skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The lab leak theory is informed by racist undercurrents"

The language used here is indicative. Few native English speakers would ever deploy a racist undercurrent when a perfectly decent overtone exists to do the job properly. An undercurrent is covert and an overtone is overt. The allegations are largely overt.

It turns out that most large Chinese cities are home to labs that study coronaviruses and virus outbreaks occur rurally ... anyway the article is now obviously bollocks, through over editing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_lab_leak_theory - click on View History, hit the 500 entry link and you will only go back to February this year!

You do get to view the complete history of this article. You can watch it churn, revision by revision. There must be a paper in there or two - just on the revision history of a WP article.

Start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=COVID-19_lab_leak...
Thank you!

I guess I will have to admit I did not examine the figures…
I tried looking a bit, and couldn't figure it out either.

I thought the redshift value was typically given in the designation of these ultra-distant objects (e.g. GN-z11, GLASS-z12, GL-z13, JADES-GS-z13-0, at redshifts of ~11, ~12, ~13 respectively) but I guess that must not really be a "rule".
The interpretation is that people are not saving enough. Which means personal debt is expected to rise, consumption is about to slow down, and corporations will likely see lower revenue growth that they have been used to in the past few years.
That’s a sign of a bloody good event, when you go blind but you don’t mind.
Communities, Audiences, and Scale (2002)
We're not talking about scientific process, which changes with new evidence, we're talking about calling people as "heads filled with rocks" for suggesting that the current recommendations are bad/wrong/inapropriate/...., censoring them from social networks, calling them covid deniers, conspiracy theorists, having their wikipedia edits removed, doxing them, and in some cases, even doing stuff that affects their livelyhood, possible medical licences etc., then having the 'truth' change, not acknowledge that 'we' were wrong, and 'they' were right and apologizing, but again, doing all those things to the next group (eg. the ones who bought and wore masks in the time when it was "enough to just wash your hands" were "attacked" first, then the "attack" moved over to the ones who didn't want to wear a mask).

If someone (from the government, national 'cdc', whoever) stood up infront of the cameras, said "we fucked up, masks are really needed, we thought so otherwise and gave bad advice, we're sorry, please wear masks", then sure... some will get mad, because their relatives died by following the advice, but for most, it would be a decent thing done by their governments... but banning people who suggested that we need masks, and then banning people who suggested that we didn't need masks without unbanning the first group, is, well... stupid.

> The initial recommendation not to go out and panic buy masks was for a good reason, healthcare providers needed them first.

Oh yeah, just a thing I'd like to see with people in power, scientists in doctors... "we lied to you, because we couldn't fill out order forms in time, you could have died by following our advice, but here's new advice, we're totally not lying now, whoopsie, sorry!" (but without the 'sorry'). How am I supposed to trust them now, when they recommend something else?
It's the kind of thing a competent A/V staffer would think of because the event's insurance would have required more credible sourcing. Given the nature of the crowd, I wouldn't be surprised to learn they had no legal support or insurance.
> they need precision. Yemen doesn’t care about that, they just want to bomb Israeli cities.

Wouldn't reliably hitting a city from that distance require precision? I think the Houthi forces just want to look like they are doing something. No matter what, they are not going affect the war.
Well, where do you draw the line? Or should there be no line, and Wikipedia should be providing equal platform to KKK, Nazis, Flat-earthers, Shapeshifting lizard people while not making any judgement about them?
Corporate greed is the goal. The means vary; whatever works.
>JS and is just a nodejs process and regular javascript at that point

Yes, and that's what people are complaining about.
People use the wrod typescript in this thread because, well, it's what shows up on github, but the same argument would come up if it was in pure js.

People have problem with the fact that you are running a nodejs for the terminal enhancement, not what language it uses
Fast yeah. Faster than me on my PC? No way :)
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The ??? is there but not the profit.
I think covid made it weird. People were hyper saving and it caused demand to build up. Then people were “fuck it” after things started to return back to normal. However, people will eventually have less money to spend.
Because those who need to drive more or farther (e.g. rural folks) are also very much less likely to buy electric cars, maybe even just for political reasons.
They do have far too much money. Donate to the Internet Archive instead. You'll even be helping Wikipedia content because the archive holds readable copies of millions of print books and an absolutely enormous and unparalleled microfilm library (literally multiple shipping containers full of microfilm they scanned) that can be cited and used to verify and crosscheck Wikipedia articles.
It comes up often enough. I run "git blames" frequently to figure why something odd looking was introduced. It may not be a bug, but a WTF. This is in an environment with few code reviews, despite my attempts to introduce them. It is frustrating.
1. Business Insider is a clickbait publication. You should probably find a better source for any information.

