skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it quite jarring to see all the Swedish people walking without helmets on those icy streets!

The number of bicycle accidents is quite small and the number of serious head injuries even smaller, helmets would save less than 5 children yearly [1]. This is mostly due to education, both primary school cyclists and driver's license and road design separating cars and bicycles.

[1] https://swov.nl/nl/fact/fietshelmen-hoeveel-slachtoffers-zou...
Should I post some links about young white males shooting up schools and conclude that all young white males are radical?

Do you truly believe that every (or every most) republicans are radical?
I need to have Win for game dev. Nothing is an out in any way.

HTTPS is not secure in any way.
I always hear it as Will Ferrell's GWB saying "strategery" instead of "strategy." I know it's incorrect but that's my brain for you.
Yes, but if we can't attract the world's foremost virologists to programs that we have some degree of control over in the middle of international cities where they can engage in serial passaging of airborne HIV in the morning, and then get lunch at places that are trending, authentic and cutting-edge, then they'll just go to a program in another country that doesn't have these restrictions.

No-one wants to live in an underground facility for weeks or months at a time when they could be making the most of living in a major city, not even virologists working on pathogens that are being modified to see what would happen if there was a pathogen whose evolution was guided in a particularly interesting direction and compressed from decades to weeks or even days.

Anyway, if we were to ask the world's foremost experts in the virological community whether we should restrict such research to carefully-controlled remote locations subject to stringent controls, long quarantines and strict oversight, then we might find that the answer was similar to when we asked "is if likely or even within the realm of possibility that SARS-CoV-2 originated from a lab in Wuhan as result of Gain-of-Function research". And they might insist that we listen to them because they were the experts, and they would probably find a lot of support in the government and the media.
What would you like to investigate? This is what I don't understand - what is the alternative to a natural origin?
Depends on what the product is. For example with openAI Dalle-2 the product is very clearly the generated image. You even pay per image. Also this is kind of what this article is about. Arbitrarily separating the pieces in order to evade copyright.
> it also proves they're selected against in their usual hosts

No it doesn't. They can be neutral. And BtCoV-HKU5 is a MERS-like bat coronavirus with a functional FCS and BtHpCoV-ZJ13 is even closer to sarbecoviruses than MERS and is another bat coronavirus with an FCS. It is more likely that the absence of an FCS in BANAL-like viruses is due to us not having found them yet, our surveillance coverage is immeasurably poor.

And a species jump involving coinfection with proto-SARS-CoV-2 and some other coronavirus and a recombination event is actually a likely way to start a pandemic. The 2009 H1N1 pandemic was started by a triple reassortment with three viruses in a pig. Pandemics are very uncommon infection events so the conditions that create them are necessarily highly unlikely.
I still don't understand why you think it's dangerous. Government sets policy. Even when they make changes it takes time for policy decisions to actually take effect. The civil service and bureaucracy will continue with the previous policies until the government gets its act together. There's no problem until budget time. Quite frankly it's probably less dangerous if the Tories stop doing any governing for a little while.

> The tune the chancellor is playing is being called by the Bank of England (and others unnamed), none of whom was elected, and none of whose policy preferences have been presented to the public, let alone approved.

As is always the case. That's a deeper issue and not anything to do with the current crisis, you've just seen the covers pulled back for 5 minutes.
They have a build process video. A lot of knowledge is in folks heads as well from what they said - and nothing is "mass produced" really. And it's all at the absolute limits.

Zeiss covers their mirrors and lenses. The smoothness is extreme:
"If you were to enlarge such a mirror to the size of Germany, the largest unevenness – the Zugspitze, so to speak – would be a whole 0.1 millimeters high."

Then they have positioning / tilt accuracy.

"If one of these EUV mirrors were to redirect a laser beam and aim it at the Moon, it would be able to hit a ping pong ball on the Moon’s surface."

What they don't say is what the yield is on these. I've heard they have to try and make X to get y that can hit all the specs.

