skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So much data drops and narrative shifts taking place re:covid data. Allegedly those [1] project defuse documents submitted to darpa we're legit. How they gonna wiggle out of that if so? Brace for house of cards collapse.

[1] https://www.projectveritas.com/news/military-documents-about...
I'm surprised that there's not a single comment here about 802.11ay which is also 60GHz. Each channel on that standard can do something like 40Gbps, which is nuts. From Wikipedia[0]:

> The link-rate per stream is 44 Gbit/s, with four streams this goes up to 176 Gbit/s.

Yes, it can't penetrate walls, but is huge for point to point communication. Think VR headset bandwidth, file transfers between devices, wireless backhaul between buildings. It's not just for spying on your cat.

I think it's important to remember that it's not magic, it's just radio waves. You can "sense" with a lot more resolution if you use a camera and light bulb. There are plenty of eyeballs, cameras, and lights all around you right now. Even worse, someone could be looking in your window with binoculars.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ay
>transformed from these simple ideas into great films (lots of iteration, lots of early prototyping and feedback, etc.)

I don't doubt there's lots of feedback on details, but I have doubts about how much story arcs might change, or how "rough" the originating ideas are, especially after realizing that "Toy Story 3" is just (imho a lessor version of) "The Brave Little Toaster" as fed through the "Pixar Process".

It's toys instead of appliances, an attic instead of a cabin, being repurposed at a daycare instead of a repair shop, and an incinerator instead of a compactor, but the pixar process didn't change the overall story at all.

(The idea was originally Lasseter's, but to oversimplify, he basically lost the rights and others ended up making TBLT, while he eventually got to do TS3.)

Maybe other movies saw more changes going through the process, but the only example we have to actually compare didn't.
To give a recent Western example, here is a story in two acts:

"An Intelligence Report Will Say UK Spy Agencies Found No Evidence Of Russian State Interference In The Outcome Of The Brexit Referendum"[0]

"Boris Johnson refuses Russia report's demand to probe 'meddling' in Brexit vote"[1]

[0] https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertonardelli/intelligence-report...

[1] https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-boris-johnso...
Good question. It seems that there may be too many PM’s trying to make a name for themselves. There may also be a lack of vision, and a lack of willingness to let a product live and to make incremental changes to it… it either succeeds right away or they replace it with a similar product (rebranded) /shut it down.
If your into self hosting use rocket.chat

Another option would be nextcloud talk (also should be self hosted)
To expand on this, before World War II, there was far less federal funding for science, and I don't think university faculty had the need to bring in external funding that they do now. I don't know the history of requirements that faculty bring in funding, however.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK45556/
Feels like everyone is very disinterested in the cost to the user with most "modern ways" of doing things. Many webpages use far too much resource to just communicate text. Web adverts are especially awful for this. I could browse the web with dialup and a machine a thousandth as powerful as my phone. So as a consumer why do I need to "upgrade" what was the added value above Google scale is delivering computationally intense adverts I then waste cycles blocking?
I’d like to do this, but after the kids are out of the house. I can’t imagine working full time, raising kids, and going to school.
Social proof is buying a Ford car because your friends and family all drive Fords.

The old phrase "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" is another one (though nobody has said that since 1990).
The source isn't Reddit, it's a published virologist, and he himself cites over a hundred academic sources. Reddit is the medium.
And we have research now that hypothesizes that Omicron incubated in mice and then jumped back to humans.

If that hypothesis is true, then we have a fine example of something running in the background in a reservoir and then Hey, Presto! suddenly appearing to be mutated specifically for humans.

If that's true, then all manner of "weird" things suddenly become both plausible and probable without any human intervention at all.

As for "lab leak"--at this point all we can do is shrug. China will NEVER allow that to be investigated if there is even the slightest possibility of being true. Period. Full stop.

