skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In an article published Thursday, economist Jeffrey Sachs called for an independent investigation of information held by U.S.-based institutions that could shed light on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic. Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Sachs and his co-author, Neil Harrison, a Columbia University professor of molecular pharmacology and therapeutics, said that federal agencies and universities possess evidence that has not been adequately reviewed, including virus databases, biological samples, viral sequences, email communications, and laboratory notebooks. Sachs and Harrison also highlighted a tantalizing scientific detail that may be an indication that SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, originated in a laboratory: a sequence of eight amino acids on a critical part of the virus’s spike protein that is identical to an amino acid sequence found in cells that line human airways [1]

If the Lancet Covid Commission is now claiming it is one of the foremost theories, then it is not fringe.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2022/05/19/covid-lab-leak-evidence-...
Modern American and public do no useful conceptual work in that sentence. It’s exactly as true without them.

On the other hand, many children are born into circumstances so bad school is a welcome relief. Warmth, regular food, some intellectual stimulation, people who don’t hit them, ever. It’s not what you’d want for your child but it beats what lots of children get at home.
I've been told that people who actually do fail out of school tend to not have these kinds of dreams, or at least at a reduced rate.
I've asked some aquaintences over the years and their experiences didn't contradict that assertion.

Could be an interesting research topic.
Yes, I've been there once or twice myself, no judgment on you personally! The amount of people responding this way was a bit surprising though. I will note that I completely share your feelings about the boring version of CICO.
It may be in someone’s self interest to make anything that any of us do zero cost, at which point we do not have a business model for living (other than some form of the dole contingent on agreeing to whatever conditions put thereupon). To the extent that Dolby creates value and reasonably licenses their development I think the employees of Dolby have a better claim to a fair living than a pure patent troll or an ad farm.
Simple != easy. Simple/complex vs easy/hard if this illustration helps
6.7% of US kids are home schooled now, and it increased 10% year over year from 2016-2021.

One can hope.

We’re homeschooling which paradoxically ends up with our kids thinking school is some magical place where everything is great and you get to hang out with friends all day.
Yes, but there's quite good chance the translation is wrong so you'll probably need to read the code anyway
Dupe of the topic discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32923570
Isn't it consistent to say the government deciding not distribute books is wrong for the same reason the government telling private companies they must distribute speech they disagree with is wrong? Both clearly violate free speech. Maybe you don't actually think free speech is the standard, maybe it's something more vague like an open society, but I don't see this as any different than the state mandating churches reserve 15 minutes at the start of each sermon for anyone who wants to get up and say something
> Now the FBI is engaging in mob tactics?

Not now. For a long time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93King_suicide_lette...
The only thing that beats 'free' is 'quality'.

Your product has to be so good that people will clamour to buy it.

If your product's quality is 'meh', 'free' will beat that every time.
There is only space for one platform, yet there are plenty of platforms for discourse. Are you really arguing that for instance Trump or Foxnews don’t have the following to start an alternate social media?

As far as #2, why should tgat be an argument for the government to be involved?
Peregrine: True Realistic Text to Speech Model by Play.ht
> That's different from translating code into English.

That's not what this "TLDR plugin" does, because there is no magical translation.
You put whatever you want in there. I think this is obvious.

Ironically, you basically rephrased the title, while objecting to it's use?

> Comments explain why the code is there

> TLDR explains what a piece of code does
It is possible, but your users will need to type emojis (which can be hard or impossible on some devices), or you'll need to urlencode it in href attributes and it will actually take encodeURIComponent("").length = 12 characters (imagine a simple emoji between the quotes). It will also require bigger QRCodes than alphanumeric characters. It might display incorrectly in address bars.
> People tried it and Elon musky found out about it and updated all Tesla's software to make sure it could never be done again. The idea of a Tesla driving down the highway towing a generator infuriated him.

https://www.quora.com/Can-you-drive-and-charge-a-Tesla-at-th...
The rush to mine lithium could dry up the high Andes
I’ve heard AI researchers describe this phenomenon before. As soon as something is discovered or invented it immediately becomes trivial and boring. The goalposts shift, and now they have to find the next amazing thing that will suffer the same fate.
I'm not American and didn't go to American public school but still had the same kind of dreams way out of school. And article author mentions his is about college. So yeah sorry this doesn't fit your narrative.
"simple" <> "easy"
Your simplistic theory for silencing certain scientists falls apart when you need to examine Africa or other countries that had the virus but not the excess death you would expect. Also, there is new excess death data that is not explained by the virus.
Do you have any Chinese (i.e. went through mainland china middle school entrance exams / high school entrance exams / college entrance exams) friends who will share their dreams with you?
The DRAM chips don't actually have to be cheaper. They just need to enable the system as a whole to be more cost effective. If putting a bit more logic in the DRAM makes it significantly cheaper and quicker to design and validate a processor's memory controller, and enables better performance and power efficiency from the memory, then it's very likely a net win even if the marginal cost of DRAM chips went up slightly.
> AI Summer

