skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plus it appears that the lab was poorly run: She noted that a September 2019 paper in an academic journal by the director of the WIV’s BSL-4 laboratory, Yuan Zhiming, had outlined safety deficiencies in China’s labs. “Maintenance cost is generally neglected,” he had written. “Some BSL-3 laboratories run on extremely minimal operational costs or in some cases none at all.”
By "bare metal" you mean as a regular process in the OS instead of as a docker container?

Then it should really make no difference in terms of performance. A process in a docker container is also a process in the host OS, but with some network and user permission stuff on top.

When I read the title I thought you meant bare metal as with no OS layer, just a go app running in the processor, which I think would be pretty cool to see.
Looks like Bob (a martian) was a little drunk during his planet earth fly-by inspection a couple millions years ago, & sloppily threw his beer bottle overboard, rather properly dispose of it. ;)
LOL. What kind of savage runs a script with whitespace in its name?
More pump & dump, buy more!

Elon is a troll and I personally believe this is how he's financing expansion of his companies at this point.
Another example is "if you haven't memorized the entire documentation, you're too incompetent to use this software".

I don't think it works that way nowadays, especially when software X has dependencies Y and Z, so you'd better cram their documentations as well.

The other day I was reading this little rant about Gitlab and how painful it is to update. According to the snarky responses, it's possible to update it if you've RTFM. Which is true! But it reveals this belief that doing a lot of unnecessary work and retaining a lot of noisy facts somehow makes you a better person.
It seems weird to me to call Boston a college "town" but, yeah, you probably don't want to buy a place next to a frat. In Ithaca, I'm not going to live in Collegetown (where there's a lot of student housing and hangouts). But in my experience, it's generally pretty easy to get away from maximum student disruption.
The US government is toxic, and it is openly promoting racist policies and ideologies that are outright offensive. No, it can't be trusted with my kids future and education. It's necessary that it exists, and it can handle the basics (probably), but the government is not, and cannot, be a replacement for caring and involved parents.

Any performance based comparison between school performance and life outcomes needs to include stats broken out by the homelife of the child. You could call it "Parental Responsibility" in most cases -- and that figure/statistic will represent most of the issues that everyone wants addressed. The thing is, it's the most impactful to the child, and it can't be meaningfully addressed without massive government control of family life.

Parents are responsible for their children's education. Success in anything is a mix of effort, knowledge, ability and luck (I consider timing part of luck).

I am going to give my children the best opportunities I can give them, within the bounds of my values and life experiences.

It's irrational to believe the outcome of an education should be identical between children. Unless you remove parents and have children raised by institutions, then parental involvement will always have a major impact on academic performance.

Strawman: If my child is interested in computers, and spends all their free time reading about and learning to program them, while their contemporaries choose to watch TV and play video games, should they be limited by what the "average" person in their class is able to do? Of course not!

It's akin to the school district that noticed that not enough black kids were in a gifted class, so their solution was to get rid of the gifted class. That's insanity.

Public schools should provide a solid education to children, and society needs to expect that the outcome of that will be based on the actual performance of the children and their circumstances. A school cannot fix everything that comes from single-parent households and broken families. It can (and should) try and help, but I think it's ridiculous to hold back other students that perform better because they have parental involvement that other children don't.
Supposing there was a large enough pool to do this effect with a person in it…would it give the perception of weightlessness?
https://www.calipsa.io/about-us/careers/vacancy/full-stack-e...
Excuse me, I witness snarky behavior in comments on this site constantly, but thank you for using your power to keep me in line :)
Haha. I did. That’s wonderful.
I don't think bare metal means what you think it means.
Are you really suggesting that the reason 43% of South African youths are unemployed is because they're lazy?
So many people "make it" in the off the books economy that the welfare eligible rungs of the social ladder deal in but they can't get up to the next rung because they can't amass the capital to make a clean break and the state will screw them out of everything if they try and go legit slowly.

Imagine your a highly successful under the table mechanic. You have a few under the table employees and work out of a leased space where the owners look the other way. Everything is done in cash or similar. If you want to start a "real shop" you can't just get an LLC, rent a real garage space, put up a sign and move all your tools then slowly start a rolling upgrade process to get all your stuff on the books and above the table as you acquire more profitability to absorb the overhead that entails. The city or state would instantly show up and fuck you over twenty different ways for being off the books and out of compliance. The only way to go legit fast enough is to get a loan and you can't do that because you have no assets, no history, no credit, despite the fact that you are basically already running a successful business.
What alternative news sources would you say are more reliable and truthful?
Live in the outskirts? 'College town' doesn't have to mean living in a house with 8 other people.
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Interesting, thank you for the numbers!
This is a wonderful story of how Pijul and Nest worked hard to overcome challenges brought about by the OVH data center fire earlier this year.

