skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lab workers getting sick should be a starting point to begin analyzing archived blood samples for instance. Also, you don't usually visit a hospital for seasonal flu. And three people from the same lab at the same time suggests a wider outbreak in the lab. Even if it were the seasonal flu, it would have warranted a wider investigation, given what that lab was working on.
Who are "people like Faucci", successful people regarded as experts?

We do have representatives that are meant to have final say, but they went AWOL mentally.
Oh, so the idea that it was an intentional bio-attack is what's "racist".

Why? Xi and the top leadership of the CCP/PLA are not a race, they're an oligarchy, maybe monarchy.

They receive many benefits from a pandemic, such as cover to crack down on rebellion in Hong Kong, a counter to Western propaganda for open societies, an excuse for economic recession.

I've read that the PLA believes that plagues such as SARS and Swine Flu are actually US bioweapons. That would make COVID19 merely symmetrical retaliation. The PLA also believes the USA is fomenting dissent and rebellion in China's territory to divide her. This is casus belli.

The US oligarchy cynically cornered Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor and ultimately nuked two Japanese cities while Japan tried to surrender. The USA also firebombed Dresden, a refugee city. Are these facts racist?

If you insist that the idea of China making an unrestricted biowarfare attack is so unprovoked and irrational that the mere thought is motivated purely by racial bigotry, then guess what? If it turns out the PLA really is guilty, you have condemned China as the wholly evil side. Shall we declare a second Pearl Harbor and demand unconditional surrender?

I certainly won't enlist for that war. I suspect China would happily leave the USA alone if the USA returned the favor. The Pacific is wide and deep.
OP claims it shouldn’t be “difficult to detect (...) because the hardware is working” because most commercially sold host controller chips would generate interrupt and report errors, unless Facebook is using something nonstandard that don’t.
As the article notes, for some people this is sort of a variation of gig work and appeals to a lot of the same people: Homemakers, disabled people, etc. People who need more resources and can't really make a full-time job work for them for some reason.

Increasingly, that includes the fact that full-time jobs are in short supply. Gig work is becoming more common because employers don't want to pay benefits.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing per se but in the US we tend to tie essentials like health care to your job and that ends up being a thorny issue for many people.
Great article. Disgusting behavior. Seems like the sort of experience that sticks with you for years.
Basically most of the article revolves around the question of who's responsibility things are and who's authority it is to make decisions to what extent. Feature creep, overstretched budgets, technical debt etc. are all direct results of the competency of these people and the authority at which people are allowed to say no.

One thing that the article glosses over is that this is much easier to do when the PM has a deep engineering understanding, and the EM has product understanding. But ultimately there are a lot of conflict potentials with the proposals in the article, specifically because the authorities don't seem to be clear.

Though there may be internal segment details that we don't know about from the article that may alleviate these issues. E.g. hiring practices or other things.
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That's obviously not the JS though, because it takes a while to connect and download the first request rather than taking a long time to render. It's likely that the server is just struggling under an unusual amount of traffic right now.

So no, its not ironic.
> Licenses are for losers.

Even if you want to make your work usable by anyone without restrictions (what also have its place) you need to apply license! Otherwise it is fully copyrighted by default.
> "Facebook would no longer be able to effectively connect marketers with you."

Why not? What does small business knowing you have to do with anything? Marketers can target using demographics, interests, behaviors and tons of other factors to get new customers, or they can upload an emails or other profile data to retarget existing users. Nothing has changed here.

> "But the changes weren’t live back then"

IDFA has had a global opt-out for years and 30% in the US have turned it off. The new change is to allow the opt-out on a per-app basis after install.

> "It’s easy to make such sweeping remarks in the comments section. Maybe write an article on your thoughts over this, and we’ll discuss someday"

It's "easy" because I've built multiple products and companies over a decade, and earned my knowledge and experience in the industry. I never said you were misleading though, but that's the 3rd incorrect statement you made in your reply after the two above.

No article needed, my comments already cover everything. This is a discussion forum though so go ahead and discuss right here if you want.
Trump didn't exactly follow Fauci's advice, so it's odd that you'd blame Fauci's "method of approaching pandemics" for "this mess."

Was there some other, better, established method?
Were there any legal repercussions? Was the employee fired? Were you as calm about this at the time as you seem now?... I would be furious!

