skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're dogfooding it now. It's in a workable state, and keeps getting better. Besides, use it and file bug reports for anything not working perfectly.
Sure. But to give a more extreme example, Dungeons and Dragons is entirely decentralized with individual DMs hosting games however they choose without even the knowledge or consent or transaction with Wizards of the Coast. Now imagine a player demanding the right to access content from another campaign with another DM. Or even more laughably, that they "bought" with USD from someone who played a DnD game at some point.
I would second that. Incredible control aimed at the strengths of Smalltalk. I'm not sure the way it worked would ever really translate to other languages but I really miss it sometimes. It was very expensive though.
For the author: there's a small typo "Discrimniator" instead of "Discriminator" in the video at 1:11

One thing I was confused by: the video says the discriminator "AI" is trained to detect true vs. generated results, with the hope the generator becomes good enough to fool the discriminator. But why is the discriminator useful, then? Couldn't you just tell generator "AI" whether the result it produced was true or not?

I think the answer is.. you don't want just a perfect recreation of the training data you gave to the generator, instead you want the generator to produce variations of that training data, so there's a "how would you know if it's 'a true result' / good enough?" problem. So the discriminator is useful because it's not a direct comparison, but rather a "this looks approximately good enough" comparison of the true vs. generated result.

This all makes me wonder: what sort of data set needs to be fed to the discriminator to train it? Is it some sort of "true image" and "true image w/bad alterations (e.g. lines, scratches, etc.) to it" data set?
Scientists do not have the luxury of pretending politics and bad actors don’t exist.
But the space inefficiency forces time inefficiency rather quickly ( because cars take so much space, it's relatively easy for them to be enough to create traffic and/or parking congestion). Not to mention the fact that all of the space dedicated to fit the space inefficient cars is wasted, and wastes time for humans ( e.g. when having to cross a huge stroad or parking lot).
You assume wrong. It's the real guy.
How does that cancel out all the benefits?

You have multiple cores and all of them constantly do somehting when your computer is on. You have graphics processors that run code every frame which probably half of is bot strictly necessary.

Is the cpu load from blinking cursor good or necessary? Definitely not. Is it important? Mostly not when compared to all the benefits.

And this issue was resolved pretty effortlessly (if you omit trolling).
Thank you for posting this. I’ve had the same experience with Clojure and was wondering whether to try Pharo. So I did a search on HN and your comment came up, written no 24 hours before. Jung would have called this a synchronicity, or “meaningful coincidence”.
It's true that high CO₂ levels cause cognitive impairment, but submarines routinely operate for months in the 2000–5000 ppm range, sometimes as high as 13000 ppm, over 30 times higher than the current atmospheric level but still too low to kill people by about a factor of 8. Subtle cognitive impairments at these levels have been found by some researchers, while others have been unable to replicate them even at 30000 ppm: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29789085/ https://www.nap.edu/read/11170/chapter/5#54

That's why the NOAEL is set at 25000 ppm, at which point CO₂ starts to cause visual disturbances, which I think fall short of "toxicity"; it's more like a recreational drug effect. If the Earth's atmosphere reached 100 times the current level, 40000 ppm CO₂ (4%!), you still wouldn't have a CO₂ toxicity problem in humans. However, you probably wouldn't have a biosphere much longer either, and at that point toxicity to humans would be a moot point.

Also, by the way, the quality of the discussion would probably be significantly improved without you saying, "You obviously have no idea what you are talking about." Sometimes people might disagree with you because they know things you don't, for example because their information doesn't come from science popularizers, rather than because they don't know things you do. If you don't keep that in mind, you are likely to embarrass yourself frequently. Believe me, I have a lot of experience doing that.

Less sneering, please.
Can you elaborate on the options for doing that outside of a desktop app? Like a standard web app accessible only via company vpn?
>"Professor Andrew Rambaut, from the University of Edinburgh, also said that furin cleavage site “strikes me as unusual”."

