skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I was building the my covid 19 tracker https://visalist.io/emergency/coronavirus , I stumbled upon this and was taken aback. These are some hard hitting evidence. What does it mean, what repercussions this can have on the World? So china has finally won the world war 3?
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I think it's also political, Charité vs Uni Bonn and NRW vs Berlin.
At the same time both Jens Spahn (central government) and Armin Laschet (local government) are front runners for the Chancellor's position.
I don't like seeing the kind of belligerent ignorance you're peddling going unchallenged.

The claim, in the first paragraph of the article, is:

"a megadrought as bad or worse than anything even from known prehistory is very likely in progress"

Note it is "very likely". This is not the same as being certain. Note the drought has already started (quoting Science Mag: "the period from 2000 to 2018 was the driest 19-year span since the late 1500s and the second driest since 800 CE").

As for the CA drought ending, the state is currently 35% in drought (https://www.drought.gov/drought/states/california). The rain that ended the drought seems like it was fairly inconsequential against the long term trend.
I would argue the same exercise could be made against the 'wet market theory', no?

What direct evidence do we have for the 'wet market' theory that is currently most widely accepted?

Looking from a distance, it appears that the volume of circunstancial evidence for this 'laboratory accident/negligence' theory is far larger.
If my SCADA work is anything, it goes on a demo/staging area for a week then is deployed, in 90% of cases.

It's rare for an org (and usually only very large heavily regulated government orgs) do full testing on new builds.
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> through a light guide to come from behind the text.

What does that even mean? The nature and the underlying physics of the light hitting the cornea of your eye doesn't change or depend on how or where the rays of light originated. I know a lot of e-reader folks try and upsell 'behind the text' but that's not how it works.

Light always has to reflect or radiate off of a surface from the front.
> we don't currently need to replace it

It‘s not about “replacing”: in all the areas where it is already confirmed it doesn’t ever need to be replaced.
Wherever Newton’s formulas are good enough they are still used and are going to be used in future. It’s just about extending the limits. And in this case, again, Einstein’s formula are shown to be good enough.
Code: https://github.com/elliottwu/unsup3d

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rPJyrU-WE4
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I wonder how much of the virus is enough to "catch it"? One droplet? 100 droplets?
In my experience, very, very few Web designers actually use specificity (UPDATE: I should have added "properly," as was pointed out).

It works extremely well, if everyone follows the rules, which is uncommon.

That goes for most of CSS; not just specificity.

CSS is incredibly powerful, if used properly, and specificity, when actually used properly, is very cool.

About ten years ago, I wrote this series: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/stylist/introduction...

It’s still absolutely relevant nowadays, and just as few people follow that workflow now, as they did then.

CSS, in general, is too complicated (IMNSHO), but that complexity is also what makes it so powerful.

I’ve always enjoyed Stu Nicholls’ CSSPlay site, for examples of extreme CSS: http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/
I appreciate you taking the time to try and be helpful. Perhaps I'm just not cut out for being a startup entrepreneur when there are easier ways for me to make a living.
We already have driver licenses. It wouldn't be too difficult to expand to driver license plus immunity card.
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Its very rare that anyone goes through a SCADA vendor.

Most SCADA software is done through a system integrator which is the wild west.

And the projects that do go through the original software vendor tend to be massive multi million dollar ones that require significant custom work and new features.
Interestingly, this act itself proves that whilst the US DOC was, and claimed, to have moved ICANN to international ownership [1], it is in fact still under the control of the US government.

As long as the Internet namespace, or DNS, is governed by US (California state specifically) law, the Internet itself will be operating under the same jurisdiction as DNS is generally considered critical to the function of the Internet.

This is a very strong reason that, just like currency [2], the Internet namespace is also ripe to be decentralized to distributed ownership by the people [3].

The internet deserves to be owned by the people - not any single government.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN

[2] https://weusecoins.com

[3] https://handshake.org
Yawn. Every crisis, someone says "governments will use this crisis to expand the surveillance state!!!". Okay, how many more crises before their surveillance state is complete? Because by my count, they could have built it 99 times over. Also, since no one ever seems to care, and the surveillance state measures are enacted without (much) resistance, I don't know why the governments have to wait for a crisis to incrementally ratchet up the surveillance state. Maybe they haven't caught on yet. Shh, don't tell them.
Refactored extension/add-on with lots of new sites, bug-fixes, add custom sites and update-notification.

https://github.com/magnolia1234-new/bypass-paywalls-firefox-...

https://github.com/magnolia1234-new/bypass-paywalls-chrome-c... (no google analytics)
But the Munich study is still several weeks away. Which is frustrating. If the sky is falling like everyone is saying, intermediate results could be published daily. It's really not a difficult study to take such a test.
I think it's becoming a pattern that people (users) don't care about what they can't see. And furthermore, people (users) overall don't seem to care about security until something goes wrong. Besides, a layman doesn't understand even the simplest terms in that article, so naturally how are they supposed to care?

