skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is that we don't have any documented anything for the first couple hundred thousand of years of humanity's existence, and we encountered the most horrific viral and bacterial infections, many of which caused unthinkable mass deaths. They were so awful we attributed them to God(s) as punishment for our bad behavior. None of them have documented microbiological origins. Some would have some from spontaneous mutation in humans and many would have come from animals. They are de facto not lab leaks, so the fact that we have some lab leaks documented in the last few decades isn't really convincing. There is nothing there that makes a zoonotic origin less likely.

Here's a scientist who said we couldn't dismiss the lab leak, and asked for more research, which he did.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/07/19/1016005...

The early cases are clustered around the market. I know the market and the lab are "close" on a global scale, but the details matter. They are 30km apart, about a 45 minute drive in traffic. Looks about as clear as John Snow's map of cholera outbreaks in London.

That article is from 2021, but he stands by it in 2023:

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-03-08/covid-lab-l...

"What is the chance that a big Chinese city like Wuhan would have a lab doing the kind of research that has come under suspicion? The answer is, the vast majority of the biggest cities in China have labs involved in such research. If COVID had emerged in, say, Beijing, there would be no fewer than four such labs facing suspicion."

Edit:

2 things.

It's important to rule out that the idea that this could only be engineered, which would imply a definite lab origin. That is why engineered viruses come up. A non-lab leak is certainly plausible, and a lab leak is not ruled out.

There are labs all over China, there are markets all over China. The overlap of cities having both is significant. Viruses appear in larger, denser population centers. The "next thing" was very likely to appear in a city with a lab. The thing is, it's not very close to the lab. There's a large cluster around the market.

Lab theory doesn't have much going for it. It's not actually that close to the epicenter. There are labs everywhere. SARS is widely studies.

Sure some viruses have long incubation periods, but that would show as far less of a tight cluster around the market. Your hypothesis seems to be that it spread from lab distantly because of incubation time, then stopped spreading distantly once it reached the market? That does not make sense.
Building native apps when you learned to program in 2005 and refuse to learn anything new.
Here's another great video about Bernoulli's Principle https://youtu.be/XP6oqIic4lo
Can you give us an example of wartime contributions that require expertise across the verticals of browser vendor, advertisement marketplace, a remote home video/audio monitoring vendor, an OS vendor, and a productivity software vendor? How does integrating those verticals help in an attack or defense scenario any better than having those separated?
Interesting that the second commentor is Tobias Lütke, CEO of Shopify.
The FTC Hits the Brakes on Xbox's Activision Blizzard Merger Trial for August
Suggestion: Make it with WEBRTC, instead of phone call...
How awful.
well it's also pretty hard to simulate a phone, even a lot harder than a browser imo

for example I'm pretty sure the GPU/canvas fingerprint can't be faked
Google have thrown enough mud at the wall that something stuck?

We could be here saying "Google was genius releasing Google Plus - that stopped Facebook etc. in their tracks and now they own social media"
You may find that Amazon would fall into the "traditional" on this scale.
I used to think that way too until I learned from Louis Rossmann that it's basically just blaming the victim (who might not actually have a real choice). For example it might be a rented place, or maybe he's just saying there temporarily.

It doesn't help things if we blame others for their poor consumer choices.
There is nothing 'native' about this at all. Just a PHP library on top of Electron against the claim of "truly native" apps.
> Can I volunteer for the hotline?

> Give us a call and mention that you are interested in being a volunteer, at which point we will immediately convert the therapy call into a four-stage technical interview.

Amazing…
> This article is about the particulate being released from the items inside the pan.

That's right; this is all with an electric range.
Is GTK native? Isn't it just another library out of many you can utilize? Is it any more native than QT or wxwidgets?
An interesting difference here is that part of the reason McDonalds is so popular is because it's cheap.

