skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I do incident command at my workplace, there are two goals in dealing with an incident: solving the problem, and preventing it from happening again. They are both extremely important, but they happen in order.

While the incident is ongoing, any attempts to prevent the problem from happening in the future are a complete distraction. Write down notes and ideas somewhere so we don't forget, but the priority is on solving the incident that actually happened and is causing problems. If you say "What if we fixed this longstanding piece of tech debt that led up to the incident," however reasonable it is to fix it in light of the fact that it caused an incident, it's useless to bring it up now if you can't fix the tech debt immediately to resolve the incident. Along the same lines, attribution is interesting if it will help you deal with what is going on (e.g., there's high load on a low-level system and you want to know if anyone deployed anything recently, so that you can ask them to roll back); it's not really interesting if you know what's broken (e.g., a machine is powered off and needs to be turned back on... figuring out who pressed the power button isn't yet relevant).

Similarly, "We should stop funding gain-of-function research" may (or may not) be a valid conclusion, but it wouldn't have dealt with COVID-19 in particular. It might be worth doing it to make sure there's no COVID-22.

Even if it turns out to be true that COVID-19 came directly from research that would not have happened if it were not for Fauci, absent a reason to believe that anyone's response to COVID-19 specifically would have been different if they knew that, I don't see any reason it was improper not to draw attention to it at the time, and quite a few reasons why it was proper to focus attention on the problem at hand.

His comments in that May 2020 article are spot-on. If we knew that it was engineered, then yes, publicizing the lab notes that were used to build it could perhaps speed up the process of a vaccine or other countermeasure (but COVID-19 had already been sequenced by January 2020 and the sequence published, and vaccines were already in development then). But theories like "what if the researchers brought it in from the wild, and then it escaped their lab" should just have prompted the response "yes, so what." It's interesting now to prevent the next COVID; it's irrelevant re COVID-19.

And I certainly don't see the conflict of interest - what was Fauci gaining? His continued role? Again, at the time, the role was not determining whether to fund gain-of-function research, the role was figuring out how to get rid of COVID-19.

You could say that the NIH should have paused all funding for new virus research projects (unless they specifically related to dealing with COVID-19 in the short term), but that would have been a good idea regardless of the NIH's previous role in funding.
Anyone can plea bargain.

Did the Sackler family commit a crime here?
Facebook Plans to End Hands-Off Approach to Politicians’ Posts
Could be. I confess that I don't follow social media, but I participate in a handful of web forums that probably count as lightweight social media. On those forums, there are taboo topics, and my impression is that those are topics where any hope of civil discussion has long since evaporated. So, I wouldn't have high hopes for progress towards investigating this issue via a social medium if its curators have already concluded that the topic should be banned.
> Calling it "the china virus", as the former president was wont to do, was labelled racist/bigoted/nationalistic

While the racist violence that happened was deplorable, it is entirely amusing to me that we are fine with calling it UK/Brazil/South African/Indian variant but not call it the China virus/flu.

The same publications like Guardian which did not use the term China virus/flu because it was considered racist had no problem in using Brazil/Indian variant as the names of the variant. They are still doing it even after WHO came up with different non country based names for each variants.

> The claim that it originated in the Wuhan lab was viewed as unlikely, and there was (is) an alternative biological origin story which at the time seemed credible and more likely

Wuhan lab leak being shot down so easily was the thing I found non convincing and the fact that so many journalists didn't cover it was surprising. While we might be able to ascertain that the virus is natural or man made easily, but a natural virus leaking out would seem high on the probability list to me as there is conveniently a lab at the same place where the outbreak first happened; and it was doing research on the same thing.
although i recently found out you can't cancel prime without javascript. took me ages to figure that one out since the site usually works for the most part
Craziest excuse I've ever heard: "I couldn't be bothered to act rationally and morally because someone else was being too annoying".
> "do your own research"

How? I barely have enough time to do my day job. You think I have the time or expertise to research the origins of a virus?

Where does it end? Do I grow my own food? Make my own clothes? Build my own car after mining ore, smelting it and doing a million other things?
Admittedly I have a better track record saying than doing. So I’ll double down on that and repeat what all of the a11y advocates I follow say:

- you want to at least test with JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver

- automated tooling isn’t great and you probably need to manually verify things

- axe does help spot problems just don’t rely on it completely
http://archive.is/XFvAi
This is the first time I'm looking closely at Clojure code and it seems wholly antithetical to the practice of software engineering. Not very readable, too many ways to create magical jank, odd coding conventions, and it looks like refactoring and maintenance would be a nightmare. I'm very glad the community has had the collective sense to not adopt this widely.
https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/...
They indirectly gave WIV funding to support research into Pig SARS -- Swine acute diarrhea syndrome coronavirus (SADS-CoV).

