skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! Good point about the similarity between programming and marketing.

Have you done any joint-venture type partnerships with anyone that might be interested in co-marketing your product? I'm trying to think of how to borrow someone else's megaphone
Submitted previously by georgecmu: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27380406
Do you believe in anything else considered a "conspiracy theory" by the scientific or academic community? This is roughly the level of reasoning people use when arguing that 9/11 was an inside job.
The lab leak theory doesn’t imply that the virus was created, or gain of functioned, in the lab, merely that it was studied there and escaped. The lab leak theory doesn’t imply unnatural origins.
That is hard to nail down:
Here's Frank Bare in 1983
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTb0zCgybnY

Earlier than this Steve Corbett's flip has disappeared from the internet but it did happen in 1975 at Whistler BC:
Corbett's quad backflip was the first one ever done. He was 80 feet (24 metres) in the air flipping four times.
You can see him here at the 16 second mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afv8Ts-zTPQ

I think though Jean-Marc Rozon was the only one to do it in competition. He was the leader of the famed Quebec Air Force that dominated Freestyle Aerial Skiing in the 80's. You can see his quad in the second clip above at six seconds.

In 2012, Matt Chojnacki 'landed' a quad twisting quad backflip. I'm not sure if this was in competition, it would have been dsq'd if it was. My guess is training:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=druWqXZnoeU
What you’re saying isn’t true. There’s a legal doctrine of “born classified” that obligates everyone to secrecy.

Companies have gotten into trouble for doing research that might be used to build an atomic bomb, even though the research had other applications.
How can you judge what level of adaption is expected vs unexpected in a virus.

It's a long article so I don't expect you to find the argument in it; it highlights the work of Alina Chan who compared a fast mutation rate of SARS-CoV as it better adapted itself to human to SARS-CoV-2. Here are titles of three of them I've saved but not read, May through September of last year:

SARS-CoV-2 is well adapted for humans. What does this mean for re-emergence?

Single source of pangolin CoVs with a near identical Spike RBD to SARS-CoV-2

COVID-19 CG: Tracking SARS-CoV-2 mutations by locations and dates of interest
All fair points. But again I question the part where you said "if you haven't actually investigated the authorities' credibility yourself". How would I, a person with no training in virology, do that?

At some point, you have to trust someone or some institution or organization or system.
Concorde was actually quieter (subsonic) than a lot of other aircraft in use when it was first released. Over time however as other commercial aircraft became quieter, Concorde wasn't developed any further, so by the end of its life it was very noticeable.

The sonic boom really isn't an issue as long as you can fly that part of the route over the sea. Concorde often took longer routes to avoid flying over land, and it was still quicker than a more direct subsonic flight. Or you just fly supersonic over countries you don't care about - flights from London to Bahrain would fly supersonic from the Adriatic Sea crossing the Middle East over land to Bahrain.

The Bahrain route is interesting, as today it is 5.5 hours and Concorde was 4 hours, so not that much difference. I'd rather spend an extra hour and a half on a much more comfortable and bigger aircraft. They also tried routes to Singapore (stopping in Bahrain to refuel), the total flight time was 9 hours, compared to non-stop flights today which are 13 hours. I wonder if developments in reducing the time subsonic aircraft take to reach and descend from cruising altitude could narrow that gap even further.
Submitted previously by throwaway894345: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27383591
> proven right yet again

Really depressing to hear this nonsense on HN of all places.
THank youuuu!!!!!
Separate from the article, the damming thing in his email release is the strong suggestion that he knew it was engineered early on and may have participated in hiding this fact.
> I believe it should - otherwise we are in a capitalist dystopia

Should we tax the automobile for displacing the horse stableman.
JavaScript has generator functions. Comprehensions are really just sugar around this functionality. You could pretty easily write your own set of generator function-powered methods for mapping and filtering.
Fair enough, but this wrapper does not take any power away from make. How much of that power ends up being used is up to the developer. It can literally anything a regular instance of make can do - it just supplies the dependencies. In what way does that have nothing to do with make? If you think there is a better way of phrasing it, I'd be more than happy to adopt it.
I think it's a frog boiling problem.

