skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't necessarily mean anything, I also became sick with flu-like symptoms in November 2019. 3 people could very well be one guy showing up to work when he should've called in sick and then coughing at a meeting.
This quote is not actually a point against the lab leak theory, because it addresses the issue of lab creation, not lab leak.

This is a very long piece based on extensive interviews in China, and as such I thought it gave some interesting context. But the author is so openly trying to defend the Chinese at every turn, it felt like reading a long attempt at spin control.
Look at the split rear window on the Prius; it does exactly that. If the driver is tall and turning their neck, or short and using the center mirror, the sight-line from the driver's seat extends below the rear seats and down into what would ordinarily be the tailgate.

You can't see the pavement under the bumper, but you can see a kid on a tricycle right behind the car.

Personally I find rear view cameras to be quite disorienting. The view is quite distorted by the wide-angle lens and it's not clear where it can see and where it can't. Do I still have blind spots if I look at only the screen? Where are they? With a mirror I get an intuitive sense of what it can and can't see. Also, I expect the view to move when I move my head like in a mirror, which is part of what makes it so easy to get a sense of where the mirror can see. I suppose someday I'll get used to cameras, but today is not that day.
Stephen Hawking exhibition hopes to unravel the mysteries of his blackboard
> I guess I just like my tech stack to be as open and unrestrictive as possible.

Note that this is another area where you have this user vs. developer trade off.

- GPL or other copyleft licenses will put the user's rights above the developer's.

- MIT or BSD-style licenses will favor the developer rights above the end user's.

"open and unrestrictive as possible" is all relative depending on whether you are a user or a developer.

> The argument that Apple provides more safeguards is a bit flimsy in my opinion.

My point is that this is a market where people value different things.
I value the safeguards Apple is putting in. I find they do a better job at it than their competition. But I fully understand that other people do not think so, or that they value other things more.

What I don't particularly like is some of these people turning to the State to force Apple to do things differently.
Prob shouldn’t be eating meat from China anyway. Due to the lack of regulations the animals are not given vaccines and such to prevent known illnesses in livestock. Tho there was an article a few years ago which said this is changing, some farms are now taking the hit on cost to vaccine their livestock as people are avoiding the meat in favour of imported meat for safety.
we'll fix all these gender inequality problems once parents stop making such a big deal about gender. girls are not respected because they are raised to be shiny princesses with no real power while boys often have violence issue as in the article because they are raised to be "tough". the parents need to fix this because it starts from day 1
But supposing the robot is "guilty". How (or why) would anyone punish it? Put it in jail? I don't think it will mind. So what would be the point of finding it guilty? Rather, it would make more sense to, in some way "fix" the robot.

Same would be true of people, were they easily "fixed".
Digital art auction raises more than $52 mln for WikiLeaks' Assange
This is awesome! - just signed up to get A Tale of Two Cities (want to see what all the hype is about)

I have a google scripts that set up to email myself my personal goals in the morning, and now I want to set up an application to let other people create 'SMART goals' and set up a recurring email similar to how you it set up for Daily Read.

Do you have a blog or some content on how you went about setting this up? I'm stuck on figuring out how to let each user schedule their emails - willing to compensate you for your help! (azum61)
On the other hand: I don't have to care for the train, house it, or clean up after it. So maybe the analogy does work... :)
That first sentence is an entirely subjective take, and one that I disagree with entirely.
From: "Letters to a young poet" by Rainer Maria Rilke

> If, as a result of this turning inward, of this sinking into your own world, poetry should emerge, you will not think to ask someone whether it is good poetry. And you will not try to interest publishers of magazines in these works. For you will hear in them your own voice; you will see in them a piece of your life, a natural possession of yours. A piece of art is good if it is born of necessity. This, its source, is its criterion; there is no other.
Morocco or southern Spain isn't that far away.
Program in Canada gives doctors the option of prescribing national park visits
> Right. It’s our fault, that is, men’s. We live in a society in which we we have disproportionately had the power. And this is the result.

I find gender blaming conversation to be reductive. The decline of men and boys is not men's fault nor is it women's fault. Dare I say there's little data to show either way, nor is it really helpful in healing from a dysfunctional society that has failed you on a systemic and individual level.

Even worse, the way some people will wave their hands and use the word "power" to justify why men should be successful is pure misandry and a misunderstanding of the availability and avenues of power. A boy that grows up with an undiagnosed learning challenge is not afforded power or privilege, despite blanketly being regarded as powerful due to their gender. Parallel examples to this are countless.

> Why are women doing better in certain areas?

Easy. Feminism. It's the societal block for the broader representation of a spectrum of views that are women-centric that has significant force in society. They provide programs that are often woman-exclusive, advocate and raise alarms on issues, etc... There is nothing like this for men because modern rhetoric opposes the idea that men can be a victim to much of anything.

