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> The incentives are all misaligned and the solutions aren't obvious. How is the USG going to secure some random admin access password? Are they going to update the code in the repo?

They can publish best practices, research vulnerabilities, provide educational support, and generally do all the kinds of things governments do to encourage the right behaviors. We have some of this, but at some point, switched to the sexier "the best defense is a good offense". Likely because defense is hard.
I have a friend that is really scared of needles, and an alternative mean of delivery would be really appreciated for her.

She managed to go over her fear for the COVID-19 vaccine, but it took her a lot of effort to get there.
I love how hackernews cares deeply about financial censorship then dogs on cryptocurrency.

I'll never understand this community.
How is creating an Ansible role not contributing? What exactly is your gripe, if mtlynch isn't using PiKVM?
> And then there are the 20 years of Linux kernel history that show "audit features" being ineffective, wasteful and little more than a checklist feature.

wuh?? Audit features are used at tons of companies for data collection/ security.
Yes, keep tabs on how it's used. But also, when it's being written, try to think about how it's likely to be misused, and write it in a way that it can't be misused like that. (Amusingly, I made a typo, and misused came out mis-sued.) Legislators try to write laws broad enough that they cover everything and can't be weaseled out of, but that leads to them covering more than intended.
Perhaps the ruling is correct because the judges went out of their way to save a police officer, but would not provide others the same courtesy. But I'm only speculating.
PiKVM is a great project, but I'm not sure why its fans feel the need to dump on mine.

As I mentioned in another comment,[0] TinyPilot is all original code - it's not a fork of PiKVM.

TinyPilot depends on uStreamer, which is a PiKVM tool. I use it under the terms of the license and have contributed back in several ways.

>I think he should be acknowledging pikvm more, or, at all

I publicly credit uStreamer in several places in the TinyPilot repo and on the website. What kind of acknowledgement are you expecting?

>The more he says "It's my code" without even any qualifiers, the less sympathy I have, and I want people to be able to make an honest living while working with open source hardware and software.

Why does using an external open source component make TinyPilot not my code? TinyPilot also depends on Flask and nginx and Linux. Is any project that has an open source dependency somehow stealing?

PiKVM depends on many open source projects as well. What's the difference?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27388827
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> "Daszak had not only signed but organized the influential Lancet statement, with the intention of concealing his role and creating the impression of scientific unanimity."

The interesting part of this - and I'm curious about the personal experience of others here - is that the scientists I know have been the strongest questioners of the wet market theory from the get-go.

I don't think anything resembling scientific unanimity ever emerged, or even appeared to emerge.

Heck, here on HN we've been talking about this consistently at least since the PNAS letter, and probably since the beginning of the pandemic.
Most gas stations are on primary arterial roads. That's where high voltage transmission lines usually run, no?
Who benefits?
Anecdata: I found this device interesting when I first saw it announced. I kinda want one. I think I saw it at a $250 price point, and it was already out of my ballpark. If I was buying it for business use, it'd be justifiable at higher.

For personal use, you already priced me out, so who cares? For hobbyists outside of the Silicon Valley-tier of salary, you've already priced most home buyers out, I could spend $300 on TinyPilot, or I could spend $300 on an entirely new server.
Somehow that headline almost makes sense.
> More recently, Shi and her colleagues at the WIV have performed high-profile experiments that made pathogens more infectious. Such research, known as “gain-of-function,” has generated heated controversy among virologists.

Yeah, I don't see this ending well. A lab leak seems... inevitable, no?
And with more cars supporting 350kW charging speed in the near future (Kia EV6, anyone?) that time is only going to decrease.
^^ this, I am glad someone else opinion is similar to what I wrote in previous comment.

Mine was downvoted and flagged, it seems tinypilot(mtlynch) has "an odd contingent of fans who have taken it upon themselves" but to downvote when someone mentions pikvm
I think if you had good attribution it's more like armies. We have been focused on locking our doors, on building better walls, etc. But there is a non-defensive side.

In meatspace we expect the government to use kinetic force to stop people from attacking us. Like if I leave my door unlocked and some person comes in to start stealing my stuff, the cops really will respond and come stop that person (I have had a home breakin they responded quickly to). They didn't blame me for having bad locks. I pay a lot of taxes so my walls and locks don't have to be perfect.

In cyber land, it's an anarchy. The government offers no defense. But there's no reason someone can't offer a deterrent. Like if you knew who broke into your servers, and there was a goon squad that went and broke down their door either kinetically or electronically I think a deterrent strategy could eventually work. Like it literally does for meat-space security.

(Not totally sure I want that, but I'm just saying it would probably work and we haven't really tried it yet.)
Witness what happened to the Dixie Chicks when they protested the impending invasion of Iraq.
Actually I don't know that SCOTUS has much to say in this ruling on the necessity of effective technical controls.

