skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the extreme danger of gain of function experiments, whatever their claimed benefits, while Fauci per his early February FIOA found email(s) wasn't aware his NIH institute was funding at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, it could be argued he should have arranged to be in the loop for all of such grants and was doing his best to make sure they were done as safely as possible.

That's not to say it would have made any difference, unless per the article per the Bat Woman "The coronavirus research in our laboratory is conducted in BSL-2 or BSL-3 laboratories," "our" includes all the WIV's coronavirus research—it's a fair size outfit with a number of labs and there's no reason to assume she was the Principle Investigator for all of its coronavirus research—and he or a direct report could have insisted the funded research would be done at the BSL-4 lab or maybe one of the BSL-3 labs. This assume the gain of function research was being done at a lower level, which starting with the 2011 bird flu work in the West has been too often true, one or both of those labs were BSL-2, one of the reasons it was controversial and so alarming to a lot of people watching this including myself.

But it turned out without his knowledge gain of function research there was being funded by his institute through the EcoHealth Alliance, and in another email he's thanked by it's leader Peter Daszak for helping to push the zoonotic transfer explanation, which the latter was or had arranged through a group letter to The Lancet to be the only acceptable narrative until around now.

It would also have been good if someone had done a gut check on the EcoHealth Alliance's MO, which as described by a Rutgers' biological chemistry professor was "looking for a gas leak with a lighted match" by as the author of the Vanity Fair article as "bringing samples from a remote area to an urban one, then sequencing and growing viruses and attempting to genetically modify them to make them more virulent."

Again, nothing unique to the Alliance or China, the US is in the process of moving the research on animal pathogens done at Plumb Island, New York to college town Manhattan, Kansas. Which I'm sure is a much more pleasant place to work at, but just happened to be in the heartland of American animal agriculture. Someday one or more Congressmen who fought to bring home the bacon may be called to account for this, to the extent that ever happens.
I think legislators will start setting how important it is to protect infrastructure and implement something similar to PCI/DSS.
Clothes are notorious for this.

"Wow, [mid-tier jeans brand] is only $16/pair at Wal-Mart, and they're $40 when you find them on sale on [jeans brand]'s web site. What a bargain!"

... but then it turns out they're not the same thing, even if they're made to look very much like they are even down to the labelling, and in fact the manufacturer produces a separate low-end- and outlet-stores version that's much worse than their standard product.
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This sounds exactly like Cloudflare could add this as a 1-click feature to save 50% bandwidth.
The stated fact is that there are people doing jobs that they personally do not believe are necessary or useful to society at large. _Why_ they believe that is a matter of speculation, and will vary from person to person. The political question - what does this fact say about how our society is organized? - is also necessarily speculative, and this is what makes up the polemical part of the book. Graeber has a theory about why work is unfulfilling, and he argues for it.

I can't see much that is wrong with this. You might disagree with his conclusions, in which case you can critique them or offer alternatives. This is very different from disagreeing with the claim that there are people who think that their jobs are meaningless. I can't tell which you are disagreeing with.
I haven’t heard ‘there’s an app for that’ in years.
why do people always link the worst possible site to cite the kafkatrap? it's literally a conspiracy theory site encouraging a prosecution of Fauci on the front page.
I think whitelisting outbound traffic based on port numbers is just a bad idea in general. Port numbers are arbitrary. Just because a protocol defaults to one doesn't mean it will always use it, and even if it requires one the use of a port number doesn't mean a specific protocol is being used.

I remember in university having trouble reaching several (admittedly niche) services, including some of my own, because they only allowed traffic to very specific ports like 80 and 443. I couldn't connect through SSH to my own servers because I applied the best practice of not having SSH run on port 22.

I ended up researching eduroam policies (which suggest as little blocking as possible) and arguing with IT about it for a few weeks, but the end result was just a few extra unblocked ports for protocols I could convince them to allow. So I moved all my own stuff to those ports, ignoring the protocols.
Except the attestations have stopped saying how much cash they have in their accounts and now just say that Cricle _claim_ they have enough assets to cover the liabilities.

This is a HUGE change and massively cause for alarm.
Agree with everything there. For now Republicans play the demographic hand that they're dealt with today. So do the Democrats in other ways (with all the respect due to African-American voters from Georgia, I think their opinion matters a lot more than that of many other democratic supporters). It's important for both parties' survival to shuffle where the puck actually is on election day, not where it'll be in 2044.
Not exactly what you are looking for, but 3blue1brown's https://github.com/3b1b/manim is a great resource all in all.
You are attacking a strawman. The commenter said extremists, not diversive opinions.

