skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's infuriating. I'm not sure what the solution is though. We can just not talk about the very real lab leak hypothesis because some people are dangerously unstable.
The time-wasting meme is a lie from the UK Government. The UK contract was signed after the EU contract. They posted the contract by accident which was picked up on in some of the press. It also had the same clauses as the EU.

On the other hand the UK still has a fully nationalised health service which means that it was in a much better position to be able to scale the vaccinations. That's probably the real reason that they're ahead.

Give it another 10 years of Tory rule and they'll "catch down" to the rest of the world.
Ok then. Let's watch TWiV 615, where they interview Peter Daszak, the virologist which headed the recent WHO origin seeking mission in China.

Listen to him talk about how easy is to modify coronaviruses in labs and how they are actually doing this, mixing and matching viruses at 29:50:

> Well, coronaviruses are pretty good... you can manipulate them in the lab pretty easily. Spike protein drives a lot what happens in a coronavirus. Zoonotic risk. So you can get the sequence, you can bulid a protein, and we work with Ralph Baric at UNC to do this, insert into the backbone of another virus, and do some work in the lab, so you can get more predictive, when you find a sequence.

https://youtu.be/IdYDL_RK--w
As I understand it (and IANAL) there is a pretty well-established legal distinction between people whose job or avocation inevitably involves being famous and noticed, and just ordinary citizens. If you become a politician, singer, actor, etc. it is assumed that your expectation of privacy is different than for most people. Again IANAL, but my understanding is that just because photographers are allowed to hound famous actors, doesn't mean they can do it to someone who isn't newsworthy or otherwise in a public profession. IANAL.
Apps build rustls into a fat binary, which doesn't get updated on day zero by the OS package manager. It requires a new release by the app maintainer for each app.
I would love to see really elite schools lowering the threshold for the quantitative measurements like the JEE to say, 85% percentile, and just randomly selectively students who meet it.

In my experience there's definitely a point in which better scores on things such as the JEE stop being correlated with both college performance, life satisfaction or even career earnings.
The way China responded to the leak, I don't think they felt it was a crackpot idea. Quite the reverse.
You're neglecting to mention opportunity cost. That money could've been invested in stocks, crypto, etc. and you would've made out a lot better (and avoided the headaches that come with owning property)
Let's go back even further. There was a respiratory pandemic a few years ago. Perhaps not as deadly but still a pandemic. That resulted in no N95 or PPE stockpile. We knew we dodged a bullet yet no prep for next time?
> Do I simply need to run `apt-get upgrade` on the 25th?

Mostly, but some details matter.

Make sure that when you do the upgrade, that you are fetching the fixed version. Check for the security announcement and see which version things get fixed in:

* https://www.debian.org/security/

Once the CVE is known, you can also see which versions are vulnerable and which are fixed:

* https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-1971

You may have to restart some services. The checkrestart utility is handy to find these:

* https://packages.debian.org/buster/debian-goodies

* https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=debian-goodies
TLS 1.0 support.
I don’t want water.

Charge me for the plastic for the 6 straws a year I use, which is far far less than the plastic others “waste”.

Put a price in the pollution and let the market sort it out
It certainly helps to vaccinate the most vulnerable people in all countries, instead of vaccinate everyone in certain countries first.
Create a virtual tour n minutes from the comfort of your couch with no budget,marketing skills and technichal knowledge
If it was available on the desktop I might actually prefer it over Thunderbird.
also AstraZeneca failed to deliver to EU in a big way. 70% less than agreed!!! at the same time AZ exported vaccines from EU. i hope EU will take legal action against AZ
Also, the Obama administration banned gain of function research broadly due to "biosafety incidents" at federal research labs in the US. The announcement explicitly called out research on SARS: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2014/10/17/doing-d...
Many people spent much, much more than 30 minutes thinking about Covid by now. Many have been in lockdown for over a year now. Every newspaper article they see, every TV show they see, every discussion people have is about Covid.

Even the experts did not have more than a year to thik about Covid yet.

Also people don't have to understand everything. I don't understand enough about mRNA to give you a medical explanation of the vaccine, but I can perhaps understand statistics of the outcomes of the vaccination.

For vaccines and masks, they should provide statistics that show they are effective. If they don't have them, they should launch studies to provide the data.

And even having independent experts be able to validate the claims by the authorities would be valuable.
I have been using FairEmail for a month now. It's privacy centric and has loooooots of features. It is ad-free. It does not open stuff that may be used to track you by default. It can do GPG and so much more. It is developped by a single and very responsive developper for now. I liked it so much I bought the premium version to support his work but paid features are quite niche and you won't click on something only to find out that you need the paid version.
https://email.faircode.eu/
> if it happened, then there's evidence

Really? Why would there be evidence TODAY? Those bats have likely been destroyed, and all records of sequences taken from them have likely long since been shredded and burned.

