skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
4chan is the single most hostile website to me and people like me. People can't even watch porn there without first stating how much they hate black people.

I don't doubt there are interesting discussions to be had there (it is filled with nerds after all) but the userbase is very clear about who is welcome there.

They're also virulently antisemitic.
Funny they only find it now and not earlier. Do the researchers or the university happen to have a significant connection to China?
Tesla Turbine: The interesting physics behind it
We don’t know if it was man made or not, or intentional or not.

There’s a lot of conflicting evidence. What we do know is the ccp is blocking any sort of investigation into the origin and possible cause. They began trying to sweep it under the rug just like SARS.

The downside of all this is that the people of China suffer, when it’s not china that’s to blame. It’s the ccp.
Patching the bios on sandy/ivy thinkpads messes up TPM provisioning though. Luckily, you can install coreboot which will have working TPM.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain-...
Your point seems to be that we would have good metrics to evaluate the actual impact of these anti-competitive practices, including everything that didn’t happen because of them, and can apply proportionate punishment that would repair the damage done.

I don’t see any of these two assumptions to be true today, and if the point is to apply heavy enough fines that Google’s behavior radically changes, we’re not that far from for instance just breaking them up or applying specific restrictions on them.
> This prevents AT&T, Sun or SCO from taking the GNU code, claiming it as their own, and suing the linux crowd for infringement.

you see, no matter how trivial the matter, the lawyers manage to have their share.
For me VMware was the wake-call, no longer needed I to care about dual booting and I made my peace with world that prefers living emulating UNIX 80's experience than something like SGI/NeXT/macOS.

Ironically I have moved away from that VMware setup a couple of years ago, don't use WSL and hardly do any GNU/Linux, only Android/Linux.
VFS for Git solves the issue of having gigantic bloated monorepos used by thousands of devs, making sure user efficiently downloads only what is needed for him.

This is basically Git checkout with an autocommit feature, making sure your grandma will be able to do check grammar in your thesis without teaching her how to Git.
I think @White_Wolf is talking about a study [0] done in 2020 by the university of Barcelona. But at the time the study was still in peer review phase.

The discovery of virus genome presence so early in Spain, if confirmed, would imply the disease may have appeared much earlier than the scientific community thought.

There was the potential for a false positive due to the virus’ similarities with other respiratory infections.

The research has been submitted for a peer review.

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain-...
Who buys it? From the current website it doesn’t appear to be for sale.
These people use the Internet and cell phones.
I do! I hadn't come across it yet, and it's always great to see a creator introduce his work well, great work all around!
AWS doesn’t know who I am
> I'm not fussed what the DSM says, especially about anything touching on psychology. I have heard that it's decisions carry a lot of weight in insurance and pharma circles.

The DSM is literally the consensus of the American Psychiatric Association on what constitutes a mental disorder. It's not perfect, but I'm not sure exactly what makes you feel confident to brush off the scientific consensus so easily.

I also find this attitude about language a little bit funny. The way we speak is changing all the time. Would we be better off if we spoke the way we did 100 years ago, or a thousand years ago?

I'm not sure addiction has ever had the extremely narrow meaning you've applied to it, but surely the people using the term 50 years ago had a less accurate understanding of the actual pathology of addiction, so why should we defer to them? You might be able to point to a period in history where alcohol withdrawal was attributed to demonic possession.

I found this interesting, so I had a look into the etymology of the term addiction[0], and was interested to find this about the 16th century definition:

> addiction as a form of devotion at once laudable, difficult, extraordinary, and even heroic. This view has been concealed by the persistent link of addiction to pathology and modernity: current understandings of, and scholarship on, addiction connect it to globalization, medicalization, and capitalism. Surveying sixteenth-century invocations reveals instead that one might be addicted to study, friendship, love, or God.

The author states that addiction was once more synonymous with devotion - it was the act of giving over one's will and self-sovereignty to something or someone else, and letting another spirit breath into you and move you. It could refer to compulsion, but also to willing self-sacrifice. Arguably that definition is even more broad than the colloquial definition we use today, and the the main example this piece centers on - addiction to theater - is conceptually quite similar to a concept like addiction to television or addiction to social media in that it centers on a form of entertainment.

[0]: https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/toc/15773_toc.html
India's living dead
Well, if we are going to play the game where covert research implicates overt funding that specifically hinges on the funds not being used on such covert research (gain-of-function studies), we will definitely be barking up the wrong tree.
Write out your idea. You can start by validating your idea by making sure your answering the right questions. Then you can reach out to people, you don't necessarily need a landing page but a demo probably helps.
Domain research sucks: How to find the domain worthy of your next big thing
It takes about 2hrs to drive to the tunnel from London. The high speed train does London to Paris in 2hr25. I’m guessing it takes about 7hrs by express coach.
That’s generally the terminology we use in the UK.

