skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if the GOTO fear is, in part, because in older languages, GOTO used to point to a line number and not a labelled block. The former seems horrifyingly brittle while the latter seems like it could possibly be useful.
thats right, now get back to work killing some puppies, or you are a terrorist rightwing extremist that wants to kill grandma!
Not as funny as a nut in an egg cup
It's a living document maintained in a git repo which is prominently linked.
Your own links contain the evidence you're looking for. Your pangolin link mentions one paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.07.939207v1....

There was a lot of evidence supporting the wet market theory at the time and supporting that it wasn't made in a lab (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9) including exposure to the market by early patients (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...) and the fact that wet markets have been guilty of spreading similar diseases in the past (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14738798/)
It is presumably about breathability and moisture wicking.
Trump winning can happen in a model that gives him a 30% chance and a model that gives him a 5% chance. What was odd was seeing fans of Nate Silver point out the former, but then trying to say that his model was better because it gave Trump a higher probability of winning (or even saying Sam Wang's model was terrible for having Clinton's chance in the high 90's). That could be the case, but it's not necessarily the case, for the exact reasons they just stated.
>Freedom of speech isn't freedom of consequences.

"There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech."
Starlink V2 Mini Satellites with 4x the bandwidth, E-Band, and Argon thrusters
It is absolutely a better interpretation. The former signals arrogance while the latter shows that OP accepts the inferiority of their guess in comparison to the actual architecture.
The government talks through its official channels, such as cabinet ministers, spokespersons and secretaries, and also Prime minister. What makes you think the Foreign/Finance/Defence/Home ministry statement is any less than a statement from PM himself?
AFAIK part of the reason the lab is there and studies this type of virus is because it's naturally found in the region.

correlation != causation
I wonder if ChatGPT was trained on that data before it was censored? I guess it would be impossible to go backwards from ChatGPT output to the data used to generate it.
Now you can just buy bootleg stamps on Amazon. Search "Forever Stamps". Amazon catches them frequently but then they just liquidate the stamps. My local Amazon returns store has them upfront 100 for $10.00 and they have tons of them.
How many people do you know who are fluent in Delphi?

Would they relocate to fill a job in a small company that mostly use Delphi?

We're talking about a programming language mostly targetting software for small businesses. A language that has basically no future.

Nothing's impossible, but I'm ready to believe that finding people for these types of job is probably not easy.

Not impossible, just not as easy as finding a Python developer.
Scientists can definitely make mistakes. What circles around lab leak that's most interesting was the rampant indictments that discussing it made you a conspiracy theorist, which prevented it being discussed or investigated for over a year after the pandemic started. Around that time, the only thing that was acceptable to discuss was zoonotic origins.

The original Lancet article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

The retraction: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
BASIC. The only thing worse than gotos is line numbers.
The main takeaway is that the questions searched for are so widely distributed that there is no need for a cache layer - they are nothing but long tail.

At that point there is no 'cloud' design that can help. Its either one database (or maybe just shard everything onto thousands of distributed nodes)

But the point I am trying to make is that kubernetes and microservices etc are based on idea of winners - power laws. One tweet everyone wants to read. One search term, one viral video.

Then again. This is just a question of taste - the taste of the dev lead. What (s)he feels is best approach. Take another company doing the same thing and different approach might emerge.
Tenochtitlan, the old Aztec capital that became Mexico City was absolutely fascinating. More impressive than Venice at the time. One of the top places I would love to see if I could time travel.

https://davisabong1982.blogspot.com/2021/08/tenochtitlan-azt...
Think, anyone young enough to be a trend-seeking kid when smartphones were around. So yes, this includes some millennials. iOS well and truly won the “culture war”.

It’s just kids being kids.

But I’m sure I won’t have to hold my breath long to see this shovelware ragebait article catch HN readers hook, line, and sinker. I can already see the paragraph-long comment about how Apple’s continued dominance represents the downfall of society. When in reality we may as well be talking about Team Edward vs Team Jacob, or Team Rue vs Team Jules, or whatever.
"Normal" sized services should be adequate enough for that purpose.
I think it would be interesting to see benchmarks on that.

I tested that example on chatGPT and it was correct, with a really good explanation even when I modified the question away from the example on Wikipedia.

Some related results (eg https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.14576.pdf - see "Causal reasoning: Interventions after passive observations" section) indicate it would be competitive.
> least shitty theory

I read about CIA false flags in Cuba. Nordstream didn't blow itself up because the pipe was angry it allowed .de and .ru to engage in commerce.

I guess a rogue western intelligence group bribed or compelled a Chinese lab worker to sabotage something.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/rfk-ope...

