skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah submarine cables have tons and tons of capacity. Fibre is super efficient and you can even use multiple colors to add capacity (DWDM). Radio spectrum is much more limited. Also they don't just lay one fibre at a time. Each fibre has its own clean broad spectrum where radio is always shared.

Sats will not replace them for backhaul. The capacity isn't there. For limited emergencies sure but not for all our Netflix.

This is all great for users in poorly connected areas and that's what it's really for.

Ps: also the sat link is more for remote areas, the network is much more efficient when an uplink is available in the same area and this is also how it provides near cable-like latency. Basically a bent-pipe system. If you'd use this capability for long-distance back haul you'd need to tie up a lot of sats' capacity increasing latency and decreasing capacity overall.
You have been taught to associate the lab leak theory with low status conspiracy theorists. Your emotional mind has then sought to achieve higher status by siding with the non crazy people. As someone that is not easily swayed it is absolutely stunning to see how social dynamics sway people's opinions. As a younger person I just did understand how the opinions of the people I interacted with were driven by pure emotion, as this is something I fought with before I reached adolescence. I assumed everyone else had. Even those who claim to be 'scientific' are not in pursuit of truth, but social status. This whole thread is just one giant cope by the people who have sided with authority in search of status. They see that the gain in status they achieved through their allegiance being threatened and attack the facts by obfuscating them. DOE thinks it's the most likely scenario, they're not confident, but it's the best they can come up with. The FBI has done the same. That means intelligent rational people in receipt of all the facts have come to a conclusion you cast out and ridiculed in your dopaminergic dash for upvotes. Be better.
The difference is that the government can't (yet) legally reverse your identity from your IP address and throw you in jail for having an anonymous discussion online.

But if you publicly said "my name is Joe and XYZ racist thing", people have the right to cancel you.

Historically this public/private distinction has been violated lots of times in the U.S., e.g., WWI, McCarthy. I don't think it's totalitarian; it's usually relatively limited. Most of the time, for most topics, the government leaves you alone and you can say what you damn well please.
I don't think Trump is patient enough to sit and read. It's more likely he wanted people to tell him what's important that he needs to know about.

I'm speculating of course but if you think about it, can you imagine him sitting patiently reading documents first thing in the morning? He would get bored so quickly he would end up on twitter to complain or gloat.
The revelation for me was when a school friend of mine in the early 2000s told me about a site called crack.cd which had serials or keygens for practically any software I wanted. It was a whole new world, I loved it. Only had to nuke my computer once after a keygen turned out to be a virus! (The other occasion on which I lost everything was when I was installing Ubuntu 5.10 ‘Breezy Badger’ for dual booting with Windows on the family computer and accidentally wiped the entire disk instead of just the old Linux partition - that was a bit more awkward because it had all our family photos on it ever since digital cameras started coming out, but luckily I found a CD backup of them all and also tried my hand at downloading and using a cracked file restoration program. Definitely took some time to rebuild trust and explain that I know what I did wrong and wouldn’t do something like that again.)

I had lots of learning experiences with this kind of stuff that I’m very glad I could have in my little years of first being online, when it wasn’t tied to anything really important, it was all just for fun. Everything would be different for me today if I didn’t have the opportunity to play with non-zero but relatively little risk.
Normally when you try to solve a serious problem in a small company you might want to know who caused the problem, but most of the times you just need to know it wasn't intentional and you focus on addressing the outcome and making sure it never happens again.

In big enterprises usually solving the problem is secondary to finding who the culprit is so that all future problems can be blamed on that department.

China and the US are both like big enterprises. None of them is actually focused on making sure all the problems that happened will not happen again. People are just focused on blaming their domestic shit on the other.

China releases a strategy paper on US hegemony, US brings the lab leak theory back into the spotlight. It doesn't really matter if there was valid research on that theory. The fact that the major newspapers come out with it 1 day after China releases their stuff, shows you it's political.

It may be right, it may be wrong, an unintended leak has always been a very likely on the list for me. It's not like lack of security in labs hasn't been an issue in the US, in China and in a bunch of labs in Europe for that matter. Probably other countries are way worse.

The point isn't whether it's right or wrong, the point is that the goal isn't to solve the problem, but exclusively to assert blame.
I don't know that's a great example given that many cultures don't share those numerals, so it can't be assumed these ideas propagate solely by the virtue of being old.
There are lots of interpretations. I actually like KNN for a lot of tasks. My gut says that it still wouldn't perform well here (and for the record, there are efficient data structures for the idea you're describing unless you have some nonstandard modifications, so "arranging the data efficiently to allow fast lookups" is definitely not the core problem), but I admittedly don't have proof of that yet.

