skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even then you need to see when your firm is pivoting to something new and make sure you are in that new area before the pivot. This is hard, most companies try many new things, and only rarely decide to give up on a profitable venture just because it isn't the future.
That was really intense. I remember seeing this clip a few years ago and thinking, "there's a lot of attention to detail here, but why do the jets appear to be F-15s with canards on them"? It seemed like a random detail to get wrong. Little did I know that was meant to be a derivative of the F-15 STOL/MTD, which is actually an amazingly plausible guess of future technology.
Your argument here boils down to 'we shouldn't care if it's created in a lab, because even if it were, the benefits of studying viruses outweigh the risk'. It's funny that you accuse others of being 'armchair experts', when you yourself are being an armchair expert on the topic of the risk/benefit analysis of gain-of-function research. Moreover, your idea is even more dangerous because it necessitates that there will never be any expertise in this area. If no one investigates whether this was a lab leak, we'll never be able to put together proper research and data to answer the question of whether the benefits outweigh the risks of gain-of-function research.

The main purpose behind determining if it's a lab leak is not to 'make jumps'. It's so that we know. It's important we know because it's how science and policy get done. Putting our fingers in our ears and covering our eyes and pretending it doesn't matter is irresponsible.

> We've still not proven that COVID was a lab-leak, so we're attempting to say that something that otherwise has a very safe record is dangerous based on what might have happened.

How is anyone supposed to prove or even provide evidence of such a thing if China doesn't cooperate? And that's really the reason this has exploded. China is not cooperating. No one knows, and that's suspicious.

Even if, as you say, all indicators point to gain-of-function research being useful, I think we should all be able to agree that labs that are not open to being investigated by international, neutral bodies should not be involved in conducting them. The possibility of cover ups is too great.
Yep, I think the wording might be "caused to be delivered".
Yep from what I have seen of the recent tech layoffs few, if any, have included the leadership responsible for the poor hiring decisions that created the headcount they now say is a problem.
We've been primarily OSS, so free.

We do have Tier Cloud with customers actively using it, but it has been invite only so far. It's a fair point though and I think we can put pricing up now in advance of making it publicly available.
The phrasing of "educate" (not to mention "normies") definitely implies a patronizing and unhelpful approach. I don't think technical people should go around giving unsolicited lectures to people they perceive as lacking technical expertise. However, I don't think there's anything wrong with technical people sharing what we know in a respectful way to people who are actually interested in a way that accounts for their needs. For example, if a social group you're in is deciding what messaging app to use to coordinate meeting up, it would be appropriate to share what you know about the various options' end-to-end encryption. But going on a rant about the privacy issues of a social media app because a distant relative mentioned it offhandedly probably isn't productive.

By analogy, I wouldn't mind a friend with medical training sharing what they know about heatstroke prevention to a group of us before we embark on an hike. I would mind them giving me nutrition advice based solely on what I ordered at a restaurant.

(Edited to fix wording)
Harmless fun? If you're able to empathize and have a bit of social anxiety Frasier is the most high stakes show ever.

The brothers get themselves into the stupidest situations, make asses of themselves, and never come out on top. Its the opposite of Seinfeld( great show).
I've got agree with your comment about the business stakeholders. The uncertainties around pricing and (at the moment) the even trickier problem of price increases can lead to inaction.
I love the incongruity between the source material (a sitcom about and popular among middle-aged, middle-class types) and the media format (a video game). This reminds me of the scene in the film Waiting for Guffmann where a character runs a shop selling Remains of the Day lunchboxes and My Dinner with Andre action figures.
No I didn't. I'm wondering how putting someone that is arguably a smart entrepreneur behind jail for 5 year is going to better our society.

We need to think about the bigger picture and how this fits into rehabilitation.
Alternatively, you could just make it so that people are taken to sqword.com instead: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/580669/redirect-parent-w...
Both legally and morally, intent matters far more than these technical details.
gonna pretend i don't know what this is lol

same for hotlinking images, too
That's wild. Personally, I see that (cyclists hiring police officers for route clearing) as a _valid_ implementation of this. Churches/neighborhoods hiring off-duty police officers daily just ease congestion? Seems like a stretch to use publicly funded resources, to me.
TW-Bert: End-to-End Query Term Weighting
How to cheat stats: common statistical tests are linear models
99% of mules are sterile. And I'm not sure what the current debate on viruses and prions is. It's a difficult question to generalize.
What evidence has science presented to disprove those two claims?

And with what evidence does science support the claim that things went from not existing to existing with no outside intervention?
N.B.: I am not a biblical scholar. I just read way too much. That said, in addition to what pacaro wrote...

