skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's nice in theory, but a couple of things. First of all, there was a complete lack of actual evidence that there was a lab leak (this is also true of the Wuhan market hypothesis, it was all quite circumstantial) but we have seen similar viruses arise naturally in the past so our priors would favor the market hypothesis over the lab leak. Second, the lab leak hypothesis and the intent of the virus were tightly entangled in the original reports, especially from the US Administration, that is that China created the virus to harm the US. Third, intent absolutely matters. If this is a bio-weapon that was designed to be used in an attack, then the consequences of such actions are vastly different then if this was a naturally occurring virus that was collected in bats that happened jump to a human host and escaped the lab.

While I increasingly believe that the lab leak hypothesis may be the true origin, my priors still favor a natural jump at this point.

These are also not the only two possible scenarios, just demonstrating that there are different consequences for different intentions, it is literally why the US Penal code has Murder (1,2,...) and Manslaughter (...) as well as Self-Defense protections built into it.
It's absolutely an issue in servers. Within the past month, I have worked with two massive global banks that are backpedaling on adoption of NVMe at scale due to power draw concerns. They ran the numbers, and the performance benefits of NVMe in most use cases don't justify the costs of retrofitting their data centers to handle the increased power draw associated with NVMe (2-3x per disk compared to SAS SSD).

Granted, this is a somewhat self inflicted problem: the banks' data centers were built on the assumption that power-hungry storage platforms would always be isolated to a relatively small footprint, but they are adopting hyperconverged storage architecture as their new operating standard for the future. Newer data centers sized for the increased power draw associated with hyperconverged/converged infrastructure don't tend to have this problem.
Consider that the issue is introduced as the “inaugural issue” of a companion quarterly for young readers. Then consider these entries from the table of contents:

- You Whoreson Cullionly Barber-Monger! 9 Bully-busting Insults from Shakespeare

- Your Struggle: Karl Ove Knausgaard Helps You Navigate the School Yard

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/04/01/the-paris-rev...
Yea this sounds a lot like my current situation. Microservices sounded good, a lot were built over time, now no one wants to understand or own them so they’re just getting punted around aimlessly.
HPV is a virus (human papillomavirus) that can cause cancer, whereas with devil facial tumour disease the cancer itself spreads.

This means the cells that form the devil facial tumour are genetically identical across all individual animals infected with it. Normal cancer cells are your own cells which have developed a genetic abnormality, not somebody else's! As I understand it, an HPV infection increases the chance that one of your own cells will develop a genetic abnormality and become cancerous.
This is one of the reasons I wish governments in the world implement proper digital authentication instead of relying on static identifiers like name, address, or SSN.
I worked for a car company. We had robots for mounting parts. Big robotic arm several tons of pressure possible. I was part of the maintenance team, we get an alert for a robot malfunctionning. Coming in the area we see screwdrivers cleverly placed in all the safeties. And a guy trying to tweak the robot that was slowly moving...
We've already found animal hosts for SARS-COV2, be haven't found the origin animal.
It took two years to find the bats as likely source and another twelve to find the specific species and location, the horseshoe bat.
For MERS we only know that dromedary camels are a major reservoir host for MERS-CoV and an animal source of MERS infection in humans. The exact role of dromedaries in transmission of the virus and the exact route of transmission is unknown.
Operating them is not that expensive. A building's heating and cooling needs are proportional to surface area, not volume, and in a given apartment building the vast majority of walls are shared with other units instead of outside. So a taller building is more and more efficient with regards to climate control, unless it doesn't contain a whole lot of volume. The Burj Khalifa is obviously not ideal but at least judging by, say, Hong Kong the optimal sweet spot for a building is 30-40 stories, where you're not running into massive extremes of either cost or carbon emission.

The reason the suburbs perform so poorly is, among other things, transport very quickly becomes the largest contributor to emissions. Hong Kong is so dense that not only is the "fifteen minute city" more than a reality for non-work trips, but most people are within a 15 minute walk or bus ride of massive shopping malls with department stores.

That being said, the end picture looks fuzzy after some more searching, mostly because it's hard to isolate variables about cities (their wealth, their climate, etc.) and also because the definition of what a "city" is varies globally. Other than "very car oriented suburbs with large lots and home sizes are big carbon emitters per capita."
Congrats on a successful launch! It’s interesting that this submission is close to beating Airtable’s original Show HN submission from 7 years ago in points [0].

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8373914
> With JsonLogic, that might look like this

Here is the thing...There is already a crappy way to describe JSON Schemas[1,2].

It is hard to grok by visual inspection and expressing conditions like "this element can either be a list containing a subset of these values or a hash with keys that belong to the same set" etc make it unwieldy.

