skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can’t help but feel you’re taking all the “for” factors and none of the “against”, then bending the “for” factors even further.

Calling the market “right next to the lab” is a bit of a stretch - it’s a three and a half hour walk.

The scientists getting sick early doesn’t actually seem to be confirmed - there’s still debate in the US intelligence community whether it’s true. And going to the hospital because you’re sick means something a bit different in China where primary care is rare.

And as for “against”... no mention of the virus not matching any backbones in use for genetic experimentation, or the suboptimal binding to humans, both of which would suggest against engineering.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7095063/
If it had been, astrophysicists would have been very excited knowing that new physics must exist for this to be possible. Else they are ships which manage to survive eons traveling space intact and in perfect working condition.
Fauci, the greatest villain in history.
Are the hours marked? Everywhere I've lived expected me to treat a broken stop light as a stop sign, not just YOLO through. (They tape a trash bag over it until they're finished installing it.)
The reason it's coming out now is because Trump is gone.

During the election, most of the media decided to ignore anything they were afraid would help Trump or hurt Biden.

Whether an activist media is good or bad is left as an exercise for the reader.
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I'm not saying it's shady to provide that funding. What I'm saying is it demonstrates conflict of interest. Last year in May 5 2020 Fauci dismissed the idea that the virus came from a lab that his own organisation was providing funds to - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anthony-fauci-wuhan-lab-coronav...

Whether or not anything shady was happening, the conflict of interest is clear.
Based on your quote, with no other context, using your authentication to access information you aren’t supposed to access is verbatim the scenario the law speaks to.
Arguing that there is equivalence between Damore's politically incorrect but truthful statements and antisemitism is "repugnant". They may have offended in equal amounts, judging by reactions. But if you find Damore distasteful then you've already been radicalized and your taste ruined.
Except that we still don't actually know very much about the origins of this virus.
If you understand a concept well enough you can never really forget it. I did a very similar 4 year CS curriculum and a decade and a half later can still recall pathfinding algorithms, Diffie–Hellman key exchange, red black trees, big-O notation, OCaml, half vs full adders and lots more with a very brief glance at reference material.
You could have written "the Wikipedia article for capital asset pricing". I don't see the need to make it a question.

Your comment comes across as passive aggressive, unfortunately. I hope that wasn't your intent.
I think part of the point is to expose people to a breadth of sub-disciplines to help them find an area they enjoy.
It’s also easier to debug, because state is so minimal and visible
The sad part is this is all very old news, but the left leaning media wouldn’t report it. Worse, they equated it with conspiracy theorists and Q anon. If this isn’t your media red pill, I don’t know what is.
Not sure if it’s different now, but older models activated Lane Keeping Assist at 45mph and keeps lanes down to 40, and always seems to be just out of reach of usefulness in the city, perhaps by design.

LKA is just that, an assist, because if you let it drive it’ll bounce back and forth between the lane markers, not keep you seemingly centered.
The best parts of education is not primarily the material you remember. It's the effect on your thinking patterns as a result of studying and the familiarity with a school of thought.

For example, I studied Greek before software engineering. I've forgotten quite a bit, but theres an entirely different set of thought processes I have access to while doing software engineering because of it.
...yes? Listen, if you are prepared to seriously consider a lab leak, then you have to assume that any public statements from Chinese authorities are dubious. I’m pretty sure my own government makes dubious statements all the time so it’s not hard to imagine.
Is Internet Explorer still that popular to require extra support?
Ok, but somehow he turned journalists' brains into mush such that they could no longer do investigative journalism and moreover turned them into bots which flagged Tweets which questioned the received theory and turned the CDC virologist into a Saint?
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Kevin Drum had a good summary of this a couple of weeks ago, much shorter. His take? There's no more evidence for the lab leak theory now than there was a year ago, BUT what has changed is that the cross-over theory implied that we would find certain evidence for the vectors, and that evidence has not shown up. KD's take was that it's not so much that the lab leak theory has become more likely, it's the that biological origin theory has become less likely.
> a cyber criminal group... penetrated a pipeline operator on the U.S. East Coast, locking its systems and demanding a ransom. The hack caused a shutdown lasting several days...

I expect more precise language than this from Reuters. This makes it sound like the ransomware was responsible for shutting down the pipeline. The billing system was compromised. Colonial shut the pipeline down themselves so they wouldn't have billing inaccuracies.
Yes I have read more than the articles, which is why I’m correctly saying it was unlikely to come from the lab.

