skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hasn't there been lots of evidence in the past year suggesting that Covid was created in a lab? If we were to go down this path:

1. Covid created in a lab (not proven, but high enough probability to be considered a reasonable option):

https://oversight.house.gov/release/covid-origins-hearing-wr...

2. If Covid was created in a lab, this de-facto means that Covid has potential as a biological weapon. I don't see how this could be framed any other way. Even if researching novel viruses is in good faith, it doesn't eliminate the reality that they will always have inherit value as biological weapons.

3. Can someone explain to me why there isn't an extremely aggressive campaign to pin down:
a. Where it came from
b. All parties involved in it's funding and creating
c. Passing laws and sanctions to eliminate further continuation of said research. If it was done by China, then they should publicly be held accountable and action should be taken until that is done by all countries.

In this line of assuming Covid was created in a lab, it was one of the most devastating events to the human race in recent history. Many people died and many more people will likely suffer from effects of long covid. It completely warped the global economy.

Is there no attempt at pinning this down and holding people accountable because it can't be proven that it was lab created 100%?

There's a million lesser events every single day that seemingly get more time, money, and energy spent on holding people accountable for infinitely smaller mistakes, accidents, and wrong doings.
>In a modern implementation one of these call-less people can be chosen at random and displayed on a big screen, to increase their chances.

Oh boy, can't wait for the jumbo-tron to project my failure to attract dates to everyone. Seems like a great idea.
How do you, or "you" as the industry, decide that new code and new techniques are worth moving away from existing code?
You really should read the whole work before citing it.
A lot of jobs are for sure.

We are back to the trend where any job posted for remote gets 10-20x the resumes of a local job.

For sure the balance has shifted a bit, but I don't think it is as dramatic as some say.
Client certs don't guarantee that there is not a rootkit running in kernel space sniffing session tokens, other credentials or data in general from user-space memory.

Attestation does a reasonably well job at that, as you now need a kernel or bootloader exploit.
Seriously, a VAT registered a not having an accountant tool that costs £10/month? This tool is clearly for freelancers.

For context, to charge VAT in the UK, you need to earn more than £85k/year
It's not about not giving people breaks, it's about unknowingly breaking laws.

My wife is my only second shooter so obviously she's treated well, or she wouldn't do it. In my contract is the clause that we can't be subjected to dangerous working conditions, and a few weeks ago I had a wedding where I absolutely needed to take a break to sit in the shade and drink.
Alright let's say that's how it is. How happy would everyone else be if they were treated like that even if they weren't like that? I'd be right miffed and I ain't no einstein. My problem is saying it's a good thing to *remove* options just because some people don't know how to use it. Use that kinda logic for other stuff and you'd paint yourself in a corner with a very angry hornet trapped in it, so not the kind of thing you want to encourage if you assume you'd end up the one trapped. I don't know if my message is comin across right do you get me?
We must be entering some strange perverted era where "skepticism" is a poisoned, dirty word, because not too long ago this would've been considered an insane proposition to be welcomed in by insane people. I'm inclined to give a layman's diagnosis: A whole generation, maybe two, raised with almost no suspicion of power...except when the conformist narrative permits performative suspicion.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make?

Expanding roadways are an example of induced demand, which means that for some class of things, as it gets cheaper (or qualitatively better/less costly, as in the example of traffic), more people consume it by shifting preferences from alternatives, and in the end it's just as pricey (or qualitatively poor) as before. Is your point that as housing gets cheaper in a place, more people will be housed and eventually the equilibrium goes back higher?

If so, isn't that the goal? More people are still housed than before.
> the execs are just useful idiots for the globalist agenda at this point

What does "globalist agenda" mean?
I was thinking more of a secondary passive reading done by a computer in the background to catch the simple cases where the plane is unusually light for the entered distance.
Nothing creepy about this....
I'm looking for some input on a identity resolution software I'm building out. I'd love to hear from you guys about what you would expect, looking for, and more.

