skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were not really mutually exclusive, but were often portrayed as such. The lab leak theory got confused with the intentionally fabricated theory, probably as a strawman argument to discredit the lab leak theory.

For what it's worth, your scenario seems to me the most probably by far. I don't think we'll ever know for sure, since China has done it's best to destroy all evidence (we should be careful not to take that fact as evidence for one theory or another though).
> But if your "conservative" friends happen to drop openly misogynist, racist, and/or xenophobic things inappropriately into casual conversation

The problem is that today, unlike a decade or two earlier, the conversation on-line (and increasingly off-line) is dominated by people who will happily choose to call anything they feel like as "misogynist, racist, and/or xenophobic", using it to invalidate what others have said wholesale (and in some contexts, also make an implied threat).

You are, I assume unintentionally, doing that too, this very moment: the problem with calling something "misogynist", "racist" or "bigoted" is that it's an asymmetric superweapon - once you say, or even vaguely suggest, that I'm saying something racist, it's impossible for me to argue my way out: any attempt of proving it's not is considered an admission of guilt. "Kafkatrap", I believe, used to be a term for this.

There are severe consequences to being seen as a misogynist or a racist or a bigot. There are no consequences whatsoever for accusing someone of being a misogynist or a racist or a bigot, for any reason whatsoever, including just for shits and giggles. No third party wants to challenge the accusation either, because it carries a risk of becoming seen as guilty by association.

> she might be justified in feeling a little off put since she is probably worried that you also hold similar hurtful views but are more careful with what you say

And herein lies another problem: fear of people secretly committing wrongthink. There is no way one can prove whether or not a person is nice, or is a wrongthinking racist bigot who's just being careful with what they say. By finding reasons to assume the latter, one is not only making their own life worse, but also that other person's, and their combined social circle.
Artificial Intelligence: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
A less ambiguous name for those is repeat/until, as seen in Pascal and its descendants - I don't recall any language that uses that syntax for anything other than a postcondition loop.
Why are so many young men single and sexless?
this.

bloomberg.com for instance, hides pay walled lines in empty <div>s.

the other method is to disable javascript and cookies (works on nytimes.com), or press ESC key to stop page loading before paywall kicks in (works on telegraph.co.uk) :)
> But really, if you are regularly reading content on a site you should subscribe to support the journalists employed there

I'd go further than your statement: I try not to read paywalled contents. Actually I don't get all these workarounds about paywalls. I'm like "they don't want me to read it? I'm not going to read it then".
It's not a crime, and I use adblockers, but it's not hard to understand that using adblockers on websites which are ad-supported is a self-destructive cycle.
That should be the default. I think it's incredibly strange to copy text including the formatting, as that is far more context and application dependent. I almost never want to copy formatting.
An ex had the smaller example of incorrectly asking for "un préservatif" when she meant "un préserve".

One of her friends was half of a multi-nationality couple, I think it was French and Irish, and the punchline was their kid, at a beach, yelling, in a strong Irish accent "Look mummy! Phoques!"
It think OP is only referring to server architecture. And as you say there is no cache server. So cacheless server architecture.
I actually agree with all of this.

Ultimately where I’m coming from is that the flow of data through a system and how it is transformed is actually what’s important. For me that’s taking a “data first” approach, to use your term, but I took the term to mean something different to what you meant.

You are totally right about things like customer info. If you have an email component then that’s where email addresses live. If you have a fulfilment component then that’s where physical addresses live. 100% agree that they don’t belong together, at least not by default.

In fact, I tend to think of entities like customers as just a uuid. The bits and pieces we attach to that uuid depend on the system. But many domain objects should be treated in a very abstract way.

I’m not sure this is widely accepted, but it’s where I got to.
Granted maybe realplayer was a wrong example, but I know film conservationists who can tell you that there is a huge gap in their archive that stems from obscure digital formats that nobody has the funds for to reverse engineer.

It is great if todays VLC plays your file. Just make sure to regularily check over the course of the next 50 years if that is still the case. If stable archival is your goal there not many things that beat lasering something onto physical film where in the worst of situations you'd be even able to look at the pictures with your own eyes and rebuilding a projector after the collapse of society is probably easier than rebuilding a computer running an OS that reads that disk with software that plays that file of which you might know precisely nothing without being able to decode it.

This is why e.g. national archives use film for storage.

Not that this is a feasible solution for the private person, but sometimes considering a low tech solution might be the least complicated "do and forget" option.

If your ancestors find your bluray disks or some old hard drives they might find some challenges:

- they might not know what those are

- if they have an idea what those are, they might not have the connectors or devices needed to play them back

- if they have the devices needed the device might not be able to read the file system because it is not supported anymore

- if the filesystem is supported, the file format might not be

This is a lot of hoops to jump through for something where you don't even know what is on it.