There's not that much evidence involved here.
Selmayr hasn't been the Secretary-General of COM for two years.
ZGC now has 0.5ms of worst case pause time
With an average of 0.05ms and an O(1) complexity, we can fairly say that Openjdk has solved the GC problem and is now fit for most real time workloads.
The fact that Java now has a superior real time GC than C# make plausible its growth as a language for video games.
From what I remember, you can't write a secure cryptography library in pure Rust because it has no guarantees that would stop timing-based vulnerabilities.
What does this actually change? If China did indeed release the virus, does that mean I should not take a vaccine? That I should stop wearing a mask?

If China knows and is hiding it, I'm still not clear what that changes. They'll still know to improve their safety practices
You’re being fed misinformation. EU countries signed before the UK.
Extra vote for this, my company prefers to keep the data inhouse whenever possible
The caldera is 30m high
I spent a lot of time on the topic earlier this year, and settled on a pair of KEF R3s, a combo DAC/headphone amp, and a power amp. It's by no means a budget or discrete setup, but it meets my needs for high quality audio in my "workplace" and, like an A/V receiver and towers, can be used elsewhere. ;)
On the contrary, that's exactly how they are solved.

You can entice suppliers to serve you first by paying more than others, that's what Israel did.

I don't think that distribution is an issue but that can also be resolved by throwing money directly or through resources at it. Same for production and supply.

It was useless and counter-productive to drag negotiations to lower prices while throwing away 10s of billions a month to prop up locked down economies. It would have been more useful to work with suppliers to go all in on production with unlimited funds and resources so that as many factories as possible could produce (and that would have probably been cheaper overall).
> What sort of rich person rents a house

One who doesn't want to bother with maintenance, insurance, taxes, etc. One who wants to leave whenever they feel like it, instead of having to go through months of a sale process.
Western nations had plenty of time to react, relatively speaking. The US was hit especially hard, though, by policies which dismantled the government's ability to handle this sort of event, the discarding of a practiced playbook for responding to this sort of event, and government and right-wing lies and conspiracy theories.

Given that the US government's response was basically to do nothing until it was too late, and then to do nothing except hinder the states' abilities to respond, it's hard to imagine that an extra six months' time would have made any difference, other than giving them six more months to downplay and dismiss the problem.

So yeah, we can care about whether the Chinese government was trying to save face, but in the end does it matter whether that's the case or not? The only thing we can change is our own countries' responses to pandemics like this.
> we shouldn't be doing _gain of function_ research on the types of viruses that can cause these outbreaks.

Why not? Seriously, this is the "let's just stop developing nukes" argument... someone will and whether we're prepared or not is on us.
Couldn't help but wince at the irony that one of the entrance exams is called NEET, just like the catchall term for people who've fallen through the cracks (Not in Education, Employment, or Training)
The other comment in this chain has the following statement in the link posted:

> The UK signed off its deal with AstraZeneca in June 2020, three months before the EU did

So I’m not sure what to believe.
Both things matter a lot.

In particular, if true that it 'leaked' ... it's not like other nations are leaking pathogens which kill millions and cause 5 Trillion in destruction. It would literally change the geostrategic equation overnight and be seminal, defining world event certainly bigger than 9/11. On the scale of a WW.

If it was quasi-intentional (this is definitely not true, but since you speculated...) then it would be an act of war and the most damaging attack on the US (and other nations) ever. The US and the world would have to go to war with China over this. (Again this surely is not the case).

All while the US/EU/Rest of Word 'get better' at the above.
well! allow me to share a feature i discovered a few days ago after reading for years.

when you browse via the web (unsure which apps support this feature), clicking the title - in this case, Crystal 1.0 – does what you expect and takes you to the article. in tinier font next to the title - in this case, (crystal-lang.org) - is a link that shows all the previous HN submissions for that website, which happens to be pretty similar to what dang posted.

this wont work for platforms like medium or reuters, but is a big head start for a single-issue website like this.
> Interesting web content is in Reddit

I’ve found this to no longer be the case after Reddit has starting doing nefarious tricks with the date of a post.

For example, I’ll click on a link in Google showing it’s from last week when in reality the post is 2 years old.
If it is shown that this occurred because scientists took a virus and made it much more infectious to humans, banning that sort of research would mitigate a lot of the risk.
Me too! But we were with a local guide who walked out on the lava crust every day, so I kinda had to trust him.

