skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it was a lab leak that's a strong signal that humanity in general and China in particular is not doing enough to keep labs safe. I think it would be entirely reasonable for the international community to pressure China to document their disease research, problems, and expand safety protocols.

If this has a zoonotic origin then we don't really have the evidence that our current methods are as terribly insufficient. We do have a record of occasional lab leaks, but nothing disastrous as a result.

If it wasn't a lab leak then we should be asking questions along the lines of how to reduce future zoonotic transfer. Should we be pressuring China and others to curtail "wet markets"?

Either way, it's interesting as a scientific question. To look at the origins of one of the most impactful global events of the last year and just shrug strikes me as strangely incurious.

Of course, in reality I don't expect the US government will do anything productive and even if we knew the origins of the virus conclusively I doubt they'd do anything.
The free part is limited to a set number of hours per month.
Fuck a drone, I want to ride in one of those cylinders.
Presumably actually:

python -m pip install --upgrade pip

just:

pip install --upgrade pip

Is “break pip if there is a newer version available”, at least last I checked. (It uninstalls the existing pip but can’t complete the install of the new one.)
A tax on wealth is heinous, and in the long run won't work. First of all, how do you define wealth? An average over the year, end of year, middle of year? Who defines it? Part of the problem is wealth doesn't really mean anything. You can claim something is with X but until you actually sell it, it really isn't worth anything.
The other issue is, I could work hard, build a company up, make the same income as the previous year, but now my wealth had increased because my company increased. So I gave to pay more taxes?
Or I own some collectible that goes up in value, and I have to pay more taxes just because someone out there wants what I have?
No, a wealth tax is criminal.
I suspect you are being downvoted for the low effort comment that is just a google search link with no context or commentary. I don't think it particularly has anything to do with the content since few people are going to expend the effort figuring out what you are talking about.
> it's ASCII based (technically ISO-8859-1, which includes ASCII)

No, it is (some) ASCII plus "opaque octets". ("A recipient SHOULD treat other octets in field content (obs-text) as opaque data.") If you want to say that historically it was such, that's not correct either; it was that plus "supporting other charsets only through use of [RFC2047] encoding" which is a nightmare of an encoding scheme.

> HTTP itself is mostly very simple, text "name: value" pairs separated by newlines

Except when it isn't: headers can be folded across multiple lines. (Which is also obsolete, and discouraged.)

Add to that 1xx responses, transfer encodings, chunks, chunk extensions, trailers. HTTP is far from "simple"…
Sometimes I really wish I could read some of those college essays that went in with mine.

I wrote about my dad playing games with me, making a GB emulator and my mom dying. At the time I figured that's what most of them were. Grandma/Uncle/My pet fish died and that was sad. I broke my leg / struggled with grades / couldn't make friends blah blah blah. I built something or wrote something or did this charity thing. The occasional military / older adult.

Would really be curious how those have changed. Plus the difference in Ivy League vs Public schools.
How do you say yra dick
Kurac is (je) slavic word for a Dick.

I am not sure how I found this page, and I am not sure why I am showing this.

I see there is a possibility that this could be interpreted as offensive. If that would be so, I will gladly shut down this comment.
AFP demonstrates no further powers needed in fight against encryption
If you get really technical, any program is impure as running the code has the side effect of increasing the temperature outside the cpu from running the program. That's a side effect. And running a program is going to change the temperature in a different way each time

That's to say, at a certain point, all this is arbitrary.

Pure code is generally easier, but a program that's only pure code is pretty useless. You always need an escape hatch which is what some monads like IO or Futures provide. Monads and other functional paradigms allow us to write and interact with impure code in a pure way and mindset. That's exactly what hooks do as does the react mindset of, your view is a function of state.

Hooks easily let us separate that statefulness into their own abstraction - just as futures do for async calls, and IOs do for the file system. This lets us model our view as a function of state (and props which are just arguments to a function)
Assuming the text is well written, from the standpoint of information theory, the better the text gzips the fewer information it contains
Should've used signal
I can't seem to find any reference for what actual submunitions a Tomahawk carries but conventional cluster munitions can already be smart:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBU-97_Sensor_Fuzed_Weapon
Of course it's double taxation.
Aren't the block sizes too small? gzip uses 64k block sizes and it seems like the compressed sizes are several times larger.
Ask HN: How do you find software literature on a topic?
Hi HN!
As an example, I often find myself wondering how to properly implement server-side computed properties. Should it be business code? Generated DB column? Materialized view, or trigger-based? Computed on request? Maybe there are some web frameworks that provide complex computation dependency trees?

The few peers I work with might not have an answer. IMO this is the greatest obstacle to mainly working solo.

