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Its not obvious that its any different than the defunct BurstCoin, which called its method Proof-of-Capacity
> Specifically, the lab leak theory more or less assumes that the virus was collected from the mine, taken to Wuhan, and some research and experiments were done on it, resulting it some changes.

I disagree, the lab leak hypothesis is independent from the lab [inadvertently or deliberately] mutating the virus. The lab may have merely possessed the virus, having made only the mistake of transporting the virus from a remote region into the middle of a city and then subsequently losing control of it.
The "all" part is, from what I can tell, considerably less important than the "not just banning direct travel" part... the model assumed that only most of the travel from China was stopped, and that was still enough to cause a huge delay in the outbreak. It is far better to have 30 aircraft from China landing in San Francisco than to have 30 aircrafts' worth of travellers originally China spread out across hundreds of aircraft from other destinations, such that you have no idea who the travellers are, where they are, they could be spreading it to completely unrelated travellers from different destinations - which is what Italy effectively did.

"This is either ignorance or an intentional lie. Which is it?"

Joe Biden literally got up on stage and claimed that the travel bans made the US outbreak worse - and was quoted in the mainstream media as doing so.

"They opposed that it was the singular action taken during a very dangerous period. That quarantines or even tracing weren't put in effect. Etc."

Errrm... that's not actually true though. There was definitely plenty of contact tracing in the US, it just didn't get a huge amount of media coverage. Also, I can't imagine locking up US citizens of Chinese origin en masse going down well at the time when it would actually have to have been done... especially since it ultimately wouldn't have helped all that much. The contact tracing and other indications, like genetic analysis of the Covid strains which spread in the US, suggest that the measures the US took were effective enough that spread from China isn't what ultimately ended up causing their big outbreaks. Not taking measures against spread from Italy when that country was reporting zero cases is probably what did it, and realistically that wasn't going to happen.
> Every lisp hacker I ever met, myself included, thought that all those brackets in Lisp were off-putting and weird.

Not me. I used C before Lisp, and Pascal before that. C replaced syntax like BEGIN and END and "END <procedure name>" with just { }. I thought this was a most excellent thing.

I was still not using Lisp when HTML and then XML came along. My reaction to XML was this: since most of the content of XML is payload data, why don't we just fscking use parentheses or braces to structure it? Some {foo bar {baz}} or whatever instead of this moronic, bandwidth-wasting, unreadable nonsense <foo>...</foo>.

I could understand it when the markup is just a few raisins in the pudding like:

> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, <i>consectetur</i> adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod

but this XML thing made no sense as a data notation in which every little leaf element is wrapped in verbiage.

So then when I got into Lisp, it basically had the syntax I already wanted; it was "pre-approved".

I already liked parentheses because they occur in English prose (like this), in mathematics, and in almost every programming language I had ever used.

The Unix shell and other command languages eliminate the commas: we don't write

tar, czvf, foo.tar.gz, foo

Moreover, command arguments are not restricted to narrow lexical categories like "must begin with letter or underscore ..."; they are just clumps of non-whitespace characters. If you know any command languages, what Lisp is doing in that regard is obvious; you're not confused by a+b just being an argument, different from a + b.

Commands with the main function on the left followed by space-separated arguments occur in parentheses in POSIX command substitution syntax:

printf "[%s]\n" "$(cat file1 file2)" > file3

dironly=$(basename $(dirname a/b/c))

In general, by the time I got into Lisp I had written so many scanners and parsers, solved so many shift-reduce and reduce-reduce conflicts and whatnot, I knew a good thing when I saw it.
I think everyone realizes that introducing curation means that sometimes the curators will get it wrong. I still think having some curation is better than none.

Before people get mad that Facebook is trying to control the truth, don't forget that their algorithms already manipulate the news and it's been happening for years. Their algorithms prioritize user engagement, which means prioritizing news that provokes conflict and fear and conspiracy. That creates a huge bias, it makes people feel like the world is much more divided and dangerous than it really is.

That's a problem that's on them to fix, and the solution is probably more curation not less. For them to get it wrong on the man-made theory, that's one of the less harmful things they've done so far.
I think further public and political pressure is still needed to ensure a proper investigation occurs (I'm not confident one is ongoing). There is an inflection point at which more pressure becomes actively unhelpful of course.

