skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people:

>> Vincent Racaniello, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Columbia University, was adamant that the proposal did not change his opinion that the pandemic was caused by a natural spillover from animals to humans. “There are zero data to support a lab origin ‘notion,’” Racaniello wrote in an email.

There seems to be zero data to support his spillover idea too. But now we have documentation of people wanting to do the exact experiments that could lead to this, and he's still sticking to his fantasy.

I dont think the point here is to definitively determine the origin of this virus, it's to point to the fact that unchecked scientists are wanting to do exactly the kind of experiments that could kill us all. IIRC an Ebola gene was successfully put in a flu virus years ago but contained - hemorrhagic influenza anyone?

This stuff needs to stop.
When I open https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=125262... i get permission denied. Why am I getting "Permission denied" trying to view a bug?
Right if you have flaky tests there are 3 acceptable responses:

1. Fix the test

2. Fix the code that is being tested

3. Say "well we don't need this software to be reliable anyways so let just stop running tests"

But many places seem to adopt hidden option #4 "Run the tests and ignore failures"

A related issue is dialing the tunables for warnings up to 11 and then not reading any of the warnings. Once I saw a case where the build generated 1000s of warnings. Found a bug and said "this would be flagged as a warning even with relatively low warning settings" sure enough it was.

Obviously fixing warnings is good, but if they had just lowered the warning setting to be something reasonable, they would have had maybe 10 warnings total, one of which was a bug, which is a lot more useful than 1000s of warnings, at least one of which was a bug.
More or less what I expected. This is basically local device side personalization. You can expect to see this pop up in safari soon. Safari will track your browsing and purchase history locally. At which point all display ads on the web and safari will be served by Apple on iOS.
There's a company in Israel that's recently patented and is commercializing this process described of using transiently cheap or free renewable energy surplus to methylate captured/scrubbed CO2 with the Sabatier reaction, then burning it at the time and place of their choosing as "renewable" natural gas.

Standard Carbon: https://www.standardcarbon.com/

Standard Carbon Patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US11091408B2/en?oq=11%2c09...
Data to suggest that the law is meant as a deterrent or data to suggest my suspicions?

(Edit: because I don't think "data" can help you in either of these situations)
Your comment's really negative and disrespectful, please don't do that. If your test for drawing programs is "makes it simple to draw a circle" than Microsoft Paint would be better than both of them.
This was a proposal to DARPA from a US-based group so the "if it came from the Wuhan lab we need to deal with China" part of the common reaction to the lab-origins idea seems wildly unfounded.

If it came from a lab - hell, even if it DIDN'T come from a lab, but could have - then we need to globally think about what sort of things we're doing and how safely we can do them.
That was my expectation as well. I used Keyhole in the Air Force back in 2004 or so and it was revolutionary at the time.

I had to go to a special closet and print maps from there as it was only installed on one machine.
certainly this isn't news.
Lol this is hilarious.
That honestly sounds like a failure to communicate with the researcher first and foremost. If it's difficult to prioritize the fix internally due to organizational politics, that's one thing, but that shouldn't stop the bounty team from communicating the status to the researcher. In fact, that should be the simplest part of the whole process, as it's completely within the purview of the bug bounty team. If they handle that right and build some trust, they might be able to successfully ask the researcher for an extension on disclosure.

Case in point, Apple likely could have come out of this looking much better if they didn't ignore and then actively lie to illusionofchaos. That really isn't a very high bar to clear.
> Training such a model would cost US $100 billion and would produce as much carbon emissions as New York City does in a month.

This is what’s called infeasible.
Just to clarify: you're saying that genetic analysis appears to rule out current natives being (at least partially) descended from a pre-clovis population?
I didn't know you could do that!
He's probably referring to the fact that AI is better than humans at telling if two photos are of the same person. But I agree that doesn't translate to being better at recognising faces in general.

People might still be better at recognising faces they have learnt, and they might be worse in terms of percentage correctness, but have less bad failure modes.
The capitalist solution to climate change is building condos in Antarctica. Capitalist markets are probably the most short-term problem solving mechanism you could ever find for an economy.

> I think most people believe there are more dire issues that need fixing and funding.

No, they're stuck in a shitty system that doesn't allow them to price resources according to their externalities. People aren't going to opt to pay more for fossil fuels than they have to because it would require a critical mass of buy-in. The only solution is taxation, but that doesn't work either because the system offers no safety nets and gasoline suddenly jumping to $20/gallon (which is what it should cost now) would be financially devastating to citizens.

Markets work great at lower populations, and now we're beginning to see their failure modes when population has skyrocketed and rampant resource consumption causes existential damage. Everyone knows it's a problem, but there's no systemic way of solving it.