The survey is short and sweet, for those that complete it we're giving a lifetime 30% discount on the software when we go live & first dibs on getting access!

Thank you in advance!
Here's EPIC's statement on why Worldcoin is a "potential privacy nightmare":

>Worldcoin is a potential privacy nightmare that offers a biometrics-dependent vision of digital identity and cryptocurrency, and would place Sam Altman’s Tools for Humanity company at the center of digital governance. Worldcoin’s approach creates serious privacy risks by bribing the poorest and most vulnerable people to turn over unchangeable biometrics like iris scans and facial recognition images in exchange for a small payout. Mass collections of biometrics like Worldcoin threaten people’s privacy on a grand scale, both if the company misuses the information it collects, and if that data is stolen. Ultimately, Worldcoin wants to become the default digital ID and a global currency without democratic buy-in at the start, that alone is a compelling reason not to turn over your biometrics, personal information, and geolocation data to a private company. We urge regulatory agencies around the world to closely scrutinize Worldcoin.

https://epic.org/epic-statement-on-privacy-risks-of-worldcoi...
"A win" just means a skirmish was won, not that the war was won. It's a good thing to celebrate successes, even small ones, especially when you're the underdog.
Ask HN: Where do you discuss computer related stuff now?
With so many twitter alternatives, the death of forums, the explosion of chats / video platforms and the reddit shenanigans, we are once again facing this decades old question.

So far, only Hacker News has stood the test of time, and you cannot really discuss random topics, it's more about link sharing. "Ask HN" is not the main dish, so to speak, and the heavy curating that keeps the quality up also limit the volume of interactions by design.

So where do you go when you want to geek out?
Every day. Paradoxically putting it at the exact bottom makes it easy to find if you know what you're looking for. Compare it to the search function at the Apple App store which they really don’t want you to find.
>Charlemagne had two, a split that still shows in Europe to this day.

Charlemagne passed the entire empire to Louis the Pious, and Louis the Pious had three heirs that split the empire. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Verdun
Yes but no. If google wanted to force Mozilla to do anything they could switch default search providers with someone else who will pay them about the same relatively easily.
Why is printf() style debugging supposed to be a bad thing if done properly? Are you of the opinion that one is supposed to use either/or of these approaches rather than using each approach for different situations to supplement each other?
Did they try to make the scanner look as creepy as possible?
To be fair, that question was written during a period when "how do I parse this html with regular expressions" was asked multiple times per day. And "regular expressions are not a reasonable tool to do that, use a parser" was the correct response to 99% of them. And, at some point, someone decided to throw out a more amusing version of that response. It _was_ funny at the time.
From https://www.protocol.com/browser-company

> Agrawal decided early on not to try and rebuild the whole browser stack, and based Arc on Chromium like everyone else.

Ladybird this ain't. More like YACI (yet another chromium implementation).
Mongoose Prototype Pollution Vulnerability (CVE-2023-3696)
mongoose is quite a popular javascript library for accessing mongodb.

a new vulnerability was discovered a few days ago where prototype pollutions were easily possible
And examples of a sugar tax working as intended exist today. The beverage choices available at a convenience store in London are drastically different than what is available at my local store here in the states. The majority of space is given to lightly flavored waters. Some of the difference is potentially a difference in preference, but even the US style sodas contain far less sugar (and in my opinion taste better).
that yoe != knowing more or having the right answer
You simply get so much of your life back not having to think about clothing or commuting and being able to throw in the laundry at lunch and get 5o work with a much broader selection of people.
> What do you want me to do that can credibly solve this problem?

Educate yourself, and educate others. Fight ignorance and consumerism. Fight those who're making it worse.

> Clearly almost anything I can do as an individual is not going to have any kind of influence

Those in a position of power would like you to believe that. Because this viewpoint preserves the status quo.

