skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Europe are so far behind in vaccinations, and these clots are being seen in those <60, why have these people been vaccinated?
I get it, and I actually agree that the culture you describe isn't a good look.

What I'm going for is more the idea that if you consider the best alternative I can think of to the "holistic" approach, you get selecting applicants purely based on entrance exam scores. In such a world you'd be punishing a kid who plays with Arduino out of interest. Any energy devoted towards something other than test prep is energy wasted.

In the American system, as I'm coming to see it, the kid who plays with Arduino is punished less. The test won't take you all the way anyways, and you even get a little "refund" on attention sunk into some types of activity which qualify as extracurricular.
This response totally misses the point.

"Sorry about it, we rushed a bit the last update and introduce a severe bug.
I'll try to fix it today and if I cannot, rollback last grpcfuse patches."
> But your satellite costs hundreds of millions and it has a very long lead time.

$50m is still a lot, and not every sat costs that much. How does a corporate bean counter justify spending $50m more than they have to?

> SpaceX has slips

Are there launchers that don't??

> and occasionally loses a bioster.

Losing a booster is a risk for SpaceX, not for the customer.

> So you might simply buy the Ariane offering because they will effectively purpose-built the rocket for you.

Nonsense. Unless there's something to do with fairing sizes, $50m is $50m.

> Especially when there are political connections to be maintained.

Ahhh, got it.
It is possible for the EU to both have a democratic deficit, and for the completely opaque and unaccountable process for choosing the head of the Commission to be a part of that. Bear in mind, the EU Parliament is not a real parliament, so it does not improve things much when the 'spitzenkandidaten' is selected. That's how Juncker happened, a literal alcoholic. EU always ends up with failures at the top, it seems to be an unwritten law.
I have been hiring IIT graduates and building a team in India for several years now. They are all really smart people with a strong work ethic, but their approach to work tends to be the same as the approach they needed to succeed in a test-based education system. The engineers will grind until any hour of the night to ensure that all feature requirements are met and JIRA tickets checked off, but nobody will stop to ask why things are being done a particular way, or offer up some alternative. When success is measured solely on hard metrics (e.g. ticket completion, bug reports), there isn't much emphasis placed on critical analysis or many of the "soft skills" referred to in the article.

I don't mean to say that IIT graduates lack creativity - there are many well-known examples to the contrary. My point is that an academic system where success is predicated on test-taking ability will produce great test-takers who function quite well as cogs in the machine. The system does not cultivate enough creative thinkers who can imagine the machines that have not yet been built.
I’ve also been using it and found it to be really good. Has helped me understand much more about containers and I’m a fan of its approach. Buildah is also a powerful tool.
If this Wuhan lab theory is correct, I think the wet markets play a huge role in the outbreak. They place a huge number of diverse, weakened, living animal in a relatively confined area. This seems to give an ideal breeding ground for a leaked virus - which perhaps can be incubated in a host species found at the wet market. Either the animals are in too poor of condition to notice the infection or they're a natural reservoir - eliciting no symptoms.

My understanding is most other countries don't have wet markets like China does. Even if a virus escapes, it may not have access to the hosts it needs truly become problematic.
Resistance is futile. You will be upgraded.
I'm not sure I follow. MIT and Caltech are very niche, but inside that niche, seem to have a pretty clear reputational advantage over Harvard. (Stanford, on the other hand, has some more niche overlap in CS at least.) Sadly, it's not a niche that lends itself to "future President prestige." But is that really hurting either MIT or Caltech, or their grads?
Trump never invoked the Defense Production Act.
I wouldn't feel that way. I'm one who did this for a while(at least, pre covid).

The fact is, they could offer you an amazing package that will change your mind. Or, they could offer you something you expect but know you wouldn't take. Both are OK.

I'd only think of it as a purposeful waste of time if for some reason you absolutely know you cannot take the job, regardless of anything.
It seems to just return the most popular sites

Mostly ignoring what is on the sites
The article that you linked, if anything, offers more support for a lab leak.

Chiefly, it says that there is evidence that not only did the virus NOT originate from an animal source in the seafood market, but they suggest that Chinese officials knew that it did NOT originate in the Market, yet they issued statements saying that it did anyway.
Note that very high levels of vitamin D supplements are possibly linked to reduction of volumetric bone density[0]. Low levels make sense given most people are more housebound during the pandemic.

