skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 2016, some of the scientists including Shi and the EcoHealth director, Peter Daszak, used the NIH funding to conduct experiments in Wuhan on live coronaviruses in a biosafety level 2 lab, according to published details of the work from [0]

They did do coronavirus experiments in level 2 facility.

[0] https://archive.is/KwZKn?

[edit] replaced link as FT makes it difficult to refer to them.
Chromium works better on more websites (especially ones with 3d models)
We cannot check you in Sir. Our employee is trying to solve a (re) captcha since 2 hours and he only gets a "looks like something went wrong. Please try again later".
Pretty hard to meter. $10/year? Less probably. Could probably be even cheaper if you run it on an rpi.
I'd agree if there's actual science being suppressed, but it seems to me there is none, just a lot of speculation and finger pointing without evidence on all sides.

Despite the lack of solid evidence more than a quarter of Americans already believe in the lab leak theory. In this very article any private expression of uncertainty has been twisted to serve a political agenda. I would say that these scientists' concerns are well founded.
Waifu is kept in memory, normies.
The "Government" is not one monolithic being. They are composed of various people/orgs with varying capabilities. Some are incompetent and some are competent at the work they do.
So, did it leak from a Chinese lab? If so, why isn't China being held economically and ethically liable? Why do they continue stonewalling any investigation and suffer zero consequences?
If Roam grabbed you, why are you looking for a permanent replacement?
Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13624175
Hi HN, author here :)

Stragif is a fun web application where Strava users can add a GIF to each of their running activities.
Users can also comment on their friends activities with a GIF.

Don't hesitate to let me know what you think.

Thanks, Mathieu
I still have no sense of how feasible or efficacious that might be.
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It is being used as proof that they leaked it from a lab, when it is just how societies built like China behave. You can't infer anything from normal behavior.

It is similar to the way that Hussein's actions in blocking access to presidential palaces was considered to be highly suspicious and therefore proof that he was hiding his weapons program. Turns out he was just trying to save face domestically by standing up against the weapons inspectors over something that he considered symbolic and immaterial in order to not look like a total pushover (a desperate need of dictators). It had nothing to do with weapons programs at all.
Like others have pointed out, It's really difficult to operate on a different schedule than the rest of society. Eventually family, friends, and other activities pushed me to give up my evening "first sleep"
Midnight snacks?
I agree, but I still consider it a step up to what we had before. There's always been institutions whom people are told to trust. For a thousand years it was the church. I think for most people to trust credentialed scientists from government institutions is a vast step up, even if they have sorely disappointed during this pandemic.
Government officials are not one homogenous group, and neither are scientists.

Please remember that most people who belong to one of those groups truly want to get to truth and improve our knowledge and lives.
The security guarantees for RCS E2EE are higher than the security guarantees for iMessage. iMessage relies on a public key server controlled by Apple (or China if you're messaging someone in China). Whoever controls that server can MITM the protocol, and the client has no way to verify. iMessage also doesn't have forward secrecy. RCS E2EE, on the other hand, is a straightforward implementation of the Signal protocol, which does implement forward secrecy and which provides a way for the user to verify they aren't being eavesdropped.
> Programming is engineering; it's not something where you throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks and just assume that programming languages, browsers, and operating systems are made of magical dust.

This is the mistake, web/desktop app programming is exactly a place where you throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks. It does not matter how great your app is if no one is using it. Conversely if your app is successful you can always pay someone a ludicrous amount of money to fix it, software is nice like that.

Databases and operating systems are a completely different beast. In those domains things get so complex that proper engineering is essential and in those areas you also tend to find "better" engineers. But web and desktop applications is like building tool-sheds, engineering rigor is irrelevant. It matters when you build sky scrapers though.
If only it wasn't behind a paywall :(
The closest cave containing any viruses resembling SARS-CoV-1 are about the same distance away from Guangzhou where the outbreak was in 2003.
>Otherwise firefox is a slower, less secure browser

I'd like to see citations on that - AFAIK (my opinion is as baseless as yours) FF is plenty fast on desktop, and there is nothing inherently less secure about it than Chrome.

I do use Vivaldi (based on Chromium) on Android, but I consider Firefox Mobile and Desktop to be separate products.
We still aren't 100% sure about Ebola's reservoir, so that isn't necessarily a smoking gun.
Yep, normally this is true and this a good suggestion, but you don't have to if you just want to keep it simple!

Starting with ricotta gives you a higher yield of ricotta :)
That was specifically for "not having to change light bulbs for a decade" being "a huge motivation to switch".

As I said, I would never discourage people using LEDs, recycling etc. for other very good reasons. I just think it's important that we're honest on the impact of me using 2 LED bulbs in my house, vs. an entire office block having their lights and air conditioning on overnight.

