skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And now WebGL 2.0 on Safari is actually implemented on top of Metal, with help of Chrome team.

"At the time" was 2021.

Politics.
Okay. Let's say you like to share details of your bathroom escapades on a forum dedicated to 3d printing. The admins give you a few warnings and eventually kick you off, because nobody wants to hear that. I daresay that isn't "violence." It's still an exercise of free association where the forum moderators have decided your speech is "not good" despite being perfectly legal.
Great comment. The economy exists to create jobs. Doesn't matter of what kind, because there's supposed to be X percentage of the population in a certain tax bracket to make everything work.
That sounds really exhausting...

I got tons of matches on Tinder, quite a lot of dates and hook ups, and relationships. I'm passably attractive but nothing much, just above average. I wrote something a little funny in my bio, put up pictures that aren't: in the gym, fishing, driving a car, smiling while standing at some random place, hiking. What I had was pictures of me having fun, not "expected fun" but where I really enjoyed myself, some extremely silly. And a portrait so people could know exactly what I looked like.

I found two long-time partners and a lot of very fun and interesting dates.

I think it worked because I was just genuine and honestly meeting people who I had a conversation that clicked. Don't think I could ever overthink this that much...
>Empirically, there is a high propensity of Anne Frank simulator fans to also stab their coworkers, which is usually discouraged.

Albeit in hindsight.
Both do a lot of mathematics. When they got into computers, mathematics was the standard route in.

All of their most famous work is in computer science.
As someone who spent a number of years in finance, finance is really not that different to the other industries you mentioned.
The other medications in the class use different delivery mechanisms (more of a twist dial pen kinda apparatus) for all I know the delivery mechanism for this was picked because they had excess capacity.
> it is connected to the bare metal in a way that present-day languages are not.

While obviously C is closer to the metal than say, Python, it's far less clear that this is true for a language like Rust† and I am increasingly dubious about the value of any of these high level languages (yes, even C) to learn "How the machine really works". I reckon it's probably more instructive to write a little bit of ARM assembly than to learn enough C to get to the same place today.

† Trivial example: Your CPU arithmetic operations probably natively behave exactly the way Rust's Wrapping<u32> Wrapping<i64> etc. types do. In C the unsigned integer types, once you figure out how big yours are, are similar, but the signed ones are not!
I dislike that analogy greatly.

Lawyers have a bad reputation, sure, but there’s a lot of education about the interpretation of our law and the absurdly large corpus of legal documentation that must be read in order to even become a lawyer is far and above anything you describe.
The counter to that is that the experts in coronaviruses knew they were the likely next epidemic and that they were doing their best to characterize the threat as best possible but unfortunately failed before the spillover came. The scientific community knew how close we came between SARS and MERS, a small mutation of either could’ve been much more virulent and pathogenic, so of course they were trying to research.
> It’s in the CCP’s interests and within their capabilities to hide a lab leak quite successfully.

tbh the general impression given by China's known attempts to cover anything up tend to give the opposite impression, precisely because of their default to autocracy. This is a government party that generally covers up stuff by banning it from being talked about, regards "she regrets making that comment and wants to stay at her home and not play tennis or talk to the media any more" as a reasonable coverup, and made such a clumsy attempt to silence the doctor first raising the alarm COVID symptoms that be became a hero inside China and the officials responsible got their wrists slapped. Allowing lab staff to communicate with the outside world and release papers on COVID origins considered plausible by uninvolved overseas virologists would be an uncharacteristic way for the Chinese government to act if they suspected there was something to be uncovered...
It has nothing to do with the speed of light though
Oh, I see - that makes perfect sense! Thank you for the clarification!

Glad you like SpaceHey :)

Keep up the great work!
How are updates triggered, what's the mechanism? From the examples it seems like you don't need to subscribe and provide a function to be called when changes happen, but then how does it work?
Since you mentioned macOS, it would be remiss of me to not mention UnicodeChecker:

https://earthlingsoft.net/UnicodeChecker/index.html
Thats very true, but this case is even next level. This arrest is made by Central Bureau of Investigation" (CBI).
Or they are coming to different conclusions given the same ambiguous/incomplete information. It could simply be disagreement, or just lack of a standard metric here to compare notes easily.
Every startup is worker owned before it takes outside investment capital. Being worker-owned means either being limited to organic growth, or being forced to incur debt which is generally worse than giving up equity. It can totally work in sectors where capital intensity is very low, but it's a non-starter for businesses that are inherently dependent on large amounts of capital or predicated on quick initial growth.
Hello HN!

After countless hours of coding, I want to show you the project I have been working on since the summer of 2020.

