skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Virus coming from a lab is just an effort to not invest against the next pandemic. This wasn't the first pandemic, and it isn't going to be the last one.
A ton got exported in early January, although precise numbers don't seem to be public.
I'm not so sure we'd see a dip in housing, although we see the dip in luxury rental prices. The reasons for this is due to supply, or a lack thereof. There are new generations looking to settle down and do the above every single year. Every year more than the last are doing this, this is an expanding world. Yet, these areas where these people are moving to are not building the corresponding amount of housing required to meet demand. With not enough new housing built, prices rise, and people 'drive to where they qualify,' stretch out their car based commute, and we all deal with those externalities from the increased congestion and pollution no matter where we live in the city. It's a lose lose unless the US finally bends and start building housing, but they haven't done this in earnest since the boom after WWII (where we are still bidding on that hastily constructed housing stock today, because that's legally all there is in some neighborhoods).
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china has 100 cities with over a million people in them. Only one has a lab specializing in corona virus research.
True. Maybe it was a poor analogy.

In a bizarre world where you were presumed guilty, could you do anything? If you submitted evidence that you were on another continent at the time of the crime, doesn't that prove you didn't do it? (Assuming the crime is something you must be physically present to do)
That's just one example. The evidence of this has long been clear to anybody watching the space.

While they usually try to pretend everything is awesome in public, they are clearly in a shit position.

Arianespace has already publicly stated they need more political help (after just getting 3.5+ billion $). There have been a whole storm of demands that all European institutional costumers should be forced onto the Ariane.

The Germany military was politically attacked for launching on Falcon 9 (that was when they still didn't take SpaceX seriously).

Politicians, ESA bureaucrats and people from the European industry have all essentially said the same stuff with a different spin depending on their position.

German and European journalist who are not just institutional PR printers have had a field day calling them out on their idiotic statements they made about SpaceX between 2014 and 2019.
> Dunno -- help, anyone?

https://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Build_constraints

EDIT: Those are in the process of being replaced with //go:build directives. See https://github.com/golang/go/issues/41184.
> And the codebase is so tangled that nobody has been able to convert the email writing window into a tab. One window!

Switching between windows is easy using alt-tab. Switching tabs requires one to do something like ctrl-pgup/pgdown or alt-number if you know the tab number. Personally, I think using alt-tab is a lot easier to switch between the compose and overview windows.
Yeah, the cost of insulin is appalling.

In the US, outcomes for people with type 1 diabetes (autoimmune and insulin-dependent) really have not improved substantially against other countries. In many ways, we have regressed. I personally have type 1 diabetes and care is so much different abroad.

This is just one symptom of our malady within the US healthcare system: it is about profit and not about improving the health, livelihood, and longevity of the general population.

I naturalized as a citizen with universal healthcare over stuff like insulin prices, although this was not the primary reason. I studied healthcare systems for hundreds of hours to figure out where I would need to establish myself. If anyone wants help or advice regarding healthcare systems and/or citizenship matters, I am here to help. Check my email on my profile.
Discord exploring sale that could be worth more than $10B
I'll second all of this: if I wasn't getting paid for working on the projects at my day job, I wouldn't work on them.

I've got tons of ideas and cool projects I want to work on (some I've even made decent progress on in my spare time), but I don't know if they'd be profitable, nor do I want to worry about that. I just want to code on stuff I like.
I remember this comment from ArianeGroup chief:

> "Let us say we had ten guaranteed launches per year in Europe and we had a rocket which we can use ten times—we would build exactly one rocket per year," he said. "That makes no sense. I cannot tell my teams: 'Goodbye, see you next year!'" [1]

[1] 2018, "Ariane chief seems frustrated with SpaceX for driving down launch costs" https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/ariane-chief-seems-f...
Is there any clearer evidence than this of anti-competitive, monopolistic behavior on the part of Amazon? Clearly this is an abuse of their logistics monopoly, is it not?

It just seems too close to the behavior of that prototypical trust that we all learned about in high-school, of how Cornelius Vanderbilt conspired with John D. Rockefeller to destroy Standard Oil's competition by monopolizing the means of transporting petroleum, which became the precedent that justified the creation of anti-trust law in the United States.

The following is the contemporaneous account that exposed the scheme:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1881/03/the-sto...

There are clear parallels.
still no windows support :( desktop gui development was my main wish for crystal too, but ruling out a bunch of end users right out of the box was not an option.
The US isn't going to have a recession this year - things look positive, and the faster we do vaccinations the more positive they'll be. This is mostly because we learned from our 2008 mistakes and are much better at stimulus now (hint: never listen to Larry Summers.)