Bus = something you just walk on

Coach = longer distance and prebooked
In your examples you fail to put 'xargs -P' in the middle of a pipeline: You only put it at the end.

In other words:

some command | xargs -P other command | third command

This is useful if 'other command' is slow. If you buffer on disk, you need to clean up after each task: Maybe there is not enough free disk space to buffer the output of all tasks.

UNIX is great in that you can pipe commands together, but due to the interleaving issue 'xargs -P' fails here. It does not live up to the UNIX philosophy. Which is probably why you unconsciously only use it at the end of a pipeline.

You can find a different counterexample on https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405552/using-xargs-... I will be impressed if you can implement that using xargs. Especially if you can make it more clean than the paralel version.
The sentence at the very top of the GH repo reads

> Virtual File System for Git: Enable Git at Enterprise Scale

Does it sound any similar to what this particular project tries to tackle?
This is morally wrong on so many levels. When people can't decide what goes into their own bodies, they are just farm animals to big pharma.
> The best technique for notetaking is whichever one works for you and is easy to stick to.

Although this article is full on tips on how to take notes, this is the tip that stuck out the most for me. I've tried many different strategies to take notes and how to remember them. I figured out that the thing that worked best for me was actually to keep note taking as simple as possible. The more "steps" [1] I use during note taking, the more structure and rules I try to add to my notes [2], the worse everything gets. The more steps I have to take to make a note, the less likely it is that I'll make that note. The technique for notetaking that works best for me is, maybe paradoxically, also the simplest to perform: I take notes with pen and paper and review the notes now and then, nothing more, nothing less. This way of taking notes works (for me) and is easy to stick to.

[1] - https://fs.blog/2013/11/taking-notes-while-reading/

[2] - https://www.amazon.nl/dp/1542866502?tag=farnamstreet-20
Landing pages and waitlists are becoming too common. It's very common to come across a great product on Product Hunt, only to find that it's just "validation" and doesn't even exist. Waitlists are a signal of vaporware and many just avoid them.
It's not necessarily that they can't, it's that the precision in altitude is very poor unless the target is close to the radar. This happened with MH370, the data released in the investigation shows altitude values varying wildly by 10000 feet in a short time. Of course conspiracy theorists picked up on that as proof of lizard people involvement.
You won’t believe but this is photoshopped
The actual researchers do not make this claim. That is just another example of senesaional propaganda wrapped in a vener of journalism

Their is a high probability it is a false positive as the gnome is very similar to mother infection
Did they redo the tests as requested by the Dutch (and other teams) as all the news only points to the original findings and then nothing. So maybe it was a false positive? Or contaminated sample?

The problem with this, if it were true, is that it will be very difficult to explain why there were not a lot of cases of misdiagnosed respiratory diseases in 2019 as we do know now that it is very contagious and what the symptoms are; they were not reported and definitely not on any scale.

We know it was in Wuhan well before January 2020 so that other sample from that month in Spain or other places would not be strange. A year earlier of course would be.
Groups of people deliberately creating and spreading disinformation is by any sensible definition a conspiracy
Yes, that would be:

method = o.method(:my_method)
method.call(5)
# or method[5], or method.(5)

If you really want a "function" that you can call with parens:

Kernel.define_method(:method_as_fun, &method)

(Definitely don't do that last bit in a real project...)
We can double your wage, but you first need to buy made in EU and stop buying cheap crap you don’t actually need.
python doesn't use end. To be honest, as a python programmemr the syntax looks quite alien.
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Don't Ubisoft and Epic have their own game stores inside of the playstation store?

And given how hard Sony and Microsoft compete to pursuade games to be released exclusively on either platform isn't it a bit of different dynamic?
If by now you mean June 2020, then yes it is funny.

Could very well be false positives, probably is, could be that researchers were carrying out instructions from their 5g chips. Posted in response to people stating categorically that the parent comment made up a fact that does not exist and it was impossible to source, nothing more.
I would say that for the internet as a whole.
What would be a proper response? ;)
I always take this kind of opinions with a grain of salt but I also don't like bloated IDEs, like the author.

But it's a general and trivial comparison. Like using MS word vs markdown, or Ubuntu vs Arch or Alpine.

It all comes down to your use case and it's not black and white. My Swiss knife is VS Code, arguably an IDE-minus, or an editor-plus. And given that I work all day on software it happens that I occasionally go down (vim) or up (XCode, Visual Studio, Android Studio) and I have no problem with that.
Slightly torn on this. Surely it would be good to understand it better so that it might be recognised earlier next time. However the world’s mostly shambolic response is probably the better focus for inquiry. Can’t help feeling that the former issue is being used as a smokescreen for the latter.
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To continue the discussion, I recommend [0].[0] advocates the use of both parser generators and handwritten parsers. Parser generators enable to easily experiment and are so more suited for early development. Once a language is more stable, it could be more relevant to switch to a handwritten parser.