All social justice movements in history started with a few individuals loudly demanding changes while being ridiculed by the masses, whose own lives they were trying to improve.

A tsunami is made up of many drops together. Be the change you want to see in the world, and all of that.

> we must know that it has a reasonable chance of success

We now know that nobody will solve it for us, certainly not the politicians or the corporations, until we loudly start demanding change. Meanwhile, we should prepare for the worst while simultaneously trying to prevent the worst from happening.

It may not work out in the end, as shown in the movie 'Don't Look Up.' The protagonists are sitting after the lost fight, having dinner while the extinction event is happening. Their last words (if I remember correctly) are: "I'm glad we tried.".
What banks really care about is ticking a liability box. If it screws over a bunch of users then they won't care, because every other bank will be doing the same.

Or in other words: phone banking in western countries is a joke, because the people that might've popularized it were shut out of the system before it gained popularity.
Handful of comments on 2022 article, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36850993
Some people (namely the EAs) care because they don't want AI to kill us.

Another reason is to understand how our models make important decisions. If we one day use models to help make medical diagnoses or loan decisions, we'd like to know why the decision was made to ensure accuracy and/or fairness.

Others care because understanding models could allow us to build better models.
After I wrote this yesterday (partially) about the California Bullet Train (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36843136) I got to musing about what all that money could buy. It does relate to the topic of public/private ownership.

Amtrak already offers passenger rail from SF to LA. It takes 10 hours and uses tracks that are mainly used for freight, and much of the roadbed is single track, too narrow, and too low-quality to support 200 mph trains.

However: we're talking $100+ billion here! With that, you could buy a controlling interest in Union Pacific ($123 billion market cap), kick the freight to the side (), and fix the roadbed. It also wouldn't have to go through the San Joaquin Valley.

Freight: what to do with it? Well, with all that money, you could do something. I'm not a railroad engineer.
I said a police report, meaning the driver would report it to the police. Not that they'd catch them in the act.
You can probably squeeze about a half an hour out of the current DC-Boston train time without spending a dime on infrastructure, simply by running trains more efficiently (especially in western Connecticut where I'd swear they're dispatching intercity trains behind the local commuter train given how pokey it goes).

Outside of that, there's probably about 100 miles of track that can support 220mph speed limits in current right-of-way (large sections in MA, MD, and RI). Adopting better trainsets (switch to EMUs from locomotive-hauled) and rebuilding track to higher speed limit standards would help there. The track from about Kingston, RI to New Rochelle, NY basically needs dedicated HSR. You can, for the most part, use the existing I-95 ROW for this, and east of New Haven, there's basically no takings you have to consider; west of New Haven, you need to do a lot more takings for curve straightening, and that is going to be an eminent domain disaster.
They may appreciate that competition between the operators is a mechanism to support efficiency and progress in infrastructure. Each rail operator wants people visiting their malls, building near their stations, and in working towards that, they improve their systems.
Lots of work advertised as 'remote' ends up as several days in the office anyway. Also note that companies that are not 'full remote' may well revert their stance on this and go back to a butts-in-seats arrangement whenever they feel like. Some do this as a way to do lay-offs without announcing them as such. Companies that have a full-remote culture are usually much less likely to do this. A good way to gauge this is if the person that is hiring you is themselves remote during the hiring process.
I don't know why they don't have a proper blog, but you might find these links helpful:

https://browsercompany.substack.com/archive

https://www.youtube.com/@TheBrowserCompany
Parents and environmentalists are, apparently.
Not really possible without Web Bluetooth, which Apple won't do.

https://caniuse.com/web-bluetooth
Mojo is pretty cool but its a difficult road to take - especially to implement the breadth of accrued functionality of a 20 year old language like Python.

Elixir & Python are not an apples to apples comparison - there are fundamental differences in the programming model (functional, immutability, etc) and runtime (preemptive scheduling + OTP) that is the reason it has distinct advantages not available without heavy cost trade-offs elsewhere.

