skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Karl Marx: Anti-Lockdowner
Scientists Track 1M Neurons Near-Simultaneously in a Mouse Brain
Show HN: Molecular Dynamics in the Browser
To me 2021 feels like the year Rust went mainstream. There is use in major companies like Amazon, Google and Microsoft, lots of second tier tech companies like Cloudflare, System76, Dropbox are big on it, serious work in including it in the Linux kernel, I've gotten multiple job contacts based on my listed Rust experience (sadly all from the crypto startup market, not really interested in that industry), and there are so many smaller projects that HN commenters are getting frustrated by them. Really the one gap in saying Rust has "made it" is the lack of a really big open source project like Go has Docker/Kubernetes that people can point to and show "see, they used it and got big" (Firefox not counted, since it's only ~10% Rust and added it after they were big).
Duplicacy for the app, Backblaze B2 for the service.
> Each new generation gets its own social network

So instead of accelerating progress we get one monopoly every 20 years (and some people splitting their attention, and friendship groups, and exposure to surveillance, between multiple incompatible sites).

That's not as reassuring as you might think it is.
Of course you are not going to know about it. That would defeat the purpose of an undercover investigation, unless I am missing something.
You are 10 years too late. Remember when Google plus was arguing that you had to use your "real name", endless arguments about that, very few for why this was a good thing. There were some naive claims that it would lead to some mysterious social pressure for people to behave if their real name was used.

In today's world, the ever more ubiquitous tracking should give everyone pause. Using tor, different email addresses and separate identifies for social accounts should be ordinary. Do you want to have any privacy? Then you need to do that. I don't hold any hope for the legislative bodies to succeed in blocking this. Not at the US federal level at least - there may be hope for California.
I'm not so sure about that, since Wuhan researchers regularly went to bat caves to collect virus samples. The bat caves being over 1000 km away from Wuhan, it seems not that unlikely that sars-cov-19 was brought from the bats to Wuhan on one of those field trips.

Then again, it may very well be the case that Wuhan was not the place of the first transmission to humans, just the one were it first happened on a large enough scale to be noticed and recognized as something new.

I think there's not enough evidence to dismiss any of the transmission routes.
why the love for voxels? it seems like you get a much smoother model for the same representational cost with triangles on the surface.

(I used to do scientific visualization and have written voxel renderers...it just never occurred to me that someone would want to do that for general purpose graphics)
That's fantastic, someone ought to integrate this with Mycroft, stat.
"When I try to visualize 3 types of sensors (without left hump), I get a straight line not a triangle"

So where is magenta on your line?

This shows all hues, and obviously magenta has a place on it, even though it is non spectral.
https://www.allthesky.com/articles/preview/rgbtri.jpg

It doesn't seem like you are really trying to visualize the input from 3 sensors if you are putting it on a line, you are still trying to represent wavelengths. Otherwise you won't be treating each of the 3 sensors equally.... you'll be putting two of them at the ends, and one in the middle. Which one goes in the middle?

Maybe it would be better if you just think of it as a color cube, which includes black, white, and all shades of gray. It is a cube because that is the best way to geometrically represent 3 dimensions.

https://www.pngitem.com/pimgs/m/592-5920896_rgb-color-model-...

(the triangle is a cross section of the cube.... the one that includes the red, green and blue corners)
Take a look at Database Lab: https://postgres.ai/products/database-migration-testing

The idea is to use block-level copy-on-write (ZFS by default, LVM2 is an option too, though less powerful) to be able to get thin clones really fast. Currently supports only Postgres. The engine is open source. Result; single machine with Postgres DB of any size, you pay 1x for storage and compute, and can have dozens of independent DBs, provisioning takes a few seconds.

This is used in CI/CD context so getting temporary full-size for any tests is not a problem any more.

We constantly add new features and looking forward to new use cases.

Some case studies with numbers are here: https://postgres.ai/resources

Here is how GitLab uses it for DB testing: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/architecture/blueprints/database_...

(disclaimer: I'm the founder of Postgres.ai, the company that develops Database Lab).
Confirming a lab origin would create vastly more political will to oppose GoF research, and potentially prevent another cataclysmic pandemic (which has directly killed 4 million people) and pandemic-response (which has corresponded with a 23.8% increase in obesity/overweightedness in children 5 - 11, led to over 100 million children missing out on meaningful education for upwards of a year, and destroyed innumerable businesses, and in doing so, massively exacerbated poverty).
my two cents: how does the ML world discern encoding from truth? a book about an elephant is not an elephant.
I've had someone who seemed competent in virology/biology explain your point of view to me (it was very convincing), but after doing a bit of research on my side, i have one point i want to discuss:

Ebola's outbreaks in the 90s/early 00s.

