skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, in those cases I would say even though they are conspiratorial, I'd hope someone would be looking into those possibilities at least to some extent if they're even marginally possible. The nature of these things is when conspiracies are real, they're often made to look like something else, and to make people who see them look crazy.

The other thing is that this case seems different? It's not some vague accusation based on some xenophobic idea of "The Other" or a geopolitical adversary, or a threatening location -- for instance, a US military rival, or a military base -- but rather a large lab specifically focused on experimental virology research. Even more specifically, it's a lab that has been involved in genetically manipulating closely related viruses to be more virulent. There's been suspicious coverup activity by multiple parties, which in itself is not evidence, but I think raises some "worthy of investigation" rationale, and also has been a serious ethical problem in itself regardless of the actual SARS-CoV-2 origin.

I guess in short, yes, there's always conspiracy theories. But this time is different. I don't really see this situation as comparable to other situations, because the evidence justifying serious consideration is so specific.

Personally, I think the train has left the station on ever figuring out what really was the source. This delay in itself seems suspicious to me but I don't know that I'll ever really feel confident about any particular explanation.

As for "simpler", I think that depends on your subjective opinion. I personally think that the perspective that the "natural explanation" is simpler is naive, and underestimates human behavior, especially in our time.

Take Ebola: is it really irrational for non-white, non-Euroamericans to be suspicious of health care workers given, for instance, what happened at Tuskegee and in the search for Osama Bin Laden? There's a reasonable argument that it is irrational, but also a reasonable argument it's not irrational. Turn it around. What's simpler?
Then all my interviews (and coworkers) imply a radically different experience. Education is just one or optional lines on a resume that nobody looks at. You don't need a CS degree (or any degree at all) to be a developer.
Underground does sound promising but doing it at scale for a large number of people… I wonder how viable that is, and if it’ll cause structural issues at the surface. Also in this specific case they may need dehumidifiers.

The other option is heat pumps that exchange heat with the ground. These are slowly becoming more popular in the UK, for instance, but aren’t cheap.
As one of the developers of this patchset, can you comment on how these contributions will be licensed? Can you also comment on how a third party can verify or audit the output of a compiler without a specification?

>just that it's empirically likely to solve the problem.

Can you comment on what empirical evidence you based this statement on?
:-) I saw it when it came out, so long ago I hardly remember, but I vaguely recall loving it. Just look at the user reviews https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118799/reviews/ — rave reviews.
This won't work. Who's hiring could attract a sufficient number of responses that makes selection viable, but this won't. Besides, unlike a work contract, co-founder responsibilities have no defined boundaries or obligations and it'll take a while to get a measure of someone's (including the poster's) commitment and interest.
Are you really saying there's been no industry wide supply issues over the past year?
Education and intelligence are necessary for achieving autonomy. In general, it's hard to take claims for "autonomy" seriously when so many people's decisions seem to be arrived at by uncritically following social media.
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Since when do laws require anyone to state that they might in the future intend to comply with the law?

You're really bending over backwards here.
The critics curse, the reason you enjoy movies when you are young is because you don't have critical thinking. the more of it you have, the less you enjoy. until you enjoy nothing.

The solution is simple, turn it off and let yourself breathe.
Wow! It seems you have the magical capacity to ingest the reference to an equation and instantly derive an intuition for how it works and what it's useful for. Learning technology this advanced has never been seen before by humankind, I hope you share it with the rest of us!
100% food self-sufficiency is a useless measure of whether a country has reached it's carrying capacity. As long as you can trivially import food it doesn't matter. Which is easily possible for Germany. Now take the Netherlands for example. It has a self-sufficiency ratio of 54%. By your logic it should have a MUCH lower birth rate as Germany. Yet the number is almost the same (Germany 1.540 vs Netherlands 1.570).

This also doesn't square with the population growth due to immigration Germany has.
I think you may be right, but it's disheartening that this essentially boils down to a failure of hype.

Ada may be a good language, and GNAT may be a fine Free and Open Source Ada compiler, but Ada isn't a new programming language. Software developers only chase shiny new things. Ada is held back by its beginnings as a niche language with expensive compilers, it doesn't matter that this hasn't been the case for decades now.
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The crux of his argument seems to be that he wants to be able to copy and paste other people's code and create derivative work without the GPL carrying along.
> I.e., Delta is more likely to get you sick, but you’ll still turn out fine.

Except for possible brain damage:

> In a June paper[5], he and his team analysed clinical details for 125 people in the United Kingdom with COVID-19 who had neurological or psychiatric effects. Of these, 62% had experienced damage to the brain’s blood supply, such as strokes and haemorrhages, and 31% had altered mental states, such as confusion or prolonged unconsciousness — sometimes accompanied by encephalitis, the swelling of brain tissue. Ten people who had altered mental states developed psychosis.

