skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately this isn't as easy as you think - even if there's no monetary cost, it's still not free to the organizations you're giving it to, because it takes their time and effort. Someone has to spend the time learning about the product and evaluating whether it fits a need.

That means that even though it's free, you have to sell it - maybe that's just through marketing if it's simple enough, or maybe you're going to have to get on the phone with decision makers if it's more complex.

If it's the latter, the fact that it's free honestly may not even be a good thing. Companies have budgets and willingness to pay for things, so the person evaluating it may prefer something that's paid because there's money available anyway and a paid tool is much less likely to disappear tomorrow.

I really recommend thinking about pricing and trying to sell it to a few customers - if that's your ultimate goal anyway, it means you'll be getting feedback from the right people (those who are willing to evaluate it as a paid tool) vs. folks who may only be willing to use it because it's free.
I’m not saying it is impossible, I’m saying it is not likely.

I think it is great for people to research the origins and dig into all the details and try to find the truth. But if the virus were of natural origin, which to me is the most likely truth, then all of this talk and speculation are just maligning completely innocent people. And many of the comments here are maligning left and right.
I mean, just compare the advantage of (I'm taking the point of vue of Japan here):

- being friend with all your neighbors and having a couple less islands, to which you could go in vacations just fine anyway, or

- having your islands but being enemy with everybody, spoiling your gross product on arms race and exercises, creating an atmosphere of hate for your resident foreigners, hindering international commerce, voting laws to reinforce government coertion...

They could negociate to buy the rare earth or any other useful resources around these islands, if they belonged to a foreign but friendly neighbor.
I think it's sort of obvious what the parent comment is saying? You gave an example of your experience with a different language, that has really not much bearing on the one being talked about.

It runs in a different VM, it's a different paradigm (or mash-up of paradigms which, in turn, is the source of one of your contention points when learning/ramping hires), it's a statically typed language so requires usually more upfront thinking and a better understanding of domain modelling (getting it right from the start), it's notorious for being complex (don't know if it's warranted or not, but it's a normal complaint even from people who seem to like the language).

Elixir/Erlang does need a bit of honest study to hone (this is the same with everything though, JS for instance is quite complex when you take a step back and look at what you need to understand to write decent maintainable code), but the payoff is much higher because it doesn't change with every tide. Code you wrote 4 years ago, if idiomatic, will be idiomatic today, and I'll go off on a limb here and say it will be in 4 years time too.

(btw didn't downvote you)
That’s better than dead grandma who is leaning her foot on the gas just so to get you to keep the same speed aka cruise control. Dead grams is in many many cars.
China supported this in a psyop. Remember when they tried repeatedly to push the origin of the virus to Italy?
I'm ethnically Chinese, so I'm in contact with a lot of mainlanders. The brainwashing is very effective. Even if most mainlanders know that their state media is bogus, and that Xi is a dictator, they'll take it deeply personally when you say anything that threatens the whole China # 1 narrative. All they had to do was hire a few shitposters, feed a few media narratives and the US fights with itself over stuff like anti-china, racists etc, while the CCP takes over Hong Kong.
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Kudos for imagining and naming a law in your own name and posting here.
I think the real point that no public figure is willing to say, is that if this virus did leak out of a CCP lab after being modified the entire world will to some degree or another demand consequences for the CCP.

While doubtful the consequences would lead to nuclear war that’s not outside the scope of possible outcomes. What’s more likely is the vast consumer public rejecting the relationship with the CCP, leading to a quicker downward spiral of relations leading to risky military situations and a lot of rich people with a stake in China trade becoming slightly less rich.
Agree on Safari point, only because Safari looks like an actual native macOS app and Firefox could not be farther than that. Which is not a good thing to be clear.
Meh, at this point I'll take a pdp-11 sh on my phone (I use ash actually.) At least it does what I tell it to do unlike most of Android.
> No one is going to agree to swap the pristine battery in their new car with a reconditioned battery (at best) at a charging stop.

They might if they never owned a battery in the first place.

I certainly am not particularly interested in owning a massive expensive wear item of almost certainly soon to be obsolete technology.

In a world with standardized batteries that are easily swappable at a dedicated facility like an EV jiffy lube, it doesn't take much imagination to see your EV delivered with one of EV jiffy lube's swaps preinstalled and all priced accordingly.
> If you listen to the experts

The "experts" rarely have a unanimous consensus on anything. If you actually listen to all of the experts, you'll hear all of the possibilities. But that still won't tell you who's right and who isn't.

