skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Liaison for the Wuhan Virology Institute and later WHO Investigator into his own lab, in his own words, 1 year pre Covid outbreak :

https://youtu.be/IdYDL_RK--w?t=1773

But honestly, it does not matter. What matters is that there is a whole culture who allows shutting down narratives, as it pleases for whatever failed reflexes control it. That culture has to go. Right, Left and center.
Google's education tools are very well tuned for the job and very inexpensive, so it's no wonder they're as widespread.

If your kid's account is managed by your school, you can ask them to lock YouTube/enable company mode for the account. It will stop them from browsing public YouTube while logged in, at least.
Wikipedia seems to think you are both right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland#Name

Using "Republic of Ireland" is useful when distinguishing between the island and the state.
Because unfortunately, network effects, Torvalds' influence and the rise of Github made a tool which is a UI nightmare, and only really makes sense for really advanced users, displace all the alternatives.

And we now have plenty of people who would just need a knife to cut fruit, and are instead cutting their fruit with a surgery-grade remote-controlled high-precision cutting robot, and spending lots of hours learning the fine detail on how to operate such a robot (trying to get by with only 4 or 5 buttons of the hundreds of buttons and knobs in the robot, but often failing and needing to look at the manual to undo their errors), because you need to upload your fruit "surgery-grade-remote-controlled-high-precision-cutting-robot-fruit-hub" if you want it to have visibility.

Hg is much more intuitive and I'd say 90% of git users would be happier in an alternative timeline where it had triumphed. Darn, even SVN was much more intuitive UI wise, even if of course it falls short on functionality these days.
Isn't that the whole point of having a forum? Otherwise they would have a phone number, if they wanted to provide official support.
Coincidences also happen surprisingly often, if you watch out for them. For example, there are many known cases throughout history where multiple people independently discovered or invented the same thing at about the same time.

So that Covid19 happened so soon after his wargame doesn't seem suspicious to me, just coincidental, and it shows that Bill knows what he's talking about and that his concerns in this area are worth listening to.
there were/are some performance pitfalls with openvpn:

* socket-buffer size too small (fixed now)
* default fragmentation handling is sub-optimal (needs mssfix)
* sheduling priority of the openvpn process too low
The 1977 H1N1 seems not to be a gain of function but them trying it out to test a vaccine. It goes to show labs can do dumb stuff.

Given the spread of risky research:

> At least 59 facilities, like Wuhan Institute, are planned or in operation across world https://www.ft.com/content/a0badd5d-4d88-4a3b-b019-61c6d8275...

I hope they regulate this stuff better.
So, he lied to regulators, persuaded airlines to remove training on MCAS and bragged about it. (knowing it would activate in extreme circumstances)

After he found that boeing had changed the design and made mcas work more often. He did not raise any alarm bells and just kept quiet...

He deserves the trial... He did have at least an ethical obligation of saying "hei guys, I was wrong, design changed, please re-evaluate" even if it meant getting fired.

Also, the fact that Boeing can change design without guarantees that FAA and customers are informed is a bigger problem...
Easy to find examples, here one that gained notoriety ad some kindergartens were sued:

https://www.bestlawyers.com/article/can-i-sing-happy-birthda...
The last SF or fantasy movie I've liked was, I believe, Interstellar. Everything since has either been a superhero movie, Star Wars (please make it stop), or a massive flop. Actually, Bumblebee was pretty entertaining now that I remember.

The TV has kinda become the new medium for SF/fantasy, but it too has started to become flooded with superhero shows, superhero deconstruction and more Star Wars.
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Thanks! Interesting perspective!
You're quoting Mearsheimer as if it's established truth; he is controversial to say the least and is clearly one sided regarding Israel/Palestine.

"Former Director of the CIA James Woolsey also wrote a strongly negative review, remarking that "... Reading [Walt and Mearsheimer's] version of events is like entering a completely different world." Woolsey contends the authors "are stunningly deceptive", and feature a "commitment to distorting the historical record is the one consistent feature of this book", proceeding with a few examples.[53]"

"Benny Morris, a professor of Middle East history at Ben-Gurion University, prefaced a very detailed analysis with the remark: "Like many pro-Arab propagandists at work today, Mearsheimer and Walt often cite my own books, sometimes quoting directly from them, in apparent corroboration of their arguments. Yet their work is a travesty of the history that I have studied and written for the past two decades. Their work is riddled with shoddiness and defiled by mendacity"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Israel_Lobby_and_U.S._Fore...
You could have one Apple store in an area that always has a deaf person/sign language interpreter at hand and market it to people who want or need that!

Apple does pretty well in the accessibility department, they could use someone demonstrating it.
Why not just block the offending IPs in iptables?