We have had outbreaks near campains labs, where no patient 0 or progenitor viruses were found. But Ebola kills a lot more, compared to Covid, so an Ebola progenitor in a small village would be way easier to find than a SRAS progenitor, yes?

I don't know how Africa was 20 years ago, but i know deep China, I think its even more enclaved than any village in Africa ever will be.

Do you think it's likely that all those Ebola outbreaks where no progenitor viruses were found are also lab-leaks? I mean, campaign labs are a lot less secure, so it is even more likely than covid lab-break, yes?
Amazon's only business is your eyeballs. Their physical and digital e-commerce is a platform to monetize your eyeballs. Prime Videos, eyeballs. FireTV eyeballs. Kindle, eyeballs. The products they directly sell you are basically a loss leader. The real money is in monetizing your eyeballs at some point I'm the shopping journey.

The retail and delivery / supply chain part of the business is about ruthless efficiency and delivering against customer expectations. The problems you me too are the hard parts of retail. Amazon is working on them, but not solving those problems well doesn't get in the way of their strategy and ambitions.
> When there is still a channel where white men posting personal details of women and attack them — no action.

I’m not familiar with the situation you are referring to, but I’m curious why you specifically mentioned the race of these men. How is their race relevant?
For anyone who really cares about pursuit of truth or the scientific process (and how it tends to be ignored even by science institutions) this would actually be earth-shattering.

I guess for other people who don't care about those things it will be a footnote.
Caveats: I know nothing of Chomsky Grammars, and I have only a passing familiarity with Cthulu, but IMO the real crux of the issue parsing html with regex (beyond all the “it’s hard”, “the spec is more complicated than you think”, “regex is impossible to read” etc.) is html is a recursive data structure, e.g. you can have a div, inside a div, inside a div ad infinitum. Regex, AFAIK, doesn’t allow you to describe recursion, so you’re left with regex plus supporting code. You’ll then have an impedance mismatch between the two.

URLs are not recursive structures, so I’d say the single hardest feature of html is not present.
my kind of scum.
> Should France tolerate intolerance?
How is voluntarily wearing the head scarf "intolerance".

>the French president is alive.
So what? It's still within my "Freedom of Speech" to say whatever I want, as long as it does not directly incite violence. Regardless of whatever Frances' convenient version is. I believe even the US allows insulting the president.
> Leveraging the strengths of the computer and human will lead to an order of magnitude improvement in programmer productivity. Interactive testing will eliminate whole classes of logic bugs, making most non ui code correct by construction.

I'd like to see evidence / experience reports backing up this part. Certainly Copilot exists, but what I've read about it is pretty mixed.
I think the better question would be: Why shouldn't we want to know as much as possible? I can only come up with one answer - the truth may embarrass powerful people.
This is why pilots don't work in software.
It is probably the opposite you should do, communicate with other team members about the problem, navigate to the issue and aviate to the solution. Developers who always focus on aviate solve the immediate problem but end up crashing the whole system at the end.
The B-17 that Landed with No One On Board [video]
I agree with you. If only we cared as much to solve the problem as we do to point fingers.
Cisco isn't the company you seem to think it is. They've spent the last ~15 years gradually diversifying away from that single point of business failure in their old line hardware business. They recognized the threat of cheaper competitive hardware products a long time ago, China gave them a serious wake up call (the issues with Huawei go all the way back 18 or so years now).

The majority of their sales come from software and services now. The business you are likely thinking of when you picture Cisco, has been shrinking. Growth in their other segments (whether organic or acquired) is keeping them flat more or less across the past five years (both sales and operating profit have been close to flat going back to fiscal 2017).
With regard to point 1, the creator should be defined as the entity that paid for the creation to come into existence, not the engineer / tools that were used to create it.

With regard to "Most creative work right now is paid for at production". This is clearly false and almost all creative work is created speculatively, with the hope that it can be made profitable through future sales. All video games, all music, all television, all movies.

The only creative works I know of that are paid for at or before production are things on Kickstarter or those lucky enough to win grants or those with wealthy patrons.
because the widespread, active, and largely successful effort to suppress consideration of both the lab-leak and gain-of-function hypotheses shows that we cannot trust the most important people in this field, which means we can't trust their word that they "all agree that gain of function research is a bad idea".
That could be a short caused by a poorly grounded power supply, and you are just getting electrocuted.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/11/sverdlovs...
Yep, war has always been about resources and the fights of the elites. Religion is only ever an excuse, just like WMDs or whatever; a convenient lie to mislead the populous into believing there's a legitimate casus belli.
> We all agree that gain of function research is a bad idea.

