skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hence why I explicitly clarified "not that I would necessarily agree with this reasoning either". Whether the premise is correct or not, the argument that it would reduce the prior were the premise to be true is correct. That would not be the case in the initial suggestion, i.e. that the fact that these institutions would lose prestige would somehow increase the base chances of the event happening.

Regarding your own interpretation of the argument, i.e. that large human organisations are more likely to have ineffectual preventative measures, therefore increasing the prior probability of a lab leak, that would technically be a valid argument. However, in this case in particular, assuming that premise raises the question "Compared to what?". It's not like there is a cottage industry of artisanal HS4 laboratories that we can say are better at following safety requirements than large ones.

I myself have no strong opinion either way regarding the lab-leak vs. natural origin hypotheses. In fact, a while ago I thought of a "consensus" hypothesis, which is that the origin was accidental human infection during sample collection in caves. However, this possibility would fit better with a purely wild-type virus, and thus would not be consistent with the sequence oddities explained in the linked Twitter thread.
I could say there's no point in arguing with you for the exact same reasons. I see you really don't want to understand my argument and would rather blithely dismiss strawmen. That's your prerogative. For anyone else who reads this, I'll continue clarifying why I think you're argument is naive and, frankly, simplistic. You seem not to have a clear understanding of American politics. Maybe you don't live here or, if you do you don't pay much attention to deep politics. That's forgivable. Most people don't have the time, heart, or stomach for it. I assume you're talking about the former President pushing the claim? That is hardly the most powerful position in America. Do you think Joe Biden is the most powerful person in America? LoL. Read Glennon's book National Security and Double Government, or Sheldon Wolin's Democracy Incorporated for a primer.

You clearly don't grok ruling class ideology and discourse policing. Please don't mislead other people with these tired arguments about conspiracy theories. Although, there is plenty of evidence of actual conspiracy at the top of the FDA and NIH if you want to nitpick. You might also want to investigate the modus operandi and principle funding structures of the WTO and WHO. But you would probably argue there were no conspiracies in Imperial Britain because they're just not possible. Your lack of historical knowledge blinds you to possibility.

But I'm not even talking about technical "conspiracy" so called. I'm talking about ideological control structures for the ruling class and those within it. Your statements are a prime example of someone who cannot see outside your ideology. You don't even know that you don't know. That's the essential feature of ideological compliance. There absolutely are conspiracies to suppress information, that's called censorship. Wait, don't tell me. You're a fan of that, too. But only to suppress disinformation and protect the feebleminded masses from their own stupidity, right? But not you! You've got enough grey matter to handle it and come to the "right" conclusions. We all know the "right" opinions and we all want to be on the "right side of history", don't we? That's right. We don't need to be told that certain ideas are junk disinformation while other, approved ideas, are justified true belief. There's a good lad, off you go.

Btw, the lab leak hypothesis was originally making a splash in the blogosphere in January 2020 before the narrative could get ahead of it. Then the political arms of the government science institutions and the pathetically complicit media leaped to the rescue by savaging the people who would dare suggest such a thing. Google "lab leak Wuhan" with a date filter if you want to relive those heady days. It's especially funny that you would make such a claim since that's exactly the sort of thing members in good standing of the establishment are expected to believe. There's really no point in arguing with someone who's mind has been broken by propaganda. I'm sorry for your loss.
I always tell people who are looking for a career path to look at the BLS website. They have great data about the demand, job numbers, earnings potential, for just about every job.
> "How about the rest of life itself? language, cultures, arts, shared values, shared concerns, common intellectual experience."

Unfortunately, one can't eat any of the things you listed nor keep rain off one's head with them. The things you list were always reserved for those with enough income or wealth to have the leisure to contemplate them, not the commonfolk scrabbling to survive.
AppleScript is a HORRIBLE language. It still gives me nightmares, as I needed to do something non-trivial there. In... I think Tiger days? Brrr.

