skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In many ways the more people try to make arguments for natural spillover the less likely it seems.

The theory, which the scientists pushing natural spillover argue is the best evidence, say:
1) no scientists think the bat would have come from near Wuhan
2) there were raccoons and civets and the wet market - though no bats

The amount of steps needed for it to appear in Wuhan, before any of the dozens of large cities with wet markets closer to the bat population, is a lot.

The number of steps needed for a lab researcher to get it while dissecting a bat or bat excrement is small.

The final quote seems to cover this:

>But Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University and a persistent critic of attempts to diminish the likelihood of a laboratory leak, said that this was a straw-man argument.

Dr. Ebright said it was possible that a W.I.V. lab worker might have contracted the coronavirus on a field expedition to study bats or while processing a virus at the lab. The new paper, he argued, failed to address such possibilities.

“The review does not advance the discussion,” Dr. Ebright said.
“In the eyes of the Italians we Germans are merely low Teutonic swine. They exploit us like charlatans and suck the country to the marrow. Wake up Germany!”

- quote by Frantz Funck-Brentano in his book Luther
This is a long description of how an endpoint can do much of the work a recursive cache does for itself. We all understand that it can. You've clarified, you understand how DNS servers do lookups; I won't suggest that you don't again. It was never my claim that every server in the DNS topology needed to be DNSSEC-aware (though, obviously, every authority from leaf to root needs to be).

You haven't made any headway in your argument about how everyone is going to run DNS software that does this stuff. It's "easy" to do this stuff, in the same sense that it's trivial to run a local djbdns instance on your laptop instead of relying on your ISP's server. My point is: that's not how DNS is normally deployed.
That creates a new array that must be GC'd.
Tons of brunch places in CA that don't have hard liquor offer a beer bloody mary which is pretty close.
Cost probably explains a good chunk of it. Regardless of why it's more expensive. When our house was built in 2012, I looked into getting a heat pump. But it was a couple grand more than a high efficiency furnace with an air conditioner. Given that natural gas remains inexpensive compared to electricity, it wasn't an obvious win financially. And if we're being honest, for average people the hit to the pocketbook is going to take higher priority than considerations for the environment.
I wonder which is the cart and which is the horse.

Is maneuvering the reason you last for 200 years, or does anyone who can keep organized for 200 years find themselves maneuvering into the public sector whether they want to or not? At least at first, until you realize how much influence you have and then it goes to your head.
I left Redis Labs a while ago and have been openly speaking my mind when it comes to the good and bad of my experience at the company.

https://kristoff.it/blog/addio-redis/

I stand by my words and in fact a good chunk of the company was not happy with my reasoning in that post (it's "better" to be coy than upfront about these things, according to some schools of thought), that said: you don't need rollbacks in Redis, whoever argues the opposite has never spent enough time learning how to use it.
Git, but on a Blockchain? /s
As long as we are talking (de)colonization, the distinction makes all the difference.

The difference in the treatment of a land and its people as equals to the rest of the country's citizens and states is what makes Hawaiians regular Americans and Ceuties regular Spaniards, and what keeps Llanitos from being British _citizens_.

To answer your question: yeah, if Gibraltar was a self-sufficient state within the UK (instead of an -arguably- geo-strategic colony that is a tax haven according to the OECD) you likely wouldn't hear as many complaints about it.

Take for example the cession of Sardinia in the very same Treaty of Utrecht. You ever hear complaints about its sovereignty?
It seems someone write a script for it.
It's just a broken, entrenched system.

I personally know a CEO who moved to SV, was worth something like $100m+, and the bank wouldn't give him a home loan because he didn't have the right credit score yet.

He was literally building his credit with an Amex using their global transfer system.

On the other hand, FICO scores are so easy to game that once you get a couple of cards going, you can leverage those to get more cards, etc, etc and optimise your score that way.
>It would likely help their cause if there were an alternative public domain recognized symbol. The ISO standard is apparently White cross on green background: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui#iso:grs:7010:E003 but pretty much nobody knows that.

