skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The strongest version of the lab-created theory (in my view) is that they were studying coronaviruses / performing GoF research to understand the danger of coronaviruses. In that case, there would be zero point to using less efficient inserts or using esoteric seamless recombinant techniques to hide restriction sites.

The mere fact that we can make genetic modifications that are well hidden doesn't add any information to the story since there's no evidence at all of anyone in the lab using those techniques and the resulting virus has a bunch of strange mutations that both made it more pathogenic in some respects and much less in others -- but the hard to predict ones made it more pathogenic and the easily missed ones made it less pathogenic.

It's not solely the presence/absence of restriction sites that would indicate a lab-engineered virus. All scientists are basically using the same set of tools in terms of computation models and molecular techniques -- so when you see a spike protein that is "optimized for ACE2 binding" as many breathless people claimed -- you can tell that it actually isn't all that well optimized, and the genetics / stats package that would have been used to design the variant actually indicate several better options if you were trying to achieve high-efficiency ACE2 binding [see the discussion paragraph here: https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/JVI.00127-20]

There are other indicators as well -- the additional proline in the FCS makes no sense from an engineering standpoint since it could very easily corrupt nearby helices, block the protease activity, or mess up binding through misfolding. Any competent engineer would have used a different amino acid there if they were trying to find a spacer -- or would have added another arginine to the beginning of the sequence to roughly double the odds of cleavage.

So you have to simultaneously believe they're very competent at the molecular engineering needed to silently design viruses, but incompetent enough to use inefficient inserts and miss obvious, readily predictable areas to make it more pathogenic. Until we find a precursor virus or a whistleblower, we're down to weighing probabilities and I'd put "engineering using seamless recombination" very, very low on the list.. like below 0.01%.
> And those titles help determine how much Apple employees can make when they leave the company for another job.

Generally wherever you apply will make a leveling determination based on your interview and the skills you demonstrate there. Nobody I've seen relies on your past employers representation of your level when making a leveling decision.
> Another way to be compliant is to not collect PII.

The GDPR extends far beyond the US notion of PII. As I understand it, it covers basically all user-submitted or user-related data if it's possible for that data to be hypothetically tied to an individual in the EU (even if that can be done without your service holding traditional PII).

> As a private individual I suspect you would not have much to stand on if the NSA knocked on your door.

Yeah, a federal agent with a wrench can do anything they want to me (https://xkcd.com/538/), but I'm trying to figure out my options.
The code can update dynamically. You simply have to update the version number and verification hash on your end (same as you would in a package manager). This is still vastly easier than copy-pasting entire repositories into your codebase every time.
>Only repairs that cross “an expected dollar threshold that’s going to be meaningful” trigger a process where Carvana might take the customer aside for a revised bid

a what now? you bought it you deal with it

>Last Friday, I got Carvana’s final answer. The short version? It’s not a bug — at that moment in time, Carvana’s algorithm believed it could pay me that much and still make a profit.

algorithms dont have a belief system, they have bugs. There are tons of 2014 Fits listed at $10-14K all over the place.

It sounds to me like I could flood car marketplaces (optimally ones carvana uses) with grossly inflated sale offers for my particular make/model/year and then sell it to Carvana at hilarious margin.

>Carvana’s executives think of it like a portfolio — there’ll be winners and losers

they might be losing money on every single unit sold, but they make it up in volume! It used to be just a joke, but in todays economy merely having big turnover on paper suddenly produces $Billion$ valuations despite no profit.

Oh look what we have here https://seekingalpha.com/instablog/767332-clastic/5659699-ca...

"with the exception of Q2'21, Carvana has lost money on each and every used car they have ever sold"
A quick scan doesn't seem to indicate if this is bio-degradable, so I'm not 100% sure what "sustainable plastic" means. Maybe someone who understands material science better can answer, because to a lay person this just sounds like "we already had plant-based plastics in the form of PLA".

I am positive that I'm missing something.
Mac Users Say Zoom Is Keeping Mic on Even When Not in Use
If you haven't heard her incredible music before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpuDoR_L0M0

Edit: that link works for me but if not, maybe this one will work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IhCCtcEEFU
>The best one-sentence description of inflation I've heard is: inflation is a hidden tax on savings. People who save money are hurt the most. It's as if the newly printed money is generated by taking a bit from anyone according to how much cash he/she has stored away.

Who are the people who save money? Or rather, more specifically are either holding cash or in bonds whose real-yields are very negative?

Tourists, downpayments, and retirees.

Flipside, who is benefiting the most right now? People who are leveraged the most. Jeff Bezos and amazon isn't building all these warehouses out of pocket. These are all being financed and amortized for 25 years at tremendously low rates with real yields in the negatives. Or rather Jeff Bezos is being paid HUGE money to take on debt.