We're now at a point in humanity where supply and demand alone are insufficient mechanisms to organize an economy.
> like bad keyboards, bad trackpad (too much scrolling, jagged scrolling, bad trackpad surface)

Curious to hear more about the keyboard / trackpad issues you're seeing. I have an older XPS model, which has the best laptop keyboard I've ever used (better than any MacBook I've tried) and a great trackpad too (I haven't used a MacBook from the last several years, but it's hard to beat physical left/right buttons).

Has the touchpad changed? Mine is extremely smooth, it does not stick to your finger at all, and has no texturing on the surface like cheap laptops sometimes do.

Furthermore, I'm curious if you've tried Linux on the laptop at all. In the past, most issues I had with "bad" trackpads (other than when the surface itself was bad) were resolved by installing Linux, where the drivers simply worked better than on Windows and were generally more configurable (although the advent of libinput changed that).
Wow! What companies do you like right now ;)
Do you accept PRs on the docs (at least for the examples)?
I love this idea. Personally I'd prefer a not-web-based version; maybe it wouldn't be too hard to hack something together with shell scripts on top of Docker.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28637276
yeah without math I wouldn't know I got downvoted from 1 to 0!
Bats might not be such a huge problem at being a reservoir as we hardly get in close contact with them. I would be more concerned about pets.
Want to use synthetic data, but don't want to deal with domain gap?
Now we can grow giant floating hydrogen-filled platforms to serve as the foundation for our skycities!
Hahaha that's awesome. I bet they would abuse that too though
>It doesnt matter who is/isnt regulating you, once you are claiming to be a regulated instrument publicly to people in the US then the SEC have all the jursidiction they need.

The SEC does not have unlimited jurisdiction over things which are publicly claiming to be regulated instruments to people in the US.

The SEC regulates securities. According to the "Howey test" provided to us by the US supreme court it appears that Tether is not a security, therefore it does not fall under the jurisdiction of the SEC.
One way to find out: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/search-results?keywords=...
Can he sue in the UK for a higher probability of success than the US
Either way. Data. (It's not data only if it supports one side. Either it's data no matter which side it supports, or it's not data.)
A lot of people in the Cybersecurity industry are solely motivated by money. This is an egregious case. In milder cases, I've seen US SAS Cybersecurity providers being casual about customer protection, only caring if it starts hitting their reputation. Protecting people's privacy is much lower on their list of priorities. Human rights activists , and other vulnerable people of human-rights-abusing - they're not even on the horizon.

He must've made a nice packet of money. Must have taken care of his retirement - the company's even promoting him. Some citizen's family is now at risk, or already imprisoned without a legal process. This must've come as a shock to the Human Rights community. VPN usage is universal there. And this is the tip of the iceberg - surely we know how fine of a dragnet the FBI has. Iran, China, Saudi Arabia, UAE, there's a long list of nations that'd like to snoop on their own people wherever they may be living. Like someone said, Tor is the way to go (tails).
Are you sure it went to sleep? I’ve had prior issues on a Surface and a 9310 where it appeared to sleep but didn’t. I found that out through Event Viewer.
> I disagree, there is something special about this moment in time.

Your ancestors all felt the same way. So will your children.
GPT-3 learns these rules by itself.
Hence the idea that most unruliness is verbal not physical.

Most airline incidents do not involve physical altercation, yet you could get banned from all airlines?

That would be like getting a traffic ticket and having your license revoked. Typically that happens with repeat infractions
I stand corrected, the power supplies you find for electronics do have transformers in them that provide galvanic isolation.

I guess I’ve spent too much time looking at high voltage (measured in kV) power electronics used in HVDC transmission, it didn’t occur to me that household electronics would use a slightly different approach.
Here's the original study[1] that seems to be the primary source for this article. It's an important study from a respectable journal. To be frank, it's pretty disconcerting that the top comments on this thread are those writing off the topic on the premise alone while those comments actually engaging with the topic seem to be at the bottom

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.02243.pdf
> it's scary because it makes people aware that they're being watched and thus it forces them to police themselves, internally.

People have been policing themselves since the invention of religion.
There's a plugin for nginx that works well:

$ apt-get install python3-certbot-nginx

$ sudo certbot --nginx -d example.com -d www.example.com

https://www.nginx.com/blog/using-free-ssltls-certificates-fr...

On the other hand, caddy seems to auto renew them as well - one less cron job:

> Automatic HTTPS provisions TLS certificates for all your sites and keeps them renewed.

https://caddyserver.com/docs/automatic-https

Neat, but still not sold.
I bet many would be willing to be tracked in exchange for a free desktop/laptop

It takes 2 to tango. Always.
Want to leverage synthetic data for 3d reconstruction, but don't want to deal with the photometric domain gap?

