skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t dispute it is one point of suspicion, but Wuhan is also one of the 10 biggest cities in China. It isn’t a surprise the first US outbreak was in the biggest city. The first cases could have been anywhere.

If there were more evidence that it was lab made then the location would be another point, not to me without further evidence it doesn’t mean all that much.

And there have been 2 emerging coronavirus outbreaks in the last 20 years due to natural origin. Why is it so hard to believe there would be another one.
How does taxing crypto increase hacker pay?
I don't know even still if efficiency is correlated to lines of code in a product. Sure maybe a weak relationship at best, but the scale of the software does not necessarily mean it will be any more useful than something else.
Imagine if all companies had to individually fight pirates in the heyday of pirate hood!
It also differs from every betacoronavirus backbone that had been used for genetic modification (and there’s no clear reason somebody would want to come up with a new one), which is basically the same problem but in reverse.

We’ve never, despite years and years of trying, been able to identify an origin for Ebola. The basic reality is we don’t know anywhere near all the diseases that animals have.
I was vaguely aware of several of these, but hadn't thought to use them in the ways the author proposes.

The gallery with horizontal snap scrolling, the use of smooth scrolling to jump between anchors and even clamp are all quite cool.

I also had no idea that's how sticky worked!
> Notice that the user is viewing subscriber-only content within their podcast player, despite the fact they never previously logged-in within that webview; that is because every link is unique to that user, making the integration with the Stratechery website completely seamless.

What happens if you share links with other people? Are URLs now sensitive information?
I think the ideal end-game is that we have chargers in most residential parking spaces and plenty at workplaces and commercial property, plus we've either electrified sections of the interstate highway system (or the equivalent in non-US countries) so that cars can recharge without stopping or batteries are big enough and can charge fast enough that charge times on long trips don't matter.

The electrification of highways is something I'd love to see happen, but so far I don't think there's much interest or even consideration of that as a possibility. (There are a couple pilot projects in Sweden, one using overhead lines and another that uses slots cut into the road surface with high voltage rails underneath.) The payoff would be huge though in terms of reducing the cost and carbon emissions from long-haul trucking.
McDonald’s sells other companies’ products too, like Coca-Cola. Also, you actually can buy an entire McDonald’s and I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t be allowed to sell Burger King products there.

I’m not sure why you introduced homes to the analogy. That’s a very different scenario.
What is the significance of that question?
Why does the headline fail to summarize the article? The only information I found inside was "Government Finds No Evidence That Aerial Sightings Were American Spacecraft"
Who can you trust? Go back a year and read some news articles. It’s pretty clear who was on the right track and ‘WHO’ wasn’t.
That's interesting, thanks!
You're absolutely right. There's often no shortage of low hanging fruit.

I'm not suggesting we should declare anything impossible. Far from it! I'm merely trying to suggest that we should appreciate that not all things as easily fixed as they may seem at first blush.

As all of us in software know, complexity can lurk in unexpected places.
Those same people were tested for antibodies and they were negative. Or I guess that is also part of the cover up.
It's not smooth though. Once traffic starts again, Eyesight accelerates hard and then brakes hard when it get up to the car, because it's using cruise control and trying get up to speed and there is a minimum speed (25mph? maybe 10mph? i forget) to set the cruise control.
This is why people say "do your own research". Because trusting some other authority will end badly, just like this.
I don’t see how an individual iPhone is analogous to an entire town. Is a video game console also analogous to an entire town?
Honestly I think mental health places should regularly experience "fake" patients. It's good for the students, but more importantly, I suspect that the Rosenhan experiment would go about the same today as it went in 1973.

If you haven't read about it, it was kind of amazing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment

Basically a psychologist and his team got themselves admitted to 12 different hospitals by claiming auditory hallucinations. From that point on, they acted completely normal and claimed they no longer experienced any symptoms. The hospitals diagnosed nearly all of them with schizophrenia.

In the aftermath, one hospital demanded to be re-evaluated. The psychologist agreed. Over the next few weeks, the hospital found dozens of fake patients, despite the psychologist sending none at all.
This was basically it. The dataset was the same across users so caching was simple and efficient, and the front-end had no difficulty handling this much data (and paging client-side was snappier than requesting anew each time)
> I think it's nuts when companies do this.

This can go either way. Yes, it can be abused. DSLs can be very useful and powerful.

In any case, I think it is better to not to rush to judgment for this particular case.
> You get to do performance work, they feel taken care of by an expert, their visitors have a better experience, everyone wins!

Really though? It usually means:

* The fixes can require non-trivial changes that take an unknown amount of time to fix

* The client has to pay you for something that probably wasn't budgeted

* You have to fit in more work. If you're good at getting clients and you have a full schedule, it can throw a wrench in.

I'm not sure most freelance devs delight in doing suddenly imposed "performance work." Maybe the first time or two it's interesting, after that it's just annoying.
At that point you've subtly moved from lab leak theory to engineered virus theory which is much higher up the conspiracy theory chain.
>For men who spend too much time thinking about the opposite sex

homosexuals are spared on this occasion
There's piracy, sure, but I'm not losing 30% of sales due to it.

I currently run a freemium software business just fine for Windows and macOS. Just sign the code for Windows, notorize it on macOS and sell it through a service I use called Paddle that handles payment, international sales tax and licensing for about 6%.
Different semantics for different folks. For me, this sounds interesting. I'll defer judgment until I learn more.
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> And what exactly is China expected to do in any case?

China, and every other country, should move such labs away from major population centers.

From the article:

> Then, in February, a research paper coauthored by two Chinese scientists, based at separate Wuhan universities, appeared online as a preprint. It tackled a fundamental question: How did a novel bat coronavirus get to a major metropolis of 11 million people in central China, in the dead of winter when most bats were hibernating, and turn a market where bats weren’t sold into the epicenter of an outbreak?

> The paper offered an answer: “We screened the area around the seafood market and identified two laboratories conducting research on bat coronavirus.” The first was the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, which sat just 280 meters from the Huanan market and had been known to collect hundreds of bat samples. The second, the researchers wrote, was the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

> The paper came to a staggeringly blunt conclusion about COVID-19: “the killer coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory in Wuhan.... Regulations may be taken to relocate these laboratories far away from city center and other densely populated places.”

Key part: "Regulations may be taken to relocate these laboratories far away from city center and other densely populated places" Isn't this common sense? I feel that those claiming there is nothing that could be done with information pointing to a lab leak, as you seem to be doing, are being incredibly disingenuous. If the virus escaped from a lab, strengthening lab regulations is the obvious response that you seem to be pretending doesn't exist.
Thanks for reading!

To give a more concrete example, one of the things I want to talk about is "hooks." The first few sentences of any piece of writing should convince the reader that the rest of the piece is worth their time. That applies to blog posts, design documents, emails, tutorials, etc.

I understand what you're saying about how I could bury a foundational topic in a glossary, but "hooks" are a topic that I think 80% of my readers don't understand, so it feels weird to bury it later in the book rather than introduce it early and then talk about higher level things that depend on it.
I expected to have at-least one course on Distributed Systems. Great list though, particularly for AI/ML stuff.
Let me rephrase then: it will be decades before putting a human into orbit is cheaper than flying from one point to another on the surface (which can be done for a little more than a thousand dollars) if ever. So maybe SpaceX has said that, but the first part of my sentence still holds. SpaceX isn’t going to be competitive with air travel probably in my lifetime.
That's exactly what we do. Detroit native. Before we got the home charger installed we would combine it with shopping to top off or charge while at a nearby restaurant.
Or you know, 2 days drive depending on road conditions and trucking shipment along the route to a major metropolis.

This is an argument from incredulity.
It makes me wonder there the offense is. Where is the asymmetric response that sends a clear message not to do this again?
Maybe it'll bring about a resurgence of drive-in restaurants.

At the least, Sonic ought to go in on chargers
Oh, cool, I'm glad that post stuck with you. Thanks for reading!
Here's what I remember from that time period. My recollection is that the wet market hypothesis fell out of favor rather quickly, but nothing else really emerged in its place. The lab leak theory was circulating, but amongst people such as rank-and-file scientists, the attitude was: We aren't going to get a straight answer about this, but we've got to defeat this virus.

I don't remember dismissing the lab leak theory per se, but rather, taking it in as one of a massive spew of crackpot theories all coming from more or less one source. I'm reminded of the children's story, "The boy who cried wolf."

Looking back in hindsight, I wonder how we could have picked out the lab leak theory as being worthy of consideration, given the context. And whether a more scientifically minded public and government would have faced that dilemma.
"The hackers did not gain access to systems that control train cars and rider safety was not at risk, transit officials said, adding that the intrusion appeared to have done little, if any, damage."

Isn't this because the systems that control train cars & rider safety on the MTA are all manual/electromechanical, with some dating back to the LaGuardia administration? Hard to hack those without being local to the tracks, and handy with a soldering gun....
> Actually this sounds quite horrible.

You understand the use case well enough to criticize it?
as a self taught individual I always find it outstanding how much things they are able to pack in a CS degree and how fast people forget all this stuff after graduation.

Like how many of your coworkers from top CS schools remember most of the material in their compilers, cryptography, comp bio courses?