Writing pop fiction or making Marvel movies isn't cheaper than the "artful" variants (in fact for superhero movies it's much more expensive), and consuming isn't cheaper either, so there's more at play here.
I can understand some subsidies for farm commodities for limited time, but not ALL the time.
No. There is evidence to support that it naturally occurred through contact tracing due to the large clustered concentration of outbreak within the confines of the market.

There is no evidence to support a lab leak.

This is not “your theory is outside the Overton window”. It is you attempting to shift the Overton window intentionally.
Oh yeah, thanks for the 21st century BASIC, Google.
Sometimes specs need ot constructive contributions but explosive deconstruction. It's rare but it happens.

Web Environment Integrity check api is one such example. The use cases are absurd & nor really for the user. Rarely do specs cause great bad, great harm, but this will categorically lock anyone not on a ultra proprietary locked down system off a sizable chunk of the net.
Fair point, and in hindsight my comment failed to frame things as precisely as I'd hoped. I'll agree that transactional can become overly broad, to the point of losing its meaning. Though I do think the lense of economics can offer a unique way of evaluating about relationships. And not in a strictly financial sense. Which isn't to say it's the only way, or even the most important.
Lina Khan explains it all: Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox <https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado...>
Definitely not "we won't do anything about it". The medical industry (and frankly many other things but especially the medical industry) needs to find an effective way to present the common result "this test returned positive, but given the base rate in the population and the accuracy of this test, this is not necessarily enough information and your probability of having X is still only Y%, so we're going to run another non-invasive test to see if there's even enough information to warrant doing a more detailed check; ZZ% of people get a negative on the second test".

Perhaps find a nice graphical presentation of the simplest version of Bayes Rule: "the base rate in the population is this, here's what the test means for the part of the population that doesn't have it, here's what the test means for the part that does, here's how your probability went up but that it's still vastly more likely you don't have it than that you do."
Also interesting how Shopify is making a lot of moves in this space using both the OpenAI APIs and using self-hosted models.
Even if the PIN was only 4 digits you would be very unlikely to successfully bruteforce it. The TPM will throttle you after a few tries and lock you out for an increasing amount of time after each further attempt.

An attacker might get 10 good tries before continuing becomes pointless, so unless the PIN is one of 1234 4321 0000 1111 2222 you're probably safe.

Note: TPM2.0 allows alphanumerical PINs but I think you need a group policy for Windows to allow it.
> Still, The end of fossil fuels is inevitable,

I agree, but until we are using renewables exclusively (as in the first world) wagging a finger at places where the average income is a tenth of ours is really unacceptable. They can't afford batteries yet and they deserve power in the evening as much as we do.
This also circumvents the paywall on websites that hide the content with some JavaScript that executes after the initial page load (e.g. NYT). (Note that if you enter reader mode after the paywall has already loaded, it won't work, but if you set the site to default to reader mode then the next time you load it, you will see the full article.)
Peter Watts wrote about this in the rifters trilogy!
Just as this technology is being commoditized in a high quality way, Apple decides to drop support :(
that makes you the ultimate food hipster
A lot of their productions are very niche. I mean, Bojack Horseman... absolutely good show, beloved by its fans and more than worth a binge, but was it actually mainstream much outside of the Mental Health Twittersphere?

The worst thing for Netflix is, for none of their original shows they managed to pull off "outside" draw: merchandise/swag outside of hoodies and coffee mugs, books, spin-offs and most importantly fan fiction.
The Tarkovsky one apparently.
So how many picoQALYs per minute of gas range cooking?
Is this Web4?

Time to free the web again. An we thought Web3 is nonsense :(
Maybe not redundant because it’s just for testing, but you absolutely can run an entire stack like that on a decent laptop. You can even use Docker to run the same containers you run in production.

I’ve run Kubernetes clusters in multiple Parallels VMs locally with work loads in them to play around.

You also learn a ton about how things work which helps you debug and fix stuff when things go wrong. Even if you use managed stuff it’s always a huge plus to understand at least the basics of how it runs.
I can still remember the exact moment someone passed me this link a decade ago and how doubled-over with laughter I was while reading it. Perhaps there's a term or a well known genre (besides "irony") for critiquing a writer by mimicking his style. But it was new to me and it still reads freshly to me today.

