skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My impression is that China and China influenced corporate press in the US conflated "lab escape" with "deliberate release" so as to be able to demonize anyone who was asking serious questions. This is a pretty standard propaganda move, pretend the accuser said something that is adjacent to the real accusation but also relatively absurd, then argue against that. Never address the serious accusation.

Another example of this happening is the corporate press conflating "lab created" with "gene editing" instead of using the broader interpretation which would include things like "gain of function research" (much more likely). This allowed China and the WHO to explicitly claim they did not create the virus (by gene editing) while cautiously never really addressing whether it was created via gain of function research.
I feel like this article conflates a few things, or perhaps I'm seeing through my own biased lens... but...

In my experience, most managers are clueless about employee morale and whether they are looking to leave, unrelated to the pandemic conditions. I can see how this would be exacerbated today, but I would be surprised if this wasn't always true both across the board and especially for newer employees, women, and minorities out of desire of "not wanting to complain" if they see their position as somehow riskier to begin with.

That said, as someone who has worked from home 100% previously, I predicted the barriers with work time would break down. My colleagues initially applauded being able to work from home with almost a sense of disbelief, and for a couple of months, all of the routine problems people had kind of faded away.

I think there was a sense of gratitude from management that ANY work at all could be done like this, considering how un-trusting of work from home they were. And we were happy to finally be given some trust.

But now? All the "old" problems from the office are catching back up to us, the gratitude on both sides is waning, and IMO because there's less "water cooler" commiserating, people are "suffering in silence" more with less of an outlet.
I'll have a go:
obscene profits for arms traders;
industrial activity for the hangers-on;
corraling votes for the wartime polieticians.
There are multiple Android clients. I think in the past there was an iOS client, not sure what the current status is.
oddly, I somewhat agree with your position but in a reversed way.

> There are of course outliers who can spend indefinite days just binge-watching TV happy as a clam. But most of us are wired like border collies. If we don't have a herd to take care of some real reason to get out of bed in the morning, we go crazy.

I don't think these are outliers, I think these are a surprising majority. It's the classic bread and circuses or Soma concept: as long as people are fed a steady supply of moderate entertainment and material enjoyment, they are content to idle. And I would go further and say that you somewhat contradict your earlier position, which to me came across as being interested in solving problems and improving the world, not just your family/tribe.

I would also point out that binge-watching TV is different from creating music, never to produce it. Kafka created amazing works that he specifically wanted destroyed. So from my perspective it's unclear if you look down on anything that isn't sacrifice for someone else's gain (external reward), created for sharing with others (external reward), or engaging with others (external reward). I'm not sure where you get your data that most humans are like border collies, but at least based on your comments it seems like you really value socially-based activities, so you may be overlooking the many others who don't need social interaction or external reward/response to find meaning and fulfillment.
We have plenty of other successful interoperable standards. HEVC. Wifi. Even Javascript. Sure, perhaps bureaucracy has caused them to move more slowly than they could, but on the whole these forums produce good technologies.

I'd offer an alternative explanation for why we haven't seen interoperable communication software—because proprietary systems make more money.
"This above all: to thine own self be true"
I'm not saying that Baker was or wasn't overpaid, but people certainly did complain about it. "How can you ask me to donate money when Baker's making six figures?" It came up constantly during Mozilla's layoffs last year.

For better or worse, it just "looks bad" when a non-profit executive makes a seven figure salary. And when people ask "could we set up an ombuds/ethics committee/advisory board to prevent Mozilla from doing this?" The answer is the same: no, that wouldn't really work.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/magazine/veterans-ptsd-dr...
> Also there is no ABI so you cannot use anything like a native DLL.

Pretty sure this isn't the case with Kotlin Native[1].

[1] https://kotlinlang.org/docs/native-dynamic-libraries.html
Yeah, honestly it feels like it’s something that shouldn’t exist. They just put together features that make sense and just should be there naturally and you don’t have to come up with some crazy schemes to use it or learn 20 PM patterns or get into the heads of their designers. It seems as simple as a Todo list that you’d use for convenience but has everything you would need for crazy PM work.

It’s the first PM app I am actually recommending to people, and we tried so many. Every single one has been just a “lesser evil”.

I am in no way affiliated with ClickUp. I just hope they don’t overmonetize or something like that.
If the house even still exists and is in a desirable part of town in a desirable city, then yes it will certainly commend a premium. Though often as much for its location as for any other reason.

But consider also that in 1900, the population of the US was less than a quarter of what it is now, and also that the number of people per household is much less. Also, a lot (probably most) houses that existed in 1900 don't even exist any more. So in reality there are relatively few houses that old that are still available today.
Well that would be sad.

