skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The NHS is in no way run by anything even resembling corporations, come on.

What? Of course it is. This hospital trust has its own budget, it has a board of directors, they're not controlled by local government, they're not controlled by central government, they're not controlled by civil servants, they're accountable to their local population before central government. Here's their annual report from 2020/2021. https://www.kch.nhs.uk/Doc/corp%20-%20684.7%20-%20annual%20r...

What's the difference between the chief executive of an NHS Foundation Trust and the chief executive of any other corporation?

You seem to think this hospital is controlled directly by the Department for Health and Social Care, and that's simply incorrect.
There are rumors that Carlsen's prep got leaked and that Niemann knew what was going to played the morning of.

Although this is pure speculation, it seems to be a more plausible and satisfactory explanation if Niemann did in fact cheat. It would also explain why Carlsen would withdraw from the tournament rather than continuing.
I think the better argument isn’t so much about status: it should have a higher prior because the institutions denying it as a possibility were the very ones funding the category of research that could plausibly result in such an incident.

This is the same kind of issue as why it’s important to separate the regulator from the regulated.
Just convince your manager that it was their idea, and it will benefit them and save the company money to let you escape and work for the client, like how Colonel Hogan manipulated Colonel Klink on Hogan's Heros. Maybe your manager will even follow you to the client's safe house!

Klink Encourages Stalag 13's POWs to Escape - Hogan's Heroes - 1970:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMh8fjO2R50

Convinced he's on the trail of a big-prisoner escape operation, the Kommandant tries to make Stalag 13's POWs feel comfortable escaping so he and Schultz can follow them to the operation's safe house. A witty episode.
This is simply untrue.

EG "I am—well, I was—great at opsec. I got doxxed on farms because someone spent 50+ hours trying to nail me down until he ultimately “compare[d] her tweets to weather history to determine her city, and complied a parametric list of all the profs in nyc and went from there."
AI-Generated Future Cities
So, just to be clear here: the position that you're arguing is that there are literally no actions anyone can take that should have social repercussions to them?
Let's define vegan for a moment.

Vegan = reduce suffering and cruelty to other sentient beings as practically as possible. So this means the only justification for killing an animal to consume its flesh is when our survival depends on it. That is not the case anymore for the majority of people.

My premise is around the large scale factory farm industry, which not only causes immense suffering and cruelty, but also causes great pollution and environmental destruction.

Feeding the whole world with meat is not sustainable.

That's not moving the goalpost, but a fact (See UN, IPPC and various other reports).
The project looks nice, and I will certainly follow it.

But the author expresses way too much confidence in the description of the project. It has no test, no type hints, no pluggable error handling, not fall back when the redis instance dies, and has been used in prod by apparently a single entity.

Stating "WakaQ is stable and ready to use in production" is irresponsible, as a task queue is critical infrastructure and this could lure devs into thinking this code is way more mature than it is.

Of course, one should do due diligences when evaluation a new part of the stack. I also appreciate the enthousiasm of the article, and I'm sure the code already procudes many benefits for the author.

But no, a asynchronous execution system dealing with priority, resiliance and network messages, that have existed for a month, is in no way stable and ready. It's nascent and promising.
A Webb Telescope image is being used to push malware
Yeah, if Nietzsche writes a sentence odds are it’s going to make you put down the book and take a walk to think about it, hence the app
Er, I rather meant that Python doesn't have a first-class lambda definitional form. You are right that you can get the python runtime to make closures.
Maybe if ssl wasn't a thing
No! You slash the number of bug reports. The bugs are still there! Am I missing some joke here?
I used to be a janitor. I preferred if you people ignored me. I don't want to have to tiptoe around not offending the sensibilities of people I have little to nothing in common with. If I wanted to interact with you people I could have made the same money operating a cash register instead of a mop.
Sorry, I meant to say electrical heating!
Because Explorer certainly relies on APIs that abstract away the file system details and the smallest common denominator is probably recursively walking the tree structure of the file system which is orders of magnitude slower than scanning through a few megabyte of a central database.
Not in the age of scalper bots designed to buy the latest hot pair of sneakers, console, GPU etc. the second it goes on sale.
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Also why Africans did not suffer such large number of fatalities per population.
A younger population but we are one of the few regions in the world still giving the TB/Polio vaccine at birth.