I liked the idea that all apps will be easily scriptable - lots of apps back then even exported some AppleScript actions. But it never worked that well in reality.

And nowadays, with all big and important apps being Electron, it doesn't really matter anyway.

I never knew that it works with JavaScript.
Have you heard of a horse named “Potoooooooo”? Name my startup after it?
“Bertie, the horse owner, intended to call the young colt "Potato" and instructed the stable boy to write the name on a feed bin. The stable boy spelled the name as "Potoooooooo" (Pot followed by 8 "o"s; that is, a failed attempt at spelling phonetically), which so amused Bertie that he adopted the spelling. Potoooooooo (1773 – November 1800) won over 30 races and defeated some of the greatest racehorses of the time.”

I’m building a bunch of developer tools and thinking of using the name Pot8o for my startup. What do you think about this name? Love to hear your thoughts.

PS: I’ve already bought domain pot8o.io
Generative AI and the applications built on top of it. I'm confident we will look back at things like GPT-3, Stable Diffusion or DALL-E as the first child steps of a whole new universe of technological possibilities across a wide range of fields.
Ask HN: Setting up Architecture Review process for large teams
What are some of the best practices that you have used to help ensure different teams within your organization are well equipped with their architectural decisions.

We have one Engineering Fellow that wants to ensure that engineers in all 4 teams across the company are well equipped to get feedback on their architectural decisions.

For now we are just holding office hours but as the teams grow this is becoming a challenge.

So wondering how others are setting this up.

For reference: each team is about 10-20 engineers.
Could we rename the title to: "Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospital prices"

This post is lot more interesting and important than the current short title would suggest.
> There also isn’t a low temperature heat pump solution that works for radiators.

There are. Here's one [1] that works down to -26 Celsius (47 F below freezing!!) and connects to radiators. In practice it will also work below -26 C, since multi-zone pumps can use other rooms to balance out reliance on the external radiator.

It's also crazy efficient: at -13 C/5 F it still moves 12078.98 BTUs of heat per kWh of electricity consumed. At 10.42 cents/kWh that's nearly half the price of natural gas.

[1]: https://www.fujitsu-general.com/us/products/vrf/j4/aou60rlav...
>It's a great shame that academia is terribly paid and an unstable career path in the West.

Is it better in the East? No loaded question, I genuinely want to know your answer
A proper New Englander would be happiest without heat, but the pipes must be kept from freezing.
It was the Bucharest summit 2008 that started paving the way for Ukraine and Georgia to become NATO members. Georgia was immediately attacked, Ukraine under Yanukovych suspended its membership ambitions itself until 2014. When they resumed their membership ambitions, Crimea and the east Ukraine where the response of Russia and this prevented a NATO membership because you can not be in an active conflict as far as I know. This then gave Russia time to prepare the invasion in order to try to prevent a NATO membership forcefully.
I see your point. There's no reason to hire a janitor if there's nothing to clean. I don't think there's a simple answer.
I am completely a proponent of humanity using cheap energy to elevate our standard of living to ridiculous levels. I’m just wondering what we will do with the waste heat. I cannot believe that we will limit ourselves to current levels of consumption.
Yes, I believe it's the case even there.
Advocating for policies that "would cause havoc" is a bad idea if you want your movement to be attractive to the marginal voter.
Three Challenges Ahead for Stable Diffusion
This isn’t as extreme as some of the comments suggest. The UK is already expected to soft-ban the installation of natural gas heating in all new properties from 2025, and the sale of gas boilers from 2035.
CVS to Buy Signify Health – $8B cash deal
>Why not build a society where everybody is building their own business, and we connect them all together? Why does Google have to build their own browser? Why does Tesla have to build their own GPUs and Amazon their own datacenters?

Some of us are not interested in having our own business, we just want to enjoy life in other ways such as raising a family, hobbies, relaxing, etc.
One factor, among many, I strongly believe, is the difficulty of maintaining and enforcing attention on the learning material on most any device a student would be using. I certainly have this problem.