Discord is so much better than Teams. I hope they don't integrate it with the Microsoft stack.
Docker runner performance is horrible.
By using ssh runner which runs exactly the same docker command I save 7 seconds each time.

Thid leeds to many hacks to get performance needed (jobs are merged in one big one for example). With many smaller jobs some pipelines run sometimes up to 50% slower than ssh + docker.

Also built-in caching is painfully slow. Our self hosted minio instance as custom cache is 10 times faster than Gitlab's local cache and this is absurd.

These are 2 main speed issues with me.
As code reviewer large diff bad performance would be the 3rd issue. It lags even with my beefy workstation. Maybe adding JS functionality is needed for files in current viewport? I don't need syntax highlight and comments options on all 100 files at the same time but I want an option to scroll down and this functionality on currently viewed files
Yikes I couldn't disagree with this harder. Design by committee is a dumpster fire 99% of the time. Even "Mythical Man Month" discusses the importance of a top down design for software systems.
Am I supposed to forget that the vast majority of companies find me unhireable?
IDK,

"for ch in index:"

reads pretty cleanly to me.
Let's not kid ourselves - a lot of art transactions simply facilitate money-laundering.
As good as ZFS is, are people relying on ZFS replication for all of their redundancy and backups? Is that a good idea in terms of risk mitigation?

When I set up backups for my home lab server, I opted to go with Borg + Borgmatic + BorgBase for backups. I already use Sanoid + Syncoid for local snapshots and replication, so I was hesitant to rely on ZFS replication for offsite backups too.

Instead, I use Borgmatic hooks to link the most current Sanoid snapshot to a well known location, run my backups to BorgBase, and delete the link. I'm still relying on ZFS snapshots, but the backups, versioning, pruning, etc. are a completely different system than the local replication.

I'm also not a fan of the full + incremental strategy for backups since I think it encourages long increment chains.
If SpaceX paid more than Google, then it would be evidence more people find working for an advertising conglomerate fulfilling than sending rockets! to! Mars!

If you want to make easy money, you need to find something that is (or appears to be) one or more of evil, dull, embarrassing, pointless, or incomprehensible.
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There's been a number of very short transmission chains. One of the things that's difficult for infectious diseases is that they have extremely long-tailed distributions. "This has happened before, and it got a couple people sick" is a distinct possibility. It also happens relatively frequently with diseases that have a lower pandemic potential than a coronavirus.

So the answer to "What makes COVID special?" is possibly "We failed our pandemic save."

I did some research during the early stages of the West African Ebola epidemic, when a lot of people were asking why, instead of the usual sporadic, self-limiting outbreaks of the past, we were seeing something larger and different. As it turns out, if you use the parameters people estimated from the older, smaller outbreaks, there's a small but not breathtakingly so probability of a very large epidemic. It's sort of the null hypothesis for pandemics.
Mixer never dominated its field, it was one of many smaller competitors trying to take on Twitch but was never really that popular.

While Discord is like the Twitch of its market: The most popular choice and with their specific feature set they don't even have any real competition.
I'm not asking a question.
The WHO won't recognize Taiwan. I highly doubt they will do that.
It also has incredibly low latency, which I've found makes a huge difference to conversation quality.
Dark times.
> Stock markets exist so that companies can raise money to fund their projects

The amount of money corporate America raises from initial and secondary offerings in the stock market is negligible relative to corporate bonds, lines of credit, bank loans etc. Companies don't raise money from the stock market in any real sense. It has been this way since World War II (and possibly before).
Things that are real can be touched and experienced. Original works of art are valued because they evoke a connection to the artist. A studio recording usually sounds better than a live rendition, but people go to concerts because they want to feel a connection with the artist and the process of the art.

NFTs aren't that. They're an empty abstraction; a hollow wisp of digital chattel representing nothing. NFTs are just gaudy cash grabs and a mockery of art in any form.
> The Economist ... rarely editorialize their articles.

What? The Economist is almost entirely editorials. The only difference between it and other editorial-only publications like Foreign Affairs is that the authors' names are deliberately removed to give the paper a sense of speaking with "one collective voice". Every article subheading is an opinion, and ends with a paragraph firmly staking out a position. The writing may be eloquent, and the graphs pretty, but the result is a publication that heavily editorializes, while lacking any debate or diversity of thought.

Examples from current issue:

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/03/20/bidens-muddle-o...

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/03/18/how-europes-vac...

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2020/09/03/...
He can continue broadcasting being an asshole with shitty views, but if he also serves on a board of directors (exec director or not) that board and the organizations it represents and partners with are now all broadcasting a distilled, more virulent form of that message. Its not cancel culture its just his fucking time.
I believe there was a law passed regarding this, and people are still repeating that politicians are exempt since before it existed.

