skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most CBD oil is decarboxylated for a variety of reasons, both market driven and regulation driven. That being said, all CBD oil should have a COA with it (certificate of analysis). Read the COA to determine exactly how much CBDA, CBD, and other cannabinoids are present.
>> But by failing to regulate wet markets properly, aren't they equally at fault?

Not really. It's just "bad luck" and "nature's fault". I never heard anyone angry on the Chinese government for not adding more red tape /regulation to the wet market. If that would be the case we should have seen people protesting all over the world against public markets where sanitary conditions are not the primary concern of the merchants. I believe it'a well known that more viruses are expected to jump from animals to humans. It's just a matter of time/luck. Simply put, failing to regulate wet markets does not equal to developing and releasing a deadly virus.
That's because Windows, Mac and all 1000 versions of Linux are intentionally incompatible silos. The only thing common is a standardized Web platform.

"Hello World" shouldn't take 115 mb and trillion computer cycles, period.
Agreed, my parents adopted the financial policy of providing just enough support that college was as difficult as possible but technically affordable. In hind sight, just a bit more help would have made a world of difference.

That said there is a huge expectation in the US. 90% of the time professors or admins mentioned paying for college they assumed people were getting parental assistance or financial aid. For better or worse paying for your adult child's higher education is not really a parental strategy but rather a societal norm all but written into law.
So if I don’t want anyone taking a WiFi “photo” of me on the throne I should put up aluminum foil curtains?
That's interesting, because when you ignore the spin on both texts, you find out there is no contradictory information at all. Yet you could that it's nothing but disinformation. You should also note that the article is in the Opinion section, and doesn't actually publish the cables.

The cables the is factually claiming is that US officials learnt that the research going on at the lab indicated that there is a high risk of a coronavirus causing a pandemic, that there is a risk of zoonosis, and that there are risks associated with this research. There are no specific claims of bad practices or mismanagement, and it is entirely likely that the author is using those words to refer to the decision to do this kind of research as well as GoF research when he talks about unsafe practices and mismanagement, as they are the only material issues with safety and management he mentioned.

Beyond that, I don't see any evidence the lab was operating unsafely. If the virus really was in those populations, you'd need two unlikely things to happen, since we all agree the virus wasn't engineered.

First, the Chinese government needs to have made the conscious decision not to release proof that the virus was natural. Indeed, if it was being studied alive, the WIV would absolutely have identified it and a precursor. They could have offered one or both of these, or returned to where they found it, and pinpoint an origin, absolving themselves of all these arguments.

Then, the virus, which would belogically present in bat populations in those populated areas, would have had to escape a BSL4 lab, but not have escaped into society beforethen? What's the likelihood that it could have, while weakly infectious and poorly adapted to humans, managed to go through the protections of a BSL4 lab, but not managed to make it out of those animals?
Also, it overlaps with non-political topics (energy tech, and the cult of you-know-who).
I just realized that perhaps the problem is not global warming. Perhaps the problem is that we are having children. If we all just decided to stop having kids, nobody would care what the weather was like at the end of the century.
Not only did civil war not end in 1949 (or 2022) but ROC implemented port closure policy to blockade PRC coastal shipping in 1949 (lasting 30+ years), which led to Tuapse incidence in 1954, which led to first and second strait TW crisis you referred to in 1954 and 58. Both "invasions" were direct fallout from ROC provoked aggression, and distills the geopolitical essence for why the civil war will continue until one side becomes completely subservient to the other for security reasons.
It’s trivial. I run multiple chains on vms on workstation and total space is <1TB. Probably needs 1-2 cores of compute and 4-8GB RAM per chain.

Ethereum, Solana, BSC… any of these are non trivial to run and need dedicated compute. I don’t run these, I consider them centralized services.
We can kind of see how this happened.

There are multiple platforms and nobody wants to write a separate app for each one. So now you need a framework to make apps multi-platform.

Microsoft has resources but no incentive to do this. They have the most market share. Before Electron existed, people would just write native apps for Windows and nothing else, locking people into Microsoft.

Apple has resources, they have the right incentive because they don't have dominant market share on desktop, but they're obsessed with native look and feel. Cross platform frameworks are antithetical to that, so they don't do it.

That leaves the Linux people. So we get Qt. Finally something that works. Except that this is the opposite of what the Linux people are good at. It's not "do one thing do it well," it's reimplementing the equivalent of an entire operating system's APIs on at least three different operating systems. That's a lot of work, it's hard to do right and easy to get wrong, and they don't have a mountain of cash behind them. So it works but it's full of sharp edges.

Enter Electron. Browsers had to deal with the same multi-platform nonsense but Google does have a mountain of cash so it's easier to use. Winner, efficiency be damned.