I can surely Google a lot or open up a question at SO[1] or SE[2] for every single aspect, but I feel like I am lacking general understanding of the topic – particularly given how often I trip over this.

But where do you turn with this? They say the hardest things about CS is cache invalidation and naming things. From my experience, the most difficult thing to do and where experience really matters most is getting to grips with the gazillion patterns and tools available and how to choose them. I often don't know where to look for the right reading material, and a Bachelor's degree hasn't changed this either. How do you cope with it?

[1] https://stackoverflow.com
[2] https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com
In general by government protection we just mean that they are receiving property protection from police and from local governmental offices for like water quality inspections, park maintenance, general public services like the post office, etc, right? not that the government decides anything of note for the utility/company of people who are doing their best to run things based on merit and performance and team cohesion and actual delivery of objectives? not any political shit? I ask because I'm truly afraid at what people are starting to think when they talk about government's role, at least from my age or younger and I'm probably on the younger side on this forum so I want to know what the more experienced people here think about this kind of thing.
It's definitely hyperbole to say "irrelevant", but I think the overarching point is right.

When I'm looking to buy something, I'll usually start my search on Amazon or Pinterest or Walmart or eBay or Etsy. Google is definitely a search of last resort.

Everyone's behavior is different, but while Google may "own" search for knowledge, it absolutely does not "own" search for consumer products.
An interesting (and probably obvious to most) thing mentioned in the propublica articles is that Bezos used investment losses to offset some of the realized capital gains. As in he was able to make speculative bets on startups with no downside risk because he could either gain spectacular appreciation on the ones that hit or use the failures to offset his expenses (realized gains).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_vs._Google#Goog...

The scope (of showing nice timer by google on 'timer' search) is much broader spanning many verticals
Bosch is going all-in for IoT. CEO/Borad realized they need to produce own chips for that a couple of years back and made the single biggest invest decision. Automotive also uses lot's of ASICs. Too bad it's an LLC (GmbH), can't buy stocks.
The US govt didnt give any meaningful punishment to the Sackler family who live in the US for OxyContin, why should they go after someone in China?
That is literally the stated goal of determining the source of the virus.
If you want to be on the UN Security council you need to detonate a nuke somewhere in a desert. It's a requirement.
Read the post more closely. It’s not just an API reshuffle. Chrome is restricting the ability for extensions to run JavaScript code that is dynamically generated or loaded, limiting them (in many cases) to static scripts embedded in the extension itself.
> It would certainly be infinitely cheaper, yet, all that money would be diverted to funeral directors

Strangely enough in plenty of countries that money goes towards actually providing care for people, or in fact, the people just get to keep it for themselves because it's all so much cheaper.

Your argument is like saying tons of people will be without internet if everyone uses much cheaper municipal broadband, despite the evidence proving otherwise.
Mark to market isn't a panacea, even if you ignore the considerable costs it creates.

In some cases people are already required to mark some assets to market, doing so ends up causing to have large losses which wipes out their income entirely in some years. ... again resulting in some years with no tax in spite of being wealthy -- it's ultimately offset with higher taxes later, but in some individual years you end up with the same issue the article is complaining about but actually created by the MTM.

If that surprises you, realize that when you've marked an asset to market at a higher price-- you've also increased its cost basis to that higher price, so if it returns to the price you bought it at you now have a loss. Without the MTM at that point you'd simply have no gain, but not a loss.

(and if you don't allow writing of the loss you've created an utterly ruinous cost for owning any risky-- or even merely volatile asset)
We could also argue that an understandable text has a high degree of redundancy, e.g. explaining the same concept with different perspectives
If it's a lab breach, the most likely cause is someone breaking protocol. If we somehow determined that everything in place was handled correctly yet the virus leaked through some before unimagined method, the research would be useful. I find it very unlikely that is the case, and even more doubtful that we would ever be able to determine it.

More useful research would just be additional studies testing various breach scenarios.
Your argument would be better if you stated that most diseases are diagnosed at an advanced stage when it's obvious. The rest are incidental and then we sometimes occasionally we get lucky. We don't routinely CT scan people because it's harmful to do so.
I think they don't track bugs there. They even archived the repository.
>".. I use it 2014-style ..."
are you using any type system eg TypeScript or Flow ?

I am asking because I do not remember them being used back then, so wondering if you had upgraded there.

Also what do you use for 'whole app' state handling (rather than component level) ?

Asking because React Context feature seems to be the right fit for the 'whole app' state handling, but it was not there back in 2014.

I also like you picked up preact for smaller project.. just because the size is so small. But for lager things (eg over 20K lines of JS) I seem to be staying with React.
No doubt. I love it so much. I turn off all the desktop effects but translucency and then it is just instantly responsive and beautiful.

I can't even imagine using anything else at this point.
> They still need to pay back that loan with post-tax money.