If the officer was explicitly told 'you can use the computer system, and it can do plate lookups, but you're not allowed to perform plate lookups ever', then he went ahead and made a plate lookup anyway, I'm not entirely clear that the ruling would exclude that from being a CFAA charge, even without there being any password or permission model to lock him out of that functionality. I could be wrong there - there may be other caselaw on that - but I didn't read much in the ruling that suggested they were interested in the extent to which the system technically restricted access to this functionality.

But in this case he had legitimate technical access, he was authorized to use it to look up plate data, and the SCOTUS verdict, sensibly, concludes that using that access for an illegitimate purpose does not merit a CFAA charge.
Not new. See: Road Vehicles
> This is a bit like saying SpaceX's Starship isn't possible because Boeing's SLS is costly and delayed.

SpaceX also says they'll have operational cross-earth passenger service for less than business class ticket by the end of 2028. I'd gladly take a bet against that.
Either way, your rebuttal about Boeing doesn't address the fundamental differences between control of a traditional aircraft-- which is all that any existing software can handle-- and control of a fundamentally different type of aircraft.
If you know what you're doing, having access to a universal approximator is lethal. But if you don't, it's true, you can only replicate previous successes in the domain, and that will be the limiting factor.
Thanks for reading!

>For sure it sucks being on call but usually because you're dealing with someone else's crap. But as the big Kahuna, aren't you in a position to make things reliable enough that on call is not a burden?

Yeah, I just don't even want to think about it. I want to be able to disconnect on the weekends safe in knowing that there's nothing I'm missing that's causing a big outage for a bunch of my customers.
Simplified raises $2.2M in seed to bring automated content creation to marketers
Btw, for anyone who read that, here's a follow-up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27388943
Anybody who has ever worked in a wet lab, or a lab of any sort, knows that accidents happen. All the time. Things catch fire, things are dropped, labeling issues happen, anything you can think of.

I worked for many years in a lab, the accidental leak hypothesis was and still is what I consider the most probable. Calculate the joint probability of everything we know about the origin of SARS-CoV-2 happening and it should be obvious that the "lab leak" should be _thoroughly_ investigated before dismissing it.
> The lab leak theory posits that natural disasters such as have happened throughout history no longer happen because all events are shaped by the hands of man

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Here in Ontario I never found a bad Denny's, on the other hand I never found a great Denny's. All the Denny's I had seen here are very near other restaurants so after the first couple of them I tend to eat elsewhere.
I'm sure people are so confused by someone using the long established English dictionary definition of racism and not the new far left interpretation of the word that now includes social power structures that conveniently allows non-whites to be racist without being called out.
It was off limits if you dared post it on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or any other "popular" place for public discourse.
Benioff-backed software startup helps companies get smarter about climate risk
Yeah that kind of crap is pretty standard.

Tech probably just screwed it up because flat rate techs are always racing the clock.

If you were just dealing with the service writer the tech probably never even knew you had issues with it until the situation was too far gone to salvage.
Created a backend form API, https://formcake.com with friends last year and have been growing it ever since. Backend is all AWS, Nuxt, and Node.
So, will china be held accountable if it is found that covid was indeed leaked from the wuhan lab? Propably not. This is Chernobyl 2.0 but this time, the evil empire is getting away scott-free
Why Contact Tracing Couldn't Keep Up with the U.S. Covid Outbreak
What frustrates me the most about this, is that we clearly have diversity teams to help encourage more diversity and inclusion AND to change the minds of people who may have been historically opposed or perhaps subconsciously discriminative.

So the entire idea that this person should be removed based on a blog post 14 years ago is absurd. Are they saying therefore that people who historically demonstrated limited views on diversity are incapable of changing and advocating for change? Then why have the position in the first place.
Most people think birds just go pi-pi-pi
NitrOS-9, Unix-like operating system for the 6809
Agree totally.

I'd add that, while China is ready to help and take part in the global fight against the covid, a finger-pointing shaming war against them would probably (as it already did several times) trigger the very Asian reaction of counter-fighting to not lose face, and stopping any constructive cooperation.
This explains much.
I wonder what other factual reporting might have been suppressed by political orthodoxy dismissing it as a baseless conspiracy theory over the past few years.
Police forces are paid for with taxes and respond to private businesses. What if publicly funded cybersecurity ends up costing everyone less money over the long term?

Tax laws are a different issue, even though I agree some megacorps aren't paying their fair share of "private security" right now.
I'm sorry, but you are ignoring the chain of low probability coincidences that were evident from the very beginning. Also, the Lancet letter denouncing the theory, written by scientists who claimed no conflict of interest, falsely.

This is laid out clearly in Wade's article below, and saying it's political is not based on data or science.

https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-peop...

