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> It is like putting an earthquake lab in the middle of a seismically active area, then blaming the lab when an earthquake occurs.

This is a really bad analogy, though.

Seismic lab doesn't contain self propagating "seismic seed" that has the danger of being let loose and spread across the world, whilst virology lab _regularly_ handle dangerous pathogen.

The major reason people suspecting lab origin is not simply due to the existence of WIV next door. It is due to how the ccp purge information on WIV[1], have the lab taken over by the military[2], and the sentencing/disappearance of numerous civil journalists (陈秋实 Chen Qiushi, 李泽华 Li Zehua, 张展 Zhang Zhan are the ones that come to mind).

- [1](https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6181529370001)

- [2, Chinese](https://sa.sogou.com/sgsearch/sgs_tc_news.php?req=gNWjMh9kjp...)
All of my tenants were nurses nurses and training nurses at the main hospitals they're all laid off all of them are moving away or have moved away everybody keeps talking about these vaccines and I'm like there's not going to be anybody to administer them the hospital is basically shut down the lights are off there
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I humbly proffer that in order to produce clear requirements, it necessitates asking clarifying questions in the context of understanding what engineering effort is being requested.

And, perhaps, the most valued skill a senior developer acquires is enough business analysis (which I assume you reference as "BA work") ability such that the stakeholders feel comfortable in what they have conveyed is, in fact, what the development team will set out to deliver.
> You can think of the Agora as a convention based social network; an optional, user-controlled annotation layer that can be applied over any internet platform which supports user-generated content.

So should this be understood as a kind of a multi-user Memex? Annotation and linking over any site that supports user-editable fields seems similar to that, if one squints their eyes.
There's actually a potential safety advantage from the public's irrational reaction to autonomous driving deaths (irrational if compared to their response to human driving driving deaths):

Autonomous driving deaths will be much more scrutinized. In the press, by regulators, by competitors, by the companies involved. There's likely to be a lot more data involved. The scrutiny may ironically increase as it becomes safer, maybe becoming a lot like plane crashes, in fact, where each one is scrutinized by groups of experts and fixes are put in place to prevent that kind of thing from happening.

The safer it is, the rarer and more novel the fatalities are and therefore the more resources will be spent on fixing the safety issues.

That is, if autonomous driving is allowed. If it's not allowed because overall irrational fear of autonomous driving, then that feedback cycle can't happen.

So the paranoia isn't necessarily a bad thing as long as it doesn't cause paralysis.
Actually Flash was fantastic (for games). AS3 is one of my favorite programming languages I've ever worked with, but Flash wasn't just a programming language. The display tree (put simply: game engine) was baked into the runtime, which made it very very easy to make games. The tight coupling between art (movieclips created in Flash the program) and code (AS3 written in FlashDevelop or notepad) made for very fast iteration compared to today's highly siloed environments (make art in W. animate in X. export with Y. hand off to developers working in Z).

The amount of hoops you have to jump through to run something interactive in Unity is mind-boggling by comparison (without even talking about sharing that thing with another human on another computer). Processing was also pretty good at the first bit, but it wasn't as tuned to games and sharing your stuff was pretty awful (java applets).

Just because I <3 Flash doesn't mean it didn't have security problems, though. I wish someone had bought the tech off of Adobe and turned it into a gaming platform a-la Steam with proper input support.
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I'm now thoroughly lost. You've equated NPR, a non-profit news organization that's pretty widely regarded as boring, with a wild conspiracy theory of sex trafficking pizza shops. You're welcome to try again but without the hyperbole this time?
There's no reason Congress can't staff their own career professionals.
> So yeah, Dan had a problem of unimaginable scope in the 80s but also the problem is kind of fake?

I get what you're saying, but I don't think the problem is "fake" or artificial, maybe not even avoidable. Software is a tool, and you almost always need other tools to build and maintain tools.

Compare large construction projects, which often require separate construction projects, like building temporary roads to move all the material. Or drilling a long tunnel through a mountain: Frequently, entire factories will be built close to the tunnel entrance, which process the excavated material into concrete to be used for encasing the tunnel walls.

Another example: To produce huge numbers of screws in a cost-effective way, you need large, highly specialized machines, which serve no other purpose. And you need people who maintain those machines. Is that a fake problem, or are those fake jobs? Hardly.
There are STILL sites that have flash elements today. I’m looking at you HomeDepot and your Citi bank partner card.
Congress is not helping see:

https://nypost.com/2020/12/29/covid-19-bill-started-a-180-da...
> Conspiracy theories, religious fanatism, extreme nationalism, flat earth societies, sanitary anticompliance (anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers), climate change denial... they all have a thing in common: they are not rational and the people behind them are afraid of rationality and science.

