skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) This clearly wasn't biowarfare. The coronavirus is so useless when viewed as a bioweapon that there is no way it is even vaguely possible that it was developed as one. The idea is laughable.

The Chinese military would have to be beyond stupid to go into a bioweapons program and develop a virus that mainly only targets old people, usually doesn't cause symptoms, spreads like wildfire and is therefore a huge risk to countries with large, densely packed populations. If it was a lab escape it would probably have been just part of studying SARS-like viruses for public health reasons.

2) And there is nothing extraordinary about claiming "Standards in practice were lower than the standards on paper". That is a pretty mild claim. Lab escapes of viruses are a thing.
All true, but considering the extreme abuse of authority that's been happening at the protests, I'm far more inclined to believe arrests have been unlawful.
Please let it happen to Discord forever. We don't need malicious software being protected by Cloudflare.
It is an either/or situation. Neither is not an option. Not taking the money means you can't be trusted not to talk, you still get killed.
> hope you realize that apps like these kill the ecosystem for content creators who are paid based on ads.

If your only source of revenue is Youtube, you probably have to worry about Google more than this kind of clients taking away your earnings.
>“The authors feel that, in light of this preponderance of circumstantial evidence, the hypothesis that the biogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 involved human intervention should be seen as the leading (i.e. most likely) explanation.”

I think they are just two different papers. The linked paper has the following quote:

>We have just (2nd June 2020) published Biovacc-19 in QRB-Discovery: a candidate vaccine for this daunting task (Sørensen et al., 2020).
Why did it take so long for a status page to be published I wonder?

From the timeline in the blog post the issue with Atlanta was fixed between 21:39 to 21:47 but a status page wasn't published until 21:37. Everything had been broken for over 20 minutes at that stage with lots of people already posting about it or other status pages reflecting issues. See https://twitter.com/OhNoItsFusl/status/1284239769548005376 or https://twitter.com/npmstatus/status/1284235702540984321

Without an accurate status page it leaves businesses pointing the finger everywhere wondering whether its their hosting provider having issues, their CDN, DNS provider etc etc.
If I offer you a deal on a dice roll where if it lands on 1 through 5 you get $1000 but if it lands on 6 you get nothing, and to play you only need to put in $10, that's a fantastic deal for you and the profit maximising move is to play. If the die lands on 6, that doesn't stop it having been the right move on your part to have played.

Companies going bankrupt in extraordinary market circumstances doesn't mean they were mismanaged. Only that their 6 has come up.
> Nobody wants to try to turn around a bankrupt company at their old salary (with their old RSU's and options now worthless).

Why not? These executives are paid considerably more than rank-and-file employees under normal circumstances, yet still manage to get bonuses when things turn sour. In contrast, that rank-and-file will be expected to take a pay cut, work more, or lose their livelihood. It flies in the face of the traditional reasons given for the high pay of executives: this has nothing to do with how much value any given person contributes, since everyone is expected to contribute more while a certain population is expected to receive a smaller share; this has nothing to do with the burden of risk, since the people taking the greater risk are the ones who are paid least (in terms of employees) or are taking the brunt of the losses (in terms of investors).

So yes, it is immoral.
Until KPIs improve?
Why give a government with modern day concentration camps, forced organ harvesting, and military occupation of free countries like Hong Kong the benefit of the doubt on biological weapons research gone awry?
parent said 'make massive archives'... I'm just in charge of backups.
FWIW, you are agreeing with the comment you replied to - they are saying AirBnB, et al., are definitely not companies helmed by do-gooders and morally sound people.
is there evidence that it's not?
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Of all things I am grateful to NewPipe for, the best is that I am able to turn off the screen of my mobile while listening to Podcasts hosted on YouTube, and also to run it in the background. Thank you, developers!!!
It is a difficult situation for creators. I do wish there were decentralized solutions that picked up some traction.
As a non-expert, if someone says something unusual that would require expertise in the field to say with credibility, I have every right to verify their expertise. Or to at least verify whether or not they have a history of things like “being convicted of fraud” or “being barred from practicing medicine due to publishing fraudulent papers in the Lancet”.
> in fact, legalization of class A or B (schedule 1 and 2 in the USA) drugs would generally mean expulsion from the UN of that country for breach of the charter

No, it wouldn't.

The UN Charter has nothing relevant.

There are various drug conventions, but IIRC, all of them have denunciation provisions, and in any case there is no basis for the claim that either violation or denunciation of those conventions would result in expulsion from the UN. Violation, rather than denunciation, might result in a suit and adverse ruling in the ICJ by another aggrieved nation. Or it might not.
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Companies generally don't file bankruptcy when they are "functioning but indebted." They file when they can't even afford to make their next (or past-due) debt payment, and no creditors will dare to lend any more to them.

