skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe true. But then that concern about irreversible medical procedures somehow results in a complete ban on educating children on gender identity or sexuality at all: https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/nati...
I feel this, thought I was the only one
"Event C happened before events B and A. Event C happened between events A and B. What's the order for those events?"

That doesnt make any sense. If its before B and A it can't also be between them
Yeah the world has changed. Sure, limewire had tons of trustmebro.mp4.exes but these days I don’t trust cracked software to not be mining coins or exfiling my personal data.

I suppose it was still the case back in the day (more for botnets than coins?) but I just simply cared less. Had to get my hands on the AAA games.
The way I see it, unless we can prove there is some specific low level structure necessary for reasoning in brains, we have no cause to believe it is not an emergent behavior from just having a low of brainpower.

In that case, there is nothing saying that current technology is incapable of producing AI’s able to reason - it could just as well emerge given a large enough model, architecture tweaks, and enough data. Given that ML usually is basically just training a function that takes input and output and tries to produce a function that properly maps them, it seems reasonable for the ability to reason to emerge to improve that ability to map
Same for me - said I’d visited 17 times from 11 IPs, but this was the first time I’d even heard of the service!
Sorry for stream of consciousness here;

at the end of the day if the code that handles the sensitive secret is compromised, you’re leaking secrets

one of the big ways Vault can help is by separating reads and writes. the web UI that stores a secret, exposed to internet, only receives a token that can write that secret for that customer, and only that customer. that service cannot get tokens that allow the code to read secrets. the background jobs, that aren't exposed to internet, do have the ability to generate scoped tokens to read.

it also helps you mitigate risk by shortening the lifespan of tokens that can access this data. the app container/lambda/process has a Vault token that is only valid for X seconds (whatever you want it to be). This can make it a lot more difficult for an attacker to do anything useful. First they find an exploit, then they try to do something with it. If their token/access is removed every 10 seconds, that makes it a hell of a lot harder to get anywhere once they get in

Vault also increases the discoverability of a compromise by letting you log all accesses to the secrets. this helps manage the aftermath of the compromise by having more certainty in which customers have been impacted etc

It’s all basically risk mitigation. If you have data you need to use legitimately, it’s possible for someone to get it illegitimately. Limit the scope of access they can get with one break in and the length of time they can do anything once they’re in. compartmentalize systems to create defense in depth

Disclaimer: I am not a security expert, but have managed this stuff at startups too small to hire one yet
...and a neurotic playwright.
Every time something like this comes up there is an influx of comments making fun of dog owners for loving their dogs too much. Just let other people love what they want.
It's pretty sickening that a coronavirus lab in China that the US was completely involved with both financially and through scientific cooperation can be reframed as more nationalistic anti-China bullshit. The US isn't keeping things peaceful with China for the sake of trade relations, it's actually threatening China constantly. The US is keeping quiet about the lab leak theory because it was just as responsible for that lab as China was, and it wants to distract from that fact.
I'm not sure where this perverted view on the freedom of speech comes from. It has never meant freedom of consequences or criticism which is what "free speech absolutists" of today are seeking. To say otherwise would be to force people to associate with others. You're going to force a business to keep an employee who is damaging their reputation or hurting team morale. You're elevating the rights of trolls to the point where it infringes on the rights of others specifically the freedom of association. Free speech absolutists want a captive audiences who cannot disassociate with them and force companies to host content that is damaging to their brand. They have no respect for the speech of others in the form of protests which they label as "cancelling" and rail against despite it also being free speech.
Right, but Unicode also has ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics in it. Is it actually problematic to include a few more code points?
"Near" is a relative term. In the context of all the places in China this novel virus could have popped up, it is definitely near. It's also a 45 minute drive from WIV (as stated in another comment). In the context of a location that will attract people from all over the city, it is also near.
I want them to ship when the product is ready, whether that's next month or another 10 years from now.
That practice never stopped: even today, the current version of Visual Studio 2022 Enterprise available for download from MSDN (well, "Visual Studio Subscription") has an option to use a static product-key (which I believe is the same for everyone, considering the search-results I get for the first 5 digits...) - but for some reason the lower SKUs (Community, Standard (rip), and Professional) switched to _only_ supporting MSA-based online activation, so if you have an air-gapped or disconnected dev situation you have to shell-out for the full-fat edition - but at least you get to use it indefinitely.

