skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>you really that narrow minded and completely devoid of imagination? you think labs are only for making bio-weapons?

It wouldn't even have to be bio-weapon related. It could just be a genetically altered virus (routine in gain of function research) that escaped a lab due to an accident or carelessness, and was later covered up with the whole wet market story. People who disdain the idea that the virus could be man made are almost always attacking the hypothesis of a deliberate bio-weapon release, which is such a straw man.
Because they have better options and opportunities.
Actually that’s not the case: in bankruptcy the shareholders are at the end of the line behind (in order): taxes, payroll, than the varying degrees of debt and other creditors. Only if anything is left is it distributed to the various degrees of shareholders.

If there’s anyone to object it would presumably be the primary debt holders.
It’s marketing for people who don’t know better.

If you want a faster application your best bet is to avoid doing slow things as opposed to the magic of any application framework.

On the backend limit service calls, database queries, and asset size as much as possible. Essentially do less and send less to the browser.

On the front end avoid everything that requires parsing a string: querySelectors. That alone can make your application up to 10000x faster.

The slowest parts of any web application are the network connection and large frameworks (both frontend and backend).
thanks for replying, i didn't realize that markdown was botching my text, as it does more often than not.

it should be fixed now. (it's still obfuscated.)

markdown has to be one of the worst executed inventions i've come across in all my years of using technology.
Ehh... those statistics are often skewed. First hit on search for elementary school teacher median salary comparison[1]:

> ...median annual income of $58,230.

> This number would be above the average salary in the U.S., but it's the median of an awfully wide range of salaries. Elementary school teachers in the bottom 10% of income only made around $37,780, while those in the highest 10% could make as much as $95,270.

You then scroll down to the section on per-state numbers and see the wide gaps between states. You also see that this article, like others, suddenly jump to using mean instead of median.

I usually don't play this card, but show the data. You are likely only looking at a specific statistical lens that does not paint a real picture.

[1]: https://www.niche.com/blog/teacher-salaries-in-america/
Russia did very badly. First, lots of denial. Then, lockdowns so harsh in some places, Chinese could be jealous. And the burden was placed squarely on the businesses - the government effectively declared universal non-essential paid leave, but didn't subsidize it.

Oh, and the government successfully managed to use the epidemic as a cover-up for heretofore unseen levels of electoral fraud in the not-really-referendum on constitutional amendments.
They could get a security researcher, or three, to look over their systems? Then maybe invite large consumer groups to send an expert to take a look (they could come armed with info on users, that they could check up on, in order to try and confirm they weren't being fed a whole fake server?
This also means that if you want to break into twitter all you need to do is break into slack.
thanks for replying, i didn't realize that markdown was botching my text, as it does more often than not.

it should be fixed now. (it's still obfuscated.)
Thanks for the clarification. I thought you meant a complete reversal. If Hillary were president I think red states would have resisted but its hard for me to imagine they would be doing it at the same level. Maybe i'm being too Pollyanna there.

I also agree that simply doing something, anything, isn't always the right approach. I'm an independent who hangs out with the left and there is a tendency to reach for the hammer of government a bit too often. The feds shouldn't have led the charge by any means, but once individual states had started to shut down, a coordinated federal response to get this fully under control would have been the best approach. I think the end game for this will be something like that.
Know what's valuable? Internet traffic from people who think it's important enough to hide, and who have technical skills to get jobs with them. The value of privacy viewed this way would mean that a truly private VPN service would be hugely expensive, like the way a new Rolls Royce is priced at 50x that of what you need to get from A to B.
Teachers around me (NYC suburbs) are getting $200K compensation packages!

I consider that making out like a bandit. Only 186 days of work a year, summers off, can never be fired.
> It seems you are not understanding this part: "shift from large-scale to small-scale extraction". The claim is that cocaine would be fabricated "at home" and locally, which GP correctly points out is currently very common with DMT.

Couldn't you say the same thing about meth, especially in the past when pseudoephedrine medicines were easier to get? It sounds simple enough that regular people can make it from a receipe, but the cartels still traffic it: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bvgazz/sinaloa-cartel-dru....
It boggles my mind that a poor Mexican person will have their face cut off because someone decided it should be illegal to grow a plant and consume it.
What would he cite? That there's police departments being defunded in USA right now?
I think you are misunderstanding peoples' interpretations. Hope and joy does not imply a delusion that we've succeeded. People are happy we've won a battle, not that we've won the war. People need hope and high morals to continue this fight. We can't win with everyone feeling hopeless and turning to apathy. This data shows that efforts to stop climate change are working. We can build off that momentum and continue pushing because now we can stand on data that shows the fight has been worth it and we do in fact have the power. This is contrary to the hopeless battle that many think it is. Because if it is hopeless, why not just give up.
What's wrong with O´Neill cylinders?
I've got my first actual EMDR session on Monday. Did the setup session last time. Sounds like woo and too good to be true but then you look and it seems to be backed by solid science and credible people. Thought I might as well give it a try.
Experimentally: No. Betsy Devos's implementation was tested in Detroit, and failed miserably at teaching children. Expanding it without major, major changes is irresponsible and immoral. Step 1 is a system that doesn't defund public schools in the process.
You're missing the point of "consensus". The value of having a scientific consensus of trusted sources is precisely that we don't have to all individually read random conspiracy nonsense and come up with counterarguments on our own. We can trust the experts.

