skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typical Tim Cook strategy. I mean, who am I to judge Tim Cook. I assume in-app purchases work similarly to in-game purchases, meaning a very small amount of customers contribute the vast amount to revenue. One reason I believe this is that these apps cost ridiculous amounts of money for what they are. Notes app monthlies, Bunch of face filters for a yearly subscription, and so on. In the short term this increases revenue for devs and Apple. However, I do think that this strategy could backlash for Apple if the app ecosystem (a differentiating factor at some point) becomes less and less attractive. All of my paid apps are Mac exclusive. If they change to subscription then I am out. This also means my lock-in to Mac diminishes.
Bedrock Linux[1] enables something very similar to what you're describing, although it's lacking support for NixOS and Windows.

[1] https://bedrocklinux.org/
Many of the white respondents probably answered a plain English question. I suspect many of the black respondents responded to the slogan not the words. It's very provocative to suggest that a large proportion of Black Americans disapprove of people having white skin.

The question itself appears to have been deliberately provocative. Rasmussen Reports has been criticized before for asking dodgy questions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmussen_Reports#Criticism
I'm pretty sure I remember a pirated version of Metal Gear solid on the original play station where the fact you where using a pirated version came up in the gameplay at some point.
We work in the sleep efficiency space, so I've thought about this quite a bit.

My thinking, knowing the research around the area, but not having researched this specific case.

1) we are having children later in life. Evolution designed child rearing age to be 16-25. We have pushed that later and later as we've matured as a species, and in Australia (and Canada) from my experience we are now regularly in the 30+ for first children. I know of many mothers who's first child was born when they were 40 or later.

2) Sleep does not return to normal levels until the youngest child on average reaches 6 years old.

3) Our sleep naturally degrades as we age. Particularly in mid-30s. So if you have a child at 33, and you return to "normal sleep" at 39, you are expecting to return to your restful self, but your sleep has declined during that time.
good idea on computers with 100 mhz, an encryption algorithm would've probably not slowed down anything at all, especially not because there was no encryption extension.
My biggest issue with App Store subscriptions is that I'm effectively only renting the software, as opposed to buying into future updates. If I cancel my subscription to a JetBrains IDE or the database client I use, I get to use the most recent version I paid for forever. Those are more like auto-opting into paid upgrades, which I'm totally fine with.

For an iOS app, if I cancel my subscription I'm left with nothing. It really sucks, because a lot of the software I use is not a service in any sense, but the App Store model forces it to be so.
The UK and Australia will use violence against you if you say something in particular or write it down. Think about that. It’s insane.
So, no spam filtering.
I was thinking that actually gives the United States a distinct advantage in such (hypothetical) biological warfare, it has the most diverse gene pool on the planet.
As a thought experiment, who would have access to the most information in the world outside of the sitting POTUS? The richest man in the world? Surely Trump of all people would be the most qualified to make such a claim.
HKU4 contamination in agricultural samples in the Country that HKU4 was discovered in does not pose a particularly controversial question as to how it got there.

While it is in the same group of beta coronaviruses that MERS is in, the HKU4 virus was first found in Kowloon and the "HK" stands for "Hong Kong" (although it would be a mistake to assume that says much more than where it was found and not what its range is throughout China)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7111821/

And coronaviruses undergo recombination (XBB.1.5 is a recombinant which is all over the news) and that produces "Chimeric" viruses in nature. Finding evidence of "gene splicing" in samples and determining it must be humans ignores the fact that nature does it better than we do, and really points at how politically biased that article is.

They want you to believe that WIV imported MERS-like viruses from Saudi Arabia and were fucking around with them in the lab, and not that those viruses are found all over China naturally and nature fucks around them constantly in much higher volume than we can.
It didn't, though. It's perfectly legal to discriminate, just not in a public setting. Say, if you have a coffee shop, you can't just refuse to serve non-white customers. But if you have a private coffee club, its membership can be restricted to whites only - and the club can then have a coffee shop that serves only its members.

This seems like a reasonable compromise to me - accommodations are inclusive by default so you don't have to worry about whether a random store owner has a problem with your gender, race, religion etc. Yet people who want to exclude others from their spaces still have the ability to do so, subject only to social disapproval.
I've got the aeropress for something portable. Its good, it's nice, it's not as nice as an espresso but it a fraction of the cost and doesn't take up your kitchen counter space.

Most expensive without getting in to stupid hipster stuff is just a high end espresso machine, perhaps a commercial one. But the Brevile/Sage barista express is cheap and very good.
Because we had a racist president who said stuff like "China virus" in a stupid and demeaning way--i.e. what may have been a valid and reasonable argument or position had its credibility ruined by being taken up by Trump and his ilk for their own ends.
We're picking up where they left off at https://soundmind.co
This was my issue -- "okay" seems a synonym for "acceptable." And 47% of those polled saying that they cannot accept the existence of white people, taken at face value, would indeed be quite alarming.

