skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mostly agree, except I don't think the US would like us to be self sufficient. Quite the opposite, really. They have nothing to gain from a strong EU. Not at this point anyway.

I am all for a professional EU army but forcing - let's face it - young men to join, even for an year, doesn't sit well with me.
It will happen sooner or later given authoritarian countries like Russia and China are so cocky
There is the disinformation you know.

There is the disinformation you dont know.

There is the disinformation you know you dont know.

There is the disinformation you dont know you dont know.

There is the disinformation you are told that you know, but you dont know.

There is the disinformation you know, but are told you dont know.

There is the disinformation diseminated by those who have been disinformed but dont know they are disinformed.

There is the disinformation diseminated by those who know its disinformation but know they are disinforming.

etc.
Unfortunately, the article states explicitly that there was ill intent and extensive PLA involvement with the lab.

The military was also given positions of responsibility in the Wuhan institute, according to a US Senate report. A book published in 2015 by the military academy discusses how Sars viruses represent a “new era of genetic weapons” that can be “artificially manipulated into an emerging human disease virus, then weaponised and unleashed”.

The authors are PLA researchers, and one of the book’s editors has collaborated on numerous scientific papers with Wuhan scientists. They discuss how Sars can be weaponised by fusing it with other viruses and “serial passaging” the resulting mutant to make it more dangerous.

The investigators believe the Chinese military had taken an interest in developing a vaccine for the viruses so they could be used as potential bioweapons. If a country could inoculate its population against its own secret virus, it might have a weapon to shift the balance of world power.
Ask HN: Is anyone else noticing degradation of comment quality on HN?
Over the past few weeks, I've been noticing a severe degradation of post and comment quality on here.

I made a similar post a couple years ago, and it has only gotten worse - the amount of flame bait has definetly risen, the amount of attempted karma gaming+SEO has risen (eg. The K8s blog thingy), and the quality of discourse has fallen with a massive number of long standing low karma accounts proliferating.
> anything further west just isn't going to happen.

Are you somehow not counting Austria, Greece, and Switzerland as European?

[pedantic edit: the parent, to my interpretation, does not just argue that "introducing conscription would be a poor idea" but that "conscription is a poor idea" (whether one already has it or not); maybe it would be better off refined to the former?]
As I understand the proposal is that the source code is indeed open source and available freely but you have to pay to download the binary?

It can be done. Some companies do things along these lines. But, especially at the consumer level, that introduces a lot of adoption friction. I imagine most users will close the page and move on once they saw they needed to build a binary themselves to try something out for free.
Hmm, as I've seen topics like this[1] for EAC, though a comment from a different result[2] mentions EAC can be configured to optionally block VMs so maybe it varies by game.

> Today, I purchased and installed Dead by Daylight with the intention of playing with some friends, only to start the game and find a message from Easy Anti-Cheat stating that the game "cannot run under a virtual machine."

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/comments/100yqok/bypass_eac_ca...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/blackdesertonline/comments/px0flc/v...
That's called source available.
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That seems reasonable, yes.
Um, those are the numbers for hospitalization. So yes, there’s information about severity there.

And yep, that’s my argument! The frequency of deadly viruses escaping from a bio lab is even lower, so if we’re going to eliminate possibilities based on percentages there are a few others that should get thrown out.

It’s a minor point but, as I said, it’s sloppy reasoning. If the anonymous researcher had said “low probability” I wouldn’t care. Instead, this reads like someone who’s willing to hand wave specifics for the sake of rhetoric.
Let's not forget we're talking about the 90's Microsoft. Cute or not they were bad at UI/UX, so bad that no guideline would help them.
In future discussions, you might have better luck eliciting useful responses from people when you don’t pit them to argue against an AI, IMO. It reads to me like “I didn’t want to put in the effort to generate my own thoughts, but I expect you to: good luck!”

That aside I’ll focus on the Maslow point since I think it’s the easiest to discuss and has the most obvious carryover to a lot of the other points. Maslow tells us we have a hierarchy of needs. At the top of that is self-actualization, but we need to fulfill all the lower-level needs before we feel any need for self actualization. I strongly doubt anyone would be disappointed that they are not “actualizing themselves” if they were fighting every day for food, shelter, etc. self-actualization is basically what Ted describes as a “surrogate activity” - a need we have made up because all our “real” needs have been met, and now we have all this spare time with which we have to do something. So we create new needs for ourselves to fill our time.

