skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To your point, CNN adds an interesting detail which isn't being as widely reported:

The workers at the lab "were tested and there was no evidence found of Covid antibodies."

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/23/politics/us-intelligence-repo...

So theoretically it's possible that three workers at the lab were sick -- and hospitalized -- but with, say the seasonal flu. The original reports from the State Department about this even specified that the workers had been sick with symptoms "consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illness."

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-report-of-illnesses-at...
Rather than citing wikipedia, read the article that citation is from. It's literally titled "minute by disputed minute", and should be read between the lines.

They were going to refuel in the Canary Islands, but Spain blocked access to Spanish airspace if they wouldn't subject themselves to a search. Italy, Spain, and France had all blocked access to their airspace and they were boxed in. Austria also admits they only gave landing permission (to a plane already in their airspace, that even then tried saying it was an emergency that they need to land) under the condition that they consent to a search.

So yeah, like I was saying, it was ultimately a question of them being boxed in while over NATO airspace.

The end point, yes, they were threatened with their plane being cut off from all options and falling out of the sky if they didn't submit themselves to a search. Just as deadly as a gun to their head. I'm not sure how your citation could be interpreted to back up your original argument.
The article says: ‘"the U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses."’

>... is only going to add fuel to the conspiracy theories.

That's a bad thing only if the conspiracy theory is false. At this point, the theory that the Chinese Communistic Party conspired to cover up a lab leak is not implausible. There are multiple known occurrences of pathogens escaping from laboratories.
The way this virus attacks multiple systems and has such a wide range of symptoms, I am convinced it is a man-made supervirus. I am leaning towards it was accidental in how it was released but I have no idea what's going on anymore and the media only confuses me more.

There are already variants and these vaccines will need booster shots to stay effective from what I was told. I'm not sure though. Is this true?

Covid has taught me a few things:

- Health is as important as wealth, living well is making time for both. It takes good health to build lasting wealth and to enjoy it. It takes at least some wealth to invest in good food, living space, life experiences.

- Living in Maui and working remotely is like semi-retiring in my 30s. I can make money and enjoy life at the same time without taking years off my life due to commutes and stress. Why didn't I do this in my 20s? I was learning the skills and figuring out what exactly I wanted in life. Now I know.

- I don't need a lot of people to be happy, just a handful of high-quality people. More than anything, I should give myself a lot of what I expect from others.

- Nature is more resilient than we know, Earth really be fine with or without humans. We can change if we want to but we can't agree on anything anymore. I'm hoping for the best but prepared for the worst.
Before you were vaccinated you could have donated blood and they would have tested for antibodies. A possible indication, but not something that would confirm it is if you had a reaction to the first shot. A number of folks I know who had covid had a more serious reaction to the first dose.
Is this even a secret anymore? The way China is acting against anyone(Australia) asking questions, says heaps about them.
They're not making money by installing the converters into Priuses.

They are making money by selling the platinum inside.
There are numerous reasons why we need a proper investigation into this. If this came out of WIV, we need to determine exactly why these bat coronaviruses were being studied with regards to human ACE2.

This ACE2 binding is causing numerous issues, including damage to human heart, lung, kidney, and pancreatic cell death.

This is serious stuff. If anyone is looking at the "low" mortality rate, they are missing the big picture.

Role of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) in COVID-19

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7356137/

The genetic structure of SARS‐CoV‐2 does not rule out a laboratory origin

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7744920/

SARS-CoV-2 infects human pancreatic β-cells and elicits β-cell impairment

https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(21)...
That’s a pretty important point to leave out. Although given the accuracy of the early antibody tests… it doesn’t rule anything out completely.
I think "sought hospital care" is the key phrase. If a few people from that lab got sick AND ended up in the hospital... considering this is supposed to be very infectious, then why is that line so hard to draw?
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Is it possible yet to have Rust compile itself?
The wsj article is more specific about the 3 hospital visits:

> several researchers at the lab, a center for the study of coronaviruses and other pathogens, became sick in autumn 2019 “with symptoms consistent with both Covid-19 and common seasonal illness.”
Even when I was looking for my second job out of college, I submitted dozens of applications and there were several times when I was unsure if I had applied for a job or not (not every job portal sends confirmation emails). Once you get into the dozens of applications, you need to take notes to keep yourself organized about if you need to do something (e.g. take a coding assessment), if you're just awaiting something (e.g. awaiting a scheduled interview), or to just take notes about how you felt about some part of the process (e.g. you saw some red flags or positive signs during some interaction).