For some intuition, imagine the following tasks:

> Repeat the following phrase exactly twice: "sdflhasdflhasdf"

> Repeat the following phrase exactly twice: "sdflhasdflhasdg"

Your fuzzy dictionary or geospatial map can't possibly have enough keys to distinguish the requests (or if it distinguishes those, you can adversarially select different keyboard mashes), and so the result, no matter what it is, would have the same probability distribution for both prompts. Since the desired results are different, at least one of those would be have some unavoidable wrongness.

The GPT family, on the other hand, has few issues with random phrase duplication since positional information is something it explicitly considers and is capable of prioritizing over other token information.
Maybe, in the short term, to make more money in the long term.
I grew up in the 90s using Pascal, and I loved it.

I wrote a 3d engine.

I believe free Pascal has network and API libraries available.

Interestin.
I'm not making an argument regarding this instance, but to have a theory that you can't disprove really makes it not a theory and impossible to engage with.
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Ask HN: Viability of a Career in Robotics
Hey everyone. A year ago had two fantastic offers, one as a computer vision engineer at a robotics company and the other as a general software engineer at a big tech company for 50% more pay. I ended up picking the software engineering position not because of the pay difference, but mostly because it seemed like the skills I would acquire would be more valuable. Looking around, it seems like robotics (and CV) is starting to pick up and I'm wondering if I made the wrong move.

Do you think that robotics will become a good career in the next few years?

The two biggest blockers I see in terms of robotics being a good career choice are:

1. It's cool stuff. This might make it a similar to the video game industry where even though the work is challenging, there are always boat loads of people waiting to take crappy jobs just to work in the industry.

2. From a business standpoint, I'm not sure if robots will be economically viable for many years to come. For example, there's a lot of talk about making robots to replace fast food workers. In the US, there are millions of meat sack robots (humans) which will work for cheap. And if they break down or get sick, it's not the business' problem, the business will just hire a new one. Instead, if a company buys/rents a robot, it's not going to be cheap. And yes, I understand that 100 years ago people probably made the same argument against horses vs cars. I know that robotics will eventually replace human workers. But will I be able to make a decent career out of working on it within my lifetime?

What do you people think? I know it's impossible to tell the future, I'm just looking for some discussion on the topic.
Considering the topic at hand, this
comes across as flame-baiting.

Use your imagination.
If you look at the term, one thing is obvious. If you look at the way it is applied, another thing is obvious.

In general, just looking at terms might give you a very flawed understanding of such things as the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
People want a blunt weapon to promote their politics with.

All of the theories had the properties of being convenient darlings of some pre-existing political faction.

The most responsible thing is to claim ignorance on the origin story unless you have genuine, credentialed, expertise and analytical training for it and even then, those people choose their audiences and presentation carefully because of the unintended consequences.

Those who refuse to fuel speculation on topics they are unqualified to comment on is by definition, absent and invisible.

It's also a distraction. The real problem is the chain of decisions and coordinating made by hundreds of groups around the planet between say November and April that catalyzed this from a problem to a global catastrophe. That's really the focus here because an H5N1 mutation is potentially around the corner and that could be much much worse.

It's dramatically affected egg supplies as you've probably seen at your local supermarket. A human uncontrolled outbreak would be a disaster. It's far more dangerous than covid.

For instance, that's today's date: https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2...

The first part (origin) has already happened, the second part about the management, that's the actual important stuff.
How long had they been working on either of those before publishing? You're giving the end points of the research, the person you're replying to is saying the end point wasn't reached, hence it was still secret.
So if people are handed coolaid and are stupid enough to drink it there should be no burden of responsibility placed on the community? No regulation banning the handing out of said coolaid? I don’t want to live in such a society. I think most reasonable people want commonsense restrictions in place for everyone’s safety.

Free speech absolutionists can try their petri dish ideas, I’d just prefer they do it far away from the rest of us trying to live in a decent (and improving) society.
> Oh? How successful do you think the US constitutional mechanism has really been in protecting free speech? And by "free speech" here, I mean exactly the broader sense, not constrained by a narrow constitutionalist view.

Overall quite successful, especially measured by longevity. It has not always been pretty. Politics in the US is a blood sport--sometimes quite literally. And the right to free speech has not been evenly distributed. But there aren't a lot of nations that have offered the level of protection from government suppression offered by the US since the late 1700s. Many of the nations you cite have not enjoyed these freedoms for very long. Nations like Japan and many in Europe also developed their current rights regime under the protection of the US during the post-war period. It's premature to conclude they have done better.

