skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you put two columns: zoonotic transfer, lab leak. And you list circumstantial evidence for both. Your zoonotic transfer column will be terribly empty in comparison. There is no patient 0, and the wet market was not the source, and we still do not have a zoonotic chain established. All those facts could be added to the lab leak hypothesis instead. For the most prominent clue of a biological attack is Single cause of a certain disease caused by an uncommon agent, with lack of an epidemiological explanation.. If you look at the history: SARS-1 naturally arose once in China. SARS-1 escaped a lab twice in the few years after. Chinese spies infiltrated Western gain-of-function virus-and-cancer-research labs, then smuggled back vials to China in a sock in their check-in luggage.

Domain expert scientists on the lab leak hypothesis: https://thebulletin.org/2020/06/did-the-sars-cov-2-virus-ari...

The evidence is with the intelligence agencies of Western nations. Trump and Pompeo (Pompeo was sanctioned by China hours after new President took office) did not make up their "China Virus" as some racist dog whistle. They were informed.

The WHO, when pressured by the UK for China not sharing information, nor allowing access to a team for investigation, said: Now is not the time to point fingers. We need China cooperation for now. The UK replied that it then has to assume the worst possible and prepare for a pandemic. It did.

Actual tangible evidence is rare, but it is pretty damning that: China blocks Australian-led world-wide investigation into the origins of COVID -- re-sentencing Australian prisoners to death penalty and messing with trade relations to hurt Australia's economy. They'd do that for a natural zoonotic-base virus that was out of their control? Phone location records show containment procedures around Wuhan lab around October 2019. Former military analysts in Israel pose the lab leak hypothesis as plausible, betting their reputation on it.

It is not too fair to ask actual tangible evidence, if evidence could mean a hot war or severely strained relations during a pandemic where people need to work together. And what is your tangible evidence for the popular zoonotic hypothesis? Just some experts saying that zoonotic base is most likely when interviewed for a popular news outlet? The most likely hypothesis should be the easiest to find actual support for. Why not?

I think a lot of criticism on the drastic measures to contain a relatively low CFR virus would be dispelled if the general public knew what the decision-makers then knew: a strange novel virus which seems extremely adapted to infect humans, and shows more similarities to the lab viruses worked with in biowarfare, than with captured and documented cave bats. Similar to the "airborne COVID" -- first publicized by the head of the WHO -- we seem to be managing the factual information flow to avoid panic, geopolitics, and xenophobia. It is right now not important that the general public knows it is dealing with an engineered virus or lab leak. Or at least... other things are more important right now.
Some neighborhoods have houses listed in the "informal markets" ( community of like minded brokers who wish to maintain the "feel of the place")
We can be charitable to their point. The most recent stimulus was 1.9T. No one outside of governments has that sort of cash.
Yes... It's a balance. I don't think tests-only admissions are the panacea either to be clear.
The key problem is how to introduce some level of subjectivity in the admission process without creating doors wide open for corruption or cottage industries to "prep your application" with semi-fake accomplishments demonstrating your "soft skills".
The main problem with that argument is that it's based on false "facts". Private property predates government; it wasn't created by government. People have to actually have stuff worth taking before the predatory protection rackets will appear to prey on them.
low rates
Nigeria may devalue naira again as CBN plans new exchange rate, says Finmin
Somewhat ironically to this circumstance (assuming it doesn't affect LibreSSL), the Void team has just switched back away from LibreSSL which it shipped by default with for years.

Discussion: https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/20935
> It gives everyone time to prepare to patch ASAP when it is released without having the vulnerability available to attackers through diffing the binary.

It’s an open source library so the code of the patch will be available as soon as it’s published. It’s not released as a compiled library.
Would you then say that irresponsibly treating the virus within the US & other western countries actually caused the pandemic to be bigger than it should have been?
Right Now reading this text, who is reading this and do you truly know yourself?

If not, fuck off!
I agree, as at that point it will be in their self-interest to do so. So yes, we wouldn't be completely SOL, just in rougher shape than we are.

I certainly understand the desire to keep doses within the country. I don't even necessarily blame the administration for doing so. But I do appreciate the EU giving us the opportunity to vaccinate our seniors prior to 18 year olds in the US.
>why not just use a system-wide package manager?

I mean lets not pretend that's a good choice for either devs or users either. From the user side, you're a the mercy of how fast your distro decides to package new versions. For most things that's fine, but for your main product you might want something newer. Of course devs can setup their own repos but then the devs have to do additional packaging, host infra, etc.

