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It seems K14 was very, very different from all other common processes, according to the guy who figured out how to do it himself: https://emulsive.org/articles/darkroom/developing-film/they-...

> Kodachrome’s K-14 process is quite unlike any other. You see, Kodachrome isn’t ACTUALLY a color film, it’s several layers of black and white film sensitized to the different colors and the necessary color dyes are added during the development process. This involves....
That's because the theory is being pushed for political reasons, and most virologists think it's nonsense. The evidence for a lab leak is the same as it's ever been: nothing.

There's no evidence the lab even had SARS-CoV-2 on hand before the pandemic, which is an absolute prerequisite for the lab leak theory to be possible, and all the evidence points to the lab not having had the virus. They regularly publish the genetic sequences of the viruses they have, and SARS-CoV-2 is not among them. For comparison, the now-famous RaTG13 was published in 2016. But given the way that conspiracy theories work, proponents of the lab-leak theory will just assert that the lab secretly had SARS-CoV-2, but unlike with all their other viruses, they didn't publish it. The theory is unfalsifiable, and it will constantly morph to remain so.
This did not happen as far as I can discover - there were stringent lock down measures in Wuhan, but they came very late. In fact six weeks into the outbreak the Wuhan authorities held a party for 40k people. So - in fact it was the opposite, they treated it recklessly, which makes me think that they didn't have much to hide (until they realised that they had recklessly let it, whereever it came from, get out of control).
In before they do a similar show in the US with actual product placement.
Google failed with glasses. And cars is slightly out of the picture, they don't have any expertise on that front. Apple does one job and does it very well. Commoditize quality hardware options with top-notch user experience.
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I think lab workers researching viruses are some of the less likely to do so, unless they're in a really bad state. If they were in a very bad state, it's less likely that it was the seasonal flu.
I've won the lottery on many an occasion by now. Sadly, the prices are like 1/3 or 1/2 the cost of the lottery ticket itself. One can dream, lol.
I think you should have better hiring practices if you think people you’re hiring can’t learn new things. Ideally you want your employees learning to be better all the while.

There are also upsides that you have to weigh up when choosing a language. I don’t find your arguments particularly persuasive.
You clearly haven't been doing enough or in various-enough industries "for awhile." I guess you missed massive Solaris shops in academia, enterprise, military, and government. Sun OS (UNIX) before '92 and then to Solaris on-top from about '94 to '13 as gear lifecycled out.

The classic use of ZFS was on the Kealia / Sun Fire X4500 "Thumper" box. 96 TB in 4U in '06. It was a beast and worthy to throw rocks at NetApps.

Anytime someone insecurely touts "I've been doing X for Y years," I know they've reached peak complacency rather than continual learning and mastery.
> why the Pentagon would admit that it doesn't know what these things are. It only fuels the interest.

Yes, but is a transparency operation, is nice to know that they are saying “we don’t know what these things are” instead of “these videos/things don’t exist”, yeah, this fuels the interest in some people, also in me, but doesn’t mean that are aliens. And is a nice thing that militaries are relaxing those videos to let all investigate on them (and in fact 99.9% a guy on the internet unfold the mystery).
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Annoyingly there's not much to tell. It was a minimal web version, released as a one-off marketing thing and then never updated, and Mojang didn't reply when I tried to get in touch (via contacts at microsoft). So I never really found out anything about it.

The game is still live though: https://classic.minecraft.net - Originally it supported multiplayer, but that stopped working the day after the game launched.

The voxel engine is here: https://github.com/andyhall/noa/tree/develop
That's because Toyota invented (and patented) almost perfect system for HEV from the beginning. Now series-hybrid is also getting practical for city use thanks to involved battery tech, but THS is still competitive (or better).
Not Invented Here (NIH).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
> Would Fauci have even known?

I think yes. Perhaps not upfront, perhaps not in the following days or weeks. But if your organization had funded a laboratory's gain of function research, and that laboratory is suddenly the topic of global speculation for potentially leaking a virus, a virus which is ostensibly a product directly of your funding and became one of the deadliest global pandemics ever... I think it would be hard to not know at some point.
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As a non-native English speaker I absolutely hate English accents where consonants absolutely disappear for no good reason.

Personally I'd rather have Americans "lean heavily on the R" than act like the letter doesn't exist (rhotic vs non-rhotic). I think it's another factor why American English is more popular than British English (besides the huge economic factor, the US economy being 5x the UK one), since their pronunciation is clearer and more explicit.
Kind of an aside from your question, but binary patches not being much smaller than the full thing might happen more with modern games?

