skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So are we to believe that, out of 200 million square miles on this planet, this novel bat-related coronavirus just naturally emerged within 8 miles of a facility that specializes in novel bat related coronaviruses?

No, of course we are not "to believe" that. What we are to do is to consider it is a possibility. Or are we to believe that SARS-CoV-2 could only have emerged as a lab leak? Both the natural and the lab-leak hypotheses are feasible, but treating either of them with near certainty or as impossible is not justifiable with the current evidence.

Imagine an alternate universe where all events played out the same as in our own, with the exception that the Wuhan laboratory's existence was a perfectly kept secret by the PRC. In that case, would the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan lead to the certainty that there must be a secret facility nearby that specializes in novel bat-related coronaviruses?
Elephant Ethogram: the behavior and communication of African savanna elephants
totally OT but Are you ready to use that name ?
The Society of Algorithms
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Chip giants are making more money than ever
I kind of questioned Graeber's thesis but I do think he was onto something. I think most management jobs are bullshit jobs in that they don't contribute very much but are easy and well paid. You then have a whole underclass who actually do the work. It's not too different from ancient Greece where the society depended on slavery to function. The pandemic showed that very few of our jobs are essential. A large proportion of the population in the west could be not working yet society still functioned. It's only when things slow down in the east (where things actually get made) that it causes problems.
At the height of the Cold War, when the U.S. and Soviet Union governments were sworn enemies and on the verge of shooting nuclear weapons at each other, U.S. and Soviet scientists collaborated openly and productively on a wide variety of subjects. Even with government funding.

It’s not unusual to expect scientists to collaborate openly across national borders despite political winds, and in fact it is desirable.
For anybody who's lost: Russ Cox is the original author of re2, a fast C++ library implementing regular expressions that are guaranteed to run in linear-time.

There's a collection of articles they wrote talking about regexes and various pitfalls: https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/
1) do the proper research, there are plenty of articles talking about saas side project ideas, like this one https://www.blocshop.io/blog/15-saas-ideas/

2) check producthunt monthly winners, those are the apps that won during the voting
https://www.producthunt.com/time-travel/2021/5
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I only visit twitter through links shared by friends, and ever since their last redesign 50-80% of the links give an "error loading" message which may or may not go away after reloading the page a few times.

When/if the tweet finally loads, it shows totally unrelated messages at the bottom. I still have to click on it and load it again if I want to see the comments thread.

The upside is that the redesign was the most effective way to keep me completely off twitter.
do you have a map? I tried to look for things, but it's really hard with the Chinese datum obfuscation.

the best I could do was 3km, but I don't recognize anything from google pictures
https://imgur.com/KxOT84W
when first living in NYC I had a station wagon, previously gifted to me. Not being from the area I couldn't believe there wasn't a decent supermarket. I had another friend out in Long Island near one. I got several Manhattanite friends to come along, none having ever driven. The experience was hilarious, all around. From the traffic, the experience of a wallowing beast of a Pontiac wagon on the LIE, and then the best part, one guy who'd literally NEVER left the City absolutely MARVELED at the selections as the store. Notable quotes being "I've only seen this brand on TV!" and "How could anyone EVER need a TWO-GALLON SIZE tub of laundry detergent?"
Depends who had rights to the proprietary code. If it was someone else's (for example, if the internal version had used both GPLed code and some proprietary third-party library), open sourcing the whole thing just might not be possible.
If the math were that easy, we wouldn't be discussing it.

The first SARS outbreak happened in Guangzhou which has a BSL-3 lab, yet all evidence points to zoonotic transfer.
How do these people survive if they have no income?
I quoted this bit in another comment, but Steven Quay (interviewed by the US gov as mentioned in tfa)

The “engineered” comments refer to common amino acid sequences from lab practices, they leave a signature because ordinary biology is more random.

The gene sequence for the amino acids in the furin site in CoV-2 uses a very rare set of two codons, three letter words so six letters in a row, that arerarely used individually and have never been seen together in tandem in any coronaviruses in nature. But these same ‘rare in nature’ codons turn out to be the very ones that are always used by scientists in the laboratory when researchers want to add the amino acid arginine, the ones that are found in the furin site. When scientists add a dimer of arginine codons to a coronavirus, they invariably use the word, CGG-CGG, but coronaviruses in nature rarely (<1%) use this codon pair. For example, in the 580,000 codons of 58 Sarbecoviruses the only CGG pair is CoV-2; none of the other 57 sarbecoviruses have such a pair.
Back in the early days Singapore very quickly created a fantastic web based information panel on the state of the Virus in the city. It's still running but they no longer use the original url:
http://wuhanvirus.sg
I don't really understand the objection. The article is only meaningful as a response to those who try to make a product that is everything to everyone, thus producing a product for nobody. Besides, unless you only buy bespoke, made-to-order products design in consultation with you, anything with a design has already been decided potentially in a way that you dislike but others don't.
Ask HN: Why do you hate JavaScript?
I've noticed that every time a CLI project is presented here, regardless of how good/useful it is, there's inevitably a comment along the lines of "too bad it's js".