On a question like "lab leak or meat market?" the answer isn't of importance to me, or any other average person. It's important for the experts to know the truth, in order to be able to prevent it next time. But other than that, finding someone (or several someones) to pin it on isn't going to give everyone the past 15 months of their lives back.
Sure, there is office culture, but I think “company culture” has to be what’s in common between the offices, by definition, no?
I had a required ethics course for my CS degree. I can't recall anything from it. I also took a one day ethics course at a FAANG that was excellent. Far better than a "I'm not stupid" checkbox. I think both of these are true:

- Ethics should be a required course for CS.

- CS classes in general do a poor job of tracking well with the industry. Fine for some things (eg, theory), but awful for others (eg, any Software Engineering course which touches on waterfall.)

For those who have missed out, here's an ethics course in the size of a paragraph:

Most engineering ethics focus on life and death, such as making sure your bridge doesn't collapse; Most software is not a matter of life and death, so ethics may seem irrelevant. However, the incredible power of technology means your design choices will have an impact on the lives of many. Seeing red lines where you need to tell your employer no is important, but everyday ethical thinking will find problems other approaches to design will be blind to. This in turn will make better products, and increase your value to your employer. So throw an "ethics" section in your design doc, and ask the question "Does this technology as designed hurt any groups of people with specific characteristics?" You might find that your camera app needs better calibration for dark skin tones, that your UI elements are too hard to use for women with large fingernails or people with minor motor disabilities, or perhaps that one of the JS libraries your considering is very large, and will make a much worse experience for people with rural and slow internet. So simply stop, think, and approach your design from the perspective of different cultures, races, religions, ages, genders, and life circumstances.
This is just one anecdotal experience out of hundreds of thousands. Because of your one bad experience you just dismiss Apple?
I can also provide 1 anecdotal piece of evidence:
I've done iOS dev and published apps in the App Store. Never had to fax my drivers license to Apple.
The first humans would have been the survivors and thrivers in the long-established pre-human enviroment from which they arose.

That wouldn't have been easy and the incredible amount of time it would take can be calculated but is still difficult to fathom.

Seems like "survival of the fittest" could have been very fitting at the time, and there would be insignificant diversity in genetics and culture to begin with, compared to today.

Once humans come along, then starts another huge period of gradual change in humanity itself.

What could lead to greater diversity than gradual isolation of cultures in highly disparate environments for incredible amounts of time?

Especially when humans are self-selecting for environment and culture more so than other earthlings by orders of magnitude.

And time can do so much.
I find it wild that the "run government like a business" crowd now wants government to run business. No one in this thread is really discussing what, if anything, the government can really do. Meanwhile, business is more than happy to be a toddler wielding a gun of computer security literacy, or to take the money of such companies and not truly helping.
> Maintaining multiple explanations as possibilities until one is proven

Why are you assuming my beliefs on this topic were set in stone previously?
Yes, but you can only do justice to one of them.

-or-

No. There is, in fact, only one hyper-hyper-dimensional rabbit hole in the multiverse. It intersects all possible problem spaces one or more times; any rabbit hole you encounter is just a sub-dimensional projection. This is why following one long enough invaribly leads to an entirely different problem space.
I fixed everything you mentioned. I kept basepath because it handles more edge cases. I improved the option parsing to handle --directory dir, although that is neither here nor there (it's GNU.. -ish). The handling is ugly for the sake of POSIX compatibility - if you can think of a more elegant way to write it let me know, I'd be glad to incorporate it. The exit status of type is clearly defined by POSIX (https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/t...). Either way, thank you for the exhaustive list of problems, it really helped - please don't hesitate to open issues with any further observations.
Assume that n issues are connected at some level, then deep-dive enough to find where they diverge. Instant multiple (semi-connected) tasks!
There is something called UML -- this is a dying though
There was something called Rational Rose -- maybe it still exists somehow

Today we use wireframes and Adobe XD mock up as most of the products are mobile/web-based.

The formal specification of software practice started to fade when product managers came into the software development lifecycle. Back in the day, technical managers and information architecs would make detailed specs detailing everything about an upcoming platform. Only to see have of it be change by a manager/business stakeholder.

Today the push is for speed and cost reduction - fail fast and break things. It's really not as bad as it sounds but way worst.
Tramiel was a husler looking to make a buck but he was not really looking at the business long term. He always wanted to find the next big hit rather than to cultivate the customers he already had. Too bad since Commodore could have been equivalent to Apple since people that owned a C64 or an Amiga didn't just like them, they LOVED them.
I ended up disabling the check - it's more trouble than it's worth.
you concluded something is impossible based on the fact that you have never seen it before? talking about silly claims :)
The debate is pretty much divided between people who say "improved security is the solution" and people who say "treating it as crime/terrorism/the-mafia is the solution".

