skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think part of the push back from the lab leak theory is that it's often accompanied by lab created and leaked. I'm far from an expert, but from what I understand, there are 0 signs it was lab created. Now isolated from the wild in a lab and then leaked is still considered possible, but they just don't know.
NSO is pretty well covered by Darknet Diaries:

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/99/
https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/100/

I have no sympathy for NSO.
Presented without comment.

Input:
move(1,X,Y,_) :-
write('Move top disk from '),
write(X),
write(' to '),
write(Y),
nl.
move(N,X,Y,Z) :-
N>1,
M is N-1,
move(M,X,Z,Y),
move(1,X,Y,_),
move(M,Z,Y,X).

Output:
- The code starts by writing "Move top disk from X to Y".
- Next, the code writes "N is N-1", which means that it's moving the next disk down.
- The code then moves the first disk up and writes "move(M,X,Z,Y)".
- This means that it's moving M disks down and Z disks up.
- Then it moves 1 disk left and writes "move(M,Z,Y,X).
–
- The code will move the top disk from 1 to 2.

This is a silly project.
That wasn’t even the start of the web era, let alone internet era.

For context, GeoCities went live in 1994.
Leaked Lidar data shows illegal logging in Australia
I think some newspaper groups in the US had TV stations. I know some newspaper groups that own printing works have tried to sell those too. But, generally, no. The reason to buy newspapers is using the cash flow to turn around the business (again, it is very unlikely that you will survive doing this as a public company, so there is a reason to sell to a privately-run distressed asset specialist).
Wealth storage is a practical use case. This is a weird thing to grasp, but it's actually perfectly reasonable (I.e. utilitarian and stable) for an asset to be "purely monetized", in the sense that it has no value whatsoever except from its capacity to store value.

That said, you're right that ability to actually spend bitcoin probably shows up in any PDE that accurately models its market dynamics. If 90% of countries on earth ban bitcoin, and those bans are well-enforced, bitcoin probably won't be very valuable.
>Is this because the metrics driving these sites are primarily user acquisition?

I believe it is the reason, and have read so (somewhere).

Sometimes, it is worse on mobile where the login button disappears and you have to click on a "sandwich/menu" icon to display it; to this I say: guilty as charged. In this case, there are hundreds of other more pressing issues and we'll get to it. Maybe I'll change it later.
My values? You mean having empathy for people you don't know? Yes, I'd say that people not sharing that is indeed why the world is going to shit.

Though of course most people do share it, probably even you. It is a mystery to me why you seem to be saying that no one should care at all about the people negatively affected by this. An argument for the funnieness of it, or the art of it, outweighing that would be understandable, but you don't even go there, it's just apparently not even worth consideration and I'm a bad person for considering it.

I am not trying to force my values on anyone. I am making no call to action whatsoever. The things these people did were already illegal. All I'm doing is defending the idea that yes, indeed, the people who did this have cause to be embarrassed by it. It would seem that you do not agree and do not think anyone should feel embarrassed. Why this disagreement between us is a source of so much vitriol from you I do not understand if, as you say, you truly do not care.
I almost read the thing, but I can only read so many words in that horrendous font. Is this representative of the substance vs form stance of web3 ?
"lots"

But are they? I doubt you actually have any special knowledge of this. They don't seem to me like they would require so much resources.
The very wikipedia article you linked to says that the NSO Group is owned by " Novalpina Capital" They describe themselves this way:

> Novalpina Capital is an independent European private equity firm that focuses on making control equity investments in middle market companies throughout the continent. Novalpina Capital has a solution-orientated, entrepreneurial approach to investing and creating value in its portfolio companies.

> Novalpina Capital was established by Stephen Peel, Stefan Kowski and Bastian Lueken in 2017. The Founding Partners bring combined experience of 48 years in private equity investing, including senior positions in the European operations of leading global private equity investment firms, and have a shared history of working together for nearly a decade.
> deflationary instrument

What?
The efficiency gains of these systems are irrelevant. Governments of the world want monetary control, and they cast that desire in the form of laws like "know your customer" or "anti-money laundering." These laws are antithetical to what you're talking about. If the government requires legitimate institutions to implement these forms of laws then to engage in actual society (i.e. - school, groceries, business, rent, banking, and most importantly taxes) then the existence of zero knowledge proofs and their implementation are irrelevant. At some point you come back to the inescapable problem with crypto: the real economy is based on trust and an immutable digital blockchain is, at best, a gloss on this system.
The guy just needed an outlet to talk about his piles. Hemorrhoids can be an embarrassing topic, so he wore a mask.
My regular ice cream truck driver, in the very early 80s when I was maybe 7 years old, also dealt drugs out of the truck and had this long coke nail I was fascinated with. Everybody liked him, and he would front kids ice cream when they were broke.
If you follow the Ethereum core developers on Twitter you can track the progress. Current status is (1) people have locked ~$30-40B worth of Ethereum into the proof of stake chain, money which can't be retrieved until the merge (2) the Ethereum team has a merged testnet running on which all the different client developer teams are participating. They're just hunting for edge case bugs now, too much money at stake to have anything go wrong with the merge.
It has known cap, and coins get lost.
NRL/NASA Experiment to Study Origins of Solar Energetic Particles
I guess it is the same reasoning like Go not needing generics.
Descriptive title: Functional Commodore 64 development environment on Replit
>> They are just using the EULA as the basis for claiming jurisdiction.

