skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An eerily prescient quote from a paper[0] published in 2015, two of the authors of which are with Wuhan Institute of Virology:

> Understanding the bat origin of human coronaviruses is helpful for the prediction and prevention of another pandemic emergence in the future.

China has clearly contributed valuable research into bat coronaviruses. They had all the motivation to look into these after the first deadly SARS. I think it’s silly to presume CCP engineered a virus as part of some warfare strategy, or even to vilify/sanction them for a lab leak if it indeed was the cause (mistakes happen). However, CCP’s resistance to a proper thorough study of the origins of COVID is IMO not exactly appropriate.

Active research was taking place in the vicinity of suspected ground zero. Lab escapes happen—there are well-documented cases of the original SARS virus leaking from a lab in Beijing in 2004 (killing at least one person). Why was this time such a scenario discarded as so ridiculously impossible at first, and is still considered “extremely unlikely”? Is it politics?

[0] https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12985-...
> You get taxed on it according to your highest rate bracket.

Why would you personally own the property as opposed to putting it under an LLC or Corp? You would still have to pay taxes on personal income but it offers a lot more options on how to recieve the income and handle expenses.
>But the whole goal of auto-upgrading is to avoid the spread versions, it's a mess to investigate when you have reports from 1 year old version, that's the main reason why we choose to do that.

Why not just outright reject issues on outdated version of the software? Decide that you won't support versions older than x and roll with that. This way the users can consider that when they weigh the risks of updating.

>For those with this pain right now: I think installing Docker Desktop 2.5.0.1 is the only solution.

Well that sure backfired.
It has a similar signaling effect, but someone could prepay 6 months rent and then just stop paying. With a security deposit, you have that as a buffer until the person leaves.

Perhaps the best way to accomplish this without having the landlord perpetually hang onto large amounts of tenant cash is to have a large deposit that slowly decreases over time, as trust increases. So perhaps it would be 5 or 6 months of deposit that is used to offset every 3rd month of rent during the first year.
Auto-updating does not work in any context because you can seriously break the end users stuff with no recourse. It needs to ask, always as you don't know what else is going on.
What do you all use the security cameras for? Are burglaries common in your areas? I have a house alarm but never considered a security camera setup.
Could be the tool. How many pliers have you tried so far?
Nvidia’s AI Puts Video Calls on Steroids [video]
I get a lot of subjective value out of being able to adjust colour temperature, brightness, and hue.

For instance, the last hour or two of the day, I have lights in the bedroom and kitchen either dim red or off.

Being able to do the routine of "try to go to sleep, fail, tell my watch to turn the lights red, get a glass of water or a snack, turn lights off" is really nice. Even dim white light would be like splashing cold water on my face.

There are other ways to solve for this, approximately, I guess. This is simple and works, though.
You could achieve similar results without the added complexity by extending construction into 4 spatial dimensions.
You'll have to do some additional configuration: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:OpenPGP:Smartcards
With VM's for local development? What to use for ensuring the right package versions are installed etc? Terraform?
Your response is dripping with entitlement.

You likely don't pay for Docker and do not provide any beneficial relationship to Docker. Why should they be beholden to your opinions? If they wanted to ship you buggy software, that's within their right. You then have the option to decide whether or not you want to use it. That's within your right.
My understanding is that the manufacturer of the vaccine didn't apply for emergency approval- they are letting it go through a longer process by their own choice.

There might be perfectly valid reasons for this- I am not sure to what extent the government could or would want to force it to fast-track.
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From what I've read when you have pneumonia you receive antibiotics. If that doesn't work, they test a lung wash sample against the usual bacterias/viruses. If that doesn't match anything, it's called unexplained pneumonia, and that gets escalated and the sample is sent to top labs for sequencing. When they did this, they got a 90% match to SARS and raised the alarm.
Load“*”,8 versus LOAD“*”,8,1 on the Commodore 64 [video]
Totally agree on all points. If someone said "exterminate the vermin", though, the ideal follow-up would be to ask "who or what are the vermin? And what do you mean by 'exterminate'?"

Weasel words are always going to dog whistle, but if you think that someone is implying something, the best scenario is to get them to explicitly agree or disagree with that statement.

Definitely not applicable in all cases, but if a person explicitly says "I did not mean to imply X, and I disagree with X", then it seems a good rule of thumb to believe that they do in fact disagree with X.
I agree such a move would be somewhat self destructive. But given the uk is already >50% with a 1st dose, and has Moderna contracts supplying from next month, I would not rule it out.

I also would point out: Boris, aka mini-trump. Populists would not let such a challenge go without reply.

Good luck if you think the report is completely wrong.
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That's around my line of thinking, pure meritocracy is both too subjective and far too harsh to the people who aren't in the lucky egg club, especially in increasingly global winner take all games (an inevitable consequence of globalization).