I start with building my code, then deploying it, then verifying the deployment, a few smoke tests, regression tests, pretty soon all of those concepts are crowding in on the brainspace of monitoring.

It's just one more thing, why slow down to learn a new tool and convince people to use it?

These days it's getting easier for me to requisition a machine to run a dev tool on. That hasn't always been the case, and I'm sure it's not the case everywhere.
Does that mean I'm going to have to take my shoes off to go into Bestbuy now?
For reference, back in 2013 when there were only the 150kW superchargers, the costs ranged from $100k to $175k for the charging stalls and transformers[0]. In 2015 it was said by Tesla's investor relations manager that it cost about $270k per station (presumably gen 2 250kw chargers)[1].

I'm not sure how Electrify America installation works, but for Tesla they front all of these costs so all it would take to get them installed at stations is the landowner allowing it to be placed on their land (likely with some sort of revenue share agreement, if they don't think they'll get enough money from the increased foot traffic).

0: https://techcrunch.com/2013/07/26/inside-teslas-supercharger...

1: https://ark-invest.com/articles/analyst-research/supercharge....
I think Clojure is still a great choice when your concurrent solution to a problem is amenable to working with stale data. If it is then the correctness of your design will rely heavily upon immutability, and the bugs that can be introduced by not using an immutable-first language like Clojure just isn't worth the risk.
"damage the way the computer works" IMO that includes abusing or denying resources or services on the machine which is very common with preloaded stuff.

Also your definition doesn't capture spyware.
I would summarize it like this: The social structure of wolves highly depend on their environment. In natural environments wolf packs usually are just families dominated by the parents, whereas forcing larger groups of adult animals to share territory invites more complex dominance hierarchies.
But they DO have a patent for it, so don’t think about marketing one yourself
I'm quite astounded and confused at the sudden shift in discourse towards assuming that the lab leak theory must be true. It's not so much the theory itself that's surprising. Lab leak remains plausible but less probable then natural origins.

The sudden shift is just baffling to me though. This huge new furor is due to anonymous CIA sources saying three people got sick? That's extremely tenuous evidence, as you state above.

As far as I can tell, the only biological evidence is the furin cleavage site, which is not uncommon in related viruses. Also, this has been known since the beginning, when the Chinese CDC released the first genome of the virus.

This seems more like people declaring victory because they're finally getting a hint of public support for their suspicions, rather than some truly damning evidence.
>Shutting them up doesn't appear to have been particularly successful.

The goal posts will move on this, I guarantee it. Suddenly institutional media will claim they've been working on this story the entire time, and all of their pronouncements cajoling people into not thinking about this explanation will be completely memory-holed. I'm not being hostile to you, I'm expressing frustration here because this really does call into question nearly all of the reporting on the broader Pandemic response when we're just fully admitting here that they did this "because Trump". What other stories did they fuck up on "because Trump"?
They did have samples of a 98% similar virus collected from the miners working in the bat cave who had died years earlier. The virus had a different name like ratg or something.
Apparently this particular conspiracy theory (or whatever you want to call it) is only really a thing in the US and Brazil (or some country in South America) and the rest of the world is like 'probably not a alien spacecraft'.
I've used Jenkins for a long time, long enough to have used Hudson (Jenkins is a fork of Hudson due to Oracle drama).

