skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author is a novelist[1], not a subject matter expert on viruses. It's frustrating to have the author add his opinion. This sort of thing:

> But in the climate of gonzo laboratory experimentation, at a time when all sorts of tweaked variants and amped-up substitutions were being tested on cell cultures and in the lungs of humanized mice and other experimental animals, isn’t it possible ...

I confess to having skimmed the article except for the final two sections, but the subject matter expert[2] I see quoted has this to say:

> Baric said he still thought the virus came from bats in southern China, perhaps directly, or possibly via an intermediate host, although the smuggled pangolins, in his view, were a red herring. The disease evolved in humans over time without being noticed, he suspected, becoming gradually more infectious, and eventually a person carried it to Wuhan “and the pandemic took off.” Then he said, “Can you rule out a laboratory escape? The answer in this case is probably not.”

So the SME thinks it's zoonotic. But proving it's zoonotic is not currently a question science can answer (apparently), and the SME is being responsible by saying so. The author is taking advantage of that fact (IMO) to write this long-form piece.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholson_Baker

[2] https://www.med.unc.edu/microimm/directory/ralph-baric-phd-1...
Seems to be back up for me? Status page has not updated yet though.
I have heard that technology has a very large deflationary effect on consumables, and you can see the inflationary effects of money printing in the prices of non-consumables like stocks and real estate. For example, check out the nasdaq composite index: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EIXIC/
That sounds a bit strange, I would count any business with more than employees to be "medium" and 1000 to be large. Think of coffee shops: 1500 people allows you to have a network across multiple cities.

But w.r.t. the amounts of money, they spent $57MM over 15 years, so it's $4MM/y using very rough math.

Upd: https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/files/Size_Standards... says on p. 29 that it's less than $27.5MM or 1000 people, so you are right, it's quite a high bar.

Upd2: EU caps small businesses at 50 people and medium at 250, which sounds much more reasonable to me https://www.ucl.ac.uk/procurement/suppliers/smes#:~:text=Def....
> Focusing on the technical steps and what might be technically feasible or not versus the existing world and artists workflows.

I would say it's the opposite. There is nothing necessary about 10,000 4k maps and definitely nothing typical. Workflows trade a certain amount of optimization for consistency, but not like this.

> patronizing who actually works in the industry.

I don't think I was patronizing. This person is valuable in that they are trying to make completely excessive situations work. Telling people (or demonstrating to them) they are being ridiculous is not his responsibility and is a tight rope to walk in his position.

> Also speaking as an authority that knows best

If I said that 2 + 2 = 4 would you ask about a math degree? This is an exercise in appeal to authority. This person and myself aren't even contradicting each other very much.

He is saying the extremes that he has seen, I'm saying that 10,000 pixels of texture data for each pixel in a frame is enormous excess.

The only contradiction is that he seems to think that because someone did it, it must be a neccesity.

Instead of confronting what I'm actually saying, you are trying to rationalize why you don't need to.
I thought the most interesting part of this was the fact that it is not a "traditional union" or "required union", its "members only union".

Linked from the article:
https://tcf.org/content/report/members-only-unions-can-they-...

I think traditional unions have a lot of issues, but these "members only unions" seem like something that avoids those issues. If someone wants to voluntarily pay a group to help represent their interests, great! If the union no longer represents their interests, they can leave.
They are great. I rode one for a decade. Comfortable, classy.

But to tell the truth, the only seat that breaks in is the one that's attached to you.
It was nice to see a mention of Robert Ulichney. His 1987 book "Digital Halftoning" covers most of the ground that this blog post does, plus more.
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What if the ‘shit’ you mention was capable of self organization and self-modification and self-evolution towards goals, and through techniques, that may confound your senses?

In fact this example is a bit humorous because there is a type of fruit called the ‘miracle berry’ that is sold commercially to trick the taste receptors on human tongues, turning sour foods into sweet tasting foods temporarily.

I am sure if it doesn’t already exist one day products will be created to do so for the entire taste spectrum and beyond that all the human senses...

Genuinely beneficial things may be disguised as harmful and vice versa in such an environment. And then we would be back to the original point.
I repeat, I was just able to use a fake name to sign that document. Nothing prevents anyone from signing it as any of those people. Just for giggles, I just literally signed it a second time as "Dr. DJ Sumdog, PhD, associate professor at Hacker News". Check your email to complete the process.

Furthermore, the people you listed above have been found to have conflicts of interest regarding this declaration. The medical and public health communities have soundly rejected this declaration. This declaration makes no sense if you examine it with any kind of critical eye. Start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrington_Declaration#R... and from there check the linked sources.