In the machines themselves didn't they have to build in both an electron microscope and an atomic force microscope for defect detection?

And then the environment they operate in is terrible from a wavelength absorption energy / contamination (tin?) issues etc.
Saudi Arabia is not as worthy of an adversary as China but they still are a dangerous country to underestimate. They were possibly behind 9/11, after all: https://theintercept.com/2021/09/11/september-11-saudi-arabi... .
Teams/Slack don't show ads. With all the meme generator/hosting options I can't figure out what the anti-trust argument is here. Seems like people are so mad at Meta they couldn't acquire a dog walking business.
"They expect one of us in the wreckage brother"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn3Ztd-ErTw
Lauterbach is known for making unserious and hyperbolic claims unmoored from scientific fact. A simple minded fool desperately trying to seem smart.
If you don't abide, you get penalties, from fines to being banned from the market. It's up to each company whether they accept that risk or not.
> 70% of Democrats, 14% of Republicans, 27% of independents trust media

Wow, that partisan divide.
I was disappointed in this article that doesn't really explain what's going on.

Yes, the moon is moving away from earth, because the energy transferred by tides. Said energy transfer is slowing the spin of earth, which lengthens the day. This transfer will stop once a day = a lunar month. At which point the moon will slowly decrease it's orbit until it hits the Roche limit and becomes a ring.

Fun to think about, granted it's billions of years and the sun may become a red giant before then and either alter earths orbit or consume it.
Like I said, this is a story in development now.

Yes, there are bases in SA, and the US has threatened to pull them out.

[1] https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/10/06/oil-dispute-p...

[2] https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-democrats-slam-opec-cu...
I like how they worked out an advanced tagging system's requirements from a ~dozen tweets, starting with the most basic tagging system and working up through a tag hierarchy to a tree to a DAG, then even talks about K/V tags and etc.
What do you use for note taking on an iPad?
OTOH my earpods have gone though the wash several times, I don't think the bluetooth headphones will cooperate with a rainstorm much less the laundry machine.
Why is it so outlandish to expect the people who make money by selling AI systems to only train them using material for which they have a license?

As many commenters have pointed out, no one would have a problem had Microsoft trained Copilot on the Windows source code. The fact that they intentionally left it out of the training set is a huge red flag.
I wish people would stop talking about Crypto's potential and own up to them trying to just get rich quick. If you think Crypto will actually be something useful, then build something useful and people will go and use it, if no one is using it, it was never useful. Same goes to the metaverse I suppose.
You could also store base64 encoded blobs in yaml, or implement a self-modifying bash script key-value store you call into from a shell. Those are the only other options before it's time to move everything over to into the cloud.
>Also, if the US has a problem with a merger between two UK companies, do we in the UK have to abide by their ruling?

If the UK business wants to do business in the US... yes.

>What about if it is France rather than the US?

Yes.

>What if it's Russia?

Yes.

Companies must comply with local laws if they wish to conduct business in those countries.

For example, countries may dictate requirements on the telecommunications products sold in their own countries. This is the one of the reasons my UK-sold iPhone has an FCC certification (and even Russian and Belarusian certifications) and iPhones in the US might have CE or UKCA certifications.

This applies to less portable products, too: my Philips Hue bulbs have CE markings even though I'm not in the EU.
Ciani is the perfect example that I was about to bring up myself. I got to see her perform live at a conference, and out of her whole setup, she waxed poetic most about her iPad.
I had no idea Twitter was buying Elon Musk, or is it GitHub buying Microsoft?

Sorry, couldn't help but make a stupid joke about the inconsistency in that list.
> Anything in the gSuite is terrible on iPadOS.