> That notwithstanding, my question to you is this: scanning down that list of countries, does it perhaps occur to you that the US may have something to learn from us, rather than the other way round?

Of course. Just as one example I'm impressed that many European nations do a better job of balancing free speech vs. harms than the US does. For example Germany does not permit Nazi speech, which seems reasonable. They also did a vastly better job of maintaining a civil dialogue about COVID at least early on. [0]

I'm not in any way arguing the US is perfect. You would have to be pretty blind to do that.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2020/03/31/823865329/das-coronavirus-pod...
No. Each individual processor AND form factor has its own unique challenges.

Developer page has a FAQ with a table which details non-functional for each configuration.

For example, my M2Pro MINI has limited feature support, relative to an M1 MacBook Air. For a long time, the M1Ultra was not supported (and I believe currently still is not, but I am a few weeks behind since install).
It's not cacheless. There are countless caches throughout (including what appears to be ~1TB of memory in the database server), just not a dedicated cache machine.
If you told most people you had 10 rolls of a dice to land a 6 and then suggested the most likely number of rolls you'll get it on is 1 I wonder whether they'd believe you...
> By definition, half of people are worse (however you define worse) than average.

It's worse than that when you're trying to make decisions on behalf of everyone. It's perfectly possible for the decision that's right for you to be wrong for well more than half of the population for diverse individual reasons that they each understand and you don't.

Which is why in cases like that you defer to the individual to make their own decision, and if you think your choice is better, convince them rather than force them.
> I think it's easy to take a stand in favor of free speech when speech is only speech, but that's a remarkably naive and gullible viewpoint to have. Do you think white supremacists that lynch black people don't use hate speech beforehand and talk about exterminating non-whites beforehand?

What's naïve is thinking that they would stop the lynching if someone told them they weren't allowed to talk about it. It would make zero difference.

> "But that's violence. That's diferent.", you might say. How do you think these people meet each other and collaborate with each other and normalize this kind of behavior? Through 'free speech'.

Conspiracy to commit crimes is illegal for a number of reasons and covers this problem adequately without needing to infringe on speech per se. But you should also remember that it is not words that kill people, it is the actual violence that follows that kills people, and that kind of violence is already illegal.

Plus, racist speech is how we find out who the racists are. David Duke basically outed himself as a Klan member by making racist political speeches in public, for example.
If by 'animal reservoir' you mean the intermediary pangolin, or something similar, this 'reservoir' could be as small as 1 animal if it was a spontaneous mutation. Where do you get the idea that there must be a large population of such animals roaming around?
Well there can also be quite a lot of bigotry and hate around here, don't blame people wanting to block traffic from here, especially when your trying to create something sweet and pure like this.
wow. this is such a bad take, it makes me question using Age at all.

> tools should not have issues that need communicating to users, and if they did they should fix them, not delegate a choice to a user.

no tool is perfect, including Age. and no issue is fixed immediately, or at all.
so instead of waiting months or years for an issue to be fixed, it can be quite
helpful to throw a quick warning on the front page, so at least people are warned
in the meantime. Its just a sign of respect, and of not wasting the users time.

> Imagine if every project came with a list of potential issues you have to form an opinion on

I would be glad if more projects included important to-dos or shortcomings up
front, so that I dont have to discover them myself after a week or month of use.
Further, no one is forcing users to form an opinion, or even read the known
issues. you throw them in a section at the bottom the of README, then they can
read if they want, and form and opinion if they want.

without doing this, you're essentially lying to the userbase, as you are aware of
issues, perhaps even important ones, that are not fixed, and are purposefully
hiding that information, or at least not being as forthcoming with it as you
could be.
While I agree with this, it's sadly a game theoretic reasoning, that is to say, fearful, relativistic, utilitarian.

Again, not being dismissive at all, but it says something about the state of our thinking and quality of our ideals, when we cannot make arguments on absolute grounds anymore. Or if we do, they seem quaint, passe, naive.
What causes you to find it dubious? Homelessness rates track housing costs pretty directly in studies I’ve seen.
looked it up and it seems they found the source of SARS from 2002-2004 in 2017 so a bit over a decade.
Right, this was our conclusion as well. C# is close enough to Delphi that relearning for us that are already here is fairly trivial, while really expanding the number of potential applicants.

Oxygene would maybe make it a bit easier to write C# for some of us[1], but it's incompatible with Delphi so we'd have to rewrite code anyway. Just doesn't make sense.