Meanwhile a old picture book can be just looked at.
FWiW the minimum "lump sum of interest" as an IPO or capital raising offering in the mineral sector (TSX exchange, etc) was $50 million US a decade and a half ago.

For context a company I worked with tracked every activity of interest in the mineral domain globally from individual lease aquisitions, intermediate shell companies, board members, early exploration results, development geophysics | drilling, tech reports, etc.

When a resource was approaching "economic feasiblity" (as a relatively well tested and modelled resource rich region within the ground) and the time came to devote serious money to going big or going home, $50 million US was minimum capital raising of note; it takes at least that much to get the trucks, the excavators, the rail cars, the plant equipment (crushers, screens, loadouts, loaders) setup and kicked off.

Any IPO for a new resource less than that didn't make the database as it was literally a crumb fallen from the scrum.
This article doesn't come close to the real reason.

If Steiner doesn't want to have 6 colleagues looking at the live data and raise their voice. So he decimated the live team from 6 to 3. A pure management style problem. 3 people see much less than 6, but also talk less, and can decide less.
The rest is sitting around in the garage.
I wish I could say I love fly.io, but it really is not ready yet for production.
A few months back we migrated a non essential production app to fly.io and we've had 3 major downtimes since where we didn't knew at all what was going on.

One thing from heroku in 2021 should have been learned here: Communicate before your clients learn about the issue. Communicate open.

I hope they improve in the next year
Me too. It's a cesspit of loathing and hate if you dare go into the comments there.
Humans have fought for years over different colored bananas. Now we're creating virtual bananas to gawk at, be jealous of, and envy.

Humans have nearly zero capacity to emotionally deal with the technology we create.
Yes, either that or this will make lip filling procedures sell 100x more.
I suspect I might have this.. Do anyone know a device which can continuously measure and log blood oxygen levels ? Just a simple thing that logs to a file on an SD card ? I don't want apps or online stuff..
Americans on the right seem incapable of seeing the difference between the dominant liberal institutions in power today, and "the left" which holds basically no power in the western world today.
I'm on the internet all the time and I've never---not once---seen one of these articles before the event actually happens. It's quite frustrating. It was a clear night last night. Overcast tonight.
Old SD cards are similar. They may appear to have all the data you stored on them but actually trying to read that data will kill them.
Sometimes it is cracked immediately on release. Hogwarts Legacy had a playable beta crack in only a few days.

Denovu v17 is broken but it still takes work to apply the process and it's tedious which is why only one person works on any/all game (Empress) (a few others only crack single games presumably those they enjoy themselves).

Although I'm sure 2 weeks is a very nice cushion, ideally it'd be at least a month.

There is a conspiracy theory that Day 1 patches are to mitigate cracks.

I've taken my eye off DRM as I believe the real big issue will be cloud gaming.

But Empress at least cracks Denuvo due to not liking the idea of intrusive DRM.
Unfortunately, any gateway is a source of centralization. Here are direct links for IPFS, but you need to have it installed:

http://bafyb4ieosyzrnxo54cjslzn64354ppnsipeuxmm4spf2dv7b7lej...

or

ipfs://bafyb4ieosyzrnxo54cjslzn64354ppnsipeuxmm4spf2dv7b7lej6xqtiy
People don't pay for free stuff, even if they like it. People are however lazy, and many would pay to not have to put a dot in the URL every time.
V8 optimization: object spread does not preserve object shape
I like the URL of the tool they linked to. http://www.arabic-keyboard.org/photoshop-arabic/

When reading the URL, I imagine an Arabic language called “Photoshop Arabic”, which came into being at the Photoshop team in Adobe XD

- Do you speak Arabic?

- Arabic is not just one language.

- Yeah, but do you speak an Arabic language?

- Yeah, I speak Photoshop Arabic.
> but are indeed unnatural and easy to spot as fake

I think you're underestimating the difficulty of the latter. Without direct comparisons, how do you know the filter is there as opposed to heavy makeup, plastic surgery, or it's just their face?
Oh right... so is it not OK to be right-leaning, middle aged, white or male? Is there something wrong with that?
well yeah, a list of dodgy tv streams, most of which aren't authorised by the channels, is bound to get taken down eventually
https://archive.ph/R0hZS
I have wondered if children's diets precipipate this problem. Because so many kids grow up with varying levels of processsed or pre-digested foods (pulverized fruit pouches, not enough crunchy whole foods that require chewing etc) the jaw does not develop fully - so wisdom teeth removals and orthodontics for expansion seems like standard of care nowadays - but really it should not be that way. These cases should be rare but instead they are assumed common and normal. I quick search about this shows there is a relationship but I havent looked much into the details.
Author said in a different comment[0] that some pages are dynamic, so it's probably convenience for their setup.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34953567
Yes only use it as a buyer!
> Not sure about Fortran.

