skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't know much about Segment, but whatever they're up to bought them a total block in uMatrix so this is un-readable in my browser.
> The way I remember it was that people conflated the lab leak theory with it being engineered in a lab. Those are very different things but easy to mix up in a headline.

This is kind of how I remember things too I think, I feel like I'm being gaslit by the internet lately reading how certain some people are.
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You've inspired me to add NFT DRM to my Pet Rock Remote Control, so you can cryptographically lock your remote control to the digital pet rocks you own, so that nobody else but you can send them commands to "sit", "stay", "play dead", "roll over", etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG0FAKkaisg&ab_channel=DonHo...
> There's no papers out of WIV indicating GOF research

This is something I'm confused about. There are a bunch of papers from the WIV and the North Carolina lab which describe "reverse genetics", spike protein modification, and other obvious gain of function research which acknowledge funding from USAID and EcoHealth Alliance. (The most recently famous of these is Menachery et al, Nature 2015.) But it looks like the actual GoF was done at the Baric lab in North Carolina. The closest I could find was serial passaging experiments done at Wuhan to isolate viruses and test vaccines. One could argue that testing virus infectivity by serial passage is dangerous enough...

> The funding to WIV had nothing to do with GoF and there's no evidence of anything else.

The funding to EcoHealth Alliance specified GoF under such terms as "reverse genetics", "virus infection experiments ... humanized mice."

EHA may have put restrictions on how this money was used, but with the revelation in this article that WIV has lied about doing military research... I'm not so confident we can say no GoF was done there.
Is this UI so simple that it’s meant to break on mobile?
Both are true.
It is up to the community of rational actors to either choose both or none at all.
Your country does count.

France is a major actor in African and regional conflicts.

It is the third largest exporter of weapons ( After the USA and Russia ) to conflict zones.
These two bits when combined are to me the most at odds with reality:

> Although they should jointly discuss the various trade-offs involved in a decision, each decision has a single owner.

> When?
> Owned by the EM (based on trade-off conversations with the PM).

Basically the EM is responsible of delivery date, but doesn't have authority on the business side to adjust for potential timing issues.

For instance the PM/EM can agree on a first timeline, but the EM won't be decide to pay for more time in exchange for more business return, or lower running cost. Or to short a project that takes more resources than the expected return.

My point is separating responsibility for cost, resources, time, and return is a losing proposition in most settings, as they are intertwined.
> PM has a deep engineering understanding

Amen. I've worked at a startup where the barrier to entry for a PM role was either low (in my perception) or they were allowed to get better at their job as the project progressed. Features were conjured up only to be canned after it was baked into the product and higher-ups shot things down.

The codebase was a total mess.

On the flip side, I've found experienced QA folks wanting to move up the corporate hierarchy by upskilling into PM roles a pleasure to work with, especially when it came to setting expectations upstream and estimating timelines.
Politicians say a lot of controversial and contentious things. Just that they are contentious for the different people. People that it is now OK to offend. Corporations offend a lot of people - when Coca Cola makes training that tells their employees to "try to be less white", I am sure there are plenty of folks who find it offensive. When on CRT training people are told that certain race is evil from birth, it surely is offensive to many people. It's just that they are OK with offending those people, because they think they have enough power now to ignore their opinion.
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Why Google search told searchers Kannada was the 'ugliest language in India'
It's not a matter of distributed systems, but a matter of systems where only parts of it are updated on prod at the same time.
You could easily imagine a huge release, where the whole codebase gets pushed to prod at the same time. Then, the whole issue of versioning APIs disappears. However, it would require more discipline (probably unachievable at Google scale), so most companies prefer the slowly-burning garbage fire of versioned APIs and backward/forward compatiblity of messages.
Evernote integrates a task manager into its note taking application
Here I have a little bit of experience. When a person has shown themselves to be a pathological liar, you can't judge their ideas on their own merits because the cost of judging far outweighs the cost of producing garbage ideas. That is why attention is so valuable, there are plenty of people out there who do not make it their trade to espouse nonsense.
> That's to be expected - press releases focus on super-optimistic specs and timelines.

we've just coming out from a years of travel restrictions, makes sense to reduce rd spending to extend the runway
Both reproductive organs are descended from the same tissue and comparatively expensive and similar genetically.
Overconfidence in news judgment associated with false news susceptibility – PNAS
Never has been in the woke rulebook. If you work as Head of Wokeness, you live by the woke rulebook, so no complaints.
I knew someone was going to mention the sailing... suprised no one brought up Lord of the Rings.
You still need to convert crypto into fiat at some point.