Where we get the date of many of these manuscripts from is some combination of how and where they were found, in this tome's case the custodial history helps, but also the writing style, use of particular idiomatic language, or word/grammar utilization. Mentions of specific events or pieces of information that may have a known point in history also help, because obviously a material cannot predate an event that hasn't yet occurred. Often works cite others that have more well-established provenance or are themselves cited elsewhere.

Carbon dating helps, but because of material reuse it's sometimes unreliable (and obviously can be faked with enough money to purchase/reuse ancient materials, as you pointed out in your earlier comment). In the case of this manuscript, I would find this possibility to be rather unlikely due simply to the volume (ahem) of materials used. Given also that it is mostly a commentary on what appears to be based on the LXX the motivation for faking it is much less.

Here are a couple of sources that might help:

https://textandcanon.org/four-ways-scholars-date-early-hebre...

https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/stewart_don/faq/words-b...

One example of the use of idiomatic language as a dating tool that comes to mind: It is one of reasons why the precise dating of the book of Daniel is a somewhat problematic topic. Its use of specific vocabulary wasn't known in any extant works at the time of the earlier date, suggesting it was either authored later or saw edits/redactions by the time of the Babylonian exile. Exhilic and post-exhilic edits aren't entirely unknown in much of the OT, so that's always a possibility. My personal opinion reading the body of literature surrounding Daniel is that it is likely an edited work around a much more ancient core (6th century BC), but I'm always open to other arguments.

I suspect the age of this manuscript is accurate and isn't a later contrivance.

Welcome to the world of textual criticism!
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Any benefit from research of gain of function research is clearly outweighed by risk of lab leak. I.e if the estimated incremental realized benefit of better planning, better mitigation from a single gain of function research equaled X; the cost of a lab leak seems to be 100X~10,000X.
It's actually quite incredible how Fraisers plot lines work so well as an RPG. The random tasks, the sneaking, the subterfuge all for low stakes games.

It's also an interesting coherent world they made for the sitcom so the many locations can be expended to the Opera, the Symphony, Wine Club and on and on. I would pay for these 'episodes'!
The latter, take home projects I do well on (projects, not HackerRank quizzes)
Excerpt:
In 2020 the UK government commissioned a study on the economic and technological feasibility of space solar power. The study concluded that the total cost to develop and deploy the first 2GW space-based solar power station would be roughly £16bn — substantially less than the latest £33bn estimate for Britain’s newest nuclear power station at Hinkley Point, which is set to produce 3.2GW. Once the first solar station was up and running, subsequent power generating satellites would cost less than £4bn each, the study estimated.
Perhaps I am one of a small group but it still irritates me how politicized the origins of COVID were. It should never have been that way and it should never happen again. Lab leak, deliberate act, accident, or a mutation in the wild, the origins should have been rigorously challenged and pursued no matter the consequence.
I don’t think it relies on middle management being useless.

Eg, “spans and layers” optimization specifically targets middle management, while there’s not really a similar lever for ICs alone (maybe automation? But you prob get rid of managers there too)
https://lithub.com/what-to-make-of-isaac-asimov-sci-fi-giant...

https://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2020/01/08/isaac-asimov-p...

https://daily.jstor.org/asimovs-empire-asimovs-wall/

...and those are just the first few that came up on Google. I'm too sad to look for more... :-(
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Sheng Wang about buying clothes in Costco:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3xGkJDqUfw
Imagine you were distributing my work without permission and in retaliation I emailed you gross-out sexually explicit imagery. That would both be a crime and be unethical by current standards.

OP is not emailing people, but it is the same thing: revenge using explicit imagery. Except not only might the people behind the sites see the image but their visitors which probably include minors will too.
Land Value Taxes are different. Nobody produces land so taxing it doesn't add to production costs and there is no deadweight loss. The economic burden of the tax falls only upon the land owner (in their role as a land owner) and cannot effectively be passed onto tenants. Land value is an economic rent which is arguably what we should tax more of and reduce taxes on consumption and income.
First of all, I love this. I love the scene, and I love the breakdown. I learned a lot. I had no idea about the level of accuracy... that is so cool.

There's one thing that feels unrealistic to me, based on what I've learned from this military aviator-turned-YouTuber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrBPshC_84s&list=PLObcJkVHai...

One thing he always points out is that during actual military operations, friendly jets fly in very wide formations, ie the planes might be a mile apart in the sky. Never in the tight "fingertip" sort of formation seen here @ 1:28 in Patlabor 2:

https://youtu.be/JnOfNQ9VWo0?t=88

There are various reasons for this - safety, not wanting to present a bunched up target to the enemy, you and your wingmen can cover a greater area with your eyes and radars, etc.

(Of course, I also don't mind when movies/anime take some liberties. Obviously, multiple friendly planes in a tight formation just looks cooler. I get it! I'm only mentioning it in the context of examining that scene w.r.t. realism)
Yeah, nah. You're conflating certainty with risk.