Edit: as a Swede it's very funny that customer is called klant in dutch!
Apple is in no position whatsoever to fight governments.

The amount of money and power they wield in the market and society is huge, but it doesn't even rank in competition to the power of the state. (For scale, the US, just a single country, has spent, only on the military, 4.3x the entire market cap of Apple ($2410B) since the iPhone was introduced.)

They have to do whatever the CCP tells them to do, as they are completely, inescapably beholden to the millions of people near the factories that produce 100% of the iPhones and iPads ever that hold machine guns (the PLA). Apple cannot exist without the consent and cooperation of the CCP; they will ban any emoji, text message content, camera content, VPN app, or protest coordination app that they are told to.)

(Yes, the 100% is slight hyperbole - Apple has started assembling a relatively small number of iOS devices in other places, but my point stands.)

Same goes for any large market, like Russia or the USA. If the state comes knocking, Apple and Google do not have a choice.

Even their options for public resistance are limited.

Remember, corporations are only allowed to exist or engage in trade with the consent of the state.
There is no tension!

As an example, I remember how good the original Bourne Identity was!
TIL there are “principles” in leather tanning?
I think you need to realise that people don't exist just for others. Why would you want to stop someone from pursuing their passion for literature or philosophy? Why does everybody need to maximize their utility for society? Yes we need plumbers, but why not allow a young person to study literature for three years and then become a plumber? Plenty go this or a similar route.

In my view the world you (want to) live in looks bleak and sad.
DOIs are assigned to journals too. It's not entirely consistent though, and journal DOIs can overlap with ISSNs.
What I have heard is that Germany was kind of what China is today. First they produced cheap copies of the high tech coming out of places like the UK. Eventually they established quality standards (the TÜV, an organisation ensuring quality of products, still exists today), and eventually "Made in Germany" even became a marker of quality.
I switched to IPsec too, which works great between windows machines, until I tried to make IPSec work between a windows and linux machine!

But now all the procols are encrypted (SMB3, RDP, etc). Combine that with an IP while list auto applied to each machine's firewall and I don't think you really need a VPN anymore between your own machines. I only use VPNs for torrents now.
From the lancet of all places. They completely destroyed centuries of reputation for cheap political points in all this. Too little too late.
Germany was already planning to shut down its nuclear power plants, it simply sped up the process.
Awesome doesn't mean you have to do extreme stuff.
You are doing it for yourself, so no need to climb the Himalaya or swim from France to England If you are not into it.

I recently thought about what i would like to do if i was single again without a family and it would be:
- try sailing (an organized trip or learning with a course)

- cycle through italy

- take part in a cheap car rally

- buy an old motorcycle and ride from europe to iran

But everyone wants different things
It's an unusual situation because the document I think pretty badly misrepresents what happened right up until Peter LOST HIS ENTIRE MIND. In particular, Brendan Dube is a well-known stupid prick on the slack and he was being a stupid prick in this particular conversation. Peter's initial response was well-deserved but oh man did he lose it afterward.
If they went for a NUC/Apple Mini form factor that would have been an interesting (and easier) first try: A meaningful difference from Talos, yet a less restrictive power budget than laptops.
As someone mentioned on Twitter: "When you mix Science with Politics you end up with Politics"
Dozens of them?

The huge speed-ups for KySync are when it has 16+ threads on a 96 core system. But if my computer has two cores, it is not in fact going to efficiently run 16 CPU banging threads, and actually it might choke badly and I should rather run the dual thread KySync, which is much less impressive.

Some problems in this area (data synchronization) look embarrassingly parallel, which means that sure, if you can run more at once you win, but, there's no interesting problem, you could also run four copies of Zsync, "embarrassingly parallel" means the concurrency problem is trivial, in this case each of those four maybe handles a separate file or region of the file, it's embarrassing because all the clever techniques you learned in class aren't important, the problem is so easy.

I can see it wasn't the point of this work, but from an inquisitiveness point of view my question even after just one chart is, "What happens if we run this on a much more modest VM?". Do the extra threads trample on each other? Are they automatically suppressed?
I don't really buy large or expensive things on Amazon, pretty much for that reason, and then maybe getting stuck with the bad equipment because Amazon won't return it.

This was a recent article about a couple buying a $7k camera and getting an empty box.
https://petapixel.com/2021/05/26/couple-buys-7000-camera-fro...

This guy bought an expensive camera from Amazon, got rocks, returned it and then got bricks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXPnOq-XJg8&t=0s

I have no problem buying $5/$10/$100 items. But for a $3k camera, no, not Amazon.
"The receptor binding domains of three Laos coronaviruses are closer to that of SARS-CoV-2 than to the RaTG13 virus identified in Rhinopholus affinis bats from the Mojiang mineshaft in Yunnan province, that was regarded as the pandemic strain’s closest match."

