skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can disprove it by showing there are restriction enzyme, or Gibson, or Cre recombinase genetic element sites present in the genome, left over as artifacts from engineering. Find the sequenced genome and BLAST it for these sequences, easy peasy.
Maybe it's the other way around. They put the lab in Wuhan because it's easy to get many samples of the zoonotic viruses of concern due to the presence of many natural reservoirs and wet markets, and you want a lab near the action because you want to be able to study the hot spots.

In other words, your argument is like saying occam's razor concludes that fire extinguishers start fires because they are always found in the vicinity of fires.

Also I think many on this thread greatly underestimate the adaptive and evolutionary capabilities of nature. Having done some wet lab myself, I'm impressed at the ability of nature to do lateral gene transfer, and also it's damn hard to make any experiments work. Plus there are multiple layers of safety and containment around any lab experiment. Movies make engineering look like AI robots in labs and biology experiments that work on the first try, and people who say lab near outbreak must implicate the lab have probably spent more time watching movies about outbreaks than trying to engineer organisms themselves. Having spent a lot of time trying and failing to engineer organisms, occam's razor screams to me that the most likely explanation is natural evolution.

The real lab of concern are the hundreds of millions of people living in close contact with animal reservoirs, performing millions of competitive, uncontrolled evolution experiments daily, with single hosts sometimes simultaneously infected by multiple viruses, thus facilitating lateral gene transfer... and this continues to be the status quo. If you can accept that MERS and SARS CoV-1 are naturally evolved, then occam's razor would indicate that SARS CoV-2 is just one point in a series, and yet another coronavirus outbreak is likely to emerge in the next decade or so, from a dense urban area near animal reservoirs.

Distracting ourselves by fantasizing that only humans could be so devious to create such a virus makes us miss a very important opportunity to try and prevent the next outbreak through careful monitoring and research.

So, if you believe that we should have fire departments and fire extinguishers near ignition sources then, maybe we should have /more/ labs like Wuhan's in high risk areas, not less. And we'd want to encourage more cross border cooperation, not antagonize it, because viruses don't give a damn about your politics.

It's concerning that threads like this, on a forum as ostensibly pro-science as HN, are pushing ourselves further away from science and transparency...
I focus more on quick exercise before/between work. So:

* 7 min HIIT workout before work

* Walks during breaks. May do quick sprint on walk, literally just run 20-30 seconds in whatever you’re wearing, once. No need to sweat

At work, I do do two things:

* I have a sit stand desk

* While reading, I will generally stretch or massage. Like just quick forearm stretches or massage of any points sore from working

If you have reading to do you could do that on an exercise bike, there are small ones easy to fit in an office. And I definitely recommend calls while walking if you can manage it socially

But in general, sit sit, stand stand, never wobble is a good mantra. Good exercise and good work both require focus and you can’t really combine them.

But, you can do good exercise in 5 min on a work break. I’m more fit and strong than most and haven’t been to gym or done workout longer than 15 min in years.
I can't edit my other comment anymore, but on a more serious note I'd like to debate the claim that the brain has a tree like structure.

A tree is by definition acyclic, whereas the brain surely is not. A neuron can even connect from it's axon terminals to its own dendrites. Surely more cycles are present.

Hence I oppose the idea of hierarchical note-taking.
Twitter is especially good for RSS as you can see almost all 140 chars in a single line and see all the recents tweets for the twitter account. I've no interest in comments in twitter.

With Reddit you can subscribe to RSS feeds of subreddits and see the new topics. Click through to reddit if you want to engage.

It has its uses and frankly it's my method for info consumption. If something doesn't have an RSS interface then I don't use it. Life is too short.
I don't know the rules in every country, but to get the exemptions it's generally required that the vehicle isn't used much — driving only to shows or museums for the biggest discount, or limited to a fairly low annual mileage.

