skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of modern designs have flat controls with no tactile cues that renders them unusable for the blind. Being able to connect with an app using VoiceOver makes the device accessible.
What an absurd comparison. This only tells me that being killed in a mass shooting is very very very unlikely which is in fact true. But being killed by police is also very very very unlikely in fact its de facto zero if you aren't a criminal/drug abuser and comply with police orders.
Profiting from the Global Financial Crisis: Michael J Burry (2011)
The space shuttle was safe and saved money - until we had actual data regarding it's performance.

We need to understand the actual risk associated with these labs. One mitigation I can think of right now would be to build the labs in very remote locations, and require anyone leaving to isolate themselves for a month to check for disease. But no measures of that severity will be undertaken without evidence supporting the risks.
The problem is not the practice of home ownership, it is the _policy_ of massively subsidising home ownership through regulations and tax breaks, while also isolating it from actual market forces such as by blocking increased supply. The article is specifically arguing against those policies, not home ownership itself. If you want to own property because you believe in free market capitalism that's fine, I happen to also own my own home, but the current home ownership system in much of the West is a government created stitch up. I'm lucky to have benefited from it, but my children will suffer.

The 'they' you rail against who are amassing properties as massively subsidised wealth accumulators are exactly who this article is arguing against. Deregulate, open up the markets and let people decide on their investments of choice in a competitive environment. Are you really arguing that?
The thing is--and I'm not saying you specifically--but worrying about a place losing "its historical roots and what makes it that special idyllic mountain town in the first place" inevitably has to go hand in hand with strong NIMBY policies. Which isn't even "wrong" in any absolute sense whatever the growth at all costs crowd here may want.

Though, really, not even that helps because towns can't actually (or really want to in general) arbitrarily prevent outsiders from moving in. So a desirable location just ends up with a different group of people with the money to purchase existing housing.
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I live in this area and I definitely think the terrain here was a contributing factor. It would not take 15 seconds of hands off the wheel to have an accident. It would take 2-3 seconds.

The Woodlands is not your typical residential area. It was carved out of two old lumber mills with the intent of keeping as many trees as possible, hence lots of curves, small roads, and trees alongside them. At the time it was built (by an oil wildcatter who was worried about urbanization's impact on his family), The Woodlands was the largest master planned community in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woodlands%2C_Texas

Also, a recent video made after the crash shows Autopilot can be activated without lane markings: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26870417

Finally, local police here reported that the couple's spouses said the two men, aged 58 and 68, were talking about the Autopilot before they left on the drive and were excited about trying the features...
Yeah I've said before, there is not falsifiability to the claim a lab released this virus, so all of these conversations come across as insincere.

As a thought experiment, imagine that outbreak did start from a lab accident. Say they collected a sample originated from nature, then had an a accident with it.

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Now how do you prove that this didn't happen?

The virus will have no indication of being man-made (it's not) so you get to wave off scientists who are telling you it's not man-made.

The lab will never admit that there was an accident because of how many layers of pressure there are to never admit this (not just from a high level, but from individuals who don't want to be "responsible" for a global pandemic).

So you get to wave off their claims of innocence too.

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You're essentially saying you don't accept proof this didn't happen, but you want proof it did... without falsifiability that "proof" will never be anything scientifically sound.

It's like if a child says you have cooties (the imaginary ones, not a louse). You can't prove them wrong because cooties don't exist and the definition is in their hands (you: I can check with a microscope; child: They're completely invisible and too small for that).

No logic will ever counter their claim, the only responses are emotional. Accepting that you do have them and move on, or stoically choosing not to engage.
Agreed, being from a city is a replacement for a personality for some. If you've ever met someone from NYC you know it because they tell you about it within 2 minutes of meeting them.
nobody generally feels like an economic parasite.
> It's not like "going round the world" is even well defined either - you could just walk in a circle around one of the poles.

The traditional answer to that is that you have to pass through a pair of antipodal points.

> Thing is, are you doing it because it's an amazing experience, or because you want to have satisfied some arbitrary criteria?

I find having a goal makes for a more fulfilling experience, and can help me push myself a bit further than I would otherwise. I'm planning to ride around Shikoku starting in about a week, and I'm glad there's an official organisation with a set of rules to follow for that (collect stamps at these given places).

Every version of "cycling around the world" I've heard seems a bit unsatisfying somehow. To the point that I think maybe aiming for Shanghai-Paris or similar might be more fun.

