skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the Laos bats are strong evidence for the lab leak hypothesis because it makes a prediction which could have turned out false: that if a close relative of COVID-19 is found somewhere, predict that researchers took samples from that area to Wuhan prior to the start of the pandemic.
As usual, "it depends." For every person complaining about unit tests using databases, there's another complaining about all the annoying mocks they need to maintain, when they could just use the real thing.
I've just gone from a 2004 Corolla to a 2020 Serrato. It's a low end car but it has lane assist, braking detection when a car slows in front, cruise, speed limiter, etc. Combine all those settings with google maps and it easy for me to see how you could get complacent driving a new car and make mistakes.

All these features work well most of the time, but they all notably fail on, still frequent, edge cases.
Surely any support available to projects that replace higher-emissions facilities with lower-emissions facilities would still be available if the lower-emissions facility is a zero-emissions facility, right?
Not exactly that, but there's a cool strategy game [0] about managing a city hit by a gradually increasing wave of freezing cold.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frostpunk
Um, there are other sources of pollution besides cars...
ETH continues to grow its hashrate every day. Even in the face of growing competition, hashrate grows. It's an interesting theory, but there's no evidence of you being right. We already have many extremely high market-cap PoS coins, many with more features than ETH will have even after it's PoS transition, yet PoW hash continues to skyrocket.
> So Unit test is most commonly used to refer to any type of test, integration, end to end, or isolation. Most people will view you as being pedantic and old school for insisting on using an older definition.

I understand that anything can be categorized as a unit, even a functional test. That's fine. Transactions for integration tests. I'll suffer the distain of people who rather produce problematic (eventually buggy) software in lieu of understanding categoric differences and purpose, leading to these kinds of "questions". If that's "most people", so be it.
I applaud you, but it sounds like this isn't really a 'startup'.

Who will pay for this? I imagine the recipients aren't rich.

Looking forward to seeing your announcement of a fund to deliver these charitably at zero cost to patients. :)

Good luck!
I concur; the original Japanese article is uncolored, and the English language article is not a faithful translation. Although the people responsible for authoring and editing TFA seem to go unmentioned, shame on them.
How do you secure the infrastructure that hurls the moon rocks?
I believe that flag (and, I presume, vouch) takes more karma than "not negative", though I don't recall what the threshold is.
I only follow technical people & topic accounts, and unfollow if i see them posting any political content.
You're conflating CO2 from logistics and CO2 from electricity production. Logistics can be entirely converted to electrical in a decade with no special sauce needed.
thank you! this gave me an idea to look for something similar for nginx ... https://github.com/vouch/vouch-proxy

lots of my issues on authentication for various apps can perhaps be handled now!
Very strange-- it took me straight to the articles but I never logged in or even signed up.

Also-- right-click Copy isn't suppressed and there's no email list modal popping up when I scroll.

Did this site get hacked or something?
I guess one of the benefits of HN using such simplistic styling is that its easy to make a TUI that basically resembles the site 100%. This looks awesome!
> And they will be right. If it emits carbon it isn't green, it really is that simple.

Then we have no green energy sources at all, which makes it sort of useless as a description.

Manufacturing and installation of the energy source always has to be included. For something with as short of a life as solar panels, the manufacturing, transport, installation, and disposal is a critical piece in the CO2 emissions that has to be amortized over the kWh it’s expected to generate over its lifetime.
There's more profit scamming middleclass Americans (and their government) than there is in competing on the global stage. The idea of the rising tide lifting all ships is no longer followed within the country (or Mexico, UK, etc) as it is in other countries.
Lab leaks of known pathogens being studied aren’t unusual.
True, though it does affect your insurance premiums and/or healthcare taxes
No there isn't.

This was at night also.
Not sure if you meant this, but I think a lot of no/low code products can fill most propositions however the costs are prohibitive. Currently Bubble, Adalo, Airtable etc would bankrupt me fast if I ran off them (I mean; they are free or cheap to get going but when you gain traction, the price flies up). I cannot build scale or momentum with their pricing. There is also the problem that it is not open tech, but that is more a personal thing, not a financial or tech problem.

If they were open source, I probably would build 90% of whatever I am doing in them, but now it is more like 1% and indeed for demos only and that is 100% price, for me. The open source solutions are not good enough. I understand that; only techies care about open source and they can program. This is another market.
The fact that their service in first class is luxurious (which nobody is denying) doesn’t necessarily imply that their pilots are good.
The site has a detailed spec and test input/output, you can build and run the tests

The standard library is to sort, not take the median
I'm still fascinated by this story. The reality distortion field is something to be studied and pondered. Sometimes it leads to great outcomes, when it motivates people to grow beyond their comfort zones. Sometimes it's fraud.