EDIT: For some reason I assumed OP was the author. Someone with a twitter account should ping him and get him over here to participate in discussion.
bastawhiz's (correct) point is that it's easy in JS to have the best of both worlds: write your code as multiple, decoupled passes, with the performance of a for loop. The only problem is that in JS you have to go out of your way to do it. But those of us who know about it can, and generally should, do so.
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At the end of this video, you can see how the truck looks like: https://twitter.com/FSD_in_6m/status/1400207129479352323
:focus-within is a favourite of mine since it is one of the few CSS selectors where child element state is significant. Thus it is very nice for drop-downs. It also works with CSS transitions, so my pure CSS drop-downs have a 150ms easing in & out (tip: transition the visibility property, since display:none can't be delayed).

There is another, however. An element whose state depends on that of other elements, and it's even more general. A form element moves between :valid and :invalid based on its inputs, allowing us to use form:{in}valid with any of the descendant, child, sibling or adjacent combinators. A hidden required checkbox is sufficient. Radio inputs work too (tip: you can clear radios back to :invalid with an input type="reset").

The really, truly monstrous part of this, however, is that the associated input doesn't even have to be a child of the form. Using the form attribute (i.e., <input form="whatever">) means they can be anywhere on the page, and they can themselves be hidden and targeted from somewhere else on the page again, with a <label> element.

I once documented the horrifying potential of this in a company wiki, along with a lovely modal slideover that was wrapped in a <form> element and transitioned to visible based on form:valid via a hidden required radio button, and whose backdrop was a reset button, and this was rightly labelled NSFW and banned by popular acclaim from ever appearing in our HTML.
The most secret of government agencies use Intel chips.
How many exploits are because of the Linux kernel, and not userspace software? No kernel will protect you running public ElasticSearch with "username" and "password01" as the credentials.
The TOML one? That might be might be nice, but we should fix the global namespace issues of NixOS modules first. (Sometimes there are scarse global resources to multiplex access too, but that doesn't mean we should only be able to e.g. run only one postgres instance.)
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I'm a lawyer and now developer, I'm not sure how many classes would be enough? Ethics in the technology sense is not the same as legal ethics and may be closer to philosophy?
Probably supported only in WebGL2
It was sexy, for an 8-bit CPU, not least because it had a SEX instruction!
People were dying of covid in hospital beds, still believing the virus is fake narrative.
If you want to be „close” to AWS but still save money, try spinning lightsail instances that act as media proxies, similarly with other more resource generous providers. You could shift majority of media traffic off AWS and keep the “signalling” just there.
> Even more amazing is that OS-9 was available for the "toy" Color Computer 15 years before multitasking became available for Windows or MacOS.

Indeed. OS-9 on the CoCo is what I grew up on and it spoiled me for all mainstream systems later when I realized how inferior they were to what I got used to as a kid.

Multi-tasking multi-user OS on an 8 bit 6809 with 128K of RAM (and a price of just a few hundred dollars, back when an IBM PC was thousands).

It also made me feel very familiar when I first encountered various UNIX systems so the transition was easy.
Just to remind you that your binary, i.e. inhumane, way of thinking is permanently documented here as well. I hope you regret this comment one day when the same binary approach is applied to you as well. People are expected to change today - and that's why people go in and out of jail. But in the liberal world view, everybody (except the oppressed) is evil! Even when the oppressed is a cold blooded killer, it's an excuses - they did it, because they are oppressed. And this is how the Commies executed tens of million of people - they were imperialists and enemies of Communism and there was no chance for them; they were sentences as permanently damaged goods and deserved only a bullet!
Not really, the US military in particular has a lot of slack that could easily be funded into cyber stuff. I would bet there's plenty of (digital) offensive capability in the US so maybe it should be used?
The Fauci emails were published from an FOIA request, not leaked.
Plenty of people visit hospitals for seasonal flu, fyi. They shouldn't, but they do.
I wonder if @bcantrill was aware of this at the time it happened?
If several people were hospitalized that means several dozen to hundred people in the lab actually had COVID (hospitalization rates are low, especially among people who haven’t reached retirement age yet).

Testing was done on those people and nothing was found.

This means we would be looking at a huge coverup, not false negative testing results.
Good story; I do find the “Australians are just the little guys” narrative a bit frustrating and a self-fulfilling prophecy though.
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You've broken the site guidelines repeatedly and egregiously in this thread. We ban accounts that do that.

Most of the accounts that have been doing that in this thread, I've let off with just a warning. Yours, however, seems clearly to be using HN primarily for ideological/political/nationalistic battle. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of what they're battling for, because they're destructive of what this site is supposed to exist for. Therefore I've banned this account. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That sounds very consistent with her husband's (Alltounian's) conviction that she committed suicide. I'm not sure what this says about the dangers of ketamine, especially considering that ketamine seems to mitigate suicidal ideation.

