skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is only facts and direct evidence. Where is the innuendo? It covers specific experiments they were doing, in order and in detail, complete with specific biological information and funding sources. It also provides extensive evidence of constant coverups by the lab, like this one:

There was also no mention of the mouse deaths in the grant renewal application Daszak filed to the NIH later that year. In this account, he said the mice had experienced “mild Sars-like clinical signs” when they were infected with the mutant virus. It had actually killed six of the eight infected humanised mice.
Daszak eventually provided details of the experiment’s deadly results to the US authorities in a report after the Covid-19 pandemic. He now says his 2018 statement about the “mild” illness was based on preliminary results — even though the experiment in which the mice died had taken place several months before he issued the statement

So these people are all known liars. The US Government banned GoF research, they got around it by claiming their work was urgent and safe, they ignored reporting requirements, when they finally did report what they said was a lie, and now they're still lying to try and cover previous lies.

So when these people say they want to insert furin cleavage sites into coronaviruses, a coronavirus appears right next door that has a FCS - the first one ever seen - and they say, oh well we changed our minds and never did it, well, with overwhelming probability they're lying again.
Yes. That's why I avoid podcast. It's such a waste of time, and for what. Hope we have a good summary service. Maybe the new LLMs could help with that
> The problem with FOSS is that too few developers have the willingness to ask for money directly, like selling binaries instead of sponsorships/donations

While I agree with you, this leads to confusion: the naive users from your first sentence then say, that they thought it is open source, why the author asks for money?

This can be seen for example with android apps, that have GPL-licensed sources on Github, free binaries in F-droid and paid binaries in Google Apps Store. So basically the author is charging only a convenience fee, but this confusion still arises.
That has nothing to do with what we're talking about here, 200 miles is still an extreme distance from humans to hospitals in this country
Nicola Sturgeon: Former first minister arrested in SNP finances inquiry
> without defining what they mean by reasoning and example of reasoning that could prove that someone is reasoning

People gave quite a lot of example of ChatGPT failing to answer questions properly - i.e. fail at reasoning.

I think the bare minimum to say AI can reason is for it to be able to use predicate logic.
For small countries it makes more sense than having a purely professional army, because in case of need, you very likely have to mobilize the whole male population.
The same argument applies to US citizens, public interest groups, political activists, government officials, politicians, etc. I don’t agree with you.
Yeah, no, this is not unbiased. First, it does not note that numerous investigations by the government, including under Trump, concluded that Clinton did nothing worth charging.

Second, some of the anti Clinton evidence is based on unnamed sources, which is speculative at best. It is not comparable to a public indictment of Trump with the evidence that has been released so far. It is possible that the evidence will turn out to be wrong or fabricated but the best we can say for trump at the moment is that it's too early to say for sure. If the evidence is true then he is way more culpable.

The article throws in a Slick Willie reference to try to further tilt the needle towards Clinton but mentions none of the myriad legal troubles of Trump.

This article is trying its darndest to come to a predetermined conclusion.
> The lingua franca the term is derived from was a trading language across different cultures.

Which is the first 80-90% of the book: the history of various ones going back about to 3000 BC (or some such).
> This is empirically not true.
To pick just a handful of obvious counter examples...

Do you believe "Donald Trump is a liar" to be empirically true?
Wikipedia [1] says that there are two challenges:

- ADS-B can be broadcast on two frequencies (978 MHz and 1090 MHz). FAA requires aircraft operating above 18000 feet to use 1090, while either may be used by craft flying lower. (It seems like the equipment is less expensive). This means 1090 is used more heavily by large commercial craft and so 1090 is the only band the satellites currently listen to.

- Smaller private craft sometimes use belly-mounted antennas and so their hull can block signal propagation upwards

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Dependent_Surveillan...
One of the few games in which I couldn't for the life of mine advance, even years later.
Right
If anything there are quotes and evidence of him exhibiting racism directly against Puerto Ricans, which no one in this thread mentions..

At the time most of his projects were built, African Americans were only about 5% of NYC population rather than the 20-30% peak thru today. So it’s kind of backwards looking to assume they were top of mind in his decision making either way.
You're right that it is not necessarily efficient from a military effectiveness perspective. I see it as also an educational tool/investment. As other comments have pointed out, this helps the populace internalize their responsibities in war (affecting voting), might help instill social cohesion, and yes also provides a baseline military competency in the populace in the worst case scenario (total war).
I honestly (and I do not think I am alone in this) think the costs of EU dependency FAR exceed the benefits and we only got started doing it to prevent Western Europe from getting steamrolled by Russia post-WW2.
The best use of mandatory service is long-calendar-time training. E.g. basic proficiency, vocabulary, and doctrinal knowledge

Refreshing is a helluva lot easier than training, when you're simultaneously fighting an active conflict.
They are thanking the car even they think there is no driver. Thats good.
> The only foe even worth considering is Russia - and NATO's combined professional armies are more than a match for them.