Is a hopeful statement about the future a lie?

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To be clear about my own beliefs in this matter: Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes committed crimes and tried to bury them and the people who tried to bring those crimes to light.

If the fraud was not in the medical field, I would find some room for leeway. If the company did not persecute the whistle-blowers; If the lies weren't so blatant; If there was a feasible technology under development ...

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An analogy - right now, very many people want self driving cars to be a reality. Are any (or how many) of those companies committing fraud? Business failure is not fraud, but fraud can be found at failing businesses.
> You have to know the private key and do MITM.

Which can safely be assumed to happen whenever the equipment is provided by another party such as an employer. All in the name of security, just not that of the user.
> We've put ten times the money it would take to solve this on nuclear into solar,

Could you share the numbers for how much subsidy money was put into solar technology, and how much for nuclear energy (and fossil fuels, for that matter) over their history?

> and unless you incorrectly use nameplate capacity, it hasn't even broken the 2% mark yet,

The number I'm seeing[0] for solar, globally (based on 2019 data), is 2.7%, which, combined with wind, wave, and tidal etc. comes to 10.5%, compared to 10.4% for nuclear. Both are dwarfed by hydropower's 15.8%, of course, but it's hard to manufacture the right sort of rivers.

> but it's already throwing the grid into chaos.

That hasn't been the experience in Australia[1], so it sounds like you're referring to a politics problem, not a technology problem.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2020/08/Global-energy-vs....

[1] https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/08/31/renewables-improve-re...
6 years until what?
One of my favorite counter-intuitive things about mass transit is that well-designed transfers tend to reduce overall travel time for everyone, even without timed transfers:

https://humantransit.org/2009/04/why-transferring-is-good-fo...
As far as best practices, Apple has some documentation on how to use their photogrammetry pipeline:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/realitykit/capturi...
This is really great, thanks for doing this!
> Since the cessation of atmospheric nuclear testing, background radiation has decreased to very near natural levels,[4] making special low-background steel no longer necessary for most radiation-sensitive applications, as brand-new steel now has a low enough radioactive signature that it can generally be used in such applications

Apparently there’s less money in those scuttled ships now than there was 50 years ago.
I think a lot of it has gotten out of hand (here in the US). Tax credits for tons of different things. Complicated tax planning and filing. Some of the things don't make sense (except for special interests) or are counter productive. So you want people to save the environment so you help them buy an electric car, yet you provide incentives to have more children which will increase consumption (which our economy is built on) and lead to more environmental impact...

The masses want more and more without paying for it themselves. It's convenient to have someone else pay for it rather than discuss the underlying issue that the policy is (poorly) addressing.
This was the tool that finally made DF playable for me, with it I was able to get into the game enough to enjoy myself and realize what everyone was going on about :)
Why would Americans be any better pilots than people of any other nationality?

Presumably what matters is the standards of pilot experience and training that an airline demands, not what country the pilots are from. Perhaps some of the Americans working for Emirates do so because they couldn’t get jobs at a US legacy carrier. (I don’t know whether this is indeed the case; I’m just claiming it’s plausible).
And of course it has to be a Python script and have no proper installer from OS package managers. :(
International effort or not, still a biological weapon.

It looks that China was collecting viruses (what makes a lot of sense) + also cooking some biological weapons on the side. They didnt call it "biological weapon production", they called it "gain of function research", but it is still the same thing.

USA paid some money to be able to access this data (makes sense, the more data you have, the better) + probably they wanted to spy on the Chinese to see what is happening. Unfortunately they send people such as Daszak, who in my opinion looks like a Chinese double-agent, or someone bribed by China to be their mouth-piece.

Still we are moving away from the discussion: this "research" is basically against Biological Research Convention ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_Weapons_Convention ). And yes, I know that Russia signed the convention but does not abide it - they manufacture lots of biological weapons. But it is another problem.
>The coming year should see at least 18 NASA-sponsored lunar missions, some of which will deliver equipment and supplies for later use. Gateway itself is scheduled for 2024.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think we saw any moon missions from NASA in 2021? Either way, it is exciting to think human stuff is going to the moon this year in a big way.
Never forget Medman77 with the call of the century on that one in the comments.
For now at least. I would use archive.org on that.
Calling a mix of tests into the category of unit tests is incredibly wrong and misguided. It is a formal term that has been around for a long time and talks about a test that is extremely limited in scope and is tested in isolation.
Good point that it protects against a phishing site that exactly replicates the victim site but with a different URL.

But the phishers could do a slight variation. They could create a website that looks very similar to the browser's Basic Auth popup, but implemented in HTML and Javascript. Most people won't notice the difference. Most people don't understand the line of death[1].

