skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope. It was looking for bat viruses. There is no way to tell if such a virus is even able to infect Humans, without testing it out on Humans.

The grant application is not proof that they either performed such experiments at all, that they did it on that particular virus nor that it worked. And there's still a long distance between a random bat virus with a "furin cleavage site" and something that is good at infecting Humans. All this theory is so far is wild speculation.
Tolkien has released more books than GRRM since A Dance With Dragons came out. Surreal.
What do you mean there is no energy sanctions? https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insight...
I just read an article today that 1 in 7 Belgian missed a meal in the last two weeks due to the inflation and elevated energy prices.
Why do we need to suffer because of an agressive state attacked another one thousands of miles from me?
You are right they might be pre-1917 but they don't seem to mind it. Us in Europe can't exist with pre-1917 tech/mindset.
It looks like it flat lined for the last decade.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PRMNTO01USQ661N
"it’d be a career making move if you could prove something that juicy!"

That's absurd. We know the grant that funded the WIV lab work was signed off by Fauci during a time when GoF research was banned in the USA. If you proved the virus came from a lab funded by the guy who literally funds your colleagues you would never work in the field ever again.
Idk, i haven't been in the industry long enough to compare. Also, i work in security (in north america and not gov), maybe other areas are more pro-cert.
Am I getting this right? You spent 35K on a 5-syllable .io domain to capture traffic from a twitter account with 43K followers who misspelled your actual domain in a tweet? That can’t be right.

In the math you laid out, you have to get 6 subs a year for 10 years on your $600/year plan in order to recoup your investment.

Why would this tweet generate leads for 10 years? Why didn’t you figure discounted cash flows into the calculation? Will 36K be worth 36K in today’s money 10 years from now? 10 months from now?

And now, your hosting provider is rate limiting your website and returning 429. All this HN traffic is going down the chute. Perhaps you should have spent some of that cash on a more robust hosting plan?
I don’t even bother reading the degree or not part when I am hiring. It’s pretty irrelevant. I doesn’t hurt, but none of my top 5-10 hires over the last decade or so have had one. Anecdotal of course.
Oh my oh my... I'd rather bribe a Twitter employee to edit that tweet
Nothing in the short term, but the techniques developed may help advance graph theory in the medium to long term. Pure math has a really long track record of delivering useful developments this way.
We are running a course for exactly this! [0] Technically applications closed already but we will likely have some more space, or we will run another cohort soon so feel free to email me and I will try fit you in.

I also keep a repository of my favourite books and some other resources here [1]

And some very short advice we give to our writers here [2]

[0] https://styleguide.ritza.co/writing-course/

[1] https://github.com/sixhobbits/technical-writing

[2] https://styleguide.ritza.co/improving-your-writing/how-do-I-...
If it really really really has to be free all the time, depending on where you are, there might still be some options:

-city council meetings or other public meetings if you're interested

-free museums or free days in museums (or botanical gardens, aquariums, arboretums, etc.) Many will have a mix of indoor/outdoor space.

-malls and food courts, or the new hipster shopping plazas that are like fancy malls with more iron and wood (common in some areas, not so much others)

-look on TripAdvisor and find cheap/free things

-airports and train/union stations before security

-libraries and universities

-art galleries are often free to browse

-coworking spaces sometimes offer work trade arrangements, if you'd rather pay them in time rather than dollars

-you can hang out at Starbucks and not buy anything and nobody will usually hassle you (I think it's corporate policy after a lawsuit a while ago). It's kinda a dick thing to do though if you're relatively well off and can afford even a basic drip coffee + tip
For a group of people supposedly primarily in the SV area this is a scary comment thread.

I learned to drive stick in the Bay Area and the way everyone I know there drives stick on an incline is to use the parking brake with a second hand when letting off the brake and letting out the clutch.

Now, when you get good you can stop doing this for most, but for really steep streets (I now live in San Diego and we have a couple; Laurel being one) it’s still an excellent skill to have.
By this logic, all startups that have achieved PMF have only done so via word of mouth / organic growth. This is false.