From the dev side, getting packages accepted into various distros can be a pain in the ass. Just look at the recent blowup around the Python Cryptography package when they decided to add Rust and Gentoo's complaints.
Really AZ vaccine is not even approved in the USA...
We can even speed up the process by letting the poors have unlimitied opiates!
What C compiler has pattern matching and ADTs?
Companies are in a hard spot here.

Don't upgrade and you get blamed even if the software is very out of date.

Upgrade automatically and other groups get mad.

Seems like you need to default to auto update but have an opt out.
Not disagreeing with your general point that SARS-CoV-2 is an interesting mix of infectiousness and low mortality.

From what I've read Ebola has killed many healthcare professionals because they infected themselves when disposing off PPE. As a result a disproportionally large portion of deaths were healthcare workers.

> With COVID, a worker could get infected, hide the exposure out of fear/shame, never show any symptoms... and yet start a pandemic.

In many countries workers are actually incentivised to come to work sick and infect others.
This is a pretty weird kind of contract?

Executive Order 13962—Ensuring Access to United States Government COVID-19 Vaccines
December 08, 2020

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/12/11/2020-27...
CEO of AstraZeneca: "But the UK contract was signed three months before the European vaccine deal." "When we entered the agreement with Oxford, they had already been working with the UK government on this. "

https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2021/01/26/news/interview_...
Its more complicated than that. These deal are not executed, the moment the final signature is signed.

Instead, there are multiple steps along the way, that matter much more than some singular data point of a very long contract process that has many stages.
4.5% for Harvard honestly seems high to me. Do you have a source? (Not doubting, moreso curious about other Ivys).
I'm so excited for this too! I'm really excited to continue bringing GitLab workflows closer to where developers are doing their work and hope this is going to be a really meaningful step in that direction.

I'm also interested to see what kind of impact it has on large MRs, but do know it's not the answer for what happens in GitLab.
Hypothesis.
Theories have evidence.
This hypothesis has circumstantial evidence that a basic study in RNA molecules, virii, hydrolysis, mutation, protein-mimicry, "trying all keys of a combination lock, getting the right one gives you a direct ticket to an animal cell taking you into it's DNA replication process"

The so-called "Spanish Flu" of 1918 had origins in a migratory bird route over large tracts of pig stockyards, and the workers and nearby army base residents were subsequently infected and subsequently brought it over to Europe at the end of WW1.

Given both points above, shame on USATODAY for giving the time of day to such dangerous speculation while much of the planet chafes under lockdown and is irritable and hating on China anyway... shameful demagoguery. Dismissed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_hydrolysis
You're not arguing in good faith so I shouldn't bother responding to you, but here goes anyway. The ethics of eating animals has nothing to do with "imposing ones [sic] personal opinions regarding food on others," and everything to do with whether your "food choice" deprives other living beings of their right to live free of undue suffering. If you deny that non-human animals have any such rights, then there's really no problem for you I guess. But if you would object to dogfighting, "crush" videos, or other forms of entertainment that inflict suffering on animals, consider why you privilege your enjoyment of meat over those.
I don't think the typical landlord is paying more on maintenance per month than they are gaining from rent. Taxes are paid net of maintenance costs.
It's not a conspiracy in the sense of pre-meditated plan by a group of villains.

It can well be a cover-up, which is a daily life in places like China. In USSR, every technological, radiologic or biological disaster was covered up, surfacing only when it was impossible to conceal.
What I mean is that a small countryside hospital won't be able to notice there is a new type of pneumonia, while bigger cities have teams to detect that. It's the same reason why we probably had the virus circulating in europe in january but we only noticed after we started looking for it.
At least for San Francisco, the seeds of the current shortage started as early as 1912 with the establishment of the planning commission.

See this amazing twitter thread with images of historical news paper clippings.

https://twitter.com/enf/status/753435745272995840

Later on, in 1978, most of the city was down-zoned, and in the EIR (Environmental Impact Report) written at the time, it was clearly predicted that this would result in a supply shortage and increased prices. Unless the city made a point to increase density and development in the industrial parts of the city. That didn't really happy to the scale the EIR said was needed.

See: https://twitter.com/enf/status/775185946941591553?s=20

So here we are.
At What Point Do We Realize Bill Gates Is Dangerously Insane?
The unexplainable: why are you you and cosmogony.

Consciousness seems to be a mostly self-assembling, emergent property of suitably complex learning systems that are capable of abstract pattern matching, modeling, and anticipation. I have a difficult time (intractable) understanding from where you or I come into being as a conscious entity.
I went through the IIT system 10+ years ago. At that point, it was 3,500 people to be selected from a pool of 250,000 or so. These ratios have remained the same over the years I think.