I'm not saying there's no loophole, but I'm pretty sure there is now a law.
But they support Stripe, who is just as arbitrary as PayPal and will block payments based on ideological grounds:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/stripes-ban-on-trump-campaign-i...
...yes?

In fact I don't see anything that's the same as real art.

Real physical art is unique in the vast majority of cases and NFT's do literally nothing to authenticate a physical object anyways.
Moreover, in a highly correlated world it is unsurprising that institutional investors are eager for less correlated sources of return. The problem is actually finding it: as an allocator you are being adversely selected against. If a hedge fund is willing to take your money, we'll maybe it isn't that great of an opportunity after all.
I suppose the main point I was trying to convey is that the code snippet gopalv quoted is not ugly because it's C-like. That ternary expression doesn't appear in the original C++ implementation at all. Many of the things people are complaining about—like relying on the return value of a prefix increment—are only in the Java version.
The AI doesn't need to actually control anything. It could just work as an advisor.
> very good security through plugins

How do you evaluate this?
I've described SARS-CoV-2 as an RPG character who shows up to a session with a stat block you'd describe as "Okay", and then in the first encounter, you realize everything lines up well for a scary rules interaction.

It's not exceptional in many of the ways viruses can be. It's not as deadly as Ebola. Or as durable as Norovirus. Or as transmissible as Measles. It's just...really good at its job.

The lack of fomite transmission for SARS-CoV-2 has saved a lot of healthcare workers.
And if the artist sells their art as an NFT? There's some aspects of performance, and some aspects of process, and a lot of aspects of connection.
Just launched. What a feeling.
I am disappointed there are no Russian hackers in this conspiracy
I don't think free will is an illusion. Rather, I think it's complete nonsense. If we are completely deterministic, then the only way we can operate is deterministic.

Now, if you're talking about agency. That's a bit different.

We believing in awareness

I don't think your answers suffice. Clearly, there's an operational definition of awareness as defined by outside observers. We can test if a person is aware or distinguish colors and even determine if ability to perceive colors remain the same across test subjects but we have no idea on how to access the subjective experience.

Really, I don't think your explanation explains anything.
And do what with it? Shoddy PMs to add Skype/Teams integration or dump Teams all together?
There are better alternatives that respect user privacy and freedom, i.e. that actively encourage alternative clients instead of banning people for using them over bloated electron garbage.
To be nonsense it would need to also not have happened in practice. The UK and the US have not exported the vaccines and kept them all for themselves. This is fact not nonsense.
Direct link to the guidance itself:
https://media.defense.gov/2021/Feb/25/2002588479/-1/-1/0/CSI...

Is surprisingly easy to read (for the NSA anyway).
Or sharing needles! There's a small outbreak in Newark of injection drug users that's one of my favorite "Weird epidemiology papers" for journal clubs.
Over the last year there seemed to have been such an outright refusal on the part of relevant sections of the scientific community to countenance the possibility that this virus had leaked from a lab which had been conducting Gain of Function research into bat coronaviruses that I got the impression this must have been motivated by fear that it could lead to political strife, including war, or that it might result in sweeping new restrictions and funding cuts to particular types of research.

I think that people can easily develop a misplaced sense of humanitarian responsibility where they are under the impression that they are called to serve a higher purpose and that they feel as though they are beholden to use their power and influence to prioritise (for instance) pacifism and internationalism above the public search for knowledge, where these have the potential to conflict. There can also be a sense in which the scientific establishment pursues its own independent, technocratic public policy. We have seen the huge amount of political power and influence wielded by high-ranking members of the scientific establishment, and no doubt the stakes were raised for this by the fact that it was an election year.
You're thinking of Paul Phillips https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=paul+philips+sc...
The market corrected around Q1/Q2 last year and this is one of the events which causes hedgies profits to soar.
An accessible (or at least a no-js) way to expose a menu on click would be to use a checkbox, the :checked state in CSS, and a label element for the actual click handler.

It's a semantic html nightmare but it works.
I've been building computers since the turn of the milennium and I've always heard them called molex connectors

So... informed? To who? Professional engineers?
I don't know enough to say if GOF has provided enough 'value' but I do know that there is no way china, the US military, etc would allow a 3rd party to inspect their labs lol.

The article of this post talks a lot about how we do have inspections in the US, and that the inspectors are often the same department as the lab!

To be better it seems like we need some damn strong consequences & a regulatory power that can't be overruled.
It was mostly an ad hoc CBT approach. I spent more time introspecting my motivations, and if I decided I was doing something mainly for ego gratification, I'd stop. At first, that left very little. As I said earlier, programming was out, also most gaming and working out, watching sports, pretty much anything that generated dopamine. I spent a huge amount of time listening to comedy podcasts, and the rest reading. Eventually, though, a big positive was opening up more mental space for my partner, whom I'm sad to say I neglected pretty badly during my working days. After that, I spent more time with a local community group, and, yes, puttering around the house making home improvements.