[0] https://drewdevault.com/2021/04/22/Our-self-hosted-parser-de...
If wages doubled in the UK/EU everything made in the UK/EU would instantly also become more expensive.
As long as we are discussing potential incentives, it seems reasonable to have a modicum of curiosity concerning the incentives for a biosecurity state.

Simply blaming one state actor over another appears as a set of false alternatives. A convenient distraction which inspires tribalism and identity.

CBDC, "verified digital identities" and a host of other dystopian solutions grow into rationalized necessities from the germ of the COVID crisis. We need not look very far to see many of the same actors involved have advocated for these dystopian innovations for years, if not decades. If some of those actors hosted a simulated coronavirus pandemic exercise in October of 2019, is it appropriate to dismiss it as a mere coincidence?

At a certain point you have to concede the probability of a duck being the source of the waddling and quacking.
My apologies, you are entirely correct: I am not comparing same with same.

I have spent some time looking for relevant data, and it is difficult to find, so the parent comment’s number could easily be correct. The parents response is still (Roger) irrelevant to the grand-parent valid point that “They’re putting themself and all peoples that interact with them at serious risk” - the most forgiving reason would be if the GP edited their comment to remove a fact?

Reinfection remains rare: “We know that reinfection is not a common occurrence, at least in the short term with the original variant of the virus as well as some of the other [variants]” - https://www.healthline.com/health-news/can-you-get-delta-var...

Even with the vaccine, you have a high risk of catching the Delta variant because the vaccines are only 40% effective against Delta… However you are far far less likely to get seriously ill, and apparently 2x less likely to spread it on to your family, if you are fully vaccinated and then catch Delta. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/23/delta-variant-pfizer-covid-v...

I also found “The relative risk for PCR positivity was 0.22 (95% CI, 0.17-0.28) for vaccinated individuals and 0.26 (95% CI, 0.21-0.34) for individuals with prior infection compared with no record of vaccination or prior infection” from https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2781112 but that doesn’t really help o_O
While US has a lot more cars, per capita Japan isn't that far behind:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_...
In every jurisdiction I’m aware of minerals run with the land absent specific conveyance/reservation severing the estate.
Why not both? Two things can matter at the same time.

If covid did leak from a lab, accidentally, but there was a cover up, that's also worth exploring no?

It feels like you are choosing because of political motivations.
Then they ran tests on samples taken between January 2018 and December 2019 and found the presence of the virus genome in one of them, collected on March 12, 2019.

“The levels of SARS-CoV-2 were low but were positive,” research leader Albert Bosch was quoted as saying by the university.

quote must have been taken out of context for propaganda purposes
Also the Caproni Ca.60 Noviplano in The Wind Rises.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caproni_Ca.60

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/632/23129734031_5e808a81a5.jp...
Remaking Google requires engineering talent and lots of clickstream data (ie. Hundreds of Billions of search queries and information about what search results were clicked by which users).

Nobody else has this, and until they do, they won't be able to recreate Google.
It's Haskell-based, but here you go: http://dev.stephendiehl.com/fun/002_parsers.html
No. VFS is for /the underlying git/ and not for the user (aka, the .git folder). The linked project is for the end user.
What consumer behaviours won't change in the next 10 years in connectivity?
Same here. I can type very fast (much faster than I can write with pen and paper), but taking notes with pen and paper is what works best for me also.
This is, I think, a very good strategy for many reasons. Not only is it a cheap way to work out tthe design of the language and a way to verify the correctness of your implementation. It's also a good fallback solution: if your (more expensive, expressive) implementation is not ready in time, you can fall back to integrating the generated implementation to meet an important deadline or whatnot.
Nobody drives in Tokyo. There’s too much traffic.
Sam's second IC, the Z2, was discussed a few days ago. You can find the discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28176255

dang has a comment with links to other related discussions in there.
> I wouldn't even have a job if they didn't give me money for it, but I would have a family. See the crystal clear difference?

Yes, crystal clear, but this is the difference between taking it literally and its intended use as a metaphor.

Just as "his words cut deep as a knife" doesn't mean that the words were literally as damaging as being stabbed, and "They are walking a real tightrope in that meeting" doesn't mean someone could literally fall and die, "we are like a family" doesn't mean you are making a life-long commitment to the organisation which would continue without pay.