IANAL but it's always seemed to me that if I reject the terms of a EULA then the EULA doesn't apply to me. Pushing the "button" does not mean anything because only the EULA gives it meaning and I reject that.

50 years from now if someone is doing software archaeology and they go to install some software from a long gone company, who does clicking the button form an agreement with? Will it be legal to try that software? Can existing software companies list people they have click-through agreements with? These things seem like a bad joke in practical terms.
Bisect also does a binary search so if you're looking for one bad commit amongst many others, you'll find it much more quickly than linearly testing commits, one at a time, until you find a working one.
Can you provide an example of someone claiming defi can provide solutions for loans?

The best I can come up with logically is something like cardano's prism that effectively puts a persons encrypted identity on the blockchain which allows that person to reveal things like their grades etc. to future partners as a means of quickly establishing trust. Maybe something like that could enable defi loans? Even that is a stretch.
>was a very, very expensive

Why do you keep pretending to know this?
> What is the context in which trigger Apple to sue them now, and not any time before?

Apparently Facebook has a similar suit against NSO and just had a significant ruling go their way. NSO had claimed they were immune since they were acting as foreign government agent.

I’m guessing Apple was waiting to see how that ruling went before proceeding, since if NSO had won Apple would have to take a completely different approach.
> They do not appear to have the best security program in the world.

By what measure? That they don’t find all the security bugs? Have you seen what iOS exploit chains look like these days? They’re not exactly simple. I think there is literally no amount of money that could be spent that would eliminate all the security bugs in iOS, or Apple would be figuring out how to spend that much right now. So yes, you can always argue that they should spend more, and I’m sure they do spend more every time something like Pegasus happens, but it’s not some grand revelation. This is just how things are.

> Whatever Citizen Lab can do, Apple should be able to do better; they have a lot more resources and expertise.

At the tail, this doesn’t matter. Other people find bugs because there are always more bugs to be found. There will never be a situation where only Apple can find more bugs in its operating system.
What would be the distinction between entertainment and literature, theatre and dancing? Let's add poetry, orchestras, opera and folk songs to the list as well - those are decent examples of "culture" while being "entertainment".
AFAIK only EVM(Ethereum VM) is popular and others are emulating it. You have Soldity there which is meh from my CS view. On frontend you use whatever you like and just bind via library to wallets.
Modeling Pairs and Tuples
First they ignore you... then they laugh at you... then they _fight_ you....
lol, a buddy of mine was just showing off his he bought a few weeks ago.
It's a cute, but direct attack on the Imperialism that underpins the issues, including the function of police domestically.

And the police here are racist, brutal, and mostly above legal consequences. The media here generally stops short of examining the power structures that makes that the case. It's more oh dearism than actionable information.

And have you seen China's media? The allow and even encourage complaints about local government, including in mass media. What you've stated about "an open society with a free press" not some high bar of freedom, but generally used as a pressure release valve for malcontent that does nothing to address why it's like that in the first place. They, like the US, love a good story that let's them "fight corruption" in a way that doesn't change why the corruption was allowed to fester in the first place.
It's not very, very hard currently though. It's just slightly more complex and more error prone. Most complex DeFi protocols are upgradeable by design these days.
Not a fish market. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9KZ2b0Pc3I
>The only thing we gain by admitting to lab leak is the truth but is the truth (that we've pretty much deduced at this point) worth worsening relations not only politically but gives anti-Chinese factions in the west more evidence as a prelude to war?

IMO yes, not because it might give anti-China warhawks a casus belli, but in spite of that.

Since the start of this whole ordeal, instead of taking a step back and do some serious introspection about the risks of their research conduct, these misguided virologists and their institutions have doubled down on GoF research. And if that was indeed the ultimate cause triggering the cascade of events leading to the SARS-COV-2 pandemic, which I personally think is the most probable scenario given all the circumstantial and genetic evidence we have, then it is absolutely worth it to prevent another lab leak. The next one might not be as mild as this one.
Reminds me of SoundBlaster music player too :)
Those aesthetics! Looks like the type of vehicle Apple would design.
Surviving the Robocalypse
> if it worked very well there wouldn't be a need for flatpak / snap / appimage / etc.