There is exactly fuckoff zero evidence that funding wound up supporting gain of function research for anything.

And giving China money to study diseases in pigs happening in China that are closely related to a human disease that we were worried about it (or maybe a close relative) spilling over into humans only makes sense.
While this article is quite illuminating on the political side of the lab leak theory, on the evidence side it's mostly a rehash of some long-standing speculations.

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. However, this piece of evidence is hardly consequential without further details:

- First, most common symptoms of COVID are indistinguishable from common cold. If the researchers were known to have any "signature" symptoms like loss of smell the article would certainly mention it.

- Second and more importantly, China doesn't have a robust GP/family doctor system found in western countries. As a result, many people would go to hospitals directly whenever they're mildly sick.

Taking the evidence as we know it now, the straightforward explanation is that 3 researchers caught cold, got mildly sick, so went to the hospital to get prescriptions or doctor's notes for sick leave (in China it's common for employers to require a doctor's note even for a short sick leave).

That said, I believe the lab leak theory is still plausible, and shouldn't be ruled out unless a clear transmission path from bat to human has been identified (which was done for the 2002 SARS outbreak). But I also think that we may never know. I trust that some theories put forward were in good faith, but so far they are little more than speculations.
How do you distinguish a nonsense model from a good model when you don't have a writeup, you don't have validation data, and it is not possible to run cheap experiments?

I'm not saying you can't make money selling an RNG with a slick UI, you certainly can.
PowerFX is MS's name for the standard code format. I believe their ultimate goal is that:

- business users build apps using a graphical low-code interface,

- these then convert to PowerFX source code that goes into the enterprise's source control system.

- The enterprise IT team tests the code, re-writes key components and deploys.

- And these changes are then reflected back into the low-code app development environment.

This allows business users to contribute domain expertise and IT to maintain their quality and governance role.

Needless to say, this is non-trivial from a tech perspective but, in my view, is a better approach than an enterprise having a separate deployment and governance framework for low-code/RPA apps than for their other custom applications developed in Java/C++ etc.
> we are fine with calling it UK/Brazil/South African/Indian variant

Not anymore. They're getting Greek letter designations now.
There is zero evidence that anyone, anywhere in the world was working to develop SARS-like bioweapons. The gain-of-function research in question would have been basic research, intended to develop more dangerous variants of the viruses in order to predict future pandemic emergence, develop more universal vaccines, etc. I believe this research was reckless and should never have been funded (by the USA!) or permitted, even considering only what they knew at the time. It wasn't malicious, though.

In any case, beyond gain-of-function, the WIV and Wuhan CDC also had the biggest program in the world to sample novel SARS-like coronaviruses from nature, from remote bat caves that no other humans had any reason to enter.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/coronaviru...

If SARS-CoV-2 is a naturally-evolved virus accidentally released by scientists, then Wuhan is the obvious place for it to emerge. That could have been directly from a lab, or a researcher could have become infected on a sampling trip, traveled home from the sampling sites (~900 miles away, to be clear; Wuhan was not an expected natural spillover region), and seeded the infection there. None of this is anywhere close to proven, but the previous dismissal of any unnatural origin as a "conspiracy theory" was an outrageous, unscientific smear.
The lab workers didn't even get sick, it was samples the lab worked on.
What the Aztecs can teach us about happiness and the good life (2016)
If it's nothing to do with an engineered virus conspiracy then there's no reason to constrain ourselves to the 1 or 2 labs doing that kind of research. If we don't have that constraint then appearing in Wuhan is much less coincidental.
Once the situation was out they did everything properly to fix it at home, and then even contributed to the science work on the virus (just not on the lab origin hypothesis, but all other work on the virus structure, illness mechanisms, potential vaccines or medications, yes).

All the geopolitical tensions around China, both Koreas, and Japan, are just about losing or not losing face. Most of the time they would largely benefit just negociating and accepting to lose some useless islands and so on, but no because "they don't bow to the foe".

Also I work in Asia and I meet this "keeping the face" behavior everywhere and all the time.

So to understand relations with China you'd better factor in these characteritics into your analysis rather than sweeping them under the carpet.
Sure there is, the grid-row and grid-column CSS properties

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Grid_La...
When China started welding doors on high rises to keep people in, that was the signal to take it seriously-despite what the WHO was saying
Can you expand a bit on how Greek helps? Are you talking about Ancient Greek? I know a few latin derived languages but I never taught about the relation to computer languages.
if the cost of building a large scale, end to end application used to be:

$10M, the new cost will be $100k, or $10k, or less.