Also, I really like this footnote:

The realisation that naming things is a discipline of its own has probably even been one of the greatest discoveries of the 20th century. Cantor probably started that, by rebuilding foundations for mathematics (definitions were particularly fuzzy before him), Wittgenstein established a link with philosophy, blurring the distinction between mathematics and philosophy. Kuhn even established a distinction between the scientists who name things (whom he called “revolutionary”) and the others (the “normies”). Deleuze restated the role of the philosopher as a creator of concepts (which also applies outside of science), or in other words, as a professional namer. And by the way, the history of Computer Science is full of such half-philosophical, half-mathematical discoveries, where naming is almost everything: Turing machines, Communication Complexity, Yao’s principle…
For Go applications, docker is unnecessary. Its just a single binary and systemd is enough. You don't need containers for it.
Elon can you now just shut the fukc up about Bitcoin
Something that is missing from this article: Do your customers understand the metrics their usage is based on? If not, you're going to have trouble selling your product on a usage model.
https://archive.is/hTcok
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the raison d'être of the Illumos kernel (upon which OpenIndiana is based) has always been the cloud, with Nexenta and Joyent (SmartOS) doing the heavy lifting. They're basically ZFS/DTrace machines.

I've played with OpenIndiana too but it didn't fill any real use case for me, at least locally. The userspace was just a cut down version of Nth Linux distro and I don't have a file server home that would benefit much from ZFS. Neither do I have to debug the exotic stuff you would want DTrace for.
In that case, of course, the method of finding where the script lives would return something that indicates there is no script. But also in that case, the commands you are piping into the shell probably are not looking for the files they were bundled with, they are probably working on files you've explicitly specified, and so there is no problem with not finding the script's location in that case.
Exactly!

Me spending more time with my child doesn't take away from what other children receive. If I wasn't working with my child, then I certainly wouldn't be working with all of them in place of that.
I hate to be "that person" but America is not nearly as uniform as you suggest. For example, in large areas of the country like the southwest, walled yards are the norm.
The argument that supported natural occurrence was to point to past global pandemics as having been of natural origin. Laboratory research of viruses is a relatively new thing, while pandemics have been happening for a very long time throughout the history of civilization. So in the case where no other evidence is readily available, I'm going to go with natural origin just because that's been the most likely origin historically for pandemics.
> If it evolved in a lab, it is highly likely that the virus is better at infecting people in lab conditions, for example that would mean inside.

Zoonotic diseases jump from animal to human regularly. Countless recommendations from health organizations around the world warned about and predicted a zoonotic disease event base around one of these wet markets.

> If it evolved in a lab, it is highly likely that the virus is better at infecting people in lab conditions, for example that would mean inside.

Feels like you pulled that out of your ass. Random is random and evolution is a thing. The fact that covid is effective at infecting people means only that, it has no definitive statement on it's origin. Yes, we know that a virus can be engineered in a lab to be more infectious, but billions of humans come in contact with billions of animals so it don't matter if the chance of natural zoonotic boundary jump is small.
The dog whistling in that the parent comment is deafening.
Misinformation? Do you think the screenshot from TFA has been actively manipulated? I don't think the title is true either, and should be changed. But that's not misinformation... it's a petulant reading of a statement by a Google employee which most of us take as bogus.
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Someone who spent time in South Africa, I think it’s funnier that he suggest I try and avoid 43% of young people.
Just watch out for the bees in the clover flowers, as we here all learned the hard way as kids.

(No grass without clover and daisies, they're honorably lawn here as well.)
The amount of natural curiosity that exploring around the diversity of native species inspired in me was far and away more valuable than running around on a lawn.
I spent countless hours as a kid turning over rocks, rooting through leaf clutter and turning over leaves on a property that was mostly natively maintained. I learned about pest species, insect biology/morphology(helps that my neighbor was an entomologist!), the food chain, water cycles, amongst many other things as a young child growing up, simply because I was curious about the things I saw and had intelligent adults who could answer my questions and any follow-ups.

As adult, I still love doing many of these things, and find your observation that “you can’t do anything with native plants” bizarre, you get to enjoy the native life that they bring with them.
I don't recommend this ever, but I of course make this moonshine on my own computer:

I usually edit the man page to add cookbook/bugfix sections. Most of them are cookbook-style recipes. Whenever I find out some obscure bug or gotcha out (spaces in file names passed through a pipe is one of my frequent issues), I go to the man page of cut/tr etc. and add it to the page.