But no amount of research will deter those who want it to be a lab leak.

The propaganda is deeply shameful, obvious and ultimately will be self-destructive, like so much of what "The West" has done for many decades.
As this page says, it depends quite a bit on where the oil is from. It’s easy enough (if a bit expensive) to find great oil from small producers.
Ancient war trickery is alive in math today
There's an underappreciated aspect of domestic manufacturing which is that it makes supply chains simpler. In China, it's not uncommon to order direct from the manufacturer. Someone at the factory will hand your order direct to China's equivalent of Fedex and it will arrive at your front door 3 days later.

Containerization forces the insertion of middlemen. Someone is in charge of breaking down a container and then storing it in a warehouse with a bunch of other products that can all get shipped at once to a consumer. The hidden tax from so many more people being involved in the supply chain is underestimated by a lot of people.
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I've never worked in virus research, but my understanding is that any researcher would be keeping meticulous records of every virus they're studying, as well as detailed information about genetic differences with any variants they have produced. So if the Chinese govt simply seized access to all research projects at the lab at Wuhan they would have been able to compare all viruses within the lab with SARS-Cov-2 within a matter of weeks and have an extremely confident Yes or No as to whether it came from their lab.

I'd love to be refuted on the above by someone with actual viral research experience because the alternative conclusion is that the Chinese govt has known the true origin of SARS-Cov-2 since early 2020 and simply won't tell anyone.
Somewhat related--this kind of reminds me of the somewhat common belief that your phone is listening to your conversations, due to oddly relevant ads coming up after discussing some product with a friend.

It seems like if that were true, companies must be employing some wildly amazing technology to solve energy and data issues.

I think I'm put off by quite a few conspiracy theories because they seem to assume the powers at be are amazingly competent, and I just have a hard time believing that's actually the case.
> Disabled people or folks who are out of the mean in any way are shunted aside by what the busy but blindered tech people think is important.

A notable exeception is the web design community, where making websites accessible was always a topic near the center of the discussion.

Eg.
https://alistapart.com/blog/topic/accessibility/
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I worked on an app that was centered around scheduling a recurring future event in, if you needed to, an arbitrary (not necessarily the user's) timezone, about a little over a year ago and we had to ditch Dayjs due to timezone bugs. Luxon was our choice and it did the job.
Check out innernet, they seem to be doing just fine.
Now how would anyone else ever get access to that evidence, if the people who physically control it don't want it to be widely known?

If indeed it ever existed, such would almost certainly have been destroyed by now.

Ultimately the source/origin story only matters to narrative or those who would push political narratives of good/evil guilty/innocent. We have to live in the world that exists today regardless of whether it was chance or carelessness that caused it.
Stephen Wolfram, is that you?
I'm a Googler working on an internal-only product. We do have an internal-only support forum and I can tell you: one can't give good expert answers to everyone even at three orders of magnitude smaller audience. Being a TL working on the thing for more than 3 years, you keep finding yourself taking a couple hours to answer a single interesting question. So, for the uninteresting ones, you leave the users to fend for each other. Which is the point of a support forum, instead of a support email alias (or any other form where you expect "an official answer" to everything).
I, personally, gave up trying to update the data for my area, because about once a month all changes get reverted as "they may be from a copyrighted source" (which happens to be the public domain federal mapping service).

Someone else was more persistent, and managed to get my suburb as existing after five years.

There's a lot more to it than just nobody having volunteered to do the legwork yet.
> I do however wish that other things were being produced

Here's a list of films produced in the US in 2020. I didn't count, but it looks to me like not much of it is superhero-based. And this is just the US, and ignores a lot of low budget / less notable films.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_films_of_2020

I get a bit frustrated by people complaining everything's a superhero movie or a sequel, when there are so many options they're ignoring.

Edit: If you only watch heavily advertised films, you're basically limiting yourself to films with mass, cross-continental appeal, which is inevitably going to be heavy on culturally-neutral stuff like big CGI fight scenes.
Joker? Thought that movie was great, the acting by Phoenix was amazing and it is based in a superhero universe.

I also am not a big fan of marvel formulaic movies.
Why would I do that (can’t, anyway)?

It’s a perfectly good point. You're stating that older folks have good taste and ability. Frankly, it’s refreshing to see it being admitted on a technical forum. I’m actually used to the opposite. Also, refreshingly, it came from personal life experience, as opposed to a hypothetical strawman argument.

I don’t look “shabby,” and I’m also not actually “old,” as far as I’m concerned. It’s others that have decided they have the authority to apply these labels to me. I’ve just learned that if people will stick a label onto me, I should take ownership of it, and restyle it to my taste.

