skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Did not see evidence of tampering" is too weak to trust for me.

Military-funded scientific biowarfare research should be different (use different, more advanced, tools) than run-of-the-mill bioinformatics research which US scientists work with. So if the scientist is not working on military research, their guess is as good as: "it was not engineered using common industry-standard known methods". It is misattributing authority, like quoting bio science experts saying "COVID can't be a weapon because the mortality is too low". No, you have zero idea about the military applications of biowarfare. If the scientist really was a military researcher, then they won't disclose signs of tampering to a news outlet or academic journal.

Another is that, for obvious reasons, military research would like to obfuscate its engineering. So it is unlikely they use easily detectable methods for that. It is perfectly possible to breed viruses in a lab, inside natural hosts. Then you won't see any biological markers of tampering, but the virus was still engineered by cross-breeding captured fruit bats or manually creating a zoonotic transmission chain to humans. So even without biological signs of tampering, the lab leak remains plausible.
Edit timer is pretty short.

Source is OECD projections: https://twitter.com/jasonfurman/status/1369273724743127046
Unfortunately not straight-forward with Docker Desktop as it's closed-source.

Sure, underlying components are open source, but I've seen no other effort to glue them together in a cohesive, single-purpose package like Docker Desktop.
Trump invoked the DPA for:

* protective equipment and ventilators

* specifically 3M and companies for masks and ventilators

* testing swabs

* diagnostic systems and assays

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https://web.archive.org/web/20200318233011/https://www.white...

> Accordingly, I find that health and medical resources needed to respond to the spread of COVID-19, including personal protective equipment and ventilators, meet the criteria specified in section 101(b) of the Act (50 U.S.C. 4511(b)).

Note that this is the executive order for allowing the Secretary of Health and Human Services to do things...

> (c) The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall issue such orders and adopt and revise appropriate rules and regulations as may be necessary to implement this order.

It wasn't specifically saying "you, company, make this."

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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/02/trump-expands-dpa-o...

> President Donald Trump on Thursday invoked the Defense Production Act to push 3M and six major medical device companies to produce protective masks and ventilators needed for the coronavirus outbreak, bowing to weeks of pressure to expand the federal government’s use of the emergency statute.

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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/19/trump-dpa-testing-s...

> President Donald Trump will use the Defense Production Act to compel an unnamed company to produce 20 million more coronavirus testing swabs every month — weeks after labs and public health officials started warning that shortages of these swabs were hurting efforts to ramp up testing nationwide

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https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/08/20/trump-administrati...

> These acquisitions will fulfill a large-volume purchase of diagnostic systems and assays for COVID-19 testing and will expedite shipments of these systems and assays to every nursing home certified by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services (CMS) with a Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment (CLIA) Certificate of Waiver – approximately 14,000 nursing homes – in the United States.

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Further reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Production_Act_of_1950...

Additionally - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-08/trump-vow...

> Trump raised the specter of invoking the Defense Production Act -- which allows the president to require companies to prioritize contracts deemed essential for national security -- if the U.S. struggles to obtain the vaccine for its citizens.

> “If we have any problems, we will be instituting the Defense Production Act and make sure we don’t have any problems,” he said.

Trump did not invoke the DPA for vaccines.
Docker solves a lot of problems. I don't want to use it, but I want an easy, cohesive to all those problems!

Like, each type of application I have to run in my fleet needs the right environment, with proper settings, packages, etc. And when a developer at the company needs to work on that service locally, they need a prod-like env spun up quickly and simply that they can easily work in.

There's many ways to do this, like "one prod box and ssh" but they all have tradeoffs...
It’s been useless because it doesn’t have governance over pandemic response. It’s up to the member states. Member states have been mostly useless, yes.
The Babysitters Club (2016)
Is there a way to use this for free, by self-hosting?
Health insurance is the reason I am still working. Sure, you can buy insurance in the individual market, but it is not comparable. Take a look at the provider network.

Even if you buy the best insurance available in the individual market the provider network is likely to local whereas employer-provided insurance will have a nationwide network. If you get a rare disease for which the best experts are in another state you'll regret buying insurance off of the individual market.
Browser updates break addons and workflows on a regular basis. Google for how to do something like add a shortcut to a website to the Android homescreen from Firefox, and chances are all the tutorials you find will be out of date.
I missed that part of the constitution, could you show it to me?
I'm Asian, so it looks like you're the racist for assuming I'm white. I'm not even American.

Anyway, you keep thinking what you want to think, you're entitled to your opinion. But it's not backed up by actual facts, so you're not living in reality, but that's also your right.
I don't think it needs to be completely wrong, it could simply be someone internally in Pfizer venting off that if the UK would cut that supply it would hurt Pfizer operational results predictions, or simply that it would be noticed in their production, or it's just someone answering "yes" to the questions: "would this be bad for pfizer/vaccines".

