skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems significantly more likely than not this current pandemic originated via a lab leak. Although the comment makes it sound like it was on purpose, rather than an accident which again seems most likely.
https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/04/gpt3_carbon_footprint...

Far too expensive, in a currency we cannot afford.

These algorithms are not the future of AI, if AI has a future.
Just want to add an update. I finally got a call from someone at Uber who was interested in taking this seriously. So far it's been a positive experience. They listened and understood the mechanics of this exploit that drivers can use. They are working to assist me, but also it seems they do grasp that there is an an ongoing exploit here that drivers are using in the field.

While my incident involved assault, there are other incidents that do not. For example, I've had several drivers message me before they picked me up asking for additional money or my destination. This is explicitly against the driver's terms of service to be an Uber contractor. Just uses the same exploit mechanism of when the driver cancels the ride you can no longer report inappropriate driver behavior. The driver failing to pick you up is annoying behavior but still is the exact same exploit mechanism.

I believe now that Uber has the information to validate that this exploit is going on currently. It may not be used in the US as I've never seen it there but it is definitely happening in the Dominican Republic.

For everyone who's insisting this is 100% of police matter I think you're missing the greater point here. You need to get outside of your local bubble and deal with police and other countries and other locales they do not operate on the same set of ideals and principles as they do in most of the United States. Also that argumentation ignores Uber's responsibility in this matter which is to provide an efficient mechanism to report bad drivers. That mechanism was completely missing here and is cause for the exploit that I was trying to report here on hacker News. It's important that this exploit be made known and that Uber finds a way to address it because if it can happen to me it will happen to other people and it has happened to other people. It may just be the annoyance of canceled rides so far for others but at least in one instance it did rise to the level of assault.

Uber should have a vested interest in ensuring that their drivers are of the highest caliber. Since I had at least three rides where the driver accepted and then canceled after a message where I refused to pay them additional I would think it would be trivial for Uber to use monitoring on messages between riders and drivers and detect this kind of thing. After all detecting a driver demanding a tip prior to pick up or requesting a destination prior to pick up is a much easier prospect than a self-driving car.

I wish it didn't take 3 days to get to this point but I'm currently very satisfied with how Uber is handling this now.
Racial quotas also exist to my knowledge for some residence communities.

Someone correct me if I am wrong.
Turned into? This has been the expectation in the US going back at least 60 years, that you buy a house as an investment.

On the one hand it is fundamentally incompatible with making housing affordable and having "housing as a human right". But still, hundreds of millions of people planning their entire lives around this existing model will have a really painful time if there is some kind of sudden shift in this social contract.
The question is: what investment options are there for a savings-rich population in an environment of high inflation? Get ripped off gambling in the rigged casino that is the stock market? Buy bitcoin? It's no surprise housing is going crazy. Does anyone expect there to be a new, stable investment opportunity come into existence in the next 10 years? I wish it were different.
I interpreted it as a signal of derision.
Is it? Anecdotally, I see a lot of news about conservatives trying to "cancel" books in their kids libraries whose topics they don't like, but regarding professors, it seems like those getting cancelled are getting cancelled by the left, not the right.
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It proves, perhaps, that writing is important to communicate and persuade others of your thoughts. But some people already know the truth i’m pointing at. I don’t need to justify it to those who know, and didn’t intend to convince those who dont - so i understand if you are not convinced ;)
Ask about sleep apnea, as well.
The risk of a housing bubble bursting should be a function of the number of recent owners who can’t afford a rate hike and are forced to sell in a hurry. Is this metric tracked somewhere?
Ask HN: How to learn to read processor die photos?
It's common to see die photos on Wikipedia [0, for example] and tech twitter. I understand the basics of processors (I built a basic one in school using Logisim and I've made a few emulators since then). But die photos don't really mean anything to me. I don't know if they even mean anything to other hardware engineers who didn't build the particular chip.

But for fear of missing out I'm wondering if it's possible (and if there's a good way) to learn to read die photos.

Any suggestions?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502#Detailed_behavior
"node_js_rulez_1" decries hippy open source support model.

... ummmmmmm ... look in your username.

Seriously, your stack is running on hippies, top to bottom.

TOP TO BOTTOM.
Minority Report!
Let's hope nobody has a similar sense of humor and replaces the contents with that which it says on the label.
I assume the oil is in the HCl because KOH would break… eh, never mind.
Show HN: Markus – iOS app to share and discuss email (Gmail) via chat
I'm a little lost at the response. My comment ends mentioning Two-round.
Why should it be a browser standard? It’s a web framework. Browsers already support it.