"epigenetic modifications, activate cells of the innate immune system, such as monocytes, macrophages and natural killer cells"

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34983348/
I'm not promising immediate perfection, just economic incentives that point in that direction, rather than 180° opppsite.
Concurrent page-fault handling in Linux with per-VMA locks
Ah, yes, clear as day. I'm convinced now.
I don't read it that way. Quite the opposite, upwardbound is offering an opinion that is not against meat, and therefore, being vegetarien just signals it is rooted is thinking and not dogmatism.
Also when it fails expect the lower end to fall and wreck everything in the area underneath. Which with that length will be a lot! The insurance bill would be … astronomical (see what happened in the Foundation TV show for an example).
There’s a natural fork in the road here which is why this is so contentious. The best argument gain of function proponents have for their research (besides weaponization of course) is to create the next big thing in a lab first so that we can figure out how to neutralize it. The argument the anti-GoF advocates have is that creating the next big thing in a lab leads eventually/inevitably to at least one of them getting out.

The responses are effectively inherently opposite hence strong disagreement.
Your analogy is harmful to the topic under discussion: its key assumptions (such as comparing the governments of US and China to my family in terms of power and influence) render it inapplicable.

> It appears to be reasonable to assign the "your mother is a [insert derogatory term]" hypothesis a higher prior, in Bayesian terms, just based on the many familiy members whose image/status would it directly or indirectly damage if found true (your dad, your uncle, your sister, your grandparents), and which therefore would be compelled to paint it as unlikely.

If something major happened that made it a difficult binary choice between either that and <insert an alternative>, then certainly it would be reasonable to assign appropriate priors if you were forming your opinion exclusively by interviewing my relatives. (On the other hand, if my family members or relatives were in positions of significant power/esteem/status that they stood to lose if what you say were true, had significant social influence and a degree of control over mass media, then reweighing priors in such fashion would be advisable regardless of your source.)
If people are creating super viruses. It kind of matters a lot.
Depending on context, you can tell the difference; especially on larger sound systems. 192kbps MP3s played through a 2 kilowatt sound system in a club don't just sound bad, but they feel bad as well.

I've got a couple of DJ friends that have taken to ripping their collections (CDs and vinyl) to WAV files as most DJ software didn't support FLAC playback at the time.
While there may not be a clause in your employment contract there may certainly be a clause in the contract between your employer and the client that could possibly be more hassle than it's worth for the client.

The only way to know is to go through the process with the client, declare the possible conflict early on and let them research it on their side to see if it's worth going through with. Best of luck.
The origin being a lab leak would likely lead to more stringent controls around researchers.
Just don’t do it: 10 exercise myths (2021)
Please stop contacting me for funding rounds. Due to overwhelming demand I have had to close funding. However, in exceptional circumstances or if you have a very large offering then I may reopen funding.
That's probably the spring mechanism wearing out - the actual electrical part is still working properly.
Once you move beyond trivial cases you really need to spend time understanding the principles behind the ORM you're using. They are always a very leaky abstraction, there is not really a way around that.

In this case the important part to know is that the DbContext represents the unit of work and "knows" Entities you previously queried on it. That's very useful, but also can hide bugs like you mentioned with the Includes. I do wish that you'd get more obvious errors if you forget an include, this can be really annoying to debug especially if you're new to EF Core. For read queries I mostly use Select instead of Include, which I find easier and more straightforward in most cases.

ORMs are really useful for making very common operations easy and for making stuff composable. They're also very complex and to make the best use of them you do need to understand both SQL and some basics on how your specific ORM generates this SQL.
No it matters a lot: which originally is correct is the primary determinant for which of opposite lessons to learn.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32735333
>Bathtub hormones being sold to minors in bright packaging featuring a cartoon with the speech bubble

Reading this is hilarious from someone in the know: you're referring to 'Otoko no Ko pharmaceuticals', which is a website operated in South America which asks no questions as to who they're shipping to; they just accept crypto payment and send it off. It's not part of some grooming campaign, and the characters featured are anime characters, not 'cartoon' characters in the sense you suggest targets children as consumers.
I did the same thing with my Signal client.
The two companies may have an mutual understanding whereby they do not take each others employees to maintain the peace. Even if not enforceable...it may create friction when trying to move over..
Could lunatic one day run on a website? Wouldn't wasmtime itself need to be compiled to wasm for that to be possible?
This is not evidence. It's hand waving 'how do you explain' stuff that has been addressed many times by experts in the field. No credible evidence whatsoever has been presented. If you ignore experts and just keep repeating the same old nonsense of course you claim to have evidence in the same way 9/11 truthers do.
Has someone implemented this for creating a sitemap for a website user(and not for the crawlers)?
"science-policy specialists expressed concern that the Wuhan Institute of Virology" is precisely my concern. It is always a "wait and see", instead of planning in case something goes wrong. Public health is consistently the speciality among medicine students they don't want.
I work for a consultancy in the UK. Occasionally someone leaves us to join a client. Our contracts with our clients prevent "solicitation" i.e. trying to encourage some to leave us to join them.

In practice we never use those clauses - it's almost always better to maintain good relationships and reputation with clients. Plus it's legal for our employees to move jobs to them, it's just the solicitation bit that's not allowed.