Barring a whistleblower with hard evidence, we'll never know.
Thank you for your comment. But it wasn't really important...you didn't really get what I said, and you tried to reduce it to this contradiction. What was the point of that? Really just want to hurt me? I hope you can see that there's a lot more going on, than your reductive view of it. Why did I take the time to explain it? Because I feel sad thinking you will keeping doing this, I want you to be better, then other people will be happier. But also I want to be heard, I don't want to be misinterpreted, misrepresented.

I guess you took what I said as contradicting your point of view. Maybe it makes you feel better to think that people who advocated for better treatment of animals, are full of contradictions, and therefore stupid, and therefore not what you need to listen to. So when I replied with something pushing back, invalidating the critical dismissal, you weren't satisfied. I hadn't fit the "animal advocates are contradictory" model that you wanted to see. So you tried to prove that by misinterpreting what I said into some contradiction that you invented. Maybe it's more a general theme for you, that about animals specifically, you think everyone is bunk and full of contradictions, so there's no way that anyone can tell off anyone else about anything. Because everyone has to work out their own way. Well, actually, apart from suggesting that you're a teenager or early 20-something (I'm not being derisive, just has that rebellious, forge your own identity streak, but if you're older, that's really cool, you maintained that youthful mindset)--you and me very much agree with that. I guess I'm just further down the road with that than you are. When you do yourself for long enough, and come up with your own perspective, eventually you probably settle into developing a set of morals: like you go from-> everything in the world relative, and nothing has moral authority, really, (beside individual feelings, being a personal compass, if that's your take, as it was mine), to, well these things are good, and these things are bad (but it doesn't have to be b&w, it can be grey). It's really pretty natural as you get more experience, to see those patterns, and realize these things work and these other things don't. You'll probably find that condescending...but how can a claim of more experience, necessary almost by more time, be anything but condescending? So what do you expect...talking with people who put more time into something than you have so far. You can choose to emphasize how you feel it's condescending, or you can get something out of it. Or you can do both...but it might be less efficient. Good luck! :)
This looks pretty cool. Those interested may also like a longtime Mac app that scratches a similar itch, Curio. It’s part outliner, freeform idea layout tool, and visual reference organizer. https://www.zengobi.com/curio/
Have you read Bullshit Jobs? That team size correlates to organizational power is one of the central tenets of the book.
And yet, opposite accusations were levied, building a consensus likely based on lies. This is why the truth and us pursuing it must stand outside of all these dichotomies.
I'd bet any money the author never worked on a complex web application beyond simple CRUD apps.

Absolutely no credibility when the entire post is a strawman rant with zero value from reading it.

Disingenuous.
so also does the firehose of conspiracy theory's, misinformation and lunatic fringe that appears to be the overtly noisy minority on all forms of media these days.
I couldn't do it. From 2008 to 2011, I was 3 credits and half a thesis paper short, had to quit for my health. I had lost too much weight, down to 150 lbs at 6'3", I was falling asleep at work and not meeting expectations. It was horrendous. Props to anyone who can make it work. And to those who were bailed out by the Bank of Mom and Dad, a big fuck you.
> It will allow a bunch of people to skim-read detailed research publications and miss all the nuances that matter.

I have to disagree, there’s nothing stopping readers from doing this already, I think it’s quite common

I do agree that one needs to actually read the paper to really understand the context of some equation, but honestly flipping between the abbreviation table or the dense prose of “where x is foo, y is bar, zzz” it’s just not readable. I don’t think it’s would make sense to use this style for every equation ever, but I think it has utility
Even then it isn't stopped; once something exists someone will eventually use it, and likely in way not intended by the designer.
It is, clearly, an extortion. But you know what? I think I'd support such solution.