It's one thing to have diversive opinions and comely discussing them... And another to be emotionally overinvested and dumping you issues onto your coworkers.
Maybe they could have easily gotten the data otherwise,but decided to do the right thing by requesting it through the direct channel and allowing this process to take place through the legal system.
1300 dollars a month yikes....

At that price people who could benefit from this could justify surgery pretty quickly (at least cost wise)
My iPhone’s backend is Nextcloud (files, picture uploads, contacts, calendar) I have 0 bytes in iCloud.
I think bullshit jobs are a consequence of massive orgs, which have similar internal problems to command economies seen in places like the USSR. Is it surprising that there is massive waste? However, these large orgs continue to exist since the industries they are in have massive barriers to entry, reducing competition and allowing for lots of dead weight.
If you don’t have really flexible type system, strong typing makes certain things complicated.

Think for example a library like Pandas. Building something like that with a not-very-flexible type system would result in much more cumbersome user experience. In many cases you would likely feel the types just getting on your way while working interactively.

Microsoft has done great things with C# on this frontier, but it has also taken many years and probably a lot of brainpower.
This must be a locality thing because if I follow the link, I get the original tank man images, and also images that complain about MS censoring the tank man images. This is with safe search: Moderate setting too.
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>> However, several current and former employees told TechCrunch that they believe Medium’s mass exodus is tied more to Williams’ manifesto, dubbed “the culture memo,”

I don't understand what that quote represents to you. Do you think the word "culture" necessarily refers to the 'culture war' kind? The word describes many other things, and corporate culture is a long-standing, well-known management concern.

> A perspective.

> You chose one of several from the article.

The effect on union activity seems to me to be by far the predominant reason presented.
In some cases compute trade-off is still cheaper than memory latency.
This already happened a couple of days ago. Russia did not approve flight plans for 2 French passenger planes, Germany did the same to two cargo planes, and the matter was resolved by the next day. This also precipitated the need to an EU-wide response on Belarus hijacking a passenger plane.
>That’s surprising.

It wasn't to me. The anti-Apple stuff can become quite rabid, even on HN.
Unfortunately that’s not how the body works. Waste isn’t produced because of excess intake. That’s what causes far buildup. Anything you eat and drink will create waste.
I developed a multi package manager CLI which does exactly that and more: https://github.com/kdeldycke/meta-package-manager
What’s missing from this whole cultural movement are articles about “why I became a radical leftist”.

We need to see people go there and come back to the middle, to understand why this is happening. Just like how we have a few articles from Trump people going see and coming back out.

My assumption is it’s an outlet for things going wrong in their own life that they cannot change.
Someone should market a selfie-stick that includes a small aquarium net attachment ===~~~~~{}
Bing censors image search results for “tank man”
I see quite a few unsubstantiated claims like this being thrown around in this thread. Can you help by clarifying 1) which activists? 2) which groups to which they do not belong are they speaking on behalf of? 3) in what way do they think they know better? 4) who among these groups has spoken out against what activists say? and 5) what gives you the impression that the activists have not consulted with the groups they represent (if they are not themselves members of the group)?
These "activist first" employees should understand that if their primary purpose is activism, then they should indeed switch to a company that hires activists instead of people who are there to get the work done.

Activism is not a job. I see many people who think it is. "Pay me to change your values and judge you". Thanks, but I can get that for free.
Locality must matter here. I get plenty of relevant results, and also images that complain about the censorship itself.
I don't understand the objection (?), I think there's at least one word missing, possibly more.

If you want to use RAII for heap allocations you obviously need some sort of RAII wrapper for them. And smart pointers are the usual solution. But technically you can do without if you really really don't want to make dereference overridable, you can just have the "smart" bit (RAII / automatic deterministic deallocation) without the "pointer" bit.
It was in DMs, so I don't feel comfortable presenting the idea publicly. He'll talk about it when he's ready.

You could try asking him. He likes talking about this, especially if you phrase your questions well.
> The checking of the type happens at runtime.

Mypy checks the type before runtime, just like GHC does.

Python also checks during runtime, but Haskell doesn't have that feature. Right?

> This is major reason why languages like Python are so much slower than statically typed languages.

Julia's dynamic typing, and hence its ability to do specialization using runtime information, is part of why it can (sometimes) beat Fortran in numerical performance.
Not to make a statement on the rest of the thread, but you're using Twitter wrong.

I've never had to deal with shitty people or shitty behaviour on Twitter. How do I do it? The unfollow button. I also don't look at replies to famous or controversial people's tweets.
There is near zero risk of a consumer loosing out with credit card fraud.
Bonzi Buddy brings up some good memories. Used to work at a place that had a very dedicated QA team. They were beautiful, wonderful people.