Thanks!
It'd also not be unreasonable to look at many of the people imprisoned for the US's "war on drugs" that way. Many of those laws were written targeting "undesirable" voters.
Looks up FSU on Wikipedia

> After Cambridge University launched an online portal for students to anonymously report microaggressions, the Free Speech Union threatened legal action. The portal was ultimately removed.[11]

I guess they consider some kinds of speech more free than others.

I found this article less than persuasive as it was clearly written to arouse rather than inform or supply context.
Berkley is more prestigious than most ivys imo. Princeton, yale, harvard are the only ones more prestigious. Penn and colombia are similar.
I'm from Europe, out of school for two decades, and still dream about it. A lot of math exams, but anything, really.
This is the kind of fear propaganda that got innumerable people killed over the past two years.

No, you don't just do whatever big pharma in cahoots with government "regulatory" agencies say and call that "science".
The latest "booster" was tested on 8 mice before it was spread widely for use.

The dissenting doctors were the ones making money? Have you seen how much Phizer is profiting off their untested, unapproved solution which is proven to be more dangerous than the disease?

Time after time these pharmaceutical companies have lied and cheated in order to make money at the expense of thousands and millions of human lives. Somehow scared people are willing to forget history and go with whatever an authority figure tells them.
First Amendment case law involves the government. If the government of Florida wants a free for all social media platform, it can create one. If they don’t have the technical aptitude, I’ll gladly accept a multi million dollar contract to lead the creation of one. Leading the development of large scale infrastructure and back end development is kind of mg thing.
Not with recent results in Nature I believe reporting glaring mispredictions. Lots of promotion notwithstanding, AlphaFold may not be usable yet.
> There have to be checks and balances.

Correct, but those checks and balances don't come from reaching your hand into the fringe theory hat, grabbing whichever one is most convenient, and proudly demanding that policy should give it equal weight to consensus science.
A survey of documents produced by Russia’s surveillance state
Isn’t it up to Congress to legislate this? Or, is the hope that the current SC will make law?
I'm reminded of that amazing scene from Top Secret!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvDFJVUaXUI
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Interesting. You may be right - in fact, I’d never considered filling up on broccoli or other calorically thin ingredients to suppress hunger. I was just working on the assumption that hunger is the body’s response to caloric deficit (in the absence of drugs).
Without commenting on the merits or lack thereof in this case, I think it would be useful to give some more information about the FSU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Union
Something like this could be helpful if the stumbling block is the syntax. If the output consistently looks like the example, though, it's not going to be very much help explaining the longer tail of straightforward code that simply implements hard-to-understand logic, though.

I can see something this functionality being useful to explain dense, ungooglable code, like regex, or maybe APL. That said, I couldn't really trust current-generation ML to actually produce a correct explanation instead of being confidently and wildly wrong.
USD/JPY purchasing power ratio change between 2020 and 2022 is even better than 30% because Japanese inflation is so low: https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/inflation-cpi
Thank you for a realistic, grounded, evidence-based discussion of this. I've seen quite a few comments in this thread that have made me shake my head pretty hard.

Here's the thing: anyone who is in IT, especially programming; is going to be well-aware of the...I don't want to say 'evil', but I will at least say questionably ethical nature of Facebook's workings.

Anyone working there had to compromise some level of ethics for the profit they acquire from it.
PayPal has been blocking people, businesses, and organisations due to real or perceived ideological wrongthink for years. This is why more businesses are waking up and changing to Asian payment processors.
As a queer person, the second someone gets "cancelled" and starts yelling about pedophiles, it almost always means that they are anti-queer.

What a surprise that this crew seems very much in this boat.

I'm not issuing judgement on if paypal is in the right here or not (although my knee jerk reaction is that they are not), but the age-old "they're pedophiles" canard is well past dog-whistling and into trainwhistling at this point.
I'm seeing some weird bugs. For example, in one 30 minute mp3, about 6 minutes in it decided that someone said "2200." And then exactly 5.000 seconds later, "2200". And every 5.000 seconds after that, for the next 24 minutes. (No one actually repeated "2200" for 24 minutes.)

A second run gave better results, but in most runs I do see instances where phrases repeat from 2-20 times.
Going to court to discover the rules is precisely how common law systems work
Why not just type the code into DALL-E 2 and have it paint a picture of what the code does?
Really convenient how his role as the lead public official pushing AZT during the AIDs epidemic got memory-holed too.