I actually did try joining a meditation group, but I had a very bad time. I have a loud and constant inner monologue, but when I calmed my thoughts, all I experienced was primal negative emotion. Some mixture of shame and terror. I don't mean this literally, but it felt like a demon was trying to posses my mind. The instructor was a very nice person, but not a professional, so maybe I could have had a better time with a better guide.

Finally, I've stopped trying so hard to suppress my ego. I'm very curious what living in a society that supports low ego would be like, but the one I live in doesn't. Ego has many used (especially in a corporate setting, it's a tremendous asset), and the experiences of ego and dopamine are part of the richness of life, even if, when viewed at a society level, they often seem so dysfunctional and defector-ish.
According to Steven Sinofsky, MFC being a thin wrapper around the underlying MFC was a deliberate design decision during its development. https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/010-our-bi...

In retrospect, do you feel it was it a bad idea to not use a heavier abstraction?
I won't begrudge an artist for getting paid, but an NFT is not art, it's not a process, it's just worthless CPU cycles with no inherent connection to the art. This is why one can effortlessly create an NFT for anything, it's a distributed read-only text file that can contain arbitrary text.
I grew up in an economy where it was. When I was born, we were living in a 4-people, 3-generational, ~500sqft 1.5 room flat (the large kitchen was subdivided to make a tiny bedroom); later, the govt decided that we deserve better and I ended up growing up in a 4-people, 2-generational, ~650sqft 2-room flat. I wonder what my parents, two engineers, would have been able to afford in the USA?

I think I had a very happy childhood but comparing these things kinda allows you to reflect. Interestingly, the low standards stick; when we bought a small 1100sqft house with my wife (in the USA), some of my friends back in Russia were like "oh, a big house, are you planning for kids?" ;)
Gee I don't know.. maybe going 100 years back with the Spanish Flu? West Nile virus, Zika virus, Ebola.. all those are okay but saying Wuhan virus is considered racist.
Many many years ago I once made a $6900 payment on a $69 internet bill because of a misplaced decimal point, with no confirmation before the amount was debited from my bank account. Definitely partly my fault for missing it, but they also didn’t design that payment flow to stop it from happening or even to autofill the correct payment amount.

(I was super unlucky that it happened when I’d just received a big performance bonus, or the bank would have simply declined the transaction outright due to me not having anything remotely like that much money in my accounts)

It took a surprising number of customer service calls (and then weeks) to get that payment refunded. And more than once I had to explain to a service rep that no, I didn’t want to just leave my internet service account balance thousands of dollars in credit so I wouldn’t need to pay the monthly bill for the next decade. I mean, obviously.

Making rent was kind of challenging that month.
I can't speak to cultural DNA. But I guess we could test it by looking at kids who at a young age moved to a different country and whether that cultural DNA sticks.

As I mentioned elsewhere, I think the media and entertainment have a hand in this and the establishment does not care --they want cheap labor. So on the one hand it's Fast Times at Ridgemont High, on the other we big tech and others want American kids to be dedicated to study like Chinese or Indian kids.

Movies and Media pretty much indoctrinate kids to be carefree and do what you want without consequences. (If media had no influence on people, people would not call for diversity in role models, etc)
http://archive.is/FKti2
The existence of a secondary market with lots of liquidity gives people the confidence to invest in IPOs. There would be a lot fewer participants if there was no secondary market.
The US Military has a policy that a human must be in the loop for every weapons firing in order for to avoid this very moral hazard.
In a sense, yes. The trick is to analyze the event (i.e. the attempt and the failure) to learn lessons for improvement and not allow it to be a reflection and definition of you. Are you applying for the wrong type of jobs, are you preparing for the interview properly, how do you distinguish yourself from the crowd, are your expectations too high, are you willing to settle for lower pay, are you networking properly etc. etc. are all parameters which you can tune to give yourself an edge. You have to learn to "Hustle" (not meant in a pejorative way).
Hopefully. Minecraft is another example of something they didn’t abjectly fuck up. It’s possible for them to do the right thing.

From what I see over my spawn’s shoulders, Discord is substantially better than Slack. Hope they don’t kill Discord with enterpriseyness and keep it more on the gamer side.
I think both articles kind of miss the point: people aren't usually allocating to hedge funds in order to earn monster return. I mean that would be nice as well, but if a hedge fund delivered about the same returns as the market net of fees but with lower volatility and/or correlation, people would be happy with that as well.
This is an earnest question for the record.