Yes, well, monopolies will generally try to sabotage competitors.
> The surprise shift here isn't in Microsoft but in Meta finally asking for help and partners after seeming to believe they could do it all on their own

This isn’t a surprise given the sales numbers of hardware and DAU of meta online properties. While they are the clear leader in VR, given how great the Quest 2 and its original pricing were it should have had much higher sales numbers and usage. That result also wasn’t a surprise given that the Facebook brand was so toxic to the masses, that even changing names to meta hasn’t mitigated it yet in the short term. The name change will pay off eventually for younger generations who aren’t very familiar with Facebook, but that day is about a decade away
Yes, "Product Lead" does feel much better. +1
We grow our own and are looking at a variety called "ice cream". I figured the name was exaggerated, but now you have me second-guessing that...

EDIT: Apparently they're in fact the same cultivar. The bananas start off blue and ripen to yellow.
kafka clone redpanda is written in rust ?
Here's a guess: it has been known to various counter-intelligence agencies around the world for a while, but only now someone decided to escalate just a tiny bit and clean up some of the mess. Can't say I don't like it, though I dislike the seemingly ongoing worldwide escalation in international relations.
Real World OCaml is a fantastic book on OCaml and functional programming – a great resource for beginners and experienced users alike. At Tarides, we want to support new learners of OCaml as much as we can, making it easier for people to become part of the vibrant community surrounding the language.
This is a bad language failure, however. The same logic, ported to Brainfuck, would exhibit the same stupidity.

The C language makes it unreasonably difficult to write anything, even before proving it to be correct.
I think the helmets would just be too much of a hassle, making them mainstream would take people off bikes again? It messes with your hair, it's hot in summer, difficult to combine with a hat in winter, you have to put it somewhere when going places, like bars. And make no mistake, here we jump on an off bikes all day, I would really hate to have to wear one on a bike. (I do wear one when mtb-ing btw!)

I'm 40, lived for all of my life in the Netherlands, I hardly saw any accidents, and I never ever saw any accident where a helmet would be of any use. Yeah it's anecdotal, but I feel it's just safe enough. I feel the same about biking as I do about walking. Helmets wouldn't make it safer. But, show me the data to convince me otherwise. Still, lets say it makes things safer, I wonder if the net effect would still be negative because it would drive people into cars, where you don't need a (stupid!) helmet.

I think it's difficult for people from other places to imagine just how little cars you encounter with good bike paths, and how people drive around you when everybody is a "cyclist" (hate the word, it's just normal here) and a driver. For example in a collision, it's always the car's responsibility [0], because pedestrians and people on bikes are considered vulnerable, they always get 50-100% off their damages paid. It creates a certain culture.

[0] https://www.anwb.nl/juridisch-advies/aanrijding-en-dan/aansp...
California Home Sales Drop 30% as Higher Rates Hit Costly Market
Thats the problem with all these projects though, they are situation brittle, depending on a situation not changing for the worse and a constant economic drip keeping them alive. The actual solution would be to saturate humans need for firewood and material - by drone planting the only plant that could keep up, survive and thrive, with it - Variations of genetically modified Bamboo.The past is gone, it cant be restored, but the danger can be contained with no constant costs and outside of the containment vessels, something like the past one day might return.
Agree that those are the acquisitions that needed interference. I don't understand how there's an Animated GIF Trust, though.
I mean, I agree! But it is, and this specific thing is only part of that.
Data teams creating analytics applications are faced with increasing demand from event data and streaming sources like Apache Kafka.

The question, then, isn’t if you will need to include stream data into your analytics apps, but whether your database is ready for it. And therein lies the issue. Every database says they handle streams. What they mean by that is that they can connect to streaming sources like Kafka. But after that, then what?
Agree. They will prioritize their chips on leading edge. Plenty of business for older processes though.
> All the value is in the search and ui

I'm pretty sure that value is approximately $0.
They are rewritten in C++ already; Redpanda and ScyllaDB, respectively. Why waste the effort of rewriting it once again?
Unsurprising, considering who belongs in which camp.
this is an example of something which was entirely uncontroversial becoming a scandal only after changes in the relationship. Two weeks ago, a non story.
Senate confirms first-ever cyber ambassador
I see where that's coming from, but to offer an alternate perspective the suburbs seemed "dystopian" to me at first - we moved upstate for middle/high school. The same 6-8 Stepford model homes on every street, strip malls filled with the same 10 stores (Walgreens/CVS, Costco/Walmart, etc), people dressed VERY similarly, and nobody walked anywhere. The teens in my suburban high school seemed way less happy and did more/harder drugs compared to the Bronx.