Heresay, but from what I've heard modern games may ship multiple copies of some assets with different levels or features so they can be loaded as a sequential read off the disk. While a block-oriented compression algorithm might sync up more reliably, if you're packing 200MB of assets for a level and they're all compressed to take advantage of the fact they'll be read sequentially could mean a change 25MB in would still ship ~175MB of changes.
I like the snap scrolling feature, i didn’t know that one
> But if someone needs to deal with ASCII they need to deal with it.

Of course. Also byte strings were not there yet IIRC in those earlier versions.

But you could deal with it. .decode/.encode to ASCII never stopped working

But beats annoying the rest of the world that needed to deal with non ASCII strings.
So you have group of 20 somethings in russia that you suspect are behind the hack.

What do you do ? Sending a single missile/drone wont work because Russia has air defense (probably - with them you never know how on top they are, but they will after the 1st one). Sending multiple might work, but Russia might fire back and start a war.

Sending special forces, or whatever would probably work better first few times, until Russia deliberately set's a trap for them.

How about if they are form China, or maybe France or India and you don't relay have prof that would stand in court ?

And then what, it's not like USA doesn't have its own hackers that do shady stuff internationally. Other countries have spacial forces as well.

I am not sure we want to go this way.

In practice that means US doing whatever they want in poor countries (where they already do whatever they want), and not doing much in powerful enough countries where most of those criminals actually are.

Most of the time we don't even know definitively who is behind the hacks, so it's kind of a moot point.
Once, someone tried to refute my argument using a post by a ghost user from github.

That ghost user was an older account of mine. Their interpretation of the post was wrong though.

I reacted to the situation by laughing slightly but didn't even bother explaining why. Because of the poor tone, I decided to let that person enjoy being wrong.
Huawei, and I suspect most of China, don't agree that they should be playing by rules that favour foreign incumbents.

It is easy to see how a company could believe that and also believe in treating their customers well. It would be a very competitive company.

> This is like saying your wearing the wrong running shoes to swim five miles.

I don't follow your point but I agree would be foolish to wear running shoes while swimming.
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To fight phishing, we need to ban email.

To fight ransoms, we need to ban cash, gold and diamonds.

This is absolutely absurd in its reckless narrowmindedness. My previous comment on cryptocurrency and ransomware:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27232781
Awesome story.

I'm not sure if this is just my personal feeling but I would say that stealing intellectual property was sort of common at that time. Open source was not widely known, knowledge was scarce, communities were just ramping up and really anyone with lack of principles could pretty much steal anything and get away with it.

It happened to me a few times with online content I wrote. Essentially tutorials, articles, etc. around Open Source. Once my own company sent me a newsletter which contained one of my articles signed by another employee from a different place. It felt pretty weird.
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You are very compassionate towards people just literally stealing code. My experience is that a lot of folks just don't care about licenses: they steal and rebrand by any mean necessary, I guess to accumulate reputation.

I wrote a few silly scripts in my lifetime, all small-time stuff (so trivial it never got me hired as a Dev anywhere). No matter whether I marked things as GPL or BSS, I often found them copied on GitHub with my copyright notices stripped. In the case of the BSD license, that's literally the only thing you can't do!

In some cases it was utterly blatant: cloning from my own GitHub repo and then replacing authorship notices in the very first commit. I mean, come on guys, at least try to be smart; you can add your name just fine... When I politely asked to, y'know, respect license terms and reinstate the notices, some people just took down their repo rather than doing that. I bet they then re-uploaded it somewhere else.
Nice try throwing shade, but they're totally different approaches.

WAFL only detects data bit flips with a larger sector size containing parity info, ZFS uses Merkle trees and hashing.
I can't say, I'm not sure what compression we used on the last two games I worked on, sorry!
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I'm born and raised in Göteborg (Gothenburg), Sweden. My parents are originally from Karlskoga, 270km NE from here. Göteborg has a very distinct accent and I always get told by others that I have a very bland Swedish with no hint of that accent.

But one time I was at a wedding in Karlskoga and talked to someone I hadn't met before. I opened my mouth and managed to get half a sentence out before he interrupted with "Oh! You're from Göteborg!"
Any snapshot-capable storage setup should be a decent remedy against ransomware, just roll back to the latest snapshot (unless of course the ransomware manages to kill your snapshots), unless there's another specific ZFS functionality you're hinting at?

ZFS, btrfs, even LVM does snapshots, and it seems silly to use anything else for critical data/configuration.
> Was there some other, better, established method?

We may learn from Taiwan*.