2. Savings rate is a point in time metrics -- d/dt if you wish. A safety net would be the 'area under the curve'.

3. The savings rate is dropping because of increased unemployment and increasing inflation.
Veracity Version Control System
You don't have to compute it, it is natural. Observers subscribe (this builds a tree), receive notifications and propagate changes via a set of [possibly common] routines that update other values.

The difference is, React dataflow is "returns new state with old state and (returns new state with old state and (returns new state, which triggers the above internally), which triggers the above internally), which triggers the reconciliation".

And the classic way is "triggers a state, which triggers a set of states, which triggers a set of states, and every triggered control flags a redraw internally with a proper granularity at gui side".

or two-way bindings (the latter a non-starter for me). What did I miss?

That they may be a starter, I guess. Or you can use "control X observes data A", "data B, C observe control X" dataflow. It doesn't really matter, because two-way bindings simply push input down to the data level instead of treating controls as explicit data storage. With two-way bindings you can erase the UI layer completely and still get a fully functioning object, which is useful for automation and for reusing/macroing of a proper functionality.
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Maybe they were having trouble seeing the joke
Mmm. Maybe. It's still not clear to me that you can have a decentralized, P2P verification network that can handle anywhere near worldwide transaction volume.

It's also not obvious to me that cryptocurrencies have value beyond "buying things you're not allowed to buy".
Building my Tyranid army in Warhammer 40k

A good buddy of mine had been itching to get back into the hobby that he played as a teen but I wasn't interested in it. Until I got the Ultimate Starter Box from my game store as it was basically calling out to me.

It's been an incredibly fun (and yes, expensive) hobby.

The people are great, especially in my local area they're suuuper friendly and welcoming to new people. They want cool people to play with and enjoy the hobby with so there's little gatekeeping that I've actually run into.

Learning new skills (assembly, priming, painting) and learning the rules has been really fun as well.

My passion for coding has been at an all time low, so it's good to have something to channel my passion into.
Household debt to GDP https://www.sunshineprofits.com/media/cms_page_media/2019/12...
Clearly that's the reason you make a commit to begin with. Erasing that commit history is just silly.
5 watts short of a 10 watt bulb (halfwit)
FWIW, the edge of space is usually, somewhat arbitrarily defined as the Karman line, 100 km / 62.1 mi.
Git was never intended to capture and preserve the order of git commit commands, and you’re making incorrect assumptions that it was a goal. Maybe the git devs knew there is no useful information and no benefit to being so strict about something so arbitrary, or maybe because forcing people to keep their commits in stone in whatever the first arbitrary way they were added is a big disincentive to making commits at random points in time, which somewhat undermines the point of having a version control system at all.

BTW rebase produces a new commit ordering, but does not modify the old one.

> You’re claiming that there were specific points of time with specific states that never actually existed.

No. You are asserting intent on the part of git users and git that has never existed, you have misunderstood what git history is. The git history is not a claim that the state at that point existed during development, you are projecting your own goals that are not shared by git or git users.

> You're losing information about points of time and specific states that actually existed, which someone once considered important enough to do a git commit over.

Hehe this is so full of assumption. You write it like I’m rebasing someone else’s work, but you already know I’m only rebasing my own commits, and I’m the one who decides what’s important enough to do a commit over.

I like commit early, commit often. I want to make small incremental commits that don’t display to others that way and I expect to put small commits and fix ups together later into a single useful commit with only one commit message.
Note, I never actually used punch cards, but they existed when I was in college. The user interface was like this:

1. You prepared you cards, offline using a punch machine.

2. You got a form from the computer center and filled it in with various details for your job.

3. You wrapped the form around your card deck, secured with a rubber band and placed the assembled package into a box/shelf in the entrance to said computer center.

4. You went about your business for a day or so.

5. You checked your pigeon hole outside the computer center, or perhaps your department mailbox.

6. Eventually your card deck would show up there, accompanied by a line printer (fanfold) output that was whatever your program printed when run.

There were more complex workflows allowing things like tape input/output where you'd specify the tape label either on the form or in the deck.

This is where "Job control language" (JCL) comes from -- a scripting language to facilitate running batch jobs. The precursor to Dockerfiles and Github Actions YAML.
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> They will for sure should they not switch to the standard ISA.

OK, no, that's just not true. Google "adoption curve". Saying that technology X is likely to win out eventually is not the same thing as saying there's no revenue to be had selling "legacy" technology Y. Even today people still fix bugs in the occasional COBOL gadget.

