skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“ doesn’t actually make any claims about whether the virus was natural or man-made in its current form.”

Huh? The paper claims that the preponderance of evidence supports a theory that the virus is the product of a sequence of laboratory manipulations. I suppose this could hinge upon one’s definition of “man-made” but creating a chimera is man-made in my opinion.
I wanted to suggest that you could consider adding mithril.js to the list of libraries perhaps. It's a nice alternative to preact/svelte, and it's been around awhile.

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BTW, When I go to https://webcomponents.dev/edit/uLX8C4bJf4Kmg2jWu1dL?pm=1 it doesn't load the component in the "Stories" tab for latest Safari or an old Chromium v68. Works fine in latest Firefox.

I see error message "Unhandled Promise Rejection: SyntaxError: Invalid character '\ud835'" on the worker.helper file in Safari. Chromium 68 ends up with "Unknown worker: undefined"
>"well if {major cloud provider} is down, the internet is going to be all messed up for a bit anyway, so we'll accept the risk of being down when they're down, and reassess whether that keeps making sense as we grow."

This is a very common pattern and falls into the 'nobody got fired for buying cisco/microsoft/intel' trap.

I have two issues with it;

1) It entrenches the largest provider.

You would not extend the same leniency's of outages to the third best cloud provider, this means that people will just keep pushing the monopoly forward. Even if the uptime or service is actually better on another provider.

2) You create a tight coupling of monocultures;

Simply put: You slowly erode the internet. Your site becomes an application in a distributed mainframe operated by a tiny minority of tech companies universally based in the US.

Why is this a problem? I could give moral answers here but I thing pragmatic ones are more convincing..

Giving ownership of the internet to the few gives them the ability to set the rules.

If you're on Amazon's AWS, what's to say they don't inspect your e-commerce systems and incorporate your business logic into their amazon.com shopping experience. They do this to their marketplace and create competing products already[0].

If you're doing really well, why not just drop a few packets here and there? I mean, they wont.. you're paying, right?

Hell, if you do super well they can just change the rules and make it so your services get expensive in the exact way you use them, or even legislate you off the platform entirely.

Probably wont happen, but it's a lot of trust you have to admit, and people shit on Apple for having that kind of power, and Apple is not even competing in the same market as most people on this site.

If you're on google cloud (which, I'm a fan of btw) and you feed an ML model, well, you paid for it but why shouldn't they also have a copy.. after all, it's green to do so!
Their bigdata platform? Google loves data! Feed the beast.

[0]: https://fortune.com/2016/04/20/amazon-copies-merchants/
Another huge challenge about dealing with the drug trade - people with guns and power probably aren't just going to go away because you've changed the dynamics of their most profitable market:
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-11-20/mexico...
There’s plenty of more studies out there, many paywalled. I just offered you one so you’d get the idea and have a place to start if you were actually interested.

My point is that dogs don’t have a “past” to dwell on the way we do. Where you or I have a specific memory of playing fetch that we can replay, analyze, and put into new contexts, dogs have a sort of database of facts: “Rules of fetch”, “ball = fun”, “this human plays fetch”. They are “things remembered” versus “memories”.
CDNs are decentralized by nature.
YouTube wasn't created at Google.
Grifters. What else is new?
Very.

And it’s not just arms, it’s military training and procedures. The cartel mentioned most often in the article (the Zetas) literally WERE the army - they were special forces and commandos that decided to become the muscle for the Gulf Cartel because it paid more.

Then the Gulf Cartel learned the problems of relying on mercenaries when the Zetas turned on them as well, becoming one of the most dominant cartels in the world.

Anyway, to answer your question: the cartels have tanks, helicopters, ships, submarines, mortars, grenades and missiles.

Many of them are crude versions of course (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco_tank) but it’s definitely not just small arms fire.

A bunch of highly trained ex-commandos with billions in budget and hundreds of thousands of “troops” (in aggregate) that doesn’t much care about hurting civilians can do a lot of damage.
Firefox is using Mullvad for their VPN product.
Very likely will not help except to the extent that it makes selling drugs unprofitable. Any profitable industry--agriculture, tourism, energy, etc.--falls victim to the same.
Here's San Francisco guidance for school reopening: https://www.sfdph.org/dph/alerts/covid-guidance/Preliminary-...
For all you know, your government is running that VPN you’re using
Bugs at IHOP
Ahh I remember when AWS went down (think it was 2 years ago now?) or at least a data center in us-east? Majority of the internet went down and status page went down as well. Man good times.
Huh. My Ubiquiti was reporting WAN link down during this outage. I'm using ATT fiber. I'm wondering if "link down" doesn't mean what I think it means. Now that I check, it says "WAN iface [eth2] transition to state [inactive]". I'm wondering if that means link down or if it's doing service checking.