Makes me wonder why you never see comments like that with languages where you have to manage the memory yourself, which is very error prone unless you really know what you are doing. Or with interpreted languages that are famously slow, like ruby or python. It doesn't even matter when it's typescript, it's just the fact that JS is what will run at the end.

If you ever got this feeling of "too bad it's js", may I ask: Why?
Tying it to revenues sounds nice, but isn't feasible. Or, in order to make it feasible, the slice the employees get would have to be vanishingly small in order to mitigate the risk.
My side project is Kingpin browser:
https://kingpinbrowser.com/

It is private browser for Mac and Windows.
Paid for Mac users and Free for Win (Win version still has some bugs)
Someone looking for a 2,000 square foot house with a 7,500 lot is not someone who's prioritizing an accessible location or short commute. The median house in Seattle is 1,460 ft², the median lot is 3,893 ft², and the median home age is 53 years. What you're describing is an actual mansion in any populous city; of course you're going to pay mansion prices.

I lived in Seattle for a long time and know plenty of large families living in comfortable homes close to work on regular non-FANG salaries. They don't live in estates, but they don't need to. The people who do want that either need to be rich or drive an hour; there are a lot of those people too. And I'm sure the ones who drove an hour are thrilled with work-from-home.
> That doesn't translate to the job being useless or BS

Did you read Graeber's book? I have seen a lot of the mechanics described in every job I've ever done, including roles like the Box Ticker or the Flunkie - or whatever he calls the "entourage" people, it's been a minute. These types of functions exist and often don't contribute to the product, company growth or financial success. That's what bullshit means in context: busywork, economically non-functional. Now, not every compliance role (Box Ticker) is a bullshit job. Nor is every assistant (Flunkie). But enough are for the pattern to exist and Graeber to have a point.

Markets and companies, which are often assumed to be efficient, are remarkably tolerant to inefficiency in their internal politics and bureaucracies. There is also a degree to which large enough companies can just coast on prior success before they feel the impact of bad process or ill focus and start to feel they're bleeding money.

Looking at the broader economy, there are a lot of "lifestyle" products that squarely fall in the category of luxuries. There's "consultancy" that exists to play politics in companies and doesn't do anything, like SAfE/Agile/Scrum/transformation consultants (not all, but enough), management strategy consultants, etc. This is where the Economist's alienation comes in: there is no meaning to contribute to when working at one of these companies, as they offer and stimulate pure consumerism, or political faire semblant (=pretending) as a service.

My conclusion is both Graeber and the Economist are right: the left Venn diagram contains actual useless jobs (as in, don't contribute to the process). The right diagram contains a lot of meaningless jobs where the product/service is ephemeral or purely materialistic, leading to alienation. The two diagrams overlap.

As to whether 70% of jobs are contained in the union of the two? Perhaps not, but I think it's a big enough problem for it to lead to an increase in burnouts, boreouts, depression and suicide.
They have now, they didn't have in the past, and is still an annoyance to the customers often. Also online banking apps, SMS phising, etc.
I love these interfaces and use them wherever I can. On MacOS I use Alfred for launching applications, killing processes, controlling music playback, searching the web and my filesystem, swapping file tabs, and tons more. Spotlight search, which is built in, is also very competent. For the command line I use fzf which can add fuzzy search for all sorts of things. built in its ctrl+r functionality I find very useful. As well as kill commands where i can fuzzy search by the name of the program and it'll type in the pid for you. fasd is useful for navigating through directories, though it doesn't pop up a palette.

For those interested here is a small list of them, though not comprehensive, that I've found useful:

Launchers

MacOS

- https://www.alfredapp.com/

- https://raycast.com/

- https://obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html

- https://lacona.app/

Windows

- https://keypirinha.com/

- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/run

Linux:

- https://github.com/davatorium/rofi

- http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/

Command line

- https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

- https://github.com/clvv/fasd

- vim : https://github.com/junegunn/fzf.vim

Emacs

- https://emacs-helm.github.io/helm

- https://github.com/abo-abo/swiper
Regarding the "paste without formatting by default" opinion:

- Pasting a body of text with multiple headlines between two documents would require using a special paste command that explicitly preserves formatting.