Either way once Mojo is production ready Elixir will be able to use it as well like it does Rust, Zig, or Python.
True, but virtualization is big enough (including Microsoft's own Windows365 offerings) that passing "trust" down into VMs will be done. And with SEV there isn't even a way to tamper with things after the attestation process has been completed.
Yeah. Living in SF, where self-driving cars are a constant daily sight, I recently went back and read a HN thread from five years ago with comments like, “I work in the industry. There’s no way you’re going to be seeing them in 5-10 years.”

Someone should do a roundup of these kind of posts: the Dropbox announcement, etc
for context, raymond wrote significant parts of windows going back to the 80s, and tveita knows that
Even if you run a hobby site it's way easier to do so with attestation. Especially if that attestation will allow you to uniquely identify the device making a request. It will end DDOS and make bans much stickier than they are today making all sorts of problematic content easier to deal with.

IMHO, there won't be a split like this if attestation or similar proposals come to pass. Simply put the number of problems that come with anonymous users dwarf whatever legitimate benefits that anonymity provides. Everyone will build sites using it because of the problems they solve. And they will ignore the segment that refuses to use them because that segment will be small and a significant chunk of them will use that anonymity to do bad things you don't want on your site.
There are thousands of examples of proteins that are less than 50% identical, yet fold into exactly the same shapes and catalyze exactly the same chemical reaction. Biological systems are extremely robust to change. And remember, self replicating systems do not only produce one output, they may produce millions. If only one of those million preserves the critical features, things can continue to evolve.
This might earn them the Dijkstra Prize -- or somebody else building on top of this will earn it.
> getting totally rid off Google is hard

Sometimes impossible in my case. Google Drive is always used in any collaborative project; so is Google Colab and Google Meet. And I still have the instinctual drive to reach for Google Translate/Maps, because it's so easy to access (physically and mentally).

Google google google google google...
It's not that I'm cool with the Pocket bullshit. It's just that I can't bring myself to more than a shrug when I put it next to Google or Microsoft.

I mean, Chrome (including Chromium, IIRC) literally collects and ships a bunch of tracking data to Google THE FIRST FUCKING TIME YOU LAUNCH THE APPLICATION.

Context matters. If Firefox did the Pocket nonsense in an environment where we had multiple decent free (as in freedom) browsers, then I'd grab my pitchfork. As it stands, I just can't feel the righteous indignation your comment is trying to rouse. It's truly NOTHING compared to the other options.
And no wonder they think that when they ignore all of the benefits of doing v6 and only look at the costs _and_ ignore all of the costs of staying exclusively v4.

If you have a web store, subscriptions or ads, you'll have conversion metrics. Even small changes in your website's page load time (just hundreds of milliseconds) can have noticeable impacts on these metrics, and therefore on your income. Facebook say they see 10-15% faster page loads[1] on v6, so not having it is costing you money.

[1] https://engineering.fb.com/2015/09/14/networking-traffic/ipv...

If you don't have v6, you have to do everything on v4. In practice that inevitably means dealing with RFC1918 and NAT, which means dealing with split DNS, VPNs, RFC1918 clashes and cross-NATing, and all the other problems which come with all that. That costs engineer time and therefore money.

Most companies don't even know how much these two points are costing them. How can you balance this against the cost of doing v6 when you don't even know one of the values you're balancing?

Most parts of v6 deployment should happen as part of your regular work: you shouldn't need to replace equipment specially for v6 because you should be buying v6-capable equipment as part of normal procurements, and you should be configuring v6 when you configure v4, and so on. So why is v6 deployment its own special project with its own budget, when the costs of v4 are rolled up into your regular budget and treated as if they're zero?

Put all of this together and you end up with an incredible and unjustified bias against v6.
> With over 40k users, sending even a single campaign was becoming expensive with MailChimp.

You could always move to Brevo (formerly sendinblue) or Mailjet, it'd be cheap.

