skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, the people who write this stuff already live on a different world.

Do you think they will not be test the people for these Mars trip beforehand. That means people on mood altering drug or addictions will not be included. Anyone looking at air-rage events will notice how often it starts with demands to smoke or drink. People who get easy to annoy will also be filtered out. People who keep making unreasonable demands will be filtered out. The fact is a good portion of the general population will never get on one of these craft.

Example: I had one person refuse to visit my cabin up north because it did not come with a hot shower, I have an entire lake but no hot shower. Do you think this type of person will ever get on a Mars ship?
The intent of my comment was to point out the media's bias in calling out and fighting everything from one side at the expense of the truth, but hiding and underreporting anything negative from their side. That's all. I don't care to talk about which administration is right or wrong about specific issues, but you seem intent to go down that road and you've convinced yourself I'm from the "MAGA-verse".
Quite right, myself not least of all.
I tried to go the old-school route of server rendered pages. But then I thought to myself: I would need to write an API later so that's double the amount of work. What if I'm also going to make a mobile app?

I can spin up a graphql API, use create-react-app, and react native, use apollo client to share lots of code and be done with it.

The alternative is more "pure" I guess but it's a lot of double work.
You can't avoid rare events like a wood piece breaking and things like that. I'm much more worried of angle grinder for example.
I'm not really arguing from an antitrust perspective. My argument is more focused on the central role that Twitter plays in our political process. If you have a better word to use for that concept than "monopoly", I'll edit my post. But I'm sure you disagree with my thesis either way.

That said, from an antitrust perspective, there are strong arguments against some social media companies, particularly Facebook. Furthermore, there is a barrier to entry for Twitter: the network effect. It's an incredibly strong barrier.

Finally, of course not every big company is a monopoly.
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Please don't cross into personal attack in HN comments. It just makes everything worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
China is more monolithic than the USA because uniformity is what their culture is structured to establish.

In the West, we have an underlying belief that dissent and debate result in better decisions and more circumspect awareness of complicated situations. We tolerate insolence, dissent, and other unpleasant behaviors specifically because we know they serve a purpose.

That doesn't happen with a top-down ("democratic centralist") system. The vast majority of people have absolutely no power to change the course of decisions. Political offices do not turn over from party to party in a way that shakes up underlying corruption. The police enforce political assertions in addition to the laws of the land.

Your argument boils down to "there are many many people in China, so they must be ideologically and behaviorally diverse." Or, "as X approaches infinity, the number of viewpoints also approaches infinity." It's just not true for human behavior in an authoritarian collectivist society.
Should have waited for 9001.

Oh my mistake, they have several RFCs from 8999-9002.
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It's not an impossible coincidence, but what prior estimate of the probability that an arbitrary pandemic is lab-origin are you applying that to? Of the ~dozen pandemics in the last fifty years, one (the 1977 flu pandemic[1], which killed ~700k people) was probably lab-origin. A 1/12 prior plus a 1/10 coincidence in favor of lab origin is pretty close to even odds, so what evidence takes it back down? You can't just say "because pandemics are usually natural", since that's what the 1/12 prior already captures.

You present many reasonable arguments that natural origin is possible, and I agree that it is. That doesn't mean lab origin is impossible though, and it doesn't mean the possibility is negligible unless your prior is very heavily biased against it. Considering that a lab-origin pandemic has probably happened before (and has even been dismissed as clearly natural by the WHO[2], before the later scientific consensus corrected that!), I don't see where you're getting the confidence you've expressed in other comments that the origin of this one is certainly natural.

As to exact numbers, I agree that it's reasonable to consider only the urban population, since emergence would probably be in a city. There's no reason to limit the population to China, though--natural emergence elsewhere in SE Asia would also have been possible, and the WIV's research program is distinctive not just in China but in the world. It seems like our disagreement hinges mostly on that first prior (considering that a pandemic emerged, but no other information), though.

1. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra0904322

2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2395678/pdf/bul...
"Fear of cancer and cardiovascular diseases"

That one is well justifued, most of us die from something like that
Downvotes on HN are not at all related to the quality of your question. It's fine
Basically these c**s set off vast numbers of nuclear bombs in the atmosphere - OUR atmosphere.

What's the real difference between nuking your own country (or some allies/subject nations) for "testing" and an actual nuclear war?

Sure no-one got killed directly but god knows the indirect effects.

528 nuclear bombs have been set off in the atmosphere and many more underground.