The alternatives listed in reply to your thread are all much better than Jenkins, from system design, to usability, to cost of ownership of the personnel needed and tech debt incurred. Here's my own opinionated list, having used or evaluated them before:

1. GitlabCI
2. Circle CI
3. Travis CI
4. Github Actions
5. TeamCity
6. Concourse CI

Jenkins just happen to have been around a long time. It's like Jira -- everyone uses it, but nobody likes it.
Anything could be perceived as a conflict of interest. This entire subthread is an argument about whether it’s reasonable to consider this case a conflict of interest.
As a linux user I do most of my assistive technology testing with Orcas. Do you have any insight into that? Do many assistive technology users use Orcas? Is Orcas behavior significantly different from the more popular once?
It's in fact the inverse of: "The bad guys need to get lucky every time. The good guys just need to get lucky once."
OSS licenses include a very broad waiver, after all it is a gift provided as-is.

Software that runs critical infrastructure (or could cause injury or death if it malfunctioned) should be required to use formal methods and that certainly would include everything to make it run also used such formal methods. (From the OS to shared libraries and even the compilers)
All one has to do is look at the top reaching posts on facebook each week - it's mostly right-wing pundits like Ben Shapiro or Dan Bongino. Occasionally Bernie Sanders or AOC breaks into the list, but usually overwhelmingly right-wing pundits.
I have seen personally, heard first hand accounts, and read many a post-mortem for situations where the primary blame really should be on the "victim". There's another word for this:

Negligence.

Of course there are always 0days. There are always sophisticated attacks. There is always human error.

Then there are people in leadership positions being given accurate information about basic security problems and possible outcomes over long periods of time flatly refusing to make security a priority or spend any time fixing dangerous situations.

Many of these ransom situations aren't the result of targeted attacks, but "hey we have this exploit and ransom kit, let's scan the entire Internet and see if we get anything".

Or the ever popular (ok maybe not so much any more) unsecured elasticsearch server on the public internet. I'm sorry but if you put your production data on a public IP on a standard port with zero security, it is positively your fault when your data gets stolen. (not much to do with ransom, but an example).

There is a difference between being the victim of a sophisticated attack and being the victim of your own negligence (and a lot of grey area in between).
That’s another symptom of the same disease. People have an idea that “trust the experts” can replace all the messy, gross, and often wrong processes we have developed to deal with the fact nobody can be trusted. Trusting scientists involved in gain of function research will neutrally investigate the origins of the pandemic is one manifestation of that conceit. So is trusting fact checkers and review panels to decide what’s “misinformation” and what’s factual.

The marketplace of ideas is better than trusting gatekeepers of knowledge. That’s one of the huge lessons of the enlightenment that we have somehow forgot. We think “it’s different this time.”
The magnitude of a conflict of interest obviously matters.
On page 9 of the embedded PDF document (18 of 498 according to the interval counter) you can see the "points" that will be converted to dollars for people adversely affected by Purdue Opioids. What good will cash do at this point? A good rehab facility will cost probably 5-6x more the payout for someone who was deemed addicted; I'd rather see justice served. I don't see a tinge of remorse in this highfalutin document exonerating the guilty of their transgressions. All I see is desperation to get a slice of this settlement, funds that will quickly be burned up, and not even a slap on the wrist for those who took from us some of the best of our generation.
This is massively downplaying the amount of damage trump & his cohort's lies have done and continue to do.
The history of this show is insane. If I remember correctly the show regularly had 10 million viewers. That is a truly absurd number at the time and even now.

You can find the show online. It's an incredible watch and so so sad.
I too am disappointed at how politicized this is. That includes the Vanity Fair article, which was mostly about press coverage, funding, memos, and circumstantial evidence.

Here's some good science sources:

- Comprehensive reddit post [0] from a virologist (table of contents, also linked as a 34 page pdf), referencing over 150 sources, with several sections going into the details of the genetic evidence, also interesting to read the comments.

- Here's an article [1] talking about different origin theories and the related genetic evidence, having a section I was interested in about the cleavage site and o-linked glycan, something apparently that has to develop in an animal with an immune system (this is something I haven't seen any lab-made proponents speak to yet).