There are a class of startups that do grow this way to PMF (Dropbox, slack- typically multiplayer tools). The rest do so via traditional sales and marketing (mulesoft, launchdarkly - enterprise saas).
You didn't address anything I said. Someone has to go first. Simultaneity is impossible. Some production cannot be exported. They did improve by moving from coal to gas. You're just hand-waving all this away.
How about XPS 13 2-in-1 or HP spectre 360 ? They can be flipped 180-degrees backwards and have pen support. I recently had a post on reddit asking for the recommendation for a linux 2-in-1 laptop: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/comments/vjc8ta/recom...
> A university degree is about more than just the knowledge gained in one's major. It's a signal that the person has had exposure to the breadth of human knowledge. It might be a millimeter deep but the breadth gives them context in which to operate in society.

This may be true of the USA, but not universally. Here in the UK we don't have the concept of a major at all. An undergraduate student typically only takes modules pertaining to their chosen field, and perhaps a small number of more general modules on, say, study skills and writing.
This might have more to do with the glut of off-lease corporate ThinkPads being available at very competitive pricing for FOSS developers to pick up rather than any indication of Lenovo's commitment to FOSS.
Why? Berlin is much nicer :-)
Why use rsync? Only for the progress bar?
arrl.org and rsgb.org, the US and UK amateur radio organizations, sell a variety of books you might find helpful.

If you are in the US, ARRL sells books that teach to the specifics of the US tests. I used those but found them rather unsatisfying. There are other books which focus on experiments (see Hands-On Radio Experiments) and others on theory.

The ARRL Handbook is also useful. It's updated annually, but you won't miss too much if you save a few dollars by getting an older edition.
I have the same theory, and had the same experience: I worked for a company where it was impossible to clean up the repository, because a dev using a GUI was regularly pushing back the old tags (and consequently, references to old history), without knowing they were doing it. It was never discovered who they were, since almost the whole team uses Git via GUI.
That's true, but I'd still like to give it a shot. It's a massive commitment as you know, so we'll see if it pans out. If I do it I'll probably be committing to 2 hours per day for the next three years.
Rubbish. The response would not be to increase surveillance near labs. It would be to float a moratorium on GoF research and to increase biosafety at labs. Much of the work being done at the WIV was carried out at BSL-2, which is absolutely shocking.
Wasn’t the first time it was misspelled and wouldn’t be the last
To be honest, I don't really care if Copilot is legal. If it isn't, it should be legal. Change the laws to make it legal.
CISSP gets me a decent amount of respect, Security+ opened the door to gov contracting.

From VMware to Cisco to all the other 25+ certs, wasn’t worth it, but learned a lot so maybe worth it?
I tried to locate a definition of "education" in this report because it seems like an obvious starting point.

As far as I could get it is "attends school" and they flirted with it in "Reading, together with writing, numeracy, and socioemotional skills, is a building block for all the other education outcomes that societies care about."

Socioemotional learning stood out in there, not because of the SEL criticisms, but because it seems incredibly Western to think that there is a Correct Way that applies to the entire world.
My greatest concern today is the militarization of space going on right now[0] (Space Development Agency). The system engineer behind it Michael D. Griffin[1] seems to think the US can "win" all future wars by creating a space-based missile defense. Decisions are automatically made in milliseconds, with no room for human input.

SpaceX's participation[2] is particularly concerning (they just built and launched four "secret" satellites for it last week) and employees are now complaining about it on Glassdoor[3]

Elon talks a lot about AI / Skynet, and it appears there is a serious attempt to construct it.