The schema ends up being really brittle and hard to modify. 100% green-lit test coverage don't mean a thing when it is soooo easy to end up with a false negative.

Now take that and add logic to it? One has to question the existence of all the programming languages in use if we are going to end up subjecting ourselves to that torture.

[1]: https://json-schema.org/
[2]: https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/json-schema-core.html
You're absolutely right. You can put the files on a CDN at least but I'm not sure if it's enough.
Have you run into problems where it hinders team scaling by creating too much cross-team friction?
Microsoft introduces hot reloading for .NET and Visual Studio
> Except it was never misinformation

This sort of illustrates the problem here. It was plausible to you but what you think doesn't matter if the powers that be decide it's misinformation. You can't just come by after the fact and say "it was always obviously not misinformation" to dismiss the fact that anti-misinformation controls failed here, in a way that ultimately suppressed reasonable speech.

My opinion: in the grand scheme of things this comes down to just letting people express things online, even if they are outlandish or ridiculous or whatever. Letting people speak their mind without being censored even when I don't agree with them ensures that I get to speak my mind without getting censored when I'm in the minority, which is a right I value.
This is awesome!! I'm also super excited about this.

You should apply to YCombinator S21 batch! (feel free to use my reference: syrusakbary if you would like!)

https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/
God no. No one handles XML namespaces well. They are an absolute nightmare to deal with in almost every language.

We already have this in JSON: add a hashmap key with a prefix. It's at least as robust provided tools do the sensible thing and ignore keys they don't care about. But as with XML, sometimes, they don't, or do, or something.
It's some kind of cryptocurrency thing, so I wouldn't exactly classify it as a "legit company".

Still pretty funny though.
Ok, yup. You’ve convinced me. This is definitely a joke issue. :D

Also, the included word game is…hilarious. https://www.theparisreview.org/word-hunt
The free limit is 1200 rows per DB now. The paid plans are expensive though. Cheapest is $120/year, and that's more than I'm personally willing to pay for any single piece of software. It's clear they're maximizing their revenue from team / enterprise sales.
If only the users/customers weren't so fickle.

> I do think the UI ecosystem, as it slows down, could become more modular and share more core components

I think things like Flutter will take another few years to become performant compared to even Electron/Tauri/Webview+JS

Yes, it is sad that we redesign UI (even web UIs) every so often, but it is an unforgiving world. I am not sure if it is the fickle users or the product manager(s) to blame, but we seek fancier and fancier UI with every update. There are exceptions like the craigslist website, but those are rare.

I agree with all other points.
Explorations of multi-stage logic programming in miniKanren
Redux?! Bearable?! What is happening?!
It's not. The grammar for JSON is vastly simpler than XML.

(I'm certain one can find a slow JSON serializer out performed by a fast XML serializer, but that's not the point.)
I dislike how articles like this not only don't provide the relevant numbers like percentages, the numbers they do provide are not even the same bases:

"Around 12 million terabytes of hard disc space is currently being used to mine Chia, having risen on an exponential curve since its launch in March. ... Hoffman says that if all hard discs sold in a year – which could hold data totalling roughly 1 zettabyte, or 1 billion terabytes – were used exclusively for mining Chia, it would still use less than 1 per cent of the energy currently used by bitcoin."

Quick, divide 12 million into 1 billion in your head! "Uhhh..." (It's 1.2%.)
Status quo for my situation isn't nothing, it's "do a bit more work to implement using more generic tools". For example we use Gitlab and its boards and ticketing system to approximate a lot of what Airflow does.

So losing all my production data / getting it hacked and ransomed / having unacceptable downtime and instability are much worse than simply implementing AirTable features bespoke using our existing systems.
Except this in an example of the exact opposite of what you describe. As the misinformation was coming from the top and the censorship requests were coming from the bottom.

The reason this question became politicized and labelled as misinformation is that politicians started spreading this rumor for purely political purposes rather than based on scientific evidence. It is hard to imagine misinformation being more top down than senators, cabinet members, and even the President spreading it. The fact they may end up being right in the end doesn't mean they were acting in good faith at the time.

The reason this was censored was because there was bottom up support for it to be censored. Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter have repeatedly shown that their preference is for less moderation rather than more. Moderation costs them money and they don't want to spend money. The reason they increase moderation is because their users demand it.
It is true, laser cut wood and burnt wood in general also sets it off. However on all saw stop saws I've used you can disable the safety when you have to cut those materials.
Considering https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=11900k-w... , Core i9 has only 8 cores, Threadripper has 64. The AMD processor also has also the 8x the number of threads compared to the intel one.