TLDR; Here is a gif showing an overview of our approach:

https://github.com/alexklwong/learning-topology-synthetic-da...

Check out the extended version of our ICRA 2021 talk for Learning Topology from Synthetic Data for Unsupervised Depth Completion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGKH-OKPJD4

This is joint work with Safa Cicek and Stefano Soatto at the UCLA Vision Lab.

In the talk, we will walk you through on how we learn dense topology from sparse geometry e.g. point clouds. This lets us use the abundance of synthetic data, where high quality ground truth comes for free, without having to deal with images and thus bypassing the photometric domain gap.

After learning the initial coarse estimate of the scene from just sparse points, we bring the image back into the picture by performing cross modality fusion. This lets us learn the residual over the initial topology estimate and amend any mistakes, yielding a fast and accurate architecture that achieves the state-of-the-art while using fewer parameters than competing methods.

Note: our method is unsupervised, so you don't need ground truth to train

For those interested, here are our source code with pretrained models (it is light-weight so it runs on your local machine!) and arxiv version of our paper.

paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.02994.pdf

Here are some of the reconstructions produced by our method:

https://github.com/alexklwong/learning-topology-synthetic-da...

https://github.com/alexklwong/learning-topology-synthetic-da...
Huawei's Meng Wanzhou free after deal with US
But wouldn't the measures you mentioned make routine surveillance easier due to the much more unique fingerprint?
That’s surprisingly high. Surely locals who already have tractors and experience digging trenches would take the job for less?

It’s not like unrolling a spool of fiber is rocket science either.
I'd rather accept the higher likelihood of a ticket and preserve my rights than have to kiss ass just to be given decent treatment as a human being. Fuck the police and fuck talking to them. Also white male with plenty of money for lawyers.
Same with Linux honestly. I suspended a Linux laptop, shoved it in the bag, got on the train, little did I know that it didn't actually go into suspend.

Like WTF, if the lid is closed, the hardware should force it to suspend, not get stuck in some software. If the software doesn't respond in time then force the damn thing off.

It heated up like mad, even too hot to touch. Was worried about the possibility of a Lithium battery explosion. If that happened who do you sue, Canonical or the laptop manufacturer?
Wyoming natural gas flared for cryptocurrency mining exempt from taxation
Nefarious intent? This is Google. People should avoid Google like the plague.
Facebook aside, this would set a great example for other manufacturers in this space.
Apple warns of arbitrary code execution zero-day being actively exploited
Ask HN: What has happened with Dell XPS?
This is recent. My Dell XPS 15 9570 (Ubuntu) drains the battery like crazy and heats up when hibernating.

Another conversation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28639952

Until recently, it hibernated fine. I suspect a firmware update. Is anyone else having this with this particular model, and have you managed to fix it?
Glad to see Carmack fighting the good fight.
Just spitballing but maybe at that altitude humans tipped some sort of scale where they were more efficient predators of whatever was up there but below that altitude the larger pleistocene megafauna of the time represented a higher predation risk to humans themselves or there was less post kill (scavenger) competition.
How did you get macOS 10.14 running on that MacBook Pro?
Show HN: Selling Air of a day as token of time
What is a "network-level vulnerability"?
working at a tier one telco. we have very precise maps of our ground fibers. physical location is usually down to +-10cm. length of fiber even takes into account any coiled up parts. if a contractor wants to dig anywhere, then they have the responsibility to query a national database before digging. if they break our cable, then we have active monitoring (reflecting a laser in a spare fiber, off the break, calculating length to break) this interfaces with our map software, so we can tell within half a meter where the cable is broken. in most cases we end up suing the contractor for the cost of repair and any SLA payments.

to my knowledge no public maps exist, that will give you a full picture.
I agree, but the shame of getting 0-day exploits published on the web by someone who doesn't work at Apple might shame them enough to change.
You don't want to remind people of somebody who shoots first...
Go read the pages of content about this at Knock LA then

https://knock-la.com/tradition-of-violence-lasd-gang-history...
Keep reading, the article directly addresses this point
Hi HN,

Time is constantly changing, and so is everything in the world. There’s no way to get a hold of time, or of a particular moment. You could buy something from a day but its quality and use would degrade over time.

There’s another element that’s changing the most, the fastest – our precious air. Air’s composition, quality and feel is changing rapidly just as time is.

We capture the Air of a particular day as a memento, a souvenir, a true memorabilia of time.

The Air of Time of a particular day will represent that day on any future date. So while everything would have changed, you can still have something of that time which is unchanged.

There is a cap of maximum 3 units on any given day.

What is Air of Time?
On a particular day, we enclose fresh natural Air from California in an air tight container and ship it to you anywhere in the world.

