skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It uses a lot of buzzwords w/o a lot of understanding.

The quality of work in the "complex systems" field was frequently awful to the point where many people would roll their eyes whenever they heard the word fractal.

People in the physics community (where I worked) would frequently plot a histogram on a log-log plot and draw a line through it and say they had a power law distribution. We had no methods for hypothesis testing and nobody had ever heard of an "estimator".

I published a paper that was invalid. because I got pressured into doing that despite having reservations. There wasn't a lot of literature aimed at physicists about how to do this the right way until 2005, after I bombed out out physics. Here is a talk about it.

https://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/2010-10-18-Meetup.pdf

There are phenomena that occur over a wide range of scales which might be better be described as "multi-fractal" in that it doesn't look like a line on a log-log graph and that is just something people observe without a lot of theory or understanding.
Im in China myself and I dont mind if it's a lab leak, better than saying we re degenerate Pangolin eaters :D

However, it's hard to be too trusting of the US, I want to believe them but they just shot 3 balloons in hysterical panic that were just their own weather balloons just because we sent 1... so sometimes they seem to be wrong and we should keep an open mind.

The best would be that a bat shat on a pangolin a lab worker ate before going to work, he sneezed around and contaminated all his colleagues who spread it around and poom: wild bat + pangolin traffic + lab leak all together lol Now that we can all agree, what has changed ?

Surely we re not agreeing that China was making weapons or leaked voluntarily, so beyond us being weasels unable to accept we screwed up, not sure why we drag on: we ll never say we screwed up, the US will never entirely accept we didnt screw up, what then?
As soon as the parent mentioned memorizing keys, the FCKGW key came to mind!
The same thing they just said about sarin vs. a grenade, you can say about anthrax vs. a grenade.
"Consultants, The real reason it costs so much to ____ in _____"
Aren’t they just recycling old comics since there are so many of them? Or did some smart ML researcher create a language/ comic model based on a corpus of comics he wrote when he was alive, and some editors just generate and curate? I’m guessing we aren’t at the latter…yet.
You’re over thinking it and also missing the point. Again it’s not about the output so much as the concept.

You’re making a vapid argument to try and confront a profound idea.
At this point frequency compatibility is purely a firmware setting, no? It seems like every 5G (and even 4G) phone these days supports every frequency on a chipset level and just enables/disables some of them depending on the intended region.
What RickRoll?
Do you have any evidence that they were actively censored as a conscious decision by employees of the largest social media platforms? Or did their opinions expressed simply lose them following and/or not generate their normal engagement?

If their "censorship" was a conscious decision by employees of the platform - how is that not also an expression of free speech by those employees and/or the platform? Should private companies not be allowed to moderate content on their platforms as they see fit?

If the "censorship" was a result of them losing following and/or not generating normal engagement - what do you expect to happen here? People can express any opinion they want, but people are also completely free to not listen or engage.
tldr: gamification works
As your comment-sibling suggests, it's good to at least try to assume good faith. Perhaps I wanted to give just a bit more rope for the commenter to hang theirself with. This is, perhaps, a counterintuitive argument for free speech: if you don't let them make asses of themselves in public, nobody will believe that they're doing it in private.

The ad-hominem response is little more than confirmation that I hold the higher ground.
It's worth noting that many GPS exercise watches have a "virtual pacesetter" where you set the pace you want given a route and it will show a graphical representation of how far ahead or behind you are.

eg: https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/forerunner245/EN-US/...
No single font supports all of Unicode, that would be highly cumbersome. The "Noto fonts" is really a family of a hundred or so fonts, each of which supports a separate part of Unicode (not necessarily a block).

I believe there are semi-exceptions to what I said, although you wouldn't want to use such a font for practical purposes. These exceptions are fonts that display the Unicode code point in a box, so they would display the ASCII 'A' as a box containing "0065" (I forget whether they use hex or decimal, or maybe there are both). I suspect these fonts create their glyphs on the fly.
Hmm. Wasn't Alef done by Phil Winterbottom? I remember meeting him at a party in (iirc in Putney) and talking to him about Transputers. I can't remember if he was already familiar. It was a pretty good party. Anyway, based on that evidence I suspect there was a more direct derivation than from base CSP.
Note to article submitters: The HN audience aren't mind readers. Posting a link like this, which simply shows the GitHub repo being taken down with a terms of service violation, with no further information, isn't helpful. There is no info:

1. on what iptv-org/iptv actually is/was.