- Some benefits of "convention over configuration" are only present if you stick to your existing conventions. Millions of people are already used to explicitly pasting without formatting.

Other remarks:

- Opinions need to be informed by facts and customer-facing research.

- There is room for divergent (Yes AND) thinking, as well as convergent (Just say no) thinking in product design. See "Double Diamond"[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Diamond_(design_process...
An interesting hypothesis. Maybe the deeper question is, does the virtual world really need to reflect the physical world in a very accurate way, or does it suffice to represent a subset of that? And then, how accurate does it have to be? Does it map 1:1 or are there indirections that would work well to convey meaningful information and trigger actions that make sense?

I guess many important clues get provided implicitly. For some reason you want to mute notifications for a while, so you do that, and your avatar reflects it, but it may not be necessary to truly be in headphones mode whenever you happen to be wearing headphones, or vice-versa.

Our goal is to simplify things and avoid artificial complexity wherever possible.
> I think we are in disagreement. I don't remember such a switch, nor can identify one browsing backwards.

Well, I definitely remember left-leaning people ridiculing it when people were buying out the toilet paper, saying that there is no virus and stuff.

> I don't equate every white person with white supremacy, including myself. I don't see the hypocrisy.

And I don't equate every Chinese person with the virus or the Chinese government. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure the criticism is that the narrative or the words you use, even if factually correct, might cause some people to have prejudice against the members of a certain group. You're (maybe not you specifically, I don't know) concerned about backlash against Chinese people over the virus, but you aren't concerned about the backlash against white people over systemic racism theory. That's what I find hypocritical.

But yeah, "china virus" might be a little bit over the top.
Booking.com pays back wage support after fuss about bonuses
Maybe they wanted to show something that the interns could try and replicate. I mean, if everything your in house dev team is working on are CRUD applications built on 90s tech, that's not very exciting.
Vaccine resistant measles does not appear to be possible using standard gain-of-function methods on the vaccine strain, mumps I have no clue. People's vaccines wearing off (or not working in the first place) and them not noticing due to herd immunity would be a much bigger problem, I think.
I disagree, mandated certification ensures that the budget required for certain design (and testing) methods is available.

And its precisely those methods that keep the planes in the sky.

Its not orthogonal, is a necessary prerequisite.
Not just usually, opinionated means exactly paternalistic: "opinionated" is the opposite of "configureable". That is a basic tenet of the article.
I’ll bite, effectively you’re correct, there’s a supply side shortage.

All the input costs have increased, dramatically. They then have to charge more downstream. The additional costs are then going to be absorbed the the consumers (other businesses and end customers).

The consumer has been given super cheap loans or checks in the mail and can now afford an increased expense.

Now everything costs more - inflation.

Note: much of the money went into game stop, amc, crypto, etc and didn’t necessarily go towards more production.

However, free money won’t be available forever. Will wages rise? Not necessarily as fast, especially with high transportation and raw material costs. So wages likely won’t rise as quickly.

Due to the higher input costs, many businesses will have to close, further suppressing wages.

At the end of the day, we could have stagnant wages, lower adjusted gdp, with increased inflation.

Now, to your point — it’s possible businesses stay open and even expand, increasing wages. You’ll still see inflation, just no depression. However, that doesn’t seem likely given these price increases in raw materials, transportation, etc seem to be increasing and there’s no addition release of capital on the consumer side.

Finally, if the FED tries to decrease inflation it’ll reduce economic growth. The treasury also cannot sell more bonds on the open market with these decreased interest rates — no one is willing or can buy enough. At the end of the day, we will have trouble not printing money to cover the debt — increasing inflation. I don’t think there’s a method of not printing our way out of debt.

No one knows for sure, so I feel all discussions have their merits
Prediction Markets and Worse Is Better
To be honest, in Europe, when talking about universiy degrees, there was no hard distinction between Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Software Engineering 20 years ago. It was all the same. Nowadays there is (I have been told).
Why do you need a blockchain? You even mention in the writeup that this behavior exists in other countries already - which means it already can be achieved without this technology. Heck, in the US there are already educational institutions that charge a portion of future salary rather than a tuition. You spend a huge amount of time describing the merits of this approach and (as far as I can tell) zero time describing what your software actually does, even when digging into the page that contains additional details.
I think this really hits at why the identity is so famous: people tend to have been introduced to pieces in entirely separate ways, and from that perspective it’s quite surprising to see them all come together to create something nice.
You could have cryptocurrency without ransomware attacks, and you could have ransomware attacks without cryptocurrency . It is disingenuous to say cryptocurrency is directly responsible. Cryptocurrency didn’t cause ransomware, it made it worth the effort on the part of the attackers, but so could have a different confluence of events.