But I also think the current evidence for a lab leak is far weaker than proponents claim (2 somewhat contradictory unnamed US intel sources saying WIV staff were sick in Nov '19, haven't found the reservoir animal yet, closest match is far away, lab exists in part of Asia where such viruses are known to emerge and also where it would be a good place to put a lab...)
It's wild that on a site that educated people use that you're seeing people advocate for homebirths. I'm guessing that next to nobody on hacker news have seen a delivery go south and need an emergency C-section. If you're at home, the ambulance is going to be way too late to prevent serious harm to the baby (hypoxic brain injury) or the mom (hemorrhage, hypotensive shock). There's a reason why OB/Gyns don't have their babies at home - it's because they have seen it go wrong.
JQuery document ready handler that makes a XMLHttpRequest and then a pile of jquery DOM manipulation calls to make the DOM state reflect the data you just got back from the server. Basically just a lot of imperative DOM manipulation calls. No templating, no MVC patterns, etc. This is the kind of frontend JS that was all over the web in the early 2000's.
In Japan, tinder verifies your age
Probably better that a Graal expert chimes in, but AFAIK GraalVM has a single optimizing compiler, the Graal compiler. I think it reuses HotSpot's bytecode interpreter. I am not sure if it can operate with either C1 or C2 also enabled. With Truffle, you can write AST-walking interpreters that get automagically turned into optimizing compilers via partial evaluation. It takes some care and tuning to make work well.
I don't feel negatively affected by Instagram. I like to see pictures of my family. All of the female members of my family (who are old enough) have accounts to comment even if they don't post. I consider it lucky there is a free photo sharing solution that everyone has landed on.
The title isn't sex-baiting. The fact that the founder is female is extremely relevant to raising money. I wish that weren't the case.

The problem ranges from light sexism (skepticism over whether she can "lead" and "be tough") to blatant misogyny (trying to exchange money for sex and blackballing her from deals if she refuses or talks about it). Those are things that men mostly do not have to deal with when raising money.
What relation does golang have with docker for devops use? I'm also wondering the same about k8s, other than the go templating language used by helm charts. And if it's the development of docker itself which is written in go, I wouldn't consider that devops (same as I wouldn't say editing images in photoshop is C++ development).

I'm curious, because I've used k8s and docker extensively for devops, and aside from templating, which is arguably not so much golang as, well, just a templating engine. And I've thankfully not have had to use golang for anything serious.
Disrupts the reading flow for you.

I find his parentheticals, italics, and bolding, make the structure of the thoughts behind his words more clear to me.

I appreciate this style of writing, at least for these sorts of topics.

People are different.
> but let's say we need to share these credential objects between different systems that do not have prior knowledge of how to evaluate the credential data

Well, they _must_ have prior knowledge about it, because they must have to understand the concept of JsonLogic beforehand. So instead, you can just make these systems understand a proper programming language that can produce outputs. Something like https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-lang would probably be a much better option for this usecase.
no, the choice is not as you put it, "weaponization vs lab leak of virus that happens to be under study". The likely scenario that's being proposed for the lab-leak is a man-made virus that is quite routine to see in labs like this, in every advanced technology country in the world. The making of dangerous viruses for the purposes of research is quite common, and in order to take steps to improve security, we need openness and transparency about what is going on.

China does, though, very much lack openness and transparency when it comes to owning up to mistakes.
> we have more observations that Newton's law is wrong

No, we don't. We have observations that show that the motion of stars in galaxies is not what we would predict if we used our current laws of gravity with a distribution of matter that matches just what is visible to us.

There are two possible hypotheses to explain these observations:

(1) There is matter present that is not visible to us;

(2) Our current laws of gravity are wrong and need to be modified.

"Dark matter" is basically a name for #1; "MOND" and similar models are in category #2.
You’re still writing code which is based on React’s view of the world, not standard web APIs. Saying it’s not a framework just means that people are cobbling together their own frameworks using some popular libraries, which gives more flexibility at the cost of the various combinations being less tested and harder for someone else to support.

To be clear, this can be a reasonable trade off – but there’s a cost which people often discount until they realize they just spent a week wrestling with abstraction layers.
Exactly, the misinformation argument is a red herring. The evidence for the lab leak theory was assembled and publicly available by February of last year. It has not changed in the intervening 15 months. The only explanation I can come up with is TDS—otherwise intelligent people (including some of my close friends) who simply could not consider an idea supported by Trump to be credible. Didn’t matter how clear and convincing the evidence was, they just assumed that it must be faulty and untrustworthy.
Seems like some variation of this article gets posted every few weeks
Dark matter could be due to some fundamental mathematical or measurement error that is deep enough to cross multiple independent research efforts. However given the lack of evidence for it, such an error seems unlikely but not unthinkable.
But you have to be very careful where that cheaper infrastructure is used, due to how difficult it can be to manage, and its potential impact on the business.