2. that corroborates that this was actually a DMCA takedown request

3. that actually provides any additional context at all about when/why this happened

I'm guessing maybe there are some articles/forums/etc. that have some more context. If so, you should submit links to those instead. If not, and you just want to bring attention to this, submit a text submission to explain more details around what's going on.
It's not like the 2016 article was some kind of a spy leak. They were allowed to cooperate on things that lead to this publication - because in 2016, there was a reason to allow it - NIH grants alone would probably be a good reason. As soon as they learned about the screwup (that likely happened somewhere in 2019) all evidence of the works related to the leak that hasn't been published has been hidden or destroyed. Thus, we can't expect any publications about that work, at least not from 2019 onwards. You're fishing for some contradiction, but there's none - publications do not suggest absence of censorship, publications only suggest the censors had no problems with it being published. And indeed, they couldn't know in 2016 that their research in 2019 would lead to a massive screwup with a global consequences. If they were an open society, there would be a constant trail of evidence leading to the moment of the screwup - communications, orders, articles, chats, etc. In a totalitarian society, all these were under tight control by default - and as soon as it turned out they are dangerous - which became clear sometime in 2019, when the Chinese government learned about the possible leak - all this information, already tightly controlled by default anyway, was disappeared or at least made inaccessible to outsiders. It is possible it still exists somewhere in the dungeons of the Great Firewall - who knows. The point is this is why information control exists - to make such things possible. In an open society, this would be completely infeasible - tracking back everything connected to a certain research program and making it as if it didn't exist. In a closed, tightly controlled society - yes, plausible.
> Free speech is definitely an idea we should strive for on its own.

Utter nonsense. Would you rather have free speech or live? Only one of these is a primary goal. The other is merely a means to attain the other. Hence, the restrictions on free speech provided by every country's laws.

> There was a time when cancel culture was turned against people arguing for gay rights, desegregation, and feminism. That time may come again, quite soon, and people on the left who have recently turned against free speech and created mechanisms to weaken it will reap what they have sown.

Cancel culture itself is free speech. The right used it to morally bankrupt ends that resulted in people losing their lives.
I am a CA researcher and I often ask myself a hard question: where is the boundary between CA and just spatially explicit optimisation?
Why do you support freedom of speech? For its own sake, or because words are actions with consequences? Is politics about being right, administering the state, or changing the society? Is "political" a negative, neutral, or positive attribute?

If it's change you're after, sometimes your best course of action is to remain silent and to leave politics to those with personalities better suited for it.

I've known enough politicians to understand that they are often better people than I am. Not everyone but many, perhaps even the majority. They can disagree in public, work together despite their differences, and go grab a beer together after work.
Did they drop the laser thing? Seemed like that was basically impossible.
All these years I assumed it was George W....
You do realize that downvotes and flags are applied by community members, not HN the service, don't you. Both downvoting and flagging are abilities granted to community members once they achieve some threshold of positive karma.

If you are posting things that are continually getting downvoted and/or flagged, that would indicate that you are doing things that other users believe to be problematic, and they (the other users) are trying to point out that you maybe should not be posting in that way.
Because that'd be perjury, which is a federal crime.

https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/content-removal-polic...

I'm just gonna quote GitHub
"The DMCA requires that you swear to the facts in your copyright complaint under penalty of perjury. It is a federal crime to intentionally lie in a sworn declaration. (See U.S. Code, Title 18, Section 1621.) Submitting false information could also result in civil liability — that is, you could get sued for money damages. The DMCA itself provides for damages against any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity is infringing.
"
If phone preference is an actionable signal of eligibility to them, it probably wasn't gonna work out.
I think you need to take a break and work on your mental health if getting flagged for angry flameposts is upsetting you so much.

Do people really come to HN for geopolitics?

I'm here for cool new things and have to actively try to stay away from those topics because they are massive waste of time.
Lasers are in production today. Remote parts of Australia, South America, and various islands are served only via laser links.
> it boils down to them not wanting to hear criticism for expressing ignorant or hateful ideas.

Or, in actuality, it mostly means they’re tired of people stripping all of the nuance away from their ideas, casting them in the most extreme light, and then deriding them as hateful and bigoted without any critical thought.

I understand the person you originally were responding to, because I feel much the same way. I used to be able to engage in conversations with random people about the world, and while this still happens occasionally, most people either self-censor or blatantly straw man you to score points.

The types of deeply nuanced, sometimes multiple day/week long conversations and debates I used to see on IRC in my youth have ceased to exist online, and can really only be had in person now with close friends who will not immediately act in bad faith.
"Those statements are outright lies: Unicode does not provide a unique number fpr "upper case Turkish dotless i". Nor does it provide one for "lower case Turkish dotted i"." By design, and I would argue that this is the correct design.

What it does provide is a unique code point for "upper case I", "upper case dotted I", "lower case dotted i" and "lower case dotless i".
Only 1) would be really valuable here. Expecting a legitimate 2) explanation from a DMCA request is idealistic/naive.