Don't you think creditors should have a say in whether a company should be allowed to delete some debt and try to become profitable again? If the company is deep in debt beyond its assets, but the creditor thinks the company is a truly valuable business, then it might vote for chapter 11 under certain terms. Otherwise, you are just enabling the bad incentives described in this thread, including rewarding the failed execs with retention bonuses.

But as I mentioned in the parent, these bankruptcies do not have a high percentage of success stories, and there are many repeat offenders who take advantage of the system. Yes, people at the failed company will have to find new jobs. That is called structural unemployment, and it is a normal part of progress.
Australian Deputy Chief Medical Officer: Eliminating Covid-19 a False Hope
what is funny you go to cloudflare customers page, check all these companies status page, all down, non of them admits it's due to third party cloud provider e.g. cloudflare. In most cases it was "performance issue". Its so silly... you're in the interconnected world. It's ok your major cloud providers went down...
This is an interesting claim. It basically says that Uber knew about Levandowski's crimes when they agreed to indemnify him against claims brought by Google. Given the way Uber seems to work, this wouldn't surprise me at all. There seems to be a lot of bullshit in this claim, but that specific piece wouldn't surprise me.

Mostly unrelatedly, this part seems particularly shitty:

> In fact, Uber had considered acquiring Tyto in 2015 but declined to do so at that time. Tyto was ultimately acquired by Otto with Uber’s consent and at Uber’s request prior to Uber closing on its acquisition of Otto to secure a lower price for Tyto than what Tyto would have requested had it known that Uber was the acquirer.
I would assume CF operations folks would be constantly making changes that affect “production” many times a day. Some of it will be to be counteract an issue that originally started because of an external issue like they mention here.

In an ideal world, yes there would be higher level tools to do everything and checks and balances for everything, but I assume half the tools are like our standard Unix cli tools - all too powerful and the operator better know what they are doing

By the time they have all the right tools for everything, the company would have become a dinosaur disrupted by some other technology or company
It's because it integrates with C libraries where a lot of variable naming schemes could be found, and tries to let you do your thing regardless of included C libs.

Took me some time to understand to but once I tried it, it's pretty cool.
It is interesting that you prefer Smalltalk-78 to -80. I also see that forks of Little Smalltalk 3 (which doesn't have metaclasses) are far more common that of LST 4 (which has them).
Git still uses SHA1, as does a bunch of other not-really-security-critical things (mostly as a much stronger checksum against corruption rather than malice.)

If the purpose of the hash in that code was security-critical and compromised by malicious collisions, it would definitely be a problem. Otherwise it shouldn't be --- and jumping at things without understanding the nuance is precisely one of the problems with the "security industry" today.
It takes about a 3-5% positive rate to ensure that you’re getting significant enough coverage to catch a large number of cases. It’s a log scale of diminishing returns below that level but above that you’re missing too many cases for isolation and contact tracing to be effective.
I suspect the science isn't quite 'seeking the individual'.

Rather than trying to find fancier ways to define the lines, are there lines at all? Perhaps fuzzy grouping opens up more powerful models. What began as co-evolutionary theory is way more continuous.

I was at SFI in the 90s, before the big push mentioned in this article. I remember a conversation about it, discussing perhaps there isn't such a thing as an individual. It wasn't even said as if radical (e.g., by that point the Selfish Gene (1976) and The Extended Phenotype (1982) were well established, and way behind any 'cutting edge'). So I suspect it isn't quite 'finding the individual' that the article author keeps focussing on. But more 'models that abandon individuality'.

I generally suspect that a problem with large swathes of human thought are discretising continuous reality. That's definitely a core SFI view too. Or at least was in the 90s.
The John Yoo interpretations of existing law during the early Bush 43 administration already did that. NDAA and subsequent updates weren't required, but I wouldn't doubt if they solidified some of the weaknesses of just having White House / NSC council interpretations.

Also, in practice, law is very subjective and frequently doesn't supply any prior constraint against government actors, only recourse after-the-fact.
An oral surgeon gave me an opioid prescription several years ago after a tooth extraction. The pain was minor so I never filled the script, but in retrospect just giving me the prescription seems like malpractice. I can totally see how other patients would end up addicted in that situation.
And how much value is provided to a dead kid?
Just grabbing the traffic from the exit node doesn't allow you to find out who is sending the traffic, unless the traffic itself has something that can be linked to the source. That's the magic of the layers in the network.