I actually have a WAN2 configured but not plugged in and it was set to "Load Balancing: Failover Only" ... I wonder if all of my 'connection issues' were software assuming my network link is down and switching interfaces to an unavailable one.
A black market will always exist as it does for anything. The problem we're trying to solve is the power of a huge market solely tapped by criminal enterprises. You don't see narcostates formed by black market tobacco or alcohol.
George Bush Sr
Unrelated, but
Operation Fast and Furious

Intelligence agency black budgets have been partially tied to drugs for a while.
I ride mine almost every day and it's amazing. Everyone wants to ask about it, and I just tell them it's a Segway minus a wheel and a handle. For just $1.5k you can get a uni that will travel up to 60 miles.
I'm reminded of the following episode of Pinky and the Brain:

Brain plans to use a "growing ray" (originally a "shrinking ray") to grow
Pinky into super-size while dressed up as Gollyzilla, while Brain would turn
himself gigantic and stop him, using the name Brainodo, in exchange for
world domination. However, the real Gollyzilla emerges from the ocean and
starts to rampage through the city, making Brain think that the dinosaur is
Pinky. The episode ends with the ray going out of control and making
everything on Earth grow, including the Earth itself, to the point that
Pinky, the Brain, and even Gollyzilla are mouse-sized by comparison again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pinky_and_the_Brain_ep...

Being able to train deep RL models on commodity hardware is only an advantage
if there isn't anyone that can train on more powerful hardware (or if somehow
training on more powerful hardware fails to improve performance with respect
to your model). Otherwise, you're still just a little mouse and they have all
the compute.
Oil prices are the other key. Around the year 2000, some thought we were at or near peak oil. If oil prices had risen above $200/barrel in the '00s, the Segway might have made its way in the market.

It's a bit like the Chevy Volt, a car that I see criticized on HN and elsewhere occasionally. It was conceived of at a time when future oil prices were uncertain, and, if they'd remained sustainably high, it would have been a huge hit. But Americans have short memories and don't actually care much about the environment, so it was a relative flop.
FoxyProxy posted one of their Secret Service subpoenas along with their reply. TLDR; they said they have nothing to give:

https://blog.getfoxyproxy.org/2017/11/04/secret-service-subp...

As for PrivateInternetAccesss / PIA, I would not trust them at all. No one knows who the founders and executives are. After speaking at length with an ex-employee of PIA who now maintains this open-source iOS VPN client,

https://passepartoutvpn.app/

even many (most?) employees and contractors at PIA have no idea of the identify of their direct managers. All work is done remotely and using encrypted chat sessions without video.

PIA is incorporated in British Virgin Islands where apparently shareholders, owners, etc can "enjoy" complete privacy.
Effective testing and contact tracing is sufficient to dramatically reduce the spread of the virus.

If we're a year away from a vaccine or treatment, then we don't need to burn down society to stop it this month. But if we act in a way that causes millions of infections, we're inflicting unnecessary harm on thousands.

We've also learned more about how to keep people alive and how to slow the spread of the virus since February, so it's useful to postpone that exponential growth as long as possible.
I agree that a large part of it is a personal/cultural decision. I wouldn't frame it as pro reopening school people prioritize schooling over life though. That sounds pretty bad and doesn't seem fair.

Whenever I get into a car and drive, I risk death and injury to myself, my passengers and other people on the road.

I weigh the risks and benefits and make a decision that driving is worth the risk. Does that mean I value the convenience of driving over life? I don't think so.

And for the record. I'm actually undecided on the issue of reopening schools. Like many people, I assumed not reopening was obviously the rational and sane choice. But when I looked into it, I found differing data and opinions from scientific sources so it made me reconsider.
I’m sorry to be the one to tell you this, but it’s not the roses they are sniffing...
> not when the legalized variants are so much more expensive

That's highly dependent on the particular product and regulation. There's not much of an alcohol or tobacco black market in the US as far as I can tell because the regulation seems to consist almost exclusively of a sin tax applied to product sold for human consumption.

Compare this to marijuana in WA, where there's some sort of convoluted and expensive licensing system for cultivating it. Then there's a set of byzantine regulations surrounding the cultivation and distribution itself followed up by a sin tax at point of sale.

If drug legalization were simply that existing pharmacies could sell existing stock to people who didn't have a prescription subject to a tax (less than 50%) the drug cartels would quite literally lose their entire revenue stream overnight. The controlled substances act then becomes a list of taxed behind-the-counter substances instead of a list of illegal substances.

(Bonus: The jobs of academic researches who use such substances immediately becomes _much_ easier. Not for human consumption? No tax issues, just order it from your usual supplier like any other chemical. No more complicated permits and limited availability.)