> And quite frankly, if you manage to pass through every line of longitude while lugging a bicycle the whole way, I don't give two hoots how many boat rides it took. That's heroic.

It really isn't though. If you take that challenge literally, you can just book a cruise ship and take a folding bicycle along.
Judging from my todo list, some of the items will still be undone by the time future generations roll around.
Population is going down in the developed world. The housing supply is not. If you can't afford housing where you live, then it can only be because more people are demanding housing where you live, having left where they were previously living.

The solution to the "problem of home ownership" is to stop making areas undesirable places to live. Portland springs to mind but there's San Fran. NYC, L.A. but it's not just the Big Blue cities in the US and elsewhere, it's nations run by totalitarians everywhere.

The solution is to export prosperity around the world. Then we can all enjoy the benefits of the developed world's population crash which translates into cheaper housing, amongst other things, both good and bad.

Since The Economist is looking everywhere for the West's biggest mistake, today's their lucky day, I happen to have it right here.

The West should have demanded of China and every other non-democratic regime in the world, as a condition of receiving manufacturing and industries and the privilege of importing their products duty-free, that they liberalize their political systems in ways which are hard to reverse.

This had the power to transform regions from Mexico and Central America to China.

We could have created a schedule of increasingly substantive requirements composed of democratic institutions, free speech and political assembly, (truly) free markets and anti-corruption metrics which had to be met in order to benefit from trade with the West. But we didn't.

We didn't because a small group of industry beneficiaries made small and large fortunes by outsourcing the West's industrialization. They leveraged the lack of environmental and labor standards endured by the world's poor, living under corrupt and totalitarian regimes, to lower the cost of goods sold then sell back into the first world at first world prices.

That's what the elite have been doing since Clinton gave China MFN status and even before.

Now no one in the West can afford the most basic thing every mammal requires- a place of their own. A home. A burrow. A nest. A place to which they can retreat, which they can control and experience sheer animal comfort and safety. Now even that has to go to satiate the boundless greed of our elites.

The only thing left for them to come after is reproduction. We should probably also start thinking about turning our mates over to them, since they can provide for them better than we can.
I don't think it matters much. Comparing which rare event is more likely is still a toss up. But I am curious:

What kind of stats do we have on BL4 lab leaks historically? Or that lab in particular?

Is there validity to the state department claim that the lab reported flu like symptoms in its scientists months prior to COVID breaking out? Or is that trump admin bluster?
Having just been to Santa Fe, I am wondering if only poor education and water shortages keep it from being a remote work magnet.
Ask HN: I have accepted an offer in a reputed company. I am shit scared
So after working as a DevOps/SRE, in a small-scale company for a few years. I finally cracked the interview rounds and have accepted an offer from one of the biggest CDN companies on the planet.

But I am really really scared now. I feel like all the work I did was very very minuscule and my experience won't be sufficient to survive a company like this. I can use your help guys. If you have worked with companies of similar size and scale, can you please tell me how was your experience? What are the key differences between working with big companies and small companies?
"We" need to know the origin in order to put regulations in place to reduce the likelihood of future pandemics. Many existing health regulations are in place simply to reduce the spread of infectious disease, may that be to protect producers or to protect consumers. For example: it is a big part of the reason why live markets are scarce, if not non-existent, in many nations. It is why we hear of herds of livestock being destroyed when there is a single infection on farms. It is why laboratories that infect these diseases are very much restricted in what and how they conduct their research.

I stuck "we" in quotes since I too am concerned that people may interpret this is a blame game. It is far more important to have regulations in place to reduce the likelihood of this happening again than it is to hold anyone accountable. We, the public, don't need to know the actual source in this context. On the other hand, regulators probably do.
For anyone interested in following current development on Shadow, we've been publishing a series of updates. Most recent: https://github.com/shadow/shadow/discussions/1274

The previous update has links back to the whole series; I stopped including it in the most-recent update since it was getting a bit cumbersome: https://github.com/shadow/shadow/discussions/1060
Would it work with server side rendering?