That will continue to be the case for old cheap and expensive cars, and we justify it to preserve industrial history. There's no reason to introduce a similar exemption for certain new cars.
I don't think HN crowd is against relevant ads. Heck, they aren't even against ads. The issues are more subtle.

I never used IG but I was on FB. I'd frequently see 'unbelievable' ads. I mean I see ads offering me latest iphones selling at 100 dollars. What do you think what'll happen if I order one? Anything except getting a genuine iphone. So much for relevant ads.

Tracking doesn't stop at showing you relevant ads. It also affects what is shown to you in content. Facebook manipulates your news feed. And when your internet browsing is mostly limited to Facebook, your world view is essentially controlled by it.

And how much information do they need to show me relevant ads? My entire list of family members, relatives, friends, colleagues, ex colleagues and everyone I have exchanged numbers? My entire location history? My every interaction? Every financial transaction? My entire medical history? My entire photo collection? Even my sex life? Facebook will simply not stop until it collects every imaginable piece of information about you. Although I deactivated my profile 5 years ago, I still think FB is somehow collecting information about me.

The worst part, they 'trick' you to expose every data. They collect these data absolutely by any means possible. Illegal? Unethical? Spying? Doesn't matter. Imagine a random person asking you some personal questions. You wouldn't feel comfortable.

Besides, companies like FB have no morals. They will sell your data to just about anyone that throws enough money. You think that is a good thing?
And then it doesn’t work, so after half an hour of staring at a grey screen, you give up and hold down the power button.
>New coal plants aren't built

The US isn't the world.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-worlds-coal-power-plants
The idea that genes have a will and that there is anything reasonable, or generally positive about reproduction seems flawed. Its biological machinery which happens to optimize for replication. I am not thankful to my forebears for reproducing. Their choice to reproduce is of neutral merit. I believe that (somewhat conditionally) sentient beings deserve to prosper and shouldn't bow to genetics and tradition in the quest to do so. This idea that the purpose of existence is to fuck and have babies is straight out of the religion/pickup artistry playbook... I prefer a less bleak purpose than that. If anyone really internalizes/believes that they're just here to spread their "seed"... like, I just feel sorry for you.
Blue Origin plans to blast William Shatner into space on its New Shepard rocket
But we can take some action to make it economic to do so.

For consumers, putting a price on carbon can make it simple and economic for them to chose greener options

And for corporations, the EU has been working on various schemes to price carbon for EU companies and to put a corresponding penalty on companies from other countries that don't (to avoid disadvantaging their companies).
Dynamic body movement, dancing, running, jumping. Desk jobs force us to be static, the longer we are static the more accustomed our muscles, tendons, ligaments and nervous system become to being static. Stretching doesn’t overcome a lack of movement, movement overcomes a lack of movement.

Lifting heavy weights & body weight exercises, lifting and holding your own weight is very important.

A calorie maintained diet. I personally believe in keto, mostly because it keeps people away from simple carbs which the body treats as sugar, and sugar is a toxic substance, IMHO.

Enough water to maintain hydration, even a little bit of dehydration will rob you of both physical and mental capabilities.

Adequate sleep, varies from person to person, but it’s more than you are currently getting.

Sunshine, if you live in the northern or Southern Hemispheres it means supplementing your diet with Vitamin D & vitamin K, at lunch time, 8,000 IU of D is what most of the scientific community recommends, it’s easy enough to go Google.

Limit screen time outside of work, many geeks have hobbies that have us sit at in one place for long periods of time. Mind and body need to be in harmony.

Get air quality monitors for your work environment and for your home. I did this recently and was shocked at what I was subjecting my body to breathe, it was really hard at home to fix the problem, but once I did a lot of things started changing for me mentally.