The point of the post seems to be, "Maybe stop treating men and boys like the villains in their own story, don't make scarecrows out of other groups as has been historically done, and use positivity to create a culture that men want and strive to be a part of."
Most of the SoCs in the article were already several years old when it was written. The article focuses on parts that are (relatively speaking) easily solderable by hand. Most new SoCs focus on small size and will come in 0.5mm pitch BGA packages or smaller, where PCBs start becoming sharply more expensive and placement requires a decent amount of skill.

> My all time favorite SoM was the CHIP Pro, but sadly at $7 (or was it $13?) it was indeed too good to be true and the company went out of business.

The CHIP was just a cheap board based on the Allwinner R8, which is basically an Allwinner A13, which is in the same product family as the Allwinner A33 in the article.

There are actually a lot of cheap SBCs based on the cheap Allwinner parts out there. The CHIP had great execution and some novel in-browser upgrade features, but I don't know how they planned to make money by selling things basically at cost. Apparently they didn't have any idea either, because they spontaneously went out of business and disappeared.
I agree. It's not wise to encode business rules into the database. However, there are certain kinds of constraints that are still valid, specifically if they are data structure constraints (like a value must be >= 0).
> I thought murder was the killing of a human by another human?

No, the killing of a human by a (legal) person (which includes both natural persons and all other things subject, in their own being, to the law as an actor rather than mere property, such as corporations) is homicide. For the question to even be coherent, one must presuppose that HAL is considered a legal person — a subject of legal responsibility — but humanity is not required.

Murder is unlawful (phrased another way, “without legal excuse”, self-defense is an excuse, for instance) homicide with malice aforethought. (“malice aforethought” includes, but is not limited to, intent to kill; see, e.g., the felony murder rule, depraved heart murder, etc.)
Paying for services isn't piracy...so what are you trying to say exactly?
Neither originated in wet markets that we know of. Both appear to have been circulating in the community before the first cases were reported:

https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/34/Supplement_2/S58/459...

> In summary, the present evidence indicates that the H5N1 strains that caused the Hong Kong 1997 outbreak were reassortants from multiple cocirculating avian influenza virus strains

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC3323155/

> On January 2, 2003, two cases of atypical pneumonia in the city of Heyuan, Guangdong Province, were associated with transmission of infection to several healthcare workers at the hospital (5). Investigation by the Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention led to the identification of clusters of cases in six other municipalities (Foshan, Jiangmen, Zhongshan, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhaoqing) from November 2002 to mid-January 2003.
Working with asp .net core then intermittently jumping into different stacks in other projects is blowing my mind. Lots of "Node wants how many packages to do this?"
The majority of couples meet on Tinder these days. Your advice is outdated
Seasons in futurama are variable - Disney puts it as 10 seasons, with the films being season 6

There were great episodes in the post films, on the whole id put 95% of episodes as good or excellent, very few haven’t stood the test of time, before or after the films (although I wasn’t too keen on the films themselves, especially the undoing of Jurassic Bark)
Bitfinex Robbery
I've had all these same feelings. At some point you are going to have to do some level of marketing. Maybe that that is sharing your project on Hacker News, Product Hunt, or Reddit. Or maybe that means dumping $10k into facebook ads. You could have the best product in the world but if nobody knows about it, you won't make a dime.

If you have money, then you might be able to outsource this if it's too overwhelming. I found a great Facebook ads guy by just going to reddit/r/facebookAds and messaging someone who seemed like they knew what they were talking about.

Another trick is to just make something with a virality score greater than 1. Meaning on average, each user brings in at least one more user. Then you really only have to market to one person (on average ;)
The first picture shows the tail blade, not the main blade.
How about putting panels in space?
Is that Elon Musk's theme music?
"Indigenous archaeologist argues humans may have arrived here 130,000 years ago"
at https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/indigenous-archaeologist-argu...

"We're supposed to believe that early hominids got to northern Asia 2.1 million years ago and then for some reason didn't go any farther north," Steeves explained. "A few thousand more kilometres, they would have been in North America. So it does not make any sense whatsoever."

There is also a link to a great podcast, and she has a book out too: "The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere"
That’s more a red flag for that company.
I've had several discussions with friends about how I think AI should be more modular. You could have a general model which, eg. classifies an object as a "fruit" then passes it off to a separate, more specialised model which could classify that fruit as a "banana".

This way you can improve your fruit classifier without needing to make changes to the general classifier. I think it also opens up the possibilities for things like having a general "offline" model on a smartphone but when connected to the internet it could make use of more specialised models.

It would also be cool if you could download offline models for things you're particularly interested in, like birds species etc.