Actually, I'd disagree. If you dig in to a lot of these theories, there is a kernel of rationality behind them. Many adherents can actually rebut arguments with evidence that makes a surprising amount of sense: there are usually multiple possible explanations for individual phenomena, and if you look at them in isolation, it can be very hard to conclusively demonstrate that the "scientific" answer is actually the best possible explanation. This to me explains why even intellectuals can fall prey to these theories: if you already have a nonconformist streak, the alternative explanations can be interesting to dig into.

Where they fall flat is in overall coherence; these theories often end up with massive gaping seams if you try to expand them from explaining one phenomena. And these seams are so obvious, and yet adherents have no coherent explanation for these seams, that it overshadows whatever kernel of rationality the theory originally had.
Someone with an IQ high enough to become a physics professor can't retrain, even within another sub-field of physics?

Moving about a bit is not losing people, and if they're not providing something useful then they've already been lost anyway, and the opportunity cost of what they might be doing usefully elsewhere is also spent. May as well employ them at McDonalds, except they'd probably be rubbish at it.
Before social media, AM talk radio was the same cesspool, with the same content and a similarly sized audience. Facebook just makes it more visible to those that are rightfully disturbed by it.
I really don't think they see intern as a low status label, especially if they have an MIT jacket on, for example.

I worked at a company with a CEO that did something similar and asked interns to come to his desk to chat, which I did. This practice didn't exactly shield him from being cast as an out of touch billionaire when he ran for President.
Ok, but what about de-sync?

> the receiving node just rewinds to frame N, and recomputes it (and all frames after it)

What about situation where frame N is a “long” time ago (for some definition of “long”)? There must be some sort of threshold after which the game state cannot be changed even if an input was received.
> evangelizing that technology within the organization

Ever heard of the term "architecture astronaut"?

> Your typical architecture astronaut will take a fact like “Napster is a peer-to-peer service for downloading music” and ignore everything but the architecture, thinking it’s interesting because it’s peer to peer, completely missing the point that it’s interesting because you can type the name of a song and listen to it right away.

I mean, I guess it's true that once one understands a certain problem area better than most peers, they will be able to find better alternative tech to solve the problem at hand. But, the other side of that coin is embracing or evangelizing a technology that is not appropriate to the problem (and thus possibly harmful to the business). "Hype driven development" and/or "resume driven development" are some instances of this.

BTW, I stumbled upon a relatively recent and relatively unknown development in CS (with potential real-world applications in parsing formal languages) some time ago, and evangelizing the technology is on my todo list since then. How to do this without seeming like an architecture astronaut? The fields of parsing and formal languages are actually quite unloved in both industry and academia in recent decades, so a more general question is also pertinent: how to get people interested in something that is widely considered boring, or even a solved problem? I guess starting a blog would be a good idea?
Uber provides financing for new cars, which I believe becomes a sort of entrapment as they then have to work long hours for uber to keep up with the car payments. You ever notice how so many uber drivers have brand new expensive cars?
> Calling for mob justice and encouraging your followers to “re-educate” people is utterly appalling

Do you have the original tweet where "re-educate" was used? I see lots of people using the term in this thread, and none of the original tweets seem to include it. As far as I can tell "re-education" terminology appears to have been an editorialization by Anandkumar's detractors.
The problem is that America has few cities, in the European sense. Many of the newly-grown cities are just endless suburbs around a small downtown.

In a dense city like NYC, public transportation is the obvious choice. In a semi-dense city like Seattle, public transportation is a viable choice. In a nebulous agglomeration like LA, public transportation is hard to rely on.
Straight from the wikipedia entry on the Huanan market:

"In May 2020, George Gao, the director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said animal samples collected from the seafood market had tested negative for the virus, indicating that the market was the site of an early superspreading event, but it was not the site of the initial outbreak.[43]"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-rules-out-animal-market-a...

I can't find references now but the idea that the virus started in Wuhan roughly early November and that the Huanan market was just a notable superspreading event which brought attention to the virus is pretty accepted in scientific circles. The virus was too well adpated to humans initially and has not evolved significantly since its first detection then (D614G and the new variants aside).

The animals that carried the virus in the Huanan market were probably just an infected human, and not particularly close to the origin case.

It was just detected there because it was a superspreading event that happened in the backyard of the nearby lab.