LightCombatManager (or just LCM) is a small and lightweight combat manager for d20-based PnP games, with a complete and functioning UI, which is based on Qt5. Using LCM, you can easily create and add characters to create a combat table. Using this table, you can then manage the combat. LCM supports various table row operation features, such as dragging and dropping rows in case the combat order changes, deleting rows for dead or unconcious characters or adding additional descriptions (for example, status effects). Table changes can also be undone, meaning that undo changes are fully supported.

LCM might not have as many features as other combat managers (for example, the Pathfinder Combat Manager [1]), but is more lightweight and also compatible with multiple d20-based PnP systems. Pathfinder 1E and 2E are supported, but also DnD 3.0E, 3.5E and 5E. Also, LCM supports cross-platforming, as it can run on both Linux and Windows (theoretically, MacOS should be supported as well, but unfortunately, I don't have access to a MacOS distribution and therefore, can't offer support for it right now).

LCM is written in C++ and uses Qt for the UI, Catch2 for unit tests and Uncrustify for code formatting. CMake is used as build system.

If you want to install LCM, you can do this with the following steps:

1. Clone the repository.

2. Open a terminal and cd into the repository dir.

3. Hit

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

Alternatively, if you do not want to build the application, but start it immediately, you can download a binary file for Linux or Windows directly under [2].

Note: Although LCM should contain the most features which are important for combat managing, there are still more features planned for the future. So, this version of LCM is not necessarily the final version of the app.

More features I want to include in the future are, for example, the support for Qt6 or a table coloring for allies and enemies. If you found a bug, have some feedback or another idea for a feature or different d20-based PnP system to be supported, then let me know!

Happy pen-and-papering!

Bakefish

[1] http://combatmanager.com/

[2] https://github.com/MaxFleur/LightCombatManager/releases
Did I just read this correctly? “janitor steals a highly modified and virulent bat and sells it for $10 in a wet market”

Why reach so hard to link this to a Wuhan wet market vs a generic leak? They didn’t sell bats at the market as far as I have read, and what’s the difference? Lab leak is a lab leak.
Yes. This is the Canadian government in a nutshell. Its like the saying "no one has been fired for choosing IBM", the government here runs on always making the safest, least boat-rocking decisions. Oftentimes, not doing anything at all. For decades on end.
The question is not whether the research was worth it overall. They denied there was even a possibility that lab leak was the cause of the pandemic.

I'm more than happy to entertain the idea that the research is and was worth it. But we need to have an accurate accounting of recent events. They tried to completely shut that down. Thankfully, lately it seems that they failed.
Does anybody have more insights into the research itself? The publication was gated for me. Would be nice to see the details and sample size...etc.
I still remeber when Google appeared there were people offering search services for a fee (maybe they were called Search Engineers but I don't recal seeing that).
What the CIA says publicly and what is happening internally are often very different things. The FBI has less of a global political agenda.
i don't think its evolution, its the fact that both the parents work and they need to balance the demands of parenthood with the demands of work (among other things). Not to mention how uptight and anxious some parents are these days about random things related to their child (doing tons of research for everything).
I agree. I felt like a "kid" throughout college and the first few years after, but then I moved away from my college friends and felt like a 20-something.

I felt like a 20-something until my late 30s when I had children. When my third kid came, I felt like I skipped my 30s and turned 40... right before my 40th birthday.
Is it still running everything as root?
I made a post with a bunch of suggestions from my list and then my browser extension that limits my time on HN lost my whole comment including all the little explanations I had for each one. So here's my raw list instead haha

meta
https://www.gnod.com/search/
https://github.com/searx/searx
categories
independent
https://www.crawlson.com/
https://search.marginalia.nu/
https://wiby.me/
https://searchmysite.net/
international
https://bonzamate.com.au/ australia
https://www.baidu.com/ china
https://yandex.com/ russia
code
https://searchcode.com/
https://codesearch.ai/
http://symbolhound.com/
https://publicwww.com/
https://search.feep.dev/
http://codesearch.debian.net/
https://codesearch.isocpp.org/
https://www.programcreek.com/python/
https://livegrep.com/search/linux
https://grep.app/
ai
https://consensus.app/ scientific consensus
https://github.com/jokenox/Goopt procedurally generated
https://same.energy/ image similarity
products
https://www.looria.com/
https://knifist.com/ knives
https://attic.city/ home and fashion from indie stores
topical
https://biztoc.com/search business news
premium
https://kagi.com/
other
https://metager.org/ privacy centric engine that combines results of several engines
https://thangs.com/ 3d models
https://filmot.com/ youtube subtitles
lists
https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/
https://web.archive.org/web/20200710091019/http://www.jaruzel.com/textfiles/Old%20Web%20Info/Internet%20Search%20Engines%20v2.61.txt

Hope its useful still
Interesting! I assumed the Department of Energy just got the initialism because they got there first.
To be an effective prompt engineer you need to have expertise in two different domains - large generative ML models, and in whatever it is people want to generate (e.g. art).
Good luck getting 95% of the American populace to understand any of that nuance.

