skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seed rounds are a form of investment, and debt crowds out private investment.
Can someone give me an ELI5 on how lab-grown viruses work? (or point me to resources to learn more)

Is the process mostly trial and error? Do you just mutate something a lot then study its properties? If so, are typical labs chock-full of these world ending viruses and one happened to escape, or are the dangerous viruses typically "rare"?

How much "engineering" can you do? Do you have levers to control the virality and deadliness? Can you specify it to only target people with specific genes?

What's the barrier to entry in terms of knowledge/cost/equipment? Can someone google the covid genome sequence go "print" it out easily?

Basically I'm trying to understand the risk of having some depressed grad student unleash covid 2.0 upon the world.
A lot of these questions don’t really matter and are a waste of time.

The only real questions to ask imo are:

1. How is performance/promos determined?

2. How are peoples interpersonal skills in other teams?

In the first question, look out for cues regarding inefficiencies or resentment about the performance process.

In the second one, the interviewer can discuss whether people are cooperative or assholes without being too specific about their own team dynamics.

That’s pretty much all you can expect a random employee in a company to be able to provide accurate information about.

The questions about wfh policy and org structure are best left to the recruiter.

The other questions about learning opportunities, flexibility of roles, working hours and how people get along are just going to be met with drivel about how the company is the best place to work at on all these categories.
In many Western legal systems, to prove a crime like Murder there is normally two things the prosecution must demonstrate:

That you A. Carried out the act; typically known as the Actus Reus, and
That you B. Had the guilty intent or mind, typically known as the Mens Rea.

This is why the defense of "insanity" exists in so many legal systems; if you were insane you cannot satisfy condition B and therefore cannot have committed a crime such as murder, even if you performed the act of killing another human while insane.

However, this is a very accademic distinction in practice in most places. There is usually a second slightly lesser crime known as something like "Manslaughter" or "Culpable Homicide", which is in essence a Murder charge without B - you killed someone but it was an accident for example - you didn't actually mean for them to die. Such cases satisfy the Actus Reus but not the Mens Rea of murder, and are therefore often known as a crime other than "murder" itself.

The above is an absolute butchering of Western Criminal law practices, but the general distinction between the action and the intent to perform the action is found in a lot of places, and a Murder charge often requires prosecution to demonstrate both Actus Reus and Mens Rea or the charge cannot stand. The Manslaughter charge is sometimes the fallback position for when proving Mens Rea beyond reasonable doubt for Murder fails.

The elevator pitch for this entire article is really, "Was Hal capable of mens rea - yes or no?" So far no machine has ever reached that bar, at least to my knowledge! No one really doubts a machine can do the actus reus - of course it can.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actus_reus

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manslaughter

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culpable_homicide
OpenTTD has multiplayer.
> It could have happened. [...] This isn't some fringe crackpot theory

Those contentions don't follow. Yes, if covid existed in Wuhan as a sample under study, it absolutely could have been leaked. The question is whether it was or not, and your "could have" doesn't speak to that.

The linked article does, a little. It's not great evidence but it's something, and the sequence seems to be an early/transitional variant that hasn't been heretofore attested. That's something.

But prior to this? There wasn't anything but some general circumstantial evidence that coronaviruses were under study and that maybe that involved gain of function research. So arguing for a lab origin yesterday was, if not "crackpot", at least premature.

Today? Maybe, I guess? I think if nothing else this opens up an avenue of investigation. There are probably a lot of samples in freezers around the world that passed through the handful of Chinese institutions in question in 2019. If more of those turn up, then I think the "fringe" folks may actually have something.

But you don't get to argue for something like that (literally accusing people of being responsible for the most damaging public health event of the last century) before you have the evidence.
I think factory floor robots will be a grey area before elevators. As long as things are deterministic then "fault" can be ascribed - it was the workers fault for climbing over the barriers, or it was the manufacturers fault for not testing the arm would stop moving in < 1.2 seconds.

But as soon as AI / ML becomes involved, it stops being deterministic and becomes probability. "Judgement" is asked of the robot arm. Is that image a person or a car door.

I think this is likely to hit before cars simply because so many of us drive cars but none of us operate giant robot arms.
> compared to the rest of the Windows family, that is

That's not saying much.
I don't get comments like this. Is there a measure of progress we should be using for this? Not only does this resemble the "where's the flying car I was promised?" complaint but it ignores the very real realities that a lot of progress is measured in increments that have a way of sneaking up on you exponential-style. Solar energy, for instance, was not a huge announcement, but it was a steady trickle of learning curve improvements (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25265819)

Do you remember ten years ago when nobody had heard of mRNA or CRISPR? Or fifteen years ago when neural networks were a dead end and SVM were all the rage?