>"He added: “I think the only people with sufficient information or access to samples to address it would be the teams working in Wuhan.”"

This pair of quotes has a completely different meaning from the original quote it sliced up:

>"I am also agnostic on this – I do not have any experience of laboratory virology and don’t know what is likely or not in that context. From a (natural) evolutionary point of view the only thing here that strikes me as unusual is the furin cleavage site. It strongly suggests to me that we are missing something important in the origin of the virus. My inclination would be that it is a missing host species in which this feature arose because it was selected for in that host. We can see this insertion has resulted in an extremely fit virus in humans – we can also deduce that it is not optimal for transmission in bat species."

>"... [this ellipsis (...) is from the house.gov transcription] The biggest hinderance at the moment (for this and more generally) is the lack of data and information. There have been no genome sequences from Wuhan for cases more recent than the 6 beginning of January and reports, but no information, about virus from non-human animals in Wuhan. If the evolutionary origins of the epidemic were to be discussed, I think the only people with sufficient information or access to samples to address it would be the teams working in Wuhan."

https://republicans-oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2... (pp. 8-9)

To emphasize the very last part: Rambaut is talking about genome sequences from human patients in Wuhan -- not laboratory data from the suspect WIV. But the Telegraph quote implies the opposite.

(Also, obviously I'm not picking any "side" here: dishonesty in the Telegraph doesn't vindicate dishonesty in NIH leadership, and vice-versa).
Don't worry you'll be okay. Every culture had an end times prophecy.
It's probably not removable after almost 40 years.

It has expression functions which you can wrap a return result in () and avoid it.

The important part is that it's surprisingly consistent in that 3 of the 4 structural elements are nearly all self-similar in their declare/begin/end format (protected type being the 4th and the difference).
The other WalterBright is the evil one.
The library looks impressive, but I dunno about that sales pitch: isn't "more principled than C++ templates"… a pretty low bar? And isn't "more practical than Template Haskell"… also a pretty low bar? I would have asked the same rhetorical question of Scala macros a couple years back, but the Scala 3 macro redesign is indeed pretty nice.
Welp, you might be a special case. When I'm reading papers outside of my field its because I'm looking for understanding. Annotated equations in this fashion seem real neat for that purpose.
Did this, too. Part-time Master’s while working full-time. Took two very difficult years including summers.
Disprove it? No. We do innocent until proven guilty in our jurisprudence.
This is how science works in the post-WW2 era. Most prominent scientists (in any field) seldom do science when they attain their stature -- they manage people (students and postdocs), and many become politicians for their institution or lab to attain more funding.
Unfortunately no. A lot does compile, though, if you can avoid compiler extensions. I downloaded the sqlite amalgamation today (several hundred thousand LOC) and ImportC only had two problems, one which was easy to fix, and one I don't know how to fix (__builtin_va_arg).
> warned it could damage “international harmony”.

I've never understood the argument that people would want to suppress the (accidental) lab-leak hypothesis out of a desire to protect the image of China. If the lab-leak hypothesis is incorrect, that doesn't change the fact that the virus originated in that country, it just means that the virus emerged from a wet market.

I'm not Chinese, but I'd imagine that a country's image is more harmed by accusations of having backwards cultural and food habits (and insufficient government regulation of dangerous markets) rather than potentially just one lone scientist making a mistake while working on advanced genetic research, which is a risk at any such lab in the world.
Yes - an animal host or reservoir is found. It's unusual after 2 years none has been found.
Also possible with open firmware on low-cost ESP32 devices, https://wrlab.github.io/Wi-ESP/ & https://github.com/StevenMHernandez/ESP32-CSI-Tool

But there's a big difference in custom firmware used in a few products and IEEE standardization in every new WiFi access point.