The most plausible explanation I've heard as an origin is that it jumped from bat to human in the process of bat guano farming. This would have obviously happened in the rural area outside of Wuhan, but the virus found its way through spreading events into the higher density city, where it was eventually detected. Cryptic spread would have been happening for at least a month or more as it adapted to humans.

The furin cleavage site may also be the result of a recombination event between two coronaviruses (coronaviruses don't just mutation and reassortment like influenza, they also recombine and dual infection with two coronaviruses in an animal or human can shuffle parts of genes):

https://jvi.asm.org/content/84/7/3134?ijkey=b8e66cb01995eeb4...

So if you just assume that trajectory from bat guano farming to city center, along with a missing link to provide the furin cleavage site, then the title articles analysis really falls apart. Not surprising that the bats are far away, the furin cleavage site may be not surprising if we manage to find a similar virus in nature, and mostly what is left is that it wasn't detected until it was right on the doorstep of the virology lab (where the virus found the people who were likely to set off the alarm about it) and the rest some mild cover-your-ass at the lab would be entirely expected.

But that means that there's some bats with answers somewhere outside of Wuhan but China has been stalling efforts to go find them.
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Your experience allows you to become a force multiplier by teaching/coaching others. Which requires learning that as a skill. Might not be a skill you want, but it’s a skill
The “west” could absolve all foreign debt to China both in 1st world and 3rd world countries as payment for covid liability.

The only action China could do would be to start a world war 3 in response.
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Yeah, people won't buy 'crippled' car brands. Probably no manufacturer will dare be first.
Good points! I'll keep that in mind in what I hope is already a relatively cautious approach to that sort of comment. On the other hand, ditching all/most idiomatic English and subtleties is probably not the right approach either, or avoiding all cultural references because others might not understand-- I don't think you're suggesting that, it's just my observation that this issue exists on a spectrum and not a binary.

Edit: You're in AI-- what's the landscape look like for improving automated translation to detect sarcasm? As a problem domain, it seems like it would be a subset/cross-section of sentiment analysis & word-sense-disambiguation.
Once they have achieved sub-meter precision landing, getting rid of embedded legs in favor of external “legs” only makes sense.
In Australia we had a very tight 4 month long lockdown in our second biggest city: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-54686812

It worked.

> If the 'general rules' both administrative and social were enforced in the West, we'd probably have a revolution.

We didn't.
I got exactly the same reaction. I feel lucky to be in a field so young that many of the "founding fathers" are still alive.
You'll have lawyers willing to make a case against you even if you make a provably perfect choice.

And the real issue is whatever got you into that situation, not the split second choice you make.
It also has a serious lack of data despite all the work in the original link - a lot of the places I frequent just don't show up in Apple Maps at all.
SARS-CoV-2 needs that outer shell to be able to infect you.

Lab tests have found that even when hand sanitizer is diluted well below recommended levels of concentration, it's still very effective at inactivating SARS-CoV-2: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7431409/

It's a relatively fragile virus. Fact is, there's very little evidence of COVID-19 spreading via surfaces, so hand hygiene and surface cleaning probably makes little if any difference: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

With some diseases surfaces certainly can be a common source of infection. But COVID-19 doesn't appear to be one of them.
Yes me too, and shout out to https://gitlab.haskell.org/users/hsyl20 behind this work, who has been doing the unglamorous work of refactoring away decades of tech debt in GHC like no person ever before, to the best of my knowledge.

https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/17957 for example. You would think the Haskell compiler in Haskell would be a shining example of a pure functional programming, but you would be wrong!

(GHC most predates more modern ideas about how programs should leverage pure functional languages. I also speculate early on there was an "innovation budget" idea, conscious or otherwise, that if the language was novel, and the compilation analyses (e.g. strictness analysis) were novel, that was enough, and the domain-agnostic architecture of the compiler should be proven and bog-standard.)
> Also there will always be a bottom, unless we had exact equality of outcomes, which is for various reasons impossible

You're taking the parent way too literally. If you look at the rest of the post, they mention "number of people at the lower end of today's income scale" (emphasis added), "people in poverty", and people "hav[ing] the problems you're describing" (not being able to afford a car). Their argument is clearly that nobody will be left at the point corresponding to today's bottom, not that there won't be any bottom.
> Yeah seriously. What a weird false equivalence to try to suggest.

Honestly, it's probably part of a real justification narrative for trusting things like QAnon and talk radio over the mainstream media. If you do that, you at least have to put them on the same level, and if it's too difficult to build up things like the first two, then you can always try tear down the latter (since it's easier to cherry-pick enough stuff to make that passably believable: just set a very high bar then catalog the inevitable times one of the thousands of journalists didn't live up to it over the last century).
This intrigues me as it appears that Tesla is shipping their production mistakes to China.