[0]
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31454046/

"Conclusions and relevance: Among healthy adults, treatment with vitamin D for 3 years at a dose of 4000 IU per day or 10 000 IU per day, compared with 400 IU per day, resulted in statistically significant lower radial BMD; tibial BMD was significantly lower only with the 10 000 IU per day dose. There were no significant differences in bone strength at either the radius or tibia. These findings do not support a benefit of high-dose vitamin D supplementation for bone health; further research would be needed to determine whether it is harmful."
In other words, let our population continue to shrink.

Perfect for the "elite" who get to coast on trust funds while the unemployed poors die off.

Not so perfect when an outside force decides to declare war.
yeah, one of my professors would openly talk about how rich kids in grad school just pay other people to do their research for them. i don't think he meant to be demoralizing, but i remember thinking to myself 'so what the fuck am i doing here, then?'
The virus can be of a natural origin and still be leaked from a lab. Virology labs study copies of viruses regularly through various techniques (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gain_of_function_research). People keep conflating the possibility of an engineered virus with the possibility of a lab leak. They don't have to go together.

Furthermore, the WHO's own team admitted recently that they were simply not equipped to do any kind of forensic investigation of the lab (https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/world-health-organizat...):

> [Dominic Dwyer, a medical virologist at New South Wales Health Pathology in Sydney, Australia, and a member of the WHO team] says that the team didn’t see anything during its visits to suggest a lab accident. “Now, whether we were shown everything? You can never know. The group wasn’t designed to go and do a forensic examination of lab practice.”

Even if they were appropriately equipped for such an investigation, what's the use when China had blocked their visits until a year later, when they've had ample time to cover any evidence. The whole situation is highly suspicious, from the initial suppression of news reports of the virus, to delaying international lab visits, to the deletion of studies from that Wuhan lab (https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13701168/covid-cover-up-china-...).
I'm skeptical of acceptance rates, because the denominator is not controlled in any way. Maybe IIT's application fee is lower.
“The car is the cigarette of the future” (2013)
It looks like somebody was typing with one hand.

Pornhub isn't anymore since they removed all the unverified accounts' videos.
On the other hand, this is a high severity issue in security critical code that has had huge exploits in the past (heartbleed). This is the kind of security patch a good ops team is expecting and ready to handle at a moment's notice. It's far less annoying to do a Friday afternoon update than deal with active exploits all weekend.
That's horrible to hear, I was only able to get my first apartment in California since I could offer a double deposit.

Chicago on the other hand has fantastic housing supply and so many rules on security deposits, most buildings just don't do it. Access to housing permeates every aspect of a culture, people are significantly nicer when they can afford a place to live.

Has your friend been able to get out of California ?
As mentioned down-thread, LibreSSL patched a use-after-free just last week.
The feature releases don’t show up in GitLab’s RSS now... why not? Can’t find any way to subscribe to them.

13.9 didn’t appear and I had to go looking. 13.10 hasn’t either. Blog “news” posts, unfiltered and patch releases all show up in RSS... why aren’t the monthly releases being included anymore?
I don't see how this is related. I subscribe simultaneously to 'qualia is a real problem' and 'free will is an incoherent term'.

I think whether you think a perfect simulation of a person has subjective experiences depends on what you think the substrate of that subjectivity is. If you think of it as a computational property then you'll be inclined to say "no, that simulation is experiencing things". If you think it is some kind of fundamental property of the universe, like pan-psychism, then you'll think the simulation is 'missing' subjectivity. Nothing in there about free will in my thinking.
There are probably also ways of justifying a rental through a business expense vs personal assets. I know a few businesses that pay for living expenses for some of their top level corporate staff under certain circumstances.