I've worked for a handful of very large businesses (10s of thousands of employees, profits in the billions) running infrastructure and services. With one exception, they all sucked at managing their own hosting. The only one that did well literally poached all the core employees of a web hosting company, and then listened to them.

Except for that one company, none of the others was willing to build their own internal managed hosting company. They all didn't staff right, didn't fund right, didn't do support right, and their org structure and financing model had no capacity for a single department to straddle every BU. (Well, ok, "IT" often did, but "IT" wasn't directly managing and running the underpinnings of every product in the company)

In fact, some of the largest, most well known companies in the US actually moved to the cloud specifically because they sucked so bad at running their own shop that they needed to stem the bleeding by just buying Cloud services that worked. And that's after they hired consulting/management companies to try to jointly manage their self-built setups.

The article makes sense. The idea that larger businesses can figure out how to do it right at scale, sounds logical. But my whole career is one long proof that those theories don't match reality. In fact, I would go so far to say that the larger the organization is, the harder it is to self-manage. The only general category of company that I think is OK to self-manage hosting is one where either almost all of the profit is coming from keeping hosting costs down, or the business value is not impacted by hosting quality at all. I think that's a very small proportion of tech businesses today.
> MOND and the like falls into the category of "dark matter theory"

No, it doesn't. See my response to your other post upthread about the two hypotheses. "Dark matter" is one hypothesis; "MOND" and friends are the other.
and here on hacker news the pure science behind this topic was also buried many many times.
Also a reminder that "right wing" is such a wonderful term. Mention it, and all the discussion that you don't like can be easily shrugged off, or better, attacked.

Really, why is it so important that we need to pitch left against right? Why can we establish facts, carry out reasoning, and be explicit about interpretation vs conclusion?

How many countries can thrive when all that matters is partisanship or moralizing everything? Maybe Americans should learn a little history about Ming dynasty: The Tung-lin-tang turned everything into evil vs. good, to the point that the government couldn't get anything done and the ruling class couldn't get any fact straight. A dynasty with hundreds of millions of people was conquered by a barbarous tribe, and the entire nation became the laugh stock of the world in merely 150 years (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macartney_Embassy).

By the way, Tung-lin-tang were experts of mind reading. Their most effective method of attacking their political opponent is to attack their motive. To them, narrative was all that matters.
The V8 parser predates Ignition, so most V8 developers will consider it a separate subsystem and Ignition really to be just the bytecode format and interpreter for that bytecode. The parser was used to feed fullcodegen back in the day, and TurboFan also used to have an AST-to-TurboFan phase. Nowadays, I believe the only JavaScript path into TurboFan is actually through Ignition bytecode. TurboFan also has a frontend for Wasm bytecode (or viewed conversely, the Wasm engine has a TurboFan IR generator, since this lives in the wasm directory and is maintained by a subteam).
> for some models of the multi-world hypothesis

What "multi-world hypothesis" are you talking about?
Fighting climate change is an uphill battle (steeper).
I would go as far as to argue the ability to deploy new hardware almost instantly is the primary benefit of the cloud. And a very valuable one. It is "supply chain management as a service". You can automate operations but managing delivery dates, vendors, logistics, etc is the least pleasant part of operating a data center.

Outsourcing the "where the hell is my container full of hard drives" phone calls, and subsequent scramble when you find out it was delayed for four weeks but they failed to notify you, is almost worth it. (In fairness, this mostly goes away if you select and manage your vendor relationships well.)
That depends on your infrastructure operations. We run almost all of production on a shared cluster, which maintains enough headroom for new services to be provisioned instantly and offers self-service tools to do so.

Now if someone wants 20,000 additional instances overnight that’s going to be a problem, but you can certainly get enough to prototype and and run a small scale rollout while your capacity paperwork goes through.
So basically the way it was with overt racist and sexist hiring before that was illegal? The solution is to suck it up and let the other employees who are too bigoted to cope quit.
Even though you aren't being moved, you could ask the HR of your current or next company who they use or how they find someone.

I was moved in 1996, new job took care of all the details, the movers were fine, it all worked. In 1996.

Today I'm a trucker. Right now practically all shipping companies are overbooked. My company is paying us a "productivity" bonus for increasing number of miles driven. Everyone is buying stuff, and everyone is moving. So it wouldn't surprise me if your stuff gets there late, because unfortunately your shipper (or the broker) doesn't want to leave money on the table merely because they don't have the trucks and drivers. As ugly as that is.