...which is always really important considering the 20-30+ year lifecycle of actual software - whereas Adobe and their Creative Cloud service is copying Apple's strategy of pretending all their software older than 5-6 years simply never existed in the first place. "Adobe Flash/Fireworks/FreeHand? Never heard of it." - which is a huge PITA for people who might have old source files in those lovely propreitary binary file-formats that can't be opened in newer versions of Adobe software - so what on earth does Adobe expect them to do? This is insane...
> Borland came out with Turbo Pascal that went through numerous iterations and by the end of the 1980s I thought it was much better than C for the IBM PC

I was first taught proper programming on Turbo Pascal in 1992 as a summer class (for nerdy kids obviously) I took when I was 11. It was taught by some undergrad student from what would eventually be my alma mater. I have very vague, but very fond, memories of that experience :-)
You are a danger to society. Hope you are proud of yourself.

See you at the Herman Cain Awards.
The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker lists nearly 300 journalist arrests, nearly 1,000 assaults, 160 court orders, 80 cases of equipment seizure, nearly 50 instances of chilling effects and hundreds of other types of suppression of journalists since 2017[1].

[1] https://pressfreedomtracker.us/
> they haven’t been sued “into the ground”.

Not for lack of trying. The baker in question has been beset with over‐the‐top cake requests, and there have been several lawsuits against him since the famous Supreme Court ruling. In fact, in January one succeeded in having the baker fined for refusing to bake a transgender‐themed cake, and survived appeal. So Masterpiece Cakeshop may yet be sued into the ground.

https://www.newsweek.com/colorado-baker-protagonist-satan-di...
I had a week straight of terrible matches that were almost always lost at the loading screen. There's only so much you can do if the map is bad for the heroes on your team or your team has a terrible composition while the enemy team has a literal meta S grade composition. It didn't help that the match maker for whatever reason decided that I was good enough to take on two or more diamonds with the rest gold vs my team of me and silver/bronzes. One of those losses was a master with two diamonds and the rest silver vs me and some gold/silver players. It's hard to get people to play well when the loading screen shows a massive disparity in game skill.

Nearly every one of those matches I ended the game with the best stats and still lost horribly.

My favorite though were the team mates that threw at the start of the match or when my team would decide they would rather argue than play the game. Such a toxic experience of a game. Having one amazing match of great fun and teamplay just wasn't worth the 2-5 matches of absolute toxicity.
Even us so called intelligent beings only have correlation.

The closest thing we have to “causation” is the scientific method and even that is only one counter example from disproving entire theories.

So why we need AI to understand causation when even we don’t have it.

It’s correlation all the way down. We should strive for truth but know that we will never achieve any
Natural and lab leak are not exclusive. In fact we do have evidence for genetic markers being of natural origin. See the work of William Gallaher, 'A palindromic RNA sequence as a common breakpoint contributor to copy-choice recombination in SARS-COV-2'. As well as: https://virological.org/t/the-sarbecovirus-origin-of-sars-co...

The lacking evidence for a natural origin right now is just that a natural reservoir hasn't been discovered. The potential natural mechanisms for those genetic markers seem reasonably understood though.
And if it comes to light that it was not a natural disaster- that this funding contributed to it- then we should cut off said funding until better protocols, enforcement and accountability are in place

If it turned out to be not a lab leak, fine, carry on. If it was a lab leak, why on earth should I be complacent about my tax dollars contributing to the next one?
Amen. Really silly things happen too, like you go through all this process and then months later some hotshot asks “wait, why are we doing this?” when launch is imminent.