Although the soles of my sneakers were semi-melted by the end of the day. I blame my sneakers more than anything (cheap, lowish melting point rubber), but still....
The origin of the UKs priority access to the AZ vaccine was due to their early funding of the Oxford vaccine on condition of 1st priority. This was before AZ even got involved. In fact the UK govt had such deep involvement that they were able to veto a deal between Oxford and Merck to manufacture and distribute the vaccine over fears that it would allow Trump to block their priority access through export controls (as Merck would manufacture in the US) so the UK make Oxford partner with AZ. AZ inherited that pre-existing deal between Oxford and the UK govt.
Purely economically motivated decisions are rare. We all have reasons beyond the financial to live wherever, including something as simple as our wife/husband wants to live there.

There is also an inertia bias. Life has to get pretty expensive for many people to want to undergo the hassle of moving cities / states, which includes leaving behind loved ones, and learning everything new (including leisure things like where you like to eat).

Going meta, NYC and California/The Bay Area make the bulk of their tax revenue from very few industries. The tipping point at which they lose a financially significant portion of their tax base, and the flow on affects of that for government workers and the multiplier downstream, has likely been reached.
Actually, "putting the oxygen mask on yourself" would be the equivalent to vaccinating your medical staff, not your whole friggin country.

The US and UK don't fare much worse than the rest of the EU, per capita, do they?

USA+ UK = 34 million cases, EU=24 million cases.

The biggest problem with vaccine mercantilism is if we don't rationally share the vaccine, the vaccine technology and means of production, then the fact we vaccinated 100% of one country will be useless in 2 years with all the variants mutating in less fortunate countries.
> open source code so we can audit it and find bugs

Open source didn’t stop Heartbleed
Really, we can expect this to go all the way to the Supreme Court, and I would not be at all surprised if one of the reasons that the Supreme Court did not quash it is that they know they will have to provide guidance (in the form of a precedent) for lower courts on expectations of privacy in internet situations, but they want to let every court below them kick the tires on this case first so that they can benefit from all of that investigation and discovery before they have to issue a ruling on it.
It's more like the middle class is bifurcating between upperish middle class and lower-middle class. In-demand tech workers, doctors, high-level admins/managers, etc. are getting higher and higher wages while other professions that used to be middle class as starting to stagnate and fall behind such as low-level office workers, journalists, teachers, mid-to-low level managers, etc. I wouldn't consider either group to really be upper class, but I guess there's always going to be differences in how people are sorted into those categories.

I think the issue is that the article is inflammatory click-bait because it makes it seems like rich people are getting a break while poor people are getting shafted. It's not until you've read through most the entire article that they finally get to the point, which is that 'rich' people are buying houses in the suburbs/exurbs now that they can work remotely. Unsurprisingly this means prices are spiking in those areas while rent for high-end apartments are shrinking as demand dries up. So rich people aren't really catching a break so much as exiting the rental market in major cities and redirecting their spending to the suburban housing market.
Well, fatfire just has a larger bucket. If you've calculated a budget down to the penny (or even have a budget outside of in a generalized way), it's a lot harder to absorb unmodeled risks.
Golang does have a few simple types sorting functions such as string and int https://golang.org/pkg/sort/#Strings. Now that generics will be out, could we even have generic sort functions ?
If methane is only 3x larger than before, that suggests animal husbandry is only a small part of the increase.

The first two categories are almost entirely new. Especially given human population is way bigger than it was in past ages, so past landfills likely weren’t so large.

This is surprising to me as I has figured ruminants caused more of an increase. If we could cut their emissions by 80% with seaweed this analysis suggests their overall contribution would be lower than it historically was.
>If paid support is all that counts then most languages would fall into that.

Can you name another recent programming language that wasn't developed in-house at a major company. Go , Dart , and Rust all started out with paid teams of programmers working on them.

Not sure if Crystal will be able to progress at a rate fast enough to keep people interested. Likewise, you'd have to be insane to try and pitch this to your project manager. I consider myself to be a risk taker, but even for my own side projects I stick to older better known programming languages.

it feels like we keep trying to solve the same problems over and over again instead of utilizing solutions which already exist
The hypothesis is (or maybe this part is established fact?) that this lab was conducting Gain of Function research: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gain_of_function_research

It's purposely evolving diseases to spread faster or be more dangerous, for the sake of research. As I understand, it's at least a bit controversial. So maybe there's not as much of it going on as other research? If so, there probably wouldn't be as much opportunity for it to escape. But now that it has (per the hypothesis), it's ready to be very contagious right out of the gate. Thus, pandemic.
Sure, but still strange to release this on a Thursday afternoon. This means that everyone who depends on OpenSSL needs to rebuild and test and will have an update ready on Friday afternoon in the best case.