The EU and Japan are going to be the ones with issues.
> Richard says he's not autistic. People who try to conflate his bad behaviour and autism are excusing his behaviour and unfairly generalising about autistic people.

Upthread someone made a pretty convincing argument that he has no idea what he's talking about on that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26537802
Just so you know, this sounds a lot like classic european anti-semitism.
"The Washington Post newspaper reported information obtained from diplomatic cables on 14 April. They show that, in 2018, US science diplomats were sent on repeated visits to a Chinese research facility.

Officials sent two warnings to Washington about the lab. The column says the officials were worried about safety and management weaknesses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and called for more help."
...
"What kinds of security failures were the cables describing?

The short answer is we don't know from the information provided in the Washington Post. But, generally speaking, there are multiple ways that safety measures can be breached at labs dealing with biological agents.

According to Dr Lentzos, these include: "Who has access to the lab, the training and refresher-training of scientists and technicians, procedures for record-keeping, signage, inventory lists of pathogens, accident notification practices, emergency procedures.""

In other words, all the information is non-public and coming from the entirely unreliable US Intelligence services whose job is to lie and make the US government look good. If these reports had been published (meaning in public documents) prior to the pandemic OR there was an admission by the Chinese government, this would be far more credible.
I can clarify it: COVID-19 is just about the only serious respiratory disease that undergoes rapid exponential spread and is transmissible while asymptomatic. That's a lot of qualifiers, but it makes for a uniquely scary pandemic threat.
Intuitively we can postulate the humans are more conscientious than a chicken, and the chicken is more conscientious than a bacteria, and the bacteria (maybe it can "feel" pain) is more conscientious than the thermostat (who probably is not conscientious in any way). But conscience is not really measurable, so, we can't be really sure if a rock is more conscientious than us, or than a fellow human is conscientious at all (p-zombies).
"What sort of rich person rents a house, except whilst between selling old and new?"

There are quite a few techies who move to SF, work for the hot unicorn for 4 years, and live extremely cheaply. They don't buy housing because they don't intend to stay in SF (and besides, who wants to buy a house in SF?), but when they "retire" they've got a few million in stock options. They can buy a house, they just don't want to, because their living situation is temporary.

I suspect that a lot of the housing boom going on around the country now is because the rich techies in SF no longer have to stay in SF.
Sensibly, yes, but not their location isn't based on geographic proximity but rather what is a sensible location for the group building and staffing the lab.
Why do you think Scala has more features than Java/Kotlin?

I think it's the opposite. For example null: where Kotlin has a special operator and semantics, Scala simply has the "Option" type in the std lib.
There are many people that have a fear of rejection. A list like this helps to illustrate that it is okay to be rejected. You can be both successful, and have failed to nail an interview. The list seems purposely devised to help those who have that sort of problem, not as a list to remind him of his failures.
Close, but the dawn of time is actually 50 years ago! (Jan 1 1970)
Ah, that totally makes sense. In retrospect it totally makes sense that the aggressive inflammation reduction of high-dose corticosteroids could cause that. By analogy, it's well-known that animals (including humans ofc) exhibit "sickness behavior" where they are lethargic, avoid social interaction, etc, which is probably (a) an "intentional" adaptation and (b) can probably be explained largely by the increase in inflammation from the immune response
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No, the expectation was that the EU vaccine demand would be supplied by EU factories. The UK doesn't even have final manufacturing for any vaccines other than the AstraZeneca one - for the most part, our government has taken a policy of funding and signing contracts with the same factories supplying the EU and assuming they wouldn't pull some export ban stunt to distract from their own problems. (This was probably naive.) And as for the AstraZeneca vaccine, the expectation that the contracted-for doses would come from their EU factories is literally written into their contract with the EU...
Happiness research is a total crap-shot. Depending on methodology you get totally different answers.
edit - per the other discussion in the thread I've gone with renaming the podcast to "LGTM: Shipit!" which will hopefully make it a little more discoverable.

I don't expect as many people have the acronym for "Looks Good To Me" in their title, I removed the space in "Ship It" and hope that search engines trigger for both "shipit" and "ship it".

What's more is that without the space it's even more true to the inspiration for the title ... which is the :shipit: emoji on github.

https://anchor.fm/lgtm-shipit
No immediate plans, sorry. But we're definitely going to have a chat about self hosting since there seems to be some demand there.
From a public health perspective, it's not zero sum. One country fully vaccinated and another equally sized country not vaccinated, leads to higher strain on the healthcare system than both countries 50% vaccinated. Pareto principle applies to hospitalizations.
Three months before.
Can you link to something that proves this is only asking for a reference?