FWIW, first aid kits in the UK almost exclusively use that symbol.
Bourbon flavored coffee. Somewhere in Lexington roasts it.
Hi, just on my phone but
Dependencies and parrellism are supported. It's inferred from the structure of targets.
It's not even a solution for software that isn't Audacity :)

I run a good chunk of OSS software, and I pray to the gods every day that somebody somewhere actually read all the three bazillion packages I need to install as dependencies. (Why does ffmpeg require a DNS resolver again?)

Yes, theoretically all that is out in the open and would be found by somebody. Practically, nobody has time to verify all software they run, and the smaller/less interesting packages are basically completely taken on trust.

There is no solution outside of trust. You are running things that vastly exceed the complexity you could fully understand in several lifetimes. You have to trust somebody it does what it says on the tin. I'm fairly certain that OSS has survived so far because exploits there would mostly target small groups of people. (In the end-user scenario. The server/commercial user scenario is different, and often gets attention from several companies for each package)
Generously, there are about 40,000 people at Google who might commit to the monorepo. That's only 6,000 or so commits per person, a fairly achievable number. Although since they're not purposely generating every shorthash, it would take significantly longer for the absolute last unique hash to be created.
States agree on many things. You can see some of them with these kinds of search queries. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22all+50+states+agree%22

They wouldn’t have nearly as much agreement if each was presented as a constitutional amendment, of course.
The point is that it's not dead.
The safety risk is astronomical even compared to being in a car without airbags. Also compared to being on a (normal) motorcycle. Hacks are dangerous.
It's opt-in (and the preselected option is "no" so even if you accidentally press enter you won't opt-in) and very clearly explained during installation.
Or, they're like me and still pissed about Prop 22.

Anyone fancy starting a delivery startup? I would absolutely pay a premium to anyone that can deliver groceries while alleviating the feeling of being complicit in the abuse of employees that I currently get from Instacart.

Uber; for people suffering from morality.
In smaller cities, getting a cab was a huge issue prior to Uber/Lyft. When I was younger and went out to bars a lot, my friends and I had the personal number of a local cab driver because it was often the only way to find a ride home at the end of the night.
Can confirm. I’ve had my Ural with sidecar (2WD) for 12 years. It was my daily driver for half that. It’s wonderful and practical, but I say that as a motorcyclist and bicyclist.

Seats three adults comfortably (one behind driver on a large comfy tractor seat with a grab handle). I originally bought it as a dirt road camping and long road tripping bike because it has a huge trunk in the sidecar and lots of tie-down points. Spare wheel and tire. It handles well fully laden since the frame is heavy duty. Very low horsepower. Great torque. 2WD useful in snow and gravel.

Top speed 105 km/h but it’s happiest at 90 km/h and I’ve run it all day in the heat on highways at that speed. Secondary roads beat freeways for a motorcycle trip IMO anyways. It’s mechanically very simple with an unstressed, air-cooled motor.

People joke about shitty Russian quality. Would it rust faster than my Honda left in the rain? Yes. No plastic, little aluminum, lots of steel. Save exhaust, my drivetrain is stock and has been extremely reliable. Mine is carbeurated but the factory switched to EFI some time ago. The metal quality of the rims and spokes was my only complaint so I’m getting a new set laced up and colour matched as I type this. My Honda, Harley, and Yamaha have all had more expensive parts and service bills than my Ural.

It also excels at urban errands with style —- lockable and rainproof trunk. I’ve bought and sold other bikes but I will never get rid of the Ural.

More smiles per mile.
> it mostly just comes down to the delta in temperature you're trying to achieve

Not for cooling; cooling also requires condensing excess water vapor out of the air (since the dewpoint of the cooled air is much lower than the dewpoint of the air before you started cooling it). Most of the energy expenditure for A/C is actually condensing water vapor, not cooling air. Air has a very low heat capacity compared to water (particularly water during the phase change from vapor to liquid).