We need more funding for countermeasures, https://ans.unibs.it/projects/csi-murder/

> Imagine that someone wants to illegally track the position of a person inside a laboratory, for instance to measure how much time is spent doing different activities at different desks, as depicted in the upper picture. How much effective can this attack be? ... With CSI-MURDER, the localization becomes impossible because results will seem random, thus preserving the person privacy without destroying Wi-Fi communications.

400+ (!) papers on wireless sensing, over the last decade https://dhalperi.github.io/linux-80211n-csitool/ & https://groups.csail.mit.edu/netmit/sFFT/soda_paper.pdf & https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/103715
I understand why this is technically right, but I don't like it.

The promise of Cloud Functions is to give them code and they run it. They should be optimizing how it's run and you shouldn't have to do anything different to optimize performance.

I feel like this is a failure on Google's part.

Does anyone disagree?
Multiple apps can do SMS on Android. For example, FB Messenger and Signal can do it.

WhatsApp can't and won't, because using SMS would break multiplatform compatibility.
I think I red a study, many years ago, about lowered performance in Mexico City due to their local higher CO2 concentration.
It is to create busy work and obfuscate the process to create job security for the old and confuse the young from becoming competition to big tech.

The secret is that it only takes one person to build a website/business.

Everyone working at big tech should create their own thing and create competition.
More like r/woosh
Summary:

https://theconversation.com/scientists-call-for-a-moratorium...

https://archive.is/KRxLt
Yes, clear animal reservoirs, viral lineage, old samples from human or animal infections with precursor variants. No position on the question, just answering your question about proof.
> shoehorning

That happens to all languages over time. The more interesting thing is how well do those features fit in with the language's style.
Time efficiency, maybe, but time utilization definitely not. Based on current times from Google Maps, driving from New York City to Boston is 3h45m. Taking a Greyhound bus is 4h20m, but you can read a book, play video games, etc during that time. One of them uses the majority of your attention for the full duration, while the other uses barely any of your attention, leaving you free to do something else.

And that's not even counting trains, which would make the same trip in 3h30m.
There's the EPC QR code standard in Europe which is underused...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPC_QR_code
Is there a way, outside full transparency from China in some "perestroika" type situation which seems highly unlikely, we will ever really know for sure?
Facebook Pixel Hunt
Google used YouTube in the same way against Windows Phone. They actively made it technically and legally difficult for Microsoft to develop their own YouTube app for WP while only developing a version for iPhones and android. At least with sms you can still functionally use messaging, but google closed off entire services by actively preventing them from being developed for their competitors platform back in the day.
Why is the nuclear power industry stagnant?
The consumers in those times were mainly the aristocracy. Lords needed their land worked and they had to compete with other lords as there weren't enough serfs to go around. Now you can argue that the cost of food would rise too negating their wage increase but I believe part of their payment was a section of the land to farm so they were able to have excess wages that weren't eat up by inflation.

The wages rose so high that the king had to put a ceiling on the wages so the competition would stop.

I say king vaguely because I read into this years ago but I can't remember which country it was. My guess is that it was England or France but my brain is failing me.
Maybe it's just another psyop. Funny that The Intercept_ ran a similar story [1] a few months back somewhat corroborating what PV reported on.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2021/09/23/coronavirus-research-gra...
Politics and bad actors have always existed. Scientists should counter them with facts and honesty not censorship.
I purchased a waifu from your vending machine (loved the blog post!) at Gen Con in 2019, but can't see the saved model in my account. Is there a way for me to get a v2 generation?
security folks sometimes dont realize the connection between Hash functions (for data structures) and Cryptographic Hashing (aka digest) functions. Perhaps that was the confusion?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function
A lot of the active research in this area was military funded.
A charitable interpretation would read the statement as "further speculative debate". Indeed, several of the lab leak arguments mentioned in that very article were subsequently disproven months later, and their unqualified and categorical assertions were arguably no less unprofessional (indeed, perhaps more unprofessional) than other scientists simply exclaiming, "Ssshhhhhh".