Possible reasons to buy Air of Time?
Not one, but ten reasons here: [2]

What can one do with Air of Time?
- Keep it as a memory of everything that happened on that day.
- Share with the world, and make a statement about Climate change, about all the things that happen but don’t make sense.
- Gift it to someone, especially to those who can buy everything themselves. You can’t buy Air of a day that has already passed.

Is this a prank?
No, we really believe in this, and are serious about it. Please go through the product website, as well as our blog to learn more [3].

Requests from you:
Please share feedback, and creative ideas on how we can share it with wider audiences.

[1] https://airoftime.com
[2] https://blog.airoftime.com/what-is-airoftime/
[3] https://blog.airoftime.com
I'm sorry, it has nothing to do with cartels and everything to do with an incredibly complex banking infrastructure running mostly on fortran and cobol.
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I recommend listening to this Dr. Peter Attica podcast. He explains what's typically going on with cases like yours at a cellular level, and then describes treatments that he has empirically found to work in his clinical practice.

https://peterattiamd.com/ama22/
Readme's that actually talk about the purpose of the service and where it fits into the whole and helps the developer form system level understanding, runbooks that have step by step guides and reasons for alerts and errors, design discussions, design documents, sometimes pair programming on harder areas, appropriate tests, appropriate comments, real code reviews where the reviewer seeks to understand the code and the change, idiosyncrasies written in the readme, purposefully deconstructing silos of information (spread responsibility/knowledge) and removing single points of failure by having less experienced folks get trained up and begin taking on responsibilities that were siloed and updating onboarding documentation while doing so, group code reviews on tricky changes, communicate issues and solutions to the team at large, team alert reviews, team error reviews, graphs and metrics have descriptions in plain words describing customer/user impact, and probably some other things we do.
"Suggesting this as a possibility" is a pretty weak statement. But it's actually good to criticize someone for claiming that it happened without having any evidence, even if there happens to later be evidence that it happened.
I guess I see that. If I'm an app developer I am choosing between selling my app or placing ads in the app, and I'm directing revenue to either Facebook or Apple depending on that decision.
I think you could say that about the industrial revolution. However, the events in the past 20 years seem to indicate humanity is moving backwards

>There's a very good chance we're living the most comfortable lives that any creature on this planet will ever experience, past and future. It's truly mindblowing how lucky we are.

The disparity between the haves and the have-nots in this moment in time would truly bewilder anyone in ancient history if they could see whats happening today. There are likely more people living in poverty today than there were 200 years ago, in absolute numbers - not percentage.
While this might not work in the US, it might work elsewhere. Other countries have legal protections for platforms from their users too, but that usually have lower standards for proving defamation of public figures than the US.
> poor people have many babies, rich people have few babies...Does anyone have an alternative explanation for the surprisingly high child poverty rate?

The question makes me think of Malthus. He argued that population grows geometrically, while agricultural production is linear, but the major restraint on reproduction would chiefly be access to food. You could extend that to say that the poor will be less numerous, but feeding them will cause their population to rise and result in inflation (I think that was apropos the Poor Laws).

That was the 18th century thinking, at any rate. Some explanations I've encountered for why it doesn't work out that way involve examining other checks on reproduction which include things like education level and rights of women, and rate of child mortality. I think you raised a great question that's worth examining -- hopefully someone else can shed light on the subject.
I think it's true if you add the caveat "only avenue for an average person". Not everyone gets the big liquidity event in the startup game, but also very few people actually get multimillion dollar comp packages at well established post-IPO companies despite how much it seems to get discussed here.
> Wyden’s annual billionaire tax, known in accounting circles as mark-to-market

Is that the tax in question? https://www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-news/wyden-bill-ens...

"Modernization of derivatives tax act of 2021".

This is the only one that appears to mention "mark-to-market". It seems to apply to derivatives only.
Pre-Covid, I did daily run commuting with a couple different models of XPS 13 with Ubuntu installed and suspended and didn't have a problem.

I always used S3 suspend and never hiberation because I quit trusting and trying hiberation on Linux long ago.
In case this is a real lack of understanding instead of a pretend one: " that other country which many consider to be the main adversary to the US". If it's not Russia, there's pretty much only one choice left (unless you're deliberately trying to misunderstand).
It doesn't really matter what my ancestors felt, it's blatently obvious that there's more going on right now, and faster than 10,000 years ago. Back then, you'd be lucky to see a single revolutionary invention in a lifetime. Now we're seeing them every decade, if not annually.

I don't disagree that my descendents will be justified in feeling the same way, as long as the exponential curve keeps on going and civilization doesn't end.
I believe these were shot in raw and edited by hand later, which should mean none of the default iPhone processing came into play