Many traditional organisations (schools, enterprise, etc) that care for security, in my experience, did so for GDPR compliance and to the extent that they were compliant. A lot of businesses weren't even being malicious, just negligent.

So, on the whole, regular users don't seem to care, and since users don't hold businesses accountable for it, businesses don't really care.

NB: Users refers to any random person who isn't in the tech industry. Like, probably, your neighbour or the random person walking their dog.
This is such a stupid question haha

I mean, I can totally understand not wanting to tell people you work with.

But what is the dilemma? Either you tell someone or you don't. Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems overdramatic.
I have my own conspiracy theory that some group with a financial stake in wet markets or the general trade in wildlife meat/products is manipulating right wing racists to push the theory that the virus originated in a lab rather than due to unsafe handling of wild game meat so that the Chinese government won't feel pressure to further curtail wild game markets.

My hard hitting github of evidence will include the fact that wet markets exist in China and also that racists exist in the US and other western countries. QED.
They present this as a conspiracy, but whether it escaped from the lab is a bit of a whatever in comparison to the coverup and the damage of suppressing the initial epidemic and playing it down after they were found out.

No one is really saying it was intentional; and while risky, the research into coronavirii that could trigger a future pandemic was valuable. But it was a screw-up; someone made a mistake or took a shortcut and here we are.

China is going to be under pressure regardless to either open up that research facility, or shut it down so it doesn't happen again there, or anywhere else in the world.
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Why didn't you just used volumes, and mount them in your containers when needed?
1. when doing a system upgrade, a lot of times the new version won't play nicely with the old version. Key example iFix, not backwards (or forwards!) compatible.

2. sometimes addin a quick fix with a support engineer on the line is quicker than attempting a role back. You're making a lot of assumptions here, but likely what happened was a try to fix this asap and if that fails roll back scenario.
What I wonder, is there a special cloud service for compilation? Compilation is a spike in IO and CPU and most of the time nothing (and I don't mean a build server, but an exported file system I can edit on my computer and compile very fast in the cloud).
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I don't have much faith in crowd sourced investigations based on data only available on the internet and analysed by armchair experts
Maybe you are referring to https://github.com/rails-sqlserver/tiny_tds/issues/117 ? If that's the case, it was fixed seven years ago :-)
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Strange, haven't had that issue myself, running firefox-75.0-1 on Arch Linux. You probably should report that to Mozilla, if you can.
I saw the same request and it was the trigger for me to donate.
Or driving licence + vaccinations + eligibility to vote
They should have thrown in the towel many years ago.

But they had money to burn (even wrote and believed there were other use cases for BTC except crypto trading for even worse currencies. There weren't and that was clear in 2016 if not earlier.

From one of the comments:

> Looks like a way to order bomb ingredients without leaving a financial trail...

Only fools would try do buy ingredients that way that because you'd likely have it shipped to you an FBI agent or informant.

Buying shit from Amazon using BTC made from clicking on Google ads was probably the only interesting use case.
I'd guess that it's more efficient to desalinate water and distribute it via pipelines than to go the extra step of getting it up to cloud height and then letting it fall down again.
I don't disagree with you at all in terms of the solution. I didn't mean to imply that all conceptions of the term "Green New Deal" represent a solution, but simply that there is broad support for doing something. The policy advocates I take seriously absolutely recognize that a solution cannot constitute more industrialization and emissions, but they also recognize that if we radically do less under our current paradigm, the people who are barely scraping by now will be crushed.

In terms of energy efficiency, it is obviously crucial, but under our current system every improvement simply represents surplus capital which then goes towards growth and expansion. Changing that, again, requires collective long-term planning and decision making which is being subverted.

I think it is giving far too much (or too little?) credit to the powerful to say there is "ignorance at the top". There is not ignorance at the top. They have demonstrably understood this looming crisis for a very long time, and what we are seeing is the expansion and fortification of existing power relationships in the face of it.

If ignorance and lies are being spread at other levels of power, again, I think it's worth asking "by what means?" and "for whose benefit?"
So more rainfall globally but possibly less in some regions? Do we know why that is exactly instead of just generally more rain?
Stylelint actually has this already! https://stylelint.io/user-guide/rules/no-descending-specific...
Wrong. Money, power & control. If you limit what one can do if they don't have a vaccine, you create an artificial demand for the vaccine, thus driving profits through the roof.