AFAIK, AMD has been faster than intel to tune the power governor on linux. Considering the benchmark shows no comparison on how much electricity the system is eating and is using default settings, it is possible that windows lead in this case can explained by the power governor still needing some updates. We'll have to wait newer kernels to be sure.
I just got an email from them as well. They seem to be a pretty legitimate company (YC W15), but definitely curious if they just cast a really wide net.
> American data collection culture

And that can't be challenged?

In some dictatorships, the government can claim 95% of the election votes went to the incumbent.

The US unemployment rate published by the Bureau of Labor does not reflect the true unemployment rate.

The Three-fifths Compromise considered certain people only worth 3/5th of a person. Government defined metrics aren't a scientific / objective measure of the physical or moral world.

> pet analysis and pet causal theories, and imaginary drill-downs into the data which don't exist! ... You are making your own fantasy data

Let me know if you get a 404 error

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/chart/educational-...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/these-groups-of-asian...

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/04/19/524571669...
I generally agree with you, my guess is the virus was messed with and accidentally got out. However I don't feel comfortable ruling out alternative scenarios, such as:

1) The sample the lab received was from the 'third host' and not from a bat; e.g. a field researcher mailed the lab a slice of pangolin.

2) A guano miner or lab researcher received a massive viral dose and inadvertently became a one-man walking "GoF lab"

> Assuming RaTG13 was indeed the source of COVID-19, the question of "how it got to Wuhan" is, I think, much less interesting than "how did it mutate into COVID-19" (and "why can't we find evidence of that process?").

'Interesting' is subjective, but I think both questions are important. Particularly, the wisdom of locating a lab like this inside a city should probably be called into question. Whether the lab was doing GoF research on this virus prior to outbreak is certainly an important question; arguably the more important of the two. But unless we are dealing with 'zero-sum importance', that does not diminish the importance of figuring out why and how the virus was transported into a city.
You could almost say that, if there was any notion of purity in javascript. You don't get referential transparency within javascript so talking about purity in that case is really moot.

The main point is: Within haskell we have purity, if you have Int -> Int it is referentially transparent, it can't do anything but take inputs and produce outputs.

If we have an expression like

let x = y + z
y = 10 + z
z = 3

these are just expressions that are reduced to a type and a value.

IO () is a type, a higher kinded type that satisfies properties the same way a list does. This type has meaning and the meaning is some "Side effectful action producing something". we can manipulate, map and combine this type and it just represents some action to be performed, which is pure as it just represents the actions. The value is the actions to perform.

A haskell program is an expression that reduces to the type of an action IO ().

So while yes both the IO monad and the js can represent the same effects, it isn't equivalent when we are looking at something that was never pure to begin with and drawing the similarities of what they represent.
LOL, I am just going to leave this here, but to those that complain about JSON or XML or any future format X: It's always going to be shitty, messy and hard to read. You can only do so much to get rid of extraneous symbols but at the end of the day the format is hard to read because there is hierarchy and repetition. It seems like everyone is waiting for a format that will make reading 2000 configurations "easy". I'll have to say, good luck.
Yeah, I ran an ewtoo based telnet chat server in my early 20s, and I agree with the sentiment, though the advantage with my server was that I was pre-defined as having godlike powers and it was basically "choose to come to my server, or go to one of hundreds of others" - so I had to manage my behaviour or nobody would come to my server. Kind of like a private home.

What I would say is "don't try to build a community that you expect to be long lasting in somebody's private home", but there's nothing wrong with going to somebody private party and even going back for another party if you liked the last one.
It's insane to me that anyone on this site is even asking this. What's next: Should I be led to believe those little ads at the bottom aren't scams? The ones that say something like, "SHOCKING! Dentists in <your area> don't want you to know this trick that could save you thousands." Maybe the guy trying to sell me speakers from his van really is a trustworthy guy. I just got a call from someone saying my laptop is infected with malware and needs $400 wired to India to fix. I can't prove definitively he's lying, so I guess I should consider him a valuable resource.

Just go look at Infowars or Zerohedge for 5 minutes. I'm not sure what to tell you, if you come out of that thinking that they're not trying to take advantage of suckers.
It's not missing though, is it? It has the characteristic of having effects of mass but not being otherwise observable.
Please consider this recent story on HN, One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks [1] (methodology: searched HN for "man" and took the first story, sorted by date). Count the number of comments that focus on the subject's gender. I couldn't find any. Contrast that to this story -- well over half are about nothing but gender, and almost all mention it. Why is that?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27254719
It is not all moist wood. It depends on the specie, type of cuts, etc. Thats capacitive sensing so it depends on a lot of parameters.
Chances are, they're using "crime" and "lawlessness" for some group of people they think should be illegal.