Usually there would be a problem importing/defining things from static files like that as this would be shared within the server between instances of renderings.
I agree with this sentiment in cities, however, I believe that this approach in the mountains would result in skyscrapers being built in areas of natural beauty, and be harmful to all of the wildlife that live there. The Eagle (Vail) Valley is relatively small to begin with.
Where'd you get that context from?
When Robots Have Feelings
I don't build microservices anymore. All of the reasons listed in this thread tend to cause bottlnecks. I aim for domain services. Define your domains, and build a program to service it.
makho has a video on the power usage of the EZ Flash Omega DE versus some other flash carts.[1] He's also put together a spreadsheet with his results.[2] Essentially the EverDrive would result in a runtime about 90% of an original cart, with the EZ Flash Omega DE coming in at 80%. The original EZ Flash Omega would last about 70% of the time of an OEM game.

[1] https://youtu.be/HrGTzSrdCyA

[2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1baIDOZlUjERhOsmc...
But at least you know, or at least someone can try to find out ... that we can’t is not an excuse to say we should not. The whole debate is crazy in the sense we can talk talk talk. But you can have a country that is likely the source of the virus not investigated. And running vaccination that is not helping the countries that use it (chile ...).

It is all fine. Human race who care.
That's simply not true at all. There are beneficial viruses, but that isn't my point to begin with. My point is that viruses are unavoidable. That being the case you want to experience many endemic viruses to boost your immunity rather than a once a decade pandemic inducing virus.
Can Nuclear Propulsion Take Us to Mars?
> pause button

All it does is play a sample of a metal door squeaking open, apply a lowpass, and add ambient chatter of the back alley smokers.
There is a show called South Park where the two hunters find something they want to shoot (usually off season) and right before they shoot, they yell, "It's coming straight for us!" The animal, usually just grazing, looks up and has an expression like, WTF? The hunters use this tactic to get around hunting laws.

>Police is killing people because that's exactly what you expect of the police whenever policeman feels he's threatened.

This South Park skit reminds me of when police say, "I felt threatened."
I think it would be better if the website provided information on pricing. Also, for HN, a Chrome-only extension is a hard sell. Perhaps a Firefox add-on is in the works.
Push to master -> jenkins runs linting, tests, applies migration (or fail, requiring manual intervention), build sdocker image, k8s deploys to canary, monitors canary for a bit for errors, k8s deploys to production, tags docker image, notifies slack.

In the past, instead of canary, we used a staging environment with manual promotion. That was costing us a cool half a million in AWS overpriced machines (but we were committed to spend a certain amount of money per year in exchange for discounts, so it's hard to price things) and it was doubling the testing process (promote to staging, test, promote to prod, test). We have been bitten by issues happening in production and not in staging. With the canary, prod only approach we have higher risks of messing up with real data but we have safeguards in place and the canary approach means that a small portion of the users will see problems. We also have the option to deploy to a canary for devs only.

I'm not happy about using / running / maintaining jenkins (terrible UI, upgrade path, API to add plugins, etc) but it does the job and it improved a fair bit over the last 5 years. Jenkinsfile are especially nice, even though not being able to easily run them locally is a bit annoying.
> There is nothing wrong with passive income. Owning shares or bonds, or having a bank deposit is also "doing nothing" yet no one would blame anyone for it.

The wrong part is that having passive income of that kind is a privilege that only few can reach, and it works by squeezing the rest. It isn't possible for everybody to have such passive income.
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Yes, even better mount it ro from fstab.
Just had a look at the site - https://www.ryojiikeda.com/

Good luck reading any of that.

Setting your font size to 9px or whatever is not how you increase information density.

That's just bad usability.
This is straight up dystopian. Why hide this information?
Deno exists, I guess
Cat6a supports 10gbps. That should be good enough for the foreseeable future. Fiber is significantly more difficult to pull through the wall since it is more fragile.
It just work, it is easy to deploy and easy to write plugin for.
A combo like prometheus+grafana and other is very good too and definitely more modern. But, having used both, I often didn't need the extra feature that the more modern solution offer and I was more than happy to use munin, which was definitely easier to run and maintain (for me).
Seems like the simplest state management API to wrap one's head around that I've seen so far.
Has Gregory Clark, the cancelled speaker, proposed coercive eugenic measures? I wonder if merely believing that intelligence, like all human traits, has a genetic component, is enough to make you a "eugenicist". Quoting the article:

'The talk that was scheduled to be to be delivered was titled: "For Whom the Bell Curve Tolls: A lineage of 400,000 individuals 1750-2020 shows genetics determines most social outcomes". In his book of a similar title, For Whom the Bell Curve Tolls: Genetics, Demography and Social Outcomes, he argues that socio-economic status is genetically inherited through the “genetic transmission of … some mysterious mix of drive and ability”. He also theorised that “200 years from now the descendants of enslaved African-Americans will still be underrepresented'
It definatley helps if you have space/property. If you live in a relatively close density (apartment, zero lot line homes) it very well may not.