I'm not saying the projects were lovely. The elevators smelled like piss. But public housing - even ugly public housing - was a huge part in enabling two generations of single moms (my mom + grandma) to raise their families, start businesses, and thrive.
Those who want to insist there are no instances of infringement or evidence thereof should take a look at this link first.

It's face-saving.

https://justoutsourcing.blogspot.com/2022/03/gpts-plagiarism...
One of my neighbors put in 8 access points for about 1000sqft. Swamped everyone else out. That is what unfortunately will happen. :(
And it also depends on the screen and setting; with a good quality large screen in optimal lightning conditions – such as those used in a test setting – contrast matter less than a poor quality small screen in a not-so-great lightning setting.
As a Dutch person I learned some Swedish and some German (both not very well, but enough to go around) and I found Swedish significantly easier. It feels more similar to Dutch/English in terms of grammar and flow. Just one data point, but maybe useful for you to know!
That’s already happening and it was the more mild omicron strain causing the latest lockdowns and the resurgence.

Their lockdowns are politically motivated: saving face because they prematurely declared victory, and a need to avoid dependence on western vaccines due to the ineffectiveness of their own vaccines—the latter really just a roundabout way to save face.

If you understood Chinese culture, you’d know that saving face is pretty important and makes you do crazy things.
That’s for a court to decide, ultimately. Something doesn’t have to be a bit for bit copy to be a protected aspect.
> As you can see in the above graph, a commit was merged that caused a huge spike. However, with Criterion, an open source benchmarking tool, we were easily able to identify it, mitigate it, and push a fix.

Wonder what the commit was that caused a more than 2x regression and got a fix instead of an undo.
Yes, but the rate of energy transfer is related to the ratio of an earth day (which used to be shorter) and the lunar month (which also used to be shorter).

Taken in the opposite direction that moon will stop moving away once the a earth day = lunar month. At which point it will start getting closer, until it hits the roche limit and becomes a ring.
C++ isn't better in the ways outlined.

I'm not necessarily advocating it [1] but the parent's claim was that those programs could benefit from memory safety, thread safety and better concurrency and C++ does not deliver along that axis.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
So it's essentially a set of parallel games of chicken between played out between the companies and regulators ("do what we say or we fine you" / "let us do what we want or we leave")?

I guess that's workable, but it seems an unusual solution in a rules-based world.
If Disney gets to renegotiate it's licensing rights with the government; the original authors of work claimed by Disney should be allowed to, too. But, that concept exhibits a "should" attribute of fairness so obviously it's illogical and ridiculous.
>but out here in reality

This, I expect, is exactly the kind of bad cultural attitude that @mabbo was referring to. You're advocating for accidents as being an unavoidable cost of business while preemptively hand-waving them as being the fault of careless employees or fate.

As @P5fRxh5kUvp2th points out, there are established industry safety measures to avoid exactly these kinds of accidents when working around dangerous machinery, in the lockout/tagout system.

If tests are locked out while employees are tagged into an area, you can't accidentally smack them into a coma with an over-pressurized part blowing out. By requiring tag ins to access dangerous areas, you don't have to have employees remember someone is out there, or that a test is coming, or worry about anyone getting confused on either front.

Blaming the employee for being where they shouldn't be or the other for running tests when someone was nearby is a cop out. It shouldn't even be possible for it to happen at all.

Design your systems and processes to expect that humans are fallible.
You honestly think an American flag officer would defect to Saudi Arabia? Really?