Imagine if there had been an actual nuclear war in the 1950s in which 528 nuclear weapons were exploded - well in a way it kind of did happen - it's just that the countries being nuked were our own.

https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/nucleartesttally
Corporations are just legal agreements. There is no need for the state to be involved for them to exist, though of course it helps the formation and preservation of corporations that a state exists to enforce contract law and protect the right to person/property, but that equally applies to any legal agreement.

The only extra-contractual benefit the state grants corporations is limited liability for tort.
Ha, great find!
> Is Airtable being closed-source a problem anyone has ever had?

Yes

> "I was going to use this hosted, no-code spreadsheet/database platform, but then I realized it's closed source!" is not something anyone who ever would have paid for Airtable has ever said.

No, but “I would like, and pay for, something like that no-code database solution, but Airtable doesn’t meet our data compliance requirements and I can’t host it on ones I control to resolve that” its something I've heard.
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Yeah, everyone knows this. The question as I understood it, was to ask what are some downsides to microservices. And that, to me, includes how they are implemented and managed in the real world, rather than some perfect hypothetical world where everyone did everything by the book.
Ask HN: Worst code you ever had to fix up?
I was once asked to look at a swimsuit website written in PHP. Each product had its own table with the exact same columns. That was really strange.
As someone who lives on a well that sometimes dries up, I'd love to have a backup/redundant technology like this around.

I wonder though, does it also capture pollutants? ie: what kinds of things would someone in a developed region with gas/coal/etc have to worry about with a system like this?
Etleap (YC W13) Is Hiring a Technical End User Documentation Writer
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The project is 2-3 months half-time to start, and then a few hours a week following that.

What you are going to do:
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What we want to see in you:
- Experience writing end user documentation sites that include UI how-tos, at least one, ideally two or more.
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The part about API changes being incompatible with old versions of the frontend (that are still loaded in someone's tab somewhere) is a valid problem, but honestly isn't significantly worse for SPAs than for traditional server-rendered HTML websites. Your basic HTML web form will break too, if your API has changed in an incompatible way!

It's true that traditional websites would coincidentally get a new version if the visitor happened to click a link, but relying on them to do that to avoid seeing an error isn't a better solution than an SPA notifying the visitor that they need to refresh to avoid seeing an error.

Also, I don't really agree with the author's view that needing to refresh an SPA to get a new version is "bizarre" or "something from the bad old days of desktop software." On the contrary, it's an extremely prominent UI element and a fundamental action in all web browsers!

That said, one "trick" is to have your SPA silently listen to your server for app version updates, and when there's a new version, just make your client-side Link component do a full page load (instead of a client-side route transition). Then at least you'll have the same behavior as traditional HTML websites.
while you are correct that lab-leak is "theoretically" a distinct hypothesis, in this specific case the apparent splicing of pangolin virus parts together with bat virus parts is a highly suggestive smoking gun for man-made, especially when you consider that this lab does splicing experiments
What’s so special about the 21st century that “wed be long past such taboos”?

I mean taboos have been around for thousands of years, new ones are created, old ones die. Why do you think the end game is “no taboos”?
Just out of curiosity. Is it a bad question for some reason or why is it downvoted?
I think they do it on purpose. The only way to push alerts to users’ apps is with a “safety alert”. The only way you can post to your whole city is in the crime and safety category. The amplification of fear is built-in.
Please keep in mind that when the old dictionary was written, gay simply meant happy.
Though that is a virus that causes cancer, whereas the cancer under discussion is transmitted directly. Splitting hairs though, IMO!
If it helps you find this discussion more palatable, you might consider and even-further-left analysis.

You could look at how the laborers who you're writing about are often asked to create the conditions of their own labor.

While this traditionally might include all of the unpaid domestic work that goes into the creation of a working class, the work situation for employees here is that it'n not, at the end of the day, the employers who are paying for the app.

I like my employer and all, and maybe I could get them to fund things like this, but if I can make that happen, why would I care what it costs? I would probably want it to cost more ,because a $0.99 app is just going to come straight of my pocket rather than and expense for which I can be reimbursed.

I don't care if MDN charges, and I personally would pay for it.

But I also brought my own device to work for the first 5 years after I stopped being a 1099 employee... so I am a sucker. I get tired of paying for tools i need to make money for other people, even if I understand that money goes to other folks in similar situations.
These make the worst horror stories I've read from various safety organizations. Tanks with gases (nitrogen is particularly sneaky), ovens, radioactive sources... If you want to learn about industrial risks based on real stories watch the CBS videos https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f2ItJe2Incs
Police is meant to use reasonable discresion, or our crime statistics will drown in jaywalking and antisocial behaviour
THIS RFC LEVEL IS OVER 9000.