You can carry this concept, of our needs being relative to our position in life, over to a lot of the other philosophies you listed. Concepts like love, generosity, pleasure, purpose, are all relative. From a modern western perspective, generosity might be buying a friend a nice gift, cooking someone dinner, etc. Those are much smaller in magnitude than, say, sharing the limited food and resources you gathered with your tribe so that they can all survive. We today think of pleasure as sex, or achieving a goal, or seeing something that makes us happy in passing. Those probably pale in comparison to the sense of pleasure of knowing a hard day’s work allowed you to live another day in a hostile environment. We think of purpose as what we were put on this earth to do. Had we not all the resources we needed, and had to work for them, I think it’s very reasonable to expect our sense of “purpose” would change to match our capabilities.

You can even see evidence of this in modern society by comparing high and low income areas. Children from lower income areas, where their physical and emotional needs are not being met, don’t get as good of grades. Why should they care about who built the pyramids or how to work a Bunsen burner when they don’t know where dinner is coming from?
Work from home would make that more plausible. It would also cut down emissions from pointless commuting.

But I doubt it would make as much of a contribution as a mass shift to vegetarianism.

Then again - why not all of the above?
Firefox mobile's reader mode was usable
It makes sense when there is a credible threat to the country. And if one exists, conscripts tend to be at least somewhat motivated. If you live right next to Russia, learning how to use a gun might be really useful one day.

But most of Europe doesn't have a credible threat.
How many hours over how many years have you spent in which conspiracy communities to establish how the "typical" conspiracy theorist thinks?

And, how many hours have you devoted to performing a similar analysis of Normies? Did you know, they also have some "interesting" thinking styles, though perhaps these attract less attention because they're normal.
I won’t forget no matter how many times they try to make me.

What happened several years ago was a clown show of the highest order.
I live in a state which has extremely lax gun ownership and open carry laws. I guess I should just be able to ignore all other state firearm laws when I travel based on your logic.
They'll get away with it until they suddenly don't. There have been a multitude of server-to-client and client-to-server RCEs in Source, in the worst case scenario someone could have deployed a worm which infected servers which infected their clients which infected more servers and compromised practically the entire active playerbase. They're just lucky it hasn't happened yet.

What it would actually mean for Valve if they allowed that to happen is hard to say, since they're in such a firmly entrenched position with a near-monopoly on PC game distribution, but every CS:GO player getting cryptolocker'd wouldn't be good for their brand to say the least.
I was under the impression that potatoes during the great Irish potato famine acted as a Giffen good. I guess not.
Any examples? If you’re collecting data don’t you need an email to avoid duplicate submissions
I notice something from some of my “Google” friends. Adamant I should consult these models for my math degree (I’m a bit younger than them). Don’t they know these models fail horribly with math especially? Is it hype from inside the castle too? What is going on. I’m actually a bit concerned because I feel like no one’s in charge.

Why don’t they say get a tutor which is much more established. Is Google the company forcing this hype that hard that employees now feel the need to keep it up. No idea what for think. I would be diserviced by asking for math help from the models, yet that’s the main advice I get nowadays. It’s a bit annoying and concerning. But I’m right though right HN? These models seem exceptionally bad at math questions.
They might be mislead by articles like this one: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/15/business/self-driving-car...

Where in the first few paragraphs it gives the impression Tesla has 5:1 deaths, but later you learn that they are including simple lane keeping and cruise control in the comparison, and

> None of the cars using the automated systems were involved in fatal accidents
I would add biocyclic vegan farming: Vegatable farming without use of manure or artificial fertilizer. https://www.biocyclic-vegan.org/
Why would that be the wrong lesson? One of the main components in how Ukraine survived the first few weeks will likely turn out to be territorial defence and other similar low quality soldiers. Not the highly trained professional soldiers. Something needed to occupy the Russians while the country got ready for war.
I feel like a dinosaur. My goto JSON library is cjson, but these benchmarks show that I didn't do my homework lately. Let me see...
It’s coming down drastically too with LED full spectrum grow lights. You can now run a row on 100Wh. Way better than the 1.2kWh before.
Individual people are the only ones with the power to stop climate change. They’ve just chosen not to exercise that power.

To say that individual action is powerless to stop climate change is the same thing as saying that climate change will never be stopped. Which is true but nobody wants to hear it.

It’s much more fun to say that I am powerless to stop climate change so somebody else with more power than me must stop it! You can follow this chain all the way up to the most powerful person in the world.
Does anyone know a good resource on how to efficiently build a Merkle tree from a big k/v store? for example, should you cache intermediate nodes?
NATO armed forces would be under the command of the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, who by pure coincidence happens to always be an American. Right below him is the Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, who has been British in 22/30 cases.

If the EU wants to have an army that serves their interests, I would consider it prudent to have the command of that army be in EU hands, instead of just handing their soldiers to the US. They can still join defensive treaties with the UK, or simply stay in NATO, but that's a different question from how the army is organized when Article 5 of NATO hasn't been triggered.
It makes sense if you think how to make profit on human suffering.
Despite that becoming at least partially true years later when the CDC admitted it.
Have people ever laughed at the "dot com boom" of the late 90s? Not much to laugh at since it actually delivered on most* of its promises.