A criminal group can just hire poor people to make bitcoin exchange and bank accounts under their identities.

They can use other methods to sucker people into working for them.

So yeah criminals can get around most forms of kyc either through id theft or by employing „volunteers“.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWYkx6-L04Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLULrFY2-fI

I found both of these presentations enlightening, and interesting enough to get me to put J on my list of things to learn.
I cannot personally agree with the first sentence from a modern context, but the second sentence is reasonable. I'm most bothered with I see articles about important ministers of a country and the women have either just a stub or a few measly paragraphs, and the men have flowing pages. I see the same for business leaders.
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> Sometimes I am grateful that I live in Europe where software patents are not a thing.

Unfortunately they are. Software patents are in theory forbidden, but... you can patent a broader patent which will also cover the software variant.

Example: You want to patent the linked list. Obviously you can't do that in Europe, this is software patent (this is also an obvious patent, but there are ways to hide the obviousness through legalese language). But you can patent a "method for linking an abstract document to another one through a well-identified numerical identifier". This isn't per se a software patent, as you could have a real-world implementation (think of Choose Your Own Adventure books), but then you _also_ patented the software version.

This is how IP experts claims that "there are no software patents in Europe" despite accepting tens of thousands of them.
On its face, That’s an absurd statement. NIH offers Very small grants for fellowships ... should he know about those too?
I had commented on the wrong bug report. Tried again.
Why does them being „an expert“ matter?

That seems like an appeal to authority!
I haven't been in enterprise IT for a while, but the enterprise features that you could have closed-source that would encourage big corps to buy (and pay a premium) which hobbyist buyers couldn't care less about:

- SNMP support (it's on the network, it should report what it is)
- Raise SNMP trap (or other alert into $proprietary_monitoring system) when the screen looks like a BIOS screen
- timestamped video storage of any activity that happened (auditors will love this)
- integrated authentication with LDAP / ActiveDirectory so that you can set up a group which has access to all TinyPilots
Can you provide citations for this because it just seems like FUD to me
pydoit is not single language in the sense it limits your to tasks for your language. It's completely agnostic in that sense, and I use it for non python projects as well.

Even the fact it's using python to declare your tasks is not a problem: it's basically a function signature and a mapping, nothing you can't master in 5 minutes, and certainly simpler than make files DSL. Also easier to get right and debug.

The problem is the fact you need python to install it and run it, which non python dev will rightfully not care to do.
There is absolutely no evidence in it. Just a pile of conjecture

There is much more evidence in the article for a lab leak than there was for the wet market story which was uncritically parroted in the media for over a year.
I know why it works this way. I'm not claiming it has a bugged implementation, I'm saying it's broken by design.
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If we ban cars, we'll see less deaths on the road too.
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If I’m not mistaken, some like the British East India Company actually did!
More than 50% of US users on iOS forced to use Safari is the last counter force to a worldwide Google hegemony on nearly everything (Android, Chrome, Search, Mail, ...). It's clearly a lesser evil for me.
I know many people who won't dare touch GCP with a ten foot pole simply because they're afraid of Google's random banning AI wiping their digital lives.

Azure is a minefield that's only worth it when on a .NET stack.
If you could automatically enroll yourself in every sweepstakes legal for your locale, then you could also offer that service to anyone else interested. People could pay you 5 dollars a month to get automatically entered into every sweepstakes.

Of course, this scales badly. The more people who take your service the less valuable it will be as the odds of winning will decrease. Perhaps the natural balancing point would be somewhere where you could still profit. Might be best to charge nothing but take a cut of the winnings. That way people wouldn't be discouraged from joining by the diminishing likelihood of winning, and the chances that someone from your pool would win would only increase over time.
ok, that makes sense; still wouldn't want to be that guy...
NASA will send two missions to Venus for the first time in over 30 years
> I am not sure what should be the appropriate reaction or corrective measure in these situations. We should talk more about handling these unfair situations.

Start recording; have them, a big multinational with a massive legal department, admit to violating and stripping a license from source code. Then sue them. They should know better, and they're making billions off of other people's work. That in itself is fair enough, if the license permits it, but removing the license is crossing the line.
I have a similar experience to this myself.

A long time ago (early 2000s) I wrote a handful of tools to ease physical to virtual (P2V) migration for Windows Server. I was a systems administrator in the UK working for a large American firm.

I wrote the tools in my own time and unlike in other countries my employer had no ownership of them, just to clear that up at the start. I did use these tools at work but never developed them on company time or resources. They were released as open source.

