skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps not necessarily created for this purpose, but assuming it leaked, and information about the lethality and transmissibility was known in models, it doesn't seem implausible that the approach of CCP didn't change as the events unfolded.

I didn't mean to spread FUD, I stated from the beginning that it was just a hypothetical scenario, and we should be making hypothetical scenarios to see how events unfold over time, if we can't have these discussions, then are we doing anything but regurgitating information?
Then why are people extradited ? Why is Assange in jail ?
Instagram ‘fueling conspiracy theorists’ by banning naturalimmunity hashtag
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Currying should not create a function with anything fixed that hadn't been fixed before.
Google is getting caught in the antitrust net
+1 on “The Goal” as fantastic book on business/manufacturing. To tie it back to tech, “The Goal” is also a inspiration for “The Phoenix Project”, one of the seminal books on DevOps and similarly great read. Both have significantly influenced my thinking and have helped me solve problems with team processes and software delivery.

In particular, the “theory of constraints” developed in “The Goal” and applied to tech in “The Phoenix Project” is a great lens through which to view processes. I tried to do it justice here, but after multiple attempts to write something I’ll just drop the Wikipedia article instead
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_constraints
Leather tanning is, apparently, a fairly complex subject (I have a pair of full-grain boots going on a decade plus of consistent wearing, and others that haven't lasted anywhere as close as long).
“He loved reading poetry and wanted to live a normal life”, explains NYTimes
This is not from a parody account. It's the real NYTimes in 2021!
How is it valuable?

If it could be made in a lab and released (intentionally or accidentally), another could be made in a lab and released (intentionally), and our strategy should be exactly the same even if SARS-CoV-2 is of entirely natural origin, as the entire planet now knows the destructive value of this class of bioweapons (if constructing such artificially is within our technology).

The US ban on GOF research suggests that it is believed to be technically feasible to achieve this. This means we must proceed strategically as a species as if the lab leak hypothesis were true, because over time the probability of an intentional lab leak approaches 1. The origin of this particular pandemic remains irrelevant in that case.
Could you expand why it backfired massively?
thanks for the feedback. It's based on a tangle protocol called thicket. moderator is designed for collapseOS / 8bit computers, crypto in unfeasible so losing attribution is the next best thing.

off tangle hosting is now done on IPFS, hypercore might be a better choice. Or writing a separate, simpler distributed blob store.

for monetization, SAAS would be an obvious choice, build your own client on top of moderator API and do what you want. this stuff in underway, there will be a dart / elixir api in the next few weeks for people to build their own stuff.

I need to add a few more faq items to answer your questions, people are probably wondering about similar things. Doing it right now.

thanks again for the feedback!
Low effort direction in action scenes spoil Marvel/Disney movies for me.

When action scene starts its time to go to kitchen to take more snacks, because directing is so low quality and standardized. It's more emoting, posturing, and short bad ass sounding phrases. Everything is achieved using fast cuts. Nothing really happens. Production quality is high, but making action movies boring is achievement in itself.

I own Disney stock, because I think they are doing movies exactly right from business perspective. They do what large customer groups wants. Marvel is like McDonalds and Coke. You sell what sells and they can endlessly milk the franchise.
I've never used the OS maps as I rarely visit the UK. I've worked with similar maps in the Netherlands though through a GIS system (also worked in telecom). But when hiking (mainly in Spain) I always prefer OpenStreetMap to the official maps.

The problem with the official government maps is that they are official. If a hiking trail is nothing more than a trodden path through the brush, they won't show it as it's not an official path. If they'd put it on there they'd admit it would be a path and be on the hook for upkeep etc. Google Maps is also really bad for this usecase as I believe they get most of their data from the governments.

So when it comes to really obscure paths which are pretty essential to hiking, the government maps are not as good. OSM shows how it is in reality, the government maps show how they want things to be :)

But like I said, perhaps the UK is different in that sense.
His email is right at the bottom of that page.
Wow, you haven't given up yet? Because they gave up on making stuff for us a long time ago..
What is it you recommend about it?
Banks beware, Amazon and Walmart are cracking the code for finance
Big budget superhero movies are perfectly capable of failing because of bad writing and directing regardless of the CGI, and many of them have, particularly many DC movies. By your theory, Justice League should have made a fortune.
I meant that teams is probably using a lot of bandwidth for its (poor choice of) video encoding and the Vpn client is going mental encrypting/decrypting all of that traffic.
Sounds like a good test to put up a big laser on top of that peak some time and see if it can be viewed :D
> Why annoy people like this?