"The CIA had been plotting to assassinate Castro since the summer of 1960, even before John Kennedy was elected. A congressional investigation of the CIA later uncovered eight separate plots of varying ridiculousness between 1960 and 1965."
True, partially. But the growth was much slower over longer period of time while after 50s the population of developing nations almost quadrupled in 1/2 century.

https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth
Perhaps there is material for a game sequel titled 'Baba is Goo'
OK, guess I'll be the one to ask then -- why does the tildeverse hate HN and not want anyone visiting from it...?
> It is talking about the relative likelihood of the possible origins.

That's how you read it. GP is reading "most likely" as statement of absolute likelihood, making it false here, because the most likely thing is "any of the possibilities not under consideration", which takes most of the probability mass.

IMO, GP's interpretation is the one that most people take for "most likely" statements, which in our opinion makes this headline a blatant lie.
Yeah I saw a codebase written in Fortran 77 (the program was written in 1988 or 1989 I believe) and geez... it is almost impossible to figure out what is going on. Programming has changed a lot.
On the other hand, the definition of free speech has changed from speech is not criminalized to speech without any negative consequences.

People who speak out want to influence people or policy, which to them would be positive consequences, and yet immediately label negative consequences as being "cancelled".
now I might be naive, but I would tend to think that if I hated someone, for whatever reason, and he lobbied the biggest organized crime syndicate(government) to restrict my ability to talk about my hatred with anyone else, it might just be that I choose to talk with my fists instead of lips.

Surely you cannot think restricting speech helps you in any way? Do you think it helps turn those that dislike you on your side?
It's a turing machine -- it potentially never halts / repeats. Hashlife isn't just about exponential time-stepping, though that's a major part of it -- it's also about isolating periodic portions of the grid for memoization and speed-up, without requiring that the entire grid be periodic. All said, it really is a specific insanely high generation here.
> machine wash

Gasp, why? Also avoid "Woolite" and generic detergents. As for the photo of merino hanging from clothes pins... pickachu.

Rinsing after exercise helps (at least for Smartwool with nylon structure, not 100% wool).
Hope you’ll have clear sky. It’s worth the effort and patience, every single one is different in appearance, just an awesome phenomenon.

Happy hunting!
think about someone who looses the ability to store memories in long term memory and only has short term memory available. What would reasoning feel like for this person and for interactors with that person? What kind of awareness does one have when no long term contexts exist but only a single short term context?
Elon Musk defends Scott Adams, says media is “racist against whites”
Did you mean "alleged" scam or court already read the verdict? ;)
cm3hy-26vyw-6jryc-x66gx-jvy2d reporting for duty. Probably did 50-100 OS reinstalls a week so it is burned into memory.
When’s the last time the courts protected the right to hate in the form of preventing speech of gay people? This is just worrying about things that don’t happen. Right now socially LGBT people have a moral high ground and very little of their speech is ever prevented.
foraging only works if there's a sufficiently low population density. the Amazon is so plentiful it even allows these communities to stay relatively fixed, in other climates they had to move around a lot (after relatively exhausting an area)

of course we work a lot more because we want some of that economic surplus to reinvest it back into things that we think will improve our life. a relatively constant life wouldn't require that. also our decision-making and surplus distribution system is very very inefficient compared to a few hundred strong community's.

economically we can afford to build millions individual cars and houses and offices, fully furnish them, and do this again-and-again when old buildings get demolished, old stuff gets dumped into landfills.

we can afford to build tanks and bombs and then do that again and again, and to maintain standing armies.

unfortunately efficiency and longevity is just not a global concern :(
How I tricked my brain to be addicted to studying [video]
Search engines will do literally anything except the option "never show results from this domain again"

Is there something obvious I'm missing that makes it infeasible, or maybe is it just something only I want?

As for this site there's too many tags for them to be useful imo. Give it 2 weeks of using the search engine and I bet you could hide silly fake tags in there and I'd never notice. Lots of tags = no tags.

I was picturing maybe a little pillbox type thing you might find appended to Google search results.

For instance when a result is a PDF: https://img.imgy.org/-7lq.jpg
> There are 25 characters, each of which has 36 possible values. So 36^25 possibilities, and log2(36^25) = 129.2. There are basically 129 bits of entropy in there, so good luck bruteforcing it.

Kinda depends what is encrypted there. If it is just "magic number + SKU + licence ID" and there is no online check whether that combination is valid then you're "just" trying to hit one that's valid and that cuts few bits off equation as there is spectrum of keys that will be valid but not generated by Microsoft.
I think some amount of captchas are enabled by default, but you can certainly turn them off entirely for your domain if you prefer.

Note that users can also use Privacy Pass to avoid captchas while remaining anonymous.

(Disclosure: I am an engineer at Cloudflare, though I don't work specifically on anything related to captchas.)
Is this something users asked for, or that a manager wanted as to pad their resume, justify a budget, etc?
One new use case for Pascal is asking for algorithms from ChatGPT.