Don’t smoke anything, or drink alcohol, avoid caffeine, and sugar (simple carbs), avoid all processed foods. Get checked for food sensitivities, many plants produce toxins to keep pests away, and those toxins can be problematic for some humans. Eat animals that are free range naturally foraging for food, avoid grain feed animals. You are what you eat, and drink.
The good criticisms of blockchain are old and boring. It's slow, it uses a lot of energy, not being regulated is bad actually, reversible transactions are good, etc.
I've been doing these neck mobility exercises, I think they seem to help

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4dmZ5_n6uU&t=210s
My favorite is to implement a tarpit while moving the ssh port.
As Florida punishes schools, study finds masks cut school Covid outbreaks 3.5x
Or electricity price raises so much people will stop using it. There is already CO2 tax, polution tax. My country even collects TV license fee from electricity.

Rebuilding grid for solar and EVs requires major overhaul. That is not happening. In EU prices are already up by 50% and grid is becoming more unstable. When Germany switches off its remaining nuclear and coal power plants, it will sky rockets.

People will build off-grid solars to avoid fees, and government will make off-grid illegal or tax it severely.
Climate change involves more belief than science?
I'd put just a bit of water in your wine. You're basing your view on technology and technological output, but in other cultures and times it might be of zero value. Personally that's not what qualifies for a special moment in history (the potential ecological collapse is higher).

Also consider that technology, even in it's most beautiful form, is rarely seen by people. They live in a blur of tamed down ease of use. It's not necessarily an existential enlightenment for them (it also backfires a lot, people are leaving devices to go back to more time outside and sport, look at parkour and people living in the wild for instance)
An FBI Informant Marched into the Capitol on Jan. 6 Riot
Thank you Bruce for being a solid antagonist. Some recruiters are incredibly persistent. They may send 5-6 emails trying to get my attention. I'm a passive candidate like most highly sought after engineers and normally I would delete the emails but persistence stands out. So here's the light bulb.. if they're going to be that way why not make it serious. Instead of sending the 6th email asking for me to jump on a phone call. I as a highly sought after engineer say, this is what I'll accept to let your efforts cut through the noise and get to me.
I had the same question some months ago, as it helps me to focus and read long articles. You have to do some fiddling but it's doable.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/953509/how-can-i-change-the-...
The selfish gene model often works to explain behaviour, but it doesn't follow that it should be used to justify or guide it. Society and cultures do many things to keep our biological instincts in check and to rise above our instincts.

(Also there are lots of preconditions, aka reasons, for human and other life on earth...)
Part of the issues of nuclear remain the high costs, hairy security situation in many countries and very limited ability to adapt to demand.

This is both in the night-and-day cycle meaning but also in the "we need more power in 10-years" meaning, since nuclear power plants take forever to build.

Saying that all our problems could have been solved by nuclear is not close to the truth, especially regarding climate change. Ongoing electrification and decarbonisation isn't hard because of the electricity needs, but because technologies are just now coming close to viability in many markets and aren't even close in others.

The ongoing transformation of the electricity generation market to renewables isn't failing because of technical inability, but hesitancy to invest, strong local and national (e.g. the minimum distance that wind farms need in germany, eliminating most of the possible options), opposition to new projects, strong opposition to new transmission lines, strong opposition to losing the jobs in the legacy markets (especially visible in the USA with "clean" Coal) and no burning desire to honestly consider the storage issue (both in regards to demand shifting and building of new storage facilities using hydrogen or synthetic gases and similar things).

Our problems aren't solved because solving them isn't a high enough political (and thus also economical, due to the negative externality not being financially relevant) priority around the world, not because we're not using nuclear for everything.
More background: https://landley.net/aboriginal/history.html
> But what drove solar adoption over the last decade is the plunging price of panels

...which was heavily subsidized by the Obama administration plowing billions of taxpayer dollars into solar R&D. We could end the reliance on gasoline tomorrow by removing subsidies on ethanol and putting them into EVs, but it's politically unfeasible. Although I totally agree with you that economic change must precede any big change in energy.
I'm not sure what to look for as evidence of Luke suggesting he would want yourself or anyone else dead. I would appreciate some quotes or the name of a particular blog entry for my reference.
This argument is absurd. Inflation is high right now and it's because people are getting higher wages.