[0] https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11623
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career
[2] https://mobile.twitter.com/planet4589/status/153896005141464...
[3] https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-SpaceX-RVW...
>Your time is better spent working on side projects

This seems like a shaky assumption. Keep in mind that many companies, like mine, sponsor or even mandate the certification process. Meaning the justification, time, and costs didn't come from the candidate you're dismissing.
This is also my finding - I need regular apps even while reading books or watch videos. Windows 10 in non tablet mode is totally great for that. I use winget/chocolatey to install stuff I use on work and home and no need for different OS/apps. I can run anything work related on Surface - I have docker installed, Visual Studio, Sql Server, PostgreSql, nodejs, dotnet etc - I rarely use them but its good to know everything just works if I needed it. Most of the time I use it for reading HN and friends, watch some videos/podcasts, read ebooks. Besides that, I have it with me on each meeting. I save any work in git repository so having all that working the same as on my Desktop computer is a big win.

Regarding that use case, the only thing I don't like about Surface 7 Pro is its screen which is very much reflective. Other then that, its totally awesome.
A .com is infinitely better than a .io and 6 letter brandable .coms are way cheaper than 35k
I used to work as a cloud consultant, building client applications in GCP.

Certainly from Google was valued quite high by clients.
I don't (quite) agree with it. Slovakia feels like a place where people live on their salary alone. Lithuania too. But yes.
I don't see how writing a blog post is superior to a CCNA/CCNP lab test but okay (ACTUALLY NO, IT'S NOT OKAY).
I do the role of Secretary for various policy groups, so knowing Roberts Rules and being efficient and knowing correct procedures is helpful for me.
It does make risk analysis more interesting. It surprises me how people will think only of the positive or accidental case, leaving adversarial ones off the table (and risk mitigation)
SSC did a blog post about the various environmental panics of the 1990s. Some were real, some weren't; some were solved, some weren't[0].

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/01/what-happened-to-90s-e...
Certification is primarily for IT consultant. Banks, insurance companies hire a lot of IT consultants through IT service providers (e.g. Tata, Accenture).

How can they tell if the IT consultants are qualified for the work? Certification is one way to ensure they at least meet the minimum requirement but this is not to say the certification implies the IT consultants have the skill sets or knowledge to do the job.
This is the exact kind of article that needs screenshots
In the distributed computing world, the rule is you start to scale horizontally when your compute workload is too large to fit in the memory of a single machine. So it depends on your compute workload and your hardware. (There’s no fixed number for what a large dataset is)

DuckDB itself doesn’t have any baked in limits. If it fits in memory, single machine compute is usually faster than distributed compute — and DuckDB is faster than Pandas, and definitely faster than local Spark.
> Objectively git kraken has more visual information density. To get the same information on the cli requires multiple commands and the user has to hold the information I'm their head between the commands.

Can you give a precise example? The cli has support to using visual tools for diff/merge, so one doesn't need to use git via gui in order to use graphical interfaces where effective.
Oh interesting I misunderstood your comment. I thought “exact same career trajectory” meant the only difference was the degree. I’m not the user you replied to but I can see how
1) two people with exact same career trajectory but one has a CS degree results in the degree holder being preferred, and
2) two people, one of which has a CS degree with a less accomplished career and the other of which has been promoted/demonstrated greater accomplishments results in the non-degree holder being preferred.
It's a "Solid Debian Tablet" because it boots. Linux religionists ignore all problems after booting.

Linux and Oss in general are religions like Apple is. "Apple has NEVER done anything wrong," an Apple cleric told me about Antennagate.

I've been using Linux for programming work for ten years now, but every time I buy a new machine I try to use Linux natively. In the last attempt, Linux stopped working after I tried using a Bluetooth joystick: Linux froze and never booted again.

In ten years I never got hardware that runs 100% on Linux. I remember using a ThinkPad in 2010 and the wifi randomly disconnects 10 or more times an hour. I have issues with Flash animations, Youtube, sound, etc, a mix of hardware and software issues. If the ThinkPad is the best hardware for Linux, the worst is not imaginable.

