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> The most effective weapons severely handicap their victims and allow them to live into old age, taking fighters off the field, and turning them into long-term liabilities and living reminders for anyone who might think about fighting you in the future

I do not believe that covid was intentionally designed and released as a bio weapon.

That being said, have you heard of long covid?
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OK, so there are flagged links.

What's stopping Google from flagging the links of their competitors?
I left SF years ago for primarily this very reason. Ideology vs reality means an ever-accelerating descend into hell.
We'll see if this lab-leak theory stands the test of time - but if it does, this is another Chernobyl-moment for communist regimes.
That's a scary question!

The way things are going I expect the social safety net to be cut out from under me by the time I hit retirement.
Maybe this will get me downvoted, but I never had much issue with National Review. They write from a conservative perspective, but they aren’t hiding it - that’s literally the purpose of their publication. They also tend to write (not 100% of the time but 95%) in a pretty responsible way - quoting and referencing, trying to explain the other side’s position and then argue why it’s wrong or why the conservative opinion differs. They do occasionally have some less than stellar articles, but if you’re looking for opinions from the conservative side, it’s not a bad a source. Not a ton of hysteria or dogma. A handful of their writers have strong conservative beliefs from a Catholic perspective, but some are agnostic libertarians as well. Compared to other conservative media it’s pretty tame when it comes to sensationalism.
> If laypeople can assemble projects on GitHub and invite similarly unskilled friends to participate, who’s being hurt?

The users who assume the authors are competent and aren't making stupid/dangerous security mistakes. I think for a while you could rely on the assumption that people who released software knew what they were doing... and that if they didn't, they'd at least have the sense to keep their half-arsed experiments to themselves.
The move to virtual characters is already happening on Twitch / YouTube, check out CodeMiko:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsQjxEd-gsw
You’re right but it kind of renders copyright law to be another elitist construct. I wonder if there are lawyers or organisations who take up these types of cases to negate the behaviour you have outlined. Would EFF for example find it in conflict with their mission?
The New York Times is likely already working on a new article with the title: "Rehabilitating Satan, an Angel with a Bad Rap"
HOAs are part of having freedom over your land. Why shouldn't I be able to team up with my neighbors to set standards for our community? The crazy part is choosing to buy a home that's part of an HOA. That's always been an instant dq for me and I would never consider entering into such a restricting arrangement.
But what about special treatment for the incumbent party[1]?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26830042
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Is anyone here doing that? They are simply saying the whole argument has gotten toxic and pointing out that the rhetoric is fuelling hate crimes. No one is against investigating the origins, quite the opposite really.

> For instance, a neuroscientist belonging to a group that claims to independently investigate COVID-19 tweeted that the letter is a diluted version of ideas his group posted online last year. The same week, on Twitter, the neuroscientist also lashed out at Rasmussen, who has tried to explain studies suggesting a natural origin of SARS-CoV-2 to the public. He called her fat, and then posted a derogatory comment about her sexual anatomy. Rasmussen says, “This debate has moved so far from the evidence that I don’t know if we can dial it back.”
Maybe Microsoft did the user research and knows that most users want to preserve formatting when they paste in text. You prefer it to match style when pasting, but how do you know most users don't prefer it the way it is now?

User research, A/B testing, etc. is the way to make those decisions. And yes, I do believe in being opinionated when making software - but I didn't find your primary example to be compelling evidence of that fact.
The EU has done some pretty sizable fines in the past...

The kind of fines that have to be announced to shareholders and reduce profits substantially for a quarter...
Kids will enjoy anything. Playing hide and seek in a backyard jungle is just as fun as running around on grass, and for most people there is invariably a park nearby. And kids encountering critters and stinging insects is a part of growing up! If anything, children are too isolated from nature these days.
Hang on a second, remember Trump was called racist and xenophobic for shutting down travel to China?

And how weird that Zuckerburg sent an email to Fauci about vaccine funding and offers of help exactly the same time Nancy’s Pelosi was literally saying come to Chinatown and hug and Asian person. How were they talking about a vaccine at that point?

There seems to have been a lot of public and private statements going on, and everyone wants to memoryhole it.
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WASM won’t be performant enough for heavy matrix computations because it wouldn’t be able to use SIMD (in its current state). There’s a WASM SIMD proposal in the works but it’s only for 128-bit vectors and I’m not sure it will perform the same as native code.
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That's why monopoly power is dangerous. The competition isn't strong enough to make having responsibility to one's customers worthwhile.
Supposedly, Fauci only got an approval from a low level Trump administration official.

