skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Virology labs can play important roles in the eradication of infectious disease around the world, but they must be stringently and transparently regulated. They are needed because if we have a natural outbreak of an infectious novel virus, labs need to be able to rapidly isolate, identify and characterize (sequence) the virus. From there vaccines can be made, mode of transmission can be analyzed, etc.

However, there's a huge risk - concentrating all these viruses in one place means accidents can result in infection of lab workers or other releases. There are many examples, such as the 1978 smallpox case in Birmingham:

"It turned out that the building that Parker worked in also contained a research laboratory, one of a handful where smallpox was studied by scientists who were trying to contribute to the eradication effort. Some papers reported that the lab was badly mismanaged, with important precautions ignored because of haste. (The doctor who ran the lab died by suicide shortly after Parker was diagnosed.) Somehow, smallpox escaped the lab to infect an employee elsewhere in the building. Through sheer luck and a rapid response from health authorities, including a quarantine of more than 300 people, the deadly error didn’t turn into an outright pandemic." Vox Mar 2019 (pre-pandemic)

As fas as Sars-CoV-2, it's very plausible that it accidentally escaped from the Wuhan lab, which housed bats and mice infected with a whole variety of bat coronaviruses and which had a very active coronavirus research program. The lack of governmental transparency in the early days also helped the virus spread, i.e. an early quarantine was possible but was not implemented.

Probably the only real long-term fix will involve a lot more spending on public health infrastructure and vaccination globally. At present the virus is circulating in poorer communities around the world and new variants are likely to continue to be spawned as a result.
I think kids today think of bombs like cubes of tnt like Minecraft.
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Germany actually has a very high % of people going to Gymnasium. In Switzerland, a far lower % of people are going to the Gymnasium. I think in German its almost 80% of people, in Switzerland its below 30%. At least these are the numbers I remember form a decade or so ago.

People in the comments call this system harsh, but what they fail to understand is that is not that you get a lane with 10 and that's your lane for ever. In Switzerland you can not go to Gymnasium but if you feel like it after the normal Sek (Secondary School, that is 3 years rather then 6) you can still do a short Gymnasium and get the same degree, its just that you lose 1 year.

You can also do the 3 years in Secondary, then do the Apprenticeship, for example in my case 4 years of school and working in IT (in my case software development) and during that you can complete almost the same degree you get in gymnasium. That degree will allow you to get into 'technical university' and you earn a batchlor. You can also do this degree while working.

Or if you really want to go to a full university like ETH Zürich, you can do 1 extra year of school after.

So the different lanes have a lot of intersections and ways you can go from one to the other. If you are slow at developing you don't go to the gymnasium but you can earn that same degree later in multiple ways if you discover.
Hi Elias here, founder of Interviewless. Here to show an early version of a service I'm building, a dev-to-dev freelancer network were clients define the validation criteria upfront so a freelancer can get started working on the problem, no interview process needed.

Hope to hear your feedback :)
From my experience, terraform is almost always slow because it's making API calls out to the cloud providers, and a lot of that in turn is slow because many providers offer "eventually consistent" which terraform needs to compensate for by doing roundtrips to validate that changes are have become visible (applys failing because of that was a common problem in the early days of terraform).
This is how it works in all fields. We can’t talk about different possible climate scenarios because of denialists. We can’t talk about issues with evolutionary theory because of creationists. We can’t talk about genetics and intelligence because of racists. We can’t talk rationally about fringe ideas like UFOs or psi because of new age wackos and cultists.

The best way to shut down rational discussion in an area is to promote sensational lunacy. Then everyone self censors to avoid sanctioning the lunatics. This is not entirely irrational… many of the nuts in question are really toxic and dangerous. Things like racism and antivax hysteria kill people.

Most of that stuff is grassroots, but it could certainly be weaponized. For example if I were a pharma company and wanted to cover up a problem with a vaccine I would promote hysterical antivax bullshit. That way you make it impossible to rationally discuss problems with vaccines. If I were running a child trafficking operation I would promote Qanon.

This phenomenon is not new per se but social media renders it devastatingly powerful today.

I don’t see a good solution. Every solution is either “let society be overrun by cults of idiots” or “implement some kind of exclusionary elitism or totalitarianism.”

Maybe the solution is for some well meaning person to purchase and erase Facebook and YouTube. That would at least render the problem less acute.
The causation between wealth/status etc. and test scores is fairly well established.

I also provided you with scientific evidence that the 'scoring' German approach systematically underrepresented those otherwise equally capable, which is further evidence of that.

Finally, the fact that migrant children perform so much more poorly in Germany compared to US/UK, while indirect, does provide more evidence for the pile.

'Test Scores' are not 'the best thing' for poor kids by a mile - they are merely an 'outlet valve' for some special kids from special families.

