skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you’re asking questions about a lab leak out of genuine scientific interest, that’s perfectly legitimate.

> But if you’re asking out of a desire to win political points, stir up tensions, etc., that’s destructive.

The trouble is that it's often both.

Suppose proof of a lab leak is bad for party A and good for party B. If no investigation takes place, people will assume it didn't happen. If we don't actually know the answer then party A is politically motivated to refuse to investigate and party B is politically motivated to demand an answer to the question better than "we don't know because we didn't look."

There may not be any party C who is completely disinterested and unbiased. You either investigate it or you don't. And either choice is politically charged.
Same for me, I tried that for almost a year and the night hours were super productive and enjoyable no matter which activity I do.
I've found this series illuminating. https://blog.piekniewski.info/2020/03/01/av-safety-myths-and...
Same here. I place absolutely no pressure on myself to sleep if I’m not tired. I fell asleep at 7:30pm and Woke up at 10:30pm

I’ll do some work and be back asleep by 2 or 3.

My kids will be up at 6:30 and it’s all good with me.

When my kids get older, my sleep patterns will change again I’m sure, as they did when we entered into parenthood.

Fighting for sleep feels like an argument with reality, my kids are young and up periodically throughout the night.

c’est la vie
>There is a conspiracy theory that this method is used by conspirators to effect a coverup by discrediting skeptics of the official narrative.

This is actual public disinformation practice, not a "conspiracy theory".
It is well-known that Teslas auto-brake-check cars at highway speeds (not with that intention of course, but same outcome). This is behavior for which non-AI drivers get arrested, for good reason.

That's enough reason to be very wary of Teslas on the road. There are others, but even one is enough.
A lot of people will point out that the difference of a relative handful of cents doesn't matter much to the individual buyer, and they're probably right. I think the change has happened largely on the supply side. Businesses didn't want to change the price of a soda and so swapped in zero-sugar versions that don't carry the tax. Anecdotally, I've noticed a distinct rise in the number of places offering several more zero-sugar options (though, for some blasted reason, it's still easier to find Coke Zero at restaurants in the suburbs than it is in the city and no, Diet Coke is not OK come on now).

(Alternatively, they did raise the price of all sodas, sugared or not, but I haven't seen much of that.)
From what I understand: all points in space are being pushed away from each other; from two atoms in your hand to two atoms across the universe. The reason objects aren't getting bigger is because atomic/nuclear/gravitational forces hold nearby objects together: if you stretched the earth to be a millimeter wider (massive amount), the earth would just collapse down to the same size it was before. Objects are held together locally, but pushed apart globally.
Not if you start comparing against miles driven it doesn't.
> What is the difference between "space expanding" and "things moving away from each other"?

Not an astrophysicist, but I think both are happening.

Space is the medium we live in. It’s the cake in the fruit cake. The fruit wants to stay in the same place, but the cake is expanding which is causing the fruit to appear to move away from each other even though the fruit wants to stay in one place. Same with the universe, space is expanding which is causing objects to become farther apart, even if they could somehow have 0 speed.

But in our universe the planets, stars, galaxies, etc. (the fruit) do have speed. Some are getting closer to us, like the Andromeda galaxy, while many others are moving away from us.

However, given the vast distances and how fast space is expanding (how fast the cake is rising), even those distant objects that want to move towards us are actually moving away from us.

Imagine a swimmer swimming against a tsunami. You can be swimming any direction you want but the power and speed of the tsunami will offset that and dictate where you end up.

Space is expanding at incredible speeds, so it’s quite the tsunami: https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/06/12/ask-...
Men are more likely to respond negatively to gender threats in the workplace
That’s what those tiny 1KB requests are doing mostly, downloading indexes. With http pipelining taken into account, it’s way faster than trying to preload the full index data.

Despite the number of requests seeming excessive to us, the performance of this setup is already in the ballpark of your usual underpowered MySQL going through an app server.
Whatever Tesla is offering, it's not even remotely full self driving. It can't handle much beyond a highway on a sunny day, and even then, they have an unfortunate habit of crashing into stopped emergency vehicles.

Reduction of total cars on the road, in favor of competent mass transit, would do much more to actually reduce suffering. But Musk wants money, not improved quality of life for those who can't afford Teslas. This isn't some rinkydink charity, it's a fat slice of a trillion dollar industry.
Unfortunately, no. But it will help you social distance.
Yes, "modern" ethernet uses 56 Gb/s (and soon 112 Gb/s) serdes channels with PAM4 modulation.

Similarly HDR Infiniband also switched to PAM4.
When I arrived to the UK, a can of Coke was about £0.45. They kept increasing the prices each year and now it's probably about £1. It's not that I couldn't afford a can, but for me, paying a £1 for it became much less attractive and I only bough it a couple of times over the last two years.
Wear a tin foil hat. And take a photo of yourself anyways cause a guy on the throne with a tin foil hat on sounds hilarious
> RCS is a carrier standard.