Basic economics there.

I won't be getting my "ID" card if they ever make one.
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No it won't. It makes no geopolitical sense for the US to sacrifice its influence in an A-list international organization for sake of a few measly million bucks.
There's purerl, a PureScript compiler to Erlang as an option of types to something on BEAM. I can't comment about it's maturity but it the Pinto + Stetson libraries seem like an interesting take.
Covid-19 could have its own PATRIOT Act, but we need privacy guarantees
I find this really hard to believe. Specificity is baked into CSS at such a fundamental level that you can't not use it. Maybe you meant like they don't use it consciously of effectively?
On Linux, you can get Zoom as a Snap or Flatpak, that provides a useful layer of sandboxing.
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Yeah, Catalina actually fixed some bugginess I had with Mojave. Only major loss is that some third-party prefpanes I use broke due to signing requirements
I see you've got a lot of downvotes for this, which is a shame because it's an interesting discussion point. I've often wondered how the rise of ardently held fringe beliefs corresponds with the decline of religion in Western society.
Eh, so far only 600 of the 4800 member crew has tested positive. That should still be comfortably in the "mostly exponential" territory.
Many pro-science people (including some well known science communicators) don’t need much encouragement to appeal to the ultimate authority of science. There was an HN thread on the munchausen trilemma a little while ago, full of people commenting on how intuitive it was, but absolutely unwilling to accept how it could impact their own beliefs in science.
Is it a problem with raid controllers that write raid config to its member discs?
Yep. I generically refer to that as a vendor as well lol.
Indeed. I can imagine they use the same basic chemistry, but I struggle to imagine they're displaying English words. Perhaps somewhere in the depths one of a million has the collected works of Shakespeare on its back, prison-style.
here you go: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H0DXyCiKbDI :)
Using SASS or LESS makes specificity a great tool

.something {
.tells {
.me {
content: 'we do';
}
}
}

If you think of specificity as a kind of inheritance or scoping, then it makes a lot more sense.

Also it's very powerful to extend a generic component:

Framework:

button.red { background: red; }

User code:

button.red.disabled { background: grey; }
You definitely can get in the door without ISO 27001, but you'll spend way more time on due diligence for each deal because you can't just point at the badge. Whether that's a trade off you're willing to make probably depends on your exact company, but ISO 27001 itself is a painful process to get certified for, especially if you're a young company without any established internal processes.
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Well, what is unique is that this is a tattoo microchip, rather than a card
Why? Keeping the behaviour as it is makes you buy more, which is the objective of a company that shamelessly marks up hardware by arbitrary amounts.
So you'll take the tattoo microchip? That's what ID2020 is...
You can wash or disinfect your hands because the top layer of the skin is not living tissue.
Full text available on arxiv.org: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.02063
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Precession was also observed in binary pulsars, where the timings are much more accurately measurable. Still nice to get another confirmation in a novel regime.
I think others have already done a good job of describing how programs like that help make you a better programmer, and can be inspiring.

I'd like to add that something that I find interesting and inspiring about programming is managing complexity. That's something that's not as easily explored with programs like the above. But for example, you could try to create as much of a spreadsheet program as possible in a few hours. Do that 4 times starting from scratch. How can you organise the code in such a way to make it easy to read, performant, maintainable, and fast to write? What language features will you take advantage of? Maybe try making a part of a word processor, an IDE, a raytracer, an HTML viewer, an FTS engine, a relational database, etc. Try implementing mvc, or reactive, or two way binding UIs. I would consider these sort of a different genre of poem, that let you explore a different problem space. Maybe this might be the genre that you're more interested in?
DDG ends up working well as the default search for me. The ability to type my query and then decide if I want to use DDG or Google doesn't require me to take my hands of the keyboard. I just add a g! and I'm switched off my default. So it's a great default with an ergonomic way to switch to a different engine.

Google as default requires me to use the browser UX to change the engine, which I believe requires using the mouse or hitting tab or arrow keys. Less ergonomic.
I did same for ogame! I can't remember exact details but I could queue stuff the game wouldn't let me. some were paid features i think
Children of Ruin is the sequel of Children of Time, I strongly suggest you read the first book or you'll have quite an hard time to understand certain things.

I'm reading Children of Ruin right now and it's quite funny finding this article here right now. :)
But the cooperation of legislators is required because of the fixed deadlines. If the government would be allowed the right to extend the provisions on their own, they probably would try to do that in perpetuity. With a legislative branch that actually cares about civil rights, the former is the much better option.
This was brought up during the daily Cuomo yesterday. The media have not fully explained the new reporting (am I cynical if I say so they get better clicks?)

