skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lived in Macau for 6 years, and I went to Wuhan more than a few times. How is "several miles away from the virology lab, and across the river.", a virology lab that specifically studies coronaviruses, be so much more unlikely than a bunch of people traveling from places that don't have bat caves or other zootonic sources be more likely? Also, going to the wet market from work is very common for lunch and to pick up food on the way home. I have been to the wet market in Wuhan.

Second, COVID-19's furin cleavage site is unique from all other coronaviruses and that is what allows it to bind so well in humans. A new preprint (not full reviewed, Oct 2022) is interesting from a genomics perspective on this being a potential bioengineering marker[1].

I think just because Orange man called it out early on, it immediately became a non-starter for most people. A coronavirus lab just mere miles from a wet market where it supposedly bloomed, and contrary to finding other zootonic sources of other viruses relatively soon, none has been found at all in the past two-plus years. The wiping of databases by China; the involvement of US/Europpean/Russian agencies in the Wuhan lab; the whole NIH/Fauci mess with funded research there in gain of function or whatever you want to call it research, and it is unlikely?

Common sense has left the room during the political divisiveness these past years. I do believe over the years more evidence will come out proving a lab leak given the advances in genomics, intentionally slow drip feed of documents, and the sheer number of factors pointing towards this. I do believe it was an accident, and not a bioweapons thing, and originated from the Wuhan lab. Lab leaks are more common than people think, and having worked in China for over 7 years, I can imagine this was not your movie rendition of a BSL-4 lab, but one with a lot of warts. I say this about other countries too. I did some work for an aerospace robotics lab and I was dreaming of the BSL-4 suits and all, and what I found was a normal shop with out of tolerance machinery. This was in the U.S.

[1] https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/preprint-covid-19-shows-f...
Which API? (Genuinely curious, thanks in advance!)
'Deplorable' are we still using that hateful dog whistle?
According to your description, it should be the problem of spectrum generation.

AudioFlux itself does not directly provide TTS function, but it can be used to analyze spectrum problems, or try different spectrum types. The effect of using erb/bar type spectrum is better than mel spectrum.
> You went to the trouble of registering a domain but you didn’t go to the trouble of even testing on Firefox?

How much trouble do you imagine registering a domain is?
I'm sure they'll put a very robust algorithm in place to ensure no wrongful repossessions will happen. I'm also sure that, if they ever somehow did, there will be a very accessible customer service system that will be able to resolve the issue.
Cool that views are now (experimentally) supported. Using Go's `sqlboiler` package, I've been experimenting with an architectural pattern of making all read queries be against views, so that I would get type-safe `SELECT` code (sqlboiler supports generating code for views). I also like the idea of keeping views in the same SQL definition file as the index that will be using it.
Could you give an example of a TV show that blew you away when processed with Nvidia Shield's upscaling? I tried the feature while streaming HBO's Sopranos, going from 1080p to 4k and it didn't look any better to me, just slightly different with occasional artifacts. I didn't understand the hype around this feature.

I believe how good your TV's native upscaling will also be a factor in how improved the Shield's implementation looks.
I've needed a Dark Sky clone for ages! This is great.
Don't mandate them, just mandate that if you use known-deficient practices you're presumed negligent if an incident occurs. Then issue some guidelines for known best practices and known bad practices, and make it clear that using something newer/better is fine, just not using something on the "known bad" list. (For instance, best practices are to use two-factor authentication with one component being physical security; one-factor with a password is known-bad.)
Bingo. Personal phone number for only friends and family. Google voice number from a nearby area code for literally everything else. It's a little more secure than my carrier.

And as an added bonus, I can automatically send all incoming google voice calls to voicemail and not have to worry about missing a family emergency. If I get a phone call on my actual cell number, it's almost guaranteed to be someone I know closely.
> here is just nothing out there that beats mouse and keyboard for more competitive sessions of dota, csgo, starcraft.

I'm not sure that it's close enough for truly competitive play, but look into flick stick and gyro mouse. For first person games it's good enough that I've been able to hop online in a couple of older first person shooters without aim assist and get roughly (or at least close to) the same performance I would get from a mouse today. It's certainly good enough for the vast majority of single-player campaigns to the point where you wouldn't be missing much if anything by not using a mouse.

Gryo mouse isn't quite as good, it's fine for menus and point-and-click games, but falls down a bit more for stuff like RTS games. I've been trying to figure out control schemes to make it perform better for faster movements without losing precision. It's comfortable enough to use as a general mouse, but I don't think I could use it competitively in an RTS (although I do think I could probably get through a single-player campaign).