> Not all people with neurological symptoms have been seriously ill in intensive-care units, either. “We’ve seen this group of younger people without conventional risk factors who are having strokes, and patients having acute changes in mental status that are not otherwise explained,” says Michael.

* https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02599-5

* https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/11/small-study-r...

* https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-hidden-long-term-cog...

Even if you're (fully) vaccinated, it may be prudent to wear a mask.
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I'm looking for a co-founder with elixir and strong front-end experience or product and sales experience. Technical preference for now. If you like mycology and working with Neo4J feel free to drop a line!

The product I've been working on is intended for the pharma space and somewhat similar to Benchling but targeting a very specific agricultural niche. I've yet to start looking for institutional investment, but now that covid is over I have the bandwidth and drive to take this product full-time!

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One example is how 1password hijacks the ctrl+F key combination.

So, if I have a long secret, perhaps a config section, I have to manually copy and paste it into a text editor in order to properly search through it.
Also known as Elite overproduction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_overproduction
I don't know why anyone would repeat the same code multiple times, but I have found that practicing leetcode does actually improve code skill, even when the coding job doesn't have any complex algorithms. Just the practice of solving the algorithm has carryover to normal work problems, which would make sense as it's basically distilled code logic practice.
Ask HN: Why did the U.S. never move the capitol west?
I was having a chat with some friends about Brasilia and new capitols in other places came up (e.g. the new administrative city in Egypt, Abuja in Nigeria) and it seemed strange to me that the U.S. never shifted West as the country grew further. Would love if folks had some insight as to why some place like Dallas or St. Louis didn't end up being the host of the national government?
so according to you, your neighbors committing murder gives YOU the right to do the same because what ??

why are you bringing other countries into it? the question is on india here. india does this and there should be consequences regardless of what anyone else does or does not do
Yes, you are right.

I experimented with different time horizons, mostly look 3-7 steps ahead.

In terms of the 'reward', that was implicit within the model - if the ghosts caught you, your ability to influence the state of the world dropped to 0.
To be fair, the Gameboy Color was sort of its' own generation separate from the GameBoy and the Mini
There's no secret sauce. The typical aphorisms of software development are generally correct and apply here:

* internalize the cost of core changes and don't push them downstream unless you have a really good reason
* staff a core team to take care of high ROI horizontal efforts that have high fixed cost to do efficiently, e.g. TypeScript migration of a massive codebase
* be careful of what you take on
* complexity and code are costs and not end goals

Reading them is one thing but seeing the principles play out in detail amidst the mess of reality was illuminating for me. The author's blog[1] touches on these themes a bit more and I think are a good glimpse into their stewardship of the TS/JS codebase.

[1] - http://neugierig.org/software/blog/
Meme stocks. Was up 100% for the year but settled down to 45%. Will continue memeing until the end of the year. Meme profits got rolled into more legit stocks (usually just to hold profits with a possibility of some upside until I can buy a good dip), but yeah, mostly stuck to trends and bets, no real investing.

Also lost money, but I memed my way out of it somehow.
I don't believe its unreasonable for it to be opt-out. Building software is very hard, and even something as inane as "automatically report crashes to the developers so we can fix them quicker" or "tell us how many users are on each version so we can estimate the blast radius of some backward-incompatible change" would be categorized as tracking.

Here's the problem: people are idiots. You can manage or visit any Github issues page for a major project for ten minutes and recognize that even our industry is not immune from this. People also, overwhelmingly, use the defaults. When presented with the option to turn on tracking, most people won't, despite the fact that for most developers, its a legitimate good which benefits the user over the long-term.

You can say "well, if people want to be idiots, that's their right". Idiocy never remains in isolation. If they refuse to update the app, then update Windows and it stops working, Users don't throw their hands up and say "oh well that's my bad". They don't complain to Microsoft. They complain to AppDevs. That becomes a ticket, which is written far-too-often from the perspective of anger and hate. Its triaged by, usually, overworked volunteers.

Telemetry is not all bad. There is no "ensuring defeat" right from the start, as if its some war. Most developers just want to deliver a working project; telemetry enables that. Giving users the ability to opt-out, maybe even fine-grained control over what kinds of telemetry is sent, is fantastic.
> "it takes one to tango"

Love it.
Some things are germaine to a plot, some are not. This is a frequent issue in hero movies where a producer wants some particular detail added for nostalgia, or wants an extra villian added because they scored well in audience opinion testing.

The standard example of this is romantic subplots. Frequently stories with no romantic subplot are modified to have one to align with a studios research - and these romantic subplots always feel fake, pushed down your throat and overall contrived, especially for characters never written to have chemistry.