- Lastly, here is an article [2], much more scientific than the Vanify Fair article, in favor of a lab connection (unfortunately, for me, this article doesn't mention the o-linked glycan, nor the genetic evidence that covid-19 may have originated hundreds of miles from Wuhan [3])

That's as far as I've gotten so far following the science. I'm hoping there will be more virologist commentary as more data comes out, perhaps something based on the full WHO report/data that I heard was released last week. I'd like to think that science will give us more definite answers eventually. It could take years.

I'm not so much interested in conjecture from politicians and journalists. I'm really taken back by all the inaccuracies, half-truth's, innuendo, and conspiracy theories floating around. Are we all led so easily by the headlines they feed us?

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gk6y95/covid19_did...

[1] https://leelabvirus.host/covid19/origins-part3

[2] https://yurideigin.medium.com/lab-made-cov2-genealogy-throug...

[3] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2020-05-...
Not really. I believe Armstrong walked on the moon, Oswald shot Kennedy and 911 was a bunch of mostly Saudis flying planes into buildings. I question the attribution of hacks to Russia that often happens, not because I trust Russia or anything but because I'm capable of pulling off some of those attacks myself and I can do so without leaving evidence of what nation I'm in. I assume a team of elite Russian hackers would be more capable than me and could do the same.
You can’t trust anybody, not structurally anyway. Western civilization has spent literally hundreds of years developing various ideas, such as free speech and democracy, to deal with that fact of life.
> The only recent evidence it contains is the fact that 3 researchers from WIV sought hospital care back in autumn of 2019 with symptoms similar to COVID.

Even that is something people uncovered online and we were talking about a year ago.

Quick edit: Here's a video from April 2020 that touches on this at 6:38 (and a whole lot more otherwise): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpQFCcSI0pU
And you have concluded this how? Again, in what way is this arcane power of make that you describe subdued by this tool?
Interesting. I'd say the proper level of abstraction for the incoming JSON is some structure that can represent all valid JSON. Then you convert from that JSON thing into the form you expect - in this case a CreateTaskRequest (with int fields and whatnot) - which would be the proper level of abstraction for the code that deals with creating tasks.

Is that substantially different from what you suggest?
I just watched the scene in For All Mankind with the astronauts/lunar surface/duct tape and it seemed to match this article. Which aspects of For All Mankind are you referencing that got it wrong?
Show examples and be specific, otherwise you're conjuring up a comparison between the two out of thin air.
If you do not audit and are not willing, in case of emergency, to take over support of your dependencies, you are creating a mine field. Most people do not understand what this even means though.

Solid libraries are boring and done: old, stable and active bug fix support. Not new features weekly.

Java or .net vs the js ecosystem. In our client contracts we have responsibility for our deliveries; in .net and Java we use well supported libs of over a decade old which we can support ourselves if the maintainers quit. With js this is an issue. Things are generally just not set up for decades of runtime and yet, there we are: we now have node js projects of almost 10 years old with many libs we have to audit and support ourselves and they are not very good quality. I think modern web is only just seeing the tip of the iceberg security wise. It will get much worse.
I think many people who make important decisions related to things that explode would rather just not know.

“To the heart and mind, ignorance is kind

There’s no comfort in the truth, pain is all you’ll find”

- careless whispers
There's also blocktrades.us

I buy Monero by buying Litecoin at any exchange and then swap it for Monero using blocktrades.

Notably, Binance allows buying Monero directly.
Nah, it really doesn't cost $6000.

The context here is that the police officer was already trying to shake this guy down for money; perhaps he figured that he's getting what he wanted in the first place, and can do a little favor to smooth things out.
The optimal binding for humans would have been SARS-COV1 at that time, so the fact it was not reused shows the suboptimality.
This site smacks of people starting from a conclusion and working backwards.
Lexical shadowing isn't an imperative thing. Imagine the form:

(let [a 10
a (+ a a)
a (+ a a a)]
a)

as being like so:

(let [a 10]
(let [a (+ a a)]
(let [a (+ a a a)]
a)))

Which you can now re-imagine as the functional composition:

(+ (+ 10 10) (+ 10 10) (+ 10 10))

So it has evaluation semantics which allow you to reduce it as described in lambda calculus using α-conversion and β-reduction.