It promised information at your finger tips. The ability to communicate with people across the globe.

Even stuff like video and audio at the click of a button which had horrible quality issues at the time, no one doubt will become a thing eventually as bandwidth improved.

* The only thing that more or less bombed and faded away was VR. Remember VRML? Today, the company-formerly-known-as-FaceBook is going for round 2. So far it doesn't look good. Turns out the only thing VR is good for is video games - and all those games use their own proprietary technology to achieve their aims.
> The only real disadvantage of tapes is the high cost of the tape drives

The real disadvantage of tapes is what the drive may die at any time and if you don't have another drive then you can't recover. And a replacement drive wouldn't be cheap (new) or reliable (used).
It would be interesting to see them at least acknowledging it. But I guess what you really can do as a user, probably close to nothing, other than just complain on the internet.
Useless as if a direct conflict happens between the NATO and russia or china, it will be a nuclear holocaust.

Since NATO is mostly defence only, foreign indirect conflicts can be handled by professional military, aka not drafted.

If indirect conflicts create massive migrations (a type of war), the professional military may not be enough, and drafted military may be required to deal with the local "troubles" created by those massive migrations.

Some psychos say to eat the bullet: uk or/and france go nuke russia, without the involvement of the usa: nuclear annihilation of russia, france and/or uk. Then the huge us army goes cleanup russia (remove all remaining nukes), and the remains of uk/france would be taken over by the EU. Ofc, no more uk or/and france, but a future without the nukes from russia for the humanity.
Assuming this is feasible, how would you make sure the collected money ends up funding the right projects?
People still claim Prism is a conspiracy theory TODAY, despite Edward Snowden, it's incredible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

The older "Project Echelon", I'm not sure how much has been confirmed about it's capabilities but it certainly did exist and was the precursor to Prism.

You can find lots of examples in movies from the 90s joking about how the NSA will know if you say certain words, like "bomb", on the telephone. They almost definitely did :)
> Nonsense. The inner city being a concrete hellscape isn't being helped by nicer parts on the outskirts.

Why would the inner city need to be a "concrete hellscape"? You can have decent density without 'concrete hellscapes'. The Oh the Urbanity channel has a video on the (misguided/misinformed) idea that "urban living" = Manhattan / Hong Kong apartment blocks:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCmz-fgp24E

Want a front yard, back yard, and garage (attached to a laneway)? Plenty of that was built pre-WW2:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcar_suburb

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWsGBRdK2N0&t=1m8s

Examples (Streetview):

* https://www.google.com/maps/place/125+Hampton+Ave,+Toronto,+...

* https://www.google.com/maps/place/50+Geoffrey+St,+Toronto,+O...

* https://www.google.com/maps/place/70+Jackman+Ave+Toronto,+ON
The US. That's what.
https://archive.md/vvGP1
According to the prevailing definitions, prohibiting commercial use is not Open Source.
> 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!

While the president publicly said that, his actions were different. For instance, President Donald Trump instructed the United States European Command (EUCOM) to be moved from Stuttgart to Mons, near Brussels. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-germany-militar...
Just here to complain about the stingy 256gb ssds in MacBooks
Using the OS to do this is unlikely to be effective; the attacker with this access could usually halt the CPU before they remove RAM. As in the article, the best mitigation against this kind of attack is memory encryption, either in hardware or software (although in software, you have to figure out how to keep your keys out of RAM).

There are security oriented ICs of various types (flash, RAM, secure element) which do clear data with a tripwire in a lot of ways; some even have onboard current storage of some kind which allows them to clear all data as a "dying breath" when the package is tampered with. But COTS DDR RAM needs to be cheap and doesn't usually have this kind of threat model.
It’s comes on a $4000 workstation, the Studio, but point stands.
on mobile: no picture bigger than a finger tip, and zooming is restricted. what do they actually look like??
But but “it completely transformed the way I work”. Right..
> In English speaking countries immigrants are treated so much more gracefully compared to Germany (or France, for that matter). You either are perfectly fluent or you may as well not bother whereas in English speaking countries people will be happy to adapt.

What else should native english speakers do? There's no way they could make communicating easier by switching to a lingua franca since they are speaking the lingua franca already. That leaves adapting as the only possible way to facilitate communication, doesn't it?
It's likely that the countries with the lowest percentage are just coddled by the prolonged time of peace in Europe. The Finnish populace's willingness to fight for their country ("maanpuolustustahto") has increased from 68% to 83% between 2021 and 2022.

https://ruotuvaki.fi/-/maanpuolustustiedotuksen-suunnitteluk...
That's an interesting point. I wonder if that would still be true if genetic research was "democratized" so that the barrier to entry was as low as writing a computer program?