I'm mildly hopeful that those control schemes will get better in the future, but even today as someone who pretty much only ever played PC games with a mouse, it's switched me from thinking of the Steam Deck as a primarily 2D/3D/platformer device where I could maybe pick up an FPS if it had really good aim assist, into a device where I wouldn't hesitate to load up pretty much any FPS on it without aim assist. I'm not getting 100% of the performance I used to get with a mouse in older high-precision aiming games like Sauerbraten, but I'm not sure how much of that is that I'm generally out of practice using a sniper rifle and that I haven't put hundreds of hours into practicing with gyro controls. I am still getting kills in those games.

Gyro controls have a couple of issues to work out, mainly stability when you're trying to hold the cursor still, but there's potential there to get (very close to) mouse-like precision for the majority of players who aren't investing hundreds of hours into getting competitive -- especially if games start to take advantage of them natively instead of forcing players to hack them together with mouse emulation.
Ransomware attack on suppliers costs Applied Materials $250M
The press doesn't listen to you. You listen to the press.
No 2FA on your GMail?

Any idea how G and A were compromised, password reuse?
I'm going to be quite honest, but I do believe what holds together the countries I mentioned is their faith, which is Hinduism and Buddhism respectively. And both of these faiths are not widely accepted in the West, but not for reasons most people think. It's a way of life, and requires immense structure to have the support of the citizens who actually live in the said country. And for most of Southeast Asia, it works. It is as clear as the sky above can be.

But as someone already mentioned, what is happening here in the West is definitely making its way in the East towards the new generation. It's phones, it's flashy clothing, materialism. I definitely saw a lot of that too, and many parents I spoke to (which was quite a few over the years) - everyone said the same thing, they're frustrated that the children are going in a direction that bears no fruit for the mind.
Fundamentally (ignoring ffmpeg incantations), I think there are four options:

1. re-encode the whole thing

2. re-encode just the first GOP

3. start a bit early or late

4. include the full first GOP but use an edit list to instruct the player to skip to the timestamp of interest
If we can see it we can shoot it with a laser. Getting spectra on whatever it uses for a shell might be illuminating (ahem). If it runs away at Mach 1 we have also learned something valuable - like "use 2 lasers".
I think the issue is that phone companies weren’t prepared for their services to be used for such high security tasks. For many decades, your phone was just mostly for keeping up with friends and family. 2FA wasn’t even that popular until maybe in the last 10 years.

Just like how the locks we buy for our exterior doors are really weak but that’s currently fine for the status quo. You’re not going to preemptively spend money to upgrade your locks.
> What's more likely is that freer societies are better able to harness the abilities of their inhabitants, and unlike slavery/serfdom based states, they don't have to deploy as many resources to defend against their own enslaved inhabitants. It's a triumph of a better organizational structure, not something inherent to human nature.

I.e. a structure that fits human nature better, making it inherent.

Rome's army consisted of free men, and they conquered everyone else. Slave armies have a poor track record when they come up against free men.
Switch Statements: if it ain't break, keep going.
Languages change, especially idioms. The objection here doesn't even make any sense, since begging the question is grammatically and logically reasonable. I accept "I could care less" with some disdain, but at least there there's a reason to oppose the change.
I had a similar reaction when I moved to Canada when I was a kid.

It's just cultural norms. Inability to know what someone was trying to say is a feature, not a bug.

Sure, in engineering and science, it is a bug, but in everyday life, what a great feature. It forces people to translate vague-speak into my-worldview-speak, which helps bridge the culture/worldview gap. You can always drill down and double-check that you've interpreted correctly but communicating in vague-speak avoids so many sharp corners people tend to have - it's great stuff.

Can you imagine what hell places with lots of immigrants would be if all of them thought their culture was the way to go and looked down upon all that is unfamiliar and foreign?
I don't expect anyone to use all the incubator extensions (like the cube root you mentioned). They are in the incubator and not in the main set for a reason.

Even the main set extensions are split into modules, rather than released as a single binary - so people can use them independently.

As for 'noise'. Well, good luck implementing `regexp_substr` and `regexp_replace` using the well-maintained and tested sqlite codebase. Or streaming file I/O.
Just because they hold the title for security doesn't mean it's not in your name.
Google Voice isn't a wireless carrier. VoIP only.
You're reading (1) without the context of (a).

(a) A healthcare provider shall not perform or offer to perform on a minor, or administer or offer to administer to a minor, a medical procedure if the performance or administration of the procedure is for the purpose of:

(1) Enabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor's sex; or

(2) Treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor's sex and asserted identity.
Editable dataframes for Streamlit are here
What the NBA Can Learn from Formula 1
Ah the mouse on the other hand is something I rarely reach for : )
You're calling it an "injustice", so it looks like you're agreeing with me.
AMD decided that my APU card wasn't worth their time on the new open source driver. fxglr => OpenGL 4.1, AMD new open source driver => OpenGL 3.3, without hardware video acceleration.