There are certainly some other kinds of attacks that could deanonymize this who are using tor, but the attacker needs to have control of a big percentage of the network, and I actually hope other state actors run enough nodes to make this non viable.
That's a good point. It would be interesting to get rid of Chapter 11 bankruptcy laws and force Chapter 7 instead. After all, it's shareholders that push companies to seek short term gains rather than long term trends, so when the company goes belly up, shareholders should be left holding that bag.
Certainly in perception. In the Unix philosophy, interoperability is central to the function of the program. It seems to me that apps only have this added as a secondary function, if at all. You can't easily fork an email stream so that part of your incoming mail goes to Outlook and part to Gmail, say based on subject or sender.
Why not both?

There could have been a baseline level of the virus or a close brother of it in circulation early in 2019, but the conditions of the wet market ecosystem in late 2019 let it suddenly spiral out of control, or make a final evolution to its current high-transmissiveness form.

Sort of like how we can find, retrospectively, intermittent cases of HIV back to the early part of the 20th century, but it suddenly exploded in the 1980s.
Grenades are registered destructive devices in the US. If you can pass the background check to buy a firearm you can buy a grenade. The cost will be $200 (tax) plus the cost of the grenade itself. Practical issues include the government being extremely slow in processing NFA transfers and finding a manufacturer that will actually sell you one. The few dealers I've found will only sell to Law Enforcement or Military buyers. There may be storage requirements I'm not aware of. E: to answer your actual question, it depends on a few factors but it may be possible to structure your grenade ownership to allow others to use it.
Most goverenments are deferential to sufficiently large corporations... so not a surprise
I definitely agree with that however I feel like the barrier to entry to non-technical folks is too high. And then the second problem being that people go where the content is, and the content doesn't want to go somewhere without people. The classic new social media problem.
There is no problem from the Asia site (well, it was in the wee hour, but my monitor doesn't see any problem here from Singapore)
Who is saying that being a smart engineer makes it OK?

But at least they are a smart engineer, unlike <some one else I do not know about>
For the example of H(X) where X ~ Geom(p), shouldn't the second term be multiplied by (k-1) after breaking up the logarithm? That is, shouldn't

pq^(k-1)log(q)

be

(k-1)pq^(k-1)log(q)

Apologies if I'm off base here, I'm pretty rusty on infinite series.

Great piece, this is really making this concept more intuitive for me.
Did this sink any eCommerce websites?
They actually did a postmortem?
What makes you think that whoever would be responsible for approving the change would somehow know better and catch the issue?
> On March 4, 2020, Judge Schulman ... entered a
judgment in Google’s favor against Mr. Levandowski in the amount of $179,047,998.64.

> As a result of Uber’s breaches, Mr. Levandowski has suffered damages in an amount to be proven at trial, which amount should be at least $4.128 billion.
Ben Franklin once said that the best argument against democracy was a discussion with the average voter. But I think there is an equal risk there of members of a society being unwilling to read what experts put out, and evaluate it themselves as well. Once people start saying I don't know anything about this and I can't make any determinations, democracy starts to make a lot less sense. At the end of the day science is basically critical reasoning backed by fact collection. If you can go read up on the facts, you can reason based on them. If someone can explain to you why you are wrong that may be one thing, but simply assuming you can never reason anything out is very dangerous.
I find it odd that countries/cities with much higher population density (and some, worst healthcare ie. in east Asia) are not going through this paranoia (finding hard to pick a mildler term) that many in the west have been going through. It's like: "I'm not leaving my house EVER until my (insert authority) guarantees I or someone won't die".

I guess people suddenly have much higher expectation of what is realistically authorized can guarantee. Good luck with that.
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Seems like this would be much better as a video. It probably took a tons of effort to put this into a webpage and it was quite buggy and unintuitive.
An old CS professor: Efficiency with computers, effectiveness with people.
>The argument is identical to arguments supporting intelligent design, that because it evolved in an unlikely or complex way, it must have been intentionally created.

I think intelligent design would be a pretty plausible explanation for humanity, if we already knew there was a god.
Get real. The UN is never going to expel any member state regardless of which treaties they breach.
>I would assume CF operations folks would be constantly making changes that affect “production” many times a day. Some of it will be to be counteract an issue that originally started because of an external issue like they mention here.

Even in an "emergency" situation like described in the post-mortem (which I'm actually confused about, because Prince's tweet said it was actually "routine maintenance", which makes it even less justifiable), there should be a standard playbook with pre-tested and pre-approved failover options to enact. There definitely should not be someone just manually fingering in a config file on the fly.

>In an ideal world, yes there would be higher level tools to do everything and checks and balances for everything, but I assume half the tools are like our standard Unix cli tools - all too powerful and the operator better know what they are doing

This is fine for some startup still hacking their way through an MVP, but for a global, multi-billion dollar company that prides themselves on supporting a significant part of the global internet, "the operator better know what they are doing" is unacceptable and not good enough. There should be multiple layers of protection against this stuff, so that even if an operator is having a nutty, they don't break half the internet.