Who is "we" here? Fear of GoFR is similar to the fear of nuclear power - there are obvious risks, but people don't think about the benefits.
Horses, Cars, and the Disruptive Decade (2017)
I use this:

u.checkURL = function (string) {

if ($.type(string) === "string") {

if (/^(https?|ftp):(\/\/(((([a-z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(%[\da-f]{2})|[!\$&'\(\)\*\+,;=]|:)*@)?((\[(|(v[\da-f]{1,}\.(([a-z]|\d|-|\.|_|~)|[!\$&'\(\)\*\+,;=]|:)+))\])|((\d|[1-9]\d|1\d\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\.(\d|[1-9]\d|1\d\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\.(\d|[1-9]\d|1\d\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\.(\d|[1-9]\d|1\d\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5]))|(([a-z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(%[\da-f]{2})|[!\$&'\(\)\*\+,;=])*)(:\d*)?)(\/(([a-z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(%[\da-f]{2})|[!\$&'\(\)\*\+,;=]|:|@)*)*|(\/((([a-z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(%[\da-f]{2})|[!\$&'\(\)\*\+,;=]|:|@)+(\/(([a-z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(%[\da-f]{2})|[!\$&'\(\)\*\+,;=]|:|@)*)*)?)|((([a-z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(%[\da-f]{2})|[!\$&'\(\)\*\+,;=]|:|@)+(\/(([a-z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(%[\da-f]{2})|[!\$&'\(\)\*\+,;=]|:|@)*)*)|((([a-z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(%[\da-f]{2})|[!\$&'\(\)\*\+,;=]|:|@)){0})(\?((([a-z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(%[\da-f]{2})|[!\$&'\(\)\*\+,;=]|:|@)|[\uE000-\uF8FF]|\/|\?)*)?(\#((([a-z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(%[\da-f]{2})|[!\$&'\(\)\*\+,;=]|:|@)|\/|\?)\*)?$/i.test(string)) {

return true;

} else {

return false;

}

} else {

return false;

}

}
Thank you. For anyone in doubt, look at despicable acts that governments have committed. Like how they massacred thousands, in the name of Imperialism / "Freedom".
When something so consequential happens we have to determine how and why it happened.

We have to prevent such mistakes in the future, and if this was an accidental leak due to carelessness then there is reparations to be paid.
nope the earliest they could tell the hackers where in the system was 2000 or earlier not 2004... CSIS warned them many times there was espionage activity but it looks like Nortel didn't take it seriously. They even found listening devices in their building after the company was gone.. during this same time they even clone a cisco router down to the same typo's

having to compete with a company that has the backing of a state government and that has access to your plans and contract bidding pricing it wouldn't be hard to take them out.
Without knowing the technical terms or details, I think of voxels as the things in Minecraft. A voxel game world, to me, is one where I could destroy or place any random voxel I want anywhere in the game world and have the game world smoothly and faithfully incorporate my decision.

If voxels just mean the smallest rendering primitive is a cube instead of a triangle then I agree it seems just like an artistic preference.
Great insight. S2R is definitely the breadwinner. We have lots of cool ideas for generator such as cross breading images together and adding sliders to explore the GAN space.
We are also currently exploring other tool ideas. Lots of possibilities!
As far back as 1995, I was on USENET lamenting that all these new, stupid people were showing up everywhere with their newbie questions --- the ETERNAL SEPTEMBER of the Internet.

And someone no less than Craig Good of PIXAR corrected me at that time, to scold me in public. "Just because you got here first, doesn't make you better than them. You had newbie questions once, too."

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Chekhov's LITTLE HAMMER is everywhere.
The motivation to do good, and stay away from evil. The idea that a person if being watched. You can never get that with atheism.

Atheism is just ruthless "survival of the fittest", when push comes to shove.
I think at peak braking, a lot of energy is lost as heat as opposed to going back into the battery.
Did any other Old Folks click on this story thinkin it was gonna be about British JANet users who put the .uk first in their domain names?
There is no proof that anyone else funded it yet.

But it's the first piece of concrete evidence that people were in fact doing what has been claimed.

Also remember that there are two virus labs in Wuhan. One is WIV, but the other is across the street from the wet-market (as I understand it).
yea its sad, government warned them about espionage activity early on and they did nothing... imagine after all this they never checked for listening devices? or for network intrusions?
which is which?
Wow. That’s hot!
See https://xorshammer.com/2009/03/23/what-happens-when-you-iter... basically you have problems once you get past the finite ordinals.
Lit 2 Is Released
They work with door dash iirc, it's not their own driver network
Your idea sounds nice, but it doesn't really make sense. Consider that terrorists can easily do GoF and release the product - no research necessary. On the other hand, when scientists do GoF research, our virological knowledge may be furthered, possibly with applications to making new vaccines and similar.
While voxels are often represented in cubes like minecraft, they don't have to be. A voxel is just a data point in 3d space.