I had never heard this person's name before today, but I can easily imagine a different narrative: She was self-medicating for depression and might not have lasted as long as she did without the drug. Sounds like we'll never know.
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What kind of farmer’s markets have you been to with live animals in poor health being slaughtered in place?
You then respond with “is x% worth y% longer time to market for new features, and n milliseconds longer load time for users on other browsers?”

Also don’t forget to check actual conversion and other important metrics for different browsers, not only number of visits.
One thing that's weird about the Justice system is that there are so many laws. I agree that what the police officer did should be a crime, but it seems like there are potentially many ways to slice it. Maybe it's bribery, stalking, sharing privileged information, prior to this ruling CFAA, maybe other crimes too.

If you add up all the crimes that may have been committed here it seems like the punishment gets pretty severe. Even 18 months in prison for this already seems severe to me. I would think justice is more like getting fired, fined, and community service rather than prison.
My recurring shower thought at the moment is that there will eventually be strong evidence of a natural origin and this whole debacle will be rubbed in the faces of people who dared challenge the medical/media industrial complex and its infinite wisdom. Let's be clear: there's no strong evidence either way.

The take away is that it doesn't matter whether it was from a lab or whether it was naturally originating. What matters is that it was (and still is) completely reasonable to question the official narative. The CDC chose to favor the CCP wet market story because they wanted to maintain a positive relationship in order to ensure they got accurate numbers -- they broadly lied to the American public about the certainty of the science in order to achieve political goals. The media, who should have kept the CDC accountable in such a situation, instead could not resist to tell a story about a disagreement between the Trump administration and the CDC/Fauci (both sides did this).

It does not matter where it originated. What matters is the media didn't do their job and the American public was intentionally misinformed by the federal government in a time of crisis, and the people who called out the government and called out the media were ostracized for it. American institutions broadly failed to meet their responsibilities to the public.
> When is it ever okay to fabricate data?

When you want to deliberately sabotage something. What may have its place, but obviously not in such case (obviously not applicable in cancer research like in this case).
Please do not perpetuate flamewars on HN, regardless of what another commenter is doing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
To play devil's advocate, how much money did this breach actually cost the pipeline? A few million bucks?

That's probably a rounding error on their quarterly report. Heck, it might have cost them more money to hire more people to provide adequate security to prevent such attacks than to just suck it up and get attacked.

It may actually be economically favorable to stay insecure!

If that were the case, the market would actually encourage CEO's to spend less money on security, not more.
Agree it's cringe. The whole "little guy punching above his weight" thing is even worse in NZ.
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Now that media has to tell the truth they have to get the negative Trump spin in to justify the vitriol of the last 5 years otherwise the narrative wouldn't make sense.
Sucks that I have to worry while reading their technical blog post that it's pretty likely that Facebook is tracking the fact that I'm reading their article.
Couple days ago we posted a Show HN with similar arguments on why JS for data makes sense, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27334145 -- Ben's article is much more eloquent and presents several examples, but there are a few libraries worth complementing this article: danfo.js (dataframes with tensorflow), ml5.js (a keras-like library), tidy.js (a tidy port to JS), and tensorflos.js.
A couple of Brad Myers's students at CMU worked out a concept for lightweight versioning, with a particular focus on users of code notebooks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBrvT7vGleM

Unfortunately, they moved on to an evolution of the initial concept that's a lot less compelling/promising.
Thankfully the "DTrace expert" didn't turn out to be Bryan Cantrill. He's a big fan of Scott McNealy's engineering principles for Sun Microsystems, which includes "Don't Cheat", and the behaviour in this story very much seems not in the spirit of that principle. I wonder if this bit of 'cheating' ended up getting someone at Sun in trouble.
As much as I think RMS himself is an utter embarrassment of a human being, stories like this are why I also believe the GPL is one of the most important contributions to computing, ever.

MIT/BSD-style licenses are practically begging large billion-dollar corporations to rip off your work wholesale and use it to generate profits while contributing only the occasional patch or two. I used to see this phenomenon on HN, where every time some distro had a new release the BSD folks would be in here reminding us that BSD runs Netflix and routers and Playstations and won't we please just donate? As if Sony and Netflix value these projects enough to use them for critical infrastructure but not enough to keep them financially solvent.

(The GPL is of course not a panacea; as TFA demonstrates, Sun would have got away with this, possibly forever, had the author not made his serendipitous discovery)
Concourse explicitly wants to not know anything about the outputs of your jobs. Most of the other ci products will have _some_ method (integration with common test runners, markers in output) to figure out how many tests you've run and display them as a collapsible outline, or something similar.

