skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There may be proof in there that somebody lied about something related to the lab leak. In this case, of course funding is a trail of breadcrumbs, and even if there were no relation, a coverup would be likely. Because it makes the funders look bad at least.

Real proof that COVID-19 originated in one of the Wuhan labs will probably never be found, there was time enough for a coverup of those facts.

But in any case, whether lab leak or not, a few things have become crystal clear imho: Research must really strongly improve its safety around possibly infectious materials. Even researchers working with the stuff consider a lab leak a real possibility. BSL-1 is practically a clean kitchen and BSL-2 is any common hospital before the current Corona measures. Even BSL-3 and -4 facilities are located in habitated urban areas. Researchers freely enter and leave without quarantine, have contact with an unsuspecting population, go to normal hospitals, infect other patients there. Viruses are much much more dangerous than radioactive or chemical materials. A tiny radiation or chemical leak will have tiny consequences. A tiny virus leak can still infect all of humanity.

Also, I'm not qualified enough to comment on whether gain-of-function research is necessary and useful. But I would strongly suggest that given the possible consequences, together with the aforementioned woefully inadequate safety measures, it should be reevaluated. And confined to lonely islands at the end of the world with monthly airdropped supplies, entering or leaving only once a year after destruction of all samples and two months quarantine.
Yeah, "over the age of 12", that isn't 80% fully vaccinated, it's 80% of over 12s fully vaccinated. Which is a useful measure of administrative effectiveness when the vaccine is not being given to people under 12, but it isn't 80% of the total population.
Before the event, I commented[1] on the military claiming they could hit back with "overwhelming force" if anyone attacked them:

> is it actually feasible for the U.S. military to hit back with "overwhelming force"?

> The answer to that is a solid "NO!"

> To hit back with "overwhelming force", they need to figure out what they are going hit.

...

> either the U.S. would have to hit Taliban forces that are now dispersed through Kabul thereby killing a whole lot of innocents or they would have to try to go after the leadership. Where are they going to find them? If they are in densely populated in Kabul and they drop a MOAB on them, who's going to be accountable for the civilian lives lost? Besides, neither of this would stop the slaughter at the airport: It would just add to the physical and propaganda victories of the Taliban.

Clearly, I had not imagined them bringing up ISK to distract from the fact that they are dealing with the Taliban, but the notion that they could effectively fight a threat mingled with the population of a large, chaotic city where they had no actual eyes on the ground was a farce. They killed this guy and the little children just so they could look like they were doing something.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28221077
Neo4J uses index-free adjacency which means each node is storing the address of where its edges point to.

This raises an interesting question about “big” graphs and distributed systems—-storing the address in memory across machines. So Neo4J, last I looked into it, is very fast for reads using a master-slave setup but may not scale well beyond a single machine.

Other approaches such as RedisGraph use OpenBLAS, but again you’re limited to a matrix representation.

And yet others, like TitanDB (bought by DataStax and open-source community forked into JanusDB) use graph abstractions that sit on top of distributed systems (HBase, Cassandra, Dynamo, etc) and these rely on adjacency lists and large indices. So the idea of “big graph” has been around for at least 6 years in the NoSQL world, but indeed everything is not a graph problem, tempting as that may be to claim.

Good article on native graph representation: https://dzone.com/articles/letter-regarding-native-graph
It also does not matter much. The word “consciousness” only matters for philosophers. For everyone else, the only questions are:

- can this object do the same things that humans do?

- doss this object has legal/household ethical protections that living things have (is it considered “human” and has all the human rights? If not, is it considered “animal” and protected against cruelty?)

The first question is for AI researchers and maybe neuroscientists. The second question is for lawyers and journalists; and sociologists/psychologists may help to design systems so they appear more or less alive.

None of those care about what exactly “consciousness” is and if the box of silicon has it.
At what distance? I live in the country, where there often is not a vehicle moving within a mile or so, and can guarantee that when cars do come nearby, it is the engines I hear, not the wind and tires.
How can you possibly control for traffic pollution in a way that is independent from traffic noise?
>Just let people decide if they want to get the vaccination or not, and go on with life as normal.

Uh, where did I say that people shouldn't decide? Do you think we got +80% (87% if you factor in single doses), at gun point?

If these passports had an influence on 5 percentual points I was being extremely generous.

It's all about education, being informed, and a sense of duty. Probably the majority where fearful and anxious to do it, but they did it anyway.

> tourists are the lifeblood of many places, and they should be welcomed.

Being welcoming doesn't mean put up with shit, right? Wear a mask and have the vaccine passport at hand, not that hard now is it?