I'm sorry, I'll show myself out.
From the article :)

> The IETF just published QUIC as RFC 9000, supported by RFC 9001, RFC 9002, and RFC 8999
The actual job posting is for a combination content creator, community manager, Discord moderator, developer relations representative, and social media manager:

> Creating content around events and activities happening in the Gitcoin community

> Memeing Gitcoin’s community governance process into existence

> Moderating Discord and other channels where the Gitcoin community lives

> Finding new and novel ways to improve the Discord experience

> Helping new community members navigate the ecosystem and go from 0-1 in web3

> Moderating and posting updates on Gitcoin’s Twitter

Memes are mentioned, but this person won't be kicking back and thinking about memes all day. That's a lot of hats for one person to wear.
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I don't believe there's any known human ones, but there's a dog one that is 11,000 years old (Canine Transmissible Veneral Tumour) and there's a clam one.
You read this as a straight-faced literary defense of "Very Hungry Caterpillar"?

"I don’t recognize childhood obesity. No one should. I see children doing what they like, which is eating, and doing it without the shame or remorse later drilled into them by Judeo-Christian ethics. This is what I mean when I say juvenile morality: it’s a kind of a priori humanism. Children predate the law."

The whole interview is one long joke, and the part about the publisher changing the plot is a knowing parody of author-editor relations -- to anyone who's ever been within blast radius of one!
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So Tom Cotton is owed an apology, and the American people can stand to remember they were badly misled by 'scientists' and the media just before a presidential election.

It's not like people are allowing themselves to be led around and told what to think or something.
Hi, what type of board games are you working? I wanna create a makruk game server and don't even know where to start
A recent one in US https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bumble-bee-pay-6-millio...
> No matter what anyone tells you, there is zero evidence that any part of the virus is engineered (and it isn't even entirely clear what such evidence would look like, in general!).

I'm not a biologist so I don't really know what any of this means, but there seems to be debate around the presence of a "furin site" [0], which apparently could have emerged naturally, but also could have been artificially spliced in the course of gain-of-function research. Is that how GOF research is normally conducted? I don't really know anything here, but at least some people believe there are genetic markers indicating potential lab manipulation, thus adding another datum in the long list of circumstantial evidence.

[0] https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1266805310313967617.html
Yeah.... remember The Maine ?
IMO I think it's useful to avoid getting moderates and people who don't know better caught up in the mess.

For people who are already convinced, they're already convinced. Banning the content entirely also doesn't help. People are very good at spreading information, even if you manage to ban all conspiracies from the internet, you have TV, the newspaper, private networks, and just word-of-mouth.

Another good tool would be to teach kids how to identify misinformation. You don't have to worry about belief perseverance when there's no belief yet.
"China barred WHO researchers"...

and the WHO researchers themselves engage in (and fund) the same type of experiments as the Wuhan lab (and the Wuhan lab itself), and so had very little incentive to investigate or implicate themselves either...

and further, there actually is evidence of what went on in the Wuhan lab, see https://yurideigin.medium.com/lab-made-cov2-genealogy-throug...
Fish sauce really is a gift of the gods and it saddens me that this pinnacle of flavour is nearly lost in the western world.
What is the definition of moonshot? What are other startups that have this designation?
> No amount of branding will convince me that "fact checkers" are any more objective and impartial than regular newspaper columnists; fact checkers are what editors are supposed to be. There's no academic rigor to fact checking

Matt Taibbi recently published an article about how the role and visibility of fact-checking has changed over recent years (the meat of this is in the second half of the article)

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/fact-checking-takes-another-be...
I did look at Flutter but pretty much concluded that it was still fairly immature and didn't have great 3rd party libraries available for things like graphing and data tables (sort, filter, group, etc, with all the UI work done for you). This was a year or two ago so things may have improved since, but in React-land there's plenty of very capable and well maintained options in both the commercial and open source world.
I had the strong feeling that this can be very helpful, but cannot wrap my head around why.

