skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “I am more convinced than ever that SARS-CoV-2 has a natural origin,” agrees Linfa Wang, a virologist at Duke–NUS Medical School in Singapore.

>The Laos study offers insight into the origins of the pandemic, but there are still missing links, say researchers. For example, the Laos viruses don’t contain the so-called furin cleavage site on the spike protein that further aids the entry of SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses into human cells.

Nobody’s saying that COVID-19 was built atom-by-atom from carbon and hydrogen. We’re saying that virologists inserted the furin cleavage site into an existing coronavirus since that’s what they said they would do in their own leaked grant papers.

100% a bad-faith article, shifting the goalposts and spinning like there’s no tomorrow.
I once got a copyright claim for a classic song (copyright expired) that I played with Timidity++ (both software and voice is free). YouTube is somehow good at detecting a similar-sounding tune that isn't the exact copy of the original. It's such a discouraging experience.
I run https://thisstartupacquisitionannouncementdoesnotexist.ajnis... on the free tier of Google App Engine.

And https://www.redditreads.com on the free tier of Google Compute Engine.
> not only do people often not understand what their cultural practices are doing, but sometimes it may even be important that they don't understand what their practices are doing or how they work.

this is so wrong, it's "not even wrong".

It's always important to determine why something worked or didn't. If we did not do that, we would never be able to produce enough food to feed ourselves. Ignorance and blind adherence to nonsense is what creates famines in the first place.
I hate to be rude, but IO doesn't exactly bring to mind the most clever or dedicated programmers.
Why would they happily oblige? Or is it sarcasm that I fail to detect?
Yeah, I agree. I am simply counting them due to their future plams to do E2E peer to peer networks.

What I would really LOVE to see is just decentralized backends that can be accessed via a growing number of https gateways by a widget on any website, and used to sideload code that will run apps and update apps.

That will be an uncensorable app store (unless you censor all websites, or sniff all https packets and block ones that seem like they follow this protocol).

If only Apple/Google would allow us the ability to run our own notification servers…
I have a lot of respect for Johns work, but this post is mostly fluff.

> So as you can see, conversion operators aren’t just for rearranging data; they’re more like black boxes. Input data of a specific format and let the engine figure out and execute the link to the desired output format. It’s such a simple concept that’s more general than volume conversion, and yet it’s managed to solve our problems.

Well, fair, but this has nothing to do with rendering voxels, or managing the n^3 problem of memory required for voxels.

All we get is the suggestion that spare trees aren’t ideal runtime structures, and a whole lot of talk about how it’s not ideal to structure your code around one specific implementation because it makes refactoring and trying new things hard.

Cool, I get it, good point… but I don’t think it’s particularly novel to have the idea of an engine built on a black box of data transformers.

…unless you’re prepared to go into the detail of what you’re transforming the data into that’s useful, which we got about 4 sentences of.
This piece strikes me as very similar to the concepts outlined in the book "Deaths of Despair" by Anne Case and Angus Deaton. This was a fantastic read.

The callous indifference to society at large is kind of sickening in about half of these comments here. We do absolutely need to address the problems in society, and it takes very little effort to observe it outside of an ivory tower. There are those who are working to change it, and they are being attacked from all sides by nonsense and government sabotage (I'm not talking about protestors, I'm talking about actual social workers and the like being sabotaged by elected officials for decades).

Just go outside of your comfort zone in society once in awhile. It's extremely observable. I figured most IT workers would at least have minimal exposure to this, but maybe many of those here didn't start in tech support.
Xcom 3 (apocalypse) was a voxel game with destructible terrain in the late DOS era.
>Binance has betrayed the crytocurrency movement

I don't know about crytocurrency but cryocurrency would be some cold cash for sure.

Can't get much colder than that.
Can I patent/trademark the contents of Library of Babel (https://libraryofbabel.info/) and then sue everyone?
> The same rules apply to any other app on the stores.

So you can't sell a web browser that can access illegal copyright infringing adult content?

I think they should remove all browsers then.
Not at all, I agree that she crossed the line but there are plenty of companies that raise money under false promises using a mockup. Even when they have a marketable product they continue to make the rosies of promises. Juicero is a good example. They raise millions to put out a product that was mainly useless. I'm sure the investors were totally surprised of the product the company produced. That's one that was a famous example but I'm sure there are plenty more that never made the headlines.