Next time I man for that, I remember what I did right a couple of years ago. Another thing I copiously modify is the "SEE ALSO" section for common commands, whenever I install new stuff from github etc.

I confess that it is not a proper solution, but it works for me. Man pages have continued in the gloriously terse initial style of Ken Thompson. For mere mortals like I, I need a nicer explanation. My machine's manpages for some commands (find, grep being the most modified) tend to look like the old "HOWTO"s on linux.
From Fauci's paper:

>In an unlikely but conceivable turn of events, what if that scientist becomes infected with the virus, which leads to an outbreak and ultimately triggers a pandemic? Many ask reasonable questions: given the possibility of such a scenario...

>Scientists working in this field might say – as indeed I have said – that the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks. It is more likely that a pandemic would occur in nature, and the need to stay ahead of such a threat is a primary reason for performing an experiment that might appear to be risky.

So the basic risk calculation Fauci is using (which is disputed by many scientists and virologists) is this:

Lives saved by GoF research > lives lost by inevitable lab leak + lives lost by inevitable natural pandemic

Gain of function research has been going on for decades now. What evidence is there that this research has actually served its purpose to help save lives? Did GoF help us at all with the current pandemic?
Sorry. I meant nobody respectable

So only True Scotsman are to be considered respectable? Rashida Talieb, Ilhan Omar, and other overt anti-semites who appear regularly on national media aren't "respectable"? Let me know when they're abandoned by the media and their own party like Steve King was for making racist-adjacent statements.

A single-state solution where Israelis and Palestinians share the same rights and live under the same democratic government.

Voting residents in the region don't agree with you:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas_Covenant

The said attacks are extremely ineffective.

The attempt to make this about body counts and not the initiation of hostile military action baffles me. But I disagree with "ineffective". People in Israel are being injured and dying in rocket attacks. That's not ineffective. And then if you want to think this through a bit more, you'd realize that the degree to which it is ineffective is due to the fact that Israel counter-attacks to destroy the ability of Hamas/PLO terrorists to attack them. If they didn't respond to the degree that they do, there would be more Israeli casualties.
The mulching keeps the organic matter in the lawn, so it becomes part of the topsoil, helping it be more nutrient rich and better at retaining water. It's part of developing an ecosystem. If you're spraying chemicals and fertilizing, then you also have to throw in extra work like dethatching because all the decomposition cycles get messed up and you might kill the grass.

Honestly, the number one thing to do is change your definition of what is a weed. Clover used to be part of grass mixes, but was re-marketed as a weed because broad-leaf herbicides were profitable. There's lots of other broad-leaf plants that can blend in with grass just fine(some are even edible!) and they both help fertilize naturally, as well as fill in the gaps where things like annoying thistles or hyper-aggressive plants might try to edge in.
> have children through Discord.

As if there isn't enough drama in online places like that. What a nightmare.
Plus, China gets to watch their political enemies tear each other apart over this issue, so there really isn't any incentive to be forthright.
While I found your comment interesting, I think this is more specific whereas the article is more or less talking about a society that has a disfunction, not the individuals in it (well I mean it could, but 43 percent is extremely unlikely to be similar to your elder relative).
Surprised not to read anything about offering classes to people who choose to live in these remote-work communities. That's the only reason it would appeal to me personally. I think a lot of people would like to take some graduate classes while working, maybe even get a degree out of it.

Our education system for things like computer science seem to be out of sync with the way that people actually learn. Not because they are too theoretical, but because there are some things, like computer science, where it's really impossible to internalize the practical lessons of learning about different kinds of software systems if you don't have some experience building software systems yourself. And this kind of experience takes years of working to develop.
This is simply not true otherwise literally every site advertising on Google would be in violation.
I quite like the new design. I think the need for them to look like actual "tabs" like in a folder is overblown. Let's drop the skeuomorphism.

The customizability in Firefox is great, but the example in the link is... well, to each their own.
Alternatively, if you want to flip back to the old UI in Firefox 89, you can go to about:config, search for browser.proton.enabled, set it to false, and then restart. That should do it too.
> On the media 'not taking it seriously' - because there was no evidence whatsoever outside of conjecture and it was being pushed heavily by misinfo merchants.

Virtually none of the evidence being discussed here, aside from 3 workers at the lab getting sick in November, is new. Its all the same info that has been available for well over a year. And much of it not coming from "misinfo merchants".