Russia, China, or Iran would be a far "better" choice for a number of reasons, chiefly the fact that the Saudis might turn the turncoat back over to the US for any number of reasons — like pulling American maintenance contractors out of KSA, which would ground their air force in a matter of days and leave them very vulnerable to Iranian aggression. Hell, without contractor representatives giving them cues I wonder if they can really run some of the gear we've sold them.

Besides, if I'm going to be stuck in one dictatorship for the rest of my life (because you could never safely travel again), I'd pick somewhere like Iran over KSA in a second.
No. C++ and the C* (seastar) framework.
Many people seem to believe that lab leaks are exceptionally rare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity...

That page offers "only" dozens of examples in recent times, but that is certainly going to be non-exhaustive and the potential magnitude of impact of a single of these incidents is difficult to overstate. Notably while the biosafety levels for each leak are not stated, at least two came from BSL-4 labs - the highest safety standard there is.
Yes, they/we do very well. Let me explain myself:

There is even a lot of scientific evidence that there is a suborgan in our brain for sense-making, for post hoc rationalization after making a decision.

So if you want to know what someone wants don't rely on this sense-making guy, rely on the actions this someone does.

This explains why we see people doing something but arguing the opposite: It is platonism and in my opinion causes a lot of suffering.
This would be my first assumption - if not the pentagon then the CIA.
ty https://archive.ph/XVK6O
While I'm in general agreement that we should stop treating Saudi Arabia like it's the ally we want it to be given their actions in Yemen, with OPEC and their direct ties to 9/11.

But your comment is particularly funny because you brought up NATO [1]:

> One typical example is General Adolf Heusinger, a career military officer who, with the outbreak of the Second World War, became part of the German headquarters field staff and helped plan the Nazi invasions of Poland, Denmark, Norway, France and the Low Countries. The Nazis perpetrated against Poland one of the worst crimes history has ever known. Poland suffered the largest number of casualties per capita of any European country, with a total of about six million people killed. Heusinger rose quickly through the Wehrmacht’s administrative ranks and in 1944 was appointed Adolf Hitler’s Chief of the General Staff of the Army.

> With the 1955 establishment of the Bundeswehr, the reconstituted West German Armed Forces, Heusinger returned to military service, and was appointed Lieutenant-General in 1955. In 1957, he was promoted to full general and named the first Inspector-General of the Bundeswehr. He served in that capacity until 1961. In 1961, Heusinger was appointed Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, making him the senior military spokesperson for NATO and in 1963 he also became NATO’s chief of staff, serving in that capacity until 1964.

There were a number of other ex-Nazis in NATO's ranks and leadership.

[1]: https://cpcml.ca/itn220328-tmld-art4/
Because SAT prep classes are free? Because the city public health clinic will give you a diagnosis of ADHD for accommodations when you take the tests?
Yes, we need systemic legal change. But at least in the short term there are at least some options for those who need them.
I left my motorcycle helmet attached to a motorcycle for YEARS in high-crime areas and never had it stolen (arguably worth more than a bicycle helmet -- but who really wants to buy a used helmet). Realize it's an anecdote but honestly I don't see the big risk in leaving the helmet on the bike when you go in the bar.
It’s not sarcasm :)
Counterexample: in our rural Montana town large numbers of kids bike to school and many more walk. We do have sidewalks and heavy traffic bypasses the town on the interstate.
Wait, has anyone made audio interactive fiction on Alexa? Sounds like a killer app for those who've played text adventures.
Funny thing is that the new iPad might actually be a downgrade for you, because it has a cheaper screen with a lower refresh rate (60hz instead of 120hz).
China is not dumb enough to assault Japan, and if they blow up Japanese fabs they know that will be the end of China as we once knew it. Don’t give the US a reason to retaliate hard.

They might rattle their sabers but these fabs will be safe.
Direct link to the paper: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/tjam/3/6/3_81/_pdf/-cha...

I find it interesting that the researchers don't touch on the subject of noise-induced stress from planes around airports or heli pads. I imagine there to be quite some research in this area.