Retirees are getting poorer by the day giving their money to Bezos.

High inflation disproportionally benefits the ultra rich by huge degrees.
At this point I’ll believe a court of law, at the conclusion of the trial.
Nt 4.0 was not "widely popular". And people heard about MIPS, Alpha and PowerPC ports from newspapers. As far as a i heard almost nobody ran those ports.
Has there been more recent news since this?: https://www.nme.com/news/tv/king-of-the-hill-reboot-greg-dan...
> The juice just ain't worth the squeeze.

Thus triggering the headline "missed user growth estimates".
>> which LN is determined not to do.

What's the source of your opinion?
Hack Lang: Contexts and Capabilities
Twitter optimises for engagement. That's not optimising for controversy, but it's close. Shiri's scissor statements[0] aren't the fault of the people writing the training data; they're the fault of the people making them.

Twitter doesn't synthesise things, but it fosters an environment where people are driven to write more controversial, outrageous, engaging things by tight-loop-feedback classical conditioning. It's not magic – the people posting such things are partly to blame – but Twitter wouldn't have half as many problems if it just showed random tweets to people. Instead, it shows people what it thinks will keep people on Twitter; short term, that works, but long-term it destroys Twitter's value (and value of everything Twitter touches, as a side effect).

[0]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
> You have to aggresively curate your For You page constantly to stop TikTok from throwing a bombastic opinion piece at you

As you regularly hear people say about TikTok.. "ive never seen that on my FYP". I think honestly you react in a certain way to the opinion pieces dude. Do you comment on them? Share them? Linger? Just scroll on and leave it alone...
Answering here because there's a thread depth limit.

> Free content and services. What do you lose in exchange?

Privacy. What I do shouldn't really be anybody else's business.

An ad-targeted web. IMO ads are a plague on useful content, because everything is about getting views and clicks. This makes actual content less useful and more annoying to consume. It incentivizes posting low effort, watered down content rather than smaller amounts of great content. It also means content creators are trying to please the advertiser, and not me.

Risk of manipulation. Lots of effort has gone into figuring out how to best manipulate people, and when you know who somebody is and how to best tailor any given message to them, you can get pretty far. I'm quite sure that I also have buttons that can be pushed if somebody knows how, and I don't particularly like the thought of that.
I can reach this site on Linux just fine but when sharing with someone using windows Malwarebytes rewrites DNS for this site to 127.42.0.2 and I am curious if anyone knows why.
EdgeDB is built on an extension of the relational data model that we call the graph-relational model. This model completely eliminates the object-relational impedance mismatch while retaining the solid basis of and performance of the classic relational model.

I don't see how can they retain the performance of the relational model when using graphs on top of PG unless they are using PG as storage k/v layer only.
This assumes that the only possible cause of inflation is fiscal deficit monetization. This is just wrong.

You could have scenarios where the central bank does not change policy but money supply increases because banks are lending more money and therefore using the discount window more.

Also people could expect more inflation in the future, so they try to get rid of cash faster to buy goods. This increase in money velocity will also increase inflation.
I'm also European and I completely agree with you. They're basically taking the whole EU as a hostage to protect their own inefficient domestic companies =(
I mean Marshall McLuhan's entire career is practically about this.

A medium of communication is not neutral. A book is not just word of mouth stories written down. There is a feedback loop in there that a book becomes something entirely different.

I mean if we take things to extremes and make a platform that we can only communicate with 4 letter words, what words do you think are going to dominate engagement and take over the platform?
If US intelligence wants to have access, they will, via their law, as far as I understand. They will require Alphabet to give the data, Alphabet will get it from Google, and that is it. No need to listen or intercept anything.

Best thing you can do is not to make use of GA in the first place, so that no such data of visitors of your websites exists in Google infrastructure.
It is, if they log the visitors' IP addresses. _Some_ private individuals do have their own resolvers, after all.
and i thought there was no innovations in the TI84 space, the calculator hasn't changed in practically 2 decades
Instead of "people controlling our social structure" it seems like you wanted a hyperbolic way to say "people don't save enough money".
That's not a point in favor of advertising, it's a point for the lack of general education around maintenance or mechanical devices among the population. Using pressurized air and soapy water to find leaks in things is a well known technique among those who regularly have to find leaks in things.

I'm sure there was a point in the past where something like this would have been taught in school in a classroom that had all kinds of tools and machinery in it.
> Diaz was awarded $6.9m in damages for emotional distress and $130m in punitive damages, in what is believed to be the largest such verdict of its kind.

If I heard my company just did that, I'd make damn sure I'd have something to file a complaint about too.
Say we trade and I give you an apple. In return you give me a note saying "this note is a proof wodenokoto owns me one apple and can be exchange for one apple at any time". What good does making this note depreciate over time serve, except as a pressure for me to demand you return the apple as soon as possible?