There was -- used for scientific computing on things like the Meiko Computing Surface, though not by me.
Isn't single parenthood already "normalized"? In the US at least, it's extremely common. Of course, it's also extremely difficult for the mother; I can't imagine why anyone would willingly choose it unless she was independently wealthy and could hire caretakers.
I noticed the terminator connection, but I wasn't too sure of the timescale - which came first.

Anyway it's a definitely a nice memory!
SPlisHSPlasH – open-source library for the physically-based simulation of fluids
It seems that many folk (me included) don’t believe you’re routinely carrying 330lbs on your shoulders without noticing and that it takes zero effort.
On the other hand, if they had a 'down for maintenance' page up, pings would still work
> One: present yourself exactly as you are. In fact, the fewer men you appeal to, the better. Two: be picky. Give almost no one a chance.

Isn't this literally what already occurs? From the other side, it seems like this is exactly how most women are doing it? I don't see a lot of my female friends going on dates with every guy they match with (which is usually >200 so pretty hard to date 200 people), so they're rather picky which makes sense. Although, the profile thing is lacking, it's usually just a few photos.

> If a guy can’t set up a decent profile or send a message beyond “Hey”, it doesn’t mean he’s too busy. It means he’s lazy, careless, or not actually invested in dating.

I wonder if she's ever actually sent a message to someone else. This entitlement of "entertain me peasant" is one of the reasons why I deleted these apps.
I'm currently going through one of the papers on https://www.nowpublishers.com/DBS and finding it good.
I'm American and it was my first trip to a European country. I was there for two weeks in January. It's a different and personally a better world there then here in the US due to its small population..little to no crime ..unable to carry a gun..their citizens are well taken care of. I went on a few dates with some locals while there and it was eye opening to hear their view of the US. With many saying they use to want to come to the US but do not want to cause of guns/school shootings. I was like nah it's not that bad your media is overselling you yet a week later I come home and have a crazy gunman in my woods/my backyard who just shot up police.

Unfortunately the US will never get to be the utopia that is Iceland in terms of safety and taking care of its citizens so crime doesn't need to be committed. It's too big with half the population just thinking like their parents and grandparents do or did vs. thinking hmm I'm open minded to see how other countries work.

Love Iceland!
We stop before the key is big enough to requires the energy of our sun to crack, even if you have an ideal computer. 256-bit keys require more energy than a nova.

128 bits however is humanly achievable (35 years worth of peak Bitcoin mining), and as such perhaps a tad low in really high stakes scenarios (say highly classified stuff).

We could chose something between 128 and 256, but they're nice powers of two, and we tend to like powers of two.
To be clear this is the attention seeking behaviour of capitalist publishers .. there are no "the left" involved here.

They promote the changes, stoke the outrage via press releases, stir up support for "the originals" and make bank from two highly talked about simultaneous releases of the same old product.

For context:

Dahl’s publications are extremely lucrative. In 2021, his literary estate was bought by Netflix for £500m. So, despite the writer himself being more than three decades dead, his market share must not be allowed to diminish. [1]

Absent any of this it'd just be just another release with zero fanfare or intereest.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/26/updati...
Maybe he is from Iceland ?
In C#, if the finally-block of a try-finally throws, it replaces the current exception altogether; and using-statement desugars into try-finally.

And C# does not actually allow you to throw null. It does allow you to write "throw x" where x may be null, but that will just cause an immediate NullReferenceException at runtime.
Compared to Code + Docker + AWS Copilot CLI, am I going to see a 10x improvement in my workflow?
> Not that hard, you just talk like, you know, humans

Sounds like you take your skills for granted.
>No matter what the circumstances, if someone dates someone of a high status, it elevates the dater's status as well.

And what makes a man "high status" varies greatly by culture. In American culture, being an engineer is just above being a janitor as far as women are concerned, and being a SWE is a little above that only because it's become common knowledge how well they're paid. Meanwhile, being a doctor or lawyer has FAR higher status, as does being an "influencer".

In Asian cultures, this is entirely different.
I'm not really deep into the topic, so this may be wrong/inaccurate - but I've read that puberty blockers were actually introduced as a way to solve the problem of children having to make life-changing decisions.

A successful HRT becomes much harder after puberty.
On the other hand, performing HRT on children is plain unethical, for all the reasons discussed in the rest of this thread. (And btw something the trans community is advocating against - because forced sex reassignment had been standard practice for intersex children for decades. The trans community is demanding to end this practice.)

So to solve this, the idea was to artificially postpone puberty until the person is old enough that they can make a mature, informed decision about the subject.