Google did promote some improvements to web standards but they were never tied to AMP, even though they were things AMP would use.
That's a plot device in 'no time to die'.
As it says in the imprint: Chronoto is a showcase for the search (and crawler) technology behind Nona, which we are going to offer next year.

Chronoto doesn't sell watches, it's just a (meta-)search engine.
What happened to all the AMP defenders that used to flood the comment section?
ahem, death rate for CID is above th death for flu.

What data are you relying upon?
Actual title: ‘Woke’ Is a Bad Word for a Real Threat to American Democracy
> What problem was AMP trying to solve?

Preserve Google’s control of the ad exchange monopoly; according to allegations in the latest antitrust case.

https://mobile.twitter.com/PatrickMcGee_/status/145161991699...
There was a recent case of imported monkey pox in Maryland. [0]

[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s1117-monkeypox.html
>calling law enforcement when you find old work in the lab. MBA types.

It's not just MBA types. Needlessly escalating up the chain as a means to shirk responsibility is a broader societal trend. Post "what do I do" about anything anywhere short of a prepper forum and people will tell you to call some external authority, the police, your landlord, a credentialed professional, etc, etc, and wash your hands of the situation. Worse still, they will deride others for taking the responsibility of doing things themselves.

Odds are there's nothing of note in those vials. It's either a joke or the lab was previously doing something that's Nth order smallpox related so someone wrote smallpox on the vials because what's in them bears some logical relationship to something about smallpox, not because it's literally smallpox. And even if there is smallpox in there this is a facility that already works with similarly nasty things so they should already know how to deal with it.

Had the person cleaning the fridge brought this to their supervisor and they decided to dispose of it however the CDC will (there's published best practices for this stuff) people would be screeching about "why didn't you call the .gov to save you" as if the .gov would do anything other than follow the same best practices for disposal with the added extra step of collecting evidence to leave the door open to prosecuting people should they feel the can do so and stressing the crap out of everybody in the process.

Edit: Why don't any of the people that have decided my comment is wrongthink do me the courtesy of explaining why I'm so wrong?
So Bitcoin is like XML or SOAP and therefore what we need is the crypto equivalent of JSON and REST for the whole endeavor to really reach its potential?
The big problem is not bugs, not vulnerabilities, but malicious code inserted deliberately into packages published by attackers.

One way to detect malicious code is line-by-line code review of published packages, but that's extremely laborious, even when done by third parties.

What we really want to do is confirm that the package was the end product of an open source commit history, where commits were reviewed by a set of trusted authors (hey look third parties!) over time. That involves strong validation of publisher identities and cryptographic validation of the package contents to connect it to a commit history in a trusted public repository.
Pigment raises $73M to take on Excel
> You have a responsibility to the group to contribute in an interesting way.

Sure, that doesn't mean I've got to compose some social media hustle SEO keyword laden engagement over all else bullshit post. I'm on forums covering hobbies. It's not a job and I'm not hustling. I like to spell check and use at least passable grammar but I'm not writing a novel. Forums are a step up in formality over chat rooms. If everything's a hustle then everything is stressful and nothing is fun. I've got enough not-fun shit to deal with, I don't need to pull that into forum posts about Star Trek or whatever.

I've been on web forums for a couple decades now, I'm well aware of how to contribute but thank's for the advice.
Clever name! Anon backwards.
Yeah, the Right complains about cancel culture while also trying to cancel any book or curriculum that accurately describes the history of racism in America. They are well-practiced at suppressing school materials that make them uncomfortable, and they've been doing it for decades. (And no, I'm not talking about Critical Race Theory; they have been suppressing even the most basic topics around race for a long time).

Edit: I suppose it's different on college campuses vs. grade school. I do think college campuses are culturally and intellectually dominated by the modern Left, but it's rare that anyone actually gets fired for disagreeing. Jordan Peterson is probably the most famous right wing crank of a professor, and he still has a job. But perhaps other people have other examples.
So would something like anti reflective glass for light coming into the camera then another layer of like tint that will stop light from reflecting back out if the camera? Ya I know that doesn’t exist but That is because they were not trying to do undetected as hard before. Just thinking of counter surveillance techniques.
It's definitely something I'm considering. The only hard blocker now is a hashmap that checks for our test phones' unique ID and applies a fixed transform to align both cameras. Right now, any other phones will cause an immediate crash. Minimally I think we need to disable this and maybe include a small UI to let users put in the alignment parameters (just a scale + offset).
"In July 2018, the Food and Drug Administration approved tecovirimat, the first drug approved for treatment of smallpox" even though "the global eradication of smallpox was certified by the World Health Assembly on 8 May 1980" could a doctor please explain in what universe this makes sense?
Basic Four was about 300 employees when I landed there and having spent most of my time in manufacturing I didn't rub elbows with upper management. Although they did rub elbows with me once when they thought I was stealing their operating system. But that's a whole nother story. :)
Why does a = a[0] = [0] create a self-referential list in Python?
Perhaps this is a result of just about everything costing more except the price of our effort.
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Smallpox is significantly less infectious, and generally requires close and extended contact with a person who is coughing and infectious or a surface recently contaminated by someone with open sores.