That's been shown to be true over the last year, but prior to that it was very much an open question.

Also from the perspective of "Europe" in an insular sense, it depends heavily on the large standing force and transport capability of the USA. Remember that as recently as three years ago, the occupant of the white house was publicly musing about the possibility of leaving NATO and aligning with Russia! And influential members of the minority party still wander close to that idea rhetorically.
Notwithstanding a myriad of other practical problems, I don't see how that would be compatible with the NATO countries Article 5 responsibilities - bearing in mind that there are several countries in the EU that are not in NATO like Austria, Ireland and (for the moment) Sweden.
The US would like nothing more than Europe to be able to deal with Russia without help.

A joint European army does nothing to reduce US leverage; the US is still the only meaningful nuclear deterrent to Russia, and everyone in Europe knows it. But if the EU is able to credibly counter conventional threats, that's a huge bonus for the US.
> The impression I get is that third-party apps are disproportionately used by the kinds of users that supply content more than average

Are you saying that most users who post content also use third-party apps, or that most third-party app users post content? There’s a big difference here.

Back of the napkin math: You have to pay to post with some third-party apps like Apollo which has 50k subscribers. Reddit has ~500M monthly users, so we’re looking at… 0.01% if every person subscribed to Apollo posts. Even with a 10x safety factor, there’s no way shutting down third-party apps has a meaningful effect on the volume of content posted to Reddit.
Heaven forbid we hold people accountable and/or learn from our mistakes as a species.
The return of conscription would be the exact wrong conclusion from analyzing the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.

Germany needs a competent army and non-sabotaging government supervision. Conscripts are not a replacement for competency. Such talk is little more than the a scapegoat measure to shift blame from those responsible.
This is what I love of the situation ; after long-form was taken seriously, as shown in podcasting - and especially popularized by Joe Rogan - the plastic sham that is the "news" got their entire asses handed to them.

Recall the news back in the 70s and 80s - drab, brown, dingy tweed suits, maize and pea coloured sets - etc...

Now its all Tits & Glitz - every set is all snazzy with huge touch-screen display to show stupidly lame content - where they just needed a huge touch screen "technology wall" for no real reason, other than "because we are hip to tech!"

CNN, FOX, MSNBC are fucking cringe-factories. (Well, ALL of congress is the biggest cringe-factory)

So yeah - its always been that way and podcasters, such as Joe Rogan, Lex Fridman and many others have just shown what a ludicrus outdated and, needs-to-die-yesterday paradigm that which Murdoch built actually is. What a joke.
Upgrade your Fortigate firewalls that have SSL VPN enabled.Remotely exploitable
Additionally, it could make understanding the mechanism much easier. Viruses are only so complicated, so learning what they're doing to the brain to cause dementia might reveal how other, non-viral causes work.
Ralph Merkle, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Merkle
The article implies (but doesn't state) that RaTG13, although discovered in the Mojiang cave, was worked on in the Wuhan lab. It does state that it was being worked-on by Shi Zhengli ("Batwoman") and her team at the lab.
People will come in and yell that non commercial license isn’t open source… but sorry it is! All my projects that are more than hobbies have non commercial licenses. It’s open source! If you want to profit it off of it, you can pay me part of that profit.
Yes, that is a very good point and I like that extension of the Kool-Aid analogy. I didn't mean to make it seem like neutrality is the way to go. We should definitely take an educated position even if we end up agreeing with one of the loud sides. I think what was trying to get it is they act to fuel each other and it causes distractions.
I also loved the idea but then I read one of his critiques and felt it comes from an old disgruntled academic.

Complaining about lack of citations in a newspaper article? I rarely see academic citations in mainstream media.

Also tired of hearing stochastic parrot argument.
Thank you for those links, since tomorrow I expect most of Reddit to go dark I took the liberty of archiving them so I can be sure I can go into more depth then.

https://archive.is/iH9un

https://archive.is/R0oBe

https://archive.is/IKViC

https://archive.is/1Pyzs
Perhaps unexpectedly, I find that thoughtful engagement with religion (Judaism in my case) has helped me become much more liquid on other topics.

When you accept on faith a handful of principles that deal with an unknowable domain, it becomes much easier to be less attached to the other stuff.
> The map presented upfront from is also misleading, the early cases clustered around the market not the lab

Is this a case of yet another heat map being a population density map? I assume the wet market is a popular local destination and gathering place, while the lab is not. You would expect there to be more cases where there are more people.

I speculate in ignorance of the actual social dynamics in the city of Wuhan.
> You have a bunch of unmotivated people that don't want to be there. You have to house them, feed them, train them for what, 3, 6, 12 months? Seems like a lot of money. How long will that training last for? How soon will you need retraining to be even considered marginally useful? Isn't it better to spend that money on professional soldiers?

