skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There has been some evidence of how the handlers of that laboratory's research went out of their way to shame anyone who'd suggest it emerged from there in the beginning, followed by mainstream articles noting that we simply can't rule this option out, and that the likeliest scenario is that some workers got accidentally infected and became patient 0

My "very likely", however, doesn't come from there. It's more of a statistical statement. What is the likelihood that a quickly mutating virus will appear next to a laboratory that specializes in quickly mutating viruses and not have originated from there? The world is big. The chances of that happening are very low. Therefore it's very likely that it comes from the lab
Maybe some learn, but it's impossible to enact the needed changes, due to your excellent insights.

I would add that politics has become a team sport and there are many issues that derive from this. Maybe this perspective is really just based on the biggest fans being the loudest, and many not wanting to say anything for fear of upsetting others and receiving their wrath
Completely agree, I've been an on-again-off-again linux user for the last 15-ish years... but these days it's more and more on, the only reason I haven't virtualized my gaming rig yet is the DRM some games I play use using those fucking kernel drivers. So that install hangs out and has steam, chrome, and other various games / game launchers and that's it. I disable as much of the OS as I can and only boot into it for games that don't work on linux (usually ones with the aforementioned DRM). Gaming on linux is getting better every day!
> What's his endgame? Buy time until the the pandemic burns out (if it does)?

Yep that's my understanding. Or if enough time has passed since vaccination to convince them that the vaccines are safe.
> The question is if a giant ball of Electron bloat could be dissected in a similar fashion

If you could just assume Node and a modern browser already existed on the target machine you could just ship a node package and a minimal installer. But you’d need to deal with potential version and browser incompatibility.
Wow, literally the first thing I saw when I entered the page was an ad for ‘3 terrible interview answers’

I bounced immediately.
dude, have you ever worked with someone not using linters, and code-golfing his way through life?

i fucking wonder everyday how he attained bliss in chaos, hahaha.
They would have been stopped. The industry of Britain and Empire alone rivalled or exceeded Nazi German. With Russia and USA the allies utterly dominated Germany economically. The real quandary is how Britain did so poorly.
Just to be clear, the article starts by bring intrigued by a story they themselves summarize as:

“ The set of conspiracy theories around the Great Reset are nebulous and hard to pin down, but piecing them together gives us something like this: the Great Reset is the global elite’s plan to instate a communist world order by abolishing private property while using COVID-19 to solve overpopulation and enslaving what remains of humanity with vaccines.”

…and while it continues with a completely unrelated and mildly less batshit-crazy idea of its own, it doesn’t get any more believable. It’s old method of taking quotes out of context, adding innuendo, and going for the bad-faith interpretation. What’s strangest about this is the unshakable belief that some evil conspiracy would publish reports on their meetings where they couldn’t avoid giving away the game plan in only mildly obfuscated language.
I have never believed the argument that we can develop a way to live to 200. I am now in my mid 60s and it seems that a number of my parts are starting to "wear out". My skin is certainly thinner; my eyesight is damaged (macula degeneration) in one eye; ... And covid has taught us that our immune systems are not as effective as when we were younger. We older folks all see heart and cancer problems over the horizon. Cancer just seems a matter of time: I mean how can our cells keep replicating the 3 billion(?) base pairs in our genomes - with a mistake rate of about 1 per 100 000 (i.e. 30k mistakes per division) - without those eventually leading to cancer? And if I could only remember how to spell that alzyhmr thing, I would mention it also. And why does our government keep sending me those kits for faeces samples? Sorry to disagree with you, but I don't think aging is a reversible process: we seem to have too many parts, each with an "expiry date".
it really doesn't
Regarding partially paywalled articles, I just use one of several tricks:

1. Firefox reader mode. Sometimes that is enough. Switch to reader mode, reload.

2. Stopping the incomplete page load. May require several attempts.

3. Some combination of 1 and 2.
I tried disabling Javascript by default, but there are too many important sites that require it.

My browser's "disable javascript" extension can disable on a per-domain basis, but really what I'd like is on a per-URL-pattern basis, so that <google.com> is disabled but not <google.com/maps>.

Sometimes disabling scripts is not enough, so I also disable CSS. This makes images huge at the top of the page (navigation icons, etc.). So, then I disable images as well. Then there are huge vector graphics of some kind; I can't tell if it's SVG not counting as an image, or just really large font sans CSS to size it.