I think one of the problems with having a really large AI that attempts to classify everything would be a sort of "tunnel vision" problem and eventually the AI has to make a guess as to what something is instead of saying "best I can do is this is an animal, but let me go ask a buddy of mine who's an expert on animals".
100% of Australians knows what a servo[0] is

[0] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Servo
Depending on what database server you are on you might not he constrained to just SQL.

Now, PSQL isn't exactly all that friendly of a language either, but it does you to somewhat break stuff up into functions and reuse code across different SQL statements.
>I also don't see why or how that would matter.

It does not. In the big scheme of things it really does not; I am on the same page as you there.

Now, I want explicitly point out that if reported then surely that leaves some non-zero work for @throwawaysea who wrote:

>Anything can be construed to be a safety issue ... If you think exchanging information is dangerous to the point that it requires censorship, then you’re arguing for authoritarianism and tyranny.

Right? Because by that analysis HN is conspiring in censorship or is censoring.

Be clear: not my position at all. The HN complaint was: hey, keep it professional and naming calling isn't professional. I stand corrected there.

The larger point is:

- I do not feel nor would I argue I was censored; certainly not

- it is not the case communication for or against some issue X is censorship

- taking responsibility isn't necessarily censorship

- we are not helped to better assess issues that leave the domain of petty, serious, or deep disagreement into censorship and tyranny by confusing inanimate things with the people above it that put those assets to work.

Again, apologies for losing my cool.
Interesting, I thought a lot of male words are related to games as well.

aileron/azimuth/strafe: flight games
bushido/yakuza/katana: martial arts or Japanese games
howitzer: strategy games
checksum: downloading games
degauss/teraflop: stuff for playing games
shemale: ...okay maybe not this one...
There have been several endings, devils hands, wild blue yonder, clockwise and Bender’s prediction and Meanwhile

I am confident that they will be able to continue to make great episodes and end them if needed.
There's nothing userspace about this, you are using a tun device with the actual kernel IP stack.
That was also Mazda. It caused some trouble for 99% Invisible listeners: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-roman-mars-mazda-...
The nice thing about one line answers to complex questions is how simple and short they are.

The not so nice thing is how wrong they are.
No it isn't.

If lock = 1, you set the lock to 1 (aka do nothing).

If the lock is 0, you know it is unlocked and know you succeeded in acquiring the lock.

If many threads try to atomic swap, only one of them gets the zero.

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The real issue here is the subtle memory barrier bug in that code.
DNS block twitter, news and all other social. Give it a week and you will probably feel much better mentally.
This will save thousands and thousands of designer/developer/producer hours.
With any WireGuard server or a custom tailscale server/service?
Thanks for writing this out! I am in a very similar spot. Just resigned. I think it's ok to enjoy the perks, but at some point hypocrisy it takes is a bit too much
Toxic masculinity is literally masculine behaviors that end up harming the doer or the people around them — that’s why it’s called toxic. If you think it’s too politically charged then unhealthy masculinity is fine too.

Toxic masculinity is not solely men’s fault. It’s a systematic issue that is perpetuated by everyone.

Unhealthy independence is a good example. From the individual it’s “I don’t need anyone”, refusing help, and not forming connections. The worst manifestation of this is having to literally fight the men in my life to see a doctor for like glaringly obvious issues. It’s infuriating how many guys see it as emasculating. But from society it’s “glad to hear, because we’re not gonna offer you any help”, make you out to be a failure if you dare ask, and all media portrayal is going to make macho lone wolf archetypes seem cool and something you should strive for.
What closed ecosystem?

Nothing becomes any more closed if you switch the ISA of the CPU used in your VPS to aarch64. The only closed ecosystem here is AWS itself, but what takes power away from you is using non-EC2 services like DynamoDB.

In fact the Arm ecosystem is way more open, because there are SoCs that can run completely blob-free firmware (e.g. from Marvell), which is just not happening with any modern Intel/AMD system.
It's all about the way you frame it to yourself. Technically, even writing docs is marketing.

If you feel "corrupted" when writing docs, then I'm truly sorry. If not, then just try to reframe it in your mind as "writing docs" for your users. If your audience is technical, then they'll appreciate the emphasis on actual details.

Also, even docs often start with a "dumbed down" explanation of what something does. It doesn't mean devs are dumb. It's just important to communicate the value quickly so that people can decide if you want to dwell deeper.

Basically, your landing page is a summary and your deep dives are the "advanced" pages of your website. It's all possible _without_ marketing buzzwords too!

Beyond that, I'd say blogging is huge too. Just write about stuff you find cool and it'll help get eyeballs on your stuff. It doesn't have to be specific to your product. Just having content that people like helps you build your branding and get some early traction.