My hobbies were largely desk-bound/sedentary --- coding, trivia --- that I was able to carry out at a reduced pace, and resume after I cleared the exams. The pressure during the ages 15-17 was definitely quite intense --- I'd typically come home at 3 in the afternoon, and work until midnight with a few short breaks in between. However, I think I did create a narrative of what I was going through that led to me actually enjoying the reading and problem-solving (in spite of feeling stressed out). At that age, it can feel like a superpower to be given a list of chemicals and predict what structures would emerge in a chemical reaction, or be able to compute the motions of particles in an EM field. With over 10+ years of hindsight now, I feel the following ---

-- The notion of an "ideal" childhood being lost depends on how you define the ideal. (edit : There was no pressure to have a girlfriend or boyfriend at that age. No "jocks" bullying studious "nerds". The "nerds" were the "cool" kids all through in fact. ) Of course, I don't imagine that people killing themselves or burning out would count as normal in any culture.

-- I'd say the ability to slog things out for many hours of the day across weeks many is something that has stayed with me. At the same time, there are numerous great scientists and engineers who have developed this ability without having to go through this process (edit: at ages 15-17).

-- As one person in the article points out, yes, I definitely was very late to pick up many life skills that are likely second-nature to teenagers in the West.

-- While I could solve problems and apply concepts easily, it was from a shallow understanding of topics. I definitely did not develop a meta-understanding of why, say, Newton's laws are structured that way, or what consequences it has for the structure of physical laws relying on Newton's laws. These skills I had to learn much later on.
I'm comparing it to historical returns over the last decade, though. Mortgage rates were about 4.5% in 2010, so that's the figure I'm using.

I honestly don't know what the next decade will bring. I would personally bet on high inflation, so that 2.5% mortgage rate will likely be a negative real interest rate. (Hence, I bought.) Stock returns may or may not equal the previous decade's, as well.
Nah, that particular comment was not antisemitism.

But to answer your question: There are a TON of antisemitic people in the world, but they know they can't talk that way, so they pretend that are "anti-Israel" instead. Most people can see right through that, some can't.

This doesn't happen to other countries, so the situation with Israel is unique.
Chicago does have a large supply of housing and land that can be converted into housing. This helps keep the cost of housing closer to the cost required to construct units.

In CA, the cost of a home has almost nothing to do with the input costs other than land. There are areas that could be built up (tons of land just west of 280), but which is protected by environmental laws or restrictions. Full development of this land would lead to traffic nightmares, for sure, but one could imagine that some of it could be developed as we move toward more efficient modes of transport.
You keep repeating the same claim in this thread, a claim that runs counter to citations you are provided with and here you are, yet to provide any reliable sources of your own
> It belonged to her and she had every right to dispose of it as she wished

That's a moral argument, but the issue with moral arguments is they can be made in every direction just as easily.

For example, Thomas Jefferson said:

"A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural."

And Smith said: "There is no point more difficult to account for than the right we conceive men to have to dispose of their goods after death."

Morally speaking, the founding fathers were against inheritance and the right of one person to be binding over future generations after their death.

- https://www.economist.com/lexingtons-notebook/2010/10/14/you...

Morally I agree with this, as I can't really see the justification for it. But as I said before, that's the issue with moralist arguments, they can be made both ways. So I'm more interested in practical aspects, maybe inheritance is actually responsible for greater wealth inequality, free market inneficiencies, political instability, and other downsides, but maybe it has upsides as well, though more and more I'm starting to see it as a net negative personally.

Haslett argues the practical angle pretty well, summarized here: http://www.ditext.com/current/0022.html

I recommend reading it, it's a short read.
Look at the head of the EU! They literally chose the most mediocre bureaucrat in Germany to run the whole area. It's emblematic of how the EU functions.
The armies of statisticians and (human) computers working for the war department found that most munitions fired off don’t hit people. One figure often used is 25,000 bullets per casualty (where casualty does not imply killed). How many disease bullets have been accidentally fired since we’ve had disease study labs?
How does that help users on macOS?
Last time I tried it, particularly using it for a Docker Compose replacement, it certainly wasn't the drop-in replacement that had feature parity with Docker that it was promoted as.
Is static typing really necessary for speed?

The fastest JavaScript engines and LuaJIT are closer in speed to Crystal than Crystal is to C.

