skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it escaped a lab, via researchers accidentally infecting themselves and then started to spread, infecting a few people at the wet market as a cover might have happened. Or just fabricating evidence that it started there would work.

If it was a lab escape, the virus may have been from a number of sources, but one would think their end goal was to create a vaccine / study it.

If you look at this from a high level, there were countries that did better with this and countries that did worse. On the whole, democratic, free countries have trouble controlling what their citizens do. So this has a slight benefit for countries that have more “control” over their citizens or stricter laws. Everyone loses something though, so I don’t think it was intentional.

I would say the longest game would be to create a virus like this and the vaccine, vaccinate your people, then spread it and let the rest of the world deal with a pandemic. But then you still can’t control mutations. And I don’t think this was the case with this one at all.

If it’s true, what do we do about it?

Nothing. We can’t do anything. Saving face is likely more valued than the truth coming out, and it would potentially cause a revolution and great instability if this got out. It could be World War III and lead to more death.

What does America do next time?

Be a hell of a lot more aggressive with emerging illnesses and with our support. If it is a well known secret that they had a leak before but we don’t publicize it, other countries may be more welcoming to support and transparency if it happens again.

I think all we can do in this case is look forward and put things in place so it doesn’t happen again.
Yeah, but if your neighbors bred ants that had to be sustained in a specialized environment to stay alive, you wouldn’t blame them for an outbreak. Viruses in the wild must be able to survive the environment, while a lab grown version would be protected from competitive viruses and enemies.
It’s interesting tool but would be great if support:
- i18n
- multilingual è site map and seo
- Strapi API
- Tailwind CSS
Why can't both be true? Actual qanon types absolutely latch on to stories like this-- kind of a broken clock situation.
If you are strapped for cash and this is a make or break deal, think about taking this (No, this is not the first or only option).

If you are hell bent on taking this deal, ask them to pay for the Product on top of giving you distribution (reselling or licensing) this to other businesses in that Country. Get minimum guarantees and make it a timed deal with the option of walking out at any time. If you want to sell the Startup tomorrow this can be one of your biggest headache.

Disclaimer: INAL
You should check out russian diplomats like Mariya Zaharova or Sergey Lavrov, if you want to get some "kindergarten-level" diplomacy. They do really not care about public image. This act is polite compared to what they say and pull off.
I've seen something like this happen because of a race issue during login. Basically the developer(s) had refactored something and were not aware that a global variable was being captured by a closure used for auth.

This meant that whenever two users signed in at the exact same time, there was a non-negligible chance that they swapped accounts during the flow.

It was actually not that easy to spot in the code. Sometimes what looks really, really stupid on the surface may in fact have a complicated and not-so-stupid explanation, often involving multiple developers and modernizing legacy code.

If it is a race condition, it can be incredibly hard to find during test.

Even if it is a stupid mistake, like e.g. not marking session cookies as secure and private, it does not mean that all of the rest of the code is bonkers.
There probably were conspiracy theorists doing just that. But there were also articles like the one by Jim Geraghty (https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/coronavirus-china-tra...). Compare what he wrote to what is in the recent Atlantic article.

Geraghty:

> And none of the above is definitive proof that COVID-19 originated from a bat at either the Wuhan Center for Disease Control & Prevention or the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Definitive proof would require much broader access to information about what happened in those facilities in the time period before the epidemic in the city.

> But it is a remarkable coincidence that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was researching Ebola and SARS-associated coronaviruses in bats before the pandemic outbreak, and that in the month when Wuhan doctors were treating the first patients of COVID-19, the institute announced in a hiring notice that “a large number of new bat and rodent new viruses have been discovered and identified.” And the fact that the Chinese government spent six weeks insisting that COVID-19 could not be spread from person to person means that its denials about Wuhan laboratories cannot be accepted without independent verification.

Engber:

> Arguments in favor of the “lab-leak hypothesis” remain grounded, as they ever were, in the mere and highly suspicious fact that a coronavirus likely borne by bats, likely from a cave in southwest China, emerged 18 months ago, quite suddenly, in a city very far from southwest China—where researchers had assembled an archive of cave-bat-borne coronaviruses.

As Geraghty recounts yesterday (https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/even-xavier-...), many in the media, rather than assessing the facts themselves, just resulted to name calling against a conservative-leaning but measured writer. I also haven't seen Geraghty (and again, other more measured writers) claim to have definitive proof of the lab-leak theory (as some conspiracy theorists might claim), only that it is a possibility that shouldn't be dismissed out of hand. It is illogical, irresponsible and unscientific to say "well, this theory was picked up by racists, therefore we should dismiss it" rather than evaluating a possibility on it's own merits.
Google urged to abandon Saudi cloud project
“Late 1990s” is a bit of a stretch. Dialup ISPs were widespread by the mid-1990s, and there was broad enough demand that third parties shipped TCP/IP stacks on Windows 3.1 before Windows 95 built one in.
1) I assume b/c libraries purchase the book it's not equivalent. Do they purchase a subscription to the NYT and then lend it out to people? From what I gather on their website it doesn't seem like it

2) I'm not sure why you just made that up ..

https://archive.is/faq

"Why does archive.is not obey robots.txt?