It acts as a mechanism which nudges me to lend less apples overall. If inflation is good, why not ramp it up to 200%? At that level it's clear that nobody would accept money and barter would take place instead. And my thinking goes that it is also bad at those lower percentages, except to a lesser degree. I don't see how it can suddenly turn to positive at, say 10%.
Putting a BSD system in your pocket
> Of the four you list, (3) and (4) seem implausible. Why would corporations suddenly have become more greedy? Have fundamental constraints on the housing sector (you mean zoning restrictions, maybe?) suddenly increased?

Those are the 4 I've heard politicians and pundits mention. I could name 20 more, but experts aren't naming them.

3&4 are long standing problems, sure. 3 is the anti-big tech anti-trust crowd. Big Tech makes a substantial portion of the profits in America, and that is fairly recent.

Re: 4. Housing costs are a big portion of the inflation index, so tackling that issue will substantially reduce inflation even if it's not a recent problem. It's also the issue that's best addressed by local politicians, in a way that the other 3 can't be.
Google will not confirm your title. They will only say you worked there.
So like most tech unicorns
For reference, Amazon would have had $1.8 billion in losses had it not been for AWS's insane profit [0].

https://www.geekwire.com/2022/amazon-would-have-posted-1-8-b...
Amen brother. We had webex in my previous job and we needed to install a libpurple plug in for pidgin to make it work...just the chat. The video most of the times worked, but it required quite a lot of button clicking and was a separate web application .

Teams in comparison is heaven video and chat together... Wow. Of course it eats processing power like hungry, is slow and requires thrid party cookies.
That's relative. If food gets more expensive - that money goes to someone, someone who is producing or selling food. Prices cannot increase without someone at the same time making more money.
Maybe I am old, but modern operating systems are so much better than what I had in the 90's that honestly I don't care too much to micro-optimize my personal usage with the perfect operating system. As long as they do power management and external displays well, I don't care too much if using Mac OS, Fedora or Windows 10/11 with WSL.
I feel like the quotes agree with parent:

> “If something happens very slowly over quite some time, maybe over decades, the different parts of the brain take up functions that would normally be done by the part that is pushed to the side,” adds Muenke, who was not involved in the case.
If you are a large majority holder, selling off to a known exploiter is a very risky move. You might be able to realize great profits of the price increases. But you don't know how much the attacker has gathered from other sources. I think realistically it can happen, but a takeover attempt from buying a large stake should be plainly obvious. The community could even organize price fixing (i.e. "hold", which we've seen on WSB) to fend off the attack. You can even pull off something like forking the chain to invalidate the funds of the attacker -- it would be pretty obvious which stakeholders are responsible for the attack. For a chain where those coins are tainted or deleted from the chain.

Those avenues are not really available for PoW chains... if an attacker gets the necessary hardware, there's not much you can do. You can try changing protocol, changing algorithms, etc. but this has obvious consequences of its own (making all mining hardware so far near worthless)... it's a bit scary to be honest.
US senate bill ends forced arbitration in sexual assault and harassment cases
Well if we're going to anecdata, I've held jobs where I started as 'associate' and was promoted to something resembling 'software engineer.' Similarly, in the one where they liked to refer to everyone as associates, that was never a term used in any of the contracts which needed to actually use the word that defines someone as being employed by the company -- employee.

I think some of the blowback you and others are getting for saying 'associate is just employee' is because to many people, 'associate' does have a negative connotation compared to 'employee', and Apple has a history of being hostile to labour; Not to mention that if they really wanted to protect privacy, they could just do what most companies do -- confirm dates of employment, and possibly if they're re-hirable at Apple. Its not unfair to assume Apple isn't doing this out of the benevolence of their hearts.
> I have never encountered a more hostile website, or company for that matter, towards innocuous behavior.

Instagram pulled that same crap a couple of years back, and I haven't visited since.
Yeah the talented people are getting paid 3x as much to work for US companies with like two or three exceptions.
But the article is wrong - it does hurt the poor. The reason is timing.

Prices go up. Then, later, wages go up. That time gap is hard on poor people. The poorer they are, the harder it is.
https://twitter.com/alexeyguzey/status/1490664815039234051

I think the author has been pretty forthright in seeking critiques from professional sleep researchers and neuroscientists.
So how well does revenue tell a story if you have negative unit costs?

If you keep losing money, you eventually run out.
> The unsaid foundation of this obvious bit of snobbery is that only a handful of coastal US cities are suitable for families.

Not obvious snobbery. Lower density means greater distance to and fewer options for child care and other important (or even just nice-to-have) services. Right? Possibly also greater distance to friends, relatives, et c., who could help out.