Our software ran almost entirely in schools. And schools were hit or miss with IT. Some had great setups. Some were entirely dependent on the teachers for the class. The latter tended to have a fair bit of malware / adware.

So QA and Tech Support set up a couple of boxes in our office that were the sacrificial goats. Connected to the internet outside of our firewall, and disconnected from our LAN. Deliberately infected with everything a curious kid might install. Testing to see how well our software would run in such an environment. And it made a nice reference for our tech support team, who often ended up providing general support for the more tech-clueless teachers.

Bonzi Buddy was one of the things installed. I was pretty excited to try him out. Was a great disappointment when he didn't do much of anything at all. But the infected boxes were kinda fun. The game of "how many toolbars can you squeeze into a browser" was more entertaining than it would seem.
It's not incorrect or pointless, but it's disingenuous. It's a trick. You claim both that you do not know and others can not know before you make a large variety of knowledge claims.

It is to make your project seem less dogmatic, and yourself more humble.

Here,

> Anthropologists are not qualified to decide whose job is bullshit and neither is anyone else

This is performatively false: he wrote a book on it.
Don't remember anyone saying online shopping was a fad, just that a lot of companies were massively over valued.
I’m still skeptical it came from Hispanic people at all and not some handful of rich white sophomores at a private university, but it doesn’t actually matter because it is used far more frequently by wealthy whites than by any of the victim groups they purport to protect.
Neither. Perhaps I should have quoted. My issue is with the line,

> Anthropologists are not qualified to decide whose job is bullshit and neither is anyone else.
Because the majority of crypto trades are done in Tether.
> Does anyone know what fraction of jpegs in the real world are 4:2:0?

Most of them. Pretty much the default subsampling for libjpeg(-turbo).
The learning continues despite your busy schedule Do it for yourself
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A very large number of them will. We just have to wait for services that make setting up a business dead-easy.
Very cool! Nice and slim, straight diff and apply. Cool to see someone use something other than `h` :P
> ... until you have to write a class yourself. Then you have to think of the complexities introduced by destructors such as copy semantics, move semantics and the destructors themselves.

That is a specific language issue. Rust doesn't share most of these concerns for instance, the only complexity is writing the Drop itself (which I agree can be subtle), but a type can't even be both Copy and Drop (and Rust has none of the Rule of X complexity of C++).

> You also have to deal with architectural questions such as should my file have a close method (C++) or do I always leave this to the destructor (Rust).

That seems less like an architectural question and more like a stylistic question.

> If I was to give an opinionated summary, a little complexity at the call site has been moved to a lot of complexity in the class implementation.

Except that's not actually true, much of the complexity you'll find in a destructor (excluding the complexities inherent and exclusive to C++ which nobody else is under any requirement to reproduce) will have to be implemented as whatever "cleanup" method is deferred. And then you need the defer system, and you need to actually call it which you can forget.

So while destructors are definitely not trivial to add to the language, defer spreads the responsibilities and complexity arounds, and increases the occurrences of possible errors, as well as the number of failure modes.

It also adds semantics ambiguities / complexities to the language: when you defer an expression, what is evaluated when? Dtors don't have that issue, you construct something according to normal language rules, then the dtor will be called at destruction.
Haha, no.

They have a clear story for other wokists then: fired for just existing. If they spend all day saying the company is Xist, then when they get fired they'll make it look Xist, just like they said.

Pay me to be your official DEI officer, or else.
I’m familiar with the mathematical term. What infinite set are you talking about?
>At least until the revolution comes and a living can be provided for all.

At least until revolution comes and you become a slave that must provide for all or else.
Does http3 have a problem with amplification on the first answer packet?

I'm not sure spoofing is something transport protocols have to solve though. Authenticated bgp and source filtering is the layer for it and we needed it for decades already.
The statistics suggest your experience is atypical. It’s not that controversial IMO; it’s just a particularly egregious data point on the list of data points that suggest the woke don’t actually represent the groups they purport to speak for (which is the principal rationale behind their bid for social power), contrary to the impression we’re fed by the media. See also the statistics on black support for abolishing police.
I've never had problems that strong typing would have prevented and see no use for them in languages that originally didn't provide them. They add noise to the code and require more effort in reading around them.
I don't really follow you. A questionnaire can only find out what the respondents think about their job. If you want to objectively know whether their jobs are actually useful, independent of their opinions or feelings, a survey just isn't the way to do it, no matter what questions you ask.
> It's funny how Americans think that

"It's funny how [a tiny percentage of very vocal] Americans think that"
> Considering that it would take over a decade to return the original capital in value

I think only 8.4 years, because that's the doubling period for 8.6% (1.086^8.4 ≈ 2).