> Skepticism is a good default approach to take for info heavily pushed by such sources with no solid evidence.

This cuts both ways. There have been many who haven't been saying that the lab-leak is definitively the source of the virus, but simply saying that its a credible possibility with at least as much evidence as any other theory, and should therefore be investigated. Throughout the last year, it was pretty consistently called a conspiracy theory or "debunked", when clearly it was neither. Declaring something to be misinformation when it is not, isn't any more skeptical that declaring something to be the truth with no evidence.

You can try and poo-poo all you want, but that doesn't change the fact that the mainstream narrative, both on social media and in the mainstream media, has been wildly off about this for over a year, and virtually nothing has changed from an evidence perspective to warrant their about face. The general narrative was simply wrong, due to a combination of hubris, partisanship, and lack of skepticism.
It's wild that there are towns in America that will literally pay you to move there, while college towns in California like Davis and Chico have some of the most dysfunctional housing markets in the world.
Claiming that "truth" even exists, much less that it can be "found", has become partisan. You'll be accused of engaging in propaganda or censorship if you do.
>There need not be any script

Sure, but that is irrelevant.

When there IS a script, you should be able to get its full path much easier, that is the complaint.
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The author has plenty of experience with Bazel, as Sorbet, the Ruby type checker they helped create uses Bazel. I agree that Bazel is almost always the right solution beyond a certain scale or multi-language builds.

The unfortunate reality is that open source developers have decided that they don't want the state of the art because "it's written in Java and is like a 50mb binary". Yes, I know there are certain things about Bazel that don't fit certain open source projects, like it may not be easy to bootstrap a build environment for OSes that want everything to be built from scratch, or want to support 10 different architectures, and I agree that Bazel may not make sense there. At the same time, if you see comments from both HN and on the internet, "it's in Java" is often how FOSS projects are making these decisions :(

I'll always be bitter about this. In particular I feel like Cargo was new enough that Bazel existed and if they had at least built a Bazel compatible tool in Rust (so use Starlark etc.) it would have been very much in line with the Rust ethos of safety and speed.
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If we wanted native ecosystems we wouldn't live in tightly sealed homes in engineered neighborhoods, we'd have lean-tos in the woods.
But then, by definition, the joke is true. Even if learning Docker makes sense and has a positive ROI it’a still an extra problem.
Did you live on the green line?
I've always thought ℵ₀ (more the series of proofs leading up to it) as just as beautiful and interesting.
"You don’t have to control a company personally, you can also rely on other shareholders to do that. You just have to know, somebody is voting in your interests"

How would you know they're voting in your interests?

I've never known how any other shareholder voted in any of the stock I owned. For all I know they could have been voting completely contrary to what I'd wanted.

No. Unless you own enough of a stock to vote and make a difference, stock ownership is not about influencing a company but just about hoping the value of the stock will rise, and there are many theories about why that might happen, from fundamental to technical analysis to people who invest based on the phase of the moon, divination, tips from friends, insider trading, trend following, news, etc.
As long as tree style tabs still works , it's all good.
For how long, until they remove it? Honestly, I hate Firefox now. It's going backwards.
"Lab leak" and "zoonotic" are not mutually exclusive. The pandemic could have been triggered by simply collecting samples from a remote cave and culturing them in a lab in the middle of a 10M people metropolis. A routine lab accident then led to the uncontrolled replication of the virus. Similarly, uranium sitting in the ground at low density is largely inoffensive, but increase its density up to the critical point and you end up with an uncontrolled chain reaction.

Fundamental question: Under which circumstances is it ethical to culture dangerous viruses in a lab? This is obviously a conversation that some influential virology researchers don't want to have, therefore the disgraceful political circus created to deflect it.
Yes.

Our contract is that a unit of deployment is a .tar.gz file, and inside that there is an executable file bin/run which starts the app. We build apps in a few languages, but they all have a start script like that.

You can use static or dynamic linking, compiled or interpreted languages, anything you like, as long as the start script sets it up correctly. For Go apps the script can be trivial.

Tarballs must be self-contained - binaries, libraries, config files, static assets. We make an exception for interpreters, because those are huge and change slowly. Those are manually installed in /opt/something. I'd like it if we did something more disciplined and reproducible, but it's good enough for now.

We don't have many machines. Maybe 20? You can get a lot done with 20 full-size physical machines.

I don't see how something like Docker would help us here. It would just be the same, but less hackable.
I think it's the way things need to go to be honest. We need fewer people on this planet, not more. Attrition is one way of doing that.