That's what the comment sounded like to me, and why I downvoted it. It does not come across to me as a good-faith request for a reference, and more like an attempt to DOS the conversation, similar to a Gish gallop. For example, it's asking for a specific link that constitutes proof of a general observation of tendency. That doesn't scream "reasonable request."
The WHO and Peter Daszak also said they weren’t given enough access to develop any deliberate conclusions.
As a user I find YouTube’s home page suggestions awful. It suggests videos 7 years old, videos I’ve already seen, or Minecraft videos because my daughter watched one once on my account. All the while, the videos I actually care about from channels I’ve subscribed to are nowhere to be found.
"urgent law at lightning speed" is unnecessary and extreme bias. It might tell me something if you included a source.

A rational actor would take the opportunity to do this regardless of whether or not the source was known at the time. If it were even a possibility, you would hope they would use the outbreak as a reminder to take containment practices as seriously as possible.

Whether or not to allow foreign investigators is a political decision. Maybe they calculated it would appear as an admission of guilt or incompetence.
Because it's easier to build housing for the rich than for the poor, due to things like zoning, building regulations, density regulations.
There are quite a few benefits of how current Starship has been designed and actually nicely demonstrates how cleverly though out the whole thing is!

It goes between two places with at least some sort of atmosphere by default (or one with and on without for the Lunar variant) so while indeed dragging aerosurfaces with your in the vacuum of space might seem wasteful on the first look, you can save huge amounts of delta-v once you arrive at your destination due to atmospheric braking.

A purely built for space vacuum only craft could be built to be much lighter but would also need to loose all that excess interplanetary speed with engine power alone, potentially negating the advantages quite a bit.

There are, of course, various hybrid approaches:
- the space only craft still could have some limited aerodynamics to do earocapture to orbit at the destination or at least do aerobraking from a "cheap" eccentric capture orbit
- you could have a space only "hotel" ship on a cycler orbit and get passengers and cargo using Starship like "taxi" ships from a planet
- a big complex space-only ship could have fancy high tech low thrust & high ISP engines that would not realistically fit on craft that needs to be fairly aerodynamic

Also as for in space construction - indeed, it will enable really massive and efficient space structures, but we are not there yet space infrastructure wise. And Starships so far have shown how easily they can be made in their current form using very basic tech during their assembly, even compared to tech used for existing decades old expandable rockets! :)

So no doubt eventually big efficient high tech in space cruisers will carry the most interplanetary traffic, it seems like Starship is a surprisingly good fit for the time being & for putting in place the building stones of that future. :)
Bringing new units online in a high demand market earns far more money than simply raising rents.

It's not large property owners that are opposing new housing, it's existing small (usually single) property owners opposing new housing, usually so their way of life doesn't change due to changing demographics of newcomers, increased traffic, etc. and possibly to restrict supply and increase their property's value.
I used to work for a company that had a newsletter. In the newsletter they listed deaths. There was a common theme that people would generally either die shortly after retiring or a long time after. Talking with some of the folks near retirement I learned that people who didn't find things to do generally died shortly after retirement.

Basically, we live for work and when many people retire they loose the thing to live for and die. It's sad.

Long ago I learned to not live to work. I work but I have so much more to life... retirement is just a point in time where I don't need to earn income to live any longer and I can have more choice in what I do.
The Wuhan lab was absolutely involved in gain-of-function research. This has been widely reported https://www.newsweek.com/controversial-wuhan-lab-experiments...

> What's more, Wuhan Institute of Virology scientists have for the past five years been engaged in so-called "gain of function" (GOF) research, which is designed to enhance certain properties of viruses for the purpose of anticipating future pandemics. Gain-of-function techniques have been used to turn viruses into human pathogens capable of causing a global pandemic.

> This is no nefarious secret program in an underground military bunker. The Wuhan lab received funding, mostly for virus discovery, in part from a ten-year, $200 million international program called PREDICT, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development and other countries.
Honest question: is choosing option B proven to lead to higher return on investment? Is there data showing it?

Where I live periodically raising rent and evicting people to invite the higher-paying tenant has a limit that's reached pretty soon so maybe US dynamics escape me.
Thank you for writing about it! It’s very common in tech too but people don’t talk about that either (though academia is objectively more competitive; you have far fewer tenure-track slots, compared to even a major “elite” tech company that employs over 100,000 people).

It’s important for people to see that those who have succeeded have failed too.
We should all have switched to libressl a long, long time ago.

For some reason, companies decided to put money into the known-bad openssl instead, as if money could fix a bad development culture.
I've just started testing this on a side project as I got a bit excited about htmx.

I like the idea of forming HTML templates in Flask/Jinja2 so the hyperscript/htmx toolset should be a good fit.

I don't really have much comment or advice yet except writing in hyperscript is a bit back to front but the documentation really helped. I think once I get my head around it, it will be super productive. And just inject pure JS when needed. Sounds great!