I have some rtsp cameras. To keep them from being dumb and randomly roaming to like aps (and overloading the antennas and causing breakups in the stream)I setup different SSIDs on each ap for them so I can control what ap the cameras use and prevent bad roaming decisions.

This also means I have an SSID on each non overlapping 2.4 GHz channel.

However I live on a couple acres. If I’m interfering you are trespassing.

I probably would take a different approach on a higher density area, such as getting an AP with 2 dual-port, dual-polarity antennas dedicated to 2.4GHz and sticking them all on the same AP dedicated to the task, also assuming i would need to cover fewer doors and RSSI wouldnt be an issue.
I am curious, what exactly do we get from researching these diseases? It wasn't apparent to me at all that the vaccines have come from people who study those diseases, but people who study those medical approaches. Maybe that's naive of me.
VLC especially does not do this - it uses software volume control (by default, I think you might be able to change this on some platforms). It also makes it hard to select exactly 100% volume, by allowing the volume control to go over 100% without any kind of detent. The odds that you're getting bit-perfect audio out of VLC is extremely poor.

Side note - bit-perfect is very important when you want to listen to surround-encoded files (AC3, DTS) on a surround system over SPDIF. SPDIF only has bandwidth for two uncompressed PCM channels, so the way it works is basically compressed audio data pretending to be a PCM stream. If anything messes with the stream - if you touch the software volume knob - your surround system will start outputting digital static at maximum volume.
It's destroying the geopolitical consensus on joining forces to solve the problem, by pointing our finger on the country where it originated (the next pandemic can come from anywhere).

We know that it came from animals and that human activity (be it meat markets or laboratories) made the bridge.

What we really need is an efficient global infrastructure to quickly research and deliver vaccines to everyone on the planet.

The Nipah virus, Ebola, we were already too much lucky that they did not turn in to global catastrophes, and many more viruses are waiting for us in the future.
Snapchat is back though..
In this video from 2011, Michael J Burry (of "The Big Short" fame) gives his take on US monetary policy.

Starts with a history lesson about the 2008 crisis, then focuses on the fed's current policy around 6:40.

It's 2021, and things he talks about are evermore relevant.
Do you trust Boeing to revise their airplane safety systems after a crash? They surely will do an internal review and make changes.

Or do you appoint an independent investigator that issues mandatory changes and evaluates how they're implemented?
Hello World
print("Hello World")
I'm extremely sympathetic to this view. Habitat destruction is the #1 or #2 way we're screwing over the planet.

However, this looks like an area where environmentalists risk getting themselves into trouble. Global warming is a defined and solvable task, but the messaging keeps changing to something more like an open-ended commitment. That has huge risks for the public to tune it out, and perhaps further procrastinate on the carbon emissions problem. Average people do not have the emotional energy for a perpetual guilt machine.

> We must increase the density of our cities.

I kind of don't feel like we can afford to. The housing price increases since 2020 have an atrocious human cost. These rising costs of living are not sustainable. There are some good (tech) jobs that compensate sufficiently for this type of development to work... but no where near enough. On a macroeconomics sense, I'm inclined to think it just doesn't work at all.

I'm also skeptical that the arguments apply to THIS migration. People are not moving into the rain forest, and the American mountain west, in particular, is fairly arid. The wildlife density of some places is orders of magnitude greater than other places.

Preservation is a battle that you never win, you just delay. If we can't have our big houses, wide lawns, and transportation work with some ecosystems, maybe it's all doomed either way.
It is not fundamental difference between small vs big city. Options, people and culture are different in this city versus different city - no matter which one is larger.

Say you liked boardgames with friends. The new city have different people, the play different games, you dont like either new games or new people. Say you liked swimming and the swimming pools in new city are too full or otherwise dont suit you. You liked going to local beginner art/dance club, but new place dont have equivalent.

Moving to different place, especially when the environment changes comes with changes in lifestyle you may or may not welcome.
>If it did come out of the lab in Wuhan then the US/NIH also has to answer questions regarding their involvement in the lab.

What do you mean by this?