It is a lot of money. National defense of some sort is also, mostly necessary for independent countries.

As for why conscription vs professional soldiers, it depends on the threat model. If you're Finland and want to be able to hold off Russia, a professional army isn't going to cut it. Mass mobilization is the only thing that has a chance of working.

Of course, you could always argue that that's what allies are for. But the problem with allies is that they don't always come through when and how you want them to.
The Dutch government wants automatic permission to target victims of hackers
Yep, my observation as well. Examples:

- I had another poster say Arch is "flexible" -- as if Manjaro straight up disallows you to install new software? -- and I got confused what do they mean.

- Another one said too much software is installed by Manjaro out of the box and this is something that I half-agree with, but I still prefer that to Arch where you are booted to a root terminal and you are supposed to figure out how to make a basic functioning system (and I don't find that "having a root terminal in VGA mode on a blinding display contrast" constitutes "a basic functioning system").

- I think another one (but not on this thread) said they're not okay with Manjaro pre-setting some desktop environment visuals and settings for you. I super strongly disagree with them though, for reasons outlined below.

In general I spotted some tinge of elitism. It is strange to me that this still exists in 2023. A lot of us "the nerds" that tinkered with computers since teenagers are 40+ now and our work-life-hobby balance is tilting more and more towards the "life" part, so I personally prefer a system that gives me a working desktop environment with sensible defaults and yes, some extra software that I might not need, because after that me as an experienced programmer can clean up the machine to the extent I'd feel comfortable calling it "minimal" (always a subjective term, of course).

Oh, let's not even mention MHWD. I'd throw my hands in the air and never use Linux again -- very likely -- if that didn't exist. But I might be a bit extreme here, I hear that a good amount of distros have high-quality hardware detectors and automatic (at OS installing time, I mean) installers of the right drivers / kernel modules. But for now I am not keen on going out of my comfortable zone to experiment.

Thanks for entertaining the discussion.
Thank you for the very in depth explanation! Very interesting, and you’re one of the first people on this site who has coherently presented a world view that I’ll be thinking about for a long time.

I would say we fundamentally differ on basic assumptions, which I would perhaps characterize as: I think the world/universe is an inhospitable place that needs human cooperation to stave off some of the immense suffering it naturally causes, whereas you see the natural order as a fundamentally satisfying one. I guess when I say it like that it sounds like the obvious justification for primitivism, but still, your points are well received and novel to me.

The perfect expression of that is the “magical object-creation machine” and your decision that no, you would not embrace/encourage it (presumably such a thing would be far too complex to make or repair alone). Im personally thinking less about resilience than of people dying of cancer, a child without enough food, a family shivering in a harsh winter, etc.

Maybe another angle is “what is the purpose of life?” I’d say it is (at least partially) to reduce suffering in ourselves and our fellow man. I’m curious, if you have any more time - do you see your “natural balance > cooperative advancement” ethos as a better way to reach the same goal, or would you express your aim differently?
I've done neither. I simply point out that no meaningful conclusions can be drawn about a body of work without first examining it. Not sure why y'all think that's controversial.
Doesn't matter if they use half as much energy per capita if there's 50x as many of them.
What an amazing Sunday read, a step-by-step explanation, tables, timelines, even a short video demonstrating the exploit.

Looking at how big the impact could be if this was discovered elsewhere, and how meager the payout was and how little Valve seemed to be interested, I guess it's fair to say that security of millions of PC clients is not taken seriously at all. If this is how it's handled for a game that makes big $$, I wouldn't dare imagine how it is for thousands of online AA games and other low budget software that runs everyday in our computers.
In a blog post about integrating LLMs into the notebook paradigm, going back to the invention of notebooks by the same company is irrelevant?
The only desktop apps that match OP’s description that I’ve used are old giant “ball of mud” codebases like Adobe and Autodesk stuff, but thankfully my need to use those specially has been low in recent years thanks to more lightweight and well-behaved alternatives like Affinity Photo and Pixelmator.
Yeah, Sweden and Finland who both have high rates also both have military service.
I suspect governments want it both ways: property tax and road tax. Naturally all in the name of doing something good for the citizens.
> Remember that as recently as three years ago, the occupant of the white house was publicly musing about the possibility of leaving NATO and aligning with Russia!

Thanks for pointing this out… most people tend to forget this. Everything looks nice, until it doesn’t anymore.
A Twitter bug is restoring deleted tweets and retweets
I thought your comment was insightful and didn’t deserve a down vote.
> Is this just a US thing? I thought this was common knowledge.

Have you seen the movie This Is Spinal Tap? Good scene on this "common knowledge":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg5Ovdu6bOE
On the one hand, that does make a lot of sense. Some European politicians want a more unified foreign policy, and a unified military force would give more weight to this desire.