Note the grant specifying the research here, with the chief author of the Lancet letter as recipient.

https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/proje...
Really good piece. It’s nice to see this aspect of “fine dining” becoming a lot more common at casual restaurants. Letting chefs actually do the chefing makes for by far the best food I’ve ever had. And you never have to worry that your dietary restrictions or the fact that you hate raw tomatoes means you’ll get a sub-par meal because the chef will JIT something with the same feel on the spot for you.

My favorite pizza place ever has a “Chef’s Choice” option where the chef has a conversation about what you like in a pizza and then bring you something unique, and amazingly delicious. I would go there every week if it wasn’t terrible for my health xD
I concur. I think it's nuts when companies do this. There's another well know SaaS that basically invented their own language but I can't recall who. It's the ultimate ego food for the lead engineer imho.

what a company needs is good leadership at every level. not unique tools, and not "10x engineers".
Work done by Schmieden&Laugwitz in the 1950s helped to formalize and retroactively apply rigor to the earlier uses of infinitesimals. Their Omega Calculus approach was also constructive.

cf. Detlef Laugwitz, Curt Schmieden's Approach to Infinitesimals. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9757-9_12

However this turned out less useful going forward.
The calculation is simple and could have been made in early 2020. What's the joint probability of occurrence given everything you know about the origins of SARS-CoV-2?

There is _very_ high probability that this is just a human error.
https://www.make-it-in-germany.com/en/visa/kinds-of-visa/eu-...
I’ve never heard of 2-3 people getting sick before in a large organization. That sounds like a smoking gun.
Dupe of giuliomagnifico's submission here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27342894
It is, the narrative last year was that if you pointed at Wuhan, or Chinese Lab Leak, you were racist/bigoted.
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> Today, the US distaste for instability, and nation-building

This is an unpopular opinion, but I feel like we should generally accept nation-building doesn't work well, countries we leave tend to go back to being horrible in a number of years after we set up a new nation there. And accepting that, and accepting sometimes that countries are completely failed, harmful to world security, and larger countries need to intervene: Annexation isn't actually a bad concept. It's absolutely frowned upon today, but I'm not sure is worse than what we've done to half a dozen countries in the past couple decades alone.

The barrier to war should be high, but at the point you obliterate a nation's governing structure, defenses, and likely civic infrastructure, you should accept you have a permanent responsibility for the civilians there. And maybe the best way to be democratic about it is to establish a process that states one annexes can petition and vote for secession after they've reached a more stable position.

> North Korea not having a hoard of oil or something

There's that. North Korea is a property that literally only Kim Jong Un wants. And major powers seem perfectly fine to let him have it as long as he mostlyish behaves.
What makes lab leak more probable than cross species transfer, something that happens all the time?
please check Brian_K_White comment, my english is not good enough.
Very polished website.

What's your pricing plan?
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Are you thinking of https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/09/01/wasabi/ perhaps?
Was every other emerging virus also created in a lab? SARS? MERS? Influenza? Polio?

The highest probability is this virus originated like every other virus in history.
There already is, companies like EverCharge (https://evercharge.net/) deal with load orchestration. However even if every parking spot has a car that’s plugged in, most of them probably won’t be charging at any given time.
I would think that if you're a shark, cold water IS attractive.
Stimulus checks dramatically reduced hunger and hardship, Census data shows
So, this is actually brilliant. Sculpture is all about negative space, and he's made a sculpture that is 100% negative space.
No, it's not automatic like that. You define predicate functions that need to evaluate to true to pass. One of the reasons this is better than a normal constructor is these predicate functions are attached outside of the function they're describing. So they're inspectable and composable.
Thanks for reading!

Yeah, custom hardware is something I want to do more of, but I have a hard time with it since I'm not much of a hardware guy, so I stick to the Pi. It's a pain in some ways, but it has the big benefit of a large user base so there's a lot of support.

I've been working on the custom PoE HAT for a few months, and the last two months has just been running in circles trying to find ICs in stock. The EE consultants I'm working with say this this would normally be something we could build easily for $20/unit, but with the chip shortage, everything's out of stock. I've even okayed them to look for parts that would drive it up to $50/unit just for the HAT, but we're still not finding anything.