If you're sending 40k emails/mo it'd be €29-38 or €45 at Mailjet(50k)
[2] is really good. Thank you. Baby steps to being a better designer.
"What do I (Vitalik Buterin) think about biometric proof of personhood?" - https://vitalik.ca/general/2023/07/24/biometric.html - Has a bunch of alternatives and more thinking about the problem.

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36849277
Mastodon is good for various forms of geekery, eg energy, computing...
I thought this was the 1.0 release for the scheme that Hacker News was built on at first lol.
Cumin is a northern thing.

Also curry is basically an orientalized term for a soup or stew. If Chorba or Borscht are soups, then most curries are as well.
There are some major qualifiers to this study:

1) The ages and BMI:

> The median age was 45 years (IQR 37–54) and median BMI was 29·8 kg/m2

2) The diagnosis of long COVID-19 was done by survey — this has been shown to be an unreliable method of assessing persistent symptoms of disease. This is in part because people will tell you they have symptoms if you give them a cause and ask. The diversity of the claimed presentation of symptoms is an indicator (e.g. > 50 different symptoms by article-in-support [1])

3) The hazard ratio 95% confidence interval extends to 0.99 when treatment is started within three days. This is not a strong result. 1.0 is no effect.

[1] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/symptom-burden-sur...
Algolia does not work on my Blackberry (as well as 99% of Internets, HN is a rare exception). I use the search heavily typically for founding my comments which might consist some interesting ideas for some further discussions. Also sometimes I enter something like "vim" or "lisp" and getting lost into tons of fruitful discussions. I have never used google even occasionally for searching stuff on HN.
what does the copy website do, that would attract attention and give it reason shift blame to the original site?
I am old. I find what you wrote resonates with my SO experience, and, in my antiquity, I wonder, grumpily, why "RTFM" isn't faster than stack overflow, and i think the answer is the quality of the manuals to 'freaking' read has decreased. I'm just old enough to realize the Unix manpages were excellent in proprietary Unixes, and then the Linux manpages got complicated by some emacs based reader. Anyway, Unix manpages used to be a quality go-to in order to answer questions, BSD and Sun (BSD and SysV variants) and NeXT and Sequent etc. I'm still inclined to do that, but it's not always adequate.
How far away do you sit from it and how curved is it (if at all)?
1. Very well could have been.

2. Virologists have legitimate reasons for wanting to study more dangerous forms of viruses before they appear in the wild.

3. China.
Germany raids climate piggy bank for €20B to bankroll chip fabs
I love Tesla. The fact that it comes with various adapters makes it super easy to configure and extend. It also comes with its own mock module, so testing requests is a breeze as well.
What about the patients getting unnecessary treatments? How upset should they be? What about the student expelled for AI plagiarism due to a false reading? These things are unreliable, and despite an infinite amount of caveats there is no way to prevent people from over relying on it. We might as well dunk people in the water to see if they float.

That’s a weird kind of extortion, a demand that we placate a subset of the population to the detriment of others. If a conflict came down to people who understand stats versus those blind to it I would put my money on those who understand stats.
Sure. I also have a young daughter in daycare so I've had a cold about every 2 months for the past year and a half. Obviously those haven't been as bad as the two times I had COVID, but we don't really know if that means long term effects are less likely...and people get a lot of colds.
Is water as important as carbon in climate change?
From the article, "while incorrectly labeling the human-written text as AI-written 9% of the time."

Seems like from what the article we're talkin about says it definitely ain't worse than random by far. Thing you most want to avoid is wrongly labeling humans as AI-written so that seems pretty good. Though it only identified 26% of AI text as "likely AI-written" that's still better than nothing, and better than random. But we don't know or I don't know from the article if that's on the problem cases of less than 1,000 characters or not. It don't say what the *best case* is just what the general cases are.

Anyhow don't seem to me worse than random is the issue here