IMO it’s not clear anyone even approved the research. I wouldn’t be surprised if the NIH just pulled a fast one. There’s also no evidence Fauci never mentioned the research to anyone near the beginning of the pandemic. Several Trump officials came out and said they were never told.
You can achieve a usable lawn that isn't just grass by mixing in clover, dandelions, violets, etc and then mowing occasionally. And not every part of it needs to be "usable" either, so you can have a variety of spaces. I have a main area where my dogs play. I've started changing the corners and edges into vegetable gardens, fruit bushes, and I plan to turn the front yard into a prairie type landscape.

As far as critters, why not just let your kids experience it? If you live someplace with venomous critters, teach them how to notice and give a safe distance. In your home is sterile enough, so let the kids have something a little more wild outdoors.
This Google employee responded to a question. When looking at the question and answer, and the actual resulting situation, it is pretty clear what's happening here.
I would argue, that when you take a holistic view of the complete environment, including the soils and subsoils where our food largely comes from, the only long term answer you're left with is to de-civilize and go back to hand tools, local living, and animal transport for the rare times it's needed.
It’s common for NFTs to link to a URL or IPFS address. But there are NFTs that are completely on-chain (https://www.larvalabs.com/autoglyphs) and some that are mostly on-chain with off-chain dependencies (https://artblocks.io/)
Your "vermin" is someone else's healthy native ecosystem. I am letting my yard overgrow right now because it is providing homes for wild rabbits. Is that being a bad neighbor?
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How about you stop with whatabouting and false premises? I'm neither from UK nor USA.
It sucks but it seems to be where we are anyway headed in a few decades, you simply do not need so many workers, at least not in how the job market is shaped now.
Sounds more like a threat or warning than a reasoned argument.
"Needs" might be slightly too strong a word in terms of supplemental nitrogen for corn, but note that the corn is going to take nitrogen either way, whether naturally provided or supplemented. (Corn is a grass with very tasty seeds.)

However, when the article makes comparisons to what farmers are actually doing, I think it's fair game to bring in data around what farmers are actually doing.
>But such forms were already discovered back in 2015 as a result of the research that's now labeled as "GoF research", even tho it didn't actually fall under the GoF moratorium back then [0].

I think I'm having difficulty understanding what you mean. Your link is referring to an engineered SARS hybrid virus. If SARS-CoV-2 is indeed also an engineered virus or a descendant of one, then this 2015 virus wouldn't be an intermediate form; just another example of the same sort of thing.

>Imho the whole thing has a very "shooting the messenger" vibe to it; The evidence we had for this being a very real possibility of happening is now turned into the alleged cause of it actually happening.

Do you mean "gain of function-like research is what warned us this could happen"? If so, if SARS-CoV-2 is a result of that sort of research, wouldn't gain of function research be both the messenger and the source, here?

Isn't that the whole crux of the debate and dilemma in the first place? That such research can help us discover, study, and mitigate risks, and can also potentially create new risks.
I think they are doing all this on purpose. With the long term goal of scaring away most of the human labor. Creating the opportunity to auto the entire process.
I'm on the team thinking that there is no chance they got the city name correct and searchable on those Excel files.
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I find dangerous to reduce our way of thinking to the shape of our body.
What could you expect, it was a new virus strain not previously seen. There were mixed and missing reports from China, and requirement to act fast on something unknown not previously seen before. Leadership didn't melt everywhere though. In smaller regions, response could quickly meet the challenge and did so phenomenally in several places. Also in regions with mixed ownership of media, reporting were pretty nuanced too.
We have close to 8 billion people on this planet. About twice as many as 50 years ago, 4 times as many as 100 years ago, and 8 times the number we had 200 years ago.

We're not running out of humans any time soon. In fact, humanity is a plague.
Yes I don’t think anyone here disputes the historical cause.
Seems that service can be used without the app at https://identify.plantnet.org/ (I only found a placeholder at plant.net). This will be useful to me, thanks.
Those are the displaced natives of our cities and suburbs. I get that no one wants mice around, but if that is the price for giving all the other species a home, I think it's worth it. I think it's fair to argue that this aspect of "being a good neighbour" is an attitude incompatible with living sustainably.
The article and parent talk mostly about layout in terms of rectangles and subdividing those into smaller rectangles. The basics like Box and Flex layout are pretty simple.