And sure, you could say 'friends' instead, but then maybe someone else taking your statement too literally would say "well I don't want to be friends with everyone, I just work 9-5 and don't really like the lady in the accounts department because she is rude". "Well", you might say, "tough - get along with them and treat them with respect. You might not like them, but you have to learn to tolerate each other and still be kind as you can't pick who you work with" (almost like a family?).
If we are looking for patient zero I agree, it's not relevant to place blame.

If this thing leaked from a lab, of course we would want to know! There can be lessons learned to prevent this in the future, and if the chinese government knew and covered it up, the world should definitely hold them accountable.
> Ubisoft and Epic have their own game stores inside of the playstation store?

No. Sony PlayStation is almost identical to the Apple App Store in that there’s only 1 way to get your software working on retail units.

In fact it’s a lot worse in many ways, you need two specific types of hardware to even develop software- Sony is quite old school and draconian when it comes to testing, validation and communication.

At Ubisoft we had entire teams of compliance testers for Sony/Microsoft- and if you ever tried to get content outside of their stores (ie; loading after the game launches) they are quite aggressive about pulling the game down.
No, it doesn't.

It will only fuel anti-science sentiment all over the world and put scientists under scrutiny and attacks.

We need more science, not more science attacks.

It will also vindicate Trump like anti-scientists just when we need more science to tackle climate change, inequality, gender gap, and yes, search for viruses with pandemic risk due to human encroachment on wild life so we can be ready for them.

Any sort of lab leak confirmation will basically destroy the science of virology just when we need it most.

Just look at what Fukushima did to nuclear energy acceptance. Now more people die of coal burning radioactivity than ever died because of nuclear energy one. Do we really want to do the same with virology and molecular engineering, which are life saving sciences?
We know lots about lab leaks, there have been 1000s of compromising incidents over the years. Each one is a lottery ticket. The winning lottery ticket doesn't really teach us anything that we can't learn from the losing tickets.
In Bash (not every shell supports this) functions can be exported, which enables this nice pattern with xargs:

myfunc() {
printf " %s" "I got these arguments:" "$@" $'\n'
}
export -f myfunc
seq 6 | xargs -n2 bash -c 'myfunc "$@"' "$0"
What do you mean by gatekeeping here?

They're belligerently racist to keep non-racists away? If so, why not just say they're racist and leave it at that?
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Kiwi population up in parts of New Zealand due to pest and dog control efforts
> something that no other pilot would do

I doubt that. A military fighter pilot would do that. Military fighter pilots are not afraid of diving.

My dad (KW fighter pilot) told me his favorite method of attacking ack-ack guns was to dive straight down on them. Anti-aircraft gunners do not want to fire straight up, for obvious reasons. He said he'd keep one eye on the altimeter, one eye on the airspeed, and his third eye (!) on the target. The trick was to keep the airspeed below the maximum and leave yourself altitude to recover. He also got yelled at once for flying a B-17 like a fighter.

The other two methods of attack are diving out of the sun (just put your airplane's shadow on the gun emplacement) so they can't see or hear you, and hedge-hopping off to the side. This makes it a very difficult deflection shot to hit you, and if you're close enough the gun cannot swivel fast enough to get a bead on you, then turn hard at the last second, line up, and blast it.
I agree with better debugability (there's now a TLA+ debugger) and better error messages, but I think that programming syntax would only make things easier on the first few days, and actually make things harder later: for one, you'd still need to learn mathematical notation because all the relevant material anywhere on logic uses it, and because the meaning of the syntax would still be very different from programming.

> I am not saying it should be as easy as Python/Go/Java.

I think it's already significantly easier than all of them already for someone who has no knowledge in programming and/or modelling with mathematics. But programmers need to know that they're not learning another programming language, but a completely new skill.

> They are self explanatory for most I assume.

Yes, but only because I already know what the symbols mean. But if I wanted to learn about any of those subjects, the materials would not be using Wolfram syntax but mathematical notation, so I'd have to learn it, anyway.

Why did Wolfram choose that syntax, while TLA+ (or Coq, or Agda, or Lean) chose a more mathematical one? Because they're used for different things. Wolfram is for quick calculations you feed into the computer. TLA+, OTOH, is supposed to take maybe hours to think about each line, and then, what you'll be doing with it most of the time is not feeding it to the computer but reading it. After a while, mathematical syntax is less strenuous to read than Wolfram syntax, especially when you might have hundreds of lines of maths. The think/read/write ratio of TLA+ is very different from any programming language -- and even Wolfram -- so it doesn't make sense to optimise for the same things.

> Solving for some of the low-hanging fruits would have disproportionate improvement in usability.

Yes, but I don't think syntax is one of those things. TLA+'s syntax is not only rather standard among similar languages and close to the syntax used in study materials, but actually helps.

One of the syntax-related things that I think might help is for the editor to replace the input ASCII with real TLA+ syntax in Unicode as you type.