I'm a failure by meritocracy by nature of losing at all of the tests we use to judge success and merit - test scores, elite school admission, elite institutions etc.
That comment was killed by software, similarly to how comments by banned accounts are killed. It was later vouched for by other users, which unkilled it.

Please don't take HN threads on these lame meta tangents. They never go anywhere interesting, and people invariably just imagine scenarios that confirm whatever they already believe and get even more upset about it.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26544490.
And that SpaceX sells its packages overpriced to the military. It's normally called state-funding but not in this instance.
> The lab escape theory has been thoroughly debunked by science

This is absolutely not true. Lab invented was debunked, lab escaped was not.

Have a read: https://project-evidence.github.io/
Sure, lots of reasons you can’t create the most very optimal experience. But even if you can’t swap out the switches in your rental there are other options if you keep “physical first” in mind. There are even smart switches made to stick over a regular light switch so you can keep people from turning it off (and this deactivating the smart bulb) and still have a physical switch, but it’s actually controlling a smart light.

Starting with a hard requirement of physical control still leaves lots of things on the table.
Home ownership, with a mortgage and down-payment less than 20% is higher leverage than that with more stability.

Put 10% down on 1M. Goes up in value to 1.5M in a few years. Boom. 500K gain on 100k. Not that uncommon.

Also, if it's your primary, then tax free income up to that 500k if filing jointly when you sell if you lived in it for 2 years. Hard to beat.
Footage of a drone flying right into an erupting volcano in Iceland [video]
Ah, I understand the devs here, evergreening means you don't have support spread. But it's a dev tool and pinning is a crucial feature for devs.

Looks like a PM somewhere learned a crucial product lesson today.
It’s only simple in the sense that it takes few words to say, but then world peace is also simple: just stop having wars.
> Why do so many programming language ecosystems use their own package management

Because then you have to support maintaining your ecosystem in a dozen or more variations of OS ecosystems. Easier to bring your dep manager to the OS than the other way around.
Minor nitpick but the UK signed a deal with AZ a couple of days before the US, it was the EU that was 3 months late to the party.

Clicking through your second link you get to the article about the US deal on the 21st of May: https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/astrazeneca-scores-1b-fr...

and again for the UK deal on the 17th of May: https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/after-signing-up-to-deli...
I remember when I was kid coming home and seeing our cat at the top of the stairs. I walked up, picked him up and put him at the bottom of the stairs. He then went back up the stairs and sat down.

I wondered how often I could do that until he just walked away. I still wonder about that because the answer seemed to be that he was a hell of a lot more persistent then I was at 10 or however old I was.

I wouldn't say I was or am an expert at feline body language but the odd thing to my mind (then and now) was that he never seemed particularly annoyed.

As a side note - I've read that the common idea that angry cats swish their tails back and forth isn't exactly true. Cat - from what I read - do that when they're uncertain. Fight or flight. Or if you see a cat before an open door on a rainy day. They want to be outside but they don't want to be wet.

The thing I read was that the emotion manifested itself as a physical response to being unbalanced. Like a cat using it's tails as a counter when it's a precarious spot. It seemed - and seems - a fascinating insight into an animals mind though I have no idea if there's any truth to it.
Somewhat related question: what is your favorite way to mount PCBs vertically and connect them? IDC ribbon cable seems popular, but there should be a simpler way? Simple pin headers are somewhat ok, but proper alignment is sometimes difficult (getting pin 1 into socket 1, and not pin 2 into socket 1).

Edit: I mean vertical mounting (stacking), so the boards are not under an angle.
And many cities did, which is why the trend has been getting slowly worse.

I didn't talk about any "laissez faire" policy, and as far as I know no city in the US is pursuing a laissez faire policy. I also don't know why you think it is bad to have housing stock that lasts; having lived in a number of those turn of the century homes, they were better and cheaper than the "affordable" new apartment options. They were well-built luxury homes that are comfortable to live in, but didn't have the modern status symbols the new luxury apartments had. It isn't a universal thing, either; it was specifically because the luxury housing from the time was _nice_. I looked at cheap apartments in 1970s cement bunkers and always went back to living in a beautiful Victorian with vaulted ceilings, even if they were dustier & colder.

Affordable housing will always compromise on something, and personally I preferred finding roommates & buying space heaters to living in a shoebox.

As someone below noted, these dynamics vary dramatically by local. California, much less San Francisco, is a whole different kettle of fish. But because we stopped building housing for a while, we are at best going to face a period of catch-up, no matter what we do.
> I’ve never declared a variable and not simultaneously thought “this is going to be a float, always a float, never not a float.”

Never written generic/template code? Making that much easier is one of the main benefits of dynamic typing.
Ye well I am fine with auto updates as long as it is possible to disable (without hacks or esoteric config file settings in GUI apps). The convinence of having the computer click "install latest version" in a prompt for you is minimal.