CDC mandated that all localities, not just NYC/NYS, count probable deaths in addition to those where a covid positive test was available. These figures are not part of the 'official' covid death totals but instead are a separate category.

The reason this has been done is likely due to the reports coming from NYFD/PD concerning the much higher incidence of finding dead people when called. Those bodies are not being brought to hospitals for autopsie or anything else if there are no suspicious circumstances. By one report I read a few days back, a year ago it was typical to have encounter 25 dead on 911 calls over a 24 hour period. They are now seeing upwards of 200.
Fair ‘nuff. People don’t use it consciously, so my statement was not specific enough.

:)
And like currency, it turns out that it's almost impossible to have a fully decentralized, trustless system for all but the most basic functions. Maybe you prefer that to the current system, but it's not like handwavingly suggesting blockchain makes any of this better. There are all sorts of real-world issues that you can't handle on-chain.
This is SOP for a contract like this. I worked in this field for over a decade before I went back to straight consulting. Helping or ever writing a RFP / RFI / proposal for a customer is not unheard of. I was given the opportunity to provide input on more than one occasion and would certainly include requirements I knew competitors could not functionally meet, in esence eliminating all other competitors. They could respond but when the technical team members meet with project sponsors and there is a big red square on the scorecard in the competitors column indicating they can't meet a requirement what is a SVP going to say? 'We don't need that'? They aren't technical and even if they ask about it we clearly have internal support for our product and can count on the technical team explaining why our feature is a requirement. (We just so happen to have the best product so this wasn't much of stretch.) The only difference between the private sector and gov is we can't take them out to a $3000 dinner to discuss the requirements before they submit them. As you can tell, this is a "bit" sleazy, while still mostly truthful we are clearly trying to influence the outcome in our favor.

Having worked with the OIG (office inspector general), more than one of them, they are as much a political animal as any other office in DC, more so in lots of ways, so getting a report from them that says what you want is just a matter of phone calls and dinners with the right ppl.

AWS got played, plain and simple. They thought they were going to win and probably didn't do as mush as they should have to make sure they could win, and at the same time underestimated Microsoft. Just bc Azure was new to the DOD doesn't mean its new to the feds, I worked on several projects in AZ with the feds, and MSFT is not new to DC, they have been playing in DC politics for decades, and doing so very successfully. Which I am guessing from my outside view was AWS / Jeff's mistake. Buying a mansion and hosting partys in DC and a amateur move. There are a lot of very powerful ppl in DC that are former MSFT employees. It is very common practice to move from MSFT's fed teams to a fairly high position in a fed agency for your 20 years to get you retirement plan completed.
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For me, userscripts have been a great way to learn javascript. I have no programming experience and the ability to find something I want to tweak and be able to implement it on a web site is pretty cool. I created a userscript a few years ago and during the quarantine I've been learning a lot rewriting it to work better.
I referred to your gross misrepresentation of this case as "what do you know, it was a Jewish political activist!".

A member of the Communist International trying to infiltrate a foreign nation under false pretenses to further their geopolitical agenda is hardly related to religion or race or cultural makeup of the agent.
I'd probably shut them down altogether where possible. But disingenuous in the extreme to pretend that the radiation exposure from living in Pripyat is comparable to that of living somewhere near coal plants.
Isn’t that a super easy vaccine then?

Insert super low load, stay home for two weeks, and you have been immunized.
I haven't used it myself but I have heard others do so with success. It looks like JDK14 has some significant improvements to ZGC so I would try to run on that if possible.

I might do some performance tests of my own soon.
It might be my fault as I linked to the conclusion, but you are reducing the whole article to a part of the 9 miles distance argument
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user's didn't care in the past. The yahoo toolbar lived merrily for years. Then came the hot business of "computer security tools". Nowadays with everything (except Zoom) working in a browser people apparently forgot that their computer still contains relevant data and they still have to think about it (not only about the "hot" cloud). I think in the late PC era, Zoom would have been surely classified as malware by some of the more zealous programs out there and whooops, there goes APT-like userfriendlyness...
Important clarification

The core thermal management of macOS seems to be better than Windows on the same mac device
It's a description of the mechanism that delivers light of unchanged nature and physics to your eyes.
Here’s the workaround for WSJ: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16906571
I agree with basically everything you've said but I'd caution that "broad support for doing something" without much care as to what is a recipe for a lot of bad things to come to pass under the guise of fighting climate change.