Edit: but I guess it's indeed over a decade if you take tax into account
Google can't pass its own page speed test
Linear types can solve the problem. Also destructors tie design to stack frames. Limiting application for strictly nested code only.
If memory serves me right, this mechanic was in fact initially unintentional. It turned out to be pretty fun, however, and raised the skill ceiling of the game quite a bit. As such, implementing it yourself really doesn't seem like such a bad idea ;)
I use AutoPay but have the bills sent to me by mail. It wastes paper but makes it really easy to keep track of new bills coming in and which ones I've reviewed.
More than that, the thought leaders set the emotional tone of interaction with outsiders.

The problem is that the US is an aggressively authoritarian country, and the default tone is violent narcissistic bullying.

Unlike other authoritarian countries this isn't explicitly state sanctioned.

It's more of a continually dramatised and modelled mode of relationship which is so ingrained in so many public interactions - from school to work to "self help" to corporate culture to mainstream media to social media to large parts of elected government - that it sinks into the background as a kind of unavoidable noise.

It would be deafening if you'd never experienced it before. Because it's so common it's tuned out consciously, but still dominant unconsciously.

The "woke" part isn't the problem. It's the copying of the dominant emotional ideology that leads to both left and right extremism, and also justifies excess corporate power and other horrors.

It's all part of the same issue, but both left and right are only looking at small parts of it - and getting angry about those while missing the underlying issue.
Remember that pizza cheese is often not cheese, but a substitute called Analogue Pizza Cheese, made of casein (the protein in milk), starch, vegetable fats, emulsifiers, stabilisers, preservatives, colourings and flavourings. Burger cheese is either the same stuff or "processed cheese" which means scraps of cheese with the same additives. There's very little in the way of nutrition in any of this.

I'm not sure about the tomato paste either, but if the majority of the paste is the additives and the tomatoes have been heat treated and salted and sugar'd to an inch of their lives, you're not getting anything but calories, like mywittiname's comment suggests.

That's something to keep in mind with any processed foods: many of the materials in them are not there to provide nutrition, and don't.
Of course there is a remote possibility Santa Claus exists, too!

(Yes, I'm also in camp "philosophically, no probability estimate can ever be exactly 0 or 1" ;-)
> I wouldn't discount your work, etcd is very stable, so it probably works very well for your use case.

I had understood that, but code I don't write is code I don't have to maintain, so I'm obviously always totally open to suggestions (getting comments and suggestions is part of the reason I wrote that blog post to begin with).
The maps in Commandos 2 were beautiful and distinctive. I spent many hours playing through those levels.
You’re saying that the “wokists” cannot be fired for being unproductive because that would yield too much bad PR about the company being “Xist,” but they can be fired because of a policy against being “wokist?” Never mind the absurd terminology there, even the basic reasoning is nonsensical.
You failed to heed the meaning of the term "or" (!)

Doesn't that alone disqualify your rebuttal?
They're often called Marxists.

I've not grown up in eastern Europe, but yeah probably right. Everyone thinks it's bullshit waste of time, but will anyone speak up? No, you sit through because it's easier than dealing with the consequences of denouncing the indoctrination.
I sampled my jpegs randomly. My image downloads seem to be all 420, and the photos 422.
So the headline seems to be false or at least hyperbolical. Probably for the clicks. The first line says: "...culture helps humans adapt to their environment and overcome challenges better and faster than genetics". So culture doesn't drive evolution, it drives adaptation. Perhaps this slows down genetic change or influences it in another way, and hence evolution (my interpretation), but I don't see how it follows that it drives evolution more than genetics.
I don’t have an opinion on the word culture, the word they chose

I find it congruent that some former/current employees find that memo to be the catalyst, as their perspective matches other catalysts in other companies
Cool concept - I'll try it out. I see you have to do 3 tests to get one result back. Why couldn't it be 1:1? What happens to the "other" two tests?
Dang. I’m no great JP fan—he’s certainly controversial—but I’ve found him reliably interesting in the handful of videos I’ve seen. To each his own.
A couple of years after it was built I stayed high up in the hotel that is immediately on the mainland with a view directly along the bridge to the island.

10/10
That is why Western companies should not be allowed to do business with dictatorships. It is not to sanction the regime. It is to save our own culture of freedom from being destroyed by business requirements enforced onto our companies by these regimes.
Thanks I'll check that out.

I do wonder if there is something specific to the species I used, but I would think the same biological pathway is used to produce mescaline in both species, so other alkaloids would hopefully be the same.

One thing I know about the cactus I used: those spines are brutal. I took a couple spines to my hand and thought some of them lodged in my joints. I felt like I had arthritis for months. Apparently that has been reported by others as well, so the species has some unique defense mechanisms.
I changed some to “windows 98: stolen edition” on a few school computers