On the other hand, it could get very awkward if we had another situation like we had in 2002/2003 when the US were asking other countries for support in their war on Iraq. Europe was deeply divided - at least at the leadership level - in this matter. With a unified EU military, countries would have to give up a large amount of sovereignty. And there is already a fair amount of hostility towards the EU for taking sovereignty away from member states, remember Brexit.

Personally, I think it would be a good idea if all countries could agree to give up their own national military. But I don't think it will happen. At most, I could see countries agreeing to move more authority to the NATO.

Last but not least, there are more than 25 languages being spoken in the EU. We'd have to agree on one language being the lingua franca in a unified military if we want it to work.
So Clippy came from Microsoft Bob. Microsoft Bob itself was a response to General Magic's "social interface", known as Magic Cap [1].

Another thing that came as a response to General Magic: Java. Java was a response to General Magic's Telescript [2].

So Clippy and Java were both inspired by the same product!

Watch the video [3] for an important piece of history!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Magic#Magic_Cap

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Magic#Telescript

[3] https://youtu.be/7PpTVrWSMlY?t=63
Most people don’t have very much of a yard, and even a relatively large garden, say a fifth of an acre is not going to replace much industrial farming. I’m not saying it’s valueless (I think many home grown veggies are more delicious than anything available at a store. tomatoes of course, but also consider celery, so strong in flavor from the home garden) but I think it’s a relatively small part of the climate change equation.

As a side note, contractors for my neighbor just dumped a shitload of old asphalt and cement shingles on my 80 sqft garden, thick black dust over every plant. So idk, I’m just talking from the sidelines here, fucking demoralized.
It just means, "Grit boosts rates of success. Indulgence wakens grit".
Fair enough. Off topic.
It is kind of true that the neoliberal lense through which science and academics are directed and funded is a form of ideology which is not always parallel with the improvement of the human condition, and I would argue at times it is even contrary to improvement of the human condition..

But there is no replacement ideology which can guide science uniformly toward an objectively better human condition. That is because any such ideology is as beholden to capitalism as neoliberalism. Science cannot escape the overarching power of capital while still depending upon it's forces to propel it.

Thus I agree it is an artificial goal, but more than a lie told by controlling beurocrats, it a lie told even to its adherents, as is inherent in ideology. Further, it is an inescapable lie produced by the organization of means.

The answer to this ideological trap we find science caught in is succinctly responded to by Star Trek. Post-capitalist post-materialism is what liberates science from these constraints, not some "opening of minds" accomplished through terrorism.
Well, it certainly seems their instincts to separate themselves from Russia and Russian culture and seek greater alignment with the West were correct. One side has a future, the other is a gas station with nukes, run by mobsters (although it could be argued that I'm misspelling 'monsters' here.)
Saccadic masking probably comes into play: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccadic_masking

(brains "drops frames" while the eyes move, so "popping" during eye movement probably won't be perceptible)
Oh? But we can publish the Lancet document, asserting with ridiculous grandeur that it was NOT a lab leak, a mere 3 months into the pandemic?

The same document that turned out to have been paid for and produced despite having numerous errors and lies, simply to turn a narrative?

Let’s hold everyone to the same standard shall we?
Audio is only as good as its weakest link. recording, compress to youtube, compress by youtube, playback. I guess it is possible to not be repulsed by audio compression artefacts and judging from the average video posted by mobile <slur>s it is shocking common.
Meaningless when most people didn't expect war to ever happen in Europe again. A German defense minister once famously said the Bundeswehr was defending Germany at the Hindu Kush - of course no one wants to sign up for that.
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I hate anti-CT people. Questioning is the way of science. If someone wants to question whether the US arrived to the Moon or not, let them, dont discredit them Let them look for evidence and present their case. What are we afraid of?

Same happened with the 9/11 stuff. In the quest of looking for answers after the questioning, maybe we will get more knowledge. But instead people stayed with the first government sanctioned story and accepted it blindly .

Same happened with the WMD story... society has to learn to be more skeptic, and to value those that question and look for answers.
For everyone who believes there is real danger from AI - consider this - talking about doomsday scenarios and hyping existing technology hurts more than it helps. It might feel like "the time has finally come to talk about alignment", but the truth is when people realize in 5 years that the current iteration of AI doesn't have all the effects you warn of, it'll make everyone even more wary of worries and we'll be less prepared than ever. Even if you believe this kind of hype, please cool your jets.

In likelihood AI, like all research heavy tech, will appear to stagnate for a long time until new breakthroughs come through, because progress happens in fits and starts and not a smooth line. Hyping doomsday scenarios, even if possible, don't help us get more prepared at all.
What was thought provoking about it?
GB and France are?