skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're also using wells that would otherwise be shut-in. This isn't just excess gas that would be flared off anyway.

> The reason to use it on site for crypto mining is that transporting power over distances is expensive and difficult

Transporting electricity over distances is not expensive nor difficult in 2021. Regardless, it doesn't make sense to give someone a tax break for turning electricity into heat instead of putting it into the grid.
Hopefully not, but at the present moment everyone* in society is calling for blood over every little* thing.

*Not literally, but it feels that way/my perceived experience.
The big progress to watch is rather the new process to catalyse CO2 hydrates formation from CO2 at sea floor conditions [1].

What we really need is capture and store CO2, not capture and release again...

[1] https://phys.org/news/2021-09-metals-supercharge-method-carb...
According to the paper (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00822884.2021.1...), it wasn't widely known (or at least believed) in Italy at the time (since Genoese maps didn't reflect North American lands).

There is no reason to suspect this isn't real - it's hard to fabricate a convincing forgery of a medieval Latin manuscript. And this manuscript itself is perfectly plausible - all it's really showing is that one Italian friar somehow (perhaps via Genoese sailors) learnt about what Viking sailors already knew about the New World.
I did use Fedoral Silverblue for a few months, but eventually decided it was about the same amount of work as using a fully siloed system like Tails or a build everything system like BSD.

That's my bias showing, I suppose, but I have a lot more experience and control with source code distributions. I used Gentoo Linux and macOS heavily for many years. I worked on FreeBSD chroot jails for a couple of years as well.

I actually don't have much experience with other people's container systems; cgroup-based containers always felt like FreeBSD jails and granular access control lists. Lots of experience with ACL-based security from Windows NT systems or even Banyan Vines.

So podman/docker are great, but I was more comfortable rolling my own.

Which is a very long way to say: I am crazy, and Fedora Silverblue is worth trying.
Apparently -- I only heard this once, so take it with a grain of salt -- it's why a Walmart manager is typically cautious when someone with qualifications wants a job. "You want a job as a cashier? Uh huh, I bet you won't show up for your shifts, since you don't need to."

I always thought that was kind of interesting, that being overqualified for a Walmart job might make it harder to just get a Walmart job. (I briefly considered it in a pinch but decided to drive for Uber instead.)
To be fair, i don’t think OP described a situation where one side is winning, so there is no compromise. In the case of compromise, i envision having to give up something i want for something I want more. Giving up something i don’t want for something I want feels like just regular negotiating, and feels like a space in which everyone can win.
Did I say I "accept" it? No.

Did I say it was an "excuse"? No.

Please don't put words in my mouth. The -4 downvotes made your point well enough. I get it: people want to trash Apple by any means necessary and that's way more important than a free and open discussion of the issue. Thanks.
It is not from this thread, but my experience over the last 15 to 20 years. I have seen lots and lots of people, including myself, close MacBook lids, toss it in a bag, and start walking. But I do not see that with non MacBooks. It was so notable to me that it led me to decide to look into switching to MacBook Airs.
Do they have any kind of therapeutic role for the victims of violent crime? I know revenge is petty but if someone hurt me badly or killed a member of my family it would be a bit of a kick in the teeth for our societies main concern to be how best to rehabilitate them.
I think the idea is that he heard the same tales because he was in the same milieu, not that he read that book.
From the research article:

«The Cronica universalis is thought to be one of his later works, perhaps the last one, and was left unfinished and unperfected»

So I would guess only few read it. But the friar would have had the information from other sources available to him, and presumably others. The provenance of the manuscript sounds pretty solid to me.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00822884.2021.1...
I believe the uniqueness has been established by the issue that the specifics of the 12-nt insertion is never found anywhere in a natural setting. Many papers have gone back and forth over this and there's no natural example.
Apple maintaining second place in growing PC market
I know, but it's a funny insult. Hydroxychloroquine also isn't just for fish tanks, it helps people with Lupus, but it's funny to call it fish tank cleaner, since there were cases of people self-medicating with the cleaner (and dying)
But really the TLDR is that “non standard resolution” is a bit of a red herring. There are many sizes and shapes of monitor available and the concept of “standards” is an anachronism.

Even something as seemingly obvious like 1080p is a flawed standard because many TVs enlarge the input slightly to crop away junk on the edges, resulting in a physical 1080p screen showing an approximately 1060p image.
No, these leaks are of serious concern.

This was one of the reasons behind the recent scandal where "blue hydrogen" had been found to be very dirty.
This is what we get for giving 2 Senators to states with less than the population of a single medium-sized city.
There's Task.Yield() which yields instantly. Task continuations happen on the same core by default, until you hit an IO completion or something else that knocks it onto the thread pool. This means that chaining lots of awaits together is very efficient, at least until you hit something that forces you to actually sleep.