I'm in the improve the security camp. I think security can be improved if we impose good standards (meaning enforce inconvenient things like no backdoor updating apps, no critical infrastructure connected to the web).

The reason "treating this like terrorism" is useless is that there's always another hacker. It's hard but not that hard and anything doable today will be automatable tomorrow.
Elixir is easier to learn. I say this having learned Erlang first. I don't know what caliber of hire you're being presented with, though.
It's his portfolio that got him his jobs, like a programmer's GitHub repo.
Most of it really is.

When you need software that isn't well supported by your OS you're always going to have to apply some degree of care and research. Thinking that any degree of sandboxing or API re-arranging will ever make flinging binaries around safe is extremely naive and counter productive.
It was night, it seems pretty unlikely that anyone could make any good observations of the size or shape. When someone points a green laser at some clouds you will observe an object with a green light.
Most Americans aren’t leaving their loved ones solid money after they are gone. Being on HN, it is possible you live in a bubble with far higher avg income and savings than the rest of the country.
There's no good reason for hacking to be illegal.
I've been going through this a bit with a tool I've thrown together for doing feedback on video game footage (https://www.volt.school/)

I've had success with cold outreach to users on Reddit (random DMs to them) and Discord communities. Now neither of these are going to help you (unless you've also got a video game product!) but I think it demonstrates that you need to go where the users are and not be afraid to tell people about it. If the product is genuinely useful to the target audience then you're helping them out by letting them know about it, the is especially true if it's free.

Finally, I try to think of marketing like I do with programming. You're solving problems and the solutions to those problems don't always come to you straight away. Sometimes you think of the solution when you're in the shower or on a walk. Sometimes there's more than one solution, or one that works much better than another but you only discover it later. The important part is to keep thinking about the problem and to keep turning it over in your head.
Can we modify the title to specify this is USA 7-Eleven only? There are three countries with more 7-Elevens that the US in absolute terms, and 10 with more per-capita than the USA including Norway and Australia.
Why I said you have to actually force the standards down people's throat, with laws or liability. Restaurants don't like health standards either.
We shouldn’t be surprised by any of this. Scientists are human and have human motivations and flaws. They are political, they cover their ass, they suffer from results oriented thinking.

“Science” should be trusted within its domain, but it’s not a replacement for all of the processes western society has developed to address the reality that nobody can be trusted with power. Everyone needs to perform their roles. Reporters still need to be skeptical and question scientists’ motivations and investigate the story. And politicians still need to be in charge of translating scientists’ judgments as to various scenarios and probabilities into the political decisions of figuring out what to do accounting for the entire universe of economic and social considerations that are within their ambit.
I could have sworn I've seen something like this before on YouTube already. Someone demonstrated a similar effect, and attached different-sized weights to test the adhesion. For the life of me, I can't find it.
My anecdata is that the majority of times someone has gained access to a user's system somewhere that it has not been anything technical but purely social engineering. Whether that was a secretary at a medium-sized company or someone in medical records at a hospital. The latter case was more extreme - user received an email from the hospital's lawyer, replied saying she wasn't sure, "lawyer" emailed back to go ahead and access the website. Lawyer was the 'hacker' who had already broken into and taken over the lawyer's email. Luckily, it was phishing attack and not ransomware.
I'm not alone. Also requiring state-ID in order to share software should be disturbing enough to abandon platforms.
I have co-authored/assisted in research for a series of articles on their potential application for indirect tax collection and remission. Indirect tax fraud (VAT, mostly) is a big problem, and a huge source for funding for terrorism. In a lot of places border states that do a lot of trade super don't trust each other. Having a self-auditing trustless database, of sorts, really would be a game changer.
> Why is that trespassing? There's no sign that says I can't go behind the counter?

You wrote it as if it's somewhere you're not authorized to be, e.g. an Employee's Only section which would tend to be trespass. If you are authorized to be there and they leave records out that they shouldn't, I think that failure is on them and they need to improve security.

If someone leaves a database of everyone's personal details on an open webserver, that doesn't become hacking or computer fraud if someone visits the site. I mean, I don't think it should be true that I could say "you, specifically, aren't authorized to read this post" and have that morph into a federal felony.

In my view, there has to be at least some kind of notice that someone is crossing a criminal boundary. I think lying makes a decent, if imperfect, boundary. It's possible that someone can think of something better, too.
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Entry level Snowflake is $2 per hour. Or $48 per day if you transfer the metric.

Entry level DO compute instance (so boring, I know) is $5 per month.