I remember being at the home with a woman who married a Latino migrant in California. She was a cleaner. I asked the teenage children 'what university they were going to' and they balked, they literally had not given it a thought. In their 'family / lifestyle / education / community' - University was for 'rich people'. The daughter was helping out part time with the mom at the cleaning company, I'm pretty certain she will grow up to be a cleaner and that's that.

What's 'best' for kids are good schools, good teachers, good mentorship, quality peers, and some semblance stability at home i.e. parents with stable jobs, not in jail, not evicted or homeless, not caught up in the drug world. Only with those things do 'tests' start to have some kind of meaning.
I worked in finance for a bit. The knowledge moat for tech is far greater than that of finance. I wouldn't be surprised if a tech company breaks into finance and traditional finance companies can't compete with the tech moat.
Right. I guess I'm asking about what happens if state changed outside of terraform.

I thought I had seen terraform correcting it (to match what terraform thinks it should be) in some cases.

OP seems to suggest that in some cases it does and in other cases it doens't. I am surprised if that is inconsistent and unpredictable, and would have expected terraform to (modulo bugs) either always or never do that. And am wondering what terraform's intent is with that.
That link to coordination models is good. Wish I had that when writing https://visitmy.website/2020/11/06/users-trust-delivery/
Idiocy where people ridicule you for not having iMessage (and its features) because you have an Android phone and someone sends you messages on iMessage, it shows up as green for them, which creates a sense of inferiority in their eyes. (Android doesn't support iMessage unless you use something like AirMessage which requires a Mac, and iMessage to iMessage shows messages sent in blue, but SMS to iMessage, which is what Android users can use, shows a green message when iMessage users send messages).

It is a clever marketing ploy where Apple users make Android users feel bad for using a product because the colour of their messages is different.

Anecdotally (and randomly), I've seen "the blue bubble" can put additional pressure on males to get iPhones since "women use iPhones more, so I don't stand a chance if I have the green bubble."

I hate iMessage. Because of the blue bubble phenomenon, there are a lot of people in the US with iPhones just out of the need (pressure) to use iMessage. iPhones are ridiculously popular with American teenagers (probably over 90% usage in rich areas) and I've heard it isn't necessarily about iPhones being better. No, it is literally about iMessage and winning the social approval of their peers.

Since they have iMessage, suddenly you need to too. And so on.

I don't believe marketing or features or whatnot is what makes the iPhone popular. No, it is the crushing social pressure of iMessage.

F*ck iMessage.
It sounds like your saying "life is unfair so we have no obligation to try." I want to give you the benefit of the doubt, but it's difficult. Maybe you meant something else.
Thanks for the advice! The problem is that they told me that they can‘t sign up yet because their security compliance team declined it. They need their data isolated and SSO.
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I was going to say: I think there’s a mixture of customer selection and signaling from management going on here. I think Costco (and all stores really), subtly signal how their employees are to be treated, which creates a norm and a social expectation that most people implicitly follow.

I think the fact that Costco employees don’t have to wear a full uniform is part of it. They have a clear identification that they’re an employee, as is necessary, but they also don’t have to wear a uniform that strips them of as much individuality as possible.
Yes! I have that one in my ```~/.fzf.zsh```
You barely looked then.

A lot of people, myself included, would still work if they receive UBI. We'd just work less, plus it would be liberating and healthy for the mind to know that you can quit anytime without your survival being at stake.

Nobody is claiming that the entire humanity will stop working under an UBI system.
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> Most jobs can and will fire you for no good reason and most jobs provide little to no protection. Most jobs will fire you for being late a couple of times.

Well at least in the US we have unemployment benefits when you’re fired without cause. But yes, being late a few times is cause to be fired, and rightly so.

I think perhaps the real issue is that people’s perceptions have changed, and I don’t think for the better.

If you’re an unskilled laborer, then for the moment, your value to society is doing unskilled jobs.

Now a whole host of reasons cause people to be unskilled. From their current socioeconomic status, to mental health reasons etc, to just honest poor life choices, like not valuing education.

But there’s no free lunch in society, and ultimately that’s the current disconnect. Those that can only get unskilled jobs have now gotten benefits extended and are enjoying not doing “demeaning jobs”. And yet how do they enjoy that? Without society safety nets people would then need to do the demeaning jobs of supplying their own food and water. Hunting or foraging for food in 100 degree weather for 0 dollars, dealing with injuries on their own.

So these same people complaining are also willing to take for granted the strawberries and meat at the grocery that another person worked hard for to provide. They take for granted the shelter that was built and maintained over there head, but they don’t see that they should provide equal work back to society for that enjoyment.