Are carriers clamoring for Apple to implement RCS? If they are, what are they offering Apple? And if they are and have been lobbying for Apple to implement RCS, then is it possible work has already begun for a future OS release and we just don’t know about it because they haven’t announced that release yet or it’s not far enough along?

I have this vague impression that the carriers don’t particularly care about RCS themselves, and so Apple wouldn’t have any reason to care either. Maybe I’m wrong on both counts.
> Well it's a net negative for the end user

If it reduces cost, it is really a net negative? A lot of effort went into making the Apple II cheaper. Was that a "net negative" for the customer?
Armed with three years of grocery shopping data, researchers found that total sugar sales are down by almost 20 percent, driven largely by falling soda purchases.

This isn't the right definition of success. The first minimal requirement for this to be a successful initiative is that the community lost weight overall. Or even gained weight, but more slowly than other communities.

If they could prove that it would be an incredible breakthrough in public policy, but I wouldn't bet on it. The science on the effect of sugar in the diet, sugar in and of itself, is far more eqquivocal than popular press would make you believe. It is exceedingly likely that people just ate more fat instead of sugar, which is plausibly just as dangerous as sugar when one is eating calories in excess of daily energy requirements.
It's possible the decrease is driven largely by spending habits of low-income families:

> Last year, researchers at the University of Washington found that low-income families in particular saw a significant decrease in soda consumption following the implementation of the tax. The findings were based on a survey of residents, meaning that it relied on self-reporting, which is less accurate than sales data.

This leads to interesting policy questions. For example, some people might complain that the tax is regressive and hits poorer families harder. A rebuttal to this is that obesity is also regressive, and if you wish to fight obesity you need to change behaviors of the people whom it afflicts. One way around this knotty issue is to take the money from this tax and use it for public services that disproportionally benefit the populations from whom it is generated. (I have no idea what the tax revenues in Seattle are used for.)
You can argue than yes, you can put a price on human life. It’s definitely the case for road safety and Covid-19.

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.28.4.213

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life

In France today, it’s about 3 000 000€
Cars only work if someone build infrastructure for them and land use pattern is built for them. Think about gas station, garage, etc.

We could use bikes for last mile transport, or make streetcar suburbs an automatic assumption.
Here's our current game trailer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WvRgb6kh4s
> on why they chose KHTML

For those who don’t know: “they” is Apple here. Apple forked KHTML to create WebKit. Google contributed to WebKit and later forked it into Blink.
A weapons lab? I could be wrong, but I thought the scientists were doing gain of function research because it helped them get published.

If there was an international agreement to stop gain of function research, then that motivation would be gone.
>I think you should talk to your local bartender to get some perspective about how good software engineers have it.

They still have it comparative worse, work-life balance wise than software engineers in Europe, for example...
How's coffee sales doing? With coffee you can add as much sugar as you want without increasing the price!
It ensures that when a website crash your browser or grinds everything to a halt, then it will take down the other “apps” as well.

That one of the reasons I don’t use the Google Chats PWA , when the browser misbehave, it will affact PWAs as well.
why would a direction be necessary?

relation_id │ relatee_id
────────────┼───────────
1 │ x
1 │ y

voila, directionless relationships. you can even do N-way, just insert more rows with the same relation-id.
This tax does not apply to diet sodas, [1] which have been shown to prompt food cravings, especially in women and obese people. [2]

So it's possible that people just substituted from regular to diet soda, and still eat just as much.

1: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/washington/articles/...

2: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/10/07/1044010...
Moon landing conspiracy theories are full of discredited nonsense. It is a conspiracy theory to claim that the source of the discredited nonsense is the people who faked the moon landing, because the moon landing wasn't faked so there were no such conspirators to do that.

Distinguishing this from the other thing is the issue. They do it because it works.
There are ~50 million more people in the US in the same period. Maybe when normalized for population there's a drop?
While embedding Gecko in desktop applications is not as straightforward as embedding Chromium, Mozilla's GeckoView project makes it easier to do this on Android:

https://mozilla.github.io/geckoview/

GeckoView is the foundation of Firefox for Android and Firefox Focus. The SmartCookieWeb-Preview browser, which supports sideloading Firefox extensions on Android, is also based on GeckoView:

https://github.com/CookieJarApps/SmartCookieWeb-Preview
I heard sweeteners are actively used in piglet farms as fattener.
Reminds me how in one online multiplayer game developers decided to offload the decision of "who's the winner of the match" to client machines. Because there were some problems on server side and they couldn't do it reliably there.

Developers said this voting system worked surprisingly well. Theoretically if there were >50 percent of malicious game clients they could all vote for a wrong player but this was hard to accomplish, it would require a coordination of randomly-matched players.