I just can't comprehend how people have become this stupid. the 80s neoliberal policy package was intentionally aimed at killing inflation in response to the oil crisis. The way they reduced inflation is through global trade, destroying unions and deregulation. All of this was to make sure that negotiation power of workers dropped like a rock and inflation followed wages. Low wage growth lead to low inflation.

A money system with low inflation or even deflation systematically undervalues present labor for the benefit of the holders of the biggest share of money. Someone who spends all their money massively benefits from wage increases and therefore inflation.
Just look at Bitcoin. If you own $100k of Bitcoin and it goes up 10x you will be a millionaire. If you only own $1000 then you only get $10000. It's rigged in favor of the already rich and rigged against those who are poor.

Literally every time someone talks about raising wages people use the inflation counter argument. "If we pay people more it would drive price increases and therefore inflation".

People take this shit for granted and then when they complain they talk about how 2% inflation is eating away at the $500 they have in their bank account and don't even consider that 2% inflation eats away at someone with $1 million in their bank account.

Let me tell you what saving in monetary terms does. It's just reducing your demand for labor. Labor cannot be stored. You either use it or lose it. Your insistence to not spend your money has to be balanced by letting the unpaid party take on debt in hope that you spend your money one day. So excessive saving is what drives excessive debt, not some stupid moral sense of irresponsibility. The alternative would be to keep the unpaid party unemployed and unemployment is a pretty obvious driver of poverty.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that saving lets the bank lend. No, the supply of credit is infinite. The only limit is the availability of solvent borrowers.
if you use US dollars, then it's an implicit agreement to us laws. hence if you break US laws, the US will persecute you. China, Russia etc will likely be transacting in less US dollars in the future. So they don't run foul of USA sanctions
Is there one for Instagram?
By "the current progressist ideology," are you referring to the ideology of, as the saying goes, "Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic" people? Or is this an ideology held by farmers in India or chemical plant workers in Lebanon or automotive plant workers in the Philippines?

If the former, I would say the Western man holds a pretty powerful place in this Pope's ideology.
> he EU is right here. Including gas power in the green book is laughable.

The EU is the one considering including it...
www.vogue.com/3241115/joan-didion-self-respect-essay-1961/

When someone can write, they just.. can. We mere mortals, only read, in awe..
I feel the latter to be the bigger impact..

MBA's are plagued by short term thinking around quarterly earnings not building sustainable businesses
> As far as I can tell they e.g. use plenty of electronics components sourced from Bosch.

Well, it's not literal, there are things they have to build using components made by others.

But AFAIK electronic components in Ferrari are made by Magneti Marelli (I briefly worked for them, not in car manufacturing though).
The US Government’s 'comic' approach to information warfare
It depends on your risk model.

We use a commercial VPN at our company because it provides a mechanism for traffic encryption for employees who might be connecting from insecure networks. Sure most sites use HTTPS but there is still some unencrypted traffic like CDN or similar.

It’s not a cure all or some privacy guarantee, it’s just that for us, the risk of our employees browser history being stolen by that VPN for some nefarious purpose is just less than the risk of information leaking via insecure network.
Four words from the Pope could have the greatest effect per effort of any act on our environmental problems: "You can use contraception."

It won't solve all problems, but it will help a lot.

There is plenty of scripture he could call on to justify it. One, for example, is that the prophecy of having as many descendants as grains of sand on the beach couldn't have meant all at once, because we wouldn't all fit. Decreasing the chance of that many descendants undermines the prophecy.

Italy's low birth rate means Catholics are using birth control anyway, so people have figured it out.
> Getting Biden's climate proposal done, though, will require the support of all 50 Democratic senators, including fellow Catholic Manchin.