(Extra bonus: No more meth labs in residential neighborhoods illegally disposing of highly toxic compounds, presenting a serious fire hazard, and otherwise endangering the health and safety of everyone nearby. Industrial chemistry belongs in industrial areas, where it can be subject to OSHA and the EPA.)
I finally understand why I kept seeing headlines saying "the Twitter hack could have been much worse"
Damn I knew EU was a corrupt institution but didn't know they were so brazen to openly embrace such an individual as Mrs Leyen
I think private messaging is where most of the goods are. Also user's phone numbers and emails.
Yeah but the TFA was mostly about long articles.
The shift in meaning of the word morale is important. "Pour encourager les autres" is subtly different. Officers (and sergeant's) canes are sometimes called 'starters' and were used to 'encourage' harder work. I think calling them 'swagger sticks' came into use when hitting troops and sailors became less acceptable.

'give that man the end of the rope to encourage him to pull harder' comes to mind: it does not mean 'let him be the one pulling on the back end' -a concept found in many a book by CS Forester, Patrick OBrien or maybe even Herman Melville (who witnessed flogging)
My interpretation was that they were simply placeholders.
Love this! awesome!
I think this over simplifies what makes a good image quite dramatically.

And too suggest that art photography uses specialised standard colour palettes to signal “high end art” is a pretty big claim to make with no evidence.

Some of the most influential and interesting art photographers working today produce images that do not exhibit the qualities you mention, for example Jeff Wall and Thomas Struth.

Edit: typo
One of the gang leaders arrested in 2009 was finally sentenced less that two weeks ago.

Pretty crazy how long it took our legal system to prove guilt - eleven years.

https://vancouversun.com/news/jamie-bacon-to-plead-guilty-in...
This is bad logic. Suppose some state sponsored lab actually did create a hybrid virus (not terribly hard, as demonstrated by the controversial ccr5-binder/flu fusion which was generated in Australia iirc) what would be the evidentiary standard you would use to judge that this 1) could be or 2) was the case, of course, assuming you could not have access to the state's lab logs?

Or would you throw up your hands and say "it's unprovable"?
https://vpn.mozilla.org/

I'm barely literate in this area but their site suggests it's just mullvad under the hood. Not that that's a bad thing
It's not failure, it's misconfiguration. Totally different issue to be resilient to fat fingers than fires.
It looks a lot more like this is how "make guns freely available" ends
I've found that the Magisk module for the f-droid priv-ext tends to work better than the OTA for Android 10.
Pharming – Between the Hacks
> NYTimes, most prestigious news outlets in the world

Really?
Please, go ahead. I wanted to delete my account but HN isn't even GDPR compliant.
I wouldn't trust PIA for anything.

The whole company is shrouded in secrecy. After speaking at length with an ex-employee of PIA who now maintains this open-source iOS VPN client:

https://passepartoutvpn.app/

many (most?) employees and contractors at PIA have no idea of the identify of their direct managers.

Imagine working for a company and not knowing your manager's real name. Now imagine trusting that company with your internet traffic.
Think like a scientist talk like a populist
Kratom does not contain opioids and very little is still understood about it's pharmacology.

It is not the same as drinking coca tea for cocaine addiction.
Biology, and the universe in general, aren't always intuitive.

I'm also completely flabbergasted that you take 1 person's opinion, despite it being the opposite of the opinions of a general educated scientific community, and you take that one person's opinion more seriously.

And apparently you are not a historian, either, because we've had viruses spread in humans in the past. I don't see how this being a naturally-made virus is crazier than it being man-made. In fact, it's crazy if it is man-made.
to reply to myself, if you have a second interface configured for failover, it actually tests against ping.ubnt.com. I bet every single time my ATT fiber has "gone out" for a minute or two at a time, it's been bogus.

root@USG-PRO-4:~# show load-balance watchdog
Group wan_failover
eth2
status: Running
pings: 2
fails: 0
run fails: 0/3
route drops: 0
ping gateway: ping.ubnt.com - REACHABLE

eth3
status: Waiting on recovery (0/3)
failover-only mode
pings: 1
fails: 1
run fails: 3/3
route drops: 1
ping gateway: ping.ubnt.com - DOWN
last route drop : Fri Jul 17 17:32:58 2020
it's easier than you might think. for example, on a 747 you don't need external stairs, since access is available via the nose wheel landing gear bay [0] according to a pilot.

0. https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/2605/can-large-...
If you keep the infection rate low enough you can keep the hospitals from being over capacity and also delay infections until after a vaccine is developed and administered, thus preventing the infection. Both of these states would have the benefit of reducing the total number of deaths. When the lockdown talk started, I thought that was the point.
> What the hell are we supposed to do about that with zero national plan?