Criminals will abuse any technology that benefits them.
Modeling Markets with Fractals
> The overwhelmingly negative attitude towards technology on HN lately is upsetting and nauseating. If you don’t like NFTs, don’t buy them (I don’t).

What new technology ? There is nothing in NFT's that is new technology vise.

The only thing "new" is the money/value part.

Some people (myself included ) see that as an attempt to subvert technology.

To me watching NFT's are like watching TV televangelist.
It bothers me that people use technology I love (web, internet, cryptography,...) and subvert it into what are in my opinion scams.
Let me get this straight... the government patents something that looks and behaves exactly like the Tic Tac craft (including going in and out of water). Then, vehicles like this are spotted in military training areas. Notice that they are not at the Superbowl or out in a field in Kansas, always at military exercises and always on the water. Hmmm.

Technically, you're not supposed to get patents for things that can't be built in reality. So we have a patent and videos of a working machine. Now both could be BS, but the most likely possibility is that either the patent and craft are real (and therefore of human origin) or both are not.

The possibility of alien visitors who only choose to visit military training over the water and never a Wal-Mart or an empty mountain range using their fancy ships --- seems very unlikely.

EDIT: BTW, the patent mentions that the current design can't hold people (the effect that causes the motion would kill them), but a larger version could be designed with shielding that could fit a person inside. Still think it's aliens?
So would it folllow that more naïve people are less likely to feel alienation?
That's almost as bad as in south EU (where the young waste more time in state-owned schools and universities)
Not to mention how dangerous it is to use. Accidentally type the > symbol? Enjoy overwriting whichever file came after in the command. Output to an existing file? Old file is gone. Accidentally put a space the wrong place? Gone.

And somehow people think mastering this careless design is something to be proud of.

Can anyone name any other popular piece of software that is that relaxed about irreversibly destroying your data?
Neural Actor: Neural Free-View Synthesis of Human Actors with Pose Control
There are other solutions to this problem that the game industry uses. Binary diff patching is slow, incremental, involves large diffs and has the possibility of corruption. It was used back in the mid 90's (RTPatch was the big name), but really isn't used anymore because of the drawbacks.

Games frequently use an override directory or file. The patch contains only the files that have changed and is loaded after the main index and replaces the entries in the index with the updated ones. This is the most common way of doing a patch if it's not just overwriting the original files.

Some games load their file as a virtual filesystem and then the patch just replaces the entries in the virtual store with new ones. Guild Wars 2 works this way. This is only common in MMOs though.
There are certainly two use cases here. One is pasting complex blocks where you want the whole thing to copy over. And the other is copying text out of an email or website where you want it treated as dumb text.

Word actually offers a solution with the “paste without formatting” but it’s lost behind the million features of word.
I don't think anyone is advocating for the dissolution of Israel

That's exactly what many advocate. It's in the charter political documents of the Palestinian ruling authorities. Major US politicians hold this position who receive a lot of political and media support. Notable celebrities have tweeted/said "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free". What do you think they mean by that besides the utter destruction of the state of Israel?

whether they'd like to be subjected to it by a foreign military power

Since the Israelis only are responding to being attacked, I fail to see how they're in any way being hypocritical.
That makes it sound easy. Overriding means the capacity to be overriden. I.e., if you can change the default, then it presupposed that you have a mechanism for dealing with various options PLUS some other options. That's additional work.
As an anecdote, Bear Blog https://bearblog.dev was created for a very specific kind of person and has been cracking along well because of it.
Collapse of "Ye Olde" Blizzard is one on the most interesting stories in the video game industry right now. Especially in light of the resurgence of houses like Capcom and SquareEnix. Would make a really interesting documentary actually!

The lesson seems to be: there has been a paradigm shift in game dev that is just as momentous as the introduction of sound to cinema. Namely, using public cloud infra to introduce the illusion of LAN play with zero network lag. By distributing 128 tick servers in major regions, that magical 35ms ping time can be achieved. And the promise of render frame accuracy in client side prediction becomes real. Every game is essentially a fighting game now ;)

Frost Giant engineers chat about SC2, RTS in general & BRAND NEW footage from their WIP project!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUHwzSQYYPE
I did mean the real local word etc not the shite online versions.

Main thing is structured documents tracking changes, macros to automate processes.
Individually it's optional, societally it's not. Point being, much as I'm happy the OP has an out, this is not a realistic nuclear option for most people to impose suffering on other dependents.
The same goes for music with lyrics.
>What are the benefits of building out a whole separate part of the test framework that handles this?

I'm guessing that you won't always want to execute these alongside other tests. Go has also taken the same approach with benchmarks.