Maybe one of these days I'll write a "no bullshit" firefox extension that carefully applies these restrictions except for in a user-defined allow list.

edit: oh yeah, I could call it "reader mode." Hm...
Jest: How do I mock x? (Runnable examples for common mocking scenarios)
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They are effective. The vaccine stops delta between 70 and 90% of the time (depending on which vaccine and which study you look at). The "impossible to get herd immunity" scenario is within the error bars, but I wouldn't state that as a fact. On the contrary, it looks like NYC just reached it's Delta peak 2 or 3 days ago. This strongly implies herd immunity is still possible, but we need to wait and see if the trend holds.
I dunno how stars help with that. I use plenty of projects that I never star.
"Great life you's got there. Sure would be a crying shame if anything bad was to happen to it."
To be clear, the New Shepard tourist rocket does not use the delayed BE-4 engine.
Unfortunately, traffic cones come in all sorts of shapes, sizes, and colours: https://hivis.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/hivis-trafficco...

I've also seen vertical poles: https://cdn2.bigcommerce.com/n-arxsrf/vpk2ddje/products/119/...

I also regularly see these water-filled barriers, in various colours including red, white, blue, and yellow: https://www.bronsonsafety.com.au/media/catalog/product/cache...

I wouldn't be surprised if some countries have custom-made things built from bamboo or whatever local materials are available...
Latitude makes a huge difference. The UV index is 13 in Mexico City today vs 5 in London. Depending on your skin type, you would burn in 10 minutes in Mexico City vs 30-45 minutes in London.

This is because sunlight hits the Earth at more of an angle the farther north and south you get, so it passes through the atmosphere for a longer time and more UV gets absorbed before hitting you. This is the same reason you don't burn as much in the early morning and late afternoon.
Why would I care about how someone did on some contrived tests 10 years ago?
Well that's why I said as far as I know. What else has something similar?
Exactly. It is kinda obvious that someone is doing something wrong with the code when they're doing a generic catch (sometimes it is fine, but this will at least raise some eyebrows).

However it is very easy to do the wrong thing using Golang. Just one random library doing `fmt.Errorf` without the `%w` verb is sufficient to lost all information from there on. I would much prefer some kinda of annotation that does the correct thing by default (wrapping the error) instead of the "every error should be explicitly" approach of Golang.
The worst interviews I’ve ever experienced, hands down, were from startups. They asked the most ridiculous whiteboard problems, and that generally just identifies the candidates who crammed most the leetcode.

The mega tech companies interviews, by comparison, were surprisingly more reasonable.

The startups have probably adopted this approach because it’s all they know, but nobody is forcing them to.
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Who's saying octopuses instead of octopi? It might wrong, but it's succinct wrong.
Our last level four lockdown was in April of 2020 - where are you getting your information?
I started just leaving as well. If uBlock Origin failed for any reason I just closed the tab.

Now this site is the only one I still actively browse.
F# is helped by the easy interoperability with C#: you can call any C# library without problems (you might however want to write a small wraper to reduce friction with F#).
Everyone is vitamin deficient in one way or another. We all should supplement anyway, so just supplement vitamin D.
This is the version I based it off of
Yes "HP TouchPoint Assistant" I am looking at you. You have been so obnoxious that I have decided to never ever buy anything from HP.
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That's not strictly settled science. The truth is herd immunity / lack thereof is well within the error bars of the vaccine efficacy / R0 estimates. We don't actually know, but it looks like the delta curve is peaking in some areas so my bet is in favor of herd immunity.
> You don't need a lot of talent to handle most Covid cases, just people able to follow the protocol.

Does this have any basis in facts? My understanding is keeping a covid patient alive in the ICU is incredibly demanding.
Are you talking about this?

https://gemini.circumlunar.space
"It's my liberty to kill as many people as I want through my negligence and personal entitlement as a carrier of a contagious disease"?
> I feel this is a mentality change, albeit slow, that is starting to happen.

Nah, at best it could be a rediscovery that took an inexplicable amount of time in the wake of the UNIX wars and dotcom bubble. If you look at paper titles from the 70s, when things were advancing at breakneck speed, you'll see "Open" commonly prefixing proposals - even stuff coming out of IBM (sadly looks over at PS/2 doorstop). Though, I think it is far more likely that businesses have developed a strategy that involves extracting as much free labor possible without actually generating free software: OpenSource® <insert Intel jingle>.

I am somewhat sympathetic to their problem though, the early developments occurred in a very different environment - involving companies that couldn't have existed as they did without state sponsorship.
> We cannot say "that's fine for everything, but not here" if we operate on a principle

We already say that, for smoking.

And through mandatory school vaccinations (DTaP, varicella, polio, MMR, meningococcal).

Which is a big part of my point. What we claim our system to be (Freedom! With guaranteed care! With equal rights to opt out!) and reality (We won't pay for certain dumb things you do. And we'll give you basic guaranteed care and probably not let you die) are two different things.

Which is the main thing that's shredding our health care efficiency in terms of per capita GDP spending.
Bike repair is pretty much the easiest thing ever....
Indeed, you're correct. It's passing the buck of KYC, with an inevitable credit check to another company.
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The inability to listen to people judge you for not knowing the answer to arbitrary and contrived problems?