[1] https://textslashplain.com/2017/01/14/the-line-of-death/
I think you're talking about the artistic _product_, and the ethernet bridge is talking about artistic _process_. Like, you don't care what kind of paintbrush a painter uses, but it matters a lot to them.
Let me get this straight, the fact that there are multiple plausible lab-leak scenarios makes the entire question less credible than if there was only one plausible lab-leak scenario?

I would invite you to think about that a little longer.
Its pretty hard to fake everything. Every 'caste' has different culture.
You're incredibly sexist and yet completely oblivious to it. Men like you are the reason more and more women are choosing not to get married.
What are the chances of guessing a bitcoin private key?

If they are 256 bit hashes then there are approximately 2^256 private keys possible and the author guessed around 2^31 possibilities in 6 months with 0 hits at a cost of $720. I can't do math this big on my phone but it would be at least 10^40 years to get even a first guess, and by that point you've spent more on compute than that first wallet would have in it.
A look at the oldest languages in the world and their place of origin
The only reason I find it interesting is because she started that company when people were still thinking any new tech will change the world.

You guys were still drooling over Zuckerburg, and that movie. (Some claim different, but for many Zuck was John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever for a generation of nerds. Yes, it's embarrassing now, because they All sold out. Facebook, Google, etc. were going to make society better. The story is still unfolding, but greed rules when you get out of school? I guess?

She copied Steve Jobs with her rediculious attire, and we all were afaraid to ask the tough questions because of her gender. Everytime I questioned her company, someone would accuse me of misogyney in a subtle ways.

In the end, she blamed her actions on that little fat guy who followed her around like a hungry puppy dog.

In a way, I'm glad we had a Holmes. Getting that gold rush money was irritating for those that didn't have the inside friends, or the wealthy parents.
Don't forget about decades-long fires burning underground due to mining accidents. Not small ones either, miles long:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire
I can't quite tell whether it even shows where lines go under/over one another and knows that exactly, but regardless, it's a wonderful visualization! I wonder at what level the train positions are known exactly versus approximated?

Is there a simple flat / non-3D version of it?
Why couldn't you do it in-process with a mutex? IIRC sqlite3 is thread-safe
I'm not sure what distro you use but /tmp isn't generally tmpfs (like on Ubuntu for example), so you might want to double check before relying on that.
Yes, as much as the mainstream media went to shit, WSJ is still above the level of NYT, which basically is a tabloid targeting people who consider themselves educated.
Note for those who have not read the article (this was confusing to me): 0 is the highest possible score. Just saying "done" from the starting configuration got me a 66 (so that's a score showing you don't see any differences).
India’s quest for solar energy is bringing about ecological and cultural erasure
Aaaa. Exchange. In another universe no one would be using it. We did a project for a large university and even MS could not make Exchange run stable (for a few 100k people); they had all servers reboot at 3 am or they would crash, lose data etc. It is old school horrible as MS used to create; they improved much over the decades but I guess they did not merge that mindset in the Exchange (or SharePoint) teams.
As Corporate Boards Pursue Diversity, Director Training Programs Spring Up
I haven't seen it. Thanks for sharing it with me!

Looks like they're going for a graph based system, which subsumes all kinds of authz modeling. That's pretty awesome.
You're right that the UX layer could be centralized. However, the data that the UX is built on would not be centralized. In the Uber example, it's as if the ride-hailing backend were available to anyone.

The centralized UX could censor transactions like you say, but the barrier to entry is low for another UX, built on the same decentralized data, to emerge and challenge the centralized UX. That's because the data is available to everyone.
Many surprise medical bills are now illegal
Unless you have health related digestive issues with plants and than find something else.
MongoDB 1.0 was released in 2009. ClusterPoint seems to have launched several years later. https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/10-ga-released. MongoDB the company was founded in 2007.
Thanks that's pretty solid.
Studio Ghibli's movies have been extremely popular in the US. Midnight Diner has a dedicated following on Netflix. Lost in Translation was set in Tokyo. Pacific Rim is quite clearly a Japanese cultural artifact, even if it wasn't filmed there. Giant-robot-movie is practically a genre.

Japan's influence on world cinema is bigger than just "movies made in Japan".
Thus, "severe COVID".
> A separate state measure already requires those companies to have at least one woman on their boards. Both rules allow for $100,000 penalties for initial violations, and both face legal challenges.

How is it they only spent half a sentence mentioning that these mandates may be illegal?
What we are saying is not the opposite. We are both worried about justice being denied -- because what used to be a reliable means of capturing evidence (photographs) is drifting towards becoming unreliable due to the push towards commercial / fancy applications to the detriment of authenticity.