There is a large gulf of pricing ranges that can undercut them in the coming years. It doesn't matter now because a lot of analysis projects are disconnected from market forces due to their projects mostly being darling child green field projects or new revenue streams. The moment the next AI winter comes along, a lot of projects by then will start to look like legacy code and the original thought process turns into worrying about cost centers.

And my understanding is they jacked up the prices to boost the earnings to boost the stock price leading up to IPO. They can be disrupted much faster than they will decide to let off that pedal.
I have an incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI). There’s a bunch of issues I got, but specifically for coding, my right hand is paralyzed enough where I gave up on using it. Luckily, my left is fine for the most part. What got me by was learning shortcuts, making my own, and getting a Stream Deck XL. After that it’s just about practice. My accident happened before I really got into coding, so I was about to give up, but just about everything sucks once you’re “disabled” and we just learn to live with it. Having people like you that care helps a lot.

There are tools like Alfred and newer ones like Raycast. Basic ergonomic stuff will help like mounting monitors. If there’s not much that can be done in one area, it’s worth focusing on making other areas easier to reduce the overall load.

Honestly, I would just ask politely. The person with the disabilities will know exactly where their pain points are. I met a bunch of guys with an SCI and it
affects us all differently.
In both stories I heard, they just paid the ransom. It was only around 500USD and they were all wealthy, well-connected people.
There are so many "shocking" articles, but here's something I don't get:

The closest genetic match is only 3.8% similar. When it only has 29,903 base pairs, that's 1,136 mutations. I'm no bioscientist but my friends who are tell me that's a lot of changes, and that experiments might change a few base pairs or proteins at a time. A lab leak theory doesn't explain how gain of function study resulted in so many mutations, unless they were blasting these viruses with radiation, and what would be the point of that? Radiation mutations would cause too many changes to do useful science.

Everyone keeps looking at bats but the closest bat coronavorus is 20 years of evolution away. SARS and MERS came from palm covets and dromedary camels respectively, so what's the deal?

Every time I read about this I keep thinking "huh that's sketchy but circumstantial" and I've yet to find an answer to how the lab would've gotten to this point, undiscovered, with no published papers or research or notes or preprints anywhere
I'm astonished you would support drone strikes on civilians. Scammers are working a bad job out of necessity. They are not villains who deserve to be extrajudicially murdered.
There are no crimes with debit and credit card? They are still cash.
To me, the only really horrible thing is the way that anything other than the mainstream version of events was treated. I think there are different plausible theories, and I'm not surprised they have different adherents that are mostly all motivated by something other than a pure quest for the truth. That's life. If this was e.g. a civil or criminal trial, you'd see the same thing.

The only difference is, in a trial, nobody would try and brand the other side as a conspiracy theorist, racist, denier, anti-xer, whatever the most popular inflammatory term is. Nobody would try and block dissent from all mainstream communication forums.

To me, that's the only thing that's new, is the institutional suppression of any suggestions outside of an orthodox version. And it's honestly way scarier than the idea that government labs are doing biological research, or that diseases can jump from animals to people.
I think this whole thing is a great example of why you don't ban alternative viewpoints, even if considered "conspiracy theories".

Zerohedge was reporting this early on, and Twitter banned them for "misinformation".
This is a totally fair reaction to all "trump theories".
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> Perhaps begin by entertaining ideas as possible until proven otherwise

You're assuming I didn't already do that. I'm just objecting to the exhortation to "do your own research". I'm not going to do that, because we live in a modern society with labor specialization.

> No scientists ever provided conclusive proof the virus didn’t originate in a lab.

Where the virus originated from is nice to know for later. But I really care about getting my life back right now. The scientists and experts can debate all the evidence, consider all the options, and report back their findings. "Doing my research" isn't going to help anyone.
The way I remember it was that people conflated the lab leak theory with it being engineered in a lab. Those are very different things but easy to mix up in a headline.

It being engineered as a bioweapon is in the realm of a crackpot theory, but it being just a poorly contained natural research project was fairly reasonable. Some prominent people mixed the two up on purpose and eventually the whole thing - both ideas - got labeled a crackpot theory by people who just saw some headlines.
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I recall a SF story from probably 50 years or so ago where someone had to make a suitless trip between two airlocks in space. According to the story (iirc), they survived.
I used to work with the fellow who created these mappings. He gave a demo of it with a flute playing colleague. It was neat to see.
It made it a easier for the hands to reach the tricky notes.
Avoiding reputation and harm is certainly a major incentive, especially for a scientist, leading to a conflict of interest.
They are safer than paper cash or crypto; credit and debit cards have fraud protection, and banks have account security protections.
"The Seeker posted Deigin's theory on Reddit, which promptly suspended his account permanently."

Chilling. If true, this calls for a lot of introspection.