Fast forward 6 months and we had a meeting with a virtualisation consultancy trying to sell us some tools to assist in a wider P2V programme. We had a sales guy and a tech guy visit to show us their stuff. After half an hour of them talking up all they can offer the tech guy fired up a tool and I instantly recognised it was my tool but with some rebranding.

My manager looked at me slightly confused as he recognised it too. I let them continue for a few minutes to properly confirm my suspicions then mentioned that this tool was in fact a tool we already use. They were very confused until I loaded up my version on a remote system to show them.

Needless to say the rest of the presentation was extremely awkward. I believe these two gentlemen thought they were in fact their own tools developed in house. It turned out several of "their" tools were in fact rebranded versions of mine.

I would love to say there was some kind of exciting conclusion but in reality all that happened was they were clearly spooked by this as their/my tools were removed and never included again in their P2V toolkit.

I suspect the moment they left the meeting with us they called to report what happened and rather than risk me following up (not sure how I could do that to be perfectly honest, it was FOSS after all just not used the proper way) they decided it would be safer to just pull these non-critical tools. They were just "nice to haves" anyway.

My boss excitedly share the experience with the team and we had a good laugh about it and how the sales guy went from Mr Confident to stammering and stressed in a matter of seconds.

We never did buy their toolkit.
"Explode" is a pretty strong word for a technology that was somewhat stillborn. Yeah, it showed up on Solaris as Solaris was winding down. I've never seen it used anywhere, and I've been doing this for awhile.
> Yizy is the latest screenshot extension for Google Chrome and Firefox

Firefox already has a built-in screenshot feature.
Just humans searching for something to look forward to beyond all the drudgery and suffering.

The efficiency with which the Attention Economy takes advantage of that need is what is really depressing.
yea well thats not enough! Xcode should be using it too. They make us download 12GB for every update.

/s end open source entitlement section

Thanks for your great work
I feel like this is a weird dichotomy

I don't want actual politics at work. I don't want to be debating politically contentious events at work. E.g. (to pick a contentious topic that was in the news recently) a long winded debate on the palestine/israel conflict is not something i want to have at work. That doesn't mean i don't have opinions on the subject or that in a different context i wouldn't want to debate it, work is just not the time to get into it.

However that doesn't mean i think racism/bigotry/etc is acceptable at work.

I don't see these two things in conflict.
Reading between the lines, this is derived from OS-9 and so not fully open source?
Something I should be aware of; in Go programming, they sometimes encourage you to just copy some code instead of add another dependency. However, if you copy code from a codebase with a certain license, you should, if everything is above board, include the license as well then for that bit of code.

I mean in practice it's tiny utilities that I'm too lazy to reimplement in the exact same way, but still, it's something to keep in mind.
In the article I included my guess about real cause for this: Sun's assumption that any good work had to be from a Sun employee. I'd guess the sequence of events was:

- DTrace is the new hotness, we need it in our UI.
- Everyone's using Brendan's tools, let's add them (so far, so good).
- Oh, why do they say copyright Brendan? He made a mistake: Sun employees should be putting copyright Sun on them. (THIS is the mistake, as I wasn't a Sun employee).
- I'll just delete his name and stick copyright Sun on them all.
- Developer gets picked to go do a world tour (and may genuinely not know what happened).

As for how I was treated: I guessed why in the article as well, the low-key introduction as is the norm in Australia.
I think you might be onto something there ...
That it was incidentally self inflicted makes it so much more delicious drama. (Even if accidental.)
I'm inclined to agree with you. But what I find endlessly fascinating is trying to work out the game-theoretic angle on why the Pentagon would admit that it doesn't know what these things are. It only fuels the interest.
To offer some off-topic support: France is indisputably a cultural giant -- tourism, food, TV/film (Canal+!), the arts. Do not underestimate that!
Those are miners, not researchers. And it was in 2012.
If the aggregate output of each stage of the hiring process varies depending on “is $protected_variable known?”, then there is a falsifiable bias due specifically to $protected_variable and not merit.

Hiding $protected_variable can be difficult in in-person interviews, but should at least be possible for a CV, and when that has been tested, it has been observed. (Names imply race and gender, hide the names and get different aggregate results).
Pillow filling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_feather

This means speaking soft, muffled words - roughly the way you'd sound if you had your mouth full of something soft. Like feather. Or food.

Not a perfect analogy, but hey, works as a hash for an accent, at least among the people I know locally.
This reply only makes sense if covid-19 popped up at a random spot in Wuhan....and not literally right next to their coronavirus research lab.