Things work differently in Michigan. Ford deliveries of the new F-150 pickup trucks were held up as they shipped them to a lot outside the city where non-union help fixed the manufacturing defects. This is how the Big 3 operates fixes manufacturing defects.
AS3 was a great language.

It struck a perfect balance between static and dynamic typing, had all the OOP you wanted, but FP too.

Also, e4x and data binding in Flex was magical.
I used my tool Bloaty, which parses the ELF and DWARF information in the binary: https://github.com/google/bloaty
Even for videos Flash was the best solution for a long time, almost every video sharing website used Flash video players until HTML5 video got developed.
Pelican. It took me an hour or two to set up this blog. Intuitive, flexible and well-documented.
what... Mitch McConnell is the Majority Leader of the Senate, one of the two bodies of representatives that makes up the Congress; he is also one of the two senators from Kentucky (and recently reelected)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_leaders_of_the_United_St...
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_McConnell
At the current rate of immunization, it will be years before we can achieve 90% coverage. This isn't hyperbole, it has been detailed in recent critical assessments of Operation Warp Speed.

Young people have sacrificed enough for the elderly and obese already.
there wasn't really a mobile market to speak of during the hey-day of flash.

it was an awful and wonderful time to experience the constant breakage and delight that was the www.
You’re arguing with a connotation when the denotation is true. Most epidemiologists are bureaucrats not scientists. They don’t do research and probably can’t, certainly not at the level of someone who has done a Ph.D. Also, let’s be honest. The FDA and CDC have been of negative value in the US, on net, during the current pandemic. Lying about masks, lying about the threshold needed for herd immunity, prosecuting distilleries for making alcohol for disinfectant, keeping KN95 masks from being allowed for months, not allowing human challenge trials... The list goes on.
> ANSI K 100.1-1974

On a related note, there is also BS 6008:1980, a British Standard for making a cup of tea; later ratified as ISO 3103.
This is what happens when you pay your company in peanuts when there's no more circus...
Are you implying only one party engages in this?

I could list many conspiracies peddled by the other party but I would be flagged/banned for most. Some less controversial ones might be Trump being elected due to mysterious Russians, and Trump being a secret White Supremacist hiding dog whistles in every other tweet.
Why does it stall in "Initializing..."?
Around the same time I saw a web app that was a single SWF file that you could email. I do see tech demos in that form factor though. Or at least they could easily be.
I'm on nightly and haven't noticed anything. How do you differentiate between crashed and GC-ed?
There's some insight here but it's a separate subject entirely.

In most situations, you learn by listening.

The challenge not offered in the article is to 'get them talking' in the first place if they are not natural talkers.

Finally - your points are salient on some level, but absorbing corporate schtick is not what this is about. Also, it's too cynical. Corporate schtick is just another form of communication, it's less personal, less direct, but it's also not evil.

Young people need to communication, but they will benefit from your experience much more than the other way around.
As long as you need to be 21 to buy it, and it’s taxed like alcohol, the that wouldn’t be a problem at all!
This isn't anything new and it's certainly not specific to this situation. It's debatable whether this is a legislative or executive function.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Rulemaking
Given sufficient blowback this published rule will be changed.
I've noticed an increase in upvote/downvotes based on whether or not a person agrees, rather than whether the comment was on-topic and contributed to the conversation.

I try to make a point of upvoting comments I disagree with, but that are clearly made in good faith in order to counteract this trend.

I suppose this problem is a normal low entropy state in community moderated systems.

It takes a lot more mental energy to moderate based on the value of the conversation rather than whether you personally agree.
It's so disappointing that the HN community has its fair share of racists.
Adobe screwed with the ActionScript (that one was catastrophe of a language), security and the tools, as each version of Adobe package until Cloud had increasing number of bugs.

But in defense to Flash, as I was using it long time ago, it was super easy to make animations, and drawing 2D animated characters, lines were smooth and even at the time without digital pen it look so natural. Adobe Illustrator was always more serious, and you needed to spend time fine grain adjusting Bézier curves, but in Flash that was one stroke of the hand I loved it. Also timeline and animation, was super user friendly, 15 years after there are few tools I have tried but none has that same easiness for artists.

Tool is the issue, and I can understand artists, HTML5 does not have any similar tools. And writing "HTML & CSS" and aiming at pixel coordinates is just not the way to do 15 minute (27000 frame) animation.
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