She went over the line and should be prosecuted given the harm she caused by putting out testing machines that did not work but there plenty of companies that come close to crossing the line onto fraud.
When this technology scales some prison might embed the tech to its prisoners or worse a nation could declare a brainwave tax.
> The motivation to do good, and stay away from evil. The idea that a person if being watched.

You're describing sociopathy.
But then how will private rnd work? Why would i spend 5 years researching something when you can just copy it the next day?
At the big companies I've been at, it's because no one (myself included) will read them. Sure, they'll read them at first, happy to get back the 25 minutes. Then new meetings will replace that time until it cascades into a series of low-signal notes that are infeasible to keep up with.

Similarly, I've seen so many folks in leadership that get the feedback of "the engineers on the floor have no idea who you are, what you do, or why this re-org matters". The solution? Publish a biweekly newsletter about what they and the rest of the org does - that cascades with every other level of middle management doing the same. All getting filtered into the same unread folder, leading to the same feedback as before.
I noticed it a few years ago, too. The fake reviews are glaringly obvious most times.

I've seen what sellers do, they'll sell a decent product, something that's like just hairties where nobody is really going to give negative reviews, then they'll add a "colour" to it, except instead of black hair ties, it's a smart watch. Then they'll remove the hairties, and ride on the smart watch now having 2k positive reviews.
Here's the actual one I spotted: https://www.amazon.com/Fitness-Tracker-Activity-Waterproof-S...
Look at the questions, look at the reviews. They were selling a totally different product, then added a 'variation' (of a totally different product).

This kinda trash plagues Amazon. I've actually been relying on Reddit for reviews on brands I'm not familiar with. It's sad, in a way, that I have to research products before buying from Amazon.

The quickest way I've been able to really validate reviews is to check out all the two and three star reviews. Those avoid the 1 star operator error "I'm too stupid to operate this product, so the product sucks" and the mostly useless or fake 5 star reviews. The 2 and 3 stars actually provide the most useful info about any problems with a product. Those are usually issues that don't even bother me or apply to me.
Right have a timeout measured in minutes. The timeouts have zero effect on a clean run, so large timeouts have no effect on time to deploy if you require a clean run of tests for deploying.
Universal Music Group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Music_Group
The marketplace.

If I wanted to deal with a bunch of randos on the internet, I'd use eBay.

In the last few years, I've had more issues with Amazon than the prior two decades. Almost all of these issues included a marketplace seller that blamed Amazon for the issue, and Amazon blamed them.

I appreciate that Amazon spoiled us with great prices and prompt shipping (10 days was a normal wait in 2000), but the marketplace is terribly inconsistent and this isn't what I want from my shopping experience.

Purchased a bad HDD? Amazon 1st-party would ship me a replacement before the return was even verified shipped back. Shipped by marketplace? Everyone has their own policy, and it can take a month or longer to resolve an issue that Amazon made painless.

So I feel like there's been a bait-and-switch. If I can't find a Sold/Fulfilled by Amazon product, I'll look elsewhere no problem now. The hassle wasn't worth it five years ago.

Same for NewEgg. Last year I purchased five Mellanox MCX311A-XCAT... the prices on NewEgg vary from $70-$300, and I was seeing the same variance on Amazon. From sellers with 1-star or no reviews. I ended up buying five on eBay for $150, from a seller with 4k+ reviews. Arrived in a week.

Marketplaces are great for company margins, but proving not-so-great for customers.
> the creator should be defined as the entity that paid...

No. The existing definition of "creator" as the person who did the creating is perfectly fine. Various supporters, such as those who provided the creator with lodging, food, salary or other provisions are themselves not the creator.

If you pay an engineer to create a psidget, you haven't created anything. The engineer did. You simply exchanged your money for the engineer's creation. This is similar to how paying a farmer for their crops does not turn you into a farmer.

> not the engineer / tools that were used to create

Do not conflate people and tools.
They had one of these at the Expolratorium in San Francisco for many years. I’m not sure if it survived the move to the new location. As a boy I was astounded that my brain could be so easily tricked. Putting my hand on the grill is a vivid childhood memory.
As per another comment, I’m unsure why you cut off at 12 years old.

That said, the role of schools in child care is often overlooked for the less economically measurable benefits of education. Without the child care provided by schools, many parents could not afford to work in developed nations. So dropping the age kids can go to school may be worth while.