Crazy virus comes from where said crazy viruses are literally made and studied.

Occams Razor suggests a lot, but more importantly, smart risk management dictates that you treat the lab as if it is the source; absent some sort of clear risk-related reason that these experiments are likely to do more good than harm.

So I suppose the correct question is -- what are we getting from these labs that's worth the risk of leaks?
>> youre not here to decide what problems to solve, youre here to solve the problems the product team wants solved they get all upset and moody

> Please be very up front that you hold this view when recruiting, it will be better for everyone. This may need to be an "agree to disagree" situation, but my experience goes completely the opposite direction of what you're suggesting here.

Also, there are both types of companies out there! There are places where "engineering" means "implement what the Product Manager dreams up" and other places where it means "you define the product and implementation." Find the company that works best for your expectations. Some people like having a PM do all the ideation and just sit back and program what's in the requirements doc. Others feel put in a box in that environment. Both types of companies exist.
I didn't feel the need to enumerate everything a DOS emacs doesn't have that GNU emacs does.
Actually a lot of people can still use it if they pay for points on a mortgage. The upfront cost of the points is treated as mortgage interest for tax purposes.
I haven't read much in the last year that didn't consider it extremely likely. The lab was receiving funding from other nations including the US, so I don't think hatred specifically and only for China is rational, but being rational is so cliche. What is 100% accepted and documented is that the lab in question had a history of repeated leaks and failures to follow protocol. When a Chinese nuke plant doesn't follow protocols other nations use, that is one thing, but given global ramifications, it seems like even otherwise adversarial nations could agree on a set of safeguards for such labs and enforce them. That is assuming the aluminium fedora crowd are wrong and it wasn't like that scene in goonies where they hand Chunk a picture frame they want broken knowing he isn't very coordinated.
I think parent meant:

Assuming tenure is defined ONLY for those who have already left, 2 years is a bad sign. For a 3 year old company, if that definition is used, it is indeed pretty bad. It means that _of the people who are leaving_, people stay a couple of years, then bounce. This means people stick around long enough to get past the warmup of new employment, get used to your stack and tech, then bounce for greener pastures.

The very important metric this leaves out though is what percentage of the company actually left. If there's 7 people in this 3 year old company and only one person left last year . . . that says almost nothing. Any single person can leave for a great variety of reasons. You'd need a decent sample for this to matter.

The flip side definition of "tenure" is worth considering though: if the average tenure of 2 years includes people still working at the company, there are a lot more variables to content with before you can know anything. A 3 year old company could have an average employee of it have been working there for 2 years and not a single person who joined the company having ever left (e.g. if at year 1 there was a decent amount of hiring). I think this is probably why parent wanted to restrict the definition (and why it's worth thinking about this angle) - because otherwise the company ramp up and trajectory and hiring patterns become hidden variables and you can't glean anything out of the tenure numbers on their own.
> There's no "guarantee" but there's an increased probability

This is part of the problem. If you work hard but don’t benefit, you’ve essentially fucked yourself because then you’ll get assigned more, you’ll be stuck carrying a bunch of people. Even if you factor in comp increases, how do you know there’s a net benefit to working hard? (specifically for your employer, on your own time is a different story)

It isn’t blind “probability”, it essentially turns into this little psychological game where management dangles promotions in front of people to manipulate them into doing more than is needed

> coupled with a good employee's ability to move to an employer that values someone like them.

Hasn’t aged well in the current job market
I’d say having some experience in the area that extreme grief can really affect someone in profound ways.

Not making excuses for someone whom I don’t know or understand, but the toxic soup and paranoia associated with where and the nature of his work combined with what seems to a hard loss is a recipe for the type of mental anguish that might explain some of those behaviors.
Yeah... "you are not Google". Web apps that need huge perf are almost an anomaly in the web dev industry.
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still time for the 50 under 50!
> The future is grim and to be honest I would just rather they came out in the open and acknowledged the fact that democracy and privacy as we know it is dead.

That's overcooked. We've only had strong end-user crypto(graphy) for about 20 years; you can still have private conversations, whether in a field or in a private space that you are sure isn't bugged. This is no worse than it was 20 years ago. "Democracy [...] is dead" is a counsel of despair.
I have certainly not heard of any new evidence that would change my view that it was not caused by a lab-leak yet. My impression is that the market animal to human jump was still the prevailing theory.
> We've still not proven that COVID was a lab-leak

We also haven't proven it wasn't a lab leak.

> so we're attempting to say that something that otherwise has a very safe record is dangerous based on what might have happened.