It's not hard to believe that there could be another spillover event, and I don't have any certainty where covid-19 came from, but you're unfairly downplaying the level of circumferential evidence that does exist. There has been a significant effort against evaluating the lab-leak as a reasonable hypothesis (I say that in the scientific meaning of the word), and that effort has significantly damaged the reputation of scientific institutions around the world, and for good reason.
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Ah yes, because no other company puts analytics on their blog
Any details about how the mutator works? The design doc hints at a “coverage-based” mutator, but I can’t see anything specific about how it works or even if that was implemented.
For me, if the speaker uses two syllables for "and", it's a strong American accent.
Actually if you go looking for these courses, you won't find most of them. You won't even find equivalents. Sometimes you can find Coursera courses which are watered-down and combined versions of multiple courses, but they're usually entirely entry-level and useless.
Great article. Gives me flashbacks to the time someone sent me a link to a newly-released version of Minecraft, and it turned out to be using my own voxel engine. :D

(No credit of course, and the marketing copy around it made it sound like it was all their own code. Welcome to open source I guess!)
Well, as far as videos go, that certainly was one of them
Your original code is already optimized as much as is possible outside of the things mentioned by OP
> but nobody can exploit hello world

If I may quibble over a technicality, hello world is just one layer of an already complex technology stack. Suppose someone was able to slip code somewhere deeper in the stack such as your printf implementation (which generally a programmer will, and should, trust just works like it's supposed to) that opened a C2 channel. Then when you run your innocent hello world program, you're pwned through no fault of the program at the top of the stack.
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Money-Making Strategies Used by Companies with Open Source Projects
One of the reasons games do this is the data is compressed, so a "patch" might be indistinguishable from a real update.

Also, as a dev, you have no idea what version your users are updating _from_. You either need to generate some number of patches for every version you could be updating from, and figure out if you should just download the whole thing again in any of those cases anyway.
How do you know the equipment wrote the correct temperature to the blockchain in the first place?
Music not for the birds, but of the birds; almost planned jazz.

Obliquely: I lived in an area with large corvids (crows). They were quite intelligent as demonstrated through their activities. (I once watched a crow sneak far into an automotive shop to steal sunflower seeds on top of a toolbox in order to share with their buddies.) Interestingly, I could partially discern a few of their calls, especially the specific call repeated as I was moving around that described what sounded like "a threat" and me in-particular. Birds definitely have a language encoded in their songs and their sounds; like some music, we just may not be equipped to understand it.

PS: I used to subscribe to LRB and NY Review of Each Other's Books. They should each be subtitled: "how to look like you might read fancy books if you leave these in your waiting room." I will hide my actual fancy books should I be mistaken for someone who reads fancy books. The SO unit (who is a unit in her own right) approves my trashy supernatural romance novels collection, so The Force is in balance. Don't look at my magical realism or existential sections... off with you.
>many employees said they appreciated the clarity

Anytime corporate-speak includes the word "clarity", you can be sure it is anything but clear.
I think in articles like this there are verifiable claims about facts, and reasonable speculations that have mostly been circling for a while now. These are of course worth considering.

And then there's the completely over the top narrative building based on non-evidence (which also swings wildly based on current trends), legends about mavericks doing secret fact finding missions online etc... stuff that should stay in a bad movie script.

At the end of the day I still think the facts will come up with enough time. If for example the hypothesis is that it's through GoF research, then a group of experts can examine the plausibility and the genomic evidence, try to replicate some of the possible steps etc. Real world research is hard and incremental, it's not done with black magic no one can find out about.
Here's the plan for the mutator: https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/draft-f...
Essentially banning all slaughtering on place and relegating it to specialty businesses which would be no better regulated than any slaughterhouse anywhere.

Meaning, you'd change nothing besides forcing Chinese to use more transport and freezer cars.
The guy has a personal preference for not wanting to live a reduced quality of life, and you're using that to insinuate he wants to genocide old people?
"The auto-update clause is optional" -> Yes, I confirm this is true.

The sample license header here [1] says:

> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

That is only a suggested header.

From Linux kernel here [2], you can see:

> under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only

[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html

[2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/COPYING
> also important to rate-limit remediations and repairs as a safety net to prevent bugs in the code from mass draining and unprovisioning, which can result in service outages if not handled properly.

This is the most important bit for someone reimplementing this...

Never let automation 'run wild' - always have a maximum number of machines per second it can act on, and a maximum percentage of the fleet unhealthy to allow it to continue taking things out of service.
All those companies were around before and during the existence of the iPhone. At least some had apps, and had an equal or better chance at having all those apps, so I wonder why they weren’t successful.

You have to start somewhere. If there were a good alternative, then adoption of it would drive gradual availability of these apps.
Amazon fired him – now he’s trying to unionize 5k workers in New York