Let's focus on making changes where it will have a large impact, like the shipping containers I mentioned. Anything else is counterproductive.
Getting a job straight out of a bootcamp is hard.
Getting a front-end job out of a bootcamp without knowing the most popular technologies is even harder.

Bootcamp's interest will always be to increase their students odds to be hired rather than foundational knowledge
Sure, but I see no reason to not treat things like GPT-3 and TWDNE as evidence. If it looks like a creativity, and quacks like a creativity, then we should at least entertain the notion that we have a small artistic process on our hands.
The fact you can make such savings tweaking the GC, suggests the applications themselves could be improved not to produce so much garbage in the first place.

A win is a win, and its still a very nice saving for barely touching the application code.
That’s terribly interesting, given that this popped up too very recently: https://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/engineering-trade-offs-i...

However, while they speak of ML they refer only to deep learning, and I was wondering where Julia stands in terms of scikit-learn equivalents and if they ever took off.
I wouldn't be as negative.

Frequently we create the tool in order to kill with it.

After that we also use to tool to create.

We're equally capable of good and evil and yes, we are frequently good, too.
No, for several reasons:

The ray is not "straight", it has a slight angle, meaning the dot is larger and larger when distance increases, so it's less luminous (but still very luminous, enough to blind you temporarily). It's also the reason why it has way more probability to "hit" somebody's eye.

You can spot an airplane, but you can't really see secondary light source on it, it's just too far away. Even if a laser is a lot of light, the dot is not emitting enough for the naked eye to see any difference.

The light from a laser is directed, meaning all its photons goes in one direction, hence why it will blind an eye. But when it hits a surface, the photons bounce in all directions, and thus those secondary photons land in your eye in lower quantity because they're spread.
welcome to the bottom of the page! You're in good company though, we have tea and snacks.

Unfortunately HN users are not somehow special and immune to flame bait. This type of content would dominate the front page if it weren't manually down-weighed.

Meanwhile, truly technically interesting projects like clip guided diffusion and GLIDE have zero coverage or discussion here. It's a shame but the larger the community
the more topics tend toward the mean.
When analysing FUD always use the ELMER acronym

E - Expectations

L - Lifetime

M - Motivation

E - Environment

R - Reward

:-)
I wonder what will happen when somebody combines a GAN with a feature recognizing network like the Tesla cars use, so it can use its own extrapolated map of the surroundings to stabilize its output as the camera moves around.
> Sometimes I worry if that's exactly what they hoped would happen, similar to how Windows/Linux users often hate using a MacOS keyboard layout and vice versa

Well, think of it this way: In what order do windows appear when you Alt-Tab through them? Surely its not the order in which they are located on your taskbar?
Most optimization techniques work just as well in Python as they do in C++ or Brainfuck.
https://archive.is/V0ERz
Ah, that might be it.

Quick googling (not any in-depth knowledge) tells me that WebKit is for Linux too, I cannot find out anything about Windows.
> Show me the data that justifies why I need to be afraid of public FSD.
Thanks for backing me up on this cheese_goddess :)

I wasn't aware there is non-rennet and rennet ricotta. I was using the whey method for Mysost, and even that is pretty inedible without adding a bit of cream, so I linked that recipe.
"C++ has a rather odd culture..."

I have been writing C++ professionally for 15 years and agree. It has excellent ecosystem in several domains. On the other hand, in some areas the user needs to deal with incomprehensible and user hostile tooling and ecosystem glitches.

The weird thing is that more often than not the latter pathologies are considered "just fine", which just baffles me. Modern setups like Rust and it's tooling has demonstrated clearly that high performance native language has no intrinsic requirements to be user hostile.

Some people like to think that dealing with C++'s unnecessary complexities is somehow virtuous, when in fact they are a a bug of the platform (but one you need to deal with since if you need to write C++, you really need to write C++).
That seems like a nice project that you're working on, definitely more high effort than some other attempts at generated art (procedurally or otherwise).

I can't help but to feel that this would be a better fit for the fad of NFTs as well, as opposed to ugly monkeys or other asset flips that were pretty obvious cash grabs.

Either way, good luck!
> Their semen-like flower scent

Well, not sure if that's better or worse than the scent of a hawthorn, that at best, can be described as "animalistic", but has always smelled to me like a decomposing possum, or dog poo.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/sexy-smell-of-hawthorn-1.160...
Well. Can't step on Google's embedability then.
I feel like it was impossible to really deal with this debate responsibly, what with the current state of society and social media where everyone has figured out how to weaponize false information, before we as a society have figured out how to really deal with it.