Now there’s obviously a lot of real issues with labor fairness, minimum wage needs to be increased across the board, companies need to be held accountable for pushing a gig economy that strips employees of benefits etc. But the progress in labor fairness in the US,
8 hour work days, minimum wage, workplace safety, has been fought for in literal blood.

Now we have a generation of people who take all that for granted, and that’s a problem.

Edit: I also add this. These same people who say others haven’t worked such jobs, have not themselves lived in a society that is truly difficult. Many people have lived through or had family live through conditions that would make these people cry. Ask a migrant. Ask people who have had to flee countries and could barely subsist.

Those people are the ones thankful to have a “demeaning job” because in reality, difficult does not mean demeaning.

It’s entitlement, very pure and simple. And it won’t serve this generation well.

Prove me wrong with reasoned responses and discussion rather than downvotes.
> Supermarkets do not have freedom of association, which is a good thing.

You're wrong; they do have freedom of association. They're free to choose whose products they do and do not carry, for example. They're also free to deny entrance to anybody for almost any reason (except for an enumerated class of prohibited reasons).
I find this kind of connection between commerce and university a bad influence.
Russia is a democratic state where people elect their leaders.

US is a totalitarian state where people are manipulated by oligarch-controlled mass-media, with non-transparent voting process.

Oh, sorry, it's the other way around. I always confuse one with another.
I run only on Azure. Nearly all my IAC is written in PowerShell uilizing the Azure Cli.

Terraform and yaml as well are so verbose and you have no clue whats going on from the local side of things.

How do debug your terraform markup locally. My guess is you can't.
It's strangely wonderful to me that people can have so many different ways of explaining this action/concept. Your description is definitely more accurate than mine :)
Yes! I have no idea how I botched that!
Even in systems that continously save your progress there is a close analogue to manual save: Named revisions. Bookmarks of points in history that are better than the surrounding ones - points where some milestone has been reached, and some amount of proofreading done. Where there are no duplicated paragraphs or major rough edges like that.
Simple - make UBI not available to immigrants and immigrants will do all the shitwork.
Not only that, but imperative Python is quite different than e.g. declarative programming (SQL), functional programming (Haskell, OCaml), meta programming (Templates/Macros), …

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Every interaction in life is transactional.

But there is no requirement to view or focus on everything through a single lens.
Maybe it's time we change attitudes towards menial jobs, then. No more accepting bad customer or managerial behaviour would be a start. Customer isn't always right, and even then they don't have to be encouraged being shitty to service workers by... Letting them pay the lowest price possible.

Maybe now shop owners will have better incentives to discipline their customers or give humane working conditions. Or you know, barring that, better pay.

About fucking time service workers had some bargaining power back.
>GE sells a lot more than lightbulbs

:-)

With a "lightbulb company", I was just using a rhetorical device of describing something in banal and obvious adjectives to the average consumer to contrast it with something non-obvious.

E.g. The "hamburger company" McDonald's is actually one of the largest real estate holders that makes more money from land rent than food. Adding later clarifications of "McDonalds sells more than just hamburgers such as salads and eggs in English muffins" isn't necessary for most readers.
Why do you think that? Nothing really matters until you meet up in person and once you do, how you planned it doesn't really matter. It isn't some backpage transaction, there isn't any commitment or investment before you meet up. If you want to leave you leave.
The way we view free time is making us less happy
Even though the silencing of opinions is a bit concerning, why do I feel that "control" or a "passport" around an issue like vaccines are not a big deal? If it's about control or division or identity discrimination, a covid vaccine passport is such an easy thing to get around? I mean, there's getting the vaccine (one way), or even generating a fake "passport" once they are out should be trivial right? This whole symmetry that's thrown around Nazi germany just doesn't make sense, typically groups are persecuted around identity characteristics that are immutable, where having or faking having a covid vaccine is easily mutable?
I'm not sure about Tor, but I know from my friends in Russian, who have direct access to this information, that the Russian government inherits all the practices and technologies from China, with DPI and all the things.
Now even VPN + shadowsocks won't be a permanent solution.

It's obvious cooperation of governments that can help each other, one with tech to control, and the other with cheap resources for manufacturing. (you can google how Russian almost sold part of territories to China, there are even cities where all the administration are Chinese).
You can always have a smallest-instance VM on your cloud/hosing provider of choice just for the IP and proxy all in- and outgoing traffic through there.

You can get fancy with SMTP proxy that can hold on to undelivered messages if you want, or just use haproxy/nginx plus proxychains/tsocks.
"Salesforce Survey Proves Salesforce is the Best"
There's a poem about that https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/february-2011/decon...
I'm not a UBI proponent, nor am I a fan of exploiting people. There is a truth: some business cannot exist profitably if you have to pay market wages for labor. Reason: we've had a glut in workers for decades. Now the glut is over, and workers are scarce. We're finding out the value of an employee isn't some index number like minimum wage, or "local prevailing wage over the last 18 months", it is what it costs to hire someone today. That number goes up and up. Bottom line: exploitative employers are going to have to change how they do business.
> That said, I use and kinda adore Premiere, so I'm losing the Adobe "synergy" by not using Photoshop.