But... My friend, a religious Linux uses Linux every day, and for him linux is perfect, his laptop just needs a wifi dongle on USB because linux doesn't support the motherboard wifi chip.
And there is a problem when Linux changes the integrated graphics card to a 3D graphics card, the screen goes black because when changing Linux sets the luminance of the screen to 0.
The religious person accepts all weird religious things because it's good for you: "now I understand video drivers". No, you don't understand.

After every failure in my Linux experience, my religious friend and the internet have told me I'm using either too old or too new hardware, or hardware from a bad vendor (Nivida is Satan) or the wrong Linux distribution (anything that isn't be Debian, Ubuntu included) and I'm too stupid to use Linux. Linux is the land of enlightened people and I'm not one of those people.
And some people say "Linux is open, fix the bug yourself"...

I love Linux, but I'm not religious about Linux, so to me the current status of Linux on real hardware is a disgrace.

Linux works great on VirtualBox or equivalent, I use WSL for my daily work and I love working on Linux on WSL.

Windows is a shit show with a lot of problems. But I never lost a Windows because of a joystick.
Better alternative to reverse ETL and mixpanel/amplitude?
Why is there no self serve product analytics tool on top cloud datawarehouse, where I don't have to pull the data out.
Android is a proprietary OS filled with spyware. Linux kernel is irrelevant.
> Once you’ve got them, even if you’re more established, it would be crazy to leave them off of your resume, right?

Not necccesarily. Depending on the cert and field it may make sense to.

The goal of getting the cert should be to learn skills. If you've done that, the piece of paper doesn't matter.

> Not only could you be bypassing people passionate enough to work their way into the field through pretty adverse circumstances, you could be inadvertently reducing the diversity of your workforce in doing so

The people with all the certs still got interviewed where i worked last, it was just a consistent pattern that they bombed the interview, usually very badly on very basic questions.
I learned about these from my PhD advisor and I’ve used them for every research project ever since. It’s been very useful and I refer to it every month or so.
I couldn't agree more. They have their HIG and their Adwaita design language, but the end result somehow is still subjectively off-putting for me personally, visual-wise and usage-wise. They need their Steve Jobs.
The embeddings provide the guidance for the diffusion models. So they have a direct influence. Similarity of the sentences means that they are around the same area in the multi dimensional space. And when they are used to guide the diffusion models, the images come out wrong.
One thing is the experiments I have done are on sentence transformer models. Dalle-2 uses its own sentence embedding afaik.
> Do I need to remind you we had this thing called the Civil War over slavery?

Are you saying we're going to have a second civil war over abortion?

I'm not sure what the civil war has to do with applying logic consistently to see how it is fallacious.
Am I the only one who really likes gnome? Gnome 40+ are excellent, and I don't really see any flaws with daily use.

I haven't seen much change between 41 and 42, which is fine since everything is already working great.
It’s implementation dependent. You implement an interface and it’s up to the implementation to optimize the calls. The interface is also rather simplistic so there’s some optimization that can’t be done at the implementation level since SQLite didn’t provide all the information at the time of the query.
I never used the “collapse to title bar” functionality. If you don’t need a window right now, why keep it visible on the desktop? And I am quite happy with Gnome, and I enjoy the empty desktop in particular (I tend to clutter it on all other desktop managers).
Can they?

A loitering drone that can be switched off at any time by its operator is a loitering drone that contains a vulnerability that enables it to be turned off at any time by an enemy.

There is some doomsday logic in deployment of ‘fire and forget’ weapons systems. ‘Once this thing is turned on even I can’t stop it’.
Why is it not ok? And who decided that? Or is it just your opinion?
You don’t have to shut it down or cease production to improve air quality.

The relaxed standards suggest this plant is being allowed to operate dirtier than need be.
Don't think I've ever had any employers asking if I have a driving license (in the UK) unless driving was required for the role.

And the same for degrees, this seems to be very US centric IME. Not having a degree hasn't stopped me getting jobs in top salary brackets based purely on my experience, hell I even have a very odd work history and didn't move into tech till my 30's.

