skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those cities aren’t really good examples of intentionally putting a state capital in a smaller city of the state.

Albany is older than NYC, and anyway the concept of NYC as a single large city is barely 125 years old. The original capital of Illinois is (strangely) west of the Mississippi River and south of St. Louis. By treaty between Great Britain and France, the current area of Illinois was off limits to European settlement, until after the revolution when the US said “that treaty doesn’t apply to us”. Chicago wasn’t a big or important city until the civil war.

Los Angeles has been the wealthiest and most populous area in Alta California since like 1800 or so. But it was established as a puebla and not a mission, so it could never be a center of government under Spanish rule.

Miami was fairly unlivable until air conditioning and malaria control, and its geographic location was extraordinarily inconvenient until after the interstate system.

The US government established a customs house in Olympia when it and Seattle were little more than a handful of homesteads. And guessed wrong on which would grow faster.
Maybe not unrealistic but still bad at its job. And honestly as a hobby coder the first thing I do is find out if what I want is even possible
It's definitely not Rust specific, or even that new. Certainly I was hearing things (e.g. SQLAlchemy's lower level API) referred to as query builders 15 years ago.
You can't practically validate it.

This is why it's important not just to ask about previous results. This is also why you see so many "solve this random programming problem" type interviews - they hope (wrongly) that it's less fakeable and somehow gives you an idea of how they will do in the future.

I don't find those particularly useful (like many), i instead try to understand how they think and approach things.

If this is a manager, for example, give them real organizational problems you've seen, and ask them how they would approach them, and walk you through their thought process, etc. You will often start to get "weird" answers with fakers or spinners, especially if you start to ask about anything related to performance or improving it (again, in my experience, YMMV, etc). One idle theory (IE i don't claim this is correct in any meaningful way) i had about this was that a lot of the didn't actually know how to help people or organizations, so if you force them to try to explain how they approach it for real, they start to fall apart. Instead of thinking about that stuff, they were thinking about how to progress or spin things for themselves. Meanwhile, good managers often spend lots of time thinking about how to help their people and organizations, and whether they are good or bad or whatever, it's not a topic that tends to trip them up.

For IC's, for example, you can get them to teach you something real they learned on the project they claim was a great success, ideally a thing that helped make the project successful. In my experience, this also will lead you fairly quickly to discover if they believe they are smarter than everyone else. The best people i ever found (in retrospect) were usually the ones who would teach me things they learned, but usually not things they came up with. They would teach me something they learned from someone else during the project, but was still critical to the success of the project.

Everything in an interview is, of course, fakeable with enough preparation. The above things for sure - but it is harder for people to fake approaches, fake teaching, and spin results successfully all at the same time, etc.

You start to get into the "this person is in the 99% percentile of all fakers" kind of thing that is probably not worth trying to solve ;)
I'm unemployed now and trying to look for work, but the sheer amount of "AI is going to take over" is making it really hard for me to get excited about learning new tools. I know this is self-defeating, but between how fast the programming landscape already changes and this, it just feels like I'm in an industry that is so hostile to its own inhabitants.

Whereas when I was a professional Ruby programer, everything was nice, because the community really cared about making developers lives nice.
The tapes are cheap. The drives are not at all cheap, unfortunately.
> Why spend hours sorting through Netflix' low quality catalog when you can watch a movie you love whenever you want?

Because I would rather watch something I've never seen before?

I've heard a story on Reddit of a guy watching Big Trouble in Little China everyday for years, but usually people wanna watch new stuff. I guess people also rewatch shows like Friends and The Office, but do they really "watch" it or do they just play it as background noise?
One thing I've always wondered is: how many labs are there in the world doing gain-of-function research on coronavirus, as the Wuhan Instutute of Virology was?

Intuitively, it seems to me like there aren't that many, so it's a pretty interesting coincidence that the virus started right next to such a lab.

However, if coronavirus labs are common, then it's not an coincidence. Can anyone point to research that answers this question?

From a political and public safety standpoint, I think the US government and WHO probably felt they had a moral obligation not to point the finger at China during the height of the pandemic. And now we have the opposite -- a cult of hate has taken over the US government, and they have much to gain by preaching hate against China (Trump was in power in 2019, but he only had presidential powers. Now he has absolute power.). So, in either case, it's quite hard to get undistorted information.
I could accept Pi, with case, storage and battery in single enclosure. That is singular unit with relevant ports open to use and it being usable while charging.
Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won
"The nasty little secret of American democracy is that we don’t count all the votes. Nor let every citizen vote."
Unless your doctor is waiting on the kidney biopsy, might as well remove the heart and brain.