Because the ci system is aware of your tests, and perhaps a filename/test description, it can keep stats on them over time.

This is an ancient version of teamcity [0], but it shows how it knows how many tests were run, how many passed, and that there's one "new" failure in this run vs previous runs.

This lets it tell you which tests are slow, which are flaky, all sorts of history of those wrt to state of the associated repo, etc.

Not having these sorts of things once you have them is like flying blind.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/ywB7u11.png
Sad stuff, crazy stuff.
There's around one mutation each time it transmits between hosts (for flu it is one each time it goes cell to cell). 1,136 doesn't seem that high, say it hops 100 bats a year, that's just a divergence of 11 years of bat hopping (the more mutations that add up maybe the rate doesn't hold due to conserved regions though?). 5X less hops a year, 55 years: still a blink.
the article says they use these new chips as gpus and still use intel chips for the os?
But Zerohedge in turn is a great example of a stopped clock being right twice a day.
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I don't know what a beeple is. Or a modigliani for that matter.

Ok, it sounds like you are saying that news coverage increases the price. That I can buy.
This goes a bit more into detail -

https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-th...
TikTok just gave itself permission to collect biometric data on US users
And right here is the dilemma of IP law. A patent would give you an incentive to make a product that you might not otherwise make, but it also prevents a competitor from making a better product that would be a better outcome for consumers.
Or a foreign government paying more to not give back the data. Just for the economic impact. One that might be under sanctions from the target country, say.
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>the dollar, which is government-backed and sustains trillions in commerce every day. The dollar is imperfect, but it has widespread use, relative stability, and a robust, if insufficient, regulatory structure. Your bank account is even insured by the federal government

>Perhaps, one day, the promised decentralized financial system—one that’s supposed to be liberated from the surveilling eye of the state and the harsh yoke of tyrannical central banks—will arrive.

I'm not sure if he was being sarcastic in the second passage. Does he genuinely want less statism, or is he just mocking proponents of cryptocurrency?
> Is it going to become a ceiling roomba

What would be the point of a ceiling roomba? Are ceilings ever that dirty to require regular vaccumming?
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> “hudson.slaves” is part of the interface that Jenkins provides; in our own code at Slack, we’ve fully moved over to “controller” and “agent” as the preferred terminology

Political correctness run amok.

I recently upgraded Git and started a new repo. It gave me a political lecture about how I'm a racist for using the term "master branch."

This is madness.
> What actually can and should happen

Not to mention fixing all of the other failures that allowed COVID to kill millions worldwide. Everyone's pointing fingers but hardly anybody's talking about improving epidemiology and public health policy (which the US is long overdue for a reckoning on).

One of those failures, by the way, was the seeming assumption that whatever state a global health emergency started in would act in something resembling good faith. Regardless of how COVID came to be, China wasted precious time deflecting when it should have been diligently helping to sound the alarm and properly investigate.

And how many other countries might have prevaricated in the same fashion, if the pandemic had started within their borders? This is not a failure concerning China specifically. Indeed, there will come a point where blaming China for COVID, however cathartic that might be, will be counterproductive to preventing future catastrophes.
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And yet have you seen how many zero day, patch now, actively explored in wild vulnerabilities there have been in Chrome just this year?

It doesn’t feel like even Google are winning
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I referred to actual privacy, not the abstract right to privacy.

In 1890 most Americans lived with much less physical privacy than we enjoy today. Extended families, small towns or crowded urban apartments, everyone knows everyone else’s business. Police and employers had much more power to intrude into private affairs. People would spy and snitch. Women and children treated like property, employees under surveillance.

Sure, in 1890 people were free of social media and advertisers and the NSA. On the other hand their boss or the police could ask about very personal things and fire or arrest homosexuals or anyone perceived as socially deviant. If you go back farther in history you discover a world where privacy was something only the very elite might enjoy. Everyone else had about as much privacy as cattle.
I was fortunate enough to happen to be live at LISA13 where AFAIK, Brendan gave his first public flamegraphs demo. I'm glad I saw it. I love learning about areas (performance engineering) where I'm weaker. Great demos! I've tried to keep my personal live demos at a high quality too. Can't wait to see what he comes up with next!
I meant Fauci at al.’s approach of proactively looking for the next pandemic via sample collection and lab engineering of new variants which predates the trump administration. By all appearances Faucis performance during the pandemic is nothing to be questioned. These are different topics.
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