Exactly: There isn't.

> How do I install an older or newer inkscape / ardour / krita in the latest debian stable / ubuntu / fedora / whatever without recompiling stuff ?

You don't. Or if you have to, do it on Gobo (or perhaps Guix or NixOS?).
Moderna seems to be slightly more effective but with slightly worse side effects. Dose is the most likely explanation (30µg for Pfizer/Biontech vs 100µg for Moderna).
Benefits of Using Social Media Data Mining
Additionally he doesn't seem to know that much about C#, which also has advanced GC, while allowing for C++ like memory management, if needed.
An interesting angle that seems overlooked in articles about India and China "banning" cryptocurrencies is that these efforts are often linked to a desire to create centralized digital currencies.

e.g. from this article: "India is also looking to make a framework for the official digital currency that will be issued by the Reserve Bank of India."
A simple model is that some people will do well regardless, some will do poorly regardless, and the middle will perform dependent on what environment they're put in.

I'm not saying really smart people don't exist, obviously we've all met mentally disabled people who cannot be taught higher math so why wouldn't there be people who get it really easily?

But I do think most people by far are in the middle group. Teach them well, encourage them, and they do well. Fail to do so and they do badly.

But if you agree with such a model you must see that in aggregate, nurture wins. There's a bunch of people who wouldn't know any calculus or whatever if they hadn't been set to do certain problems while being educated.

If you look at something like private education in the UK, you see this very thing. Kids are coached and they do well, on average. They're confident and they're well drilled. Not every kid in those schools does well, and not every kid who does well went to one of those schools. Yet stats show that the 7% of kids who went to private schools get about 50% of the Oxbridge places.
takeaway.com employs their riders, I think.
Marburg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Marburg_virus_outbreak_in...) is another notable lab leak.

Might be a better match in some ways as it was a previously unknown pathogen, from a previously unknown family of viruses, isolated only after several lab workers got sick.
The time that immediately comes to my mind when I think "middle of the night" is 3am.
Who Invented the Lightbulb?
In the spirit of the "things you can (actually) do (without asking permission)" posts, another one is

* create a small seminar of your own for an academic or quasi-academic text or topic that interests you, and meet and discuss it

I'm currently participating in a seminar on

https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/lf-current/index.h...

and some people I know are running their own read-through of Plato's Republic at the moment. No university required!
This looks really neat! Love the focus on performance for mobile. The inclusion of linear gradient is also nice, since I've had to write code that seemed stupidly complex to get that working cross-platform before.

I've always been a frustrated by is how difficult it is to build a design system for React Native. It seems like no one who's done it has really open sourced much in the space. One thing I've often found missing is the ability to build an interactive showcase of a component library. Do you have any plans for something like that?

On a side note, I am a little skeptical of react-native-web. Admittedly, I haven't looked into it much though. Can DOM nodes be mixed with react native nodes? If not, the lockout from Normal react libs would give me pause. Also not sure if I'd trust it with components doing things like charting or animations. I'm still in that camp of people finding it easier to write React and React Native UIs totally separately.
Not a very representative artwork in the article. One might get a better idea from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer
I'm sure this took a lot of effort and more knowledge than I'll ever have. All of this effort could have gone to doing something constructive, and instead it's gone to breaking a system so that a small handful of people can run software (be honest, game emulators) on it, and presumably support further piracy of the system. There are already a trillion devices out there that can run emulators, we don't need another one.
> While NSO Group created hacking tools, and then did some questionable things with them

Such as selling their software to the Saudi Government which in turn used the software in a highly targeted cyber attack leading to the grisly murder of a dissident journalist?
>Dollar stores very often aren’t cheaper than other sources for similar products especially for grocery items (which they tend to have very limited selections of.)

Yep. They're usually not competitive on unit price. In areas that aren't shopping deserts, they cater to folks who can't afford to fill their car's gas tank on a whim -- they need X, they need it today, so they'll get what they can today. "It's expensive to be poor."

What I've found them good for is stuff I use super sparingly, and odd items. For example, envelopes. A box of 20 for $1 isn't great per unit, but it takes me FIVE YEARS to go through that box that takes up less space than a larger one, so still a win. Toothbrush for $1 is hard to argue. Gift bags and greeting cards are a fraction of where you easily find them elsewhere. If I'm out and really need a drink, if it's the closest option I may get a diet soda or a bottle of water.

I rarely go to one, but I'll go through one periodically to observe what's there and make a mental note of the few things that are the obvious deal given my situation.
When one slightly orange tinted guy can effectively ban discussion of any topic on all platforms by vaguely mentioning it, the problem is not that guy, it is everybody else.
Sorry to grand-stand a bit, but I think the narrative is missing the point of the 'lab leak theory'.