Looking at California, a state where borders are mostly in remote areas that aren't especially porous (compared to NYC/NJ), there's still be a huge surge, and nothing points to borders being the reason. It's mostly state and county-level policy. States around NYC seem to have stomped it down relatively well, despite there being three states involved.

The US is huge and diverse, so you're not going to get a "national plan." The best you can hope for is guidance.
Most of my devices went belly up and was trying to figure out what it might be (I run NextDNS on my router), switched off to cell and noticed discord was down too so started thinking about NextDNS. I toggled dns to google and noticed it immediately work.
You still need a problem, domain knowledge, a good question and relevant data?
that is a home computer bow thanks to threadripper
> Do we know for a fact

This always has been and always will be the security rabbit hole. (Well, one of them.)

How do you define "know for a fact"? Even if you personally know a person managing an egress node, how do you know they aren't operating on behalf of someone else?
The cartels aren’t drug evangelists, they’re businesses. Take away drugs and they’ll violently monopolize other profitable export industries. In fact, they’ve already done this with avocados.

If you want to stop the violence and corruption of the cartels, you’ll have to either change the culture that makes their existence possible, or defeat/imprison/kill them all. I’m not sure which of those would be more difficult.
I don't think FANGs lack any of that, either.
Also, don't use 0.0.0.0/0 in a security group rule!

P.S. Azure has load balancers and security groups too- in fact their security groups are better than AWS's in some ways such as supporting thousands of rules instead of only 50.
The "dubious" claim (I was imprecise and meant to credit it to the president's quote, not the "without replenishing it") was basically affirmed by your Politifact link.

More importantly, the current president didn't spend the first 3 years in office replenishing the stockpile and didn't take an offer from a former mask manufacturer very early in the outbreak to increase the production rate.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2020/04/02/trump...
> As to why this is allowed, I think it's seen as a private transaction between well-informed and consenting parties, so there needs to be a compelling reason for legislation and regulation.

In this specific case (zone of bankruptcy) there are externalities so it’s not a purely private transaction. For that matter limited liability always creates the possibility of an externality and so creates a hook for government regulation.
The mega boss is Orange-man, you can figure out the rest. ;)
Yep. I find this story hard to believe. Finding credentials on Slack for the most important resources at the company seems too hard to believe. Also if this was the case, how come Twitter was having a hard time to figure out how to stop the hack?
> I mean, legalize it all.

That's obviously difficult. The actual situation is even more difficult: you have to simultaneously deal with the supply and demand factors.

It's not enough just to legalize everything (which will never happen, 80-90% of the globe will never do such a thing under any circumstances, regardless of what the US does). If you do that, the demand will of course still be there. Someone has to wipe out the cartel production/supply by competing with it.

So the US has to go into the production business for cocaine, heroin, etc. It wouldn't be reliable to leave it to Mexico, it would be too easy for the cartels to hijack and control.

Any country that doesn't legalize globally - which will be most of them - will still remain a target for the cartels to sell into. Latin American cartel networks are effective enough and big enough now that they move product globally.

Legalize it all requires that a very large portion of all countries go in on that. It will never happen.

The US will fully legalize marijuana and it will hardly make a dent in taking down the cartels or reducing cartel violence in Latin America, which demonstrates their considerable staying power. There was widespread opinion that it would make a big difference, in reality it'll have hardly made any difference (Mexico is more violent now than it has ever been in its history).
PeerTube is not a company, it's an open source implementation of a peer-to-peer video sharing platform. Any person or company that wants to can pick it up and build a commercial platform on top of it. Whether that includes advertising or not is up to them.
This was happening in Cincinnati about 20 years ago and nobody believed me the neighborhood I lived in was so bad with gang violence anytime you called the police they showed up an unmarked clothing wearing masks in unmarked police cars white and black
Time does wonders. We have much better knowledge of treatment options than we had in March, which makes a real difference in lives lost. And eventually, we might (might!) get vaccines. So the longer the curve is flat, the more time we have to learn and craft better interventions.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus...
It still sounds immoral even if you read the rest of the comment.
Not really, legalisation allows for destigmatization.

The opiate crisis happened because weed wasn't legal soon enough. Most opiate users for pain release could swap.
The difference really isn't splitting hairs. Not only is he not a source, he's not anonymous.

Blogged under his full name until a couple years ago, blogs under first and middle still, full name still all over the internet and discoverable within a couple minutes, details of life all over blog still. Hell you probably don't even need to know his last name to find him. Scott Alexander Bay Area Psychiatrist is probably enough to go trawling through psychiatrist practice staff pages and find him fairly quickly.

Dude's basically wishing he was anonymous and living in denial because to accept that he isn't would be to accept that he really shouldn't continue his career and blog.

I think it's entirely possible for a person to both be willing to publish his last name and also go to prison in order to protect a source, all while remaining consistent in their principles.