Original variant was about half as infectious as measles (the most infectious known human disease), and some of the many of the new Covid variants are very very close (about 80%) as infectious as measles.

Difference between ‘you pass it to your friend’ and ‘you walk by a group of people in the park and they’re infected’
They belong in an autoclave.
Check the "What To Eat" section here: https://fireinabottle.net/the-croissant-diet-specification/

This is also sometimes the topic in those subreddits:
https://www.reddit.com/r/StopEatingSeedOils/
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaturatedFat/
It says that Chronoto is a search engine for luxury watches using Nona's search tech.
If your great-great-grandfather has a random genetic mutation, he can pass that down to both you and your third cousin. If that mutation helps your third cousin help you bring children to the world, you have a selective advantage. Of course that chain grows exponentially less likely the further you are from each other on the family tree, as the gene has to spread far enough by pure chance.
Oh fuck off. Really. Enough of this bullshit.
The issue is we have an absolute flood of money landing at least in the US. The build back better plan is all front loaded spending, back loaded taxes.

Where does all this money go? I'm serious. If you put it in the bank it makes 0.01%.

No question there is a bubble, but what's going to pop it, and where do people put their money - and no - I think crypto is pretty garbage so lets leave that out.

P/E ratios on equities are currently crazy as well.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29269142

Over in the other thread, we're discussing Kasparov admitting that China definitely covered up evidence from their Wuhan lab regardless of whether or not they were actually responsible for a leak.
This was news in October, some second-hand shares around here about it - but I couldn't find this official update at the time about the accomplishment because they didn't link to it on their webpage easily. Seemed noteworthy/curious about their immediate intention to start cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
https://www.texastribune.org/2010/03/22/sboe-removes-thomas-...

https://archive.thinkprogress.org/texas-board-of-education-c...

Thomas Jefferson was successfully removed from all Texas schoolbooks, as one example of many. The Right is no stranger to censorship.
Well, it has to at some point. The hard question is when.
Market timing is really tough.

Here's the long term house price to median income ratio chart for the US and UK.[1] We're basically repeating 2008.

[1] https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-inco...
> A smallpox pandemic would be orders of magnitude more deadly than COVID

Edit: fair enough there’s no vaccinations for smallpox anymore. But countries do still buy stockpiles
They were transported to the existing, single approved location for processing these samples before being cultured. So the risk may not have been any more than existing research at that facility.
Don’t know about most pressure, but when it comes to succeeding at cancelling, conservatives don’t seem to be able to cancel anything. What or who was cancelled by conservatives in the past let’s say 2-3 years?
COVID is not comparable to the flu. It's 3-20x as deadly depending on a variety of factors.

Smallpox would still be significantly more deadly than COVID individually, but I'd bet people would take lockdowns much more seriously for smallpox than they did for COVID, preventing a pandemic and resulting in fewer deaths overall. Especially because people believe falsehoods like "COVID is comparable to the flu" because it downplays the risk.
This is exactly right. Imagine a hypothetical where Microsoft created AMP - no one would use it! The technology itself sucked. The only reason some publishers adopted AMP at all was to get/maintain favourable placement on Google, the only search engine that matters.

I'm just hoping that the death of AMP on the web will also kill Google's ambitions for rolling it into Gmail[1].

[1] https://developers.google.com/gmail/ampemail/
I learned about Approval Voting from the amazing podcast by 80,000 Hours

https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/aaron-hamlin-voting-...

It's an amazing in-depth interview about Approval and other types of voting systems.
Farming Software Maker Valued at $4B in Round
AMP reddit's only useful feature is the button that links to the non-AMP page. It's so useless, you can't read more than the first two comments on it, you get sent to the normal version if you expand. Why does it even exist?
Also I appreciate the interest, thank you. I'm heading back from the conference over the next few days, so I should be more free to take a look at it soon.
When labeling commentary as a dog whistle, one needs to be mindful of the possibility they have tinnitus related to said issue.
Could be LGBT rights and migrants with brown skin. Racism and homophobia tend to do well in traditional family-oriented societies.
What blocks us from attempting a similar approach state-wide? Seattle's top-two approach has already made a big difference in making the general election relevant and competitive.