Even now it seems like everyone wants to elide the massive differences between "accidental lab leak" and "deliberate lab leak". Even now the common phrase is "lab leak" which can be taken either way. But if you ask anyone on twitter or facebook what "lab leak" means, but especially at the beginning of the pandemic, they would have immediately jumped to a deliberate bioterror attack scenario and there would have been no way to stop it. And we already had a surge of asian hate with what we dealt with.
The trouble is it's still quite hard to model who will have a collision next, because collisions each year are still far fewer than the number of drivers. Although from a social standpoint they are too frequent, from a purely statistical point of view they are rare - in the sense of being the sort of event you might model with a poisson distribution. Sure, driving history can give an indication, but ultimately anyone could have one.

This is why when I had over 15 years of perfect driving record I still had to pay £350 in insurance. And the following year I caused a collision (fortunately without injuries). We are all human and fallible.
Coke Zero is a thing, it’s what I get my kid when he wants a very occasional pop. I tried some, it mostly tastes like the coke I remember.
I use a combination of Path2D and ctx.isPointInPath() - code here[1], line 1502 onwards

[1] https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas/blob/master/sour...
Everything You Need to Know About RemixJS
If you think about how humans draw things, there's a repeated process of "create content" to "inspect for issues" back to "create corrections", "inspect for issues" etc. It seems that generation and criticism are two rather distinct skills, which is why GANs, generative-adversarial networks that contain both a "generator" and a "critic" network, end up making fewer mistakes and learning distant correlations better.
> I feel like it was impossible to really deal with this debate responsibly, what with the current state of society and social media where everyone has figured out how to weaponize false information

So, the solution to this is lying. Right. That will make everything better. Oh and also make fact checkers tell people the truth is false information. FACT checkers. Yes. That will increase trust. Sure.
> I’ve said nothing at all to suggest there are no options

Great. So you agree that there are other options in between do nothing, and an invasion.

Both you, and everyone else, agrees on that idea. So that means that you personally can think of some in between those two extremes.
Orion seems to be Apple (MacOS/iOS) only - makes sense.
The first iteration of our model was built off of this amazing public dataset:

https://www.gwern.net/Danbooru2020

Though now we have made our own :)
thanks, it took me about two weeks
Most of the country. There are only a few places where the vaccination rate is already high enough that a mandate couldn't increase it at least 10%.

The scare quotes around "fully" are unnecessary. Two doses is enough to drive down hospitalization risk to flu levels. Boosters aren't necessary from a public health perspective because boosting the already vaccinated has a miniscule effect on total hospitalizations. (Sure, if you want them to reduce your own risk, that's fine because they have been approved. If you want them to reduce disruptions in your workplace, that is also fine. Just don't expect to materially impact health system availability.) Vaccinating the unvaccinated has a much larger effect. Alternatively, Omicron seems like it will reach them before mandates take effect or Paxlovid supply is ready, with worse outcomes on the health system.
You mean the people who told us not to wear masks? I trust science, but that doesn't mean I trust every scientist.
These googles? PLZT (Polarized Lead Zirconium Titanate)

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/7975/this-is-what-usaf...
"Communication to the public" is a European Law concept that covers remote access. "Distribution" rather means the transfer of the Work (i.e. to be executed on the recipient device). The EUPL considers that the obligations of the licensee or recipient are the same in case of Communication or Distribution.
I believe you mean "One shouldn't want" because I do want.
Where do they say that they lie about progress? They literally use the free time within a role to find another role.

They could get fired, but immoral? Come on. You don't own your employees. Employees aren't resources, they are people.

Pay your engineer 1M and they won't find another job. Probably they'll start reading War and Peace, or contribute to Linux Kernel, or something.
https://archive.md/V0ERz
Facebook asks for FTC Chair Lina Khan to be recused from its antitrust case
Of course we can entertain the notion. We just shouldn't pretend the question is settled one way or the other like the two comments above and pointlessly argue about it on hn.

Personally I'm inclined to see things like GPT-3 as qualitatively different to human creativity, but I don't claim to know this for a fact.
Are there similar physical limitations in the near future to technologies like this just as there are expected limits for silicon CPUs?
Goldfish can drive – scientists taught fish to navigate a watery tank on wheels
This is what already happens. Richer people who are more informed and mindful about their health have been decreasing sugar consumption for awhile now. However, city and state budgets are still heavily affects because the poorer people who more heavily use public services aren’t in that bucket and have much higher obesity rates as a result. They have less access to education and are more likely to ignore advice from their doctor (if they have seen one recently at all).
On one hand, China hasn’t faced ethical or economic consequences for literal concentration camps so why would this be different? On the other hand - would you really seek to punish an entire nation for the (supposed) actions of a few careless scientists?
Blockers will not solve this problem.