Of course that logic has its own weak points - e.g. that puberty itself may play a major role in the person finding their identity. So postponing it until the person has settled into an identity would be sort of like trying to outrun your shadow. I'm not sure what the status of science in that regard is though.
Oh wow, I've encountered a lot of words in English/Czech that are "false friends" but it's too far away gramatically to construct similar sounding entire sentences. That's brilliant you can do it with English and Dutch :)

Also I wonder if there's a connection between trousers being "broek" in Dutch and "breeks" in Scots.

edit: wow ok I should've just went to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeks
What men hate is excessive, badly done makeup. Most men would prefer the 'natural looking', which is actually makeup, but well done. People wouldn't notice a good makeup, but a bad one they will remember. Most men wouldn't love no makeup.
How should we prepare for the Singularity?
> What do you think is wrong with the belief that there are systemic injustices in American society that should be addressed?

Nothing. What's wrong here is you making a sleight of hand (also known as "Motte-and-bailey"): whatever someone said in a court, under oath or not, about the definition of a word, has zero relevance to what the word means in regular conversation. It has even less authority than a dictionary, which tries to be generally descriptive, because it's just making an operational definition for the purposes of the court case.

I imagine you understand perfectly well the meaning of "woke" GP used, and you surely realize it is close to how this word is understood in general by those who don't subscribe to this particular group of ideologies - otherwise you wouldn't have to try and substitute an alternative meaning, from some court case no less, that just happens to be maximally inoffensive and agreeable, and also very much not the thing people are talking about.
NYC is about to regulate AI in hiring. Critics say the new law doesn’t do much
Yeah, 100% agree with this. It's like these sites want to have their cake and eat it, and both get the traffic the 'open web' provides while not having to actually share any of their work there.

It's like if you needed an app to view a page, yet Google had all its content indexed. Why is that (rightly) seen as unreasonable while charging users for content you provide to bots for free isn't?
The Information does this a lot.

https://www.theinformation.com
> (there might not even be a physical way to prove that conclusively)

There is a way, or there would be a way had this not been in an autocratic country. A developed and free nation would have formed an independent enquiry and be given access to the lab, its staff and documents. That would have had a high likelihood to either find the cause there or rule it out with some certainty.

But this is China, and for some reason some people don't want to admit that it's a repressive dictatorship with no regard for human life, justice and transparency.
All of which have a counter-party who can suspend your service if they believe you're abusing the service: A&B your cloud / hosting provider, C&D the transit provider - all will have language in their contracts allowing for suspension or termination if they suspect abuse.

The only things that help protect you against this are (1) having named contacts on your account who will vouch internally at a supplier; (2) negotiating these clauses in contracts to prevent instant suspension in all but the most serious cases; and (3) utilising multiple suppliers.
They didn't even use controlnet in their workflow (because it wasn't out yet), so there is already a lot of new stuff to experiment with without waiting 6 months that would probably make the process easier and/or more consistent.
What about a smartphone that is locked down? Apps are curated by parents and certain websites blocked.

Also, there are tons of things that have ostracized teenagers in the last. Why do smartphones have such a stranglehold? It seems we are becoming more and more afraid of being different.
Funny enough, Hinge is a recentish acquisition of Match.com, as apprently it started to get steam as a contender to Tinder and the other dating apps they also own.
> I have recently read a casually stored CD-R containing code i wrote 25 years ago with surprisingly no issues.

Glad to hear it. The opposite happened to me, I archived a bunch of music I had made to CD-R in 2004. They're now unreadable. I do still have the final renders of the tracks I finished, but the source files are gone, along with a bunch of sketches, notes and pictures from that time. I'm not sure what I'd do with them, but I wish I still had them.
I remember it being pretty interesting when the book (manual?) on it was passed round locally.
We have built a Travel planner for travellers who don't plan, by automatically planning out their entire trip in seconds. We have been developing this idea for 3 years now and have iterated multiple times as we were really keen to identify product market fit, which we have now done. We are now in the process of reworking our ui/ux, due to feedback from users and we have being undergoing intense user feedback sessions. We are currently completing our detailed mockups and ready to conclude on our pre-sales commitment strategy, so we should be in a place where we are ready to deliver product to initial customers in about 1 - 2 months. However, working with contractors has its set backs, hence why we are looking to bring in technical co-founders who will be able to ensure that the redesign of our ui meets exactly what our users are now requesting, as well as ensure that the backend and ai concept we have built can scale once we go live. Our backend is written in Node JS, Typescript. The co-founders we are looking for must be excellent in at least one of the following areas: 1. Strong backend infrastructure/architecture, 2. AI, 3. Strong frontend mobile gamification. If you have great skills on any of the skills above, then apply for this roles to join the team as a co-founder. Our aim is to find technical co-founders hopefully before the end of this month.