Same for certs, requirements for certs in job ads definitely seem to be a US thing. And for me if I'm reviewing CVs I see certs as a mild redflag as I've come across far, far to many people who have certs but couldn't work their way out of a soggy paper bag.
I am enjoying it, too. In fact, I like it better than macos.
No need for a new project. Performance mixers have been a thing for a long time and affordable models exist from roland, korg, pioneer and others.

TE just shrank the thing to an unusable size and slapped on their pricetag.
It's certainly easier than SVN. I won't go back, you can't make me!
My worst git disaster was when I attempted to, iirc, stash a half-completed merge. Maybe I tried to pop the stash; I can't really remember why this seemed like a thing I should do. I've always felt like stash was made of gum and duct tape, and whatever sequence of operations I performed completely destroyed the repo. It's one of the very few times I've ever deleted the directory and started afresh, past the first few weeks of learning git.

Stash is effectively equivalent to

git switch -c stash-branch-$i
git commit -am stashed
git checkout $currentbranch

so I use that instead. Only instead of an anonymous name, I pick something sensible in case I get distracted and return to the work later. Also, it means I don't ever need to commit to the wrong branch -- `switch -c` carries uncommitted changes along. Sometimes cherrypick isn't a fine enough granularity, and I'll use difftool to distribute changes between two branches.
You should go drive a bit in (some parts of) Spain! Not sure if something like this exists where you are.

Imagine: Small towns, really narrow one way streets with foot traffic and underground parking. Getting out of some of those underground car parks is scary stuff!

You get onto a steep incline to get out of the car park but you come around a corner onto that. Cars might be coming down towards you at this point and they're sometimes hard to see. It's cramped too. So you can't just take it w/ speed to get up there. Also on the top you have pedestrians on your side, so you might need to stop on the incline, then when pedestrians have scurried away, go a little further but not directly onto the street until you can actually see if cars are coming. Half your car is still on the incline at that point.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but Linus probably didn't plan for git to be adopted by other people than just kernel developers. Because that was what git was created for originally.
If you don’t mind me asking, is your team mainly software based? I work in hardware in tech and I haven’t had a single teammate without a degree
It’s possible for there to be patent encumbered algorithms in open source code though. A license like Apache will contain a free license to use them to use/distribute the open source work… which I’m not sure would transfer if copilot happens to plop some unlicensed, unattributed violating code in your code base.
Maybe I'm just unlucky but I've come across far to many people who have certs but are utterly useless at their job.
That's not my opinion. That's the general sentiment of HN as judged by the negative reactions I've gotten over the years as someone who once studied astrology in earnest and dares to occasionally comment on it.
Nope, I’m a huge fan. There are a couple annoyances (like not having minimize/maximize buttons by default), but they’re all easily remedied with gnome tweak tool or extensions.

I’ll admit that I was a little worried when I started seeing screenshots of libadwaita and gnome 42, heading down the path of flat-everything, but in practice, the experience has been nice on both Arch and Fedora 36.
It would need to go through the house of reps, senate and president. The senate in particular is not representative of the majority.
Looks like their server is down; https://api.eleuther.ai/completion gives a 500 HTTP response in network logs. (I'd contact them if I were you.) Until then, maybe try https://textsynth.com?
Don't be naive. Governments can't solve hard technical and social problems just by throwing in more money. If that was true we would have working fusion power by now.

And in some parts of Ukraine, there is effectively no longer any government at all.
Did you try contacting the owner of testimonial.com and offering them the 35k??
They would never have it because nobody would work with them.

It's an OSS projects with the most abrasive, and socially inept people around, seemingly gathered together on purpose. GNOME had few hundred active contributors on its peak, now down to at most 20-30 people.

The proliferation of *Kits is very much an intentional policy by RedHat to pull the classical "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" scheme, except when they do the extinguish thing, the remaining people have no other option, but to move to RedHat's platform.
This smells like a beer goggles purchase which is being retrospectively justified.