There's always some self interest involved. I'd guess in the current state of biology, researchers don't want additional limitations placed on them but are secure in their monopoly on the research. In the current state of ML, incumbents want limitations placed on others so they can have a monopoly. Add to that the desire to feel important, and you get the direction of the rhetoric.
Yeah, it's sort of the foundation of NRx/Dark Enlightenment to take historical events broadly agreed in all credible quarters to have taken place, and then spin the goddamnedest nonsense anyone ever heard out of them. Not that you'd know it by Moldbug or his imitators, but is possible to criticize American hegemony without playacting Jane Fonda at the Reichskanzlei.
In the case of ChatGPT, the citations serve a different purpose. ChatGPT should be cited as a warning that the text needs additional investigation.
Also, there is one other company that could pull the same trick. Bristol once sold a 404 as well.
> 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.

If you can't disagree and commit, how unified are you really?
Uh, I have ublock origin and such...

Site is clean as a whistle for me:

(zoomed all the way out so you can see the whole page:

https://i.imgur.com/I4EaG3A.png
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Edit: I appear to have “wooshed” the point…
Sorry fam.
The article claims that Chinese army researchers were at the lab researching viral weapons. That sounds like ill-intent to me.

It also states that Covid-19 is the only Coronavirus discovered with a furin cleavage site on the spike, and that the lab had applied for funding to research the insertion of such a site.

I don't think anyone is suggesting that the lab deliberately launched a pandemic by deliberately releasing the pathogen on its own doorstep.
Walmart is merging with Costco? I kid.

The American grocery market is far less consolidated than e.g. the Canadian one. Perhaps there is a minimum size necessary for an efficient grocery chain, or perhaps Canadian anti-trust enforcement is far too lax.
3x as many cars using infrastructure not made for that type of increase in demand will cause traffic jams. No matter what the auto-pilot friendly meter is set at.

Traffic lights are a bitch, changing lanes is inevitable, incidents are inevitable.
From my perspective it hasn't.

It's mostly if topics land on the front page which are controversial, then the comments will generally reflect that. Also, I have the impression that another subset of HNers tends to discuss on such topics, while others - who I associate with the more typical HN style - generally refrain from joining such a discussion, amplifying the effect.

In short, my take is to avoid controversial topic discussion forums and stick to the rest.
No, he did not. Take the time to read the article.

He said AI could be behind advancements that could kill people, such as synthetic bio weapons. He did not claim skynet is incoming.
Windows 11 is bringing back the option of labels and never combine app icons https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23690960/microsoft-window...
I think she was a moderating force against Moses, and you need that tension for you to have progress.

Unfortunately the Jacobs camp has won completely, and the idea of an inertia-less city frozen in amber is somehow the defacto good standard now. The city has insufficient development for its rate of population growth, and anemic transit infrastructure building.

So Manhattan becomes a playground for the rich only.
> But why do you think it is important to prove a lab leak?

Perhaps because it is slightly interesting what caused the worst pandemic since the Spanish flu? Because millions of people died? Because knowing the cause could perhaps prevent something similar happen again? Perhaps prevent millions of deaths?

I'm astonished by this question.
> Then what? Modern cruise control, that keeps my car a constant distance form the car in front (unless it roars off at a speed higher that what I am comfortable with) is great. Helpful, especially in city driving.

> I would appreciate "automated rumble strips" that warns me gently if I veer out of my lane.

Honda already does both of these, since 2020 at least iirc
A good strategy for Spirit Airlines.
They might reveal trade secrets though.
Or as a helpful filter to reduce your reading load.
Got any screenshots? I was watching his profile page as the AMA was happening and didn’t see any answers disappear.
as a semi plt nerd, i like to push grammars a bit deeper than average application, thanks

and often indentation helps keeping track of structures
So third-party devs would have to manually cut them a check every month? How would Reddit validate that they’re getting the correct amount? Multiply this logistical nightmare by hundreds of third party developers.
Microsoft really missed an opportunity to bring back clippy when showing chat gpt integration in office/windows.

It has deep nostalgia to a generation of computer users who are non-technical. People that were annoyed by it were either power users who wanted the machine to get out of their way, or learners who didn’t find it helpful.

I think in this case it would have worked much better and simultaneously validated earlier failed ideas. They would be viewed as ahead of their time, not like wrong futures.

Imagine the Microsoft press conference moment where clippy pops up and ACTUALLY HELPS YOU. I’d probably cry a little.
You seem to be making the argument there is no one like this. But if there is no one like this, what good will banning it do?

I think we all know people find it, for one reason or another, more appropriate to take a car despite the already large cost of doing so in Manhattan. People aren’t just behaving completely illogically. If someone is driving, it’s not because they just didn’t even consider taking public transit.