Because it is not a free-walking crawler, it saves only one page acting as a direct agent of the human user. Such services don't obey robots.txt (e.g. Google Feedfetcher, screenshot- or pdf-making services, isup.me, …)"
> And we wouldn’t share license keys for software we might believe should be free, or ad free, so why is this acceptable?

Why do you care? The NYT's business model does not depend on shoving ads on eyeballs only, they have memberships too.
I wonder if DMCA-leeches like "OpSecSecurity" realise that their misconduct opens the door for an easy-out strategy by "pirates" like the following:

- upload a copyrighted work to the 'net under the name 'ubuntu-[some-old-edition]-[some-odd-architecture].iso'
- share the BTIH (bittorrent hash_) on a forum giving the true name
- sit back and watch downloaders use the simple defence of "I just downloaded Ubuntu, what are you talking about?"

Using an older release and an odd architecture makes sure those looking for the real Ubuntu (or Debian or Wikipedia or whatever, as long as it is well-known and freely distributable) are not likely to end up downloading/sharing the latest bit of Hollywood drivel.

They will lose this fight, they probably know they will end up losing it but they're willing to leech their customers for their "services".
Why do you say that?

As far as I know the vector vaccines were tested on animals. Nothing was skipped.

The issue is more that this side effect is so rare that it didn’t register even during the quite large phase 3 trials. This is to be expected. If side effects are rare enough you just won’t find them during trials. That’s why it’s important to monitor the vaccine rollout for all vaccines.
No, not cynical at all. This is one of the most legally unethical people on the planet.
Yeah. It was like once things that were 'nerdy' became cool (comic books, sci-fi, video games, etc.) all of a sudden everyone was a nerd. I guess that's good and bad.

It does feel weird though. I don't watch comic book movies (or many movies for that matter), because I'm usually teaching myself about something nerdy: history, electronics, math, systems stuff, a new programming language, etc. It kinda goes back to the original idea of someone oblivious to pop culture because they're buried in pursuits most people find boring.

I stared using 'geek' because I liked the sound of it better, but realized it's just a 'nerd' synonym to most.

I just wish we had a word for folks that get annoyed when people don't use Demorgan's to fix their conditional statements to be more readable, or like to read primary sources, or whatever.
Screw that - don't let the people on the Internet live rent free in your head. You don't have to post to prove anything.
Twitter worry over 'freedom of expression' in India
This could be considered a landmark that marks the end of social manipulative media. Good riddance you won't be missed

(Because hiding/unhiding will be the next social signaling)
> if they are so bad for the individual worker

isn't it possible that they are good for the majority of workers, but bad for a few? Maybe it is that minority of workers that hold this perspective?
"Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas."

People who think it's a good idea to non-anonymously discuss their personal life issues in Twitter / public social media are too dangerous to have in your life. Doubly so for the "Silicon Valley" "technorati".
The real spike proteins are insoluble and stick to certain membranes, like in your lungs. The mutant ones are shorter and more soluble, so they can more easily accumulate elsewhere, e.g. the blood vessels in your brain: hence the vaccine-induced brain blood clots.
IIRC, it was a permanent change for everyone. This most recent change re-adds the ability to see counts.
That's the form the data came in and when it came time to convert it, I figured it might be better not to.
The path, having almost reached the mouth of the Sacramento River, seems to have been captured by the very artificial Mallard Reservoir in Concord, Contra Costa. As to be expected, it seems that anything draining into the Sacramento will do the same.

https://goo.gl/maps/s9Gep775ZLDgddzz7
Does your language not support Unicode?
I get what you are getting at, but It's not really a euphemism. Telemetry means literally "distant measurement." You can use telemetry to track sensors in a rocket, a request across a service mesh, a traceback from a crash in a user program, fine-grained details about everything a user does in Windows, or a straight-up keylogger. All are forms of telemetry.

The VS telemetry injection is scary as hell though.

Telemetry is like a knife. Context and location matters. Great in the kitchen, bad when lodged in your back.

Sharing this from myself downthread:

Telemetry is the in situ collection of measurements or other data at remote points and their automatic transmission to receiving equipment (telecommunication) for monitoring. The word is derived from the Greek roots tele, "remote", and metron, "measure".