One is a tiny piece of cloth, the other is a tiny piece of digital paper.
You have the right to be unhappy. However, looking at the latest data from the UK at https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/..., it is not clear whether pushing for more vaccines will change the situation in any way that makes you happy.

For example, that report says that 97% of the blood donors has some kind of antibodies, either from vaccine or previous infection. This number is almost 100% for older people. Maybe blood donors are not representative of the population, but if they are, it's not obvious that the extra 3% buys you anything, even if you could capture it.

For some age groups (Table 4), the vaccinated are more likely to be infected than the unvaccinated. I am sure there are good reasons for this, e.g. people more at risk may be more likely to be vaccinated, but whatever the reason is, the vaccine does not seem to be powerful enough to compensate for the extra risk.
> For people who are vaccinated and still get infected (i.e., “breakthrough infections”), there is a risk of transmission to others.

Not sure why you’d want to suppress that truth. It’s just a little vague on how big the chances are.
Fantasy book authors are fond of including mention of it too. Suspect maybe their editors require it, it often sticks out of the text like a fart in the soup.
Hmm yeah if you have to go to those lengths to write it then I seriously doubt anyone else could read it. Not easily anyway.

Seems a lot like regexes - terse and powerful but essentially write-only.
I fear the opportunity to truly get to the bottom of it has passed. Judging by the actions of the Chinese government in stomping all over foreign investigations inside China, if it was a lab leak the evidence has long since been destroyed. In the Western world the lab leak hypothesis is largely a distraction, because it's easier to focus on blame than it is to put the work into controlling the pandemic.
1) Which complaints specifically are wrong?

2) Why do you assume that all the problems I have run into in the last five years of daily driving Docker for Mac are due to ”bitterness”, because that’s basically mind-reading?

Your comment tries to undermine the integrity of my persona instead of engaging my talking points, and that is not very intellectually honest.
Because the user is using values that are no longer covered by the statistics. For example incrementing timestamp or id column.
If the stats are from yesterday and they say nothing about the frequency of todays timestamps the query will have to take a pessimistic view of the world. It might be that the data has radically changed since the last stats run, or not. Need to analyze the table to know and make optimal choices.
Flexbox has made stuff a lot easier for me. I had this bookmarked while learning : https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
You give people something cool for years at no cost and now they're pissed that they have to compensate you for your labor.

The way that people value software these days is completely insane.

People writing you hate mail are bad clients that you don't want and you can feel free to ignore them.

Also watch this video that was doing the rounds on HN a couple of years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U&t=54s

Your app looks neat - I'll go try it out.
Are there any tools that are as easy to use as Azure's?

Anything close? AWS is overly wordy cluttered water trash.
It probably won't even cost that. There is a shortage of land so the only constraint on price is what people are able to spend. Any increases in the cost of building will fall on the person selling the land rather than home owners.
This is very detailed. I remember discovering many of these Ruby conventions when I answered a stackoverflow question about to_a vs to_ary years ago. It goes even deeper than I imagined, that bit about sleep was especially interesting.
> Fully vaccinated people with Delta variant breakthrough infections can spread the virus to others. However, vaccinated people appear to spread the virus for a shorter time
Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016)
I think they meant Fahrenheit ?
>The UK already has too many regulations

Too few when it comes to house building, our standards are well behind the rest of Europe.
Selling the Bible online was already prohibited: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/world/asia/china-bans-bib...
I have bothered, and unfortunately the features are more marketing than substance.

So many features that ought to be orthogonal, but aren't. Remind me again why I can't have an IPv4 NAT gateway in an IPv6-enabled vNet?

Kubernetes is also not the only area where Azure is woefully behind on updates. They haven't even kept up with Microsoft products. For example, they still use the deprecated VHD format, even though VHDX has been a thing for 5 years now.
A tiny VPS can be free, even a medium sized one. Oracle for example offers 4core aarch64, 24gb RAM, 200GB disk VMs for free.
Computer index (top 32 bits) + entry index (bottom 32 bits)

Adding more things such as time stamp just adds entropy without being useful. The indexes should start at 0 and count up. The computer index is something that should be handed out once every time a computer is brought in.
These days I would want a color picker that considers the lighting and surrounding colors.

I have an office which has huge windows facing (mostly) away from the sun so I have bright light from either clouds or blue sky. Reproductions of renaissance paintings and photographs on ‘bright white’ paper look great, but at home the color temps are in the high 2000s usually and I need coated papers for the images to be compelling.