It can be rendered or visualized many different ways including smooth curves or many other things. While blocky cubes are common that is not all they are or can do.
As the article implies I suspect it's the ease with which they can be decomposed. Before Red Faction I don't recall many games with destroy anything capabilities. Yet there were some experiments to do just that with voxel engines. Ken Silverman being the one I'm most familiar with, though besides some weapon models I don't think much of that made it into commercial games.
This is why I don't participate, fucking vampires running the show.
I have no idea why from the perspective of a developer, but as a devoted fan of minecraft I can say it does look like the evolution of the genre.

Minecraft has "voxels" (they are rendered as polygons) that are 1 meter square in size. More granularity would add a lot to the games. There are even mods that try to add a more granular kind of voxel to the game, like "chisels & bits". That one specifically is very popular and used in most modpacks, so that might be a hint for a successful voxel game in the future.
This is one of the main motivation for Oil: we have more and more languages and tools and they will never be consolidated. Software is being used in more and more areas so this is natural / inevitable.

Slogan: Shell is the Language of Heterogeneity and Diversity

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/07/blog-backlog-1.html

To be concrete, a "monoglot" lives in a world where the language's package manager is responsible for integrating different pieces of software.

In contrast, a polyglot uses multiple languages, and the package managerS (plural) are just tools, not the world, and they're called from shell scripts! (Or something morally equivalent, like a Makefile or Dockerfile)

The future is more polyglot, e.g. your Rust or Zig code will coexist with a lot of C and C++ code. Sometimes they will be linked into the same process, but often they'll live in different processes and you'll use various forms of IPC.
“Measure of a man” vibes
I believe a patent would be allowed even if AI wrote 100% of the code as long as, listed in the patent, the owner is a human or a corporation and the inventor is human.
Wow, very impressive. Made me remember this, which is one of favorites: http://www.advsys.net/ken/voxlap.htm

It has destructible scenes, physics and even some gameplay. Much smaller & simpler scenes and not as good looking though. But pretty good for a 15 years old project!
This is Chapter 6 of Unix system programming in OCaml (2014 version) by Xavier Leroy and Didier Rémy.

https://ocaml.github.io/ocamlunix/index.html
Change therapist, he's not yours if he does not believe you.
Excellent question. For viruses, 95% is VERY similar. To give you some calibration, SARS-COV-1 and SARS-COV-2 are like 79% similar.
It sounds like you are comfortable leaving your ethics at the door so yes, worth it. You can find a higher paying job that might be even more evil, especially in the faang realm. Congrats!
I don't think dropping traffic from roughly 1/200th of public IP space is a real solution.
> That hypothetical person, who switches away from all corporate technology because of Apple's CSAM news, is now maintaining their own music library, turning music discovery from something that takes seconds, to taking minutes or hours. A pattern that'll repeat itself throughout their life if they're consistent.

That time expenditure will likely pay for itself. For a time, I was genuinely addicted to YouTube and its algorithmic feed, to the extent that I would regularly spend 2-4 hours a day watching nothing in particular, as long as it tickled my funny bone. Then I got rid of it for a while, and suddenly I have so much free time. I reinstalled the app a few days ago, and relapsed for a few days until I noticed it was happening again, and got rid of it again.

I've never even considered signing up for TikTok. If what I hear about it is true, I'd be hooked on it like on crack cocaine.

If the only way to function without having my brain hacked left and right is to run my own services and hoard my media on a NAS, then this is exactly what I do.
> Linux audio really really needed a better story

This is true

> pipewire and flathub have really changed that.

Pipewire sure did. Flathub only ate more of my storage, CPU and battery. I see no way that Flathub is responsible for "changing Linux audio", especially not even remotely on the scale that Pipewire did.
More like (C)++++ rather than (C++)++.
> * No-code tools are still no further along mainstream adoption than 2012

In 200 years, people will still be predicting the rise of no code solutions.

If you are executing diagrams and schematics, you still have code. And the people maintaining that code are still coding. That is, they are coders. They're just working in a whole new stack that doesn't have git, diff, a variety of editors, open standards for encoding, etc.
Whoever made this is incredibly talented. What a tragedy for anyone to have gone through this.
with the recent revelation that there was a grant proposal for a "Furan site gain of function experiment" (in the recent past just before Covid-19), and the extreme lengths experts went to stop consideration of the lab leak hypothesis, here's where I stand:

they could find actual Covid-19 in a population of bats, and I'm going to ask for proof that they didn't plant it there, since its first appearance was outside the Wuhan lab.