What might have worked if anybody there thought of it would be for Apple to port their native APIs to Windows (because it has the most market share) and Linux (because it's a fellow Unix-like so that should be pretty easy). Then you could easily compile native macOS applications for other platforms but they would still be native on macOS. That solves their problem because now everybody is going to target their native API, and if they run less well on Windows, that's fine as long as they run at least as well as Electron does. Big win for them because now that becomes the target and they're the only ones with true native applications.

But is modern Apple smart enough to do that?
The WRDL app looks pretty good, even though obviously a blatant rip-off. The thing is o think Josh Wardle has said that he doesn’t care in the slightest about the existing ripoffs and the more sure to crop up.. (I’m pretty sure I read this somewhere, but can’t remember offhand where)
SQLite is a relational database. Wouldn't it be a better fit to use a graph-database as the backend for anything "web"?

The idea is good, that a web-page should be generated from some data somewhere. But "web" is much about not a single document but the links between the documents, which allow you to to represent a "semantic net". The data should be about the links between them. Now where is such a database? And how can it "sharded" into multiple databases running in thousands of locations on the internet?
RF shielding materials: https://mpkb.org/home/special/emf/protective_materials & https://www.eiwellspring.org/shielding.html

QuietRock 530RF drywall will block sound and RF, https://www.buildsite.com/pdf/pabcogypsum/QuietRock-530-Inst...
That is actually how probability works when you are assessing the probability of uncertain propositions [1]. The prevalence of wet markets vs. virology labs should not be the only input but it is definitely relevant to our assessment of probabilities.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_inference
There are all kinds of forms of cooperation between countries: economic, political, financial, scientific, legal, regulatory, transportation, trade, military, etc.

One option instead of full scale invasion is to cut back or attach strings to some of those forms of cooperation.

This happens all the time.

In this specific scenario, it might look like: Spend $100M upgrading Wuhan lab security and we won’t indefinitely ban travel from Wuhan Province to the US.

Or, more aggressively: Shut down the Wuhan lab or we will release tons of hacked data about corruption in the government.

Not saying that these are smart options, but you get the idea of the spectrum of options between total absolution and total aggression.
> Beyond that, the system has the potential to seamlessly integrate humans and computers—such that computing, the Internet, and AI would weave into our daily life as a "second self" and augment our cognition and abilities.

Am I the only one to whom this proposition is horrifying even in its most benign version?
“You seem to spend a lot of time in your bathroom, would you like to try one of these laxatives from our partners?”

“Your honor, wifi data clearly shows the defendant was…”
I think 128GB/s should be single direction, as 32GB/s was single direction for gen 4.
Alas, I think the odds are that there would be more, not less. Certainly there would be a lot more fodder for it. These things don't explain themselves, after all; we still have to do that, and it's a ton of work. It's also stressful—it's all public, and if you screw up in any way, you can easily generate 100x more hostility and more work for yourself.

I think the current approach, in which we don't publish everything we do but are happy to answer specific questions when people ask them, is the right balance.
I Hated this movie.

The level of discomfort it engendered was off the scale. The depiction of the political and media is so close to reality that I ended up fast forwarding through it and at this point have paused watching as continuing is just too uncomfortable.

So from that point of view, and at least for me I would say that the movie is a success, job done. Unfortunately I don't think I'm the person who needs to receive this message. I don't need to be told that the world is going to shit at a faster rate than ever. I don't need to be told that most (all?) media, main stream or otherwise only succeed in rating somewhere between barely acceptable and blatantly corrupt on an ethical/truthfulness scale. The only way I can continue to exist with some degree of happiness is to simply try to ignore the majority of what is going on outside my bubble. I don't think I'm alone.

That said, I'm really interested how this movie has been perceived by those who think everything is wonderful. Are their world views so different that they have any ability to understand that this is not a comedy set in a different world, where politicians and media are clueless to their own ignorance and stupidity? Do they understand that this movie is holding a big bloody mirror up to the Western world and giving a giant wake up call. Unfortunately given how a lot of people seem to have reacted to the last couple of years, I have to think that they would just look at themselves in the mirror, adjust the makeup and wonder how those stupid scientists can not understand that they are messing with the latest media fed delusion.

Now I'm going to close my door again and pretend that the world really is wonderful. Have a nice day.
I like this, and of course you could also embed the text of the document. Nothing stops us from doing this right now.

But: don't we need some way to prove that the data matches what is visually rendered in the PDF reader?