The 'lab leak' is actually a bit of a misnomer. What they really mean is that it was created/modified/bred intentionally, versus just being discovered in some bat cave or whatever.

It's not the leaking per se that is what worries people--it's the idea that this has a human-created origin. It's an experiment or weapon which was accidentally leaked to the world.
A good rule of thumb is that if someone says they are important, they are probably not important. The important people are the ones with nothing to prove to plebs like us.
In a just world, Israel should suffer sanctions for sheltering what is basically a criminal enterprise.
Having recently looked into Blazor Server (similar to LiveView but in C#), one of the cons Microsoft listed was the scalability (compared to a typical SPA) as each client now needs an active websocket connection to the server, which will require more server resources.

Do you have any experience in that? I'd love to know where server resource requirements sit between SPA, this and a typical SSR site like Django.
It's a lot easier to build custom allocators in C++ though.

For one, Java has a maximum mmap-size of 2 Gb, and as a cherry on top of that turd, you have no control over their lifecycle. The language is very clearly not designed for this type of work, and if you try to make it do it anyway, it fights you every step of the way.
> And lab standards are already stringent, so leaks will keep happening. I don't believe the virus was leaked, not because it couldn't have but because it's equally probable that it's natural.

So you're not interested in knowing whether it was a leak, or if it was, whether it was accidental, and you're not at all interested in making bio labs more secure (which one might be, if one knew it was a lab leak!)?!

So... no need to improve, just let it keep happening?

And you don't think there's any interest in the science behind making a custom virus, or spreading it?

OK, fine, you're not interested. Ah, but:

> so scientists are not curious to find out how they did it, if they did

All scientists? Most? A significant number of them?

Are you saying no one should be curious about this, or just that you aren't?

> It's a politically interesting question though.

Ah, so do investigate? I can't tell what you meant.
there's a calculator for that: http://www.artificial-gravity.com/sw/SpinCalc/SpinCalc.htm#c...

From a radius of ~300m onward you'll see green lights (= good for people) for all considered parameters. RPM drops from 1.7 to 0.5 for a radius of 3000m.
Thiel, Silicon Valley and the Rise of Tech Neo-Reaction
Many, many years ago, naive me bought my girlfriend one of those roses at a 7-Eleven, and I still remember her response: "Oh, Honey, you bought me a craaack pipe!" We're not together anymore.
Load ze India FUD ...
> Crypto makes so many things so much more efficient

Crypto does the same things a database does, except in a much more expensive and inefficient fashion.
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> For example, it can show how wealthy you are, show that you are willing to patronize artists, cause the original artist to come visit your showroom, etc.

Many different kinds of publicity stunt can achieve these things. NFTs offer no unique benefits.
False. Ransomware predates cryptocurrencies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGPCoder
RCA is a complex path that can be explored in a variety of ways.

The 5 whys analysis is one of the better ways to go about RCA in my experience. Especially, if everyone can be mature adults and amend it as appropriate to the circumstances at hand. For example, you might only need to ask "why" 3 times before it becomes overly-reductive. Sometimes 15. Also, you might find that the answer to each "why" is a collection of things, each seeking their own new tree of exploration.

I have witnessed some hilariously-deep RCA pools. If you ever work in systems engineering for a semiconductor manufacturer, you will see some of the most insane shit. Like tracing a series of customer device failures back to the exact human contractor who brought a naughty tool into an inappropriate area of the facility for a brief duration, causing a chain of events 100+ deep, ultimately resulting in elevated defects in all batches of wafers that were ran through a specific port on a specific tool.

In this context, I think the C is plural. Very few complex issues are attributable to exactly 1 logical thing.
As if there’s a magic button trillion dollar companies can buy that, when pushed, removed all security vulnerabilities from software and hardware, no matter how complex!
Seems to be VICE running in a web client? VICE is a well-known Commodore 64 emulator that's been around for 28 years. I'm not sure why I wouldn't just run this locally? Serious question - what is the advantage of this?

Running it on Replit I had to answer a multi-stage CAPTCHA identifying all trucks and then it was so slow I couldn't even type without holding the keys down for several seconds before they would register.
"Scalar replacement" explodes the object into its class member variables and does not construct a class object at all. That does result in the exact same `sub %esp` (that Go would do for any struct), but it is restricted to only working if every single usage of that class type is fully inlined and the class is never passed anywhere that needs it in its object form.

It's worse than what Go has. Go can stack-allocate any struct and still pass pointers to it to non-inlined functions.
You don't even need to complete the ring so that you can start with a lot bigger radius. The larger the radius the less the weird gyroscopic effects when people turn their heads in certain directions and the closer it replicates earth's gravity. Then you can expand the ring by increasing the arc coverage.