Also the frame wouldn't make any sense:

The EU will be controlling exports of AZ vaccine to enforce a company fulfill their contractual obligations (which they have failed completely, several times), and the UK would stop exporting a component for Pfizer? For what? To let it spoil and ruin a UK business that invested and ramped up production to have their production stalled? To hurt their own vaccine supply?

I really don't see it.
I dont see why this is being downvoted, in context of the parent comment

> we're still using security libraries written in what is essentially a portable assembly language, doing silly things like pointer arithmetic, manually allocating memory, and other chainsaw juggling feats.

Ok. So I'm pointing out that Go actually doesn't do such a "silly" thing...
Well, many people when faced with a question from the computer will be to try to ignore it for as long as possible, that's not ideal either. Opt-out auto-update feels like the right way for consumer software, opt-in auto-update for professional software, like developer tools.
Yep, I haven't used Google search in a few years now, ddg has been better at not spamming me
I've always thought the difference between a cat and a dog is that for a dog being with you is like a job. You might have a great job. You may love your co-workers. You might have a crap job. Your co-worker may occasionally kick you in the side. But, you know, what are you going do? It's a J O B.

It makes a dog a great companion. Loyal even to those who have done nothing to deserve it. Even an untrained dog will do it's canine best to be a good dog - though it will generally have no idea what we expect that to be.

The problem with that from my point of view is that when you meet a good dog. Well, they're all good dogs aren't they? Who's a good dog? This dog right here! Anyhow - the problem is that I don't trust them. Because they're punching a clock. Do they really like me? Or am I just a co-worker they landed?

A cat on the other hand is different. A cat is like that dude who lived with you and 3 other guys when you were all going to school. I think he was enrolled? Honestly I wonder; it seemed like all he did was sit around, smoke pot and try to fight off all the women running after him with that stupid guitar he played. Classical of course.

Anyhow. If you had kicked him he might have kicked back if he thought he could but maybe he wouldn't if he thought he'd get hurt. What he would have done though is move out the first chance he'd get. If for some reason he couldn't he'd avoid you.

Here's the thing though. When you come home and your cat rambles over and jumps up on your lap. When you scratch him behind the ears or rub a warm belly. It's a genuine thing. It's not much really but it's an unnatural act of empathy.

People say cats view us a kittens. Or as mother cats. Or something. I'm not sure that's the case. I think it's possible at least that they know us to be something alien and strange to them. That they're living their life apart from us but they can choose to try and relate to us - and they do that in the ways that they know.
I think it is depression. And once you are depressed, it is hard to find activation energy.

Plenty of depressed people will tell you about friends being frustrated at them "not snapping out of it".
You can’t prove a negative though, the onus was on F&S to prove their result and they couldn’t do that. They had misinterpreted some of their results (they had not detected gamma rays or fusion byproducts) and had made errors in their experimental design. Basically they were chemists, and their claims of fusion were based on misunderstandings of the physics.

A way to think about this is just to eliminate fusion from their claims. Ignore that, they didn’t have any evidence for it. The bottom line was, could they reliably generate useful heat. The answer to that was also no. So really, what are you left with?

Having said that room temperature fusion is a real thing. You can build a fusor in a garage with commonly available parts. It may well be possible to generate very low levels of fusion reactions in various ways, but generating useful energy that way may never be possible. Best of luck for these people for trying, you never know and maybe some useful insights will come from it.
Lord Sumption: Civil disobedience has begun
If you click through you'll see that podman-machine is deprecated and they now just instruct users to use Vagrant.
No you didn’t misread, I did, my apologies. And I appreciate your skepticism! While responding to you I did a lot more reading, and I’m more sympathetic to the possibility of “lab leak” than when we started discussing. Ultimately this needs a transparent investigation to resolve, but as it stands the data best supports a natural spillover hypothesis. But I regret the extent to which I characterized this as a foregone conclusion.
Too bad there isn't some sort of free market based mechanism that would inherently account for all of these factors without you needing to think about it.
>They knew about the virus because it was being studied, and that’s the only answer that makes any sense.

This is because you don't know how pathology works and what technologies (specifically sequencing) are available to identify pathogens of unknown origin.
Playing devils advocate here but… people are so scared of everyone we literally do not go outside anymore. Is that not successful terrorism?
The degree of confusion that could lead one to conclude from what I wrote that I was "wondering about being downvoted", is positively dizzying. Anyone so confused would certainly starve to death absent continual provision by others.
The only thing government has to do to kill Bitcoin is --- ignore it.

Bitcoin is not technically capable of posing a threat to any other real world currency.
It's at least on par with Go, for solving similar problems, micro benchmarks, etc.
ZigBee sits in the same frequency band as WiFi, so it does actually clutter it.