Does it matter? Someone is going to do it anyway. They might just think that it's funny that they can make all the tags in the subway car start making noise.

So maybe the question should be "why did Apple design it to allow this?".
Please give us a list of the 100% accurate conspiracy theories for COVID.
I did in the next part of the sentence, because the cost of that information was too big, even for China
The sad reality is buried under so many layers of derangement, I can’t really understand what exactly they are trying to solve here
But probably the best thing that happened early WAS free flow on information from China, they sequenced the genome early and released it to everyone, that put the mRNA vaccines on a fast track ...
I can't speak for every country but for me (in the UK) I think I'd run out of easily-watched superhero movies long before I ran out of easily-watched non-superhero movies, if my film-watching needs were that high.

Edit: Also the original complaint was about a supposed lack of non-superhero film production.
Yeah, Putin's regime has no place in this day and age. It's totally anti-people.
religion + politics = religion (?)
eg. Aztec empire

edit: the Aztec empire is an example for this. The religion was politically enforced and thus the political system became part of the religion.

So the question is, isn't religion a case that refutes the parent's hypothessis.
Do you really think going through all that would be trivial to the masses?
The most famous advocate of civil disobedience in the US got executed as a result of his prominence.

(In an ultimate irony, Tim Apple keeps a picture of him (MLK) on the wall in his office, alongside a picture of the guy who signed the order as Attorney General to have the FBI put him under 24/7 surveillance (RFK), which resulted in the FBI sending him (MLK) anonymous letters attempting to blackmail him into suicide.)

Apple knows which way the wind blows. Even if they wanted to engage in the maximum amount of resistance that is feasible/practicable, that's not really very much, especially when an organization friendly to the US military has literally every single rich/connected person and the entirety of the executive, legislature, and judiciary under bulk surveillance at all times.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/7/20903613/apple-hiding-tai...

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/10/768841864/after-china-objects...

https://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/tim-cook-barack-obama...

https://gigaom.com/2014/09/18/apples-warrant-canary-disappea...
Teams swallows an entire core if I have a video conf with more than 3 or 4 others with video active. The Vpn client then uses up half of another. Often I can't do anything with my laptop whilst on one of those calls - including using teams itself because the UI just grinds to a halt.

Weirdly it isn't GPU bound at all, my GPU is basically idling the entire time.
That system sounds super harsh, though. I think it splits the tracks when you're 10. I know plenty of folks who didn't know what they wanted to do even when they were 20, how are you supposed to do that when you're 10?
But there was nothing to hide, everyone knew that it will be basically "vote for Communists".
Or COVID was leaked into the public in China by an actor other than China.

China figured it out and unleashed a global pandemic by opening the borders to not be a victim of day the CIA.

It’s possible it’s intentionally leaked but not by China
As far as I understand those apps were illegally gathering and storing personal data - real names and addresses - storing them abroad - which is no-no not only in Russia but in EU (GDPR).

In terms of voting - people can still lookup candidates proposed by Navalny's team online without breaking the law.

Surprisingly most of them are from Communist party of Russia.
It makes more sense than the violence is not the answer trope.

At least it's not trying to make you an obedient slave
UC engine design could muffle roar of fighter jets
For curious - LinkedIn is banned in Russia for exactly the same reason.
I believe this has been done by setting up a SKU-Variant. The same-SKU technique is definitely correct - I was contracted to work on an inventory management system about 2 years ago and there were some requirements about how there might be different products with the same SKU barcode for this (unless it has changed since then).

I'm not saying it's the right thing to do - but it's also just how being a large Amazon seller works. If you sell LiPo batteries on Amazon and have worked for 5 years to get lots of reviews and the top spot on the listings, and then your supplier discontinues your best-selling range, starting again with fresh listings can completely destroy your business. So you change suppliers and keep the same SKU and change the description. I'm not saying it's 'right', but unfortunately if you want to be an Amazon seller it's just what you have to do.

There might be different techniques to do the same thing too though.
Closures and objects are both ways to pair code and data — I don't think the lesson is entirely about switching to objects when a closure becomes to large; personally, I find it to be an invitation to discover how and why code and data are paired together in the first place.