I’ve been a valuable professional for years, and then this little snot tells me I don’t qualify for his position because I don’t know what happens when you sum two arrays in Javascript? Fuck off.
Not everyone -- enough people write "octopi", especially when trying to sound literate, which is irritating. As is "viri" or "virii".
and i've read allergies too! I buy like a couple pounds of these every few months it's so good: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006MWDFUC/
No, definitely not. The Copilot essentially tries to use "all code in the wild as it is". In the Copilot design, code blocks are essentially treated as independent units of text, not attempting to put different files in context of a larger project - IIRC they were taking size-limited chunks of files as the independent units - much less attempt to build or lint the projects, because if your basic unit is 100 lines from the middle of a file, it obviously won't even compile (because of external references), and there's no straightforward way to handle deploying a working build/test environment (w. dependencies) automatically for a million projects.

Furthermore, what's your expectation of the proportion of code on Github that would pass "through some pretty strict linters" ? My guess is that for serious, widely used and actively maintained projects it's perhaps 5% (almost no projects pass linters without something getting flagged, but there's a small minority of projects who actively fight all the "identified lint"), and for random code it's roughly 0%, with only specific teaching/toy projects passing.
I saw a lecture from a poli sci prof at princeton. Taxes have generally not been going up as services have expanded. Debt is one answer and "revenue generation" is another. It is really shameful how traffic fines has become big business in most of north america. Is europe better on this?
https://github.com/cockroachdb/errors
I'm not saying we should go back to floppies. A prompt for the administrator password followed by an otherwise automatic driver installation should be fine.
"Don't talk to your neighbours."
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-coronavirus-children-...
Maybe we should have never left. It's Google search and their advertising that destroyed the web we all used to enjoy.
I don’t think I like karat interviews any more than any of the other coding interviews I get.

If anything, I guess I like the leetcode ones without an interviewer better since at least you’re judged by a completely impartial system.
My semi-serious guess is that somebody at the CDC came up with this poor design without thinking, but nobody dared criticize it lest they appear to be advocating for vaccine passports, which is a taboo topic of discussion at the CDC. An implicit, unintentional conspiracy theory.
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Apparently the majority of English speakers say octopuses (which is my preference as well, but I'm not a native speaker).

By the way, how do you pronounce octopi? Is it "octo-pee" or "octo-pie"?
There’s two types or reason for a program to error:

- the code has failed and the developer needs to be informed what to fix

- the environment has failed and the user needs to be informed

Exceptions are for the former, which Go still supports via Panic(). Errors are for the latter. Which is why all the boilerplate Err code creeps in.

I don’t like getting stack traces from applications when I’m a user. It always feels to me like the application is only half finished. When the error is environmental (eg file system permissions) a stack trace just muddies the water with unnecessary output.

This is why I like Go’s distinction between errors and exceptions.
“Delivering it to a cabal of multinational corporations” is the bad-faith interpretation that only works if you ignore almost everything written on the topic. And “cabal” happens to be an anti-semitic dogwhistle, although I’m sure its use here is just a coincidincle.

Here’s an example from Wikipedia: “ The final outcome of the Summit, the Tunis Agenda (2005), enshrined a particular type of multistakeholder model for Internet governance, in which, at the urging of the United States, the key function of administration and management of naming and addressing was delegated to the private sector (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN)”

And while ICANN gets criticism as any other organization, few argue the internet would be better served by direct control by any government.

The article, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multistakeholder_governance, also explains the reasoning behind the idea. Basically, the world has become complicated, and governments are often not familiar with some situation, so they want to involve more of the people close to the issue on decision-making.
> Neither does the US in an overwhelming majority of airspace under 10,000’MSL.

This is a bad take. It’s required in all controlled airspace. That’s what’s important.

It’s like saying there are no traffic laws on majority of land in the US. It’s moot.

Edit: I'm wrong, read below.
My comment is going to come across as mostly a nit - I'm definitely the target audience here as I'm just coming off of a short break and diving into interviews. I'll update my post with more thoughts as I go through it, as I'm sure it'll be a decent resource to brush up on my DS&A.

There's kind of a focus on education here in the "skills section" that I don't find to be true after a certain level of experience.

> "Must have" — Typically, most of the must-haves include a degree (or not) in a relevant technical field, some years (or not) of experience in a particular programming language or technology

I'm not sure I agree with any of this - there are some domains like say embedded where having no C experience is an absolute must have, but to my knowledge almost nobody is thrown out of a pile for not using the specific key language a company is using, like say C# vs Java vs Cpp. Of course there's some red flags as in if you're doing modern frontend work and the resume only notes PHP4.