Obviously there is more to it than this, but that's at least a good way to help get you out of this "mental rut". Cheers!
Shut up and take my money

(Like seriously I’m not american, what’s Hulu? I get my streaming fix on Disney Plus)
> people jumping from the fact that there is a lab in Wuhan to the conclusion that it must have come from there

The Wuhan Institute of Virology is China's premier virology research lab, its first biosafety level 4 lab, and one of the very few (or only one?) that was doing gain-of-function research. Wuhan has a population of 12M, which is just under 1% of China's population.

The fact that the virus emerged there, of all places in China, is non-conclusive but highly suggestive circumstantial evidence.
> I literally knew all of the male words and zero of the female ones (I’m male)/

I find it kind of astounding that someone can know what aileron or azimuth is, but not what a doula is. The former I have never, ever encountered, whereas I feel like doulas come up as a routine topic in culture.
Same here, except I did manage to find the original transaction ID, and they still wouldn't give me access to my account. They acknowledged (after several months' wait time) that the ID was correct, but they claim the account is associated with a different email address -- even though the PayPal receipt is still in my inbox! And until I can guess which incorrect address is in their records, they won't reset the password.

(This contradicts their written policy, which says that even if you lose access to the original email address, the transaction ID should be enough to recover the account. When I pointed this out to their support representative, they ignored me and closed the ticket.)
We will need an infinite impossibility drive to break the light barrier. ;-)
> When it comes to cryptocurrencies, the feds have reasonable doubt on everyone. So it is always possible for them to get a search warrant.

Any evidence on this?
A Children's Book about Cultured Meat
Man, Futurama had the perfect ending. Why mess with that?
I think we should treat it as if an animal killed a human. We don't call that murder. If a dog kills a human, I think it is usually put down? Not sure if a whale does it. So it may depend. But in any case, murder I think is reserved for conscious killing of a human by another human.
> I guess you have more faith than I do that a human vested with these large sums will apply it appropriately.

I agree that humans can be greedy, etc. But that's why we have a judicial system. When you look at history, the Islamic scholars took their faith extremely seriously. Their accounts and biographies are not something you'd find in Western texts, but those exceptional people truly did exist. And because of them, we had things like the Islamic Golden Age.

The governments today have way more money on their hands don't they? Especially with the insane taxation rates we see. You allude to this point when you mention secular welfare systems. But history shows otherwise when Islam was applied.

> Umayyad had a variety of religions of persons overseen by their caliphate

Islam was the dominant religion, and the majority of the population were Muslims. The non-Muslims had to pay Jizya (limited to able men, i.e. not women, children, old men, or religious priests).

One of the categories of people who are eligible to receive Zakat, are those whose hearts are inclined toward Islam. Other than that, I don't think non-Muslims receive it. That being said, poor and needy non-Muslims are definitely eligible for charity (Sadaqah), and it is the responsibility of a functioning government to ensure that its population is well taken care of. Islam guarantees the rights of non-Muslims, and is very strict about it.

> I'd also be interested in seeing the citation that poverty didn't exist under this caliphate.

I didn't claim that no poverty existed in the entire Caliphate. As you know, the Caliphate spanned several regions and districts. I mentioned the Iraqi district, but I came across this question[1], which mentions that the mayors of the Libiyan and Tunisian regions wrote to Umar ibn AbdulAziz that they could not find a needy person to give them Zakat, so he responded to give it to the poor among the Jews and Christians. They replied that still no one took it, and they were no needy among them, so Umar replied to leave it in the market for anyone to take as they need. When still no one took it, Umar ordered to purchase slaves and free them.

I'll have to validate the authenticity of this specific account, but the notion that during Umar's rule, in certain districts there were no poor people left to accept Zakat is established.

> If I wanted to enforce Zakat via inflation, I would mandate people to hold their money in bank

Ah I see. It's prohibited in Islam to hold someone's money against their will, so there goes that :)

[1] https://islamqa.info/ar/answers/182393/%D8%AD%D9%83%D9%85-%D...
At the time, how to make bagels was not widely available information. The union tightly controlled their trade secrets and shut down any shop that didn't work with them. Membership was limited to family members of early members. Sounds like controlling the labor supply to me, though I understand that this is an opinion and others may disagree. All of this is material you can find fairly readily documented.

Should that prove insufficient, I refer you to a 1913 essay by Booker T Washington: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1913/06/the-neg...

Choice quotes include:

> One does not have to go far to discover the reason for this. In several instances Negroes are expressly excluded from membership in the unions. In other cases individual Negroes have been refused admittance to unions where no such restrictions existed, and have been in consequence shut out from employment at their trades.

The essay details several specific instances.

My point is not that unions are inherently exclusionary. My point is that they can be and occasionally have been put to that use, effectively limiting labor supply. Much like pre-unionism guilds often were.