I don't worry too much about renowned author Dan Brown's feelings. He can cry all the way to the bank.
NSFW SpongeBob Artwork by Show's Artists Surfaces After 20 Years
chaosnet-bridge: Bridge program for various Chaosnet link implementations
Welcome to the group, we meet alternate Thursdays and worry the rest of the time. For most of us that's as far as at goes. Some of us get all hyperfixated and might save the world, though.
> The non unionized would have no recourse regardless.

Depending on the power of the union in negotiations, others may benefit as well.
There's a little book by James Williams titled Stand out of our Light:
Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy that I highly recommend. <https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/stand-out-of-our-light/...> If you're not up for a whole book, however short, Ian Leslie's "The scientists who make apps addictive" is a great primer.<https://www.economist.com/1843/2016/10/20/the-scientists-who...>
And to build on this, take a look at the code change. Currently in llama.cpp there are many techniques for sampling the next token:

llama_sample_token_greedy - just take the top probability

llama_sample_top_k - sample only from the top k probabilities

etc ...

this code change adds a new sample:

llama_sample_grammar - sample only from tokens which match the grammar
I have to run humidification where I am, and that's handled by the hvac which has a humidity control system in it. That has to get serviced yearly, but, other than that it stays between 40-50% without any intervention.

Generally, any HVAC system will dry the air quite a bit, but only when it's running, so if you live in, say, Kentucky, it's likely that if outdoor temp = indoor temp at night, you can have your windows open, and when you close them in the morning, the next day's worth of HVAC usage will take care of any additional humidity without much trouble.

The real downside of that is that you'll have to run your HVAC system harder, because dry air feels cooler than humid air.
So, I’m incredibly enthusiastic about this.

It’s ok if you aren’t, but I am.

Development is easier when we keep more things the same. It saves energy for a Laravel developer to deploy to Mac using the same code, tools, and architectures as their web app. This won’t be true for all mac apps, but certainly will be for some.

Maybe NativePHP turns into a big deal and helps a lot of people deliver great experiences or maybe it doesn’t…but I’m grateful to the team for their effort pushing the boundaries.
When were you hired to the FAANG? There used to be a culture of hiring hackers like you without a second thought, but sadly nowadays my cynical assumption is that most FAANG companies would be too corporate and buttoned-up to even consider it, at least not without needing to cut through some red tape about degree requirements and background checks.
Something I’m wondering lately is if you are generating tokens fast enough, is restricting the logits actually worth it computationally? If tokens are cheap enough it might be more efficient to validate/discard them as they come rather than place constraints on how they come out. I don’t know how this one works, but the sampling or renormalizing scheme would cost something too right?
> The Eureka is no ordinary blueberry. It is large – often the width of a dollar coin.

Okay, what country's dollar? Australia? Canada? The USA? And if the USA, a Sacky, Tony, or Ike? Perhaps the Guardian is returning the favors of US journalists who insist on using measurement units of football fields, swimming pools, and 747s for length, volume, and mass. I expect we will soon see time measurements reported in coffee breaks, Youtube videos, or micro-Tik-Toks.
A decade ago, I literally snorted out my morning coffee when I read "...repetitive and repetitive" the first time. No lasting injury, I'm pleased to report.
why php though?
> We’ve heard a lot about the ways that studios want to reserve the right to use AI — to create endlessly usable digital replicas of actors, to generate scripts that writers will be paid lower rates to fix up.