Off the top of my head I think costs about 6 times as much energy to condense water vapor as to cool the air for typical A/C conditions; if that number is roughly correct, then for the temperature differences you give, heating actually uses about 2/7 (about 30%) of the energy of cooling (if we let the energy required to cool the air be 1, then the energy required to heat the air is 2, but the energy required to condense water vapor is 6, so the total cooling energy is 7.)
>Because people realize all the money is in starting a businesses

I wonder what sort of life experience teaches you that.

Because mine taught me that all the best scams involve starting a business, that it's really easy to get trapped (as an owner) making less than minimum wage or just losing all your money, and that small businesses are mostly run by irrational people engaged in a "race to the bottom", which is why they fail in bad economic times.

But my image of a startup isn't the SV image, or even a software business. It's the other 99%.
Richard Garriott on the Austin Coffee House Show (1995)
Imagine if you created a ticket for a dev to create a cache. The backend is Redis, not local memory.

The dev creates a PR.

The cache is a decorator. It always returns a CachedValue object. The CachedValue object has an API for reading and writing the returned value.

If you write to the CachedValue object it will update Redis with the new, altered value.

It updated Redis not only for the value derived from that key, but all identical values.

This behavior was not included in the ticket. It is not mentioned in the documentation.

It only occurs when the value is mutable.

What do you say to the developer? Job well done? Or what the f*ck is wrong with you?

I’m a nice person so I’d say something nice. I’d ask what they were thinking.

But if their reasons was “this is how caches works” I’d take a serious look at their resume and ask whether they might need some mentoring.
15 years ago when I was changing jobs one of the roles was Sun Microsystems - which I liked the company but the role was to suggest and be embedded in a company and embed Sun products into every project (and I assume prevent competitors). Did not take it.
Err, I think they did permanently change the logo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Cross_(South_Korean_comp...

Okay, it's not exactly a full rainbow, but it has red-orange-yellow-green, which is close enough ...
Great points, thank you for sharing your experience.

Manual rework of maps seems like something that a good IDE or a small script should be able to automate, that is the point of Clojure being a data structure (EDN) after all - you can do stuff to the code as if it was data. Maybe there were specifics not allowing such sweeping changes, would love to hear more if you can share more about it.

I have a colleague which became 18 just a few days ago. He newer heard of Clojure(Script) or CSS before late last year and started actively learning it sometime after that. Jan is able to work on considerable amounts of code for our new landing page that will have some special interactive OrgPad embeds in it. He didn't have much difficulty navigating Clojure or our code base considering he did most of the work after school and on weekends basically as a learning exercise. Of course, he is getting solid guidance by the team. Our CTO Pavel has 20+ years of experience as a programmer/ software engineer and can do code reviews with Jan, so that helps. It also doesn't hurt that Jan is very smart, basically hand selected over multiple years by our CEO Vít who led a mathematics course for children/ teens and as such known Jan very well. Giving Jan a chance like this is basically a pilot combining normal education with practical, professional experience. Something like a very long internship on steroids :-)

I would still stress that static types are much less valuable than good variable/ function names and documentation/ clear code in my opinion and that maybe the complexity static types introduce isn't worth it overall. I also don't think, that static types as seen in e.g. Java or C# add any discernible degree of confidence - else somebody on the team would notice already. Jan didn't have problems navigating the code base even though most of the technologies, the language and the code base were completely new for him. Yes, anecdotal but I think it really is a valid and very important point.
This is the study from Mexico (n=156,468) showing ~66% reduction in hospitalisations.