Who wants to roll out any kind of update to their production systems on a Friday afternoon ? That’s just asking for trouble.
Not going to change, since Google has become a huge advertising container with less and less value wrt genuine information about products.
If I search for a product to buy, I usually add the "price" word to it so that the search engines includes shops selling that product. All fine, but if I want to read reviews (real ones, not the usual paid fakes) or blogs in which a product features, compatibility etc. are discussed, which is very common in IT hardware, I don't want Google to throw at me a pageful of its top sponsors. No thanks, I don't care, I'm perfectly able to find a place where to shop; what I want from a search engine depicting itself as intelligent is to know when I want technical information and stop defaulting nearly every damn result to a shop to buy from.
>We've already started to see the CCP losing ground (see HK)

How is violating the Sino-British Joint Declaration and getting away with it "losing ground"? The Hong Kong protests failed and Hongkongers now have less freedom than before.
I meant that if you know Hebrew, Arabic, or Hindu, learning the Latin alphabet is a lot easier than learning Chinese characters. And Latin user will probably find Arabic easier than Chinese too, even though the Latin alphabet is a bit simpler than Arabic.
They really do exist. Believe it or not, just last week I had an actual meeting with an actual paying client who took IoT security seriously because "we've got some hydraulics on this machine that can cause real damage if someone hacks into it."

Unfortunately, I think this is going to be the perspective for a long time: if the customer sees real liability (read: a lawsuit for physical damage) as a possibility, that's probably going to be the only motivating factor to take security seriously.

Whatever. One step at a time!
Wow. That's literally Luddite thinking, which is not what you want to hear from someone in charge of a rocket company.
This is what happens when supply side overwhelms demand side. I remember in my teens, a person who graduated highschool with a modicum of technical aptitude could get hired as an entry level engineer in electronics, manufacturing, automotive etc. No longer the case. They won't even hire you for dog catcher with that background.
Arctic methane release due to melting ice is likely to happen again
>>Not surprisingly, dozens of major ransomware gangs now exist worldwide, including in Russia, Eastern Europe, and North Korea. Incredibly, many of these operations look and function like authentic businesses. "They rent office space, they have development teams, data architecture teams, help desks, phone support, and people that negotiate ransoms with targets," says Alexander Chaveriat, chief innovation officer at Tuik Security Group. "They buy server space all over the world using cryptocurrency, change servers as needed, and use virtual private networks and other tools to hide their location."

It is getting to the point where the threat is beyond office functions and to manufacturing, infrastructure and IOT.

With the threat escalating to that genuine national security level, and often under sponsorship or blind eye of criminal govts (NK, RUS...), we are not far from the point where the appropriate response is to deliver a kinetic response - as in a cruise missile through the window.
> Does anyone argue that a grocery store is using, much less abusing, its monopolistic power by doing that? No.

Grocery stores don't have anything like monopoly power.
common among the rich people whose mansions are not selling well or have taken price cuts to get them sold.
maybe we should regulate gain-of-function research not tourism?
It's not even being "at the top". Ultimately the difference in education in high-quality institutions just isn't really that big. And while it's true that it is a useful signal that you're sufficiently dedicated to study something deeply for a few years, the correlation between actual success or utility outside of that just doesn't seem to make it worth much.
There has never been a grocery store that has had the logistical dominance that Amazon does right now. In fact, for much of the 20th century, retail and wholesale distribution operations were legally obligated to be owned by distinct entities under anti-trust law, specifically to prevent the emergence of a combination like what we see now with Amazon.

This is not a one-off for Amazon. New products need to sell through Amazon to get access to consumers without paying through the nose for that access; they can't be cost-competitive otherwise (close parallel here to the SO monopoly). Amazon frequently cherry-picks the most successful new products that they think they can manufacture themselves.

This is bad for innovation in the consumer products space, because it kills the incentive that independent entrepreneurs have to innovate. Why innovate if Amazon is going to capture all your profits once you are successful? What branded grocery-store products ever face the same quandary due to the existence of similar white-label products being sold in the same store?

In an environment where anti-trust principles were being enforced against Amazon, they would have listed the original product under the "camera bag" headline, increasing their sales, instead of stealing their concept and making it harder for them to build a sustainable business.
> By now seems everyone admitted defeat.

Well, since everybody is using Gmail or Office365 anyway, encrypted email is kind of pointless, no?
...unless the communications cross state lines, which in this case they mostly do.
chances are, you'll never get access to quality data that would allow you to make an informed decision.

what you can do is look at the quality of investors in a start-up, and infer the quality of the opportunity. if the start-up has big name investors (a16z, bessemer, sequioa), chances are that the very smart people at those funds deduced the risk worth taking, and you probably should too.

if the investors are funds and people that you've never heard of, its likely that the risk was too high or upside too low to be of interest to mainstream investors.
Yeah, not in 2008.