skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Come on now, that's a straw man. If nanobots were neveer the short-term goal then maybe it would pay off to not ramble that enthusiastically about them (and a good amount of other just as impossible-sounding technology achievements)? Or at least not try and pass it as serious science? Or if not even that, not sell a book selling sci-fi to the masses while dressing it as serious science when it clearly isn't?

Obviously science very rarely makes huge leaps. It's also very obvious we need a good amount of progress in materials science before even the theoretically-possible notion of microbots becomes viable.

That's all quite fine. But I join the author of the article in mocking people who babble enthusiastically about the far future and sell it as science. And then even have the gall to use complete non-sequiturs like "you can't disprove me!".

So you see, I don't disagree with you as far as I can tell. But I still do disagree with the "scientist" that the author's article is referring to.
In terms of user friendliness, perhaps.

In terms of making beautiful slides, it’s hard to beat.

For math, sure, latex is the top choice.
Yes, that is true. But metrics cannot pinpoint the cause of the problem, which is where the engineering approach fails. You cannot accurately measure the stress levels of individual developers like you can with force plates. You cannot accurately measure developers taking shortcuts in their code like you can measure gear slippage. Similarly, you cannot accurately predict the critical load of a particular configuration of developers like you do with beams in bridge construction, nor can you accurately measure the weight of a feature request like you can weigh a vehicle. You cannot measure the "velocity" of two developer teams working on a different codebase and then assume that the metrics are comparable just because you're measuring the same quantity.

The only way software development metrics are useful is to get an indication of the performance over time of the same team working on the same codebase. That should give some indication of the overall trends, but when the numbers start going down, how will you accurately determine the cause of that? Will you treat the developer team as a black box and insert more probes, or will you talk to them and rely on their qualitative assessments after all?
https://archive.ph/MnX6q
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Are you saying that our justice system is un-scientific? lol
"Not everyone experiences grief in the same way"

What an insight! Its a model, with all that that implies.
For YT-alike presentation than you better use your desktop, not a specific software, recording the desktop (partially automated as needed, with eventual post-production as needed) instead.
Large parts of Amazon may never recover
What is the motivation behind research that makes viruses more suitable for humans anyway? I assume it's not strictly a military project, since there was international cooperation between countries that aren't allies. What is it we're tying to achieve?
They aren’t mutually exclusive though right? We can say the initial outbreak was from the wet market. Does that mean the virus itself is of 100% natural origin?
> Bugs in a bugtracker are not important.

Your customers must be reeling at this! Do you really not think it's important to them that known flaws in the product are documented?

> Fixed bugs are important.

Sure. And so are unfixed ones! I'd say even more so.

> Bugs in a bugtracker that are not fixed get you nowhere.

Of course they do! The best thing, as you say, is to fix the problem. But the worst thing is to pretend the problem doesn't exist – documenting it is clearly better.
Indian government calls Wikipedia after controversial edits to cricketer's page
Isn't the very existence of Signal "activism".
> Another classic is the “joins are slow” argument

The only person I knew who died on that hill would insist on doing two queries to the database, and then would insist on doing a client side cartesian join.
I am every one of those categories, here to tell you that all I want is to live in peace with others and pursue my own happiness. I say things here like "we don't need to agree on everything in order to work together on the things we do agree on" and "people have a right to be wrong".

That is the revolutionary spirit that animates many Trump supporters who are disgusted with Trump, which is so dangerous that it must be suppressed with extralegal means. A "big tent" philosophy.
I see value in all three cases:

1) Snowden's reveal of PRISM and more generally the reveal that the government could access almost any text message sent to or from America took the idea of the surveillance state out of the land of theory and made people aware just how widely the state was into practice.

2) Yandex providing search engines not filtered through the bubble of this is misinformation, do not attempt to research this was useful enough to actually find the heart of the claims about things like, say ivermectin. Did the ivermectin pushers meet their burden of proof? No. Is it useful to drown out the original claims with half paragraph blurbs from a state presser, and lazy, toothless rebuttals from cnn.com that are so poorly framed that they do a better job shilling the drug than the actual shills? Also no.

3) Archiving and making public content that powerful entities don't want public is an extremely valuable, if risky service. It's unfortunate that we are in the position of a single person like Josh Moon being the bulwark between New Zealand and its citizens, but I certainly think he provided value. I personally can't afford to take that risk any more, so I feel the need to support those who can.
Did you mean “inclusive”? I’d assume the average covid truther would think of lab-origin and engineered as causal if not identical.
Fair enough about the shopping.

I just can't criticize a technology if it's helping actual human beings do important jobs. After Blockchain it'll be an absolute relief.
My website [1] is good raw (X)HTML [2]. It's just a couple of pages though, nothing fancy. If I was keeping a blog or something, I would definitely go for an SSG.