Does anyone know of ongoing attempts to achieve these kinds of products now? Seems like vaporware right now
One way I look at it is by the time you beat the game for the first time unless you've done quite a bit of side content, you still may not be a high enough level to unlock all of the abilities. You've only seen a fraction of the unique items floating around since most don't even drop until World Tier 3 or 4. You've likely only gotten the chance to play one or two themed builds based around the items which have dropped. You've probably not touched the paragon board or glyphs which can change things up quite significantly and enable a number of other builds that aren't really viable without the boost. I'm "only" level 78 on my main and I'm still upgrading glyphs and working my way through the paragon board. Or I was before the season started, and now I'm playing a fresh barb instead of sorc.

I wouldn't mind more free respec opportunities, but I don't think it's exceptionally expensive. Just verified on my 78 sorc that it would cost just over $1MM gold to reset all of my points. That's maybe 3-4 dungeon runs. However to reroll an attribute at the enchanter, it's now costing me above $1.5MM for a single role, it also requires forgotten souls. Refunding skill points is much cheaper than upgrading end game gear! It also took me an embarrassing amount of time to realize you don't have to reset all skill points. If you right click on a skill it'll remove it one point at a time for under $20k / point.
> I never read the git log.

Well, no, because 1. it's not useful, because 2. most people never write anything useful there (which is a two-part vicious cycle), and 3. editors don't usefully surface it.

If we fix #3; and then individual projects fix #2 for themselves with contribution policies that enforce writing good commit messages; then #1 will no longer be true.

> You can't assume anyone reading the code has access to the commit history or the time to read it.

You can if you're the project's core maintainer/architect/whoever decides how people contribute to your software (in a private IT company, the CTO, I suppose.) You get to decide how to onboard people onto your project. And you get to decide what balance there will be between the amount of time new devs waste learning an impenetrable codebase, vs. the amount of time existing devs "waste" making the codebase more lucid by explaining their changes.

> The codebase itself should contain any important documentation.

My entire point is that commit messages are part of "the codebase" — that "the codebase" is the SCM repo, not some particular denuded snapshot of an SCM checkout. And that both humans and software should take more advantage of — even rely upon! — that fact.
In Australia collective bargaining workplaces unions negotiate the pay structure and benefits for all workers, members or not. This leads to some arguments that non union members benefit from the unions without paying the fees, and indeed, in my mostly white-collar government workplace only about 10% of workers are union members.

Unions mostly exist for unskilled workers (the most replacable) or specialised workers whose skills don't easily transfer elsewhere.
I don't believe any of the HD widevine keys have been revealed.

I would practically guess the keys that did get revealed were deliberately leaked, low stake keys, that keep people still willing use to use widevine platforms at low res without being angry.
Gabor Mate has got a lot of publicity recently but his ideas are (to put it charitably) on the fringe.

I recommend Russell Barkley's youtube videos and books on ADHD if you want to understand the condition and the current research.
> You can get a big dopamine hit from meditation or as a response to stress but you don’t see kids running to Buddhist monasteries in droves or rushing to the stress of public speaking.

Dopamine obviously is a shorthand for a more complex psychological phenomena. While having their own failure modes, meditation or public speaking are not entirely ego-syntonic endeavors, there is a continuous contact with reality that puts your identity into question. Whereas social media has a near perfect psychological profile on its users and manufactures a purpose built personal “reality” that fits with their self concept - however dysfunctional it may be. There may be still frustration but it is still conforming to the user, because the challenge is optimized to drive engagement, not to make the person a better person through contact with reality.
You must have forgotten the "rotating cleartext".

I don't remember how well defined it was in the book, but it sounded like it means the decrypted message could change out from under them, without being decrypted. Like the encryption was itself a running program they had no control over that could be magically updated remotely.

IIRC though, the whole thing ended up being a ruse, a virus made to look like an encrypted message, designed to destroy that specific supercomputer.

Digital Fortress was also the only Dan Brown book I've read, and later when I started college, one of the other students said it was the reason he decided to take Computer Science. I kinda winced and wasn't really sure what to say.
Banking web sites seem alive & fine & well, so unsure what you are trying to claim here.
I guess PHP is native in the same way JS/HTML is native?
"scrum lord"

lol.