That the crime rate has gone down is meaningless when you think more things should be illegal.
Invoking something at the command line is also prefix notation, and it's something programmers do all the time.
Except there's no barrier of entry to Twitter's marketplace. Twitter doesn't somehow prevent users installing other apps. They aren't a natural monopoly, seeing as how Facebook has been taking shots at that space for years.

This bizarre HN notion that every big company is a "monopoly" needs to die. Being popular doesn't make you a monopoly.
Not surprised you can't find it. I feel as if it would have been easier to find had the other side done it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK8P8FQWozA
Google also pinned the first result for any query about the WIV to an article claiming that there was no way whatsoever the virus came from there.
I don't know if it's something that people do consciously to reduce costs and just never talk about, or if it's an unintended consequence, but it's here.

It's very deliberate. It's even what is taught in colleges.

I've had debates with recent graduates who believe the proper way to build anything from a web site to an app is to offload as much of it as possible on the client. If the client doesn't have the latest gear? Too bad. They're an "edge case" and shouldn't be allowed to be on the internet. Go curl up in a corner and die, you old and poor people.

The tech world would be an entirely different world if ethics were part of the required curriculum.
In almost all countries in the global North, the pop. growth rate is already far below replacement. There's nothing nefarious, contrary to your insinuation, about focusing on populations that are actually increasing.
1. Who decides what is a "fringe" theory? You? The Government? The scientific community? Facebook/Twitter etc...?

2. ..Fringe opinions should have to work harder to get to the mainstream... No they shouldn't it is you the reader of those news who should make the decision of how much "brain time" this "fringe" news get.

3. Denying airtime to certain topics doesn't make them go away or sways people that believe them otherwise.
Tbh if you're living in React-land and understand Redux, useReducer with useContext has subsumed the need for it in nearly all cases for myself and my team.

For the parts it doesn't match, truly global stuff or tonnes of mutation, MobX is nicer out of the box than Redux. Redux can be just as nice and in some ways more powerful, but thats only after installing and configuring X amount of middlewares, with all the type confusion that can add :(
The main advantage with Ubuntu is “everyone uses it” so there’s almost certainly a setup for it. Debian may have a bit more hoops to jump through.
I've seen it save a hand. I also noticed quite a few triggers, but it saved a hand so that was worth it.
Yes this. The article mentions the following as poor candidates for client side rendering. I can agree with blog, but suggesting a tool like React is a poor choice for a shopping cart is naive.

> Those are things like blogs, shopping-cart-websites, mostly-CRUD-and-forms-websites.
I recently came across sanity.io as a jamstack backend. Generous free offering. Rather than the spreadsheet model, you define your schema and get a nice CMS interface generated that you host as a static page
The Internet Archive has a lot of old radio programs [1] and newer ones as well [2, 3]. When I wake up in the middle of the night and have trouble getting back to sleep, I sometimes listen to the 1949 World Series between the New York Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers [4].

I thought I was immune to nostalgia for obsolete technology, but those photos of old radios brought a lump to my throat. Radio may have been the closest thing we had to the Internet before we had the Internet.

[1] https://archive.org/details/oldtimeradio

[2] https://archive.org/details/radio

[3] https://archive.org/details/radioprograms

[4] https://archive.org/details/classicmlbbaseballradio
Off topic, but doesn't GDPR stipulate[0] that cookie consent dialogs cannot have non-essential options that are by default opted in? This page seems to have those.

> The use of pre-ticked opt-in boxes is invalid underthe GDPR. Silence orinactivity on the part of the data subject, as well as merely proceeding with a service cannot beregarded as an active indication of choice.

[0] https://edpb.europa.eu/sites/default/files/files/file1/edpb_...
I don't consider countries much. There are definitely some differences per country, but I think the variation even within a same university is so large that its hard to infer much based on country of origin. But I acknowledge that I ignored that part of your comment in my reply and maybe in that left a wrong impression. But I meant no implication that this was somehow US-driven.

Internationalism is so ingrained in the academic culture (at least on fields I'm familiar with) that it doesn't even really register what country somebody's from or is working in. There are definitely some differences especially in the more "overt" parts of the culture (hats and robes and different titles etc), but these are of very little significance for anything but some ceremonies.

My working experience is from Finland, Sweden and UK, but in academia people come and go between countries very frequently so colleagues tend to be from all over.

There are at least some stereotypes that some countries are more prone to the e.g. citation rings, but I don't find that very relevant, as I think the whole system is quite broken and the publishing (at least in English language) forums are typically not country specific at all. Probably something like this happens in more or less any country.
https://www.fastly.com/why-fastly-loves-quic-http3 is a 404 on this page fyi