Otherwise HN comments usually provide the rest. News/blog posts with loaded headlines can often derail conversations as much as provide context. Which is why I'm hesitant to expect HN's frontpage to be an editorialized newspaper or heavily moderated forum that better serves the low engagement crowd.

If you have an actual better source then by all means, share it. I'm sure dang will consider swapping it.
Plus, with today's technology, it seems it shouldn't be that difficult to have a machine detect if the baby is getting smothered, and wake up the parents with a loud alarm if so. Some googling yields "The 6 Best Baby Breathing Monitors".
Just curious, do you understand why you had difficulty with remote work yourselves? Remote work seems like it should be a good fit for jobs with rare language requirements; a lot of companies had fine experiences with remote work during the lockdowns; would be worth seeing if you could root out what the problem was.
Another good one is The Human use of Human Beings by Norbert Wiener.
How is the vaccine timeline any different if it was from a lab leak?

We can assume a lab leak would not be admitted for some time (if ever).

So I reject the idea of a head start. If such a thing happened, the perpetrators would not give you a head start, as that would confirm their guilt!
If you have a wide selection of seeds of varying viability why not just plant them all given the space?
Honestly, just get a cat.
How the Apple AirTags were hacked (2021)
Either is more charitable, and both are probably closer to the truth.

FYI:

4,879 code results in illumos/illumos-gate for goto

2,587 code results in freebsd/freebsd-src for goto

It's not like any comparable project is immune? Perhaps `goto` says more about how old the code is?
so this is basically a flutter that does not use Dart? this is something major then.
Unrelated to any specific subject, I dislike all buzz phrases everywhere everywhen, because they tend to only make sense to people after you explain what they mean. And if you have to explain what they mean, then the phrase wasn't helpful and you can just skip that part and get right to the explanation.

But it especially doesn't help anyone to say pithy business guru shit like "build only what you need". Sure, ok, but that's not the part people really need help with in the first place. Put up a poster that says "make the company more money than you cost it" with a picture of a cute kitten or something and move on with your day.

99% of all software engineers need to be told exactly what functions to implement and where and how to name them and how to organize them in order to not produce something disgustingly oppositional to use and maintainance because they completely lack any aesthetic sense whatsoever for their craft. So management can decide which bridge they want to prioritize safety in and let an architect plan it first before the wrench jockey who doesn't know a cantilever from their elbow starts bolting holes.

I don't know if I answered your question as expected or not.
I also force all http to https using a proxy and I get a 404, too. If want to use https to retrieve the PDF, can use Wikiwix cache:

https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?rev_t=999999999...

PDF looks like crap anyway. Here's the original text-only version, available via https:

https://web.archive.org/web/20111215195747if_/http://www.col...
The US mortgage market in 2005-2008. It was considered a good investment to buy these bonds. But eventually everything chrashed.
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2022/nov/17/weathercatch-w...

You might be able see them on a clear moonless night between march and September, which mostly rules out Seattle (we have too much light pollution anyways).
I made the same point about the U2 as well. Such irony and hypo-criticism.
Actually it reminds me more of MerrySky:

- https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/34155191

I was surprised briefsky didn't use https://github.com/guillaume/merry-timeline, but briefsky's implementation seems truer to the original.

And developed with Svelte. Nice! (This project is eligible for this Hackathon: https://hack.sveltesociety.dev/)
Think of all the makeup time saved for people making short videos at home.

Truly an environmental breakthrough.
Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth – Ep. 2: 'The Message of the Myth'
Artists transform materials (whether they buy them at Hobby Lobby or hack them out of a cliff themselves). AI is a dictionary of preexisting imagery. Not bad in and of itself. My problem with it is that it takes from the manual labor of artists without which it could not exist and gives the fruits of that labour to others. The argument that all art has already been done is contradicted by the fact that certain artists can be recognized by their works. The hand of the artist is a discernable thing, an artist's bread and butter if you will.
> explanation from a DMCA request is idealistic/naive.

There is not even proof/details it was a DMCA takedown request. Given the subject matter, of course wouldn't be surprised, but all you are going to get in the comments is pure speculation/blathering because there is simply no information about what's going on.
You should give it a go - in reality these rules are for people hosting other people’s content (as in GitHub hosting your project), and filing against MS repos probably falls in a grey area, or an area where MS is more likely to say F you.