If you're only applying for a very small handful of jobs (1 or 2), you probably don't need to use a CRM nor something resembling a CRM.
HN tends to upvote counternarratives. The Wuhan lab leak hypothesis was dismissed as either "debunked" or "discredited" in the mainstream media early, but now is considered possible, or even likely.
Hacker News crowd is biased towards being anti-blockchain and knock on effect occurs with decentralization.
Watch a movie Dear Comrades and tell me how you feel after it.
Exactly that is both the strength and the weakness. The strength consists in the inability of any one party to dominate the network. The weakness is the noise and ineffectiveness of communication.
Unlike ideas and other intangibles that are subject to trivial copying, electricity falls into the realm of the physical world. Also, theft of services is an established type of theft along with theft of property.
This statement is present in the linked repository under the GitHub organization 'google':

> This is not an official Google product.

1. If it's an official repository, then it's an official statement, which means it's officially an unofficial project.

2. If it's not an official repository, then it's not officially an official project, which means it's an unofficial project.

3. If it's not an official statement, then the repository author isn't authorized to declare the project official, which means it's an unofficial project.

Your statement is predicated on the belief that it's an official repository, which invokes clause #1. Since you believe it to be an official repository, therefore the author's statement is official, which means that the project is unofficial, disproving your reasoning.

(Please don't be dismissive and snide in future comments; signing a post with "Logic yo" is unwelcome here, even if you think you're right, even if you think it's obvious why you're right.)
Penalty takers aren't perfect and the keeper will save a few
Toilet paper in the eastern block always was rough, to make even the last ass get red.
URL for a version of the original WSJ report:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-report-of-illnesses-at...
> Why do you even care?

Well, because Apple's behavior is illegally anti-competitive, and it is possible for everyone to get what they want.

You can simply not install other app stores, and other people can get what they want, if Apple is forced to allow other people to install other app stores, because their illegal anti-competitive behavior is stopped.

You should not care, if other people install whatever they want, on the phone that they own.

Because you can simply choose to not use those app stores. Problem solved, and everyone wins.

> The status quo should remain

Actually, a better solution is for Apple's illegally anti-competitive behavior to be stopped, by allowing other people to install what they want on the iPhone if they choose to do so.
How often do you and 2 coworkers go to the hospital for seasonal flu?
But there are about 1200 mutations! From the source [0] Dr. Deurh's references:

> there are 931 synonymous substitutions and 145 missense substitutions between SARS-CoV-2 and RaTG13. The other ORF regions (90%) are identical between SARS-CoV-2 and RaTG13

Nobody does 931 + 145 substitutions for function of gain, do they? Dr Duehr says "this many differences or mutations (the mosaic) in the virus, can only reasonably have been made in nature." There was another section of his post that talked about how the receptor was optimized to work with multiple species (bat, pangolin, etc), something it would do evolving in nature.

Now I'm not going to insist that there are never lab leaks. In fact, reading one article on this subject, I was shocked by how many lab leaks there are, every year, even right here in the U.S. [1]:

> Young pointed to documents she recently obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, which revealed that laboratories in the United States "reported more than 450 accidents during 2015 through 2019 while experimenting with some of the world's most dangerous pathogens."

> Such pathogens, Young revealed, included anthrax, Ebola, plague, and more.

> "In nearly all reported cases, regulators deemed the breaches serious enough to put workers at risk of becoming infected," she wrote. "As a result, more than 660 U.S. scientists and other lab workers involved in the incidents underwent medical assessment or treatment with preventative medications."

Based on Dr. Deuhr's thoroughly documented post I just don't think that covid-19 was a lab leak. Some viruses jump between animals and humans, this looks like it was just another one.

I would rather that we talk about all the other lab leaks that go on. Who's making the decisions to put the public at risk? Is there anything we can do about any of this? There was a flu in the mid-1970s due to a lab leak. It's only a matter of time until something else happens.

[0] https://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/full/10.2217/fvl-2020-006...

[1] https://www.theblaze.com/news/investigative-reporter-lab-lea...
I certainly found it simpler to hard-code my own website than make either Wordpress or Hugo do what I wanted it to do. My host provides metrics and all the technical things with DNS, and search engines and my own network deliver me visitors. Browsers in 2021 are very powerful at turning simple HTML into something pretty. If one search engine blacklisted my site, people who are in to what I am in to would switch to another which does not.