[1]: https://notpushk.in/

[2]: https://gitlab.com/notpushkin/notpushk.in
Same here, it makes my eyes hurt trying to focus all the time.
> I am likely not the target audience, seeing as how Amazon provides ~14 languages for closed captioning - they may be seeking a more global audience with this content.

It seems global audience is not thrilled with Amazon inserting US identity politics into the movie though, which I think was quite predictable from the begging. I don't know what were they thinking or what audience they were targeting with this.
The desktop app seems good in my experience ?
“Not comparable” can be used casually in everyday speak to mean “Not on the same order of magnitude” which adds confusion.
In unix, everything is a file descriptor [1]. The existence of an actual file entry on the filesystem namespace is not really needed.

[1] that's the ideal of course, reality is different.
That's a very interesting video. Thanks.
SpaceX has a great track record of safety that rests on a very simple precept: the rocket will fly so much that it will get very safe before it gets human-rated.

Compare with the SLS getting one empty flight before they can’t get anything wrong because they’ll kill people.
Interestingly the iOS keyboard does this, it makes the touchzones for letters you're more likely to type larger.
The early cases were very heavily concentrated around the Huanan wet market, but not around the lab, which is on the other side of the Wuhan, a pretty massive city.[0]

If the virus had come from the lab, you'd expect the early cases to cluster around the lab. Instead, they were centered around a wet market, just like the early cases of the original SARS were back in 2002.

This is completely aside from the other reasons that make a lab leak extremely unlikely. It's public knowledge which viruses the lab in Wuhan works with. The lab regularly publishes its work, lab members go to conferences to present their work, there are international researchers at the institute in Wuhan. There would have been no reason at all for them to hide SARS-CoV-2 prior to the pandemic, and there is simply no shred of evidence that they had SARS-CoV-2.

Finally, I would just encourage anyone who's wondering how much stock to put in Ebright's claims to scroll through his Twitter account. The online persona he cultivates is, to put it very politely, that of a troll.

0. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abp8715
How do you get your content into Netlify? They push the CI/CD angle pretty hard (sometimes to the exclusion of other things; e.g. bugs in the CLI that break things if you aren't on their expected/happy path) and the fetishization of GitHub-integrated CI/CD leads to stuff that is about as complex as the traditional undesirable IT overhead.
Does "initial funding by the US Government" really matter? Tor was funded by the US Government and it at least looks like they struggle to break it.

The phone number requirement is asinine and the reason I use Matrix, as I refuse to tie any identity of mine (even those I don't care about keeping private) to a phone number. Has Signal never heard of SIM swapping?
I find a lot of self identified introverts to be people that consider themselves silently so smart while risking nothing. The chuckleheads can keep their sorting hat and personality badges. Yeck.
That's all true, but it's not the whole story either. The most efficient way to drop into the sun is to shoot a big orbit way out, then when going super slow out halfway to Pluto to burn just a little bit more to slow down to nudge your orbit and now you're headed to to sun.
Better understand the mechanisms involved in order to have better tools to fight against it, or better surveillance tools when sampling? (e.g. have a better idea of whether a wildlife pathogen is approaching zoonoticity)
Scorpaenidae are a staple ingredient in Bouillabaisse. Most of they, if not all, are delicious if managed with care.

They are de-poisoned and mostly safe after boiling. You can still impale one finger into a spine or make a cut in your hand if manage the stuff without care, but the poison is inactivated by heat.
Very intersting! Thanks for the compilation.

I feel like the current state of UX design is an absolute catastrophe, and the examples you just provided makes it clear why; modern UX design, besides being devoid of science and curiosity about how humans actually navigate the world, completely ignores 3d space and any form of graphical representations, instead serving up a minimum amount of data in white space hell with fragmented jump cuts - instead of a natural map based layout that have visible relationships - it seems that even the old school sitemap or the sitepath has been thrown in the dumpster now, instead constantly making the user unsure of "where they are" in cyberspace, where they can go and where they came from.

I'm sure even pretty standard desktop interfaces would be way faster to navigate if you zoomed in and out on folder "territories on a map" or tree navigation with paths that stayed for while after you used them, or knew "where they were" instead of GUI traversal or the command line that takes way too long because you have to go via the correct path, and forget the correct path because everything is "hidden" and dont have any landmarks around you that can point in the right direction ala. oh the "3 tree" that's north of the "4 tree".

And search is still very rarely good enough to work as an alternative, i feel like 95% of users always forget "where" something is in an app because it's hidden multiple layers down - page/ function search combined with a dynamic treeview could work though, but now one seems to implement that.
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> ...rather happy that problems are solved instead of not solved.

But they are not solved, are they?

> With the slashing of the bugs...