Right now there are many trips that are late for delivery on the day I pick them up. My trips are typically 500 to 1500 miles and take one to three days.

From other threads, do it yourself seems like a good idea. Or maybe just DIY for some of it, and have the rest moved. You may have trouble finding a rental truck exactly when you need it. Because everyone is moving.

The "load it yourself and we'll pick it up and deliver it" solution is good. You can load the container at your leisure. A friend did that, worked out well. Again, around 1996. These also probably have availability issues right now.
Anecdotally, I've heard that spam is actually a pretty serious issue and keeping Reddit clean of it is fairly difficult (since you want to take it down ASAP to minimize it's audience). Obviously, the system works pretty well and we rarely see it, but I'm given to understand that's because of a LOT of behind-the-scenes effort.

The problem is, anyone who can eliminate spam can also eliminate posts that disagree with their politics, so you also need a supervisory layer above the spam-cleaners.

This is all pretty easy to balance in a smaller community, but spam is exponential to size: larger communities attract significantly more spam than smaller ones.
What about Asians? Are they disadvantaged by their native language? What kind of effect sizes are we talking about here?
More recent source: https://webkit.org/blog/10308/speculation-in-javascriptcore/

The exact tiers have changed, but it’s still 4 of them: an interpreter (LLInt), the Baseline JIT, and two optimizing JITs
How else do you train your spam filter?
Thanks for bringing this up. That investigation was horrific.

And, no doubt, has lead to absolutely nothing changing there.
To learn something myself I looked up the definitions of the word "government" in the Merriam-Webster dictionary.[1] Most relevant here are the following two: "1 :the body of persons that constitutes the governing authority of a political unit or organization" (example: 'The government was slow to react to the crisis.') "2 a: the organization, machinery, or agency through which a political unit exercises authority ..."

What is interesting about this is that the word "government" is usually translated into German as "Regierung", but the German term is more or less exclusively used for the leading part of a body politics (Merriam-Webster's definition 1). When refering to the combined whole of executive, legistlative and judicary we would typically use the word "der Staat" (the state) or would talk about the "Regierungssystem" ("system of government"), which is a bit inconsequently because the "Regierung" is only a part of the "Regierungssystem".

So I was reading the sentence of the OP more in the sense of the first definition, because this was closer to the literary translation into German, but can now see that the meaning of the word in English is less precise and therefore more context dependant.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/government
>My problem with that is it makes large swaths of modern left politics uncriticizable, since any criticism of those politics will be construed as hate.

Except it doesn't, because people criticize the modern left all the time, to the point that "the left" (or now the "woke left") has become a pejorative on its own. On Hacker News dunking on the left is practically a sport. And as far as hate goes, everything "the left" says, does and believes gets construed as hate as well.

But that's not a free speech issue, that's just a speech issue. Criticizing politics is criticizing people and their identity and worldview. People will inevitably take such criticism personally.
> so was the discrepancy in the precession of mercury

No, it wasn't, because, as you note, that observation was accounted for by adopting new laws of gravity, not by adding more matter to the distribution of matter we used in our model. Those are two different things.
Seems that an enterprise edition is planned: https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb/blob/69be190d68a8c527fbacde...
I'm no fan of React, and I'm building a new back-end and front-end that is probably heretical to... well.. everything.

What I have found is that if you have reactivity from your back-end, then front-end reactivity is... easy.

My focus is on board games, but the idea generalized pretty well. As an example, my dumb chat room: https://github.com/mathgladiator/adama-lang/blob/master/demo...

I really need to focus on this, but I believe what we are seeing is an interesting adversarial game between client and server. For instance, if you build your server with a strong API, then clients are going to build tremendous complexity.

My personal bet is that we need a streaming protocol such that applications look more like X11.
Not just some people—everyone.
The definition I’ve seen is “you call a library’s code; a framework calls your code.” You don’t decide when to run your components — React does.
A better characterization would be that Bitcoin requires miners to perform vast amounts of hashing in the hopes of finding a hash that is arbitrarily difficult to find.
It's shocking how little self-awareness (or empathy) one must have to know this and not change the name immediately.
I choose React for personal projects because it's easy. I'm not too concerned with performance. This article doesnt spend much time on developer experience.
It's sad that most of today's AI/ML experts are fully unaware of Eurisko, RLL, and even what a frame is.