I think it should be the user's choice. This trend in slow rollouts to see what breaks and using users for beta testing is annoying.
Depending on what you mean there are a couple of extensions which help: Conversations [1] and ThreadVis [2].

Thunderbird is slowly becoming less dated, but I'm not sure Gmail's UI is necessarily what email client designers should be aspiring to. The former lead designer of Gmail (and Inbox) hated it so much that he has put hundreds of hours into maintaining personal modifications. Now that's he's trying to turn it into a business, the marketing site is a bit more original and there's fewer strongly worded criticisms but I'm sure you can read between the lines [3].

[1] https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/gmail...
[2] https://addons.thunderbird.net/En-uS/thunderbird/addon/threa...
[3] https://simpl.fyi/
People have friends but nations have interests. Looks like the EU is rediscovering this the hard way.
>It's like asking for a Kleenex instead of a tissue.

that'd be the case if Kleenex made hundreds of variations, and the variations had no cross-compatibility with one another.

People that want a 'molex connector' want, usually, an AMP style press-lock 4 pin connector... unless they don't -- they're looking for a molex MiniFit extension to reach their GPU... unless they don't -- they want a vintage Molex asymmetric 4 pin for an old legacy device.

'Molex' is more ambiguous, imo, than you give it credit for.
> Who is we who need solid security?

Anyone with a modern medical device is the 'we'.

My grandmother got a new pacemaker installed a while back. She now has a device sitting beside her bed with a 4G modem in it, that talks to her pacemaker at night and sends the data back to some service, which in turn her Doctors can access.

This is apparently the normal thing to do.

What level of security is there in either of those devices?

How do you ensure that there isn't open ports? Does it get security updates pushed to it? (I wouldn't be money on that)

How does one ensure that this can't send malicious commands to the pacemaker?

This isn't just an issue with pacemakers, either - plenty of other medical devices are coming with various wireless chips in them.
Many if not most of those home brands are manufactured by the brand name and relabeled. You’ll notice this if you frequently check the manufacture location of similar goods.

This is to say that it is often more of a partnership to push more product at a cheaper price point than to push the competition out.
> I just don't get the double standards, the UK enforcing a contract is good... the EU doing the same is... bad?

Well, it looks like British tabloids are influencing this point of view in English speaking countries.
> The US vaccinates 3 million every day.

The US has like 30x as many people as Belgium. A better comparison would be Ohio, which has about the population of Belgium and is administering ~90k doses per day, which is sorta like vaccinating ~60k people a day (based off a guess that ~15k doses are the one dose J&J vaccine).

I agree that prioritizing the most vulnerable, regardless of nationality is the morally better choice.
I'm not saying the UK's process is random. I'm saying your logic and argument is fundamentally unsound.

Your __logic__ applies just as easily to coin-flips / random-chance to make decisions, and therefore your argument is unable to differentiate between a good system and a bad one.
Covid is special because it's highly contagious and has delayed symptoms.

However in my opinion, chinese governments (esp. lower levels) like to lower the severity of any issue / risks and they like to repress / solve the issue with local power until it is solved or gets too big. The central gov that like to hide wrongdoings aren't helping either.

In case of covid, they either underrate the severity or tried to suppress the outbreak locally, which they failed and it already spread too wide enough to be contained.

If covid outbreak happened in europe or us, I believe it'll spread almost the same, albeit slower and you'll knew faster since it'll be in news faster.
I was surprised to find that there is a lot of theoretical justification for possible mechanisms of cold fusion, and a lot of experimental evidence that must either be suggestive of something interesting, or indicative of bold-faced and widespread fraud.

It was also interesting the discover that the original experiment was dismissed because other experimenters failed to replicate the Fleischmann and Pons result ... despite not actually trying to replicate the Fleischmann and Pons experimental setup accurately. For example, not meeting the same level of hydrogen loading in the metal matrix.

It could all absolutely be BS, but I was surprised that it wasn’t actually proven to be BS; it was just not proven to not be BS, and was then made “embarrassing”.
It robs the working class of wealth because of timing. The prices rise, then, later, the working class gets cost-of-living increases. That's anywhere from painful to devastating, depending on how low you are in the working class.
USA was not unique and isn't even in the top ten for deaths per capita. Plenty of lockdowns happened in Western Europe and yet Portugal, UK, Belgium and Italy all had higher rates than the US.
There's no reason to be rude here.

Ever see the kinds of insane enterprise-wise nightmares that auto-upgrades with breaking changes cause? They aren't pretty.
I wish it was.
Well there's two reasons. Firstly, you're not producing a competitive advantage by writing your own site. Unless you have some specific purpose, why would you waste your time. Let's assume it takes you a couple of weeks, that's probably thousands of dollars of lost wages when you can use substack, medium or even wordpress for basically free.