I'm not saying fusion is the "best thing" or have any insight as to where it might be in the curve of adoption, but it feels weird to be making a race out of fusion with these other technologies.
Thanks, I think I am done with both Microsoft and Minecraft unless they reverse the requirement to switch over to a Microsoft account. I'm simply not going to do that. Hopefully some lawyers get involved, as I really wonder if this is legal. I paid for a Minecraft account not a Microsoft one, and they are not equivalent.
The founder is pretty active on hn[1]. And coincidentally, his most recent comment is about why it makes sense to work at an energy company as part of market research.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=diafygi
On a similar note, I highly recommend the documentary "The Sweatbox", which is a behind-the-scenes look at the process behind the creation of "The Emperor's New Groove". It was originally meant to be a very different, more serious film, but despite all the effort into creating the storyboards, characters, music etc the producers rejected it and they had to change direction. The documentary was never supposed to be released, but it eventually was leaked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sweatbox

https://archive.org/details/SweatboxDocumentaryUneditedVersi...
Awesome, this is a killer promo for Fly btw :D
It seems like the definition stretches enough for "chimp A murdered chimp B", or even the abstract use "murdered the environment". It's kill, but with an element of premeditation?
I don't consider HAL a form of AGI so probably would say no
No you're directly wrong, and its not absurd. The affects of those childhood books (and of course, the views and behaviors outside of literature of people who choose how to distribute them!) have a huge affect on someones life. Early childhood development is disproportionately important in someones growth as an adult.

The cultural affect of childrens books, tv shows etc doesn't stop in a classroom. Teachers are often complicit in furthering stereotypes and tropes throughout someones academic career. But again, someones home environment, even when smaller in time than a classroom will be more impactful.

Women do better in the classroom, but despite their performance, report that they feel less confident in their abilities than their male peers. At the same time, they say that a stem career would have a great improvement on their life. Then they choose to pursue another field, and you're interpretation is that they must like fashion more as a nature of human biology? THAT is absurd.

Again, if you ever talk to women in stem (or those who left stem), you'll quickly find tons of people who directly tell you why they act and think the way they do. And it is what i've been saying - they're being made to feel like they don't belong explicitly and implicity. I can confidently say you've never had a serious conversation with a woman about this topic based on how you discuss this.
Node runtime that sandboxes all NPM dependencies by default
I was poking around on the internet a bit earlier and I found this project. It looks pretty cool, and I figured perhaps a few of y'all might find it cool too!

I have no idea if it actually sandboxes networking by default. This other project, endo[0], seems to add some of that functionality.

Regardless of the maturity though, it makes me excited to see this type of work getting done now!

(What made me want to research it was this[1] thread from the other day.)

0: https://github.com/endojs/endo

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30215212
Most families need two incomes in my experience.

"This means the easiest way to get back to a one-income family is to lower womens’ wages again, so you probably shouldn’t wish for it."

There's no connection to this and the rest of your post. It also assumes that families don't need two incomes to stay out of poverty or off of assistance.

The easiest ways according to your post is to make a family poor or rich.
> Yeah, and that's a reason to swing swastika flags...

What percentage of protesters is swinging swastika flags?
The bad suburbs theory sounds plausible, but it has a big problem: it predicts that cities will be less dysfunctional than suburbs, but in reality they are anything but — things are way worse in the cities.
This is one of the problems with a company my friend is at. They do intake without preference to a specific team. They also do re-orgs every 3 to 6 month, so even if they did, the team you interview for might not exist for long anyway. He's on his third team in less than a year. People randomly get moved around due to dysfunction, etc.
Your page says the same number as the parent for a bachelor degree: $28950.

All the other numbers you see that are higher are graduate degrees. Comparing a medical student debt (4+ years more of school beyond the 4 of undergrad, residency, perhaps a specialty on top) to only a 4 year degree is not representative of the vast majority of student debt.
It’s important to remember that we are not necessarily talking about going back to the broken old Windows model, where any app could do anything as long as you entered the admin password.

AKA, a "computer."

My computer.
Under some conditions they do [0]. How useful it ends up being depends on your data - pretty effective in my experience.

[0] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/storage-toast.html
What we talk about when we talk about ‘root cause’
yea, just "draw the rest of the owl" :-D
https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-1177047/v1_covere... - The study in question
I know what a thermistor is. Masculine as fuck
Stripe Launches 'Tap to Pay on iPhone' Beta Program Ahead of 'Spring' Release
My 2017 Ford Fusion does over wifi.
> The China Shock combined with America's threadbare social safety net starts looking more salient.

The threadbare safety net is definitely a huge driving force on that.

However, what we need to get past is "Your job is your worth." This needs to end. There are simply not enough "good jobs" to go around.