I’m not saying it is impossible, just unlikely. And automatically degrading the opinions of experts who have detailed their arguments because you think they are biased is not proof of anything either.
3.37% (3rd most popular)

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
That's how I started out with openSUSE + Nix, but I quickly found that I still had to learn about most of Nix's quirks, while only getting a small part of the benefits (namely, not the system configuration).

It may be worth it if you care a lot about having imperative escape hatches, but if you're willing to invest upfront work in getting past the learning curve and want to maximize the benefit you get from it, I would just recommend diving into NixOS directly.
Last year in May 5 2020 Fauci dismissed the idea that the virus came from a lab that his own organisation was providing funds to - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anthony-fauci-wuhan-lab-coronav...

The conflict of interest is: was this statement actually what he believed to be true at the time, or was it to draw attention away from the Wuhan lab, so there wouldn't be ugly questions about why his organisation provided funding to it?

To me it seems like the right thing for Fauci to have done at the time was draw attention to the potential conflict of interest but that admission only became public last month - https://nypost.com/2021/05/25/fauci-admits-nih-funding-of-wu...
Most shopping malls (at least that I've seen) already have EV charging.

IMO it's kind of useless though. If I'm traveling I need a DC fast charger and if it is a DC fast charger, probably won't have much time to go in the mall before it's done (and have to move my car to open up the spot). If I'm near home I almost never need to charge outside.

7-11 is actually better since I won't be too far away from my car. Run in, grab a snack, chill for 5-10 minutes and be on my way. Only problem is they never have bathrooms.
It's hard to give really specific advice on this but do you have friends who work in tech who've filed patents? If so, they probably have worked with a patent attorney hired by their company to convert their invention into a patent application. Ask about their experience, whether the patent attorney properly understood their invention, whether the patent attorney was responsive, etc.

In general, as a patent attorney who's worked both in large international law firms and in a smaller firm (patent boutiques) that deals just with patent prosecution, my general advice would be to try and find a good patent boutique. In general the quality of the work will probably be about the same and the patent boutique will probably charge you less money.
SerenityOS creator Andreas Kling is self-taught as well

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS6l7p86cyw | How I got engineering jobs at Apple & Nokia with no degree
This is more or less how my teams' back end REST API server code is written as well.

It's far, far superior to the idiotic God classes most Java devs tend to write - the ones covered in attributes that are sometimes populated, other times not, and annotations for ten different purposes. Just no. Don't use the same single class to parse incoming requests, persist records at the innermost db layer, serializing the outgoing json etc etc etc.

The sane way to do it is to have a dedicated class to parse incoming requests, another dedicated class that represents a validated and decorated record to be persisted (that doesn't have an id attribute, because it hasn't been persisted yet), another that represents a persisted record (with an id now, that is guaranteed to never be null), another that represents the outgoing response etc etc.

A common criticism of this style is that it's wordier, there are too many types, and it can be hard to follow if you're not used to it. The thing is, that's the price you pay for more accurately modelling what's actually going on at each step. The "use a single God class for everything" alternative is "easy to follow" only because it omits important differences that are actually there at each step, which doesn't mean they're not there - they are there, they're just hidden.
I don't believe that's a valid excuse in 2021. In 2017? Sure -- maybe. Even complete luddites don't use IE anymore because it hasn't been the default browser for many, many years.

While I agree there ARE some industries that have to support stupid old versions (eg government websites), any other product managers that think they'll be losing business by not supporting IE are misguided.
We have an actively status-quo favoring media, not an activist one. The former president was a pathological liar (thousands of documented clear lies during his office), and there were (and are) extremely good reasons to ignore more or less anything he said.
> run Qualys to get that PCI-DSS

I feel this deeply within my soul.

I think it's actually harmful, because people that don't know any better thinks a Qualys scan means something.
Spot on. The management is having an existential crisis when butts are not in seats and everything appeared to work just fine.
>> Today I was reminded of some past insensitive tweets, and I am deeply sorry to anyone I offended. I have since deleted those tweets as they do not reflect my views or who I am today.
> So yes
>> "Sorry you're offended" is much closer to accurate.
> is correct.

It is not though. In her twit she actually admitted that she was offensive, while “Sorry you’re offended” should be read as “I am sorry to hurt your feelings but I stand my ground”
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This is a weak and frankly shameful rationalization. Just take the L. People who dismissed this fucked up. People who were jerks about it fucked up even more. Trump Derangement Syndrome is your fault, not Trumps. None of the people who were looking into this or following it were getting their information from Trump. Most of the detractors just assumed they were.
The profit margin on the iPhone is 35%.
The App Store currently runs at a large profit (estimated to be 70%) primarily from in app purchases in the gaming category.