Right now the pattern is something like this:

Feel bored/upset/angry --> want to get away from this unpleasant feeling --> open up a tab --> scroll

If you install a blocker you only catch yourself at when you open that tab. It's too late in the process. You've already made the decision to do it so you'll just disable the blocker.

Instead, you have to find a way to intervene earlier and deal with the feelings. It's much easier said than done. You might not even be consciously aware of them at the moment.
Google shouldn't have given up on hangouts. It worked, sms, messaging, internet calls all from one app. Instead they wanted to get behind an open standard which works but is tied to carriers and phone numbers...

I travel a lot and now essentially live in 2 different countries at once so tying all my communication to a phone number is a no-go. Now FB messenger ironically is my go-to (only real cross-platform app that everyone seems to have), even though I'm not a fan of FB at all.
The big one is "heartbeat detection".

"Tactical suggests there are 14 heartbeats in the room"

"During the interview the candidates heart rate increased during questions on their reasons for leaving the last position"

ohhh. There is sooo much here :-)
And cow shit is honestly a pretty mild smell. You only notice it when it's massed up and collected as manure, not just from there being cows somewhere around doing their thing.
Because mistakes happen. The correct course of action would be to help them ensure it doesn't heppen again, with procedures, audits, etc.
As an engineer translating formulas into code, I'd rather go and get the deep and clear understanding of the meaning behind the formulas, rather than rely on a highlighting to help me away with the vagueness of my understanding.
I get the sense that the Julia guys are doing very well on solving interesting, hard technical problems like AD. But maybe less well at “dull” problems like good documentation and API design. That might bias them towards being a language for research rather than for production. Still very interested to see how things pan out.
> perhaps with the only exception that now a 2 year old baby can make something shiny that you can click on with your mouse.

True, and the author highlights the benefit himself.

Maybe there is an underlying truth here as the number of users isn't indicative of quality and they might be successful if implemented differently.

Apps like Teams are a severe resource hog, software is getting slower even if machines improve. I use electron myself for visualization, but I know it is not the optimal choice.
The Pokemon Jinx was banned and redesigned, so it's offensive enough to some people.
It's not the quantity but the quality. Peak Star Wars >>>> everything. Yes, now, Star Trek is more consistent and better on average, but for me the best Star Wars is some of the best storytelling ever, so it wins.
The counter-narrative has been building for many months now, but it is interesting to see it breaking into the MSM. The sky is not falling and people are moving on.
This line of reasoning forget a very important information: research labs are not built at random. This lab studying coronavirusses was built there precisely because this is a place where new coronavirusses have appeared in the past.

Will add a source later when not on mobile.
That's a humbling point. Thank you.
Jon Stewart's take is brilliant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSfejgwbDQ8&t=170s

> "The name of the disease is printed on the lab's business cards!!"

But the reason the Left in the US couldn't even consider Wuhan as the source, is because the Right (well, Trump himself) wanted to say that because it was "China's fault", that his Administration bore no responsibility for dealing with it.
If you really trusted science, you would trust that information and knowledge is dynamic and they don’t always have the right answer at the beginning, just an answer that gets changed over time as more knowledge pours in.

I’m guessing you prefer your scientists to be absolutely right at the beginning right?
if you want to use vibe.d as a fairly complete solution to most tasks. You will not have the fastest web service, but you will be really productive. I think with vibe.d you can easily beat node.js in comfort for writing web services, especially because most errors can be found and fixed at compile time already.

vibe.d is pretty similar to express.js

There are also other non-vibe web service libraries like arsd cgi (can't tell you much about that one) or hunt-framework (which is probably the highest performance library for the D ecosystem if you can believe the benchmarks, but doesn't have much documentation)
I feed fft data into machine learning system for signal classification. It’s a nice real time system with midrange Xilinx ZynQ SoC. Some Xilinx IP blocks with hand written classification engine.

I guess author wants to classify sounds in his environment too.
If they didn't know for sure back then, why did they actively deny the lab leak theories? Remember the Lancet letter [1]?

1. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Well, that is what I actually use most of the time, but to nitpick, it still is not declarative, and semantically a and b have no meaning. Just to be clear, I'm saying these are in 99% of the cases not deal breakers but they can be if all you want to do is map graphs (and follow chains through many members), as there is also a significant performance cost to all this abstraction.

What you described is, IIRC, also what some file-based graph DBs do in the background with sqlite and abstract away from you (I've seen a couple custom ones in some projects). Left with a RDBMS, you just need to do it yourself and analyze how much it costs.
there is DCompute for writing D programs on the GPU: https://github.com/libmir/dcompute

it's pretty awesome
At this point I'm not sure the CCP will fall anytime soon, they managed to implement capitalism even better than many Western European countries (they still lag the US in that respect, but catching fast). CCP will fall only if capitalism as we know it falls.