So if you come by with a theory that isn't supported by those experts, the burden is on YOU to convince people, not me.

Now I know you're going to come right back and tell me why, this time, after the last thousand tries, the consensus really is wrong and the conspiracy nuts are actually believing in a REAL conspiracy this time. And again I'll rely on my general sense of statistics to tell me who to trust.
No. I think my intention when using the low-probability, high impact examples is that we over-invest by dedicating far too much time and too many resources on events that will likely never happen but we can't even prepare for / respond to the high probability events well. Far better to practice and iterate on improving our response to the latter which will give us the expertise to better handle the former.
> While it’s illegal here, the money will go to these cartels.

Unfortunately legalizing doesn't end this, not when the legalized variants are so much more expensive. There will always be a lucrative black market to serve unless retail is both accessible and cost competitive for all consumers.

What I've seen so far with legalized recreational weed in the states is it's incredibly expensive, heavily taxed, and there are tons of illegal marijuana grow operations - more than before because demand has increased thanks to legalizing.
Oh, did hacker season just start? * Grabbing popcorn! * So this was an accident, or is it connected to the Twitter hack?
Maybe, even on a forum like YC's HN, we should think beyond VCs.
If it did come from a lab, said country might be on the hook for reparations due to damage caused by the virus...
Im waiting on my emWavePro to come in the mail so I can start training cardiac coherence. The science behind it is fascinating.
For certain definitions of "pay", any nation with a fiat currency could certainly place a number into a spreadsheet.

Making that number mean anything might take a while.But we could certainly write a permanent bond and put it onto the books.
We didn't snuff out hot spots. The virus was/is still in NYC and Washington. No matter how long we locked down for it would still be there waiting to emerge after the lock down ended. That was the problem with the lockdown. It was touted as a solution when its just a delaying tactic.

Schools are the same. Keeping them closed is just a delaying tactic. And like the lockdown, unless we delay until a vaccine then it's a pointless delay.
HN is feeling more and more like reddit every day. Why is this comment downvoted/flagged? It's the first well sourced scientific information I find in this thread.
Opiates? Big Pharma? We’re the “legal” drug dealer kingpins.
I'm sorry but it's a little jarring how you don't even acknowledge that Youtube is a service as part of the equation. You speak about the "content creator" providing you with a service, but fully take the platform on which it happens for granted.

If you don't want to feed the "Surveillance company", then don't use Youtube at all. But it is quite arrogant to benefit from their work, acting entitled to it, and then turn around and shit all over them behind their back.
And 1000s of other companies.
Just how insecure is airport WiFi these days with SSL and HSTS? I don't normally worry about it, and suspect people who still counsel against it of lazy FUD.

I'd notice pretty quickly if someone was MITMing all of my traffic. I guess they could MITM a third-party Javascript site that wasn't being served with HSTS. Normally that would just give them all the information I already give to Google or Facebook and the hundred other shitbags that run JS on the sites I browse, but if they got really lucky they could pretend to be some third-party payment provider that didn't use HSTS or I hadn't used before.
You're still missing the point completely - corruption is a crime. The problem is that pretty much nothing these politicians do is actually illegal and thus doesn't constitute a crime in the first place.

This is why legislation and regulations need to change, because that's way easier than trying to change people.

If you don't like the rules of the game, demand to change the rules instead of shouting "You're all cheaters!" and stop there. That's just cheap and not helpful at all.
I agree in theory, but really HN is lacking some features which would make it more enjoyable all which would likely need minimal JS, e.g. sorting, notifications, and some better way to read multi-page discussions. You will likely never read this comment since HN has no notification concept!
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Doubly so when there is motivated reasoning behind the argument.

If a pharma company came out with a paper saying “we’re almost done developing a cure for cancer!”, people would be rightly skeptical. Lethal manmade viruses are less ridiculous than that, but I’d still classify them as very surprising. Motivated reasoning for those with political ends should be unsurprising when it comes to discussing whether covid is manmade.

Checking background/credentials is due diligence to ensure you aren’t being duped. I wish the world exclusive operated on good faith argumentation. Unfortunately, it doesn’t.
This is very unlikely. The technology to design a virus reliably just isn't there.