I've seen it done as a job perk for certain positions which seems like a way of indirectly increasing total comp without increasing taxable income. I'm not rich enough to know all the tax laws and loopholes around this area though.
IEEE 1284 is what I remember when stocking the printer cables on peghooks.
Any idea when rustls will hit 1.0? I feel a little unsafe using a <1.0 library because (assuming it's following SemVer) as it might not be "done"/production ready and the API might change a lot before it hits 1.0.
This is a fair point. I'm also sick of hearing about unions complaining about this occupation not being vaccinated or this group with this health condition not being vaccinated first. If we expended all of the energy to somehow rate all of these competing factors we'd never be done.
The Ever-Growing Challenges of Getting Books into Prisons
Viruses may be formed in nature, but we've been dealing with that for all of our evolutionary history. Gain of function experiments are new and introduce much greater dangers.
The trick would be coming up with an exam you can't study for. But even "IQ test" style stuff hasn't been immune to this, and many attempts to do so fall victim to "select for people with upbringing like the test authors, so actually they did study their whole life, they just didn't realize that's what they were doing."

Job interviews would benefit from the same thing, to go by the self-reported amount of time wasted on leetcode around here.
Like the one OpenSSL is being compiled with?
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You're not alone with that thinking:

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

The problem is basically the welfare state, which requires a huge tax system/burden to support, and encourages 'welfare tourism'.

Dropping all welfare for non-citizens, setting a minimum lifetime income tax paid to receive citizenship (eg. €100,000) refusing further immigration from troublesome nations and actually deporting those already there, as well as raising the retirement age to 70 - and with the savings eliminating payroll tax and cutting VAT to 16% (the legal minimum) across the bloc - are the necessary solutions.

The other issue is land taxation - in many countries eg. Britain, Spain, huge land areas are still owned by basically the aristocracy, who receive EU farm subsidies and pay little in the way of land taxation.
> For example, there were cases as early as December 2019 that did not come from Wuhan.

No.

This isn't deducible from the article YOU linked!

Not having a link to the seafood marketplace in Wuhan != originating from outside Wuhan.

> The paper, written by a large group of Chinese researchers

> Their data also show that, in total, 13 of the 41 cases had no link to the marketplace.

> the virus possibly spread silently between people in Wuhan—and perhaps elsewhere—before the cluster of cases from the city’s now-infamous Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was discovered in late December.
Requires macOS 10.15 Catalina or later. Is that really necessary?
AZ sub-licensed it (Oxford required it of them; possibly why Merck aren't involved, but I could easily be wrong on that). AZ have committed to 3 billion doses non-profit and state they have production sites in 15 countries.

It is also available under other names, for example the world's largest producer of vaccines is the Serum Institute of India, and they are making a Covishield branded version of it (they are aiming, I think, for around 900 million doses).
It already is written in KavaScript for large parts. However Firefox/Gecko deprecated the XUL UI system, which is used by Thunderbird, so they have to swap the UI toolkit to something else.
To be fair, Java’s memory model was also pretty broken for several years.
This is a misunderstanding, as incidentally is the claim that the UK contract was signed three months earlier, because in both cases there is the assumption that there is "a" contract and no money flowed or contractual obligations were created before then. The reality is that in both cases, memoranda of understanding, investment agreements, and all sorts of other documents also exist and in some cases were signed earlier. In particular, there were agreements first with Oxford and then with AZ to start scaling capacity very early and even before the notional purchase contract signature in May (that's the one that was later superseded at the same time as the final EU contract was signed).

So it is simultaneously true that they signed a contract within a few days of each other, but also not quite the full picture.
I'd like to see lower fees
> Can't believe that, in God's year 2021, 3rd millennia, Earth, 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.

I suppose the flip side of this view is just how easy it is to underestimate what a truly enormous amount of work it would take to completely reimplement all these 'chainsaw juggling feats' that are used all over the place, day in and day out.
This is a great article explaining why a lab leak should always be a suspect. The alternative theory is that a virus traveled on its own (via bats or other animals) from bat caves 900km away to Wuhan where there are 2 labs researching bats. One of the labs is lesser known but is right next to the seafood market and the hospital where the outbreak was first known. [1]

This article points out that a lab outbreak could have happened in the United States and many places in the world. We need to avoid demonizing China over this if we want to ever find out the truth and learn how to prevent another pandemic outbreak.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200214144447/https://www.resea...
Viruses behave very differently in different species. For example, I think ebola can be airborne in pigs because it binds to receptors in pig lung cells and is more of a respiratory disease for them. It doesn't have a great affinity to human lung cells however so it's NOT airborne in humans.
> For example, in code: good naming, simple structure, unit tests, and useful comments all can count. A set of easy-to-understand unit tests that cover real scenarios is much better than even the greatest documentation ever written.