There is no censorship in the media regarding medical research of COVID-19. There is fact checking. Just because you believe something that is false and the media isn't reporting that falsehood as fact does not mean the media is censoring you. It means it's false. Occam's Razor will quickly tell you that the chances of a global conspiracy are much lower than the chances of what you are saying here being false. Think about just how many people would have to know about this conspiracy and all of them would keep it perfectly secret. Every news organization in the world would have to collectively conspire to keep the truth from us, right? Every journalist, every editor, every publisher, every news anchor, every weatherman, every sportscaster, every public official. Do you know how quickly that would unravel? I know it's easy to believe a conspiracy because it's so appealing but it's just not what is going on.

The platform is an indirect indication: if the scientific community rejects your hypothesis, it's most likely because your hypothesis is bullshit. Think critically for a moment the way they taught in you middle school and realize that what you are quoting are unverified unreliable sources and fringe ideas. If you were saying that drinking motor oil cures COVID you'd have about as much credibility. I am done trying to argue with you because you are not worth arguing about, but I do beg you to use your head and think instead of falling for every damn hoax out there like you seem to have. Happy New Year and stay safe.
Not the first time for a rebrand, but interesting to see what this one looks like.

The CIA was pushing on to my campus with a rebrand in the late 1980's, early 1990's. They were trying to entice CompSci grads with "defend your country" and "solve complex computer problems" vibes. (I hear the NSA is more targeted in recruiting, rather than open casting...) I had no idea what the CIA was, but they were touting lifetime careers of bleeding-edge projects.

I interviewed with them for my first internship in 1990. This was smack in the middle of Gulf War I. I really wanted the job because it just seemed like a cool gig: the CIA was mysteriously sexy to 21-year old me. I was asked to write essays about America's importance in the world, and not being a writer, clearly failed that step in round 2. I often wonder how much different my life would have been if I was hired...
I think it's worth noting that the examples in the article about people like Frida Kahlo involve a higher degree of creativity than most desk jobs demand, and one could reasonably attribute bursts of inspiration to come from the "unusual" aspect of working in a horizontal body position (similar to how people often say they think up ideas more clearly when going on walks)

But laying down for extended periods of time is known to cause health problems. In hospitals, bed sores are a well known problem associated with excessive in-bed time. Muscular atrophy is another.

It's kinda crazy how just a couple years ago there was a standing desk craze touting the miraculous benefits to muscular/skeletal health, and now we've got a 180 degree turn with a major publication putting out a claim that laying down for extensive amounts of time is somehow a good idea (never mind the whole "sitting is the new smoking" thing!)

Geez!
Minor nitpick: tenet, not tenant.

Otherwise, agreed :-)
A yak, very finely shaved indeed!
That forced sterilization claim was entirely debunked and was misleading to start with:

https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-were-mass-...

https://www.snopes.com/ap/2020/09/18/more-migrant-women-say-...

And 70% of those people in those camps are released within 30 days, often times within one week back to their country of origin (or given asylum).
Broadly, yes, but I don't see the ideology in play in Brexit.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Once you think of it that way it makes a lot of sense.
since you work in the industry - how about your opinion on the Uber case in the original post? that is PPC.
More like religion of greed.
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Congrats on the launch. Overall it's really clean and I like the design.

Some quick feedback, which you can take with a grain of salt:
* I was confused by the image CV on the homepage. It expected it to be clickable, and it took me a minute to find the View Demo button.
* I love the collaborators feature. IMO this is one the biggest missing factors of LinkedIn (e.g. who did you actually work with on a small team)
* It would be nice to be able to customize the invite message when inviting a collaborator.
* The Create a Profile button on the homepage doesn't user cursor: pointer, which made me miss that it was the sign up button at first glance.
* It looks like most of the links don't have cursor: pointer, which feels off to me
* Once I saved my profile, it took me a minute to find the edit button in the bottom left

Overall, nice working and I'm looking forward to following the updates. Also, great first name you have there.
I'm not a physicist, but I believe the current understanding is that there's no 15 billion years ago. Time is a side-effect of measuring entropy, and according to the Big Bang theory you go backwards in spacetime to a point of infinite density and temperature, and there's no "past" that.
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It's a balancing act of using the right toolset with regards to project complexity. Are your current bash scripts simple to maintain and scaling with the project? If so, perhaps it's best to leave them for now. If not, then consider more powerful tools such as Ansible to handle configuration management.

With that being said, I'm working on a mildly complex K8S project which grew to a point where it made sense to switch to Ansible. We're still using one or two bash scripts, but everything else has been ported. I won't look back!
> though the expectation is they will come onsite to the DC metro area when we are able to resume normal operations.

Is this likely to change? Meaning do you foresee offering permanently remote positions? If so I'd be very interested.
I don't disagree with you, but they also have to balance risk. They need numbers to work on, and those numbers barely even exist right now. The 2K in the Moderna trial who received the single dose is a statistical blip compared to the hundreds of millions for whom the FDA would make decisions.