Secondly, good luck having a go at any compute framework offering from AMD on Linux, unless working for some research lab doing HPC.
Interest is the best teacher. I hope it will be better and better in the future.
I've spent quite a bit of time building basically this exact tool within a greater app, and have to say that this looks amazing. Well done!

Now I'm just curious what you have in mind in terms of next steps, as you've done the technically hard part, and there are so many market options available.
FTX co-founder Nishad Singh pleads guilty to fraud charges
I'm on a deep strange trip into the differences between "animated" and "inanimated" entities with only the loose idea of "emergent phenomena" to "guide me" on this winding road
Yep. Not sure how Apple/Proton implement it, but that's exactly what Tutanota does. https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/first-search-encrypted-data
If AI is the new nuke what does nonproliferation look like?
What apps are you currently using?
I find that to coworkers unfamiliar with the editor holy wars or strong opinions on text formats they'll just think "this is an interestingly formatted text document" and make their update :D
iMessage succeeded because the iPhone maintained market share. BBM failed because people stopped buying Blackberries.
I don't think any of iMessage's unique features materialy contributed to it's success.
Do you find that reduces how meaningful those comments are? I'm thinking that it might make it like gifts given on "mandatory gift events" vs gifts given just because someone thought of you. The former is nice, but much less meaningful than the latter.

I've never worked at a company that required this sort of thing, so I'm just trying to wrap my head around it. It seems odd to me.
> For most people, the cost to figure that out is higher than the cost of ignoring notifications and default settings.

It's not, because they don't try to evaluate the time savings realized by disabling those notifications, because they don't possess the critical thinking skills to do so.

Or, some updates were pushed to the OS and they gave up, because it reset their settings.
Look up the memo from the founder of Waze that he wrote to list all the reasons Google culture of babysitting people changed his employees in to nonproductive weaklings.
This article is perfect use case for AI generated graphics: small, presumably personal blog for which commissioning an artist for illustrations would not make sense both from time and financial perspective.
SMS as a second factor is almost a security downgrade. Phone companies are terrible, you shouldn't be trusting them with authentication. Plus it means you can't authenticate when your phone is out of coverage. Just a bad solution that shouldn't be used. TOTP is so easy to set up that it makes no sense to use SMS, and the even better hardware keys are only slightly less convenient.
There are lots of features we are not supposed to use, yet we keep bouncing into them.
Will be nice to be able to upload a picture/sketch instead of having to sketch something out in the scratchpad. I tend to sketch block diagrams from time to time and hate having to use some tool to draw/drag/align things.
Very cool idea though!
Windows 11 on Arm with Parallels on macOS
I didn't want to bring it up but, yes, Google is obviously struggling with the disconnect between what they are doing in terms of research and product as well. And they are pouring billions into the research. They even spun off alphabet as a company to do all the blue sky research. With so far not a stellar track record. Mostly their revenue is just Google running on autopilot and vacuuming up ad revenue wherever it can.

Most large companies struggle with this. A lot of former industrial research labs have either disappeared entirely or became a shadow of their former selves. IBM, HP, etc. used to do lots of blue sky research. Xerox Parc was a big deal and they obviously failed to productize. But of course inspired Apple and quite a few others. It's a tough topic. I don't think many companies have figured this out.

There are positive examples of course but mostly the return on investment for open ended research in a corporate setting is not as high as it should be considering the valid research that gets published and then fails to get monetized by the companies doing the research.

OpenAI, is the smart counter move. Spin off a company, fund it, and then license back the technology. MS seems to have learned from it's past efforts in MS Research.
> Anything that is private is assumed to be private

Have you been involved in a deposition or a legal hold? If you're worried about your colleagues seeing your DMs, then perhaps ponder on the consequences of the same messages becoming part of the public record via the courts or regulatory body.

Nothing communicated in the execution of your duty is truly private: check the fine print in your organization's policies.
That only worked because college was a finishing school for the well brought up (plus the occasional striver), and businesses felt comfortable just trying to hire that demographic. It doesn't work if businesses are trying to hire based on qualifications, and if half of all young workers have a college degree.
i'd love to see if someone can benchmark the igpu and show if the cache helps that side of things somehow
It's a pain in the ass, because you just hold a title that you can't do anything with. You have to physically get the lien signed off the physical title before you can sell it. That's why many states have switched to either electronic titling, or having the bank hold the title until they sign it off.
This is like the Janet Jackson song that crashed Windows Laptops, and even other laptops in proximity due to resonant frequencies in the song affecting hard drives: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220816-00/?p=10... Rhythm Nation (https://amzn.to/3Zc4QNc) was the song!
I am not surprised by this. Having lived on all 3 continents, American society is better suited for remote work thanks to big houses,cars and suburbs. A tech worker can easily afford a big house with a spare room for their home-office in most of the country. Whereas in Asia and Europe, most of the people live in cities and houses are smaller, so forget about having a spare room for your home-office. Also, these cities tend to have proper transportation infrastructure at least in Europe and developed Asian countries, so commute should not be a big hassle.
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And who will be liable in case if the car makes an accident while in the reprocess process?
My use of the word "extremism" may have been slightly misleading; by "extremes" above, I don't mean "ideas or movements popularly considered extreme", but rather literal extremes in the space of possible solutions to a given problem.
Marketing PMs need work too :).
I'd love to read more about Stripe's feature-flag system. I found a client [0] but I don't think they've open-sourced the backend.