And if we can prove that the embedded data matches the rendered document, couldn't that same logic just be used in reverse to generate the structured data from the renderable PDF?
Thanks, that’s awesome! That means the world to us. If you ever want to chat, just DM me on Twitter @amlewis4.
Taiwan scientist bitten by mice twice before testing positive for Covid (2021)
Yes, but if we apply ourselves, the life we live tomorrow can be both sustainable and better than what we have today.
Without an on-ramp and off-ramp for converting into dollars/euros, Bitcoin is entirely useless, even for the hardcore idealists like yourself. And those can quite easily be made illegal.
In vitro, not in vivo, so its relevance to humans still has to be determined.
The viewer should be able to select only those masks that pass. They should also be able to select a maximum breathability score. They should also be able to select minimum PFE rating.
For those debating starting a master’s program, the institution makes a big difference about 2 main factors. Required cost (which has been spoken about by multiple people so far), and required effort (which no one has touched on yet, and the reason I’m writing this).

While effort isn’t best depicted as a single value, some attributes of effort that I found making the act of getting a MS particularly easier and more enjoyable involves how professors bend to the life of students, rather than students to professors.

For homework this looks something like how common and easier it is to get an extension, extra help, adjustment of assignment/test, and so on. For schoolwork this looks something like whether class attendance is required, class sessions and professor office hours are time/location specific, and so on.

The original article talks about someone that made the decision to do school in person and then about how there were issues when it became remote. I opted to take an online program offered at a standard institution in hopes of increased flexibility and the same piece of paper at the end.

All my classes were pre-recorded lessons I could watch at my convenience. We would complete assignments and talk about them in a comment thread (usually required to do one OP and 2 comments per week), and also have larger projects etc. in groups. On about half of my classes I asked for and was always given extensions of anywhere between 30 days to complete and assignment to 3 extra months to finish 80% of the class I haven’t even touched yet due to increased demand at work.

As a side comment I’ll say you miss 100% of the extensions you don’t ask for, so if you ever feel stressed for time give it a shot and ask for an extension before the official due date or even on the day it’s due. Especially in higher education, I’ve never heard of a professor not working with a student. At the end of they day they have a financial incentive to keep you in the program.
It sounds like our undergraduate years in the BU CS department overlapped. I, too, have been stunned by the growth of the CS department since those days; going from the basement of 111 Cummington, as you described, to what will be one of the most iconic buildings in the city.

I heard good things from a friend about the MET CS master's program too. He said that his Theory of Computation class in that program made a lot more sense than the required undergraduate Theory of Computation class with Leonid Levin, haha.

But about the size of the graduating class: When we declared CS as our major in the mid-2000s, that was a historic low point for CS enrollment at all American universities, not just at BU. It's my understanding that CS departments boomed in the late 1990s, but then conventional wisdom after the Dot Com crash was that majoring in CS was a bad idea, so enrollment plummeted. I suspect that the market and compensation for software developers might still reflect this period of over-correction today. Basically, there are relatively few folks in their mid/late 30s today with a CS degree.
For anyone looking to do this, here's some I made:

https://i.imgur.com/1V1wPMC.jpg

I rolled around 40 times on the first stage and chose a horror. I skipped the second stage and didn't roll on the third stage, just chose one of the presented details. I skipped the fourth stage because I rolled maybe ~200 times and only saw around 1-2 comparable horrors.

https://i.imgur.com/1vBeg1j.jpg

I rolled around 100 times on the first stage and saw about 3-4 horrors before choosing a horror. I rolled about 70 times on the second stage, didn't find anything interesting, just chose a normal color palette. I rolled maybe 80 times on the third stage and chose a horror, though the results were pretty consistently horrors. I rolled around 60 times on the fourth stage and saw about 1-2 other horrors before choosing a horror.
Also, here's what it looked like after the third stage and before finishing the fourth stage:

https://i.imgur.com/ditm8nF.jpg

It's possible the third and fourth stages can produce horrors from normal faces, I didn't check.
You seem to be grossly misinterpreting my comment. I’ve said nothing at all to suggest there are no options in foreign affairs between "do absolutely nothing" and "full scale military invasion”. Where are you even getting that message?

I asked what you thought those options are since you seem to have some opinions. Or at least a few of them. Specifically.

I don’t see how I said anything that indicates I’m trying to fight on the internet about our worldviews.
Thanks! That's Docusaurus v2
>it basically cedes the entire web to Google

Refocusing on making Mozilla a viable entity without the need for cash splashes from Google is doing precisely the opposite. By diluting Google's financial control it ensures decision-making is both actually and ostensibly impartial.

Gecko is still a perfectly functioning browser engine. It's far easier to keep Gecko up to date with modern web standards than reinventing the wheel.

As nice as it would be to have a free and open source browser engine written in a memory safe language, I can't see there being a lot of money in it for Mozilla.
No, many people dislike smartphones.
This has nearly zero non-orwellian use-cases inside a home.
What really raises the most suspicion of the lab leak theory in my mind was how the Chinese government acted towards the rest of the scientific community...well before it was a theory at all. Not allowing foreign scientists in, destroying evidence, arresting journalists, etc. That just screams cover-up, even if there was none (in terms of a lab leak.)