There was a case at my previous company (that happened before I was there) where a client that wasn't paying for work done, also tried to get the entire project team to leave and join them. They did this by emailing their work email address thereby handing us incontrovertible evidence of breach of contract. This was used as additional legal ammunition to force them to actually pay us. It never made it to court or anything.
I'm colorblind (strong deutan) and bought a pair of EnChroma sunglasses after trying out a simpler system that pretty much just used a combination of colored lenses (the lenses would have had to be two different colors and would basically look like 3D glasses).

Allegedly the EnChroma glasses work better the weaker your color deficiency is (i.e. they work worse the worse you already are at telling colors apart). For me there's a pronounced effect but it's mostly through shifting all colors more into violet and yellow.

Using them was the first time green LED traffic lights appeared "saturated" to me although yellow traffic lights appeared a bit darker than normal. A clear blue sky appears vibrant but with a noticeable violet tint. Flowers look neat as reds and purples "pop" in the same way pure blues and yellows do normally. I can tell whether lawns are healthy or dried out.

But they don't "fix" my color vision. Of course not. They can't add color where I'm physically unable to perceive it. They wouldn't allow me to pass most colorblindness tests or operate machinery that requires normal color vision. They can however modulate some parts of the visible spectrum so others stand out more. And they're really good at that.

I've had my EnChroma sunglasses for a few years now and I use them instead of regular sunglasses in most situations (except when I expect they might get damaged). I would probably buy them again. I considered buying regular EnChroma glasses but I've heard the effect isn't as strong and as I'm already not in the group benefiting the most, I worry the effect wouldn't be good enough to justify the price tag. YMMV.

EDIT: I'm fully aware of the dramatic reaction videos that made them popular all over social media for a while. I saw them after I found out about EnChroma and after I had already decided to give them a try but before I was able to do so. If anything, these videos made my experience of first using them more underwhelming. Yes, I could "see" purple in a different way than ever before, but knowing the reaction videos and knowing the person I was with knew them almost triggered a form of imposter syndrome because I simply didn't experience the overwhelming sensation the videos suggested I should perform.
Joins may be severely misunderstood by some people that write front end, middleware and backend code in the same day, but not by dedicated SQL developers. If the app is big enough and important enough, having dedicated SQL devs is the solution.
If you click on the link in the thread, there's an editor's note clarifying that this paper is being used to prop up dodgy claims, for which there's no evidence.

The main issue I have with the 'lab leak' theory is that I haven't seen much evidence one way or another. Hitchens' razor applies- what can be stated without evidence can be as easily dismissed without evidence. I personally don't see any issue with the idea of this escaping from a lab (a friend who used to work at the CDC told me some rather scary stories about working there), but there's no serious evidence it was the case here.

On the other hand, many people would like it to be true, because it feeds into a conspiracy narrative. People can't believe things like global, deadly viral pandemics can occur naturally, even though they do.
Foreign keys can be removed during migrations and added back after. You would also disable triggers and check constraints too.

I like foreign keys, check constraints and tight data types. Might as well constrain it and limit the scope for errors.

Application programmers can write some buggy code. The DB should provide a line of defence.

If you don’t have foreign keys that should be a design choice with a legitimate reason the entity can become orphaned.

You need a definition of what that means in real life. E.g PERSONID id 1012 and there is no associated record. This kinda means you need to look at another entity to know what the first entity “means”.

This might be useful for data that needs to sit in distributed databases.
Yeah all of the problematic stuff I have seen has been already illegal actions. I’m not sure why we aren’t talking about going after the individuals posting this stuff.
Re: "moving the backend into wasm", is there a repo somewhere we can look at?

I presume the bulk of the work there will be ensuring some kind of consistency between the backend database and whatever persistence layer one uses in the frontend (I presume something backed by `indexdb`)?

I ask, because I'm about to work on a full stack rust application (ie, even UI is handled by wasm) with gRPC, and I think I can learn things from your approach.
Yeah the lab leak hypothesis is fascinating because it actually refers to two things that sound similar but would imply almost entirely different reactions.

Deliberate LLH: China (or, if you’re in China, the US) developed a weapon and essentially released it on the world. This hypothesis basically tells us nothing because we’ll never actually validate or invalidate it. There’s also no mitigation for future leaks because if it were deliberate you can always deliberately do it again. Also, it probably does have racist/xenophobic/propagandist motive pushing it along at various levels. Even if this were true it doesn’t matter because we’re obviously not going to nuke cities or cut off trade or roll tanks or hang leaders in response.