Scrum is great when it's run by and for the dev team. As soon as it's co-opted by management as an easy way to 'inspect' performance, as a developer confessional/inquisition, etc, it becomes a living nightmare.
Bongo Bongo Bongo.

I don't see how this particular thing is all that useful however, and you have to keep the nerve cells alive, which, even if it is remarkably more capable, living tissue has its limits.
Has to be apple cider vinegar. It must smell of old apples or something.
FreeWilly 2 is based on Llama 2
Amazon uses amzn.to when their revenue is roughly 1000x the GDP of Tonga.
This post deserved better treatment, along with maybe a couple of metaphorical decerebrated kittens on its doorstep.
I say this as a fan, but to be precise it’s Millennial Mental Health Twittersphere.
That would be a very cool bug zapper.
Alas. If only it were possible to host a Laravel app on the internet.
Love this Groucho Marx quote - just read it recently in Consciousness and the Brain (Dehaene)
Part of why we "hate" him is because he min/maxed the marketing of repetitive plots to the Idiocracy.
They addressed that by making my main class (sorcerer) which was already the weakest class even weaker! I'm sure it'll get tuned relatively quickly, but this patch hit hard.
You are speaking of animal farming. I believe ranching is a huge portion of the deforestation.
I can license my LLM however I want to... but I can't sail this ship to generally-intelligent-Tortooga on me lonesome. Savvy?
What? Why does any of that matter?
if mind respects body, body respects mind
What is the source of the Netflix (a public company) magical tech money?
> Is it really that bad for you, as long as it goes back down to the healthy range soon?

Depends who “you” are, just as for outdoor air quality.
So, take anabolic steroids?

I know that androgens can be neuroprotective in the brain.

(I'm partially kidding, most current anabolic steroids aren't selective enough to be safe for any purpose).
The claim was:

> anything with a wok, just doesn’t work with induction

López-Alt, in the article[1]:

> But for most wok cooking, you don’t need it. There’s plenty of homestyle dishes that don’t have that flavor. For my Wok book tour, I brought around an induction wok cooktop. And it works just fine.

> People have this idea that you can’t cook on a wok without a gas flame. But most of the recipes in my book work just fine without one.

So I think it’s totally fair to say he’d disagree. Not sure how you’d get “incorrect” out of that.

Everything has trade-offs. But on the whole, for most people, induction is going to be a step up over gas just purely as a cooking method. The air quality and climate benefits are a bonus.

[1]: https://archive.li/h1UTf
So then yes, you agree that everyone knows that the weights were released.

Which is the point. No need to play dumb. You are not confused about what was released.
> Not only are you risking bad taste from major missing ingredients like salt, but also ruining things with the wrong temperature/ cooking times.

they are operating under the assumption you are a decent cook. any decent cook will know how to taste for salt and what is safe temperature wise. if you blindly follow instructions you are not a decent cook.
There's been some wishy claims maybe perhaps users-scripting & debugging will be left intact, that the intent here is about other levels.

But there's basically no real actual meat to this specification. It's abstract: it doesn't really say what Web Environment Integrity is, it's up to the browser to determine, and the rules could keep getting more and more and more specific at the browsers leisure.
And then in the call:

User “So since about 8 this morning…”

You “Wait. You knew about this 8 hours ago and only NOW you’re telling us about it, and this needs solving today?”

7 minutes later

You “hey. Found the problem, but unfortunately the fix needs follow up. Can you <perform rest of fix>”

45 minutes later

You “It seems like you’re away. Can you ping me someone else that can do this real quick”

12 hours later

User “hey. Sorry. Thanks, we actually figured it out and we didn’t need to rerun, it turns out.”
The original Space Quest on a CGA monitor ...
Thank you for sharing this! Nothing helps you remember a fact like having been wrong about it in public. :)
Yes, I'm aware. I'm making an analogy to the entire project of journalism. Do you want to argue the point?
From the FAQ

> What kind of formatting can you use in comments?

> http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc