skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big discussion a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27355789
Wow, this looks bloody brilliant. I’ve only recently begun feeling more “comfortable” writing JS on the fly for frontend development (previous roles were nearly all backend-centric), but one big issue I’m facing is managing the ever-growing ecosystem in a way to minimize complexities in a timely and efficient manner.

HTMX seems as though it will catalyze those efforts.
I'm not sure how anything you've said here relates to anything Iv'e said
> It gets worse - gain of function research was banned under Obama until the ban was lifted in 2017 under Trump...

I'm not sure that claim aligns with historical NIH funding for gain of function research: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9819304
America really needs GDPR at a federal level.
Liable in what way? Wouldn't that just kill OSS? Or do you not count programmers who upload swiss-cheese scripts to Github as vendors? What about Linux, openSSH, etc?
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really not getting it here- even if my home country had a lab leak I would be interested in learning from a mistake.
By being racist?

The CCP is a party, not a race. Taiwan and Chinese dissidents deserve great credit for advancing the lab leak hypothesis, and are conspicuously absent from this article, probably because the CCP is extremely displeased whenever they are acknowledged.

Forget race, these Taiwanese and mainlander dissidents are the same ethnicity as the CCP.

Saying it's racist to criticize or discriminate against China mainlanders ignores the many people of the same race who hold such prejudices in Hong Kong, for example.

Racism would be blaming Japanese or Koreans for COVID19, because they are the same racial group as the Han. Who does that?

In theory, Americans could be aware that North America has always been a battleground between introgressions from northeast Asia and northwest Europe, and view the spread of COVID19 as parallel to the spread of smallpox to Indians via plague blankets. But I honestly don't think any meaningful number of "Trumpians" are that smart.

Those Indians may have developed some racist conspiracy theories. I bet the Uyghurs have some too!
LOL. A good portion of cyber security attacks are government military operations. You think China or Russia is sad that hackers closed down our gas pipelines?
As an example, a school website I run support for on and off, and have done so for a number of years, still receives 18% of its traffic from IE8.
I think it may be possible to compute the probability that this is a coincidence. Someone should do that.
I was rushing to the thread to post this. The new site, even after all this time, is dramatically slower to load content than old.reddit. Does anyone at reddit actually use reddit?

Another issue is pretending comment threads are modal?? If I click to read comments, it presents a sheet of comments that if you accidentally click outside them, they just disappear.

And they broke the back button, so when you go back to read those comments you accidentally dismissed, you don't land at your previous scroll position.
I don't know, I'm able to get 150k grpc q/sec with p99 sub 1ms. It's def better than G1 and CMS.
Social and personal trade-offs of building a startup
The Wikipedia page cites no theory that places the origin in Spain. It cites theories of origin for the US, France, China and Europe in general.
This isn't viable for businesses that need to comply with SOC2, ISO27001, etc.
>What information was anybody going to use?

I used these three pieces of evidence to come to this conclusion for myself last year.

1. Wuhan is the epicenter of the outbreak.

2. Wuhan has a lab that works with bat covid.

3. China initally tooks steps to hide the virus from the world until that was no longer possible.

>several US agency reports concluded that the virus likely did not originate from a lab.

Keep that in mind next time.
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For a measly $120k grant, I doubt Fauci was involved in the award whatsoever.
Really, I know families who spend days of the week commuting to soccer tournaments, snowboarding, etc. Not to mention the commute to go have practice, shop for equipment - all this is productive time, which can be used for something fruitful. Same with the spectators who burn hundreds of billions of hours as coach potatoes watching sports, paying tens of dollars per month for sports channels, eating junk food, drinking beer, etc. This totals up to a trillion hours of year and hundreds of billion of dollars of direct costs, not to mention the indirect ones and the toll to the environment of all this. How about instead of burning these calories playing sports to actually "burn" them in farming or community service?
That's a really funny clip, thanks for the link!
I don't know about malice, but covering up or downplaying the possibility of a global pandemic being caused by activities he was involved in or encouraged... shit can be corrupt even if a person is not trying to take advantage of a situation.

Placing blame isn't really all that important. Making sure none of this happens again for the same reasons is.

If I was placing a bet, I'd say Wuhan researchers regularly got a handle on patents zero for cross species infection. In the course of the research a virus infected workers because of lax, sloppy, or otherwise inadequate controls; then despite the threat in order to save face government did everything they could to hide the mistake until it was far too late for anything to really be done about it.
For anyone wondering about the incident in question this is a good roundup: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/us/smith-college-race.htm...

According to the article neither employee was fired: one was placed on paid leave for three months, another was transferred to a different dorm.
We found Novichok very close to Porton Down. However it actually came from Russia.
CS 181W/182W is pretty close to a required class for a Stanford CS major. There are "Technology in Society" and "Writing in the Major" requirements, and taking one of those classes is the simplest way to satisfy both.

https://ughb.stanford.edu/courses/approved-courses/technolog...

https://undergrad.stanford.edu/programs/pwr/courses/writing-...
I doubt it. The war on drugs is not very effective either.
Product managers do understand, and they do recognize, but they are not making the decisions, and they are powerless to do anything about it. Like any major company, when employee doesn’t want to do something, they will find someone who will.
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...Why would sysfs expose something that your hardware doesn't support while pciutils doesn't?
Nice ! thanks that's an interesting read. All this javascript is single threaded in browser is all so limiting.
> Bad…link speed…and bad…link width…were other concerning PCIe faults. These faults can be difficult to detect without some sort of automated tool…

Most modern PCIe PHY now have the ability to serve interrupts when down-training occurs much like they would for AER errors or hard link failures. Does FB use their own silicon in these data centers? Having this feature enabled is crucial when you get up to gen4 speeds. Weirdly I don’t see any detail about the gen used here though.
> Man how I long for a browser where I can feel taken seriously.

I invite you to try Orion (if on Mac).

https://browser.kagi.com
I find this to be a shallow "just-so" take on geopolitics. Many of the disputed islands have strategic economic & military value in their territory. There's a lot of googlable analysis on how these islands are valued but it honestly seems a little laughable to suggest that China or the other Asian countries will just accept losing some "useless islands". Given the secretive nature of CCP behavior I don't think I can prove that their dispute isn't driven by "keeping the face" playground psychology, but more practical & sensible motivations are apparent and I can meta-comment that it seems very unlikely that this dispute would confound experienced diplomats for this long if it was as simple as keeping face.

If you look for critical analysis of many high-stakes geopolitical disputes you can usually find a very practical and utilitarian motivation behind it. An explanation that relies on popular stereotypes is basically the opposite of that.
Gitlab CI.
Also, mid winter/flu season
I miss doing jigsaw puzzles with my coworkers. Online games don't feel the same. Culture things are mostly tiny and each seem like no big deal, but collectively, I do think it's really hard to replicate remotely.
> with the stated intention of working with said viruses to make them more infectious (NOT for the purposes of making a bioweapon)

Why is this relevant unless you're claiming that the virus that we've observed has been engineered in that way? Otherwise it seems like the chance of a coronavirus outbreak caused by poor handling in a lab is the same for any lab that's studying them for any purpose.
The most bandied about number is $12-$13 billion in profits, just from OxyContin. I believe that came up in their bankruptcy filings.
Same. I find the app to be actively hostile as its always showing me notification badges for no reason.

That new giant F button in the tab bar always has a number on it that disappears when I tap, but there's no obvious content for me to look at there.

Desktop FB is pleasant. No fake notification badges.
So I give every quack the same attention, legitimacy, as say, an expert I trust? That's almost as bad advice as trust no one and do my own research for everything.
Nah, first you get: "Please solve this captcha to prove that you are not a drone".
Isn't this as far from Clojure's "it's just data" as it gets? The author was making the case for not doing this, ie. turning data into Java-style classes and interfaces.
I don't work in marketing, I don't own a startup but I've found examples work best. Something I can either play with directly or deploy on the free tier quickly. You're never going to get me to sign up unless I have something I want to do with it immediately.
This is not remotely comparable. Russia uses Novichok as a signature "we did it, don't F around".

This one was, yeah, this is a virology institute, we study corona viruses, we were hiring for corona virus experts, we do GoF work, but trust us, just because it first appeared blocks from our facility, it did not come from us. Also, don't believe our former virologists who skipped town.
>Refinement certainly helps but Toyotas are reliable because any car would be reliable in the hands of Toyota owners.

This has not been my experience. Toyotas are just better built coming out of the factory. In the past I've had newish Chevy, Ford, and Nissan cars, and after about 30-50k miles each of them started having various small noises/rattles that built over time until something failed. The Toyota is just smoother overall out of the factory, and parts wear out more slowly.
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Private companies however buy 0-days crafted by nation-states on the daily?
I'm still trusting the experts, and the experts are changing their minds. Nothing is going wrong here...
I think pretty much all the things in the article are nice-to-haves that could simply just be omitted in IE.

If you want a modern UX, use a modern browser.
Haberman is not a reliable source.
Ground glass lung X-rays?
Am I missing something, or is there supposed to be something special about the curriculum? Everyone knows the only reason to go to a top school is for the peer group/positive eugenics aspect of it.
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A lot of emerging viruses are well adapted to humans… that’s why become outbreaks. How can you judge what level of adaption is expected vs unexpected in a virus.

Most virologists say the way this virus works is unlike anything they’ve seen or expected so they can’t imagine how a human would have engineered it. Why do you think your feeling about the virus’s level of adaptation trumps the experts opinions?
I use it and was notified of a new mobile phone subscription that was opened in my name out of state without my knowledge. The next month it happened to my wife. They were the only ones to notify us.
The WaPo article where I first read about the theory said most of this stuff. I didn’t understand then why people were so quick to dismiss it - it is eerily plausible, and we just don’t have much other data to go on. But it’s like having an opinion one way or the other is a political dog whistle that puts you into one of two bins, neither of which I fit into comfortably. This article makes a decent point of that: now that Trump’s racism is out of the way, maybe we can more critically examine the facts. I still think the lab leak theory is less likely than evolution, but it’s at least a bit compelling.
I agree that most ethics courses aren't well done and scream 'mandatory training' rather than 'interesting subject'. The required two week one I took at Stanford GSB was pretty weak, despite business ethics being extremely important. I think they've made it better since I took it; it was a sideshow when it should have been much more central to the business curriculum.

Pedagogically, going purely book- and reading-based like most courses is a bad idea, as that can't capture the paradoxes and nuances involved in ethical decision making. I think the field would benefit from more decision-oriented approaches including a review of past ethical dilemmas perhaps as case studies, more embodied/situated formats like simulations, and practical advice on how to identify and/or avoid getting into ethically compromised situations in the first place. But you do need to couple those with the foundational frameworks that you'd use in those situations, and ideally contextualization with much broader ideas like the social contract in society.

Ethics guidelines from professional engineering societies can help with some amount of ongoing ethical awareness, but I do think it has to start in the formal education system.
> Crunching algorithms for 2 semesters probably makes aspiring engineers feel that they are simply memorizing pages from a book which are trivially indexed by google.

I realize that the majority of engineers will never need to use any of the more advanced topics taught in an algorithms class, but I hope you recognize the irony in this comment; the “trivial indexing” performed by Google is anything but, and, in fact, is only enabled by those very algorithms, implemented dozens of times, in multiple languages, with subtle variations and optimizations and under non-obvious reinterpretations, at every level of the stack.
> The only thing preventing the CoCo from supporting safe multi-user interaction is an MMU that restricted higher address ranges

I don't think that would have stopped people from actively using it as a multi-user system in its heyday. I think other systems used for multi-user computing at the same time often had similar security deficits (examples: MP/M, PICK, MUMPS, Alpha Microsystems AMOS)

Standards and expectations were a lot lower back then, and much greater reliance was placed on trusting users, and the obscurity of whatever security holes existed
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The article briefly touches, and dismisses it, but this (and in fact, all of the audit support) seems like a prime candidate for trace points. No overhead cost to anyone except those who want to enable the ones they care about, no custom kernels needed.

These are already being used in many places to monitor/audit execution points not otherwise instrumented, so it's just a logical extension.
For a little more context, it's https://formcake.com it's basically a form SaaS tool / endpoint
I'm not saying it's far-fetched. It's definitely possible. I'm debating whether or not this is any kind of smoking gun. It's circumstantial evidence.
If that's what it takes to defend our sovereignty, it's what it takes.

They elected one of ours, we can unelect one of theirs.
Perhaps begin by entertaining ideas as possible until proven otherwise. No scientists ever provided conclusive proof the virus didn’t originate in a lab. If you were to look at what some scientists were saying such as the former director of the CDC you would hear explanations including evidence that suggested it probably did leak from a lab. But since the dawn of search engines, we’ve been suggesting that lazy people investigate and seek out the truth instead of clinging to dogma that validates their biases. Perhaps that will never change. I get it if you’re not interested in the actual truth, but that is exactly the problem. We as citizens who have dealt with this crisis deserve to know the truth. And by the way, an empowered and informed citizenry is what makes a nation strong across all metrics. If you only care about yourself I get it, make your money. But some of us still care about our country (whatever country we live in).
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Comprehensions are nice and I wish JS had them, but can’t you achieve the same thing with a for loop?
I was trying to say, yes Koreans might be where this was created. But bringing out the product with an application is the context of this.
Nobody said Xiaomi invented it. They bought out the tech with batteries, properly applied. They're not like just putting the battery inside a phone. It needs a lot of calibration and also hardware/ software improvements on phone to support it. Why would you thank Koreans for that?
Its same as saying we need to thank Turks because Turkish immigrants sequenced the vaccine, sold by Pfizer.
That's not true. It's easy to find videos of men sealing doors shut in stairwells. That door they're sealing is the single door of the apartment.
That article doesn't support your argument. It just says it was suspected.