But, most people won't take it at face value, and those who responded to the survey didn't likely have this interpretation either.

Adams fell right into the trap of responding to this sort of bait.

Not that he'd ever have been the spokesman for radically rethinking race relations. But no, I don't expect he's secretly a klansman.
Ah yes. The « they should have work harder at school » argument.

I struggle with this one. People are not idiot, if water is scarce, it’s usually due to external factors.

Having grow up in a major colonial power, I sure benefits for the extraction of resources that happened since the late 17’s.

On the receiving end, societies being reduce to mere shadows of themselves by force does not exactly help.

Moreover, Some existing irrigation systems have been abandon during colonial times for lack of workers. ( workers being either diverted to slavery or other more lucrative endeavors for the colonial power )

Finally, modern pollution is a thing.

Are the resident of Ohio responsible for their newly polluted water?

Or the one of Jacksonville, Ms, they should have voted differently to avoid flooding of their system?

Same for Flint, Mi. They had a working infrastructure. Distributing water just fine. It was broken for years. Is it their fault?

I struggle to see the benefit of finger pointing here, as opposed to human empathy and « yep, that sucks »

Finally, and the examples above were hitting at that : drinking water is not a problem in country lacking propers infrastructure anymore.

The list of US cities having issues is growing; and the causes are diverse. From negligence to poor location ( haha; Las Vegas )

My point : saying « they should have a infrastructure by now » is silly.
It’s weird you mention BSL4 and use present tense about Wuhan when discussing covid origins.

The Coronavirus work at Wuhan was done in BSL2 environment; the BSL4 lab was still being built at that time.
So that's where all of the T9000s went? According to Wikipedia, the project was cancelled.
The bean counter is not enforcing strategies that make him less money overall, that's certain.
I agree. It looks like it was done well, but it was probably more fun to create than to read.
It’s definitely plausible, but then wouldn’t you expect multiple outbreak sites?

* In and around WIV

* In and around the scientist’s homes, families and neighborhoods

From the news I’ve seen all of the initial known cases were traced back to the market.
> UPGRADES! You buy 1.x, or 2.x or whatever, and then when 3.x comes out new customers pay full price

Upgrades like that kind of suck for everyone though. The users, the developers, the businesses.

Users expect software to get bug and security fixes. By having 1.x, 2.x and 3.x versions, developers have to maintain 3 different versions.

It also forces developers to add new features even if no one wants them. Plenty of good apps are essentially feature complete, but in an upgrade centric world there has to be constant new features. This often makes apps worse.

Subscriptions are a good way to balance the needs of users, developers and businesses.
Be Careful with C++ Monads
It is almost game theory:

The SaaS wants to extract as much value as possible. They don't know YOUR individual use case or threshold, but they need to price in a general way so that based on the model of reality, the most revenue will come in (+ whatever other goals).

You want to get as much value as possible.

If they know that you use it twice a year, they could offer you a special price. But doing that for just you might be not worth the extra code in their licensing and usage tracking system. So there needs to be lots of you.

In addition there could be high paying whale users happy to pay a lot and only use it twice a year.

So they need to know how tight/loose each customer is, in addition to what they want, to come up with appropriate pricing.

It would be like a bazaar where the price for a vase is 1000 but locals will haggle it down to 100, expats will get it for 150, tourists that haggle get it down to 250, and naive tourists pay 1000, the full price. And the seller can look at them, their body language, the look in their eyes, and judge the price accordingly.

AI might get us there!
Scraping a tabs website to avoid ADs
Could you give me some concrete examples that come to mind? I'm new to Stable Diffusion but have been using it a lot lately.
I had the same thought until one day I tried to use it to do some quick Dart coding, turns out it is very easy comparing to other languages, and it has sound null safety too, all syntax are pretty much the same as C, I like it and I hope its popularity will increase.
This article really needs a "(2018)" marker.

This article predates GPT-3 and GPT-2, it even predates the essay "The Bitter Lesson" <http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html>.

It might be true long-term, but it's certainly not written with the current advances in mind.
From everything I understand (and I work in the sleep space), this statement is wrong "In general, you need less sleep as you age".

You get less sleep as you age, and that lack of sleep has been linked to the decline in health.

That doesn't mean you "need" less.