Social justice bingo is the romantic subplot of our time. I have no doubt there are general mandates around including certain ideas or themes, or removing others. See eg, the huge plot change in "WandaVision" where they even left in the Doctor Strange commercials (plot point from original story) but totally removed him from the ending.
Do external drives even have performance/longevity specs? The specs I see on them are pretty basic (eg. capacity, interface, operating temperature), and considering that they're marketed to consumers that's not surprising. As for actual performance/longevity, my understanding is that they're just whatever drives the manufacturer has available. For low capacities they're going to be consumer drives and for higher capacities they'll usually be NAS/datacenter drives.
I drunkenly and blindly bought the Criterion Blu-ray for just a little south of a Benjamin and it was totally worth it, and the price for the originals began climbing after the release of the revised version included in the box set. It's my favorite from WKW's oeuvre; it has the same feeling as Lost in Translation which is another one of my favorite films.

As I grow older, I realize that my interests have shifted from big explosion-a-minute blockbusters towards simple movies of people doing, essentially, nothing.
Are you aware how hard it is to move the needle by any significant percentage when you are dealing with sets of millions? Life expectancy is essentially an average of when people die.

Not to mention life expectancy was going up. So it not only stopped whatever gains we had, but reversed it by a substantial amount.

We were expected to gain 2 years from 2017 to 2030. That's 13 years to go up 2 years.

About 2.8 million people die in the US each year. The current life expectancy is about 80 years. To make that 80 become 78.8 is the equivalent of 1.5% of the people or 42,000 babies dying as soon as they were born.

Anything that can move the needle that much in such a short time is pretty extreme.
> think it's hard to know how far along they were the first time they visited

It doesn't really matter. The difference in human technology over the past 100 years is night and day. Even a thousand years is likely to be incomprehensibly advanced relative to where we sit.

If you choose a random point in time to start a civilization, the likelihood of choosing a point in time within 1,000 years is 1,000 / ~14,000,000,000 for the timescale of the universe or 1,000 in 4 billion by the age of the earth for a more conservative estimate. Naively, you would expect a random space civ to have a couple billion years head start on earth. Do we really think there's going to be noteworthy technological advancements between years 2,000,000,000 and 2,000,000,005? I think not.

Civs habitually going extinct could avoid this, but this becomes much harder for civs with intergalactic travel.
>> Is there a technical reason why little endian is better besides the fact that it's more popular due to x86/ARM?
To me, big endian makes a lot more sense

Some of the other replies have minor technical reasons, but I've always preferred big endian for the readability. Having said that, I'm happy to part with the idea of big endian if it means an end to having 2 options to worry about. One thing that bothers me a lot about RISC-V is that the standard claims to allow either big or little endian implementations. Little has won and nothing new should support big endian IMHO. The benefits of either are largely irrelevant, but the existence of both is a problem. Or maybe it's that the existence of code that cares is the real problem ;-)
Only if whatever enhances their intelligence also amplifies their ambition, like in the Wraith of Khan. Which seems to be the current direction of US education system. Foreign-educated tech immigrants are not throwing any fireworks at rallies.
I take it that you are referring to the async messaging capability of a smartphone.

For me, the primary feature of a smartphone is that it is a telephone. I also have a smartphone app to control a 'smart' device. I can't type more than a word or two on a smartphone without making mistakes; maybe my fingers are too fat and blunt.

If it's just about async messaging: 25 years before the first smartphones, we had email. You could send a message when the recipient was asleep, in the bath, or at the pool. If someone sent you a message, you could read it when that was convenient, in the knowledge that the sender wasn't expecting you to leap to your keyboard to reply instantly.

You could even send the same message to many people at once. And there was best-efforts delivery, which meant that the system would keep trying to deliver, even if your mailserver was pretending to be deaf and dumb, for at least 4 days.

And if the message you received was spam, or simply didn't call for a reply, then you simply didn't reply.

And if you 'did' email on a proper mains-powered computer, then the battery never ran out.

I hate smartphones. I only own one to run this particular app. I never take mine with me when I go out - it stays on my desk.
This is too romantic. Politicians invest most of their time in maintaining their power. (even in democracies) Policies are just things that happen on the job.

If you can maintain power by doing the exact opposite of your position then that is exactly what is going to happen. The conservative German party CDU gets 30% in Germany because people don't want things to change. The CDU is well known for pretending to care about the environment and then not doing anything, their voters don't see a problem in that, they like it that way.
>I know it's easy to slam Atlassian but Jira is still widely used.

So is Oracle and SAP ;)
>If they take steps towards upgrading hardware at the cost of portability or battery life, then it's less appealing.