This appears to assume that all Republican senators will vote against the climate proposal, which I find overly pessimistic.
Kyocera, Ricoh and Lexmark are manufacturing printers too.
Boris Johnson speech to UN on climate change
10 years plus all that post-war american aid
This is the least bad source I have found: https://www.bz-berlin.de/berlin/mitte/bei-fridays-for-future...
Golden advice. I would even add, do it every weekday, even if it means just walking to the gym, going inside, and walking back out again. The habit will become so much easier to ingrain if its even more consistent.
Yeah, the EU has been run by conservatives and neoliberals since... forever?

I don't think the centre-left ever had a majority in the European Parliament, and certainly not in the European Commission (i.e. the heads of state).

This is why they're considering including natural gas here, the EU is basically run by German industrialists.
What drives the wheels on a fuel cell vehicle?
The longer piece on CACM touches on this:
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/10/255710-competitive-co...
jimsi, employees are also extremely active on Twitter. It’s not the most scalable but that’s usually my goto for eyebrow raising Cf related questions.
I read GP as suggesting half as much walking as screen time in total, not (necessarily) that it be literally 20 mins / 10 mins consecutively all day. (Which sounds.. distracting, very up and down, presumably assumes you don't take your shoes off or need a coat, etc.)
I think you're right.

"um. I’ve never been to this website or posted as a “james” before so why does it say “Welcome back james (Change)” seeing as I never have logged in, in the first place?????/"

"i wasn’t going to comment, but someone elses details we’re already in the fields, as my name is not james…

this does seem to be quite defiante evidence of the rumors i have seen floating about…

this is will get a digg"
Speaking of retraining, I think it's also potentially a bit hairy with regards to reproducible builds don't you think? My impression is that machine learning models are often initialized with random values before training begins. And some of them may use additional random data while training as well, I think.
> What the minister is saying is that if Ferrari can't build autonomously their own batteries - from scratch - they can't produce a real Ferrari.

"SK Innovation to Supply Batteries for Ferrari Electric Vehicles"

http://www.businesskorea.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=3...

So the SF90 Stradale is not a real Ferrari?
The religious right in the US are a huge barrier to more progressive policies on a range of issues including climate
Yes it is. You can own it if you want, but it's specifically about equality of outcome, not about having clean air.

As for why it's harmful - it's hijacking the conversation. Like somebody else said below, we're fighting over 0.1 percent pollution, while ignoring hugely more advantageous moves.

Want examples? Let's talk about taking all combustion cars, old or new, out of the cities. Bam, 10-40% reduction in damage to health. Let's encourage and build infrastructure for bikes and other small e-vehicles. Ocean commercial traffic. Waste burning in unsafe incinerators. Construction-related pollution. Each of those is a double digit share of either health impact or global pollution. But no, let's stop the rich from playing with toys instead.
Evolution makes different systems adopt each other's features and eventually they may equate as operating systems did. IPFS has key necessary features more on the surface and is a lot more adaptive to modern operating systems compared to torrents, with much less internal games nearly absent in a nodal IPFS software design.

Multiple things make IPFS a more architecture-oriented solution than application-oriented BitTorrent.

There are various application features yet holding back BitTorrent and LG will utilize them in future.
Why do you need “credit assignment”?
The US GHG per capita remains one of the highest in the world, so things can be improved.
Usually that's called oppression and leads to bigger protests and riots.
>True, but if they all went Democratic, it would tip the scales considerably.

It would be a tricky thing. You'd have to convince Catholics that Oregon-style abortion law (legal right up until birth) was reasonable and that the normalization of mental illness was desirable (the current rage for transsexuals).

OTOH, as a trans-national organization, I could see shifting the Catholic hierarchy into thinking that unlimited mass immigration to Western countries was desirable. More membership, more souls to save and all that.
Release Highlights
https://scikit-learn.org/stable/auto_examples/release_highli...
Pretty sure transportation and drilling/mining is harder when the ground thaws and is a swampy mess.