Unless they pay back said loan with another loan. Given the massive amount of wealth accumulated, you can rinse and repeat indefinitely. Basically you have a free cash flow machine, without ever having to convert that income as proceeds (unless you want to convert between asset types).

Having said I agree with your main point: we need to close the loopholes, and the charitable foundations is the biggest of all, and sadly the article missed the point entirely.
I’ve used a number of those others, and at least via my personal scoring system, google flights is still by far the number one. Your link prioritizes very different things than I do, for example one of its top scoring sites has as a con that you can’t filter out 10+ hour layovers).
Why should we try? Other than wanting to be greedy and steal from the rich, what reason do we have to try?
However, there must be more evidence than three lab workers seeking medical help with symptoms of a cold (about what may be statistically expected for a complex of that size in the cold season) and no apparent trail of possible infections in that (social) vicinity. This is simply not a sufficient argument for a hypothesis of such gravity.

Moreover, I have a hard time seeing how this could have happened, provided the requirement of some considerable exposure (viral load) over a considerable time. (A COVID-19 infection is not a matter of a short contact for a few seconds or even minutes.) Personally, I'd say, there is no coherent theory, just politics.
No, the stated goal of determining the source of the virus is "determining the source of the virus."
The offset, such as it is, is that estates below a certain threshold pay a lower rate of 18%. So the tax was designed to make the wealthy pay more, irrespective of whether it does a good enough job there.

But to be clear, if someone wants to argue for say a 45-50% estate tax (or even a higher CG rate), that's fine! My point in the article was just that this should be done as an oped, not a faux-bombshell news feature.
Zig is shady AF. Steer clear of it. Andrew, Jai coming at you soon ;)
Check out some of the Azerbaijani drone strike footage with IR on Youtube. They'll need to go deep and avoid any above ground movement and it better not look like a bunker. Unless effective drone defense (other drones?) is employed using cheap drones are a game changer.
My understanding is that sandsifter just detects byte sequences the processor decodes. That indicates an instruction the decoder recognizes, but gives nothing about what they do. This is about two specific instructions with a known purpose
Everyone on Earth has had their lives upended over this virus. I think we're obligated to understand everything we can about it's origins (regardless of source) so as to help prevent it from happening again.
Every iPhone comes with an backdoor.
It's not really fair to compare a discrete GPU to a mobile GPU, I only provided this as a comparison for someone who maybe has one of these at home. And btw, you are talking about TF32 performance not FP32. TF32 actually uses 16 bits. A100's FP32 performance is actually lower than 3090, it's 19.5 TFLOPS:
https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/Data-Cent...

FP16 performance is also relevant as a lot of people now train in FP16. The default for pytorch/TF is still FP32.
Nah, the syntax is superficial. Scala has offered better-than-Rust FP in a traditional syntax for over a decade, but if anything the tension between imperative and functional people is worse there.
You're inheritor won't avoid them though so it's kind of a moot point. Even a trust will get taxed as money is withdrawn.
The effective risk is reduced but not zero. If you lose money investing in a failed startup you're still financially worse off even after accounting for the capital gains offset.
I partially agree with your initial statement. I think precise definitions are only helpful in certain contexts. In general they might not be necessary or even useful, but precision is useful when you're trying to examine your own beliefs and the beliefs of others.

Consider this: the soldier being willing to defend against an enemy when he doesn't fear death isn't necessarily displaying courage. This particular soldier could have a death wish for all we know.

If I posed this scenario, then maybe you'd dive a little deeper and say something like "Most people are afraid to die, so if you were a soldier that didn't want to die, and you choose to defend your post when confronted by an enemy that can kill you, that would make you courageous."

By probing for specifics, we learn a property of courage. We might say something like "Courage is the ability to act against the compulsions of fear." Whether that's satisfactory or not is another issue, but it allows us to have a better understanding of what we're seeing in the world. It gives us a better example of acts of courage versus acts of overconfidence, inebriation or apathy.

The downside to this definition is, if someone approached me in public and asked me to defined courage; if I used this definition, I would probably need to follow it with an example.
eg, NFTs are fungible in so much that machines care about precision, whereas only an autist would notice of you modified a few pixels to change a hash.

people based products need more fuzzy logic than hashes.
I think they are right. Even personally with the Google/DDG split I use, I almost never search for products on them. I go to Amazon or any other retailer. If I don't know what to buy and I need reviews outside of Amazon then I might search for it on Google/Youtube or browse some specific site like WireCutter.

For me and for people I know, even the general search is now more and more served by new search engine platforms like Alexa/Siri which are the only search engines on products like Echo and have a monopoly.