What is much more likely is that a lab was studying coronavirus isolates from animals, and had a failure of containment. This has happened multiple times before (eg. with small pox).

But even then it is a moot point, because there is no way China, or any country for that matter, would admit they unleashed a global pandemic. Can you imagine the fall out?
? Everything's an allegation until it's proven in court.
The word 'alleged' is a CYA move.
It would have to be some damn strong mate de coca. I've drank it on several occasions, and from what I could tell, it was less of a stimulant than coffee.
There are no people west of Paris after all!
> Reporting that they are at capacity intimates that they are packed full of Covid patients and overflowing.

No, it suggests that if the COVID numbers go up, someone who should get ICU treatment, whether COVID or not, won't get it because there won't be capacity. Which is kind of an important fact in places where COVID numbers are trending upward.
Sorry, I miss the reference. Would you be kind and expand on it a bit?
You're picking on my hyperbole, not my point. I agree with everything you wrote. It's not relevant to this topic.
Do viruses closely related to SARS-Cov-2 do all the "unusual" things it does? Do they cause brain damage, reproductive damage, anosmia without congestion, strokes, and unusual clotting activity? If not, I would be reassured by someone explaining to me how a natural pathogen could pick up all these features at the same time.
ReactOS hits a milestone – hiring a full-time developer
Multiple times they noted that they kept calm or not scared, Why would they more likely to kill them if they got scared?
Unsecured Elasticsearch, once again.

(https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/17/ufo_vpn_database/)

So ES has insecure defaults, I get that and it's been discussed to death.

But who the heck, in this day and age, exposes clusters directly to internet traffic? I don't care what the defaults or security measures you have. DONT EXPOSE SERVERS.

Place them inside a VPC, preferably a private one(in AWS parlance, behind a NAT GW). Use _something else_ to send traffic to them. If you are on AWS or similar (but not Azure I guess), add a load balancer to it. So now access would require creating a new load balancer, pointing to the servers in question, adding listeners on the desired ports, and configuring the appropriate security groups. Only then you can send external traffic. On the specific ports you configured on both listeners and security groups only.

Do this everywhere and you are in a much better shape. You still need to configure servers correctly, but if you mess up, nothing happens, unless you mess up many other things in an error cascade.
If you try to tax drugs, there will still be a significant black market. Just look at cigarettes - legal, but huge black market because there is money to be made undercutting legitimate vendors with taxed goods.
99% haven't chosen to. It's more that those few that did, quickly wiped out or assimilated their neighbors. The ones that are left today are those who lived in regions too remote for that to happen (but it's still an ongoing process, e.g. in Brazil and Papua).
Hmmm I'd say it only began in earnest in the 90s. And then you look at the previous Democrat goverment and its cross border gun trafficking operations which certainly didn't help.

What I can tell you is it's probably never been so brazen. Couple weeks back they shot the chief of Police of Mexico City in broad daylight in one of the nicest (most expensive) neighborhoods in the country. They killed his bodyguards and gravely injured him despite of having an armored SUV. An attempt like that was unheard of so far
Thats a problem with modern necessities though. The web has become this bloated mess of which there is basically one canonical implementation in Chrome and one second class one in Firefox. That you need js to set up css for a basic text web page is an embarrassment. If we redid things from the bottom up a lot more people would see why having standards like http3 are a bad idea.
Tiawan should reciprocate with the reverse, no visas to CCP or citizens of China unless this douchebaggery is quashed.

Also, all Chinese should be immediately banned from receiving any chips from TSMC.

Cut them off at the knees.
If you are 10% better at something than the second best in the world (that is, you are the best), than you are going to get paid way more than 10% more. Even if you're not the best, 10% better than someone else is going net you a disproportionate amount of money.

The reason for this is that skill tends to fall along a normal distribution. As you get better and better, the number of people as good as you starts to fall at an exponential rate.

But, for your example, I don't CEO compensation in many cases has much to do with the value you provide. CEOs of bigger companies usually get paid more not because they are better but because there is more money that they can personally capture, since the companies they run are large.

And then there are CEOs that are incredibly compensated, like Cook and Nadela because they truly are providing incredible value.
> Xorg is is nearing the end of its life as an actively developed project.

There are people like Keith Packard who work on it exclusively. Xorg is open source, open source software - especially when it has actual users with technical knowledge - doesn't die because some company wishes so.

> You can see that the release cadence is much slower than it was a couple years ago, it’s gone from something like a six-month cadence to a two-year cadence.

Xorg isn't really a single thing as it was in the past but a collection of libraries - some of these libraries are at a very stable point where they do not need updates, others are shared by some Wayland projects so they should be up to date and others... if they need any update i'm sure someone will do it.

