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We need to do this research on the Moon/Mars/Underwater/Arctic/Desert. Not in a city with millions of people.

You know, now that I just typed that out, I’m becoming more and more convinced common sense was lacking when it comes to that Wuhan Lab. Something simple most likely happened because the common sense just wasn’t there.

Edit:

Here are the articles related to lab leaks before 2015 (these articles were posted before 2015, before the conspiracy or any kind of anti-China agenda):

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/304/5671/659

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC416634/

https://nationalpost.com/news/a-brief-terrifying-history-of-...

I simply googled ‘before:2015-01-01 china lab leak’ to get this confirmation bias.
Maybe they just misjudged the risk, so much that taking it was a nobrainer.
> To be pedantic, a reduction in poverty is not the same as a reduction in inequality. Your example of India and China seems to be pointing to the former.

No, I meant that not only has absolute poverty declined, global (!) inequality has also declined.

There is now more inequality inside of China then there was when everyone was really poor in Mao's time. Yes. Hence the emphasis on global: the vast mass of Chinese people are closer to eg American standards of living than ever in the past.

(American) wage stagnation is a myth mostly produced by being sloppy with inflation adjustment.
Never really occurred to me to read the feed on LinkedIn. I've liked about 3 things ever from people I actually know.

I get a fair number of interview requests through it though so it would have some value as a recruiting tool. Let's face it, CVs are a badly structured way of listing and distributing your employment history...
I think this is the natural outcome of putting too much emphasis into "accountability.". People will cover things up. Even if it wasn't their fault they'll lie to make sure there is no evidence pointing at them.

Obviously with much smaller stakes, this is why I try to take blame for every problem on my team. Even if it clearly wasn't my fault, I say something like "oh I've done that before, I should have warned you". It's more important to focus on how to fix things than it is to cast blame.

Back to the story, If it was a covered up lab leak, that means they likely had more data available that they could have shared sooner. They didn't because they were afraid of the consequences. The whole idea of CYA/saving face needs to just go away.
unions don’t alter the dynamics that cause downward pressure on work, which are the lopsided labor market dynamics that greatly advantage corporations over the individual (as well as over customers, by the way). we need to make labor markets radically transparent and promote worker mobility over corporate flexibility, at the very least.

(my last startup venture was in this space)
SkyOS was once an open source project.
What you describe as the "Finnish way" seems like it would translate better to a distributed company. I've been working remotely for over a year now, and I've found that those serendipitous conversations by the coffee-machine "French way" breaks just don't happen remotely.
>Transforming operations on silicon into a form we can easily digest requires misrepresenting the problem.

Do you have an example, as this is entirely counter to my experience. Of course, you can misrepresent the behavior in words, but then you just used the wrong words to describe what's going on. That's not an indictment of abstraction generally. Abstractions necessarily leave something out, but what is left out is not an assertion of absence. This is not a misrepresentation.
I thought this might be something like thread.join() but I don't get it otherwise.
My biggest problem with JRuby really wasn’t server performance or multithread - it was start time. If you used JRuby for something like scripting then you feel it way more. Try using it for a map reduce process on large data workloads in Hadoop and you see the startup time of JRuby materially.

Q: Why would one do that? A: Ability to bundle your code to hadoop machines you don’t control
At least it doesn't have the upgrade that first crossed my mind when I read that the back wings were for a future HMI. I was immediately reminded of the recent articles on HN about the potential for oxygen absorption thru the anus. This led me to think that a more useful upgrade for an HMI might involve an anal probe connected to an on-board oxygen generator to feed oxygen to the rider to help them stay alert. It seems like it would be useful on long cross-country trips. The wings could be retained as part of a deployable crash cocoon to envelope the rider so that they are buffered from the impacts of collision.

I did read in the comments that the range of this bike is probably pretty low so the functionality of the batteries would need to improve before this is practical for long-distance trips. In the absence of improved battery life, my upgrade would not be useful.

It is probably good that I don't design and build things for a living. Some ideas are not worth pursuing.

EDIT: I have thought of another advantage to the anal probe/oxygen generator. In the event of a non-fatal crash where the rider is injured but still has a heartbeat, the anal probe could function to supply continuous oxygen to the body preventing brain and organ damage as long as the oxygen generator functioned and the rider's heart was still beating. Hardening the oxygen generator should be important so that it is shielded from crash damage. This would also negate the need for resuscitation by mouth and in the event the rider's heart stopped, the anal probe could allow rescuers to focus on blood loss/circulation.

With that in mind it should be self-contained and detachable so that it could travel in an ambulance without needing to be removed. That would also make it possible to become a discreet accessory that you would put on (in) before mounting the bike and you could just wear it concealed as you shop, refuel, etc.

Maybe not such a hare-brained idea after all?