Once you start adding constraints like min/max size and relative sizes it becomes more complex but still manageable. You’re still only reasoning about rectangles and their constraints.

Adding rendered text in the mix increases complexity immensely. Determining the size of rendered text is a very complex problem space in itself involving fonts, dpi, text flow, code points, LTR/RTL, ligatures and more. It’s not just rectangles anymore.
Can someone explain why there’s so much outrage against Amazon Sidewalk when it’s doing a similar thing to Apple’s Find My/AirTags which was met with almost universal praise?
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Agree, but ticks are no fun.
It will decompose! Grass clippings are a bit different, I was referring to leaves and other debris. But grass clippings are amazing for compost.
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The tendency is even reverse with highly paid actors being hired for only the voice acting featuring in computer-animated movies (where great voice-only performers would be cheaper)
I think the article mentione one of the reasons:

" When Trump himself floated the lab-leak hypothesis last April, his divisiveness and lack of credibility made things more, not less, challenging for those seeking the truth."
Indeed. We've brought this on ourselves, though, by pushing out predator species that eat the mice that carry the ticks and expanding their range with climate change.
Depends on what’s good for you and your app/client, as usual.
Impact and frequency are both important. The fact that audio of Firefox users is often intelligle in google meet should be higher priority than e.g. a button is misaligned in chrome.
Its still a huge problem. Informal jobs are probably low paying and unstable.
Trump derangement syndrome like this has been a large factor in the delay of real studies into the origin of the pandemic and has given the Chinese leadership enough time to make it unlikely that definite proof can still be found should the virus have escaped from a lab in Wuhan - something which seems more likely than not given the circumstantial evidence available.

Also, Trump has been out of power for almost half a year now, it is time to let him go. Look at the current leadership in the White House and make sure to hold them to the same standards as you did the previous government - an even more strict standard really since the corporate press has dropped the ball completely on that front.
If you mean multithreaded as running separate OS threads I've got to agree with you but the definition of thread isn't limited to just that. I don't know about the internals of web browsers or whether they use OS threads or green threads or a combination of both for web workers but they are threads and that's how the MDN calls them too: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Workers...
I wouldn't call it an accident, it's intentionally targeting users to keep them engaged. Think back to the Target incident where they ended up targeting a woman with maternity items before her family even knew she was pregnant [1]. These companies want to show you the relevant videos and ads.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
I have said it several times on HN, but it bears repeating: As much as I find shell programming approachable and enjoyable, it really should be avoided if you can help it.

Using `set -euo pipefail` and tools like Shellcheck help, but there's a limit.

https://sipb.mit.edu/doc/safe-shell/

^ Says the guy who forked a project an hour ago just to fix a couple errors, found a subshell and said, 'You're done, go no further' :)
If you want lawn that is easy to walk/run around on, there are still things you can do to reduce impact. Overseed with clover(there's microclover that doesn't get as big as typical kinds). Never spray herbicides or pesticides. Don't fertilize(the clover will fix nitrogen on its own). Try to mow just enough that it isn't super short, but that you can mulch every time instead of bagging. In the fall, mulch as many of the leaves as you can into the lawn(start early before all the trees drop), the goal being to keep the leaf matter around, but to not have it start matting and killing the lawn.
I would argue there is a difference between "being opinionated about how to implement a use-case" + "being opinionated about focusing on a small set of use-cases" and "forcing new use-cases on the user".

The article is about the former, Amazon Sidewalk about the later.

Also nothing while being opinionated can be very use-full for product design there is no reason why people can't be opinionated in a "bad" way.

What this article is about, and what most people mean when they say you should be more opinionated is that you should not be to generic, that you should focus on your core use-case and from a companies POV that is always a good idea IMHO. At least as long as you core use-case is the use-case people by your software for.
This doesn't work if $0 contains whitespace. Fix it by using "$0" instead.
>as far as I can tell

that's your problem right there
It’s also just implied by squaring the pi formula even if that’s all you know so it’s somewhat less interesting in that respect.
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I wouldn't like if I would specifically keep my Samsung Smart TV offline because Samsung themselves advice not to talk about sensitive things in front of the telly [0], and then finding out that it did go online, via my neighbor's helpful Alexa... No thank you.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31296188
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The article talks mostly about proposed minimum CT rate. It seems like something FAANG companies would love to be implemented - as they can say you see we are in the clear, the tax avoidance measures are up and we comply... and then they continue to hide profits, meaning business as usual.
This meeting seems like virtue signalling rather than something with material consequences.
I hope I am wrong.
Remember, the tech workers coding the algorithms that enable these censorship biases are reading HN and I don't think they like reading comments that counter their ideology. Hence downvotes with no comments or justification.
Germany has some of the best youth employment numbers (see chart at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27393190) and yet birth rates are similarly low.
> That's exactly what many advocate.