The whole saga put me and my family into a very bad mental state. I'm fighting constant panic attacks, psychotic episodes and becoming more and more suicidal, to the point of no return. We escaped ex-USSR hoping to get out of state-sanctioned bullying, and got into something even worse without a chance to escape anymore. So, if they tax us proportionally to the perceived risks, instead of constantly moralizing, yelling, pass checks, etc. - it is a win in my book. No more stress of living in "fight-or-flight" situation. At least I'll get back my ability to think rationally about it, something which I was not able to do since the "public health orders" hit the fan. Take my money, but leave me alone!

My previous take on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29401254
I just submitted "The many myths of Paleo sleeping" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29902569 (0 comments), on its way to total obscurity.
mods are asleep!
Real world is messy, some companies have different key-value pairs on the same kind of document (invoice, purchase order, utility bill, etc). I counted 20K different keys, some semantically synonymous, in a few thousand invoices. Even the table part can have different columns. What do you do when schemas don't quite match?
The CCP is already furthering oppression more than anyone else. They have absolutely decimated the indigenous way of Chinese life because they are anti culture and anti religion, except where it aligns with their party ideology. Harming their credibility actually helps the “actual” indigenous Chinese people and way of life.
That PhD virologist comes off as not credible at all, as part of their response is to deny the entire possibility of lab leaks in general. Their argument is that industrial accidents are simply caused by incompetence or lack of funding, and WIV is well-funded and run by competent people: therefore, bad things simply cannot happen. Their attitude is fundamentally unserious.

https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gk6y95/covid19_did... (4.1)

>"I say this as someone who has been to these conferences, who knows many scientists who work on dangerous viruses, and work in facilities like the Wuhan Institute of Virology. We virologists know this group, we know about the WIV, and the WIV facilities do not frighten us. We do not view WIV as “unsound” or “risky” or “dangerous” or “incompetent” (76)."

>"We’re not worried about BSL4 labs that are well-equipped, well-funded, etc. (like the WIV is)."

>[...] "We biosecurity people are also very concerned about new BSL4 labs being built in developing countries in South America and Africa (99). But, you know what’s interesting? The WIV and its researchers are part of these committees that get together and discuss what to do about these challenges. They are part of the people who are helping to decide what is “safe enough” for a BSL4 lab! We here in the US agree with the WIV about what “safe” means (76). And the biggest reason for that is that we here in the United States helped train WIV researchers. We are the ones who taught them how to work with these dangerous viruses (76,100,101)."

(There are no buffer overflows in this C code: I'm very competent and experienced and how dare you).
I'm not a biologist but I believe it should be repeatable, i.e. the animal should be able to pass it on in lab.
i really want to use D for something, but it's just in that awkward spot where for any given project i can use ocaml instead. ocaml is in roughly the same part of the speed/expressiveness/pleasantness box as D is, plus i already know it.

i had two abortive attempts to use the language for specific projects - one was to wrap a C++ library and use it from D, but it turned out the swig bindings didn't work.

the second was to find an active gtkd-based app and contribute to it, to get a feel for desktop gui development (which seems on the surface like a very compelling use case for the language), but after asking on reddit no one could suggest anything other than tilix, on which development has stalled :( i would still love to do this, if anyone has something to suggest.

if anyone is involved in a fun desktop-based D project (CLI, TUI or GUI are all fine) please recommend it!
Can't find more than their names either. (sinister-math, workstation, denim-joint, water, office)
In such case I would recommend to under promise and over deliver. Your estimate conveys that it's risky selling it as a 3 months project and risk free as 6 months. It's in your best interest to sell it as 6 months and have a chance to complete it in 3. You could bargain 5 months by taking few risk. Nonetheless a good manager should have understood your estimation range and act accordingly.
I don't think there's any powerful enough way to stop people from generating one and then tracing over it to create their own linework, and customize things like the colouring and shading. The more broadly AI is able to create, the more niche and obfuscated directions human co-creators could take its products in.
The laboratory management system in Serbia will definitely log any changes, who performed them and when.

Australian Border Force should be requesting proof from Serbia if the authenticity of the results are in doubt.