Edit: oh and it has already taken off as much as it will, the ZigBee alliance is working on a an ipv6 based standard.
Are you aware that you're posting in exactly the flamewar style that we're asking people not to? I realize that this is a high-emotion, high-activation topic, but there are certain principles here that everyone needs to respect. That is what the site guidelines are for.

A comment like this one (and worse, "we need to shame China and the Chinese people" – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26548441 - I can't believe that anyone who has been here over 10 years would post something that horrible to HN) takes us deeper into the hell that we're trying to stay out of. I'm not going to ban you for these, because if I imagine myself into your position, my guess is that simply re-reading what you posted, once you've cooled down, will be punishment enough. But if you would please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
A commenter deeper in the thread mentioned the example of

can cats eat asparagus

I tried Google search, and produces a semi-useful snippet at the top, and reasonable results afterwards. Can you share what search you ran that had very bad results?

Can cats eat asparagus? ... It is neither toxic nor dangerous for our cats to consume in very small portions, but neither is it truly beneficial to them. Cats are obligate carnivores. Unlike dogs, who can and do eat everything they can wrap their jaws around, cats tend to be much more finicky eaters.

Can Cats Eat Asparagus? - Is It Safe For Cats? - ExcitedCatsexcitedcats.com › Blog
Feb 12, 2021 — Vegetables, including peas, carrots, and asparagus, are safe for most cats to eat in small quantities. However, remember that your cat isn't going ...
‎Interesting Facts About... · ‎Which Vegetables Can I... · ‎Is Asparagus Safe for Cats?

Can Cats Eat Asparagus - Cats Dogs Blogcatsdogsblog.com › can-cats-eat-asparagus
Oct 18, 2020 — Although there are benefits for giving your cats asparagus, the potential risks are far much dangerous and outweigh the benefits. It is therefore not ...

Why Do Cats Like Asparagus? (And Is It Safe?)betterwithcats.net › why-do-cats-like-asparagus
The short answer is that yes cats can eat asparagus in small amounts without any problems. But while asparagus is quite healthy for humans, your cat really doesn't need to eat it.
Oh how I wish we could have a side-by-side video with a Tesla driving the same route with the new software. Would be.. interesting.
I'd argue that in a time of crisis, the EU government is being negligent if it's not forcing domestic production capacity to prioritize output for domestic use.

If it nationalized the factories, or seized supply it hadn't ordered, I might consider it the bad guy. But irrespective of who gets the vaccines first, the EU has already bought the some portion of the supply.
I forgot to mention _Action_ MMO server... you can probably make a slow paced MMO with Erlang...
Can we call it the chinese variant then? Because we do that with the new mutations: the brazilian variant, british variant, south african variant
"Most of the rest of the web is junk."

That's true. But out amongst that is the result you actually wanted that google doesn't have any incentive to lead you to.
hmm, i thought you were implying that i was using pliers to crimp them, instead of actual crimpers. (which would've made you a jerk, which is why i didn't elaborate much further.)

instead it looks like you call them "crimping pliers" instead of "crimpers" (or perhaps "crimping tool") like most american english speakers. fair enough.

looking very quickly at some youtube videos, i appear to have something similar to the cheap ratcheting chinese crimpers, not the (apparently) popular and non-ratcheting japanese crimpers.

i'll pick up the different tool and see how it goes. ...i've still got hundreds yet to go, so it'll have plenty of time to pay for itself.
I just looked up some of French's richest people and where their kids went to school -- amazing how ALL of them were smart enough to go to the best schools in France, Switzerland, and the UK (École Polytechnique, ETH, LSE) considering how egalitarian it is!

What a truly stunning coincidence indeed.
The deliriously unhip Wordpress installation running my website has auto-updates for minor versions turned on. Major updates still require my intervention.

It pretty much always just... works. New exploits just get patched out.

Of course, with the exception of the new "Gutenberg" editor, WP has always been ultra conservative in terms of major usage change.
In the article, what does CTR stand for? Did miss it?
But there is no such thing as Java. It is Java plus spring plus guava plus something else for immutables
Suddenly steam games don't seem so cheap. They're hamstrung games compared to, say, back when you'd buy a nintendo cartridge and they'd basically have no control what you did with it then on (such as resell it on ebay or continue to play it whilst simultaneously disparaging them in public).
There is never a perfect way of resolving differences of opinion on a project. I see both viewpoints as valid (not an invested party here, just an observer). But in the end, I would give the maintainer of the project veto power over feedback. It seems like this is an attribute of their design they don't want to budge on.
Then close issue as "needs more info" until people do?
Or make it a required field or highly emphasized in bug template.
Huh, I didn't know Thunderbird was financially decoupled from Mozilla. What's the history of the relationship there?
I think you guys should take a more honest retrospective on an age old topic of ‘Intent versus Impact”.