I'm not sure how good the record really is[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity...
IPv4 addresses are like Socks. You can never have too many...
Really cool and interesting way to utilize satellite communications. Excited to see these applications starting to take shape.
I'd definitely recommend the Patlabor TV show if "slice of life, police procedural with mechs" is something that feels attractive to you.
Certain gain of function experiments, e.g. modifying an animal virus to be able to infect humans could create viruses that might behave very similar to SARS-CoV2 if leaked. We now know more about the potential consequences of such a leak, we have a full-blown pandemic as a benchmark.

If those experiments have a chance to repeat a similar pandemic, I don't think any of them are worth that risk.
> That's because it is unsafe

Safety and freedom are natural enemies.
> Bring a side project, show us how it works.

"As you can see, it's based on a I-IV-V chord progression..."

"Usually I try to take advantage of the negative space, but it's not cheating to add a little white gouache in spots like this..."

"...and here you can see that I did more than 12 reps, so next time I'll up the weight."

"When she makes that face she might be pooping. If you ask her and she says 'HHHNNNNNO!' she's trying to hold it in, so bring her knees up like so..."
I disagree. I don't know what day it is, have to check and I dont want to run this computation even if I knew without checking. Likely this is preference thingy, you prefer precise, I prefer convenient.
> makes housing more affordable

There’s a lot of variables at play on house prices: desirability, location, space, build cost

What legislation can make housing more affordable ?
I will attempt to reproduce the results.
So Elon musk works remote out of his 50k shack in boca chia, paying no tax. Tech employees live in some beautiful remote locations and pay no tax.

Meanwhile, blue collar workers tied to living in urban centers pick up the bill.

Lvt would completely decouple income from tax burden
Because he’s a criminal cheating society out of public goods for personal gain? What has accelerationism done to your mind?
> I find most Americans overestimate how 'dangerous' Brazil seems to be

Similar experience traveling to Mexico, felt safer walking around Merida & Progresso (on the Yucatan) at night than I feel walking around lots of US cities during the day.
I'm pretty sure if you have to commit wire fraud to build your business, you can't really claim to be that great an entrepreneur.
There is a morphological difference between a dead eye and a living one that adequately explains the difference in function. The morphological difference is that the living eye has oxygenated blood pumping through its live cells.

If I can't tell the difference between a cat and a rock re: life, I just suspect my language premises, or my definition of living, not my materialistic premises. Life should be an elusive concept, it's an arbitrary, unclear and problematic abstraction.
I do not think C's UB is damaging. As I said, you instruct the compiler to insert a trap and then it is not unsafe.

Example: https://godbolt.org/z/Kvrrx19Pa

The UB in the spec is exactly what makes safe use possible without enforcing it everywhere, which is not feasible for C.
> That doesn't happen to conservative slogans.

They've had their moments too. "Read my lips: no new taxes","Whip inflation now","Lock Her Up","Strong and stable","In your heart, you know he's right", "Drill, baby, drill"
You wrote a lot of words and provided zero evidence.

> Which makes it weird if you ask me for evidence that God exists, sort of like asking how you know science works.

This is not at all weird to me! If you ask me how I know science works, I can point to countless thousands of studies and experiments, which result in data, which can be reproduced (if they're good experiments), and which clearly comport with the reality around us. I can also point to older scientific experiments that were incomplete or otherwise flawed, and the newer experiments which showed that the explanations offered in those prior studies were not sufficient to explain what we see in reality. This is how I know science works.

> Whoever wrote that [the bible] is someone I want to follow.

The bible is full of savage and senseless violence, slavery and proclamations for how to own people as property (and instructions to slaves for how to behave), and other moral horrors. What is wrong with you? The fact that you mentioned this as the first bit of "evidence" (it isn't evidence, by the way, it's a book) is sad.

edit: a few responses to other nonsense in your post:

> is committing a very similar intellectual sin to the the pandemic fearer

What is an "intellectual sin"?

> evidence is not why people believe or resist belief - the evidence is good, faith is the default, skepticism means something is going on and it's almost never about evidence

[citation needed]

> Lee Strobel's Case For Christ is excellent, and is even available in movie format. There's another one about C.S Lewis

lol

> Zero faith is a wall that can't be gotten over with evidence

[citation needed]

Speaking only for myself, if you presented to me objective, verifiable facts consistent with the existence of the chrsitian god, I would absolutely change my belief regarding the existence of that god!

> But there is a test to look for the real issue. You can pray - something along the lines of, "God, if you're there, I'd like to know - show me." I think people from a zero faith perspective generally react to that proposition, not with the rational "lol what's the point?" but with more of a "No way, no how, absolutely not!"

My reaction to this is actually neither of those, it's "okay, great, let's test prayer to see if it works!" Fortunately, many people have already done that, and it results in outcomes no better than random chance.

In general there are a bunch of attempts in your post to tie faith to emotion, which is weird to me. I believe things when there is sufficient evidence to warrant them, and emotion does not factor into my decision to believe or not believe some claim.