All spyware is, by definition, telemetry. Heck, the whole field of spycraft ( espionage ) is telemetry of sorts. Not all telemetry is spyware.
GitHub removes a Reddit profile scraper as a violation of terms of serv
I can't imagine anyone actually reading these articles in 2021. I'm pretty sure most people buy the New Yorker to put it on the coffee table, because of the decorative covers.
While at university, late night coding an assembler assignment, I had a bug in my code, and the compiled code would lead to some CPU violation.

After running the code, the CPU started making a super loud high frequency noise. The code was a super tight infinite loop, co CTRL-C did not work to make it stop. Hell, even power button of the laptop didn't react! Everything was completely unresponsive.

It was middle of night and my laptop was about to wake the whole neighborhood, and the only solution I found quickly was to remove the laptop battery.

Luckily I had a removable battery in my laptop back then!
Any online process that endeavors to be secure will be indistinguishable from a malicious system that tries to make your task purposefully difficult.

I just got refused by a govt site recently because of the six different forms to info they wanted in order to sign in again, one of them wasn't accepted. Namely my cell phone number was prepaid which apparently isn't acceptable anymore. So now I need to mail in forms and wait for return mail taking weeks.
Use Gender Pronouns on LinkedIn
> I just don't see Common Lisp as dealing with modern computing that well. It looks crufty and tired where Scheme continues to refine and sharpen.

I don't think that they are aimed at the same thing. Lisp is stable, reliable and suitable for large, durable systems; Scheme is conceptually pure, but its refinement and sharpness lead to fragility. You applaud the success of R7RS, but it is a retreat from specifying a general-purpose programming language (something R6Rs tried to do and was castigated for), choosing simply to provide a toolkit for building a general-purpose programming language. That's not bad, but it means Scheme is not suited for the things Lisp is suited for. I would hate for the RTOS monitoring my car to be written in Scheme, but I think it could in principle be written in Lisp.

Racket, arguably the most successful and influential Scheme out there, isn't even a Scheme anymore! There's nothing wrong with that, of course, but it says something when the best Scheme had to evolve until it was no longer Scheme.

Meanwhile, systems written in Common Lisp decades ago keep running, and new systems keep being written. It has some warts, some big ones, but it has some real virtues, too.
>> If I were to create my own chat protocol, I would actively try to make it next to impossible to implement it on mobile and consider this a feature.

> So what? How come it should be my concern to include everyone, as if everyone was entitled to use my service?

You weren't talking about a service, you were talking about designing a protocol in such a way that it wasn't usable for mobile users. That's a very different thing.

I'm saying we shouldn't be designing protocols in such a way as to ensure folks can't implement it in certain settings. If you want to set up an IRC network with a ToS that says "no mobile users" go right ahead.
> No. There should not be legal penalties for describing abuse without legal proof.

This also means, by definition, that there are no legal penalties for lying about abuse without legal proof.

If you piss off the wrong person, they can now stalk you on the Internet “warning people” about how you’re a sexual predator.

No evidence, no way to get them to stop. Better hope you don’t anger someone with a lot of followers. What a shitty world.
Good machinists are something akin to lion tamers. CNC machine tools inspire a special sort of horror. They're mechanical beasts that growl and groan, ready to lunge at a moments notice with sharpened fangs, and will disembowel you if you let them. Working with a machine that will happily blow itself to pieces with a few errant keystrokes does wonders to focus one's attention. You learn to move carefully and deliberately in their presence.

I'm a software developer who has had occasion to program a CNC mill and lathe over the past few years. The relative banality and physically harmless nature of software bugs made in my normal job made the stakes seem so much higher by contrast, when touching machine tools. I partly credit this "culture shock" in helping to keep me safe and the equipment undamaged - apart from a trio of snapped endmills on Day 1 (F100 instead of F10).

I can definitely echo that the ability to work safely, quickly, is one thing that sets the pros apart. I'm glad I have the luxury of time that light production affords.
The story with the miners[1] has caught my attention. A group of miners fell ill w/ a SARS-like virus via bat droppings. In retrospect it sounds a heck of a lot like COVID. Wuhan was known to have investigated the case. Perhaps a researcher manages to get infected, or something like that.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7606707/
Why don't you work for yourself, if your desire for individual liberty is so strong?
This post is a great example of the prevailing "everything is political" mentality. You take an empirical question that has a definitive answer (whether or not we'll ever have that answer) and turn it into a political issue.

To you, a theory is invalid if your political enemies embrace that theory.
This Lab-Leak Theory should have been killed in the cradle. This idle speculation about the origin theory of Covid19 only goes to fuel the machinations of conservative think tanks and does nothing to further science.

As a scientist, I would love to know how why and where this covid strain started. But understand that lab-leak or lab-escaped is just a stones throw away from lab-created and the last thing we need is science blamed for this virus.