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/r93g4/

Mexico has low vaccination rates, didn't lock down, didn't close the borders, and their hospitals are almost empty.

https://joannenova.com.au/wp-content/mexico-2021.png

https://joannenova.com.au/2021/07/mexico-uses-ivermectin/
If you're talking about the restriction that prevents the forwarding of routes in one iBGP connection and out another, I think that's a requirement of the standard rather than something vendors have imposed. Because iBGP hops don't prepend anything to the AS path, there would be no mechanism to prevent routing loops if multi-hop iBGP route forwarding were enabled. (I'm just a CCNP sprog, not an expert.)
The Met has a video overview of the exhibition:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3CxZ2PrXQ1M

https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2021/medici-p...
> The repository has so many commits that git push hangs and runs out of memory, presumably because it tries to regenerate a packfile on the fly.

Any guesses if this would also happen if you tried to push it bit-by-bit? (although you'd of course need reasonably large groups of commits still, to not end up with an impossible number of pushes)
Sony equipment use to have a way of doing this as well, via the S-Link[1] / Control-A1 bus on stereo equipment (and some video equipment too, I believe). There's a handy Arduino library[2] for doing this - a couple of years ago I added support for the dual cassette deck I have, although the PR hasn't been merged yet. I'd also be remiss if I didn't mention the Slink-e [3], a commercial product that seemed to be very capable (unfortunately it is now discontinued).

In fact, these protocols are (I believe) more capable than a regular "Remote" socket since they allow bi-directional communication, meaning you can both send commands to the equipment and request data from them. But it's been a while since I've looked at them in detail.

Also, I recall being confused by the several (seemingly incompatible) systems offered by Sony: S-Link, Control-A1 and Control-A1 II.

[1] http://www.brian-patti.com/s-link/

[2] https://github.com/Ircama/Sony_SLink

[3] http://www.nirvis.com/slink-e.htm
YouTube Video as Desktop Wallpaper
Doesn’t the compiler optimise it away?
My primary beer consumption at this point is imported hefeweißen. It's so good.
That's... decent. It's a lot larger than I ever got with a GA.

I don't think we're ever going to get a GA to produce an air-traffic control system, or a database, or an OS. But 300 lines (that work) is further than I was aware had been possible.

(When I said "decent" in the first paragraph, that sounds like I'm damning it with faint praise. And I kind of am. But I am doing so in light of the Linux kernel, which is something like 100 million lines. I am not doing so to minimize this as an achievement within the world of GA-generated code. I'm just saying that we're a ways from being able to handle most real-world problems with GA-generated code.)
In the meantime, most users with that anticheat software installed presume that it is simply looking out for them, in terms of eliminating cheaters in __ video game, and could not possibly be doing the nefarious things you mention. Yet, all of us working in software know this is not a far stretch, given the application is already designed to gather information about the environment surrounding the running game. We have a long way to go with software, put simply..
i may be way off base, so appoligies if so, but isnt that a form of sociopathy?
I wonder what the number of commits is before you need to start worrying about 7 character collisions. (Birthday problem anyone?)
For instance, when you search for an app in the Start Menu in Windows 10 and the menu doesn't find the app despite briefly showing it to you and instead opens Edge to do a Bing Search for the term you were searching for instead of just opening the dang app that is already installed on your computer.

So incredibly frustrating and a deep, deep antipattern.
From the "unexpectedly useful for security research" link:

> Due to the birthday problem, any repository that has at least 19291 commits is likely to have a pair of ambiguous commits somewhere.
Note that collisions in short hash are not actually a problem as such.

> Git can figure out a short, unique abbreviation for your SHA-1 values. If you pass --abbrev-commit to the git log command, the output will use shorter values but keep them unique; it defaults to using seven characters but makes them longer if necessary to keep the SHA-1 unambiguous

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Revision-Selection

and also

> Git doesn't really truncate anything, internally everything will be handled with the complete value.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7128444/how-does-github-...
I guess you are referring to this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Basic_Plots

This, for example, is a perennial favourite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey

However, I'd like to think it's not just the plot, but the acting and the interpersonal relationships, that makes things interesting.
That's certainly not true in the UK. The British Red Cross use it, and the military presumably do in war zones, but everything else you'd think would have a red cross tends to have something else. White crosses on green first aid kits, blue star of life (or blue NHS logo) on ambulances, green crosses at pharmacies...