GIMP and Krita getting better is what finally got me to dump the abusive relationship I had with Premiere Pro. Seriously, it has to be the most unpleasant software I've ever used. Like, it's good in theory, but then the most basic things just...don't work?? Dynamic link is cute in theory, but in practice there isn't much of a productivity loss with 1-click exports in both GIMP and Krita.

[I cut out like 2 paragraphs of Premiere rant here, but if anyone is curious I'm happy to paste it back. I'm glad if PrPro works for you, but I personally can't stand it anymore]
It's very daunting, but in my experience it's extremely rewarding
And then proceeds to replace tenure track teaching positions with adjuncts paid poverty-level wages.
What's the alternative? Autosaves? Did it autosave or did it not? Where did it save it to? Locally or to the cloud? Are the servers available? Does it make clear when they are not? Or worse, does it fail silently if they are not?

Call me old-fashioned but please give me a save button and a file picker ;)
Wouldn’t natural immunity require… getting Covid? At a 2% death rate (yes that’s debatable), in the US, that would mean 7M deaths. Or, everyone could be vaccinated with a vaccine that’s not perfectly safe (around 1 death per million - resulting in 350 deaths from the vaccine alone) but is ~93% effective. 7% of 7M + 350 is much less than 7M. And yes, I’m sympathetic to the “my freedom” view, while being vaccinated. But I just don’t understand people pushing the natural immunity and 7M deaths versus vaccines and a tiny fraction of deaths. What am
I missing? Does the natural immunity crowd want us to hold a massive “Get Covid” rally, drop 7M people, and get on with our lives? Or are they suggesting that those who don’t want to take the vaccine get to just not take it, and eventually get Covid? (While taking ivermectin and monoclonal antibodies? A la Joe Rogan)
Unpaywalled https://escholarship.org/content/qt496002sb/qt496002sb.pdf

I don't have the background to interpret these figures, and based on a quick search for MiniBooNE mentions in the paper, the authors don't seem to say that MiniBooNE is an outlier relative to all the other experiments. Where does the paper talk about the tension?

EDIT: based on the comments below, it sounds like the tension is between appearance-based and disappearance-based experiments, and isn't necessarily about a single experiment being an outlier relative to others?
Made an edit to my original comment but it may help to be here also.

'terraform refresh' may be what you are looking for. This will update the state to match current configurations that may have been done outside of Terraform.
> A lot of people, myself included, would still work

Is your current job cleaning gas station toilets at 5am?

Because if not, you haven't responded to the posts you're replying to.
Car dealerships usually make those financing profits as (essentially) commission.
It's somehow a relief to hear someone else had this same childhood experience!
And while a few images have rivaled its ubiquity (a bundle of red dynamite tied to a ticking clock, a box labeled TNT) none of those have been visually compelling enough to replace the black sphere.
I think it requires superhuman levels of mental gymnastics to defend accusations against billionaires being parasites, while putting down the working class for not putting up with having people yell in their faces...

Honestly it's such a leap of logic that likely no one understands what exactly the thrust of your comment is trying to get at.

I'd like to look at the more charitable part of the argument: "back in my day, we worked shitty jobs and we liked it, because we needed money". Ok, sure. But the economy was different in the past.

Many people need to work 2 jobs to maintain the same standard of living. At the same time, the prestige and respect of such jobs have declined. There are less paths to retirement. This is a logical response to a system that is overworking people, without long-term prospects.
The most important part of censorship is the censorship about the extent of censorship. The most important propaganda is the propaganda that justifies propaganda itself.

As part of that propaganda, the most important modern propaganda is the "fake news" narrative. The narrative that somehow everyone who gets their information outside the mainstream media is a conspiracy theorist who is too dumb to think critically and probably as dumb as people who think 5G causes coronavirus and earth is flat. The narrative that even speaking about vaccines or coronavirus is "dangerous" in itself and that the best way to deal with vaccine / lockdown / covid policy criticism is to bury the head in the sand and fill your ears with wax and cut their tongues. People are being trained to firewall themselves to true information coming against the mainstream consensus. They are being trained to consider their friends - who they personally know to be smart and rational - as conspiracy theorists and stick to the narrative of the media.

People who are convinced in their truth do not seek to silence a dialog. You only seek to silence conversation when you know the results will be against you.
No. I have no problem cleaning mine however, or volunteering to clean up parks. Your point?
Yes, but we won't shut down society for 15 years to figure that one out.
But the floppy icon would not be a good fit for depicting named revisions