A second issue, as I see it, is the collapse of expectations in terms of evaluation ("grading"). We don't want to make a students anxious ==> grades are unfair/adversarial ==> allow retakes/change or remove evaluation methods/etc. This may seem tangential, but the students are not incentivized to pay attention, which is how I see this point relating to your very good question.

I could go on, but I only get more negative from here. I think there has been a subtle, but wholistic change in the way we think about educating our kids, especially around a degradation of expectations. Kid's can get away with quite a lot, especially if we don't reinforce the behavior that will actually incentivize "real" learning.
Might be easier to freeze the cgroup, send the signals, then unfreeze. Only danger there is that it needs to not be reentrant.

Edit: Indeed both your and my methods were proposed to systemd: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/13101 It's just waiting for someone to implement it.
HTML Media Capture Examples
Apple Script is a weird but cool feature. There's also another thing called "Remote Apple Events" which essentially lets you use Apple Script over the internet via some weird RPC system. It's super bizarre and I have yet to find a legitimate use for it but it works nonetheless.
Hot take, there is no next big thing in personal computing.

A hundred years from now people will still be using little rectangular screens in their pockets like we do today.

Their batteries may last a lot longer or maybe they will be as thin as paper but they will still be recognizable to us as smartphones.

The laptop and desktop PC form factors will also persist.
That is also what CERN was using in early 2000 before the Grid efforts.
Everything old is new again: the logical endpoint of "everything should speak one protocol" is "everything should respond to natural language". Perhaps things will turn out differently this time than the _last_ "expert systems" hype-wave in the 90s.

OTOH, SQL was _literally_ supposed to be the '70s natural-ish language replacement for writing explicit code to scan database tables...
killpg is my favorite syscall
Our custodial staff come into secure facilities to clean—they just need to be escorted by a person who does have an active security clearance. We have a duty roster that everybody rotates through in the office space for both lockup and escorting custodial staff.

It's only a security risk if you don't mitigate it through physical security policies.
This is really cool to see because this is the #1 problem with current tools (as you said). I call it "alert fatigue" in my head because it's meaningless when you have 100+ vulns to fix but they're 99% unexploitable.

I have a bit of a bone to pick with this space: I've been working on this problem for a few months now (link to repo[0] and blog[1]).

My background is Application Security and, as is often the case with devs, rage fuels me in my desire to fix this space. Well, Log4Shell helped too.

As another comment said, doing this in a language agnostic way is a big PITA and we haven't fully built it yet. We are using SemGrep to do very basic static analysis (see if vulnerable function is ever imported + called). But we're not doing fancy Inter-process taint analysis like CodeQL can.

(We have a big Merkle tree that represents the dependency tree and that's how we are able to make the CI/CD check take only a few seconds because we can pre-compute.)

Anyway, if you have a second to help, we have a GitHub App[2] that you can install to test this out + help us find bugs. It's best at NPM now but we have basic support for other languages (no dep tree analysis yet).

There are so many edge cases with the ways that repos are setup so just have more scans coming in helps a ton. (Well, it breaks stuff, but we already determined that rage sustains me.)

Thank you. climbs off of soap box

0: https://github.com/lunasec-io/lunasec

1: https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/the-issue-with-vuln-scanner...

2: https://github.com/marketplace/lunatrace-by-lunasec
Same. Phones have really good default native UIs for these "old" style input forms.
Drug dealers make up like 90+% of the market for expensive cryptophones.

There’s been a bunch of companies selling “PGP phones” specifically to drug dealers. Many of these have been shut down by LE. If you look, you’ll find that most of them unsurprisingly maintain physical storefronts in drug dealing hotspots like Marbella.