$1M, the new cost will be $10k, or $1k, or less.
Open Source JavaScript Wallet
Right - instead of trying to debate the veracity of the argument, it was immediately cast as a political battle, and being on the same side as Trump in most urban and most media circles was asking to be ostracized. It’s absolutely poisonous.
Right, like I noted elsewhere some industries have higher IE traffic, proportionally speaking
Malware authors increasingly bypassing scans by Microsoft tool
thanks for your reply, it was really informative. I'm not a fan of CSV so will delve deeper into jsonlines as an alternative next time it crops up
We have to think of this similar to how any other human or company behavior is monitored. Hold companies responsible and have a market sell ransomware insurance.

(One exception to my solution is poor government and public institutions who run awful software. Not sure what we can do)

If I have a habit of burning down my house by being sloppy with safety, my rates will go up. There should be something similar

Let us take the case with Equifax mismanaging their servers, with running obsolete Java packages resulting in identity theft for millions of Americans.

Credit score is controlled by 3 companies. Credit score determines mortgage rate and hence it literally controls if a US resident can afford to buy a house or get a job (in some states). Don’t the companies need to take some responsibility?

Similarly dozens of companies leaving Elastic search installs and MySQL open to the internet. I mean.. how sloppy can one get?

Fine, be sloppy, just pay $$$$$ to your insurance company. That $$ amount will indirectly decide whether we go to war with Russia or pay software engineers.
only men have it.
It seems you may be unfamiliar with the theoretical and practice application of the legal system. Here is some food for thought.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presumption_of_innocence

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1279681

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
I wonder how many of these would be stopped by getting rid of SMB file shares. Not that that is really an option, of course, but things like OneDrive and Google Drive scan for malware during upload and often don't sync a file (especially a shared file) to a user's device until they specifically click on it. Seems like it would make it a lot harder to move around if you were malware.

(You can't do this if you want on-prem Active Directory or a good open-source cross-platform file sharing service like Samba, which means 90% of companies can't do this. And there are of course actual security things you can do [like blocking hard mapping of network drives in Windows] instead of the cowards way out I speak of.)
You can use Facebook without JS as well: mbasic.facebook.com

I'm not sure if it's completely JS-free but Gmail also has a Basic HTML view, although you must enable JS in order to login to your Google Account.

However, this seems like a weird comment. Should it be surprising that some of the world's largest tech companies with effectively infinite resources are able to provide a JS-free version of certain services?
Agree. Do not underplay the value of status and power for people like Faucci. He needed to downplay to keep his grip on both
You chose the link, not me. There's nothing there that is not deferential.

Hoping to have the country roaring back by easter 2020 didn't and doesn't strike me as evidence of someone taking COVID19 seriously.

Was it incorrect that part of Trump's motivation for the travel ban was racism (his own, or institutional)? I don't think we can really answer that question definitively at the moment, and we may never be able to. But again, this is another example of "the boy who cried wolf" syndrome. Maybe this time, his nationalistic, xenophobic language was rooted in a sincere, scientifically rooted belief about how best to protect the country. But when you've used the same kind of language throughout your administration to belittle, insult and denigrate, it shouldn't be much of a surprise that people interpret the same sort of behavior as more of the same.

The US media is almost always deferential. They lob softball questions at politicans, allow them to lie to the cameras without challenge, give outsize credibility to administration statements, and so much more. I grew up in the UK in the 60s, 70s and 80s. No US politician would survive the media climate in the UK back then.

Probably you're thinking of media actually calling Trump out on his lies, and yes, when they eventually got around to that, that was a little different. But then, he was a different sort of president, so hardly surprising.
Yes. They very likely did.

Kaiser Health News has a good roundup of articles on this very topic.

https://khn.org/morning-breakout/documents-reveal-just-how-i...

There are such gems as:

"That email and other internal Purdue communications are cited by the attorney general of Massachusetts in a new court filing against the company, released on Tuesday. They represent the first evidence that appears to tie the Sacklers to specific decisions made by the company about the marketing of OxyContin. The aggressive promotion of the drug helped ignite the opioid epidemic.

The filing contends that Mr. Sackler, a son of a Purdue Pharma founder, urged that sales representatives advise doctors to prescribe the highest dosage of the powerful opioid painkiller because it was the most profitable."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/15/health/sacklers-purdue-ox...

"In a new 274-page memorandum, Attorney General Maura Healey details a chain of command that she alleges implicates eight Sackler family members, as well as nine Purdue board members or executives, in the nation's deadly opioid epidemic."

https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2019/01/15/healey-purdue-o...