Secondly, whilst these companies are trying to claim the responsibility of a peice of infrastructure, they're actually trying to be publishers, they control discoverability. You go to substack because you want to scoop of some of that substack readership, you want to be part of their "webring" and hope that you get more readership whilst they monetize your activity by telling VCs they have their boot on your neck.
When I purchased my place, I used the seller's agent. My offer was about 1% lower than someone else and I still got the place. I only assume he made up the difference.
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> If they are at the "fuck it" point, what's going to force them to be useful and productive during the forced 3 month notice period?

Nothing - beyond professionalism. It is common for knowledge transfer to happen in this time, and any outstanding vacation days are usually taken at this time.

There's a huge cultural difference between US and Europe (rest of world?) when it comes to going to work after serving notice. It appears the employer/employee relationship is more adversarial, so much so that the employee is not trusted/expected to do the right thing after being fired (or after they quit) - the whole "immediately getting escorted out of the building by security" is unheard of in Europe.
Established fact. Biowarfare is often coated as "defense": we need to develop vaccines for future viruses or engineered pathogens. The offense is top secret.

SARS-COV are classed Category C pathogen by CDC, in line with Hanta virus. SARS-COV is documented as a viable bioweapon, precisely for the things we have seen in the last year, and studied as such by all capable militaries around the world.

The hypothesis is that this lab (and labs in Iran, China and Iran share biowarfare research) was conducting gene-targeted coronavirus research. Using proxy DNA-testing companies serving Western populace to get their data. A good weaponized coronavirus would have an extremely high R. It would look similar to the flu in the first stages. Then at a later stage (after two weeks) it would deliver a "payload" in the brains of the targeted populace, stopping breathing or causing haemorrhage. The non-targeted races would just have a flu and contribute to the spread. Other engineered viruses focus on plausible deniability, straining the hospitals with patients with vague symptoms, hard enough to visit the hospital and contribute to the strain on public services, soft enough not to actually kill them. It would throw the targeted country into chaos and unprepared for a war.
Most creative will never pay their rent from their art. That's life. I'm a physicist, but there is no money in physics so I do IT.
Naturally hard and then a giant government is doing everything in their power to stymie it at every turn. Regardless of the debate on if this is a logically or morally appropriate thing to do, but one can conclude they wouldn't be doing this if they didn't think there was some possibility of it.
We do at least know that they were doing gain-of-function research on coronaviruses in the Wuhan lab, since the US publicly funded it.
> To give you an example, I was quoted 12,000$ per year for an enterprise b2b database solution to record questionnaire answers. Great software, meeting a need we have. But I’m building a basic postgresql database and a very basic web front end for free in its place. 80% of the functionality, 0% of the cost.

Your ROI calculation is wrong. Your homegrown solution costs you [your hourly wage] x [hours spent working on it] + [infrastructure costs]. If you have an engineer who spends 3 or more weeks a year on this (incl. initial development cost amortized over # of years), then you lost money.

Worst, you spent time building a commoditized solution which you could have spent improving your own product!
It sounds like you've never been a landlord. For small-timers at any rate, the main attraction is asset appreciation, and the second is tax subsidies. Excess rent is usually the least important factor, and is often around zero, and can even be negative.
Um. There is no S in IoT. I think that's the joke.
Only if there were margin calls on real estate loans (there aren’t) of if there were no margin calls or forced selling on brokerage accounts (there are) this would be good advice.
I believe they were alluding to jails as the alternative here.
The current bottleneck in the Pfizer vaccine production is the last manufacturing stage — combining the mRNA with lipid nanoparticles. There are currently two plants for it, one in the US and one in Belgium. The US plant only delivers to the USA, the Belgian to the rest of the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer%E2%80%93BioNTech_COVID-...
Hey, CTO here.

With the wide geo-redundant storage even entire regions can be taken offline and durability is preserved. We recently had 7% of devices drop offline during the Texas power outages last month with no issues. We constantly monitor and repair the data as nodes go online and offline.

Yes, speeds do depend on users upload speeds, but we spread your files among thousands of peers. So while your 5 GB object might seem like a lot of data, each peer might only need to upload a megabyte or two. Operations are in parallel so you can get high throughput (think of lots of small straws taped together).
I'm under the assumption that child-vaccinations will be proven safe within the next few months, so the finish line at that point will be moved to ~200 doses per person.
For someone who wants to own so little they do seem to be a bit absolutist owning someone's fidelity.

It would seem a lot about this journey was all about him.
I mean did they expect a lot with just that? The USA was willing to commit to billions if they delivered.
Switzerland has a population of 8.6M, isn't part of the EU, and yet...

The problem there has been getting enough doses delivered.
It’s likely that this is derived from a pangolin virus. Pangolins are most definitely traded at Chinese wet markets.