After seeing lots of Twitter threads about Nate Silver, condemning his lack of "certainty" in his predictions ("It's such a cop out! Since he never says yes or no one way or the other he always has an out when he's wrong!"), I'm even more convinced not just that people don't understand statistics, but they willfully don't want to.
And it's not obscure systems powering typewriters in a dimly lit basement! We're talking banks, grocery stores, warehouses. Anything that was made 40+ years ago and was never re-engineered either because they couldn't or wouldn't. The price to upgrade is higher than the price to maintain so why bother? Not everyone cares about the latest trends.

Edit: I said 20+ years initially.. but that's 2003 now :( So 20+ years from 20 years ago.
Hi! I read and appreciated your issues and discussions, sorry I didn't get to respond to them yet, but I've been thinking about it.

Although I don't disagree that parsing text is hard, I also think that parsing variable-size binary formats is hard (and there is a tall, tall pile of bugs to confirm that). Really, parsing is hard. Rather than count on one design or the other to be bug-proof, I worked on a large test suite to help implementations catch their parsing bugs. [https://c2sp.org/CCTV/age] I think it would have found one of the issues you reported if that implementation had integrated it, and I am going to add vectors for various resource exhaustion scenarios which I hope would have found the other. (I am not going to look at what it is exactly, so I will know if I made the suite comprehensive enough without being too specific about this bug.)

I also liked your observation that it would have been nice if the header was streamable. [https://github.com/C2SP/C2SP/issues/28] It went on the pile labeled "regrets / for v2 when it comes", thank you.
There's a reasonably high chance that SARS-2 covid virus leads to a minor or moderate decrease in average lifespan (due to the effects on the vascular system and wreacking havoc on all sorts of organs) and that it will continue to circulate in humanity forever.

If that's the case it'll just slowly outscale any singular event like the Iraq War over multiple human generations of deaths and damage.
That is the nature of a "dog whistle" - it has a legitimate meaning, and some people use the legitimate meaning. That legitimacy gives malicious people plausible deniability. Social media sites cannot tell the difference, and quite often it's very hard for people to tell the difference as well. Social media sprays weed killer on all the discussions because they don't want their app covered in weeds; not having flowers is too bad, but weeds are worse (not my personal view).
> It spectacularly backfired on them.

Because it's a virus that doesn't discriminate based on race or geography? Yeah, I have doubts (to put it mildly.)
It's the job of all engineers involved to utterly understand one another. That goes for junior engineers cranking out unit tests as well as for architecture astronauts.

If someone here is a junior and gets "figure it out" from some strategic level engineer, ask professional for clarification or a team-up until you understand. Involve management if the other engineer is uncooperative or fails to help. It's their job to explain slightly more than it's your job to understand.

If all else fails, find an organization that expects the architecture astronauts to be explainers in chief as well.
Alina Chan and Matt Ridley feeling vindicated right now.
In a way Inmos’s fate probably saved Arm. SGS Thomson was one of the companies Acorn spoke with when trying to find a home for the Acorn RISC Machine but having already bought Inmos there was no appetite. If they had bought it then the ISA might have survived but I’d be astonished if it were anywhere near as successful.

PS I used transputers in a financial modelling application in the late 1990s (PROPHET) where it was used to deliver cost effective floating point performance.
You still have to come up with the original prompt, though.

Cool paper, BTW.
It's widely accepted that the Huanan market cases are an early super-spreader event and not the first human infections. Basically we don't know who and where the first infected humans were. We do know lots of people got infected at the market and that became the first time a new pneumonia was noticed in hospitals.
So you are presenting the fact that lawyers must digest an absurdly large corpus of legal documentation, but also maintaining that is something a human lawyer has some sort of advantage over a LLM?
Are we to have no fun at all because people suffer elsewhere?
See https://shapecatcher.com/.
All of my dogs pretty much ignored screens, with studies suggesting reasons from the refresh rate to lacking smell and tactile feedback - wonder if playing video games can be taught
Thank you very much for your thought-out response. I really appreciate the effort. I will certainly watch the linked video.
Even with an egalitarian wealth distribution, who would want to invest only in the company they work for? That'd be putting all their eggs in one basket for no good reason. There are sensible reasons for outside investment to be a thing.
These were generally useless at the time, at least as it pertains to online piracy.