Another area of school/childcare/education is the long holidays kids get. Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Outliers discusses the spurious origins of long school vacations.

Note, my wife is a high school science teacher and agrees with Gladwell’s hypothesis that long school holidays disadvantage poorer kids.
> A girl is not allowed to go to school with the Muslim head scarf. This is worse than the Taliban.

You can't be serious.

Somewhat relevant article about new university rules for women in Afganistan (rules created by taliban).
https://m.timesofindia.com/world/south-asia/taliban-order-un...
Huawei was not a major international player throughout this era. Competition with Huawei is not what led to the collapse of Nortel. Nortel's mismanagement and financial misrepresentations are its own fault, and trying to blame Huawei - which was barely on the international stage at that point - makes no sense.
I’m not saying that Kubernetes is required but you need something to empower devs. Rolling their own VMs is too much work and too easy to mess up.
It’s earth-shattering because of some coverup?

I suppose that would in and of itself be quite a story, but my question was why would this accidental release through a lab, so far an unsubstantiated and not necessarily conspiracy linked event, be so important that one would state things like “someone else” funded a program that didn’t receive funding?
Does anyone actually use Copilot day to day? How much time does it actually save?
If you want something that can't be strong armed by governments, the web sucks too. There's virtually nothing in it to resist censorship.

I'm sure this voting app could've been a website, and I'm sure it was or could have been blocked in Russia.
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> nothing in this article being “big tech’s” doing (instead it’s “big government”).

Big tech stores personal data, big government subpoenas the data secretly. They're both strongly to blame.

And I don't really see how the phrase 'big tech' loses any subtlety in an article about facebook and other major services.
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Engineers manipulate color on the nanoscale, making it disappear
> I believe that if Intellectual Property ever served a legitimate purpose, it has now run its course and needs to be dismantled.

Completely agree. Intellectual property in general needs to be abolished. Copyright in particular is irredeemable at this point.
Godel showed that "This statement is unprovable" is always unprobable. The practical (un)importance that statement doesn't change in higher ordinals.
Because women in male dominated fields are typically not taken as seriously, need to do more than others for similar recognition, have few role models that look like them, often receive anti-women sentiment or even unwanted sexual advances along the way, are often told how they should or shouldn’t act in ways that their male colleagues don’t get, along with many other differences that men don’t have. It doesn’t have to be only women who receive such treatment — other minorities have their own experiences as such.

I’m curious what you even mean here as against the odds? If it’s a technical masterpiece, both a man and a women can equally be recognized by IEEE for that hard work. But if it’s a woman, than you also need to recognize there’s been many other hardships along the way in addition to the technical brilliance needed. It’s not patronizing at all — that would be if I were to suggest a woman isn’t as capable. Here it’s the opposite — I’m saying they’re just as capable, but society is setup in such a way to present many additional obstacles that men don’t have. To not recognize that is to ignore the realities of the world.

If you yourself are a woman or a minority, I’m sure you can appreciate that. If not, I’d encourage you to go and listen to the experiences of those who are — this is very well documented.
Here's a good song that brings together a lot of what you're pointing to: Pet Shop Boys - Integral (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSKSTvzuPr0)
I believe plenty of people have been killed for religious reasons.

Sure religion is used as an excuse to start wars but wouldn't the fact that it works means people are willing to kill because of it?
That's totally nonsensical. Yes, capital pays for labor to produce a thing, and then owns the thing. For "things" where there's an actual good being produced, this makes perfect sense under property rights. We do not need a concept of intellectual property for this to be how it works, and adding that nonsensical concept wherein "ideas" can abstractly themselves be property only serves to further empower capital to form monopolies backed by the government in this context. The most coherent arguments I've heard for intellectual property view the value of this unnatural "ideas as property" construct as a way for small creators to have some means of subverting this dynamic, but it fails to do that.

The idea that creative work is produced "speculatively" rather than "at production" is using your ridiculous prior stated assumption that the entity that pays for the production becomes the "creator" of the work. I've already explained why that's insane. This speculative model of content production is a business model that's emerged in the context of extant laws, not an inevitable necessity of production. It is only possible for very entrenched entities with a lot of starting capital that can afford to take risks in this way, and I don't think it's valuable to protect this business model with criminal law
I should have predicted this. I thought they were just going to brainwash us as usual.

