sotheby's to sell 'first' NFT in online auction
Show HN: Cwerg -a lightweight compiler back end
> What do you hand a docker-compose file off to in production

Why hand it off to anything?

> When would you choose this path over a separate system to provision your production resources

When you have a simple system with modest availability requirements and you don't like unnecessary complexity.
I understood and was pointing that out (given that GP appeared to be insinuating things about 2020, but to be clear the list of one-sided talking points you posted puts no effort into citing sources for its "facts", so the technicalities of the 12% number (what qualifies as abuse, for how long, etc) are left for the reader to interpret.
Thank you for pointing out the Jevons paradox. There is definitely a ton of that going on in web dev!
Because there are a lot of issues with i9s in those form factors that leads to less perf than even an i7 from the same generation.

There was a Linus Tech Tips the other day about how even current gen Intel laptops can see better perf on an i7 than an i9. It looks like the i9s simply don't make sense in this thermal form factor and are essentially just overpriced chips for people who want to pay the most to have the biggest number.
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You know what's interesting, China and Russia have been struggling for years to get something on the level of intel Westmere. And here comes Apple out of the blue with a proprietary arch and hardware emulator; cinebench showing it to be around a x5650 xeon (Westmere). Easy.

M1X and M2X in the making, too?!
Don't exclude the large number Americans whom also start and fuel miss information campaigns.

A lot has to do with general mistrust of government and industry because there is a lot shady stuff going on. The system is broken and industry takes advantage of it from dumping chemicals and getting away with it or knowingly selling toxic products for decades only to receive a slap on the wrist.

It becomes very difficult to figure out who you can trust.
Is it really that hard to imagine some people just don't have much of a desire to drink? I go pretty long stretches without drinking.
So if an escapee is captured again they're merely subject to serve out the remainder of their time with no time added for the attempt?
That would be true if the development of our understanding had happened at a linear pace. It hasn't, though.

Our understanding of the physical universe has grown so much within the last hundred or couple hundred years that I'm not sure understanding had grown equally much even throughout the entire preceding human history. At least you'd have to go pretty far in history.

With accelerating growth of understanding you will, at some point, get to "mostly correct". I don't know if we're there yet but you can't extrapolate linearly from history that we aren't.
Usage Patterns and Costs of Unmanned Aerial Systems [pdf]
> local maxima must also exist

Interesting point. It follows that as we can observe how galaxies and clusters form, it must follow that if life requires a star, it would cluster and group similarly, and eventually group closely enough for two intelligent species to bump into one another.
So everyone claims 1A here? Banning speech is literally taking your freedom to speech, why is then the banning itself a violation of 1A? I'd urge people to think what would happen if a tech giant banned Democrats instead, and was doing this from the other side. We should tread this line carefully or one day there is no going back.
I realized I didn't actually explain my process:

I have a "tasks.org" file that acts as my inbox: I put new tasks in there as I think of them. Each day I will a) do the task, b) schedule it for the future, or c) refile it into the appropriate project.

Each project gets a "<project>.org" file, I keep my TODOs mostly at the top, or interspersed if there's context within the notes of the project (in Org Mode, tasks and notes can be interleaved within a document).

I keep everything synced between computers via Dropbox. I use BeOrg on iOS for mobile organization.

I also use `mu4e` for email, so reading mail and turning it into TODOs takes almost no effort. I try to practice a "getting stuff done" style workflow for communication, and I try to get to inbox zero each day (through replying, archiving, and scheduling a task for me to reply in the future). 90% of the time I fail to hit inbox zero, but I don't let it stress me out.

I used to use Superhuman + Things + Markdown for the equivalent setup: much simpler with Emacs + Org Mode.

With all that said, I still make heavy use of analog notebooks. I find there's no substitute for writing with my own hand (I suspect this is vestigial from the analog education I received).
London's Privacy Falling Down (2002)
maybe one solution might be to create a new youtube account in an incognito browser, and then just use the cookie from that brand new account indefinitely for youtube-dl purposes. that way, the cookie you're using in youtube-dl wouldnt be 'tied' to your real account.
Alcohol is a harmful drug much worse than some of the other banned drugs on the market.
What work do you think these people would start doing to fill in the financial gap? I’d suspect worse crime if no alternatives exist.