Like we all agreed this was worth doing all along, right up to this very moment, and now we’re not sure all of a sudden. All the approvals, all the documents written and decisions we went through were apparently not compelling to this person. We could have had this discussion and perhaps killed the idea in the crib, now we’re having this discussion about something we’re about to launch.

In other words the processes are a fig leaf, which as you say is fine, but then it doesn’t even do the job of the leaf.
Uncue ‘sunk cost’ arguments.

Phew that was close.
I got the same answer and then I asked it

"Are you sure the original question made sense?"

Chat GPT:
It's possible that the original question may have contained a logical inconsistency.

The statement "Event C happened before events B and A. Event C happened between events A and B" appears to be contradictory, as it is not possible for an event to both occur before and between two other events simultaneously.

If we assume that the statement was intended to mean "Event C happened after Event A and before Event B," then the order of events would be:

Event A
Event C
Event B
In this case, Event C occurred between Events A and B, but after Event A. Therefore, the chronological order would be A, C, B.
In my opinion, the simplest explanation of this is: a worker at the Wuhan facility was accidentally infected (mistakes happen) and it was able to spread. It was not intentional.
Don’t take this too seriously, this has been a Rupert Murdoch position that his papers have trumpeted for a long time now. Don’t forget that the WSJ is just as much under his umbrella as the New York Post is.
What is emoji but not an existing writing system?
Giving treats for playing video games... Works great for people; what could go wrong with a dog?

What about talking & playing with your dog, or taking it for a walk? This smells like a recently minted MBA pitching "People love their pets! They treat their dogs like children, and everyone wants the best for their kids!"
Government seems to be inventing a lot of rights lately that even contradict basic facts, and a lot of people heartily approve.

Might makes right. Liberty, free speech, facts, etc. are apparently just nice theories from a more enlightened time.
I still respect his models, but I think the rest is the kind of stuff you’re expected to do as part of a media organization.
How can "low confidence" and "higher confidence than all other theories combined" jive? Does it require "all other theories" to not include "we don't have a clue" which is the most likely of all or am I missing something else?
That whole "freedom of religion" thing is essentially freedom of speech and association in ritual trappings that allow it to go further than it could without them. There's no reason why it should be special-cased like that - we should either broaden these protections to all opinions, or treat religion same as any other opinion.
Stack Overflow is a cacheless, 9-server on-prem monolith
Charles Manson never murdered anyone. He was prosecuted for his speech. Is that insane?
Not used characters: 015AEILNOSUZ

So less possible combinations.
> My personal favourite was astalavista, named in relation to the legit search-site altavista I guess.

That name contains two very iconic pop culture references from the 90s: altavista and the terminator
Inside TiDB’s “Partitioned Raft KV”
To each their own. There are obviously very smart people choosing Lisp so I’m not trying to knock it down or anything, I just never got the appeal

Every now and then I try to check out a Lisp project and this is my reaction the moment I see the code: https://giphy.com/gifs/seinfeld-bye-jerry-106PwpLIIXJnXi
My issue is not that things are laggy in this case, but that they are 5 times as laggy as the command line interface.

> You probably do not want to check out everything at once.

I do, if I want to compile the project, browse its history and push commits, which is what I'm paid for.
You're never forced. You can refuse to board without your bag. I have to do this regularly, I have yet to be called on the (semi) bluff.

If we're being honest, there is rarely a flight I take that is worth more than the value of the lenses in my hand luggage, so it's not really that much of a bluff.
If anything, ChatGPT has shown you need formal logic for AI.

If a model as ginormous as ChatGPT thinks that 1 > 1, are we going to still ignore that we need formal logic?

https://medium.com/@konstantine_45825/chatgpt-is-no-stochast...

Top AI conferences still have papers on logic and causal reasoning outside of deep learning and ML.