If you ask “How do I do XXX in language YYY”, it may just dump you into some library.

If you ask for it in Pascal, it will more than likely take a stab at an actual algorithm. Pascal is pretty straightforward to translate into something else.
All EVs are required to have low-speed (up to 18.6mph) noise makers even when moving forward.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-regulations-sounds/...
Gotos are great approach for writing a Flying Spaghetti Monster!
Microsoft software (and borland) were easy to copy, but it was not the case before. There were many tricks to protect software like "weak bits", "laser holes", fancy sector layout. We had special software to copy protected disks.
Reminds how typing an album name into Google used to autocomplete to add MediaFire right after it.
I enjoyed "The Signal and the Noise" I think its focus on the problems of fitting models to noise is something that should be more widely understood and he did that really quite well. It's a while ago but I think it was the massive failures of earthquake predictions was how he did it and it was convincing and readable.

I've never read his blog and care stuff all about his political polling predictions.
Code-completion tool Tabnine now offers automatic unit test generation
Microservices became a synonym for Services Orientated Architecture years ago.

It's almost always relatively normal sized services split by functional area e.g. Auth, Cache etc.
but there are also many cases where it's only an
issue with communicating more clearly from the
(technical) management side of things.

This is true, although I've been through versions of this process where there was pretty good PR effort from the RFC backers (talks, slide decks) but it was an extension of the charade. A lot of the slides were just absolute hooey, and pointing this out did nothing to slow down the process one bit.

They communicated well, but the actual thinking was bad.
Articles like this make me wish you could downvote posts on HN.

The author doesn't seem to know the basics of how to layer for the outdoors, tradeoffs between insulating vs wicking etc. The author doesn't even seem to know what Merino is (they try to distinguish it from wool without explaining that it's a breed of sheep).
yes, millennial here, it exists but is 99% tongue in cheek humor
Hah. I get your point but it would be an easy sell for them. The impossible sell would be to engineers. Executives would just compare operating costs estimates.
The link provided works. I have no idea what it's showing, though. Is it really a crop map from 2016? The site has a reference to data being updated in 2018. No idea what the data actually is, though.
New Adventure Shell - make your shell act like a text adventure game
It is also remarkably similar in concept to theosis - still present in Orthodox faith, but goes back to at least early Byzantine Christians and is the foundation for the concept of ascetic monks.
Thank you, that's a good suggestion. Tmux is on my short list of things to get more comfortable with. Setting up convenient access to the logs before I need it is a good one too
Agreed. I guess that's one gap between the rich and the poorest that will always be hard to bridge.

If we could adapt some concepts to helping kids thru a government program, it could still be pretty cool to think about allocating even a small % of what we spend on military procurement to maybe go into giving AI tablets to every child that taught the most basic stuff like healthy diet, keeping a personal budget, how to learn about elections and vote in them, etc., and give the kids access to creator tools too in a way where it's in the Start Menu or whatever but not forced upon them. That way maybe most kids just mostly play games, and do a few mandatory lessons about diet & how to vote, but the kids who are self-motivated and driven to explore can open up stuff like Unity, Roblox, Blender, Visual Studio Code, and more. And these kids who live w/ five siblings in crammed in a Projects apartment the size of a large closet, can still express their genius thru the tool of computing.

I hope it could maybe be a pretty inspiring huge improvement in the lives of a lot of kids who deserve better.

I think the hardest part about doing this in real life is that in the book the Primer's hardware is always speedy & cutting-edge but in real life a tablet computer that's more than 2-3 years old feels obsolete, and I don't want kids that have the government-issued tablets from when they were little to have to carry that as a mark of shame.

For a very literal real-world example, there was the One Laptop Per Child project. There are a lot of critiques of it but let's focus on the core of what they did which was give free laptops to impoverished children in the Global South. The laptops were quite well-designed (I did an EE tear-down of their first version laptop as a university EE project, and came away impressed). Parts of the schematic and architecture are almost on the level of something from Woz. But it's hard to imagine how children given the equivalent of a netbook will be able to keep up with other kids as the world moves on to VR/AR etc and these children are left behind, with no way to run Roblox or anything the cool kids are doing.

I'd definitely suggest though that you read about the project, which is still ongoing in some form a number of years later. It's really interesting and the closest thing there is right now to the Primer. Maybe you could lend your ideas to them or help with open source if educational technology is one of your passions, as it is mine and as it seems to be yours.

https://laptop.org/

Best wishes in your research & endeavors!
Meditation isn't something you need to be "sold" on. Nobody gives a shit if you meditate or not. Nobody makes a profit if you do or takes a loss if you don't.