My plan is to do the custom hardware in baby steps, like start with the custom PoE HAT, then see if I can integrate the TC358743 into my HAT for HDMI capture, then maybe move to Pi CM4, then maybe something even more custom.
If we don't get ahead of this we'll regulatory capture ourselves into oblivion and the enemy will win anyway. As long as state-sponsored-actors are indistinguishable from black-market criminals this will never escalate beyond the perpetual cat and mouse game. We simply have to be better, and we can't have oversight committees and regulatory boards managing it. Infosec is ripe for being revolutionized.
But you think this impacts a 20ms budget? It’s mostly trivia to get sub 20ms p99 in Go.
I came here looking for the joke.
Subtle, not vulgar. Well done.
I think it’s safe to say that the headline used to post this link is not truthful.
> Fundamental misunderstanding of justice and the US justice system

Because the people committing those crimes didn't know the Fifth Amendment? You don't have to say anything. There's really no reason to lie; other than to cover up something worse. Explain the pardons.
Sorry, but the CCP hid this from the beginning. It's not Asian culture, it's authoritarian governments always needing to appear infallible. Same as Chernobyl. They were arresting doctors in December 2019, internally, for raising the alarm.

The greatest enemy of the Chinese people is the regime running their country, the one that 91 percent of them have zero say in.
Interesting. Thanks for the reference.
Cleary it wasn’t that simple or they would have just done that.
It's fake news, twitter said so last year. Right?
Cancel at the source tech definitely exists, but it generally works best for repetitive predictable noise (same with noise cancelling in general)

Here's an example: https://www.silentium.com/technology-2/quiet-at-the-source/
I think this is needed because the security industry seems to be well on the way to adopting paying off these people as a routine cost of business. That is going to lead to an absolute disaster if it is allowed to continue and grow.

It needs to be a double edged sword though where companies are just as afraid of facilitating ransomware attacks as they would be of the consequences of facilitating terrorists. In other words, this will only work if it means company's are taking the threat more seriously, not less.
I’m not sure if you realize you’re guilty of the same error you’re claiming others are making - you’re letting politics drive your beliefs, not facts.
>If that blogpost was the same, but said Israel, instead of the Jewish people; would there be any issue with it today?

The whole problem with the blog post is that he did was stereotyping millions of people (the majority of whom don't even live in Israel) as being bloodthirsty killers based on the actions of the Israeli government. Imagine how wrong it would be to write a blog post about Idi Amin and coming to the conclusion that African-Americans are inherently violent.
Does that mean targeted assassinations?
isn't it obvious? they're simply avatar "cameras" being used by those running our simulation to explore through it, same as we do in a game world.
Did any of them originate a few miles from a pathogen research lab that handled such pathogen that caused those outbreaks?
... but this was 5 years ago and everyone and their dog knows it by now, the company just didn't bother to change that door. Also, the criminal group doesn't hit doors with cameras, but nobody bothered to install one.

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What you described is a zero day, which is very rarely used - most ransomware simply uses the absolutely low hanging fruit of companies lagging behind years in security updates combined with highly insufficient backups.
"the science" we need to trust is to say "I don't know but am investigating".

What people want to trust in science is just this behaviour, not that "scientists can be evil and conspire together with China to hide that they make mistakes sometimes". The "skeptics" you refer to, sometimes are not so interested in investigating but more in pushing anti-science agenda, for instance religious, or nationalist.

But if people who wanted to know got shamed by religious who told them that it cannot be the Wuhan lab, then that's wrong :D
The previous significant threads:

Related threads:

The media's lab leak fiasco - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27307175 - May 2021 (696 comments)

Wuhan lab staff sought hospital care before Covid-19 outbreak disclosed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27259953 - May 2021 (343 comments)

How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27184998 - May 2021 (235 comments)

More Scientists Urge Broad Inquiry into Coronavirus Origins - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27160898 - May 2021 (341 comments)

The origin of Covid: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27071432 - May 2021 (537 comments)

Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 shouldn't be ruled out - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26750452 - April 2021 (618 comments)

Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26540458 - March 2021 (985 comments)

The Lab Leak Hypothesis - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25640323 - Jan 2021 (229 comments)

Israeli startup claims Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, willing to bet on it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25585833 - Dec 2020 (351 comments)

Wuhan lab did research on bat viruses, but no evidence of accidental release - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23070031 - May 2020 (76 comments)

Experts disagree on whether Covid-19 could have leaked from a research lab - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22695825 - March 2020 (6 comments)
Prepare to have your head explode further.

https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-peop...

https://reporter.nih.gov/search/xQW6UJmWfUuOV01ntGvLwQ/proje...
I think readers might also enjoy 'the diving bell and the butterfly'. 'Tuesdays with Morrie' is another one in this "genre".
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> The lab leak hypothesis was never off limits, it was ridiculed because it had little evidence and was based on political things are different this time thinking.

It was ridiculed because a Republican Senator popularized it, not because of evidence.

The way you know it had nothing to do with the evidence or lack thereof is that people who respond based on evidence don't usually respond with ridicule, and people who respond based on tribal affiliation usually do.

There were definitely some people saying "this is possible, but on balance unlikely given what we know today", but for the most part words like "crackpot" and "incompetent" and even "racist" were used instead. That's not what arguing from a place of facts sounds like.