So I am always thinking about what environment a print is in and would love to have more tools to tune up the appearance.
Looking at the author's explanation for HSV and HSL, it sounds like they are designed for hypothetical programmable wavelength lights and paints. Hue would be wavelength, Saturation is either output filter bandwidth or conversion element efficiency, Value/Lightness is either output current or amount of ink.

RGB is likewise for fixed wavelength three-color lights/filters, and CMYK is for prints. I think it's the same situation as units of measurements in aviation[1] being all over the places; the measurements are tied to specific devices, principles and usages of them.

1: Altitude in feet measured by pressure altimeters, distances measured in nautical miles defined as one minute of latitude, fuel in pounds and dimensions in inches, but never altitudes in miles or distances in feet, except for runway lengths which is always feet or meters.
> I simply cannot believe that there haven't been many more attempted terrorist attacks.

Given how many of those caught weren't so much “attempted terror attacks” as people talking big who had to be dragged into anything more by the Feds, and how Islamix terror groups have had more to gain by targeting US targets abroad since the 9/11 response started, I can easily believe therr haven't been many foiled attacks by domestic dragnet surveillance.
Cool, I wasn't aware of kcov. Looks like kcov sets breakpoints on every line to get its coverage information, which seems like it'd probably be comparable to what callgrind is doing. The difference would be in execution speed, and after testing kcov, it looks like it wins that handily:

- Running the zig std lib tests normally takes ~5 seconds

- Running the zig std lib tests with callgrind takes ~2 minutes

- Running the zig std lib tests with kcov takes ~9 seconds

There are also slight disagreements in terms of the results:

- grindcov reports 43480 of 52586 lines executed or 82.68% coverage

- kcov reports 44103 of 52335 lines executed or 84.3% coverage

This difference might be down to kcov following child processes while grindcov doesn't, but I'm not totally sure.

kcov is probably the better choice overall.
Boring is a matter of perspective I guess. I find coding out API endpoints, configuring infrastructure, and building database schema to be excruciatingly boring. But building a UI in the browser and watching it come together is extremely satisfying. Gaining a solid expertise with CSS is table stakes for a web developer IMO. You can raise your nose at it and say "that's not real programming so I don't care", but it's ultimately a part of the whole package and not being able to do it makes you weaker as a developer. You should be able to look at absolutely any design and recreate it perfectly.
To add, I can't find any other evidence of this. This community post was posted on the same day as that blog entry, and archive.is still isn't loading: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/getting-servfail-for-some...
One positive thing I'd add - as a user - under logistics is high availability. Life is messy, servers go down planned or unplanned for whatever reasons - IRC networks are in a sense truly 'federated' in that the client will get a new server on reconnect attempts much like webservers behind a load balancer. You never have to worry about your 'home instance' being unavailable, as they're all your home instance. (I speak about the public networks like Libera or OFTC)
I am pursuing ‘imagemaking’ as a deadly serious hobby, I think I will have a exhibition or performance in a few years.
That’s exactly why I left social media about 5 years ago. I realized I wasn’t actually friends with anyone who popped up on my timeline; they were all just people I used to know posting imaginary versions of their lives. Facebook deludes you into thinking you have friends when what you really have is a void to shout your feelings into and hope someone listens.
Those who are downvoting this are being blatantly disingenuous. Tobacco alone kills over 480,000 people per year in the US. There is a very strong case for banning it if your fundamental concern is the health of others and the upkeep of the health system.

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/heal...

Alcohol kills another 95,000 per year in the US

https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/features/excessive-alcohol-death...

Obesity related deaths are around 300,000 per year.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/192032

No one can honestly look at these figures and come away with with the opinion that we need to protect the unvaccinated from themselves through mandates while turning a blind eye to these other self inflicted diseases. Argue for or against limiting personal choice to preserve health but be prepared to defend your position on all of these fronts.
You asked me about the past. I got smarter too
This is a national security issue, but I will tell you the most important thing I've discovered: talking about malware, especially when employed against the technically illiterate, as a national security issue will get you attacked online.

People either freak out and shoot the messenger (either because they misunderstand how deep the technical illiteracy goes amongst the aging population or they are a member technical illiterate aging population and resist any effort to be educated), or they directly profit from it (companies that are part of China's spy effort, domestic or foreign), or they're just so goddamned dense they give excuses like "well I've never seen it, so it doesn't exist".

Also, as a side note: we probably should start considering advertising platforms a form of malware as well. Given how many systems run a WebView to display their content, and ad systems run Javascript, and it's a pipedream to ever think Javascript in a browser can ever be made to be secure (even if all it does is leak metadata and perform tracking); ads are, fundamentally, a way to inject malware and should be considered a national security issue.