I think I read too much.
Laptops are very common at tech companies, especially in WFH times. It's really nice being able to just carry your workstation to a meeting room or a coffee shop or your house.

Now with that said, I was a little disappointed last week when I was issued a 16" Pro for my new job rather than an M1...
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People's insatiable wants keep them working. If people really wanted to work half time, they would.
>It would shake science to its foundations for carrying out risky research despite clear warnings of the dangers, and then collaborating in an epic whitewash.

This is a ridiculous assertion.

First off 'science' has done lots of risky research and created things that were frightening or dangerous, atomic weapons spring to mind, and I don't think science was shaken to its core. If anything every dangerous thing science creates leads to more trust in science - at least in the centers of power, the common perception of scientists of course takes a hit whenever this happens.

second of all science as a whole did not do a coverup or anything, and since the article mentions brave scientists fighting against the perception that it was not possible it seems the article does not even believe its own hype.

third of all science is even less of a person that a corporation is; science will not be shaken to its core, science will not stop going out in public, preferring instead to stay home and get drunk in the dark of their living room. Science won't get up in the morning and, while shaving and looking in the mirror, contemplate suicide. Science won't think, it would be so easy, and what does it all mean anyway. Science will not go on a trip around the world, develop a drug habit, and engage in lurid sexual escapades with Dance and Medicine (which, some will argue, amounts to incest) before settling down in a long term committed relationship with Carpentry. Science will not be shaken to its core, although perhaps some scientists will.

on edit: removed rude comment regarding the intelligence of the writer, even though that quote is so infuriating I might edit it back in later.
Absolutely. As far as I know, I've never had issues with my accountant although my filings are such a thick sheaf at this point that, who knows? (And my income sources aren't even that complicated.)

I do fear state tax filings are about to get more complicated with some states apparently looking to collect money for even one day business trips. I wish Congress would get off the blocks and pass the minimum 30 day exclusion that's been brought up a couple times.
The size of the screen and the limited IO make the 2021 iMac not really a great professional development device.
To be honest the line of not needing as much RAM because M1 is total nonsense.

Rather, it's just that people in general don't need as much RAM as they think they do, but ultimately if you need a lot of RAM for docker, development, whatever, then M1 isn't going to change that.
Totally agree. The virtue signaling in my feed is so insufferable that I stopped reading it years ago. It has basically become twitter with the vitriol replaced by fake positivity.
I’m running an 8Gb MacBook Air. This replaced my 32Gb i5 Mac mini. And it’s fine. I don’t hit any memory pressure.

To do this I accept two compromises: no virtual machines, light weight editor (vim). The VMs I spin up when I need them in the cloud.

Turns out this works out better than it did before anyway. No fan grinding away and I’ve got a laptop again finally which doesn’t singe my genitals.

I was running vscode with no problems as well but found some annoying bugs so went back to vim which has served me well for 20 years now.
I can't even stand listening to it on my own bikes, particularly if I'm slabbing it somewhere on a freeway at a steady speed, the racket is insufferable after 15 or 20 minutes, even with plugs and a full face helmet. There seems to be a prevailing masochism among this flavor of biker, who often add ape hangers and then ride around pretending to be comfortable.
He certainly seems to have a high enough risk tolerance. But I am fairly sure he still his (subjective) expected value was still positive.
sorry for your losses, and thank you sincerely (as much as possible in a platform like this) from the bottom of my heart.

I didn't go through the scale of grief as you've done, sorry for acting selfish and wanting to share some of my stuff. I went through a divorce and now having a similar "i love you" challenge with the woman in my life. she thinks it is a really big thing and holds her back, so I'm stressed and am also trying to hold myself. but it's just three words and also almost all love dies, like all people. I'm also kind of a crying person, it helps me a lot but people treat it as kind of a weakness.

I simply don't get the ways of the modern world more and more, and I feel old. but I don't think I will try to change myself. not in this sense at least.
Glad to hear that RTK is working well for you!

Out of curiosity, what sort of "tinkering" did you find yourself doing, and what sort of patterns did you end up with?
Modern google captcha (v3??) doesn't show a captcha if they already have enough data about you. E.g. through 3rd party cookies, or by fingerprinting anything from your browser to your mouse movement and typing pattern. (Not sure what exactly they currently use, so this are just examples of what they might use).
Every obedient, housebroken dog I know seems very happy.
I've always seen people who need/crave loud noises, bright/flashy colors, lots of bling, etc. as just not very bright people. It seems to correlate with lower-than-average intelligence. My theory is that those minds need more 'kinetic' stimulation in order to feel good. So far, after 50+ years of anecdotal experience I've found very few exceptions.
I know people, today, who could stop coming into work 1/2 the time and the work would still get done. These are the people who drift from meeting to meeting without ever actually contributing anything. Every now and then they make a PowerPoint. When they're asked a hard question, they always have to conveniently drop for another meeting. These people could get away with "working" less. Maybe this article is talking about them.