Where I see trouble these days is with Federal elections. Being able to vote for anyone but X or Z would be a wonderful way to send a signal as a voter. I suspect that both the east and west sides of the state would feel similarly (East: "Anyone but X!", West: "Anyone but Y!". Result: M gets elected, who is thankfully neither X nor Y.).
> But in fact I had not intended to cancel Harris; I hadn’t intended anything at all. I would have attacked him, physically, had he been present, over a pure delusion, which I say with shame I can’t put into words. But I was not thinking that I would hurt his reputation. I was not thinking of cause and effect in any conventional way. I was not in a mental state where I was capable of understanding long-term consequences. Once again, I will be accused of saying that I bear no responsibility for what happened, but that’s not what I’m saying or have ever said. I am saying that it is a lie to say that I had a particular outcome in mind because I was operating under the antilogic of psychosis. I know because I’m me and I was there. I’m sorry if this is inconvenient for your efforts to develop simplistic moral readings about what happened, but I assure you my psychotic disorder is harder on me than it is on you. Forgive me if I’m angry, but it is incredible the number of people who believe that their understanding of neurology and psychiatry and psychology is so complete that they can decide unilaterally for the human race that “mental illness doesn’t do that.” You can make whatever moral judgments about me you like. You have no idea what was happening in my brain and no right to speak as if you do.

Social media are clearly magnifying the negative consequences of mental health issues. The problems the author describes are compounded by the fact that many other people know what happened.

What I'm curious about, though, is the opposite. To what extent are social media increasing the severity of mental health issues themselves? I can imagine a kind of positive feedback loop, with social media triggering aspects of an illness, and acting out through social media amplifying the damage caused.
I was getting Amazon Prime Student for at least a decade for the old price of $39(?). Well after everyone else's was migrated to a more expensive full account, mine sat under the radar.

Finally, last year, it was flagged and auto-upgraded to the new ridiculously-priced Prime plan. I meant to cancel the renewal but it ended up getting renewed before I remembered.
It's unfortunate that all of this got politicized, but the fact is that nobody knows for sure where it came from nor does anyone know for sure where it didn't come from.

I would say it's not a waste of time to review what labs are doing all over the world since the stakes are so high.
I'd be d'accord if he said something to the effect of:

> We aren’t even through the current possibly scientist-caused pandemic yet

Peter Daszak should have to testify before Congress, imo.
No, it is that smallpox is a good candidate for a bioweapon, so we want to be sure that our soldiers to be protected against any such bioweapon that an adversary might choose to create. (In fact smallpox was historically used as a bioweapon against Native Americans.)

There have been no smallpox cases in decades, so it is not a concern that you might travel somewhere that smallpox is a concern. It would have to be a deliberate attack.

Separately if anyone wonders why smallpox is called smallpox, it is to distinguish it from the great pox, which is better known as syphilis. The comparison is disfiguring scars for smallpox, versus things like your nose falling off with syphilis.
that is the end game for fast information highway huh, anything of remote value can have it's price carried forward instantly, and junk everywhere resulting in glut of cash ready to pounce on the next valuable thing. the best one can do is hold on to something keeps value I guess, by trading, hedging, real estate, and not sure if it's hip, gold?
You're right - in my experience it's great for, say, creating an online calculator/simulator for something specific but it too fast becomes difficult when you started trying to add features like SSO, persistence etc.
Opinion: Closing California’s last nuclear power plant would be a mistake
from my short experience living in Hong Kong and travelling the region a bit.. there is a common, daily practice of identifying people by race and language, that is explicitly discouraged or illegal in the USA
Trying and failing. While on the other hand any dumbass with a twitter account can topple CEOs, established professionals, politicians, etc.
The “left” cancels everywhere. The “right” cancels in their own community. Big difference IMO. Pros and cons to both of those approaches but that’s how I see it.
Maybe Google fired them?
we are heading in to a world that favors the paranoid delusional mind state of Billionaires like Munger and Thiel.
> My impression was that the US Supreme Court was the highest law in the land.

And the one and only enforcer of that law (the executive branch) is the offender.
How's that any different? I can print out a QR code with the NFT info as well and make it "physical". The vaccination certificate is a digital code along with your details to "proof that you own it". The DB is even distributed among EU member states so the code points to the "backpack" (database) of the state where you got your shot

https://ec.europa.eu/info/live-work-travel-eu/coronavirus-re...
Freddie DeBoer on Hacker News, that's nice. Found out about him after frequenting /r/stupidpol/, one of the few sub-reddits that still has genuine left-wing discussions focused on the actual material condition of the working classes (even though they're getting rarer and rarer lately).
Gawker chose an illegally filmed sex tape of a washed up celebrity as the hill they wanted to die on, and die they did.

Did Thiel make them host the video in the first place? Did Thiel make them ignore initial injunction for them to take the video down?