How can we say there isn't a shorter more efficient path towards more robust reasoning?

It is unscientific and stifles progress to assert things like this shutting down whole lines of research.
> It’s correlation all the way down. We should strive for truth but know that we will never achieve any.

No, so far that too is just a correlation.

We don't know what's all the way down, absolutely no clue.
A "sightly-less-shitty-than-other-theories" theory is still a shitty theory. Low-confidence means exactly what it sounds like.
So if it wasn’t a lab leak, then where did it come from?

Are there any theories that explain that it could NOT be a lab leak and something else entirely?
Reality Checkpoint
I'd go with 3. Overturn Citizens United and then take away freedom of association from corporations (let human persons keep it though).
This is so well hidden that I didn't even know the info was there.

It should be next to the price and should have a full explanation instead of just a title. The CandyCrush App I just checked has multiple IAP with the same title and different prices.
Wealth does not correlate with intelligence.
Atuin v13
How can a right possibly be innate and natural?

As in, what mechanisms binds what you think rights are (what do you think rights are?) to the laws that govern the natural world?
Is ChatGPT Lying?
I'd guess you could use function pointers to implement the example without goto?

https://www.opensourceforu.com/2012/02/function-pointers-and...

Then I looked up 'callbacks considered harmful'. Hmmm....

It's probably easier for an IDE to track down a function if you want to see how the code works, however, and the function might have some useful explanatory comments.

Suggested article: "People who claim code can explain itself considered harmful"
Check out Samsung Dex
It’s nagware, like WinRAR.
>Just let other people love what they want.

But what if that love causes them psychological and financial damage (like pulling out tons of stops to support an aging dog)? In that case, you're endorsing irrational behavior, and you're doing those people a disfavor.
Is LASX pronounced as Lasix?

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasix
Of course, a very effective way of eliminating all negative aspects of a situation is to not enter that situation in the first place.

It's also a rather useless truism, since it applies to everything, and if people followed it, nothing whatsoever would ever get done, and humanity would've died out in their caves long ago.
> If you were part of the 96% of the World population which is not American, you would know the feeling.

I'm not American, nor do I live in America.

And while I have some sympathy for pointing out "the world is not the US", the majority of the comment was bald whataboutism:

> "At least a leak is not intentional like killing hundreds of thousand of innocent people by bombing their homes. Leak doesn't mean engineering a disease to kill some specific target, anyway, if China did it to kill Americans, it wouldn't be as bad as the Opium wars and the American invasion of China in 1900. he first U.S. multimillionaire, John Jacob Astor, made part of his fortune smuggling opium into China."
Generative AI could be an authoritarian breakthrough in brainwashing
Exception Safety
That’s a much more interesting source since it aggregates objective facts and statistics. Do you know of a comparative analysis of these stats with equivalents in other countries?
Imagine if it's a curve like this:

- No idea for either solution and we'll never know - 70% chance

- Lab leak - 20% chance

- Occurred in nature - 10% chance

In that case, you could say that the most likely answer is "lab leak" if you must have an answer, but it's very "low confidence." I don't know what the actual odds are, it's just made up for demonstration.
I think Mearsheimer’s pre-war thesis was correct, and that the war could have been avoided by the West taking a clear stand for a neutral Ukraine.
Further, I believe that there was no real chance for Ukraine to join NATO post 2014. It would have been almost an impossible sell to existing members, as accepting a country in a hot conflict with a nuclear superpower was a non-starter for virtually all the NATO allies.

So, in my view, this whole business of Ukraine’s NATO membership was a head fake from the beginning, intended primarily to bait Russia into a war they could never win. A bait they idiotically jumped on.

This, of course, does not exculpate Russia from the crimes of aggression. It’s a state run by a criminal oligarchy that has almost succeeded in critically and irrevocably corrupting key western democracies (there’s clear evidence linking Russia to both Trump and Brexit, with trail of money pointing to corruption).