Granted - all these languages are really fast - and unless you're doing something INSANELY performance dependent and you REALLY know what you're doing - I think familiarity trumps all. You're almost certainly going to write faster Crystal code if you're a Crystal expert than you would write C, C++, or Rust.
I want our future to be more focused on getting rid of class warfare and inane divisive rhetoric. Political red herring lip service crying about the statistical chances of a pronoun being used by a company that randomly created their data not only is not my concern, but I and society shouldn't be lumped in with their mistake. Google made their text language models, not "society" or "culture". Google is not the English speaking world, nor should their actions become a guilty by association for anyone that speaks English. Grow up. There are more important things to worry about. Ecological deterioration. Desert expansion. Droughts. Climate change. Water contamination. General air pollution. Deterioration of the working class. The college class looking down on the working class, creating a further divide in society. Financial elites running the show. Over reliance on the media. Family farming falling out the wayside. Birth rates tanking. Corporate corruption. Social isolation based depression/anxiety rates. Corporate take overs of everyday life. Opioid crisis. Plus some more that I can't think of. All more important than worrying about why the fuck Google says, "she cooks" instead of "he/it cooks". Google was not your lord and savior. No tech company was. Get over it.
English is an awful for scientific communication due to its inherently complex rules and ambiguous lexicon. It's great for marketing and business though!
There should be (2020) added to the title
They are missing the mark on excellence. Apparently having thousands of PhD's and product managers does not make for a better search experience.
> Am I the only one who finds that the "go to next unresolved" button now often goes into an inconsistent non-working state that requires a (slow) refresh?

I don't think I've seen that reported before and we have been working through some interesting to reproduce issues in recent milestones.

Would you mind opening an issue for this? Feel free to tag me (same name).
wow, that's not much in case the apartment is damaged.

Denmark allows for 3 months deposit plus 3 months rents upfront, so you have to be able to come up with 6 months rent total to get an apartment.

(market here is very hot, so rental apartments have no problem getting 6 months rent)

When you "quit" living in the apartment, you can use the 3 months prepaid rent, so you don't have to pay rent the last 3 months.
I mean why do all of you just keep ignoring what I'm saying?

We were promised that the candidate of the winning party would get the job!

All parties in the election agreed to that. We had debates between the candidates rooted on that promise. The whole election was based on that.

The EU has serious problems with democratic legitimacy, it has serious problems with Trust, and yet people defend those moves because they are technically legal.

The voters were told one thing and they got another thing.

And then the EU does an about-face and wonders why there is so many people distrusting it.

Do you want the EU to succeed or not? If you want it to succeed, like I do, we have to call out the issues and fix them, instead of defending broken things because we still believe in the whole.

The EU will never reach its potential if we don't mature it's political system and give the people some direct, visible control.
The problem is not the language! If C is not sufficiently safe for you, you shouldn't take planes, or drive cars, or rely on medical devices, because the software of all these critical embedded system is written in C.

The problem is on how you write the software. There are projects that have strict code standard, such as MISRA C or even stricter ones. The problem is that such a critical software (well, relatively critical, because if there is a bug in a security library nobody dies in the end) is not written to that standards.
Agreed. However my reaction when first hearing about the lab leak (middle of last year?) was that the leak stories were meant to be malicious/propaganda against China. I didn't take any of this seriously until an article in Politico a week or two ago.

But here's the kicker. Let's say this was a lab leak and as a reporter (which I'm not) I thought the evidence was good enough to warrant reporting. I'm not sure I would share it. The previous occupant of the white house did a great disservice in giving this whole thing a racially charged tone. I'm genuinely scared by the increased acts of violence against southeast Asians in the US and worry that stories like this will make it worse. I'm hoping that the new US government is secretly taking steps to help prevent what may have happened in that lab -- in addition to the large effort needed elsewhere to improve our handling after things had begun to spread.

Anyway, main point is that this was the first time in a long time (ever?) where I really wondered whether, given the circumstances, if it was good to share "the whole truth" (as best we know it) given that we don't know what happened and the potential real-life implications to many people in the US.
Straight out disagree. One of the most fundamental purposes of a country is to prioritize the interests (and most fundamentally life) of its own citizens.

If countries agreed on things like resource distribution, human rights, economic structure, reward incentives, culture, there would be no need for different nations.

This is purely a negotiation. "Ethics" is a weak appeal stemming from a failure to plan, invest, and execute.
Right. I think a lot of people model their future financial needs on their current situation and current level of expenses, with moderate yearly increases, and that just isn't realistic. Even people who do take it into account don't go far enough IMO.

Then again, there are some medical diagnoses that will bankrupt you (in the US) even if you're employed and have good insurance, so I think there are some things you can safely not make part of the equation.

I can totally understand and forgive not modeling "what happens if my partner and I divorce", but it's something people need to consider.
Similar to linear.
If you are referring to alcohol, despite the general perception I think it's quite harmless.

If you are referring to drugs, despite the general perception I think it's quite harmless.

If you are referring to smoking, despite the general perception I think it's quite harmless.