With conservatives in the US so hell bent on defunding anything science related, this would only be used to kill off research programs. We need these programs to be researching against these pathogens now, so that when something new pops up we have methods to create vaccines. If it hadn't been for decades of covid research there wouldn't have been a covid19 vaccine created in 9 months. It would have been years, possibly decades, with our only hope of containment some kind of collapse of the virus similar to the Spanish Flu of 1918.
I'm watching this happen right now under my eyes here (U.S.). The director decides who gets in or not, favor friends and nothing is made for young people (there are none anyway). This is just a name, with names behind it and a website listing past achievements (that were made by others long gone) and false promises.
> What if I want to work just for a few hours on a Friday night and that's it?

Out of curiosity - what has that got to do with unions?
Sorry, but I don't understand how forcing people to find a new job after 10-15 years ensures they're not forced out of their homeland.
While home birth is certainly possible and apparently can be a very nice experience, I strongly suggest going into a hospital for birth (you should be able to choose a hospital of your liking after talking to the nurses/doctors/midwifes working there). Birth is safe in most cases, but complications do happen. While the probability is low, the possible damage is extreme. Please consider the availability of experienced medical professionals as a safety net for mother and child! I witnessed an "emergency" C-section after 18hours of labor without any prior indications and was extremely happy that professionals were literally in the next room when this became necessary.
I'll concur, based on the experience of colleagues that both running HN and participating don't mix well.

People running or moderating a site have a responsibility to be impartial. And no matter how impartial they actually are, they'll be accused of every conceivable bias. It makes it frustrating to participate when every comment becomes fodder for each side thinking you're shilling for the other side.

For example, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25922311 and the parent it's responding to.
Josh rogan is a frequent CNN correspondent and a veteran journalist. He came on the joe rogan podcast to sell his book about China. He made a plausible claim that COVID was the result of “gain of function” research performed on a naturally occurring bat-born virus. This idea has also been floated on 60 minutes.

He also claimed that China threatened the United States with cutting off our supply of masks if our government acknowledged the fact that all of the circumstantial evidence pointed to a lab-leak. China has been known to do this and it was certainly to their benefit, so it strikes me as plausible. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the Biden admin is now signaling support for lab-leak just as it is becoming clear that the pandemic is now over.

As a person with some background in biology, I initially dismissed lab-leak because the popular discussion was about engineered viruses which is bullshit. I didn’t know about gain of function. I’m personally heavily in favor of the lab-leak hypothesis.

The entire world was a science experiment for a year. Stop gain of function research. Stop stigmatizing prepper culture.
This has been the saddest part of the pandemic to me. The epistemology of health policy is completely broken - fully reliant on arguments from authority, impervious to contrary evidence, initial beliefs clutched onto until the bitter end. Opinion makers are unable to distinguish between entertaining an idea and embracing it.

This lead to predictable debacles on mask usage, airborne spread, everyone's pet theories of innate population immunity, seasonality of the virus, virus origins, etc.

And yet - there are zero calls for introspection, blameless post-mortems. Nobody seems to care.
You could make it pause the run when moving the map around, the automatically continue if it's left alone for N seconds, where N is probably around 5.
Regarding Swish I would agree, regarding Klarna I could not disagree more.
Easy to say that. But when you tear these claims down, they started with anything but factual or substantial.

1. COVID wasnt caused by 5G. Nor vice versa.

2. We've seen MERS, SARS, and other coronavirus diseases previously in the region. This isn't the only one, and wont be the last.

3. "Chinaman virus" is a point that comes from racism. It only highlights racist beliefs, and is no way any proof. (Why wasnt the "Spanish Flu" called "Kansas Kough" - it started on a Kansas military base?)

4. The most vehement supports of this conspiracy also loudly proclaim that masks don't work, and the vaccine is microchipped.

5. Masks work, of different efficacy depending on filter levels

6. No, the vaccine has no microchips.

And if you want to dig deeper, go watch the "Plandemic" video. That's an hour or so of conspiracy, including the elites infected the plebes to make more money.

When 1 conspiracy is chopped off, 2 take its place.
In a pinch, you can use rolled / crumbled scraps of paper towels from the bathroom. It's quite common here (Berlin) and absolutely no one looks at you strangely if you do that. Some good clubs only have the bass really loud but it's not as common as it should be. High frequencies are what causes ear damage.
Wow, they must of had a really good model that could predict a bomb threat that far in advance!
The Great Basin is interesting to explore. I clicked in Eureka, Utah, and the route ended 23km away in a tiny lake called Gadwall Pool.
I think you've made my point. If you unload free movies as gifts for people who buy other stuff from you... maybe the movie business isn't really for you? :-)