EDIT: To clarify, I'm not criticizing this approach, I think it's great to expose students to as many subfields as possible.
I'm currently trying to do as much as possible (without crazy hacks) in HTML / CSS alone, just because it's easier. Things like "position: sticky" are easier than anything JS could do.
A less hypothetical example might be Stories or Clubhouse, both of which got cloned as quickly as they hit the market.
Thanks, I’ve got some other work to kick off first but I’ll reach out when I have time!
That's why I avoid Qi wireless charging. It's neither fast or soft for battery.
> So the lead guy we’ve been listening to (and still are) for scientific advice on this pandemic is entangled in a massive conflict of interest.

How does any role he might (or might not have) played in GOF research create a conflict of interest in terms of his advice about the pandemic?
Nice. Do you have any more info online on where you're trying to head with it? My initial reaction is that it's aimed at social interaction first, and modelling the space 2nd, whereas I was thinking of the other way around.
Auditing every I/O is not really reasonable. If you need that level of auditing, then build it into your applications and build a proper cryptographic audit trail protocol.
if that's the case, just restart the failing nodes

and of course it's not that simple, they still have to customize the workflow
Big Pharma? Authoritarians? The 0.1%?

All the above.
These attacks make me question the security of critical infrastructure. Are people asleep at the wheel or is this overblown?
> she should have said "racist" tweets instead of "insensitive tweets" right? I think that is a reasonable ask.

yes

> However how should she have worded the appology?

"I am deeply sorry" would have been good. Or, "I am deeply sorry for < some variation of "what I said" or "my racist tweets">".

I'm don't agree with

> the former is a direct apology and admittance of wrongdoing towards another on her part

When I read "sorry to anyone I offended", it is not an unconditional apology. She is not apologizing for what she did. She is apologizing *to those she offended*.

Which is to say she is apologizing not for what she did but for the offense she caused.

There is a crucial difference there. The former is taking responsibility for what she said. The latter, at best, makes no comment on whether or not what she said was wrong; at worst, makes a comment that what she did was not wrong but that she is only sorry because people took umbrage with it. From her words alone, we know she thinks what she said was "insensitive" and that she is apologizing to those that are "offended". If she's only acknowledging that her words are insensitive, it makes that sense she's apologizing directly to and only to those that she offended, which is why she would qualify her apology as such. This is not a statement that acknowledges that her words, in and of themselves, were wrong.

In that regard, she may not be avoiding an apology in the absolute terms, but more importantly, as in all other cases where people only apologize for the offense, she is not (at the very least directly) acknowledging that what she did was intrinsically wrong, she is merely responding to the outrage.

So you might say

> I would guess she was genuinely sorry

and you could be right, but when I read what she wrote, that does not come across.

This

> the former is a direct apology and admittance of wrongdoing towards another on her part

does not come across at all when I read

> I am deeply sorry to anyone I offended.

To get that kind of interpretation, I would have to do some mind reading instead of taking her words for what they are.
The current VW Golf R has adaptive cruise control available with the manual transmission. I test-drove one. Not sure whether it does stop-start or whether this applies to other trim levels. Unfortunately it was not available yet when I got my 2015.
With SARS-Cov1 and MERS they were able to identify the cross-over host and find transitional stages that are somewhat adapted to human hosts but more successful in other host animals. It is not too late to find that of course, but it is becoming conspicuous in its absence. Also, the lab in Wuhan was basically trying to create SARS-Cov-2 and that isn't speculation its what their grant proposal says they were doing.
What is your point and how does it relate to this project? Seeing as this controller is used in a browser-based simulation, this seems like a perfectly valid use of JavaScript.
Please be specific with your links and sources.
A shark mystery millions of years in the making
In my opinion, the issue was that they used this feature as an excuse to have other breaking features that weren't really needed. I think besides the string upgrade, every other breaking feature should have worked with 2 to 3.

Then they could have had a clear upgrade guide that is to run 2 to 3, then clear explanations on how to fix all the remaining string issues. Instead, I have no clue what 2 to 3 fixes and what it doesn't, leading to "2 to 3 will probably work, but if it doesn't, then you'll just have to figure it out yourself."

That's unacceptable, and as a result caused many libraries to take a long time to upgrade. Personally, I had to spend 10 YEARS to wait to upgrade to Python 3 due to the wxPython library that all of my projects used that took that long to upgrade to Python 3.
Competitions generally. It's called "comping"
> “...researchers note both (organs) have extremely high energy demands.”
it's the reality of living in large, complex societies, where our intuitive trust-building relational proclivities get short-circuited by power structures. that doesn't mean we never trust organizations, but trust should be commensurate with our relational distance. that's actually the foundational principle of the federalist separation of powers (in the US).

also, terms like "anti-vaccers" don't help. just stop trying to bucket others as being stupid or outrageous. there are small but real, legitimate risks to every vaccine. that some folks can be overly self-assured and blow out those dangers for their own self-importance has no bearing on that fact. employ your rational brain to keep your emotional brain in check so you can see risks as they are, not as others want to use against you.
Nearly made the same comment myself. It feels vindicating to watch all this unfold. How many times now has 4chan been right about the virus, and the media wrong?