Not saying getting here from there is ready. But it may be possible.
This number may be even lower if you take the birthday problem into account. I’m not a statistics guy to confirm that or to make proper calculations, but I believe it applies to this case as well, because first few bits of a hash are like what a birthday is to an otherwise unique person.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
It seems like China's response is the definition of whataboutism.

Australia has put out statements it is concerned China is forcing sterilization on millions of Uighurs. China responds by saying Australia has detained a couple dozen people who were part of Islamic terrorist groups.

I would say one of these things is not on the same scale as the other (considering China also detains foreign combatants) and is putting out a statement to confuse.
There are theaters that are dedicated to playing older movies, and they apparently turn enough profit to subsist in some locations. I think that makes this a top comment on HN with a profitable use case complaining that there's not enough around.

Also, I would watch the shit out of the Good the Bad and the Ugly in a theater. Same with original Star Wars (which I think happened during extra trilogy releases occasionally), The Matrix, the Princess Bride, and anything in that vein which either has a cult following, is a different/better experience to watch in a theater, or both.
Said all of the vision researchers before they got blown out of the water by convolutions neural networks. Adapt or die.
But as a separate chip, right? It wasn't on the same die as the 286, was it?
Capitalism is the only force on earth strong enough to repackage communism and sell it back at the commies.
Don't forget the commits made by programs.
Yeah, commercial Satellite data "intelligence" is a big thing. (This is clearly the "civilian" version of what has been going on in the military world for a very long time)

I wanted to send this example as it's exactly what you're talking about -- monitoring of retail locations (as a data service):

https://learn.rsmetrics.com/trafficsignals/retail/monitoring...

... but I found this from the same company which is crazier:

https://learn.rsmetrics.com/cedm/boeing-tracker

"RS Metrics Boeing Tracker is a custom event driven monitoring product which focuses on the activity and production at Boeing factory sites. Insights generated from Boeing Tracker help investors and PMs' to optimize their investment strategies."

Among other things, they're counting cars at the Boeing Employee Parking Lot:

https://learn.rsmetrics.com/hubfs/BA_2_Boeing%20Renton%20Fac...

Yeah, ok. Wow.
Amazon is a strange company. After having spent 4 years there I am convinced that they hate their employees. They want you to burnout.

Just look at the stock vesting schedule, its 5, 15, 40, 40. First two years you barely get any stock, and I believe the average time someone stays at amazon is around 1.5 years (I don't have latest data so maybe this is wrong)

On top of that, you have the pathetic 401k match (50% upto 2% of paycheck). Amazon's contribution to 401k vests after 3 years in the job, so you leave within the first 2 and you don't get anything. Not to mention the base salary cap of $160k.

Add to that the horrible WLB, I knew teams who'd get 40 high severity tickets in a week (And there are teams with much worse WLB). You are constantly waking up at 2-3AM in the night, and fixing fires for no extra pay.

Many times, Upper Management would dictate a timeline for your project, doesn't matter if it takes 4 months, we need it in 2 so get it done. This obviously leads to bad code. But there is no incentive within the company to fix/improve codebase, every thing is taped together, and On Call is there to tape things up some more so that they stay fixed. Even if you take the time and fix some of the tech debt, the company is not going to care and its not going to reward you.

Speaking of rewards, if the company stock grows (which it has for the past several years), and because of this growth you stand to make more than your Amazon decided Target Compensation, then you won't get any base salary increase even if you were the best employee Amazon has ever seen. You might get additional stocks, but those will vest 2 year later. So basically, you did great work for the company in 2021, as a result the company stock grows enough that you are not out of range for your role's compensation, so they don't increase your salary, and they give you stocks that vest in 2024, 3 years after the you did the work.

More often than not, I felt that most amazon employees (current and past) hate amazon. I have never seen a company being hated by its own workers with such fervor.