And if you're one of the companies (STMicro is one) selling at least partially "legacy" technology (they'd say "mature"), then anything that accelerates motion along that curve is a threat.
>How does this work from a technological standpoint? There have only been 27 Pixar feature films.

That's plenty of frames to learn the style from, also there are many animated film that are not from Disney, when you sample from the model it will use the knowledge that it has acquired from all the images, not just the Disney ones.
Apart from RAG which many others are discussing elsewhere in the thread, a big one is gradually summarizing long conversations that exceed the context window. This had to be done manually before when using the api but it sounds like it's built in to the new assistants api.
Small city council politics :( there's a lot of resistance against a new temporary housing project for Ukrainian refugees with many legit concerns, and some NIMBY, but also xenophobia and racism.

It's tough but we've been able to start a YIMBY group and encouraging people and organisations to make public comments or send letters of support. A good few didn't dare because they feared reactions, and rightfully so, because some who did (including me) ended up on the receiving end of some bullshit. All bark and no bite - for now - but not great for democracy.
> • tools for improving home ventilation

Interested to see what you have in mind
I think humans are easily influenced by programs that autocorrect/autocomplete grammar and spelling.

I notice a huge stylistic difference in articles written today compared to twenty years ago. There seemed to be much more variety and colorful language. Today, the trend is concise, simple sentences.
I wonder if 'net saving' here includes businesses/government or just households. Noah Smith wrote a nice piece here https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/great-news-about-american-weal... breaking down Federal Reserve data that shows how net wealth of American households increased a lot from 2019 to 2022 - after adjusting for inflation, and even more so for poorer households.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT - this data series is labelled "Personal Savings Rate" and shows a big spike over the pandemic years, which would square with the increase in household net wealth. Maybe 'personal savings rate' refers to households, and so the story here is a transfer of wealth from the government to households over the pandemic years?

Of course (now I'm really extrapolating) the govt is just funded by taxes, so maybe that further reduces to a transfer of wealth from future households/businesses to current households.
Ask HN: Moving electronic parts from hongkong to shenzhen cheaply
i am buying some parts for a production run of a hardware product being assembled in shenzhen.

one of my suppliers can only deliver to hong kong. how do i cheaply move the parts from hongkong to shenzhen and making sure my US company can be billed for duties and VAT?

i thought about using DHL with a DDP shipment but that is still $160. it seems crazy to put a package on a plane while you can literally take a one hour taxi.
This doesn't make sense, though, because Alice could just pick a permissive license and claim that everyone who uses it to make something proprietary is being unethical. The whole point of the GPL existing is to prevent people from doing this, because going "oh it's on them for ruining things" doesn't actually work.
Had massive health problems dozens of doctors. Ended up being a combination of things, but changing diet to an autoimmune protocol diet was the number 2 thing that made a difference.
Wait till you realize that any form of money is a scam designed to extort riches from the poorest producers and make those riches climb the social pyramid. Tongue in cheek comment of course, but that's an argument that can be defended.
Feyerabend wrote about this in his book more or less arguing against what Wiki is doing to some extent. In "Against Method" he uses Galileo and his telescope as an example of what happens when "fringe" (he uses the term "pseudoscience", coincidentally this was a term Wiki used for some "fringe" stuff too) science is silenced.
Remote work has had only a minor impact on most low cost areas. You can rent a studio apartment in Cedar Rapids for $650. It's not a small town.
They would probably call them `tradprofessionals` and would think they know better.
I'm also impressed with Wikipedia's quality, given its background. I even go there first for some developing news.
There's a part of the 3h Dave Cutler interview where he talks about programming with punch cards: he became so frustrated at the jobs being rejected due to syntax errors that he wrote a program (run on a departmental computer with interactive access) to pre-check his card deck, allowing him to submit it clean to the mainframe. This was one of the first programs he wrote.
I think you've nailed what I'm trying to say, based on your incredulity; I too love science and think that the quest for certain beliefs is a massive boon to human happiness and purpose. I just think it's important to remember that perfect certainty can never be reached - kinda asymptotic in that way. It might seem pedantic, but I think it's an helpful core belief/perspective for any effective and creative scientist. A little humility never hurts!

Re:machines; machines might be better engineered and tested, but they're never perfect - they could be broken, or (much more commonly) they could be designed to measure the wrong thing, in other words using their measurements to justify invalid conclusions. That's what the writing above is getting at and I'm mangling it a bit, but I hope you see my perspective on why I would never say I'm "100%" certain that any scientific fact is true.
This is the whole point the author was trying to make.