And yes, I'm aware two of the largest tech companies are ad platforms that have side gigs (Google and Facebook); I, frankly, don't care. If your business revolves around a criminal enterprise that is claimed to be legal purely because of a loophole, then you should go out of business once that loophole is closed.
Style2paints, an AI driven lineart colorization tool
You have the right to not go to nightclubs, or get your 3rd shot and double-mask before you do, if you like.

What exactly are you mad at? That the government won't send its goons to weld your doors?
Wish regulators could hijack their domain and force visitors to a 15 second delay landing page explaining that they were found in violation of the GDPR and “you will be redirected to Starbucks shortly”. Second infringement make it a two minute delay.
A major factor of depression is social — I was wounded by being bullied in elementary school and how it interfered with my socialization in high school and college.

I am very well compensated now but the damage done was profound and still affects me.
> “People don’t use Firefox because of add-ons. Our telemetry shows 80% of users never install any add-ons”
> i.e. the telemetry that any tech savvy person immediately turns off
> because they don’t want their browser spying on them and about which we have also complained numerous times.

There are other means to get usage-numbers of addons, like server-side stats. And those numbers support this claim. Even the most popular addons have just some millions of users at best. Adblocker barely make some ten million, meaning they are used by just 10-20% of the users. And those number did not change much in the last 10 years.

Though, there were IMHO already heavy loses before IMHO. Firefox 3 & 4 (released 2008 & 2011) were heavy damage for addon-communiy, killing many beloved tools. The question is whether usage-numbers before this were significant higher.
Worked great for me on Firefox 92 with Enhanced Tracking Protection and uBlock Origin.
> "it is molecularly impossible... to result in SARS-CoV-2."

That's sound ominous, but I am curious, how could it be "molecularly" impossible?

My understanding is that as there are several other Sarbecovirus (including SARS-COV-1), what could in principle ("molecularly") forbid one of them to mutate to SARS-COV-2?

Yet I am not a scientist.

Thanks!
Why most gas stations don’t make money from selling gas
Nice idea, we'll consider adding such a feature. But first we'll need to translate the website into English :)
You'd think the world would've stopped trading with the chinese by now.
Collective > individual. Do I need to say more?
I use AWS and GCP for work. GCP's UX is what keeps me there for personal projects.
Okay, but I don't think that's really the current discussion? It feels to me like a lot of people are talking about separate things here and trying to kind of mash them together.

I'm interested in this ruling. I'm not saying that the ruling means that Apple isn't anti-competitive in general or in other ways, I'm not saying that an anti-steering ban would solve the entire situation, I'm not telling activists to go home, I'm not advocating for a specific solution. I'm asking about what the current implications are of this case.

The parent poster was not saying that they wanted the App Store to be turned into a public utility, they were pointing out that this ruling didn't turn it into a public utility. Which... correct, but I don't think anybody anywhere was claiming that it did. A judge restricting anti-steering rules or ruling that a specific business practice is anti-competitive is not even remotely equivalent to turning the App Store into a commons.
Another major benefit of modules: when distributing native executables, the included JDK can be limited to just the modules you need.

This can potentially reduce the size of java binaries by many megs.
They didn't take "unsolicited actions on [your] behalf" to drive this feature.

The other person's phone looked at their address book and asked if it can reach you over Signal, which it can. It chooses to do this (it's a config option, on their phone).

The "unsolicited action on your behalf" is that given access to your contacts your phone will provide your contacts with some information over Signal, such as a Signal name and profile picture you've set - if they ask for it, unless you've blocked them. So if you set your name in Signal to "Barry is God" as a joke, that might be awkward if your very religious parents get Signal, but then that's also probably true if the name outside your dorm says "Barry is God" or if that's what the name says next to your apartment buzzer or on Facebook...

Likewise if the profile photo is of a marijuana leaf which was funny for two close friends on Signal but then your very straight boss gets Signal and they know your phone number...

Signal doesn't want to be another niche app that you only use to send encryption nerd stuff to other nerds who also installed the nerd app. It wants to be for everybody for everything, because there is safety in numbers. If there are six encrypted messages sent in Iran, the secret police really could just track down, arrest and torture everybody who sent or received an encrypted message just in case. But if it's six million messages that's just not practical.
Tesla's FSD Beta V10
Some non-anime style examples:

https://i.gyazo.com/474eab5c14ed592fc83a4a369ae675a8.png

https://i.gyazo.com/2b222788af78495f9c629347f8399e8f.png
But does it color anything other than girls?
Math for Deep Learning
Yeah, I get lost in a sea of node modules. It almost seems like all of the files are named the same. node_modules, package, and index.js everywhere.