Shall I goggle ddos attacks that have cost people their lives?
As an example of a lab escape of a novel virus (fortunately not leading to a pandemic) see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Marburg_virus_disease_out...

African green monkeys later found to be carrying the virus were shipped to several labs in Germany and Yugoslavia; the virus hopped from the monkeys to lab workers and then from the lab workers to a small number of others.
Forgive the silly question, but does the lab leak theory entail the virus being engineered in the lab, or simply sampled from nature by researchers then not adequately contained?

I’m not clear on what exactly is being alleged by these agencies?
The reality is that there will never be a formal secession, but what I do see is a gradual fracturing and separation of the states.

Trump has mentioned deleting FEMA and letting states fend for themselves. And if the US government is going to play politics about where state tax dollars go and why, I don't see a reason why states should continue funneling money into something that gives them no benefits.

So instead individual states would likely make deals with other countries. Theoretically you 'need' congressional approval, but in an extreme low trust environment the states are just going to do whatever. The feds won't risk a civil war or put boots on the ground because that would immediately signal that the US is near the end of its life.

And I think at this point it's really a matter of when, not if. There'll be some decision made by the supreme court or the federal government that will be the breaking decision.
Nobody interesting is really on there yet. It's also pretty buggy/laggy. The main network/server tends to go down. The bugs are mostly related to traffic overwhelming the servers.
That was a serious debate with considerable time, effort, and independant third party scrutiny.

Another good overview is at:

https://protagonist-science.medium.com/lableak-truther-loses...

The 18-hour video debate

The Rootclaim debate was structured over 3 days with 3 thematic blocks;

* the first block was about the geographic location and the evidence for the Huanan market versus the Wuhan Institute of virology being where the virus came from

* the second block was about the SARS-CoV-2 genome and whether its genetic features more likely arose in nature versus gain-of-function research

* the third block was about probability; how can the evidence be grouped and what probabilistic assumptions should be taken to accurate reflect odds of the evidence occurring

Each side first got 90 minutes to lay out their cases, then another 90 minutes together to respond to questions.

No matter how you slice it, this is a serious effort and time investment, as the preparation alone of materials and research into it probably consumed hundreds of hours from speakers and judges alike.
I agree. It's really nice how few dependencies get pulled into a typical c++ project. When I started playing with rust, I was shocked at at how many dependencies got pulled in to just build hello world. I'm just not interested in adopting the npm left-pad model.
We’ll fix it. Don’t worry, we’ll fix it
Are there any glasses/headsets out there that are good for coding yet? The idea of working on the go with VR glasses is very appealing to me.
lol dude or dudette! you clicked on the bio - I never said you should. I'll educate you, they make more money from low-level people than luxury status people or people with more money in their bank accounts. The rich benefit from the payments the average make on these accounts.
I've been using the main server but it hasn't been a great experience. It isn't bad, just it hasn't been able to deal with the traffic.
Chimera Linux works toward a simplified desktop
Americans had a role to play here as well:

In 2014, Obama administration halted the so called "gain of function" research because of laboratory accidents.

In 2017, Trump administration restarted the research. See links below.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/18/us/white-house-to-cut-fun...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/health/lethal-viruses-nih...

The U.S. government, through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), provided funding to the EcoHealth Alliance, an American non-profit organization focused on studying emerging diseases. The EcoHealth Alliance, in turn, provided funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China for researching bat coronaviruses.
TIL Docking: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docking_(molecular)
Nah, prompt engineering wouldn't have solved the fundamental issue, which is that the associations between ideas as stored in the weights will be the same between the two AI players, which makes it an easier game for them than for a human equivalent. It'd be like two copies of you playing on a team, having shared all the same experiences right up until the moment the game starts.

And don't get me wrong, it's still a fun experiment! It's just that that 4 would never have worked if a human played against another human—there are simply too many other words that would be equally strongly associated:

* Gum: Gum is often wrapped in paper, so 'GUM' is strongly associated with the word 'PAPER'.

* King: King is a type of face card, which are printed on paper, so 'KING' is strongly associated with the word 'PAPER'. (Repeat for JACK.)

* Light: Paper is a lightweight material.

That's 4 others right there that are at least as closely connected in my head as LAWYER or LOG. The only reason why o1 pulled up the same four when guessing as it did when clueing is that it's the same model.

Again, I didn't mean this as a knock, just a warning about drawing too many conclusions from the test!
With video games at least there are still DRM-free digital purchases (as opposed to film and TV). I haven't bought a physical video game since like 2010 but still buy many games regularly that are DRM free—I don't necessarily buy the most mainstream games, though.
Important to who? What specifically has been good about them and what was unjust about which specific laws? Sounds like victor writing history.