The idea isn’t that only drug dealers care about privacy, it’s that they’re the people with enough disposable cash and few enough brain cells to buy this stuff.
The author's credentials are not important. Any bad logic or assumptions that seem incredulous are. Can you elaborate on those parts?
How Stable Diffusion works for text to image generation
> There also isn’t a low temperature heat pump solution that works for radiators.

Can't you use a heat pump to warm water in a boiler, and then pump hot water through a baseboard radiator heating system?

Of course, most houses aren't set up for this. Just curious if it's a workable solution, or if I'm overlooking some problem.
> So many people here seem to be convinced that since NVidia is the leader in this tech all other attempts of building up something comparable is a loosing proposition

A non-issue if you understand the design space of TPU-like AI accelerators. The understanding shouldn't even be necessary because the major players (Google, now Amazon) already build their TPUs and have been for years.

Nvidia tax is too much.
HN is supposed to be a place of discourse and problem solving. I'm not a heat system scholar. Are there any experts on this matter who would be able to point me toward figures and data regarding:

- electricity sources for heating

- percentage of emissions coming from home heating via natural gas vs coal-originating electric heaters

- efficiency of progress over the years, expected trajectory

- predictions for how this will all actually play out, without hyperbole
We can create rocket fuel from water and solar power.
My neighbor was out from Monday until Friday evening. I think it was actually up to _6_ days...
My pup won’t poop in the yard at all (and gratefully has an aversion to poop generally). So we walk for poop business, and she often needs to get a running start. Often also this running begins downhill, and then up, rounding the edges of whatever prospective poop designation until finding just the right spot. And then she does a cartoon-style “wind up” where her legs are running but her body remains stationary. It’s all very adorable except when the terrain is slick or when she decides the right spot is down a very steep side hill.
Funnily enough, Apple's services is the only place I've been able to just not answer my security questions and yet still access my email.
>This is what you get when you rely on fossil fuels as an energy source in 2022.

The root cause was to source your energy needs from an old enemy. And it seems that what made this happen was the green transition at home.
> I forgot a third development, which is thanks to Stripe and other mobile-friendly payment processors. All you need is a smartphone, and they send you a mini card reader that plugs into your phone.

Did you mean Square? They were one of the first (if not the first) payment processors, iirc, to make it easy for merchants to offer card-swipe to customers, via the mobile phone attachment you mentioned.
Metamaterials could solve one of 6g’s big problems
Ask HN: Source code (Java) parser and/or static analysis tool
Hi HN, for some project of mine I need a library or set of them to do the following:

Parse a potentially large code base and count, starting from an entry point that may be a main method or just a user selected method, and count how many method calls are made at the same level. Then for each call do the same recursively.

In the end I'd like to count how many calls there are for each level. Optionally I'd also like to count loops and ifs.

I think a parser or a static analysis tool could be best for the job but given I need a very simple thing (I think) I'd like to know the faster thing to get started with that gets the job done.

Thanks in advance.
ChromeOS is sort of the successor to Gentoo. The images are built with profile-guided, link-time, and post-link optimization, and they are targeted to the specific CPU in a given Chromebook. Every other Linux leaves a large amount of performance on the table by targeting a common denominator CPU that's 20 years old and not having PGO.
Show HN: Shumai – Fast ML in JavaScript
I did not say natural gas was required, but it is used to produce 38% of electricity in the US at this time.
Wouldn't burning candles consume oxygen rather than produce it?
What an awesome idea! Was thinking of doing raspi craziness for capturing birds out my window.

Why do that when you can duct tape an old phone to the window lol
>> Meanwhile,humans were able to solve that problem in a fraction of the time that evolution would take.

One would say humans cannot solve it faster than evolution since humanity < evolution.
Until we can figure out how to translate semantics across languages, we have to reinvent almost everything for each language. We can abstract out some things, but not others. As far as "a good use of our time", the alternative is "no vulnerability scanning" or "package level vulnerability scanning" which probably waste more time or expose more risk for most organizations.
Doesn't mean the companies the work for did so.