We can't know the precise motivations behind those who suggested Sir Jermey pipe down, but indeed that's the problem with such speculative discourse. When speaking with a public voice--which can arguably include private communications to political leadership--there's nothing per se untoward, IMHO, with demanding that professionals speak carefully.

It's a fine line, but I don't see anything damning in these e-mail disclosures even though I'll readily admit that many people, including professionals (scientists, journalists, etc), prematurely dismissed the possibility of a Wuhan lab leak.
What are your expenses to run that? The blockchain must be gigantic by now.
Google's point about iMessage is that Apple shouldn't be promoting and profiting from kids bullying each-other. The article's author has a brand he's selling as someone on the Android beat who's willing to poke Google. Google is also making the case that since iMessage bootstrapped itself on SMS/MMS, perhaps it should continue to embrace the updated versions of these standards, enabling encrypted messaging with Android users.
China Gaming crackdown: Violent titles such as GTA cannot be live-streamed
If a virus essentially identical to the original wild type SARS-CoV-2 is found in a wild animal population that would be fairly strong evidence against the lab leak hypothesis, although not an absolute disproof. Researchers have looked and not found such, so it remains an open question.

So far the closest we've come is a bat virus in Laos but it has some significant genetic differences.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02596-2
Mathematicans read very slowly relative to, say, computer programmers. A page can easily take an hour or more. Bad notation (e.g. variable names) can interrupt one's flow.
> Was this their primary motivation?

> Was the intention here to cause someone harm? What the intention here malice?

Yes. Removing / archiving the project – not malice.
This, however is absolutely malicious:

let am = require('../lib/custom/american');
am();
for (let i = 666; i < Infinity; i++;) {
if (i % 333) {
// console.log('testing'.zalgo.rainbow)
}
console.log('testing testing testing testing testing testing testing'.zalgo)
}

> Are they right to feel this way? Maybe, maybe not. However, is this malice?

Reasoning about Marak's motivation or intentions does have anything to do with whether his actions were ultimately malicious.

> Its an act of someone who is disillusioned, strained, and struggling.

You might be right, but there were a lot of things he could have done before doing what he did, and when he did act, he did it with the intention of causing people distress, frustration and confusion.

> ...its a lot more murky than this is an malicious act by a malicious maintainer acting in malice.

We're really far down a semantic rabbit hole at this point. Ultimately, adding an infinite loop to a widely used package deliberately and without warning is clearly an attempt to 'cause ... distress to another.' There's no two ways about it. Sure, Marak likely felt under-appreciated, mistreated and taking advantage of by large corporations etc but those possible explanations do not absolve him of blame, or mean his actions were not unequivocally malicious. In the legal system, mitigating factors can lead to a lesser charge or a shorter sentence, but even if they do reduce the severity of the outcome, you're still guilty.
This seems to be a simplification of a (better) article at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/how-the-74....
Apologies if I misworded what it's doing.

It wasn't about name clashing, but readability. It's not clear at first glance what functions belong to which imports.

As an example: https://tour.dlang.org/

Three imports and what appear to be four unqualified functions from them.
> While I don't consider myself a NIMBY, because I wouldn't go out of my way to stop a development project, I do appreciate how it has kept Davis a really nice place to live.

It's possible to develop in a way that doesn't involve giant strip malls and tons more cars, y'know. Most YIMBY's are urbanists, and would be much more in favor of supporting walking, biking and transit, rather than cars cars cars.
That’s probably a significantly more difficult problem than stopping pollution as you actually need someone to pay for it directly. And of course we don’t know a good way to only try and cool the Arctic.

<Massive simplifications ahead> You can ballpark this yourself a 288 K black body in equilibrium is radiating as much energy as it receives, at T^4. To drop that by 1C to 287K means blocking 1- ( 287^4 /288^4) or roughly 1.4% of all sunlight. As the earth’s radius 6,371 km ignoring the atmosphere, the classic sunshade at L1 idea needs a surface area of something like 1.7 million km^2. And that’s assuming we didn’t keep dumping any CO2 into the air and ignore the fact the earth isn’t in equilibrium it’s warming etc etc.