We're working on improving the neurological function of the brain during sleep at https://soundmind.co and very keen to see if we can have a long-term impact on health and longevity by increasing the depth of deep sleep.
> The problem here is you may agree or not agree but the point I am making is just my view on this equals bigot / hater

Yes, some beliefs are inherently bigoted and hateful. The people holding those beliefs often don't see it that way. Slaveowners often thought they were doing the right thing for black people. I see no reason why presenting your beliefs about trans people in a kind way should make your beliefs land any softer. I see no reason to discuss these beliefs with you, as they bring nothing new to the table that has not been discussed before.
"U.S. agency’s revised assessment is based on new intelligence"

What is that intel?
We have always understood that there are consequences of unpopular speech that are detached from whether that speech is good or necessary or correct. It's why we characterize people as courageous who fight long, but ultimately justified or righteous battles in the popular sphere. Courageous in the face of what? This! The negative social consequences of unpopular speech.
Sorry, this is wrong in multiple ways. People that own dogs are a small percentage of any countries population. About 20% in USA, far lower than the number of people that have children. Additionally, cat ownership is higher quite a few countries, certainly not all. https://www.petsecure.com.au/pet-care/a-guide-to-worldwide-p...
Can you unpack "synthetic knowledge", cause I don't know what that really means.
Loongson’s LSX and LASX Vector Extensions
> 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.

As someone who does understand statistics, it's made me dislike Nate Silver even more than if I didn't. It's been sad to watch his metamorphoses over the years from an interesting numbers guy with nuanced discussions on polling and models, to becoming the exact kind of pundit and talking head he used to make fun of. There's still a little bit of statistics on his site, but the overwhelming majority of content is the same trite punditry you'll find on pretty much any political blog.
What does it mean to model an object in awareness? Does Dall-E model an object in awareness when it is generating an image containing an object? How can you tell if it is or isn't?
>I get to continue to use the most recent version I paid money for forever

Or until it stops working with an OS upgrade/update.
Sorry, I didn't mean to convey a strong disagreement here. I mostly agree with you on this.

Besides, we know the next step: use Curve448 to stave off criticism about using a small curve, and then people start talking quantum computers.
>Mathematics has not developed the asymmetric language required to capture our understanding that if X causes Y that does not mean that Y causes X.

X⟹Y

This seems like sophistry to bring up the fact that algebra is symmetric and totally ignore the exist of the above.
They did act like a global cabal in a bubble and told people of power what they wanted to be told
I don't know the answer to your question, but the DoE does a lot more than just energy. In addition to overseeing energy policy, they oversee the R&D of nuclear weapons and the nuclear weapons program, they oversee the National Laboratories which does a lot of research and development in the areas of technology, health, physics, climate/environment and energy, they started the Human Genome Project, etc.

Here's their overview of some of the stuff their National Laboratories have done: https://www.energy.gov/articles/75-breakthroughs-americas-na...
"I have a lot of things i want to do and a lot of them need to be done while I am still relatively young enough for them to be plausible."

Do those things that are 'on your list' as soon as possible. There is an old saying 'Life is what happens while you're making other plans'. I discovered that I had, in practice, a mere six (6!) years in retrospect where it was possible do do things that were 'on MY list. If you miss that window of opportunity, you'll never get to do your list at all.

You have to make to effort to fit them in while you can. One of my lifelong dreams was to spend a year or two in a small village in France. The first time it was a possibility was in 2003, but 'No, I have the responsibility to make us a living' meant that that chance was lost and so eight years went by - lost opportunity - until I finally made it to my village in France in 2011 but by then I could only spend time there in bits and pieces rather than as a single block of time.

My "window of opportunity" closed at the end of 2016, though I wasn't aware of that fact till about 3 years later.

Many times I have said to my wife, "If only we were 10 years younger, we could have ... bought an apartment in Paris ... or a house in Italy, or .......". Lost opportunities by the score.
I actually considered that, just didn't call its name explicitly.

> Maybe the AppStores can implement something like version limiting and you can ask for a payment for upgrading to the new version.

I'm also not sure how I feel about it. Having people using multiple versions of the app in the wild seems wrong. Also, many apps have a server component which has ongoing costs and as a result user who choose not to pay for an upgrade will still cost you money and maintenance of the server for old versions OR they will lose functionality. I guess it can work for offline apps.
Explain the coincidence of why it happened to be in a wet market and not a restaurant or other gathering where people congregate. Just happened to be the one place to make it look exactly like zoonosis and extraordinarily similar to SARS-1.
> You cannot even begin NATO application without an invitation.

That's a formality, which usually happens in the final stage of negotiations. EE countries that joined NATO got the invitation 1-2 years before officially becoming members, while negotiations usually took around 5-10 years. After everything has been negotiated, NATO sends a formal invitation, which is followed by signing the formal application, and the decision to accept that application is then ratified by parliaments of NATO countries (can take up to a year). It's dead wrong to depict this as existing members "expanding" NATO and dragging other countries in.