Doesn't mean they agreed with their employers decision.

Doesn't mean they don't complain about it when their company does it.

Doesn't mean they don't raise complains internally with their employer.

But what do you expect?

They quitting their job about this, many can't afford it.

They mentioning how bad their employer is too every time they complain about a different company? That would be just annoying (close to) no one wants that.

Sure some people which also work for much worse companies wrt. such properties and are not currently looking for a different employer are hypocrites.

But so what? Better voice your complains even if you don't act on them then to not even voice your complains and just accept bad things. (Sure acting on them would be even better, way better.)
Yep, all those things are true. And yet still the only realistic solution is as advertised up above.
It would make the article at least 10x better if it included a section where the author describes why he isn't following his own advice and writes a weekly newsletter instead.
> Kiwi Farms exists solely to serve as a breeding ground for harassers.

> Organizing harm against others is essentially the mission statement for Kiwi Farms.

How are you such an informed expert in Kiwifarm's culture and mission statement?

Your opinion may or may not reflect reality, but you don't sound the slightest bit objective about this at all.

And given all of the censoring and deplatforming that has been done in the last few years, how can an outside observer take any of these types claims at face value? Whatever marginal trust I've had in taking these kinds of claims at face value has been squandered by censorious pricks.

> No, the owners of Kiwi Farms are actively malicious and encourage bad behavior.

First hand citations in context that can simply be judged for myself?
Closing a bug as "wontfix" is very different from "just close all bugs older than 6 months".
Great seeing coherent cool capabiliites mase so east, taking & growing thr input element like this.

It does make me more than a bit sad how the web is bifurcating between mobile & desktop. We keep justifying it to ourselves, saying, yeah, that's not as important on desktop, and nit implementing. This pile of discrepancies built by non-implementations keeps growing though & it's not cool. Web Share & Web Share Target not being on desktop is another mobile only example, of more tech that's just good for PWA's in general/everywhere.
That's actually shockingly similar. I'm sure someone has studied the mathematics of fuel transport in much greater detail -- I wonder if it's a simple problem to optimize or something closer to the traveling salesman problem
If you consider Ukraine becoming a NATO member a threat to Russian security that has to be prevented at all costs, then you are forced to act if your opposition is ignored. Besides this there are essentially only two options - Ukraine does not become a NATO member or you convince Russia that a Ukrainian NATO membership is not a threat to its security.

EDIT: As a thought experiment entertain the idea of a partnership between Mexico and China where in exchange for economic support China gets a few military bases in northern Mexico, just a few thousand soldiers and tanks and maybe an airfield here or there. Take into account the recent US reaction in response to a partnership between the Solomon Islands and China [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/23/us-warns-solom...
Sad story, poor guy and his family. How does an aortic tear cause paralysis?
I’m glad to see a shift in sentiments from Germany about nuclear power [0]. There have been warnings about energy dependence on Russia for years [1], maybe not long enough to spin up more nuclear plants but certainly enough time to make good progress on them.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/05/world/europe/germany-exte...

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/09/25/trump-accuse...
I'm already self hosting it, took 3 minutes to set up a self updating docker container.
In Phoenix, seems people use fires for atmosphere as soon as it gets below 80'F. They probably also have the air conditooner on at the same time :P
I suppose "long before" is a mischaracterization. According to Protocol Lab's history, this stuff was bandied about in 2013: https://web.archive.org/web/20210428163146/https://protocol....

To be fair, ideas like can emerge all together, whether in parallel or because people were talking to each other about it.

Personally for me, I don't think web3 will get anywhere (and I could be wrong). I'm more interested in IPFS (and less so with FileCoin) because the use-case I am interested in is much narrower in scope. It's also interesting to me that "web3" got hijacked from semantic web ... though semantic web stalled out as well.
Apple avoid this problem with their OS by having a separate architecture slice for modern x64 (Haswell+).