Why do closures and objects arise in such a natural fashion? I'm not entirely sure, and I don't think there's one right answer. All I can think is that I can't imagine the depth of Alan Kay's knowledge on the subject, given he pioneered scheme and smalltalk, two languages that define the core of the closure/object paradigm.
Even the friendliest forums a liable to politicization during times of political upheaval. 2020-2021 should qualify, imho. Should we ensure HN is a safe place to talk about Rust, compilers, space, css, etc, even as the world is under strict pandemic politics and dissension is raging? Or should we use this niche community try to gather and influence each other's political thinking before it becomes illegal? All the hot topics are technical -- we are living through a technocratic revolution.
Human activity generates CO2, that's a fact, it has never been a secret. Except for people who do not want to see, hear or speak
What does that mean? My point is starting a clothing company and using manufacturers in Asia is not going to bring any notable amount of riches due to not being able to earn “parasitic margins”.
I only have this quote from Gatling himself: "It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease [would] be greatly diminished."
Have you ever thought about where the cheap old buildings come from? People built them. New buildings get to charge a premium, old buildings don't.

It's really telling when people look at the first 1-5 years of a building and ignore that this building will stand several decades there and with each decade that building becomes more affordable.

Seriously, how difficult is this to understand? High prices -> people build more -> more old stock -> more affordable housing.
It's so rare to see cloud benchmarks! I'm surprised this guy hasn't had a scary takedown letter from some lawyers yet...

"There. I've said it. These [Xeon] processors are slow. Dog slow, in fact."

My gimmick recently has been to upgrade Intel CPU VMs to AMD VMs. One benefit of the cloud is that this is literally just a menu selection. If it was on-prem, it would be a one-month argument to convince people that it's risk free, then a one-month argument with some beancounter, then a month of waiting while the pallets of kit ship in from Asia, then another two months of rack mounting and prepping for production.

"They let them pack lots of slow cores onto a single CPU die, put that into a server, and then sell twice that number of cores as "vCPUs" to us."

Azure also charges for licenses on a per vCPU basis as if* they were physical CPUs! This means that in effect they've doubled their Windows and SQL revenue stream.
> An intentional lab leak makes no sense to me at all. Its like starting a fire in your house to spite your neighbour

But isn’t this precisely the strawman argument that’s effectively destroyed rational discussion about the lab-leak scenario?

As far as I know, absolutely no rational scientist has suggested the intentional ‘bio-weapon’ release of the virus on China’s own population as a realistic scenario, in any way.

But I’ve found whenever discussing an accidental leak with people who oppose it, they almost invariably use this as their main argument rejecting it: “why would the Chinese use this weapon against themselves?”

It seems just another example of the debate being clouded by a politicization that isn’t even there.
I've actually grown to dislike currying, it seems like a neat idea when you start using it, but whenever I come across it in real life code it just results in layers and layers of yuk - making me want to scream "show me the fucking code", you can go through 100s of lines before seeing a single operator...

I'm not a big fan of OOP either, the older I get the more I end up writing a cross between procedural and functional code with the least possible abstractions in the way - while also trying to find the smallest natural coupling between blocks of code.

Patterns are very subjective, and they usually have a place where it's objectively good to use them - but I'm not sure about currying, it feels more like a hack for when you can't do what should be done to the underlying code.
> What is your evidence that she didn't have evidence?

That is extremely easy to answer: She never presented any. Which is the entire point of everything I have said.

> I would be skeptical of anything they publish related to a contested narrative because they have shown repeated bias. What's wrong with that?

Nothing. It's the exact reason to not believe this journalist. As I have repeatedly pointed out.
The simplicity of Mina offers relative long-term peace of mind and fairly instant direct control if ever needed. Simpler, more likely, more secure.

My problem with the stubborn way the mina project is presented is that they deflect scrutiny away from the performance stats too much and makes them look suspect. Because to them the low count of full-nodes and slow TPS don't matter, the simplicity of validators/nodes trumps all in their mind and leaves them with no concerns. Their cagey approach just makes it harder to work out anything, which degrades trust.