For people actually doing the work, or people working a job that pays hourly, I don't think a 5-hour, 4-day work week is coming any time soon. I hope I'm wrong though.
> it has less to do with indigenous children

This is a very strong claim to make about cultural genocide: that the children’s race was incidental to the destruction.
As far as I understood it there is no evidence they did anything of the sort.

And even if they did, they probably attempted to combine viruses from two non-human species and then they probably didn't conceive the possibility that this chimeric virus would be transmissible to Humans, escape and then cause a pandemic. If this is actually what happened, that's a miracle in itself.
I don't have much experience with remote besides COVID and it was in US so I have no idea of the cultural differences.
but Cartesian dualism (an the notion of souls) has its roots in the very real subjective experience. You feel, how do you probe others feels too? The hard problem is real.
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Sure, technology makes some things easier with time. But the needs for content to be optimized has not really gone away, and the issue was not necessarily overly complex 3D assets but that the very structure of what people wanted to build was difficult to optimize for. Many AAA games are set in indoor areas with no windows, because this limits how much you have to draw. In second life, almost everywhere the camera could see long distances either because you are outside or because you're inside in a room with windows. And that doesn't seem to have a really easy technological solution, although maybe Unreal's new nanite can do something about it by avoiding the need for custom LOD meshes.
Our stories are probably very similar ;-).

You know… scouting, trespassing, chasing something or someone, being chased, the sounds, the smells, the "tick, tick, tick" dogs make while stamping on floor of a metro car, etc. There are specifics, of course, but the baseline is the same everywhere I have been.
I feel like I'd get speared in the kidneys by the weird tail shroud thing in a rear-ender, although it probably wouldn't happen since I don't think I could wedge my bulk into that space to begin with :)
Interesting. Is this because of officially shorter working hours per week, because of longer hours on the other weekdays, or just some kind of an unofficial practice? How common is this?

As another Nordic, I've seen people gladly leave the office around 15:00 or 16:00 (or earlier for some people if they like to start early) on a Friday, but it's hard to imagine people who are on the clock regularly leaving at 13:00 unless they are real early birds.
> a soon it gets the same permissions like the JVM to access the file system and such

Like... never?

We get better systems as we get more experience. That's why C# was better than Java, Java today is better than Java was when C# launched. That's why we now have amazing languages like Rust and also that's why the same problems will never be the same given we have a ton of experience with VMs, docker, sandboxing in browsers etc.
Visalist has something similar as well: https://visalist.io/united-states-of-america/travel/open
Yes, that decision is so controversial precisely because it's one of the rare instances of the court divining constitutional entitlements that did not previously exist. It is in many ways the exception that proves the rule.
Massive eyeroll at this article. It has been predicted for literally a hundred years that technological advancements would make it so we all only work a couple hours a week. Somehow it didn't turn out that way.

Of course, in a competitive economy with property rights, it's impossible that we all only work a couple hours a week. If you say "I'll only work 20 hours a week, but I still want a salary that completely supports my lifestyle", chances are someone else is willing to work 40 - 60 hours a week to get ahead.

These utopian seeking articles that give zero analysis to basic economics, nevermind basic human nature, are just daydreams.
Aside from some niche health-focused areas, the only value prop that wearables currently have to most people is in tech ecosystem integration. This just so happens to be an area where apple is head and shoulders above their competition.
Likewise from you.. our first jaunt in the Berlin metro led us to a train laid up near the Opera junction with cops and dogs waiting inside for us to paint, and were thoroughly confused when we didn't..
I would put it this way - in my way of thinking and cultural assumptions, any given relationship, close or not, one has a sense of whether asking favors is possible, and what sort are reasonable. Or else a sense of uncertainty about it.

The statement "let me know if you need anything" has a different meaning depending on what it was reasonable to ask already.

It adds no information, due to the meaning of "anything" being entirely contextual.

If I know that they know that the relationship is fairly close, affirming it is a nice thing to do, especially if I'm feeling badly.

But if the relationship is not so close and/or I'm uncertain whether it's appropriate to ask a favor, I can imagine feeling antagonized by the form of an offer which is not really an offer or clarification of where we stand.

If there is ambiguity, there remains ambiguity, is how I see it.
I think it's like getting all the updates after you forked a process. You (child) get notified of all the cow/vm changes (in your parent) and they get merged into your process space? Or is the opposite? :-)
Hindsight is 20/20.