- 4chan saw the pandemic coming in January 2020, and predicted it would be big

- 4chan knew it wasn't 'just another flu' in March 2020, when the media was downplaying it

- 4chan figured out the virus is transmitted via areosol, not just particulate

- 4chan worked out that Vitamin D can help (even Fauci admitted he takes it)

- Wuhan Lab hypothesis

That's just off the top of my head. Sure, 4chan got a lot wrong: but better to get all the (possible) facts, and sift through them. That's science. What are you going to do otherwise? Trust Fauci?
You know the story of the boy who cried wolf?

Trump was the boy.

Everybody knows how that story ended, but as a reminder:

"This tale concerns a shepherd boy who repeatedly tricks nearby villagers into thinking a wolf is attacking his flock. When a wolf actually does appear, the villagers do not believe the boy's cries for help, and the flock is destroyed. The moral of the story is that liars will not be rewarded; even if they tell the truth, no one believes them. "

There's a cost to lying. Sometimes it's your own flock. Sometime's its everybody's flock. Maybe Trump was right, maybe he wasn't. The boy was right about the wolf, eventually, too. The moral remains the same.
ok let’s say they don’t have one. now what?
> If there were more evidence that it was lab made

Have you actually read any of these articles? The location of the lab is like the tip of the iceberg.
What if Sagittarius A* is not a black hole, but a mass of dark matter?
I already have a million coffee things but I'll check it out. I do have a plastic one for camping but prefer to use a percolator pot instead.
The repeated "All browsers except Internet Explorer" with regard to support is exactly why a lot of these solutions are in javascript still for a lot of sites.
Wall Street Journal's article on US Intelligence having information on the three potential sick WIV researchers was written by a reporter named Michael R. Gordon[1].

[1]https://www.wsj.com/articles/intelligence-on-sick-staff-at-w...

This is the same Michael R. Gordon who in 2002 wrote the famous NYTimes article saying US Intelligence had credible information that Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction (Thousands of aluminium tubes) [2] and led to the Iraq War.

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/08/world/threats-responses-i...
let’s say they have no backups. do you know what a hypothetical is? fucking moron.
Never heard the expression, "Thinking with his balls"!
My problem was that there were other unspecified things that 2to3 couldn't deal with. Imagine the world where the upgrade guide was to run 2to3 and then it had explanations of how to address the remaining string issues. Instead, I found the attitude of "run 2to3, it'll probably work but if it doesn't, then you'll have to figure it out yourself."
Except that it's quite unclear if the experiment ever happened. Only one of the "pseudopatients" could be tracked down afterwards, and his recollection of the experiment differs markedly from Rosenhan's.
I heard story this on NPR this morning. I was pretty stunned individuals and families can piggy back on a corporate bankruptcy like this. At the very least, I figured maybe there would be some kind of protection and limitations in the Federal courts, but that future claims in state courts would still be able to proceed.

But this sounds like it would be complete and total shield for the family members and their assets, a shield that would work against all future lawsuits brought by those which are not a part of this particular bankruptcy proceeding.
> I would like to ask if you

Ask who?
Not really, we aren’t talking about user engagement in fact quite the opposite. The whole point of this comment chain is that SO may go the same route where they sacrifice quality for such engagement to turn a profit. It’s true quality isn’t something that is easy to quantitate but user engagement sure isn’t equal to quality at all. Facebook has ridiculously high user engagement and multiple times (almost 10x) the users that Reddit does and if you try arguing that it is full of quality content you’ll be laughed out of pretty much any room.

Just so we’re clear and to further my point, the website you’re posting on exists because over a decade ago people said that Reddit had dropped significantly in terms of quality of discussion. I’m not the only one saying this you find it here and even on Reddit anytime the subject of quality of content on Reddit is brought up.
Yes, but then you read things like https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/01/introducing-i..., or look at the payments offered by https://zerodium.com/program.html… the days of clicking a link -> persistence payload with escalated privileges are still here
‘Our Planet, Our Future’ Statement Signed by 126 Nobel Laureates
That's not how I remember the narrative.

It was split in two.

1. Calling it "the china virus", as the former president was wont to do, was labelled racist/bigoted/nationalistic by those who did not simply agree with anything he said.

2. The claim that it originated in the Wuhan lab was viewed as unlikely, and there was (is) an alternative biological origin story which at the time seemed credible and more likely.