I want to live in a society where bad behavior isn’t incentivized.
haha, that's a bit of an inside joke (...for now?)
The gap is quite large from my experience.

But the price gap is large too.
i wouldn’t use AI for negotiating with a business period. I’d hire a professional human that has real hands on experience working with chinese businesses?

seems like a weird thing to use AI for, regardless of who created the model.
If it were a lab leak then the people especially fearful and distrustful of gain of function research would feel vindicated and try to use that to shut down existing research programs. I don't think that group of people is meaningfully divided along partisan lines, and outside the professional class probably includes everybody.

Conversely, if it were a natural outbreak then that bolsters the case for continuing gain of function research as before. Such research is precisely why we were able to identify the threat and within weeks assemble a vaccine, at least on paper. (Granted, the arc began long before 2019 with a through-line of research going back to the 2002 SARS outbreak.) And it's why we've many other advancements. Creation of CRISPR and related technology emerged in part out of gain of function research with viruses. Gain of function is a critical tool in testing hypotheses about how foundational molecular machinery works, and viruses are a convenient research model for exploring and testing ideas in that space.

But I'm not sure the origin should matter to that debate. And I'm even more sure it probably won't matter, even if we agreed on a definitive answer.
DC has a larger metro population than half of those cities, and is the clear economic hub of its respective area. I’m not sure the national capital is a great example of a smaller city, although of course is smaller relative to the US than London is to the UK.
If you're all wondering why that company name is a bad one, I would urge you not to look into the personal life that that particular scientist.
If something very like smallpox, thought eradicated, suddenly showed up in some random town, it might be surmised that maybe some animal reservoir for it somehow slipped through the gaps. But if that random town happened to be Atlanta, home of the CDC, known to have some of the few samples of smallpox to still exist, then the relative chance of a lab leak must be thought higher. That's basic Bayesian reasoning. It doesn't prove anything but pretending the proximity to a relevant lab doesn't shift the odds at all is absurd.
Over the type-C port they receive video, receive audio, receive power (<5W), transmit sensor data (accelerometers, orientation, etc), and receive commands such as switching to a 3-D display mode.

They're pretty great and I think the market segment will grow over the next few years.

One correction, the screens are actually located in the temple part of the glasses facing downwards, but they are reflected so they appear as if they are in front of your eyes.
Or “dropout regularization”, as they call it in ML
We call this survivorship bias and the foregone conclusion.

The inherent assumption precludes the possibility that organized production fails (including food), and with it goes the ability to survive. If exchange becomes impossible because of imbalances created by such tools alongside moneyprinting (which is very likely), then its pretty much over for everyone.

All efficient methods of production today depend on brittle non-resilient supply chains. Food production fails back to pre-industrial methods and Malthusian ecological overshoot reversion ensues, (i.e. half the world population dies because there isn't enough food to sustain).
> And we know exactly why Meta is doing this and it’s not because they have some grand scheme to build up AI. It’s to keep these people away from their competition

I don't see how you can confidently say this when AI researchers and engineers are remunerated very well across the board and people are moving across companies all the time, if the plan is as you described it, it is clearly not working.

Zuckerberg seems confident they'll have an AI-equivalent of a mid-level engineer later this year, can you imagine how much money Meta can save by replacing a fraction of its (well-paid) engineers with fixed Capex + electric bill?
What surprises me is that I thought MiniDisc media production ended years ago.
One fundamental issue I’ve noticed is that typical SQL databases have a single schema per table defining both the logical and physical aspects, typically with a strong correlation between the two.

Databases could treat the columns as the fundamental unit with tables being not much more than a view of a bunch of columns that can change over both space (partitioning) and time (history).
Perhaps just getting you to the 50-yard line

Let someone else burn up their server farm to get initial model.

Then you can load it and take it from there
Yes! You can share topics and posts with other NodeBB forums and software implementing ActivityPub (Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc.)
That pardon means that person is available for subpoena and cannot decline to answer any question.
> That’s like saying that if a new flu came out of Atlanta, the fact the CDC is there proves it came from a lab, and must be true because someone’s janitor cousin who worked there one summer said it was true.

Well in this case it’s more like if if a new flu burst onto the scene with the following all being true:

- the epicenter of the outbreak being within a few miles of the CDC

- the CDC working specifically on gain of function for new strains of the flu

- the CDC being cited in whistleblower reports to the outbreak for poor safety and security protocols in the years prior to the outbreak

- inability to find the natural reservoir the virus crossed over from, despite years of searching in the biggest virus hunt in human history

- the closest naturally occurring relative of the virus being found in bats that are only native in areas hundreds of miles away (in this analogy, something like the upper Midwest), that also happen to be among the species of bats being studied by the lab at the CDC

- several CDC employees being among the earliest discovered cases, so early that they occurred before the disease was even picked up in the radar and were only discovered when searching for the earliest cases

- the US government preventing any none government health officials in or out of the area of the infection for several weeks after the outbreak

- the sole other identified potential outbreak location, the wet market nearby, was completely sterilized by the US government within the first two weeks of the outbreak, over the protests of international investigators who hadn’t yet been given access to it, thereby preventing them from ever being able to confirm or deny if it was the actual ground zero of the outbreak.