1. Naming things is hard. It's a bit of a joke but good descriptive yet usable naming is hard. It can get harder after refactoring or adding in features you didn't expect the last time you were in the module.

2. Project structures start out simple. Then you need to add some feature or fix some major issue with a due date of last week. As a project gets bigger the simple structure of yesterday might not serve the needs of today. Resources for refactoring are usually somewhere around the priority level of "Good Documentation".

3. Comments need maintenance like explicit documentation. Tight schedules lead to "# TODO add documentation here". Then you get the assholes that believe comments or in-line documentation is something you put in check in notes.

4. A "unit test" that covers a "real scenario" is not a damned unit test. It's an integration test (or however you label it) and it's not likely something your CI/CD system can run on the regular. If a real scenario is touching a production-load DB or something it's a big deal to run the test. Tests like that need resources to run and non-trivial resources to write. You're not just making sure a method returns a float or throws an error correctly.

I'm not saying your suggestions are bad or shouldn't be used. The issue is management rarely sees any value with documentation, tests, or even code cleanliness. They're rarely incentivized to care about those things so they don't. They get their bonus on feature checkboxes or hitting a deadline. At the end of a project they'll schedule a "documentation" sprint or some dumbass thing that accomplished little useful output. It's worse when you've got a "move fast break things" chanting moron doing the scheduling.
The cost of insulin is not the only expense diabetics face. I have a Freestyle Libre Continuous Glucose monitor. Instead of finger sticks to put a drop of blood into a monitor, I have a sensor attached to my arm, and a reader that can read glucose levels by swiping the reader over the sensor as often as I want. When I was doing finger sticks, I was testing glucose approximately four times a day. Now that I have the CGM I test approximately 20 time a day. The improvement in my glucose control is significant.

I have Medicare and supplemental insurance, so my costs are all covered. If I didn't have insurance the uninsured cost of sensors used to be $350 every four weeks. Late last year the uninsured cost went up to $1074 every four weeks. This is just my most visible awareness of how badly healthcare in the United States is broken.
don't get me started on title insurance
There's a recent episode of Joe Rogan podcast (#1616) with Jamie Metzl that goes quite deep in this very topic: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7aitKgecZ0fPKjT15no5jU?si=h...

He's also published a blog post titled "Origins of SARS-CoV-2" on his Web site: https://jamiemetzl.com/origins-of-sars-cov-2/
They’re not using single-dose vaccines. But they are prioritizing (getting the first dose into as many people as possible) over (getting everybody who had the first dose their second dose the exact number of days later).
I am on a spectrum, so there you go... Thank you
Outside the Store, most Mac software uses Sparkle for updates, which gives you a nice UI with patchnotes and a choice to update or not (or even opt-in to automatic updates if you're feeling brave): https://sparkle-project.org/
The difference is easy. It’s an aerosol. Known leaks from biological weapons programs are mostly things like anthrax.

That also makes the biological warfare scenario less likely — armies like to control where the bomb goes.

The other factor to discount this conjecture is that if you hear about covid as a biological weapon, it’s less likely to be true as it would potentially expose research in other places. If China is doing this, the US, Russia and others are too.
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For some reason though it's okay to refer to the "British variant", or the "South African variant", or the "Brazilian variant".
Where they ever responsible for .io too?

I hate how I paid for o1.io and their system failed on me. Poorly designed system, and they ignored my attempts to get support. Many weeks later they reverted my transaction with PayPal and eventually announced the domain was 10k pounds. Damn it!
Please don't upgrade ANYTHING without asking first.

I am NOT your beta-tester.
Ooh thanks! I'll throw that on the list!
> exacerbates this problem

To clarify, the problem you're talking about is that it's risky to be a landlord, and maybe more so now than a few years ago.

> as landlords adjust the only lever they have left

At least some landlords also have the option of pulling the lever labeled "sell the unit".
The league of being safe, without use after free, letting the developer focus on productivity, while providing the language features to do C style programming when required.
Falling population leads to cheaper housing, higher wages, less congestion for government services and infrastructure.

More affordable housing is a major factor in fertility rates, so eventually the population just finds a stable equilibrium.

Increasing population leads to the opposite - the elites are the ones pushing for mass-immigration, since they benefit from rising land prices and lower wages.