Edit:
Adding sources to spite the Dow voter for merely stating a fact.

Him saying:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fKWwEkBZjhM

An article:
“ Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was now pushing to expand prescription.”

https://www.spin.com/2015/10/aids-and-the-azt-scandal-spin-1...
The FSU/Daily Sceptic/Toby Young is conspiracy theoristic, grifting, scam.

He knows that he broke the T&Cs - learning to cry for fun and profit.

The sad thing is that TY’s dad coined the term “meritocracy” and he’s the only reason why anyone pays any attention to Toby.
Can you elaborate? To me (but I know very little about it) it seems like part of the incremental progress in the internet availability. What am I missing?
Funny, I did EECS at Berkeley nearly a decade ago and also still have the occasional nightmare about forgetting to finish something, but remembering at the last minute. Something something about evolution rewarding anxiety and neuroticism.
Well I'm hedging my bets. If it really is true that the market in a particular area (microblogging for instance) can only be dominated by a single company, and also that left-wing users are more active, then absolutely, I'm arguing that Fox would be unable to maintain a successful rival to Twitter.

As far as #2 is concerned, well I don't know if it is an argument for the government to become involved, but if something is driving huge divisions in society which are arguably destabilising the country (again, this is arguably wrong) then should the government not intervene? I'm European by the way, so my philosophical priors might be different to those of an American.

It's not as though government doesn't regulated other human behaviours which cause damage if left unregulated. Drink driving, for example.
Yes, BLM protests in my city were encouraged by regular application of police batons, rubber-coated bullets, and flooding the streets with tear gas.

The anti-lockdown protests, on the other hand were encouraged by... A few cops looking bored. Which is strange, because COVID has been the #1 killer of police officers since the pandemic started.
I think PayPal has been hacked and they don't know the extent of it yet and don't want to publicly comment. An intruder with an agenda could have closed those accounts. I say they've been hacked after I closed my account due to phishing attempts from their domain.
Why would anyone remotely political trust PayPal after the 2010 Wikileaks closure?
(UK) I've had dreams about university/school and I very rarely dream
Kiwi Farms is offline not because CloudFlare refuses to do business with them, but because everybody collectively refuses to do business with them. Otherwise they could just have gone to a competitor.

One can still find what happened to them chilling, but that doesn't make CloudFlare a "common carrier."
Who knew that there was a CO2 shortage... wait...what?
Waaaaaaaooooo, wooooooooooooooooooaw aawoooooooo?
How to Integrate NetSuite and Salesforce with Pandaflow
Or the military has someone who is disabled, or literally any service or group that has specific physical needs such as Amazon Warehouses or UPS/USPS, race isn't the only segregation method.
> No, there are no good schools.

Wew. I find this remarkable that someone has been in every school of the world and is now posting here to report back on his experience.
Asian payment processors? Can you recommend any?
What is this, a counter dog-whistle?
Love it when academia turns on itself. Interestingly Harvard and Stanford have no claim to the hottest idea in science and engineering right now (deep learning).

A worse issue is that Harvard and Stanford get all the grant money.
Genuinely curious, aren't a lot of time-series workloads OLAP oriented?
Did you enjoy school while growing up?

I occasionally feel the calling to go back to school for the sheer joy of learning and mastery. It’s an odd feeling though, because I always hated school, from elementary to undergrad.
Paypal has been doing this crap for at least 15 years now. Anyone still using them at this point has it coming.
One of the main points of what people call "podcasts" (and streams as well) is creating parasocial relationships that make mind-numbing chores more pleasant by making it seem like you're hanging out with a group of friends in the background.

To that end, stuff like interviewing skills, presentation, depth of discussion, is unnecessary and maybe even detrimental. What matters is rawness, authenticity, serendipity and light-heartedness. When you listen to this stuff, you're not deeply engaging with the content.
I don't think we would still be talking about Android today if Google went down that path.

I think in this alternate universe, Windows Phone may have actually succeeded.
Did you never have a teacher you were friendly with or served as a mentor even outside of class? I grew up in poverty and if it wasn't for a couple teachers going above and beyond I probably would've never got the help I need to get free community college tuition.

With cases like that, personal details end up discussed inadvertently because it's impossible to avoid. So-and-so's wife might be a teacher in the same district, or they might show up at school during late work hours and so forth. Same if they're running a club or some extracurricular activity.