Also I have always treated degree requirements as optional, unless the role focuses in a specific area of research rather than general SWE. All of my positions in my career have required a degree which I don't have and I don't feel held back by it at this point. IMO at least, accomplishments > YoE > degree is much better outside of entry level.
Lots of misinformation in the parent comment as well as yours. I’m not going to correct it - I think discussion on HN has been on a large spectrum - interesting policy discussions, technical debates to insane upvoted misinformation and scaremongering.

We need to pay attention to virologists, not HN armchair experts.
Haskell's Maybe type (monad?) comes to mind.
At no point in my career, even fresh out of school, has anyone asked me for this.
Microsoft has 181,000 full-time employees. There's probably quite a few teams in that company that never have anything to do with each other.
It would be a risky flight for the drone, but that might get supplies to Pitcairn island, where it could be recharged and sent back. (Prevailing winds might be a problem though.)
Less than a mile out and directly in line with the landing approach off an active runway? Having the drone powered up at all was "being excessively risky" in my opinion.

I have a DJI drone that will not power up at my house, I'm about 3km out and 7-800m to the side of the runway centreline of my nearby airport. I've been known to test fly and pid tune small (sub 150g) drones in my backyard at lower-than-tree-height or about 3-4 meters up max, but even that "feels wrong" to me if there's a plane I can see on approach or on FlightRadar, so I'll land and wait for a gap.
I guess that comes down to the real speed impact. A factor of two will kill the idea of using F#. A factor of 1.2 might be okay. It all depends on the pay off. If the bug rate is as reduced as I have seen with my own tinkering then it will be worth rebuilding somethings from scratch.

But I don't know how you justify the risk when there are other mainstream languages that do the job.
The fact is that Razer sells a LOT of keyboards and they have been pushing Synapse on the users. I got out of that years ago and I currently run a custom keyboard running QMK.

The users are just fanatically tolerating Synapse 3 and are still giving Razer their money. Until they stop, this kind of stuff will continue to happen.
Pretty much all I hear from the pro-mask at school club are rationalizations. Your rebuttal is nothing but gaslighting me and rationalization. No facts, no science, no data.

It’s honestly abusive. How dare the government force my child to wear a mask at school against my objections.
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You'd probably be surprised how many people you've worked with who are quite competent if not really great at what they do and have gaping holes in what you might consider fundamentals.
Well, yeah, it's safer, there's no question about it.

Is it sufficiently much safer to warrant the massive investment and the bugs (including security bugs) which will result from a rewrite?

If I was the project manager I would not sign off on that. This is a volunteer project. Someone can of course do all that work free of charge, but they'd really just creating a fork of sqlite unless they also get most of the other major volunteers to agree.
Incompetent governance.
Yes that is the sort of thing I have been doing. All the little scripts that won't last more than a year or two are in F#. None of these would take longer than a day to re-write in C#.
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Missing anything about DMAs and IOMMU
Somewhat ironic that the article lumps together the grievances of an employee fired for COMPLAINING about sexism and those of an employee fired for BOASTING of sexism.

As large a company as Apple is, it would be difficult to accommodate both of them (Not that I'm implying that by upsetting both sides, Apple must be steering a prudent moderate course — on the contrary, I'm pretty sure both of them were treated badly by Apple).
the dog lyme vaccine is actually identical to the Lymerix one that was for humans and discontinued in early 2000s. I've heard of people buying the dog vaccines and injecting it themselves. But you have to do it 3 times and booster shot every year before tick season
The common-denominator media didn't put a stop to disinformation and scams, but it did provide some limits to how completely they could alter your worldview. Information contradicting the mainstream media (which was a realer institution then than it is now) had to be quite convincing to take hold.
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Maybe, but it feels unfair to bring software bloat into a comparison between Linux and Windows. I don't think Linux could ever come close to the degree of software bloat in Windows. Your Clang install is 300MB? Sure. My Visual Studio install is 4.5GB, and it includes at least two versions of Clang (the DirectX shader compiler is a fork of an old version of Clang.) You think dependencies are a problem? You should be happy there's only one copy of each library on your computer (two if you have a multilib system.) I counted more than 25 copies of the C runtime on one Windows computer. You think Linux is monstrous and labyrinthine. Have you seen the scope of the Windows API? There's no comparison.

> It seems like there are zillions of Linux packages > 100MB. What does all this crap do? Why does everything depend on everything?

I dunno man, but software can get complicated, and a lot of these packages probably have features that people use. Why quibble over hundreds of megabytes when popular Windows packages like Office and Creative Cloud are multiple gigabytes? It all seems very unfair that Linux is subject to this level of scrutiny when other systems have worse bloat by literal orders of magnitude.
My feedback is: way too difficult to see if it actually works. I have to download the app, install, and sign up? I gave up on your Let’s get started screen.
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Could you not reply this way?
Not a single word on OpenFPGA initiative ?