Sorry. I meant nobody respectable is suggesting that. Not even the respectable Palestinians.

> "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free". What do you think they mean by that besides the utter destruction of the state of Israel?

A single-state solution where Israelis and Palestinians share the same rights and live under the same democratic government.

> Since the Israelis only are responding to being attacked

The said attacks are extremely ineffective. They always were, since well before Iron Dome became operational.
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I thought the same. Clojure is already a niche language, but then you go and niche the niche by implementing another language on top.

Could work out if its essential to offering a 10x service, but I doubt the multiplier is that higher to warrant such an engineering cost of developing and maintaining another language on top of Clojure.

Also, there would be many layers to get to the machine code (Custom lang -> Clojure -> Byte code -> JIT -> Machine code), would this impact performance in a way that makes the program too slow and needs re-writing?
Right wing rags blame the Walgreens closures on shoplifting, implicitly blaming the policies of Boudin, but walgreens is closing hundreds of stores nationwide right now: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-06/walgreens...

Stores with higher lossage rates are probably first to go, which gives fuel to the fire that blames this on San Francisco's progressive DA. But how does that explain the closures across the rest of the nation happening at the same time? Walgreens is just struggling, and was before the pandemic.
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I assume we'll see some optimized version of this for NPCs in video games soon.
I can't speak to SA, but worked in Namibia which is adjacent and culturally quite similar. The various tribes own most of the land which is parceled up into farms which is then worked by massive extended families. Life outside of the cities out in the village is actually pretty good. There's basically 0 hunger since its all farms and lots of opportunities for people to run small one-off businesses to make side money. And since families are so extended, there's always a farm you can go work at. If you manage to avoid AIDS and alcolholism the life expectancy is easily 80+. Downside of course is that there's very little opportunity to move out, but the government is pushing rural education programs hard so I'm not sure how else they could deal with that.

Point being, rural unemployment really isn't that big a problem, its the urban unemployment that is brutal.
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Also funding the research is one way to ensure the results are shared.
We still don't know where Ebola came from, we're never going to definitively answer this question. So even if it's not a conspiracy theory yet, it's going to spawn some doozies over the next decade.

Both the natural origin and lab leak are plausible theories. It matters less what happened in the past and more what we'll do in the future to prevent and/or mitigate both in the future.
Also, people who say so-and-so company (usually Google) is hard to contact for support, or that they require expensive support contracts before they'll talk to you, have likely never tried sending email to the appropriate mailing list for the product.

It's amazing how often doing this completely bypasses any corporate first-line-support structure in the way, and just puts the email right into the inbox of the line engineers working directly on the product. It's also amazing how quickly those line engineers reply. (It's as if they treat "replying to random messages on the product mailing list" as their highest-priority job. Or maybe it's just that they're technical people, and my questions are usually very nerd-snipe-y, and get them hooked.)
There's a history of teaching C++ to novice programmers, with some success. It even used to be a language of choice for AP intro-to-programming classes. Teaching Swift or Rust would be far more opinionated. As for OO, while old-fashioned it's something that new grads should at least know about, and it can still be useful if you avoid the big footgun - namely, implementation inheritance.
Statisticians have about a dozen different definitions of unemployment, depending on how they count retired people, full time parents, people caring for relatives, people on long-term disability, people with part-time jobs, people doing voluntary work, people like actors who are between jobs, people who've given up on searching for work, and so on.

The 'NEET' definition does not consider full-time mothers as employed.
The lesson to take from this is to always dump the database and put it on scihub/torrent before going public.
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Also is this ready to be used on a small project, knowing very little og NN’s?

I just need s bit of motion tracking to be used on various figures on a webgl website, have been looking at the iphone depth sensor, the kinect and Mixamo.
I want to paste without formatting sometimes though?