Your purchasing habits are not indicative of the mainstream; further, the iPhone isn't priced based on cost to the cost to design or manufacture.
And, for this thoughtful observation, you get... DOWNVOTES. These Covid origins comment threads are so brutal!

But yeah, I agree. I’m just a lowly PhD student (an older one, though) but it’s pretty clear from my limited experience that “scientific consensus” is a PR term that bears little relationship to how scientists perform their work and engage with their colleagues.
That's not really how it happened. Remember 'Hug a Chinese person day', over in Italy?

https://in.news.yahoo.com/italy-launched-hug-chinese-campaig...
Most sharks live in warm (ish) waters.
The comments in this thread are pulling this idea apart, but the fact of the matter is that before the App Store, people were not willing to pay for apps. Apple created the market singlehandedly.

How far this extends into the current day is up for debate, and how much rent keeping Apple should be allowed to do, sure, but being dismissive of the instrumental role Apple played in the past and to this day is turning a blind eye.
Oh, those Extroverts. They don't understand what working means except it brings them social joy.
Reminds of that old slang “hang brain.”[1]

[1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hang%20brain. Also a map in the excellent Marathon FPS series.
Hanging brain. No longer a joke, now an accurate description.
I’m seriously considering it and put it higher than 0%. But if you think your hypothesis is the most likely outcome (>50%), and your defense at any evidence that discounts your view is that it is a giant and incredible cover up by the Chinese government then I guess we have very different priors about how easy it is to pull off massive conspiracies.

And also remember the people that leaked that 2-3 employees were hospitalized without any additional details or evidence also had an agenda.
> The [stocks] that don’t [pay a dividend] are valued on the assumption that they will in the future.

Could you please make a specific section that justifies your claim?

I skimmed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_asset_pricing_model but I don't see anything there that validates your claim. I may have overlooked something, if so please let me know.

I'm skeptical of your claim. Based on some other reading [1]:

> To manage your portfolio, you need a way to compare your different investments and decide which are worth keeping. The dividend discount model and the capital asset pricing model are two methods for appraising the value of your investments. DDM is based on the value of the dividends a share of stock brings in, whereas CAPM evaluates risks and returns compared to the market average.

[1] https://budgeting.thenest.com/capm-vs-ddm-24472.html
I’m curious about the name? I assumed (and I suspect most women would) it was going to have something to do with manicures or nail salons.
Lol. A lab near the wet market, who studies bats and viruses.
And people ignore the obvious because orange bad man said it.
I’m not surprised but a little disappointed that most of the older techniques aren’t mentioned:

- checkbox/radio inputs can be used to toggle state with `:checked ~ .foo` selectors

- `:focus` (and now `:focus-within`, and `:active` though it’s less useful) can be used similarly, but also allow child selection [Edit to add: `tabindex="-1"` makes anything focusable with a pointer input, but doesn’t capture keyboard tab or iteration with assistive tools]

- `:target` can be used similarly, paired with fragment links [Edit to add: but beware history entries, this can be a poor UX]

- `<label>` can be used to not only set those states but also trigger scrolls (including within `scroll-snap` parents) without creating navigation history entries

- the `attr()` function can be used to reference server-dynamic HTML data for display with `content` in pseudo-elements

- I have to assume CSS animations are adopted widely enough that people aren’t using JS for that where it isn’t needed; but you can also use declarative, even interactive, animations in SVG

- speaking of which, inline SVG (even `<use>` references) are part of the CSS cascade, and you can change any CSS-addressable property with `currentColor`

- and you can nest HTML in SVG with `<foreignObject>` if you want to use SVG techniques in HTML

- probably not worth mentioning but in case you don’t know... if you miss table layouts, you can use them with `display` on basically anything; if you want table semantics without tabular rendering you can override `display` as well

Alllllll of that being said, if you use these techniques check your stuff with assistive technologies!
I switched into Software Engineering following a physics undergrad and had to self-teach the majority of what I know.

10 years in, I find that many individuals fall into a trap of having forgotten many concepts while also thinking that they weren't useful in practice and a bad memory of having to learn/crunch the topic.

This was a significant difference from my experience where most concepts I only picked up as I found them useful/interesting to my work. As such I generally have a sense of pride/enjoyment from seeing an optimal algorithm or simplification of a problem based on concepts in the literature.