We have changed from the primary employers being US Steel, GM, etc. (manufacturing) to the primary employers being WalMart, Amazon, and UPS (logistics). The quality of job loss in changing from manufacturing to logistics is gigantic. And no matter how much manufacturing you bring back (which I think we ought to do as well), you will not easily reverse that.
It seems to me like many of these arguments boil down to "Boo, Facebook!" scare tactics.
step 0: if you’re single and think you NEED to work 60 hrs/wk to survive, quit BS’ing yourself. get a roommate and split the rent.

step 1: gather some savings and take an honest (3mo+) break from work.

step 2: take note of which of your habits actually change when freed from the work-imposed time restrictions.

my personal experience: good habits don’t just spontaneously occur out of the vacuum. and social connections don’t just come knocking on your door. you have to decide these things are important to you, motivate yourself, and build your life in support of them.

to the extent that we don’t teach non-job skills in school, that’s a societal failure. if by “capitalism” you’re referring to how much we shape schooling to focus on making you a productive worker, then sure. but this is as much a failure of our democratic systems (which govern schools) and our social norms around child raising (wherein it’s acceptable to believe that govt schooling is the only learning/wisdom a child needs to be given).

“capitalism” is a boogeyman and — without admitting anything of its merits/faults — using it in such a way only serves to keep yourself from understanding the problems you face more concretely.
I'm excited to see the Linux graphic stack improve and suck less, but I'm also not holding my breath as I've seen this entire thing not happen for decades now. I thought maybe Stadia and the other cloud operators would improve the Linux gaming stack, but it didn't really happen.
They wrote and spoke of them as katanas, yes. But you're also talking about a series who treated the Sai as a sharp weapon (which is round and a striking and blocking weapon)... though, I don't think they did this in the comic. It's been a while).
It's disingenuous of the Telegraph journalist not to provide links to, or attributed quotes from, the Hungarian scientists.

After doing some in-depth research to find the original research or reports I've found nothing published by the Hungarian institutions nor Dr Jesse Bloom - the only person quoted in the article. Having dug further I don't take his statements at face value either, for the reasons described below, since there's more than a hint of preconceived bias in his general thrust and previous publications.

I REALLY wish journalists would clearly share published sources to original research and data for such important events rather than stir up controversy without demonstrating a strong foundation. Especially when claiming this is a "finding".

For clarity, I've no opinion on SARS-Cov-2 origin but I do want to see claims well-supported by evidence.

I went looking on both the mentioned Hungarian web-sites [0][1], searched biorxiv, and checked the Bloom Lab [2] publications since the only person quoted is Jesse Bloom [3] who claims to have reproduced (Hungarian) results. In my research I also found a prior report by Bloom in June 2021 [4] reporting 'recovery of deleted files containing partial sequences' [4] that were soon criticised by multiple other scientists; e.g: "...The language of the paper is unusual, its contains a significant degree of supposition and conjecture, cites blog posts..." [5].

[0] https://univet.hu/en/research/topics/

[1] https://www.elte.hu/en/facts

[2] https://research.fredhutch.org/bloom/en/publications.html

[3] https://research.fredhutch.org/bloom/en/members.html

[4] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.18.449051v1....

[5] https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/23/health/coronavirus-sequen...

Updated: just discovered there's a recent github repo [6] created by Bloom with much more detail. Telegraph should really have pointed to this.

[6] https://github.com/jbloom/PRJNA692319_public

Update 2: Pre-print [7] of the Hungarian report (see [6] for details as to why it was rejected by Biorxiv several times).

[7] https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1330800/v1
That's true. I guess if all the app developers pulled their apps out of the app store, the larger companies could just come in with their own version of all the apps.
My experience a decade ago was so Comcastic that when we moved to a new city I went with 16/8Mbps DSL rather than deal with them again. That was consistently faster than my “up to” 40-something/15Mbps Comcast package had been.
It's a nonsensical idea that serves a narrative, so it's promoted by ignoramuses. Check.

Take this "actual point" to its logical ... well, I was going to say "conclusion", but it occurs to me that there's no point here at all. The unemployed are not happy? The ultra-wealthy know better than to incite class wars? No idea.

But anyone who coins the term "wordcel" to label a group they are not a part of, certainly seems to have ill intent.
I would hope that support would consider reversing the ban, considering that A) you have stuff you paid for you can't use and B) the "abuse" was nearly 15 years ago.
It's a combo of both with automatic flags and manual live reviews.

Reporters without borders reports 2 million employed in government censorship in 2013.
https://rsf.org/en/news/chinas-cyber-censorship-figures
This one is fully remote: https://www.fastcompany.com/90339945/75-of-staff-at-this-suc...