(eventually developers did fix server-side code and removed this system)
"create" doesn't necessarily imply "creativity" so I'm not sure why this is brought up. Of course generated images right now don't have any creativity attached to them and that's not the purpose of this article. All the images shown seem to mimic the generic "anime" art style and seems close enough to what a human draws which seems to have been the goal
Leonid Levin (of the Cook Levin Theorem) was my undergraduate advisor. A very peculiar man, someone who became academic famous, and seemingly only cared about research which made his teaching an after thought. A true character.
I think UT Austin has a program as well. Might want to check with the alumni there.

Also, I would say - if you don't hurry through the program and take 1 course at a time, it's worth giving it a shot. You must start slow, gradually you would have an intuition of how to pace your life along with the studies.

Hope this helps & all the best.
> It's possible the decrease is driven largely by spending habits of low-income families:

Which I think, isn't really caused by their low-income, but by their greater preference for soda.

Demand changes at the margin, so a $.20 increase is a $.20 increase to everyone. It depends how much you value the soda in the first place.
Better in what dimension? It's not a repeatable intervention, it's not controlled, it's observational. It's not a study on the same null hypothesis.
I think that politicians should be able to trade with similar controls as executives.

With the tokenization of securities, it could be a requirement that public figures publish their holding addresses, we get the desired transparency and they can trade within the rules. This would reduce reporting load and delays as the real time data could be inspected by any party.
There is actually only one of these people that pronounced themselves about the implausibility of it being a lab leak. The only email attributed to him don't say that he thinks it was "highly probable", just that he didn't find at the time an explanation for those 14 nucleotides.

Do you have something about Mike Farzan saying, in public, that it was very unlikely that the lab leak theory was true? Or is it then incorrect to say that individual virologists were saying privately one thing and publicly another?
Did they also study whether total sugar sales rose in the cities next to Seattle? I can imagine that some price sensitive soda drinkers just drove to the nearest store outside of Seattle to buy their sodas.
The early seasons of The Sopranos almost always featured a lot of soda especially during family meals!! I don't see much of that in TV anymore.
This looks cool. I’ve been looking for a more permanent replacement for Roam. Everything I’ve tried so far (Obsidian, Logseq, Athens, Mem, etc.) have all been either clones, or just small improvements. I have yet to see something that grabs me in the same way Roam did years ago (block refs was an aha moment).

My other must have feature is mobile, which it looks like you have covered. I haven’t tried Clover yet, but do you have interlinking and block references? I assume so as that’s a pretty basic core functionality of a note taking tool now, but I understand a product is always a work in progress.

Also, do you have migration tools for importing existing notes? I have 75k pages, and that number grows by 20-100 daily, so it’s a big ask to abandon that.

Anyway, congrats on the launch.
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This is an article that suggests the pro-tax side of the argument never came to understand the anti-tax side. Possibly the anti-tax side were being misleading about their complaints. Of course a soda tax will reduce the amount of soda consumed and there was a decent chance it would reduce the amount of sugar too. And if there is a goal to achieve, keep raising the tax until it does what you want.

The problem with this sort of strategy is that we make laws by voting, and so it assumes that we can determine what is healthy by popular vote. This isn't true and it is very easily corrupted if the option is open.

A process like the one that throw out Barack Obama -> Donald Trump -> Joe Biden as the best candidates to lead the US should not be the process that decides what is and isn't healthy to eat. That isn't a reliable process. It is going to get corrupted by special interests. You should be using a different process (maybe using evidence?). And as an aside it could be argued that taxes are a bad tool if we think there is overwhelming evidence something is unhealthy. It creates weird incentives.
But all the chat apps are Electron now, except Google chat, which is a PWA (I know, also available as an Electron app).

There are no major native chat apps left to use as a reference.
Manual memory management is much more predictable (which is really nice for interactive/real-time programs), it does have nontrivial runtime overhead: malloc and free aren't free (pun slightly intended), and often costlier than a bump allocator most moving/copying GCs use (just increment a pointer and have a very branch-predictable conditional to check OOM). Also, moving/copying GCs increase data locality by bringing live objects closer, which is more cache friendly.

I agree that manual memory management is much more predictable than garbage collection, I just wanted to touch on the nuances of the memory overhead of manual memory management.

Also, if the program creates lots of short-lived objects (which is often the case), a generational garbage collector would be pretty fast because it will reclaim/move a few objects rather than deallocating many objects. An arena collector or allocating on the stack might be better (and manual methods) in this scenario though.
Artificial sweeteners also prompt insulin rise and promote insulin resistance: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7014832/

So, yes, if it is not water, with or without CO2, it should be ingested with caution.
Also notice the last bit in the article:

The University of Edinburgh recently turned down an Freedom of Information request from The Telegraph asking to see Prof Rambaut’s replies, claiming “disclosure would be likely to endanger the physical or mental health and safety of individuals”.