I think the 4 year CS curriculum could be revamped to focus on semi-practical projects with less focus on individual topics. Crunching algorithms for 2 semesters probably makes aspiring engineers feel that they are simply memorizing pages from a book which are trivially indexed by google.
No they won't. The very reason of the management chain is manage people, in arm distance, not remotely. The execs understand this best kept secret better than anyone else.
> amongst people such as rank-and-file scientists

Do you have a source? Is there some kind of periodic “rank-and-file scientist opinion survey” that provided this insight to you? Or are you just manufacturing (or repeating) a narrative to make sense of a complicated world?
This is just DOJ, so far. If ransomware gets defined as terrorism for the US anti-terrorism community, it could become very dangerous to be in the ransomware business.

The US has a huge anti-terrorism operation in being, and it's not that busy. Islamic terrorism against the US has been confined to minor local nuts since the US wiped out Bin Laden. And, before that, being "#2 in Al Queda" meant having a rather short life expectancy.

Now, all those people in northern Virginia and southern Maryland may be getting new targets.
I like that everyone gets the same view and not in personal/group bubbles.

However, I do like having mainstream stories separate from the deeper obscure hacker stories.

I use my own view that groups together a some keywords leaving the other interesting stuff up top. Written in Vue. It also uses stable ordering of only one day's stories instead of the slot machine doses of 'here's something I haven't seen yet'.

[0] https://hackerer.news/
[1] https://gitlab.com/karmakaze/hackerer-news
Pretty embarrassing how slow this website is too load, considering the dude's core competency.
The media showed enormous deference to the Trump administration that insisted it was not going to be big, that is was just another flu, that it wasn't transmitted via aerosol, and that it would be gone soon.

4chan isn't know for enormous deference to anyone, so the fact that "they" (collectivizing 4chan always irriates me, but whatever) got things right given the head-in-sand public attitude (*) of the administration isn't really surprising.

(*) Trump of course privately told Woodward that it was really bad.
Except it never seemed more credible. People were assigned their opinion that it was more credible, and accepted it uncritically. It was frankly ridiculous if you had the information about the WIV that was being discussed wherever Peter Daszak wasn’t trying to cover his own ass and ruin others careers.
It's not a conflict of interest because Dr. Fauci wasn't gaining anything. The agency he is head of is specifically interested in infectious disease and has a large budget for grants. $120K per year pays for a couple plate of genetic samples and tech time to run them. Maybe in China you can run a few more for that cost, I don't know.

As head of that agency, it's also his job to share his professional opinion with the public. For this, his reward is a public servant's salary. Seriously, what's he getting here for his supposed "deception"?
How else can mediocrity or excellence be measured but by results? There is no other measure that matters in business.

Are we to take the stories of hiring to fire, constant infighting, favoritism, bigotry, and other inefficiencies and derive from that information that these companies are wise and excellent, instead of at least a little incompetent and mediocre, perhaps not overall but at least in part and by design?
I see Edge at 3.37% and IE at 0.62% in that chart.
New study debunks evolutionary theory explaining male and female bodies
I don't think lab workers getting sick is really a useful data point. People get sick all the time. Could have very easily been seasonal flu or whatever.

It also seems The Lancet letter doesn't actual address the question of lab leak. Only that it wasn't engineered. That was a pretty hot conspiracy theory at the time and one that remains far fetched. They didn't positively say it couldn't be a naturally occurring virus that leaked. I don't know enough to comment on gain of function leaves any hallmarks but I'm guessing it doesn't since it tries to replicate evolution.
A best kept secret finally got exposed thanks to the prolonged pandemic related wfh, an unprecedented awakening.
Maybe there's a third option. Thanks.
This was Wayne Goodrich https://web.archive.org/web/20180711230139if_/https://www.ca...
Prior to Starship, just getting large enough structures and mass into space has been the limiting factor. There is a minimum diameter for spin gravity to avoid disorienting vestibular side-effects. Spinning two spacecraft attached by a tether might work for short-term use cases, but I don't know how feasible it is to keep that stable for months or years. Transporting adequate volumes of water shielding is probably infeasible for SpaceX's planned Mars mission profile:

- you need 1 meter of water shielding to reduce radiation to safe levels[0]

- each cubic meter of water is 1 metric ton

- Starship's circumference is ~28 meters

Assuming you only shield 4 meters of the length of the ship, not counting the top and bottom cross sections of the cylinder, you've already blown past the 100T payload capacity of Starship.

[0]: https://space.stackexchange.com/a/1826
Why? Im not passing judgement on whether it was engineered as a bioweapon. But there was a lab that was actively engaged in research of viruses that are exactly what COVID is. They were conducting research on making said viruses more infectious. I’m not sure why the more likely thing is that it was just a virus sitting in a lab that spilled out, as opposed to a virus that was actively being worked on using the techniques the lab was known to be studying.