And it's not slashing bugs, but slashing bug reports. The bugs are still there.
"And so are unfixed ones! I'd say even more so."

It's better to not fix bugs than to fix them?

"But the worst thing is to pretend the problem doesn't exist"

No where did I pretend the problem does not exist.

I wrote

"and we implement ways to not reach high bug levels again"

to fix the problem. I'm not advocating slashing all the bugs every month, or every year. I propose slashing bugs once when the reports got out of hand because of a bad bug culture and then implement better QA and bug fixing practices. This is the opposite of what you imply.
her profile links to an empty Github profile created days ago too
> But we are insanely overpowered beavers.

Modern human civilization is the apex predator that still often feels and acts like it is prey on the African veldt. So you get insanely overpowered beavering while some of us still compare us on the same level as beavers.
I am not sure this is a reasonable assignment of priors. The existence of people who could be blamed is not an argument towards the crime happened.
Other than family, if you known the 75 year old they are probably out and about and mobile. And I get the vibe that older people know they need to take care of things to continue to enjoy life.
If the price difference between making it bendable instead of always curved is neglible, you might as well cater to both flat-screen and curved-screen buyers with one product.

If flat OLED screens are significantly cheaper, then bendable screens will evolve into always curved models down the line.
> I thought self hosting is for aliases? Shouldn't those fix spam for good

Not quite sure I follow? Unless you mean "only allow emails to specific email addresses you've noted down", in which case, yeah, that works but also means a lot of admin when you want to use a new one (plus there's 10+ other people who use my servers for email, not just me.)

> unless you publish your address globally?

At least one of my email addresses has been published globally since ~1995. Others since ~2000.
hyper tree on the infoviz toolkit - https://philogb.github.io/jit/demos.html
There's a bit of risk to having all your eggs in one basket.

One is security, although containers mitigate that. Another is resource allocation. If one piece of software hogs all the resources, others will suffer.

Personally I split things just because it matches my mental model. My personal website runs somewhere. My professional website runs somewhere else. My home server gets its own dedicated hardware.
I've read the paper. What got my senses tingling, is that:
- there has been no investigation on which strains were in the lab
- if the data is to be trusted, given it's in China.

Till those questions have been answered I remain skeptical about the origin.
Couldn’t a contributor to the lack of evidence be that the CCP blocked a lot of discovery from being conducted, and didn’t release enough information? We’re never going to know due to that alone. Obviously the optics would be really bad if they showed evidence that they leaked it accidentally.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/how-china-blocked...
So called Bayesian analysis frequently goes awry because of its ultimate dependence on assumptions (priors). But you don't even bother to do a calculation.
No, not flawed, it took me a few tries. The beginning has a lot of mythology that closely parallels the bible in broad strokes. Eru is God, the Valar are arch angels, Morgoth being Lucifer. Maiar as other angels like Gandalf and Sauron. With a few twists like Ungoliant that seem more like something out of India's pantheon.

Then you get into the elf family trees and their migrations. Its really dry. But it really helps understand the motivations of individuals in the rest of the book and the other books. There are some diagrams in the back to help you plow through it.

Then there are the accounts of both individuals and nations/races. They are more like greek tragedy than anything else. Though sometimes it doesn't even seem like there needs to be a flaw to bring down the fall. It is like binging all of Breaking Bad at once. Not going to leave you smiling, but that doesn't mean it isn't art.
This is a deliberate design decision. Shells do important stuff in the child process before calling exec - mostly redirecting file descriptors to pipes or files, and setting up environment variables. Exec replaces the program image, but retains these. The beauty of this is that for the exec’d program, IO is still stdin and stdout, no matter if it’s a pipe or a file.
Can't you install Signal without an App store? Directly via apk?
Western Australia maybe :-)
I don't own one of them so I haven't looked into it sorry. However there is usually an owrt forum thread for a device or a platform which goes into details. If you haven't asked on there, I encourage you to. They're usually pretty friendly and helpful, especially to people who try themselves and ask good detailed questions.
I don't know how the law works where you live, but in my country, 'probably did it' isn't enough for a conviction. Even then, this isn't some spurious made up court trial, and the probabilities you're working with are easily inflated to suit the narrative you want.

Conspiracy theorists will always say they have enough evidence for their theory, of course.
> As this submission shows, cybercrime is prosecuted in the U.S.

You're missing the qualifier "some" before "cybercrime".
Yes - is the alternative even a thing? I feel like I'm in Wonderland suddenly.
Lower gravity means less energy is needed to maneuver. There's less room for error, so the pilot must maneuver more precisely.