I think that the "abusive relationship with platforms like Medium, Twitter, and Instagram" is mostly psychological.
400 Hertz is the standard for aviation; it allows smaller components than 50 or 60 Hertz. For military aviation, the spec is MIL-STD-704.
We'll I think now we are talking about the government reviewing apps for the app store. By the people for the people.
"with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses"

So 3 staff had gotten sick that flu season. Staff who work with infectious diseases and probably get every cough and cold checked out just in case. Seems pretty baseline average to me.
Shouldn't I be in charge of that decision?
Would you mind sharing what this "resource point controlling game" was? (Any chance it was called "Natural Selection"?)
Ha, that's interesting! In the Catan game which I mentioned, they reduce your ELO (sth like your overall score) if you just quit a multiplayer game. You end up gaining half as much "experience" if you lose, but you'd earn negative if you quit.

I'm also the kind that tends to just quit and start again. But games like these have helped me at least "play to my outs". Still, I think a skill which I learnt is how to quit "smartly". Some games (situations) just don't belong to me, so it's important to not conflate perseverance with stupidly continuing a game which I should've quit minutes ago.
IMO what you’re describing is usually not considered “decentralized”, but rather “open protocols” or “open standards”
I think the point being made here is that 7500 would be used for unlawful interference like a hijacking or bomb threat. 7700 would be more appropriate for an interception.
Email is a great example, despite what the article says. You can certainly have email without Google. If fact, Microsoft may actually be bigger in the business world.

A lot of large companies also run their own servers, consumers can use icloud, protonmail, yahoo,... or the one from their ISP.

The argument in the article is that GMail controls email. It is definitely not true. Email is still how people do business, and business email is not owned by Google.
I am from Arkansas and have been here many times. As a little boy who liked to dig, it's great fun.

However, I highly recommend to anyone to instead check out the nearby dig-your-own quartz crystal mines in the town of Mount Ida. You are pretty much 100% guaranteed to find some decent sized quartz, whereas finding a diamond in Crater of Diamonds is much, much more rare.
If I can name any card and any position don't you need 52 ^ 2 decks? Or at least that many divided by 2 for counting off the top or bottom.
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The Wall Street Journal's original report (upon which this article is based) adds a really interesting detail about the timing of this story:

The disclosure of the number of researchers, the timing of their illnesses and their hospital visits come on the eve of a meeting of the World Health Organization’s decision-making body, which is expected to discuss the next phase of an investigation into COVID-19’s origins.

It is just me, or does it seem suspicious to anyone that this information existed, and wasn't reported in 2019 or 2020, or even in early 2021....but only just reached the press on the very evening of the WHO meeting.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-report-of-illnesses-at...
This.

Additionally there are typically bleed resistors to drain capacitors to safe levels, but they can also go open.
This is what came to my mind. Sinister tactics but apparently very effective given airline policy.
The article said 3 people.
and it seems like of the time, the fix costs as much as a new one
There are some blockchains live that claim to be scalable. See [1]. Is that for real. And does "Elrond" have some connection to L. Ron Hubbard's Scientology?

[1] https://docs.elrond.com/
We don't have this problem with Python Portable from portabledevapps.
> The argument equating smart phones with consoles however, is downright silly.

Yea I’m kind of the opposite. I don’t really see the difference. An Xbox has many of the same apps, a web browser, etc.

> I just don't understand how that would ruin the system for you. If anything, wouldn't it force Apple to improve their store in order to be more competitive? Would that not be a benefit to you?

The App Store on iOS and how Apple manages it is effectively a collective bargaining agreement that individual users wouldn’t be all that effective in enforcing. Items like mandating what’s being tracked and how, allowing for anonymous sign-ins, and others are possible because Apple can bargain for users via their control of the App Store.

If you take away the App Store, it’s possible (idk how likely or not though I view it as extremely likely) that Apple I as the user lose that ability to collectively bargain. Companies like Facebook will migrate their apps to third party App Stores where Apple’s beneficial (in my view) rules and terms won’t be enforced. The network effect of apps moving to third party app stores will overwhelm the iOS App Store, and the benefits I enjoy will be largely unenforceable. There won’t be anybody who is even somewhat on my side. There won’t be some sort of competition between a privacy-first Facebook and data harvesting one. So we can’t really tell what users prefer.