Your life is your own to live. You get to make your own choices. Personally, I think that quite a few so-called new-age ideas are a crock, and that others are brilliant, but I may be too distracted or lazy to try them. But that's just me. You do you, but try not to write too many articles about it, OK?

As for creativity requiring angst, well, you're doing it wrong.
IDK what you mean by "here". I wasn't ridiculing anyone relentlessly and I didn't see relentless ridicule, mostly because dang generally bans people for bad faith/hostility/etc. So idk what you mean by "many of you", since you're clearly not talking to me.
Do you feel that the strict type-checking that Delphi/Pascal do, has helped you in any way? I have done some stuff in TypeScript but what happens in our group is that they just use ":any" which defeats the checks, if they can't get it working right away (stack is Java on one side, Angular on the JS side). Wondering if the strictness has helped you avoid errors or not.
The use case is simple i.e. web front end, thin app layer, database.

So if you were to implement this same architecture using Kubernetes or Serverless it would be as equally simple as a bunch of Ansible or Puppet scripts.
and then a few moments later they might concievably go "oh wait, this was simply unprovoked violence, and I am now going to be taking steps to protect myself and others from this threat to society"
That feels like some dev being lazy and adding backdoor easy to type keys for testing stuff
A Man Behind the Kremlin’s Control of the Russian Media (2019)
The thing that bothered me most is that while we didn't have good evidence for or against any theory on the virus' origin, anyone who thought it came from a lab leak was immediately and harshly dismissed as a nutjob.
Using the relational model for app data in memory is really interesting.

Martin Fowler wrote about doing that as a way to get around the "object-relational mismatch" issue[1]. Richard Fabian describes "data-oriented design" as having a lot of overlap with the relational model[2]. ECSes becoming very popular in game engines are basically in-memory relational databases where "components" are "tables"[3].

[1]: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/OrmHate.html

[2]: https://dataorienteddesign.com/dodbook/

[3]: https://github.com/SanderMertens/ecs-faq#what-is-ecs
Naming something by its origin it's not racist. The tone you're talking about is a completely subjective statement, and it has no place in a serious discussion.

Using that name should've never been controversial and making it controversial was creating drama where there was none. The fact that people are still hurt about Trump saying that years ago shows how unprepared we are to have a discussion about anything.
Doesn't archive.today basically replace the ads with their own?

https://blog.archive.today/post/680555809289224192/why-are-t...
Talk it out, change the culture -- the same way so many other problems have been solved. Homosexuality went from culturally prohibited to culturally celebrated over the course of time. Surely we will find ways to inoculate ourselves and our culture against misinformation and rage-bait as well.
There will be lots of bad effects. If you don't think the NSA is investing GPTs for mass surveillance, think again. Unless they already are..
Agree with the author regarding subscription abuse.

I am still furious about Readdle's decision to make removing their built-in "Sent with Spark" call-to-action signature in Spark locked behind a subscription. Sure, I could afford the subscription, but no, I won't support subscription abuse like this.

Apple's gotta rein it in at some point. Will they? Probably not unless the EU forces them. But it'd be cool if they did.

Generally, I am okay with subscriptions, as they are clearly more economically viable for developers than shrink-wrapped software was.
> Many European countries have well-designed, robust hate speech bans that have worked well for decades to protect freedom against those who would destroy it.

And we know this because we stopped anyone who disagreed with the system from talking... oh wait lets try again: And we know this because anyone who disagrees is a lousy criminal thats in jail or silencing themselves for fear of such
> What is the point you are trying to make?

I have made the point twice already. You said something factually incorrect. I explained why it was factually incorrect. That's all.
Is that also a key for Windows 95?
This comment also says something.

You've taken the opinion of one engineer and used it to denigrate the mindset of all modern (young ?) software engineers.
You might actually look at the Breitbart masthead before you throw that innuendo out there.
As a child, you spend 8 hours a day in class and then you potentially have 16 hours a day of indoctrination time with family. We are taught to respect our parents, and so to a good child who respects his parents, it goes without saying that the child would also respect his parents' beliefs. Your teacher is ephemeral. They are your teacher for a year and then you will almost always move on and have no more of a relationship with them. Parents are forever. There are plenty of stupid and abusive parents.
tangentially, can somebody point me to what are considered the best fizzbuzz solutions? I'm both an experienced and cs-educated coder, and I know what I would consider to be a good solution, but I have no idea what the rest of "you" are looking for. (my favored solution would be a small number of state machines running in parallel to sieve-of-eratosthenes the correct answers thus avoid innumerable divisions, but maybe that's just me and I'm old fashioned?)
It's very cloudy for me in NW England.
Of course nobody wants to work there, it's a Delphi shop. It doesn't matter how nice using Delphi might be, it's going to make getting your next job significantly more difficult.
I found this one works best for me as well.