The truth of the story was that community was desperately looking for a solution to global state to avoid prop drilling. No amount of technical virtuosity, or cop outs to a half assed flux architecture that fundamentally mimics model-view-controller or a pub/sub pattern will be satisfiable to anyone with critical thinking ability.

The kids had one job, get some global state available to the app, and they managed in their bravado to pack in ‘addons’, or in sales terms, they ‘up-sold’, that $40 hdmi cable along with your new $1600 television.

Dan packaged his extra bullshit (the reducer pattern) over to a desperate group that had nowhere else to turn for a global state solution. Celebrity and hero worship was one of the premier sins in all of this. The guy didn’t know what the fuck he was doing and no one called him out on it.

Certainly we are not going to marvel at the fact that he is a React core developer. Bad ideas are bad ideas, regardless of the current class that ordains it.

For this, I am depressed, and will continuously antagonize the Redux team for the damage they caused the entire community.

The Redux team owes a debt. Rewrite your library so that the api is 5 lines at max. Replace your conceptions, seek forgiveness for the sin, and let it rest. Until then, don’t peddle your Frankestein ever again anywhere, you all had plenty of time in the limelight and quite frankly - you weren’t good enough.

Like what is the redux-toolkit? Do you guys lack the conviction to decide what the api is or isn’t?

With all that said, if you don’t understand what I’m saying, then mapDispatchToProps or mapsTateToFuckYou, connect everything to nonsense, and I suppose in your new bullshit, createSlice to shut up already. You guys can’t write an api if your life depends on it. And I swear to god, if I hear about the stupid Ducks pattern ... I just can’t anymore.

Anyways, I’d prefer never to punch down if I can avoid it. The redux/abramov/constituents of the react community became the Zeitgeist of the Javacript community. Paragons. And no one stood up to them and behind the bullshit is a clusterfuck of shitty apps. You guys ain’t a small agenda, and I expect the fight to continue.
No, EU countries definitely don’t get as many doses from AZ. Distribution is NOT the reason the UK are ahead, but earlier shipments.
Here we should add a much bigger than what was standard number of telemetry channels SpaceX had (they e.g. were listening to sounds in the tank, among other things, which helped to uncover the problem), modern signalling equipment (Ethernet onboard the rocket as the main mean of communications?), build-a-little-test-a-little philosophy of software engineering (on display with Starship, but actually there from the beginning), little nuggets like lithium alloys and stir welding for stages, best in class (thrust/weight) Merlin (for open cycle combustion engines), Dragon, bringing payloads from ISS (something only Shuttle did in large volumes and masses - but Shuttle was a completely different spaceship class) etc.
Gmail Down
About an hour ago, my Gmail app started crashing as soon as I opened it. I thought it was my pixel 3 but I guess it's sort of a widespread issue.
Wayland on FreeBSD
In my opinion the two are very comparable. If filter() is more readable, it’s not by much, and this is all micro optimization bike shedding. I’ve never had a hard time using the idioms in a given language, and things like map/filter vs for loops were never what pushed me away from or pulled me towards a language. The important things are almost always learning curve, tooling, ecosystem, performance, maintainability, etc and Go does very well in many of those respects. The actual in-language features are generally just gravy.

Note that the Python people have map/filter/reduce (and have had them for ages) and no one uses them. It’s either for loops or list comprehensions, and people notoriously struggle with the latter.
So, castle or farm? You can't just handwave this question away so easily! Would you hire people to take care of the castle or farm for you? I hear both are quite a lot of work! How exactly would you be spending your time, apart from making music?
Diodes would be something along the lines of a check valve.
The manufacturer didn't apply for EUA because the European trial was a mess, and there was basically no chance of FDA approval based on the data they had.

The FDA is already reluctant to use trials from jurisdictions that may be very different demographically. When the trials are marginal, confused, and confounded, the chance of a FDA approval become negligible.

If the AZ US trial pops out good data, you can expect a speedy EUA application.
Or they just pitched you harder over other offers because they stood to make more. They love nothing more than representing both sides, which should be illegal.

"This buyer has a higher down payment". "They have more reserves if it under appraises". etc.

Price doesn't always win. And it shouldn't. But there are a lot of shady agents that do shady things.
That was a rough time. I worked at a start-up company that shut down just at the peak of the global panic. Forget rejection - even finding a company that was hiring people was hard. Everyone was freezing new hires, investors were running away from signed deals, etc.

To make matters worse my employer did not pay me my last paycheck and severance pay required by law, I didn't have a lot of savings, my wife was fired the next day, we just had a baby, and we didn't have a car anymore because that was a company car.

In the end it turned out okay - I managed to get a couple of offers within a week, ended up taking a job which paid 30% less as did my wife, we moved to a cheaper city, got a cheap car, and after a while the market started recovering and I found a better job. But man, that was traumatic. Some of my colleagues from that company were unemployed for many months.