Maybe this isn't a problem outside all the little simulators I've tried. Computer control exists, after all. Maybe these simulators all suck and I'm wrong. All I know is when I tried pilot the ship near a low gravity planet, the slightest mistake would put me in an escape trajectory. So I developed this intuition that I need to be much more careful in lower gravity, like a space version of a therapeutic index.
We are as gods: a film about Stewart Brand
Yes, really. I've always wanted that job title.
Link? I feel like that book would have helped me a lot.
It was my understanding that by keeping the magnet in opposing field for long time makes it loose magnetism or worse reverse the polarity.
> Say mr X was

The problem is that none of the circumstantial evidence for a lab leak is remotely as convincing as your hypothetical.

And most of it tends to be spun. Read the linked thread and note how many times the author throws out terms like "much more likely to be lab-generated" without evidence. We don't know any of that. We have very limited understanding of wild pathogen evolution in general. Likewise the "1000 miles from bat viruses" thing is spun. We don't know that either! We just know what we measured, not what we didn't.

And you can spin it the other way, anyway: we know that the presumptive covid ancestor was at least as close as 1000 miles, on the same continent and within easy travel distance of a migratory flying species. It's true, that if the closest relative was in Argentina, that getting it to Wuhan would require a lot of weird argument. But from Yunnan? Seems not unreasonable.

People continue to bang this hypothesis, and... it's not a bad hypothesis really. But the reason consensus among experts is behind natural evolution is that natural evolution remains a clearly better hypothesis. I know that's upsetting to people who want to believe the lab theory for whatever reason, but it is and remains the truth. Until someone finds better evidence, the lab leak is going to remain a popular conspiracy theory only.
Or she'll lead Signal on the same path Mozilla went after Mitchell Baker took over where political signalling has taken the place of product market share - not to mention personal remuneration taking the place of development funding. The fact that she gained name recognition through political activism does not bode well in the former respect, as to the latter we´ll just have to see.

I will keep on using Telegram with XMPP (prosody running on the server-under-the-stairs) as a backup for when they go bad. If Signal truly opens up, adopts federation and the client ends up on F-Droid I may reconsider but until such a time I'm happy where I am right now.
Also interested. What company?
I've been looking for something just like this! Having fallen in love with encore.dev, I considered building a Typescript duplicate.

This is such a great project!
An important question. For the sake of adjusting priors here is a list of biosecurity incidents:

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

SARS itself leaked from the lab 4 times, once from a BSL-4 lab.
Not really. Modern Unixes have evolved towards everything is a file descriptor, but the original design very much called for everything to be a file. Bell Labs started Plan 9 in part as a response to this very issue.
> On the Bayesian level though, what can make sense would be to argue that the fact that so many institutions would be damaged post hoc if a lab leak were to be known, then the weight of evidence against the event which has been provided by such institutions should be lower.

Wouldn’t weighing evidence play a key role in assessing relative likelihoods of two possible causes of an event that had already occurred?

Especially since any remaining evidence is not conclusive. (As it happens, there appears to be evidence of some of the parties involved acting in ways that prevent further evidence gathering, too.)
> Of course lab leakers are working hard to try to deny this or claim the data is wrong or yada yada. It's an ongoing battle and they have several highly dedicated 'independent scientists' (lol) working on it seemingly 24/7.

I think the downvotes are because of this type of statement, which suggests that people who have read the papers, and thought about the conflicting evidence, and finally come to a conclusion that differs from your viewpoint, dislike the implication that they are simply nutty conspiracy-theorists tirelessly and obsessively working to undermine rational science.
Linux machines that just work
This is more akin to a criminal case where science can be used as evidence.
You can do all of that stuff in a spawn model as well.
It keeps configuration in files in a *nix-esque file system, which allows me to keep router config and changes in git.
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We are absolutely talking about billions of records.

But when you say "return excess data to the application" I'm not sure what you mean. Not doing lots of complex JOINs doesn't mean not filtering the queries at the DB at all. Nobody is pulling back a billion records at a time.

Here's an example of what I'm talking about - read the first comment on https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2015/05/do-foreign-keys-ma..., another venue for this same debate.
The article went through the "second chance pool", and the timestamp was changed. To make this less jarring, the timestamps for the comments are "relativized". More details can be found among Dan's comments here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
That's questionable. Again, I don't believe anyone who claims things about sound unless they're doing a blind test with well-encoded files. You need to make a stronger argument than "they feel bad". Why? What frequencies are not being reproduced accurately and why do you think that makes them sound bad?

A "2 kW" sound system doesn't have any special properties by nature of its wattage, but a club does have a sound system which can reproduce frequencies that are below that what a typical home (or studio) system can. MP3s are usually encoded with a high-pass filter (usually around 20 Hz), and some club systems can get down close to that range (more often 30 Hz), but it's very questionable that they're hitting border.

It is true though that on those types of systems, you're more likely to expose the effects of doing things like double lossy encoding, use of bad encoders, etc.