>By the time they have all the right tools for everything, the company would have become a dinosaur disrupted by some other technology or company

I can't agree at all. We're talking about some basic change management and testing stuff here. I've been at plenty of organizations (even ones much smaller and with less resources than CF) that have gotten this right, and they certainly are not dinosaurs nor have they been "disrupted". Testing and change management is as fundamental as encryption or password hashing. If you don't have it, it's not because it's hard, it's just because you haven't bothered to implement it.
> So yes, it is immoral.

Who did the immoral thing here?

The executives don't set their own pay, and didn't necessarily ask for a bonus. What, you would decline the bonus and step down to restore your honor in their position? Doubtful. Meanwhile, the shareholders are giving bonuses which likely result in lower overall comps for these executives, after taking into account that the RSU's and options in their comp packages become nearly worthless. This is done to keep the company operating smoothly during restructuring.

Also, read the rest of the thread to get a better understanding of the mechanics before casting judgment. At every step of this process, the relevant decision makers made the rational and moral choice to arrive at this situation, as dictated by the US corporate bankruptcy system.
The web is a request response model. I'm not blocking ads I'm merely choosing not to request them. The idea that I owe them 5 seconds of feigned interest so they can mislead their clients with fake numbers is mental gymnastics
But he's making the decision for all of California. If you look at the actual data, it appears that most of the cases are coming from southern california. Also, the real data to look at is death rate, and hospitalization rate. I don't know about the death rate, but the hospitalization rate is definitely going up. However, nearly all of the patients are in southern california again. In fact, it's LA that's really the epicenter of death and hospitalization for california.

Here's the hospitalization link I'm using, because there might be better data somewhere else.

https://public.tableau.com/views/COVID-19HospitalsDashboard/...

It's easy to be consumed by the fear about this disease, and that the number of cases that are rising. But we have to be careful to make informed decisions, and not compromise student learning in the entire state due to rising cases in one part of the state.

One thing, is it looks a bit like the hospitalizations might be starting to slightly level off, but it's hard to tell since it still could be trending upwards. At the very least, it doesn't look like the cases are on any kind of exponential curve.
Investors routinely entrust entrepreneurs with millions of dollars, after only some relatively-light due diligence. You'll meet for coffee first, then dinner, if you hit it off then more conversations, and eventually a term sheet. The investor doesn't ask for source code or technical documents, or subject the entrepreneurs to a rigorous examination to make sure it's not a scam. It's all based largely on trust.
Syncing doesn't even need a server if the devices you're using are online at the same time.

I just switched to it from Dropbox.
No you have me backwards. I don’t understand for what cause CV19 May have been made purposefully. I don’t see who it would benefit.
For some reason could be explained by looking at

[1] https://openinframap.org/#4.88/56.67/8.34/L,P

By going via Denmark the distance under water is shorter. Also continental Europe, mainly Germany and Benelux slurped the power first, so the infrastructures have already been there. Why not use them as much as possible, i guess? Although recently some direct point-to-point has been built.
If Cloudflare DNS is down how would that CNAME resolve? In the case that record is not hosted by Cloudflare DNS then why does it matter if it's a CNAME or not? Sorry, probably not familiar with the offering you're referring to.
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Shopify went down so all of those storefronts were down.
It wouldn't be impossible to refute them if ostensible authority cared enough about credibility to have any, e.g. if, for the purposes of "public discourse," reality determined consensus and not the other way around.

edit: I was forced to wait like an hour to post this reply.
Don't forget the DMs of all these accounts. That could be very valuable information.
Oh cool. This is my cousin. Small world. It’s about time his work has appeared on the HN front page.
As a famous haiku once said:

It's not DNS

There's no way it's DNS

It was DNS
Because of the way we securely connect to StatusPage.io from most locations where our team is based. The traffic got blackholed in ATL, keeping us from updating it. An employee in our Austin office was finally able to use his Google Fi phone and connect through a PoP that wasn’t connected to our backbone so didn’t have traffic blackholed. Something we’ll address going forward.
The dude stole all the IP. He literally downloaded it all on purpose the day before he left. And took his team with him. And had a meeting with the head of Uber (a rival) the day before he left, to plan his de-facto selling of the Google self driving car project (which he did not own but which he could basically duplicate with stolen IP and poached people).

If you or I did any of those things we'd have been crucified. The fact that he's still standing is a testament to our dual legal system, one for the wealthy and powerful and one for the normals.
Had he just left without stealing the IP he'd be fine. He even could have gotten away with violating his non-solicit agreement. The fact that nobody can prove he used the stolen material doesn't really apply.
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