“Low confidence” doesn’t mean there is a lack of evidence, it means there is a lack of direct evidence. Problem is there is a lack of direct evidence for any alternative theory as well. There is, however, and overwhelming about of circumstantial evidence supporting the lab leak. The CIA isn’t going to issue accusations like this without a smoking bullet, which they will never have.

The reality is that had this occurred under any other administration, the lab leak hypothesis wouldn’t be so taboo. But Trump is a serial conspiracy theorist and pugilistic nationalist, so the second he floated it everyone on the left, which includes much in academia, immediately disputed it in a knee jerk reaction, despite not having much evidence either way. Since then what evidence exists has increasingly supported the lab leak theory, but many are walking back from entrenched positions. If this had happened when Obama was president I don’t think anyone would be pushing back on this with the evidence that exists.
That's fair! For me it has been a really fun way to learn Docker, Kubernetes, etc.

For those who want something similar with way less work I'd use https://www.home-assistant.io/green

On the side of writing YAML, this was actually all generated by the UI and then exported to YAML when I decided I wanted to version control it. It's really nice because Copilot works pretty well for creating/editing automations.
There is no evidence or plausible scenario to support this, but it’s an incredibly useful story for the incoming regime to promote for the purposes of hampering consensus reality.

It also gives conspiracy theorists and low-trust communities a bone to chew on, since UFO hysterias are proving to have an increasingly short shelf life.
Whenever you have an institutional failure, you need to do a root cause analysis to fix the problem. That includes Chinese labs. That also includes health organizations who may have put aside their objectivity and tried to discredit a theory merely because they disagreed with the politics of those supporting it.
The visualiser tool seems a little broken

(nodes laid out in a long diagonal line, foreign key reference arrows floating around and not "attached")
The closest natural relative origin of SARS-CoV-2 was in Yunnan ~700 miles away from the market.

The Wuhan lab collected samples from that area and the lab is only ~10 miles away from the market.

Those wet markets are huge vectors for a viral spread, so a virus being spread there doesn't necessarily mean it started there.

Why that market in Hubei and not first at a market closer to Yunnan? It might be more profitable to transport and sell them there, but it's still a long way to travel and avoid spreading during that time just to end up at a market so close to that lab.

A lot of reasoning around whether a lab leak is more likely doesn't require it to be engineered or modified in any way.
I've wanted this for ages, Laptop ergonomics are horrible. When traveling I use a portable monitor, keyboard, mouse. Yes it's annoying to travel with all that but worth it not to end my work days with neck pain and a migraine.

I need a somewhat powerful GPU for work, so I'm seriously considering buying one of the more powerful handhelds with removable controllers and just taking them off. The screen would be superfluous but it's probably the most powerful travel PC, at least for the price, that's available right now.

I don't even need the battery that much. But all the options I've seen for SFF PCs that would fit in a backpack look fragile and I wouldn't feel confident carrying them around often. Plus, they're either expensive (because it's a tiny market) or geared towards office work.

On the other hand, the Mac Mini exists and is exactly what I'd want in terms of hardware. Why don't us Linux/Windows folks have this option?
The ticker inside every H. sapien is the only design you need. Thanks to evolution, it's been perfected over ~4B years.
Just last month I bought a Blu-ray 4K player and several discs because of the extra features you get on the disc that don't seem to be available on streaming. For example, the disc for Coco, a movie I love dearly, has a feature about the film's Italian heritage among others.

("Film"? Yes. If anyone objects, I will "dial" my phone so we can discuss.)
Trump wasn't confident in the theory. He is not confident in anything. He does not care about the truth or falsity of anything he says. He only cares about it serving his interests.
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Yes, that has been my experience with RPi in general. But there's a lotta Pis and lotta Linux versions and a lotta SD cards and a lotta hobbyists out there. Using the $99 Home Assistant Green with eMMC soldered to the board was a leap. So far no problems, nor much griping in the forums.
The aplication is still open, we would love to host guests from overseas.
VCR let you record anything. Something on TV you wanted to watch later? Set the timer, it recorded on that channel at that time.

A DVD might have been peak consumer, but it didn't have nearly the versatility of VCR. Hell, I could record 6 hours of content on 1 tape!
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