I don't know whether this is better or worse.
I know it’s a little unrelated to the article at hand, but you mention a lot about DMCA being a mistake, so as someone who doesn’t know a lot about it and it being an interesting topic, could you tell us more about why that is?
Parent refers to the behaviour of generating action potentials which travel to synapses connecting (mostly) axons with dendrites. The continuous (analogue) signal processing pre- and post- synapse seems to be a massive part of how neurons achieve the computation they do. A hypothesis I subscribe to claims that it is cheaper to compute locally with molecule gradients and protein folding than with spikes. Brains leverage that. The specific statement you quoted is to the best of my knowledge inaccurate.

I am not an expert, my understanding of neurons is largely is based on [0], [1], [2].

[0]: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/principles-neural-design

[1]: http://www.sci.utah.edu/~macleod/bioen/be6003/notes/W08-spru...

[2]: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/functional-connections-cortic...
What you would expect to find in a natural zoonotic origin is a series of close ancestor relatives of the pandemic version, some capable of causing mild disease in humans (as with MERS and SARS for example). See this 2013 description for example:

"We hypothesize that the direct progenitor of SARS-CoV was produced by recombination within bats and then transmitted to farmed civets or another mammal, which then transmitted the virus to civets by faecal–oral transmission. When the virus-infected civets were transported to Guangdong market, the virus spread in market civets and acquired further mutations before spillover to humans."

For someone to fabricate a plausible natural origin story, they'd have to create a similar series of genetic variants based on ancestral bat strains, intermediates on the way to Sars-CoV-2. So, it'd be very difficult if even possible.
I find this activism litigation „let's throw a tantrum to get famous“ cringeworthy. The law is pretty clear that an inventor has to be a human.

Even companies cannot be assigned as inventors, i.e. „Apple“ has 0 inventions. They can only be assigned the commercial rights to what a human invented.

The correct way of course would be to lobby for a change in the law, via democratic means, if you really think an AI can invent something.
The bot was banned in that one too.
Napster.com banned at some universities for clogging networks (2000)
Quoting Wikipedia (emphasis mine):

> for some people the brain is tricked into thinking the middle finger is in the warm water

It worked for both me and another willing participant, but we found it depended on the orientations of our fingers.
Web3/NFTs Hard Code Organic Contribution
How it already works: Arrange to get paid to do it by someone, or find a way to monetize it. The uniqueness of an idea is not what you're actually selling even in the current context, and the idea that you can go do some R&D as an individual with no funding and then stop a massive corporation from "stealing" that idea and productizing it with IP is a fantasy at best.
https://algot.io

I use the free tier for firebase to store real time trade data. The front-end was built using Next.js and hosted using the Vercel free tier.
The feel of instant torque is awesome though. It's fun drive fast without the headache-inducing roar.
> claim that humans cannot be modeled as equations equates to the claim that humans cannot be modeled using physics

We don’t have a complete theory of physics. We don’t have any viable models of human thought. This is a non sequitur.
> It is only possible for very entrenched entities with a lot of starting capital that can afford to take risks in this way

Or the author of a book.
yeah, actually i was going to ask in my earlier message - there must be some form of subdivision-surface-like smoothing model?

you can certainly also do a gaussian with alpha if you dont mind drawing jello...are there other approaches you know of for direct rendering?
> But global patents just prevent huge numbers of people from innovating.

Don't know why you're being downvoted. There are many concrete examples of this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28330810

Patent circumvention actively leads to development of new industries in previously ignored locations, leading to prosperity for a huge number of people.
> "Voluntarily", sure.

There are many who want to voluntarily wear hijab to school in France, but are denied this right. So, my point stands that this "secular" law is intolerant.

>Whatever the court says to be within your rights

Weak argument. Let's say an extremist court says women have no right to education. Or, that blacks are less human, say the have less rights.
> Walmart takes advantage of its employees' crushing poverty

If there was no Walmart they would be what, rich Wall Street brokers?

All you made is a political statement.

I'm not sure I understand Zach's point, is it the mechanical jobs that allow the lower IQs continuous work or the supply of cheap goods that make people lives better?

Certainly the second matters and is why the world is getting better.

A cheap couch matters, but if you don't get that, think of it as good cheap clothing and good cheap electronics help keep the poor in the functioning world.