Enough to keep honest people honest and not copy the software to their immediate friends, but if the software had people interested in pirating it someone would disassemble it and just jump over the part that looked for the dongle while keeping all the software functionality intact and these patched versions would be readily available online to anyone who knew where to look.

At the end of the day not really any more secure than various software-based copy protection schemes, just more wasteful due to the extra hardware.
"Big tech" and consumers already pay for the bandwidth they use - I'm not aware of any ISP giving it away for free. Otherwise their business relationship with ISPs is entirely voluntary. So I if they're legislatively compelled to contribute to network infrastructure, that means they'll partially own it?
I read that they did massively increase sharing after 9/11, but there was a reassessment after the Manning leaks. Manning had access to way more information than someone at their level needed for their job, and they concluded this came about from going a bit too far on the post 9/11 sharing and so they dialed it back a bit.
The DOE runs national labs with research into biology. In fact, they funded the human genome project earlier than the NIH (who later swooped in after realizing they were missing out). They also have labs that work on biosafety. Lots of scientists.
Not too different from analysts writing SQL queries all day long.
The Australian philosopher Peter Singer is a preference utilitarian, and has argued that infanticide should be legal, on preference utilitarian grounds. He argues we have to treat the preferences of all beings equally, but newborns have no concept of what it means to continue to live, so can’t possibly have a preference/wish/desire to go on living. Hence, the only moral obstacle to killing them is the wishes of their parents, therefore (painless) infanticide should be legal with parental consent.

Personally I find his view to be utterly morally abhorrent, but I have to credit him with the courage and consistency of taking utilitarianism to its logical conclusion.
I think conditioning would be the most appropriate terminology in this case as the model is trained to respond antithetically to specific input.

Grooming instead implies the model is trained for a singular purpose, but this is contrary to the concept of a backdoor.
There are nonbinary people, such as myself. Public Universal Friend is another notable nonbinary person from history.
There's an old vignette (under 400 word) sci fi story about an astronaut who goes to mars. He says mars has two moons and the martians say no, there are three moons, Phobos, Deimos and Bottomos.

There's a line of rocks on the ground that the martians always pause at, then step over quickly. The astronaut is about to ask them why when a puff of sand and dirt shoots out of a faraway cliff, then something shoots by just above ground level too fast to see. The Martians say see, that's the third moon.

(the third moon was a tiny black hole orbiting mars just a foot off the ground)
how this compares to, say, https://preserves.dev/ ?

i thought of similar thing/lang very long time ago, then for reverse engineering purposes. e.g. describe old (pre-)M$ word doc binary format, have an interpreter over it, then use it to add some changes to a document..
This isn't anything new. We've had prompt engineers for a long time now; we've just been calling them "SEO Specialists". The kind of person you'd hire to make sure your Amazon listing has all the necessary magical incantations to land on the first page of search results, that sort of thing.

This is just the next incarnation of trying to shift the output of someone else's algorithm in your favor. Be wary of building a career on top of that. It's very easy for the algorithm owner to change things up and obviate any value you used to provide.
Large models are programmed with prompts. This is really just a “software engineering” job where the programming language looks enough like English to make it look easy.
The evidence there is not that that particular group created covid, but that there is a clear history of engineering viruses in exactly the way a lab leak scenario would play out.
Well its been years, why haven't they found the reservoir yet then? They would obviously want to since it would prove that it wasn't a lab leak, yet as far as I know they haven't claimed to have found it yet.
Iann Barron was put in charge of our group for a while.
I thought he was incredibly old and wise, and the only person I knew with a Lamborghini, that he drove to work every day.

Now I'm six years older than he was then. Not wise, no Lamborghini...
The article does not say it's not an engineered virus either.

What's the hypothesis here, that the virus naturally arose only inside the lab where it infected one person? Or if it occured naturally in the wild, how come that it infected only one person inside the lab , since it's easy to infect
This has been written about many times, in 2020, very convincingly in 2021 by Nicholas Wade (https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-th...) and now.

It will always be dismissed by those who have a political interest in seeing things differently.

Authortiarianism and coordinated censorship between govs, big health and big tech made it so that anything countering the mandated narratives was heavily supressed and punished.

That's why the online world and the real one varied, no matter how many names and attacks the "mono narrative" mob used against those of us who dissented.

There will be no acknowledgement of the atrocities and human right abuses in the name of covid. No admission of guilt or bad faith. Just pretende that "we were wrong for the right reasons" and anyone who was right, if it's even admitted, "did so for the wrong reasons"
Reptyl: A command-line shell that executes commands in natural language
Related: Companies save billions of dollars by giving employees fake "manager" titles[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34641549

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/salary-manager-jobs-fake-titles...