In practice I tend to use a lot of homemade TaskCompletionSource, explicit threading and interlocked stuff where I need more control of continuation.

There's also a downside to explicit synchronization which you don't mention - if you design your threading for one load pattern, and your actual load is a different pattern, it crushes your application and it's difficult to refactor.

For instance, if you expect few users and many requests you might have a thread per user with a work queue for their requests. If you have many users with few requests then you have thousands of threads, which are actually context switches unlike Task yields.

I've heard that Midori was 50% faster than Windows, and it was nearly entirely written in something like C# with something like Tasks. The runtime was extremely different (no virtual memory, no threads) but it proves that the model can outperform traditional OS threading.
This reminds me a bit of what I said once when someone asked me whether I believed P = NP would have any practical impact. What I said was that even if P = NP, so that essentially every problem has a polynomial time algorithm, I suspected there were certain practical problems that would prove intractable to solve exactly, because the exponent would be too high, like n^10 or something.

There's a good reason that consumer software either has small n, or basically doesn't use algorithms with exponents worse than n^2 (and, we only go to n^2 if it's really necessary). Throwing compute resources at the problem only goes so far when that exponent works against you.

At that time, I wasn't thinking about it in terms of energy consumption, or carbon emissions, but, given the scale of things now, that does look like an appropriate set of units. Nor did I ever conceive of algorithms that would only be run once, because it was just too expensive to run it more than that.
This is not a new concept, and this company is not the first mover, for example:

https://www.crusoeenergy.com/
What’s stopping this model from thriving now? And how might it be realised?
> and then mistakenly assumed he made it, since the Caribbean was where he wrongly thought Asia was going to be.

... which is why Native Americans have been referred to as "Indians," because Columbus was certain he'd reached the Indies.
> 1. There is no viral backbone anyone knows of which would have been used in this research
> 2. There is no spike protein anyone knows of which would have been used in this research

> 3. The PRRAR furin cleavage site is not one humans would have tried it is unlike any other known furin cleavage sites in coronaviruses

I believe what you mean to say here is that there is no published literature describing these things. That may be true. But the people doing this work are the ones who would develop and then publish such knowledge, if it were indeed something they were working on.

> It is not particularly suspicious that the thing which we were worried about happening and causing a zoonotic spillover event is the thing which actually happened.

It isn't. What is suspicious is the following:

1. It happened in the city that houses the lab where this research was proposed to take place.

2. The natural reservoir of these viruses is hundreds of miles from this city.

3. The outbreak occurred exactly 2 years after this research was originally proposed, in the city that it was proposed to take place in, in roughly the amount of time one might expect this research to take.

4. Peter Daszak, despite coming out forcefully against the lab leak theory, and purposely downplaying his involvement with the lab in so doing, and being inexplicably selected as a member of the WHO team to investigate the lab origin theory, completely neglected to mention having made this proposal a mere two years prior.

If I were a major virus researcher, and my proposal to investigate the exact thing that just caused a massive global pandemic had been denied by DARPA two years prior, I would be shouting it from the rooftops as vindication. See, had you just let me investigate this, maybe we could have avoided this pandemic! But he didn't do that. He didn't mention it at all, despite its obvious relevance to all that has gone on.

This is not the behavior of someone with nothing to hide. Whether or not this virus originated in this lab, it's pretty clear that Peter Daszak is up to something he'd rather the world not discover.
One thing that seems to be being ignored on this section 230 (by everyone) is the clause that reasonable action to remove illegal content. If in this case the content is libel, and Facebook did not attempt to remove it after being contacted, that would make them liable.
I would recommend using crux, arch, void, alpine, or any other system with a shell-based packaging system for LFS. Select the packages you require, modify or create the package files as necessary, compile and install. You will get a usable and maintainable system, learn just as much, and have less headaches in the long run.

You can easily track core packages using rss or git and some scripts, but maintaining a small set by hand isn't really that hard, and it gives you a sense of perspective on what actually needs to be upgraded constantly.
for middle america, 5G will take care of areas that have shitty service because of widespread stupidity and ignorance that is typical of the midwest. starlink will take care of areas that have shitty service because they are very rural or remote.
It looks like a hobby site so I wouldn't fault it for not being updated to work with modern shiny. The site might even predate the mobile era.
> This is not a new concept,

The state giving them arbitrary tax breaks appears to be a new concept, unless I'm mistaken.
Continue investigating what though? The research this team has done is all public knowledge. A rejected proposal doesn't shed much light. Lab leak remains remotely possible, but not supported by any direct evidence. Meanwhile, evidence for animal source is getting stronger: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02519-1
Dude is a unisex term. Dudette was the feminine equivalent for a while but hasn't been the case for a while.