As someone who just found out about the project space today via podcast [1] I much prefer their competitor solana's open approach where they are data heavy upfront and even show [2] their concerns of the current number trends. They say the utmost simplicity is a moot point as you have to jump in and trust someone at some arbitrary point, it doesn't matter if trust goes all the way back.

[1] https://blockdebate.buzzsprout.com/767033/6993889

[2] https://solanabeach.io/validators
I am seeing you completely ignore the real world for your own preferred reason why things happen and your guess for what new policy will do.

I am seriously disappointed that you wrote such an awful comment.
Yes, we originally dreamed of building a search engine that's free as in freedom. Personal search engine for bookmarks and aggregation of it seemed a good starting point.
> I guess I also would like to know why Bill Gates has become such a target for conspiracy theorists lately?

He has been warning about this pandemic and has been pushing vaccines. I don't know his motives but the conspiracy theorist narrative is that it's to control population growth, sterilize poorer people etc.
Depending on workload you will need to watch very carefully for burnout and other mental exhaustion issues if you do this.
I double checked by searching on google and fond this: "The A-10 is not agile, nimble, fast or quick,” A-10 Lt. Col. Ryan Haden said.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/tough-nails-10-wartho...

Haha, straight from the horse's mouth, I did not expect to get such a perfect quote.
Psychology experiments into conformity show, conclusively, that the vast majority of people will unconsciously distort (to varying degrees) their own perception of reality to fit a prevailing orthodoxy, or 'narrative'. In many contexts many are, in a sense, incapable of unorthodox thinking.

Personally I find this research quite depressing, but revealing about the current environment, since it seems to be getting worse. argumentum ad populum defines the truth since any fact is so easily 'fact-checked' in to oblivion.
I'm not a fan of cryptocurrency in general. But why on earth would you chose Bitcoin? Don't you have to wait ~45mins per transaction and pay something like a $20 transaction fee on top of huge volitility? What an absolute disaster.
New construction is more expensive because it's new. It won't be new forever.
updated the faq. Good questions very welcome. https://sd7ezzynq5jclyltgiwnvabtk4m6nccdrmzfth72raxisoiplrtn...
Storage space tends to grow exponentially over time (and will certainly keep growing super-linearly), while the blockchain size grows only linearly. So that's not a big concern.
In the `logNow` example, the date argument will be eager evaluated, not lazzy evaluated. Am I right? So what was supposed to be a real use case doesn't seem useful to me.
You are right I forgot about that. The movie really feels like a video game. Nice graphics and always centered on your character. Which I suspect was intended. It's a pity. Would work well for horror movies I guess.
Just like in the real world, there certainly are ideological groups. While some are adhoc others are highly organized.

So once you are on target or even a mild comment that challenges their ideology gets heavily down voted.

We see the long terms effects of this behavior in the real world, not just individuals but institutions stay away from questioning certain ideologies as a norm.
> How is it valuable?

> our strategy should be exactly the same even if SARS-CoV-2 is of entirely natural origin

This is still missing the point. The point is that studying the details of how it leaked (if it did leak) gives you information that you can use to refine safety processes. Without these details, you are left with mere armchair theorizing about what new procedures are necessary and what the flaws are in current procedures.

Read about the history of plane crashes, where the details of how planes crashed were used to improve flight safety.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/g73/12-airplane-cras...

- United Airlines 232 "The NTSB later determined the accident was caused by a failure by mechanics to detect a crack in the fan disk ... The accident led the FAA to order modification of the DC-10's hydraulic system and to require redundant safety systems in all future aircraft."

- TWA 800 "It was everybody's nightmare: a plane that blew up in midair for no apparent reason ... most likely after a short circuit in a wire bundle ... The FAA has since mandated changes to reduce sparks from faulty wiring and other sources."

Now how could such improvements have been made without knowing how the plane crashed?
D'oh! Don't know why I didn't see that the first time. Thanks.
for the open source point, https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html might be a good place to start, illustrating how dysfunctional foss is these days.
Why would you think that something doesn't matter just because it is impermanent?
miles? seriously? what are we in? the stone age? Use the metric system. I automatically discard anything in the imperial system...
yea interstellar would be my top movie pick if i was stuck on a desert island that also had a working dvd player

what about under the skin? edge of tomorrow? ex machina? arrival? bladerunner 2049? tenet?

but maybe you mean that they were flops, ie not huge box office hits, or that you didn't enjoy them