This one is not and is based in California, but I'd still keep an eye on them in case they decide to add remote positions: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/21/magazine/auti...
Thanks, but I'm looking for something free and online.
Thanks for taking the time to share with the world!
That traditional gender roles are good for society
(2020)

previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22000494
Interesting. I appreciate the info.
> I honestly don't know what people think Apple is protecting them from

We've not seen iOS ransomware yet.

https://www.wired.com/story/android-ransomware-worrying-evol...

Although we have seen things that impersonate iOS ransomware.

https://medium.com/macoclock/ransomware-on-ios-a-clever-tric...
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02903-x

it is called Gain of Function research, when zoonotic viruses (such as bats coronavirus) are grafted with proteins (such as Spike protein and its furin cleavage motif) that make it extremely virulent to humans.

Such research on coronaviruses historically has been done at labs in USA and China and considered extremely dangerous (https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.18787)

quoting https://inference-review.com/article/thunder-out-of-china

"You can manipulate [coronaviruses] in the lab pretty easily, it is the spike protein drives a lot of what happens with the coronavirus zoonotic risk. You can get the sequence, you can build the protein. We worked with Ralph Baric at UNC who did this, insert into a backbone of another virus and do some work in the lab. So, you can get more predictive when you find a sequence. … The logical progression for vaccines — if you are going to develop a vaccine for SARS, people are going to use pandemic SARS, but let’s try to insert some of these [other spike genes] and get a better vaccine [72]"
So many episodes! Any recommendations for episodes thata are about hacker busting?
Listening is essential for winning arguments - or you can't counter their arguments.

Listening enables you to "win" a negotiation, by discovering what the other party values, that you might be able to give them. It's predicated on the reality of negotiation, that it's with another person with free-will and autonomy, who will only give you what you want if it makes sense from their perspective. So helps to know what theirs is.

Communication cannot occur without listening. And not just by the "recipient": you need to determine if communication has been successful, or if error correction is required. Words mean different things to different people, in different contexts. The better you understand the other party, the better chance you have of communication. A preliminaries can be helpful to align contexts (get "on the same page"), and then have purpose/concerns understood.
In English, the term murder usually means something closer to "the intentional unjustified killing of a sapient* being."

If it's not intentional, it's not murder, it's an accident. If it is justified, then it isn't murder, it's e.g., self-defense. If the creature killed isn't sapient, then it isn't murder, but it might be animal cruelty.

Note that in order for it to be intentional, the killer must also meet some criteria for sapience, but that's not necessarily the same as being human. For example, in English translations of the Bible, Jesus refers to Satan as "a murderer from the beginning." (John 8:44)
I'm curious about iPhones but not enough to actually switch. Android phones suck in two areas: performance and upgrades.

The fastest Android SoC is as fast as the A12, a three year old chip.

Android phones are lucky to get 1 major version upgrade in it's lifetime and that's usually 6-12s months after the latest version is released.
SSH can do this without any WireGuard:

https://rkeene.org/viewer/tmp/ssh-ip-tunnel.txt.htm
I've had one for ~8 years now I think and never have? I just use it to get early access to betas and such. Which is a valid use case, if you have internal software you want to test or something.
Well, what if they caught you modding Halo 3 again? That would be embarrassing for everyone involved.
How does that match your comment:

> women tend to be more interested in fabrics and fashion and better learn that vocabulary while men are more interested in the science (or science fiction) and technical terms and learn that vocabulary.

So why are there women in stem if they really want to learn about fabrics?

Or, do you really mean that women only enter jobs when men leave openings?
> Will people who were genetically predisposed towards being thin, hard working, open minded to approaching members of opposite sex and forming deep attachments resulting in children become more frequent?

These are not the people right now having more children - it's those who (often at least partly for reasons of disadvantage) have relatively less impulse control and are poorer at long term thinking/planning.

And/or those who are part of a culture that encourages fertility and discourages contraception.

I don't see how current trends point to this changing in the direction you mention. Being young has more to do with thinness than genetics, and most babies are born outside of marriage.

Edit: added qualifications and clarifications
I think the easy data restore is actually a good feature here. The security concern with sideloading is the potential for social engineering. Having iOS display a “Are you sure you want to enable sideloading? Doing this will delete all data on your iPhone.” sounds like it’d be a good deterrent to non-technical users. They’d be worried about deleting their pictures and chat history. More knowledgeable users would know about the data restore functionality and proceed after pulling any local-only data off their device.
Fusion 360 is the same CSG engine as Inventor. It just has fewer features and is tied to "the cloud".

Inventor has pro features such as "would you like a finite element analysis of the weak points in that", and "Warning - gear tooth counts are not relatively prime and may result in uneven wear".
I'll never forget a guy trying to headhunt with:

"Do you see this watch? Genuine rollex. Do you know what it feels like to own one? Probably not, because you don't work for me yet, so you can't afford one".
The accusations are not against Asians. But the inciteful rhetoric has coincided with an uptick in hate crimes against Asians.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7364747/