Quote: "Extensive public health infrastructure established in Taiwan pre-COVID-19 enabled a fast coordinated response, particularly in the domains of early screening, effective methods for isolation/quarantine, digital technologies for identifying potential cases and mass mask use."

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanwpc/article/PIIS2666-6...
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Or all the effort to not call it China Virus/Wuhan flu because that's racist and we don't name viruses after places anymore.

Virus variants named after places on the other hand are apparently perfectly fine. So we don't have the Chinese virus but we do have British, Brazilian and Indian variants.
You'd tax global profit based on the local revenue fraction. So if the corporation has global profits of 1M and the revenue is 90% in country A and 10% in country B, then country A taxes 0.9M of profit and country B taxes 0.1M of profit and neither has to care where the corporation is located 'for tax purposes'.
But he was correct? He did not imply anything even remotely anti-Semitic, just accused a sovereign state of conducting violence.
I appreciate the discussion as I want to do a follow on post about this in more detail. It doesn't do the BPF community any good to have people running old broken versions of my tools (just as back in 2005, Sun was selling DTrace by distributing my half-finished socketsnoop.d). Now, some people are going to port anyway regardless of what's good for BPF. But if I can reach developers who may be on the fence about it, I can explain the pros of just building upon the existing tools. To start with, you get updates for free by kernel engineers at Facebook, Netflix, etc. Also, by pushing fixes back you'll find people will try to help you in return for when you need it (some startups, like Cilium, have done so much for BPF that I'd happily help them with anything they need (provided there isn't a clash with my current employment)).
"One obvious demand would have been access to the WIV’s database of some 22,000 virus samples and sequences, which had been taken offline. At an event convened by a London organization on March 10, Daszak was asked whether the group had made such a request. He said there was no need: Shi Zhengli had stated that the WIV took down the database due to hacking attempts during the pandemic. “Absolutely reasonable,” Daszak said. “And we did not ask to see the data…. As you know, a lot of this work has been conducted with EcoHealth Alliance…. We do basically know what’s in those databases. There is no evidence of viruses closer to SARS-CoV-2 than RaTG13 in those databases, simple as that.”"

What did she mean when she said that the database is offline? It's not like the data would be gone if the service is not running?
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Really rhotic r's, relaxed prosody, tongue flaps instead of a t berween vowels, indistinct schwas on unstressed syllables, etc.

I also perceive Canadians to have "heavier" North American accents than Americans do. Some Canadians speak as if from the backs of their throats, with leaden vowels and really round r's. They also often overcorrect /a/ to /æ/ so "drama" becomes "dramma" (like the first two syllables of "Dramamine". And of course there was William Shatner's famous "sabotadge"...
It's 2021. There is very little opportunity left in SaaS that hasn't had mind boggling amounts of investor capital thrown at it. These are your competitors. In every single conceivable niche. Not bootstrapped companies. Venture backed. Millions in capital earmarked for marketing and sales. For things like mattress testing and sushi restaurant POS.

There is no playbook for profitable bootstrapped SaaS in 2021. The winners either have a special secret that they wouldn't share for the world or they're lying about being profitable.. or in most cases the "successes" are simply such amateurs they don't understand basic accounting and believe that "profitable" means "slightly more monthly revenue than the cost of the servers".

If you embark on this be aware, the days of having your own little saas as passive side income are long behind us. This is serious serious stuff now.
If you know a user is on version 3 and need to update to version 5, then why not just send out all the patches between 3 and 5? Why do you need to generate a new patch for each pair of versions.

It feels a bit egregious when I have to download a 100MB update just because a few characters were buffed or nerfed. More involved changes end up being over 1GB.
I agree wholeheartedly. Computers can do the wrong thing at incredible speed sometimes. This reminds me of the anecdote that nuclear submarine designers knowingly don't automate some things because if the automation would fail then it would cause the loss of the entire sub quickly enough that the situation is beyond salvage by the time humans can react. Instead, they have an extensive checklist and do all procedures with 2 people and a third over an audio line. Even if it does go wrong, it will probably go wrong slowly enough that a concerted damage control effort from the rest of the crew can contain the problem.
Wdym, all browsers use some kind of multithreading.
Well, if you take snapshots every hour then you can always roll back to the latest snapshot if you need to. It would be a nice defence against the traditional "encrypt all writable files" attacks. As long as the root user isn't compromised, using ZFS (or other filesystems with snapshots) should prevent a lot of problems, and not just ones related to ransom-ware attacks.
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Cameras are everywhere.

Cameras linked to the database of a grocery store are not.
This is Douglas Adams level bizarro world.