> The lion’s share of the development is sponsored by orgs like Red Had and they’ve publicly warned people that this may not continue into the future.

There is no "they", only Red Had wrote a blog post some time ago that they wont do much new development in Xorg but Red Had doesn't own Xorg nor they control its development.

> You simply can’t use X font rendering to achieve what is, in 2020, considered to be the bare minimum for text presentation.

The bare minimum for text presentation is to render text. You can do that perfectly fine with the core X font API - many people (including me) use xterm and similar minimal software just fine. What you cannot do is render antialiased font using that API (though IMO this is an oversight).

However you can use Xft to do that and as of a couple of months ago you can use it to render colored fonts like emoji, which basically covers most of font rendering use for 99% of applications out there (Xft doesn't handle complex text layout, which is where Pango enters the picture, but most GUI software doesn't use that anyway).

> Up until recently, this was papered over by libraries that could abstract over the differences between old-style X fonts and modern TTF fonts (TTF is almost as old as X!) For various reasons, the backwards compatibility was ditched a few months ago. The abstraction had just grown too unwieldy and had too many special cases.

Pango isn't the library for font rendering (even if it is popular) for X11, it is just one of several choices. Pango removing support for bitmap fonts is only a drawback for those who use the library but it doesn't affect anything else.
Does anyone know how this interacts with GDPR? In particular, if someone has personal information stored in a GitHub repo and asks for it to be permanently deleted, do they need to dig it out of a bunker in the Arctic?
> it cannot (or doesn't want) to stop the traffic coming from outside its borders

Openly turning that sophisticated intelligence apparatus against the citizenry is simply not politically tenable in the US at present. (Note that I said openly. What Snowden revealed wasn't open.)
keep moving the goal posts.
The word "history" is not a synonym for "summary" or "overview."

Not a good look for an ad for a product that deals in the nuance of language.
Chad Hart just posted his observations on using the getDisplayMedia API itself.

https://webrtchacks.com/jitsi-recording-getdisplaymedia-audi...
I almost wish this attack had been perpetrated by sophisticated govt hackers. The fact that it was some kids still living at home is almost more scary. But the silver lining is this was hopefully a wake up call for Twitter.
You can more correctly assess the credibility of counterclaims, and evaluate how they are motivated to disinform about vitally important issues. Similarly, if they are wrong, you can evaluate how their motivations caused them to mislead about such an issue. Knowing the truth is almost always useful. Some people even define truth in terms of the usefulness of a given belief.

Also, if they are right, you can press to find out whether the originator of the pathogen simultaneously developed antigens for their internal use, or for later sale, and can better make the case for regulatory regimes which are better equipped to prevent such events. If it was developed by a state actor, peers can exert pressure and international law to circumscribe the potential for future harms, and the political processes internal to the state will become empowered to make internal changes to prevent harms to the people and the state such as result. It is much more difficult to disempower a successful deceiver than an unsuccessful one.
How does supporting BDF fonts makes a project fail to support new users? It sounds like a problem with the library's architecture, not an unsolvable technical hurdle.
Anti-vaxxers is a pretty small movement according to polls, compared to the attention they've been getting (ten percentish). And it's certainly not just a US thing. More people probably believe in astrology.

I'm not a virologist (nor a conspiracy theorist, by the way), but every time I read articles about the origin of covid being settled, I feel like the writer is trying to push an agenda. Yes they give perfectly sound logical reasoning, sure, but that's all it is. The counter view obviously will continue to be driven by the location of the origin.

Edit: and by the way, the autism-caused-by-vaccines theory is not solely the result of a bad study getting too much attention. It is similarly the result of people making conclusions from big coincidences. In this case the onset of autism (at least the age when symptoms get bad) is commonly around the same age that children get vaccinated. The study didn't just make that idea up, they were trying to validate a belief that was already held relatively widely.
Hopefully this helps them find a cure/treatment. Most people don’t have complications from this virus, I am one of the few that did.

Now, every so often when I get the flu or a cold. Or in general my immune system gets weaker, lack of sleep, etc. I get another round of mononucleosis. My throat swells shut, I get ridiculous fatigue, and I get swelling and soreness pretty much all over. I’m then doomed to a week of bed rest and water+pudding+soap.

I fear that these complications will arise and make other illnesses worse as they do with the flu and colds. I really fear this combine with covid will do me in. I guess we’ll see.
Well if you take eradication off the table, then you have to assume the entire susceptible population will eventually get the virus. So I guess, I don't see the benefit of "stomping" the virus down to some small level. It was at a very small level back in February, and then grew. If we get it back down to that small level, it will just grow again. There's no benefit to locking down for 3 months to have it grow in July instead of March.

A controlled burn approach makes a lot more sense, but that is not the same as "stomping" the virus.