The sheer scale and reach of smartphone cameras is helping the common man across the world capture day to day injustice and garner support to push back about abuse of power and authority, discrimination, harrassment etc.

I wish smartphone cameras stay reliable and continue to provide the best possible reflection fo reality -- and push boundaries on technological improvements that can be made to IMPROVE their accuracy and defensibility even in court settings or on crowdsourced social-media settings -- so that they can become a reliable aid in enabling justice and stand the test of time.
git blame so the developer can remember why they did something 15 years ago.
I'm super hype on this. I've managed to play DF a bit successfully thanks to Dwarf Therapist, but I'm really excited to come back and play again with the UX overhaul.
I see no evidence that the author read the WSJ article he tried to refute. Because he provided zero refutation to any of the specific facts reported. It's just sort of, that article said she was bad, but I don't think so.
I agree that statement around market power is wrong. What I'm hopeful about, is that Web3 increases the amount of the stack that is open to anyone to build on top of. That will hopefully increase competition and decrease rent-seeking by whichever dominant players emerge.
Some pretty big names had a lackluster year. Amazon, Uber, Netflix... many others
Hey Nobbis, I've just requested an invite to your SDK competitor to Apple and others. What you've done looks great and I have a few questions:

- Does your solution have the same photogrammetry requirements as the Apple/others?

- Is there a reason you're only supporting iOS at this time? Is that because you're using an iOS framework, or because you're relying on a file format (say HEIC)?

- How long until you guys open up the API?

Keep up the good work!
No doubt he's got 600k followers due to his personal brand. But "wrong about everything" is a a bit unfair. He's been telling people to keep a few % of their wealth in gold and that has been advice that is ageing really well. Ditto his commentary that the money printing will continue to get more extreme until the damage is beyond question even to the average US voter (it might take a while to get that bad!).
https://archive.is/idh6H
The gas plants aren’t zero emission. They’re better than coal. That’s a low bar.
Looking at that screenshot I bet the password is 1234
Previously on HN (5 months ago, 388 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27996684
Isn’t that engineering?
It’s a problem when gas plants are classified as green so they can consume benefits earmarked for green power.
I was told this by Apple when I brought up the problem through their “support” for the cellular drain issue.
Funny you mention this because I have a relative who works in the automobile industry who compared Holmes to Musk (Just sharing his point of view, don't shoot the messenger).

I will say though misrepresenting products or taking advantage of positive publicity certainly is something Musk and many Silicon Valley personalities do. Holmes is a bad person for endangering lives, but I can see the same huge critics who attack her now become the people that silence negative opinions about her, if only her story was slightly different.
Beefsteak mushrooms are pretty common in Michigan, and not really what I would call a false morel, as they aren't very similar (I'm sure they do get called that though).

I always referred to Verpa as false morels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verpa
I respectfully disagree. I have found great value out of database tests that did not require the overhead of end to end tests, which I've found can be brittle and slow - especially if your service depends in some way on another application or outside piece of infrastructure.

As an aside, anytime I hear "not ever" from somebody wrt design patterns, my doubt sensors jump to alert.
Asperger syndrome? Sheldon Cooper? A typical software developer before he hits 30 and learns more about normies and how to pretend a little better? I have no problem in recognizing myself in his post for example. I'm surprised more people on this forum cannot relate to it. To expect people with such a psychological profile to be able to just "acquire more social skills" is naive. We are not born that way and to a large extent this is how we self-selected into working with computers in the first place.
According to https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flaggi... it's 31.
And just like a cold war, China is making a strategic move.

The lunar south pole seems to be prime real estate. One of two always lit / always dark positions, and it has more water ice and craters than the north pole. Definitely the better of the two spots.

Unless they're willing to share, they're shafting the rest of the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_south_pole
Here you go:
https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:32030458

and this:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/cladding-ma...

and this:
https://news.mit.edu/2013/better-cladding-for-nuclear-reacto... <-2013... and still most if not all plants use zircaloy, here how safe are your plants.

Once we have cladding that doesn't degrade making us to store (somewhere?) damaged rods along with all water and fuel i'll become fan of nuclear. For now it's just too dangerous. I bet if all that money would be spent on water, solar and hydro it'd be enough to cover our growing energy needs. Especially using energy from sea (gravitation you know) :)

Girls and guys and atomic energy fans, downvote as much as you want. It won't change reality. Current technology used for rods cladding degrades as time passes. Its not just accidents. If you think its just accidents that is the problem with atomic power then you didn't get into subject deep enough. Go and learn. Add eartquake and Tsunami's and yeah... you have another Fukushima or worse.

Have you ever asked yourself why we still don't use and wont use for a very long time nuclear in space missions?
Well, that's one of the reasons. Radiation will "eat through" materials with time.