No IDE clues or error checking makes it a little harder too for the minute :)

I'll keep working away at it.
Some of those dudes (eg MMM) do go without health insurance. Personally I think they are nuts unless they are OK to pack it in the moment their appendix bursts.
Isn’t he referring to a lab leak of a virus which was engineered with ‘gains of function’. I’m particularly convinced of this theory because it explains the glaring weakness of the Covid-19 virus to UV radiation (ie sunlight).
If Chinese researches were modifying viral samples to gain functions (evolutionary or otherwise), weakness against sunlight is a believable oversight, considering it wouldn’t have been subjected to it indoors.
> It would be equivalent to say that lighthouses cause ships to run aground, because many teams when ships run aground it's near a lighthouse.

But if a lighthouse manufactured coral reefs, and the coral reefs on which ships were running aground displayed features of those that a given lighthouse manufactured, it might be more accurate.
elixir and zig seem to be good candidates for going mainstream
Didn't Italy just recently tried to block exports to Australia?
Some poor people just build houses slowly over several years in less than ideal places ofcourse. If the world decides to spit me out, I'll have a pretty big hiding hole.
Ford F-150: a 7.2-kilowatt generator on wheels
The junior programmer would have been much better off learning how a filter function works so they could be productive in almost every other language besides Go.
Agreed, it can help others.
This is great, thanks for putting in the time to put this together!

Side note: Anybody know of tools that auto-compile lists like this? I'm sure it's not perfect, but these sorts of reviews really add value to the current conversation.
I have no strong opinions on this matter, but I'm having difficulty understanding the sarcasm here. Can someone translate for me? Is the un-sarcastic version of parent's argument that most of the claims against this being a leak were put forth by a single organization, EcoHealth Alliance, which has an agenda for convincing people that this is not a leak?
No, this isn't FUD. AZ wasn't lying. Yes, it's true that the EU signed one particular contract one day before the UK on August 27. However, the UK had a binding contract with AZ since May already.

"However, the key lies in an earlier agreement that AstraZeneca made back in May with the U.K., which was a binding deal establishing “the development of a dedicated supply chain for the U.K.,” an AstraZeneca spokesperson said."

This quote is from this article: https://www.politico.eu/article/the-key-differences-between-...
The Ethical Responsibility for Data Security in Finance, Law, and Healthcare
> Yes it can be hard to figure out what implements it, but an IDE is used for that.

Which is ironic given that the golang designers and users tend to shun IDEs and mock that languages like Java rely on them. When in fact, to do anything useful in golang you also need an IDE.
Yes, I cited the beginning and the end of the article, which is hard to do if you haven't read it.

> it is a demonstration of how that bullet point 'no' is turned into an email

Right, the word "no" is rephrased. Literally just "no." This magical software transforms it "into an effective email."
I have never really understood why you can't criticize Israeli politics without it sounding like antisemitism.
If you can afford a 20% or so downpayment (big if, I know), the two options might work out to fairly comparable (after-tax) monthly payments right now. In the longer run, buying will leave you potentially with equity and with a fixed rate mortgage will assure fixed payments.

Even in a mildly inflationary economy, making fixed nominal payments on a salary rising more in line with inflation for an asset valued more in line line with inflation can be a fairly attractive deal.

But none of the above is meant to be investment advice. Homeownership has its risks and certainly loses flexibility.
With the exception of goroutine memory/stack usage perhaps, these are not implementation details - they are core parts of the semantics of the language (especially since asynchronicity is a fundamental aspect of the language through goroutines).

For example, is this piece of code correct?

x := 7
go func() {
if x == 7 {
fmt.Println("x = 7")
} else {
fmt.Println("x != 7")
}
}()
x = 8

What are its possible valid outputs? (for the record, as far as I know this is incorrect code in Go, as atomic access is not guaranteed for any variable, so not only could this print any of the two outputs, it could also observe invalid values for x)

What about this code:

x := 7
c := make(chan struct{}, 0)
go func() {
if x == 7 {
fmt.Println("x = 7")
} else {
fmt.Println("x != 7")
}
c<-struct{}{}
}()
<-c
x = 8

Can you tell from the language spec whether this code is safe, and what it's output will be? (~~it's not safe, as far as I know~~ reading the memory model[0], I believe it is safe).

[0] https://golang.org/ref/mem
thanks for the clarification! Also, you can arbitrarily compose GPA backended by other allocators that aren't pageallocator, in which case you might lose the early-exit segfault behavior.
Dude.

What's up with people laughing at innovators and going "oh no, nobody could've seen this coming" when they succeed? This seems especially terrible in Europe, with maybe the (perhaps coincidental) exception of VW.