I don't think that's especially weird at all.
Looks like you have to paper file to get them, right?
I pretty much flunked outta college my first time around and "Failing and having to repeat grade X" and "Slept through the final" are two of my most common reoccurring nightmares
Weirdly I have more nostalgia dreams about school (especially college) than anxiety dreams. Though I've certainly had those too
I appreciated all the data in this post. I guess one of the upsides of being ubiquitous in the workplace is the ability to collect information like that.
>Excessive salt consumption is linked over a million annual deaths worldwide. Even water kills thousands of people per year (drowning)

And we have people and organizations that try to reduce the amount of deaths from those things. Raising awareness, passing laws, etc.

>If your rule is "we can't have things that may hurt some people" then you're going to live in a pretty bland world.

I only asked for clarification on your argument. But, no, that's not my "rule". I just think that if we can reduce harm, it's nice to do that where possible.

>Gonna be especially tough without water.

Come on. Your whole last sentence is ridiculous. The poster questioned why someone would work at Facebook. That is not the equivalent of saying "we can't have things that may hurt some people" and it's so far removed from your water/drowning scenario that I can't tell if you're being serious.
Hi from Texas, where real-life candidates belonging to one of the two major political parties spew open hate and then win office.
> Everyone violates GDPR a dozen ways to Sunday, and nothing happens. Why? Because no one can actually enforce the law except for the local regulators who are underfunded.

Individuals can enforce GDPR in court:

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Art. 79 GDPR

Right to an effective judicial remedy against a controller or processor

1. Without prejudice to any available administrative or non-judicial remedy, including the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority pursuant to Article 77, each data subject shall have the right to an effective judicial remedy where he or she considers that his or her rights under this Regulation have been infringed as a result of the processing of his or her personal data in non-compliance with this Regulation.

2. Proceedings against a controller or a processor shall be brought before the courts of the Member State where the controller or processor has an establishment. Alternatively, such proceedings may be brought before the courts of the Member State where the data subject has his or her habitual residence, unless the controller or processor is a public authority of a Member State acting in the exercise of its public powers.
> It just seems like it's not the tool itself, it's more there are actually too many options out there

And that's exactly why every company is building their own version of such a tool. They all want to be the "one place" where all information is stored.
Yes, but let's also not conflate the idea of "brightness" and the qualities of a productive university professor.After all, it's much harder to get into Stanford as an undergrad than it is to get in as a post-doc. What makes someone excel in academia is a genuine passion for knew knowledge, creative problem solving / experimental design, and (yes) the ability to drum up finding to make those discoveries. Rarely is the "smartest" person in the room most capable of being a great researcher. Curiosity, familiarity with the state-of-the-art, and the ability to forge genuine collaborations are far more important than one's ability to do the actual work, I'm afraid (that is, after all, what graduate students are for :)
I use this argument quite often when someone jokingly snark about me working mostly with Java.

It's not my favourite language, I've worked with quite a few others, Java has just been the most consistently less painful than anything else. Ecosystem is pretty good, dependency management works; refactorings are easy with modern tooling and the typing system also works fine.

Yes, it's verbose as hell and you definitely will depend on some basic tooling to be productive, I've worked in monstrosities that we managed to strip out piecemeal and get the codebase in good shape and modernised, it does require time and an experienced team though.

Like you mention, the systems keep chugging along, in places with good engineering practices it's also a given to keep updating those codebases, simplifying and it happens organically when systems are running for 8+ years with 20-30 different engineers rotating in/out during this time.

It works, it's not beautiful, it's not concise. It has quirks and gotchas as any language, and requires tooling, but it's quite mature and modernised enough to be a safe bet for bigger projects. Better than any alternative I've had experience with at scale.
The biggest problem with Dr. Fauci's statements are different than from what is being discussed.

I believe in the scientific method, and I also know there is a distinct possibility that a statement I make today, based on what we know today, may be incredibly wrong. Dr. Fauci's statements are frightening because they lack intellectual humility, and they remind me of a comic book phrase, rather than a statement by a leading physician or researcher.

Would we expect anything different from Judge Dredd? [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/miVoe7U6Lx4?t=30
I think "Airr" is your best bet
Not really that distributed given that everything is controlled by 'hubs/isps' which are within arms reach for any government within their borders.

The internet was built for fail-over to maintain communicatoin during a nuclear event.

The internet is less concerned about being a p2p network, which it clearly is not. A totally ad-hoc p2p network would be interesting, and more resiliant in some ways and lossy in others. It probably makes sense to entertain such a model. They aren't mutually exclusive.

Totally agree with you though. It's a big problem with the _increased amount of centralization_ in traffic flow / routing. That and BGP is wack.
Some of these cases seem like plain censorship. Other cases seem like something equivalent to the 10% rejection policy many US American insurance companies have, where they will flat out reject valid insurance claims just to raise the profit margins.

Personally I would never dare putting anything but spare change in the hands of Paypal or other US American payment providers.