The EUA is their attempt to manage the health risk to the population - an investigational vaccine using an entirely unproven novel technology stack poses some unbound risk (likely small), vs the benefit of an effective vaccine. Once we change the dosage, the effectiveness also become unclear, while the risk remains (eg, potential trace contamination with precursors in the lipid carriers triggering shock in a untested population subset. Perhaps prescription statins greatly reduce the effectiveness of the vaccine, etc etc). It's the job of the FDA to err on the side of caution and see risks where we would not. I agree with you that the situation is unprecedented, but I also do not blame the FDA for only working with the data they have. I suspect that Pfizer & Moderna will conduct Phase IV trials with different dosage regimes based on which the FDA can modify the terms of the EUA.
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So even though the manufacturers (the companies that developed the vaccines, the scientists, the people running the trials, the ones that know the data and went through a full year of tests) keep on recommending 2 doses and the advice given to the UK government was still to stick to the 2 doses, we're now going the way that "we think we know better and it's better to try something new and untested because it's a pandemic and it might be better to have less efficiency to more people, than full efficiency to less people", even though it's, again, not tested and a shot in the dark?
And you are free not to join. But you are lacking understanding of market forces if you dont think your colleagues dont have any say in your wage. Them being there is part of an ecosystem that supports your value to the world. Unless you can produce professional software and competitive speeds all built from the ground up by yourself.

If you work in javascript, the javascript environment has given you your value, companies have bought into that talent pool and must court it to compete. Unless you provide value to the world without that ecosystem and without that company, your wage is necessarily impacted by those stakeholders.

You are free to press for your own goals, just dont be so sure those goals are divisible from your coworkers.
It is odd. I can't find it right now, but the spending bill that there was so much drama about had budgets for some websites ( including 1MM budget for a public facing website about local offenders something or other ). I am tempted to scour the bill now to see if CIA got budget upgrade for that purpose as well.
Salaries would fall due to increased supply. A union would keep salaries high by not keeping the gates open (if it were modeled on the film industry unions).
People tend to forget the ex-us vaccines.

SinoVac Planned to have capacity for 600 million doses/yr in China by the end of 2020, with more production in Indonesia, Brazil, and India.

Russian Sputnik V also will have several hundred million dose production.

It is quite likely this will already surpass our ability to administer the vaccines or the willingness of people to take them.
Great idea and execution! I personally find the white space excessive and it's made more obvious on print. Unless someone is name dropping companies, I would expect a resume to have a lot more information in a higher density view. A cool idea would be to replace the facepile with various icons with numbers next to it to show quantified metrics that were accomplishments of various positions/projects ($X rev/# commits/# users/etc.)
You're telling me prices double ever 4 years or so? I don't think so.

Chapwood "Index" is produced by the same person behind many of the conspiracy theories around Seth Rich's murder [0], not really a brilliant objective source of inflation metrics. I'm not claiming the CPI is perfect, but taking a look at market expectations of inflation also gives you a pretty good picture of what is going on, and it's not a 4 year doubling of prices.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Seth_Rich
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I'm not an economist but David Beckworth's blog, especially posts during and after the global financial crisis is a good starting point: https://macromarketmusings.blogspot.com/
There aren't any, sadly.

Closest SC4 sucessor for now is the game "New Cities" that is fundamentally different, and proprietary.

Open Source there is an early SimCity clone, but it is not a clone of SC4 specifically, and it is a lot more simple.

There were multiple attempts by multiple people on starting such projects, but all of them failed fairly early, the task is seemly just too daunting, in fact this is part of the reason why the game got released in a unfinished state, in an interview a programmer that worked on SC4 at the time said they "coded themselves into a corner", and were unsure how to fix it, EA then gave them the ultimatum of "release now or never", reimplementing SC4 itself thus seems to be too hard.

OpenTTD was much easier, in part because TTD itself was written in assembly, so when you decompile it, you are seeing the actual source for most part, there are no C++ craziness going on, no virtual tables or crazy jumps.

SC4 was written in C++ with a ton of non-standard stuff, Paul Pedriana is a mad genius, so unless you have supernatural amounts of patience and time, you won't understand a disassembly of SC4, you need the source to do anything substantial.
(from Opsgenie) I would imagine it would be the other way around for most people.
That still doesn't help the hundreds of thousands of people that will be dead because they or their doctor didn't know that vitamin D is actively saving people's lives right now. Even after a diagnosis. This advice will save more than one life right? I think that's more important than just pushing the vaccine.
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Edward Tufte seems to be here on earth to suffer for some offense in a previous lifetime. To know how badly statistics get abused, to be able to describe it, and be heard by a fraction of people who can't manage to fix the problem either.

No wonder he fucked off to a farm to concentrate on sculptures.
Well, don't leave us hanging. You omitted the [0] link preceding the Church of Bitcoin link!
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