This war showed that Russia was more powerful and globally relevant in peace than in (conventional) war. Their global influence was much more effective through projection of soft power, various means of subversion, and deployment of limited force (like in Syria and Africa). They certainly appeared more competent.
Today's symbolic software is just software that was written by humans. Software existed as long as there are computers. AI was never just another term for software. I don't think any human written software today captures what proponents of symbolic AI wanted to achieve 50 to 60 years ago. Well, okay, it beat Kasparov at chess in 1996, but chess algorithms were old news even in 1970. I don't think Deep Blue used anything fundamentally new. It was not an AI breakthrough, it was a feat which showed how fast computers are.

The fact is, "AI" was always about much higher ambitions, about solving truly fuzzy tasks. Recognizing handwritten digits is exactly such a problem that has been solved, even if you don't want to call it "AI" anymore because it has stopped to be impressive.
Banning the speech doesn't prevent the violence. Frankly I'd prefer the verbal warning to the surprise attack.

I also don't like the idea of receiving multi-part prose shouted at me from the sidewalk on what someone is going to do with my entrails if they have no intention of actually trying to follow through.

I can't imagine a perfect rule regime, personally. Humans are slippery when it comes to being jerks.
Wouldn't this criticism apply to all content delivery networks? They have to terminate TLS in order to know which content to deliver.
10 years ago I won a trip to NY. If this happened today I’d delete the email
Judea Pearl would beg to differ.

http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/BOOK-2K/
I don’t think, “it’s hard” is a justifiable reason for an idea to be wrong, so I’m not sure the fact that having a fair way of discerning hate speech is hard means that we shouldn’t discern hate speech.
Maybe in your tiny microsystem, but not "most people" in any meaningful universal measure. The stats for the US are about even: 38% of housholds with dogs vs. 40% with children under 18. Once you account for all those households with both kids and supplemented with pets I doubt it's even close.
What is the tildeverse?
It is funny to watch the media finally get on board as relations with china has nosed dived since the last time this came up.
A lot of people will be "awww, shucks, it's too late now, what does it matter? What would we do different?"

Well, for one, we should remember to completely crucify the oh-so-helpful people who wanted to censor anything as misinformation or disinformation. They were wrong. They'll need to be reminded that they suppressed the truth, and they'll need reminding constantly, for at least a decade. "Hey, remember that time when everyone banded together to suppress the truth?"

More reminders would be in order: everyone who immediately started gibbering about racist xenophobes is gonna have to walk that back.

Anyone who wanted to have word games about what "gain of function" really means needs a long and grinding reminder.

We should assess our remaining faith in the WHO in light of their repeated mistakes, spoken with that total confidence. You know what I am talking about. "Mere mortal, you are not an epidemiologist, we told you that this wasn't airborne."

The people who over-confidently tried to control the narrative, beat others down, shut them up, and so forth? Jostling them with the truth of their mistakes, again and again, might help for it not to happen next time.
Feels weird reading of all these same experiences. Since my childhood I always felt older than I was. Any body got a similar experience?
Yeah I think I've been 40-50 since I was a teenager.
I am Indian, and I give a damn about US law.

> Furthermore, this attitude is a fantasy even within the Anglosphere - I live in New Zealand, and I bet not one person in 100 could give me a clear statement of what rights the 1st amendment guarantees and what its limits are, beyond the barest outline.

They don't have to. Popular culture is saturated with a low res version of 1st amendment.

What is more annoying about parochialism is every thing turning into mud slinging on the US.
Very likely less than 99.5% accuracy based on my testing…

… or …. I guess it’s possible that someone is drugging me several times a day, cloning my SIM card, putting it in another device and flying all over the U.S.
For me, "lie" is a really strong word. It involves some element of intent to deceive. If a schizophrenic told me about something he hallucinated I wouldn't say he lied even if the information was incorrect.
While I have no recollection of this pirated version, it sounds like something Psychomantis would say.