Then Western scientists that rely on grants with Chinese ties, etc trying to cover the asses publicly, while privately saying it's possible...really doesn't inspire a lot of public confidence imo. There is a pretty big monetary incentive from the very people that we'd want to figure this out to say it didn't happen, even if it did.
Xulrunner specifically, died or at least is not easily revived, because Mozilla killed XUL and XPCOM.
This is mind-blowingly good. You keep pushing the state of the art further to the point of broad applicability. It won't be long until everyone can be an artist without putting in the ten thousand hours of drudgery of training their muscles, hand-eye coordination, structure of shape and perspective, etc. I can't wait!

Do you have a team page? How many of you are there? Do you work with gwern and nearcyan? Are you going to raise for this? (You should totally scale this!)

Great work, and keep it up!
Yes, it's still terrible for the consumer of the data. But I like it not because of that.

The positive thing I feel when reading about this, is that it dramatically lowers the barrier for the producer of the data to expose it in a meaningful way. While previously it was necessary to think about the format and write code to expose the data while now its possible to just throw the data over a wall.

You could use a framework to automate the first thing, but this would be specific to one programming language, while the second approach works with all languages. So it lowers the total effort to get to the goal, effectively side-stepping the "have to implement framework or serialization code" issue.

Warning: heavy speculation below

So if more people would build sites using this technique, the pressure for better tools (at a higher level than right now) for consumers would increase, so these would be built by someone. As you have a proper standard (there is only one SQLite) you would have a new "ecosystem" growing. This would lower the pain for the consumers of said data. You'd still have to implement it in every programming language that wants to access the data, but this is another problem.
This article is kind of self defeating - based on the article the scientists expressed uncertainty over the origins of covid, but the title is "Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab" which seems to prove their point exactly?

I don't know if this is common knowledge but there's an equal and opposite theory in China that covid came from the us. I just did a search for "covid us" on Baidu and this is the third result https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/114737709

along with suggested search queries "Is the new crown virus caused by the United States?" "Is the new crown pneumonia a virus released by the United States?"

(crown = omicron, I'm pretty sure)

I think there is a real possibility that covid is a lab leak, but it's impossible to find the truth when everyone is eager to point the finger at (other ethnic group)
I expected wifi sensing to be exploited when I saw the tech demo years ago but I did not expect it to become a standard.
Development of WRAIR’s Pan-Coronavirus Vaccine Shows Promise
It's worse than that, Mr. "Unix Sheikh." Look up the Unix Hater's Handbook.
Personally I've used SVGs and linear gradients to achieve a smooth gradient and blurs. I made a CodePen about blurs several year ago: https://codepen.io/toastal/pen/NAVybq
Li-Fi: A New Wireless Alternative
Held at Gitmo for 20 yrs wo trial, petitions Biden for release. He also paints
Wait what? So we agree that they didn't find the oroginal reservoir, just a similar virus, right? Meaning, that it's not a zootoc link, as you previously asked for. You understand that it isn't possible anymore, because the current SARS-CoV-2 would almost certainly displace them now that it's endemic, correct?

So why do you expect the same thing to happen now that it's very unlikely, knowing that there is no way to know that these viruses actually are the ancestors and may very well have been cousins of SARS, that would have disappeared if SARS was more contagious.

To find an actual virus that is actually an ancestor of SARS, we had to wait until 2017. What you cited wouldn't meet the criteria you yourself set forth, and for this virus it would be impossible to find on the same timeframe. So I really don't get neither how this validates your point that we would expect to find the zoonitc link in a year, nor even how it would fit into an argument that it's unexpected we didn't find this.
Is it really the best "pure engineering" decision to make like 10 clients instead of one Web application?
Does anyone have good data on comparing deaths per mile driven between various auto brands?

This data, https://www.tesladeaths.com/, doesn't tell us much if accurate, other than Tesla crashes don't seem to be any kind of real problem in an absolute sense.
dishonesty in the Telegraph in this case might be caused by scientific illiteracy, that is to say they might honestly have thought that their selective quotations were a reflecting the message of the longer quote.

Or maybe I'm being too lenient in attributing to incompetence and not malice here.
> There are all kinds of forms of cooperation between countries: economic, political, financial, scientific, legal, regulatory, transportation, trade, military, etc.

Oh, for sure. Those are certainly the broad categories of foreign policy and cooperative (and coercive) action.

I appreciate the specific ideas. I really am just curious what others’ ideas are on specific actions that could be taken if there was suddenly definitive proof tomorrow of origins.