> Regardless of the initiative of non-members any member could have blocked the expansion of the alliance simply because it was a time of peace and there are no agressions by Russia.

If you saw Russia as a peaceful country, then there was no reason to oppose, because accepting EE wouldn't increase commitments in any significant way, while membership requirements like civilian oversight over armed forced made the new members more stable and contributed to peace in Europe. Opposing new members would've made more sense if you expected war from Russia, because mutual defense pact would drag you into the conflict too. So in a way, joining NATO was calling NA/WEU bluff: "If you think there's no threat from Russia, sign a mutual defense pact with us."

> As for the rest of what you said, it only applies to conventional warfare.

Nothing changed regarding nuclear weapons. In the 1997 founding treaty between NATO and Russia, it was agreed upon that NATO would not station nuclear weapons in Eastern Europe and NATO has kept that promise. Given the technological edge of western weapons over Russian arsenal, I don't think there is any difference if nukes are a thousand miles more in one direction or the other.

I believe stationing nuclear weapons in EE is important to Russia only because it would lead to very serious escalation if Russia invaded those countries and Russia took control of American, French or British nuclear weapons.
As I was about to copy and paste tabs from a website (because the original page is filled with trash), I thought to myself: there has to be a better way. Well, this is not the better way, but is definitely simple enough.
FWIW — and not to criticize you, I’m a parent and know what you’re going through — evolution didn’t do this to us, we did. If we look at our closest relatives, the other primates, infants all sleep snuggled with their mothers. As they get older, they snuggle together or with other relatives. It’s very rare for any of them to sleep alone.

Imagine a baby chimp or gorilla waking up alone in the forest after having fallen asleep snuggled with its mother. Of course it would be terrified, of course it would cry for help.

Many modern cultures choose to make infants sleep alone. That doesn’t do away with the infant’s hard-wired responses, long-set in its genome.
Blyton and Dahl used to sell about equally well a few decades ago, but Blyton's books fell off a cliff as the racism, anti-gypsy, etc parts of the books meant parents weren't buying them for their kids anymore. Which isn't surprising, considering the many tens of thousands of great books, the vast majority of which don't have these issues, that they could buy for their kids, no decent parent would want to subject their children to these retrogressive ideas presented as absolutely normal.

Avoiding this fate is why the Dahl estate made the decision to edit their books.

Of course, if the people who really think that these capitalistic decisions are a threat to literature and human culture and history, they would challenge the root of the problem, which is copyright protections preventing humanity from enjoying these apparent building blocks of our culture, decades after the authors have passed away and have no say on how they should be treated.
"focus on communal self-improvement."

That's worth thinking about.
Nope, HKDF outputs are always 256 bits. They are used either as a HMAC-SHA-256 key or as a ChaCha20Poly1305 key, so everything downstream of HKDF is 256 bits.

In "Conventions used in this document" you'll find the sentence "The length of the output keying material is always 32 bytes." making this explicit.
> Do we have the genetic sequences from these experiments? Has anyone compared them to the sequences from the pandemic?

I don't know about those specifically, but one of the earliest genetic matches we had is a natural virus called RaTG13 and was studied in the Wuhan lab. I think a closer match has since been found though.

> I'm not entirely up to speed but I recall hearing something about the US government funding them (without its own knowledge..?), so perhaps that info is not only in China's hands.

Yes, indirectly through EcoHealth Alliance, hence the "without its own knowledge" part.
Are you suggesting that a more correct course of action would be some kind of punitive retribution so those of us who survived suffer in the hopes that those most responsible suffer a little more than we do?

The idea that we would hurt our own economic future out of grief/vengeance is bizarre. So yes, everyone does know what you suggest, and we’re all OK with it.
not Americans.

They always need someone to blame.

Remember when they went to war with Iraq on fabricated evidence?

Remember when they wen to war with Afghanistan after 9/11, but Afghanistan had no responsibility whatsoever (again!) and 10 years later they handed the country back to Talibans?

Can we consider 9/11 an accident?

Would it be the same to you?

You know when really nobody talks about it?

When it's the US killing people out of negligence and incompetence and sheer arrogance.

Are you aware of this?

Do they talk about it in USA?

They never apologized.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

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can we also talk about this?

I'm quite sure how these poor people died makes a lot of difference for the families of the victims.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/18/us/airstrikes...

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It's not China fault if during covid in USA Trump was President and people really believed that covid wasn't real and a lot of Americans died with a rate double than my Country which was already hit very hard BTW.

China handled it much better anyway.
My dad subjectively aged about 10 years when my sister died in her 30's. It was like a switch from Adultish to Elderly.