But I doubt Serbia is keen to cooperate with the deportation of their golden child.
Distance and signal integrity would be my guess. The longer your transmit the signal, the more complicated and expensive it is to maintain signal integrity. There are out of spec USB cables that manage to get longer distance by converting to fiber optic (meaning it’s an active cable) and even then it’s extremely expensive for not that much cable.
Also read "To Pixar and Beyond" by Lawrence Levy, who Steve Jobs hired to save the company. It tells the Pixar story from the CFO perspective.
My understanding was that, something like a decade ago, Qt tried that. Fresh embedding API and everything. Maybe it's fine to try again? Maybe Mozilla will be more receptive this time…
So what you are saying is smoking weed is like getting vaccinated? I'm in!
Wow, this would hit me and be really expensive. What's the argument for it?
The general goal seems to have shifted away from ‘no politics’ and instead to “ get people to truly listen to each other on HN”[0]. It’s especially hard to not talk about politics when there’s so much in the way of discussing antitrust laws, regulation, sars-cov-2, etc.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28964647
> I’m so #%^*ing tired of it taking three Mississippis to show a channel I click on.

I can guarantee you whatever is causing Slack to take 3 seconds to load a channel has nothing to do with it being built on Electron and, all else being equal, would probably have the same problem if it was built as a native app.
Wouldn't just a change in the way we view our economy work? If a lot of the emissions come from creating GDP, why not take a break, live off our assets,like when Covid initially happened... i'd continue but would probably get buried as a utopian (tbh it seems like businesses a machines getting people create more machines while getting very little actual return...)
Who Is the Network Access Broker 'Wazawaka?'
I think the author had some good points about when to use caching - it's unlikely for the vast majority of readers on this forum who would need a speed up benefit from 10ms to 5ms just because of caching, precisely because of the complexity cache management involves.

There's that old joke: What are the two hardest things in computer science? Cache expiry, and naming things.
I'd rather be locked into a phone number than locked to apple though.
I think HN debunked it too.
"If you find that [a government] has lost, destroyed, or failed to preserve any evidence whose contents or quality are material to the issues in this case, then you may draw an inference unfavorable to the [government]." West Virg. Jury Inst. 5.03
I got through the first third and skimmed the rest as I got the feeling this is mostly about coins and blockchains.. so maybe the argument is okay for that.

However for the internet as a whole, I think we are seeing a lot of people care about decentralization actually.

All it takes is for someone you like to see/hear/read to be banned from primary portal X - and you will most likely care.

How many listeners/watchers/subscribers have had thier person-of-interest/subject-of-interest/channel banned from a primary portal in the past few years? That's got to be a huge number of people..

The thought of it is quite scary for some people who have not yet been banned also - the fear is real that people on youtube (and other primary portals) have a legitimate call to action to sign up for their email list in case they are de[platformed / down-ranked or whatever.

so I must disagree with the headline of the story as a whole, but it does appear to be mostly written as a rebuttal to other stories about blockchain coins or whatever and makes some good points about the pains with those things..

however if you read another recent HN thread, it's obvious that US banking is full of pain points that don't need to be as well - so I think there are more people wanting to use other transaction services even if it's not super easy - moving money in the US is not as easy as it could be - I guess this argument is better suited for Europe folks and what not.
Do you plan to provide an API to generate waifu?

I think I could use this for a project.
This is Tesla trying to get the tax payers to fund the rich: https://www.nrdc.org/experts/mohit-chhabra/debunking-myths-s...

The fact is that this tax will help solar and help poorer families make money from it. Instead of subsidies going to the rich.
You can have them back! Just use old versions of your apps, or old apps.