If you're starting from scratch with a small Delphi team and want to target iOS and such alongside Windows, then yeah I'd consider it.

[1]: not me, I wrote C# back in the 1.1 days and feel right at home
Sorta like Actor model, but in hardware?
Implied extortion.
I mean are Google, MS, Amazon, etc. not "real" companies?
I don't get this TBH. I work with younger coworkers and I recognize them falling for similar traps I did years/decade ago.

I don't see my coworkers getting less competent, I'm just aware that I did way more stupid shit than they did and have the benefit of experience.
> much greater in Portland and Denver than any major city in Florida

Well, barring Miami, maybe.

Cities with high housing costs also tend to have more funding behind social programs that can enable homelessness (Seattle, Portland, SF). Also, circuit court jurisdictions governing how localities can manage a homeless population may account for some difference (9th vs 11th, in this case).
It's interesting, but I don't think it answers the question.

I believe life probably started as an autocatalytic set of chemicals which then 'discovered' they could use rna as a backbone/memory. So the reason for the chirality is at a lower level than discussed here.

All just a hunch and IMHO of course.
That's just roundabout way of saying "no because we don't have experience in Y language"
>McClintock was unfazed by academia’s rejection. She simply stopped publishing and waited for science to catch up.

Scientists nowadays are judged mostly by how many papers they publish per year, this would be career suicide nowadays. Or unis will push you into pure-teaching positions to justify your expense, so you don't have time for research any more...
You would be the only one who has sunk. Ads on search results are not the problem, garbage web results are. SEO optimized trash that is designed to be at the top result of google for no reason. And having this be half of the first page of results for many popular searches leads people down a rabbit hole of appending "site:reddit.com" or using flags to hide entire words in search results. Having an AI to synthesize the most important parts of a search is a net positive to society, not a disadvantage.
How so? 2 will have no effect on people who are actually disabled, and 1 and 3 just mean their seating position and carryon status are the same as they'd be if they weren't disabled.
I am equally repelled by VPNs[1] and CDNs[2]. I probably should have started with my own articles.

1 - https://danuker.go.ro/dont-use-vpns.html

2 - https://danuker.go.ro/how-to-protect-your-personal-data.html
You are wrong. Puberty blockers do not cause infertility or lack of sexual function. Your statements are incorrect and incongruent with established medical knowledge and advice. Also, trans is an adjective, not a plural noun.
The WSJ changed the headline:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230226121213/https://www.wsj.c...
I replaced the battery with a non-OEM so the battery situation isn’t unexpected. It’s very usable, it’s just banged up. I was even running Ableton Live on it before I got a new MacBook. How many other 10 year old laptops treated with the same care as a school textbook still work?
Apple's Clean Energy Charging in iOS 16.1
The issue is, that collectively deciding what speech to ban, in a democratic manner, requires discussing that speech openly and publicly. But if the speech is illegal, that discussion can't happen. It's a Catch-22; censorship is incompatible with democracy!
I messed with some programs written in basic for industrial controllers that was written in late 1970's.

There is a simple thing. On a lot of machines only spaghettified programs would even fit in the memory available. Academic CS researchers with their unlimited accounts on the institutions mainframe didn't have that worry.
Pcre2 Support Zig Build
Sounds like an organizational problem, if people are passing code reviews with any littered all over the place then your engineering culture is flawed. At least at my company, you need to have a discussion explaining why any use of the any type is justified or else it will be by default rejected.
I live pretty far north in Canada and have been making nightly timelapses trying to catch the northern lights. What surprised me the most is how common they are here. Most nights, they will be visible for a few minutes or more, weather permitting.

So far today it’s clear skies so looking forward to tonight.
True. But cloud makes it a lot easier. In some cases it's built-in, like S3. In others it's a checkbox like RDS Multi-AZ. And if you need to roll your own, multi-AZ or even multi-region is much more straightforward than renting another rack somewhere.

I have personally seen Stack Overflow be "under maintenance" or straight up down a lot more than I have seen entire us-east-1 down.
This is definitely the most sensible explanation, since it's quite well known that Wuhan is the most important transportation hub in China since even before the lab was a distant dream in some postdoc's imagination.

And China does have the world's largest annual human migration, in the Spring Festival.

If I was in the planning department at whichever ministry that made the final decision on placement, putting the most prestigious and well funded lab studying dangerous human transmissible viruses at the world's most likely place to originate such a virus is an obvious choice.

i.e. during a few weeks every year Wuhan could easily be 10x more likely to be ground zero then any other city ever.