The problem is that the DMCA is designed to explicitly allow and encourage weaponisation of fraudulent take down claims. Specifically in GH doesn’t obey the DMCA and pull the repo the DMCA makes them legally liable for the alleged infringement. Why would they take on that risk for any random organization/project that likely can’t afford the legal costs?
No, GitHub posts their received DMCA notices publicly and links to them from the takedown page. So 2) is a reasonable expectation and it isn't present here, suggesting the post title is pure speculation.
I like my definition of "woke" better.
When Low-Tech Hacks Cause High-Impact Breaches
Pharmaceutical blockbusters: the past, present, and future(?)
I wonder what Joseph Campbell would say about the creation of modern myths and God given ChatGPT
HN - thankfully - sends text (mostly) unmolested to browsers which generally tend to handle arabic substrings correctly (assuming the page encoding supports it).

HN /could/ make it better by setting css auto directionality for all <p>s, but that would be antithetical to its goals as a English-written forum.
> and for someone who has developed a simple & safe workflow around it

This is the kicker. Modern versions of GPG have sane defaults, but if I were a new developer who knew nothing about encryption, I would be very scared of GPG, it's aged documentation, and multitude of encryption and signing methods.

Following the wrong stackoverflow answer, or an out-of-date blog post could easily get you a GPG configuration that is insecure in the year 2023.

The same cannot be said for age, it has no knobs that you can dial to an insecure setting. If you'll forgive the expression, it is "idiot proof".

Like you said though, GPG works, as long as you have that safe workflow.
Or you have eyes and can see somebody putting a whistle in their mouth and blowing.
there's no problem with small computers talking over rs232, even a single bit wordsize (as on the original HP calculators) could pull it off, but thats moving the goalposts. i was replying to the context of embedded cpu chips that still to this day find it economical to not come with the required memory to hold the code for human interface niceties, because it was suggested that they didn't exist.
Great work. Was looking to build something similar using ChatGPT.
I think the parent is meant to say that MTs are only good as randomly hitting the keyboard to professional eyes...

But besides, I doubt "plant shaped C4" contains enough information to guarantee a correct answer in that case. Trying partial sentences and/or individual words through (human or machine) translations don't go well.
Not to mention there may be no mechanism to bring the perjurer to justice. For instance, I was served a search warrant on the basis a DOG accused me of wrongdoing. How do you accuse a dog of perjury? Not to mention it was an anonymous, unnamed dog and the person who allegedly listened to the dog was also unnamed on the warrant, so it was 3rd degree interspecies hearsay.
Pretty sure it would be trivial to find historical examples where it absolutely did harm society.
How does that stop the next pandemic any better than prison stops recidivism or new criminals? How can a billion people be held accountable for the actions of a few unelected researchers?
Thank you for posting canonical link. I see that the link I submitted has /web/ in it. So it must be the web-specific URL. I did not notice this before. Interesting.

Maybe the admins can change the link to the above?
The most interesting thing about this article to me isn't the "spending too much on consultants" bit, it's the bit where the agencies in charge of budgets for these enormous projects no longer have staff that are capable of managing them, having outsourced that institutional capacity to consulting companies for far too long.

This seems like a viciously difficult problem to solve to me. How do you hire someone for a city's transport agency who has the ability to manage a multi-billion dollar construction project? Anyone with those skills will surely be able to earn 10x more in the private sector.

But without that talent in-house, even the consultants are frustrated (or at least the ones that actually want to deliver projects) because they don't get the answers they need from their customers in order to move ahead with projects.
You can come up with similarly-long lists for plenty of countries that are not invading their neighbors.
The circumstances that make the theory unfalsifiable (lack of transparency/controls in Chinese biological research) are the issue here. Due to the lack of transparency we will likely never have definitive proof for the origin one way or the other.

At a minimum the US government should not be funding any biological research in places without adequate transparency/controls.
Patently false first statement:

http://opencypher.org/
If this was a DMCA takedown they need to file a counter notice, at which point I believe GitHub will reinstate them. Unless it's glaringly obvious that the original claim was abusive AFAIK the law doesn't give any leeway.
I was bulled in the mid 90's for having a Mac.
“None that I’ve seen.”

Which has little to do with the existence of said evidence. I’ve never seen direct evidence for the year Columbus sailed.

Anyway, many things that would make future leaks less likely also make past leaks less likely. The types of experiments being conducted and the types of labs those experiments are conducted in. Oversight, funding, and systems for reporting safety issues etc etc.
>Nor did you explain why, despite having a ton of female friends who stayed at your house, you weren't able to turn those into romantic options.

How is he supposed to answer that? The only way to get a definitive answer for your question is to find all the female friends, then arrest them and interrogate them for a week or so (to ensure they give honest answers). Assuming OP was actually interested in some of these women, it's very likely he doesn't know why they weren't interested, and normally people don't give honest answers about why they're not interested in being more than friends with someone, to avoid hurt feelings.

What really galls me about these comments is that many people here, including you, seem to completely not understand that different countries have different cultures, and what things are considered attractive traits in romantic partners differ greatly from place to place. People are NOT the same in different parts of the world.