I got corrected a while back. The more you know!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude
I thought that was mostly due to Islamic scholars. Weren't the monks mostly erasing and repurposing old scrolls to make copies of the Bible?
Not really speculation any longer. Daszak made a bunch of statements that poured water on this potential concern, and so many other contradictor statements to this evidence. When there is a discrepancy or a number of discrepancies (in this case), there is a good chance of a valuable investigation.
There was a bubonic plague pandemic (1346-1353) right after the time this book was wrtten (1339-1345 according to OP).
You should look at Frankle's work on The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis [1]; it turns out that in most cases you can remove 80+% of the network's weights and still get very similar output quality. The hypothesized reason is that regions of the network which are randomly initialized end up getting a "winning lottery ticket" which already has structure reasonably well optimized for your end task to be further finetuned, and everything else mostly ends up just being set dressing, which is why you can delete those neurons without a major impact to performance.

That said, I don't think we are going to be able to actually step away from large networks any time soon. It seems to be the case that when you have more parameters to optimize, you have more degrees of freedom and you are less likely to end up getting stuck in a local minima which is why it's actually easier to train a larger network to solve a task versus a smaller network, despite the fact that both are wildly overparameterized.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03635
You’d think companies could at least keep things the same instead of making it actively worse. Laptops sleeping is largely a solved problem
The IFR in my age bracket is less than 0.5% according to CDC. That’s on par with a bad flu year. Why would I take a vaccine that was rushed to market, hyped by bureaucrats, and which promotes viral mutations (look up peer reviewed research regarding ADE). So in my mind, a very risky cost-benefit equation.
Columbus thought India was closer than it was because birds could be seen returning to the West Coast of England with twigs and leaves from somewhere. Portugal, Spain and anyone else he asked thought he was wrong because that would've required the Earth to be around 20k miles in circumference, when the Ancient Greeks had calculated it to be 24k miles in circumference (and they were very close in their calculations). Columbus turned out to be right that there was land there, he was just wrong about what the land was.
>I didn't realize this until reading the Wikipedia article on Daszak, but he was the one that organized the Feb 2020 letter in the Lancet condemning suggestions of a lab origin for Covid-19 as conspiracy theories.

Tangent, but if it takes this long to learn a fact like that, consider a critical audit of your regular news sources.
Perhaps you'd like to cite a source.
A lot of early voyages funded by the various crowns was actually put under extreme secrecy so much so that many sailors would only later be told of the real voyage...

At least that's what I recall reading awhile back. If anyone could corroborate that would be nice.
> I had always thought that Columbus made the trip because he miscalculated the distance around the globe, while everyone else was saying they'd starve before reaching Asia.

In the late 1400s people thought the Asian continent was larger than it is in reality. So when Columbus et co saw islands they thought they had hit Japan†… roughly where all the best maps of the day said it would be.

See Toscanelli's 1474 map, which is what Columbus was going by:

* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atlantic_Ocean,_Tosc...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_dal_Pozzo_Toscanelli

† Cipangu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Japan#Jipangu
https://twitter.com/izmcm/status/1441491002259218432
Ahh, thanks, So the issue is that crypto can consume on-site. Thank you.
Agreed. Reaction mass != Fuel
Educated people already knew the circumference of the globe. Columbus’ miscalculation was… hopeful. There’s a sort of conspiracy theory that it was deliberate - how else was he going to get funding?
Consider you're having a garage sale. You're giving up things you do not value for things you do value (cash).

When negotiation for a job, an offer usually includes various benefits in addition to the salary. Such as paid time off, relocation expenses, stock options, etc. Some you may want more than others. So you trade away for the benefits you have little use for in exchange for more salary or other benefits you value more.

A good negotiator can produce a win-win both sides benefit solution by mutual determination of what each side values and does not value - it is not zero sum, just like your garage sale is not zero sum.
So, stupid question, is it possible to train neural networks using 3D CGI that will then be somewhat performant in real life?

Like, would a network be able to overcome the error due to switch between a 3d model and actual video?
The specific claims here that are most compelling to me are:

"The grant proposal very specifically is concerned with using the WIV1 and SHC014 backbones, nothing related to SARS-CoV-2." The counterargument is "Well, they could have altered the proposal when they pursued funding elsewhere." The takeaway is that it is not likely this specific proposal was funded elsewhere, leading to SARS-CoV-2.

"If they actually carried out the research in this grant proposal you don't get from there to SARS-CoV-2, those are all SARS-1-like." I do not personally know how to evaluate the accuracy of this claim, but if true, it resonates with the first claim: this proposal funded elsewhere would not lead to SARS-CoV-2.