James Comer, the Republican congressman who secured the unredacted emails, said it showed that experts like Dr Fauci had taken the Wuhan lab leak theory “much more seriously” than they had let on.

Sir Jeremy has been approached for comment but had not replied at the time of publication.

Basically journalists and politicians scour thousands of emails to find a selected quote that fit their sensationalist agenda, and then ask the persons involved for a comment. When they then explain how the quote is out of context, doesn't say what journalist thinks it says, or that new information is out. Then they get harrassed and bullied by a (mostly) online mob.
Got any source on that? Would be curious to read about it if true.
I’m skeptical too, but.. The data set is too small? It sounded enormous:

> The data set itself—gathered by marketing insight firm Nielsen—was huge, representing 45 percent of all food store sales in the city for 2017, 2018, and 2019.

One thing I’m curious about is whether they looked at adjacent cities. Seattle isn’t exactly an island, did the soda purchases just shift outside the city?

Did they look at restaurants and coffee shops or only grocery sales?
What Does NewRelic Do?
Not sure I agree.

Its harder for Gov to keep a secret than it is for a facebook group to maintain a lie.

much much harder.

And there are various degrees of accountability to every level of a Gov. Not as much as I'd like and not as reliable as i'd like it to be, but its there.

there is zero, zilch, no accountability for facebook liars.
> to go online starting this Spring

Any announcement I missed? Solid project exists for a long time and seems that many specs are still very early days.
Stick to non-modern c++ imo.

Also in java everything has to be under the constraints of an object before you can do the stuff you want to do. It does seem more extremist to me because it's literally encoded in the compiler ruleset.
Anything irrelevant to plot or story building, such as nationality, are usually left unspecified. Readers often project their own identity into characters, and some people seem to find it odd that they do not encounter traits that differ from their own.

Ethnicity is sometimes incorporated, that is, some distinctions would be necessary if there was a documentary manga about a match in an Olympic Games played by teams from multiple parts of the world, and in that case an American players might be given smaller eyes or extra wrinkles in face, or African players might be colored darker than other characters, Chinese players could be drawn with slightly different shapes of chins, etc.

But the default is unspecified or an averaged, most simplified shapes and forms that the author uses in their own cognition.
(Not the person u asked :-) )

Short answer = Yes. Learned a lot and some more. (but of course depends on
what courses you end up taking).

In fact, its quite common to see alumni taking courses after they have graduated (case in point: many folks from my batch
enrolled in the newly started DL class, just for the sake of learning).
I absolutely haven't. A source can be an article itself (as in the content), or it can be an organisation (a joirnal, a newspaper), or it can be a person. I'm saying that the source isn't the medium over which the content itself is delivered. So for example, the New York Time is a source, so is any given article and it's associated author. However, the blank paper on which it was printed isn't a source, neither is the ink it was printed on, and correspondingly a website which merely relays words is not a source, but a medium.
I would like to see how it generates late-80s/early-90s style features. The current pool of anime art styles are very generic (aside stylistic outliers) and I'd love to see Cowboy Bebop/Akira/Bubblegum Crisis type character designs
I am very interested in the "best-fit reduced palette of colors" approach, but then to create mosaics. Say you have lots tiles/beads/bricks/marbles whatever in a handful of colors (and not covering the entire color space, but say three shades of blue, brown and bright pink) how can you represent a full color image as accurately as possible using only that very limited palette (and in a fairly limited resolution, as placing 10k tiles is not fun).

I have had some success manually using Photoshop to generate a reduced color space image to only 5 distinct colors (probably optimally chosen by the algorithm) and then remapping those 5 colors to 5 the 5 colors I actually have. There must be better ways
Realistically, the alternative to an Electron app is not native apps for multiple platforms. It is either a web app or a native app for a single platform.
> what the West is supposed to do to China should the lab-leak hypothesis be true.

The west, or society, should use this as evidence of basically not trusting information from the government of china, if it is contradicted by more neutral or western sources, in the future.

So, for example, if someone is talking to you personally, and they try to use evidence from that government, and you have other evidence from western sources that contradicts it, you should just laugh in their face. Call them a mean name and ridicule them.
> That approach was tried, was called XHTML

Nope, they didn't even try, and have absolutely no idea about SGML. Hixie just wrote the initial HTML5 spec out of his ass, and it's been fossilizing since, with major errors. XHTML has nothing to do with it.
> Coming into computer work without a solid CS background meant that there were many gaps in my knowledge.

Important note: the author seems to not have a CS background. A solid undergrad CS experience covers a lot of the pluses mentioned.
It could very well be a unique ID not for the test but for the generated pdf document. 100% have done a system like this and we put the ID of the "doc" rather than the internal entity. This is also not a smoking gun in my opinion.