But you won’t because deep down you know that those “web repackaged” apps are actually better than old GTK apps. More features, nicer UI, etc.
Select 30nm CMOS processes already had fT (frequency at which transistor no longer has gain) of 300GHz, so the component-level limits are probably flirting with THz by now. Of course, you need to knock off an order of magnitude to build useful comparators/etc out of those, and that gives you... 100GHz, right about what we see on those high speed SerDes :)

One more thing: CMOS historically wasn't the fastest logic family. Bipolar ECL was faster, but it burned a ton of idle current, so it ran into power limitation long before CMOS.

In either case, thermal limits prevent you from using these speeds across the whole chip, but just because your thermal budget can't afford 10,000,000,000 speed demons doesn't mean it can't afford 1000 of them in a few SerDes :)

But yeah, decades of Moore's law have not gone to waste, and those discrete logic chips are frozen in time. It's a neat reminder of how far we have come!
A much better study:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/the-many...
This may be more likely to happen if there was a compromise between the two: query the database, but maintain a database that is queryable using SPARQL and can export to TTL files. Then the linked data revolution can continue and we don't have to maintain finnicky webpages but rather a relatively static database.
The point is not necessarily to win - the point is to cause the other guy to expend resources. Plus the crap-shoot of a jury trial. I'm guessing that nobody is going to take this case on contingency, but 100% that there's a clever ambulance chaser even in TX who can wreck people if that's what the author wants to do.

If you're paying for it, you can find a lawyer to wreck someone's life. Again, if that's what you want to do.

On the other hand, I have a family member who had this exact same thing happen. Except it was their other dog that did it, and that dog was also a beloved family pet. Rough is what that situation is. And what they did is feel really bad but get over it. They did keep the other dog. They won't be getting another toy breed for a long time either. Very sad all around.

So revenge is a great fantasy. If the author wants to do all that stuff, I'm positive 100% they could do something pretty nasty. But in the real world we often have to just ... get over it. Probably healthier, but me - I'd sue the bejesus out of them, just for spite.
Didn't Microsoft get its hand slapped for trying to integrate the web-compatible aspect into its OS?
A lot of profit is made from generating and supplying electricity. When everyone has solar and are only pulling 1/10th or less of their power from the grid, that’s less usage and thus less power to charge margins on.
Looks neat thanks for the link.
Also appears to be fairly straightforward to self host a pod:
https://solidproject.org//self-hosting/css
I wouldn’t trust the CDC or WHO. We need an independent group who don’t have any baggage on this issue.

CDC can’t be trusted to even make a simple covid test and they don’t want to admit scientific research killed 20 million people.
You used one bad app so there is a general decline ?
I'd argue that they are if they live on either coast. If you live in a big coastal city and aren't getting stock and great benefits, then you either are working for a teensy company, a gaming company, or are getting taken to the cleaner's.
Well, in practice that turns out pretty random IMO. Nearest definition is meaningless. Order of declaration of dependencies is meaningless as well. It's not random in the sense that it does not change between builds if pom.xml not changed, but this deterministic algorithm does not make any sense, at least to me.
Determinism Bugs, Part Two, Kernel32.dll
And about 2000 years since the medical fields Hippocratic Oath.
Coordination problem: whoever takes a break gets invaded, overthrown, and annexed by whoever doesn't.
> you should never disregard something that has hype behind it
Do you have an opinion on how this sentiment applies to blockchain tech? I’m not trolling, I think the sentiment is interesting and blockchain tech seems obviously relevant to that sentiment.
That is out of context and a misrepresentation.

My comment is an explanation of the behavior of leaders and specifically addressing the article.

It is very much not an opinion of what should be done where it doesn't concern international cooperation in a time of crisis.

I'm very much for figuring out why a crisis occurred, because it might save lives down the line. That doesn't mean that it makes sense to burn bridges that are saving lives right now - especially if you can have both.

Even if there was undeniable proof that the virus escaped a Chinese lab, the smart course of action for Fauci, his peers in other countries, the WHO, and pretty much anyone working with the Chinese would be to ignore it for now. Anything else would be endangering international cooperation and lives with it. For what?
Are there linters and other static analysis tools for D?