And this is different to the imperative style, because in imperative you can do:

int a = 10;
a = ++a + ++a;

Where `a` is now equal to 23, but in Clojure:

(let [a 10
a (+ (inc a) (inc a))]
a)

You now have `a` equal to 22 instead.

This is the difference between the variable substitution evaluation semantic of lambda calculus and the imperative semantics.
hams do it constantly

https://www.amsat.org/
I did want that functionality in the past, but it's not exactly what I'm trying to achieve (but if you find a tool that does, please post it here). I don't want to run arbitrary commands in a container. I want to build software in a container so I don't have to think about its dependencies (as much). I should probably clarify that in the README
> would be criminal regardless of whether a computer was even involved

I don't think GP is in disagreement with you that it's potentially illegal, just that the CFAA shouldn't apply here.
> I don’t dispute it is one point of suspicion, but Wuhan is also one of the 10 biggest cities in China. It isn’t a surprise the first US outbreak was in the biggest city. The first cases could have been anywhere.

Is that really so for animal-borne viruses though? I thought they came from place with lots of animals, hence the focus on the market. If it just showed up on some random high-rise employee downtown that would be hard to believe.

And after it starts, of course a highly-infectious virus shows up at densely populated places quickly. But for the same reason, I would also think it's hard for the first cases to travel to dense areas and spread the disease there without leaving a trail of cases along the trip. Ultimately they should point back to the animals they came from and testing can confirm it. Or at least rule various places out, if the govt was accommodating.

Plus wasn't the first US case somewhere in Washington state.
You have a reductionist view of both people and society that I find uninteresting.

Your fixation on "great man" view of history, in which only those who affect society on a grand scale matter, belongs in the last century, as does your reductionist view that societies "progress" along some linear axis of "good" or "bad." Everyone affects society, everyone matters, and society moves in countless directions at once.

Nevertheless.

However unimportant you may consider Simone Biles, the fact still remains that she's accomplished far more than you likely ever have or will. So apply your own rubric and find a bit of humility. She has achieved master status in her art. She has doubtless inspired generations of gymnasts with a lifetime of practice, effort and skill, and made an indelible mark on her field. She's the best in the world at what she does. What have you done, Nikolay?

...that's a rhetorical question, I don't actually care.
FWIW, pciutils can use a variety of different access methods. Use lspci -A help to see the different access methods, and then lspci -A $method to use a different access method. Note that one of the access methods on linux is linux-sysfs, so pciutils can use sysfs under the hood.
"Conflict of interest" primarily describes situations in which you're deciding policy that applies to personal financial stake.

A situation in which you've (a) contributed to decision-making on multiple public funding priorities including this lab and (b) state a judgment that lab was not the source of the outbreak isn't a conflict of interest, it's everyday policy life. Especially given that there's nothing glaringly wrong with the reasoning Fauci gave for that judgment in the article you linked.

If you think that reasoning has shortcomings, by all means, feel free to actually come up with something resembling a counterargument instead of vaguely implying "whether or not anything shady was going on."
What university has taught me is to not give up and to keep looking for the solution, no matter how hard the problem is and how little I know. Sometimes there was no choice but to crunch hard math problems for endless hours. Most people give up too easily when they have no natural interest for the type of problem they are facing.

Do I make use of all the material I was shown? No. But it is really nice to have that universal background which, for the majority, I would never have studied on my own. You could ask the same question about middle school or high school - do you really need to know about biology, language or arts to be successful? Do you remember many details? Of course not; general knowledge is still incredible valuable.
Which I've started doing, but it is still a real shame that the "default way" is so inefficient, especially given how many devs never even realize it. It contributes a whole lot of accidental-slowness to the ecosystem.