Can someone explain why this is useful? This means I can maintain a set of "private" changes to a branch, say, better log messages, have this applied to the working tree, do non related changes in a feature, and commit my work without having to deal with the log message's lines?
I'd love to try this out, but I can't determine how to make the application accept requests to a hostname other than localhost. We're not all developing on a local machine. Is there documentation available for the app yet?
I could alternatively assume that you time travelled with a copy of Grays Sports Almanac.
Having lived in a place that had Devils, and having seen them first hand, I'd be so upset if they went extinct. They're such a cute and incredibly iconic animal for us, and the fact they were practically wiped out by a pest animal introduced here for sport-hunting is infuriating and depressing.
I hit the 100kloc size project in Go, the lack of generics and the never ending nested if err != nil lines were a huge part of that. It wore on myself and my team, and was certainly not helpful for the rsi I was experiencing.

10kloc is pretty small these days realistically. Especially in Go land so I get it. But yeah from my experience that simplicity at some point becomes more a burden and less a help.
They were no wild animals sold at the seafood market, only seafood product. Picture of people eating bat soup were taken in Palau island. Wild animal market pictures were taken in Guilin, Gongguan or even Tomohon market in Indonesia. Youtube, Twitter and Facebook were spammed with fake videos claiming to be from Wuhan wet market although they were from these other locations.
An interview in a Japanese documentary in Wuhan:
https://youtu.be/N4ABOJ1y5iM?t=429

Nobody seems to remember that by the end of March 2020, there was a report about Guilin and Gongguan wild animal markets already reopening:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8163761/Chinese-mar...
I guess I was confusing expression based or functional with declarative.
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So here's the thing: the more improbable thing about the lab leak hypothesis is that the lab would even have had enough virus, in virion form, to cause even 1 human infection.

Biological materials are hard to grow and store. Very few people have ever been infected from handling corpses from much more pathogenic viruses (i.e. the black death was one of the only significant ones, and that's because it's a bacterium). And that's about 70kg and trillions of bacteria to "maybe" end up contaminated.

In-vitro scale research on viruses has been going on for a long time, in BSL2 facilities (your university bio-labs for students probably met this standard), and people getting infected from much more contagious human-viruses in those settings just doesn't happen.

The scale of difference in quantity between a smear of virus particles on a petridish (pretty much immobilized, and, as we know, at serious risk of being destroyed by the trace UV from fluorescent lighting) and the quantity from an active infection in a human cough is multiple orders of magnitude (also a massive difference in exposure path: COVID spreads principally by going in through mucus membranes as aersolized droplets - dead tissue doesn't produce these, neither do immobilized particles).

No one pushing "lab leak" has ever proposed a mechanism by which it happened - they just assume it can, because they don't work in a biology lab and have no idea about what biological research actually looks like.
> add a hashmap key with a prefix

Maybe I'm paranoid, but I worry someone else will pick the same prefix as me. If you make the prefix something like a domain name, e.g example.com:myExtension, nobody else is going to use the same prefix assuming you own example.com. That avoids the risk, but it can be a lot of typing. Whereas, if the prefix is something short and obviously meaningful (e.g "doc:"), there is a risk someone else will use the same prefix in a conflicting way.

What I liked about XML namespaces is the indirection: the prefixes can be whatever you want, and then what makes them unique is the URIs they are defined to map to in each document.

The one point at which I think it didn't work very well, was when people started using prefixed names in attribute values. You can't tell whether "foo:bar" is a reference to the XML namespace with prefix "foo:", or some unrelated string of "foo:bar", without looking at the schema.
Perhaps you've been luckier than I have in your experience with Rails and Django codebases! I have seen a tremendous amount of "not doing it right" and "architecting things in such a way that it makes it nearly impossible to 'do it right' when adding or changing any behavior."

With any of the popular React server-side rendering frameworks, getting up and running with a basic web site with some pages and HTML content is not significantly harder (and in fact not that different at all) than doing the same in Django or Rails.
YAML sort of addresses this, but I really wish companies would just go with Lisp when they want to do weird DSL's, such as, ahem, Ansible with their weird YAML. As weird as Lisp is, it can never be as weird as learning idiosyncratic languages for different products. It is the most minimalist machine-human compromise for lists of lists.
> The free market is far and away the most efficient way to organize an economy,

By 'free' do you mean unregulated?

And efficiency (which you seem to equate with 'return on capital') isn't the only positive value, nor is efficiency necessarily a good proxy for all other positive values.

In any case, while a theoretical perfect market without any asymmetries might be most efficient, in practice we have markets that are imperfect in many ways that induce market failures, and regulation is needed to compensate and restore market efficiency. The market for labor is no exception, as the asymmetries in labor relations are huge.
Unfortunatly a bit light on the technical details.

It only mentions that a subsystem update went wrong.

I wonder if it has to do with caching.