As you mentioned and made clear, the implementations in other languages barely have any checks for memory safety.

In Rust, you can do that but you have to write a verbose code.

Why not just abstract this on the SDK level and provide a way so that if you call *GPIO |= 1; it will already do that for you? Or as others mentioned, make a macro?

I believe this is the point the author was trying to make. It's not about the niceties Rust have that make it complicated, it's the fact that you do have to write a whole lot more code for a simple task.
> They don't have to, they choose to.

What I meant was that the employer has a policy where your manager or some other authority has to approve the PTO.

To your point this is a choice.
If the GDP grows but the people saving money aren't getting the same cut, then this chart will trend down. The implication being that the middle class is getting to share in the GDP growth as the rich do. However I suppose this could also represent the rich saving fewer dollars and instead buying assets. Would be interesting to see this chart but separated by income class.
That's the complete opposite of reality: Jasper could only fight to survive because they were a wrapper.

Imagine if Jasper had raised and built their own GPT-3 alternative from the ground up at 100x the cost targeted at writing: it wouldn't have generalized like OpenAI's models given the different goals in training, they'd have spent orders of magnitude more, they'd currently be scrambling to partner with some non-OpenAI provider to play the role OpenAI does for them today...

Jasper "only" had to start integrating new APIs to keep up with the SOTA in quality, and instead of burning precious runway on R&D they get to focus on rebranding and driving home that positioning.
>then anything that accelerates motion along that curve is a threat.

What are they going to about it?

RISC-V is inevitable.

It's actually simple: Embrace it or be left behind.

Note that, as highlighted in the parent, STMicro is a member of RISC-V. They're fortunately not that dumb.
This Bloomberg piece says essentially the same thing as the Business Insider article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-10/americans...
> Have you looked into GUIX?

I've heard about it and read discussions about it here on HN. I've never used it or learned the system.

> load the init system directly from the kernel instead of ever loading a shell environment

That's essentially what I want to accomplish with lone, and what I wanted to inspire others to do.

Can I help with that endeavor somehow? It's my understanding that GNU has a huge focus on portability, I assumed they would not be receptive to my Linux first approach. Perhaps the requirements are different for GUIX?
It can't be run locally,can it ?

I see that the training need 8xA100 80G and running need cuda but I doubt it need 8xA100 to run.
Because being open source gives them a marketing win. The number of people who would contribute to this is higher than the number that would contribute to a proprietary license.
We're still near the 2000 amount - about 25% below where we were during the GFC;

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HDTGPDUSQ163N
If you're more used to ctrl+r, you could try hiSHtory (https://github.com/ddworken/hishtory)
You can also use exact arithmetic. This is not as bad as it seems, all values you'll encounter are of the form a + sqrt(5) b, with a and b rational (and not even all rationals, but I can't be bothered).

You can even make this somewhat more concrete by using the matrix representation* of a + sqrt(5) b:

[[a, 5b],
[b, a]]

Of course this reduces the whole problem to a matrix exponential again, so it's somewhat pointless.

*: The matrix representation is what you get if you view each value a + sqrt(5)b as a vector, and notice that multiplication by a constant is a linear map. The matrices are these linear maps, and it can be shown that matrix addition and multiplication preserve the ring structure. You can forget about the vectors at this point.
Ask HN: Focus on Machine Learning or MLOps?
I remember the surge of interest in "Data Scientist" roles during the Big Data hype around 2015. Many companies were hiring Data Scientists, only to discover that what they really needed were Data Engineers who could set-up the data pipelines.

In today's AI landscape, what do you think makes more sense to learn: Machine Learning or more engineering-centric skills like MLOps?
I hope I can remember that one.
On rivian your referenced article states “the company has the capacity to inspect all affected vehicles and make any necessary repairs within 30 days”

Toyota took like half a year or something similarly ridiculous to figure how to prevent the wheels from falling off. Like, is this the first time they’ve ever tried to build a car or something? Oh wait, rivian solved their problem faster than Toyota despite it literally being one of the first vehicles they’ve ever designed. So a new company still working out issues made Toyota look amateur.
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Florida is where people go when they get old. Can't handle the weather elsewhere.

Now he has joined the ranks of the "Florida Man".
What's the motivation for this problem if there is any? It's a really specific problem.
In gaming, delay of 100ms is huge enough for anyone besides the most casual players to notice.

Obviously this are different use-cases, but wouldn't be suprised if it was big enough for people to at least notice