Accidental LLH: Hypothesis goes that there was gain of function research and a sample accidentally escaped the lab. This is actually pretty likely, but has the interesting feature of it not mattering whether it’s true in this particular instance. Regardless of whether COVID-19 itself fits this, COVID-19 indicates that GOF research should be banned! There is no need for collaboration-harming “repercussions” (or cries for repercussions, since they’ll never happen anyway).

Deliberate LLH: Doesn’t matter if it’s true because 1) we’ll never know and 2) even if it we’re true, no one could do anything about it.

Accidental LLH: Doesn’t matter if it’s true because 1) we’ll never know and 2) even if it were false, the correct course of action is to ban/mitigate GOF research.

It’s a complete shame that these have not been better distinguished from one another.
Other than the second tweet in the thread (which source is questionable, see edit below), no sources are provided. Does anyone have a list of sources for the claims in the remaining eight tweets?

It's a compelling list of "facts" but without sources and an understanding of the science it's difficult to ascertain whether this is a genuinely strong argument by a "blue check mark" academic.

Edit:

This is the Nature editors note on the only sources provided:

"Editors’ note, March 2020 We are aware that this story is being used as the basis for unverified theories that the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 was engineered. There is no evidence that this is true; scientists believe that an animal is the most likely source of the coronavirus."
Distributed objects had nothing to do with object semantics in a PL. They're a lot closer to what we would now refer to as the actor model.
Flat-to-curved screens have an identity crisis
There is another easy option: BunnyCDN. You can just drop the files on there via ftp.
It's dangerous alright, for the gatekeepers for sure.
More detailed stats on Ethereum validators are here: https://dune.com/hildobby/ETH2-Deposits

Currently there are 79,717 distinct depositor addresses. They list 36 known entities validating, accounting for about 75% of staked ETH. So that leaves about 100K validators split among small unknown entities. Many of those would be home stakers.

Some of the known entities are staking pools, representing lots people who own the stake. But it's only the pool producing the blocks. Bitcoin is similar: lots of home miners but they're mostly in pools, not attempting to create blocks on their own.

For the number of entities creating Bitcoin blocks, I just found this paper, which doesn't give a total number but says 55 to 60 miners control at least half of Bitcoin mining: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3942181

I wouldn't expect the number of independent (i.e. unpooled) Bitcoin miners to be especially large, since a fairly large investment is required to have a chance of producing a block in a given year.
The problem is that this is not even a rough matching what people feel.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/supersurvivors/20170...

"In fact, the actual grief process looks a lot less like a neat set of stages and a lot more like a roller coaster of emotions. Even Kubler-Ross said that grief doesn’t proceed in a linear and predictable fashion, writing toward the end of her career that she regretted her stages had been misunderstood."
Oh absolutely, hence the stressed out words in cursive. It isn't going to make any meaningful difference even for a 10yo with perfect hearing - for listening, 44100Hz sample rate is more than enough, and 48000Hz provides large enough headroom to already make any semi-reasonable "audiophile" sleep calm.
It it could bend backwards, I kind of miss my Trinitron CRTs...
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Actually many people would like it to be false for personal profit or just human mentality. It's another ballpark of seriousness if that wasn't brought up by mother nature.

What kind of evidence do you need? This paper is full of evidence that if you combine the probability of each event happening, the probability that it was accidental is really small. So the burden of probability should be to prove that it wasn't leaked which isn't proven after 3 years.
It’s a shame that whenever something cool is posted on HN some long ass thread about licensing floats to the top.

Nothing wrong with the parent comment but do we really need a ‘yes it is’ / ‘no it isn’t’ back and forth that goes on seemingly forever almost EVERY TIME?

I’m gonna need a ‘license nitpick remover’ to complement my adblocker!
> Personally, I typically would rather have the application layer do the validation and even the joining of data, a lot of the time, when the application is high-volume. At the volumes my organization works with, it is very difficult to write performant SQL queries that use JOINs and other relationships as a developer - even as a DBA! - and often much easier, for me, to write performant application code.

There is basically no way it is faster for "high-volume" systems to return excess data to the application rather than doing the joins on the dB and returning the record set to the application.

Even if we were talking about multiple billions of records you'd still be better off with a completely denormalized data warehouse style table and doing filtering against indexed columns db-side before sending vast quantities of data to the application.

I think people think this way because of licensing and the specialized nature of DBAs.
> Maybe not, but a lot of people will be, particularly if their favourite thing is being 'taken over' by said person.

Wouldn't those people rather be told what her plans are?
So much great UI from the past.

https://www.dlib.org/dlib/june96/hearst/06hearst.html

https://aspoerri.comminfo.rutgers.edu/Teaching/InfoVisResour...

Cone Trees https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbcQT8Oz_yI

Perspective Wall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYUZbrWtCZg

Table Lens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWqTrRAC52U
Everything (that has mass or energy) changes the shape of spacetime.