The argument claims about it being hard/expensive I think are less compelling, as there is a lead time of several years with experts in field performing research. A more compelling version of this argument would look like (completely making up numbers): "On average, it takes 4.5 years to develop the first samples of a novel virus using a selected backbone, CRISPR technology, and gain-of-function culturing. Therefore, even if this research was funded in 2018 we would not expect it to have led to SARS-CoV-2". I'm not saying that argument is accurate at all, just saying it's more specific than "it's difficult".

The argument claims about the evidence being missing I think isn't going to be motivating for a person who has a reasonable expectation that secret research is done and does not have trust in government transparency (either US, China, or otherwise). I'm not making a point here that evidence isn't needed (far from it, evidence IS needed). I'm evaluating from a polemic perspective what kinds of claims and arguments are useful for advancing the conversation with someone who holding a dissonant viewpoint.

Thank you by the way for making specific claims that can be fact checked such as the two referenced at the top of this comment.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210924232121/https://billmuehl...
> From the human perspective, the absolute delta over those 60 years is what matters.

This is what we disagree on. From the human perspective, it's the relative delta that matters, because we look at yesterday's change relative to life today.
Greater fool theory, in either case.
Most good exploits have a pretty solid root cause attached to them.
The thing that people are missing here is that these aren’t natural gas wells, they are oil wells. Natural gas is a byproduct of oil production (crude oil can have a lot of natural gas dissolved in it, which bubbles out when it’s pumped out of the ground). It’s usually not economical to capture this gas and make use of it, so it’s usually just flared, or worse - vented. To the degree that this makes use of this waste gas, it’s better than nothing. However, if it encourages continuing to tap gas off of shut-in oil wells, then it’s potentially less good.
Have you considered Framework? They're laptops are almost completely modular. The problem with laptops is that they don't have a dedicated GPU yet. But they're otherwise interesting.
Legislating mass surveillance and vaccine passports look very similar if the digital implementations are any guide.
Believe is all in your head, and thats why i like science.
In the 1950's people technology was still relatively grounded in people's understanding. Any intelligent person in the 1950s could understand how an automobile or refrigerator worked if they wanted to. In present day, people treat technology as magic. It's easy enough to figure out how to use your iPhone to FaceTime someone on the other side of the world, but it's nearly impossible to truly understand how it's done.
If I have to work in order to feed and house myself, a healthy discussion on compensation -- the primary reason why I choose to work for someone else in the first place -- should not be characterized as cringe. My work, and my time, is not charity given to a company.
To explain (not appeal to authority), my comment comes from direct experience in existing HV transmission costs, specifically from a hydrodam in upstate NY to a location only about 5 miles away and you'd be surprised at how much that is.

I can only imagine that constructing new infrastructure to produce and transmit the power over even longer distances from remote oil fields to a grid, is even worse.

It sounds like you have experience in this area though... can you tell me how it isn't expensive or difficult to build transmission lines / towers into remote locations?
> Only if you think the power dynamics between the two parties are equal.

The power to walk away is all the power necessary. And we have that, at least in non-communist countries.
> birds could be seen returning to the West Coast of England with twigs and leaves from somewhere.

Are you saying birds were carrying twigs over the Atlantic from Americas -> Europe?? Genuinely curious as to if birds actually do that, seems pointless.
> Since then, AMD's stock has soared—from less than US $2 per share to more than $110.

Quite a turnaround.
I'm generalizing my own experience here, but I imagine it typically takes time for people to reach the conclusion that they want to leave. What if they enjoy some of those "un-fun" tasks? Or maybe they take pride in their work? Or maybe they just like writing code? Or maybe they enjoy working with their coworkers?

I think maybe his manager misplayed and could have approached this from a different perspective. "Ah, I have someone who I can keep at the same pay who is willing to work for the hell of it." Or something like that. Definitely feels like that's the kind of thing you could negotiate with an employee who's joining just for the work and not for the money.
Hire an engineer
I don't know from where you are getting that libel in most US states requires malice.

IANAL, but I am pretty sure it's just saying something provable to be factually wrong that can be demonstrably linked as the precipitating cause to damages against the plaintiff.
This number is not credible. Are we done with ImageNet?[1] points out that the best ImageNet models that currently exist surpass the accuracy of the original labels they are trained on. Expecting to reduce error by a factor 10 on unseen data points is incoherent.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07159
what? no.
if we can read plato and aristotle - and a bunch of others - it's thanks to Catholics monk.
Agreed, there should not be economic incentive in that case. But the OP could be interpreted as they are allowed to utilize the wells that are "destined" to be shut-in (until they are shut-in). What leads you to believe they are going to be kept going longer than the shut-in date?
Root Cause Analysis for Render Incident – September 19th
How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe is a non-fiction historical book written by Thomas Cahill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_Irish_Saved_Civilizati...