It would result in an opposite effect. New SoC, developed in 5nm process or 7nm process would consume way less energy, which would dramatically increase battery life.
Can you express closures? Can I see an example of a visual closure?
They could be ashamed of the hardware difference: except for pro-sumers, having segmented hardware is a net loss for consumers owning the current hardware: they'd just have an inferior product.
Novelty Automation is one of London's best hidden gems: if you ever have the chance to go and visit I cannot recommend it enough.
Pronouns are pointers. Pointers cause problems - in programming by pointing to something that disappears, in spoken language by having antecedent confusion.

Rust attempts to solve the worst of pointer problems - I think overusage of pronouns would undermine the whole Rust effort.
Ada deliberately places readability before writeability. It's interested in the maintainability of large mature programs, and isn't intended for rapid application development.

I don't have enough experience with Ada to comment on whether its verbose and keyword-heavy syntax succeeds in this goal.
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I've noticed something similar in University that was very frustrating for me.

Freshmen and Sophmore year all math classes had tens or hundreds of problems that get progressively harder and bring out every corner case e.g. take then derivative of x^2 then 2x^2 then x + 2x^2 then sqrt(x) + 2x^2 + 3x^3. Eventually you could derive the most archaic equations

Junior and Senior year Engineering homework is like 2 Epic questions with 10 parts that feed into eachother. I would have learned more and been more confident if they gave like 10-20 starter problems and then one final epic one at the end.

I feel like this is similar to the story of a pottery class having half the class make as many items as possible while the other half had to make just 1 perfect piece. The group that was targeting quantity actually produced better pieces then the group that was targeting 1 perfect piece

edit: typo
> What's wrong with Google Analytics? As long as the ad retargeting bits aren't enabled ( they aren't by default), it's just a regular anonymous analytics solution.

This assumes you trust Google? Why would you trust an entity that's both got a business incentive to stalk people, is able to hide it (given how many factors go into ad targeting it's impossible to reliable prove from the outside which data was used to target an ad) and is big enough to successfully fob off regulators and get away with it (their current data processing consent flow violates the GDPR for example)?
This Economist article is from October of 2020. Peter Turchin is not a historian. He is instead in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the Universtiy of Connecticut. He advocates for a field of 'cliodynamics' which tries to apply math to meaningfully describe and predict social trends, especially large ones such as collapse. The Nature article from about decade ago: https://www.nature.com/articles/454034a
A large project he directs and uses to study this: http://seshatdatabank.info/seshat-about-us/

Some descriptive work such as: https://www.pnas.org/content/115/2/E144.full

Sone of the work [0] has been criticized on methodological grounds [1] and some recent (2017) related work [2]. Finally, in his own words, a comparison of Psychohistory and Cliodynamics (2012) [3]

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1043-4 [1] https://github.com/babeheim/moralizing-gods-reanalysis [2] https://www.pnas.org/content/114/30/7846.full [3] http://peterturchin.com/cliodynamica/psychohistory-and-cliod...
Sure! The PDF is available here:

https://uhra.herts.ac.uk/handle/2299/15376
China does this to some degree. Small businesses are free to transact without much intervention but very large companies get influenced/controlled by the small government elite in the Chinese Communist Party.
>Or, just create a robot species in our image to explore for us. And hope they keep their meaty parents around and happy

Indeed, I think this is the most plausible scenario. And I think a robot civilization would want to keep Earth living and breathing for reasons other than sentiment. Life has been around a long time, and has solved problems a robot civ hasn't thought of yet. Also, there are certain catastrophes that could wipe out a robot civ, but not Earth (and vice-versa) so we could be each other's backups. Of course, Earth is just an absolutely beautiful place, worth maintaining for that reason alone. And the bots might even choose to maintain pockets of life elsewhere in the solar system, just in case, but that is a very different scenario to the one in the OP's article.
Why not collect the data locally and only share it after a crash when the user agreed?

Why not add a splash screen on the program start up that informs your user of upcoming plans so they can intervene? Like "Hey we are planning to remove feature X to speed up the program, do you agree?"

And this is because actual usage metrics don't really translate to opinions. I have features in programs that I use maybe once every two years, but then I really need them. Then there are other features I use daily and I really hate them with a passion.
And I'll play the devil's devil's advocate:

For Support: Follow these steps:

Step 1 - opt-in to telemetry ( diagnostic ) data reporting
Well, just look at Hacker News…. :-)
20% of users is quite a lot. In most mature applications you can find a lot of painful code twisted around requirements for 0.1% of the users or less.
Their skill at writing misleading headlines?
Never said that. The comment I replied back make it sounds like India is the only democracy which does this and is not a real democracy like the other democracies.

Obviously it's stupid to put activists in jail for bogus claims. And there is no justification in doing it even though other countries are doing it. It's pretty obvious to anyone with a decent IQ.
It’s pretty similar to quitting once all your equity has vested.