Like Amazon Keys (can't remember the exact product name) to receive packages when you're not in, by letting total strangers inside your house with their own key.

Which is such an hysterical solution to a such a simple problem (retrieve undelivered packages at the post office) that makes me wonder if I'm the one taking crazy pills.
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Who cares about the details - you can create multiple workers, running on different threads. That’s multithreading.
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Well get ready to meet the annoyances of another OS.
To me it's when water and wider are pronounced in a very similar way. Also, Americans abuse awesome.
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Does anybody have any experience on how to balance the input of a slightly different pairing...product manager and project manager?
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re: combinations of chinese radicals, which was referred to near the end of the episode, this image/meme made the rounds recently which illustrates nicely https://twitter.com/AdalwinAmillion/status/13987386752997212...
I'd state it even more strongly: the legitimacy of an election is based on public trust, and therefore contingent upon its auditability by an average citizen with no special training. This is why pen and paper is the optimal technology for the job (though tzs's solution seems compatible with that end, and is probably a net win).
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This article reminds me about another published by The Harvard Gazette, Government can't keep up with the technology. The article argues that big techs are keeping larger and larger for government to keep up with the pace. In case of ransomeware, government and the Supreme Court are trying to keep up but in my opinion, it will be long before government and bureaucracy could address the problem. Same happened in case of Bitcoin. Sure now everyone wants regulations around Cryptocurrency but it seems governments are investing in lost causes of catching up with these growing uncertainties.

I don't mean that government shouldn't be engaging in these talks and try to regulate these markets, my only concern is the pace of these two entities. Instead of using the same old frameworks of regulations and same old mentalities, unorthodox approaches can better address these issues.

P.S Link to The Harvard Gazette article: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/02/government-ca...
It can go worse - some cheap and badly designed Android phones which download updates from every month when you first buy it until the current month, so maybe 10+ updates, but they aren't deltas (diffs) but full images. Ridiculous on so many levels.
Adversarial relationship with security are very often created by very annoying security requirements which do very little to improve security. Like requiring users to change all passwords ever 2 or 3 months and requiring a new password to have characters from every class (see also [1]). While all you need in the most cases is just minimum length requirement and some guidance how to choose a good password.

If user will have to enter 16 charter password each time after HW key (like Yubikey) will be connected to a computer to unlock it, then users will leave it always inserted. Or password will be saved in a text file. If HW key will just work once inserted (or will require 4 digit pin) most users will comply. It is already 2nd factor in addition to some other password, it doesn't necessary need a strong password to use it.

[1] https://passwordfromhell.com/
The single most significant factor for the popularity of American accents is Hollywood.
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I'm Swedish and to me a heavy American accent means a clear rhotic r[0], slightly slurred speech, and a lot of volume.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English
How does it move? Is it able to modulate the vibrations in the intended direction of movement?
If the lab even did secretly have SARS-CoV-2, they must have acquired that sample somewhere. Which means it was out in the wild spreading and ready to spillover. Even buying into the conspiracy theory a bit the lab leak still doesn't seem like the most probable outcome. It's strange that everyone pushing the lab leak ignores this.
I know it's an introductory course, that's why I was asking if anybody knew any course that did. And even if it is introductory, you need some previous knowledge to get to this course.

I haven't found any CS curriculum that teaches causal inference in any way (maybe in optional courses, but that misses the point) and I think that it is a huge mistake. Causality is more important than simple prediction.

I don't understand why CS people escape causality in most courses, not even mentioning it.
I worked with a tech from a software vendor who had a link to one of my Server Fault answers in their setup docs. We got to that bit of the setup and I mentioned that I wrote the answer his doc was referencing. I quite enjoyed it.
Your May 2021 story includes the following quotes:

> But Fauci emphatically denied that the money went toward so-called “gain of function” research, which he described as “taking a virus that could infect humans and making it either more transmissible and/or pathogenic for humans.”

> “That categorically was not done,” he insisted.

> Earlier in the hearing, NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins told Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) that researchers at the Wuhan lab “were not approved by NIH for doing “gain of function research” before adding “we are, of course, not aware of other sources of funds or other activities they might have undertaken outside of what our approved grant allowed.”

Are you saying these are still lies? It doesn't really matter if the NIH funded some other kind of research on coronaviruses if that research was not risky. Presumably the question is whether gain of function research performed there created covid-19. And the grant, which I assume is public record, is claimed not to be for that. Maybe there's more to the story, but seems like guilt-by-association at this point. If Wuhan used the funding for some research it was not supposed to be used for, then it might just as well have been funding for any other disease anyway.