I found an NIH article that says the likelier origin is that the 1950 virus was used to produce a weakened live virus vaccine candidate that lead to the reemergence and not an accidental leak. It also concludes by saying there has never been a likely lab leak epidemic ever observed.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4542197/
4chan can be unsettlingly resourceful sometimes. Remember when they identified the location of a terrorist training camp from some photos and quite literally called in an air strike?
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> It's the effect on your thinking patterns as a result of studying

I've heard this over and over again, but I don't believe there's a shred of evidence for it.
No its not, I was trying to make a point, you could read the reply I gave on an another comment. Im not even related in any way to China.
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The 6809 is a fun processor to program in assembly and still my favorite 8-bit chip. The 8086/88 was such a let down after it. It would be interesting to have a 64-bit version just to play with for projects.
You do know that there's genetic evidence that seems to point to an origin 600 miles from Wuhan?

> Of 23 samples that came from Wuhan, only three were type A, the rest were type B, a version two mutations from A. But in other parts of China, Forster says, initially A was the predominant strain. For instance, of nine genome samples in Guangdong, some 600 miles south of Wuhan, five were A types. [0]

[0] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2020-05-...
What does 93.3% similar mean? We’re 90% similar to cats and mice by some measures of DNA.
How did you like 6.824 specifically? I haven’t taken any systems courses as I’m not too interested in it, but I realize distributed systems is important in the industry as a SWE and was thinking of watching the videos. Any other courses you recommend on the topic?
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You can, but transducers would be a more consistent api
That's like saying "The child was murdered by a Black man," vs "The child was murdered by a man wearing a hoodie and a scar on his left cheek." Both sentences use details that could be true accurate descriptions, but choosing which descriptors to use allow you to control the opinions of the reader and the associations to the bad thing (murder) with some traits. It gives the writer a powerful propagandistic tool. The question is what descriptors are important enough to be associated with the bad thing? Could any man, or even person, have murdered a child? Could the virus have come from anywhere? If so, then shaping opinions by associating with the trait of "Black man" or "China" is counterproductive.

Better descriptors could be: "Covid-19 ... wreaking havoc... came from laboratory with poor hygiene practices and safety measures."

"Child was murdered by insane person."

These titles stick to the point rather than trying to bias public opinion, and associate the bad thing with what the actual underlying cause was.
This article is painfully political. The author takes far too much time demonizing Trump and anointing Biden to keep me interested in learning what she has to say.
Parts of the media listened to a bunch of people who all had good reason to dismiss theories that would point to them as in some way connected to research they knew was dangerous and this assessment was used for widespread censorship of contrary opinions.

The media is supposed to be a bit more skeptical of their sources than that. At this point I follow rules that look a lot like these:

https://info.publicintelligence.net/USArmy-IntelAnalysis.pdf
> No consumer is ever going to agree to this psychologically

Nio has done over two million battery swaps:

https://www.nio.com/blog/nio-completes-2000000-battery-swaps

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

Ample wants to do the same but with fleet cars at first:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl5UJQzP7NE
They don't have anti gravity machines.
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This obviously is a slippery slope because anybody can perceive anything.

If I perceive that your account sounds a lot like a Russian troll, then by your logic we should all discount your opinion because if you were a Russian troll you’d have a conflict, and since it seems like you might be according to my perception, how could we trust anything you say?
> not enough time is spent specifying software

How long have you been working in software? It's been known since 1970, when Winston W. Royce wrote "Managing the development of large software systems: concepts and techniques", that big design up front waterfall development "is risky and invites failure".[1]

What sorts of problems are you looking to solve, and how would spending more time and formality in specifications address them?

1 http://www-scf.usc.edu/~csci201/lectures/Lecture11/royce1970...
Here's the article from The Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/28/arizona-gas-...