With vertical search platforms coming up, looking at just a general search engine is the old way. Search is no longer just the traditional old style search engines from 90s. Alexa/Siri haven't been monetised yet, but you can see the dominance of Amazon in product search space by their rapidly growing ad revenue.
You may have one long, extended duration - but you can try again part time, time a business taking less time or resources. You can try until you're 85. Keep going.
> If you want to be on the UN Security council you need to detonate a nuke somewhere in a desert.

No, you don’t.

Every UN member rotates through UNSC seats. If you want a permanent Security Council seat, you need to be or be generally recognized successor in interest to one of five powers that got those seats after WW2, when only one had detonated nuclear weapons (and the important one were on Japanese cities, not desert.)
> I very much think the state of OSS isn’t sustainable.

I'm perplexed by this. You wrote that Elder.js was an experiment. I sense that the stress you are feeling now is a result of trying to make it work for everybody else. But it doesn't have to work for anybody else.

OSS that is a slave to people who don't contribute may very well be unsustainable. OSS for the fun and use of it is perfectly sustainable. If Elder.js does what you need, that's great! If you're hoping it makes you the next DR Hipp or John Resig, maybe think about whether you really want that. If you do want that, that's fine, too. It just comes with a lot of demands.
Remember that time you did something wrong? I'll make sure to bring that up next time I read an article about something you did, regardless of what what you did wrong or what the article is about.
the world needs less autodesk
> perhaps same things could be accomplished more effectively by government.

Perhaps. You could say the same thing about any economic activity. But go too far and you end up with, you know, Stalinist or Maoist communism with tens of millions of citizens dying of starvation. I’ll take the market economy, thank you very much.
I have had an abnormal ultrasound and then a CT negative. If AI can cut down the CTs it's a win.
> On the other hand, google could take over almost any business like this.

I have never worked with a technology company that would in danger of being taken over in this way. The examples you list are all free information you can find on the internet, which is precisely google's business. To run afoul of monopoly laws they need to do things like build their own restaurants and route searches to them rather than the other local restaurants the user was looking for. I assume they are doing this in some cases. But the last thing I want is to do a search and find the result list giving a bunch of new pages of lists, with yet more ads of course, to sift through next.

Software engineers are enjoying a nice run, where one can make lots of money applying basic software skills anyone can learn, grabbing free info anyone can get, and utilizing libraries everyone gets with their computer/phone OS but has not been provided access to by their hardware vendor. Hopefully technology will keep changing so fast the run will last forever (as long as you keep hopping to the newest bleeding edge). But this seems like borrowed time to me, access to free info and your own computer's clock or whatever is a commodity anyone can provide, whether it's someone earlier in the chain selling the hardware, or just millions of hungry programmers in developing countries.
I read several of your articles to decide whether your Substack presents new facts or analysis. It does not. Your writing triggers many of the heuristics I use to filter "industry flack" from genuine dissent.

Tax policy isn't something I know a lot about, so I'll discuss your article "Breaking Down the New Yorker's Slanted Robinhood Story".

> "Brokers by definition are middlemen who have customers on both sides. And if we have to pick the side that matters more to Robinhood, it’s obviously retail customers. To suggest otherwise is either disingenuous or negligently ignorant."

Channeling my inner Antonin Scalia here. The Cambridge English dictionary defines a customer as "a person who buys goods or a service." There is a perfectly reasonable argument that Robinhood users are not customers at all, let alone Robinhood's primary customers. It's not a good look to dismiss the plausible as "disingenuous or negligently ignorant". That's a symptom of ideological conflict, which is dull and tiresome.

> "Payment for order flow is something that it seems only one financial journalist understands well enough to explain"

I see a trend here. People who disagree with you are ignorant or lying. It's not difficult to understand that PFOF entails selling user orders to brokers under common control with enormous asset managers that hoard advertising data and make market-moving trades. Questioning the intelligence of those who disagree is another symptom of ideological conflict.

> "Did stock markets haemorrhage value in 2007-2008? Famously so. But the causes there were complex. Was excessive Wall Street greed a part of it? Sure! But so were a lot of other elements — including weak consumer financial education."

With all due respect, that sounds like some sleezy shit Anthony Mozilo might say. I want to give you the benefit of the doubt, but it's hard to see this as anything but pandering to one side of an ideological conflict.
Then if you take a $500 million loan backed by your stock holdings to build a yacht, why not deduct the yacht as an expense?
Never - creation should always be the goal.
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Seems like an opportunity for another browser, e.g. Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, etc.
I know my Samsung phone can do 960 fps. But its almost useless without some way of triggering it at the right moment. Anyone play with their phone and get good results.
Wasn’t sure if this was sarcasm but for anyone thinking this as a serious one, heavy recommendation to Innovators Solution and Innovators Dilemma, which go into why this isn’t the case pretty much ever.