The rest is from many hours over several years trying and failing to find somewhere cheaper than my dead-center-middle-tier-city (mine's lamer than any of the cheap options you mentioned, except maybe Charlotte, but I wouldn't bet on it) 'burbs that has decent-or-better schools k-12. Conclusion: the choices are to compromise my kids' education, do home schooling, or pay for boarding school (which is not remotely something we could swing for more than, at a great stretch, maybe one kid—and there go all your savings on housing, and then some).

I do not live in a rich coastal city. My house is now over your $408 median but was way under that when we bought it three years ago (and we thought that price was a rip-off, already being way higher than it was about two years prior) and our schools are... good for the area.

In fact I've also struggled to find anywhere I could make a lateral move, price-wise, that would come with significantly better schools than where I am now. The trouble is that those areas are in-demand, so of course prices are higher than areas with worse schools.

What it sure looks like is there are floors on how low you can go in a given price bracket without school quality starting to slip. Realizing significant savings on housing by moving somewhere lamer and with worse local economic opportunities than where I am now, comes at the price of worse schools. To get better schools (short of paying for a good private school) I'd pretty much have to move somewhere more expensive (though, to be clear, not all more expensive places have better schools than my district).

[EDIT] More to the point, my personal situation is pretty OK, actually—less than ideal, but OK—but even in this not-exciting economically-middling city housing prices are rising much faster than young folks can save for them. The point is that young people are getting priced out, even here, they're getting priced out of options like what I've taken, fast. Our house is up something like 35% over 3 years, and we though the price we paid was a rip-off (~20% higher than 2 years before that).
> since the alternative is so unthinkable

In the scientific parts of the ethnographic record (there is a split in anthro between scientists and non-scientists, see e.g. Napoleon Chagnon[0]; basically, he pointed out that the Yanomamo were breeding themselves for violence and was punished for it) the idea that our M.O. in small-scale societies when encountering outsiders, or when invading other groups, is to kill the men and take the women and children (often as slaves) is not all that controversial. See e.g. http://www.nature.com/articles/nature19758

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Chagnon
FTC said that creators and influencers on social media services need to put "sponsored", "promoted" or "ad" tag disclosure on brands they are endorsing so it would be possibly for someone to make uBlock Origin filter which blocks such content.
At the heart of every scam is an offer you cant believe to be real. You clearly see how stupid other party is and how your own cleverness will make you some serious $$$.

"look at those idiots overpaying for used cars" is a perfect advertisement for a scam.
I believe Neanderthals were also less pack oriented, so humans just had bigger powers in numbers.

It's also fascinating that Neanderthals soundly beat us in the first round of incursions, and 50k years later humans presumably wiped them out entirely + all other variations of homonids
…but Arduino code IS c++ code. I don’t believe a distinction would make much sense.
This must be one of the most annoying ads and cookie consent methods I’ve seen on a site
They do, in fact Azure is totally compatible with French law for handling private data. Many large companies use it.
For system-wide blocking (no root required): https://f-droid.org/packages/org.blokada.fem.fdroid

For browser ads, just use Firefox or one of its forks and install uBO.
It's almost like Dorsey knew "when to get out"...
Note the bait switch to Delta when transmission and infection are mentioned.
Nah, they should have...and sooner.
I use Twitter occasionally -- but the real shift in the past year is that all of my family (4 siblings, parents, in-laws, etc) have switched to using Signal. A group Signal chat is a wonderful social media platform, without any advertisements, algorithms, or similar nonsense. Just updates and thoughts from people I care about. It gives me hope that the destructive social media platforms like Twitter and FB will eventually be small compared to actually private communication channels like Signal.
Did you see the scans? The dude's head is practically empty (brain 55-75% smaller than normal) and nobody even noticed until he was 44 years old and got an MRI.
Permit search engines to index GitHub wikis
Win NT was "so good" because it had real multitasking and process isolation. About being a joke i am not sure. 25 years ago the idea of running NT as a server was a nightmare. Today it is the same, for different reasons.
Dang, I meant PostFIX only supports LATIN1.
A must read book to understand AIDS in '80s -> Beyond Love (Plus grands que l'amour) (1990), ISBN 0-446-51438-1

Talks about the discovery of AIDS from Luc Montanier and Robert Gallo

RIP Luc Montanier
There are plenty of caves that show evidence of long-term use of fire and burials, a good indication of habitation. However, it's true that caves were never a primary mode of habitation, just one that was convenient when it could be found... and pretty much the only one that we can see now due to differential preservation.
You may not have direct communication with the decision maker in such situations. The company that does the checks will just mark the exception and push to recruiter. Then depending on organisation a hiring manager may be making the final decision without you even knowing there is a variance. So there will be times when you can point no one to the article.