Apple also creates a great user experience. One way to pay, a single App Store where everything is, and via their collective bargaining position I can mostly trust that they are trying to enforce rules around privacy, not let junk or scam apps in, etc. I know these rules are not always properly enforced, but they’re there.

So I view third-party app stores as not only not beneficial but hostile to the user experience I enjoy with the iPhone. I’m vehemently against those changes. I’d rather the App Store lose support from major Apps than Apple change how they’re doing things.

And this is kind of how things work on all platforms, stores, etc. There are more strong and loose rules, but I can’t just sell skins on the Epic game store for Fortnite, they don’t allow third-party integrations. I can’t sell apples I grow in my backyard at Wal-Mart either - they have a problem with that. For some reason since Apple makes the best phone and makes the most money people think they should be treated differently, and I don’t.

If users really value these things they’ll buy Android phones or jailbreak iPhones or demand Apple open up things. So far they aren’t. It’s a vocal minority - an absolutely tiny one, and the market seems to pretty clearly say that they prefer things how they are by buying iPhone.
1. You picked one example that I explicitly mentioned was an edge case. Thanks.

2. More importantly, if your question is why does <INSERT LITERALLY ANY TECHNOLoGY> ever need updates? Answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_entropy
How UFO sightings went from joke to national security worry in Washington
The methods used are somewhat apples to oranges, but they're comparable in that both the United States and Belarus used pretty brazen measures to go after the political crime of unwanted journalism. Faking a bomb threat and intercepting a civilian plane is more serious in a way; blocking off a sovereign leader's path en route & then boarding his plane is arguably more serious in another.
I tried some halfass "comb" antennas but wasn't seriously attempting to harvest static electricity to useful purpose. There's some "joule thief" circuits available cheap and easy now that make me wonder if its possible.
You touched on one thing I've been wondering: how many people worked at the lab? (The facility is 3,000 square meters, according to Wikipedia.) So is it 30? 100? 1,000?

This would be good to know if we're going to try speculating about what happened
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Whats the biggest downside to having all the data? You are responsible for it.

Google, Twitter and Facebook, store and link to data and are therefor responsible for all kinds of things, like keeping porn away from kids, securing data, dealing with privacy, verifying age, dealing with local laws, managing the needs of rights holders, moderating discussions, deciding if Donald trump should be banned or not and so on, all while paying big $ to store all this crap. They are put in an impossible position that is taking a big tole on all of them, and may even give them so many political enemies that they get broken up.

A smart designer of a Decentralized application could see not storing data in a centralized storage, as an advantage because it lets them side step all of these problems.
I don't think so as there exist centralized, open protocols.

Email is (at the server level) a peer to peer network, only tied to DNS/BGP as the only central points, with a global namespace. That can't be said for a lot of open standards.
I've found that learning to empathize with future-me, also made me better at writing code that others want to read. Kind of like dogfooding.
Note that many VFR flights are NOT under direct ATC control (though requesting flight following is always recommended) so unless you appear to be flying erratically or otherwise attract attention you may not even be noticed - it’s standard to send an interceptor if they have reason to believe your radio is inoperable and they need to get in contact (there are established intercept/no-contact procedures).

In reality it is highly unlikely for a commercial airline to ignore a direct ATC command (unless the pilot believes the plane is in distress) - and in a case like this where ATC reports a hazard onboard and divert it wouldn’t be unexpected to see an escort (even if just so that there is a witness if the plane were to actually explode).

After 9-11 the chance that the interceptors are armed is probably 100%.

Fun fact: the max speed of a normal GA plane (think Cessna) is below the stall speed of many interceptors which can result in amusement.
SARS-COV-1 attacked systems in a similar way. MERS is a multi system virus as well. They are similar to SARS-Cov-2

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_respiratory_synd...
Calling decentralised software centralised because companies built good defaults on top is a fallacy. Email, the web and torrents are definitely success story.

I don't like cryptocurrencies (those who are unbacked and resource hungry, I like the tech behind) but bringing payments in the software world and out of financial gatekeepers could exactly the missing piece of the puzzle to have even more working decentralised apps.

Recognising this doesn't help with criticising capitalism, I guess.
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You just need to use clay. When I was a kid I made mud pies. But I live in Japan now so my kids make Dorodango.

I have one on my shelf here that I dug out of a river bank and made with my kids... we saved it and I shined it up by sprinkling sifted clay dust onto it and rolling it on a hard surface as it dried