A few ideas for getting various things into the upper atmosphere have been considered but reflecting an extra 1.4% or more sunlight would be a true ly Herculean task with any of those ideas and you couldn’t stop as they all decay over time.
It’s too late at this point: the vast majority of RCS clients won’t support it (if it happens), so the green bubble that google hates is destined to remain.

Google could have avoided this by not continuously releasing and killing chat services. If they’d stuck to one they would have a much bigger number of users - people complain about iOS, but lets be real: android is a much bigger market. Google allowing both the hardware and software to fragment in basic functionality is a questionable decision.
Right away when I clicked on the library they analyze first, I /knew/ it would describe itself as fast in the repo description. Sure enough it did:

> node-bunyan: A simple and fast JSON logging module for node.js services

So what does it mean to call yourself fast if you decrease the throughput by 50%
E2EE is optional, and disabled by default. Out of the box, your iPhone will store your messages in cleartext on Apple servers every time it backs up.
That's rich coming from Google.

If you're a Google Fi users (cell phone service) you have to do some wonky hacks to make iMessage work because Google doesn't support it. Then every time you run a software update, you have to re-enable iMessage.

Google lost a fight, and is crying about it.

They do EVERYTHING in their power to screw over people on iPhones... and then they want Apple to play fair? Ha.

The worst thing is that when you travel between countries, iMessage is really the only good way to text friends without getting silly international text fees.

Therefore, all of my friends have to have iPhones... or I've basically stopped texting them. It's sad. But hey, that's on the phone companies too for charging money for texts. It's all shitty.

But Google being shitty and then bitching about Apple... that's rich.
I agree. Should Galileo have suppressed his observations to protect the Catholic Church? If he had, would it have been in the name of science or something else?
To be fair, Google was a champion of open standards for years and years, spending large amounts of time and money supporting them, before eventually capitulating to proprietary systems. Their enthusiasm for open standards is probably a major reason that they lost in messaging!

The problem is that open standards just can't compete with closed ones when it comes to giving users what they want (for a nice discussion of this, see the classic https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/)
While the design D picked for templates looks (and is) straightforward, it wasn't obvious. It's only obvious in retrospect (which is something a good design aspires to, like putting an eraser on the other end of the pencil).
Yes, it varies somewhat depending on region. Fear of the poors is pretty consistent though, and most NIMBY's are pretty strongly pro-car and anti-not-car.
An animal sample from the wet market that was shut down. (I spooned they were all bagged).

If they were all destroyed, then go get a sample from their natural reservoir (wherever those animals came from)
What is the difference between this idea and exposing a read-only MongoDB (JSON in, JSON out) via HTTP endpoint? In the end, 50 ranged HTTP requests is not that great for unstable connection, 1 request is way better, and you need a server anyway.

Okay, offline first, what does that mean? Should I download the entire 600mb SQLite database? Should I do it every time it changes? Who will pay for the bandwidth? We can not employ standard HTTP proxy and caching mechanism here, it is not for 600mb files.
The article shouldn’t have quote this person in the first place - there are plenty of serious investigations into the lab leak theory from reputable virologists. I recommend Alina Chan’s new book: Viral.

This clarification also masquerades as a clarification of something important. This person quoted by the tabloid is irrelevant here. In fact this article does more damage to the credibility of lab theory than otherwise and your clarification just shows.

Frustrating both the article and your clarification of basically a meaningless source.

There is a vast amount of information regarding lab leak theory and potential origin spanning back 20 years even though China has shut any investigation with gag orders and complete lack of transparency. Too much to unpack.

My concern is this: People will read your clarification of the quote as if it’s something important to clarify. Source itself is garbage.