Whatever really happened, there never was a vial in that lab that said "potentially pandemic virus - handle with extreme care". Even if the virus came from (or rather through) a lab, there is no evidence what the researcher's actual intentions were. We don't even know which researchers were responsible.
Most popular modern languages aren't low level enough for developers to care about architectural differences unless they are trying to squeeze every last ounce of performance. However, the x86 chip in your laptop and the x86 chip running on your deployment target, probably aren't similar enough to help you reach that goal.

Also worth noting that ARM is becoming increasingly popular in the cloud services space, so that x86 advantage will deplete significantly with time.

I have a M1 Macbook Pro with 8GB ram and 256 GB storage. I bought it mainly to play with, but I've found it surprisingly capable and I've used it for some moderate development workloads and even some gaming (Metro Exodus)!

I've found it pretty fantastic for the most part, but I have to constantly make difficult decisions about exactly what I want to have running and stored on the device. For instance, running Docker rapidly consumes both memory and storage resources.

I'd definitely recommend buying the Mac SKUs with 16GB memory and more storage, if you want to make it your primary workstation. I think 16GB is probably enough for most development workloads though, that's generally what I'm given for a work laptop an it's worked out okay.
I didn't image there was ppl actually caring about anything but the "search" tab.

I never felt to be engaged that far on LinkedIn, I used it to find job, and that's it.
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Yep noticed this a long time ago and am very suspicious
What's this supposed "neutrality" that you're seeking? I didn't get from the article what you're reading into it.

To me, the central point of the article is this paragraph:

> These events highlight three significant scientific issues exposed by the pandemic that need tackling regardless of the origins: a dismal WHO leadership and structure not up to the task of protecting public safety; the collusion of a scientific establishment that sought to shut down debate rather than follow evidence; and the shredding of the reputations of some key journals that failed to promote free debate based on facts.

Isn't your comment here exactly doing what the article is lamenting, shutting down debate based on your interpretation of the text?
It's just less accurate, more error prone, and more limited. Especially in bad conditions and when there is low contrast.

Stereo vision can also be fooled by things like reflections.

Stereo vision at the human level also requires head movements and so on.
Or it would be that cheap but ads and spyware just give them more money for free now.
Apple Watch might be the best smartwatches but for me the concept or smartwatch is still novel and I'm not sure if I want to switch. I wear ordinary watches and they're good enough for me. The only killer feature that I need is waking me up in a smart way (monitoring sleep phases and boozing on my hand between 08:00 - 09:00, for example) but Apple Watch does not have that feature. Other features are just not interesting for me. And, honestly, for most other people around me. May be I'm in a bubble, but so far I saw Apple Watch only once in my life.
It looks nice but I don't understand who would pick an iMac over a MacBook Pro...
It's not about being educated on a topic, it's about being good at reasoning (and as a consequence being able to spot bad reasoning). It's also about being curious and doing your own research when you see people talk (and disagree) about something that interests you. This is a much more general set of skills that anyone should have and it takes a lifetime to develop. There's no way around that.

> this is a space where beginners do not belong

Not true at all. There's a lot of introductory material hitting the front page every single day here. If you ask a technical question there's usually someone VERY knowledgeable who will be more than happy to teach you some things and point you to further guidance. I often see two people disagreeing about a topic they both know WAY more about the topic than me. What am I supposed to do? Tell them their knowledge is unwelcoming to me? No way! A level-headed dialogue between them is about the most productive form of teaching I could hope for.

You don't just talk over people who know their shit as if you knew more about it. You present your knowledge (and lack thereof) and ask questions, maybe build an argument. If they're interested in continuing, they will engage in a similar way. I don't see what's so "hostile" about that.

> "that argument is horrific and leads to harm being done to others"

If you just say that and leave it at that, that doesn't mean anything. It's not an ad hominem, but it's not an argument either. If you provide an argument and evidence, you should be taken more seriously. I can tell you I've seen A LOT more ad hominem attacks being labeled as such than actual arguments. What commonly happens, though, is a commenter mixes both a good argument with an ad hominem (or some other fallacy), and then others focus on the fallacy and not the argument. Of course that's bad, but it's all the more reason to not be fallacious.
+1 for Migadu! I'd been a paying customer for Protonmail for a few years now but stuff like this had slowly been pushing me away. A few months ago I set up Migadu with my own domain and it's worked without issue ever since. Another plus is that I can finally use my own email clients without having to deal with proton bridge
>it's arguably more frustrating for them to do so, since they must use international agreements to get it. //

Caution, abject speculation:

I thought spooks like this kind of thing because they can do illegal things in other jurisdictions that they're restrained from doing in their own - or get foreign agents to spy on you to avoid getting a warrant. Like they can route traffic to another country, then have affects there hack you to avoid laws that curtail actions against your own citizens.

I don't know, just seemed like one point of groups like Five-eyes.