I guess no one noticed that SAS makes their shoes in the US, which was actually the OP I made. Style had nothing to do with it. It was you guys that went there with the Mr. Blackwell critique (after all, everyone knows that when you want to understand the latest trends in fashion, geeks are where it's at), which may actually speak to the article’s point.

Sorry to hear about your grandfather’s health challenges, but I can certainly relate to his “outpacing some half his age.” I regularly do so, in the technical arena.
One of the examples making that point is Star Wars. JJ's CGI heavy films almost killed the franchise, The Mandalorian, focusing on good story telling, using almost no CGI and having exactly the right amount of nostalgic moments (Clone Wars, the old extended universe) saved it. IMHO CGI is simply making film makers lazy, getting "epic" fight scenes is easy now, getting good story telling still is hard.
They did not plan to ram it. An order was given to shoot it down. From a moral standpoint it was an example of a real life Trolley Problem.

"Trolley problem":
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem"

The consensus on these type of problems leads to the conclusion the order was immoral.

"Behind the 9/11 White House Order to Shoot Down U.S. Airliners: ‘It Had to be Done’"

https://www.history.com/news/september-11-attacks-shootdown-...
> To this day I still find OS maps to be the best around for clarity and information density.

It no doubt depends on the application, but for hiking I've found the Harvey BMC maps to be much more usable than the OS maps. The 1:40000 scale is a happy median between the Landranger and Explorer series and printed on plastic rather than laminated they're much easier to handle.

https://www.harveymaps.co.uk/acatalog/british-mountain-maps....
https://archive.is/WYTiH
It's even more true for patents: not only did the US not enforce foreign patents before the 01890s, it didn't enforce them after the 01890s either, and still doesn't today. Neither do any other countries. The PCT doesn't work like the Berne Convention.
Happy Birthday is probably the best-known example.
There's a fair bit of antagonism and peculiar beliefs from what I saw. Referring to HN as "mostly Marxist" is a prime example.
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Lowering rents was part of the plan anyways, I think. Market manipulation through rent caps has been tried before and (in the Berlin version) declared unconstitutional.
I won't try posting from my phone every again :picardfacepalm:. Because the edit button is gone now, I'll just re-write it in a readable way.

All this will do in mid and long term is that they'll jack prices up even higher because they can, just like what government did to college loans.

I was reading somewhere where people linked price growth to growth of medical insurance, the point was that as soon as people stopped paying from their own pockets they stopped caring and started to take whatever doctors said and the companies started marketing to doctors and making agreements with them and so on and so on. Can't find the link unfortunately.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

All major world governments do illegal and shady acts when faced with situations that may result in the need for extreme ass-covering. (cf. "righteous strike")

If it were an accidental lab leak: so what? How does that change things? If anything, it would accelerate a {trade,cold,cyber,shooting} war with China, which is universally a bad thing, even in pursuit of justice for something that was likely accidental (if indeed it came from a lab, which is presently undefined/unknown to the public).
Moderna's vaccine is the most effective, but Pfizer and J&J also protect well
A dot mobi name in the wild... and in actual use!
I’m not from America and I enjoyed The Godfather. It was a very well told story and a fascinating looking into an alien culture.

Really, to be relatable, all you need to do is tell a human story.
Why walking helps us think (2014)
I would like to see more standalone movies like the Joker. DC has a good opportunity to cash in on niche art pieces like that, which really digs into the character and motivations.

It was a far superior movie than all the Marvel formulaic pieces combined.
that may just be because hn is neolib city
>Is it because people don't understand that actual evil exists outside of movies? That there are extreamly powerful people in the world that will throw babies into fires because they believe in occult entities? This is not imaginary.

That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Everybody knows that babies are too valuable to be thrown into fires. They need to be murdered for their tasty, tasty adrenochrome[0]!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel
There are, but they can only audit and report. Change and punishment would need to happen politically, but that would need a majority of states. Two thirds of the states profit from Laenderfinanzausgleich (to various degrees) and will not change anything.
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> Look at what Sneaker Heads pay for shoes. It's rediculious, and it's not just Nike's.

They pay for the hype not for the quality.
> Indian government threatened to jail domestic Twitter and Facebook employees.

Only if they continued to violate the law. Anyway, the matter is now in the courts along with tens of millions of other cases and I am sure it will be resolved by the end of the current decade.
Do you really believe that junk?
Which did you block

*.youtube.com
*.googlevideo.com

Only need to block the 2nd one to stop videos from playing

Would be surprised if Classroom or Docs required the 2nd one
I'm pretty sure if this would be in Nazi Germany then Apple and Google would supply locations of the Jews. Because it was "illegal" not to.

We are years away from the global fascists superpowers (with mass surveillance, AI, nuclear and bio weapons), but no one seems to care. Let's feed the beast even more.