[0] - https://github.com/stripe/goforit
American capitalism is inherently antisocial, and technology serves to accelerate that.

https://www.versobooks.com/books/3965-scorched-earth
Three other things to think about:

1980s memory models especially dos-era PC was a nightmare but you could at great effort work around it. The C / unix memory model is actually quite luxurious compared to programming on dos 3.3.

In the old days non-English support was pretty complicated. Now you rely on the OS to support UTF-8 and call it good, more or less. Was a bigger problem 'back in the day'.

In the old days you'd run a spell checker as a batch process, possibly not even part of the editor itself. The point I'm making is WRT speed, now a days speed doesn't matter, not because processors are faster (although they are, software always expands faster than hardware) but because we have integrated app with threading, so instead of saving this into a file, then exiting my browser and running a separate spell check app then exit and start the browser again and load this file back into it, the browser simply has a thread doing spell checking "on the fly". So in the old days it was VERY important WRT labor costs to spell check a 10000 word essay as fast as possible, and on a 8 mhz XT that was a trick indeed. But today my multi core multi ghz desktop merely needs to spell check on the fly as I'm typing and I can't be faster than 100 wpm or so. My desktop had "like one second or so" to decide that ghz and mhz are not words and put red squigglies under them whereas in the old days you'd have to spell check like 1000 words/second to keep the users happy.

So simple ineffective code survives in 2023 because it can lean on the OS, its not just that hardware is faster or larger.
Yeah these comments are awful. Someone even wrote, “take my upvote.” Not a good look for HN discus quality.

Back on topic:

I find this hard to believe, what happens if it repossess itself by mistake? Gets in an accident on the way home during said repo? Especially since nowadays most Fords are just oversized trucks.

And why is this even a desired feature? Is the average Ford customer that untrustworthy? I’m curious what the expected amount of use for a feature like this is.

In any case, autonomous driving isn’t far along enough yet for this to be practical and out in the streets, so I wonder how it even got approval.
Even if the other person in the conversation has read receipts turned off you will still get a delivery receipt that shows it made it to their phone. I turn off read receipts because it's nobody's damn business if I read their message or not.
Show HN: Tinasaurus – a Docusaurus starter project with TinaCMS
Looks very cool. I've been using PostmarkApp to send my transactional emails but considered switching as their prices are increasing and I'd be much better served by something that is completely "pay for usage" like SES (my usage is very bursty/spiky and over 50% of the time I send next to no emails in a month) but one big thing holding my back is email design. PostmarkApp has some decent tools/templates that I've enjoyed using and I'm lazy (and the higher prices haven't gone into effect for me yet)

That said, this is a bit of a hard sell for me because I have like 3-4 email templates per service I run (currently 3) and $12/mo is a hard sell for something I'll probably tweak 1-2 times a year at most. I guess I could just pay when I actively need to use it but that's a bit of a pain itself (subscribing/unsubscribing). If I was writing marketing-type emails regularly then I'd be very interested in this.

What I probably need to do is find an open source email templating library, take the time to build my emails using that, and call it a day.
High school seniors in Montana ride horses to school to prank principal
I've used the Haskell one for some stuff:

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/org-mode

Sadly noweb tangling isn't very well implemented for any parsers I know of.
It seems like that for the first month or so, but once your legs acclimate it's really not a problem. Only takes like 30 minutes even at a stately pace. The biggest delay is waiting for the traffic signals that can't see you because you aren't a 2 ton hunk of steel.
Cool... but I really wish it didn't have bezels!
Why artificial? Stevia is fine. Get the kind with the tiny spoon, like at Trader Joe’s. Not the kind bulked up with ery powder.
This isn't the future anyone wanted.
My parents, who still live in the same small US town I grew up in, still live this way. Relatives who still live in the area, and random friends made over decades, will randomly drop by to say hello.

This is especially good for my Dad, who due to health issues has very restricted mobility. I know his mental health would be much worse without this dynamic.

But in the city where I live, that’s not really possible. Friendly with neighbors and enjoy talking to them, but inviting myself for a tea or coffee isn’t really a thing.

I do have friend groups and support, especially through my church. But it’s not the same as what you describe or what my parents still have.
Surely people will be using it as a doctor. It takes over week to see real doctor where I live so basically Google is frequently the only "doctor" I can readily access.