Sackler family members seemed to have played a very hands-on role in the aggressive marketing of the drugs, and probably have their fingerprints all over internal company policies such as:

"...a copy of a confidential Justice Department report shows that federal prosecutors investigating the company found that Purdue Pharma knew about “significant” abuse of OxyContin in the first years after the drug’s introduction in 1996 and concealed that information."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/health/purdue-opioids-oxy...

Unless I misread your comment and you just mean did they commit a crime in accepting the plea bargain, and then no I guess not in the letter of the law. Certainly the spirit of the law was not honored here, however, as no member of the Sacker family seems to have been brought up on criminal charges. They just wrote a check and walked away admitting.."no wrongdoing and will remain one of the wealthiest families in America."
How Amateur Sleuths Broke the Wuhan Lab Story and Embarrassed the Media
Chamath Palihapitiya: what content creators haven't yet realized
So instead of looking at the facts, and then taking others opinion, you completely disregard the facts because the opinion comes from a liar?
Yeah, I know. The vision based one seems to be more limited in the rain at the moment. I'm questionable as to whether this will be a long term problem, since it does so well at picking up lane line markers. It seems like a solvable issue.

The high beams are a different story. I only like to use auto-high-beam on rural roads as they tend to be problematic on busy highways in Tesla and my non-Tesla. But requiring them even on highways would be a big problem that I don't foresee them solving soon. I'm worried that this is going to take a long time to fix.

IMO, they actually work pretty well on rural roads.
Go ask reddit
Which senator did something like this? I would love to know.
It's absolutely infuriating that this relies on the Alexa app rather than being possible through amazon.com or an Alexa command. Talk about a dark pattern. One of my housemates has an Echo but has never installed the app.

I'm sure there are folks here who work at Amazon. What do you think about these things?
Assuming the chance of a lab leak is non-zero, it is worth considering how this will ever end.

- If there was any hard evidence actually proving they had SARS-CoV-2 in the lab before the pandemic, it will be long gone. Only an independent full access forensic level investigation would ever find any sign that evidence was destroyed, and that is never going to happen.

- It seems extremely unlikely to me that anyone from within China will A) blow the whistle or B) that we would hear about it.

- If a whistleblower were to escape the country, China would be able to claim they are lying, and it is a plot by the West to oppress the Chinese people etc. The chance that the whistleblower would be carrying irrefutable evidence of a lab leak is again almost zero.

We can keep shaking the tree, but I don't think anything truly satisfying is going to fall out. Consider that even if the USA for example had actual evidence of a lab leak, they would be better off using this as leverage over China secretly than releasing it publicly.

What actually can and should happen, is that some major change comes to virology research to absolutely minimise the chance of another lab origin pandemic. Wherever SARS-CoV-2 came from, we have had lab leaks before and we will have them again, that much is certain.
> Where is that line?

The only line is to scrub everything you have ever written with your real name off the internet. Someone will get offended by your writing and, eventually, you will lose your job and be exiled.
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Most of the content doesn't seem to be there. e.g. When I click on "Week 1" there are just three headers and nothing to click/read/watch/do. Am I missing something about how to use this site to get the course?
The comments here are atrocious.
Yea, I kind of took a similar route. I was so bored near the end of my business major and tacked on a comp sci minor at the end. Those few classes I took were amazingly interesting then and most are still with me now. I was lucky enough to have a business internship while in school where I was exposed to the tech side of things and that got me extremely interested in and motivated by computer science. I'm often curious about what a full degree would have given me or if I would have had a better career if I went the comp sci route from the start. At least for me, I feel like I've learned close to 99% of what I know now from work and from learning in my free time after school. I feel so lucky to genuinely enjoy my job and be interested in learning more and expanding on my skills even to this day.
And at worse he's guilty of trespass, not breaking and entering.

If there were a filing cabinet that he had keys to, he wouldn't be charged with breaking into the cabinet if he grabbed the wrong files. What's the penalty for using the wrong physical file he has direct access to? That's what we should be talking about.
Tell it to our politically correct liberal friends at Guardian, they are still using the country name. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/03/india-covid-va...
sure, but if I have an actual table with tabular data, it would be nice to be able to just hide a row and adjust colspan in css as well as necessary. it's much less of a problem than it used to be these days, since grid is very well supported now, but still kind of annoying to rebuild the entire table into a grid.
The, dare I say it? War-against-ransomware.
I’m not very familiar with the technologies you linked. However, bear in mind the military operates at a scale that’s hard to fathom. Fielding new capabilities requires substantial level of effort when it’s military wide. Aside from that, many times they already have some tricks up their sleeves if push ever came to shove.